Bill Gates won’t like this

One of the most idiotic bits of news to come from the house of Krasnov in the last few days was this:

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to revert to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken’s decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move, according to a leaked internal cable.
The department switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, in January 2023, saying it was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did not have decorative angular features and was at the time the default in Microsoft products.
Some scientific studies have suggested that sans-serif fonts such as Calibri are indeed easier to read for those with certain visual disabilities.
However, a cable dated December 9 that was sent to all US diplomatic posts said that typography shaped the professionalism of an official document and that Calibri was informal compared to serif typefaces.
“To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface,” the cable said.

I have no idea whether Calibri is in fact easier to read, but evidently the mere possibility that it might be easier to read for some people with certain reading issues is enough for the regime to cancel it, because fuck people being to read, apparently. Informal? I mean, it’s not fucking Comic Sans, is it…

Anyway, for some reason I then found myself looking up Calibri on Google…

…and, hilariously, when I did so the whole search page appears in Calibri. I presume this is something they’ve just done for the occasion of this news (cos it’d be a slightly silly thing to do on the regular), but they also don’t seem to have announced they’d done it. I kind of like that as much as anything…

Piers Morgan gets it right again?

This actually happened. I didn’t watch the whole interview Piers did with Hispano Hitler, but I did watch this clip of it that was attached to this post (which I saw on Bluesky) and… well, yeah, that’s a somewhat simplified transcript but that is how the conversation in the clip went, essentially. And Nickzi looked so uncomfortable and so just comprehensively owned by Piers throughout. I don’t know how the rest of the thing went, but however Fuentes and his cult tried to spin it afterwards he still lost completely just for this. And, as a bonus, in the ensuing Twatter discourse Piers also got in a shot at Andrew Taint when the latter chimed in:

In weirdly unsurprising news…

Uproar as DOJ moves to drop FIFA corruption case week after Trump gets org’s ‘peace prize’

Political analysts dragged President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on Wednesday after it moved to drop a corruption case against a former Fox executive who was convicted of bribery and money laundering charges.
The DOJ moved to drop its conviction of Hernán López, a former Fox executive who oversaw the network’s Latin American sports broadcasting business, who had been convicted of multiple crimes related to the FIFA corruption investigation that began in 2010. López was involved in a scheme to funnel millions of dollars to the heads of the international soccer organization in exchange for the rights to broadcast the World Cup and multiple high-profile tournaments in South America. He was convicted alongside a marketing company he worked with, Full Play Sports, in 2023, The New York Times reported.
Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York wrote a letter to a federal judge arguing that dismissing López’s case was “in the interest of justice,” according to the NYT.
It was announced just days after FIFA gave the president its inaugural “peace prize.”

I feel like in an actually functional country, this sort of overt and blatant and unabashed bribery would’ve landed the participants in jail overnight without even needing a trial to find them guilty, but the former United States is not a functional country, so. Cos Mushroom Cock is not a man who’s ever going to turn down a “gift”, let’s face it, and the cult isn’t going to stop him…

Yay?

Cheryl Hines says Robert F Kennedy Jr won’t run for president in 2028

The actor Cheryl Hines has said she does not believe her husband, Robert F Kennedy Jr, will run for the White House after Donald Trump’s presidency.
Hines was asked by Elizabeth Vargas, a NewsNation anchor, on Monday, “Is your husband going to run for president in 2028? And, if so, are you ready for that?”
“Gosh, he’s not going to run for president,” Hines replied, though she subsequently conceded that Kennedy at one point “didn’t think he was going to go into politics – and the next thing you know he’s telling me he wants to run”.

I mean, obviously he wants to run, cos he did run last year, lest we forget; he wanted to be the Democrat candidate, then went independent until Mushroom Cock managed to buy whatever’s left of his worm-eaten soul:

Kennedy endorsed Trump, a Republican, on 23 August 2024, defecting from the party to which his father – Robert F Kennedy, a former US senator – and uncle, John F Kennedy, belonged before their assassinations in the 1960s.
“We are aligned on many key issues,” Kennedy said at the time of Trump, whom he had once previously referred to as a “a terrible president”.

I’ve no doubt one of those key issues is the amount of money Kennedy was promised to drop out and be Trump’s HHS guy instead. Anyway, I see no reason why he couldn’t be president given how the incumbent keeps getting away with it, and he wouldn’t be any more unqualified for that position than he already is for his current one…

Charming

Israel’s Ben Gvir wears noose pendant as he pushes death penalty bill for Palestinians

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, was pictured in parliament on Monday wearing a noose pendant on his lapel, as he continues to push for Palestinian prisoners to be handed the death penalty.
Posting on X, Ben Gvir boasted about wearing the icon, along with other members of his Otzma Yehudit party, in support of legislation currently passing through the parliament.
“I and the members of my Otzma Yehudit faction arrived today at the National Security Committee discussions to continue advancing the death penalty for terrorists, while wearing a pin in the shape of a hangman’s noose – as a symbol of our commitment to passing the law and as a clear message that terrorists are sons of death,” he wrote.
“The time has come for the death penalty for terrorists!”
The bill was approved by a majority of 39 out of 120 Knesset members, with 16 voting against in Israel’s parliament.
It would allow judges to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis on so-called “nationalistic” grounds.
The legislation would not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.

No, of course not, and I’m only surprised this cunt isn’t also pushing for bounties on Palestinians or some other reward for Isarelis killing them… Also, frankly, I don’t know how the Knesset operates and mathematics has never been my strong suit, but I’m damned if I can work out not even a third of the membership of it constitutes a “majority” of any kind. Interestingly, the article also notes that Israel has the death penalty already, but the only time they’ve ever used it was against Adolf Eichmann; evidently that’s not enough for some. But let’s face it, Israel has been deploying the death penalty against Palestinians since October 2023 for the crime of, you know, being Palestinian… which, again, obviously not enough for some. Sigh.