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Hallo Readers,

It is not the cruelty. Or the violence. Or the dishonesty about the cruelty and the violence. Or the incompetence. Or the heartlessness. We had seen it all before and we will see it again. And again. That is American politics now. American life now. The nation that likes to tell us it is the greatest country in the world. Turn on the TV – any news channel, not just CNN or MSNOW – and you see people being wrestled to the ground by masked thugs, kicked and beaten and pepper-sprayed. Recently, we see – again and again, from every angle, in slow motion, and in close up, and in freeze frame, two protestors being murdered in cold blood, a political snuff movie in prime time. But what really shocked us, and even shocked some MAGA zealots, was the utter contempt with which the cruelty and the violence was explained away despite what we had seen with our own eyes, and we knew that they were lying. But they said it anyway, and they expected to get away with it, because if they kept saying it, and if Fox News, and the newspapers, and the social media sites, and the news channels, all run by their billionaire buddies, kept showing them saying it, it would become the working truth. And the sheeple that only watch Fox News and listen to rabid lies on radio stations would believe it. And many of them did believe it – and they still do.

But this time, it did not work. People were already reeling after Kristi Noem, the Botox Barbie who is Secretary of Homeland Security, popped up on TV only hours after Renee Good was murdered by ICE agents and told us Good was a domestic terrorist who had tried to run Federal agents over with her car. The film footage showed otherwise, but Noem, the President, and the Vice President all repeated it ad nauseam. And then last weekend, another protester, Alex Pretti, was shot dead in the middle of a Minnesota street after being kicked and beaten by ICE agents. The footage showed that although he (lawfully) carried a gun in his waistband, he neither touched it nor drew it, and that he had come to the aid of a woman who had been pushed over by the ICE thugs. Noem and little pocket Himmler, Greg Bovino, and the Malignant Foetus, Stephen Miller, and the disgusting JD Vance, told everyone that Pretti was an assassin intent upon a massacre of law enforcement officials and that he had ‘brandished his gun’.  The cynical liars were pissing in people’s ears while telling them it was raining. And this time people who would normally have taken it, did not take it because they could see it was all lies. And so the Adminsitration has done some backing away. Promised change and ‘a full and fair enquiry’. And has changed some personnel as Bovino has been banished to Texas and someone else has come in to take over.

But do not be fooled. This is moving deckchairs on the Titanic. The new man, Tom Homan, who resembles what Spencer Tracy would have looked like had someone jumped repeatedly on his face, has long presided over ICE thuggery in rounding up criminal immigrants. This, by the way, is a man who was filmed taking a $50,000 bribe in cash in a paper bag, but who has never been charged for it. The men who shot Pretti have not been named and are on ‘administrative leave’ – i.e. on full pay. The man who shot Renee Good has never been charged. ICE thugs continue to beat people up, immigrants and protesters alike, with impunity, their faces covered, high on the adrenaline of their unchecked violence. Bovino may have been shifted sideways, but no action was taken against him when a Federal judge in Illinois described him as lying repeatedly on oath about the violence in that state. Noem is still in her job with a Presidential endorsement. Stephen Miller is still in his job, albeit without a Presidential endorsement. They still condemn protesters interfering with law enforcement, even though the law enforcement is vicious, violent, and uncalled for, but the President pardoned the violent, gun-toting thugs who rioted on 6 January 2021. A five year old boy, who was arrested with his father outside a school, still languishes  in a Texan detention centre, unable properly to eat or to sleep and clearly traumatised; he and his father had lawfully applied for permission to remain. This was not about removing violent criminal illegal immigrants. This was about punishing Democratic states who did not vote for the US President. This is about obtaining voter information so they can rig the mid-terms or else fomenting and provoking violence so they can postpone or cancel the elections. They haven’t changed. But, hopefully, people’s tolerance for their bullshit has.

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We need cheering up.

 

We start our review of the week’s comical clothing with Sir Rod Stewart in a video he made castigating the Rancid Kumquat. Sir Rod was incensed that his former pal was insulting British soldiers for not stepping up to the plate in Afghanistan after 9/11. Let us be clear. WTF has absolutely no problem with people castigating the US President and the US Administration about anything, but…well, just look at him….

What on earth is he wearing? Not only is he clad in some sort of naval uniform, as if he were appearing in a production of HMS Pinafore, but he is wearing a tea towel as a cravat and some sort of official chain, like the Mayor of Wankville.

 

Now we are in New York where we find Irish TV personalitee and former Love Island finalist, Maura Higgins wearing Jean Paul Gaultier.

A leggy Inspector Gadget in stilettos. Did someone take scissors to her coat? And if so, why?

 

Next, we meet our old pal, actor and now author, Julia Fox. She was hanging out at the Shayne Oliver menswear show at Paris Fashion Week clad in who can say what?

If a hunched Hell’s Angel went to a fancy dress party as a painter and decorator, this is what he would look like.

To LA and actor Margot Robbie kicking off the promo tour for her new movie Wuthering Heights, in which she stars as Cathy, wearing Dilara Findikoglu.

The director of this movie, Emerald Fennell, is on the Never Again list after WTF was forced to endure her last one, Saltburn, which she found to be deeply vile. Fennell has announced that she will take liberties with the original novel, and, as far as WTF can see from this photo, she seems to have reset it in a Yorkshire skating rink. WTF is unable to understand why Margot is wearing a Minge Sporran, but she deplores it.

 

We are now in Paris for Fashion Week. Here is Oscar-nominee Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another) wearing Schiaparelli.

First of all, it is freezing in Paris in January and it is frankly unwise to go outdoors with your bits and pieces hanging out. Second, she is wearing flesh-coloured panties, but horrified onlookers had to worry whether she was wearing any or not, causing them unneccessary stress. And third, a woman as beautiful and talented as Teyana does not need to be dressed as a sex doll in couture lingerie.

 

We cross to Sundance in Utah, where it is about minus 4C. Yet female actors went about seriously underdressed and seeking to compensate in other ways. Here is Chase Sui Wonders at the premiere of I Want Your Sex, wearing Anna Sui.

Wearing a fur hood, fur slippers and fur trimmings does not make your nightie any warmer. And a nightie is wholly inappropriate garb for winter in Utah. Or, for that matter, summer in Utah. Or anywhere at any time. WTF is reminded of the old joke about a mother giving her daughter a fur-trimmed night gown for her wedding night so she could keep her neck warm. Boom boom.

 

Still in Sundance, this is singer Charli XCX wearing Simon Clyne. 

Those shoes are hideous. They seem to be held together with strips of sellotape. As for the rest of the outfit, Charli seems to be wearing a Spanx slip and one of those little raincosts made to keep your doggie dry.

 

And finally, we meet a newcomer to this blog, actor Cristian Milioti, wearing St Laurent.

This is St Laurent? Really? It resembles a pile of jumble. Meanwhile, French knickers should never be worn as external wear, and especially not those ones. If WTF were being kind, she would describe them as the victim of a red sock in a white wash. If she were being unkind, she would observe that they seem somewhat – ahem- menstrual.

 

 

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Keep those comments coming through and your excellent suggestions for It’s Got to Go, (for which there was no room this week) as WTF is prone to pine without them. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x