Well, that didn't take long.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned after just six weeks on the job. She had been elected over the summer to succeed Boris Johnson, and now, there will be another election to choose her successor.
Liz, we hardly knew ye.
To be fair, the political climate in the UK is relatively tame to the tempestuous political soap opera we have ongoing in Washington, no thanks to a group of 1st term lawmakers who'd rather preen for the camera than actually do anything for their constituents. And if you don't know who I mean, you haven't been paying attention.
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Kanye "Ye" West may need to hire a full time medical staff at home.
The controversial rapper-fashion mogul could be facing a cease & desist order from the family of the late George Floyd for claiming that Floyd's death at the knee of then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020 was actually due to a drug overdose. West is also under fire for a series of rants blasting the Jewish faith.
This is what happens when West, who self-diagnosed as bi-polar a ways back, ignores his medication for days on end.
This is what happens when West, who self-diagnosed as bi-polar a ways back, ignores his medication for days on end.
Face facts, "Ye". People would respect you more if you stayed on your medication, and committed yourself to getting better.
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Someone might need to have Herschel Walker checked for CTE.
Walker, running for Senate in Georgia, flashed a toy badge during a debate with Rev.-Sen. Raphael Warnock last week, and tried to pass it off as a real badge. The former college & pro football star left school early to sign with Donald Trump's New Jersey Generals in the USFL, then played in the NFL with Philadelphia, Dallas, and the Giants before hanging up the cleats in 1997. 25 years later, his behavior off the field has been called into question, in addition to leaving his home in Texas to run for Senator in Georgia, where he made his first fame, winning a Heisman Trophy and a national title at Georgia. Two decades or better of football, including youth leagues & high school before going to Georgia, may have left his mind in a questionable state. Of course, having gotten the Trump Kool-Aid, he thinks he's telling the truth, but there are so many doubters.
Roughly translated, reality may set in over the next couple of weeks, and his gridiron past won't be enough to save him on November 8.
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And speaking of Trump, he sat for a deposition.in a defamation suit filed by reporter and former cable personality E. Jean Carroll on Wednesday. Trump is trying to weasel his way out of the suit, claiming that his statements against Carroll, calling her a liar and "not my type" were made under the auspices of being president, although the attack that reportedly happened took place years before Trump even thought about a political career. Carroll has the evidence to prove Trump is lying, including some photos taken of the two in the 90's.
Carroll had a talk show on America's Talking (now MSNBC) in the 90's. Back then, she was in fact fairly attractive. Trump is trying to distance himself from her, but going about it the wrong way. If Carroll wins, the first of the legal dominoes against Trump will fall, and the rest will follow in due course.
If only we could have gotten rid of IQ 45 as quickly as Britian was rid of Liz Truss.
ReplyDeleteIn fairness to the Brits, they handle things much differently than we do here. Truss was in over her head, she knew it, and decided discretion was best. The man-baby? Fuhgeddaboutit! He was in over his head when he started accusing Obama of not being a natural born citizen. Seems Pecos Pampers flunked geography, among other things, if he even bothered with final exams.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know if you follow Keith Olbermann on his current podcast; his distaste for #45 actually exceeds your own (if such a thing is possible).
Anyway, Olbermann concludes his Friday podcasts with a reading from the works of James Thurber (carried over from Keith's earlier cable shows).
On his podcast for this morning, Keith read Thurber's short story "The Greatest Man In The World", which has a certain relevance to what we've been saying here about #45.
You may find this reading on Olbermann's COUNTDOWN Twitter site (that's where I get it anyway); if necessary, you can find Keith reading it from his old show on YouTube: just look up Olbermann/Thurber/The Greatest Man In The World.
Back in 1980, PBS dramatized it on their American Short Story series; that show is on YouTube as well.
Or, if you've got any Thurber books on hand, you can look it up there.
Highly recommended.
(And remember: James Thurber wrote the original story in 1930 - sixteen years before Donald Trump was born.)
I haven't seen any recent stuff from Keith, nor do I have any Thurber books (I do have the most recent movie adaptation of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on DVD), but I get the gist. As I've said, Trump's own carefully crafted public image & reputation have been destroyed, and he is exposed as the narcissistic man-child he really is.
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