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Producer of @wtfpod with @marcmaron .

Brooklyn, NY
Joined July 2009
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Brendan McDonald
7 years
Massive protests at tonight's Shakespeare in the Park.
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It's called... Coffin Flop. Some are saying it's not a show. It's just hours and hours of real people falling out of coffins at funerals. Some are even shown nude because, as we were told, they have no souls. But the man behind this phenomenon says he's not worried about it...
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Brendan McDonald
8 years
I'm pretty sure these Trump spokesmen are all just Trump in Nutty Professor makeup.
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3 years
Never forget: The 'Fuck Your Feelings' crowd is the biggest bunch of snowflakes ever
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2 years
Retiring is the 2nd smartest thing Breyer has ever done. The 1st smartest was handing off the cruises mess to Tom.
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7 years
"I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn’t get there." - Donald J. Trump, 2005 and today
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6 years
Corey Lewandowski mocking a person with a disability is SHOCKING! Who on Earth would do such a thing?!?
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6 years
Convicted sexual abuser Bill Cosby wouldn’t come on @WTFpod because he objected to the name of the show. Just wanted to type that.
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6 years
“Judge Kavanaugh, it says here in your calendar you were grounded over a period of three weeks. Do you remember why you were grounded?” “I… prayed too much?”
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4 years
Why, yes, this 1997 New Yorker profile of Trump *does* mention Ghislaine Maxwell flying with him to Mar-a-Lago. But there was also this gem:
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3 years
Anyone who wins an acting Emmy this year has to give it to this guy. I don't make the rules.
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2 years
Just remember - and we haven't even gotten the Dobbs ruling yet - it was ALLLLLLLL worth it for them. This court (and a conservative judiciary writ large) was the endgame and they got it and Donald Trump was a totally acceptable cost.
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7 years
We've tricked my son into thinking an integral part of Halloween fun is the the next day "scavenger hunt" to collect discarded wrappers.
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4 years
This is a massively embarrassing day for people who work in news media.
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4 years
Let me know when Jared has to do Boar on the Floor. Other than that, not interested in watching.
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7 years
Remember his smug fucking face when your kids are denied necessary materials, when you're paying for your special needs kid to get services.
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Jenna Ellis
4 years
WARRIOR.
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4 years
Anytime I see Lou Dobbs doing anything, I immediately watch this and laugh for 13 minutes straight .
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6 years
The Mexican City of... WHAT? 😂😂😂😂
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4 years
This guy was telling everyone in March that the cases were going down to zero and it would disappear like a miracle. You think that's gonna be different when communicating information about his *own* health?!?
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5 years
Clip & Save: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | | EVERY TRUMP HIRE | | WILL BE WORSE | | THAN THE PERSON | | BEING REPLACED | | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
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For all those wondering, this is my son Nestor. We share no blood but he is my life. He came here from Hawaii (legally, of course) five years ago and he lives in my garage. I am so proud of him and raising him has been the best, most rewarding thing I’ve done in my life.
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7 years
If a person said this in public, would you ever listen to that person again, let alone talk with him or give his opinions fair hearing?
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Daniel Dale
7 years
Trump fumed, in the Oval Office, that new arrivals from Haiti "all have AIDS" and that Nigerians would never “go back to their huts" once they'd seen America.
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7 years
A guy got completely ghosted from Congress in the span of a couple hours. The public reason is he asked staffers if he could impregnate them. I have roughly 17,000 questions. It's, maybe, story #17 today.
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4 years
When you give a nomination speech, it's always best to deliver it like a dad forcing all his kids to listen to him read the instructions on the universal remote.
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6 years
Ronan Farrow grows up believing his dad is an abuser and he can’t do anything about it, so he trains and trains and then uses his super skills to take down the most powerful abusers in America. Somebody make THAT superhero movie.
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4 years
So the Russia Collusion stuff was true and now nobody cares. Cool.
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4 years
I feel about this election EXACTLY as I felt at the end of February as the pandemic loomed. We are hurtling toward something terrible and nothing is stopping it. Safeguards are missing. Precautions are inadequate. Catastrophe will happen before people fully absorb the peril.
