Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

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"I do keep checking to make sure that Google doesn’t jump the gun and re-draw the Canadian border....."

"I do keep checking to make sure that Google doesn’t jump the gun and re-draw the Canadian border....."

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After a while you simply run out of things to say. The guy with the worm in his brain and the dead bear in his trunk who doesn’t believe in science is now in charge of our nation’s health, and a Russian asset is now our nation’s top spy, and this is not even the goofiest shit that has happened this week. Elon Musk gave a rambling soliloquy in the Oval Office on his interpretation of Democracy, while the President was left to deal with Musk’s rambunctious young son, who was wandering around the room, at one point picking his nose, and then looking right at a clearly repulsed Trump and saying “I want you to shush your mouth”. Same kid. Same.

Mics also picked up the kid saying “you’re not the president and you need to go away”…..which clearly suggests he’s seen the recent Time magazine cover. The kid is actually named “X Æ A-Xii”, maybe because the late Prince’s unpronounceable symbol was already taken, but thankfully he’s called “X” for short. Presumably for the President’s benefit, who once pronounced “infrastructure” as “infra-struck-er-sher par” and could not spell the word “hamburger”. Trump has as much trouble with syllables as he does drinking bottled water. Desperate to redeem himself after being publicly emasculated, the President quickly signed an executive order banning plastic straws, and then further pulled up his big boy pants by banning the Associated Press from the White House because they insisted on referring to the Gulf of Mexico….as the Gulf of Mexico.

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