Wednesday Potpourri

First, on the Joe Biden senile dementia watch. Having been shamed into interrupting his vacations, Joe Biden stopped over in Lahaina, Maui to survey the fire damage.

He compared a massive fire that incinerated hundreds of people to a small kitchen fire in one of his Delaware houses. He made a joke about the fact that his Corvette had survived and riffed on how the ground was hot. To top it off he fell asleep during a ceremony honoring the victims, many of whom have been reduced to ashes.

In other words, he made it about himself. The people of Maui were appalled at his insouciance and disregard. 

On cue CNN declared that he had said all the right things. Pathetic. What does this tell us about the average intelligence of CNN newsreaders, and the network's viewers.

Second, on a brighter note, a recent edition of Queen’s greatest hits has drawn attention for leaving off one of their more famous songs: Fat Bottomed Girls. 

Apparently, the notion that girls might have fat bottoms was far too offensive for the delicate sensibilities of the average youngster. 

Third, a teacher named Jason Anger posted this on Twitter. It represents the current state of America’s therapy culture.

Can't remember the last time I had a conversation with a young person that wasn't filled with therapy language. People have become incredibly fluent in the language of trauma and anxiety etc., but it's done nothing to improve their emotional awareness or maturity. Mental health awareness has created mental health ubiquity. It's not helping.

Fourth, enterprising young women have found a new trade-- going to work as a rent-a-wife. And, since most of it takes place on line, there is no actual sexual contact involved. Or so they say.

One appreciates the modesty involved in saying that it all takes place on line, but seriously, who really believes that.

You see, at a time when women want to get married without becoming wives, a rent-a-wife will provide companionship, for a price, of course.

 The New York Post has the story:

For a cool $30,000, a bosomy brunette is assuming the position of “surrogate wife,” selling herself out to married men seeking virtual companionship from a woman who’ll gladly fulfill their most primitive pleasures like “no other woman” willingly would.

“I do tasks that average wives often prefer to avoid — like watching a football match on television without complaining,” bragged bombshell Babi Palomas, 24, from São Paulo, Brazil.

As a surrogate wife, who only offers her saucy services digitally, Palomas, a “digital creator” with more than 111,000 Instagram followers, happily caters to the emotional needs of her woefully wedded patrons when they purchase either her 12-hour or 24-hour packages.

“With one client, I made dinner while [I] accompanied [him] on a call, and we watched movies together,” the social media siren told Jam Press, adding that she never goes to customers’ homes. “We then watched football match, among other little things.”

Fifth, as a coda to that story, consider this. For those who practice phone sex or even Zoom sex, the world of erotic gadgetry has found a way for them to become even closer, without having to leave their screens. Touch without touching.

It is a remote control vibrator, apparently controlled by your partner. 

It allows you to feel closer when you are far away. What would we do without technology?

Sixth, as yet another country clamps down on transgender treatments, the British Tavistock clinic, a leader in the field, is drowning under a flood of lawsuits. It could not have happened to a better group of people. Though, to be frank, prison feels like a more reasonable alternative.

And now it has to answer for a case where a female patient diagnosed with 14 mental health disorders was approved for testosterone treatment and a double mastectomy. Seriously....

We can only cheer the authorities in Great Britain who are putting an end to the madness.

Seventh, just so you do not feel too optimistic, when British teachers explain the binary nature of computer language, they now add a footnote, to the effect that the human gender differs from computing, because it is non-binary. Pathetic.

Eighth, meanwhile back in the Big Apple, major financial service firms have been abandoning the sinking city. And they have taken a trillion dollars in their assets out of town, mostly, as it happens, to Florida. Evidently, the city's tax base is shrinking.

The New York Post reports:

A giant, sucking sound is coming out of Wall Street — and it’s siphoning staggering sums of money out of the Big Apple while handing business to Florida and other states farther south.

Nearly 160 Wall Street firms have moved their headquarters out of New York since the end of 2019, taking nearly $1 trillion — yes, that’s trillion with a “T” — in assets under management with them, according to data from 17,000 companies compiled by Bloomberg.

Why is this happening? The reasons do not come as a surprise:

Looking to dodge rampant crime, stiff taxes and an increasingly exorbitant cost of living, 158 fed-up financial firms representing a whopping $993 billion in assets have packed up and left the Big Apple, taking thousands of high-paid employees with them, the data shows.

Ninth, meanwhile, back in the Magic Kingdom, the Disney company is have a hard time. Not only has it lost millions on woke movies, but fewer and fewer people are dropping into their theme parks.

One writer went all ironic in explaining why this is happening.

What’s to blame? Well, I can tell what is certainly not to blame, and that’s having anything to do with Disney’s head-first dive into identity and sexual politics. No, no, no, no… Disney’s obsession with race and gender has done nothing to do with killing the magic—even though almost all of Disney’s movies are bombing and Disney+ is losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers and billions of dollars.

And Disney’s ongoing efforts to groom childing by seeding kiddie content with drag queens, transsexual propaganda, and homosexuality certainly has nothing to do with it.

Oh, and don’t you dare blame Disney for hiring a straight-up transvestite to greet children at its theme parks. Don’t. You. Dare.

You would have thought that the great minds who run American business would have learned something from the Bud Light debacle. Apparently, not.

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