Sunday, December 1, 2019

Royal (And Non-Royal) Rumors

By Hubie and Bertie

Okay, we admit it: We bit. We beamed into Twitter for a quick Sunday-evening look and saw that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was trending. The rumor was she had checked out.

Whut? The only British monarch zillions of people have known is dead? Prince Charles is King? Canadian money just got uglier? We did a frantic search on the Google machine.

Turns out it's not true. It's not clear who started the rumor or why, but apparently Her Majesty is alive and well, and maybe onto her third gin and tonic by now.

Elizabeth is well-known for her stamina. She's got the genes (her mum lived to 101). On this side of the Atlantic, however, Benedict Donald can't say the same.

Not only is impeachment looming, but questions still swirl around Trump's hasty visit to Walter Reed a couple of weeks ago — on top of red flags raised by Anonymous in his/her behind-the-scenes-in-Trump-World book, A Warning. Trump's physical and, especially, mental health are wobbly, Anonymous says.

"He stumbles, slurs, gets confused, is easily irritated, and has trouble synthesizing information, not occasionally but with regularity...the President also can't remember what he's said or been told."

Syphilitic dementia? Emerging damage from years of Adderall abuse? Who knows? But don't forget, Trump is the same guy who slammed Hillary for having pneumonia and who said she was physically unfit to be President. So God save the Queen! We cats PURR.

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