Will he get a pony, too?
Crazed dictator President Robert Mugabe turned 83 last Wednesday; he plans to celebrate with a huge birthday bash on Saturday, the cost of which will be borne by his starving people.
President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe turned 83 on Wednesday to the strains of the song “God Bless President Mugabe” on state-controlled radio, along with an interview on state television, a 16-page paean to his rule in Harare’s daily newspaper and the prospect of a grand birthday party — costly enough to feed thousands of people for months, his critics argued — on Saturday.
Zimbabwe’s economy is so dire that bread vanished from store shelves across the country on Wednesday after bakeries shut down, saying government price controls were requiring them to sell loaves at a loss. The price controls are supposed to shield consumers from the nation’s rampant inflation, which now averages nearly 1,600 percent annually.
Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of southern Africa, but Mugabe's tyranny has turned it into a basketcase, instead. Ruined by years of his misrule, the nation resembles a defendant in a Stalinist show trial, forced to declare its love for the man who's destroying it.
Maybe someone will do the right thing and poison the birthday cake.
(hat tip: Obsidian Wings)
LINKS: There's more at Publius Pundit, while the Captain's Quarters reports on declining morale in the Zimbabwean security forces, which hopefully has Mugabe worried.
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