In Iran, as the people begin to figure out they are living under a vile dictatorship, those who might not have previously noticed the exclusion of candidates, closing of newspapers, arrest of dissidents, crackdown on protesting schoolteachers, etc.

Happy day in the United States, too. Theoretically. The president hoped the Mullah-A’jad regime would change, and it did! Into a more embarrassingly naked dictatorship. It’s not like mullah-approved Mousavi represented change from mullah politics as usual any more than, heck, Obama did from raging DC hypocrisy and porkulism, though the weird combination of Carterist foreign policy and Bush GWOTism is different.

But theoretically, the idea of good-faith negotiations with nuke-lusting raging anti-Semitic sponsors of terrorism who rig their already rigged elections is out the window, right? Theoretically, because who knows. Diplomatically, presidentially, politically speaking, the cat’s still got his tongue.