Who is the Worst Person in the World? Ken Bernstein knows, and he shares his reasons here.
Right now, I would nominate the brutal dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, who brutalizes his own people and recently sent home the near-lifeless body of Otto Warmbier, a college student who had foolishly attempted to bring home a propaganda poster as a souvenir of his five-day trip to North Korea. Otto died, and I impulsively tweeted that we should drop the “mother of all bombs” on Kim’s palace. Actually, I was thinking about his personal bathroom. Lots of people on Twitter denounced my proposal, and expressed their disappointment in my behavior, as they expect me to act like a lady. I took the tweet down but replaced it with a tweet in which I said I wish I could have killed Hitler in 1939, but I was only one year old. That calmed people down.
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Mitch McConnell
…is not the worst person, but the worst turtle in the world.
I agree, Jeannie!
Plus McConnell’s evil twin, greed-filled and heartless legislator, Paul Ryan.
And their toads, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, on and on. All should report to their boss, Beelzabub, and leave America alone. Amazing how sick and self serving these Repubs are.
But the worst part of all this is that they keep being re-elected…so add a huge segment of American voters.
AND..the person who invented ‘internet bots’…’bots’ have changed the entire course of elections and what is manufactured “fake news”…
Nothing on the internet can be taken at face value…even our respected Diane’s tweets and blogs. All of this can be changed worldwide with NO control possible.
Stop facebook musing, stop tweeting. Beware of how dangerous a place the internet has become.
There are too many to name!
No one denies that the current dictator of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is totally evil. But, there is an “unspoken truce”, in the family of nations. We do not go around killing foreign leaders that we do not like. And, foreign leaders (generally) do not go around assassinating leaders that they do not like.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the US combat entry into World War One. We need to remember, that this war, which devastated a continent, and propelled the world into another world war twenty-one years later, was started by an assassination.
The USA attempted to kill Fidel Castro several times. Some conspiracy theorists, claim a Cuban/Soviet conspiracy in the assassination of John Kennedy.
Charles,
North Korea is not a member of th family of nations
“We do not go around killing foreign leaders that we do not like.”
Who’s “we”? Do you have any idea how many times the U.S. has done exactly that?
I was speaking in a general context. The USA was behind the killing of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba
The USA orchestrated a coup to over the Mossadegh government in Iran, and re-establish the monarch of the Shah. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
The CIA tried several times to kill Fidel Castro.
I used to work for the US State Department.
Of course, the USA has been involved in political assassinations, coups, and all types of covert actions for many years.
Don’t forget Allende. And also the Pinochet government.
“…as they expect me to act like a lady.”
It’s not a matter of acting like a lady. It’s a matter of being the better person. We all know Kim is despicable. What does it serve to be despicable in return? You can’t fight evil with evil.
We could fight evil with evil if we assemble a team of overwrought billionaires like Reed Hastings and Bill Gates to go over to North Korea and just spend some time with Kim. Before too long, they’ll take over everything and turn the entire nation into naught more than a data collection venture. They will force Kim to buy iPads and Pearson tests. Old problem solved, new problem begun. Just drop the other MOAB, the Mother Of All Bull, the Billionaire Boys Club.
Instead of Gates and Hastings, dear LCT, our government sent Dennis Rodman to feast and party with Kim. Wonder if Trump is going to appoint Dennis to the NSC as he did with Nazi-lover, Gorka?
That’s right, Ellen, Dennis Rodman was our top U.S. diplomat for a while there. Dennis was part of the “Bad Boys” Detroit Pistons team. Our U.S. Secretary of Education at the time of Rodman’s ascendancy to Bad Boy diplomat was also a former pro basketball player. Arne played for the Melbourne Spectres. When Bill and Mel Gates were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for funding the hostile, corporate takeover of education, so was Michael Jordan for playing basketball. Chicago Bulls. Hey, I played basketball in high school, so I should be Ambassador to Turkey. I can think of at least one billionaire whose trip to there I would like to facilitate. Send the rest of them to Pyongyang. … Maybe I am being a little mean, a bit less than entirely gentlemanly. Not surprising after 15 years of testing and teacher bashing.
Is it despicable or evil to wish that brutal dictator’s life be ended?
Bombing Kim wouldn’t just kill Kim. Think about if the White House was bombed (and plenty of people world-wide have probably entertained the notion) – imagine how many people would die. In fact, the target (Kim, Trump) might be least likely to die because I’m sure there are plans in place in the event of an attack to protect them. The cleaners, secretaries, cooks, etc.? Not so much.
How about a targeted mini-nuke with Kim’s name on it?
The movie “The Interview” had a great scenario.
Henry Kissinger. Milton Friedman. Everyone involved in poisoning Flint, Michigan. Everyone involved in the tower collapse in London. All neoconservatives and neoliberals.
Ugh, my second comment was meant to be a reply to marksterminal’s question about “who else?” Not sure how it got here.
The idiocy of your moral equivalency of fighting against obvious evil is sad. Thank goodness we fought a civil war to end slavery and prevailed in WW2 over Naziism and Japanese imperialism—the bloodshed of millions, both military and civilian–was not in vain. Pacifism in the face of totalitarian evil is immoral. ‘Nuff said.
So you’re mobilizing to revolt against Trump?
Johnny Depp is now in hot water, asking when was the last time that an actor assassinated a president see
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/entertainment/johnny-depp-trump-comment-glastonbury/index.html
Combined with Kathy Griffin’s holding a simulated bloody head of the president, makes you wonder what these “entertainers” are thinking.
