Love and Consequence

Since it is now 2023 and Valentine's day is about a month and a half away, love just might be be in the air and along with it, the consequence of relationships.  Michelle Obama, former first lady and wife of Barak Obama admitted in an interview that for 10 years she couldn't stand her husband.  Now, we harbor no ill will towards any President and have none towards former President Obama, but there were a whole lot of people who couldn't stand her husband for about 8 years.  They felt her pain.  Maybe they could all get together and talk in a big zoom conference?  It could be cathartic, as some people seem to still hold a grudge.  We don't of course.  We think it's silly to get mad at Presidents.  Sort of like getting mad at actors George Lazenby or Timothy Dalton, when they played James Bond.

Now you may not have heard about this love affair, as not too many people watch Good Morning America on ABC but both of the morning anchors T.J.Holmes and Amy Robach are having an affair.  This got a whole lot of people who run ABC all upset.  They suspended both of them.  Why?  We can't fathom.  Okay they were both married to other people when serendipity struck but puhleeze!  We mean with all the men who have been molesting women in the TV world, at least Amy really likes T.J..  And, ABC should be thrilled about that headline.  And, what with the CNN guys getting arrested and convicted of pedophilia, why would two consenting adults even raise an eyebrow?  BTW they've both left their previous spouses.  So this could be true love.  ABC, have a heart!  Free T.J. and Amy and put them back on the air.

And, there is precedent here too, Joe and Mika.  They met as co-anchors of a show known as Morning  Joe and then well things happened as they do and eventually they got married.  Not sure who was married to who when they met but nobody cared.  Nobody got suspended.  Maybe somebody should tell ABC about that.  ABC might not be aware of Joe and Mika, as nobody and we mean nobody, watches that show.

And, SBF aka Same Bankman-Fried who is confined to his Mommy and Daddy's house while he awaits trial, got a visit from Tiffany Fong.  That's her pictured above.  She says they met in the library of that house and it was all strictly business.  She's a Crypto Influencer and we're guessing she had a few questions for the Crypto King, so that's why she was there.  And, to those of you who say we just use any excuse to put a picture of a beautiful woman at the top of our column, we say, you're just haters.

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SBF Sam Bankman-Fried

We like that handle, SBF.  How many individuals ever get to be known by a three initial handle?  It was stylish for awhile for Presidents FDR, DDE, JFK and then LBJ.  But then it fell out of style.  Nixon was never RMN and Jimmy Carter was never JEC.  There was no ring there.  A lot of people get known by a few initials in their handle like J.D. Salinger, P.T. Barnum and D.B. Cooper but not too many people ever get that the three initial handle.

At first the Mass Hysteria referred to him by his whole name Sam Bankman-Fried but then slowly but surely, everyone, maybe just tired of typing all those letters, began to use the three initial moniker SBF.  We like it because the B in it smacks of something sinister, like the BTK killer.  It also has an artistic touch, like the boy band BTS from South Korea.  It also has a certain ring to it like cha-ching, the sound of money being rung up in an old style cash register.  And, that's the major problem for SBF.  He figured out how to ring it up, he just doesn't know right now, where it all went.  And, when you do that, a whole lot of people with three initial handles in their job title, like Special Agent FBI and Prosecutor DOJ, come looking for you.

Ole SBF has other problems too.  Like a decent haircut or hair style for one thing.  But the real big problem at the moment, is his long time girl friend has gone solo.  She's thrown him under the Bus.  She's singing to the Feds.  And while she maybe skinny, it's going to have the same effect as when the fat lady at the Opera sings.  

And, while SBF does his time and it may be a long stretch, as the DOJ insists on it, when you steal billions, it might dawn on him that he should have listened to Beyonce when she sang. 

"You can't be mad.  

Cause if you liked it you should have put a ring on it."  

There is this thing called spousal immunity.  

And, we don't care how "woke" you might be when you first saw a picture of Caroline Ellison, SBF's longtime girlfriend pictured right here, 

you thought.  'The guy's a billionaire and he can't do any better than that?'.  Or maybe you thought how old is she?  She looks happy here, like she just got her braces off.

And, as 2023 comes into view, we can see that there will be heroes and zeros.  And then, there will be  some people who will go from hero to zero.  SBF, Crypto King, who used to hob knob with the rich and the fabulous, gets to be the first.

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Some People Had A Very Good Year 2022

First up Dr. Fauci.  Now you may be thinking but wait a second this guy speaks out of both sides of his mouth and sometimes in the same sentence.  He's the face of lockdowns, masks and vaccines, none of which worked.  He's like a bad joke no one wants to hear anymore.  How could he have had a good year?  Well, it seems that during the pandemic Dr. Fauci's net worth almost doubled.  He was worth 7.6 million before the pandemic began and by the end of 2021 he was worth 12.6 million.  

