(In the video, Pump also claimed that Harris “is not Black, she’s Indian.” This rhetoric is provably false; though the VP is Indian on her mother’s side, her father is a Black man born in Jamaica.)
The Royal Janitor
Chapter: A Rat In Cheese Factory
Victoria Bond almost barfed when she heard the duet by President Chuck Chedderman and the Mystery Performer, Muskrat Carter, who is The Lost Carter who was supposed to have frozen to death on a bus bench in Oakland. Quietly Muskrat bought the Carter Farm and other peanut producers in Georgia, and after Jimmy died, made his BIG MOVE!
The Democrats tried to block the merger of Whacko Peanuts with the Chunky Cheese Dip Company of New York. But when America tasted Micky Chips, made of peanut mash, it was a match made in heaven or hell, depending on your taste in politicians, When Chuck and Muskrat founded the Mouse Social Network, with mouse noises in their special mouse, half of America began to believe the election was rigged. Before their gnarlty version of Muskrat Love, Musky said this in a gravely vaping voice.
“All primates love cheese and peanuts. They also love to gossip. This truth can not be denied. I want to announce Chuck and I have bought Never Never Land, that will be the home of our Black Music Company….Chunky Chicago Sound Trap!”
The mixed raace audience, gasped! They WOKE UP! They now beheld the living nightmare that had crept up on them. Chuck Cheddarman had reinvented himself after his New York pizza company went belly up due to COVID. He saw a Giant Hole, and filled it. As Michael Jackson turned more white. Chuck, turned more black. When he saw Walt’s Micky Mouse copyright had expired, he made his comeback. A group of Black Music Artists, got behind his campaign, and behind closed doors, called him….
“The Black Disney!”
“Let’s call him….Micky The Cheese!”
When Chuck pulled up in a stretch limo with his Soulmate Singers, some reporters saw the light. Chuck Cheddar had reinvented White Soul, and Black People. This is how he won the White House! All his PO’s against DEI were made to destroy the Black Identity – that Kamala lacked – and make it over in the image of Chuck and Muskrat. The Plantation Economy was back. Now, to start a Trade War’…..
WITH THE WHOLE WORLD!
EXTRA! Was that really Diana Ross on stage, or…….?
Victoria had to get down to work, especially after Starfish showed her the Deed to Han’s Island that the Danish Royals owned via Harold Bluetooth whose great ancestor was baptized by John the Baptist at the River Jordon.
Victoria surmised Muskrat was helping Chuck destroy traditional roles in the Democrat party in order to create swing voters form…..The Very Confused! There wasn’t much to do, because the team that put the campaign of Hilary and Harris together, had a very un-traditional platform in order to the please..
“The Lunatic Left!”
WHY? All the Lunatics were going to vote Democrat anyway! One Democrat leader was taking a hard look at Starfish when he saw her on a talk show in Denmark. She was reciting her family tree, and seeking funding for her tunnel job on Whistly Island,
To be continued.
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In December 2023, Lil Pump posted a selfie he snapped with Trump and wrote, “Greatest president of all time 🇺🇸”
The following July, he loudly reaffirmed his support of the Republican candidate by sending a message straight to Vice President Harris via an impassioned Instagram video. “We’ve seen the mess that you and Biden have created in the past three years, and the only person who can clean it up is Donald Trump, baby!” he cheered.
(In the video, Pump also claimed that Harris “is not Black, she’s Indian.” This rhetoric is provably false; though the VP is Indian on her mother’s side, her father is a Black man born in Jamaica.)
Muskrat, muskrat candlelight
Doin’ the town and doin’ it right
In the evenin’, it’s pretty pleasin’
Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug
Out in the muskrat land
And they shimmy
Sam is so skinny
And they whirl and they twirl and they tango
Singin’ and jinglin’ a jango
Floatin’ like the heavens above
Looks like muskrat love
Nibblin’ on bacon, chewin’ on cheese
Sam says to Susie
Honey, would you please be my Mrs?
