RIP Henry Kissinger

not really

RIP satire

i came as soon as i heard, obv

sorry for your loss

lmao

we'll always have the memories

clickbait, ILX style

These 12 tricks will let you know if Kissinger is dead!

salivating to write this obit

we're gonna bury him alive, w/ Shakey

What's so criminal about war, anyway?

^^ best Elvis Costello song imo

There has now been an entire century of Henry Kissinger being not-dead.

And I had such hopes when I clicked on this.

I hope Tom Lehrer outlives him.

Happy bday to the big guy!!

fuck off

cruel revive

https://i.imgur.com/ElU837m.png

This thread should be locked until the happy day imo, too disappointing

fuck off
― your original display name is still visible (Left)

You tell him. I'm quite sure those were heartfelt birthday wishes from z_tbd.

i figure left was telling the big guy to fuck off

i also want him to die

If you're right, apologies for my post.

I hope Tom Lehrer outlives him.

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 28 May 2023 06:41 (thirteen hours ago) link

I want him alive to face trial.

His death is a certainty we can all look forward to. A trial for war crimes? A fond wish never to be fulfilled.

America's captain tom

the only real justice would be reincarnation in some sort of hell realm where he has to endure the suffering and death of every one of his victims for as long as it takes to balance out the universe

but we can and should give every one of his friends and admirers as much hell as possible while they're still on earth

also I'm not saying we should carpet bomb his funeral, but theoretically someone could do such a thing

It will be interesting to see who shows up at his funeral

I would say depressing more than interesting but no one there will actually be a surprise.

There are 5 or so people left aliv3 from the Ford Administration and two of them are Hank and Cheney

lets not wait for natural death
public hanging

Ted Koppel gets the Chotiner treatment.

Samantha Power, who wrote in her book “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” that Henry Kissinger “had bloodied Cambodia and blackened his own reputation,” attends Kissinger’s closed press 100th birthday party at the New York Public Library. https://t.co/so2QWi0y7K

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 6, 2023

itt: soft power

still time for sam to salvage her wrecked rep imo (gom jabbar)

Sunstein just back from his celebrated keynote speech at this weekend’s Dylan conference in Tulsa.

Power and Sunstein are exhibits A and B for the existence of lizard people

Absolute Samantha Power Corrupts Absolutely

It will be interesting to see who shows up at his funeral

Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Keir Starmer...

The "If Books Could Kill" podcast did a two-part episode on Sunstein's book "Nudge" and how it infected the Obama administration

Those episodes made me lose a little respect for Power simply for having married Sunstein.

What is there to celebrate about Henry Kissinger?

That's what I just asked Secretary of State Tony Blinken outside of his predecessor's 100th birthday at the New York Public Library.

No comment. pic.twitter.com/R76WRwa2Oh

— Jonathan Guyer (@mideastXmidwest) June 6, 2023

The "If Books Could Kill" podcast did a two-part episode on Sunstein's book "Nudge" and how it infected the Obama administration

Koppel: "when he was a young professor at Harvard, he was the first to point out that in the event of a major threat to the interests of the United States, the only available option to us was something that would effectively lead to the destruction of mankind. And it wasn’t until he raised that issue that policy with regard to the use of nuclear weapons changed."

Ted Koppel seems to think Kissinger came up with the idea of mutual assured destruction, which he did not, although Kissinger often encouraged others to think that he did. Kissinger's book he wrote while at Harvard was in favor of using tactical nuclear weapons in all wars.

nudge is the bible of obamaism it's why you still don't have healthcare

Those episodes of If Books Could Kill are a must-listen -- here is a link if you have never heard of the book. You will know more than you ever wanted to know after listening. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0J5g0lRlWheZW6ogmi9Vne?si=cb98f79ee35a4ca0

I love IBCK. Everything Michael Hobbes does is great.

lol the one thing i dislike abt IBCK is that hobbes leaves me feeling very muddleheaded and not nearly ruthless or rigorous enough as an editor when vetting my various authors' arguments

(admittedly i work on books abt e.g. the bee gees where the argument is "they rule!")

Well, tbf ...

How Can You Mend a Run-on Sentence

lol

Well, this revive was a god damned bait and switch.

