Jennet Jourdemayne

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#EarlyMusic helps me cope with 21st century life. Someday when Covid is just a dirty memory I will sing in a performance of Thomas Tallis’s 40-part motet “Spem in Alium” and I shall achieve nirvana.

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Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Jun 28

You can tell she’s not proud of what she does for a living.

Scowling federal agent looms over the camera, apparently intending to demand its surrender.

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Jun 21

As ReflectingPoolgate becomes several days old and generates more and more ridiculous and paranoid Truth Social pronouncements, all I can do is feel sorry for all the poor shlubs who have to do this horror show of a boss’s bidding or face losing their jobs.

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Jun 20

Let’s review recent presidential history, President Trump

From Slate magazine:
The Story Behind “Let’s Go Brandon,” the Secretly Vulgar Chant Suddenly Beloved by Republicans
by Heather Schwedel, Oct. 22, 2021

On Thursday, Rep. Bill Posey, a Republican from Florida, ended a speech on the House floor with a curious exclamation: “Let’s Go Brandon!”

Let’s go who now?

A burning effigy of President Barack Obama hangs on a lynching post in front of a church in Florida as a man in clerical robes looks on, ca. 2012.

A man in a public protest holds a sign in front of his face reading:
HEY HUSSEIN, QUIT “DIXIE CHICKIN” OUR NATION
GO BACK TO KENYA

Grinning protesters hold up handmade signs saying “Where’s the birth certificate?” and “AMERICA’S HITLER” (during Obama’s presidency)

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Jun 15

(And I’m very happy to see that good old trusty Wikipedia has an article on “bread and circuses” - feels amazingly apt here)

(Wikipedia article on “bread and circuses”, top of entry)

In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace, by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses). Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· May 14

Social experiment? Influencer wannabe? Or fake account engaging in creepy fake engagement? Anyway, I found a weeeeird one.

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Brown clothes paired with matching hair and walls look amazing lol

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· May 14

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(Please note all the entirely fake accounts that all showed up to like this rather fishy comment)

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Apr 24

He’s also used his government briefings to make himself believe in aliens

FOX News

Rep Tim Burchett convinced that aliens exist, says he's 'seen too much' in government briefings
Story by CJ Womack • 19h

FOX News

GOP lawmaker says government briefings convinced him aliens exist,...

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Apr 20

Based on this small test case survey: The hecklers still exist on X, but nobody’s listening to em these days. It’s progress of a sort: they’re too demoralized to mount a real defense of President Worst Case Scenario, 1.25 years in.

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Apr 13

And his press assistant

Former N1TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo caught on camera tripping up and kicking a migrant father and his young daughter, September 2015

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Apr 11

It’s okay, I guess, but I think my front porch is a little roomier

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Apr 10

I’m not sure it’s true that Putin is far healthier. There have been rumors for years that VP always travels with his own private doctor, has had incontinence accidents, and of course there are those amazing pictures of him meeting with people at comically long conference tables like this one.

Caption: “Putin keeps his distance during meetings”

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Apr 4

Seen this one yet? Heh heh heh.

Pamela Jo’s portrait meets the same fate she dished out last year to those of Biden and Obama

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Apr 1

Just read the puffiest, purplest prose about this guy. “Judging Michael” indeed.

“Judging Michael” - an article so dewily fawning, I think it must have been written by Michael A. Kalil’s mother

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Mar 17

And ultra* petty with it. *In multiple senses of the word

[excerpt, Tom Cotton Wikipedia page]

Tenure

Cassandra Butts nomination

In February 2015, Obama renominated Cassandra Butts, a former White House lawyer, to be the United States ambassador to the Bahamas. Her nomination was blocked by several senators. First, Ted Cruz placed a blanket hold on all U.S. State Department nominees. Cotton specifically blocked the nominations of Butts and ambassador nominees to Sweden and Norway after the Secret Service leaked private information about a fellow member of Congress, although that issue was unrelated to those nominees. Cotton eventually released his holds on the nominees to Sweden and Norway, but kept his hold on Butts's nomination.

