Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe. Yeah, bold statement, isn’t it? But seriously, he’s a douchebag. Look at some of the things he’s done: he’s redistributed land, leaving his country starving, he’s completely killed the value of the Zimbabwe dollar, he’s stayed in power for over twenty years through all sorts of questionable methods, and he’s just not a good ruler. And then last week he may have been involved in arraigning an assassination attempt on his Prime Minister, who is also the leader of the opposition party (and who actually beat Mugabe in a Presidential election last year). The Prime Minister, whose wife died in the attack, has said that it was just an accident, and there was nothing sinister about it. Meh, he probably has to say that just to stay alive.
Anyway, the funeral for the wife, Susan Tsvangirai, was today. And Mugabe went! Not only did he go, but he spoke there! What the hell? Come on, if there’s a cloud of suspicion hanging over you, stay the fuck away. Of course, Mugabe used this platform to say it wasn’t his fault, calling the accident “the hand of God.” That’s bullshit. Seriously, I don’t understand how Mugabe has been able to get away with being an asshole for so long. Look at Guinea-Bissau, leaders are getting killed in Africa all the time. How has no one put a bullet in his head yet?
Unrelated, but here’s something else that bothers me. When you look at something that lists all the US Presidents in the same place, and has a picture of them, the same picture is used for Grover Cleveland for his no-consecutive terms. I think that he should get different pictures. He had to have looked different, Obama is aging pretty dramatically already, so let’s represent his Presidencies with different pictures. He deserves it.
Nosferatu.
18 hours ago
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