Keeping with the animal metaphors, Thomas Friedman OpEd's are like when you look up in the sky to see a bird flying overhead and it shits in your mouth.
I saw Friedman speak in when I was a profesor Singapore -- we were "asked" to help fill out the audience. The audience started giggling when he revealed his "expertise" on Asia.
In the 1980s, I wrote a critique of the NYTs’ coverage of South African apartheid, mainly based on Friedman’s coverage that set a baseline (90%) that the apartheid authorities were a legitimate entity and those in opposition were just 10% correct. To me, his analysis promoted the idea that the system only needed some tweaking. He hasn’t changed. To this day, the name Thomas Friedman pops up when I hear the term ‘neocon’. He set the standard! He is the benchmark!
This is pretty much par for the course for the New York Times. With such hits as William F. Buckley's "We Should Force Gays to Get an AIDS tattoo" and the recent "How human are trans people, really?," this isn't surprising at all.
The US is more like a lion that bit into a porcupine and refuses to acknowledge that continuing to attack more porcupines is not helping. The kind of lion that dies from not learning its lesson.
If the US doesn't play world police, the world will not magically become peaceful and democratic. It instead becomes more authoritarian and against freedom. What happened when we left Afghanistan? A lot of bad things happen in nation building and playing world police. That doesn't mean somehow not doing those things are better. This is just simplistic
I remember distinctly Thomas Friedman going on TV news right after 911 and claiming straight up that "They will blame this on the Jews". The unbearable arrogance was as shocking as it was cringe worthy.
@@kobicooper8762 who is "they"? if you look on the internet you can find someone saying anything they can dream up. do you live an anecdotal existence?
@@johnnynephrite6147 sadly it is a common conspiracy theory, very prevalent in the Arab/Muslim world (who don't want to admit the attackers came from them) and Neo-Nazi far right (who also likes to blame everything on the Jews) .
Unless Israel would play the mouse pulling the stinger out, I doubt even Watters would stick with the lion vs wasp comparison. It's just too embarrassing for cable.
Every time an opinion writer goes to make an analogy/metaphor to nature/the """animal kingdom""", I am reminded that they know less than nothing about nature
@@meegz149 I grew up with the Sega Mega Drive, there were some fantastic games on that thing. Ecco the Dolphin was one of my favourites, so mysterious and beautiful, but absolutely brutal difficulty.
That is about far left communism??? You know. 1. Fight to get rid of greedy capitalist. 2. Promise everyone equality 3. Overturn the regime. Get into power. 4. Leaders insert themselves into power, removes any capitalism so everyone is on the same (broke) level. 5. Those now in power live in places having huge banquets, travelling the world in lavish luxury. ???? You need sold a scam.
Organic as in an atmosphere of chaos, injustice, anger, and betrayal, a power vacuum can occur that opens the door for power grabs. Israel saw the advantage in funding them, however, they did not create them.
@@sarahjones2210 I understand, what I'm saying is that they weren't created out of nothing. Such conditions breads fanatics which it did and Israel saw the opportunity and funded them. In that sense they were created.
If Israel hadn't taken a religious charity and turned it into H•m•s, something similar was very likely to arise due to the way Israel treats Palestinians.
I think its very consistent with similar cases like rhodesia that an extremist front would arise in opposition to continued violent obstructionist occupation of a massive population of indigenous people. In fact i think it is demonstrative of the incredible bravery and resilience of the palestinian people that the secularists represented the center for as long as they did before hamas
The US as a 'lion in the jungle' analogy is actually quite appropriate- but completely by accident. Lions don't live in the jungle. They live in semi-arid savannah habitats. They've got no business being in the jungle. It's bad for them and bad for the animals that live there. The lion should leave the jungle and leave the jungle creatures alone- they've got enough problems without having to worry about lions as well. Also, out of fairness to a sickeningly racist screed that really doesn't deserve it, 'parasitoid' is a valid scientific term. The distinction between a parasitoid and a parasite is that a parasitoid kills its host, but a parasite usually doesn't.
It's still so fucking awesome seeing Ben Affleck genuinely angry at Bill Maher and Sam Harris during the era where hating muslims was accepted. He wasn't pulling this Patrick Bateman "Cool it with the antisemitic remarks" type shit. I could genuinely tell he was feeling that same frustration from when arguing with some dumbass on reddit or twitter. Just that feeling of thinking how could someone actually be this racist and think it's okay?
