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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Yesterday Wonkette writer Doktor Zoom, on the environment/climate change beat over there, wrote about how former L.A. mayoral candidate Rick Caruso, who lost to Karen Bass in 2022, was blaming her for why his Pacific Palisades neighborhood was on fire, implying that a Black woman who had gone on a trip BEFORE the fires was incompetent and MIA because misogynoir. He blamed her for his perception of mismanagement and infrastructure failures. Here's a link, but TLDR, Rich Caruso is a white man who seems to be a total racist douche canoe telling LIES: https://www.wonkette.com/p/until-youre-the-one-filming-the-disaster

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Of course, lies can travel around the world before the truth has even got its boots on (thank you Sir Terry Pratchett)!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Love the Douche Canoe, available for weekly rentals! Try the Guilfoyle model.

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arne link's avatar

Ooooh, fierce burn. Our newest diplomat. I hope she can keep her titties in her clothing and not embarrass us.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

I heard a rumor that Gavin Newsom still scrubs his caaack with Ajax

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

That quote, or a version of it, has been misattributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Edgar Allen Poe, and Thomas Jefferson, in addition to Terry Pratchett and even a Chinese proverb.

It is likely the product of Jonathan Swift but stripped of its early-18th-century flowery verbiage.

Regardless of the origin, it's a GREAT quote.

BTW - ❤️ Doktor Zoom and all the other wonkers at Wonkette (which doesn't put commenters behind a paywall)

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Yup, a version of the quote does appear in Pratchett's Discworld series.

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shee-rah's avatar

So he’s blaming the mayor for not being clairvoyant.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

I knew Clair Voyant, and she was no Ben Ghazi, that's for sure.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

We have to dig humor wherever we can find it in these dire times.

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