08 November 2021

Headline of the Day

Nominating Rahm Emanuel to Be Ambassador to Japan Suggests We Don't Like Japan
—Charlie Pierce in Esquire

Seriously.  There is literally no one less qualified to be Ambassador to Japan.

He does not know the language, he has no exposure to the culture, and he is rude, abusive, incompetent, and LOUD.

It's kind of the antithesis of Japanese culture:

Rahm Emanuel is a pestiferous lout who kept getting hired by Democratic administrations, where he took as his main job pissing off the party’s base. He then got elected to Congress, where he did very little, and then he got elected mayor of Chicago, where his most notable accomplishment was to be accused of covering up the police killing of Laquan McDonald. Along the way, he alienated anyone who came within a 25-mile radius of his smirk. Nevertheless, the current administration nominated him to be ambassador to Japan in a move that made some observers wonder if this country was yet over Pearl Harbor.

But thank the attentive Deity, there came Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, of the Dickensian senatorial firm of Merkley and Markey. Senator Jeff and Senator Ed both voted against Emanuel’s nomination. It went through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee despite their opposition, which Merkley explained quite clearly in his statement accompanying his vote.

If he gets appointed, it will be with Republican votes.

Also, if he gets appointed, he will f%$# it up, just like he has for every other thing that he has done in his life.

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