Suzie she says yes, with her kisses
Now, he’s ticklin’ her fancy
Rubbin’ her ties
Muzzle to muzzle now
Anything goes
As they wiggle
Sue starts to giggle
And they whirl and they twirled and they tango
Singin’ and jinglin’ a jango
Floatin’ like the heavens above
Looks like muskrat love
And they whirl and they twirl and they tango
Singin’ and jinglin’ a jango
Floatin’ like the heavens above
Looks like muskrat love
Do, do, do, do, do
Do, do-e, do
Do, do, do, do, do
Do, do-e, do
Do, do, do, do, do
Do, do-e, do
Do, do, do, do, do
Eugene virtual reality artist spoof of Chuck E. Cheese pizza arcade goes viral
By Sheraz Sadiq (OPB)
Nov. 16, 2022 1:28 p.m.
Broadcast: Friday, Nov. 18
Earlier this month, images started appearing online of a macabre and quirky amusement center that may not be, well, fun for the whole family. It’s also not real. Chucky Cheese Pizza Arcade & Bowling is the work of Cabel Adams, a Eugene resident and self-taught virtual reality artist who took photos of a nearby mall and used 3D rendering, augmented reality and virtual reality software to create a realistic-looking arcade with Chucky, the slasher doll from the ‘80s horror movie franchise “Child’s Play,” as its mascot. Adams posted the images and video clips of the exterior and interior of the space on Facebook, blending elements of real structures and fake attractions, and even dressed up in a Chucky costume himself to create a tantalizing possibility of actually being there.
His concept quickly went viral, racking up 100,000 shares on Facebook within 24 hours, and it even caught the attention of Jennifer Tilly, an actress in the “Child’s Play” movie franchise and the “Chucky” TV spin-off. Cabel Adams joins us to talk about the reaction to his work, and using VR and augmented reality to blur the lines between reality and artifice.
Note: The following transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer.
Musicians Supporting Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential Election
Kanye West, Jason Aldean and Kid Rock are just some of the stars backing the former president.
08/27/2024
Eight years after he first became president of the United States, Donald Trump is once again running for re-election in 2024.
His latest campaign follows one term in the White House that began in 2016 after he defeated Hillary Clinton, plus another four years out of the job thanks to Joe Biden winning the race in 2020. This time around, the 78-year-old businessman-turned-politician faces a new opponent: Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic party’s nominee.
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And while an outpouring of musicians have voiced their support for Harris, so, too, have a number of famous faces endorsed Trump ahead of the big vote in November. With Ohio senator JD Vance by his side as running mate, the twice-impeached ex-POTUS has received backing from artists of all backgrounds, from country stars such as Jason Aldean and Kid Rock to hip-hop hell-raisers like Kanye West and DaBaby.
His campaign has only grown more polarizing in light of his felony convictions in May, with a Manhattan jury finding him guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The same cannot be said about the apparent assassination attempt against him at his rally in Pennsylvania, an act of violence that was subsequently condemned by politicians on both sides of the aisle.
As more artists speak out, Billboard will continue to update this list to reflect all of the big names who are riding for Trump in 2024. For now, keep reading to see who in the music world has expressed support for the New York native’s third White House bid — so far, at least — below.
Anuel AA & Justin Quiles
Anuel AA, left, and Justin Quiles, right, join Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in the 1st Summit Arena at the Cambria County War Memorial on August 30, 2024 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Photo : Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Puerto Rican reggaetón stars Anuel AA and Justin Quiles took the stage to support Donald Trump during a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 30. Both reggaetón stars were called to the podium by Trump, who introduced them as “two amazing Puerto Rican musical legends,” and then added: “Every Puerto Rican is going to vote for Trump.” Read more here.
Azealia Banks
Azealia Banks confirmed she’d be voting for Trump in 2024 during an interview with The Standard last fall. “He’s just f–king funnyyy,” she told the publication. “He’s been through how many bankruptcies? How many wives? How many television shows? Seriously, nothing can take him down.”
In July, she attended Trump’s campaign rally in Florida.
Billy Ray Cyrus
Though his daughter Miley has condemned Trump in the past, Billy Ray Cyrus supports the Republican candidate. Trump called out the country singer at his rally in July — “Billy Ray Cyrus is here … he’s a conservative guy, I said, ‘How did you get such a liberal daughter?’” — and the musician performed at the funeral for Corey Comperatore, a supporter who died in the line of fire at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally where the assassination attempt took place.
