That Doesn’t Apply to Someone Like Me
Apparently, when you achieve a certain level of fame and celebrity, you rise so high that the air thins out and you begin to hallucinate. How else do you explain the arrogance of a Novak Djokovic thinking he’s so important that he can be excused from Australian Covid protocols to play in a tennis match, or football’s Aaron Rodgers simply lying about his being “immunized” when he chose not to be vaccinated?
But that’s probably how Bill Cosby, Matt Lauer, Andrew Cuomo, and all the rest of them thought they could get away with anything—they were simply too popular, too important, and exempt from ethics and laws.
I was boarding a plane in Washington, DC and I noticed a Congresswoman in line next to me. As we boarded, the gate agent, who had no reason to recognize her, said, “I’m sorry, but we’re only boarding first class, you’ll have to wait until we call Zone E.” The Congresswoman just assumed she’d have the best seat and never even looked at her ticket. She seemed stunned.
A group of over 100 clowns (“influencers” and “reality stars”) from Canada flew on a charter flight to Mexico and partied on the plane, ignoring all Covid and flight restrictions. The charter refused to fly them back and so did Air Canada when they tried commercial booking. Only 19 made it back as of this morning’s newspapers. “Social media influencers and reality stars”: Maybe the air gets thinner at much lower levels for many….