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7 years
“I loved my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life." - Donald Trump, and dead people in hell
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6 years
I loved what Marc said about superhero movies so much, I transcribed it. You can hear it on today's episode around the 11:40 mark, but I also think it should be read and digested.
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2 years
Louie Anderson was a kind soul. This part of his talk with Marc was very moving to me.
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Brendan McDonald
7 years
This was like two weeks ago. He was incredibly fun & generous. This sucks. For his family & everyone else. Really sad & hard to comprehend.
@WTFpod
WTF with Marc Maron
7 years
Today is Bill Paxton day on ! Great actor! Very cool guy! Do it!
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4 years
This has been true since February and they haven’t learned their lesson once, but worth saying now: There is no way to spin this virus. It can't be flummoxed, it can’t be thrown off its game, it can’t be overshadowed by a stunt. This ragtag crew never had a shot against it.
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Brendan McDonald
2 years
"We're going to get charged with every crime imaginable." - White House Counsel Seems like someone should take him up on that.
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5 years
You know what would be really bad? If there was proof - like, maybe a taped recording - of Donald Trump gleefully admitting that he sexually assaults women just like this latest accusation says he does.
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Brendan McDonald
6 years
What's happening to Trump right now is truly breathtaking because it's probably the first time it's ever happened to him in his life. This wall nonsense is the ultimate comeuppance to a guy who never gave a shit about anything he ever said or promised. /1
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6 years
I'm sorry but FUUUUUUUUUUUCK THIS!
@NewYorker
The New Yorker
6 years
A decade or so ago, podcasts were made by geeks, for geeks. Then came “Serial”:
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7 years
When the clerk at White Castle asks my wife and I how we'll be paying for that sack of 20
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8 years
He's the best we could have hoped for. He was better than we deserved. I feel bad for anyone who can't see it. We got lucky.
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4 years
The day when I never have to think about this fucking asshole ever again will be better than every day that ever came before it.
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Brendan McDonald
8 years
From the Albany Times Union, Sunday, October 22, 1989. Thanks for finding it, Mom.
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7 years
Amazing statement from Bill O'Reilly's flunky. Basically, "Let's get one thing clear. Men at that company harass the bejeezus out of women."
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Brendan McDonald
4 years
Trump Admin people: Jennifer Jacobs is Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive when it comes to your Covid. Don't bother hiding it. She will find it.
@JenniferJJacobs
Jennifer Jacobs
4 years
BREAKING: Trump outside adviser David Bossie tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, sources tell me.
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4 years
I finally had a spare hour to watch this. Make the time. @VicBergerIV created an important American document. I'm 100% serious. Future generations will be happy to have this.
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Brendan McDonald
4 years
Massie is like a guy who tagged along with the cosplayers but didn’t realize they all agreed ahead of time not to go to this event in costume.
@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
4 years
Trump has unloaded on Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) after the congressman held up the Senate’s $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill by threatening to raise a procedural objection
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Brendan McDonald
2 years
No more voting. McCarthy should have to do a series of tasks like in Die Hard With A Vengeance in order to get the speakership. He won't make it past the water jugs.
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2 years
Very proud to work with a podcaster who is liked by Neil Young.
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1 year
People just now finding “Karl from Succession” in older movies and shows, as if I haven’t been shouting “Sledge Hammer!!” every time he’s showed up for the last 30 years.
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Brendan McDonald
3 years
Maybe @JesseThorn will correct me if I'm wrong, but when we did a run of WTF interviews to air on public radio stations 8 or 9 years ago, I believe the Norm episode broke the record for the longest Content Advisory ever issued by PRX. Proud moment there.
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Brendan McDonald
7 years
Don Jr is dumb, but Jared Kushner is fucked.
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1 year
Uh oh
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4 years
Still can't shake this
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Brendan McDonald
5 years
All I keep thinking is how badly Robert Mueller got played by Bill Barr.
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4 years
I’ve been working with this gentleman for 16 years and watching his standup for much longer. This is the finest work of his career. I’m jealous that you all get to watch it for the first time and I only get to rewatch it again and again (which I will).
