The ultimate reality show: ‘You’re Fired’
Fascists everywhere have a new screenplay: take your airborne-droplet outrage to the streets and make it Their Fault
14 January 2021 - 05:00
The ratings are in for the newest US reality TV show, The Real Patriots of Orange-Banana Republic. Verdict? A window-and democracy-smashing hit.
Never in the history of television has the pilot episode of anything spawned such a reaction so fast and so wide. Excitement! Flags! Hot dogs! Sedition! Merch! (The designs are already out for a Lego "Capitol invasion" set with the shirtless QAnon believer and his horns, bearskin cloak and megaphone as lead figurine.*)..
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