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Michael O'Neill Burns

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former philosophy professer, current host and producer @wisecrack , guitar player in LA's most boutique Dead cover band @BoredBettyMusic , bald.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2009
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@michaeloburns
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@skyler_higley Getting thrown through the windshield at 78mph to own the woke left.
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Roundabout way to say “my boys are heavy into sex trafficking.”
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I have single male friends that are 6 figure earners, in shape, eat healthy, and intelligent, and they are primarily looking to court foreign women as a whole because of their loyalty, traditionalism, and lack of entitlement. This is the effect of how destructive our culture…
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LA is surely the top city for “dudes going to the movies by themselves” and I really love it.
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Every time someone says “oh so you make videos critiquing capitalism . . . and put them on an ad supported platform? Wow.”
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BlackRedGuard ☭ 🔻
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*tap tap*
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Can’t stop thinking about Daniel Craig’s outfits in Glass Onion
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To cleanse and heal my resurrected account here is me with my daughter just vibing.
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Birthday walk with my girls.
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Rampant financialization by private equity.
@benmitchell621
Ben Mitchell
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Has anyone got a concrete answer about why the entertainment industry is fucked, seemingly worldwide?
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What cool movies and tv shows have you made?
@TheeJoelLopez
Joel | Save Your Marriage
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Seth Rogan and I are the same age. He's chosen to live his life full of weed and child free. I've chosen to live my life weed free and child full (5 w/another on the way) Which way Western Man?
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FYI I’m a dad now so if you notice a vibe shift in me that’s probably why.
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Our parent company isn’t paying our freelancers so we’re taking a break until they do.
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Just a heads up that we won’t be streaming at all this week. Hope to see you all the week of the 29th.
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X is decidedly *not* gon’ give it to ya.
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Wild that some of you don’t see how cool she is
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Dakota Johnson's comment on the failure of MADAME WEB needs to be screamed from the rooftops.
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Democratic Party is going to self destruct and then blame it all on all the people they’ve ignored and abandoned.
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Alex Thompson
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New CBS poll shows Biden down to the 3 leading GOP candidates. Trump at 50%
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I can’t believe i tried to humbly walk back comments about this dude being a total idiot. Bush league move by me.
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omg guys i'm back
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Folks love history once it’s happened but hate it when it’s happening.
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Students have been protesting like this for decades but all the sudden this particular cause is getting them banned and thrown out of school???
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Mnar Adley
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Breaking: Police just broke up and arrested all students at the University of Minnesota encampment for Gaza , charging them with trespassing and banning all students from campus for one year.
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Name something you remember watching on this
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I don’t know why we need to keep acting like Andrew Callaghan is “on the left.” He just interviews people on the far right with no clear underlying ideological motive.
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Whoever let this sick fuck put their 1 year old in a cube should be put in a maximum security prison for life.
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MrBeast
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I found 100 people ages 1 thru 100 and trapped them in cubes. Then they competed in mental/physical challenges for $500,000 to see which age is the best :D
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@aytchellesse you have a PhD in philosophy and you're unironically using the term "woke."
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This website feels like what would happen if a bunch of tech bro fascists took over a beloved dive bar frequented by depressed left-leaning artists and writers.
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The dumbest people with the loudest voices are really making the world a much stupider, and crueler, place.
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Wait until you find out what’s happened to the buses full of children in Gaza
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KCAL News
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Two school buses full of children were stuck on 110 freeway for over an hour, during a Wednesday morning roadway protest calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war
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Think I'm going to start making some non-corporate affiliated content soon. Want an excuse to get more philosophical and weirder than I can at my job. I'll post some links soon for those who care to follow along.
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words of encouragement for younger leftists: It's hard to hold ethical and political stances at odds with dominant ideology and your friends and family. But 9 times out of 10, you'll be on the right side of history, and folks will scramble to retcon their bad takes.
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@tripgreat You should google “Margo Price” and revisit this tweet after.
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For All Mankind might be the best show on TV and more of you need to be watching it.
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It’s so funny that someone who makes six-figures told them this tweet would win over socialist Gen Z’ers.
@POTUS
President Biden
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Capitalism without competition isn't capitalism – it’s exploitation.
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The problem with Marxism is that a loud man on the internet told me it was bad when I was 12 years old and I remain committed to the cognitive abilities of a child.
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@ben_rosen Just mumbling “do you date me?” to himself over and over
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Why can’t anyone just hang out? Why must every moment of existence be tied into consumption and/or production? Why do we want to sacrifice our organic humanity to data collection devices? Why can’t these bros just get stoned and watch a Peckinpah movie?
@MarioNawfal
Mario Nawfal
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Apple Vision Pro Combined with Tesla Self Driving is Peak Multitasking
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right-wing Christian zionists just voted to declare that anti-zionist jews are antisemitic. this country is a joke.
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Thank god we still have brave contemporary philosophers willing to speak truth to power.
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Me when someone says Wisecrack went downhill when I became host because we started making everything about capitalism.
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Let the RomCom die. Give birth to the ComRom. (Communist Romance Film)
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I’ll die on this hill.
