Fuel to the Fire
Quico says: Child rapist Daniel Ortega (a.k.a. the president of Nicaragua) has apparently decided that Central America isn’t quite tense and unstable enough as it is. Fresh from rigging municipal elections last year, Ortega has just called for the Nicaraguan constitution to be reformed so that he can – wait for it – stand for re-election.
The proposal came in a speech commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution that was filled to the gills with over-the-top invective and the kinds of hyperventilatory bullshit Hugo Chávez has made his own.
Sigh.
Why oh why are authoritarian lefties so predictable?!
Post 8 of 100. Sagging a bit now.
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