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Arrr! Captain Joseph Aoun takes the helm as President, fillin' a two-year gap like a scallywag at a tavern!

2025-01-09

Arrr, on the ninth day of January, the scallywags of Lebanon’s parliament hoisted Captain Joseph Aoun as their head honcho, fillin’ a two-year-long dry dock of leadership! Just after a shaky truce with them pesky Israel sea dogs, the leaders be beggin’ for gold to rebuild! Aoun's no kin to the old admiral, savvy?

Avast ye scallywags! Gather 'round as I regale ye with the tale of Lebanon's grand parliament, which, on the ninth day of January, did cast their votes to hoist the flag of one Captain Joseph Aoun as their new head of state! Aye, 'tis true, after more than two years adrift in a yeasty presidential vacuum, they finally found a leader worthy of the ship!

This momentous vote came on the heels of a shaky ceasefire ‘twixt the fierce Israel and the rambunctious crew of Hezbollah, marking the end of a ruckus that lasted a full fourteen moons. Now, as the dust settles and the cannon smoke clears, the leaders of Lebanon be seekin' some mighty assistance from foreign lands to patch up their battered shores.

Now, let it be known, Captain Aoun be no kin to the former captain, Michel Aoun—no siree! He be a man of his own making, and the scuttlebutt be that the good ol' U.S. of A. had a finger in the pie, preferin’ this lad as their chosen one. So, raise a tankard to Captain Joseph Aoun, may he steer the ship of state through these stormy seas ahead!

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