1/. Ed Kilgore in New York Magazine says the unthinkable - Trump can beat Biden.....
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 Republican primary is not certain. But it now looks more than merely likely.
The former president boasts more than twice as much support as Ron DeSantis, leading the Florida governor by a 51-to-24 percent margin in FiveThirtyEight’s average of GOP primary polls. No other candidate is polling above 6 percent. And the gap between Trump and DeSantis has been growing steadily wider for weeks.
2/. Joe Biden at the White House Correspondents dinner......the first eight minutes are serious [a little dull], but for about eight more minutes Biden is
scathing and amusing, especially about Fox News......
3/. This will get you going.....Andrew Sullivan looks at the candidacies of Tucker Carlson against
Trump, and Robert Kennedy Jr against Biden.....
The Biden campaign is now officially on, and it has a slogan: “Finish The Job.” No, I’m not making that up. The exhilaration everyone feels is only intensified by the off-the-record briefing that the president is aiming to improve the image of his staggeringly awful veep, Kamala Harris. In the same week that Biden read scripted answers to scripted questions at a presser — he’s given fewer than any president since Reagan — David Frum couldn’t stop himself from predicting the “coming Biden blowout.” Tribal left-media, from The Nation to The Bulwark, are in the middle of a campaign to take out any possible rivals to Trump so a Democratic landslide is guaranteed. What a week! https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-tucker-bobby-insurgencies
4/. Tom Tomorrow on Tucker's replacement....
5/. This is interesting.....Ron DeSantis served as a JAG in Guantanamo, and saw
some really bad stuff.....and ignored it.
Ron DeSantis in Iraq. Photograph: Twitter In the middle of a June night 17 years ago in the Guantánamo prison camp, guards and medical orderlies were urgently summoned to one of the inmate clinics, where an emergency was unfolding.
Two inmates, Ali Abdullah Ahmed and Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, had been brought in dead. A third, Yasser Talal al-Zahrani, had been rushed to the hospital on the US naval base but was declared dead there soon afterwards. The three men were found hanging from their necks, with their hands and feet bound and rags in their throats.
6/. Make some time for this - Roy Wood at the Correspondents Dinner - 25 minutes .....if you like political humour, this will
be very funny indeed.....some amazing zingers....
7/. Excellent piece from Bob Lefsetz on Ron DeSantis and his fight with Disney.......Lefsetz says this is his Ed Muskie moment!
You don’t mess with the Mouse.
Conventional wisdom was Bob Chapek lost his job as a result of wading into politicized cultural issues. But now Iger has doubled-down.
Let’s be clear, the government is the underdog when it comes to battles with corporations. Sure, you can regulate, but never forget you need their money to operate, you can’t get elected without cash, and that’s who has it, the corporations, after all they’re people, right?
But it gets worse than this. Who hates Disney? Talk about picking a target… You can attack homeless people. You can take money from widows and children. But you’re going to try to pin the Mouse?
9/. These bastards just don't care any more......
‘Congress is meant to exert oversight on judicial power. But the chief justice’s show of indifference to congressional authority reflects that there are now effectively no checks on the power of the court.’ Photograph: Jim Young/Reuter t was a short letter. John Roberts, chief justice of the US supreme court, was brief in his missive to Democratic senator Dick Durbin, who chairs the Senate judiciary committee. Citing “separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence”, Roberts declined to appear before the committee to discuss disturbing recent revelations of ethics violations at the court.
10/. It's not often I agree with David Brooks, the right wing columnist in the
Times, but this article is excellent ....
Joe Biden built his 2020 presidential campaign around the idea that “we’re in a battle for the soul of America.” I thought it was a marvelous slogan because it captured the idea that we’re in the middle of a moral struggle over who we are as a nation. In the video he released this week launching his re-election bid, he doubled down on that idea: We’re still, he said, “in a battle for the soul of America.”
I want to dwell on the little word “soul” in that sentence because I think it illuminates what the 2024 presidential election is all about.
11/. Drive your Republican friends crazy.....send them this!
12/. Bob Lefsetz on the Bud Light kerfuffle.....and how to [and how NOT to] deal with a social media storm....
Anheuser-Busch broke the number one rule of social media…DON’T RESPOND!
Now the real problem with Bud is it’s no longer owned by a family, but a beer conglomerate, i.e. the Belgian Brazilian InBev. Bud is no longer the King of Beers, its sales have dropped dramatically, the Clydesdales rarely appear, the company is ruled purely by spreadsheet, not emotion, and when the numbers are everything you’re heading for a bruising.
You see when it’s your own money… You pay attention. You built the company from scratch, you know the perils of the consumer, of advertising, you know when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em, when to risk and when not to.
13/. Private equity owns the gub'mint, and are raping and pillaging America.....
“Private equity” is a term we’ve all heard but which, if we’re honest, few of us understand. The basic idea is simple: Private equity firms make their money by buying companies, transforming them and selling them — hopefully for a profit. But what sounds simple often leads to disaster.
14/. Facial Flex - ever heard of it?
Thought not, but here is a 4 minute infomercial that is in appallingly bad taste but yet strangely hypnotic, even erotic.
You'll hate yourself in the morning for watching it.......
16/. How much to tip? The Times gives us some post-covid answers....
