"I may not know much about Nelson Mandela, but I know literally a thousand times more, because I tried to study it."

--Alex Jones

This is something that really irritates me about the right wing noise machine when it comes to hating other countries and their leaders. Did Mandela look to communists and other "enemies" of the US? Sure he did. Why? Well, the US basically flipped him the bird so who else was he going to look to for help?

It's the same when I hear idiots blather on about Castro and Iran. They get all lathered up about how these dictatorships are the bane of the planet and apparently arose out of nowhere in a giant cloud of satanism and injustice. They tend to skip the bit where we propped up regimes just as bad, if not worse, for the people of those countries. They also overlook the reason why so many countries went for dictatorships over democracies: The CIA pretty much taught them that if you didn't run a totalitarian state with lots of Orwellian secret police, the spooks from America were going to topple your ass.

South Africa is the one time we appear to have chosen the losing side and the outcome was actually positive for a change.

George Washington was no George Washington. Alexander Hamilton, now HE was George Washington.

JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DIE ALREADY, YOU USELESS FUCKING LOAD.

Alex also apparently isn't crushed by the irony of shitting all over someone who just died while sitting in a hotel room because he's attending a funeral.

Ironic, unless he's now lending himself out to bad-mouth people at funerals, because I could see him being paid to do that.

I can't say anything about this, beyond wishing that people like this would die of heartattacks brought on by the level of stress they obviously feel living from day to day like those alpha baboons in that one Nat Geo documentary cause that seemed to help the rest of the baboons out quite a lot, so I'm not gonna say anything at all.

RIP Nelson Mandela. The sane world knows who he is and the good he's accomplished. Jones is just on a downward spiral of alienation. He thrives on the controversy, but I have to wonder if he actually believes what he's saying?