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BWdem4life

(2,735 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 11:46 AM Yesterday

First they came for the comedians

And I said something, even though I was not a comedian, but it didn't matter because I was not a mulit-trillionaire.

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First they came for the comedians (Original Post) BWdem4life Yesterday OP
Some of them tell more truth than most of the "news" networks, including MSNBC, CrispyQ Yesterday #1
and ignore the migrants as they were technically, first Shellback Squid Yesterday #2
I know. BWdem4life Yesterday #3
First they came for a whole lot of other, humbler, people, before getting around to the comedians.... Hekate Yesterday #4

CrispyQ

(40,235 posts)
1. Some of them tell more truth than most of the "news" networks, including MSNBC,
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 11:50 AM
Yesterday

and since they are "just comedy shows," a lot of apolitical people won't get uptight about it.

Hekate

(99,463 posts)
4. First they came for a whole lot of other, humbler, people, before getting around to the comedians....
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:21 PM
Yesterday

Late-night Comedians are high-profile, that’s why. The little people who wash your cars, pick your crops, and clean your hotels — they get picked up first.

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