Brickbat: Red Card

Xinhua/Sipa USA/Newscom

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza travels the country with his own soccer team, playing local teams. The teams he plays usually know the score: Go easy on the president's team and maybe let him score. But in a recent game in the town of Kiremba, the president played a team that contained a number of Congolese refugees who didn't know who he was. They didn't go easy on the team or the president, and he fell several times as the other team attacked him when he had the ball. Kiremba's administrator and his assistant were later arrested and charged with "conspiracy against the president."

Comments

[AlmightyJB]

What a pussy.

[AlmightyJB]

President Nkurunziza is the Tom Brady of the Congo.

[crufus]

He's the greatest president of all time!

[Eidde]

Another goal for the Chosen One!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Kiremba's administrator and his assistant were later arrested and charged with "conspiracy against the president."

The ultimate flop.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Alt alt text: This hole, it smells like shit.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

And thank you and good morning; that started off an otherwise cranky morning on a good note!

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

"Who's that?"

"Dunno. Must be a president."

"How do you know that?"

"He hasn't got shit all over him."

"...say, do you think we should go tell the other guys?"

"..."

[crufus]

Maybe he should play golf like Kim Jong-Il.

[Jerryskids]

You can't fool me with this fake news. "Burundi"? If you're going to make up a fake country, try to make the name at least a little plausible. Burundiland or Burundistan maybe I'd believe. And "Pierre Nkurunziza"? C,mon, man, you gave your fictional African character a first name of Pierre?

[Libertarian]

If you look up Burundi at Wikipedia, you'll note that it was French and near the Great Lakes of Africa. In other words, it's the Quebec of the Dark Continent.

[SQRLSY One]

"it's the Quebec of the Dark Continent."

RACIST!!!!

[Libertarian]

If the French were tough enough to hold back the Nazis, I doubt they'll be offended by my racism.

[croaker]

French Military Surplus: Never fired, only dropped once.

[Longtobefree]

In my history books, the French did not hold back the Nazis; they let the Nazis walk right over them.
It was millions of English and Americans that eventually kicked the Germans out of France. Actually, twice.

[Libertymike]

Its also anywheresville, Afreeka. Expressed otherwise, it ain't Wakanda.

[Ornithorhynchus]

Burundi was not French; it was Belgian. (It had been part of German East Africa, but after World War I, the League Of Nations mandated it to Belgium, along with Rwanda, while the bulk of German East Africa was mandated to Britain.)

[Bubba Jones]

President Pierre Nkurunziza is a 'born-again' evangelical Christian

Citation needed.

[croaker]

"I suggest a new strategy: Let the wookie win."