Nah, he looked pretty bad and didn't actually put forth an argument, he was just mad. Perfect example of someone that doesn't like what someone else is saying without being able to explain why it is wrong.
@@zagreus5773 Im sure he was just as shocked as I was that people could be openly racist and hateful on national TV and receive cheers 😂 He was the only person with a beating heart lol
@@emment.2702 See, you are doing the same thing he did. Disagree with him, sure, but simply yelling "racism" without explaining how, just makes you look bad.
Besides Friedman's open racism and genocidal wishes, one could make a severe criticism of his literary failures. He uses ridiculous mixed metaphors which don't make sense. He just uses things that his intern did a search for and that he understands nothing about.
Why do they call the Lion the King of the Jungle when they live in the savanna? Tigers live in the Jungle, wouldn’t it be more fitting to say the Tiger is the King of the Jungle?
@@SpoopySquidIndeed! Tom can find other animal no one has ever heard of for his worthless analogies. This is off-topic, but just thinking about King Julian and the Penguins of Madagascar show reminds me of the good that can come out of the U.S., and how much of the the country's woes are self-inflicted.
Yesterday I met Algerian guy who master 5 languages, that was very inspiring He said to me people in that region usually able to speak 3 as regular curriculum in their schools, i find that pretty profound
Point probably is third worlders are so great and smart, and some, I assume, are very good people. And no, we're not giving you any developmental aid. And yes, you will get the Houthi treatment if you start something stupid.
I would like to point out that parasitoid wasps are incredibly beneficial to agriculture. From gardens to large agriculture, they protect the crops from pests like a caterpillar that consumes entire plants. Caterpillars and hornworms are like the most obscene capitalist consumers.
His background is Jewish. He went to Israel in 1968 to stay in a kibbutz. He lives in a $9 million dollar house since his wife is the daughter of a real estate tycoon.
The racists are so terrified, in the early 2000's I was working a job down the shoreline from the Bush estate in Kennebunkport. Was having lunch with the h.o. and joked that in the generation or so the predominant skin tone in the US would be light brown. I was fired two days later.
@@FelisImpurratorYou bigots are out & proud these days. Y'all don't even have a criticism this time, just hate with no explanation of what the problem even is. Willfully ignorant & deceitful.
I love the way he thinks there's some kind of concept of "tuning in on the wavelength of the common man" and even funnier, he thinks this deluded mission would be completed by overhearing or fabricating little snippets of supposed quotes from the individuals he deals with in the service industries, his only point of contact with any members of the "Commoner" class.
I’m a clinical psychologist and in my profession or anything close to a domain where we want to comprehend the complexities of the human behavior, we don’t use other animals as ascendant comparison. We could actually try to find human traits in animals (like mice or other mammals) not the opposite. I read that article and it has no scientific basis, total horse sht.
Racism aside, that is such embarrassingly immature writing that I’m shocked that any person would be so oblivious as to be willing to put their name on it, let alone act as if it has any weight to it.
I don't know if the old lion is tired or not, doesn't look like to me, but the jungle is sick and tired of this old fool. Yes he's right, the lion can't expect anymore to have his say obeyed like before, there will be more conflicts and more wounds to come to it's already weakening and stretched out body. Everyone in the jungle knows, this lion might have a heart for a fight, but does not have a brain and definitely does not have the lungs for it.
lions actually leave other animals alone most of the time. they also respect other large animals and rarely pick fights with like, hippos and rhinos so you’d assume if there were bears in the savanna they’d be capable of respecting bears and … dragons 😉 real apex predators in nature don’t eat everything with insatiable appetites, nor do they hoard trillions of carcasses they can’t possibly eat in many lifetimes, 😉 and instead just hunt about enough to keep going.
Friedman essentially compared the U.S. to the bad guy from the Lion King. I almost can't tell if he's being incredibly stupid or strangely profound - almost.😂
I kept waiting for the face-eating leopards to come into the discussion, but was disappointed...maybe they just aren't part of the Middle-Eastern jungle ecology?
let’s also note that lions don’t actually live in jungles. if Thomas Friedman had only watched The Lion King, he’d know a lion in a jungle is such an aberration that Simba was forced to adopt an insectivore diet.
