A strange moment
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smokingbootDominic Cummings, oh dear oh dear.
Testimony less believable than Roxy Hart's.
It's so bad I can't even be bothered to take it apart here, but I will cite my favourite moment; the bit where, in order to be sure his sight was still up to the trip back to London, he took a 30 minute drive to a local beauty spot with his son in the back seat. Well, that certainly sounds like a sensible eye test to me. When in doubt jeopardise your family just to be sure.
The real damage has been done. The beaches were full of people this weekend, lockdown's pretty much ended. That's depressing and stupid but not unexpected, after all if the electorate was uniformly smart we wouldn't have BJ as PM. Here are the two things I find beyond odd;
First, as a government adviser Cummings is not meant to be holding press conferences at all. He is not meant to be seen, not meant to be the story. He does not take the centre stage at number 10, and yet... To have him give this conference in the PM's garden gives him, on a symbolic level,equal status to a senior cabinet member or even a PM. But no-one has voted this man into power. It gives a very strange message about his relationship with Boris Johnson.
But even that is not what sticks with me. No, it's this odd little boast of his that he has been writing about coronavirus prior to the pandemic. Except it's not quite the case:
https://twitter.com/jwiechers/status/1264953956758884354?fbclid=IwAR0supU9yWBNy9haXIruDUBpIUAX42k3VXA0B9kc5f_Fg-qp2_bU9hfVF1s
Who so desperately needs to seem prescient that they go back and doctor their own blog? And he did it recently too, but why? It's a really strange little lie. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised after he and BJ have told so many whoppers, but it seems weirdly inadequate on a personal level. There was no need to make this claim. It had no place in the statement. So what was it for?
I recall reading his Brexit article, lots of words to express little more than 'I did it, me, me!' He couldn't help bragging, but at least it was about his own work. But why, when he's under scrutiny, does he push out this tiny pointless fib? It's become clear to me that Johnson and his cabal are using the technique of the Big Lie, but what's the small lie in aid of?
It's just that little bit... Creepy.
Testimony less believable than Roxy Hart's.
It's so bad I can't even be bothered to take it apart here, but I will cite my favourite moment; the bit where, in order to be sure his sight was still up to the trip back to London, he took a 30 minute drive to a local beauty spot with his son in the back seat. Well, that certainly sounds like a sensible eye test to me. When in doubt jeopardise your family just to be sure.
The real damage has been done. The beaches were full of people this weekend, lockdown's pretty much ended. That's depressing and stupid but not unexpected, after all if the electorate was uniformly smart we wouldn't have BJ as PM. Here are the two things I find beyond odd;
First, as a government adviser Cummings is not meant to be holding press conferences at all. He is not meant to be seen, not meant to be the story. He does not take the centre stage at number 10, and yet... To have him give this conference in the PM's garden gives him, on a symbolic level,equal status to a senior cabinet member or even a PM. But no-one has voted this man into power. It gives a very strange message about his relationship with Boris Johnson.
But even that is not what sticks with me. No, it's this odd little boast of his that he has been writing about coronavirus prior to the pandemic. Except it's not quite the case:
https://twitter.com/jwiechers/status/1264953956758884354?fbclid=IwAR0supU9yWBNy9haXIruDUBpIUAX42k3VXA0B9kc5f_Fg-qp2_bU9hfVF1s
Who so desperately needs to seem prescient that they go back and doctor their own blog? And he did it recently too, but why? It's a really strange little lie. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised after he and BJ have told so many whoppers, but it seems weirdly inadequate on a personal level. There was no need to make this claim. It had no place in the statement. So what was it for?
I recall reading his Brexit article, lots of words to express little more than 'I did it, me, me!' He couldn't help bragging, but at least it was about his own work. But why, when he's under scrutiny, does he push out this tiny pointless fib? It's become clear to me that Johnson and his cabal are using the technique of the Big Lie, but what's the small lie in aid of?
It's just that little bit... Creepy.
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Date: 2020-05-28 08:53 pm (UTC)--comment from "Jimmy Bignuts"
(No kidding, that's his YouTube name. Had me laughing mine off, lol.)
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Date: 2020-05-30 12:20 am (UTC)Clearly I'm a bad, bad person!