Hallo Readers,
As promised, WTF is interrupting her trip to India and Australia to bring you an election special. How could she not? Although she nearly did not, as when the results started trickling on the beautiful Wednesday morning in Calcutta, she seriously contemplated drowning herself in the hotel’s rooftop pool. Part of her took the view that if America was really happy to elect a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, lying, narcissistic, pussy-grabbing, megalomaniac, racist, sexist, crooked, disgusting and mentally disintegrating rancid kumquat to take them through the next four years, they deserve it. Plus of course, it is no good decrying the man as profoundly antidemocratic and then ignoring the results of the election that will send him back to the White House on 20 January 2025. They chose it. They bought it. They own it. If you are a bigot who wants to see immigrants kicked out of the country, women denied abortions, the abolition of the Department of Education, loads more capital punishment, tariffs, tax cuts, 6 January police-assaulting, election- denying thugs set free and pardoned, and the right to be as horrible as you like about anybody and everybody who disagrees with you, this week has been a very good week for you. If, on the other hand, you are a woman who wants to control her own body, anyone who has criticised the incoming president in the past, an immigrant who has lived and worked in the US for years, a non-pet-eating Haitian (i.e. all of them) in Springfield, Ohio, a believer in the independence of the Supreme Court, someone who wants to see Ukraine survive intact and a person who prefers their President not cozying up to autocrats and murderers, you are well and truly fucked. For the next four years at any rate. And don’t go hoping that he will drop dead or become so incapable that he will not last the term. Because JD Vance is worse – profoundly illiberal, completely misogynistic and clever enough to get what he wants. Oh and wait until you see the group of fascists, freaks and fantasists that will form the new administration. That lot will make the Addams family look normal.
Yes, those who voted for this ghastliness are principally to blame. However, the Democrats made a mess of it. Biden is a good man but he came in vowing to stay one term and then decided that he would serve two, although it would mean him starting the second term in 2025 at the age of 82. Had he made it clear that he would step aside having completed the first term, the Democrats could have chosen the presidential candidate in a fair and open primary and WTF is fairly confident that Kamala Harris would not have won that contest. Once she was the candidate, she did not have enough time to let the American people get to know her properly, having been, in true vice-presidential form, largely invisible to date. And then she was in effect muzzled, dodging interviews and making the same speech so often that WTF could have stood in for her, failing to set out her policies clearly, not answering questions but going back to being middle class in Oakland and not putting enough distance between herself and Biden. You cannot simultaneously be an agent for change while embracing and endorsing the current regime. You can point out how appalling the other person is but that is not enough without convincing them that what you are going to offer instead is better. You cannot choose a vice-presidential candidate because he is good on television and then keep him off the television. And if you decide to bypass the best candidate who could also deliver the crucial swing state you need to win just because he is a Jew who supports Israel, and you do not wish to upset Palestinian Americans in Michigan, you are running a risk which may not pay off. Which it did not and they still hated you anyway. In the end, the majority of people are principally concerned about the border and their bank account. And that had to be acknowledged and dealt with.
Still, if you want to wallow in schadenfreude, then the appointment of Robert Kennedy Jr, nutcase of the parish, will probably result in millions of peoples’ teeth falling out as he is intent upon taking fluoride out of the water supply. S0 cheer up, look ahead and train to be a dentist.
OK readers, WTF is resuming her sabbatical. She will be back with the blog on Friday 6 December. See you then. Be good x
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We begin our roundup of the recent atrocious attire with The Diplomat’s Ali Ahn at the premiere of Season 2 (it’s great, by the way), wearing Retrofête.
If a tomato went to a fancy dress party as a leggy Herr Flick from Allo, Allo, this is what he would look like…..
And First Lady to be Melania Trump may have been wearing Dior on election night but she looked like Private Helga Geerhart……all she needed was the hat and lapel badges.
Now we are at a gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LAMCA) where we find actor and singer Troye Sivan wearing Prada.
Er…..the shirt is too teeny and there is a shortfall between his trousers and the shirt and the belt lies in a hinterland between the trousers and the crotch. He looks like an old Jane Fonda calendar from the 1960s…
To the opening of the remake of The Day of the Jackal starring among others actor Úrsula Cordobá wearing Etro.
For reasons that WTF cannot explain, Úrsula is wearing a sheer slip embroidered with a minge poodle…..
Now we have Bridgerton actor Golda Rosheuvel wearing Erdem at the Harper’s Bazaar Woman of the Year Awards in London.
Golda has obviously come from a dress rehearsal of The Sound of Music where she was playing Maria. And those shoes are the absolute pits.
And here we are at the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) Awards in New York, starting with not-to-be-First-Stepdaughter Ella Emhoff wearing Coach.
If there is any upside at all to the horror of last Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, it is that we may be spared more of Ella wearing this sort of nonsense and flaunting her ugly tattoos and bovver boots. The dreary tartan with its giant felt minge bow resemble Christmas decorations at a dour Scottish household…
Clearly caught in an agony of indecision, Darren decided to come as both Fred Astaire AND Ginger Rogers with a large hairy merkin hanging out of his waistband and without the shirt and bowtie traditionally worn with a tuxedo, which sadly also appears to have shrunk in the wash. First Troy and then Darren. When did they announce National bellybutton month?WTF must have missed it….
And finally, arriving for the same event, here is singer Teyana Taylor wearing LaQuan Smith.
Ugh. Like a parrot in a minge cage.
OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. No It’s Got To Go this week as it is fairly obvious who has got to this week. See you on 6 December 2024. Be good xx
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