Our nation needs a return to civil discourse.
Tell that to YOUR President who encourages the violent morons who elected him to beat up anyone who disagrees with his insane behaviors.
Ellen’s right, the civil discourse went out the window during the Republican primaries. Conservatives have NOTHING about which they can rightly complain now.
Donald J. Trump is the worst person in the world due to his vast power and capacity to do commensurate harm on account of his ignorance, narcissism, mendacity, and viciousness.
The field is so big, where does one begin with a nomination of this sort?
I’d like to propose the formation of a new social class, which I’ll designate the “Genuinely Awful.” While one needn’t be wealthy to be a member, most of the charter members are rich; the salient characteristic the members of this caste share, however, is their general and overwhelming awfulness (apologies to Paul Fussell for my theft of the basic idea behind his book “BAD: Or, the Dumbing of America”).
We can start with the Kardashians, the Trump family, Steve Bannon, Kim Jong-Un (oh, mais qui!), Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Putin, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas, Ted Cruz, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the NRA, demagogic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Roger Ailes, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, David Duke, Dick Cheney, and Ann Coulter.
And in memoriam: Phyllis Schlafly, Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Andrew Breitbart, William Loeb III (the publisher of the Manchester [N.H.] Union Leader, an open sewer of right-wing reaction), founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell, Orville Faubus, George Wallace, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Nancy Reagan, Mao Tse-Tung, Joseph Stalin, and Leni Riefenstahl.
Who else?
Henry Kissinger. Milton Friedman. Everyone involved in poisoning Flint, Michigan. Everyone involved in the tower collapse in London. All neoconservatives and neoliberals.
How about Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue?
In no particular order: George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Tony Blair, Richard Viguerie, Karl Rove, Rick Santorum, Chris Christie, Lee Atwater, Nicolae Ceausescu, Radovan Karadzic, Slobodan Milosevic, Rodrigo Duterte, Osama bin Laden, Bishop Coughlin, Frank Luntz, Generalissimo Francisco Franco (who is still dead), Pol Pot, Heinrich Himmler, Ayn Rand, U.S. Rep. Steve King, Betsy DeVos, Betsy DeVos’s baby brother Erik Prince, Tom DeLay, Bernie Madoff, Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Tom Price, Mick Mulvaney, Laura Schlessinger, Michele Bachmann, and Rupert Murdoch.
Happy 45th anniversary of the Watergate smoking-gun tape. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oe3OgU8W0s
Yeah, that’s a good list–everyone there is, indeed, genuinely awful.
Mitch is an evil genius but his power comes from all the Republican senators. Not one of them had the ethics to vote against Betsy DeVos or any of the other destructive cabinet members.
For the sake of truth and accuracy: Two of them did vote against Betsy DeVos. No doubt the majority whip let them do so after being guaranteed that no one else would defect.
Your larger point, that human beings are not sheep and party affiliation should not prevail over all else, is spot on.
Thanks for reminding me of those wonderful women’s votes.
Two bad those two Senators voted to approve DeVos in committee. If they had, she would not be Secretary. Their “no” votes in the floor were symbolic. They knew Pence would cast the tie-breaker.
It has nothing to do with them being “wonderful women”. It has to do with them being under great pressure in their districts and their positions being vulnerable. That’s why they were allowed to defect.
They were allowed to deflect because Pence would cast the deciding vote. Otherwise, they would have held the party line like everybody else. The problem is in rural areas of states like Maine, there are few private school choices. If a public school services a fifty mile radius, where would the charter school be positioned?
A tactical battlefield nuke would be a better weapon to use than the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) that is dropped from a slow moving military prop-driven cargo plane. A tactical battlefield nuke is much lighter and can be delivered by a missile designed to fly low using terrain guidance radar to avoid detection and is launched by a sub.
MOAB is designed to be delivered by a C-130 Hercules, primarily the MC-130E Combat Talon I or MC-130H Combat Talon II variants. It would be suicide and the C-130 would never reach the target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-130_Hercules
Here’s a piece on a comparison: The “mother of all bombs” fades in comparison to US mini-nukes.
http://news.ofthe.eu/moab-mini-nukes/
Good suggestion, Lloyd.
A mini-nuke in the boudoir for Kim.
Though entertaining, it’s a waste of time to decide who’s the worst person in the world: the world and the people in it are being destroyed by an grotesque system that attracts, valorizes and enriches bad people and their bad actions.
Focusing only on individuals – a certain orange-haired symptom of political pathology comes to mind – rather than on systemic issues and the goals, strategies and tactics to change them, is a proven loser.
This.
Thank you Michael. Not only a waste of time but also a waste of ethical and moral thought.
Superlative listings serve only to heighten differences of people rewarding (or in this case chastising) some while disregarding the many who either may help those being rewarded or those who enable the “bad” by assisting (in the background, unseen, but not unfelt by many but allowed to escape sanctions) those being chastised.
The best/worst listings so prevalent these days lack rationo-logical validity due to very truncated means of determining said best/worst.
Diane,
I am in no position to help you with your writing. I am Norwegian, and English is not my first language.
But may I suggest, with the utmost of accuracy, that your article’s title should be “Who are the Worst People in the World” . . .
Perhaps this would be a difficult article because many people’s list would be far to long to post on the blog?
You are right, NF.
Ah, so impulsive tweeting is not limited to President Trump!