Opinion : Hot Takes: Democrats Campaign, Diddy Did it, Photoshop, BACON, Investigations

Hakeem's real photo next to a photoshopped photo

In weeding through the news every week, there are tidbits that I scan and have nowhere to put the crazy bits of information. Usually, there are some (what I think) funny or sarcastic responses that roll around in my head. When that happens, I feel like Chandler in the episode of Friends, where he makes a bet that he won't make one sarcastic response for a day. I have no place to share these thoughts. So on weeks like that, or days and minutes sometimes, maybe I'll just throw them into a "hot takes" sort of article and hope to make you chuckle or roll your eyes. So this week... 

Petty Politics

An email arrived that said Sarah Corkery, a gal running against Ashley Hinson for Congress, launched a HinsonForGovernor website. It hit me as a, "Look what I did mom, aren't you proud of me?" sort of email. My reaction was an eye roll. 

Corkery claims that "Everywhere I go in Iowa, someone asks me if Ashley Hinson is planning on running for governor so we decided to help her out." Of course, it's loaded with Corkery's take on what Ashley Hinson believes. 

I'd say Corkery might be flirting with a lawsuit of the defamation variety, but maybe not. In the day and age of AI. What's a little website that's meant to mislead? I suppose her campaign donations are going to fund the site, and went toward designing it, rather than actually telling us what Corkery herself believes. But whatever, you do you Boo.

Did he Do It? Sorta.

In other news, a legal case that I haven't followed nor do I care to, a jury decided that "Diddy" did it. Well, just a little bit. The jury let Sean "Diddy" Combs slide with just two of the five counts brought against him. The jury decided that Diddy delivered warm bodies to his residence for the purpose of prostitution. However, he wasn't found guilty of racketeering. One lawyer said, "Lawyers have trouble defining racketeering themselves, so I wouldn't expect a juror to understand it either." He also wasn't found guilty of sex trafficking, I think that would involve holding people against their will. 

So anyway, part of the Hollyweird scene is exposed for the grossness that is that world, yet again. He'll only get a slap on the wrist and knowing him, he'll probably enjoy it, the weirdo. His cellmates gave him a standing "O" for getting off...on all the other charges. 

Hot Hakeem

Then we have the House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jefferies a Democrat from New York. He's known for, or wants to be known for two things. First for breaking the longest speech record on the House floor at 8 hours and 44 minutes, and that he's hot apparently. He released a photo of himself posing by a park bench where he posed like a hot chick. Even the park bench behind him was a little weak in the knees and all wavy behind him. A sure sign of Photoshop. I mean, it looks like it anyway. It COULD have been the heat melting the bench behind him or maybe it was because he was so hot that the bench was shaky in the knees and melting at the idea of being in his presence. Who knows. But anyway, he's getting all kinds of grief over it. 

It's like we expect politicians to be honest even when they share a photo of themselves. Silly us. I was glad to see that he released the actual photo, according to ThatOneGuy55 on X. You'll get a chuckle. 

Bacon is a Spice

Candidate Kamala Harris' team requested that a YouTuber by the name of Kahreem Rahma should interview Kamala (Comma-la) on his channel called, "Subway Takes," prior to the election. Thinking what a cool thing to brag about later, Rahma, a "Muslim Influencer" with an audience of around a million followers, agreed. Following the interview, he said that it was so bad that he didn't want to run it because he was afraid it would make her lose the election. 

He wanted to discuss Gaza with her, but her team said, "no-no." Instead, Kamala showed up and had a deep thought. She wanted to talk bacon. Being unburdened by what has been, she declared that bacon was a spice and went on to wow the interviewer with her tak on bacon. Fortunately for him, the campaign saw just how bad the interview was and asked him NOT to run the interview. He said it ended awkwardly as he explained that as a Muslim he doesn't eat bacon. Details.This is why they say, "know your audience."

Investigation

If you're like me, you roll your eyes every time you hear that our oh-so-serious politicians in Washington D.C. are going to conduct yet ANOTHER investigation. It's code for, "We are going to hold a hearing. We are going to waste your time and ours. We will don our business attire and make it look like we're actually doing something important. We know that you know that it's just us serving up another of our hundreds of nothing burgers." 

On this week's agenda is the FBI. They are going to launch a "criminal investigation" into James "I see seashells on the seashore" Comey and John Brennan the former CIA Director for their roles in the Trump Russia hoax.  To start with, we all know that the politicians don't think there was anything "criminal" about what Comey and Brennan did. If so, wouldn't they be in jail? The FBI will claim, that the two lied to Congress in an attempt to sway the election. Yada, yada, yada, color me shocked.

To quote Hillary Clinton, "What difference at this point does it make?"  I mean, no one wants to discuss something a bit more current like, oh I don't know let's do, "Who was running the autopen? Did Biden know it (no) and when did he know it?(he still doesn't)" 

But go ahead dear FBI, pivot away from stuff like, oh I don't know, the Epstein list.

There you have it. The tidbits that crossed my email or news radar and my take on it. Hopefully, you groaned or laughed, but like me, I hope you rolled your eyes at the nonsense that is now our world!