Not long into the pandemic, Americans were eager to tip their front-line-working baristas and servers. But now that tip fatigue has set in — driven by the proliferation of payment tablets that suggest tipping for everything from a sandwich at a grab-and-go counter to an ultrasound — consumers are often bewildered by when and how much to tip
17/. Did you know Willie Nelson had his 90th birthday concert? Neither did I, but Bob Lefsetz was there.....
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many stars in one place. Not only on a stage, but even at an awards show.
Let me put it this way… The unannounced opener was Billy Strings, and he can sell out the Hollywood Bowl all by himself!
Not that I’m the biggest Willie Nelson fan. When Willie was struggling, country music, then called “country and western,” was pooh-poohed by those in the northeast. You know those people who tell you they grew up listening to Hank Williams? Well, I grew up listening to show tunes.
But then Willie became gigantic. An inspiration to those who think they’re too old, that they missed their chance. Furthermore, Willie was not only on the airwaves, but on the screen too. While rock stars were begging to be in movies, Willie jumped to the head of the line.
18/. Did you watch Dune Part 1? Then you'll be interested in this story
from Vanity Fair on Dune Part 2.....
If you want to know where Dune: Part Two will begin, just look to the ending of the 2021 original. Director Denis Villeneuve wants to make it clear that his new movie, set for release November 3, is not so much another film as a continuation of the first. “It’s important—it’s not a sequel, it’s a second part. There’s a difference,” Villeneuve tells Vanity Fair for this exclusive first look. “I wanted the movie to really open just where we left the characters. There’s no time jump. I wanted dramatic continuity with part one.”
Before the credits rolled on that movie, Timothée Chalamet’s young royal Paul Atreides, prophesied to become a great leader, had been reduced to nothing. He had survived the destruction of his powerful family by the rapacious industrialists known as House Harkonnen, but was cast out into the barren sands of planet Arrakis. There he met Chani, played by Zendaya, an ethereal woman who had been appearing in his dreams, and was welcomed into her tribe of desert survivors known as the Fremen.
Here's the teaser trailer.....
Today's psychic joke...
A father put his 3 year old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which ended by saying, "
God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma and good-bye Grandpa."
The father asked, 'Why did you say good-bye Grandpa?'
The little girl said, "I don't know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do."
The next day grandpa died. The father thought it was a strange coincidence.
A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers which went like this, "God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy and good-bye Grandma.."
The next day the grandmother died.
"Holy crap" thought the father, "this kid is in contact with the other side."
Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say, "God bless Mommy and good-bye Daddy."
He practically went into shock. He couldn't sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office.
He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch and watched the clock.
He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee,
looking at his watch and jumping at every sound. Finally midnight arrived; he breathed a sigh of relief and went home.
When he got home his wife said, "I've never seen you work so late. What's the matter?"
He said, "I don't want to talk about it, I've just spent the worst day of my life."
She said, "You think you had a bad day, you'll never believe what happened to me.
This morning my golf pro dropped dead in the middle of my lesson!
Today's rude British quickies....
My neighbour knocked on my door at 2:30am this morning....
Can you believe that - 2:30am?!
Luckily for him I was still up playing my Bagpipes.
I sat on the train this morning opposite a stunning Thai girl.
I kept thinking to myself, please don't get an erection, please don't
get an erection... but she did.
The Grim Reaper came for me last night, and I beat him off with a vacuum cleaner.
Talk about Dyson with death.
Did you hear about the fat alcoholic transvestite?
All he wanted to do was eat, drink and be Mary.
Paddy says "Mick, I'm thinking of buying a labrador."
"F*ck that" says Mick. "Have you seen how many of their owners go blind"
Man calls 999 and says "I think my wife is dead"
The operator says how do you know?
He says "The sex is the same but the ironing is building up!
I was in bed with a blind girl last night and she said that I had the
biggest penis she had ever laid her hands on.
I said "You're pulling my leg"
A man walks into a Welsh pub and orders a white wine spritzer.
The bar goes silent as everyone stares at him...
"Where are you from? You sound English", said the barman.
"I'm from across the Severn," replies the man nervously.
"What do you do, just across the Severn?",
"I'm a taxidermist."
"What on earth is one of those?",
"I mount animals."
"It's alright boys," shouts the barman "he's one of us".
Spent £40 on ebay last week for a penis enlarger.
Just opened it and some bastard's sent me a magnifying glass!
I saw a poor old lady fall over today on the ice!!
At least I presume she was poor - she only had £1.20 in her purse.
Went for my routine check up today and everything seemed to be going fine until he stuck his index finger up my arse!
Do you think I should change dentists
Today's school joke
A group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, accompanied by two female teachers, went on a field trip to the local racetrack, (Churchill Downs ) to learn about thoroughbred horses and the supporting industry (Bourbon), but mostly to see the horses.
When it was time to take the children to the bathroom, it was decided that the girls would go with one teacher and the boys would go with the other. The teacher assigned to the boys was waiting outside the men's room when one of the boys came out and told her that none of them could reach the urinal.
Having no choice, she went inside, helped the boys with their pants, and began hoisting the little boys up one by one, holding on to their 'wee-wees' to direct the flow away from their clothes.
As she lifted one, she couldn't help but notice that he was unusually well endowed. Trying not to show that she was staring, the teacher said, 'You must be in the 5th grade.'
'No, ma'am', he replied. 'I'm riding Silver Arrow in the seventh race, but I appreciate your help.'
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