Our minister of foreign affairs - I lack words!

[frualeydis]

I knew the guy was evil, since (a) he belongs to the rightwing party "Moderaterna" and b) he at least has been involved with the swedish oil company Lundin Oil and their many killings and other crimes against humanity in Sudan, but this is both evil and stupid and shows extreme lack of empathy and likewise extreme lack of judgment.

The swedish minister of foreign affairs trying to be funny on twitter:

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[armillary.livejournal.com]

I first saw that linked by svenskbladet.se (sometimes funny spoof web paper) and thought it was a joke, but no...

[sneprinsesse.livejournal.com]

How stupid he is!

I live in a fault zone, and has he never heard about Iceland? We actually even have volcanoes here in the Nordic countries!

And lots of Earthquakes: http://www.norsar.no/c-75-Seismicity-of-Norway.aspx

[dame-eleanor.livejournal.com]

Making a joke...even a wry joke about such tragedy is disgraceful. It also strikes me as more than a little hubristic.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't believe we have such a prat as minister.

/Eva

[jillwheezul.livejournal.com]

Wow is that stupid.

[mmy-me.livejournal.com]

...and yet many Nordic people choose to live somewhere like here, by choice, quakes and tsunamis aside. That should tell him something, eh?

[nazgman.livejournal.com]

Ah, but watch out for those glaciers! That makes a tsunami look like child's play in comparison...

[sneprinsesse.livejournal.com]

And landslides we can also have.

[therru.livejournal.com]

I'm... WTF?

His judgement has been questionable rather a lot lately, hasn't it?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about that too today. Some kind of illness?

/Eva

[therru.livejournal.com]

Possibly... I mean, he got quite a lot of angry criticism for his comment on Libya (the one about not taking sides but supporting stability, or something), so it's rather weird that he keeps doing it.

[loreleyjacob.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, at least you guys have one Minister who's a jerk. Over here we've got an entire government of insensitive idiots.

[therru.livejournal.com]

I think the biggest problem here is that Bildt is the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I'ms sorry for you for that.

/Eva

[snowywolfowl.livejournal.com]

Wow. Talk about not displaying your country in a positive light. Not only is it not funny but he comes off as some type of asshole.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

No shit!

But then, of course, he IS an asshole.

/Eva

[snowywolfowl.livejournal.com]

I suddenly just had an image of his angry countrymen breaking into song a la Denis Leary:

A! S S! H O! L E! A! S S! H O! L E!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

I wonder if your Parliament(?) might censure him over this, especially with him being the person who'd have to look the Japanese in the eye next time he visits.

[ravenlaughing.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is thoughtless and cruel and... tasteless. But beyond tasteless.

We have commercials on TV for an insurance company called AFLAC. They make fun of the name by using a duck in the commercials. The duck is often voiced by a horrible and annoying "comedian" named Gilbert Gottfried. (As in not funny and screams a lot) He made a tasteless joke about Japan the other day, so AFLAC fired him. Good on them.

[saraquill.livejournal.com]

That man has some dreadful Public Relations instincts. How much backlash has there been yet about this comment?