So instead of working on the blog like I'm supposed to on Mondays, I was looking for character illustrations for THE POMEGRANATE's look-book. I'd been struggling with an image for Eleanor of Aquitaine, aka Queen Eleanor, that wasn't from THE LION IN WINTER. Of course, it's 4:30p.m. in Flyover land, and JEOPARDY is in the background. One ear is listening to the clues while the mouth is answering the questions while I'm looking at every actress whoever played Eleanor, I hear Ken Jennings say something about getting King Louis for a husband "when she inherited the Aquitaine."
The mouth moves and out comes, "Who is Eleanor?"
Like duh.
But it got me thinking about her in times of political uncertainty. In THE LION IN WINTER, James Goldman gives Eleanor this great speech after Prince John whines: "A knife! He's got a knife." His mother replies:
Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten.
Frankly, I do believe Goldman was right on the money. Granted, these are not her words, but if you've read a bit about her, they certainly could be. And they are equally correct in today's politics.
Just last week Congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene, while speaking to a Young Republican group in New York, proved the point.
Then Jan. 6 happens and next thing you know, I organized the whole thing along with Steve Bannon here. And I will tell you something: If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won.
Of course, now she says everyone missed her sarcasm. I might have believed that if she had not added the last line:
Not to mention, it would've been armed.
Sorry, Marjie...the last line clinches it for me. You meant exactly what you said. That was not simply dick waving. That was dick-n-balls waving. You want your audience to know that you are not going to stand down at all. And by extension, we should implicitly understand you are a danger to the Constitution of the United States, the same one you swore to uphold.
Then again, her Feckless Führer has already suggested we suspend the Constitution. What more can he possibly do or say that would further implicate him in chargeable acts of treason and sedition?
Oh, I dunno. Maybe add fraud to the list? I'm mean, who wouldn't rush right out to blow $99 a pop on invisible trading cards?
Feckless Loser wants us to collect the whole set and win valuable prizes. He tells us:
These limited edition cards feature amazing ART of my life and career!
Yeah? I don't recall seeing astronaut, Superhero, Cowboy, or Top Gun fighter pilot on his resume. To give credit where credit is due, one card is a golfer who bears no resemblance to photos of Feckless on the links.
Gotta admit, on top of everything else, the timing is just plain weird. On the eve of the Justice Department making serious decisions on whether or not this guy is a criminal, he launches this scheme? Really? Aren't NFTs under enough scrutiny right now? And it keeps getting shadier.
NT L.L.C., was founded in February in Delaware, according to public records. The trading card website lists a company address that corresponds to a mailbox in a UPS Store in Park City, Utah.
On the site, the company notes that it is “not owned, managed or controlled by Donald J. Trump” and says that it uses his name, likeness and image “under paid license” from a company called CIC Digital L.L.C., which was formed in April 2021 at an address that matches the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., according to public records. Public records show that a company called CIC Ventures LLC, founded in 2021, has Nick Luna, a former assistant to Mr. Trump, and John Marion, one of the former president’s lawyers, as directors.
You cannot make this stuff up. Like if you read this in a thriller, you'd be going, "Nah, I don't think so."
And if you think this kind of crazy is just limited to Feckless Loser and his crowd, get a load of this guy from Long Island. The NYT published this article on December 19, that is a day shy of 6 weeks since election day.
Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction.Mr. Santos, a Republican from New York, says he’s the “embodiment of the American dream.” But he seems to have misrepresented a number of his career highlights.
Turns out, nothing on his resume can be vetted or verified. Nothing. Not his jobs, his college degrees. Not even the animal welfare charity he supposedly founded.
Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Mr. Santos’s campaign biography, told The Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which Mr. Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year.
How did this go unchecked in the MONTHS leading up to election day? How was it that not even one, single news outlet ever checked on this guy?
Optics.
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No one really ever vetted Feckless Loser because if they had, he never woulda passed the sniff test. Marjorie Taylor Greene, once she was flying her sedition banner, should've been resounding rejected by her constituency. That she wasn't is really is a cause for grave concern.
And now Mr. Santos. Who is this guy and how did he escape any scrutiny for this long? Folks, not even the DNC or the local Democrats caught this one. Shame on them.
Think about that as Congress prepares to be seated for the next year.
The Wifely Person's Tip o'the Week
If you cannot stand the smell of frying stuff permeating the house,
Trader Joe's makes really good latkes you can do in the oven.
They even get crispy!
חג אורים שמח
Happy Hanukkah to all!
and
a special birthday shout-out:
! יום הולדת שמח, צ'אק
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