If there's one thing in this world that I could not possibly care less about...

...yet which almost everyone else is seemingly utterly obsessed with, it would probably be "Kendrick vs Drake."

All I know about this topic is that two rappers apparently have "beef," and that's as far as I care to know.

For example. (It's a link to yet another Castle Super Beast podcast clip, but one which I don't even feel like bothering to embed this time.) I started watching that, not knowing anything about it, but at the first mention of "Drake," less than a minute in, my ears did whatever is the ear-equivalent of "eyes glazing over," and I just checked out entirely maybe a minute later, if even that long. This is not, of course, the first time they've touched this topic (neither of which I've even started to watch, because in those, at least, they had the courtesy to put "Kendrick vs Drake" in the titles).

And, obviously, Castle Super Beast isn't even remotely the first or only place where I've heard this topic come up, unbidden. It's starting to approach "twilight bashing" levels of annoyance with me (but still probably has a long way to go before it actually gets there).

(EDIT) The only other "beef" I've ever heard anything about was the old "Eminem vs Insane Clown Posse" thing from a while back, and that was only because I was kind of big into ICP (Eminem is okay, too) for a year or two, about a decade ago, and that one was just as dumb, if not nearly as ubiquitous. (/EDIT)

Some dumbshit asshole apparently tried to shoot Trump at one of his rallies

Fucking hell.

Look, I want Trump out of the running for POTUS as much as any sane person does, as I've made abundantly clear here, but this was not the way to go about it (nor was it all that sane, for that matter). Mainly because, in my not at all humble opinion, Trump being assassinated would be Trump getting off far too lightly and escaping punishment for his myriad crimes, which is something else I've said on this blog and elsewhere several times before, most recently here. (At least that I could immediately find, anyway. There may be more recent instances. But even there, way back in ye olden days of 2019, I seemed to be less... adamant... about it than I was prior to then).

Man, what a goddamn clusterfuck this is going to be over the next days and weeks, any way you look at it.

(EDIT)

I mean, fuck, we've already got fucking morons blaming Biden, among many others, for this (in the process of shilling a book, in this particular case, go figure). *eye roll* If you, Jonathan Turley, are going to blame Biden and Chuck Schumer and The View and Kathy Griffin and whoever else for inflammatory rhetoric (and that's not necessarily a bad thing to do), then you sure as shit better also blame Trump himself for his own ridiculously inflammatory rhetoric over the past decade-plus, along with millions of his Trumpanzee lickspittles who have said far worse than even Trump himself, you stupid fucking asshat.

(/EDIT)