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Joe Ashby's avatar

Excellent! You captured the Next Door ‘No Kings” Karens perfectly.

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Josephine Chrestman's avatar

You’re a great writer. Thank you. Looking for the tip jar

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Texas Bluebonnet's avatar

Scroll up. Below the end of the article before the YT video.

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Dana Granberg-Nill MD FAAFP's avatar

Is there a tip jar? I can’t find one either.

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Texas Bluebonnet's avatar

Scroll up. Below the end of the article before the YT video.

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John Duffy's avatar

Great story. Sad reality we are living in

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janis kerker's avatar

Wow! You deserve a treat for writing that!

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Richard's avatar

They be crazy. The Democrat grass roots are worse than the politicians. There is no nonviolent option other than separation.

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HL3's avatar

Many democrats have the same feeling on GOP

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

it's not the gop who is showing the violence

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Texyz's avatar

Probly, but define 'separation'....

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Richard's avatar

Different countries. Canada be crazy but not a threat.

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reality speaks's avatar

I couldn’t put it down because it was so captivating

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Kathleen's avatar

My neighborhood is full of Janet-types

Lucky me 😵‍💫

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Mark Adams's avatar

Well done, Sasha. It would be appalling to think that people like Janet actually exist. And if they were voters.

Wait - what???

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Aarati Martino's avatar

Omg that was so good, can't wait for the next installment. I do hope this ends as a story of redemption and not a story of tragedy!

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Dave Slate's avatar

Very amusing column. Meanwhile, in real life in my quite progressive neighborhood, I've been getting a flurry of emails on our neighborhood mailing list from people who have recently spotted ICE agents in the vicinity. ICE has been seen stopping suspected illegal immigrants (or undocumented persons, depending on your point of view) and detaining some of them, and a mysterious helicopter has been hovering overhead. This happened on Halloween as well. My neighbors are upset, and are discussing ways to help possible targets of ICE, like landscapers, avoid detection. These include giving them rides to safe spaces and blowing whistles to alert people about ICE's presence.

The fact that this was happening on Halloween made me wonder whether some people might have foolishly dressed up as ICE agents, and then got in trouble either with ICE for impersonating their actual agents or with the anti-ICE people for participating in ICE's crackdowns. I also had an idea for a new entry in the "Halloween" film series featuring Michael Myers dressed up as a masked ICE agent, and a frantic Dr. Loomis hunting for him and warning everyone to stay clear of Myers and not let him in if he knocks on their door.

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Kurt's avatar

Sasha, great job. Janet, the ultimate Karen, is a fun character. I love the situations you stick her in. And her self justifications. It’s laugh out loud funny.

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Mary Anne Simpson's avatar

This is so darn good. Can we all just stop……I long for the good old days when we just judged people on their character and not what they believed politically

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Poor Janet... So close but yet so far.

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Jorge Finkielman's avatar

👏👏👏

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John Sirko's avatar

I'm looking forward to the movie.

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Jenn's avatar

This may be satire, but how many of us know a real life Janet?

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