#olivia nuzzi

[newsandstuffisee]

[ecc-poetry]

American "American Canto" Canto

after "Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto: Read the Exclusive Excerpt" (archive link)

A loose erasure poem written in (loose) terza rima. I started out adhering to the excerpt's chronology, conjugations, and tenses, but got gradually less strict in order to shape the words the way I wanted them.

That's definitely not a metaphor for anything.

I woke the morning after, a brushfire. I did not know where I was supposed to be. From his mouth: the bullet. Madman, parasite,

vaulted from the sphere of meme  to a balcony in Washington. Cosmic joke. I worry if I might (again) the man-eater. 

I scan the terrain: undetermined home, loaded gun, a few seconds' veil. An intoxicant, a bird-puzzle. Furlough.

Hairpin turns require quick cinema, great reveals. I bend, tear, achieve dominance. I fixate, helpless. Tricks, plastic parts–my job to wield.

I was a trap. I tried to free myself, to control my image in the news. "Pink cloud, Pacific Coast Highway" (I tried not to see myself).

Raised by alcoholics, I (would) (not) choose the rattlesnake, the unsolvable puzzle, the love politics. I wish to think clearly, but refuse.

I warp pearls into bullets. My head shines blankly, guest of honor. I paparazzi, but always say witness.

I am always forgetting somebody's daughter. I prism my ceaseless want, like all desire addicts, into reason, profession, deep thought–

I woke a red flag, a blade of empire. I am talking, of course. Monster-fooled, sea-carved, concave fire.

-Elisa Chavez

[victusinveritas]

[bluesky-out-of-context]

[punishedsaints]

It's just spitting someone's cum into the mouth of another person.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

RFK Jr.’s alleged womanizing threatens Trump, and I can’t stop laughing

Conservatives' big bet on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to backfire on them. Last year, Steven Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump, e

kos at Daily Kos:

Conservatives' big bet on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to backfire on them.

Last year, Steven Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump, encouraged Kennedy to challenge President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary, according to CBS News’ Robert Costa. Bannon reportedly thought Kennedy would create chaos and stoke anti-vaccine sentiment. After his Democratic bid fizzled, Kennedy kicked off an independent run. And the whole time, he was bankrolled by conservative millionaires, who no doubt hoped Kennedy’s family name would cost Biden enough votes in battleground states to hand the 2024 election to Trump. Democratic voters mostly didn’t fall for it, though. Even worse, Kennedy’s QAnon-adjacent conspiracy-theorizing began attracting support on the right, imperiling Trump’s electoral chances. So Trump got Kennedy to drop out and endorse him in late August, promising Kennedy who-knows-what.  But now a slew of womanizing revelations are swirling around Kennedy, causing chaos for Trump. And it’s freakin’ hilarious. 

On Wednesday, Mediaite reported that three women claim to have had romantic relationships with Kennedy within the past year. Those three women do not include New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi, whose own alleged affair with the brain-worm-afflicted conspiracist seemingly destroyed her impending marriage and career. Kennedy, it should be said, is himself married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines.

RFK Jr. and Donald Trump do have one thing in common: womanizing.

[andybeckerman]

I'm not sure what to think about this transcript Ryan Lizza published of a call between Nuzzi and RFK Jr. that he secretly taped.

[kasepalm2]

Umm???!