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January 20, 2017

Despite all the hooey about the election, Dan Larimer won the election because every Steemian, their dog, their brother, sister, second cousin, and old highschool friends wrote him in.

It turned out all this time he'd been hiding from everyone that he is in fact the second coming of Jesus, and so, you can see here in the picture, he has a halo and that's a lightning bolt getting ready to leap from his hands and smite all the evil crony journalists who rejected his call to join Steem and be saved.

They all were evaporated into Steem, and God's voice boomed throughout the press hall, "I approve".

Here is the transcript from his speech:

My fellow Steemians, thank you all for your faith in Me.

We have defeated the evil cronies and their murderous crony weapons companies, the global banking cartel, and media manipulation companies, and now, you all are free.

I have been consulting with my advisors, and we have officially set fire to the Constitution, and I have brought back the old tablets, I told my official archaeologists where to find the original tablets from Moses, and it now stands where the original official constitution was. The statue of Lincoln has been removed, as has the Statue of Liberty, replaced now by a giant Whale sculpture, built by RepRap robots with frickin lasers and hydrogen torches and tungsten manipulators. That filthy egyptian obelisk has been demolished and the pieces were re-assembled into a replica of the original Tabernacle, where you all are free to pray to the real God. If you want. Whether you want to or not is your business.

In fact, Washington is now not anymore the capital of anything. There is no more United States of America, and I have disbanded every federal agency, liquidated all their assets, and converted them to Steem, and every Steemian has now been paid a share in accordance with their Steem Power, as a gesture of appreciation.

All the weapons of the US army have been distributed also according to market value to all existing Steem users' Steem Power, and all the computers of the whole military, NSA, FBI, and so on, have been turned into Witnesses, and their newly mined Steem will be distributed henceforth as an addition to your Steem Power.

If you have not signed up to join Steem Inc, for the first 5 billion next signups, there will be a random amount of Steem Power between 100 and 100,000,000 Steem in your initial account balance. If you are concerned about the fairness of the distribution, the process of random number generation is audited by the 19 official Witnesses, who will certify that our servers are not cheating.

We do not any longer have citizenship, but a Steem account is mandatory for all who visit all cooperating territories in the former USA. Thanks to my magic powers, all the bad guys have been caused to become completely insane babbling drooling morons, in the whole world. Consequently, there is no more national borders anywhere, and after we finish this inauguration announcement, the building shall also be turned into Steem, using frickin lasers, and other excellent new technologies that I revealed to the clever people, and, in fact, I am now only the king because you all wanted me so bad to use my powers to remove all this evilness from the world.

Well, from here on, it's up to you. Please vote for my Witness, and thankyou and good night.

And everyone lived happily ever after...

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We can't stop here! This is Whale country!

Loki was born in Australia, now lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. IT generalist, physics theorist, futurist and cyber-agorist. Loki's life mission is to establish a secure, distributed layer atop the internet, and enable space migration.

I'm a thoughtocaster, a conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler. I've flipped more lids than a monkey in a soup kitchen, of the mind. - Xavier, Renegade Angel

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In this post, I have taken a snap from a video of a presentation that Dan did that I found on youtube (unfortunately, a bit low resolution), where he had strong backlight, I added a halo and glow around his hands, and I have re-edited it since first posting to apply a noise burn mask over the entire image, sharpened Dan's image up, cleaned up the composition artifacts a bit more, and then decided he should have a whole-body glow, so that was added too.

It's not quite perfect but I think I am going to do tutorials on how to do a good image matte like this. I learned how to do this back in 2001 and then a couple years later did also a course in which I had a big unit on photoshop. I used the Gimp, of course. Open Source FTW :)