Soon.

I always think about how kissinger helped nixon scuttle the peace talks in vietnam organized by the johnson administration. Most of kissinger’s monstrous actions can be understood as part of his sociopathic understanding of “american interests,” but this action falls short even of this justification. Just nakedly unethical.l and self serving. Of course this is the kind of person americans consider “smart.”

Ted Koppel gets the Chotiner treatment.

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, June 4, 2023 9:16 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

this one was interesting among chotiner interviews because koppel actually did seem to reflect on his behavior and prior way of thinking

Those episodes of If Books Could Kill are a must-listen -- here is a link if you have never heard of the book. You will know more than you ever wanted to know after listening. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0J5g0lRlWheZW6ogmi9Vne?si=cb98f79ee35a4ca0

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, June 6, 2023 10:17 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was great, thank you

Yes, thanks to this thread for introducing me to IBCK; and, by extension, to Henry Kissinger, whose curse of immortality can finally be lifted now that he has broken his 1,000 year streak of contributing nothing positive to human society.

dammit got excited again

Finally

Really???

Yup!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dead-obituary/

Yes really

Omg the day has come
BRB texting my mom

who's showing up to that funeral...?

Samantha Power probably

finally!

rest in shit!!!!

And like Kissinger, a thousand obituaries just sitting there have found their sweet release.

he died slipping on a banana peel into an active volcano :(

swell. now the media will be full of groveling encomiums for this POS who was instrumental in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. but will any of the obits mention that he was a war criminal on a level with Pol Pot?

ooh the Rolling Stone headline

I have a hunch some of the obits will indeed mention it

FUCK YES finally some good news

Tempted to pop a bottle of champagne over this

group chat report from a Brooklyn show:

You will think I'm joking but between bands right now this room is kinda abuzz with the news about Kissinger

Kissinger OUT

The Ackerman obit in Rolling Stone isn't quite Hunter Thompson's obit for Nixon (Ackerman has too much of a somber sense of duty for that) but it's thorough.

fucking party time y'all

COTDAMB I'M JACKIN

Shakey I raise a glass to you

Take a bow

been having a dry month, but just poured a dip of single malt to mark the occasion.

RIP BOZO trending on twitter along with IT FINALLY HAPPENED. lol.

“Allende is now president. The State Department thinks we can coexist with him, but I want you to make sure you tell everybody in the U.S. government that we cannot, that we cannot let him succeed, because he has legitimacy. He is democratically elected. And suppose other governments decide to follow in his footstep, like a government like Italy? What are we going to do then? What are we going to say when other countries start to democratically elect other Salvador Allendes? We will—the world balance of power will change “and our interests in it will be changed fundamentally.”[

In the Sistine Chapel, Gore Vidal once came upon Henry Kissinger “gazing thoughtfully” at the Hell section of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment. “Look,” said Vidal to a friend, “he’s apartment hunting.”

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) November 30, 2023

good riddance!

https://theoneswelove.shop/products/hell-is-patient-kissinger-tshirt

so good ^

he's fucking dead, fuck yeah!!

RIP Ducky Daddles

We have questions for the casting director of this HBO children’s show pic.twitter.com/hcxdKVqvyr

— DOUBLE THREAT (@DoubleThreatPod) October 5, 2021

What the FUCK

Wikipedia editor "Asticky" edited Henry Kissinger's article at 8:46 ET and then changed her userpage to this (with the edit summary "lmao") pic.twitter.com/4QjoX7KARW

— depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) November 30, 2023

lot going on here
https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v1/items/72106263878f499ab884cb168e0f1898/preview/AP8706111229.jpg

Christ almighty

The smiles...

It's like a convocation of evil clowns.

...and Liza

I cannot process Ducky Daddies

You want to process it in full? It is, in fact, streaming on Max along with the rest of the series it's from.

https://play.max.com/video/watch/51437fd2-90e9-4333-bbbf-0f17b66a094e/f8ef9f58-7470-4cf4-8641-96c40983d6b3

xp - is that John Hurt behind Kissinger's shoulder?

sure looks like him

I never understood why so much of the film world embraced that guy. He'd pop up on The Simpsons, Billy Crystal would warmly re-enact his jokes as they both hung out with Joe DiMaggio, Liv Ullman of all people seemingly accompanied him to an AFI celebration the same year they fucking bombed that Cambodian hospital. Candice Bergen, Shirley MacLaine, Jill St. John, Marlo Thomas, and many others were seen with him - like Jesus fuck did that guy sell out to Satan or what?

