Red card

 When you commit an offense in sports like soccer and bandy (it's a thing), someone shows you a red card and you have to go away.  It seems like a method that could be adopted elsewhere.

Shannon Epstein, who runs something called Generation C (I've read it twice and I can't make head or tail of it), boarded a flight from New Orleans to New Jersey on Thanksgiving and promptly asked a family she decided were Latino if they were "smuggling cocaine."  Apparently voices were raised and the cabin crew decided she should leave the plane.  As it returned to the gate she fought the flight attendants and then "bit, kicked and spat on" sheriff's deputies trying to remove her.  Seven people had to handcuff her to a wheelchair for transportation, while she demanded, "Do you know who I am?"  Answering her own question, she said she was the niece of Chris Christie who is a friend of Donald Trump, which is pushing it somewhat.  But a judge was impressed enough to let her post bail and leave the state.

In other news of Louisiana, John "Makesyourskincrawl" Kennedy drew the short straw and had to walk Herschel Walker around Georgia, where nobody has any idea who he is.  There may have been folks who heard "John Kennedy's coming" and assumed it was JFK Jr., whose return is prophesied by QAnon.  At any rate this Kennedy ranted against "woke high IQ stupid people" who he says are all over Washington, running things as if they had been elected or something.  Then he zeroed in on the secret weapon of the woke:  bags of kale "that they eat to give them energy."  Why he would look at Herschel Walker and think of vegetables is anybody's guess.  

In possibly unrelated news a teenage boy was shot in Savannah while canvassing for Raphael Warnock.  The homeowner shot him through the door and he was treated for a minor leg wound.  "There is no indication the shooting was politically motivated," said the police.  Georgia is a "stand your ground" state so you can shoot anyone who comes to the door.

Residents of Moore County, North Carolina, lost electrical power on Saturday night after two substations were damaged by gunfire.  According to messages posted on social media by a crazy woman named Emily Rainey (whom nobody calls "Ma"), this was God's punishment for an "immoral drag show" in Southern Pines.  Not that she or her Moore County Citizens for Freedom was responsible, you understand, but the whole county had to suffer.  Like the innocent of Sodom and Gomorrah, I suppose.  Rainey used to be a captain in the Psych Ops group (!) at Fort Bragg but was forced to resign from the army after leading a hundred people to Washington for the 2021 coup attempt.  We know she didn't do this terrorist attack because the sheriff went to her house and asked if she needed ammo prayed with her. 

The Trumps never showed up, presumably because she had no interest in "fooking show" and he was not given a medal, but the Bidens have made the annual Kennedy Center Honors part of the Washington social calendar again.  The 44th edition celebrated Amy Grant, U2, George Clooney, Tania Leon and Gladys Knight, but the best surprise was that Paul Pelosi is sufficiently recovered from his assault and Republican character assassination to attend with his wife.  I'll probably have more to say after it is televised on December 28.

Fashion is one of the many things I know less than zilch about, but when it comes to glamor, am I the only one who thinks Dr. Jill Biden makes Brigitte Macron ("a veritable fashion icon, a darling of the Paris celebrity-mag press") look like last week's corned beef and cabbage?

Anyway.  It's almost criminal how much I enjoy watching Kanye unravel day by day, in view of the number of earth denizens who still take him seriously and would even vote for him.  Today he went for Elon Musk, who suspended (but did not ban) him from Twitter.  He also thought of some ethnic groups he hasn't insulted yet.  "Take a Chinese genius and mate them with a South African super model and we have an Elon," he wrote on Instagram.  "I say an Elon because they probably made 10 to 30 Elon's and he's the first genetic hybrid that stuck."  He says it's a compliment. 

 

No one has explained the strange reference to Obama, but tomorrow is another day.  "I call this:  The theory of everything.  Problem solved.  Praise God."  Kanye, have you met Captain Rainey?  By the way, I am aware that you have changed your name to Ye, just as Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali.  So how about you stop modeling/selling that stupid shirt?

The right is imploding.  And it's lovely, and it has very little to do with the Red Sputter.  Nick Fuentes and Roger Stone agreeing that Margie Greene is no good?  Margie feuding with Lin Wood (of the Where Are They Now? file)?  Milo Yiannopoulos claiming Ye propositioned him?  Terpsichore Maras-Lindeman...anything?  Pour it all over me and don't rinse it off.  Scroll down to the tweet from Ron Filipkowski where Giuliani suddenly realizes he's wearing two wristwatches.  

Decades of Decadence is the name of Marco Rubio's forthcoming book.  Damn!  I wanted that title.