PARTLY FACETIOUS: Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

“Popularity rating for the Big Three has plummeted to unprecedented…”

“Fake news, everyone loves The Big Three, though the love meter is different for the three.”

“I don’t get it.”

“Faisal Vawda, the self-appointed Spin Doctor…”

“The Last of the Big Spin Doctors, Alastair Campbell, Blair’s spin doctor, his chief spokesperson, he was expelled from the Labour Party because he voted Liberal Democrat in the European elections in 2019 was it and…”

“I have it on good authority that Blair has rehired him because President Trump’s announcement that Blair would be appointed as the Governor General of Gaza is how shall I put it? Pending.”

“Don’t be facetious, that is as likely as….as… Faisal Vawda being appointed as Deputy Prime Minister.”

“What’s the expression, do not hatch your chickens before…”

“The expression is do not count your chickens before they are hatched hatch.”

“Let’s just say in the Land of the Pure, chickens can be counted before hatching. Anyway, when I referred to the popularity rating of the Big Three, I was referring to three European leaders.”

“Why?”

“Well, Merz of Germany’s rating is 23 percent, Starmer of the UK has a rating of 20 percent and the French President takes the cake at around 10 percent.”

“Oh, and what about Zelenskyy? What is his rating because as far as I can tell in the nearly four years of war with Russia he has not only lost hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, on the battlefield as well as in mass departures, and…wait….he has lost territory and each day that he does not negotiate with the Russians he loses more territory and people and…”

“No.”

“No what?”

“You can’t undertake a survey during war.”

“History will deal with him as he truly deserves.”

“It has to be history because the Big Three have told him to continue the fight and the Western media is supportive…”

“On X there was a statement which declared that there is freedom of the press in the UK and anyone who says otherwise will be arrested. This is no laughing matter!”

“So what happened to claims of the media being the Fourth Estate?”

“It’s been merged and upgraded to the First Estate.”

“Indeed.”

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