# And the award for "Most Delusional 3rd World Dictator" goes to... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987 "2011-02-28T22:51:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/1 "2011-02-28T22:51:37Z")
[Moammar Qadhafi!](http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/28/libya.protests/index.html?hpt=T1#) _World_: Mr. Qadhafi, why are you bombing your own people? _Qadhafi_: I’m not. _World_: Mr. Qadhafi, your people are in revolt! _Qadhafi_: No they’re not. (ok, more specificaly, “They love me, all my people with me, they love me all. They will die to protect me, my people,”) _World_: Oh. Ok. Have nice day then. This guy cracks me up. He reminds me of the Monty Python “Argument” sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/2 "2011-03-01T00:13:41Z")
Or the Black Knight. “Look ya stupid bastard, you’ve got no arms left!” “Yes I have.” “Look!” “…It’s just a flesh wound.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/3 "2011-03-01T08:38:58Z")
Well, I guess he just takes “if you’re not with me you’re against me” seriously. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/4 "2011-03-01T12:10:33Z")
Nah…he just forgot to tell us it was Opposite Day. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/5 "2011-03-01T12:59:02Z")
CNN has a great headline right now: **Libyan official: 'We realize that he’s crazy’** ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/6 "2011-03-01T18:01:00Z")
With Mubarek gone, he’s thinking there’s a opening for President of Da Nile. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/7 "2011-03-01T18:11:34Z")
Gaddafi is trying desperately to keep up with Charlie Sheen, but it’s hard to match that level of crazy. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/8 "2011-03-01T18:38:32Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > [Moammar Qadhafi!](http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/28/libya.protests/index.html?hpt=T1#) > > _World_: Mr. Qadhafi, why are you bombing your own people? > _Qadhafi_: I’m not. > _World_: Mr. Qadhafi, your people are in revolt! > _Qadhafi_: No they’re not. (ok, more specificaly, “They love me, all my people with me, they love me all. They will die to protect me, my people,”) > _World_: Oh. Ok. Have nice day then. > > This guy cracks me up. He reminds me of the Monty Python “Argument” sketch. No he doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/9 "2011-03-01T19:00:28Z")
heh…well played! ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/10 "2011-03-01T19:08:40Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > With Mubarek gone, he’s thinking there’s a opening for President of Da Nile. Wherein **SandyHook** applauds wildly. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/11 "2011-03-01T19:29:33Z")
I posted this in another thread, but I’ll repeat myself. Gaddafi. Sheen. Cage match for the Crazy Crown. You’d watch. You know you would. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/12 "2011-03-01T19:35:40Z")
> [@Carl\_Corey](#): > > I posted this in another thread, but I’ll repeat myself. > > Gaddafi. Sheen. Cage match for the Crazy Crown. > > You’d watch. You know you would. My money on Qaddafi: Sheen has the youth and good looks, but the colonel has the staying power. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/13 "2011-03-01T19:57:29Z")
This is probably the place to bring up the Gaddafi Theory of Popular Revolutions: “It’s the Americans and Al Qaida- ha, bet you didn’t know they were secret allies- putting hallucinogenic drugs in Libyan coffee.” ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/14 "2011-03-01T20:23:36Z")
He seems to be mentally disordered. Some years ago he kept noisily breaking gas during an interview with a journalist (the paper eventually headlined the article as _Warm Wind Of Compromise Blows From Gaddhafi_) ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/15 "2011-03-01T20:24:32Z")
How far are we from a reality show with all the banished ex-dictators/rulers on an island? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/16 "2011-03-01T21:30:28Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > How far are we from a reality show with all the banished ex-dictators/rulers on an island? Too bad we already killed Saddam. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/17 "2011-03-02T23:58:28Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > How far are we from a reality show with all the banished ex-dictators/rulers on an island? Now that’s just cruel. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/18 "2011-03-03T01:01:55Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > How far are we from a reality show with all the banished ex-dictators/rulers on an island? “Hello everyone!! Welcome to this week’s episode of _Dictators for Dinner on Cannibal Isle_! It looks like the friendly locals are running low on Saddam, so we’re releasing the next batch of ex-dictators! With a complementary barrel of Soylent Steak Sauce for our friends the islanders! Soylent Steak Sauce, available at a fine store near you!” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/19 "2011-03-04T05:19:02Z")
Moammar isn’t delusional. He’s held onto power for 40 years, and that doesn’t happen by accident. He won’t admit publicly that there’s a problem because he believes that would make him look weak in the eyes of the people trying to oust him. He’s not a Panglossian fool- he knows the threat to his power is very real, and he’s doing everything he can to stamp out that threat. Moammar may or may not survive this current assault on his rule, but he’s proven himself adept at survival and at annihilating his enemies. It’s not at all obvious he won’t survive THIS crisis. And IF he does, he knows damn well that he can say whatever he wants, and there won’t be any negative consequences, because too many nations are dependent on his oil. Laugh at him if you want, but are you SURE he won’t have the last laugh? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987/20 "2011-03-04T05:28:30Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > How far are we from a reality show with all the banished ex-dictators/rulers on an island? Odds are, if he doesn’t end up hung by his heels in a gas station, he could end up in Panama. We had the Shah for a bit, and at one point I think we had a Nicaraguan President, two Ecuadorian Presidents, and a couple Haitian junta members here at the same time. > [@astorian](#): > > Laugh at him if you want, but are you SURE he won’t have the last laugh? Yeah, I am. He’s toast. He’s lost too much of his army to survive in the long run. Once big chunks of the army defects, dictators don’t last long. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-most-delusional-3rd-world-dictator-goes-to/572987.md?page=2)