Butts told New York Times columnist Frank Bruni that she had gone to see Cotton about his objections to her nomination and said he had told her that because he knew that Obama and Butts were friends, it was a way to "inflict special pain on the president", Bruni said. Cotton's spokeswoman did not dispute Butts's characterization. Butts died on May 26, 2016, still awaiting a Senate vote.

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Feb 28

Nuh uh. pitchfork.com/news/radiohe...

= Pitchfork
Thom Yorke has released a statement about Israel and the war in Gaza. The Radiohead and Smile frontman began his statement by acknowledging the pro-Palestine concertgoer who shouted at him about the war during an Australian show last year. "Some guy shouting at me from the dark last year when I was picking up a guitar to sing the final song alone in front of 9000 people in Melbourne didn't really seem like the best moment to discuss the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza," Yorke shared. "Afterwards I remained in shock that my supposed silence was somehow being taken as complicity, and I struggled to find an adequate way to respond to this and to carry on with the rest of the shows on the tour."

= Pitchfork
Yorke continued by stating his opposition to Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government. (Around the time Radiohead last performed in Israel, in 2017, Yorke also made clear his opposition to Netanyahu.) "I think Netanyahu and his crew of extremists are totally out of control and need to be stopped, and that the international community should put all the pressure it can on them to cease," the musician wrote. "Their excuse of self-defence has long since worn thin and has been replaced by a transparent desire to take control of Gaza and the West Bank permanently." Additionally, Yorke called the blockade of aid to Gaza "horrific."

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Feb 11

I guess I keep those Facebook notifications switched on purely for laughs nowadays. Their algorithm, man. What a hoot.

(FB notification)

From account “JD Vance for President 2028 ✅”

You might like JD Vance for President 2028”

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Feb 6

Mmm-yup!

[Washington Post, 6/22/16]

Dennis Burnham was four years younger and lived around the corner from Donald. He inherited his own impression of his neighbor from his mother, who warned that he should
"stay away from the Trumps."

"Donald was known to be a bully, I was a little kid, and my parents didn't want me beaten up," said Burnham, 65, a business consultant in Texas.

Once when she left Dennis in a playpen in a back yard adjoining the Trumps' property, Martha Burnham returned to find Donald throwing rocks at her son. "She saw Donald standing at the fence," Dennis Burnham said,
"using the playpen for target practice."

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Feb 5

Remember Evan Gershkovich from the Wall Street Journal? I sure do. THAT is what happens to American reporters who ask hard questions about Putin’s war of choice.

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Jan 30

Instantly reminded of when Mark Bowden wrote this about Trump, all the way back in the prehistoric period of 2015 www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12...

(VANITY FAIR, Mark Bowden, 2015)

I spent a long, awkward weekend with Donald Trump is November 1996, an official experience I feel confident neither of
us would like to repeat.

He was like one of those characters in an 18th-century comedy meant to embody a particular flavor of human folly. Trump struck me as adolescent, hilariously ostentatious, arbitrary, unkind, profane, dishonest, loudly opinionated, and consistently wrong. He remains the most vain man I have ever met. And he was trying to make a good impression. Who could have predicted that those very traits, now on prominent daily display, would turn him into the leading G.O.P. candidate for president of the United States?

His latest outrageous edict on banning all Muslims from entering the country comes as no surprise to me based on the man I met nearly 20 years ago. He has no coherent political philosophy, so comparisons with Fascist leaders miss the mark. He just reacts.

