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TheWeekholeView: Thank God for Francois Hollande and Putin, and now Sterling

Here, each hole starts on Wednesdays and this is what fell through this past week, in more than one way or day:

On Wednesday, April 23, the US Supreme Court took a call from Vladimir Putin to help him a bit, and the US Court decided in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action to take the heat away from Putin, by destroying the last of the Nixon era legacies: botched affirmative action – by shuffling employment cards to give some to women, some to blacks, some to Latinas, while taking away from the previously employed men, America had created the metrosexual, stay-at-home dad. Now, America’s efforts would be focused on stay-at-home generation Z.

On Thursday,  April 24, Putin could not stay still and after keeping quiet for a few days called the TPV and told us that the pictures the New York Times had been using to prove Russian infiltrators were doing the dirty bid of the Ukrainian separatists were in fact photoshop retouched pictures of the seven dwarfs from Disney‘s beloved movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The tip checked out to be a major scoop. For TPV.

On Friday, April 25, President Obama, not to be undone, decided to single out and freeze the assets of all Russian businesses which did not have American shareholders. Not being able to single out any based on their FaceBook profile, the White House decided to pick some at random.

On Saturday, April 26, al Qaeda continued its stake over half of Iraq. The half it had not controlled yet. President Bush smoked a cigar and so did Vice President Cheney. (Note to the reader, replace those names with the current occupants of the White House)

On Sunday, April 27, the French magazine, L’Express, at President Obama’s request, went along and published a damning article about the beleaguered French President Hollande. The article wondering how unpopular could the former Mr. Trierweiler still become?

A lot, was the response, which brought relief to the American team, which remained more popular.

On Monday, April 28, the Obama administration, knowing that no matter what they did, or perhaps short of a nuclear war with the Russians, they would still be more popular at home than President Hollande, decided to yet again freeze Russian assets whether the assets were located in the United States or outside our reach. This time the gesture mattered.

Since Tuesday, April 29, torrents of contempt have been raining down on Sterling upon the release of an audio recording, apparently genuine, in which the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Clippers tells his mistress to stop posting online pictures of herself with black men, including Magic Johnson, “and not to bring them to my games.” His girlie friend — who is black and Mexican — yawning, apparently got away with this vulgar response:

But, darling, white men, have it so small.. I know you have a big prosthetic, but it’s not like the real big lollipop Blacks have.

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TheWeekholeView

Thank God for Francois Hollande and Putin, and now Sterling

4 COMMENTS

  1. At the risk of abusing a metaphore, I’d like to point out that lollipops which seem to so fascinate TPV are JUNK food, or, as my kids have been taught – RED LIGHT FOOD, so smaller would be healthier.

  2. I’m a white male reader. Is it really possible to get a big prosthetic one? Do you think Obama care would cover something like that?

  3. I think it is covered by Obamacare but there is a proviso that you have to make it available for torture (the statute calls it “enhanced interrogations.”). You could be called up at any time to participate. Unless you’re into that, you probably wouldn’t enjoy it. So much for Obamacare.

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