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Once a person achieves a certain level of fame/notoriety, they will always have a following of some kind, no matter how reprehensible they become.

I can this The Roseanne Paradox.

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It just seems obvious that Donald Trump and Roseanne would make a great couple. Melon is sure to divorce that sleepy-fart as soon as he either loses in November or is sentenced to prison. He should consider Rosie. They think alike and both “tell it like it is.” Incidentally, Melon allegedly wept on election night 2016 because she thought it was a stunt and she’d never really have to move to DC to pretend to “care” about a cause or suffer people around her. Now, she’s surely praying to god that Trump wins somehow, or is sent to prison. Either way, he’s gone and she’s finally free and won’t see Trump again. Just imagine the many young, tan, chiseled male models she will romance when this nightmare is over. Melon does.

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Yes but they are too much alike. You know, we never see them in the same room together. Hmmmmmmmm.

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I wholly accept that "repressed memory syndrome" (in quotes because I'm not sure what this imaginary thing is actually called) is nonsense that contradicts every real thing we know about how memory works. As I remember, some irresponsible therapists used that as "evidence" of vile ritual abuse, stretching over generations (that never happened) back in the Satanic Panic days of the '80s. Lie detector tests I don't accept as evidence of anything. Polygraph tests are generally not admissible as evidence in court, and I think that the day they are will be a bad one for justice.

Even granting for the sake of argument that I'm wrong about all of the above, and had it proved to me, it would still be clear and sad that Roseanne needs help. Hope she gets it.

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I was hoping for criminal charges for trafficking for DeSatan

But in the meantime I will *certainly* take these visas for his migrant victims, and I bet they will too ❤🤍💙

From Keith Boykin

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1782634621768757626?t=XHhVe-9zYILyJENS9RcklA&s=19

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Ta, Robyn. I am unfamiliar with RB's TV show; I saw her do standup on some special and she was very funny. That was before the Roseanne show. Now she's just demented and sad, and apparently needs attention.

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I seem to remember Christine Blasey Ford carefully explaining to Congress that some memories stand out in one’s head more clearly because they’re traumatic.

I have Googled it; I forgot she was telling Dianne Feinstein.

“[I’m sure I was attacked by Brett Kavanaugh] the same way that I’m sure that I’m talking to you right now. It’s just basic memory functions. And, also just the level of norepinephrine and epinephrine in the brain that, sort of, as you know, encodes, that neurotransmitter encodes memories into the hippocampus. And so, the trauma-related experience, then, is kind of locked there whereas other details kind of drift.”

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Yeah, I feel for her with her condition, for realz. Yes, I know she had a massive TBI. But even brain injured people are often lucid enough to be held accountable for their own actions.

In her case, I hope she ████ █ ████ ████ █████ ████ ███ ██████.

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I wonder if her issues are age-related. Reason this worries me is that I am exactly the same age as she is; we're born just a couple of days apart.

Of course, I am also exactly the same age as Merrick Garland, and he seems fine.

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Roughly the same age, too. I know my memory ain't what it used to be, but I don't think I've got any recovered memories. Maybe some half-truths I've believed so long they must be true, I don't know.

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I try to ignore trolls

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May this woman burn in hell.

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Then again, Roseanne, E. Jean contemporaneously told several friends about the event, while you dug up your repressed memories when that sort of therapy was en vogue, and shared them with People magazine. Agree with Robyn that Barr was once a very unique talent; her descent into madness has been quite ugly - kind of reminiscent of Randy Quaid.

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She presented a fairly realistic look at a family teetering on the edge of lower middle class when no one else was showing that on TV.

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Barr had a traumatic head injury at age 16. There has always been something a little off in her speech and her behavior and judgement through the years has been iffy at times. The combination of sometimes having difficulty processsing stuff and then becaming so famous that one can ignore advice from people -- siblings, parents, friends, children, partners, etc -- has been awful for her.

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This reminds me of my friends ex-husband. He was fine and then as he got older he got crazier and crazier. We were terrified that he was going to kill her and so was she. She finally got away from him but he called her for 10 years and was horribly abusive and called her just the worst names ever. Ten FULL years. She changed her number so many times and kept getting it somehow even as crazy as he was. Thank goodness she's somewhat free of him except a bill collector called her last week looking for him. I would have told them that he died.

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𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏! 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔!

Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Roseanne being a shithead?

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He caught her.

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Robyn, you're being way too generous to Roseanne by even implying that she's confused about how rape and trauma works.

This is a deliberate callback to public knowledge of her (false) accusation and later public retraction. It is a "joke." A deeply tasteless, unfunny "joke," the kind of "humor" that self-absorbed human monsters think is "funny."

I've never understood how disgusting every single other human being on earth with a depraved statement or act that only the perpetrator thinks is funny classifies as "comedy." For anyone who doesn't call him or herself a "comedian," it's considered "being a fucking douchebag." Or worse.

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She was always just this trashy.

She surrounded herself with megatalents and brilliant actors to conceal it.

Guess what.

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Her gross interpretation/spin on what happened to E.Jean is not just repugnant, it’s irresponsible and dangerous. Sexual assault is a serious crime and victims need support. Suggesting anyone can make a false claim about Joe Biden or anyone they don’t like is foolish and hugely inappropriate. File a false police report of your suddenly “recovered” memory data and you could be charged yourself. Nothing about Roseanne is funny anymore.

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