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac iirc.

In 1976, Kissinger became the first honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters.[282][283]

He'd pop up on The Simpsons

That wasn't actually him on The Simpsons (Harry Shearer did his voice).

whatever the man's crimes (and they are all a matter of conjecture as far as I can see), every human life is sacred, and to celebrate so soon after the death of one of our greatest statesmen while his family are still mourning is ha sorry just kidding, the evil mass-murdering fuck is finally dead, let's pop open the champagne, thought he was never going to fucking die!

Lol I was just gonna say I look forward to the tone policing of people's reactions to this butcher's infinitely overdue death

the just thing to do right now would be to send his a corpse on a world tour of all the genocides he enabled, so people can a good kickabout with it

the bbc did a cringingly reverent interview with this croaky old corpse a couple of years back for his 100th birthday I think *shudders*

I'm guessing 6 months ago

I think achievements in diplomacy should be celebrated, for instance later today at work when I carefully say “I agree it’s sad that he just died”

There isn't a widely accepted scientific theory suggesting that evil sociopaths specifically live longer lives.

AI is full of shit

I never understood why so much of the film world embraced that guy. He'd pop up on _The Simpsons_, Billy Crystal would warmly re-enact his jokes as they both hung out with Joe DiMaggio, Liv Ullman of all people seemingly accompanied him to an AFI celebration the same year they fucking bombed that Cambodian hospital. Candice Bergen, Shirley MacLaine, Jill St. John, Marlo Thomas, and many others were seen with him - like Jesus fuck did that guy sell out to Satan or what?

henry kissinger has been eliminated from postseason contention pic.twitter.com/4DAzi1nTIi

— squid (@NatsSquid) November 30, 2023

this morning a transport escort asked me what my plans were for today. I said I was going to bake a Kissinger death celebration cake and she looked at me like I was insane and asked who was he. I said the worst national security adviser to the one of the worst US presidents in their entire history, No, she's still never heard of him!

Like, if you go to the big fancy ball and everyone is gathered round a fat crocodile lying on a pile of human skulls agreeing how smart it is, then eventually people not habituated to the social niceties of the court are going to ask “What’s up with the crocodile lads”.

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) November 30, 2023

this just in from the tonty blair institute for abject subjugation

There is no one like Henry Kissinger. From the first time I met him as a new Labour Party Opposition Leader in 1994, struggling to form views on foreign policy, to the last occasion when I visited him in New York and, later, when he spoke at my Institute’s annual gathering, I was in awe of him. The range of his knowledge, the insights which would tumble out of him effortlessly, the lucidity, the mastery of the English language which made him a joy to listen to on any subject, and above all the ability to take all the different elements of the most complex diplomatic challenge and weave from them something astonishing in its coherence and completeness, and, most unusual of all, leading to an answer and not just an analysis: no one could do that like Henry. If it is possible for diplomacy, at its highest level, to be a form of art, Henry was an artist.

Of course, like anyone who has confronted the most difficult problems of international politics, he was criticised at times, even denounced. But I believe he was always motivated not from a coarse “realpolitik”; but from a genuine love of the free world and the need to protect it. He was a problem-solver, whether in respect of the Cold War, the Middle East or China and its rise. And not once did he ever stop thinking about the future, reflecting on it and proffering wisdom upon it, most recently on the technology revolution.