Okay, why are all acting surprised? ASK YOURSELF WHO IS THOMAS FRIEDMAN?? Look ole boy up!! Come on everyone. Look like a skunk, smells like a skunk it's pretty much a dang skunk🤨
How about understanding the Middle East through Star Trek. Israel = Cardassian/Dominion (occupying Cardassia) Palestinian = Bajorans/Cardassians (during Dominion occupying Cardassia) HAMA = The Maquis/Bajoran Resistance/ Cardassian Liberation Front (during Dominion occupying Cardassia)
Keeping with the animal metaphors, Thomas Friedman OpEd's are like when you look up in the sky to see a bird flying overhead and it shits in your mouth.
Sick 🤮
don't disrespect birds like that
@@zeusjukem9484 Nah, fuck the geese
Cloaca art
😆
I saw Friedman speak in when I was a profesor Singapore -- we were "asked" to help fill out the audience. The audience started giggling when he revealed his "expertise" on Asia.
He compared all the countries to animals but didn't do the same with Israel, he only compared Bibi.
Make of that what you will.
Even for liberal journalism, I do not understand how Friedman still has a job.
I initially misread this as 'libel' journalism. Seems apt
What part of "billionaire heiress wife" do you not understand?
What makes you think liberalism is any less reactionary than the conservatism it claims to oppose???
@@watsonroadster3707 Liberals forget how bigoted and greedy they can be
Because the conspiracy theories are actually conspiracy facts , that Zionist control everything✌️
Has Friedman ever had a single opinion that wasn't complete trash?
No
More like Thomas Friedbrain
I heard he liked pizza and I was like okay okay nice but then he's like but only with anchovies and pineapple and I'm like oh man that's on brand
In 2002 he won the Pulitzer for "illuminating the war on terror"
@@snowdroog1 To be fair, he does an excellent job of it.
Needs to be read with the sneering voice of a 1920s British eugenicist.
Ironically Iranians were given exemption to the Nuremberg Racial Laws....
Not just any British. Enoch Powell
Friedman post 9/11 was frankly monstous.
Edit: damn sam did the bit, verbatim as far as i can tell. Kudos.
Thomas Friedman is just John Bolton without the glasses. Which is weird, because they are both Colonel Sanders.
W comment 🤯😂
Chickenhawks, indeed.
Haha....bad moustache !!!
In the 1980s, I wrote a critique of the NYTs’ coverage of South African apartheid, mainly based on Friedman’s coverage that set a baseline (90%) that the apartheid authorities were a legitimate entity and those in opposition were just 10% correct. To me, his analysis promoted the idea that the system only needed some tweaking.
He hasn’t changed. To this day, the name Thomas Friedman pops up when I hear the term ‘neocon’. He set the standard! He is the benchmark!
He has been supportive of apartheid all along...or rather whatever favors a particular country
I don’t know what animal the US is, but it is an invasive species
Like China or Russia or Britain.
Homo Imperialensis.
...Notice the lack of sapiens.
Perfect response. Absolutely perfect.
Locusts, they show up, devastate nations, then leave only to repeat the cycle later on.
America is HIV which causes AIDS in the body of every country it infects... Resulting in death of the host
I heard his next column will be titled “Understanding thermodynamics though the show Married With Children.”
Can I get a “Whoa Bundy”?!
The show was a pretty good example of cultural entropy.
@@1monki Any show is, technically.
Things get hot. Things get cold. No one knows why.
@@MichaelTorres-b2v It makes _Always Sunny_ work, but they never make any of The Gang anything but terrible, narcissistic psychopaths.
Thomas Friedman is best understood by analogy of my cats' litterbox, which I am not always fastidious in emptying.
Because junk sometimes gets in there that should be removed deliberately and probably quickly, to avoid it contaminating everything around the junk.
Sounds like a regular Fox News segment
This is pretty much par for the course for the New York Times. With such hits as William F. Buckley's "We Should Force Gays to Get an AIDS tattoo" and the recent "How human are trans people, really?," this isn't surprising at all.
@@Newton-ReutherRight alongside their anti black articles. Trying to convince black women to marry non black men.
@@Newton-ReutherYou're joking about those headlines, right? Right?
