Nintendo hasn’t revealed what the majority of mario kart 8‘s new courses will be, but players think they already know thanks to some clues reportedly left in the latest DLC files. Dataminers say the latest update contains a ton of leftover music references that hint at what 14 of the remaining 32 courses will be.
“Nintendo left then song prefetches to many future dlc courses in the BGM.bars of wave 2,” dataminer Fishguy6564 wrote on Twitter Thursday night. The discovery, apparently made by YouTube account recordreader, led to a list of music tracks pointing to various courses from past games in the Mario Kart series that would presumably appear in future DLC.
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The full list is:
Peach Gardens (DS)
Boo Lake of Broken Pier (GBA)
Alpine Pass (3DS)
Berlin Byways (Tour)
Waluigi Stadium (GCN)
Merry Mountain (Tour)
Rainbow Road (3DS)
Amsterdam Drift (Tour)
Singapore Speedway (Tour)
Los Angeles Laps (Tour)
Sunset Wilds (GBA)
Bangkok Rush (Tour)
Vancouver Velocity (Tour)
Maple Treeway (Wii)
Combining this apparent new info with Fishguy’s past datamining of the first DLC wave revealed a pretty thorough portrait of what types of courses could be coming in the future.
A lot of the courses are from toursthemobile Mario Kart spin-off. That’s not terrible news considering that the MK8 versions of many of those have been excellent so far. But players did quickly point out that if accurate, this means there are only two more Nintendo DS stages coming, and since one of them is Peach Gardens, not all of the fan-favorites like Airship Fortress, Luigi’s Mansion, and DK Summit will make the cut.
Fans will still have to wait a bit to see if these leaks get confirmed and how the rest of the question marks will be filled in. MK8‘s Booster Course Pass will add the remaining 32 new courses between now and the end of 2023.
Batgirl directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have been inundated with support from fellow filmmakers, including Kevin Feige, Edgar Wright, and James Gunn.
After Batgirl was unceremoniously canceled just a few days ago, El Arbi was contacted by Marvel CEO Kevin Feige who offered his support.
“My friends, I had to reach out and let you know we are all thinking about you both,” said Feige, whose email to El Arbi was revealed via Instagram. “Because of the wonderful news about the wedding (congrats!) and the disappointing news about Batgirl. Very proud of you guys for all the amazing work you do and particularly Ms. Marvel of course! Can’t wait to see what is next for you. Hope to see you soon.”
This message of support is a stark contrast to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s comments that suggest Batgirl wasn’t up to scratch.
“We’re not going to release any film before it’s ready,” he said. “We’re not going to release a film to make a quarter, we’re not going to release a film — the focus is going to be, how do we make each of these films, in general, as good as possible. But DC is something that we think we could make better, and we’re focused on it now.”
Warner Bros. Discovery has since announced a new 10-year plan for DC films going forward… but the upheaval hasn’t gone down well, even with those inside the company.
DC films president Walter Hamada was reportedly on the brink of quitting over the high-profile cancellation of Batgirl. Meanwhile, the company has even begun ditching HBO Max Originals – a move that’s left critics and pundits wondering exactly what Warner Bros. Discovery is doing.
Still, actors and filmmakers alike have rallied around the Batgirl directors.
“I feel blessed to have worked among absolute greats and forged relationships for a lifetime in the process!” said the film’s star, Leslie Grace. “To every Batgirl fan – THANK YOU for the love and belief, allowing me to take on the cape and become, as Babs said best, ‘my own damn hero!’”
Even Jams Gunn and Edgar Wright reportedly reached out to the directors to show their support.
“Thanks for all the messages of support all over the world!” said El Arbi via Instagram. “Shoutout to directors @edgarwright & @jamesgunn! Your kind words and experience mean a lot and help us through this difficult period. #batgirlforlife”
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It clearly means a lot to see so many messages of support, especially coming from Gunn and Wright. After all, both directors have experienced the difficulties of cancellation when it comes to superhero projects.
Wright famously worked on Marvel’s Ant-Man until he left due to creative differences, while Gunn was once fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 before eventually behind rehired.
Still, it’s a troubling time for DC filmmakers, and you have to wonder which other DC projects could be next. For now, we’ll have to wait and see.
Want to find out more about the Warner Bros. Discovery shake-up? We break down exactly what happened to Batgirl and take a look at which other DC heroes are facing the axe.
