A Fearless Leader discovers America (late, as usual)

Published: February 24, 2013 at 1:10pm

Joseph Muscat said in an interview, published in The Sunday Times today, that he would have liked to have lived in Spain around 1565, before Columbus discovered America.

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21 Comments Comment

  1. Village says:

    Pls resign, go now and stay there.

  2. maryanne says:

    That is why he is going to give stipends to repeaters. He would have qualified.

  3. Gahan says:

    What’s your most treasured thing?

    Gonzi: My house.

    Pinocchio: My black trainers(those which he uses in the gym on the video)

  4. chully says:

    Joseph is IN satiable.

  5. history repeats itself says:

    With historical knowledge like the Fearless Leader’s, no wonder Franco Debono was king of Form IIC.

  6. Betty Boob says:

    The most impressive part:

    ” What is the most expensive thing you’ve bought?”

    Gonzi: “My house”

    Muscat: “Apart from my car, I think it was a handbag for my wife. But it was a sum of a Valentine’s, Christmas and birthday present.”

    SO – DESPITE THE SO CALLED SOARING ELECTRICITY BILLS AND ALL THE MISERY WE ARE ‘SUPPOSEDLY’ LIVING IN UNDER A P.N. GOVERNMENT – HE COULD STILL AFFORD SUCH LUXURIES LIKE AN EXPENSIVE CAR AND A DESIGNER HANDBAG! HOW CONTRADICTING!

  7. H.P. Baxxter says:

    Huh? Does he need history lessons or is this some convoluted metaphor?

    • ciccio says:

      There may be some historical connection between the Spanish history pre- and post- discovery of America and the current history of the Malta Labour Party, which probably explains why Joseph Muscat said he would have liked to live in Spain before the discovery of America.

      Coca leaves (also known as ‘blocks of ice’) had been chewed in South America for hundreds of years before the discovery of America. When the Spanish arrived, they found out about this custom. They legalised the practice and imposed a tax on it. Presumably, they then imported the practice into Europe.

      I think Joseph Muscat realises that the discovery of America by the Spanish has landed his party in a lot of trouble in the current electoral campaign, and he would rather that Colombus never landed on the New World.

      Thinking to myself: Toni Tana Lkoll does have the looks of Don Diego de la Vega.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        He has the looks of Sancho Panza at best.

        This lot would’ve been wiped out the moment they stepped off the sandy beach into the mangrove.

        We need a goddamn Aguirre to lead Malta.

  8. Jozef says:

    Spain at its most oppressive, food out of a microwave, and people, athletes or whatever, discarded when they need it most. .

    Eric Cartman.

  9. David says:

    Better late than never.

  10. ciccio says:

    Most probably, the only history he has ever known is that taught to him by his nanna during those 1970s Mintoff meetings, in which Mintoff surrounded himself with such dinosours as Leo Brincat, Joe Debono Grech, and Karmenu Vella il-Guy.

    He probably thinks that history started in 1971, and that the only major historic event of relevance was when Mintoff “liberalised sodomy.”

  11. Malta Taghna Biss - PL says:

    There are no limits to Labour’s effort at re-writing history.

  12. Evarist Saliba says:

    How appropriate is the Maltese saying

    “Skopra l-Amerka!”

  13. sasha says:

    I just read the article and it really reveals how infantile he is. It reveals how he really doesn’t understand what the term responsibility is all about and how it is about him always.

    Honestly, the most expensive thing he has bought is a bag for his wife. For heavens sake it really confirms my opinion that he is a mummy’s boy and has been spoiled rotten.

    Did he even buy the electrical appliances or the furniture in his house or was everything given to him? Or did Michelle’s handbag cost most than the kitchen?

    Then Michelle complains about soppa ta l-armla.

    His concept of love is emptiness – oh for heavens sake, I am actually now pitying poor Michelle and her kids.

    He has no concept of what love is so how do you expect him to give it in return.

    Apart from the fact that he answered three questions with the same rehashed answer, that is.

    As I always thought, he can’t think about anything which doesn’t involve him.

    He is one of those individuals that I deem as “cut, copy and paste” as they aren’t capable of anything else.

    They have to fake and copy and simulate emotions because they can’t actually feel them.

  14. Peter Grech says:

    U mela and at the same time kien jahrab mill l-assedju il Kbir!

  15. Linda Kveen says:

    “Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
    In fourteen hundred ninety two.”

    This is the way every kid in America remembers this date in history.

  16. Matthew says:

    I think we should take his choice as an omen.

    Who cares about the pillaging perpetrated by the Spaniards? Who cares about the mad rush for gold and silver? Who cares about the introduction of European diseases which ended up killing so many natives? Indeed, who cares about the indigenous people at all?

    Their reasoning was exactly like Muscat’s: L-Amerka tagħna lkoll.

  17. Macduff says:

    Not a laughing matter, I think.

    What we have here is the future Prime Minister so stuck in the Maltese parochial mindset that he confused the discovery of the American continent with the Great Siege and who hasn’t had that grand lie of Maltese primary education (Columbus discovering America) debunked yet.

    Tsk, tsk. Were’s Kenneth Zammit Tabona when you need him? Teaching the Labour marmalja table manners?

    • H.P. Baxxter says:

      If he got his history from Grajjet bloody Malta, what else can we expect? It’s all ruddy Maltese patriotic navel-gazing from Hagar Qim to Il-Helsien. Malta hija l-univers, u l-univers huwa Malta.

      My friends, sejrin ghal gol-hajt at warp speed hawnhekk.

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