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First Speaker

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2. Hmm...if Captain Kangaroo was malicious--what does that make Mr Green Jeans...?

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2019, 06:29 PM

Oct 2019

...I can just imagine him as the Good(?) Captain's enforcer--his Beria or Himmler, terrorizing innocent young children all across the nation...the Dark Right Hand of the national nightmare that was the Captain Kangaroo show... (and don't even get me started on Buffalo Bob... )

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Captain Kangaroo Court is the perfect metaphor for Trumputin Fake News [View all] Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 OP

Neither of those idiots have the balls the Captain did underpants Oct 2019 #1

Sure did. The Captain was a United States Marine during World War II. Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #3

Hmm...if Captain Kangaroo was malicious--what does that make Mr Green Jeans...? First Speaker Oct 2019 #2

You know, even Beria got scared sometimes. He learned from the best... Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #4

I remember reading in Robert Conquest's *The Great Terror*... First Speaker Oct 2019 #5

This would be a very different world. Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #6