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Orpheus Condescending

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Rage, rage against the Lying of the Right Writer/Actress Sober 11/96 Born '68 Traverse City, MI https://www.instagram.com/maryscottoconnor/ READ MY ALT TEXT. Faites ce que vous voulez.␚

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · Feb 27

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Yeah, so... I made ANOTHER Starter Pack.

As always - if i put you in this thing & you don't want to be in it, just say so & I'll remove you.

If I DIDN'T, & you DO want to be in it, just say so & I'll put you in it.

Unless you're a dick. 😈

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 11h

And SHE doesn't seem fazed AT ALL, incidentally.

Just popped right up and took the mantle, huh.

That performance was something else.

Not grief, that's for sure. Something else.

Okay, I'm done.

Just felt like admitting - I am not on board with the "They got the shooter" party line in Utah.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 11h

I don't say his name. And I really don't give a shit. Dead, not dead, conspiracy, random nutcase, whatever.

But if it WAS a government thing...

And I wouldn't put it past them...

Wow.

That kid is just an innocent sacrificial lamb?

(That text was bullshit.)

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 11h

I feel like an insane person, entertaining the possibility he wasn't actually shot.

But i keep seeing people talking about the absence of blood.

And I can't find any refutation. ANY DETAILS.

So, what the fuck.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 11h

The details of the Trump shooting - whether or not they're factual - have a Wikipedia page. There were thorough investigations by police, FBI, & Secret Service.

Apparently the crime scene in Utah was broken down a day after the murder.

If there was one.

THAT'S a possibility, too, I guess.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 11h

Haven't said much about this anywhere because, well, I really don't give a FUCK, but...

I'm pretty sure that kid didn't do it. I don't know who did, but I think that kid is a patsy.

Unlike Trump's, which actually HAS been investigated...

There's NOTHING about this. Autopsy, crime scene?

Nope.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 12h

It's not mine, but I am still absurdly proud of this one. I rewrote it. I like my rhythm better.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 12h

TERRIBLE JOKE OF THE WEEK™️

I served an entree at a dinner last week that was basically just okra and sausage. Meh. It wasn't bad and it wasn't good. It was just meaty okra.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 12h

😂

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 12h

They're saying it's a misquote.

I think he said it JUST ambiguously enough for deniability.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 12h

I just cleaned out my desk. It's been a while. I feel really good about it.

So anyway - if anybody out there wants 300 free hours of AOL I can totally hook you up.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 12h

Eggzackly.

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 12h

I don't think you can actually go "viral" on just one platform. I should think someone of your stature and experience would know that.

DO BETTER.

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

That headline literally made me cough up my coffee.

LITERALLY.

(Yours, not theirs.)

I can actually imagine the spoken delivery of that line.

10/10. No notes.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

(Sorry. Mixing my metaphors like crazy. I didn't say *I* was supposed to be the one to reform the party's messaging, just that it NEEDS reforming.)

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

Or did they use a constant barrage of "Family values" and "fiscal responsibility' to ooze their way into EVERY AVENUE of power at the lower levels that allowed them to open the gates when their pals showed up with armies?

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

I wonder...

Did the right wing ghouls who spent the past three decades taking over the school boards, city commissions, & local governments ANNOUNCE they wanted to ban books & harass LGBTQ kids & put prayer in schools & dismantle public education?

Was THAT part of their election messaging?

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

I remember arguing with someone about "defund the police" because I thought - RIGHTLY - that it would frighten & deter a HUGE swath of the majority of Americans. I thought a more palatable, simple, attractive idea would be better.

She insisted it wasn't our job to entice people to be decent.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

SIGH.

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

I'm not just talking legislatively, or about Robert's Rules of Order.

I'm talking about rules of honesty & decency that govern us & keep us from destroying these people.

FUCK THOSE RULES.

THEY DON'T FOLLOW THEM.

WHY THE FUCK SHOULD WE?

I'm asking. Who is running this show, man?

What the fuck.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

Our language - our MESSAGING - sucks.

Once again, this comes down to the fact that we're dealing with politics, not morality.

The high road is low on oxygen.

The fuckers will NEVER fight fair.

We HAVE to stop expecting the rules to apply..

THEY BREAK THEM.

WHY ARE WE STILL FOLLOWING THEM?

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

They use propaganda like hockey sticks, slamming us onto the ice & beating the shit out of us; have been for DECADES.

While the Democrats skate around pleading with the refs to do something, complaining that the Republicans are breaking the rules.

NOBODY CARES.

We're losing.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

"Death Tax." "Partial birth abortion." "Radical left."

It doesn't MATTER that it's jawdroppingly dishonest.

It's visceral, it's SIMPLE, & it says exactly what they WANT it to say.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

OF COURSE IT'S NOT WHAT THOSE WORDS MEAN.

(Not totally; defund the police is WAY more complicated than JUST getting rid of them... But yeah, sort of kind of.)

But when you have to EXPLAIN your slogan, your motto, your CHANT...

You have already LOST.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

HOW did they not see the INEVITABLE rhetorical weapons they'd be turned into?

Antifa SOUNDS like a terrorist organisation.

Defund the police? You're going to GET RID OF POLICE?

Believe all women? AUTOMATICALLY? No evidence, no facts? What about women who are legitimately psychotic or malicious?

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 13h

Language matters.

I've never understood why Democrats - the LEFT, really - don't seem to understand the power of language in politics.

"Antifa." "Defund the police." "Believe All Women."

Those aren't right wing think tank concoctions.

They're OURS.

A bunch of people thought those were GREAT.

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