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slumcamper

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Thu Nov 5, 2020, 08:30 PM Nov 2020

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

That memorable scene and line from the Wizard of Oz when diminutive Toto exposes the hoax of the "great and powerful" is etched in most of our minds.

When MSNBC quickly flouted and cut away from the flailing pretender-in-chief, i.e., the pathetic counterpart of the so-called "wizard" (very stable genius), I was flushed with schadenfreude.

With each passing hour he is more fully exposed for the petty and weak little wizard-dictator he believed he was. This was mostly an act. And a very poor and tragic one at that.

Did the residents of the Emerald City pull it together and get back to reality after the wizard was exposed as a fraud? I wonder. Consider this question as we go forward and Trump supporters try to make sense of the illusion they embraced.

Joe, if you're listening, we need massive public investment in mental health. But you know that.

Cheers, all!

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