Monday, December 19, 2011
Kim dies
Old Kim is dead. After a careful three-year process of preparing his son to take over, the son takes over. What is this, boys and girls? Yes, it's a PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER.
According to our own Dear Leaders, this is logically impossible. Other countries do not have peaceful transfers of power. Only the Exceptional Exceptional Exceptional USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! WE'RE NUMBER 1! WE'RE NUMBER 1! WE'RE NUMBER 1! WE'RE NUMBER 1! has peaceful transfers of power.
And why is this so? Because WE'RE NUMBER 1! No, boys and girls, wrong standard platitude. It's because we're THE WORLD'S ONLY REAL DEMOCRACY!
So, boys and girls, following our own Dear Leader Logic, what do we conclude?
Yes, boys and girls, North Korea must be a Young Democracy! It hasn't yet held a Free And Fair Election Supervised By Jimmy Carter, but I'm sure that will happen soon.
Shit.
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More seriously: If you wonder why the Kim dynasty was able to take over so firmly, remember that the oldest Kim made his revolutionary reputation by fighting against Jap occupation in the '40s. And if you wonder why that's important, listen to this dramatic episode of the NBC program 'The Pacific Story'. The series was probably a tad propagandistic about Jap atrocities, but there's no doubt that the Japs were the masters of atrocity in that part of the world, and ruled much of Asia ferociously from 1905 to 1945. ¶ 3:14 AM
According to our own Dear Leaders, this is logically impossible. Other countries do not have peaceful transfers of power. Only the Exceptional Exceptional Exceptional USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! WE'RE NUMBER 1! WE'RE NUMBER 1! WE'RE NUMBER 1! WE'RE NUMBER 1! has peaceful transfers of power.
And why is this so? Because WE'RE NUMBER 1! No, boys and girls, wrong standard platitude. It's because we're THE WORLD'S ONLY REAL DEMOCRACY!
So, boys and girls, following our own Dear Leader Logic, what do we conclude?
Yes, boys and girls, North Korea must be a Young Democracy! It hasn't yet held a Free And Fair Election Supervised By Jimmy Carter, but I'm sure that will happen soon.
Shit.
= = = = =
More seriously: If you wonder why the Kim dynasty was able to take over so firmly, remember that the oldest Kim made his revolutionary reputation by fighting against Jap occupation in the '40s. And if you wonder why that's important, listen to this dramatic episode of the NBC program 'The Pacific Story'. The series was probably a tad propagandistic about Jap atrocities, but there's no doubt that the Japs were the masters of atrocity in that part of the world, and ruled much of Asia ferociously from 1905 to 1945. ¶ 3:14 AM
