Roy Edroso Breaks It Down

1. [JARED KUSHNER’s and IVANKA TRUMP’s soulless loft in lower Manhattan.] KUSHNER: Vanky! Vanky! Come see who I brought over! IVANKA: [Gasps] Is that Hakeem Jeffries! JEFFRIES: Yes it is, how are you Mrs. Kushner. IVANKA: Call me Vanky! Wow! So you must be the highest ranking black person in Washington. JEFFRIES: Well, modesty forbids -- IVANKA: Let me ge…

Lately I feel myself turning into one of those commie soreheads who complain more about centrist dipshits than about conservatives. Despite what said dipshits say about me, I am aware that conservatives — aka Nazis — are the big problem, and that we should endeavor via coalition with centrists to relieve ourselves of them tout suite.

Some of our prior Fun Friday posts (happy Fun Friday, by the way! (And late August Fun Friday, so you know it’s gotta be self-indulgent) have been about things you like that you know other people think are awful, like your favorite fast casual restaurant (mine was Chipotle, remember?) or a movie that violates all your notions of what’s good but which yo…

Yes, it’s another Caen Spree — click here if you need the premise explained. It’s the short ribs of REBID...

[Oval Office. TRUMP behind the Resolute Desk, playing with his phone; STEPHEN MILLER, seated on one end of a couch, in his traditional SS uniform without the insignia, looking at his phone; and STEPHEN CHEUNG, seated on the other end, wearing a loose-fitting suit and staring at the wall. Knock at door.] TRUMP: Yeah. [Door opens and head of CBS News chief …

I don’t want to overthink it. The Gestalt of Tubby remains what it has always been —lies, racism, and solipsism, accelerated by senility and the desperation of impending demise. And the grand strategy to which he and his top gargoyles are committed — that whole Tycoon - Genius - Big Man On Planet thing — is the same as it’s been since first he lumbered onto the scene, and for a long time it was very successful and in some ways it still is. But tactics is something else.

You have to wonder sometimes — considering how bad Tubby is fucking over not only you and me but also his own people with his rancid economy, collapsed infectious disease control and food safety, imbecilic and badly managed war of choice, shitty and corrupt disaster management, rampant criminality, etc. — what hope (besides election theft, which must al…

I have mentioned that one of my great moviegoing thrills was watching Jacques Becker’s 1960 prison escape movie Le Trou at the National Gallery in DC a few years back. As I described it then: “the audience was practically breathing in rhythm with it, and collectively gasped at the big reveal at the end (don’t worry, I won’t tell you what it is). We all …

. [Transcript from the President’s final rehearsal tape] People in America, you remember what I told you, couple years ago, when I got back in here, I was gonna take care of all the evil scum and communists that tried to make it look like I didn’t win all three elections, which I did. That’s why I made that face in this picture, my official picture, here. Scary, right? If you’re a communist you should be scared. Anyway.

I guess I’m in a glossing mood: I’d like to recommend Luke Savage’s “Socialism’s Critics Are Running On Empty” and endorse and expand on some of his thoughts. Savage starts with some of the tantrums thrown by rightwingers over the recent political successes of Democratic Socialists (I’ve written about this too) and how absurd they must sound to normal pe…