Brickbat: Welcome to the Family

President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan has imprisoned Aftandil Sabyrbekov, his niece's fiancé, on drug charges, after Sabyrbekov arranged an "embarrassingly ostentatious" marriage proposal and refused to apologize. Sabyrbekov and Japarov's niece videotaped themselves flying to a mountain location in a Kyrgyz Emergencies Ministry helicopter as deadly mudslides hit the south of the country. Japarov said Sabyrbekov did not really love his niece and only wanted to use her connections "to protect himself and to hide his illegal activities."
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...only wanted to use her connections "to protect himself and to hide his illegal activities."
And we can't have abuses of power in the Japarov administration.
Hunter Biden takes notes.
So does Kamala and other Democrats.
Vance jots this down in his book of more weird things to try.
I’m just thrilled that, with all the forced diversity and regio-/ethnodistortionalism in modern Hollywood, Reason continues to stick with its principled “Whites Only” stock photo policy.
Edit: I mean FFS.
Agreed. Part of the complaint was that it was over the top, ostentatious, and on social media. So why not just grab the pictures they posted themselves?
That was NOTHING, and Our Dear Emperor MUST keep up with the Joneses!!! Wait till ye see Our Dear Emperor's engagement ceremonies when He proposes to Spermy Daniels!!!
Kyrgyzstan. Now that's a shithole country.
Even Borat and the Khazakstanis laugh at them
What a country! What a family!
Here's another example of a bad situation that can be remedied by the Atlas Shrugged Amendment: "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."
Without the prohibition laws manufacturing crimes in efforts to ban enjoyable drugs, the young man is freed of the albatross of a fake criminal background. Also ended is the feudalist class-ridden society such coercive meddling engenders. "Boy meets girl," then "girl ropes boy." That's a happy ending compared to "mob lynches boy."
They used a Kyrgyz Emergencies Ministry helicopter during an emergency? Tie the guy up and let everyone who had to wait for a rescue helicopter take one free whack with their choice of blunt objects.