It was quite a week. The Democrats decided they needed to get rid of a candidate in the crowded field for Governor of California, and the fall guy was Eric Swalwell. It turned out that the Democrats and their reporters had known all along that Swalwell was a sexual predator, but until now it wasn’t opportune to mention it.
President Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus, or maybe just as a doctor, healing someone. That prompted howls of outrage from the people who are always howling in outrage, and an extraordinary outpouring of memes showing Trump and others as Jesus, or just as healers.
Speaking of Jesus, the Pope tried to intervene in the midterm elections on behalf of the Democrats–he was a Chicago lefty before he became Pope–and President Trump didn’t take it lying down. The memesters were generally on Trump’s side.
In more positive news, Artemis returned to Earth and, as the week drew to a close, the Strait of Hormuz re-opened and an agreement with Iran seemed to be on the horizon.
Headlines of the week:
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