Here is your chance to nominate and vote for the Biggest Big-Time Fools of the Week
There are so many contenders this week that Donald Trump is probably not even in the running. Just for starters, here is a minor case from a temporary celebrity:
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Thomas Fleming
Thomas Fleming is president of the Fleming Foundation. He is the author of six books, including The Morality of Everyday Life and The Politics of Human Nature, as well as many articles and columns for newspapers, magazines,and learned journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Greek from the College of Charleston. He served as editor of Chronicles: a Magazine of American Culture from 1984 to 2015 and president of The Rockford Institute from 1997-2014. In a previous life he taught classics at several colleges and served as a school headmaster in South Carolina
For this week’s contestant, I nominated Keir Starmer who, not satisfied with arresting thousands of people for making wrong-think online posts, is now trying to ban Twitter/X from all of Great Britain claiming it’s because it has an AI feature which shows images of women wearing bikinis. This from the guy who opposed inquires into the Pakistani rape gangs which prayed on young British girls and which the British police and politicians protected. Yeah, sure, Starmer is really worried about the dignity of women.
For honorary runners-up, I nominated the entire College of Catholic Cardinals who, after about 4 years of non-stop talking about the absurd, Pope Francis gibberish-inspired concept of the Synodality of the Church took the opportunity of meeting with Pope Leo for the first time to talk about . . . Synodality some more. Because 4 years of meetings on this inane topic just haven’t been enough. What losers. As if there isn’t anything else going on in the world more important than talking about what “A Meeting about Meetings” means for the Church.
The competitors are indeed legion, but I put forward for the top Linsey Graham. He has been the biggest fool for a very long time and deserves the honour. And just in recent days he has gloated publicly with threats to kill foreign leaders. How much stupider, more immature, and more ridiculous can you get?
On reading the title of this piece Graham’s name immediately came to mind. In any given week he is top fool. But having to propose an alternate, I submit the names of two, the buddy team of Witkoff and Kushner who run their mouths and run about the globe pretending that Isr… uh the U.S. owns of all the resources of the East and can make deals based on their claims of eminent domain, justifying their claims on the assumption that only such as they can and have a right to make best use of them. Their chutzpah is astounding. The Russians must be standing and gaping in rapt admiration (or so those who sponsor these two hyenas would hope), between hardy guffaws of laughter. Actually the Russians (and Chinese) likely, hardly give them a sideways glance as they get down to business.