And if you think “feckless” is a candid broadside on the current administration’s response, you should have heard what Bolton’s straight-talking mustache, Regis, had to say. Before downing three fingers of Johnny Walker Black and banging a pair of fetching red-headed sisters from the UN secretarial pool. F-words were involved, but “feckless” was the least of them.
Elections have consequences. Only as a country, we’re only now starting to figure that out en mass.
When the Suez Canal is choked closed, along with the free-flow of sweet light crude, some will recall DRILL BABY DRILL! and despair of CHANGE.
Drill? We can’t even mine coal anymore.
Let them eat arugula.
Reaganite Republican has another video of Bolton discussing this on a Fox news segment.
The kings and dictators over there are loosing their shit. Abdullah (or whatever his stupid name is- the one Barry curtsied to) put on a shiny robe, went on Saudi tv, and threw a spittle-flecked fit over Egypt.
This is one of those times I’m glad Obama is an incompetent poser. Though I wish he’d shut up with his, “Remember my Cairo speech?”, I told you so’s. No matter what, it has to be about him. Sigh. Just let the grown ups talk. I think with Egypt we’re actually much better off with the devil we know. I sincerely hope the well respected, former intel chief Mubarak just tapped as VP gets the nod to run the country. If not? You know good and damn well, after the dust settles, we’re gettin’ the Muslim Brotherhood running the show. Goodbye peace treaty with Israel. Hello 1,000% increase in weps and fighters into Gaza. Just look at the smile on Iran’s face right now.
In any case, none of this ends well for the West.
Like ser8d said. Get ready for $150/ barrel. I may actually go by a fucking Chevy Volt.
Jimmy Carter with a tan, and a bigger fucking ego. And the media carries water for this flop.
well that didn’t take long:
Chris Matthews Blames Egypt Riots on George W. Bush and Iraq War
Beyond Suez, there’s also the SUMED pipeline to consider.
Matthews gobbles Obama cock. It’s sad to watch.
Bush responsible for high unemployment and $25 loaves of bread in Egypt? How?
Our own country is going to fail if we don’t root out the hard leftism, is the lesson here. I’ve learned it. You?
Short little overview.
Chris Matthews Blames Egypt Riots on George W. Bush and Iraq War
Someone print this out, stuff it in a sock with three rolls of quarters, find Chris Matthews, and beat him about the head and neck with the sock.
I’d do it but I’m on parole.
A few of Ledeen’s thoughts on the subject: Revolution by Whom? For What?
Matthews is using the same line as progressives elsewhere.
And there’s that Piven driven secret stash again too.
People have been buying broadly, btw. Across instruments (futures, etfs, call options) and time (playing all expiries). The bulls have the field.
Okay, enough of that. Just been on my plate for a couple days so I thought I’d mention it.
Across instruments (futures, etfs, call options) and time (playing all expiries). The bulls have the field.
Heh.
If the left/media was always gonna claim it as fact anyway, maybe we should have just gone ahead and stole Iraq’s oil.
Should we characterize why they’re buying bh, for instance as an anticipation of events driving prices (higher, in this case, though I suppose they don’t care so much about the direction as about their certainty of the casual connection)? As opposed say, to an expectation of better economic times in general, where production will improve and the like, due to increasing freedom of action for instance. Or is that going too far?
Is the Egyptian situation local or is there some connection to the impending split in Sudan?
if you want to find all the cops they’re hanging out in the donut shop I think
I’d characterize it as a bet that prices will increase. Heh.
Definitely event driven. We’re looking at supply concerns.
ay oh whey oh/
ay oh whey oh
Bambi will get his $5 per gallon gasoline soon enough. Lucky him.
also check the falafel stand
Heh, and then he’ll get to figure out why he really didn’t want it in the first place. Silly Barry,
tricks are for kidsgoverning is for adults.how interesting:
link
Mubarak is shitting his pants
the cowardly Saudi king is scared scared scared
it’s fear what’s in the driver’s seat in the middle east
but mostly I think for right now the takeaway is that America’s own piece of shit cocksucker coward president probably should have thought a little more deeply before destroying domestic oil exploration and production
Odds Barry dips into the SPR in an attempt to save his own ass before this is all over? Growing.
yes, but probably a tricky thing to get the timing right on, no? Eevn if he gets it right I think it will still a lot highlight bumblefuck’s stupid reckless sabotage of American oil production.
