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Though once holding tight to the reins of power by whispering into the ear of the infirm and aging king Brandon the Feeble-minded, the faction of Prince Hunter the Debauched was eventually outmaneuvered, its supporters either threatened or bribed into submission. The success of the schemers' treachery was made bare to the world when, one fateful day, the court heralds, dressed in tabards embroidered with the Cornpop sigil of the House of Brandon, appeared before the assembled nobles in the Great White Hall. They announced that King Brandon would resign to a convent to spend his remaining days in prayer and penance, thereby leaving the Throne of Skulls vacant.

The proclamation implored the crown council to enthrone Lady Kamala the Awkward. She was favored by many powerful nobles who hoped to control the erratic princess. However, a formidable faction also sought to elevate as king Jarl Gavin the Grease-skinned, a key schemer in old king Brandon's downfall, whose heart lusted for power.

Upon hearing the news of King Brandon's abdication, the Orange Troll King taunted the dethroned monarch, declaring he was never fit for kingship. With Brandon's fall, the realm stood more demoralized than ever. Although Brandon's days of fierce and ruthless campaigning were long past, the captains of the realm still revered him as an acclaimed warlord and doubted either pretender's ability to secure victory on the battlefield against the emboldened hordes of the Orange Troll King.

As the magnates of the realm assembled in the shadows to scheme for their preferred pretender to be placed on the Throne of Skulls, many priests feared that a monarch appointed in such a deceitful way would lack the mandate of the heavens and be unable to win the favour of the gods in battle.

Something very anachronistic about the Trump shooter. A muddled, borderline apolitical past, a white male high school rifle club reject. It's like the gags in The Simpsons when they'd show first generation Polish immigrant kids with flatcaps playing stickball in a scene set in the 1980's. Not saying it's fake or scripted, just interesting that such people still exist.

lmao it gets more and more joever every day.

More Perfect Union has put together a pretty good roundup of billionaires known to be contributing to Donald Trump's campaign. Of the 67 names listed, the industrial breakdown is roughly as follows:

Finance: 16
Tech: 11
Real Estate: 9
Energy: 7
Entertainment: 5
Industrial supply / services: 4
Retail: 4
Shipping: 1
Agriculture: 1

This is a rough analysis, as the information in this article is brief, and these fuckers have their fingers in a lot of pies. A number of them are married / endowed into wealth and I wasn't consistent about counting them (i.e. does Uline count as 2 for industrial supply because Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein both made the list?) Would be interested to see a similar profile of Democratic megadonors, for comparison.

It is also worth noting these distinctions are pourus / arbitrary in a lot of cases. Especially between finance, tech, and real estate. A lot of "tech" companies are either finance companies (e.g. PayPal) or real estate companies (e.g. AirBNB) which manage to pass themselves off as smol bean code monkies because you interact with them using an app instead driving your car to a brick-and-mortar location.

Here's a bit of news that have been circulating around the football world like wildfire lately. But first things first CW: Racism and Transphobia.

Argentina won it's second consecutive Copa America trophy a few days ago, and during the post-match celebrations, midfielder Enzo Fernandez turned on an Instagram live stream to show them. Players and staff were chanting football songs during the celebrations, but at one moment someone began to chant an extremely racist and transphobic song that calls out the French national football team for having "all blacks coming from Angola" and makes transphobic remarks about french star player Kylian Mbappé because he once had (or still has) a trans girlfriend. Fernandez immediately turned off stream moments after this chant began. This chant does not originate from the national team circles but from a group of insanely racist fans who travelled to Qatar in 2022 for the World Cup and began to sing it.

This of course sparked controversy as French players began to call out the Argentinian national team for being racist with their chants. The French Football Federation issued a formal complaint, Chelsea (where Enzo Fernandez plays and where some of the french football players attacked are his own teammates) began an internal investigation and FIFA also spoke about it. Enzo Fernandez issued an apology and everything seemed to go down the natural route of "nothing will be done regarding racism" until stepped in.

Milei removes Sport Undersec who said Messi should apologize for racist chants

The Argentine presidency announced it on X, claiming that ‘no government can tell the national team or any other citizen what to say, think or do’

Argentine President Javier Milei fired Sports Undersecretariat Julio Garro on Wednesday following his comments urging Argentine men’s national football team captain Lionel Messi to apologize for the team’s racism incident.

I'm not entirely sure Messi is directly involved in this incident, I can't see him during the live stream from Fernandez. But since he's the captain and main icon of the team, the Secretary thought he should come out and apologize publicly. Which I don't think it's a terrible idea even though it never fixes the underlying issue of racism.

