Roundup: Hot and bothered

The news from all over is challenging this week. First up, I think I'm very glad I don't live in the southern US - hotter than Hades this week.

Overseas the weather is no better. This video falls into the Holy Shit! category:

🔴 INFO - #Espagne : #Inondations massives après de fortes #pluies à #Saragosse hier. #flood #flooding pic.twitter.com/JXxZQ3g3sM

— FranceNews24 (@FranceNews24) July 7, 2023

According to the Weather Channel coverage, nobody died.

Absolutely brilliant. Person approaches flood in little Red car, sees identical little red car floating, driver continues believing this will not affect them. Sums up people's views on climate change perfectly. https://t.co/flmhAIPQZm

— Jon (@Jontafkasi) July 9, 2023

Funniest story of the weekend was to see Poilievre try to manage his new image at the Calgary Stampede. 

His handlers appear to have convinced him to fake a tan with makeup (who else do we know who does that?) and it went about as well as you would expect:

So, dime store cowboy realizes the new makeup has rubbed off on his fancy white shirt collar, sends flunky to Walmart to get what he thought would pass for down home denim, wears it right out of the package.
Yee haw!
🍁🤷🏼🤭😂😂😂🤫🤷🏼🍁@PierrePoilievre #cdnpoli @CPC_HQ pic.twitter.com/TjTCRnsdpG

— David Hamer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦 (@DavidHamer_1951) July 9, 2023

On a more serious note, though:

Setting aside the fact that Poilievre isn't actually 'jacked,' the fetishization of working out and/or conflating physical fitness or a given physique with inherent superiority is, in fact, a sign of weakness, not strength. https://t.co/4hH2TEfQE5 pic.twitter.com/7ap4VtMBeU

— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) July 9, 2023

And Poilievre thinks Canadians will elect him to be prime minister? Once again, he admits he didn't know what he was doing:

Poilievre going with the "I didn't know he was wearing a homophobic straight pride shirt". Yeah right, there's only so many times you can plead ignorance as a defense Pee Pee. pic.twitter.com/69jMZKwRgr

— ChrisOx (@chrisoxley10) July 11, 2023

And no matter what they do to Poilievre, he will never be able to compete with the Blue Jean Baby:

Justin Trudeau Brushes His Hair Out Of His Eyes at todays #Covid19Canada Update

It will be videos likes these that drive Conservatives

UP THE WALL!!!! #cdnpoli #COVID19 #Covid_19 pic.twitter.com/8dlYi6L5Z9

— G.T. Lem 林 家 聰 (@gtlem) April 18, 2020

Moving on, here's an idea:

Larry Hagman famously adopted Silent Sundays, when he did not speak for the day. https://t.co/VcUt3FPtM0

— John Ales AF (@IAmJohnAles) July 11, 2023

Finally,  a contender for Tweet Of The Year:

The fact i was reading this exact mad magazine earlier pic.twitter.com/IIYeCpltUo

— Woody (@beastlyfigurine) July 11, 2023