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In sunnier days, this would probably have been a Friday Follies post. But we’re talking a wilder take on recent antics being fed us through the mass media. More like Friday FAFO Fun. Just how batshit crazy we should feel about the hallucinogenic diet we’re on depends more than somewhat on what side of the aisle we’re viewing it from. For example, if you’re MAGA, as many of my readers are, you probably feel compelled to check in on the War Room on a fairly regular basis. Where the hunt seems to be on for that one more fatal trap the cunning Dementocrats will be using to steal yet another election.
I’m not taking questions here. This is just how the daily drear if RAV is striking me. Note that the part of “Hang On” Steve is being played here by Jon Voight, and wait for the relief of seeing Julie “the Smart One” Kelly being played by Sigourney Weaver. You and I should consider ourselves Stanley.
Is that better or worse than being one of wet behind the ears voyeurs of the left on Threads, TikTok, Instagram, and Substack? Waiting with bated breath for the news that Epstein has finally reached of the grave to grab hold of the most evil man who ever lived?
Thing is, war Room and the sex addicts are in the same boat. All the media are full of breathless stories about impending events, revelations, resolutions, and retributions, but they don’t happen.
Like all those juicy hints we get from Pam Blondi at the DOJ about who’s next in line for a perp walk on either the Epstein Library or the 2020 Election Tote Board. Big headlines sitting on top of flashbang content.
And right after we’ve had another legal disappointment, we get another ‘wutwuzzat?” update on the missing mom of the celelebrity anchorperson for that show we never watch. Lot’s of press conferences and running around, but what the hell happened if it did happen?
Meanwhile we keep waiting for more bloodshed in the fat woke women protecting rapists from ICE agents saga, and even that’s become kind of a Daily Dud.
But they want us to keep watching somehow, anyhow. Even when not much is really happening and the smart money is waiting for a very big shoe to drop soon. In the interim, desperate news outlets like Brightbart have published no less than half a dozen stories about one late night talk show host in just two days. WTF.
Like we care?
The one who really does care is the guy trying to avoid the celebrity scrap heap of a podcast buried in leftist driftwood.
Yawn.
What is it, then, that everyone on the ball has been waiting for while the FAFO funnies have been distracting/annoying us? This…
Waiting for the real boss of the U.S. Rule of Lawfare, Judge Boasberg, to get SCOTUS in line on tariffs:
Which, by the way, he just did.
Now for the OTHER big Boasberg ruling to come. Soon. The decertification of the 2024 Presidential Election by a District Court Judge in favor of the first DEI airhead to raise her hand.
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