*Even* I mean
a graph
Egypt’s Internet Kill Switch
I don’t think the attempt necessarily works. No, that’s not right. I mean, it’ll be seen as a stupid attempt to save his own ass and therefore can’t work, is the deal. He’s already stewed hisself.
Code Pink had also allied itself with the Muslim Brotherhood
I’m seeing a huge upside here.
A trade in of bomb vests for nifty protest signs, pink clothing, good weed, & bad acid.
Plus hippies bring free love, venereal disease, bad poetry, & Phish concerts & shit. This could work.
Look, if there’s one thing I’d like to see in the whole Middle East Islamist thing-a-ma-bob, it’s lazy slackers.
Be quiet Obama. Let this thing play out.
For whatever it’s worth: A claim in the Daily Telegraph (UK) that covert U.S. encouragement and support of uprising by opposition in Egypt has been carried out over the last three years. Perhaps this has already been posted here.
Egypt protests: America’s secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising
The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289686/Egypt-protests-Americas-secret-backing-for-rebel-leaders-behind-uprising.html
Wm T Sherman, yes, last night.
link
I wonder what the Copts are thinking right now?
sdferr, probably calculating routes to the Israeli border….
Jeff, as long as “rooting out the hard leftism” is defined as “planting six feet under”, we’re on the same page.
Obama and Biden will fuck this up. That said, the Shah analogy is valid if we push Egypt toward revolution. But are we supposed to back Mumbarak to the end? If we are going to get involved it has to be done competently. Mumbarak has to start having a peaceful transition of power because having him in charge is not fucking working and the Egyptians are rightfully pissed off. No, I do not want a Muslim Brotherhood sharia state either (or a return of Nassar like politics).
And if we don’t know what we are doing, then the first rule applies: Do no harm.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO our neo-colonial puppet regime is collapsing!!!!
The Mohameddan savages obviously cannot govern themselves so we must step in and take up the White Man’s Burden.
For their own good, of course.
You really are a child.
From sdferr’s link in #11.
This still assumes that, what we would call, good intentions are operating in this administration at the highest levels. Highest levels, as it has been made clear that everything is being run by less than 6 persons in the White House. The Cabinet and other officials are only for appearances.
link
Interesting juxtaposition with AJB’s comment, newrouter.
Back atcha geoffb, I look at what nominally counts for wise men in the Heilemann piece:
Ideological hacks or poseurs one and all. Fuck.
so did barry soetoro outsource to code pink?
link
Actions speak when lies abound.
shooting unarmed protester kids speaks really loudly I think and America should tell Mubarak to fuck off – peacey peacey bumblefuck is a deer in the headlights, and America looks fucking ridiculous
apparently our fag-ass CIA was busy with their usual duties of watching gay porn and eating twizzlers while all this was fomenting
America has no clue much less a plan, and the world can’t but notice.
Well, I don’t quite follow why citizens of another continent rioting makes America look ridiculous, but I often struggle to keep up.
I know I don’t like America to be the worlds police, so I think America should do nothing, save expressing a wish for no bloodshed.
Besides, Iran threw a riot, lost, and Obama did nothing. Tunisia thew one and succeeded (I guess), and Obama did nothing. What makes anyone think he’s going to put his ass in the line of fire for Egypt?
do nothing. So we should just keep handing these Mubarak assholes billions of dollars for to help shoot unarmed kids? Or not? I don’t think our clueless cowardly little president man knows, and I don’t think our clueless jerkoff CIA homos what we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on know either.
but for reals you don’t think our failshit little country looks a tad ridiculous when our vice president says Mubarak isn’t a dictator and we should love him and support him and hug him and give him monies?
