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I saw the movie w my family Thanksgiving weekend. We are all adults who lean progressive to varying degrees. I usually think of myself as the more moderate one of the bunch. So I was shocked that they all looked at me like I had 3 heads when I said the ending made me want to yell “FUCK TRUMP!!” in the theater.

Huh.

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As I have said musical theatre is life! And as Elphaba says, & so Meidas Touch & the Meidas Mighty echo, “It’s the wizard that should be afraid of me.”

Keep it up! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 Defy Gravity with all we’re worth! Nobody will ever bring us down!

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THIS!!

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Amen!

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It’s funny how the political atmosphere influences the lens one sees this show through. My husband and I first saw Wicked on Broadway in 2011. The message was there but it didn’t slap you in the face. I saw it two more times, the second time at the end of the Obama presidency and the third time during trump’s. The difference was stark. The message that “isn’t there” when the world is more or less right hits you between the eyes as it really did when I saw the movie last week. Just amazing!

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Brilliant analysis Brett👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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I saw the broadway show a few years ago. Have to see the movie. I got exactly the same feeling from the show as you wrote. What amazed me I talked to a number of people that also liked the show but the underlying theme of the manipulation of the OZ population was completely missed. Can’t help thinking that is why Trump is successful. To many people just can’t see it. Trump does not even hide it and they still believe. Heck he even has a person named OZ he wants his staff. The irony is unbelievable.

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“Let’s be wicked!” 💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸

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🧙

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Love the little Witch, Brett. And I agree, Sal, let's be wicked!

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Bret, I enjoy your writing. Thank you.

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Can we have flying monkeys, too? ;)

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Yes, but they’ll be called Cabinet members.

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Too funny, Angela.

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Trump has turned his followers and too many other people in this country into vicarious murderers. Welcome to the Fourth Reich.

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Trumps used magic and mass hypnosis to coddle his people into submission. Excellent metaphor!

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How does he do this? That’s what I’d like to know.

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Homeopathic magic is making a link between 2 things that are normally not associated. Psychology of advertising which Trumps expert at does that: buy my sneakers and you get a valuable autograph by me! Which is just hype and worth 0.

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Yes I've noiticed the way he hypnotises the crowds at his rallies. Deeply disturbing. Curious about the magic?

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As I sat and watched Wicked, I was so shocked by how this story parallels the Wicked time we are living in and the “powers” that be that are all about smoke and mirrors. It’s time to push back, way back, and get our country back.

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We must conduct gorilla warfare

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why would you want to kill those great apes?

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lmao Nick! those gr8! apes are the ones threating civilized decent human beings. Not us... I predict 2025-2028 they'll be caged up for good, as they're watched closely for the global community to study how dictator's enslave the mentality of sub-human beings behavior. More breaking news to come soon, as we see MAGA digging deeper into their insanity of hatred.

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I yell it when I walk past the tv and some yokel is showing a clip of the orange gutter rat or I see a yard sign, flag or corner pop-up selling MAGAt bullshit. I live in TX 🙄 https://x.com/thanksjoebiden/status/1790227307241537975?s=46&t=RUixOfAXf98CpggH0rLMOw

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Well, now - there's a thing - I clicked on that link - and twitter tells me there's nothing there.

Must have said something Elon "Free Speech!" didn't like. . .

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How disappointing! Some use the Rocky Balboa song to get pumped up, this was mine…I can open it from my notes app. Well, better check, f Musk may have banned it from x after the election.

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We also saw "Wicked" on opening weekend, and we LOVED it! Unlike many others, I had never seen the musical or read the original book (I'm reading it now...).

I immediately saw the parallels between the story and today's politics with the #MangoMelanoma.

By the way, maybe people didn't know what I recently found out: the name "Elphaba" is a riff on the name of the author of "The Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum. El-pha-ba! Genius!

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I haven't watched the movie, so I don't have any basis for agreeing or disagreeing. But if telling the truth means being labeled "Wicked," I'm all in.

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“The best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy.” I saw Wicked on Monday and reminded me of my dear state of Florida which started weaponizing the students against the teachers. That verse also reminded me of how Trump has scapegoated immigrants. It was wonderful to see the movie finally I never saw the show but glad for such a time as this to prepare for the next time of resistance. Ben I say that Trump has been campaigning for years where Kamala only campaigned for 90-120 days isn’t that a problem for Democrats?

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