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England will play for Commonwealth bronze in the women’s Twenty20, letting slip a golden opportunity in their semi-final against India.
With huge home support in a full house at Edgbaston, they survived a withering assault from Smriti Mandhana, who had India going at 10 runs per over while raising her fifty in 23 balls, before England pulled back the total to 164 for five.
They then had the chase in hand, needing 33 runs from four overs, but after Amy Jones and Natalie Sciver were run out, England fell four runs short. India advance to the final where they will play Australia, who chased down New Zealand’s 145 target with just three balls to spare in the second semi-final.
India had a sizeable contingent of supporters in attendance, and the stands were rocking through the first seven overs as Mandhana put the bowlers to the sword. It was an innings that mixed the left-hander’s signature elegance with immense power. She used Issy Wong’s pace to hit a flat pull shot for six, added another from Sciver’s medium-pace over midwicket and launched Sarah Glenn’s leg-break over long-on.
In between times she drove through the covers and swept the spinners to the fence with immaculate placement, breaking her own India record for the fastest half-century in the format.
Shafali Verma just kept her company as they put on 73 runs from the first seven overs. That was when Freya Kemp had Verma caught trying to hit big down the ground, then Sciver tricked Mandhana with a slower ball that she scooped to short fine-leg, ending her innings on 61 from 32 balls.
That start set up India’s total, with Jemimah Rodrigues adding 44 from 31, shifting around the crease to create boundary gaps over cover or midwicket. England did manage to bowl some tidy overs, keeping Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma to around a run a ball, meaning their run chase was 10-20 runs lighter than had seemed likely.
England started even faster than India had, despite losing Sophia Dunkley lbw for 19, but racking up 42 for one after four overs, compared to India’s 40 for none. Wides and no-balls from Renuka Singh Thakur in the opening over helped the score along, Dunkley swung hard, Danni Wyatt started threading shots through the off side, and Alice Capsey was again promoted to No 3 after Dunkley fell.
India’s Smriti Mandhana scored her half-century in just 23 balls. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA
But the teenager who has provided a lot of England’s runs made a mistake befitting her age with her score on 13, when she hared off for a second run despite the ball being on its way back to the wicketkeeper from backward point. Turning back to the non-striker’s end, Capsey dived in but had turned her bat upside down and the ridge on the back of her lifted it. She was above her ground but not in it.
Wyatt had a similarly self-inflicted dismissal on 35, stepping outside off stump but missing a scoop, the ball bouncing off her pad back on to her stumps. Now it was India’s turn to claw back ascendancy, bowling tightly to Sciver and Jones with quiet overs from Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav and Deepti Sharma.
“They made it hard for us,” Sciver said. “Bowled really well, restricted us, took away our boundary options.”
The 16th over looked to have swung the match again, with Harmanpreet turning to part-time spinner Verma for one over too many, belted by Jones and Sciver for 15. That gave England an equation they would have liked, with seven wickets in hand.
But Deepti and Sneh Rana turned the screws again with a fine exhibition of off-spin, increasing the desperation with Jones run out sprinting a single, then Sciver the same trying to get back for a second run, one ball after a mighty pull for six .
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That left 13 runs required from the final over and England should look back over their decision-making with Maia Bouchier and Katherine Brunt sent in ahead of the more natural six-hitter Sophie Ecclestone.
Ecclestone backed that up by coolly driving her second ball over the rope. But by then it was the final ball of the match and the chance of gold had already passed England by. India will now have that opportunity against Australia.
Former President Trump addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday.
“The proud patriots here today are the beating heart of the conservative movement,” Trump said after taking the stage to the stirrings of The Village People’s hit “YMCA”
“You are the loyal defenders of our heritage, culture, our Constitution and our God-given rights. You never stop fighting for America, and I will never ever stop fighting for you.”
Trump was frequently interrupted by raucous applause from the GOP activists who gathered for the CPAC conference in the Hilton Anatole’s Trinity Ballroom in Dallas.
In a nearly two hour address, the former president threw out hefty chunks of red meat, coming out in favor of stop-and-frisk policing and the death penalty for drug dealers — a punishment he said was used in China for such offenses.
The CPAC straw poll reveals Trump remains the main choice for 2024. Shelby Tauber/REUTERSTrump was frequently interrupted by raucous applause from the crowd. REUTERS
The speech also came with the standard denunciations of old foes like Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — who he branded an “old broken crow” — and, of course, President Joe Biden.
