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You are here: Home / Politics / Crazification Factor / Prop Humor is Really Not Bibi Netanyahu’s Forte: UN General Assembly Edition

Prop Humor is Really Not Bibi Netanyahu’s Forte: UN General Assembly Edition

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Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu addressed this year’s UN General Assembly. As he does every time he makes one of these addresses, he had visual aids. Today’s were pictures of Iran’s secret atomic warehouse.

From Ha’aretz:

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a secret Iranian nuclear storage facility in Tehran and hidden missiles in Beirut during his address at the United Nations’ General Assembly 73rd session on Thursday.

The Israeli prime minister said the Iranian facility contains technology for Iran’s nuclear program, adding that Iran “took this radioactive material and spread it around Tehran like Nutella.”

Netanyahu said that Iran removed 15kg of radioactive material from the warehouse last month, and that it contained up to 300 tons of nuclear-related material. Netanyahu called on the IAEA to inspect the facility immediately.

“I have a message for tyrants of Tehran – Israel knows what you’re doing,” Netanyahu said. He added that Israel will continue to act against Iran – “also in Syria and also in Iraq.”

There’s only one problem, it’s a Persian carpet cleaners. Apparently Israel does not know what Iran is doing.

Remember to steam clean regularly!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled shondas for the goyim…

Open thread.

 

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161Comments

  1. 1.

    r€nato

    This merely proves how crafty the Iranians are at hiding their weapons of mass destruction programs.

    /Cheney

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    Clean carpet, flying carpet, airborne nuclear delivery program…put the pieces together, hippies!

    Somebody needs to hang a big cardboard version of Bibi’s cartoon Acme bomb from that gate.

  4. 4.

    Adam L Silverman

    @trollhattan: I told a former boss I was talking to on the phone a couple of weeks ago that I’m convinced that once a year or so someone pulls the spreadsheet of all the stuff Israel has sold Iran under the table, tallies it all up decade after decade, and then freaks out over what the Iranians might be able to do with all of it.

  7. 7.

    Quaker in a Basement

    Till Bibi’s speech I didn’t know #Turquzabad was a real place. It is used to mean a distant, unimportant place in everyday Persian.

    Persian for Podunk.

  8. 8.

    DanR2

    I’ve often wondered how they clean all those Persian rugs.

  18. 18.

    ruemara

    Ha! Unbelievable. Now that they’ve pantsed themselves on the world’s stage, I wonder what level of militaristic dick waggling they’ll do to make up for it.

  24. 24.

    Barbara

    @rikyrah: Well, in 1982 Gaithersburg might have still been mostly farmland, not the affluent suburb it is today. It was still a stupid thing to say. I didn’t know many private school students, but every once in a while we did mix, usually because someone I knew went to church with someone who went to a private school.

  26. 26.

    El Caganer

    Isn’t this sort of a ritual that Bibi performs regularly for the UN? In any event, his real audience is in DC…..assuming he can get his act put on Fox so that audience will watch it.

  30. 30.

    jimmiraybob

    @trollhattan:

    …put the pieces together, hippies!

    As an old hippie this makes me laugh….in a good way. i am going to take this good feeling and leave the intertubes for dinner. And maybe sip some bourbon (of course, in the olden days it would more likely have been a cheap wine from a leather wine bag if not directly from the bottle).

  34. 34.

    RepubAnon

    I’ll bet there’s lots of atoms at that warehouse… carbon atoms, hydrogen atoms…

    The only place I know of that’s reasonably free of atoms is the vacuum between Trump’s ears.

  42. 42.

    Mary G

    I have a steak and a baked potato I’m making for late lunch/early dinner before the teen and his crew come home for nuggets, corndogs, and who knows what else. Then finish streaming season one of The Good Place and go to sleep before it’s all the way dark. I was so riled up last night that both cats came to snuggle me in bed at the same time, which they never do. Trying to think of somewhere cheap to take the teen and his girl friend that’s not too far away. They are grounded, but his mom and stepfather are both in class all day tomorrow and a whole day of heavy sighs is just too much, plus I need to disconnect from the tubes. The weather is glorious.

  43. 43.

    Calouste

    @rikyrah: I think Christine Blasey Ford yesterday correctly called them “elitist” schools, not “elite” schools.
    Elite schools produce elite graduates, elitist schools take in elite students.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    @Josie:

    I suspect I would have liked your father.

    He died in 1995. I wish he had lived a couple of decades longer — I think he would have made a fine Jackal, for all he was born in 1914.

  61. 61.

    Cheryl Rofer

    I haven’t been following this closely today, but I have seen some tweets that seem to indicate that there is a warehouse full of documents somewhere. Although Bibi claimed that sometime back, and that may be what they’re talking about. It hasn’t been confirmed to my satisfaction, though.

  71. 71.

    Mary G

    @NotMax: The kid breaks everything he comes within six feet of, so no way any sort of combustion is going to go on. It’s just going to be chores, and errands I think. I am going to get the house painted and ordered eight little pots of sample paint from Lowes online. Picked them up, started putting them on the wall, they are all white base and no color, so have go there and yell at them.

  73. 73.

    kindness

    Bibi probably only cared that Trump saw his speech. An audience of 1. Trump is dumkoff enough to believe Bibi. This weekend’s tweets are going to be extra screechy, just sayin’.

  81. 81.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yutsano: I have no idea. Honestly, my guess is the intel folks either told him what it really was and he ignored it or the HUMINT sources in Iran are just feeding garbage back through their handlers/case officer to Tel Aviv because they know Bibi will 1) believe anything that confirms his preconceived notions and 2) he’ll then go on TV and tell everyone, leading to 3) the ability of Iran to show how dumb Bibi is.

