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Where Truth Is Stranger than Fiction and More Absurd than Satire

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Welcome to Clown World! Where Truth is stranger than fiction and even more absurd than the zaniest satire. Here are some of the latest stories.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Turd-eau at Drag Queen Story Hour

During Pride Month, a few lucky children got to see everyone’s favorite Prime Minister, Justin Turd-eau, reading and performing children’s stories at a Drag Queen Story Hour event. Here’s a picture of Prime Minister Blackface in drag:

Prime Minister Justin Turd-eau at a Drag Queen Story Hour Event!
Prime Minister Justin Turd-eau at a Drag Queen Story Hour Event!

The people of Canada must be so proud!

The Preschool to Prison Pipeline

For children growing up in the Hood in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Preschool to Prison Pipeline is real! Just watch the video below in this embedded Tweet:

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Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 @MrAndyNgo
In disturbing video obtained by @AlphaNewsMN, very young children in a hood in St. Paul, Minn. were recorded hitting police & cursing expletives at them.
9:26 PM ∙ Jul 11, 2022
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I know it’s wise to be like Mark Twain and stay away from making predictions, especially about the future; but I think I can call this one. Looking into my crystal ball, I see a sad day, not too many years from now, when the absentee parents of these adorable children will suddenly reappear. They’ll be arm-in-arm with attorney Ben Chump, at a news conference, where they will face the cameras and tearfully condemn the senseless police murder of their innocent little angel. Nothing will assuage these grieving parents’ tears — nothing, that is, except for a multimillion dollar settlement with the city.

Obviously, when these kids’ lives are cut short mid-crime spree by racist police, who have the audacity to enforce the laws — “law and order” is such a white supremacist construct! — it will be yet more proof of the systemic racism that exists in a criminal justice system that EXECUTES — I am shouting now, I am so upset by the genocide being committed! — that GUNS DOWN IN COLD BLOOD — I am leaping to my feet and stomping, I am so mad! — these mostly-peaceful rapists, robbers, carjackers, and murderers of color. [Note: “white” is not a color, so the pale, colorless criminals whom the police kill, well, they deserved it.]

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