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Wisecrack
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Hot Take: a good show or film can’t be spoiled. If something’s value is dependent on a big reveal or plot twist, then it’s just a gimmick and not good storytelling.
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The same party that supports cutting entire college programs that deal with race, gender, and critical theory is now suddenly super concerned with antisemitism on campuses.
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My wife currently has the best selling poetry book on Amazon.
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@prageru probably the ones where women don't have control over their own bodies?
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We had this show when I was growing up, it was called 7th Heaven, and the main dude in it turned out to be a real life pedophile.
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I did a series of interviews for a job with Mr Beast and was asked some of the weirdest questions by some of the rudest people I’ve ever met. This whole operation is . . . not good.
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FYI you’re not allowed to enjoy or celebrate paddy’s day if you support Genocide.
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Imagine being super into a dude who thinks your purpose is to work until you die
@benshapiro
Ben Shapiro
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Yes. If you are mentally and physically healthy, taxpayers should not pay you to retire at 65. When Social Security was created, life expectancy was 64. Today, it's 78. Also, people require purpose. If you can retire and find purpose, go for it. For many, that's a bad idea.
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Posting this and thinking it makes voting for Biden more urgent is so funny. She’s basically saying, “vote blue and the collapse of the climate will be slightly slower than the other option.”
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Hillary Clinton
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What's at stake for our climate in this November's elections? Absolutely everything.
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Someone was murdered by a Nazi in Charlottesville.
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Eve Barlow
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Charlottesville is child’s play in comparison to what’s going on at Columbia.
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did a video about how maybe making trans jokes isn't funny and a million incels showed up in the comments to say that actually trans jokes are very funny. great culture we have here.
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Wisecrack
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People seem very upset by our new video. So I guess don’t watch it? Or do? I don’t know anymore. It’s on the possibility of right-wing comedy. Happy Friday.
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Karl Marx’s ideology is gay.
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Wisecrack went from making Rick and Morty philosophy videos to doing C-list Breadtube content because of this guy, real mystery why people might think Karl Marx’s ideology is gay and lame when these are the people supporting it
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I think debate is dumb but I’m down to physically fight someone whenever.
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“This is LITERALLY communism.” Someone describing an American policy proposal securely grounded in free market neoliberal ideology.
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Imaging being some 23 year old dude with 7 roommates who reads this and thinks, “yeah because he earned it, duh.”
@latimes
Los Angeles Times
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Disney paid CEO Bob Iger nearly $32 million in 2023
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As ex-presidents become mediocre content producers, nice to remember that Jimmy Carter just dedicated himself to building houses for homeless folks and things of that nature.
@BarackObama
Barack Obama
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Earlier this year, writers and actors went on strike to advocate for better working conditions and protections. It led to important changes that will transform the industry for the better. Here are some films that reflect their hard work over the last year — including some like…
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@TheOmniLiberal Could do tomorrow, though have no interest in debating. But would be happy to chat political principles in an open way if that’s of interest. Genuinely curious about what motivates your interest and perspective on this stuff.
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Have spent the last 6.5 years working for @wisecrack (first freelance and then full time) and can earnestly say it’s the best group of humans I’ve ever worked with. Hoping we last nine more years.
@wisecrack
Wisecrack
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It’s our ninth birthday! Thanks for helping us get this old, which is increasingly uncommon in digital media. To help us celebrate, share some of your favorite Wisecrack memories from the last nine years, and/or what you hope to see from us in the next nine!
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Self care
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Fuck this government and especially fuck every democrat who voted for this.
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NBC News
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JUST IN: U.S. House votes 234-188 to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her remarks and actions in response to the Israel-Hamas war. Several Democrats voted with Republicans in support of the measure.
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gonna be fucked up in 6-9 months when we have to watch friends and family enthusiastically support a president who stood by as a fascist military took babies off ventilators. "yeah, but Trump . . . " isn't an argument for supporting these atrocities and those who enable them.
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@prageru Yes, in the history of philosophy, a number of moral and ethical theorists have developed systems that provide clear ethical paradigms grounded in non-theological principles. Some of these systems were developed before the birth of Christ, and then were appropriated by the Church
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Holy shit a double cheeseburger is twenty-five cents more we need to do January 6 again and finish the job this time
@EndWokeness
End Wokeness
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California hiked the minimum wage to $20 per hour for fast food workers this week. You'll never guess what happened next.
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A society without high level journalism and no cultural criticism and no film and music reviews and increasingly limited opportunities for artists to make a living is surely on the right track.
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The wife is featured in today’s Chicago tribune
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Chicago Tribune A&E
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Callie Siskel’s poetry book ‘Two Minds’ connects with her late father Gene Siskel
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The IDF is killing babies but the American media is more concerned with university presidents answers to bad faith hypothetical questions. We’ve completely lost the plot.
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Might fuck around and write the most successful series of children’s books of all time and sell the film rights and make a billion dollars and then spend the rest of my life making everyone hate me because I don’t like peeing next to trans women.