Except Friedman is on nytimes!
@@Newton-Reuther Along with the anti black articles. RUclips gonna delete that too?
The US is more like a lion that bit into a porcupine and refuses to acknowledge that continuing to attack more porcupines is not helping. The kind of lion that dies from not learning its lesson.
Yes! Also because it's a very young lion, instead of a very old lion.
Lion was on the flag of Iran pre revolution. Lion is often used in their culture
@@HumanHamCubeold lions, with huge manes. America is a stupid lion, meaning big, immature and nearly bald.
If the US doesn't play world police, the world will not magically become peaceful and democratic. It instead becomes more authoritarian and against freedom. What happened when we left Afghanistan?
A lot of bad things happen in nation building and playing world police. That doesn't mean somehow not doing those things are better. This is just simplistic
@@hash8169 or the US can be an antibiotic to infections attacking vital organs in different parts of the body that affect the body as a whole.
I remember distinctly Thomas Friedman going on TV news right after 911 and claiming straight up that "They will blame this on the Jews". The unbearable arrogance was as shocking as it was cringe worthy.
@@kobicooper8762 who is "they"? if you look on the internet you can find someone saying anything they can dream up. do you live an anecdotal existence?
@@johnnynephrite6147 sadly it is a common conspiracy theory, very prevalent in the Arab/Muslim world (who don't want to admit the attackers came from them) and Neo-Nazi far right (who also likes to blame everything on the Jews) .
Thomas Friedman sounding like Jesse Watters
Worse!
When did he ever not?
Unless Israel would play the mouse pulling the stinger out, I doubt even Watters would stick with the lion vs wasp comparison. It's just too embarrassing for cable.
@@mandyharewood886Yeah, maybe Jesse Lee Peterson 😳
No he sounds exactly like a Jew that steeped In the Talmud.
Everytime the NYT lies I'm more disgusted.
Said wrote Orientalism with racists like Friedman in mind. He has the colonizer mindset that NYT readers love.
Him and his readers have to venture out of 1990s at some point, this whole region has different dynamics now.
Excellent point!
Always happy to see references to Eddie Said. RIP
It is not about " Orientalism with racists ..." , but it is a Shylockian Jew who sees Iranians as the children of Haman ( Purim ).
@@akumakorgar I have never heard anyone calling Dr. Edward Said 'Eddie'!!?? Were you a personal friend of him?
I believe “cockroaches” is the classic image for nations one is dehumanizing…
It is. The IOF used it to describe the Palestinians on their telegram channel where they posted gory videos of unalived Ghazans.
Justice for Khashoggi.
Yes! ✊
Also for the journalists targeted by IDF. Justice for Shirene Abu Akleh ✊🇵🇸💔
Every time an opinion writer goes to make an analogy/metaphor to nature/the """animal kingdom""", I am reminded that they know less than nothing about nature
...and that they don't understand the thing they are opinioning about.
He's literally doing the Hans Landa hawk/rat bit
This is great. This opinion piece by Thomas Friedman deserves its own South Park episode. 😅
Man this looks like the winning entry in a literary competition to create a Friedman esque NY Times column
That opinion piece was so extreme, it should be teaming with the Street Sharks and the Ninja Turtles against the Battletoads.
I played tmnt, double dragon, even chip ‘n Dale, and mega man -of course-never played battletoads though. 😢
Tubular comment 👍
@@meegz149 I grew up with the Sega Mega Drive, there were some fantastic games on that thing. Ecco the Dolphin was one of my favourites, so mysterious and beautiful, but absolutely brutal difficulty.
We all need to be more radical in response lol
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated I freaking LOVE Ecco. There's a silent play-thru of the 2nd game win YT that I love falling asleep to. Deep nostalgia.
It sounds like 1939.
louder for the ones in the back
Godwin law.
1932 even.
Sad that 'we are the pollenizers' went completely ignored.
And lions don't live in the jungle.
I yelled that at my screen three times in a row, absolute stupidity
Your mom lives in a trailer
THANK you
They use the term jungle to refer to the wild as a whole
The Moustache Of Wrongness keeps reaching new depths.
Thomas Friedman is a simpleton. He's perfect for the New York Times.
I remember him really losing the plot after 9/11. Was he like that even before? It sure sounds like he's never really recovered.
