BREAKING: Prince Philip has expired at 99

Queen Elizabeth will begin eight days of mourning following the death of Prince Philip. The royal family announced the death of the Duke of Edinburg on Friday in a statement. They were married for 73 years. 

Prince Philip was 99.

"It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle," the statement reads.

The British royal family said that it joins "people around the world in mourning his loss," noting that additional announcements will be forthcoming.

The 94-year-old reigning monarch will now halt royal duties. Affairs of state have also been paused and no laws will be given royal assent.

Additional periods of royal mourning are expected to continue following the first eight days. The United Kingdom is expected to go into a period of 10 days of mourning, and the British royal household is expected to extend its period for 30 days.

The royal family is expected to wear the traditional black or at least dark clothing during this time. Once the funeral wraps up, the queen is expected to continue mourning in private while carrying out the royal duties privately.

The announcement of Philip's passing was placed upon the Buckingham Palace gates on Friday but will likely be removed sometime later in the day as per COVID-19 restrictions that prohibits untested paper to be placed upon gates and doors within the community in spite of recent data suggesting that the virus cannot be spread easily through contact with inanimate objects such as paper and gates.

The Duke of Edinburgh had been admitted to a London hospital on February 16th as he was feeling out of sorts. On March 3rd, he underwent a procedure for a heart condition at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and was later transferred back to King Edward VII Hospital two days later. 

Finally, he was released home on March 16th but is now dead as of Friday, April 9th.

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Trump aide Stephen Miller vs. CNN's Jim Acosta

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller went back a CNN's Jim Acosta citing his "cosmopolitan bias" during a heated debate (as opposed to a press conference interchange) in the briefing room. It had to do with President Trump's call to revamp legal immigration.

Acosta accosted Miller over the Trump-backed proposal favoring immigrants who speak English, like Canadians do with English or French and other countries do with their official language. How racist of Trump.

"What you're proposing--or what the president is proposing--here does not sound like it's in keeping with American tradition when it comes to immigration," Acosta told Miller, referencing the legislation POTUS endorsed earlier Wednesday.

The Crappy News Network "correspondent" cited a quotation on the Statue of Liberty:

"The Statue of Liberty says, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free' [it says in English]. It doesn't say anything about speaking English, or being . . . a computer programmer [Acosta probably doesn't realize there were no computer programmers in 1886 when France gifted us the Statue of Liberty]. Aren't you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you're telling you have to speak English? Can't people learn how to speak English when they get here?"

Miller came right back at the idiot fake news "reporter":

"Well first of all, right now, it's a requirement that to be naturalized, you have to speak English. So the notion that speaking Engish wouldn't be part of our immigration system would be very ahistorical."

Acosta kept on criticizing the idea of favoring immigrants who already know English:

"This whole notion . . . that they have to learn English before they get to the United States, are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?"

Which is exactly when Miller got the best of the libtard:

"I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English. It reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree.

"This is an amazing moment, this is an amazing moment. That you think only people from Great Britain and Australia would speak English is so insulting to millions of hard-working immigrants who do speak English from all over the world." 

But Miller wasn't finished with the idiot:

"Jim, have you honestly never met an immigrant from another country who speaks English from outside of Great Britain and Australia? Is that your personal experience?"

Making fun of Acosta

Miller is Trump's policy adviser and speechwriter. He has been actively involved in crafting the immigration policies of the Trump administration. 

As Miller left the podium, he said, "I apologize Jim if things got heated, but you did make some pretty rough insinuations."

Acosta stifled a whimper, wiped away a droplet of water below his left eye and looked at the ground as his shoulders shook uncontrollably.

The good news is that nothing much has changed--CNN remains the leader in fake news, Wolf Blitzer still cannot finish a sentence without taking a deep breath, and Jim Acosta still sucks.

This wasn't a press conference--it was a debate between CNN and someone a lot smarter.


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