I consider it one of the greatest privileges of my political life to have known him. From that first moment of meeting him to the last, he inspired me and taught me and I will forever be grateful to him.

if it is possible for slaughter, at its highest level, to be a form of art, henry was an artist

From that first moment of meeting him to the last, he inspired me and taught me and I will forever be grateful to him.

kissinger's wisdom on the technology revolution includes being on the board of theranos and cowering from the existential threat posed by improved forms of autocomplete artificial intelligence btw

no tributes from his fellow trilateral commision buddy, kieth yet

too overcome with grief to function, one must assume

look lads it takes time to get a focus group together

YES

— Is Henry Kissinger Dead Yet? (@DidKissingerD1e) November 30, 2023

Flying Roden OTM, I didn't really live through Reagan and not at all through Thatcher/Kissinger but I got to grow up in a world where they were feted and adored for their crimes by the media and political class. Hatred will never be so pure again, I'll be overjoyed when Bush/Cheney/Rummy eat shit finally but it won't be the same as they've been so thoroughly cast aside.

reminded of the best TV interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlj48Rvp1c

Statesmanship. https://t.co/g0ITWarPRB pic.twitter.com/G9izVGtLaw

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 30, 2023

don't know how the fuck dick cheney is still alive, his first (of at least five) heart attack was in 1978, before I was born, and he had a heart transplant more than a decade ago.

Don't believe it. He has no heart.

Flying Roden OTM, I didn't really live through Reagan and not at all through Thatcher/Kissinger but I got to grow up in a world where they were feted and adored for their crimes by the media and political class. Hatred will never be so pure again, I'll be overjoyed when Bush/Cheney/Rummy eat shit finally but it won't be the same as they've been so thoroughly cast aside.

liberals and conservatives alike have whitewashed every vulture that preceded Trump

The fact that y’all have no idea what’s about to happen

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) November 29, 2023

The last thing Henry Kissinger saw https://t.co/JRerdZCAZw pic.twitter.com/P2iftMwvlr

— Pyramid Chad, Unbanned Edition (@pyrameadhead) November 30, 2023

Bush is treated like a goofy uncle who makes bad paintings (terrible because war criminal) but even the dumbest Never Trumpers can’t frame him as some Great Statesman, inspirational leader who casts a shadow we can never escape etc.. “At least he’s not Trump” can only carry a man’s reputation so far.

The tributes keep coming in.

---

Rory Stewart
@RoryStewartUK
I challenged Henry Kissinger 35 years ago on Cambodia and was stunned by how defensive and angry he could be with a school boy. But when he invited me to his house in Connecticut recently I found him sharp, courteous, and provocative -a centenarian charged with ambition…

LOL

love to go on the computer and admit what a colossal disappointment my adult self would be to who i was as a teenager

Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
Saddened by the passing of Henry Kissinger, a figure whose impact on global diplomacy is undeniable. While acknowledging his role in shaping history, we must also reflect on the complexities that defined his legacy. My condolences to his family and those touched by his life. May we remember him with a nuanced understanding of the challenges faced in pursuit of peace.

^^^^
I got chatgpt to do that just to see if the gormless cunt comes up with anything different

in conclusion, henry kissinger is a land of contrasts

tfw chatgpt has significantly more moral courage than the leader of the opposition

Nice RS write-up.

Is it Kiss-singe-er or Kiss-singer?

I've always heard the former.

The cosmic balance . . . Kissinger dies, so we lose Shane MacGowan. Jesus.

I'll be overjoyed when Bush/Cheney/Rummy eat shit finally but it won't be the same

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, November 30, 2023 5:52 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

good news for you about rumsfeld!

I mean, can't we just celebrate this devil's demise without having to mourn someone whom we will actually miss?

Helluva read: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/henry-kissinger-obituary/

Obituaries will mention how conservative hostility toward Kissinger’s policies—détente with Russia, opening to China—helped propel Reagan’s first real bid for the presidency in 1976. And they will draw a distinction between his brand of supposed hardheaded power politics and the neoconservative “idealism” that led us into the fiascos of Afghanistan and Iraq.

But they’ll likely miss the way Kissinger served as not just a foil but also an enabler for the New Right. Over the course of his career, he advanced a set of premises that would be taken up and extended by neoconservative intellectuals and policymakers: that hunches, conjecture, will, and intuition are as important as facts and hard intelligence in guiding policy; that too much knowledge can weaken resolve; that foreign policy has to be wrested out of the hands of experts and bureaucrats and given to men of action; and that the principle of self-defense (broadly defined to cover just about anything) overrules the ideal of sovereignty. In so doing, Kissinger played his part in keeping the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.