He actually meant that the USA has been playing the role of Napoleon in Animal Farm.
That is about far left communism???
You know.
1. Fight to get rid of greedy capitalist.
2. Promise everyone equality
3. Overturn the regime. Get into power.
4. Leaders insert themselves into power, removes any capitalism so everyone is on the same (broke) level.
5. Those now in power live in places having huge banquets, travelling the world in lavish luxury.
????
You need sold a scam.
Hamas was not organic, Israel funded them😂
Organic as in an atmosphere of chaos, injustice, anger, and betrayal, a power vacuum can occur that opens the door for power grabs. Israel saw the advantage in funding them, however, they did not create them.
@@sarahjones2210 I understand, what I'm saying is that they weren't created out of nothing. Such conditions breads fanatics which it did and Israel saw the opportunity and funded them. In that sense they were created.
Like how koch bros funded tea party...😊
If Israel hadn't taken a religious charity and turned it into H•m•s, something similar was very likely to arise due to the way Israel treats Palestinians.
I think its very consistent with similar cases like rhodesia that an extremist front would arise in opposition to continued violent obstructionist occupation of a massive population of indigenous people. In fact i think it is demonstrative of the incredible bravery and resilience of the palestinian people that the secularists represented the center for as long as they did before hamas
The US as a 'lion in the jungle' analogy is actually quite appropriate- but completely by accident. Lions don't live in the jungle. They live in semi-arid savannah habitats. They've got no business being in the jungle. It's bad for them and bad for the animals that live there. The lion should leave the jungle and leave the jungle creatures alone- they've got enough problems without having to worry about lions as well.
Also, out of fairness to a sickeningly racist screed that really doesn't deserve it, 'parasitoid' is a valid scientific term. The distinction between a parasitoid and a parasite is that a parasitoid kills its host, but a parasite usually doesn't.
I wonder if Friedmans editor at the New York Times made him change it from parasite to parasitoid
just insane
It's still so fucking awesome seeing Ben Affleck genuinely angry at Bill Maher and Sam Harris during the era where hating muslims was accepted. He wasn't pulling this Patrick Bateman "Cool it with the antisemitic remarks" type shit. I could genuinely tell he was feeling that same frustration from when arguing with some dumbass on reddit or twitter. Just that feeling of thinking how could someone actually be this racist and think it's okay?
I saw that vid for the first time last week. Really gained a lot of respect for Ben Affleck, especially doing that in such a hostile environment.
Nah, he looked pretty bad and didn't actually put forth an argument, he was just mad. Perfect example of someone that doesn't like what someone else is saying without being able to explain why it is wrong.
Islam isn't a race
@@zagreus5773 Im sure he was just as shocked as I was that people could be openly racist and hateful on national TV and receive cheers 😂 He was the only person with a beating heart lol
@@emment.2702 See, you are doing the same thing he did. Disagree with him, sure, but simply yelling "racism" without explaining how, just makes you look bad.
Besides Friedman's open racism and genocidal wishes, one could make a severe criticism of his literary failures. He uses ridiculous mixed metaphors which don't make sense. He just uses things that his intern did a search for and that he understands nothing about.
Why do they call the Lion the King of the Jungle when they live in the savanna? Tigers live in the Jungle, wouldn’t it be more fitting to say the Tiger is the King of the Jungle?
I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂
Don't try to use logic when dealing with Friedman
Lions and 'the' jungle are both found in Africa. Since Africa is one place, lions are therefore the King of the Jungle
Lions also get their shit rocked frequently by other animals, so calling them monarchs is hilarious
@@youfoundisaac
Lions are found on the Savanna of Africa, not the jungle. Try again buttercup.
Man walked away from complicity in Iraq, watched "Madagascar" in theaters, and altered his brain chemistry
Sifaka lemurs are cool & it's disgusting to compare a war criminal to a gorgeous furball of delight.
King Julian would never
@@SpoopySquidIndeed! Tom can find other animal no one has ever heard of for his worthless analogies.
This is off-topic, but just thinking about King Julian and the Penguins of Madagascar show reminds me of the good that can come out of the U.S., and how much of the the country's woes are self-inflicted.
