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This Is Not An April Fools' Day Joke

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  This Is Not An April Fools' Day Joke There is no reprieve from the ignorance of the Trump/Musk regime—or the evil. Greg Olear Apr 1   Traditionally, on the first day of this rainshowery month, we make up wild, crazy scenarios and try to pass them off, to the more gullible among us, as real. We take as long as necessary to sell the ruse, and as soon as we see that our chosen sucker has taken the bait, we shout, “APRIL FOOL!” and we all have a good laugh. Like, for example, we might show our mark a photo (Is it Photoshopped? Surely it must be!) of the Vice President—whose official duties are constitutionally limited to breaking ties in the Senate and outliving POTUS—gesturing towards an unseen something on what looks like Hoth but is actually Greenland, where this white nationalist and his brown-skinned wife (Is his obvious hypocrisy part of the joke?) have come to explain to the native Kalaallit people that, like it or not, their cold island is about to become a province of t...