No former national security adviser or secretary of state has ever wielded as much influence after leaving office as Kissinger, and not just through his constant advocacy for war (including in Panama and the Persian Gulf). Reagan appointed Kissinger to his presidential committee on Central America, which justified Reagan’s hard line in the region; George H.W. Bush named many of his protégés, including Lawrence Eagleburger and Brent Scowcroft, to top foreign policy posts; and Bill Clinton drew on Kissinger’s help to push NAFTA through Congress.

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAMHaijWwAE4rky?format=jpg&name=medium

Makes sense for the Yankees. If the Mets put out a statement, I'd be shocked.

(Never met a New Yorker who actually rooted for the Yankees— it was always suburbanites from CT and NJ)

(Tho it is funny in a sadlol kinda way)

Most Yankees fans live in Miami, I suspect.

They sound like the Manchester United of baseball

steinbrenner was a bully to end all bullies dk of course he admired kissinger

*extraneous “dk,” not sure where that came from

Sox / Mets fans: https://t.co/NYf3GZfZS4 pic.twitter.com/FSO7WYeXe0

— deb (@butlikesrsly) November 30, 2023

Today is a great day to be someone on both baseball and politics twitter

Whenever people criticize the Astros, please consider the following:

We prevented this man from being happy in the last few miserable years of his life pic.twitter.com/U5Y60VTehS

— Imp (@ThatImpGuy) November 30, 2023

Never mind baseball, have Greuther Fürth released a statement yet?

... indeed they have:

Das #Kleeblatt trauert um Henry #Kissinger. Der gebürtige Fürther und Ex-US-Außenminister ist am Mittwoch im Alter von 100 Jahren gestorben. Damit verliert die Spielvereinigung in ihrem Ehrenmitglied ihren wohl berühmtesten Fan.

➡️ https://t.co/CfYb1xbujm pic.twitter.com/YbEgtjTkMm

— SPVGG GREUTHER FÜRTH (@kleeblattfuerth) November 30, 2023

... their fans don't seem to be sharing the club's sentiment.

In the Sistine Chapel, Gore Vidal once came upon Henry Kissinger “gazing thoughtfully” at the Hell section of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment. “Look,” said Vidal to a friend, “he’s apartment hunting.”

gonna be honest with you i'm pretty pissed at that dude for "myra breckenridge", kinda hope he's next door

would make a hell of a sitcom

love to go on the computer and admit what a colossal disappointment my adult self would be to who i was as a teenager

― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara)

to be fair i didn't _actually_ know everything when i was a teenager... case in point:

Makes sense for the Yankees. If the Mets put out a statement, I'd be shocked.

(Never met a New Yorker who actually rooted for the Yankees— it was always suburbanites from CT and NJ)

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table)

i was young and ignorant and... this is how duopoly gets you... i fuckin' hated the red sox. at least i wasn't wrong about the red sox.

I am pleased to learn that Tom Lehrer survived Kissinger. But if he has a social media presence I haven't found it.

God, I'm remembering that story from Robert Evans memoir where he's stressing about the Godfather being a flop, and decides that the only thing that will save the film is if he gets Henry Kissinger to attend the premiere. The counter-culture, y'all.

If any detail adduces the sheer what-the-fuckness of the '70s, it's Kissinger as a mid-decade sex symbol.

dontkissandtellinger

you win the Nobel genocide prize - you get laid a lot, them's the rules

In DC, your resume is your sex appeal. Plus it flattered other middle aged schlubs.

talk about a dr strangelove amirite

There'll be times
When my crimes
Will seem almost unforgivable
I give in to sin

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

- Henry Kissinger

Explains why everyone is hot for Antony Blinken

got it bad, so bad

Give me something to write on

you win the Nobel genocide prize - you get laid a lot, them's the rules

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino)

lol at alfred nobel wanting to be remembered as anything other than the merchant of death

dude had a good run but at some point the sapir-whorf effect stops working

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0BBkOUA37g

i don't know the experience of other Gen Xers but when i was growing up the whole image of kissinger was as this avuncular pop culture figure who was famous for being famous, he was just a guy who'd show up everywhere, whose past was a bit murky to us kids, but he was presented as this harmless owl-like kind of wry comic figure. kind of like the ben stein of geopolitics (growing up as i did not knowing that ben stein himself was the ben stein of geopolitics in some ways.)

but that pop culture stuff felt over for eons, so one thing that soured me on stephen colbert was when he did a comedy sketch w/HK a decade or so back, long after his legacy was more widely disseminated among the casual public.

