But, did they make rude gestures? Because that far - no further!
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Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
As long as we get to go to war.
Ah. So, as usual, the truth is much more complicated than is immediately apparent. However, as is becoming the new “usual”, the neofascist explanation bears no resemblance to the truth whatsoever.
Great… just great.
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We’ve been backing the Saudis as they destroy their country. We’ve been drone bombing civilians. We supported a brutal dictator who oppressed his people. What do you expect them to do? Why are we siding with one brutal, theocratic regime against another? What, precisely, makes the Saudis more agreeable than the Iranians? What do you think people who have literally nothing because we and the Saudis have spent the past decades dismantling their country to actually do in this situation? Just accept the ethnic cleansing that the Saudis want to carry out? People in Yemen are actually starving and of course they’re going to accept whatever help they can get, even if it’s from the Iranians. Why shouldn’t they? When have we ever shown that we care about the people of Yemen?
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I noted yesterday on Twitter that I didn’t think it was possible for someone to make the press secretary from Veep look like a stone cold professional, but damn is Spicer proving me wrong.
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Every reporter in that room has a “oh fuck, this guy is going to talk again” look on their face.
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I was looking at Matt Walsh’s twitter feed yesterday. I was a bit surprised he hasn’t noted that.
Spicer looks like the king’s nervous spokesperson who’s dragged to the guillotine by the cheering mob in every movie about the French Revolution. And I think, deep down, he knows this.
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It’s a reality show. Streamed in realtime.
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No this really is what it looks like. They’re testing for whether the American public fight back against lies, and testing whether they can ramp the Halliburton et al war machine up to 8,000 revs so that the usual suspects (military industrial complex) can enrich themselves.
Don’t stand for it. We don’t need another generation of terrorists.
These guys are from the McCarthy playbook. Clowns. Endangering all of us.
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I more or less agree with you. Several of my coworkers are Yemeni, and they are very good and decent people.
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Just ‘Alternative Facts’.
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You forgot body bag extruders, and any subsidiary of Halliburton/KBR…
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I really think the press has got to stop showing up for this guy. Let him tweet.
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Holy shit! Or maybe he’s trying to signal to 4chaners with the purple/green motif…
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I was just telling my wife that when he speaks they should precede it with this:
Wait… maybe that was Paris Dennard.
(Then my wife asked if we had any more wine. I suggested brandy instead at this point)
It wouldn’t matter if Yemenis were all rude wankers. Bombing the shit out of anyone does nothing to move forward human progress, most especially people who have had a few decades of conflict already. The Yemenis who joined the Huthis likely only wanted to be free to practice their faith and to not live in a country beset by more powerful actors pretending as if that it’s Yeminis are a threat to humanity.
Sorry if this comes off as harsh, but I’m just… deeply frustrated at the world right now. The inability of people to see each other as such just… makes me deeply sad and angry.
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One day Spicer is going to say something that will embarrass Il Douche – like, “A is A,” or “water is wet” – and then he’ll have to go. If the prez replaced him now, with someone like, say…that up-and-comer Frederick Douglass that everyone’s been saying great things about…the administration could mollify the press and show the country that Cheetolini cares about diversity. (Bonus: save a bunch of money by making Douglass share a shelf with Ben Carson in the Cabinet Room. Separate-but-fair&balanced winning for everyone!)
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I can’t disagree with you. I have worked in several places that were being used in proxy wars between powers that were indifferent to the plight of those doing the suffering. It is unfair on a fundamental level.
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