Plus, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!!!
Tuesday will be clear and in the ‘40s, wear your new knitted frog hat and make sure you don’t forget your usb-rechargeable hand warmers! Don’t have them yet? See the caption below the photo. We will be out on the Brier Creek corner from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Join us! Boilerplate details are below.
We continue to be very gratified by the expressions of thanks we receive for our presence, including the car and truck horns and thumbs up in response to our “Honk for Democracy” sign. We know that there are so many people for whom participation on the corner is not possible for any number of reasons; their honks, waves, and thumbs up connect us to them and give us the energy to continue every week.
There are also a few naysayers shouting out their car windows, but they get smiles and waves back like everybody else – because we’re all boomers with hearing aids and can’t hear a damn thing except the car horns. Somebody should tell them. 🙂
And now, turning to the completely frivolous and potentially offensive, Elise and I are taking a victory lap, patting ourselves on the back, doing a hoot dance, because we told you A FULL MONTH AGO that our favorite mean girl, White House Press Secretary K K K Karoline Leavitt is expecting.
How did we know this, you are surely asking. Hold back the Pulitzer Prize nomination; we are not TMZ sleuths – it’s just simple observation. Two crabby old ladies with sharp eyes, a snarky attitude, and some lived experience with pregnancy, saw the signs. The poorly fitting jacket on the left is only the most recent example of her ill-fitting clothes; we also noticed the puffy face and the cranky attitude. then there’s the “Catholic,” “no longer breastfeeding,” “tick, tick tick ….”
We’re not the only ones with something to say about this development. According to a trashy article citing trashy posts and comments by “influencers,” KKK is being criticized for getting lip injections when she was already pregnant. (Caution: articles with “firestorm” in the headline are presumptive trash; read at your own risk).
According to KKK, it’s a girl. We already picked out the name: “Jinx.” There is precedent in what used to be called the Republican party for a nice Catholic girl with that name, you can check it out here if you have time for a rabbit hole. She was a media star, so, perfect!
Now, put down your coffee cup so you don’t spit on the screen as we relate what KKK said in her Instagram announcement (with a big smile on her face):
I am also extremely grateful to President Trump and our Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for their support, and for fostering a pro-family environment in the White House.
The White House is, of course, a bubble, and I think we can all agree that the concept of “fostering a pro-family environment” does not extend past that bubble to the rest of this country, or the world, for that matter.
NB: Having once again wasted electrons bashing KKK, we genuinely congratulate her on her pregnancy and hope that everything will go well for her and her new little one.
BOILERPLATE:
LOCATION: Public right of way, NE corner Glenwood & Brier Creek Pkwy (near Starbucks, Red Robin, in Walmart shopping center). We’ll be on the elevated grassy area along Glenwood, away from the traffic, and along the sidewalk on Brier Creek Parkway.
PARKING: Park in the adjacent shopping center parking lots but please spread out so we don’t take all the spaces nearest these businesses. They have been very tolerant of our presence; let’s keep it that way.
SIGNS: The grassy knoll area along Glenwood is elevated and safely away from traffic, giving us great visibility along and across the intersection. Don’t have a sign? We have a bunch to share!
BE KIND: This is a peaceful, non-violent demonstration, of course. That extends to avoiding any negative interactions with passers-by. Any rude gestures or angry words should be met with a smile and a wave – and never returned in kind.
Citizens Resisting Tyranny 
Maureen, I’ve been off substack for a week so I’m just now reading this post about KKK Karoline Leavitt and her soon-to-be bundle of joy (who will, hopefully, be raised by someone other than her!). I even got a compliment in one of Kathryn’s substacks for our correct prediction so long ago that KKK Karoline was pregnant. I wanted to let you know that 1) Jamie and I wish you and your family a happy, healthy New Year and 2) I read what you posted about the real Jinx Falkenburg. While I was reading it, I suddenly burst into hysterical laughter when I got to the part about how she fell 30 feet and landed on a table and subsequently met Al Jolsen while they were both in the hospital and how he cast her in his Broadway show which made her even more of a success than she already was! This could only happen to someone with “Jinx” for a name. I actually think we should send KKK Karoline a “Congratulations, we heard you’re expecting” greeting card and suggest that very name. After all, she doesn’t seem too creative (except at lying) and she might have trouble coming up with just the right name for her forthcoming little girl.
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That Jinx Falkenberg story is hilarious, Elise. Maybe we’ll see KKK Karoline on Broadway some day. She could play Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities.
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