if any country is going to upstage the event, it will likely be Japan, whose preferred assassination method is wacky game shows.
Maybe it's slightly obscure, but first thing that came to mind was that this is an
reference. I never got into Japanese game shows though, so I guess there's a more generic reference I'm missing.spoiler
Ergo Proxy
Last I heard, at the time he was fired, he was still trying to use DOGE to extort aid-dependent countries into signing up for Starlink. Seems to me he had a lot more damage he was planning to do.
Just pointing out Trump is obviously busier golfing than he is with this. There's nothing to be gleeful about here.
The point, like much of the rest of what he does, is to distract the media from focusing on (and especially investigating) matters of more importance (or things that embarrass him, like TACO trading). He's still using the position the most misguided &/or authoritarian-loving voters entrusted him with to enrich himself and feed his ego, as always.
It's worse than a simple joke to make fun of though, unfortunately. Their leaders just go ahead and announce themselves as literal "apostles." And they mean it, that's not in a figurative sense. They're like the answer to a question no one asked about what it would be like if instead of one charismatic cult leader, you had a collection of megalomaniacs who want to take over the world. It should be a designated terrorist group.
Or they're generating buzz for a private investment scam where they can take the money and run.
Early yesterday, I heard someone talk about how they were going to watch "Tudum" live. Now there are loads of reactions to this out there. Must have been sometime during May 31st (for North and South American time zones).
And immediately this worst case scenario comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGjj7wDYaiI
*edit to add:
vid title: "I Live 400 Yards From Mark Zuckerberg’s Massive Data Center"
length: 13:33
It works for politicians who do the usual sleight-of-hand around "fiscal responsibility," and for the eventual shareholders.
Comfy, smooth, and fast like the shinkansen. 🤩
Indeed, but since Western media is ignoring it, we should all be exposing and talking more about Kahanism. That's probably the most accurate term we can use for the Israel-rooted supremacist viewpoint that so directly resembles nazism. It's a term genocide apologists and enablers can't so easily ignore or flip back or play down as they can with "nazi." There is obviously a longer history to it all, but people of conscience around the world should specifically know who Meir Kahane was and how-- despite being labelled as a terrorist even in Israel and the US-- his extremist legacy (this was a guy who literally taught people Hitler was right except that Jewish people were supposed to be seen as "masculine" and superior) lived on in the current sadistic attitudes and genocidal policies of the IDF, Knesset, and most of Israel's citizenry.
Wtf on the video. Normally I want to believe a victim, but this is the Official Opposition Leader speaking publicly, on camera. Is he really just that vulnerable somehow, or is this a cynical attempt to make political hay out of alluding to what has been said of Kinew's past? I'm genuinely suspicious of everyone here.
The report had some context but more is needed. What concerns do the PCs have about current legislation if they're so dead set on delaying it they want to keep MLAs there late? I've been thinking over the last while, the nation's premiers were probably acting so giddy about ~~inter-trade~~ inter-provincial trade barrier removal and/or "nation-building" because they can later campaign on how great they were to be a part of it. In that light, I can't help feeling at least some of the nation's Opposition parties might want to throw a wrench in the works.
*edited to fix a missing word