“You could take the five worst presidents in American history and put them together and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done to our country in two years,” he said.
Trump, however, was mum on whether he would seek a rematch with Biden in 2024.
A woman wears a “MAGA King” jacket at CPAC in Dallas. Brian Snyder/REUTERS
“I ran twice and won twice and I did much better the second time than I did the first. And now we may have to do it again,” was all he offered.
The question of whether or not Trump will seek to reclaim the White House in 2024 has dominated GOP political circles in recent months. The former president — now 76 years old — has publicly teased the possibility with little subtlety.
“I’ve already made that decision,” he told New York Magazine last month, adding that the only decision left for him was whether he would announce something before or after the midterm elections.
Attendees of CPAC fill the room, some in MAGA gear to support the former president.Yuki Iwamura for NYPost
Party grandees privately hope he holds off until after November so as not to jeopardize GOP candidates in the midterm elections, but generally accept they have no power to influence his timing.
Trump handily won the CPAC straw poll suggesting enthusiasm among base Republican voters has not wanted despite his social media ban, two impeachments, and an ongoing probe about his actions during the Jan. 6 riots.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? The mysterious inventor of bitcoin is a renowned figure in the world of cryptocurrency but his true identity is unknown.
However, the British blogger Peter McCormack was certain about one thing: the answer isn’t Craig Wright.
For years Wright, an Australian computer scientist, has claimed that he is Satoshi, the pseudonymous author of the 2008 white paper behind bitcoin.
Wright’s assertion that he is the inventor of the digital asset – he first sought to prove that he is Satoshi in 2016, months after his name first emerged – has led to a series of legal tussles, some of which are continuing.
One of them came to a pyrrhic conclusion in London this week, when McCormack was found to have caused serious harm to Wright’s reputation by repeatedly claiming that he is a fraud and is not Satoshi.
But Wright, 52, won nominal damages of £1 after a high court judge ruled that he had given “deliberately false evidence” to support his libel claim.
For cost reasons, McCormack did not offer a defense of truth – where the defendant in the case attempts to show that the allegations are substantially true – as Mr Justice Chamberlain ruled that one claim made in a video discussion on YouTube was defamatory, while a series of tweets repeating the fraud claims were ruled to have caused serious harm to Wright’s reputation.
“Because he [Wright] advanced a deliberately false case and put forward deliberately false evidence until days before trial, he will recover only nominal damages,” wrote the judge.
McCormack’s defense, shifted to a much narrower footing, was that the video and the tweets did not cause serious harm to Wright’s reputation. Wright claimed that his reputation had been seriously harmed by the tweets because he had been disinvited from 10 conferences, which meant that academic papers due to be presented at those events had not been published.
McCormack submitted evidence from conference organizers who challenged Wright’s claims. Those claims were then dropped from Wright’s case at the trial in May.
The judge was scathing. He said: “Dr Wright’s original case on serious harm, and the evidence supporting it, both of which were maintained until days before trial, were deliberately false.”
Wright, who lives in Surrey and is the chief scientist at the blockchain technology firm nChain, said he had brought the case “not for financial reward, but for the principle and to get others to think twice before seeking to impugn my reputation”.
And the legal cases continue to pile up. Wright has other high court cases pending. He has brought a libel case against a Norwegian Twitter user, Marcus Granath, who has also accused the Australian of being a fraud. Granath recently failed in an attempt to have the case thrown out.
Wright is also suing two cryptocurrency exchanges in a case that argues that a digital asset called Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV), which he backs, is the true descendant of the white paper.
The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (Copa), a non-profit that supports cryptocurrencies, is seeking a high court declaration that Wright is not the author of the white paper. Its case claims that Wright forged evidence produced to support his assertion that he is Satoshi. Wright, who denies Copa’s claims, failed in an attempt to have the case struck out last year.
There was more legal back and forth before that. In 2020, Wright lost an attempt to sue Roger Ver, an early bitcoin backer, for calling Wright a fraud on YouTube after a judge ruled that the appropriate jurisdiction for a lawsuit would be the US. One year later, Wright won a copyright infringement claim against the anonymous operator and publisher of the bitcoin.org website for publishing the white paper. Wright won by default after bitcoin.org’s publisher, who goes by the pseudonym of Cobra, declined to speak in their defense of him.