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I think most debates are dumb. Having an open and curious conversation in good faith about important issues can be cool. Writing down well thought-out and researched arguments about important issues is cool. Dudes yelling at each other? not cool.
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Watching Peterson and Destiny talk to prepare for tomorrow’s stream and it feels like someone opened the top of my skull and started using my brain as a toilet for a bus full of fifteen year olds with infectious diarrhea.
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Imagine paying university of Chicago tuition to study philosophy with this person.
@AgnesCallard
Agnes Callard
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You must go back in time: would you prefer to live the life of a slave owner, or the life of a slave?
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If you believe grape juice can become the blood of a guy that died 2000+ years ago and that a stale cracker can become his body then it shouldn’t be too hard to accept the existence of trans people.
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Never should’ve given me keys to the channel Twitter account
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There are no lies in this statement.
@The_Streamr
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Yassir Lester, who is writing ‘ARMOR WARS’ for Marvel Studios, said this on Instagram: And again I say: it's not complicated, and it never was. It was never nuanced. The plan was always this, and creating a battle of semantics in how people addressed the situation was precisely…
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This is why I always make my own pizzas when I am abroad doing sex trafficking with my bros
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Can’t wait to get assassinated by a 15 year old in a couple weeks for hosting a video that asks if a system that necessitates charity from the ultra wealthy is maybe not the best we can do.
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nothing has aged as well as this movie.
@AuxGod_
AuxGod
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25 years ago today, “Office Space” premiered grossing $12M off a $10M budget
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At halftime the lights go out. Usher is gone. From a private box Taylor Swift walks down steps made of air and stands at the 50 yard line. (She’s holding a cross with a hammer and sickle in the middle.) She casts a spell that turns Joe Biden into a 35 year old (in Arabic.)
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weird that so many millionaire and billionaire dudes are psychotically angry about everything. If I fleeced this dumb country with some bullshit job I would cash out, get a cabin in Minnesota and a bungalow in Key West, and just hang out watching movies and taking walks.
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Not sure that’s there’s been a dumber or more intellectually empty discourse in my lifetime than “wokeness.”
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A show called The Good Philosopher where I hang out at bars and help strangers work through their problems by talking about Aristotle and Kierkegaard. Also I could get real sick and do a crossover episode where The Good Doctor saves my life and I tell him about Deleuze.
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If I was a billionaire I’d buy a Super Bowl commercial that was a full minute of me asking questions like: What are we all doing? Does this really feel good? Why are we excited about commercials? What are we other than consumers? What that mouth do?
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If paying back loans is against your religion does that hold up in the court?
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The wife has a poem in the newest @nybooks !
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Since having a baby I’ve read three different books on childhood cognitive development and neuroscience. When my dad had me he just tried to not hug me too much so I wouldn’t be gay.
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Me and my Jewish daughter are going to be out and about this weekend because we don’t live inside this person’s decaying and paranoid mind.
@Eve_Barlow
Eve Barlow
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This weekend, American Jews are being told to stay inside, because - effectively - there are planned pogroms taking place (aka Free Palestine marches) and the police are aware they cannot protect innocent civilians from attack. "This is America" etc.
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I guess the sex offender registry was on their banned books list
@RollingStone
Rolling Stone
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Right-wing ‘Moms for Liberty’ organizer is a convicted sex offender. Story:
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wish Bourdain was alive to call Fetterman an "embarrassing mass of meat masquerading as a human" or "the scum you find in the drain of a dirty diner sink" or something way worse.
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my most delusional take is that if I was single, I could date Margot Robbie. My reasoning is that we once sat near each other at an improv show and laughed at many of the same things, and she's probably bored by conventionally attractive men.
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My daughter has the same birthday as MF Doom. Gotta get her a mask.
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So . . . we've just decided that creative people and artists and journalists and writers don't get to have jobs anymore?
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If you fuck up at work, you'll get fired. If your boss fucks up at work, you'll get fired.
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It worked! Talking to Marianne tomorrow at 11am PST/2pm EST on Wisecrack Live.
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Guys help me get @marwilliamson to notice me
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I predict normal and healthy comments on this one.
@wisecrack
Wisecrack
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WTF does “woke” even mean? We tried to figure it out.
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watching J*rdan P*terson videos again for work research so expect increasingly unhinged posting on here as my brain gets infected by world historical idiocy.
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Retirement is for cowards. I pray I work until the day I die, and when I arrive at the gates, I hope St. Peter greets me with a time card and a hard hat so I can work 80 hours a week at the blessings factory in Heaven.
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Talking to @marwilliamson was so fun. Not only does she have good policies, she loves Bob Dylan, Etta James, and Tolstoy.
@wisecrack
Wisecrack
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We are LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! Join us as Michael ( @michaeloburns ) sits down to chat with author and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson ( @marwilliamson ) to talk about her campaign, her policies, and more!
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We got a new DEI director at work. She held a big workshop over lunch today with all the white employees. She locked us in and said we could not leave until we picked two of whites to kill in an act of tribute. We’re still in here. Help. (Lunch was turkey wraps and chips.)
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Avatar? In 3D? On shrooms? Maybe?
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