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Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

𝗧𝗫 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗼𝘃. 𝗔𝗯𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁'𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀

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There's a line in "Huckleberry Finn" that really hit me the last time I read the book.

IIRC, it's Tom Sawyer, who's pretending he's his younger brother, Sid, while Huck is pretending to be Tom -- you'd have to read the story if you don't get it...

Anyway, "Sid" shows up a few days after "Tom" at the farm where Jim is being held as a runaway slave and the aunt (to the real Sid and Tom) asks what delayed him. He answers that a boiler in the first steamship he was on blew up.

The aunt asks whether anyone was hurt and "Sid" tells her. "No ma'am, a ni**er was killed."

And the aunt's all, "Well I'm glad nobody was hurt."

To Republicans, people they hate are just like that. They're nobody. A dozen people killed in a gay nightclub shooting rampage? Nobody was hurt. People crossing the river, including children and pregnant women, being maimed and killed? Nobody hurt.

And Twain, the line is put in there so seamlessly, just a knockoff conversation that says so much. Fucking genius.

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