Thursday, August 18, 2011

We're Gonna Need More Ribbons

The real world heaps me, it taxes me today, so I'll just mention in passing that Egypt is now a military dictatorship and we are still fucking bombing Libya.

Posted by IOZ at 10:48 AM | email »
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19 comments:

gamefaced said...

disease spreads.

10:52 AM
Anonymous said...

see, this is just the kind of cynicism obama campaigned against!

12:48 PM
Happy Jack said...

we are still fucking bombing Libya.

Bombing? The preferred nomenclature is preventing genocide committed by scary negro mercenaries.

12:57 PM
Professor Coldheart said...

Yeah, but Qaddaffi's days are numbered.

12:58 PM
Anonymous said...

and magically some of the syrian "protesters" have heavy weapons.

1:00 PM
Professor Coldheart said...

Meanwhile, Scott Lemieux over at LGM flirts with a revelation, only to cast it aside and go home to drunk dial an ex:

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2011/08/the-bush-non-steamroller

"Finally, I think one reason we’re talking past one another is that Glenn seems particularly concerned with the question of what Obama really believes or wants. Essentially, my position on this is that it’s both unknowable and largely irrelevant, most importantly because for elected officials principle and political viability are inextricably intertwined. Is the ACA exactly what Obama would have wanted and enacted if he was a Prime Minister in a Westminster system? I’m skeptical, but maybe Glenn is right, and I can’t prove that he isn’t. But since, especially in light of Lieberman’s goalpost shifting, nobody has explained how 60 votes for the public option were obtainable it also doesn’t matter. Obama would have signed legislation with a public option and had little leverage over most of the conservative Democrats who didn’t want one and didn’t care if the bill went down, and that’s what matters."

It's almost as if any system of political power, whether chaired by a noble philosopher king or a craven corporate puppet, will produce results that favor the powerful. It's as if there's some sort of institutional force that ... it ... wait ... *blergVoteDemocratblerg*

1:22 PM
IOZ said...

Ooo, thanks Prof. That's some grist for the ol' mill. I shall endeavor to make meatballs out of it tomorrow right after I post a good kefta recipe, harhar.

1:39 PM
Jack Crow said...

And Barack has no proven the truth of farce by ordering Assad out of Syria.

1:46 PM
Karl Franz Ochstradt said...

Glenn seems particularly concerned with the question of what Obama really believes or wants. Essentially, my position on this is that it’s both unknowable and largely irrelevant, most importantly because for elected officials principle and political viability are inextricably intertwined. Is the ACA exactly what Obama would have wanted and enacted if he was a Prime Minister in a Westminster system? I’m skeptical, but maybe Glenn is right, and I can’t prove that he isn’t.

Of course you can't prove he isn't. He writes on things that are outside the scope of proof, in the realm of conjecture. Who fuckin' cares what The Secret Obama Heart desires? That's another take on the 12-dimensional Chess argument. It's just more proof that Greenwald is more impressed with himself than he ought to be, and that his fans love to imagine the naked emperor's new robes are made of the finest and rarest textiles.

1:48 PM
Christopher M said...

Egypt is now a military dictatorship

I believe that should read "Egypt is still a military dictatorship."

2:12 PM
blinky the very nice dog said...

they have had domestic cats in egypt for a long time

2:24 PM
Anonymous said...

O fans of Wall Street's multicult Brother Cool for his own sake can't handle the truth for its own sake.

Keep at 'em Glenn.

2:49 PM
Your fearless leader, BHO said...

Mr. IOZ, please allow me to correct you on the goings on in Libya. What the United States is engaged in is a kinetic military action, and not bombing per se. My administration would appreciate it if, in the future, you refrained from using such counterproductive words like "bombing".

6:00 PM
Rojo said...

Egypt was largely a military dictatorship beforehand. Now it's a military dictatorship with a restive population. So, I'd say that's a new win so far.

But, yes, we are still bombing Libya.

And, in related news, Juan Cole is still censoring my comments on his blog.

12:10 AM
Rojo said...

"net win" not "new win"

12:12 AM
Gridlock said...

But he carries a concealed GUN! And has overseen 270 executions!

Fucking amateurs.

12:20 AM
Anonymous said...

as opposed to a dictator dictatorship or a pharaohic dictatorship? are we gonna split hairs here?

3:21 AM
The Creator said...

Ooh, testy today, are we? Never mind, soon Libya will be a democratic dictatorship and America will be bombing Syria instead.

I seem to recall that hope and change were promised, and surely the man delivers.

5:03 AM
Professor Coldheart said...

Rojo: censored comments? why bicker over the service, when the food itself is such a delight? Like this little amuse-bouche:

http://www.juancole.com/2011/08/is-qaddafi-really-going-to-flee-to-tunisia.html

"I fear that NBC is being used by US intelligence for psy-ops purposes, since the report strikes me as highly unlikely to be true."

Used by US intelligence! Psy-ops purposes! Mainstream media! He paid for her dinner and she ended up sleeping with him; ergo, she's a prostitute.

9:48 AM

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