The elderly sitting U.S. president has approval ratings about as good as Dick Cheney’s after he shot a guy in the face. His primary opposition is the only president in history to have been impeached twice.
Naturally, the public is keen to find someone — anyone — to distract us from the dismal state of our union and elites.
So they are now obsessing over Sanna Marin, the 36-year-old prime minister of Finland. The unusually telegenic PM recently took a brief respite from scoring the Nordic nation NATO membership and keeping inflation lower than anywhere in Europe. She partied with some friends. In some leaked social medias being gleefully shared by Putin apologists on social media, Marin appears dancing with friends in a private residence and a nightclub.
So, what’s the crime? Although critics have pounced on some mostly inaudible background dialogue to claim Marin’s compatriots were doing drugs, the PM immediately took a (still-pending) drug test to prove that she only consumed some alcohol and zero drugs. To that point, no video indicates that Marin was blacked out, belligerent, or anything past what polite society allows in every bar and party in the Western world. The only potentially objectionable behavior comes from a clip showing Marin dancing with a man who is evidently not her husband. Although they appear to be a little too close for comfort, it’s up to her husband to decide whether anything transpired beyond a little dancing without quite enough room between her and the man on video.
As an American, I believe it is only fair to impugn Marin if the facts render the answer to any of the following questions a resounding YES:
- Did Marin drive home from the club under the influence? Did she do so and then crash her Porsche 911 into another car as Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly did earlier this summer?
- Was the man with whom Marin danced one of her taxpayer-funded subordinates? If she did indeed cross the line of actual infidelity, did she use her position of power over a junior staffer to exact sexual gratification on the taxpayers’ time and dime, as Bill Clinton did?
- If the man was just another acquaintance, did Marin offer him a six-figure hush money payment — potentially in violation of campaign finance laws — as Donald Trump did to porn star Stormy Daniels?
- Or maybe, was the man a Russian prostitute whom Marin rewarded with a government salary, just like the one Hunter Biden paid with a few thousand bucks wired over from The Big Guy?
- Was the man an acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein or a convicted child rapist?
So if you voted for a Clinton, a Trump, or a Biden in the past quarter century, please spare me your outrage over Marin dancing. Until she gets the Paul Pelosi deal from the Finnish government, you can’t even say she’s corrupt.
It’s more than a little bit gross that we Americans scoff at a politician with the audacity to spend her leisure time rubbing elbows with the plebes rather than jetting off to her mansion (private jet, of course) in Martha’s Vineyard or Palm Beach.
