Sunday Morning Post (V.1; #35): “Oh Freedonia, Oh Don’t You Cry for Me!”
Okay, let’s
get this out of our systems.
The story so
far: a mideast nation which had a reputation
for being problematic to American democracy agreed under a previous American
administration to curb its nuclear ambitions.
This was a multi country agreement and everyone seemed satisfied that
Iran was content to dial back its nuclear production.
Everyone was
happy except for one reality TV star who has narcissistic delusions of world
domination. This person (heretofore
known as The President Who Shall Not Be Named in This Blog) thought HE and only
HE could get a better deal. Naturally
our allies balked when TPWSNBNiTB pulled out of the deal with Iran. The
President, in a pique of imperialism, re-instituted sanctions against Iran in
the belief that they would come back to the table to negotiate a new deal. Some hawks inside the administration may have
thought that the sanctions would encourage some rebel movement within Iran to overthrow
the regime.
So, guess
what happened? Iran has not shown any
interest in negotiating a new deal, no miracle revolution has erupted to change
the regime in Iran, our allies are pissed off about the whole affair, and more
recently hostile actions against oil refineries in Saudi Arabia (one of
America’s allies) have been blamed on Iran.
At first, the President rattled his saber by declaring that America is
“locked and loaded.” His Secretary of State,
Mike Pompeo, declared the hostile action “an act of war.” In short, no negotiation, no regime change, and
a lot of angry Iranians!
Who knew
that Iran would respond the way it has? Apparently,
everyone in the WORLD could have predicted Iran’s reaction, except for guess
who? The President allegedly made what
has got to be the most naïve statement of the year when he said (or tweeted or both)
that he doesn’t want to go to war with Iran.
Seriously,
the leader of the free world with the mentality of a school yard bully doesn’t
want to go to war? He certainly fooled
the hell out of us! I actually thought
the week was off to a good start when extreme hawk John Bolton was shown the
door, but alas, the week went downhill from there.
Thus, in the
spirit of “hope for the best, expect the worst” let’s enjoy the video below
from the classic, Duck Soup. We
invite you to get up, sing, dance and laugh.
Lord knows we may not be laughing for long...
(Thank you
for reading. Let’s laugh while we can!)
posted by todd gunther | 10:05 AM
5 Comments:
Brilliant Marx Brothers satire! Too bad Groucho isn't running the USA. Or even Harpo!
It's what happens when a racist buffoon takes control.
Great Clip. What's funny is the Idiot Jerk in the White House wouldn't see the humor, but then he doesn't see too much past the end of his nose.
I consider Duck Soup to be one of the greatest comedy movies of all time. Imagine that when it came out it wasn't well received as people had faith in the government and didn't like the notion thems in charge could be so bad.
I'd vote for either of one of them in a minute, Debra. Unfortunately both of them were too wise to run for office.
It's bad enough to be racist, Bob, but to be racist and stupid? I can only shake my head....
I'm inclined to agree with you Dave R.
Sad to think that it would take some clumsy policy catastrophe like Vietnam to make this satire look so good. That's about the time I discovered it. Thank you for your observation, Spo.
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