Yesterday I met Algerian guy who master 5 languages, that was very inspiring
He said to me people in that region usually able to speak 3 as regular curriculum in their schools, i find that pretty profound
And the point of this story is...
Point probably is third worlders are so great and smart, and some, I assume, are very good people.
And no, we're not giving you any developmental aid. And yes, you will get the Houthi treatment if you start something stupid.
@@LVArtursOkay then...What were the five languages, out of curiosity? I assume two were Arabic and French.
I would like to point out that parasitoid wasps are incredibly beneficial to agriculture. From gardens to large agriculture, they protect the crops from pests like a caterpillar that consumes entire plants. Caterpillars and hornworms are like the most obscene capitalist consumers.
This is the framing device for the movie Mean Girls. He literally sounds like Lindsey Lohan describing Regina George
Hmm, I wonder if his background has anything to do with his attitude.
Probably or he would have called Israel termites.
What what's his background?
His background is Jewish. He went to Israel in 1968 to stay in a kibbutz. He lives in a $9 million dollar house since his wife is the daughter of a real estate tycoon.
💯💯💯💯
@@normarojo5834 now who's racist?
Classic Friedman back on his boschitt.
Or for the muscular class, "bullschmidt"
@@thomasrussell4674 Long live the foamed-up toiletariat! Praise god.
For one day.
@@adder2488 boom
The racists are so terrified, in the early 2000's I was working a job down the shoreline from the Bush estate in Kennebunkport. Was having lunch with the h.o. and joked that in the generation or so the predominant skin tone in the US would be light brown. I was fired two days later.
Lmao. Based joke though.
@@FelisImpurratorYou bigots are out & proud these days. Y'all don't even have a criticism this time, just hate with no explanation of what the problem even is. Willfully ignorant & deceitful.
Thomas Friedman tortures his metaphors so much that Alberto Gonzales needs to find him legal loopholes
Is this what happens when you replace Thomas Friedman's cab drivers with Uber drivers?
I love the way he thinks there's some kind of concept of "tuning in on the wavelength of the common man" and even funnier, he thinks this deluded mission would be completed by overhearing or fabricating little snippets of supposed quotes from the individuals he deals with in the service industries, his only point of contact with any members of the "Commoner" class.
"CabGPT, write me an article about the Middle East..." - Phoning it in Friedman
it's what happens when a talentless hack's "talent" is acclaimed ...
It's hard to hear reality through all those insulating layers of money and privilege.
Some people have been garbage for a short time (Jon fetterman), but some have been garbage for decades...I give you, Tom Friedman.
Lions don't live in the jungle.
U.S., you’ve become your father(Britain)
That opinion piece was basically Colonialism 101
Must have gotten this from a cabdriver who moonlights as an exterminator.
You're killing me😂
A cockroach calling his enemy a wasp
"Bugz!" -Starship Troopers
Could you imagine the lesser minds who actually read that and thought "now i understand thanks to your analogy!"
I’m a clinical psychologist and in my profession or anything close to a domain where we want to comprehend the complexities of the human behavior, we don’t use other animals as ascendant comparison. We could actually try to find human traits in animals (like mice or other mammals) not the opposite. I read that article and it has no scientific basis, total horse sht.
And the creatures in his analogy don't even interact. A wasp and a lion?
Friedman reads like a grade school essay that is trying to demonstrate he understands similes and metaphors. He got a C.
What really gets me is that lions dont live in the jungle. So either the Middle East is not a jungle, or the lion is outside its habitat.
I guess it is pretty hard to come up with decent ideas for a column that you write one day a week!
...especially if you've not had an original idea since 9-11...and probably long before that.
Ironic that the WASP described Iran as a wasp
Went from lions to insects real fucking quick there bruv
Racism aside, that is such embarrassingly immature writing that I’m shocked that any person would be so oblivious as to be willing to put their name on it, let alone act as if it has any weight to it.
Lions live in jungles? Wow. news to me.
Yeah, I could have sworn they lived on grasslands.
@@BinaBecker in India they live in woods .Lions used to live in many climates and habitats.
The US is like a really shitty park ranger
Aside from Lions living in jungles not being a thing of reality, this was pretty gross to hear. That was just straight up racism what that man wrote.
This is what happens when you try to justify the unjustifiable. You lose your mind.
