I was too lazy to do the math myself, so I asked Copilot. Apparently it is plausible that Comey made a 9/11 reference. But wouldn't this be one weird ass way to reference that day? Who the hell randomly looks up the number of days since that tragedy?
If it ended up being some rounded number I'd understand. Like "hey, guess what, it's been over 9000 days since thousands of people died". That I'd understand. This... I'm more inclined to believe a conspiracy theory that he waited until 8647 days passed since a notable incident, so he could have an alibi.

Democrats: mom, can we have Africans?
Mom: no, we have Africans at home.

Africans at home:

Imagine calling Dave Rubin a fascist... the guy is barely able to make belief being "conservative" (and I know I'm gonna get flack for being this generous with him already), and you think he's a fascist? Are you insane? Well, of course you are. You have "anarchist" in your bio.

I rate this 5 out of 10.

Why are you like this?

I present to you, the Romanian equivalent of an ahegao shirt. I actually saw a guy wearing one of these the other day. I think I would have cringed less if it actually were an anime shirt.

romanian politics 

I decided against posting this earlier, cause I thought it was kind cringe. But I changed my mind, cause I'm a bit pissed off by EU right now, so I'm gonna rant probably.

These are the results from the first round of presidential election do-over.

The guy in the first place is the "sovereign" "far-right" candidate, that took up the mantle of the banned candidate Călin Georgescu. AUR is a newish party, with a reputation of being loud and obnoxious. Not particularly bright either. George Simion is quite a fitting leader for them.

2nd and 3rd places are the pro-EU candidates.
Nicușor Dan ran as independent, although he was given support by the USR party (who basically back stabbed their own representative and party leader, Elena Lasconi, which came in 5th). He also used to be head of USR party, but they broke up at some point, don't really know.
The party itself is considered the "progressive" one, though they're kinda viewed as anti-establishment here, and they're not as well entrenched with the Bruxelles crowed as...

Crin Antonescu is the representative for the alliance of the old guard, the establishment, the main political parties with which EU is used to deal with here: PSD, PNL, and UDMR. UDMR is a minority party, of magyars (Hungarian minority), so it's not that big, but PSD (left-wing) and PNL (center-right... supposedly) are the big guns. They're the Tories and Labour of Romanian politics. And they've been eliminated from going in the second round.

However the second round goes, it really isn't what EU would have hoped for.
But for now, my bet is that they're gonna get the worst outcome for them. You see, I skipped talking about the 4th placed guy, Victor Ponta. The guy is a joke these days, but he ran on a similar platform to the #1 guy, George Simion. Which means... in round 2, most of his voters are expected to go to Simion. If you add the votes together, that's up to 5 million votes, or 53% of the total votes...

Not only has the pro-EU side been trounced, but the "sovereign" vote has actually increased since the cancelled 2024 election, when this camp had "only" 3.4 million votes.

Back in December, the pro-EU side still had a reasonable shot at banding together, uniting their forces and winning the 2nd round fair and square. Now they are severely fucked.

They can try to cancel these elections again... there's been a bit of mass media prodding to see how people would react to it. But there's nothing they can reasonably do that won't backfire immensely.

Right now, they may very well try to outright tamper with ballots and steal the election in the 2nd round. It has happened before, and even USR has been a part before of covering up some shitty business at local election level. But with this result, and with an even more disproportionate support of Simion in our diaspora (where they voted 60% in favor of him), it would be a figurative bloodbath if anyone even smells fraud.

This will be two interesting weeks for us.

You wouldn't steal an Amulet of Kings

Imagine how broken this movie has to be for it to end up being funny in German of all languages.
Cause everyone obviously knows Germans for their joyful humor. /s

Man... was I ever lucky watching the vod just in time. Also, fuck Sony so fucking hard.

I just realized that people who are old enough to vote might have no idea who Steve Irwin is... damn...

I randomly got curious if any vtuber had their "birthday" during... this year's Easter... Now I'm wondering if any of these people know...

Give me one good reason why they couldn't have hired her for Snow White.

Highly trained professional!

I'm in utter disbelief... A Romanian grandma apparently read and reviewed Attack on Titans. The channel's name is literally "Grandma's reviews". It seems she's been reading all kinds of books. GRR Martin, Tolkien, Frank Herbert... some of the biggest names.

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