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The Satire And Humor In Today's Politics

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

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The Cultural Importance of Being Humorless

On the right, there's being told you're humorless on the right has taken on this very weird, like cultural significance for them now. If you tell them that they are not funny or if you criticize their attempt at being funny, oh, my Lord, it is a reaction that it just, it's unparalleled. And it's like they're trying to find their way into, into some part of the culture. They know the language of Urdu exists, but they don't know where to find a guidebook. It's a strange kind of anger that they get when you basically like, you just not, you guys just aren’t, it's the humor isn't

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