[JPost] President Sponge-Brain ShitsPants is likely taking notes
Six journalists in South Sudan have been detained over the circulation of footage showing President Salva Kiir appearing to wet himself at an official event, the national journalists union said on Saturday.
The footage from December showed a dark stain spread down the 71-year-old president's grey trousers as he stood for the national anthem at a road commissioning event. The video never aired on television but subsequently circulated on social media.
What happened?
The journalists, who work with the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation, were detained on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Patrick Oyet, president of the South Sudan Union of Journalists.
South Sudan president wetting himself live on TV 6 journalists have been arrested for sharing the video Standing for the national anthem while opening a new road last week, Kiir, 71, seemed at first unaware of what was happening. After a pool formed at his feet. pic.twitter.com/wcvwxUeIjc
They "are suspected of having knowledge on how the video of the president urinating himself came out," he told Reuters. South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei and National Security Service spokesperson David Kumuri did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Kiir has been president since South Sudan gained independence in 2011. Government officials have repeatedly denied rumors circulating on social media that he is unwell. The country has been embroiled in conflict for much of the past decade.
The detained journalists are camera operators Joseph Oliver and Mustafa Osman; video editor Victor Lado; contributor Jacob Benjamin; and Cherbek Ruben and Joval Toombe from the control room, Oyet said. "We are concerned because those who are detained now have stayed longer than what the law says," he added.
By law, South Sudanese authorities are allowed to detain suspects for only 24 hours before bringing them before a judge. The incident "matches a pattern of security personnel resorting to arbitrary detention whenever officials deem coverage unfavorable," said the sub-Saharan Africa representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists, Muthoki Mumo.
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Slow Joe always has a podium to hide this potentiality.
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01/08/2023 10:22 Comments ||
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Joe more goes in for messing his drawers in back.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/08/2023 10:29 Comments ||
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I could do 24 standing on my head to provide the world with a Depends advertisement at the presidential level.
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01/08/2023 10:30 Comments ||
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I wonder if President Kiir will hop into the shower with his daughter.
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"The State Department confirmed on Wednesday that the United States no longer recognizes Juan Guaidó as the legal president of Venezuela, the result of the country’s socialist-led “opposition” stripping Guaidó of the title."
Gee, I wonder what the Biden admin would do if a "right wing-led "opposition"" had done the deed?
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01/08/2023 9:26 Comments ||
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You can’t really send billions of dollars to Maduro if you don’t recognize him. We are starting a parasite collection for the purpose of taking money laundering to the next level.
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01/08/2023 10:54 Comments ||
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The new party line will be to call this old news instead of Russian disinformation. It is a shell game like the , too early, too late and standing scam run by corrupt judiciary.
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Homeless camps in El Paso are bulldozed ahead of Biden visit.
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It is possible that he was working for Pelosi or Trump’s other enemies. He may have been working for them through a foreign government. There is enough tape of him to charge him with treason, regardless. Not charging him while jailing others becomes impeachable for DOJ folks under equal protection standards. He would have been asked who he was working by any reputable Congressional Committee, one with bi-partisan representation.
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#5
The 6 Jan committee asked Epps a question they already knew the answer to. He provided the approved response.
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