This weekend, I got to watch my boyfriend learn, with shock and horror, US officials deliberately didn’t rescue the hostages to sabotage President Carter’s reelection.
It was the most surreal **blinks in ‘lived in the Middle East’** experiende I’ve had in quite some time.
It was extra weird as a former professor of Arabic, Middle Eastern, and Islamic Studies.
He’s (ahem, let’s just say) older.
I wasn’t even alive in 1979.
I really thought that was common knowledge.
Anyway, while I’m at it, let me go ahead and let y’all know (just in case) :
The Obama administration refused to negotiate for the release of my friends Jimmy and Steve after ISIS kidnapped them, in part because of the Berghdal fallout and the midterm elections.
For previous winning entries in the ongoing same project (in the event you're seeking a reason to bash your head into the nearest wall over and over desperately hoping to fall into unconsciousness' sweet embrace), see also:
In Samburu and Masaai society, one cannot become an adult or find a mate for marriage without undergoing a painful circumcision —
for male and female alike (the latter procedure often termed “female genital mutilation”).
That right of passage creates a “full” human.
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I haven’t bothered to watch Matt Walsh’s documentary because obvious reasons are obvious, but if that scene did, in fact, take place in the East African communities to which I’m referring, well…
… Matt Walsh is as simple-minded as you already know damn well he is.
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I keep getting messages asking "did you know Richard Spencer says he's changed? What are your thoughts?"
I don't have time to break it down more fully at the moment, so to tide you over for when I do, I'll touch on my assessment of his new stance below as briefly as I can: