Forums

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I am a lot less concerned with whether Israel elects assholes to run its government than I am with whether we do, because lots of countries elect assholes and I don't live there. Putin may be the world's largest asshole at the moment, but, luckily, Russia is a second rate economy and has limited importance in my world.

But Bibi is an asshole, and very much an asshole of a Trumpian ilk, and some of the Israeli right are even worse. The big difference between them is that Bibi is both smarter and more knowledgeable than Trump, and so his government is more functional on a day to day level.

Bottom line, though, as an Israeli friend of mine recently put it, "we both have our meshuganahs, but you're going to get rid of yours before we do."

I'm less concerned with Russia or Trump or Israel, because I have no influence, than I am about Ty drifting even further from any coherent mooring to reality, because he feels Israel is bad, organically bad.