What a week
In case you missed some of the weirdness, oddities, and/or "Oh, him (or her)"/ "Who's that?" for the week. Here are seven stories out there
1. Tara Reade, who accused Biden, of sexually assaulting her, has turned up in Russia. She now has Russian citizenship. She is grateful for the help she received from Maria Butina (you know, the Russian spy at the NRA) in getting Russian citizenship. According to Reade, had she not fled she'd have wound up in a cage or killed. But provided no other information.
2. Shotaro Kishida, the son of Japanese PM Fumio Kishida had a party for himself, his friends and some relatives at the PMs residence. He has been fired as an aid for his father. Kishida has been embarrassed by his son in the past; he has used Embassy cars to take private excursions and go on shopping trips while visiting other countries with his father. Another in a long line of Japanese PMs with relatives who embarrass.
3. On GB news, an unidentified woman who is a butcher was complaining about the lack of workers for farms in the Boston (UK) area. She understands why no British people want those jobs because they're very long hours and the pay is not good. She blames the EU for it. I mean, there aren't the laborers there used to be. She voted for Brexit.
4. Christian Rapper Jimmy Levy has made of video of him walking through Target stores talking about wanting to wash the toys with the blood of Christ. Sadly, the music sucks and the video isn't even so bad it's funny. The video is just bleh.
And... he's very upset that Target has Pride stuff
5. Rajesh Vishwas, a food inspector in India dropped his phone in the Kherkatta dam in the state of Chhattisgarh. He "needed" to retrieve it because it had sensitive government information on it. So, they sent in divers to locate it. They couldn't find it. Now, by then, most of us would have figured it was caught in the silt somewhere at the bottom and was ruined anyway, so why bother?
Not, Rajesh Vishwas. He was going to find that phone. So, he ordered the reservoir to be drained to retrieve his dropped phone.
Yep. More than 2m litres of water pumped from dam, enough to irrigate 600 hectares (1,500 acres) of farmland.
The phone was found several days later -- Ruined.
6. Ben Shapiro has been in near panic, meltdown mode for weeks now. It's almost June 1st and like the Grinch at Christmas he's very upset; June is Pride month. Ben Shapiro has this weird obsession with Pride events and homosexuality that makes me wonder if he wasn't hit by a car as a kid by someone who was gay or something. His obsession with Pride month is creepy. What makes Shapiro's rants amusing is that he goes on about how little power we have in a capitalist society, then he turns around and says capitalism is the best.
B.S.'s weird obsession with Elon Musk is still creepier.
7. Kandiss Taylor, a GOP district chair is very upset. She has an obsession with... globes. From a podcast: “All the globes, everywhere” Taylor said later in the discussion. “I turn on the TV, there’s globes in the background … Everywhere there’s globes. You see them all the time, it’s constant. My children will be like ‘Mama, globe, globe, globe, globe’ — they’re everywhere.”
“That’s what they do, to brainwash,” she added. “For me if it’s not a conspiracy. If it is real, why are you pushing so hard everywhere I go? Every store, you buy a globe, there’s globes everywhere. Every movie, every TV show, news media — why? More and more I’m like, it doesn’t make sense.”
Yes, everywhere I go, I see globes. Toy sections. Sporting goods. Food. Pet stores. Doctor's office. Restaurants. I'm always buying one
Taylor is a Trump supporter. Ran for the Republican nomination for gov of Georgia. Got less than 4% of the vote. Initially refused to concede because she was "robbed of victory" because of election fraud. I don't know if she has conceded.
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