Nothing’s happening yet. BBC reporting Mubarak’s already out. Twitter’s on fire.

Raafatology
Dear #Mubarak, we dont want you to speak. Just waive to us #Egypt #jan25

And to this white American woman, I say, BRING IT. You TP crazies take to the streets, and we’ll see how few you are:

@ahoyseaman We dont have a dictator. We get to vote our bum out.. Egypt did not have that option now did they ? #teaparty #Egypt

MSNBC reports Mubarak could take billions with him if he goes.

UPDATE: Reports say Mubarak will speak within the hour.

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8 replies on “Egypt Now”

  5. How do you know this woman is white? And so fucking what if she is? Shall we start racially labeling everyone we don’t agree with now? Seems to be more and more popular for sloggers to go out of their way to label “white” people, with the implication that this is something bad. Virtually all my friends are white, and they’re wonderful. And I’d be willing to bet 98% of slog commenters are white, too. Not all of them are wonderful, though 🙁

  6. It’s time to call the White House and insist that we no longer give billions of $ to Mubarak or anyone in his regime (Sulieman) or a military dictatorship if there is a coup.

    202-456-1111

  7. One of the good things that may come of this is that maybe we’ll stop letting foreign dictators skim half of the US tax dollars we give their country off the top.

  8. @7, no we won’t. That’s just how foreign aid works. Everybody takes off the top. 30% of the tsunami aid that went to Indonesia came off the top for the military (and most of the supplies themselves were skimmed, stolen and resold, or otherwise diverted as well).

    The impolitic thing to say would be that Mubarak wouldn’t get to take anything with him if he left in a coffin. But that’s not nice, is it.

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