His public image was definitely shinier back in the 70s. Most of his crimes were classified or ignored. He got credit for ending the Vietnam War (lol) and keeping drunk Nixon from blowing up the world. He was a witty dinner guest, which is all that matters in corridors of power.

As a millennial I had no idea who he was really until I started reading abt the Vietnam War in high school. At that point, my teens, the consensus seemed very much to be "fuck this piece of shit." But I have a very liberal family.

I shudder to think how in retrospect at least Nixon muttered about peace while Kissinger loudly gossiped about dinner guests.

The first time I heard of him is when I was in third or fourth grade and drew a picture of my dad that he complained made him look like Henry Kissinger.

My intro to Nixon and Kissinger (and the ‘70s in general) came from Doonesbury collections I’d read in the back room at my mom’s job.

I should have spent more time with Bloom County.

Oh my God

kissinger yankees commercial oh my god (watch to the end) pic.twitter.com/sG66sxwaEU

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas2) November 30, 2023

i used to have a tape dub of "monty python's contractual obligation album", which i think was my first impression of kissinger. later, i knew of him as a regular attendee at studio 54. these days i mostly just think of the Blood Telegram, which turns out to be called that because it was written by a guy named Blood. henry kissinger: too evil for Etrigan

Welp here we go ...

Statement from President Biden on the Passing of Henry Kissinger
I’ll never forget the first time I met Dr. Kissinger. I was a young Senator, and he was Secretary of State—giving a briefing on the state of the world. Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly. But from that first briefing -- his fierce intellect and profound strategic focus was evident. Long after retiring from government, he continued to offer his views and ideas to the most important policy discussion across multiple generations. Jill and I send our condolences to his wife Nancy, his children Elizabeth and David, his grandchildren, and all those who loved him.

The fury about Kissinger is more broadly a repudiation of the idea that public figures should be civically revered in a non-partisan fashion because they are old and were once important irrespective of what they actually did. It is a repudiation of Washington.

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 30, 2023

Pretty non-committal from Biden (e.g. "...he continued to offer his views..."). No way was the official statement going to be a wholesale condemnation of K's war crimes, but in this case non-committal works well enough in terms of 'damning with faint praise'.

Yeah, that's very "We knew him, of course we knew him, and he kept hanging around for decades." I mean, the phrase "he continued to offer his views" is plenty damning if you speak Washington.

"he talked us to death at the holiday party"

the idea that if you belong to the circle of power you simply have to acknowledge the humanity of a Kissinger is just another way of demonstrating your cowardice and your contempt for all the people he actually murdered. to play the game, even with mealy-mouthed caution, is still a moral choice. i don't think Biden gets points for that, and fuck Biden and everybody else who's played that game

Otm, very much “wow the sassy Queen is owning the Tories by the colour of her hat as she reads out their policy agenda about starving the poor 🥰🥰🥰”

He didn't have to say anything

yeah, i think that would've been a bit less contemptible

Has Trump made a statement?

They love to use phrases like "fierce intellect", just absolutely value-neutral nothingness, because one can't praise him on his humanity.

Anyone who invested in Theranos forfeits any “fierce intellect” accolades forever.

it’d be extremely weird for the president not to say something that that’s probably as close as we’ll get to “fuck that guy, guess he had a family and they feel bad”we’ll get short of Trump’s statements

I am pleased to learn that Tom Lehrer survived Kissinger. But if he has a social media presence I haven't found it.

He has a website via which he released all his songs into the public domain a few years ago

https://tomlehrersongs.com

also Kissinger’s body should lie in state indefinitely behind a little curtain, so people can shit on it

But think of the smell. Lock his sycophants in with it.