“[We] inform that no government can tell the World Cup and two-time Copa América winning national team or any other citizen what to say, think or do. For this reason, Julio Garro is no longer the Sports Undersecretariat,” confirmed the announcement on the President’s Office X account.

I love when ancaps present themselves as the ultimate freedom champions. People are without food right now, that is the government telling them what to do: starve.

Earlier that day, Garro told radio station Urbana Play that Albiceleste captain Lionel Messi should “offer the appropriate apologies” as the incident “leaves Argentina looking bad as a country.” On Tuesday, a clip went viral of Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernández’s live stream of the team’s bus celebrations following their 2024 Copa América win. Fernández and other players can be heard singing a chant which mocks French players for their African heritage. Fernández later apologized via Instagram, admitting there’s “no excuse for these words” and that he stands “against discrimination in all forms.”

An Interior Ministry spokesperson told the Herald he understood Garro’s comments were personal, rather than institutional, in nature. Garro later rejected the idea he had asked Messi to apologize on his X account. Garro’s position was rejected by President Javier Milei, who retweeted a post on X which claimed that asking for Messi to apologize for the chant went against the president’s ideology.

Garro said this and immediately went on twitter to say he didn't say it lmao. Also milei communicates government decisions by liking tweets from pro-government trolls, which make up an official but irregular spokesperson corps.

Vice President Victoria Villaruel also weighed in on the matter, claiming Argentina “never had colonies or second-class citizens” and “never imposed its way of life on anyone”, and that the government wouldn’t tolerate that being done to Argentina, in reference to the French Football Federation’s announcement that it would sue its Argentine counterpart.

I love the ancap's and fascist's fake ass nationalism. First yes, Argentina had colonies -- the entire Patagonia region was colonized by the Argentine State in the late 1800s. Second, we totally had and still have second-class citizens, the colonized subjects (also known as indios) who still live in reservation-like regions are absolutely second-class citizens. The underclass of Argentinian society, the extremely poor, are also second-class citizens. But at the same time, the government allows for the US to build a military base in it's own soil, allows for foreign companies to pillage Argentina's national resources for the sake of "investments" and continues to ask the IMF for more and more loans.

She went on to add that “Argentina was built on the sweat and courage of the Indians [sic], the Europeans, the Creoles and the Blacks” and issued her support for the national team. Upon the announcement, Garro thanked Milei on his X account and apologized for his comments, claiming that he had put forward his resignation.

This article doesn't mention the other part where milei and his VP weighed in: They said this football chant was "telling the truth" about France. Look, Enzo already apologized and we know that doesn't do anything but the guy is trying to step away from this on his own, then comes the fucking president and says "Yo, don't back down, racism is super cool actually". Insanity.

The song itself is awful, it just attacks black french players for being black and of african descent, even though all but very few of them were born IN FRANCE.. it's just racism for the sake of being racist. And only one player was born in Angola, Eduardo Camavinga, so they picked Angola as the target country just because racism. All it does is reinforces the french right wing narrative that France is a white society, that black french people or french arabs are not truly french and thus not welcome. Trying to pin this on french colonialism while attacking the COLONIZED SUBJECTS THEMSELVES is not the own they think it is, it makes it 100% worse.

I hate it. I hate this fucking boys mentality. Look, it's never women making comments like these, it's always men. ALWAYS.

Milei is set to travel to France soon for the innauguration ceremony of the Olympics in Paris. I hope he gets killed by a mob as he arrives tbh.

Hezbollah ATGM owning a tank. You could see the dude attempting to hide back inside the tank:
https://xcancel.com/MenchOsint/status/1814387651408994734

Keith continues to definitely not run a government that is literally just the security services operating completely in the open

Sir Keir Starmer has appointed one of the UK’s best connected City advisers as his point of contact with corporate executives and international investors, as the new prime minister seeks to deepen his party’s ties with business.

Varun Chandra, the managing partner of Hakluyt, a London-based consultancy founded by former MI6 intelligence officers, will become Downing Street’s special adviser on business and investment, Labour figures said. To take up the post, the 39-year-old has resigned from Hakluyt, which he has led since 2019, and will take a significant pay cut to work for the government

Obama telling Joe to quit will either be the final nail in the coffin or motivate biden to play the spite card and stay in the run

Biden quit. Where is everyone? Did Hexbear quit too or something?

