“Thundering Moron”? Mind if I use that as a sig?
I fail to see how this would make the news if a British “crank” or an American “crank” put a deck like this together. It wouldn’t surprise me if one did, but this guy just happens to be marketing it and making money off of it. Good for him. Even anti-American loons are entitled to make a buck any legal way they see fit.
How about this US school teacher?
This is a Jesuit HS in San Jose.
Wow, that was in June, she’s American, and it seems to have gotten under the rage radar. How 'bout that?
Whoa, man. Somebody’s been taking a lesson from ambushed. And filching pills from our favorite blueist, too.
I saw her interviewed on one of the cable news channels last summer (wow, it’s not summer anymore!!) and I picked up on it because I have a few friends who teach at Bellarmine and quite a few friends who went there in HS. But I think the story only had a 1 day shelf life.
Crank he may be but at least he has a nice dark sense of humour.
Besides, given the number of people who consider Bush to be an illegitimate idiot boy king war criminal standing on the shoulders of corpulent plutocratic pigs whose sole priority is the implementation of myriad nefarious ways to dispatch the Iraqizoid heathen children squatting on our oil while ensuring their stock options are high enough to facilitate the oppression of 3rd world farmers arrogant enough to try and wheedle a second bowl of porridge on their dime, you could say it was a handy niche filler.
Actually, Bush was the King of Diamonds on account of he owned a baseball team. Get it? Diamonds = baseball.
Whatever else I think of the guy (hint for the uninformed: not much), you gotta give him credit for the culture reference there.
What the hell is Warren Buffet doing on a card?
Umm… You can get these in Britain as well (not made by a ‘Gaullic crackpot’ I don’t think, though). You can buy replicas of the actual Iraqi ones as well.
For some reason the ‘Regime Change’ (anti-war) ones are twice the price–now that’s something to rant about :rolleyes:!
Poor old Hamid Karzai. Aside from being shot at, the guy only gets put down as the 3 of diamonds. Poor bastard.
Meyssan likes Powell though. (Joker #2)
Because they aren’t subsidized by the military-industrial complex?
Yeah but you’d think you’d get economies of scale.
A Russian newspaper has a deck too. Bush is the Jack of Hearts in that one. Bush Sr is the Ace of Hearts and Alan Greenspan, oddly enough, is the Ace of Spades.
I think it’s funny people would spit gigantic blue text over this.
Isn’t blue language obligatory in the Pit?
Please; card decks like this have been around for decades; I remember my first set of “Politicards,” which lampooned nearly every figure in late '60s politics (Ralph Nader as a leather-jacketed “Raider,” stealing the hubcaps from a Corvair - hee!).
I’ll say this once: Quit stealing my schtick. Thank you. 
Actually “thundering moron” is Scott Adams’ schtick.
Nah, I think we can chalk that one up to dumb luck. IME the French know less about baseball than Americans do about cricket.
So the French can’t use the internet?
Actually, you may be right, Gadfly…only someone who has a familiarity with the Internet, especially the more whacko conspiracy parts of it, could have come up with a theory so off kilter as Meyssan’s.