DaBaby
DaBaby revealed he plans on voting for Trump this year in a 2022 episode of the Full Send podcast. “Do I f–k with Trump? Now? Hell yeah,” the rapper said at the time. “Trump is a gangster.”
Jason Aldean
Jason Aldean has long been one of Trump’s biggest supporters in the music industry, and he’s even developed a friendship with the politician behind the scenes. Following the assassination attempt against Trump, the country star posted a photo of the candidate’s bloody ear — “This is what a warrior looks like … this is my guy,” Aldean wrote — and in November 2023, he told the Los Angeles Times, “I have nothing but good things to say about the guy.”
Kanye West
After supporting Trump throughout his 2016-2020 presidency, Ye — in spite of having his own White House aspirations through the years — renewed his support for the politician in 2024. “Of course, it’s Trump all day!” he told paparazzi in February.
Kid Rock
Kid Rock is one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in the music industry. Before performing in the Republican candidate’s honor at the RNC in July, the musician called Trump “our tried and true, red, white and blue, 100 percent American bada‑‑ president” in a video on social media.
Prior to that, he opened up about his support of Trump in a May interview with Rolling Stone, during which he also reportedly used the N-word multiple times. “You think I like Trump because he’s a nice guy?” Rock says. “I’m not electing the deacon of a church. That motherf–ker likes to win. He likes to cheat in his f–king golf game. I want that guy on my team. I want the guy who goes, ‘I’m going to fight with you.’”
Kodak Black
On Drink Champs in October, Kodak Black sang Trump’s praises. “I f–k with that boy,” he said. “And that boy, like, he be vibin’ out here too.”
The rapper’s comment came over two years after Trump pardoned him on the politician’s last day in office. Black was less than halfway through with his prison sentence at that point, having pled guilty to a firearms possession charge after being detained at the Canadian-American border in March 2020.
“We need Trump in office forever, man,” he said on social media in 2023. “Just like how them Chinese and Russian and Korean motherf—ers have their president. Trump the best thing for America.”
Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson (Old Norse: Haraldr Blátǫnn Gormsson;[2] Danish: Harald Blåtand Gormsen, died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway.
He was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. Harald ruled as king of Denmark from c. 958 – c. 986. Harald introduced Christianity to Denmark and consolidated his rule over most of Jutland and Zealand. Harald’s rule as king of Norway following the assassination of King Harald Greycloak of Norway was more tenuous, most likely lasting for no more than a few years in the 970s. Some sources say his son Sweyn Forkbeard forcibly deposed him from his Danish throne before his death.
Name
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Harald’s name is written as runic haraltr : kunukʀ (ᚼᛅᚱᛅᛚᛏᚱ ᛬ ᚴᚢᚾᚢᚴᛦ) in the Jelling stone inscription. In normalized Old Norse, this would correspond to Haraldr konungr, i.e. “Harald king“. The Latinized name as given in the medieval Danish chronicles is Haraldus Gormonis filius (Harald, Gorm’s son). The given name Haraldr (also Haralldr) is the equivalent of Old English Hereweald, Old High German Heriwald, from hari “army” and wald- “rule”.[3] Harald’s name is also inscribed on the so-called Curmsun disc, rediscovered in 2014 (but part of a Viking hoard previously discovered in 1841 in the crypt of the Groß-Weckow village church in Pomerania, close to the Viking Age stronghold of Jomsborg), as +ARALD CVRMSVN + REX AD TANER + SCON + JVMN + CIV ALDIN, i.e. “Harald Gormson, king of Danes, Scania, Jumne, [in] Bishopric of Aldinburg [de]”.[4]
The first documented appearance of Harald’s nickname “Bluetooth” (as blatan; Old Norse *blátǫnn) is in the Chronicon Roskildense (written c. 1140), alongside the alternative nickname Clac Harald.[5] Clac Harald appears to be a conflation of Harald Bluetooth with the legendary or semi-legendary Harald Klak, son of Halfdan. The byname is given as Blachtent and explicitly glossed as “bluish or black tooth” (dens lividus vel niger) in a chronicle of the late 12th century, Wilhelmi abbatis regum Danorum genealogia.[6] The traditional explanation[according to whom?] is that Harald must have had a conspicuous bad tooth that appeared “blue” (i.e. “black”, as blár “blue” meant “blue-black”, or “dark-coloured”). Another explanation, proposed by Scocozza (1997), is that he was called “blue thane” (or “dark thane”) in England (with Anglo-Saxon thegn corrupted to tan when the name came back into Old Norse).[7]
