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Love it or leave it

by DougJ|  September 1, 20116:22 pm| 31 Comments

This post is in: Going Galt

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This made me laugh:

In a sign of his frustration at the investigations into his alleged crimes and misdemeanours, Silvio Berlusconi vowed in July to leave Italy, which he described as a “shitty country” that “sickened” him.

Not so dissimilar from all the great American patriots who vowed to move to Costa Rica if their marginal rate went up a few points.

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  1. 1.

    trollhattan

    September 1, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    What’s Italian for goin’ Galt, “Basta, andiamo!”?

    He’ll be trailed by a bunch of angry 14-year-olds on his way out.

  2. 2.

    singfoom

    September 1, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    So does this mean we can get a new phrase? Going Berlusconi? Sure, it doesn’t roll off the tongue like “Going Galt”, but it has the extra connotation of bunga bunga parties.

    My money says he moves to New Jersey.

  3. 3.

    khead

    September 1, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    Yo Silvio,
    Go fuck yourself.
    Love, Khead

  4. 4.

    Mike E

    September 1, 2011 at 6:30 pm

    Costa Rica…hmmm. I would if I could!

  5. 5.

    Leadpipe

    September 1, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    Can’t he just secede like Rick Perry?

  6. 6.

    General Stuck

    September 1, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    Italy may well be our match in fucked up countries, letting this lunatic govern them with his all concubine staff.

  7. 7.

    Lev

    September 1, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    Is he just going to move his operation to Capri and run the country amidst a bunch of unclothed kids like Tiberius?

  8. 8.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 1, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    @Lev: That is a problem in Rome, trying to top what the Emperors did. Hell, Tiberius wasn’t even all that kinky by that standard.

  9. 9.

    Silver

    September 1, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    There must be one place left in the world where a billionaire can fuck underage kids without getting in trouble for it.

    Besides the Vatican, I mean…

  10. 10.

    gocart mozart

    September 1, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    Of all the world leaders, he does throw the best parties, so he’s got that going for him. I hear his buddy K’Daffy is feeling bit sullen lately, perhaps he should give him a ring.

  11. 11.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 1, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    @Silver: What is the age of consent in Italy?

    ETA: Wikipedia says 14.

  12. 12.

    lamh32

    September 1, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    man, I honestly think, if I didn’t have to worry about ya know paying the rent, my car note, my car insurance, electricity bill, cell phone, water bill, etc and I was as rich as Oprah, I’d have moved out of the country by now.

    but I ain’t rich and I’m too pessimistic to play the lottery, so I have to just keep on truckin’ along.

  13. 13.

    Anya

    September 1, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    I wish Uygur, Hamsher, et al and their wingnut soulmates would leave the country in a huff because they hate President Obama and they refuse to share a country with him.

  14. 14.

    The Spy Who Loved Me

    September 1, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    But how does it compare statistically with the Juicers that threaten to leave the country if a Republican wins?

  15. 15.

    Tonal Crow

    September 1, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    I wish these GOPers and their fellow travellers would stop threatening to Go Galt and do it already. AynRandLand (Somalia) is up and running, with no taxes, no government, plenty of “family values” in the “public square”, and guns galore. Hop to it, traitors.

  16. 16.

    gocart mozart

    September 1, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    It’s official, the correct spelling is Gathafi.

    Gaddafi has long refused to speak anything but Arabic, leaving it up to individual publications to chose their own translation; Qaddafi, Gaddafi, Kadafi, and Khadafy all becoming commonly accepted renderings. Gathafi hardly registers on a google trends graph of the last year. The Atlantic’s Max Fisher points us to an old ABCNews.com story that found 112 different ways to translate the name from Arabic to English, and according to that list, Gathafi is the least common. This is, perhaps, no surprise given the man’s tendency towards the individual.

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/mysteries-solved-gaddafis-passport-suggests-an-unusual-spelling-of-his-name/

  17. 17.

    gocart mozart

    September 1, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    @General Stuck:
    We elected Bush, so who are we to bitch.

  18. 18.

    Wag

    September 1, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    @gocart mozart:

    It’s official, the correct spelling is Gathafi

    Which means we can spell it any damn way we choose, just to piss him off.

  19. 19.

    beltane

    September 1, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    Berlusconi and his good friend Qaddafi need to disappear to Bunga Bunga Island in the middle of the Pacific.

  20. 20.

    trollhattan

    September 1, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    @Wag:

    Which means we can spell it any damn way we choose, just to piss him off.

    I’m going with “Cheney.”

  21. 21.

    beltane

    September 1, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    @General Stuck: But their lunatics govern with a lot more flair than our own lunatics. As far as clowns go, Berlusconi is a very entertaining clown. Also, one can eat arugula in Italy without being labelled an elitist.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 1, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    @trollhattan: Qaddafy has a heart.

  23. 23.

    Warren Terra

    September 1, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    @gocart mozart:

    @General Stuck:
    We elected Bush, so who are we to bitch.

    Not technically true. We did re-elect him, though.

  24. 24.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    September 1, 2011 at 7:24 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Qaddafy has a heart.

    Ironic on so many levels.

  25. 25.

    gocart mozart

    September 1, 2011 at 7:43 pm

    @Wag:
    I am partial to K’Daffy in honor of Bugs Bunny.

  26. 26.

    gocart mozart

    September 1, 2011 at 7:49 pm

    @beltane:
    This reminds me of a very obscure Pink Floyd song.

    “The Fletcher Memorial Home”

    take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
    and build them a home a little place of their own
    the fletcher memorial
    home for incurable tyrants and kings
    and they can appear to themselves every day
    on closed circuit t.v.
    to make sure they’re still real
    it’s the only connection they feel
    “ladies and gentlemen, please welcome reagan and haig
    mr. begin and friend mrs. thatcher and paisley
    mr. brezhnev and party
    the ghost of mccarthy
    the memories of nixon
    and now adding colour a group of anonymous latin
    american meat packing glitterati”
    did they expect us to treat them with any respect
    they can polish their medals and sharpen their
    smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for a while
    boom boom, bang bang, lie down you’re dead
    safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
    with their favourite toys
    they’ll be good girls and boys
    in the fletcher memorial home for colonial
    wasters of life and limb
    is everyone in?
    are you having a nice time?
    now the final solution can be applied

  27. 27.

    gocart mozart

    September 1, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    Obama fucked up my block quote.

  28. 28.

    Dee Loralei

    September 1, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    @gocart mozart: I love that song.

  29. 29.

    TooManyJens

    September 1, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    Do people still vote for this guy? What’s Italian for “27 percent”?

  30. 30.

    SRW1

    September 1, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    @trollhattan:

    ‘Going Galt’ In Italian is ‘Doing a Craxi’.

    (Google “Bettino Craxi” and Tunisia)

  31. 31.

    fuckwit

    September 2, 2011 at 2:03 am

    I think the Italian (well Napolitano anyway) translation of “going galt” is: o mano fa in cula!

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