In the US, Wright won a case in December that spared him having to pay out a multibillion-dollar sum in bitcoins to the family of David Kleiman, a former business partner. Kleiman’s family had claimed that he was a co-creator of bitcoin along with Wright and they were therefore owed half of the 1.1m bitcoins “mined” by Satoshi.
The case was closely watched in the expectation that if Wright lost he would have had to move those bitcoins – seen as the sword-in-the-stone test that would prove Satoshi’s true identity. Those coins are now worth $25bn (£21bn) at the current price of about $23,000 and sit on the bitcoin blockchain, a decentralized ledger that records all bitcoin transactions.
Satoshi published the cryptocurrency’s foundation text – Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – on 31 October 2008 and communicated by email with the currency’s first adherents before disappearing in 2011.
Carol Alexander, professor of finance at the University of Sussex business school, says Wright could prove that he is Satoshi by using the so-called private keys – a secure code comprising a hexadecimal string of numbers and letters – that will unlock access to the bitcoins.
“The only way that Wright could prove he is SN would be to make a transaction with some of the original bitcoin,” she said.
Wright is adamant that he will not do this, saying private keys do not provide ownership or identity. There are few other Satoshi candidates. In 2014, a Japanese-American man, Dorian S Nakamoto, was named by Newsweek as the creator of bitcoin and promptly denied any link to the digital currency. More informed speculation has centered on Nick Szabo, an American computer scientist who designed BitGold, viewed as a conceptual precursor to bitcoin. But he too has denied claims that he might be Satoshi.
In the meantime, Mr Justice Chamberlain left open a question that remains unanswered. “The identity of Satoshi is not among the issues I have to determine,” he said.
Spike Chunsoft has revealed new information for Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darknessdetailing the original “Deep in Abyss” story mode, as well as the game’s Notebook function.
The new details and screenshots can be found below, via Spike Chunsoft.
Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness is set to release on September 2 for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC (Steam). For more information on the game, you can check out:
Spike Chunsoft, Inc. today released new details on the game’s Notebook that logs information on the original characters, relics, primeval creatures, and more.
The 3D Action RPG arrives on PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch™, and Steam® on September 2, 2022, in North America and Europe.
Original Story features Characters from Made in Abyss
In “DEEP IN ABYSS” mode, many characters from Made in Abyss appear as the story unfolds. The main character who becomes a Cave Raider grows with the help of more experienced Cave Raiders from the orphanage Nat, Shiggy, as well as help from Black Whistle Hablog and others. These familiar characters from Made in Abyss appear in the main story or are sometimes shown as having a connection to the protagonist in side quests.
At the start of “DEEP IN ABYSS” Riko and Reg have already set out from the bottom of the Abyss. We will meet them in the course of our exploration.
As you progress to deeper layers, you may visit facilities where a White Whistle (the highest rank) resides, such as the Seeker Camp in the second layer of the Abyss, and the frontline base in the fifth layer of the Abyss There are also quests that involve the current White Whistles, Ozen and Bondrewd.
Aim to Complete your Notebook
The Notebook, which is carried by the main character, records a variety of information, including people met, relics obtained in the Abyss, and primeval creatures encountered. Primeval creatures can be recorded in the notebook by observing them through a monocular. Be cautious while using the monocular, as the field of view is limited, so it is necessary to get somewhat close to observe them.
But the event itself was far from shadow. This was a celebration of First Nations talent, both past and present.
Yolngu rapper Baker Boy (real name Danzal Baker) was the big winner of the night, being named artist of the year and also taking out the award for album of the year. His debut album Jelly, a vibrant and self-assured “celebration of survival”, reached number three on the ARIA charts on its release in October.
This is the third time the 25-year-old has been recognized as best artist (he won in 2019 and 2020, but lost out to The Kid Laroi in 2021).
Yolngu rapper Baker Boy was the big winner at the 2022 National Indigenous Music Awards.
Unfortunately Baker Boy was not present at the awards as he was overseas (a fact that host Steven Oliver should be celebrated, because he’s bringing his music to the world). He was one of four winning artists to send an acceptance speech via video. Other notable absences from the event included Jessica Mauboy and Thelma Plum – both of whom were originally slated to perform, but had to pull out due to sickness.
The award for song of the year also went to a Yolngu act, with surf-rockers King Stingray winning for their infectious hit Milkumana. They accepted the award in their first language, which prompted a lot of love from the crowd. The five-piece band (who easily got the biggest cheers of the night), also performed a lively set to close out the ceremony featuring tracks from their self-titled debut album which dropped on Friday.