I don't know if the old lion is tired or not, doesn't look like to me, but the jungle is sick and tired of this old fool. Yes he's right, the lion can't expect anymore to have his say obeyed like before, there will be more conflicts and more wounds to come to it's already weakening and stretched out body. Everyone in the jungle knows, this lion might have a heart for a fight, but does not have a brain and definitely does not have the lungs for it.
The Lion needs better housing and healthcare at this moment...
This is some glen beck era garbage
Oh my god, he put that metaphor on the rack and stretched it into a mangled corpse. Jesus.
This is why the US is such a horrible mess 😂
This ain’t 2001 we not falling for it
as a muslim, this is extremely worrying.
I wonder if this counts as incitement for the g-word. I think it does. Especially with the whole "setting fire to the whole jungle" rhetoric
Not surprising at all.
18:05 "alien lion" was not a phrase I ever expected to hear
Lions dont even live in jungles, they live on plains lol
"Thomas Friedman: The Empire's Useful Idiot" by John Dolan. 15 year old article, but never gets any less true.
How the hell is an old lion suppose to know or care what wasps and caterpillars are up to?
lions actually leave other animals alone most of the time. they also respect other large animals and rarely pick fights with like, hippos and rhinos so you’d assume if there were bears in the savanna they’d be capable of respecting bears and … dragons 😉 real apex predators in nature don’t eat everything with insatiable appetites, nor do they hoard trillions of carcasses they can’t possibly eat in many lifetimes, 😉 and instead just hunt about enough to keep going.
Take that Thomas Friedman
Not for a moment did Tom pause to ponder the obvious failings of his creation. But what of the dozens who refused to offer rational critique?
Don’t forget this is from the originator of ‘suck on this’.
Friedman essentially compared the U.S. to the bad guy from the Lion King. I almost can't tell if he's being incredibly stupid or strangely profound - almost.😂
In the comics, the rich become superheroes like Batman or Iron Man. In reality, they don't even qualify as super villains, just super a-holes.
Or Lex Luthor or Doctor Doom.
So sad that "polleniser" joke went unheard that was fucking funny
Why did it call it "The Jungle" then talk about fucking insects
I kept waiting for the face-eating leopards to come into the discussion, but was disappointed...maybe they just aren't part of the Middle-Eastern jungle ecology?
Lions don’t even live in the jungle…
It actually makes sense for the U.S. to be a lion king of the jungle considering that jungles are usually not a lion's habitat...
Ah yes, the traditional enlightened whiteman explaining other peoples of the world with both domesticated and undomesticated animal imagery.
let’s also note that lions don’t actually live in jungles. if Thomas Friedman had only watched The Lion King, he’d know a lion in a jungle is such an aberration that Simba was forced to adopt an insectivore diet.
I'm very amused by both the article and these responses. Very funny, good job everyone, nice memeing.
Wait that wasn't an article from _The Onion_ ?
I watched The Lion King. Wasn't Scar the villain? 🤔
UK Germany and Australia get to be Shenzi Banzai and Ed.
I am LMAO
Friedman this guy really is a real joke
That’s American journalism ?
Hey Chris hedges ask him few questions
Okay, why are all acting surprised? ASK YOURSELF WHO IS THOMAS FRIEDMAN?? Look ole boy up!! Come on everyone. Look like a skunk, smells like a skunk it's pretty much a dang skunk🤨
Yes, England is the regal lion, can never forget all those native lions roaming around the lochs...
I had a cheap subscription to the NYT... it wasnt cheap enough.
I thought Emma explained it best, how a Liberal audience requires the watered-down mesage that the Right embrace.
Can you find those old MR episodes from 20 years ago somewhere? Or Sam's TV moment with Friedman from 2011?
How about understanding the Middle East through Star Trek.
Israel = Cardassian/Dominion (occupying Cardassia)
Palestinian = Bajorans/Cardassians (during Dominion occupying Cardassia)
HAMA = The Maquis/Bajoran Resistance/ Cardassian Liberation Front (during Dominion occupying Cardassia)
I think Israel would be more like the Borg.
No! 😂
Now I feel like watching Star Trek.
@@wilcee238I think the US is The Borg: resistance is futile.
@shadowguard3578 The US is more like the Vulcans on Enterprise; we pretend to help, but we really hold things back for our own agendas.