Richard Laermer

Rambunctious (think rum + boisterous) pop culture/media junkie and prolific writer of all things askew. But not a sharer of armrests.

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8 months after I left X returned to find there was a good reason I did that. Well, I’m on Threads a lot. And the water is fine over there (and much less toxic).

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I have been off X for six weeks. NOTHING has changed. Goodbye again.

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I really love Tim Walz: “At McDonald's, [Trump] looks more like Ronald McDonald and Ronald wears less makeup. Everything about this guy is fake - next he's going to tell you he's a cop or construction worker because he dances to the Village People."

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@elonmusk How do I stop getting messages from you? I can’t seem to block you.

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Will the streets be safer with Bannon in prison? Well, at least the airwaves will.

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Someone is above the law. But it’s not Trump.

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"When anyone has enough money not to work, it's usually because he does." -- Malcolm Forbes

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“Unsubscribe” is the new “I want a lawyer”!

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Nitrogen Execution is an awesome name for a rock band

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Mayor Eric Adams said an account from his memoir, titled Don’t Let It Happen, in which he aimed and fired a gun at a crowd in a school demonstration, never happened. “The co-author of the book may have misunderstood,” Adams said. The book does not credit a co-author.
-Harper’s

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“Snub” is a word used once a year.

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A magazine talks about “vivisecting” Nikki Haley’s campaign. An excellent, hardly used term: the practice of performing operations on live animals!

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My answer to @MuckRack Daily's trivia question: The Associate

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A friend will help you move. A real friend will help you move a body.

- Anonymous

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‘Control Your Client’. As if.

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My answer to @MuckRack Daily's trivia question: ER

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It’s a perfect day to unsubscribe from everyone’s crap!

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“I said so on my podcast” is the most overused term in America.

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“Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. Shadow is what we think of it; tree is the real thing." -Abe Lincoln

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I just found out there’s an airport in Paris, Texas that has a counter for people who flew to Paris, Texas instead of Paris, France. This is true. #americans