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Mar 20·edited Mar 20

You know Mama Cass did not die for shoving a ham sandwich in her mouth. She died because she went on crash diets because she was unhappy being overweight.

She died because of crash diets that weakened her heart.

And people make ham sandwich jokes.

And this makes me a little sad.

I will not join you in laughing at woman who was talented and intelligent because she was fat. I do not like fat jokes. They are mean.

"It was horrible for her to be thought of as 'the fat one' and Michelle [Phillips] as the pretty one. People would say that to Cass' face. She had to suck it up and laugh."

https://people.com/music/mama-cass-elliot-dead-ham-sandwich-rumor-debunked/

This is also sort of sweet:

https://southstinger.com/2055/culture/dont-call-me-mama-anymore-the-story-of-cass-elliot/

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I loathe and detest that excuse for a human with the heat of 10,000,000,000,000 suns. Putin's puto stands no chance in November as long as we VOTE in overwhelming numbers.

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Well, I was wondering who would win.

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I hear Mike Flynn and Jill Stein are going, so why not?

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Once more time, Mother Russia has come through for Vladimir Vladimirovich. He will without doubt celebrate by ordering "Hamburger with All Things" at Nabokov's World Famous Diner.

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Damn, “much vodka and cowering” was my alternate Friday night plan, if Bluetooth assgadgets fell through…

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Ever since the last update of Windows, er, 10?, when I fire this thing up in the morning I see is a page of clickbait articles on Wave, many with the kind of Chinglish grammatical errors you might expect, noun-pronoun numerical disagreement, the hackneyed "shocked", "speechless", and other hyperbole. Click on one that seems intriguing and get taken on the slowest exposition ever, as if the writer was a middle-school student trying to bullshit his way through a book report on a book he hasn't read (how many words to go?"). One prominent article this morning which I did not open was "5 takeaways from Putin's Electoral Victory", which sounded entirely too stupid to bother with. Why doesn't Russian state media take a lesson from our oligarch-run media, and have their hacks generate interest, even suspense, through relentless framing as a horserace, who won and who lost on every single incident leading up to the voting, breathless hot takes generated by people who will believe ANYTHING because they only know what all the other drones are saying?

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Wednesday afternoon at the Bolshoi: “Ladies and gentlemen, at today’s matinée performance the role of Supreme Leader V. V. Putin will be most convincingly played by Comrade Gary Legum.”

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I'm sure it was a real nail-biter, right up until all of his opponents accidentally fell out of windows after accidentally ingesting poison.

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Am liking how progression of vote is going, da? Next time votes for President are counted am expecting to win 120% of vote by encouraging the many many dead I will have helped create by then to undead themselves for brief time enough to get out the corpse vote for favorite president Vlad!

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Not sure why Putin felt the need to create not one but two look alikes to split the opposition.

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/why-do-dictators-hold-electionsbut?lh_cid=xk0iu1y510

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Oh Gary, you are so darkly good at this. Make me laugh too hard, so to split Wonkette fuck-nozzle gut. I hear "That is one less vote for Vladimir!" said in high sing-songy voice...

Only funny because it hits so close to the truth.

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87% has the odor of fear about it. Strongmen obsess about their weaknesses, and Vlad knows his grip on the Russian people is slipping. The more you use terror as your weapon, the more it creeps up inside you. This man is not in total control of the machine he built.

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Sucks on you, Vlad. Your Endorsed Orange US Emperor is going to have to fork over some 💰💰💰 and properties. And he’ll be spending a whole lot of time in court. Sucks be to you.

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They like him! They really like him!

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Congrats to puty pute. pab is jealous to say the least.

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