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Posted on: 2024-05-06 15:56:31
By: Anonymous
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Advice.
Gó home early, " Mark"-at any rate, don't trarel Inte, particularly in dark streets. Don't walk around alone o' niglts. Above all things, "Mark," don't under any circumstances take a drop too much when there is a policeman around, because you know they're a laying for yo"
This is my favorite piece of Twain ephemera, published in the theatrical newsletter that would become San Francisco’s paper of record.
Why did the Chronicle offer such “advice” to their freelancer?
Why was the SFPD “a laying for” Mark Twain?
This is not the Twain anecdote your papaw tells ya.
In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops.
It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”…
But his editor scrapped it, telling him the paper could not afford to defend Chinamen or outrage the SFPD. Twain quit & became a freelancer, a position which left him dead broke, houseless, & suicidal, but allowed him to write whatever he pleased. He chose mostly to criticize the SFPD.
He went after them for laziness, brutality, corruption, incompetence, & much else, specifically attacking the longtime Chief, Martin Burke, who came to head the SFPD after he helped organized a violent coup which overthrew the duly elected government of SF in 1856.
Burke introduced to the SFPD uniform a knife specifically for intimidation & racketeering of Chinese & Irish populations.
He was extralegal to the extreme. At one point it became so dangerous for Twain that he had to temporarily flee SF for Angel’s Camp, for fear of being murdered by the police
That’s right. “Jim Smiley & his Jumping Frog,” the most viral story of the 1860s, was written while Twain was hiding out from fascist cops.
But he didn’t relent. And he brought lots of attention down on Burke, who, in 1866, was finally thrown out of office.
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Posted on: 2024-05-06 16:58:33
By: Anonymous
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What are these republicans going to talk about. The current state of disaster. In the Republican Party, under the criminal insurrectionist trump. And his band of MAGA Clowns…
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Posted on: 2024-05-06 17:42:14
By: Anonymous
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HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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YOU GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH A BIDEN???
COME ON ALL OF MY FELLOW 73 PERCENTILES!!!
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VOTE ONCE...VOTE TWICE...VOTE THREE TIMES AND JOE WILL PAY YOUR RENT FOR A FULL YEAR, JUST LIKE HE DOES FOR TEN MILLION ILLEGALS!!
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Posted on: 2024-05-07 06:28:38
By: Anonymous
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Joe when is the next round of covid checks going out?
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Posted on: 2024-05-07 06:32:52
By: Anonymous
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Joe's trainers are shortening his speeches...
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Posted on: 2024-05-07 06:58:34
By: Anonymous
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You could run trumps bogus comments on a loop. Because it’s the same lying bull *bleep* day and day out.
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Posted on: 2024-05-07 07:00:30
By: Anonymous
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There are storm clouds on the horizon. For that the old ass yellow baller trump.
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Posted on: 2024-05-07 07:09:36
By: Anonymous
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And don't forget Kristi "i shot that stinky old goat" Noem!!!! She'll be a grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat VP pick.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Posted on: 2024-05-07 07:12:26
By: Anonymous
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Look out Joe!! Kristi blows away stinky old goats!!
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Posted on: 2024-05-07 07:20:50
By: Anonymous
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Sniveler do you have Biden tattooed on your skinny tooth pick arm?
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Posted on: 2024-05-07 07:20:57
By: Anonymous
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Kristi would definitely blow away the competition.
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Posted on: 2024-05-07 07:57:14
By: Anonymous
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You're #1 when it comes to blow jobs! I don't want to give out your name it's are little secret.
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