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The Progressive Imaginarium

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Posted By: Garnet, 3/11/2021 12:05:37 PM

“T-Bone” lives in the progressive Imaginarium. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) conjured him up as his fake pal from the ’hood. The “Bone” would now and then materialize to prep the yuppie Booker on his street cred. “T” was the umbilical cord of authenticity with the underprivileged black community for Booker—the vegetarian, Rhodes scholar, Stanford- and Yale-educated, privileged child of two IBM executives. “Corn-pop” also resides in the Imaginarium. Good ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton occasionally would summon the “Pop.” Supposedly he was one tough, African American, razor-wielding gangster that the youthful Mighty Joe Biden won over.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: LesUNo 3/11/2021 12:29:14 PM (No. 720760)
Now that was fun. Thank you VDH.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: qr4j 3/11/2021 12:52:18 PM (No. 720787)
Very well written. I love the use of the word "Imaginarium." Such an apt term!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 3/11/2021 1:03:00 PM (No. 720797)
This is absolutely fantastic!!!!! Some of you don’t bother to read. Break that habit with this amazing dissection of the Imaginarium. You’ll be SO glad you did. (I didn’t know VDH could be this tough! A good look!)
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Reply 4 - Posted by: earlybird 3/11/2021 1:09:54 PM (No. 720808)
PS. I just read a bit about the “reaction” in Montecito to the Okra-SparkleFarkle tell-all-the-way-we-want-it-told. Disinterest. From my experience living in Montecito this evil triumvirate are making far too much noise. Especially when two of them claimed they have not been allowed privacy. Montecitans aren’t keen on Hollywood types. The exceptions are those who go there, act like everyday people and don’t put on airs. Jonathan Winters often sat at a table outside the little restaurant on the main drag in the Upper Village, Dressed casually with a demeanor to match. Eva Marie Saint walked her dog every day on the beach where sunbathers and those who just came to read and look at the ocean were spread out on the sand. Julia Child and her smaller husband would pile into a tiny VW bug (or something equivalent) and head for Vons to do their shopping. Showoffs like Okra and the SparkleFarkles would have been quietly shunned.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: NeverForget 3/11/2021 1:53:08 PM (No. 720859)
(Clatification for snowflakes: The following is a Seinfeld reference and has nothing to do with race.) If his childhood friend is "T-Bone," then Booker must be Coco the monkey.
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