Me I think America looks pathetic and clueless as unarmed kids die like dogs in the streets of Cairo and if America is supposed to be a shining beacon of hope then God help the rest of the world.
this is the exact same bullshit our tyranny-loving failshit little country’s president pulled in Honduras you know
Just a couple of things about that: Paul Rahe notes that he thinks the Christians of Egypt (who are not all, but mostly Coptic) amount to closer to 20% of the Egyptian population than the officially touted 10%. So if 20%, then near 16+/- million souls, or if 10%, then only 8+ millions. Israel’s entire population? 2010 estimate has it at 7,653,000.
Of course I took your Israel comment as mostly jest, though also expressing the truth that Israel is the nearest nation remotely resembling a place of widespread tolerance. But on the ground, these Christians of Egypt are most likely looking at a far worse rather than better circumstance if they can’t exert themselves on their own behalf at home.
“So we should just keep handing these Mubarak assholes billions of dollars for to help shoot unarmed kids? Or not? “
No.
“but for reals you don’t think our failshit little country looks a tad ridiculous “
Again, no. I don’t believe the American identity is defined by what a current politician does at any given moment.
Biden has always been ridiculous.
“Me I think America looks pathetic and clueless as unarmed kids die like dogs in the streets of Cairo”
So…what? We invade?
no… not invade – America is too poor and pitiful to do anything of the sort even if it were advisable, and Moody’s would have no choice but to downgrade their credit rating.
Apparently America is left to wing it… cause it’s been caught off guard without a plan.
Thank your failshit president. Thank your failshit CIA.
Interesting, no? And in Iran, this.
Maybe if he’d called it “freckles,” instead, he wouldn’t alienate so many people.
I think Jeff’s link supports feet’s assertions. This is some serious hole this little tiny incompetent self-consumed grinning president man’s dug
usthe west. How? Both directly post 2008 and by not stemming that particular tide prior to that unfortunate date.Leftism is a disorder.
‘feets, why don’t you head to Cairo and show us how it’s done. Or run for President.
Tell me, what should the United States do in response to the riots in Egypt?
Greece? Tunisia?
Is the rest of the world Obamas marionette on a string?
America is winging it. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. This IS the administration of the former Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. You know. The committee that never met. Not once.
first thing is we should clearly be seen to be siding with freedom Mr. lee
second thing is to try and empower a suitable successor to this rabid and murderous Mubarak fuckhole
third is we should examine how we can use our aid programs to steer or spin events to a more better conclusion
fourth is we should use these events to highlight the perverted Saudi king’s support for child-killing cocksucking Egyptian fuckholes
fifth is we should re-examine president bumblefuck’s disastrous sabotage of America’s domestic oil development
sixth is we should reiterate our unwavering support for Israel
then we can sorta improvise from there
seventh we should make every CIA employee stand on a street corner holding a sign saying hi there I’m useless. Instead of working to protect America and advance her interests I spend my days watching gay porn and eating twizzlers
“first thing is we should clearly be seen to be siding with freedom Mr. leefirst thing is we should clearly be seen to be siding with freedom Mr. lee”
State the obvious, check.
“second thing is to try and empower a suitable successor to this rabid and murderous Mubarak fuckhole
third is we should examine how we can use our aid programs to steer or spin events to a more better conclusion “
Ah. Like JFK and Cuba, Carter and Iran, Reagan and China (Tiananmen Square), Clinton and Somalia, Bush 42 and Iraq, like that…
“fourth is we should use these events to highlight the perverted Saudi […]
fifth […]America’s domestic oil development
sixth […]Israel”
Never let a crisis go to waste huh?
“then we can sorta improvise from there”
Wing it?
Double paste! oops…
oil is for reals shooting through the roof and we have some shitty cocksuckers for allies in the middle east – namely a bunch Saudi royal whores
Egyptians are asking which side we’re on – freedom or tyranny.