OK, I just saw Biden's statement re Kissinger juxtaposed with his statement on the death of Jimmy Buffett, and now I'm laughing really hard. Hope the image embeds work:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:mivey63nzylfflvmmjoqcf6u/bafkreic3zcvey4pq4rrtrzjacytys6vmqxbz6zbxnr6tbohgc2n7dgklv4@jpeg

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:mivey63nzylfflvmmjoqcf6u/bafkreif2ij6sxqfb3dxiwlqbpibwptvebh3vf6ehnpnzgnjyn3updkuh2u@jpeg

He should've kept the Kissinger statement to that last sentence and nothing more.

Buffett's is fine.

Everybody hates this guy.

Tfw you’re an epic anti imperialist leftist who works for *checks notes* John Fetterman https://t.co/YEjRAQLwK7 pic.twitter.com/yzzBSeKx7k

— Gaza blog in bio (@comrade_sweezy) November 30, 2023

I still do like the Bourdain quote but not the arsehole who is tweeting it. Bourdain really did hate him, he said on his travels he saw Kissinger's deadly legacy first hand. There are still millions of unexploded bombs in Laos and they are still killing people.

Yeah it's a great quote. That was just about the guy using it with a lol at that picture.

total dork trying to look cool!

you can cosplay as a radical when you for pro-genocide senator - but ppl will take the piss!

*work*

why is he dressed like an extra from Panic In Needle Park

The club bids farewell to a dear Juventus friend and a true Italian football fan, Henry Kissinger. pic.twitter.com/N0emHrQYSD

— JuventusFC 🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@juventusfcen) December 1, 2023

Strange, would have thought Lazio.

Nah, it would have to be Juventus, everybody else hates them in Italy.

I think the wanker just liked being schmoozed by any big club who'd throw freebie corporate box tickets at him. But can he cut it as the celebrity war criminal guest on a rainy night in Stoke?

Deputy of the French assembly showing the correct way to eulogize Kissinger

http://x.com/Deputee_Obono/status/1730125343254593793?s=20

https://x.com/Deputee_Obono/status/1730125343254593793?s=20

sorry for doublepost

Rest In Piss, Henry Pissinger

he would enjoy that too much I expect

Henry Kissinger liberated my grandfather’s concentration camp. He went on to oversee the mass murder of innocent civilians himself. His life was proof that firsthand experience of human atrocity does not lead one to eschew it. https://t.co/bd1StkW7fo

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) December 1, 2023

Leave it to Chotiner

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-washington-couldnt-quit-kissinger

Richard Haas, a frequent "Morning Joe" guest, is the most abysmal sort of person.

It Could Happen Here celebrate his death but also get into why Chinese leadership is expressing such sorrow. The episode winds up being an interesting history of the Communist Party of Party and the details of the Sino/Soviet split, which is where things opened up to the Nixon Administration.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-henry-kissinger-is-dead-episode-132090388/

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/persona-grata

The presiding conceit of Kissinger’s career was that he was bringing geopolitical necessities (he never really warmed to the term ‘realism’) to the attention of a country enamoured with its own innocence, and hampered by its own idealism. (‘American idealism… had defeated itself with its own weapons’ is the sentiment repeated ad infinitum in his books and memoirs). The ironies here were multiple. The first was that a country led by hard-nosed statesmen running from Teddy Roosevelt to Dean Acheson to Richard Nixon was somehow beholden to pussy-footing idealists in need of a dose of German Realpolitik, as if America’s ruling class had never not been perfectly ruthless in pursuit of its interests. It was, in fact, widely admired for this in the alleged ‘realist’ heartland. ‘We Germans write fat volumes about Realpolitik but understand it no better than babies in a nursery’, the New Republic editor Walter Weyl recalled being told by a Berlin professor during the First World War. ‘You Americans understand it far too well to talk about it’. ‘As a German making remarks about American imperialism’, Carl Schmitt gushed, ‘I can only feel like a beggar in rags speaking about the riches and treasures of foreigners’. As Baudrillard once said of French Theory, German Realpolitik was like the Statue of Liberty: a gift from the Old Continent that the Americans neither wanted nor needed.... It may be a while before Kissinger is seen in proportion: an unusually good student of the moods, and faithful servant of the interests, of his country’s elite.

(In some rare contrast, Biden’s words of condolence to Kissinger’s family read like the Beltwayese for ‘fuck off’.)

if only

Still dead, but also cooking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTtZ12XtQpg