#ThanksNorthKorea
Meanwhile the US Ambassador to the UN was grumpy about the whole North Korea ICBM thing because it trashed her 4th of July, which is an official holiday I’ll have you know.
Spending my 4th in meetings all day. #ThanksNorthKorea
— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) July 4, 2017
Damn don’t you hate when that happens? Thanks North Korea! I thought we were friends.
BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold offered Haley a link to an ABC News explainer of her job description — “in the event you are unaware of what it entails.”
We’ll save you the trouble of reading it yourself. The former South Carolina governor, who had no foreign policy experience before President Trump appointed her, is paid to advocate for American goals at the United Nations, to its nearly 200 member nations, especially in times of crisis.
And this is a crisis, according to the experts. They say North Korea had not been expected to deliver a weapon with intercontinental range so soon, and will likely manage to eventually attach a nuclear warhead to one of them. According to a former acting CIA director, any military response to Pyongyang would risk a catastrophic war.
But don’t worry, if they do throw it they’ll just throw it at Seattle, which is just some poky little town up in the far corner that nobody cares about.
Anyway. I feel really sad that Nikki Haley missed out on the beer and hot dogs, and I hope she gets a day off next week to make up for it.
It’s not that Seattle is a poky little town no one cares about. It’s that Seattle is a superliberal town no one cares about.
Indeed, it would be a real tragedy if they missed and hit Tacoma instead!
You know, this is one of those things where context matters. If an Obama or H. Clinton cabinet member had made a similar Tweet, it would come across as an attempt to pour oil on troubled waters–“Yeah, this is bad, but we’re working on it–enjoy the Fourth”. For a Trumpet, though, it’s pure “Mememememe!”