Poe: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the Masque of the Red Death
Poe: it's about these debauched elites who party as the peasants die of a deadly plague
Poe: but then get an ironic comeuppance
Barker: a little on the nose don't you think
Poe: what

Barker: you haven't been following the news today huh
Poe: well i've been working really hard on this story
Barker: haha oh man edgar
Barker: oh boy haha
Barker: you're gonna laugh
Poe: what happened
Barker: oh boy are you gonna laugh

[72 hours earlier, across the country]
Trump: and we got six rooms! each a different color! so many colors! some people say we have all the colors. all six of the colors. we love our colors don't we folks
Trump: and a clock that strikes ominously every hour! we love our clock!

Trump: some people - not a lot but some - say there's dark figure in a blood-splattered funeral shroud in the seventh red-illuminated room
Trump: they're being very rude to me about it

Trump: so the lying failing new york times says there's a red death specter at this party
Trump: but i pulled on his death robe and there was nothing underneath
Trump: nothing underneath, folks!
Eric Trump: it was fake news! fake news, right, dad?
Trump:
Trump: who are you

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