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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk for a sucker. Except that Twitter employees are the ones feeling played. That’s what inspired this headline today in the New York Post: Jack Dorsey source: ‘Everyone at Twitter hates him now’ They blame him for wooing Elon Musk. Because Musk… Read more.
This morning, Adidas cut ties with Kanye West over his antisemitic rantings. It is the latest of many corporations to answer the pleas of Jewish leaders to do so. ‘I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because… Read more.
Kanye West (aka Ye) spent much of last summer bullying Pete Davidson, his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend, on social media. This, because he could no more accept losing Kim to Pete than Donald Trump could accept losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. But Kanye had the last laugh, which I decried in “Kanye,… Read more.
Unfortunately, President Jair Bolsonaro seems hell-bent on living up to his reputation as the “Trump of the Tropics.” Polls have consistently shown former president Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva handily defeating him today – by double digits. Yet Bolsonaro has spent the last few weeks whipping his supporters into a frenzy with Trumpian lies about… Read more.
I know, I know. Kanye ran as an Independent. But everyone knows Jared Kushner recruited him in 2020 to do so as a useful idiot to help Republicans. Their misguided, racist thinking was that, blacks are so stupid, a significant percentage of them would waste their vote on Kanye just because he’s a black rapper.… Read more.
A quick browse of my commentaries on previous MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) will attest to the fact that my review of this annual show is invariably as informed (and I hope as entertaining) as that of any music industry critic. But watching Kanye and Jay Z perform at this year’s show, I could not… Read more.
