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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts) Fri Jul 29, 2016, 03:07 AM Jul 2016

Don't sell Trump short...

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Don't sell Trump short... (Original Post) MrScorpio Jul 2016 OP

Calvin Trillin complained back in the '80s that satire was becoming near impossible in America. . . Journeyman Jul 2016 #1

Journeyman

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1. Calvin Trillin complained back in the '80s that satire was becoming near impossible in America. . .

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Fri Jul 29, 2016, 03:16 AM

Jul 2016

because no matter how wild the satirist made his vision, reality had a way of imposing itself upon the imagined world, often with much more devastating effect. He used the example of the Reagan White House objecting to the presence of Russian missiles in Cuba by staging an attack by US Marines against the US base at Guantanamo.

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