Reign
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During his reign, Harald oversaw the reconstruction of the Jelling runic stones, and numerous other public works. The most famous is fortifying the fortress of Aros (nowadays Aarhus) which was situated in a central position in his kingdom in the year 979. Some believe these projects were a way for him to consolidate economic and military control of his country and the main city. Ring forts were built in five strategic locations with Aarhus perfectly in the middle: Trelleborg on Zealand, Borrering in eastern Zealand (the inner construction of this fort is still yet to be established), Nonnebakken on Funen, Fyrkat in Himmerland (northern Jutland) and Aggersborg near Limfjord. All five fortresses had similar designs: “perfectly circular with gates opening to the four corners of the earth, and a courtyard divided into four areas which held large houses set in a square pattern.”[8] A sixth Trelleborg of similar design, located at Borgeby, in Scania, has been dated to about 1000 and may have been built by King Harald and a second fort named Trelleborg is located near the modern town of Trelleborg in Scania in present-day Sweden, but is of older date and thus pre-dates the reign of Harald Bluetooth.[citation needed]
He constructed the oldest known bridge in southern Scandinavia, the 5-metre (16 ft) wide and 760-metre (2,490 ft) long Ravning Bridge at Ravning meadows.[citation needed]
While quiet prevailed throughout the interior, he turned his energies to foreign enterprises. He came to the help of Richard the Fearless of Normandy in 945 and 963, while his son conquered Samland, and after the assassination of King Harald Greycloak of Norway, managed to force the people of that country into temporary subjugation to himself.
The Norse sagas present Harald in a rather negative light. He was forced twice to submit to the renegade Swedish prince Styrbjörn the Strong of the Jomsvikings– first by giving Styrbjörn a fleet and his daughter Thyra, the second time by giving up himself as hostage, along with yet another fleet. When Styrbjörn brought this fleet to Uppsala to claim the throne of Sweden, Harald broke his oath and fled with his Danes to avoid facing the Swedish army at the Battle of Fýrisvellir.[9]
Harald’s Rebellion
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Main article: German–Danish war of 974
In the wake of Otto I‘s death, Harald attacked Saxony in 973. Otto II counter-attacked Harald in 974, conquering Haithabu, Dannevirke and possibly large parts of Jutland.[10] Harald regained some of the seized territory in 983 when Otto II was defeated by the Saracens.[10]
As a consequence of Harald’s army having lost to the Germans at the Danevirke in 974, he no longer had control of Norway, and Germans settled back into the border area between Scandinavia and Germany. They were driven out of Denmark in 983 by an alliance of Obodrite soldiers and troops loyal to Harald, but soon after, Harald was killed fighting off a rebellion led by his son Sweyn. He is believed to have died in 986, although several accounts claim 985 as his year of death. According to Adam of Bremen he died in Jumne/Jomsborg from his wounds.[11] His body was brought back to the Trinity Church in Roskilde where he was buried.[12]
The Curmsun Disc, found in Groß-Weckow, Pomerania, (after 1945 Wiejkowo) is inscribed with “ARALD CVRMSVN” (Harald Gormson), calling him, in abbreviated Latin, “king of Danes, Scania, Jomsborg, town of Aldinburg“. Based on this, Swedish archaeologist Sven Rosborn has proposed that Harald is buried at the church there, close to Jomsborg, in what is now Poland.[13][11][14]
From 1835 to 1977, it was wrongly believed that Harald ordered the death of the Haraldskær Woman, a bog body previously thought to be Gunnhild, Mother of Kings until radiocarbon dating proved otherwise.[15]
The Hiddensee treasure, a large trove of gold objects, was found in 1873 on the German island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. It is believed that these objects belonged to Harald’s family.[16]
Harald introduced the first nationwide coinage in Denmark.[17]
Conversion to Christianity
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King Harald Bluetooth’s conversion to Christianity is a contested bit of history, not least because medieval writers such as Widukind of Corvey and Adam of Bremen give conflicting accounts of how it came about.
