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Bon Quixote
@Bonifer
Quantum Storyteller
Nov 4, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: Trumptown, Indiana. I know this place well. Went to high school there. Population 10,000. 95% white. Mostly Roman Catholic. Industrious. Thrifty. Pragmatic. Pride themselves on their common sense. Surrounding towns have been decimated economically over the past 50 years but Trumptown has done okay through a combination of govt contracts, cheap and undocumented labor, and a dozen shrewd businessmen, one of whom cached $30M and spent it winning a seat in the U.S. Senate...
Nov 2, 2020 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Thread: When I went to Notre Dame, we elected a king as student body president. Robert Calhoun 'King' Kersten was a junior from Fort Dodge. Iowa, who ran a brilliant campaign as a satire of student politics. His campaign office was a bathroom stall in Walsh Hall. Kersten, who had long blond hair, wore Hawaiian shirts and flip flops through the South Bend winters. He campaigned on the platform of an Enlightened Oligarchy. His King campaign wardrobe was an ornate Catholic priest's vestment and a cardboard Burger King crown...