LITERARY UN GATE, Jan 29
-- Each
morning now when Kurt got to Foley
Square he took in front of the
court house, on a piece of yellow
duct tape a TV crew had left
during Maximum Maxwell, a recorded
a two minute vlog.
The first minute was about
the cases - this week, US v.
Avenatti, today Stormy Daniels on
the cross - and the second minute
now about the Genocide Games of
Guterres.
Today there was light snow,
something there was none of in
Beijing. UN correspondents who
never asked about the genocide
read canned questions off note
cards about the environmental
issue of diverting water.
On this, Guterres' feckless
spokesman Dujarric was willing to
deploy an equally canned answer.
The Secretary General was always
concerned about carbon footprint.
Yeah. That's why he was flying to
Beijing for days in a closed loop
sucking up to dictators, probably
by way of Lisbon to visit his
Chinese bribe money if not his
supposed wife, the Beard Guterres'
security called her.
After Kurt finished
recording, he got a medium coffee
and an everything bagel from the
Egyptian guy with a glassed-in
cart in front of 60 Foley, and
went into the courthouse. The
Avenatti trial day still hadn't
started, so he had time to upload
the vlog, first to YouTube.
But Google's YouTube didn't
just say it would take time to
check if the video could be
monetized, if is was "appropriate
for advertisers," as they said.
No, they went further and
immediately demonetized it. Kurt
thought of announcing that on
Twitter, but that platform for
sale had recently gone further and
entirely disappeared then blocked
his song about the Burma military
coup, supported by not only China
but also Guterres. These platforms
were falling in line with the
Genocide Games. Did they now
automatically demonetize or shadow
ban anything with the word
genocide or Uighurs? Or only from
certain, already-flagged channels
or accounts?
Avenatti was tearing into
Stormy when Kurt started tweeting
it. About her paranormal TV show
that wasn't even on TV. About the
statement she'd put out after
getting paid by Michael Cohen,
that she never had a sexual
relationship with the Orange Man.
This she tried to word smith away,
that to be grabbed coming out the
bathroom and schtumpt was not a
relationship.
But what about saying you
never took hush money from Trump?
It was from Michael Cohen.
And Cohen was there,
telling the courtroom artist whom
Kurt knew that he should have worn
a T-shirt for this podcast Mea
Culpa if he knew he'd be the
subject of her drawing that day,
that she should get paid less
because he like everyone else
other than Avenatti and Stormy in
their respective plastic boxes.
When it over Kurt ran down
to Worth Street with the crew. He
started a Twitter Live Video,
which the platform immediately mad
unviewable. Then he did straight
record to phone video of his
attempted Q&A.
He asked Avenatti what was
in the Nike stipulation that he
refused to sign - no answer, maybe
Kurt could look the Nike version
up - then why he had asked Sean
Macias if in the last 24 hours
he'd taken cocaine or marijuana.
No comment.
Finally he got an answer,
with what was he thought a
softball: Who did Avenatti think
should replace Stephen Breyer on
the Supreme Court? Avenatti's
eyebrows raised above his mask and
he answered.
Someone young, someone progressive
and mostly, a big Democrat.
Kurt ran back and put it on
YouTube. And this time, they
immediately monetized it.
#GenocideGamesOfGuterres.
From January 21,
2022: UNSG Antonio
Guterres: This visit to
the Olympics is not a
political visit. We consider
that the Olympic Games are an
extremely important
manifestation in today's world
of the possibility of unity,
of the possibility of mutual
respect, of the possibility of
cooperation, of peoples of
different cultures, of
different religions, of
different ethnicities. And
this is more important than
ever when we see xenophobia,
when we see racism, when we
see white supremacy, when we
see anti‑Semitism, when we see
anti‑Muslim hatred
proliferating all over the
world... That is the reason
why I am going to the Olympic
Games. And it has nothing to
do with my opinions about the
different policies that take
place in the People's Republic
of
China.
Spokesman
Dujarric: Okay, sir, I
think you're then off the
hook.
Will
Guterres be taking his Deputy
Amina
J. Mohammed, supportive
of the killing and targeted
detentions perpetrated by
Buhari of Nigeria? See,
Identity Thieves - and,
forthcoming, Genocide Games of
Guterres. For now, Belt
and Roadkill.
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