Widukind of Corvey, writing during the lives of King Harald and Otto I (ruled 962–973), claims that Harald was converted by a “cleric by the name of Poppa” who, when asked by Harald to prove his faith in Christ, carried a “great weight” of iron heated by a fire without being burned.[18] According to 12th-century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus in his work Gesta Danorum, Poppo performed his miracle for Harald’s son Sweyn Forkbeard after Sweyn had second thoughts about his own baptism.[19] Harald himself converted to Catholicism after a peace agreement with the Holy Roman Emperor (either Otto I or II).[20]
Adam of Bremen, writing 100 years after King Harald’s death in “History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen”, finished in 1076, describes Harald being forcibly converted by Otto I, after a defeat in battle.[21] However, Widukind does not mention such an event in his contemporary Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres or Deeds of the Saxons. Some 250 years after the event, the Heimskringla relates that Harald was converted with Earl Haakon, by Otto II (ruled 973 – 983).[22]
A cleric named Poppa, perhaps the same one, also appears in Adam of Bremen’s history, but in connection with Eric of Sweden, who had supposedly conquered Denmark (the fact that Eric conquered Denmark during the realm of Sweyn Forkbeard is explained by Saxo as a punishment of Sweyn’s apostasy).[23][24] The story of this otherwise unknown Poppo or Poppa’s miracle and baptism of Harald is also depicted on the gilded altar piece in the Church of Tamdrup in Denmark (see image at top of this article). The altar itself dates to about 1200.[25] Adam of Bremen’s claim regarding Otto I and Harald appears to have been inspired by an attempt to manufacture a historical reason for the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen to claim jurisdiction over Denmark (and thus the rest of Scandinavia); in the 1070s, the Danish king was in Rome asking for Denmark to have its own arch-bishop, and Adam’s account of Harald’s supposed conversion (and baptism of both him and his “little son” Sweyn, with Otto serving as Sweyn’s godfather) is followed by the unambiguous claim that “At that time Denmark on this side of the sea, which is called Jutland by the inhabitants, was divided into three dioceses and subjected to the bishopric of Hamburg.”[21]
As noted above, Harald’s father, Gorm the Old, had died in 958, and had been buried in a mound with many goods, after the pagan practice. The mound itself was from c. 500 BCE, but Harald had it built higher over his father’s grave, and added a second mound to the south. Mound-building was a newly revived custom in the 10th century, perceivably as an “appeal to old traditions in the face of Christian customs spreading from Denmark’s southern neighbors, the Germans”.[26]
After his conversion, around the 960s, Harald had his father’s body reburied in the church next to the now empty mound.[27] He had the Jelling stones erected to honour his parents.[28] The biography of Harald Bluetooth is summed up by this runic inscription from the Jelling stones:
King Harald bade these memorials to be made after Gorm, his father, and Thyra, his mother. The Harald who won the whole of Denmark and Norway and turned the Danes to Christianity.
Harald undoubtedly professed Christianity at that time and contributed to its growth, but with limited success in Denmark and Norway.[29]
Marriages and children
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Spouses:
- Gunhild
- Thora (Tova) the daughter of Mistivir in 970. She raised the Sønder Vissing Runestone after her mother.
- Gyrid Olafsdottir
Children:
- Tyra of Denmark, married Styrbjörn the Strong.
- Sweyn Forkbeard. Born about 960. Usually given as the son of Harald and Gunhild, though it is said in some of the older sagas that he was an illegitimate son.
- Haakon. Born in 961(?).[citation needed]
- Gunhilde. She married Pallig, Jarl and Ealdorman of Devonshire. It is thought that they both died in the St. Brice’s Day massacre in November 1002.
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