How did you do while sitting home, wearing masks and getting jabbed?

Then in 2022 some non-profit gave him $901,400 for "speaking truth to power".  Not sure how they figured that, since he was The Guy.  Who was he speaking to, himself?  But either way, when you add up all the bucks, The Guy, had a very good year.

Next up Harry and Meghan.  What?  You may say.  They just put out a Netflix series that just about everyone hates.  We mean the audience score from Rotten Tomatoes was a measly 12%, which might be some kind of a record.  And, they too have become a bad joke, no one wants to hear but... Ah, there's the rub.  They got 100 million dollars.  That's $100,000,000.00 to put it in a sign, your eyes can't miss.  And they got all that dough, to tell about how they met, dated and how their families suck.  The first and second parts are something you bore your friends to death about and the third thing...  You sit or lie on a couch and pay good money to a qualified individual, to listen to.  So while their names may be mud right now in the public forum, when you add up all the bucks, they had a very good year.

Then there is Sam Bankman-Fried the Crypto currency King who amassed a 32 billion dollar empire.  Yeah, yeah it's all come undone in the last week and he's in jail but he didn't get arrested until December 12, 2022.  That means there was only 20 days left in 2022, at the time of his arrest.  So, he got to spend the other 245 days of 2022 doing whatever the Wolf of Wall Street greed is good crowd, do.  Of course 2023 won't be so hot or the next 25 years either but 2022?  He'll look back on that fondly.

Last but certainly not least, Elon Musk.  Elon has rocket ships, electric cars and he bought Twitter.  He's a bona fide Billionaire and maybe the richest man in the world.  And, he doesn't get upset when people say nasty things about him.  He just Tweets back something funny.  We like his style.  He really had a good year and we wish him many more to come.

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Some People Had A Really Bad Year

First up Amber Heard.  She started the year off as Aquaman's love interest in what looks like series of movies that will spawn many sequels.  And, she was also a bonified member of the Metoo victim class with her claims that her ex-husband and well known actor Johnny Depp, beat her.  She ended the year down 10 million or so and everyone now knows she liked to use her bed, the one with Johnny Depp in it, as a toilet.  Somewhere echoing amid the background music in this sad, little tale, is the old saying.  "You'll never work in this town again."

Next up, Todd and Julie Chrisley who were the stars of their own reality TV show 'Chrisley Knows Best'.  With Todd the Real Estate tycoon in charge of his empire holding court on this TV show.  But then reality caught up to them.  Turns out the Real Estate Empire was built on fraudulent loans they got from banks and money they didn't pay the IRS.  Now, they're both starting their 12 year stretch in Federal Prison and they have to cough up 17 million, in fines.  Maybe Chrisley Knows Best wasn't the best idea as a title or a career choice either.  When you're a thief, it's not a good idea to show off the stolen merch on TV.  Maybe the background music here could be, "Jailhouse Rock."

Then there was poor Will Smith.  He must have wondered as we did, what with all the allegations of abuse by the hands of powerful men in both Hollyweird and the Mass Hysteria...  Why didn't one of those women have a husband, a boyfriend, an older brother, a younger brother or an uncle, who could have smacked the crap out of those nasty guys?  If they had, wouldn't that have been great?  Then Will Smith must have taken it one step farther.  Why don't I, me, Will Smith, be that guy?

So Will must have worked it out with his good friend Chris Rock.  They figured that since Chris was one of the Hosts at the Academy Awards all they had to do is have Chris say something nasty about Will's wife actress Jada Smith.  Then Will would come up and smack him.  But like they say, the best laid plans of mice and men.  

So, while Chris is 5 feet 10 inches tall, he's a real skinny guy.  And, Will, well he's over 6 feet tall and heavier, a lot heavier.  So when he smacked Chris it didn't look like the scene in the movie where the good guy gives the bad guy what he deserves.  No, it looked like the big kid beating up the little kid.  And, the camera wasn't set up right.  If they would have taken the shot from behind and below Will, it wouldn't have looked so bad.  Chris would have looked taller, bigger.  And, there wasn't enough light.  The optics were bad, really bad.

So Will Smith had to go on an apology tour which never works.  When you're cast as the bad guy, the mob nowadays, doesn't want to hear you're sorry.  They want blood.  So, of course that didn't work.  But now Will has a movie coming out and just before Christmas too.  So, maybe in the spirit of the season, people will forgive.  Or maybe, with the mob having all these other people to skewer in the last year, people have just forgotten.  So, maybe they go and see the movie.  Then again, maybe the background music to this sad, little tale just might be, "Thanks For The Memories."

All in all, some people won't be sad to see 2022 end.  They had a really bad year.

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