Tag: President Howling Empty Space

  • Where are they now?

    This happened today.

    It’s disgusting to watch. He turns his back on her, he slumps there looking bored and stupid, he asks her where her family are now when she just told him Isis killed them all. Then he gets perky when he asks her about the fucking Nobel Prize.

    More on Nadia Murad:

    Although Murad, 26, gave the president a very terse explanation of her activism, Murad did not convey the horrors or bravery of the journey that earned her the prestigious award: After ISIS kidnapped her and 6,500 Yazidi women and children, Murad became a sex slave who was raped on a daily basis. She escaped from ISIS in November 2014, and has since made it her mission to lobby world leaders to recognize — and condemn — how sexual assault and rape are used as weapons of war around the world, and to fight for the safety of the Yazidi.

    A recent documentary by RYOT (which shares parent company Verizon Media with Yahoo), On Her Shoulders, follows Murad’s tireless work to bring “ISIS before the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.” The activist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, along with Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, becoming the first Iraqi person and the second-youngest honoree to take home the prestigious award.

    Trump doesn’t care about all that, he just wants pointers on how to get a Nobel Prize. (If he wants to go spend several years being held captive by Islamist fighters and being raped by them repeatedly, I definitely think he should jump at the chance.)

    https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1152204685845106689

    Very much that.

    I’ve never seen such an emotionally and mentally vacant human being in my life.