(VANITY FAIR, Mark Bowden, 2015)

What was clear was how fast and far one could fall from favor. The trip from "genius" to "idiot" was a flash. The former pilots who flew his plane were geniuses, until they made one too many bumpy landings and became
"fucking idiots." The gold carpeting selected in his absence for the locker rooms in the spa at Mar-a-Lago? "What kind of fucking idiot ...?" I watched as Trump strutted around the beautifully groomed clay tennis courts on his estate, managed by noted tennis pro Anthony Boulle. The courts had been prepped meticulously for a full day of scheduled matches. Trump took exception to the design of the spaces between courts. In particular, he didn't like a small metal box—a pump and cooler for the water fountain alongside—which he thought looked ugly.
He first questioned its placement, then crudely disparaged it, then kicked the box, which didn't budge, and then stooped—red-faced and fuming—to tear it loose from its moorings, rupturing a water line and sending a gevser to soak the courts. Boulle…

(VANITY FAIR, Mark Bowden, 2015)

…one too many bumpy landings and became
"fucking idiots." The gold carpeting selected in his absence for the locker rooms in the spa at Mar-a-Lago? "What kind of fucking idiot ...?" I watched as Trump strutted around the beautifully groomed clay tennis courts on his estate, managed by noted tennis pro Anthony Boulle. The courts had been prepped meticulously for a full day of scheduled matches. Trump took exception to the design of the spaces between courts. In particular, he didn't like a small metal box— a pump and cooler for the water fountain alongside-which he thought looked ugly.
He first questioned its placement, then crudely disparaged it, then kicked the box, which didn't budge, and then stooped—red-faced and fuming—to tear it loose from its moorings, rupturing a water line and sending a geyser to soak the courts. Boulle looked horrified, a weekend of tennis abruptly drowned. Catching a glimpse of me watching, Trump grimaced.

This apparently worried him, because on the flight home a day later he had a proposition.
"I'm looking for somebody to write my next book," he told me.

I told him that I would not be interested.

"Why not?" he asked. "All my books become best-sellers."

The import was clear. There was money in it for me. Trump remains the only person I have ever written about who tried to bribe
me.

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Jan 27

Two corrupt old men, Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump, sharing a moment of Zen with the world

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Jan 14

Today in absolutely-vile-people news, this meme is making the rounds on bluesky. There are Nazi wannabes freely posting on here. Feel free to punch a few of them for me.

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ICE AGENTS SHOULD BE AT EVERY POLLING LOCATION.
I Support Donald...

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Jan 8

Current mood (for the foreseeable future)

(Duolingo delivering the simple truths today)

Translate this sentence:

El presidente me cae mal.

—> I don't Like the president.

Good job!

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Dec 23

Ummm

“People of Greenland

Around 89% of Greenland’s inhabitants are Inuit or mixed Danish-Inuit, identifying as either Kalaalit (from West Greenland), Tunumit (from East Greenland), or Inughut (people from the Thule district in northern Greenland), …”

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Dec 12

Thanks for reminding me of one of my favorite snapshots of the dubious practice of politicians kissing babies:

President George W Bush, his face twisted in alarm, handing back a screaming baby to its parents

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Dec 9

@safety.bsky.app Ahem

“barry the hamster” aka @gizzfan - obvious troll

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Nov 27

Wow. Instablock. What a touchy little customer, who I’d been following for quite some time. You just never know with some people.

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Nov 22

“Only *I* may sound the alarm - that’s just the rules of expertise precedence, folks”

After days of lecturing (and bitchily ridiculing) other bluesky users for being alarmed at Trump’s insane and unbounded behavior, somebody has turned on a dime - and wants you to read all about it

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Nov 18

From this to that, in a few short years

President Obama being charmingly playful on the Oval Office rug next to a baby whose parents are visiting

President Obama bending down and offering his head for a visiting little boy to touch in front of the Oval Office desk, while other family members look on

President Obama helping a happy toddler walk around the Oval Office rug, both with mouths open in gleeful enthusiasm

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Nov 6

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Melania and baby Barron Trump posing for a “dictator chic” pictorial, 1990s?

Jennet Jourdemayne@wistfulwitness· Nov 4

There’s his bad conscience betraying him once again.