The last days of the patriarch (Trudeau on Castro, hilarious)

The Star ^ | Aug. 13, 2006. 07:38 AM | ALEXANDRE TRUDEAU

[alnitak]

Cuban President Fidel Castro holds baby Michel as Pierre and Margaret Trudeau look on during their state visit to Cuba in January 1976. Castro presented Margaret Trudeau with this photo just hours before Pierre Trudeau?s funeral in 2000.

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This is almost too funny to believe (maybe he is also a dab hand at brain surgery!):

His intellect is one of the most broad and complete that can be found. He is an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything.

Combined with a Herculean physique and extraordinary personal courage, this monumental intellect makes Fidel the giant that he is.

He is something of a superman.

[Miss Marple]

Words fail me.

[joeystoy]

"He is an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything."


That's why Cuba is the world leader in biotech, automotive technology, financial services... and everything else.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Good golly. I had no idea that Trudeau was that, that, that... words fail me.

[Pikachu_Dad]

what exactly is a 'global patriach'?

[Cincinatus]

On the occasion of the publication of this piece, I am reminded of a reply once made during debate in the House of Lords:

"I am indebted to you for demonstrating that there is no such thing as unutterable nonsense."

[llevrok]

The first Trudeau gave 2 million French the keys to 20 million non French pocket books

Looks like Junior would give the rest of the country to Cuba - if he could.

[dirtboy]

He is something of a superman.

Looks like this kid's red diaper was strapped on a bit too tightly.

[Lurker]

In his view, revolution, when rigorously adopted, cannot fail to lead humanity towards ever greater justice, towards an ever more perfect social order.

People who write drivel like this should be dragged into the streets and beaten to within an inch of their stupid, useless lives.

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[bonfire]

Is this a joke??

[zlala]

Is this a joke??

Exactly my thoughts while reading it!

[saganite]

That wasn't hilarious, it was disgusting but right in keeping with the Left's worship of dictators and butchers.

[alnitak]

No. Now I realise why the world has gone to hell...morons have been running it for the last 30 years.

[marktwain]

"In his view, revolution, when rigorously adopted, cannot fail to lead humanity towards ever greater justice, towards an ever more perfect social order."

Of course, in practice, this means that the ultimo leader becomes a plutocrat and the people become impoverished and repressed.

[marktwain]

"In his view, revolution, when rigorously adopted, cannot fail to lead humanity towards ever greater justice, towards an ever more perfect social order."

Of course, in practice, this means that the ultimo leader becomes a plutocrat and the people become impoverished and repressed.

[Petronski]

Fidel is also the most curious man that I have ever met. He wants to know all there is to be known. He is famous for not sleeping, instead spending the night studying and learning.

[Psychotics are famous for not sleeping.]

His intellect is one of the most broad and complete that can be found. He is an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything.

[But he did not invent the internet...that was another famous (would-be) socialist tyrant.]

Combined with a Herculean physique and extraordinary personal courage, this monumental intellect makes Fidel the giant that he is.

[Alexandre's kinda hot for Fidel here, in a purely creepy way.]

He is something of a superman.

[He is the ideal specimen of the New Soviet Man. Or, he is a god.]

The Jefe (chief) sees all and knows all....

[Okay, he is a god. Or, he is an authoritarian madman in command of an all-saturating domestic intelligence service....(Must get that thought out of my head, or Jefe will know)....Nah, he is a god.]

[Pikachu_Dad]

For a generation to come, they will be haunted by the vision of a society that never existed and probably never will exist, but which their once-leader, the most brilliant and obsessed of all, never stopped believing could exist and should exist. A lot of truth in that one line. IT NEVER EXISTED.

[Petronski]

Probably on the ceiling above Alexandre Trudeau's bed:

[mitch5501]

"When my father had reached a depth of around 60 feet, he realized that Fidel was down there with him, that he had descended without a tank and that there he was with a knife in hand prying sea urchins off the ocean floor, grinning."...and he was wearing concrete flippers!!!and as he bent to slay another urchin...blinding rays of brilliant piercing sunlight burst forth from Fidel!!! as,still grinning,he handed my father a pair of rose coloured glasses.That he be not blinded by the glory of Fidel!

The guy sounds like Smithers,in more ways than one.

[fanfan]

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