Milo Plays "Gotcha" With Trump, Wins Round One

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Guess Who’s Trolling for Dinner

Milo Yiannopoulos is hard to pin down. Two weeks ago, I listened to his one-to-one interview on the Tim Pool podcast — just before his appearance on Pool’s show with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes. In that interview—Milo couldn’t be any more pro-Trump based on how much praise he lavished on the 45th President. He made a case that DeSantis should not even think of running against Trump—DeSantis would lose badly based on the charisma factor. After following Milo for a year on Telegram, he seems to be getting his personal life together. His newly found Catholic faith brought some much-needed humility into his life. But this recent stunt he pulled on Trump—getting Ye to meet Trump for dinner and smuggling Nick Fuentes into Mar-a-Lago uninvited strikes me as a self-serving “gotcha” setup. Ye was in on it, but Milo appears to be the mastermind: “I wanted to show Trump the kind of talent that he’s missing out on by allowing his terrible handlers to dictate who he can and can’t hang out with,” Yiannopoulos told NBC News. “I also wanted to send a message to Trump that he has systematically repeatedly neglected, ignored, abused the people who love him the most, the people who put him in office, and that kind of behavior comes back to bite you in the end,” he added. And, Yiannopoulos said, he arranged the dinner “just to make Trump’s life miserable” because news of the dinner would leak and Trump would mishandle it. (Source) Some consider Milo a grifter. Pulling a trick like this on your alleged political hero makes me step and reconsider who Milo is and what he stands for—if anything other than himself.

Did you enjoy that free meal at Mar-a-Lago, guys?

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What’s That Weird Thing on Elon’s Bedside Table?

On November 28, Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted a photo of his bedside table.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

My bedside table

We can clearly see several Diet Coke cans (really, Elon? You drink that stuff? Have you not read about the dangers of aspartame?) A musket. A handgun. A wooden box with a patriotic image inside. But what is this?

Here is a close up:

🎄Rooster the Tinsel Slut🎄 @Smiling_Fenrir

@elonmusk What is this?

Elon did not reply to this tweet.

The object appears to be a Vajra - a five-pronged ritual object extensively employed in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies. According to the online encyclopedia Britannica: “Vajra, in Sanskrit, has both the meanings of “thunderbolt” and “diamond.” Like the thunderbolt, the vajra cleaves through ignorance. The thunderbolt was originally the symbol of the Hindu rain god Indra (who became the Buddhist Śakra) and was employed by the 8th-century Tantric (esoteric) master Padmasambhava to conquer the non-Buddhist deities of Tibet. Like the diamond, the vajra destroys but is itself indestructible and is thus likened to śūnya (the all-inclusive void). The vajra is fashioned out of brass or bronze, the four prongs at each end curving around the central fifth to form a lotus-bud shape. A nine-pronged vajra is less commonly used.

Some on social media quickly claimed this object was tied to satanism—but there does not appear to be a direct link.

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