I have to talk about the political news tomorrow but it’s the end of the academic year and I’m completely out of touch. I spent all day today battling Legal to let the sweet widow come to the award ceremony. I won. My definition of “including but not limited to” finally prevailed. But I have no idea what’s happening in the world.
Please update me, people. Please, pretty please. I’m a rescuer of sweet old widows, and I deserve help.
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Did you miss all the crazy Trump vs Pope Leo stuff? And the insane Trump as Jesus picture that someone created with AI and Trump posted on Truth Social, then took down because Christians of all strips found it blasphemous?
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Clarissa often seems to miss the most insane Trump-developments. Cognitive dissonance I guess, it must feel very bad to know that one has voted for this absolute shit show. Like how do Trump voters feel about the killing of school children in Iran, about the blatant Epstein cover up etc? I guess they just ignore the news that could threaten their own self-image as good person making good choices?
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there’s a US blockade of Iranian ports
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The Iran impasse is proof that the USA is no longer the world superpower most Americans thought it was: a giant with clay feet doesn’t cover it.
Plus, whoever is in charge of communication at the White House should be fired promptly.
Finally, what happened to serious political leadership in the US?
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“spent all day today battling Legal to let the sweet widow come to the award ceremony. I won.”
Congratulations! Feel free to wish her well and thank her for her generosity from your readers (if she has any idea they exist, which… she probably doesn’t) but anyway, the thought stands. Good for you (and her)!!!!
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My “highlights” of the last days: Melania Trumps bizarre press conference about Epstein, the astonishing fact that Pam Bondi got out of her testifying under oath about the whole Epstein cover-up by being fired as AG, Trumps randomly attacking the pope and Meloni and posing as Jesus. American politics feels increasingly like the genius “Cicero” trilogy by Robert Harris about the end of the Roman republic. I wonder if you are still following the Epstein saga at all, I find it very illuminatig to check the top stories on reddit/r/epstein every day, so see who is still fighting for justice and accountability and who has left any decency and morals completely behind them.
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