Or, hungry, depending upon your point of view…
There has been a lot of France-bashing in the wake of the Paris opening ceremonies, much of it centered around the sexual- misfit themed “last supper” tableau.
At first the creator of the whole thing said he wanted to make sure everyone was “represented.” He has since changed his tune a bit and apologized:
The funny thing is, if you think about, that bit was not French – it was American, or what passes for a global elite DEI nightmare version of America. It’s the future – it is the entirety of Western culture bowing down to the personal pathologies of a group of trust fund babies in the hope it will get some of their leavings.
This is real French weird: Jerry Lewis, infidelity, not bathing that often (hence the perfume) and this – the opening bits of the last time the Olympics were held in France, 1992 winter game in Albertville:
and this:
But now, even being traditionally French/internationalist weird isn’t enough to be one of the cool kids, hence the Hunger Games opening. Life, it should be noted, changes, sadly, very little from the junior high cafeteria until death.
Speaking of junior high, it seems Kamala Harris is off and running to be the next president and it’s thanks to Joe Biden.
When the X/.Twitter “I’m going to take a nap” announcement came out last Sunday, a number of people immediately noticed that it didn’t include an endorsement of his vice president to take his spot. An hour or so later, there it was – why?
That’s because Joe had heard through the grapevine that the people who forced him out – Pelosi, Obama, Schumer, various billionaires - did not see Harris in a much better light than Biden himself and they wanted to somehow slip Arizona astronaut libish/modish/great back story/very white guy Senator Mark Kelly into the spot.
The first tweet was foisted upon Biden – the second was Biden telling them all to go to hell – see what you made me do?
Kelly was the choice of the cabal to replace Biden – unquestionably. But Biden boxed them in by endorsing Harris. Removing a black female Asian vice president from the running was going to be hard enough, but with Biden’s endorsement and all of his delegates? Couldn’t be done.
It is a very strong likelihood that Kelly will be named Harris’ veep running mate, though it could be one of a couple other white guys. Another woman? Another woke progressive? Another minority? Not a chance in hell – the DEI box has been checked with Kamala and it need go no further.
It’s truly no skin off Kelly’s nose – his senate term runs to 2028 so no matter what he’ll still have a job and if running with Harris goes very very south, he will raise his profile and just blame her if he decides to run on his own then.
Speaking of veep, it seems that the number of people watching re-runs of HBO’s “Veep” has skyrocketed and the media is claiming that’s a good sign for Kamala.
Have they seen the show?
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