We haven’t given them an answer really have we? We should. Cause lots of other people are wondering as well, especially after America sided so enthusiastically with tyranny in Honduras.
a bunch *of* I mean
Feets, I suspect that within the next 3 months Obama will be praising
Sorosthe Brazilians for coming to our rescue with oil pumped from all those rigs that used to be in the Gulf.And no one in the MFM will note the connection or the irony.
we better hope and pray that Brazil is of a mind to sell us their oils I guess – it sucks to be as beggarly dependent and helpless as America is become
meanwhile the TSA and their illiterate fat-ass union whore workforce is actively working to undermine airport security
“Egyptians are asking which side we’re on – freedom or tyranny.”
Are you sure that’s the question the people burning down buildings are asking.
Maybe it’s – theocracy or secular. Whose side should we be on then?
Damn! there outta be a question mark there in #68…
then maybe we shouldn’t pick a side – but even if all the protesters are islamist theocrats there’s still no reason to stand with a murderous piece of shit dictator.
and for America’s vice president to get down on his knees and give the dictator a sloppy sloppy blowjob is very very shameful I think
America, as whorish and destitute as she has become, is supposed to have a bit more class than this.
just a skosh
Here’s a discussion thing about Democracy in the Middle East, held in calmer times I guess (6/15/09). Anyhow, they’ve a way to go and our help — where we can help — would be useful.
Seems as though we should promote self-rule in the form of a representative republic. Which sets us apart from both dictators and theocrats.
Constitutional republic, that is.
I sometimes wonder if the model really isn’t the US. Maybe it’s England. Dictator > dictator with some parliament > years of bloody religious and foreign wars… finally, generations later, a liberal democracy.
I don’t know that this is accurate, ‘feets. Certainly some feel that way. But, are they going to take to the streets and put some bullets into the Muslim Brotherhood when the dictator flies away? Do they even have guns?
Lee’s concern seems very reasonable to me.
there’s no room to temporize really – we know that our boy is a murderous piece of shit what kills unarmed people.
America is certainly welcome to side with that. But the rest of the world will notice and quite rightly think rather badly of us.
God bless America, dictator-fellating whore state?
Maybe. If God is some kind of depraved pimp daddy I guess.
But me I think we have to give the Egyptian people the benefit of the doubt and try to help them.
If it doesn’t work out it doesn’t work out, but the status quo is become as untenable as it is intolerable.
is it even remotely realistic to think that congress will continue to shovel billions of dollars to a regime run by this Mubarak piece of shit?
I just don’t think it’s realistic. Dick Lugar would vote for it, but he’s an unredeemed geriatric whore what probably doesn’t give a shit if he gets re-elected ever again.
Well, the gay folks, Christians and women are Egyptian people, too, right? What favor do we do them, the majority of the citizens, to help install their newest dictator/theocratic council?
Look, I agree that we should support those Egyptians who actually want freedom. Hence, we should everywhere and always be talking up the sweet, sweet good times of a constitutional republic.
But, let’s not kid ourselves. We run this scenario 100 times and we’re getting a theocracy out of it the majority of the time.
Actually, I’d guess that if Mubarak agrees to a goodly bit, our spigot keeps flowing.
yes it will very likely end badly – Egypt is poor with few resources
but it’s not failshit America’s place to thwart Egypt’s destiny by propping up a murderous cocksucker … we can’t afford it and we’re not terribly good at it besides
we should have been ready for this
we failed
you need a falafel
I keep hearing 2005 as the year we went off course from (our form of) democracy promotion. But I’m not knowledgeable enough to grasp that immediately and I haven’t had the time to do the required reading and thinking.
Okay, it’s Instapundit. Here but I think I’ve seen a few other references to this as well.
I read that too – but I also read that we maintained a dialog with democratically-minded dissidents until bumblefuck’s administration cut it off in 2009
But we should have been ready for a popular uprising – isn’t failshit America’s official position that political instability will increase the world over as global warming inexorably progresses? Yes. Even the military signed off on that strategeric view. We should have been ready.
