Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment

Matt Taibbi Substack ^ | 10 Feb 2022 | Matt Taibbi

[Rummyfan]

[DuncanWaring]

When you’ve lost Matt Taibbi ...

[Rummyfan]

Paul Kenyon’s Children of the Night describes the morbid black comedy that ensued. The Ceaușescus and a motley gang of undead apparatchiks that included the “morbidly obese Prime Minister, Emil Bobu” later tried to load into a single helicopter — Bobu “waddled, walrus-like, to the rear” Kenyon writes — but there were too many of them, and the copter barely got off the ground. “Where to?” asked the pilot, and nobody knew, because there was no plan, since none of them had ever considered the possibility of this happening.

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[Rummyfan]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I would die a happy man if I lived to see a lamppost decoration party with Justine as the guest of honor.

[AlaskaErik]

Paywall.

[martin_fierro]

A study in contrasting body language

[nascarnation]

The socks >>> total lightweight

[AndyJackson]

No paywall. I don’t pay and I can read it.

[ctdonath2]

“Trudeau fled the city, removing his family to what aides called a “secret location” for “security reasons,” a politically disastrous move denounced by just about everyone with a microphone or a Twitter account, including members of his own party.”

Trudeau then released a video.
Someone challenged the “autistic 4chan types” to find him based on the unremarkable backdrop.
They did find him, within hours.

[nascarnation]

Was he in Cuba with fake snow?
(couldn’t really blame him it’s 70F warmer)

[Chode]

Castro, must be spinning in his grave...

[waterhill]

Those socks are gay as sh!t.

[SamAdams76]

“Not everyone can earn a living on a MacBook at a cottage.” This has been a theme in the States, too, where the people most dickishly insistent on the necessity of lockdowns or mandates have tended to be Zoomer professionals spending the pandemic in pajamas.

Beautifully written.

[JennysCool]

Excellent commentary. Thanks for posting!

[Bonemaker]

[Reddy]

Favorite paragraph of the part I could read without subscribing:

“There may be no real-world comparison between a blood-soaked monster like Ceaușescu and a bumbling ball-scratcher like Joe Biden, or an honorarium-gobbling technocrat like Hillary Clinton, or a Handsome Dan investment banker like Emmanuel Macron, or an effete pseudo-intellectual like Justin Trudeau. Still, the ongoing inability of these leaders to see the math of populist uprisings absolutely recalls that infamous scene in Bucharest. From Brexit to the election of Donald Trump to, now, the descent of thousands of Canadian truckers upon the capital city of Ottawa to confront Trudeau, a consistent theme has been the refusal to admit — not even to us, but to themselves — the numerical truth of what they’re dealing with.”

This makes me feel like the meme of the young child at some sporting event with a red face and balled up fists screaming, “YEAHHHHHH!!!!”

[Norski]

“Someone challenged the “autistic 4chan types” to find him based on the unremarkable backdrop.
They did find him, within hours.”

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Got story or link? Would enjoy to hear the story.

4chan impresses.

[scrabblehack]

Wasn’t it the Cecescus (sp) who were caught flushing money down the toilet? I assume they had stolen it from the public treasury and were trying to dispose of the evidence.