{"id":93507,"date":"2025-02-02T22:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93507"},"modified":"2025-02-02T22:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:47:29","slug":"blame-it-on-buttigieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/blame-it-on-buttigieg\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame it on Buttigieg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSeeing that video, it\u2019s hard to believe that it\u2019s
\nactually genuine and real because she\u2019s an actress<\/em><\/span>.”
\n<\/em><\/span> – <\/em><\/span>Criticism of Selena Gomez <\/strong>crying in a video about the mass deportation
\nof illegal immigrants.  Trust me, lady, she\u2019s not THAT good an actress.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This week, I\u2019m writing to you from sunny South Florida \u2013 Fort Lauderdale, to be precise.  As I boarded the plane, a Facebook <\/em>memory popped up from 2019.  \u201cI\u2019m heading to Fort Lauderdale to compete against Dan Renzi <\/strong>in the pole dancing competition at Chat Noir<\/em>.\u201d  While I\u2019d like to say my life has changed since then and I\u2019ve grown up, apparently I\u2019m the same ole Billy <\/strong>\u2013 except it\u2019s no longer a competition.  And, rather than the divine Dan, I was with three dear lifelong friends to celebrate my upcoming birthday.  You know what I discovered?  Straight women are exhausting (no offense).  I adore them, but I must give it up to straight men…which I\u2019ve always been inclined to do.  And, instead of Chat Noir, we were at AquaPlex <\/em>(formerly Lips<\/em>) to see my pal Daisy DeadPetals <\/strong>host the fabulous drag dinner.  Definitely check it out if you\u2019re in the neighborhood \u2013 FlaDragShow.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a busy week, so let\u2019s dispense with the politics quickly.  First, how could a fatal collision in mid-air be blamed on former Transportation Secretary <\/em>Pete Buttigieg<\/strong>?  \u201cHe\u2019s a disaster now!\u201d said El Presidente<\/em>.  Yeah, because a former Rhodes <\/em>scholar who has served in our military and served in both local and federal government is not nearly as qualified as an alumni of The Real World<\/em><\/strong>!  Mayor Pete wasn\u2019t taking that lying down.  \u201cDespicable.  As families grieve, Trump <\/strong>should be leading, not lying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did I slip into a time warp and enter the \u201880s?  When did Caroline Kennedy <\/strong>dump the Schlossberg <\/strong>name?  Not that I really care, but it seems like she\u2019s sold the Schlossbergs down the river and become a Kennedy again?  I have a good mind to ask for my bat mitzvah gift back!  And if she\u2019s gonna be Caroline Kennedy, would it kill her to come back and host The Kennedy Center Honors<\/em><\/strong>?  I miss her sidling onto the stage in an ill-fitting dress and carrying a saddlebag.  Still, I sincerely appreciate her service to our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSeeing that video, it\u2019s hard to believe that it\u2019s actually genuine and real because she\u2019s an actress.” – Criticism of Selena Gomez crying in a video about the mass deportation of illegal immigrants.  Trust me, lady, she\u2019s not THAT good an actress. This week, I\u2019m writing to you from sunny South Florida \u2013 Fort Lauderdale,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93516,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93507\/revisions\/93516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}