We failed.
i blame harry “the war is lost” reid and his progg allies
what would be nice would be if come what may America could point to concrete things it did, steps it took, to help free the Egyptian people and guide them to a democratic republic unpolluted by the weird and hateful brand of Islam – you know, like Turkey kinda sorta was for awhile
The military is key if history is our guide.
But meanwhile Biden and Obama suck dictator cock.
Happyfeet, how come you weren’t warning us about how the dictator of Egypt is a bloodthirsty, horrible, terrible, murderous dictator the State Department should be trying to thwart at every turn before now? I mean, you had thirty years, through many presidents, D and R.
You let us down little buddy.
I was probably brainwashed by reading The Economist through the “Turkey is the model; put them into the EU” years but that jives with my thinking as well.
what do you mean? I was very a lot for democracy promotion. That’s why I still support our expensive fiascos in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It’s true that Mubarak was more acceptable before the killing, political prisoners notwithstanding. But now a line has been crossed, and it’s definitional.
Is America the sort of country what stands with murderous cocksuckers? It’s very surprising to me how difficult this question is for many people to answer.
The account in that discussion I linked had the Bush admin’s ball-dropping in a short form as “panic” at the results of the election of Hamas in Gaza (plus something else similar I forget, for which I apologize).
I wonder if the rioters aren’t in part tired of Egypt being moderate with regards to Israel?
Maybe they want hope and change! And death to Zionists!
Hell, I don’t know.
Neither do you…
we’ll need to send israel bigger better guns and such, whatever happens
this week demonstrates afresh how fast things can move over there
Im not really buying the partisan reading of this. There isn’t an ounce of difference between Carter and W, nor Reagan and Obama in terms of their “strategy” for dealing with it; the only appreciable difference is how they frame the PR.
Every POTUS has played the Kissingerian real politik gambit with respect to Egypt because of its centrality, size and what lies beneath it: a seething cauldron of Islamo-populist resentment that starts at Muslim Brotherhood and ends at AQ.
Bush II started down the “freedom road” in the ME and quickly came up short when he was told (or realized) what that really looked like.
I yield to no one in amazement at the parody of seriousness that is POTUS Barack Obama but on this he is doing what exactly what he should: watching things and nothing.
It’s in our national interest.
90. Yes, we do stand with “Murderous Cocksuckers” and have for many, many years. As a grad student, studying in the National Archives at Fort Meade, I was taken aback at how many WW II war documents were fully upfront in laying out the US-Anglo war strategy: Have the Russians fight every last SS and elite German unit with every last Red Guards unit they had and if they managed to get back on their feet and drive into Eastern and Central Europe, they were (essentially) welcome to it. You didn’t think we were going to man up in the Spring of ’45 and frogmarch Joe Stalin back through Prussia, do you?
So there’s that. Please recall: We are Americans and don’t go for foreign entanglements.
I don’t think it’s in our interest to be allied with a murderous Egyptian fiend what is putting unarmed young people down like they were diseased pigs.
Worse comes to worse we can be allied just as well with the next dictator, no? This is a poor poor hopeless little country what can be very very compliant in exchange for a spot of aid money.
Let’s roll the dice and see what happens. Maybe bad things. Maybe good things.
But continuing to ally ourselves with Hosni the Horrible is definitely less than a strategic masterstroke.
He kills people just for cause they want to be free.
“. There isn’t an ounce of difference between Carter and W, nor Reagan”
it wasn’t like reagan took out a superpower threatening us from 1946-1989
Does anyone else remember when events like this resulted in intelligent, literate discussions on here instead of everyone running around trying to clean up after a foul mouthed babbling child?
I thought Egypt was a moderating influence in the middle east. As in, they didn’t go for all that death to Israel stuff. I’m not really arguing either side, It’d just I don’t think anyone in America can. Best to watch and do nothing, as Roddy said.