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marc maron
4 years
Tomorrow. @netflix . My standup special. ‘End Times Fun.’ Drops. Globally.
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What @marcmaron did 20 years ago today - and every day since - is truly inspiring and life-affirming. Congrats to you, my friend, and to everyone out there doing it one day at a time.
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8 years
“We’re gonna get it back,” says kid who got all he’s ever wanted & more since the moment he came out of a vagina.
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3 years
George hearing Ringo poop out the beginnings of Octopus’s Garden and then, instead of ignoring such nonsense, helping him find the melody and the hooks is so tender and loving I can barely handle it.
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4 years
The fact that so many people this this might be a fake diagnosis and/or this will be a boon for his candidacy shows how thoroughly this guy has broken our collective brain.
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4 years
Everyone who lost a loved one, everyone who got sick, everyone who lost jobs, everyone who lost financial security, everyone who has to work in terrifying conditions, everyone who stayed inside at great personal cost, this country did nothing to change any of it. Be angry.
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8 years
When this is all over in November, will you properly hold accountable the people who defended this shit? That's as important as voting.
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4 years
I will never, ever forgive any motherfucker who voted for this guy.
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Happy 14th Birthday to @WTFpod , born this day in 2009! And thanks, @marcmaron , for asking me shortly before that if I had any interest in starting a podcast.
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7 years
Worth revisiting this from almost a year ago. Trump telling a restaurant full of rich people that "we're gonna get your taxes down." This is the whole game for them. Nothing else matters.
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Brendan McDonald
4 years
This clip is Christopher Guest-worthy.
@therecount
The Recount
4 years
Sen. Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham uses his time to talk about his own race through a Citizens United question: "I can tell you there is a lot of money being raised in this campaign. I'd like to know where the hell some of it's coming from. BUT, that's not your problem."
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7 years
At least it's Thursday.
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4 years
So long, Stink Town!
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Brendan McDonald
5 years
In 2017 there was a longstanding member of Congress who was forced to leave because he asked his staffers if he could please impregnate them. It was a story for about two hours. I bet you don't even remember it now. Anyway, it's 501 days until the 2020 Presidential election.
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5 years
Old Navy indoctrinating the youth with leftist propaganda.
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6 years
Thank you, @Twitter , for this promoted post featuring JD Vance enthusiastically endorsing the man who will overturn Roe v Wade so I can get a nice, late-night hate buzz over every liberal who breathlessly recommended Hillbilly Elegy to me.
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5 years
Re-upping my old thread that explains the wrestling logic of why Giuliani is peeing all over himself on live television tonight.
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Brendan McDonald
5 years
If more people spent as much time obsessing over wrestling as I did when I was a kid, everyone would immediately recognize that Rudy Giuliani is what they call "the Heater."
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Brendan McDonald
4 years
Cate Blanchett sneaks in a killer I Think You Should Leave Reference during this. I was floored.
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marc maron
4 years
Tomorrow is Cate Blanchett day on @WTFpod !
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Brendan McDonald
4 years
Jerry to Marc after 58 minutes: "You knew this was gonna happen, right, when we talked?" I did, and it was still a white-knuckle ride for me. Had to remind myself to breathe a few times. Hope you enjoy it tomorrow.
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Brendan McDonald
2 years
I remember getting this email like it was yesterday.
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marc maron
2 years
‘Oh, come on, Gallagher.’ He was a one of a kind. A singular entertainer. A difficult man. RIP Gallagher (if possible).
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6 years
LeBron is better than Jordan because he's the only one who called a garbage President "u bum." End of discussion.
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4 years
So here’s the deal. I am not an organizer and wouldn’t really know how to be one. But I will do whatever is asked. Let’s go.
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5 years
My god, Joe Biden is going to lose to Trump so hard.
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Brendan McDonald
8 years
This tweet should be on a giant neon sign that sits on the House floor & gets lit up every time there's a vote.
@chrislhayes
Chris Hayes
8 years
As Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert called for life sentences for repeat child molesters.
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4 years
@chrislhayes I don’t like watching the bubble leagues or no-fan baseball. They are the opposite of escape. They rub my nose in the depressing reality of our situation. Not saying everyone feels that way, but... maybe some?
