And now for a limited time offer! The Suez, 80% off that's right 80%!!! I know old regime psychotic person is psycho but if he's going to be that insane he may as well say the Muslim Brotherhood are actually entrepreneurial, bearded Asian women who see this as a good opportunity to sell cheaply manufactured pyjamas, costume jewellery and kitchenware on a larger scale. Yeah. Sure. The Muslim Brotherhood are going to sell Suez. You know where? At the canal store--but if you bargain they'll throw in the Fayoum lakes for free. The man has actually reached a point where I can't make his senility or drinking problems account for the word fart coming out of his mouth anymore. The only thing they're both selling is bullshit and they're well aware. And why not? Being a dictator looks like a great career path now that imprisonment in Tora is essentially retirement in Club Med. They had to convince him for 20 minutes to walk in--which is ridiculous of course--but what did they bribe him with? Food. I think food. Or a robotic nose picker. Both idiots/candidates think that they'll be cutting ribbons and hording cash for the next thirty years. One is an execution happy snob who thinks Egypt is Heliopolis and that SCAF has his back (just like they had Mubarak's back?) so he's invincible (until he screws up?) and has obviously given up on pretending that he's running in an election and is probably more worried about which outfit will look more chic on tv. He's settled on a pink shirt apparently, it's too warm for pullovers. (If you don't get the pullover reference, you've missed a very significant part of Egyptian history) The other is also greedy and deluded but a differently shaped mouthpiece belonging to a very splintered group that think they're heading the Ottoman empire and that they can keep SCAF in check once one of their own is president. As if it's just the system of government that allows SCAF to jail, torture, murder and monopolize. What do they think is going to happen? General X: Oh crap, the president said no! Right, everybody stop frying the prisoners with tazers and give back all the businesses now--yes including the gas station with the shiny bakery. Yes, I know it's shiny. No you can't take croissants back to the barracks. ... And Tawfiq Okasha is still a public figure. And there's an ad campaign on tv about how foreigners are spies and the internet is trying to eat you. And nobody I know who's moving is sad about moving. And I'm being sarcastic and superficial because it's one of the two default modes I've encountered-- the other is manic depression. This mode is more social and less eye stabby. |