Also, I hope Obama doesn’t do something stupid, just to be doing something
HF, don’t get confuzzled, as you might put it.
In your personal life, call it meatspace, if dealing with something or someone in a certain fashion consistently produces adverse effects, you would either change the way you relate to that situation, or you would stop dealing with it altogether.
In the world of “diplomacy,” no such easy out exists. If we decide that anything is better than Mubarak and his thuggish thugism, then we can very easily get the factionalized slaughter orcs of Hamas and PIJ, leavened with a bracing shot of AQ. They won’t be running the Territories this time mind you, but a key geostrategic entrepot, replete with resources and two jacks in the back pocket.
So you just ensure, as countless POTUS’ have, that every Egyptian thug-in-chief is inclined to see things the way we do, or if not, do us a solid when we have to do things that every State must, in the dark places and late at night.
oh really nice Mr. Moe… yes I should be more respectful to the murderous dictator guy, and perhaps I should consult a historical tome or read a bit of political philosophy before deciding that it’s wrong for my little country to support the continued rule of such a man… but I didn’t.
Frankly I think some things are simple.
Have to disagree with you there, Roddy.
Obama has singled himself out for whipping. He ran on being a one man outreach to the Arab world. Did it in Cairo, as a matter of fact. Lots of people bought it because of Bush.
No one else has ever, ever done that. Is he under-performing now? A bit. Was he over-promising before? I’m trying to think of an expressive enough superlative.
Mr. Boyd I think that’s sort of a static analysis. I think the… what are they saying… “flash mob” nature of the revolt offers a clue as to the wisdom of supporting a Hosni. Things are changing over there, and we’re not in particularly good company.
MerrybearfuckingChristmas!
Nope. Not expressive enough.
if they revolt and we don’t even try to help them as they and theirs die and suffer, that will have its own set of consequences I think
A lot of people are simple.
Things not so much.
Reagan did what he did by hitting them where it hurt: the economy.
Also, every POTUS–even Carter after his fashion, well, eventually–played the Soviets with the Iron Fist/Velvet Glove formulation….Diplomatically.
There wasn’t one POTUS that proposed doing anything more than espionage or having underlings use strong language at gilt-edged summits. They were quite content to happily let tens of millions of very democratically inclined people rot, suffer, be tortured, enslaved, bored and murdered behind the Iron Curtain.
Eisenhower, who knew something about high firepower wars of movement against a foe with resources, found that when the Hungarians got positively enthused about freedom and self-determination, it was best to let the tanks crush them like sand mites before things got sticky between DC and Moscow. When all was said and done, Ike was on the back nine at Congressional and the Soviets took weeks to execute and burn the silly Hungarians.
“if they revolt and we don’t even try to help them as they and theirs die and suffer, that will have its own set of consequences I think”
Define “they”.
I wanna know who I’m helping, and it ain’t no Islamacommie.
And if you want me to take you seriously, stop typing like a fucking retard, it is getting tiresome.
Well said BH.
Like I noted, I too share an inability to frame my asonishment at Obama. when you mine a superlative, pull up one or two foe me, would you?
On an unrelated note, Ill have a few more stories up on the website over the next few weeks. I did the final edits on the book and now can get back to some enterprise reporting.
foe=for.
Sorry.
“There wasn’t one POTUS that proposed doing anything more than espionage or having underlings use strong language at gilt-edged summits. They were quite content to happily let tens of millions of very democratically inclined people rot, suffer, be tortured, enslaved, bored and murdered behind the Iron Curtain. ”
yea reagan didn’t do nothing in grenada, nicaragua, afagistan
Heh, the other attempts all involved combining MD 20/20, short-fused firecrackers and the Indigo Girls, Roddy.
Look forward to the new posts.
also solidarity jeez you missed the ’80’s
I don’t agree. The lesson of 9/11 wasn’t hey Americans go right ahead supporting dictators in the middle east thinking you have impunity.