New Deaths of Journalists in Gaza Increase Total Deaths by 160 Reporters Killed

Influenza A+ with subconjunctival hemorrhage & conjunctivitis in Oregon spreading within and between families - no testing, no curiosity.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva about the elections in Venezuela:

'Let them elect the president they want', says Lula about elections in Venezuela. Lula made the statements during a ceremony to announce investments in works on Via Dutra and Rio-Santos.

Why would I want to fight with Venezuela? Why would I want to fight with Nicaragua? Why would I want to fight with Argentina? Let them elect the presidents they want. What interests me is the state-to-state relationship, which what Brazil gains and what Brazil loses in this relationship", added Lula.

Bukele fans are absolutely seething at Trump. He was never popular with them to begin with but his recent comments really made sure they never consider him as an ally to El Salvador.

Trump and Biden have both fumbled Central America pretty hard with the usually submissive region defying them in different ways. We’re still completely beholden to them but the cracks are beginning to show.

Vance: "We have to protect the US from the gays"

What fucking year is it?

Imagine if Biden becomes starting point of second pandemic. What is worse than having covid? Knowing it was originated from a genocidal brain dead

From a Reddit thread:

Woman vs rapist.
PoC vs racist.
Prosecutor vs felon.
Coconut vs orange!

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Okay so it looks like old Joe is dropping out and saving whatever honor he has left. The DNC is surely smarter than just nominating a charisma vacuum like Kamala? Who are other semi-realistic candidates if Kamala declines or gets told to fuck off? Michelle Obama? Old Bernard "Cuck" Sanders? Newsom?

CW: RACISM, SA

The saga continues and Argentina digs itself deeper into the "RACISM IS COOL AND GOOD" trench. Following the incident where football player Enzo Fernandez livestream showed part of the team chanting a racist song against black french players, which then apologized via Instagram (super easy thing to do after all), and the intervention of both milei and his VP, now the absolute icon and star of the libertarian movement, the Deputy Lilia Lemoine, makes her brilliant contribution:

LA NACION: Lilia Lemoine said that France is “a white country” and demonstrated “shock” that its football team is “entirely colored”

The LLA deputy gave her opinion on Enzo Fernández's songs on the national team's bus and celebrated Garro's expulsion; linked football, immigration and political movements such as Brexit.

The scandal over racist and homophobic chants by players of the Argentine national team continued to escalate and ended with the dismissal of the now former Undersecretary of Sports Julio Garro for asking Lionel Messi to apologize to France. The deputy of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Lilia Lemoine referred to this fact and defended the Government's decision to dismiss the official for his statements. “How are you going to ask someone who is almost a national hero to kneel and ask for forgiveness?” she questioned.

In her argument, Lemoine considered it "striking" that the French soccer team was "entirely colored", since - in her opinion - it is "a Western and white country."

This is how she expressed it: “It is true that the French team is entirely black. Although there are a huge number of French people who are of African origin, it is very striking that a country that is Western and white currently has a football team that would rather be from an African country.”

Her comments - erroneous, since France's squad in the recent Euro Cup is multiracial - aim to validate the song that midfielder Enzo Fernández played on an Instagram live after the Copa América final, with phrases like "they play in France but they are all from Angola.” Fernández, questioned by his English club (Chelsea) and by the French Federation, apologized in writing after the video was broadcast.

Lemoine said that due to “massive immigration” phenomena such as Brexit are occurring. “It is a serious issue. There is something underlying that explodes on the football side,” he said.

In dialogue with TN, the national legislator assured that Argentines “are not racist people,” but that the folklore of national football has questionable points. “Argentines and football never behaved very correctly. Let us remember that during [Diego] Maradona's funeral the fans took over the Casa Rosada," he highlighted and noted: "To think that an Argentinian is going to be rational while playing football or giving his opinion about football is crazy, it is not going to happen."

Kinda wild how these responses come from the freedom-loving libertarians lmao. Straight up fascists.

They're anti-europe when they see black people, they're not anti-europe their elites come charging at us with the IMF or mining companies, for example.

And who is this piece of shit you ask? Well, Lemoine is a 40 years old anime cosplayer who believes that the Earth is flat, we've never been to the moon and some whacky shit about abortion. She's also in charge of some scientific committee or something like that. She's big in the cosplaying circles, she managed like a group of cosplayers (or still does, I dunno). I personally know someone who worked in the cosplaying industry and told me she's a massive piece of shit, always covering men accussed of sexually abusing female cosplayers.

She once lost a cosplaying competition to a 11 years old girl and then threw a tantrum, sending her fans to harass her and her family online for this.

It becomes necessary to separate her head from the rest of her body. French style, even. There's no redemption for people like these, nada.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? I WAS ASLEEP FOR THIS