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Collateral Damage

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Roy Blount Jr
Dec 16, 2025
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About this time of year, 399 BCE:

“A very sad thing happened last night in Athens, Greece. Socrates Sophroniscus, a well-meaning but odd-dressing insane radical ‘philosopher’, drank fatal poison, reportedly due to the gods’ jealousy, which he courted by constantly criticizing the most popular of them, Donald J. Trump. Most people said he was a victim of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as . . .”

April 15, 1865:

“A very sad thing happened last night in Ford’s Theatre, Washington D. C. Abraham Lincoln, a tall but ugly President, elected by fraud, saw his ratings plunge to the point of death, reportedly due to the divisiveness he promoted, North and South, through his overbearing obsession with TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as . . . ”

Good Friday, any year:

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