This reminds me of the time Putin stole a Super Bowl ring. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-how-vladimir-putin-stole-a-super-bowl-ring-from-the-patriots-robert-kraft/
Given his adoration for Putin this explains alot.
Václav Klaus stealing a pen from the Chilean president.
I was thinking exactly the same thing
just like putin and trump
He's the biggest baby in history. Someone else getting anything makes him angry, so he steals it. He's the ultimate child who blows out someone else's birthday candles.
His cult worships a petulant child and it's all projection.
I also saw a video where the players were complaining that he would not leave the stage so they could celebrate. It took some doing to push him to the back.
Wait. This is not the onion?
The uber (edit: eldritch?) baby boomer steals his literal participation trophy, to make everything all about him, while angrily rejecting all criticism and calls for accountability for his many crimes.
He really is the perfect boomer.
Mar-a-lago is on track to become the next Versailles. When he hoards enough, the people will go in and reclaim it.
It already basically IS the next Versailles. Versailles was built as a huge, ostentatious show of wealth and power over the aristocracy, so Louis XIV could show that he held all the power. By making all these fancy nobles drag their asses out to the middle of nowhere (at the time - the city effectively grew up to support the palace) and stay there for weeks or months at a time, often without proper accommodations (quite literally you would set up camp in the gardens or wherever you thought you could get away with it - if you stayed in the palace proper, you were quite high in status), you flexed serious power over them, especially when they felt they NEEDED to attend all these balls and galas and symposiums and concerts that were constantly happening there so you could stay in the King's favor.
Any of this sounding familiar?
https://www.cadtm.org/The-evolution-of-wealth-inequalities-over-the-last-two-centuries
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/equality/pdf/F4.pdf
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-1s-share-of-u-s-wealth-over-time-1989-2024/
Wealth held by top 1%:
Pre-Revolutionary France; ~60%
Current Day USA; ~31%
Wealth held by bottom 50%:
Pre-Revolutionary France; ~3%
Current Day USA; ~2%
...
Now you may notice that modern day US doesn't seem as bad as Versaille, the ratio isn't as bad, right?
Well...
A lot of that bottom 50% has negative net wealth. They are 'underwater' on not their house, but their entire life.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2023/demo/p70br-183.pdf
From the 2021 Census, that's estimated at about 10%, or 1/5 of that bottom 50%.
So that means the bottom 10% have negative net wealth, the next 40% have some positive number (zero is a postive number rofl), and all that amalgamates to just a bit over 2%.
... and uh, now the entire economy is crashing so hard that net wealth, overall, broadly, is falling.
(ignore the editorializing, just sourcing the data)
Oh right, and every now has to pay back their student loans, and food stamps are getting cut to the bone, and no more medicare, and massive cuts to Section 8.
So basically, that bottom 10%?
Homeless, dead, extremely literal debt slave of some kind, or imprisoned for crimes due to trying to not die while also having no money, something like that.
Its possible by the end of this year, end of next year, that 50% bottom overall wealth figure for the US could be around or under 1%... from the poor accumulating cost and debts, and the wealthy seeing their stock portfolios 'melt up', as the dollar falls against other currencies further than the ~10% its already fallen halfway through 2025.
Then we have the Versaille ratio.
Stole himself a participation trophy
Is this another thing he did to distract from the Epstein files?
He’s not that clever. He just likes keeping shiny gold things.
it's all distractions from other distractions.
how is that bumbling fool get to exist doing endless cockups and somehow ending on top
If you are always doing things that need distractions and are distractions it's just one big lul amirite?
Trump: "I love goooooooooold!"
"Shmoke and a pancake?"
Daily Beast in world news....
I had no idea the company that made 24 identical video games interacted with presidents
This person thinks the FIFA organization operates a video game development studio.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known by its acronym FIFA, is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.
FIFA is a defunct football simulation video game franchise developed by EA Vancouver and EA Romania and published by EA Sports.
A community for discussing events around the World
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/