Rain Gryphon

The Tubby Tyrant has gifted tractors to potato farmers. No word about any implements for them, and the farmers have to buy their own fuel. No phosphate fertilizer to be had anywhere either, since the fertilizer factory exploded four years ago and isn't yet repaired. Still, the lucky farmers are now expected to demonstrate their gratitude by reaping a record harvest.

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It's annoying to me that Reuters (and other news sources as well) keeps calling what's happening in Haiti "protests". When you're shooting off guns, and setting buildings on fire, that's rioting, at the very least.

It's beyond annoying that while American taxpayers are being asked to pay for the Kenyan expedition (which was Haiti's idea), the Haitians themselves have 500 million dollars to pay Venezuela for petroleum products.

So, amongst the many rumours circulating about the Tubby Tyrant, I'm struck by the one that he collapsed with some sort of cardiac event whilst at a village terrifying the starving peasants, and had to be rushed off to a hospital and given a stent. The story goes that the doctor, understandably nervous as well as entirely unused to working on people who have any amount of excess body fat, managed to botch the job somehow, and now the Beloved Leader is in a coma. Quite ironic if true. Poetic, even.

I'm prolly going to Hell for laughing at this, but this is one of my all-time favourite pictures of the Beloved Leader. He seems to be literally rubbing his hands in glee. Soon, he will have enough synthetic lubricant to conquer the United States, and free us from the twin oppressions of capitalism and imperialism!

Meanwhile, the slave-labour dude on the left hasn't slept for the past 48 hours, terrified that the Tubby Tyrant will notice that half the bolts on that sealing flange have been stolen and sold for food, or that the maintenance guys carelessly got a splotch of blue paint on the output tube of the Glorious North Korean People's Lubricant-Making Machine.

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We've finally taken the common-sense step of declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorists. IMHO, we'd have done better to have declared the Iranian government and all of its representatives as terrorists, and opened the festivities by raiding the UN and hauling Iran's guys off to Guantanamo, but this is a start.

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The Darktator has evidently declared that electrical power will be shut off at unannounced intervals for "maintenance", to prevent "blackouts".

Well, I never saw this coming. I expected us to be at war in a few weeks. If true, it represents an absolute climbdown from their most recent statements. Obviously, if we're going to come to an accomodation with them, that's going to involve giving up on the idea of regime change, and turning a blind eye to how Kim treats his people. I'll give vent to my native cynicism, and predict that as soon as a deal is struck, the same media that fawned all over the Tubby Tyrant's sister and the NK cheerleaders at the Olympics will suddenly develop an intense interest in NK's human rights situation.

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What would really be cool would be if Trump pulled out a pistol and shot the evil clown at the photo op.