Milkumana was a fitting choice for best song in the end; as guitarist Roy Kellaway (son of Yothu Yindi bass player Stuart Kellaway) has previously said, it’s about “role models and the importance of setting good examples for the new generation”.
As these awards show, that new generation is a particularly exciting one. Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung indie-pop artist Jem Cassar-Daley, the 21-year-old daughter of country legend Troy Cassar-Daley, won the award for new talent of the year. And Malyangapa and Barkindji rapper Barkaa, who was also nominated in the category, took home the prize for best film clip.
Barkaa’s winning video was for King Brown, which was also nominated in the category of best song. The clip shows off her incredible stage presence of her – think: Australian Missy Elliot – and explains why she’s been dubbed “the new matriarch of Australian rap”.
“I couldn’t do this without black women,” she said, via video message in her acceptance speech. “But at the same time [I want to] pay homage to the greatest: Uncle Archie Roach, who gave us this voice, who gave us this pathway to do what we do today.”
Filipino-Aboriginal rapper Dobby also received the Archie Roach Foundation Award for emerging artists and performed his own version of We Won’t Cry via pre-recorded video. It was a timely reminder of how the much-loved songman’s legacy lives on.
When Roach set up the foundation in 2014, he said he hoped to “be a signpost for others, to walk alongside and empower them to tell their story through the arts to point them in a deadly direction”.
Before announcing the award, Emma Donovan said she and other artists “had been yarnin’ up to Uncle about his foundation, his legacy and what he wants to – what he SE busca to-leave behind. And most of all, for Uncle, it was [about] encouraging young mob.”
2022 National Indigenous Music Awards
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
The Kid Laroi
Jessica Mauboy
Winner: Baker Boy
Electric Fields
Thelma Plum
king stingray
SONG OF THE YEAR
Backseat of My Mind -Thelma Plum
Made For Silence – Miesha
Winner: Milkumana – king stingray
Sometime – Mo Ju
King Brown – Barkaa
ball and chain – Xavier Rudd
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner: Baker Boy – Gela
Emma Donovan & the Putbacks – Under These Streets
Jem Cassar-Daley – I Don’t Know Who to Call
Birdz- Legacy
Dallas Woods- Julie’s Boy
Archie Roach- My songs 1989 – 2021
NEW TALENT OF THE YEAR
Barka’a
Winner: Jem Cassar-Daley
Lil Kootsie
Tilly Tjala Thomas
dobby
give me it
FILM CLIP OF THE YEAR
Love Too Soon – Tasman Keith
Winner: King Brown – Barkaa
Black Matriarchy – Barkaa
My Mind -Baker Boy
Automatic -Jessica Mauboy
COMMUNITY CLIP OF THE YEAR
Koori Mob- Our Country, Our Life -Desert Pea Medium
Gumbaynggirr Collective – through the smoke -Desert Pea Medium
Doomadgee, QLD- Where We Wanna Be -Indigenous Outreach Project
Ballarat, VIC- Don’t Give Up On Yourself -Indigenous Outreach Project
Meg Watson traveled to the National Indigenous Music Awards courtesy of Darwin Festival, with support by Tourism Australia through the Regional Arts Tourism Package.
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Three years after one of the best tournaments of his career, Nick Kyrgios is back in the Citi Open final.
The 2019 Washington champion battled past Mikael Ymer 7-6(4), 6-3 on Saturday to reach the championship match of the ATP 500 for the second time. He will play top seed Andrey Rublev or Japanese lefty Yoshihito Nishioka for the title.
“Honestly I didn’t play anywhere near my best tennis today and I don’t know. The role was reversed, the past couple matches I’ve been on paper, rankings-wise the underdog in my past couple matches, but today I definitely felt like the favourite,” Kyrgios said in his on-court interview. “I served pretty solid. Obviously my winning percentage behind my first serve would have been high, but from the back of the court I didn’t play well at all.”
On Friday, the Australian won two matches and saved five match points in the second of those clashes, in the quarter-finals against Frances Tiafoe. Kyrgios did not have his back up against the wall again, but he did have to work hard to oust Ymer.
The Swede, who used former World No. 1 Andy Murray in the first round, used his speed and defensive skills to great effect throughout the week and did so again on Saturday, finding small openings with sublime backhand passing shots.
