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Merch idea: "I'm not a Karen, I'm a Barbra." I'd wear a button or a tshirt.

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Another great show Josh but did you have to include that clip of Gavin Newsom? It induced severe gastric dyspepsia just as I was about to eat dinner. 🙂 But seriously, he is SO arrogant, like a lot of “educated” “handsome” men of his type. I put both those descriptors in quotes because I find him far from handsome, he’s positively reptilian IMO, and entirely soulless. He’s a classic member of the New Left, lording it over ordinary people who he clearly believes he has a right to ride roughshod over. You’re 100% right, he’s a sociopath. He wouldn’t survive 5 minutes in a debate with outraged parents. That journalist did an absolutely pathetic job of challenging him. What on earth are they learning in journalism school these days?

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Newsom reminded me of The Joker, Jack Nicholson and any concierge of any 5-star hotel in Turks and Caicos. He was itching to yell back at the reporter. A smarmy, American Gigolo type reminding me of Richard Gere but without the stoicism.

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Yes.

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Journalism school is the problem. That it's been "educationalized" is exactly what's wrong with journalism.

It didn't used to be this way. You apprenticed on the job, and it was working class people. That's how I did it.

These writers are not the same people they used to be. At all. Totally different cohort and class.

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You’re right Josh. What a disaster that has been. Now we have people with no sense of reality (who think they have a right to impose their “superior beliefs” upon us) telling us what to believe. They really do despise ordinary working people. Thank goodness for independent media.

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I'll just go with "I love you, Josh"and Kevin, too. Great work.

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Aug 22, 2023Liked by Josh Slocum

Josh, I just have to say that I am a tough person with a very specific sense of humor. I am awarding you THE......

#MontyPythonSchoolOfBritishWitLitAWARD of TEN 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 (count ‘em) 10 out of 10 laughey-face (I know laughey isn’t a word as I am a bonafide GrammarNazi) emoticons as YOU absolutely had me literally “laughing out loud” (it felt great in a very Benny Hill sort of way) throughout the entirety of your video, from START to FINISH! It takes a great wit to make me even chuckle, but YOU, no YOU were able to tap into the twisted, jaded psyche of my complex mind throughout the whole video!!! I have not laughed that hard since I watched Ricky Gervais’ 2020 Golden Globes opening beating, er, roast, I mean opening Monologue. I am extremely relieved that no one else was around me to see me laugh/cry to the point of having to visit the W.C./loo/bidet/place where one relieves oneself😭. I am truly proper chuffed (UK version) and wanted to tell you that YOU need your own comedy show/political pundit comedy hour along with your sidekick Kevin(?) -- I didn’t see him but I know all the greats have geniuses behind the camera. I am happy to point out that by God’s grace, my parents named me Erin and not Karen (come to Jesus moment). Mind you, I am not giving any people named Karen a side-eye/slant. However, I must say that since that Urban Dictionary description came about, I HAVE noticed a few traits exhibited by people with this moniker.

To conclude this small missive, I am saying THANK YOU as after I watched the entire “shew” (as the late Ed Sullivan used to pronounce ‘show’ which annoyed the 🤬 out of me).

Yaaas, Josh, yaaaas, you keep being your bad a$$ self as HUMOR mixed with the Truth is truly what we need more of.

I’m signing up!!

YELP rating A++++++

Erin (not K-aren) J. Morgart

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Wow, that's the best compliment I've gotten in years. Thank you! You put a big smile on my face.

And, it's my birthday!

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In Italian, everyone! “Tante auguri a te, Tante auguri a te, Tanti auguri caro Josh, Tanti auguri a te!”

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