The dog days of Summer are keeping me in muumuus and biker shorts with tees. I need a serious fashion intervention or for Fall to hurry up and get here. It’s called manifesting your dreams, thanks for helping. Anyways, now to the main event—today’s topics!
1 Thing to do today
Gut Check: The Biden-family corruption revelations are making me feel crazy for believing them
Slip of the Tongue: Turns out she is 100% that b*tch
Free Time
1 Thing to do today (if nothing else)
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Gut Check: Am I a tinfoil hat person now?
Over the past 7 years there has been a lot of talk about foreign influence in U.S. politics. It’s been confusing and exhausting trying to make sense of new allegations, disputed facts, questionable character witnesses, leaked stories from unnamed sources, and the lack of consensus on what is true from the people in charge of telling us the truth.
I get that reporting is messy. People will lie to get their own spin on a story. People will do anything to remain in power. And that’s where I get stuck—trying to be a stand-up citizen that doesn’t fall for sensational headlines or conspiracy theories, all while watching the discredited conspiracy theories become more and more plausible.
It started with Russia-Gate, the whole Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Putin thing that never was but we never heard the end of it until it was quietly discredited in both the Mueller Report and the Durham Report. Turns out the only ones colluding were the FBI and Hillary Clinton. And as I write that sentence I am tugging at my hair. How is this happening? Where is my hat?
Now let’s get in our time machine and go back to 2020 and the notorious Hunter Biden laptop. The New York Post drops the story and their Twitter account gets locked. The FBI is putting pressure on social media companies to pull the story so it doesn’t spread around ahead of the election. Dozens of senior intelligence officials write a public letter to inform the American people that this is a Russian hit job. And I think, yeah this sounds way too crazy to be real. Why would Rudy Gulliani of all the people in the world have this laptop?
AND THEN YOU FIND OUT IT WAS REAL and that the FBI knew it was real at the same time they were pulling it from public feeds. Why is this happening?
These people are making me type in all caps. I hate them for making me this person. I just think we need a restart. Fire all the journalists and all the bureaucrats and let’s just do it again.
Without getting into all the specifics of Biden Family Inc. corruption (because the House Oversight Committee has a nifty Biden influence-peddling timeline you can check out for yourself) it’s President Biden’s own words and actions that have me the most irate.
At an August 2019 campaign stop in South Carolina:
“I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period,” he said. “And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between personal and private [business interests] and the government. There wasn’t any hint of scandal at all when we were there. And I’m going to propose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That’s why I never talked with my son or my brother or anyone else — even distant family — about their business interests. Period.”
Here’s a video from the stump in September 2019:
"I don’t discuss business with my son," Biden said again the next month in October 2019.
Let’s pretend like that even makes sense, that he never ever talks with his son about his professional life. Ok, but not having knowledge of what your son even does for a living? No sorry pal. The sitting Vice President and now President of the United States of America doesn’t know that his son sits on foreign boards and was doing business while catching rides to some of those foreign meetings on Air Force Two?
Email, voicemails, and text messages found in Hunter Biden’s laptop directly refute those statements. President Biden is a liar and a bad one at that. We’ve got whistleblowers coming out of the woodwork and now suddenly the media is skeptical of them? Try googling anything related to this without getting gaslit by favorable (and I would venture to say misleading) headlines at the top of the algorithm.
So now I’m one of those people that “does their own research” because no one is doing their job except for Miranda Devine at the NYP. God bless her.
This isn’t about partisan sniping, this is about trust in institutions and I am baffled that every American isn’t up in arms that the President’s son is getting rich by being the President’s son and putting the President on speaker phone to close the deal. You see it’s just the “illusion of access” not actual foreign influence that he was facilitating for millions of dollars, diamonds, and sports cars. You know how naive these Chinese, Russian and Romanian oligarchs can be. What’s a few favors amongst friends, am I right? Leave the poor kid alone, he has a drug problem and needs our understanding.
In the words of President Barack Obama, ever eloquent and to the point, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.”
Slip of the Tongue: Lizzo is Fat-phobic, Allegedly
More headlines prove that truth is stranger than fiction.
Lizzo Fat-Shamed, Sexually Harassed Three of Her Dancers, Lawsuit Alleges. The Daily Beast
Former Lizzo dancers were weight-shamed and pressured while at strip club, lawsuit says. NBC
Lizzo denies accusations of sexual harassment, fat phobia by former dancers: 'I am not the villain'. Fox News
In a lawsuit filed by three former backup dancers against Lizzo and her dance company, plaintiffs claim they were victims of a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, religious bias, and false imprisonment among other things.
It’s a sordid tale of being pressured to go to strip clubs, engage in unwanted sexual acts, mocked for being a virgin, locked in a closet so staffers could delete footage off a dancer’s cell phone, lots of strange obsession with bananas, and yes—hypercritical attention being paid to weight-gain of her dancers.
But what caught my attention the most? The plaintiffs are requesting a jury trial.
Lizzo’s own past lyrics are being scrutinized in regard to these new allegations:
“Had to cut some h—s loose, yeah / NDA no loose lips / Now them h—s tryna sue me / b—ch, I don’t give two s—s / All the rumors are true, yeah.”
I actually can’t stop laughing. What is it about rich and powerful people that think they can just say their sins out loud and face no repercussions?
In Your Free Time
I’ve got some murder mystery and thriller recommendations that will keep you entertained for the rest of the month!
📺 To Watch
Season 2 of Afterparty on AppleTV+
The Final Season of Endeavor on PBS Masterpiece
The Last Thing He Told Me on AppleTV+
Magpie Murders on Prime
📚 To Read
Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAlister
She Started It by Sian Gilbert
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Thank you as always for your readership! See you in two weeks!
XOXO
-Sarah