But the match was on Kyrgios’ racquet, and the 27-year-old relied on his big serving and baseline power in key moments to triumph after one hour and 35 minutes. He was not at his flying best of him, showing consistent frustration throughout the first set, but his use of him kept him out of danger as he did not face a break point. Kyrgios did not hit 35 aces like he did against Tiafoe, striking 10, but it was good enough for the victory.
“The difference was he stands on the fast and he makes you play that extra ball. He’s an incredible athlete and I really wasn’t expecting him to be that fast,” Kyrgios said. “Maybe next time I might have a couple different tactics when I play him, maybe not to try and out rally him, maybe come forward a little bit more. But it was a tough-fought semi-final and I’m just happy to be in the final once again.”
The first set could have gone either way, with the pair tied at 4/4 in the first-set tie-break. In an uncharacteristic Kyrgios rally, which featured plenty of slices between the two, the Australian prevailed after 24 shots to seize the mini break and eventually, the set.
Kyrgios struggled to break through on Ymer’s serve until 4-3 in the second set, when he finally earned the match’s only break by flicking a forehand half volley from no-man’s land crosscourt and out of the reach of the lunging Swede.
The World No. 63 is up to No. 42 in the Pepperstone ATP Live Rankings. If Kyrgios lifts the trophy on Sunday, he will climb to No. 37.
Did You Know? Kyrgios has made the final of consecutive tour-level tournaments for the first time in his career. If he claims the Washington crown, it will be his first ATP Tour victory since 2019 at the same event.
On Saturday, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd spoke for three quarters of the Democratic Party, urging President Joe Biden to announce that he will not be running for re-election for the good of the country.
In her opinion piece, titled, “Hey, Joe, Don’t Give It a Go,” Dowd urged the president to not make the mistake that the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, and leave office before overstaying his welcome and making things worse for the Democratic Party.
Dowd began, stating, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a cautionary tale. She missed the moment to leave the stage, ignoring friendly nudges from Democrats and entreaties from Obama allies.”
As such, “Her death opened the door to the most conservative court in nearly a century. Her successor, a religious zealot straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ is erasing Justice Ginsburg’s achievements on women’s rights,” Dowd noted, referencing Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
DEMOCRATS WHO DON’T SUPPORT BIDEN IN 2024 REFUSE TO EXPLAIN PLANS FOR ‘NEW LEADERSHIP’ IN WHITE HOUSE
A recent New York Times column urged President Biden to not run for re-election for the sake of the Democratic Party. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Addressing Biden directly, she insisted, “The timing of your exit can determine your place in the history books.”
Though she acknowledged the recent string of successes for Biden, such as Democrats finding enough support to pass legislation such as the “Inflation Reduction Act,” the columnist argued that this “winning streak” should not inspire him to run again.
“The opposite is true. It should give him the confidence to leave, secure in the knowledge that he has made his mark,” Dowd said.
She continued to give the president credit, stating, “President Biden has had a cascade of legislative accomplishments on tech manufacturing, guns, infrastructure — and hopefully soon, climate and prescription drugs — that validate his promises when he ran.” She called them “genuine achievements that Democrats have been chasing for decades, and they will affect generations to come.”
Though again, she mentioned that he could “leave on a high, knowing that he has delivered on his promises for progress and restored decency to the White House.”
Dowd characterized Biden’s presidency “as a balm to the bombastic Donald Trump,” and “an escape from Trump and Trumpism, a way to help us get our bearings after the thuggish and hallucinatory reign of a con man.”
Implying that’s all it should have ever been, she subsequently wrote, “Then he and his team got carried away and began unrealistically casting him as an FDR with a grand vision to remake the social contract.”
“Biden’s mission was not to be a visionary but to be a calming force for a country desperately in need of calming, and a bridge to the next generation,” Dowd wrote, adding that “he’s a logical one-termer.”
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd claimed Biden should now announce his plans to not run in 2024 so that Democrats can look for ‘new blood’ to put up as presidential candidates. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo)
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Dowd gave credence to the “growing sense in the Democratic Party and in America” that dodging a “comeback by Trump or the rise of the odious Ron DeSantis,” requires “new blood.”
She argued that if Biden admitted his plans for next term now, “it would give Democrats a chance to sort through their meh field and leave time for a fresh, inspiring candidate to emerge.”
