Hope everyone had a decent week and is looking forward to the weekend.
I’m still hopped up on cold medicine and haven’t left the house since Sunday, so I got that going for me.
Ukraine Updates:
Russia-Ukraine war latest news: ‘We are all dealing with a terrorist state,’ says Zelenskiy; Mariupol citizens without food, water or medical care
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/10/ukraine-news-russia-war-kyiv-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskiy-russian-invasion-hospital-bombing-latest-live-updates
Russians accused of bombarding weary Mariupol as diplomatic efforts stall
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/10/talks-stall-mariupol/
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Calls Ukrainian President Zelenskyy A ‘Thug’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/madison-cawthorn-zelenskyy-thug_n_622a3c6de4b029615838316a
This Madison Cawthorn, who’s not even allowed to drive?
Madison Cawthorn faces jail after being hit for driving with revoked license — again
https://nypost.com/2022/03/10/madison-cawthorn-faces-jail-for-driving-with-revoked-license/
Stonks!
Stock futures are flat as Dow heads for fifth straight losing week amid Russia-Ukraine war
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/10/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Sprots!
(Her name is Tamara Walcott. Her Instagram is @/plussize_fitqueen4.0)
#RIP
LOL
Hope you all have a great day!
Some said that if the earth was flat, a cat would of knocked shit off of it already and now I want to be a flat earther, if only my pea brain would allow it (apologies if someone already mentioned it).
…might need a hand of god, monty-python-style, to pull it off…but this was the first thing I thought of when I read that?
Earlier this week I had to clear off my mantel because my cat decided out of nowhere that it would be a fun game to knock everything off of it every afternoon while I work from home.
The Cawthorn comments are hilarious. A textbook example of when people like him have to do critical thinking after a lifetime of never attempting it.
Bonus points for his projection, as he was an open neo-Nazi prior to election and now has to take the company line that Nazis are bad (in other countries.)
I am currently researching how to DIY-convert foxglove into digitalis:
https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/new-york-state-poll-former-gov-cuomo-potentially-trails-gov-hochul-by-four-points-in-democratic-primary
Have fun digging through this.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpv9n/new-emails-show-chris-cuomo-working-as-part-of-brothers-pr-machine-in-detail
One thing that strikes me is that for people getting paid a ton for PR, their actual language is really muddy and dense.
The article also brings up again how idiotic Jeff Zucker’s handling of the oozing, spreading Chris Cuomo was. For a news exec, his confusion about how news works was blatantly obvious. Zucker’s dysfunction helps explain why CNN struggled so much with its ratings. People might watch CNN out of obligation, but it always feels like penance.
It’s been quite a week for Fredo:
https://nypost.com/2022/03/10/chris-cuomo-offered-rare-covid-plasma-in-2020-emails-reveal/
PR agencies. My boss handed me copy from ours. “Uh, can you fix this? It’s … weird.”
Sigh. Yep, I’ll take care of it.
PR agencies don’t employ actual writers (because we’re very scarce), and it shows.
This is what pro-life is all about?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-ag-told-at-least-the-guy-was-a-democrat-after-he-killed-a-man-with-his-car/ar-AAUU1Kx?ocid=U483DHP&li=BBnb7Kz
This is what the party of family values is all about?
https://www.dailyposter.com/the-coming-medicaid-purge/
WTF DeSantis? Trump attacks windmills so you need to attack the sun?
https://electrek.co/2022/03/10/84-of-florida-voters-support-solar-net-metering-but-gov-desantis-will-gut-it-anyway/
DeSantis declared war on “woke” Disney yesterday. Fucking with the Mouse in Florida is political suicide. So I’m fine with it.
There’s something deeply wrong with DeSantis. I don’t know if he is off his meds or needs to be on meds or what’s going on, but he keeps pissing off voters. It doesn’t make sense unless he’s got some sort of plan to rig the vote, which may be what he’s doing.
His emulation of Trump by means of his out-in-the-open child abuse and his mannerisms is flawless.
Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek has completely bumbled his reaction to the Don’t Say Gay law, first saying that he didn’t want to get involved, and only after it was too late to block it decided to try to buy his way out by offering some relatively small donations to LGBTQ organizations (at least one threw it back at him) and now he says he opposes the law and will try to tell DeSantis it’s bad.
DeSantis knows he’s got the upper hand on Disney as long as Chapek is stumbling around. The dummy thought that he could cut a deal with the evangelicals who see Disney as a top force behind sorcery and gays. He’s going to find out how much more they’re going to tighten the screws, and DeSantis will be laughing all the way until Disney gets its act together, which could be a while.
This feels like yet another “politicians are old and don’t understand how shit is now” situations.
Disney 20 years ago? This totally wouldn’t have been an issue.
Disney now that owns Star Wars and Marvel and has a lot of content specifically pushing standing up the fascists? The fans aren’t going to be as forgiving.