  105. 105.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Last night I performed at my monthly burlesque show (that I co-produce) for the first time since I got back. It was good emotionally to do it, but damn it kicked my ass physically. (In good part having to drive up to SF and back, plus the usual being wired post-show that makes it hard to sleep.) Had to leave work after lunch and sleep for a couple hours, despite the construction next door.

    I knew the first couple weeks back at work would be tough, but definitely harder than I thought it was going to be. Thankfully the product manager I’m working with has been extremely understanding. Have to see if I can get caught up tomorrow and then catch up on sleep Sunday, since that’s the only day without construction.

  107. 107.

    Kathleen

    I’ve followed very few threads in the past 2 days so apologies if someone has already posted this from David Fahrenthold:

    A federal judge in DC has ruled that 200 Dem members of Congress have standing to sue @realDonaldTrump for allegedly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, he’s still doing business w/ foreign govts. Story coming…David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold). Link to thread posted below.

    https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1045782732532592640

  108. 108.

    Mnemosyne

    I am darkly amused by the people on Twitter who are like, “OMG A PLACE OF BUSINESS HAS A FENCE AND A LOCKED GATE IT MUST BE A SECRET NUKE WAREHOUSE THERE’S NO OTHER LOGICAL EXPLANATION!”

  114. 114.

    p.a.

    You laugh libturds but once you’ve been on the receiving end of a finely woven Persian AT WHOLESALE you won’t be laughing any more.

  115. 115.

    NotMax

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Dismal Seepage, Ohio was often mentioned on the Vic and Sade radio show. Along with East Brain, Oregon and Fiendish, Indiana (among others). Also too Sick River Junction, Missouri (location of the Missouri State Home for the Tall).

    Once voted the best radio serial in a poll of 600 radio editors, Vic and Sade also received praise from many well-known listeners, including Ray Bradbury, Norman Corwin, Stan Freberg, Edgar A. Guest, Ogden Nash, John O’Hara, Fred Rogers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jean Shepherd, James Thurber, Tom Lehrer and Hendrik Willem van Loon. Nash and O’Hara both compared [creator and writer Paul] Rhymer to Mark Twain, while others made a comparison with Charles Dickens, but Rhymer defies comparison since his work is basically a sui generis. The series had an influence on the writing of Kurt Vonnegut, who called it “the Muzak of my life.” Source

    Growing up (still a work in progress) we used to refer to to Burnt Armpit, Idaho.

  127. 127.

    TenguPhule

    Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has demanded Canada stop treating it like a “banana republic” and called upon the government of Justin Trudeau to apologize for calling for the release of jailed human rights activists, further escalating a simmering diplomatic row that began over the summer.

    “You can criticize us about human rights, women’s rights … that’s your right. You can sit down and talk about it, but demand the immediate release? What are we, a banana republic? Would any country accept it?” said the foreign minister, Adel Al-Juebir, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, as world leaders gathered for the United Nations general assembly.

    Indeed, no self-respecting Banana would choose to grow in Saudi Arabia.

  129. 129.

    Gelfling 545

    @divF: East Bejesus was common in my youth. A college acquaintance referred to her home town as Backward on the Hudson.

  145. 145.

    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: No, that makes it sound like the camels are in control.

    Saudis a monarchy built on the tribal model. Traditionally the kings and crown princes have considered themselves to be the sheikhs of sheikhs for all the other Saudis regardless of their tribes. The current crown prince seems to be trying to turn this into an absolute monarchy.

  146. 146.

    Mart

    @Dan B: Your H.S. must have been in the burbs.Have you heard the word – “Thunderbird” at about 20% alcohol has a slightly grape and raw ether nose, and solid burn on the tongue. Thinking about 60 cents a bottle. Another great 20% varietal was “Tiger Rose”. A lot of people do not know that Anheuser-Busch makes a 6% malt liquor – “King Cobra”, as they only sell it in poor urban neighborhoods. Couple 40oz bottles and you got a party.

  152. 152.

    smedley the uncertain

    @jimmiraybob: 1.99 Gallo was the GOOD stuff! Now Thunderbird had a following of it’s own. “What’s the WORD? THUNDERBIRD.
    What’s the price? 30 twice.” Annnnd lastly Mad Dog 20-20 (MD 20-20) manufactured right here in the heart of the New York wine country in Ripley. Cheers

  153. 153.

    Jay C

    So Bibi’s latest ludicrous-UN-Iran-bashing prop is a picture of a cleaners in town that’s the Iranian equivalent of “Timbuctoo” or “Cucamonga”??

    Laughable, except John Bolton is probably going use it at a press conference demanding it be bombed: “AHA! They want you to THINK it’s just a carpet-cleaners!!!!“

  159. 159.

    J R in WV

    OK, you guys talking about cheap wine:

    Italian Swiss Colony wine. While I was a Great Lakes for post-boot-camp training, near pay day we would be seriously broke. One day we scraped all the loose change from our lockers and combined it to buy a gallon of Italian Swiss Colony white wine, and took it down to the lake shore, where we passed it around. We got really drunk.

    Unfortunately it was restricted, no sailors allowed down there after dark. As we walked up the road, along came the Officer of the Day being driven around the Navy base in a jeep. Which nearly had room for all of us. We were delivered to the Shore Patrol HQ, where we were dejected and drunk. Ed kept throwing up a little bit, and swallowing.

    After a very long wait, for the OOD to go to bed, we were released to go to our barracks to prepare for classes the next day. I don’t think we even got written up on paper. That was some really bad wine, but it had plenty of alcohol in it. We were all sorry the next day.

    Think about that:: Italian Swiss Colony… how does that even make as much sense as a nuclear rug cleaning center????

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