Dowd then called Biden a “lame duck,” but spun that to work in his favor, writing, “Usually, being a lame duck weakens you. But in Biden’s case, it could strengthen him. We live in a Washington where people too often put power over principle.”
“So the act of leaving could elevate Biden, freeing him from typical re-election pressures, so he and his team could do what they thought was right rather than what was politically expedient,” she claimed.
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Dowd also mentioned that the question of Biden’s age won’t go away, as it’s “already a hot topic in focus groups and an undercurrent in Democratic circles.”
She then concluded her column, stating that for Biden to deal with these “dangerous times” involving inflation, climate change, China, and “women’s rights on the line,” “It might be best to have a president unshackled from the usual political restraints .”
Dowd also claimed Biden accepting the fact that he’s a one-term president means he’ll be “unshackled from the usual political restraints,” and lead even better. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
Gabriel Hays is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @gabrieljhays.
‘British-obsessed’ Aussie woman points out the bizarre items she found while shopping in an English supermarket for the first time: ‘Why would you microwave a single slice of toast?’
Aussie Georgian comedian Jean McCudden, 22, is currently in England
Describing herself as ‘British obsessed’ the young woman posted a video there
It showed her wandering around a series of supermarkets to buy groceries
She noted a number of stark differences between the grocers there and at home
By Matilda Rudd For Daily Mail Australia
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A ‘British obsessed’ Australian woman has visited an English supermarket for the first time and pointed out some of the very unique differences in how the two nations shop.
Comedian Georgia Jean McCudden, 22, jetted to Bath, the largest city in the county of Somerset, England, with her boyfriend Sam in tow to enjoy a relaxing European summer.
While visiting the city Georgia made sure to stop by a local Waitrose and Marks and Spencer to get a taste for how the Brits purchase their groceries – and voiced a number of surprises along the way in a recent TikTok video.
‘I’m Australian and I’ve never been to a British supermarket before so these were my honest thoughts. So I started by looking at the juice and I thought ‘what in the hell is this Truman s***?’ She started, pointing out that the plastic containers of juice in M&S were filled with paper.
Comedian Georgia Jean McCudden, 22, jetted to Bath, the largest city in the county of Somerset, England, with her boyfriend Sam in tow to enjoy a relaxing European summer
They were mock ups of what customers could buy if they visited the cafe in the center of the store but it confused Georgia nonetheless.
‘Something I found in M&S was that 90 per cent of the chilled section was ready made meals. The UK just understands that most families have both parents making the income,’ she continued.
‘Honestly the quality and convenience is a 10/10.’
However she did spot a single piece of packaged cold toast in the freezer section and pointed out how wasteful that appeared to be, given how easy it is to use a toaster.
‘I know humanity loves their convenience but at the end of the day why would you microwave a single piece of toast?’ She questioned.
‘I’m Australian and I’ve never been to a British supermarket before so these were my honest thoughts. So I started by looking at the juice and I thought ‘what in the hell is this Truman s***?’ She started, pointing out that the plastic containers of juice in M&S were filled with paper
However she did spot a single piece of packaged cold toast in the freezer section and pointed out how wasteful that appeared to be, given how easy it is to use a toaster
Georgia was also not a fan of the many assorted ‘chocolate and orange’ flavoring combinations in the sweets section.
‘That’s just like eating a cucumber and ice cream. Like you could do it but why would you want to?’ She said.
In Waitrose Georgia noted that there were special personal scanning devices so you could seamlessly checkout while you shop through the store.
‘Honestly genius, Australia get onto it,’ she said.
‘Inside Waitrose they had cooking classes, a cafe and you can buy alcohol too. Australians are like kids who don’t like their food touching… like you have to go to three different places to do all that.’
In Waitrose Georgia noted that there were special personal scanning devices so you could seamlessly checkout while you shop through the store
Georgia and Sam ended up purchasing a packaged ravioli pasta for dinner before leaving the shop.
Many of her followers pointed out how expensive Waitrose and M&S are in comparison to Asda and Tesco supermarkets.
‘Found it so weird when I first moved here that you can get clothes, alcohol and food all in the same place,’ a fellow Australian follower commented.
‘I’m British myself and yet the orange and chocolate doesn’t make sense to me either,’ said another.
A third added: ‘Nah but how is amazing is M&S… if I could bring anything from the UK, it would be marksies’.