No.
Supporting dictators for to rule our muslim friends is not good policy. People resent that and their resentments grow and bam next thing you know innocent Americans die screaming.
That’s what Mr. Bush knew and I believed in him then and I believe in him now.
What’s happening in Egypt is a change we need to embrace and do our best to help guide.
He’s just expressing examples of realpolitik, newrouter. Dispute this instance or that, it’s still never less than half of all foreign policy.
Musharraf. House of Saud.
Hey, I supported the guy, too. C’mon though, let’s not pretend we don’t compromise when we think we need to.
Newrouter:
Yeah, But we fought proxies all over the place and the Soviets say it had, at best, a marginal effect. Some HAD to be fought, like Korea, some didn’t, like Vietnam, some were low-hanging fruit, Afghanistan, and some were what the British called “The Great Game,” the diplomatic-strategic ball-kicking that all States give to each other in places like Angola, Cuba and a dozen other shitholes just because they can.
What killed the Commie filth and their dreams of Commie filthdom was the utter bankruptcy of the Left idea. It just took almost 50 years to happen. Playing games in odd sandboxes hurt them, but forcing them to their knees economically was what did it.
The Soviets were tough.
but the idea wasn’t that we were gonna upend everything everywhere, the idea was that when you have an opportunity like Egypt presents today, your instinct shouldn’t be to use the old “client state friendly dictator” template … it was to acknowledge that people want freedom and that America stands with those ones.
Yes it’s a mischievous little policy. But so what?
Better red than dead?
“What killed the Commie filth and their dreams of Commie filthdom was the utter bankruptcy of the Left idea.”
yea that’s why statism is on the march
Where did you stand when the youth were rioting and burning cars in Paris a couple of years ago?
VIVA LA RESISTANCE!
It’s really hard for me to disagree with this as our official position. I’d just be a freedom-loving dick about it and mention a few dozen times in each speech how the theocrats hate freedom just like they hate everything cool and, oh yeah, they’re angling to be the next dictator.
So, find out where they sleep, kill them… and then we’ll talk… good night and good bless America.
“Good bless America”, that sorta sounds like a typo.
Does anyone think that bumblefuck’s smarmy words on the matter are going to persuade Egyptians that America is doing anything other than propping up a murderous regime?
I don’t.
And I still hope the Egyptians have Mubarak’s head on a stick before this is over and that the head on a stick is on the tv and the fuckhole king of Jordan sees it and the optometrist pansy in Syria sees it and the pervert king of Saudi Arabia sees it and et cetera.
Cause that would be justice.
I hope that’s a metaphorical stick, otherwise the irony would be pretty intense…
no a real stick like from a sycamore tree what somebody sharpened to where you could poke a head on it
all your better murderous dictators die violently you know
it’s kind of a thing
“all your better murderous dictators die violently you know”
so when does the big push for north korea start?
121.
Statism is on the march for an odd tick peculiar to the rich: contentment and laziness.
It’s easy to be for healthcare for all when THE STATE provides it; less so when you have to pony up for it.
You could also throw in some tropes about a post-modern reach for meaning–THE STATE as benevolent provider for all–is nicer to consider and easier to digest than the more weighty and cumbersome issue of divinity and eternal meaning. We are so rich, in other words, that we can afford to play around with the ideas guaranteed to bankrupt us.
Me personally? I’d throw in the self-defeating idiocy of the modern GOP, most of whom are as statist and corporatist as the democrats. Why bother voting conservative or arguing classically liberal ideas when the people in power are all Nancy Pelosi?
I am sick of hf… and not sure about Roddy Boyd. To my thinking they both miss the point of this blog… Jeff’s house as I think of it. Take your defeatist outlook somewhere else.
TRH,
Would you be so kind as to illuminate how I am defeatist and then, when you have a second, perhaps explain how I am defiling JG’s house?
Extra points go for reconciling his work on the declining fortunes of being classically liberal in the these times with the thrust of your post.