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Brendan McDonald
4 years
I watched two hours of Fox News tonight (yeah, yeah, I know), and the vibe is very much the same as the last month of Obama-McCain. Everyone playing their roles, but they are on autopilot. Some, like, Hannity are outwardly exhausted and/or demoralized.
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Brendan McDonald
7 years
Donald Trump just sunk a five-foot putz.
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Brendan McDonald
6 years
@chrislhayes 3) Don't forget this one, which makes it pretty clear we have no clue how much cash is being funneled to Trump properties by the Saudis (and others).
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6 years
Everyone has their own version of the Definitive Trump Anecdote, the skeleton key that opens all doors in his brain. It's just that mine is the correct one. You'll do well to remember it at all times but especially when he's accused of wrongdoing.
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I run a podcast. Three years ago today, we had someone "from the White House" on the podcast. If people at the White House told us, after the interview, that they "were not comfortable with us using the audio," you can bet your ass we would have used it.
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Josh Sternberg
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The NYT spoke to Stephen Miller on the record with audio and they spiked it because the White House “were not comfortable using the audio...when they found out his voice was going to be on a podcast they were not happy about it. So they asked us not to use it.”
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Brendan McDonald
8 years
Obama telling Reince Priebus "I'm glad to see you feel you've earned a night off" is the most I've ever loved the guy.
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7 years
"Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room."
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Brendan McDonald
6 years
I’ve been working in audio production my entire professional life and I never really understood what “vocal fry” or “uptalk” meant. I finally realized that they mean “talking.” And people who complain about them are “dicks.”
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Brendan McDonald
7 years
We've done 789 episodes of WTF. This is one of the very best.
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marc maron
7 years
Today is Raoul Peck director of @IAmNotYourNegro day on @WTFpod ! Deep talk. Great! Do it up!
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Brendan McDonald
4 years
All of NYC is Bart and Jet Blue is Homer making a terrifying clown bed because he thinks Bart will like it.
@NYPDnews
NYPD NEWS
4 years
Tonight, at 7 P.M. three @JetBlue aircrafts will conduct a flyover over Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx to salute frontline first responders & health care workers. The aircrafts will fly at approximately 2,000 ft. Please follow social distancing guidelines if viewing in public.
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Brendan McDonald
4 years
The culture within the Houston Astros front office sounds horrible. Good thing I root for the Mets, whose culture is "rob Peter to pay Paul because you got caught up in the world's largest Ponzi scheme 11 years ago."
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Brendan McDonald
5 years
I rarely post about personal stuff - and my wife isn’t even on here to see this - but I’m about to go into prison to see her perform in ‘1776’ and I’ll never stop being inspired by what she does. A good reminder that we can all do things to make this world a little less lousy.
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Brendan McDonald
5 years
So Rudy goes on TV and does the crazy act and then people are like “Can you believe Rudy said The Thing?” And the The Thing comes out and it's easy for Trump to navigate because Rudy already sucked up all the oxygen on it. Classic Heater.
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Brendan McDonald
7 years
Top activities during "Executive Time" - Make Filet-O-Fish tower - Play with John Cena action figure - Eat Filet-O-Fish tower - Fart in cups, save for later use - Mix all bathroom items in one bottle - Pour new potion on foods, for science - Yell at hands - Think about karate
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Brendan McDonald
7 years
People always want to clown Michael Moore & dismiss him, but I've felt this is true since I was 18 & I don't think anything has changed.
@MMFlint
Michael Moore
7 years
America. Racism. Trump. We never fixed it. Never redeemed ourselves for our two Original Sins: Enslaving black people & genocide of Indians.
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Brendan McDonald
7 years
So if Trump goes down because Mike Flynn had to spill his guts to prevent his kid from going to jail, can the TIME Person of the Year be Large Adult Sons?
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1 year
@chrislhayes “I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here…”
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Brendan McDonald
3 years
So instead of Newsom having a slightly embarrassing dinner, getting razzed and leaving it at that, right wing clowns decided to waste everyone’s time, make it a $300 million dinner and make taxpayers pick up the tab.
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