This was spoken to a guy he'd never even f'ing heard of now imagine what he said to Putin on his unsecured Android…https://t.co/UgGmeXu0by
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) November 30, 2016
A match made in Gehenna — an aging would-be demagogue to his opposite in a politically-fractured nuclear power whose security state is run by religious fundamentalists. Works in either direction! From the Washington Post:
Pakistan’s Press Information Bureau on Wednesday released a readout of a phone call on Monday between Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and the U.S. president-elect, Donald Trump. The readout is unusual in that it focuses almost entirely on Trump’s contributions to the conversation, and reproduces them in a voice that is unmistakably his…
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif called President-elect USA Donald Trump and felicitated him on his victory. President Trump said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif you have a very good reputation. You are a terrific guy. You are doing amazing work which is visible in every way. I am looking forward to see you soon. As I am talking to you Prime Minister, I feel I am talking to a person I have known for long. Your country is amazing with tremendous opportunities. Pakistanis are one of the most intelligent people. I am ready and willing to play any role that you want me to play to address and find solutions to the outstanding problems. It will be an honor and I will personally do it. Feel free to call me any time even before 20th January that is before I assume my office…
Lavishing praise on the Pakistanis would be a major turnaround for the president-elect. In 2012, Trump took to his favorite social media platform, Twitter, to denounce Pakistan.
On Jan. 17 of that year, he wrote: “Get it straight: Pakistan is not our friend. We’ve given them billions and billions of dollars, and what did we get? Betrayal and disrespect — and much worse. #TimeToGetTough”…
Pakistan is a major beneficiary of U.S. assistance and is slated to receive almost $1 billion in economic and security assistance in the 2017 financial year…
PEOTUS Smallgloves really can be turned with a sufficient slathering of blatant flattery, can’t he?
I expect both sides of the conversation to angrily deny it later today. Important distinction, as of now, Trump can’t actually have the offending reporters arrested and/or beaten to death by an angry mob…
Yoda Dog
Ahh the ongoing Chronicles of WASF. Good times, good times.
Up here at 4am with mah babeh. He’s so damn cute, him and his 18mo sister are my zen. Even at this hour… especially at this hour.
tybee
reproduction is highly overrated. :)
R-Jud
Any time I share something about the coming kakistocracy I’ve taken to just commenting with [SCREAMING INTENSIFIES].
I may have to start doing that here, too. What else is there to say? I’ve maxed out the amount I can reasonably spend on trans-Atlantic calls to Congress for a few weeks, so this weekend I’m volunteering with a mobile soup kitchen. It’s cold(ish) here in the UK, and members of the swelling homeless population are being found frozen to death behind pubs.
Some Dude
Just can’t wait to read about Trumpnado and his views of Turkey. Just leave him to destabilize the whole region with just a few phone calls, so that all attention is focused overseas while his swamp monsters invade the Federal Government. I really wish this was an episode of The Twilight Zone….
Poopyman
But it’s warm here this morning at Chez Poopy. Not gonna last though.
Happy December, everyone!
(And of course, “Happy Holidays”)
John not McCain
The information bureau misspelled fellated. Maybe it was autocorrect.
Breezeblock
You sure that’s not a typo? Shouldn’t it read “…fellated him on his victory.” ??
Mai.naem.mobile
I saw this yesterday on the Twitter machine and had to make sure it wasn’t satire because it sounded like satire. I would love to know Obamas frank thoughts on this guy right now. How
Mai.naem.mobile
@Mai.naem.mobile: fuck wp. Anyhow,i wonder how Obama and his people deal with this – handing the key to the car to a crazy old man with some nasty passengers.
Cheryl Rofer
The readout was simultaneously so idiotic and so believable that I totally missed what one of my Twitter followers pointed out: Pakistan is a country full of Muslims and very likely one of the countries that Trump would limit immigration from.
The crazy is getting too thick.
Chris
He’s just bullshitting for his audience. I very much doubt if any of this will protect Pakistan if he gets it into his head that they need to be attacked.
Emma
@Chris: Or if India starts flexing its muscle. Remember, his Indian business partners are heavily connected.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
I swing wildly every day between feeling like we’re going to make it through the next four years somehow, and believing that we’re all fucked, and that we’ll be lucky to make it through without seeing a nuclear war break out somewhere. Today, having read this, I’m coming down more on the latter side.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Does anybody remember all those George Bush “Miss me yet?” memes from early in President Obama’s time in office? Yeah, well, right now, I do miss him. I miss the days of sane, reasonable, competent Republican administrations like Bush the Younger’s administration. I can’t believe how fucking far we’ve fallen.
sairarias
As someone who grew up in Pakistan, I’d like to point out that Nawaz Sharif is notoriously corrupt. So it makes sense they’d get along…
Calouste
If someone talked to me like that I would assume that:
1) He thinks I am an idiot
2) He is trying to con me
Barbara
@Poopyman: We’ve all come to look for America . . . Where did she go?
cursorial
I look forward to the reaction of the Hindu nationalists that organized an Indian-American rally for him. Serves them right. Reading that quote, it seems plausible that it didn’t cross his mind during the entire conversation that he’s talking to the leader of a largely Muslim country. (Should I feel better or worse that his Islamophobia seems as shallow and insincere as all his other professed beliefs?)
wenchacha
@Poopyman: Many years ago, I was on that stretch of road in the moonlight of late November. And so many years earlier, I had listened to James Taylor sing that song, and learned to play my guitar. Cool to imagine that there are probably thousands of people who have been there, done that as well.
kate p
I’m pretty sure he had a script for calls from world leaders and just changed the name of the country. What difference does it make? They are all foreigners anyhow. I am beginning to worry about my despair and true anger issues with this election. I’m damn old and have never experienced anything like this and can’t seem to move on.
JustRuss
@kate p: Take a vacation. Months ago we booked a trip to Mexico for Thanksgiving week. 7 days of no TV, no internet, and no Trump. Best thing I ever did for my mental health, and I’ve had a fair bit of therapy.