Whenever terrible things happen the intelligentsia inform you the age of humor has ended. Because they don’t want you to have anything.<\/p>\n
Will there be funny jokes during the suffering? Yes, there will be funny jokes during the suffering. But the laughter will be desperate.<\/p>\n
This country used to have slaves. But the word was distasteful. So we replaced it with other words more socially acceptable.<\/p>\n
Under the new regime poets shall be stripped of their words and forced to communicate via color wheel.<\/p>\n
Why is there so much disaffection in the USA? Because people there have been trying to buy happiness for too long, and it isn’t working.<\/p>\n
People always say “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But they never say the reverse, “if it’s broke, fix it!”<\/p>\n
You can’t buy happiness. Happiness is given away in exchange for personal data used for advertising.<\/p>\n
After the terrible election fiasco, the USA is finally getting back to normal with another mass school shooting.<\/p>\n
I have the best nightmares. They are the stuff other nightmares are made of. No one can defeat my nightmares. My nightmares are winners.<\/p>\n
“All groups are inherently exclusionary or will inevitably become exclusionary.” I read that on a men’s room wall when I was 19.<\/p>\n
\u202aSometimes I am informed how lucky I am to be a man. Other times I am informed I am not a man. It’s a controversial definition. \u202c<\/p>\n
Honestly, when I was in kindergarten, first day, I couldn’t figure out which bathroom to use. But I got it eventually. Now I just go anywhere.<\/p>\n
A sales circular says these are the final days. Apocalypse news filters through in store displays. Everyone pays in different ways.<\/p>\n
\u202a”Only in America!” As Yakoff Smirnoff would say, would the phrase “water is life” be controversial.\u202c<\/p>\n
It’s been a long emotional journey. But I’m ready to eat pancakes again. I just can’t afford them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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