"Jacobin hated Henry Kissinger so much that they wrote a book-length obituary years ago and commissioned 50,000 copies and just let them sit until the motherfucker finally died. Unbeatable levels of hater. I am inspired."

https://jacobin.com/store/product/kissinger-book

The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, then Henry Kissinger is the ghoul haunting its hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive rounds of growing pains. <br/> <br/>Approx. 200-page book published with Verso Books. Backordered. Expected ship date January 2, 2024.

@shauna this reminds me of one of the greatest statements ever by a musical act.

https://genius.com/albums/Chumbawamba/In-memoriam-margaret-thatcher

Chumbawamba recorded it in 2005 to be released upon her death. She outlived the band, but they still made sure the EP got out as a celebration.

> they considered her eventual death something to celebrate. So, in the early 2000s, they recorded an EP that did just that. According to Fact magazine, it was first available to pre-order at concerts in 2005, and the pre-sale moved online in April 2009. The physical album was “already recorded, pressed, and ready to go,” the band announced, but it wouldn’t be sent out until Thatcher actually died. When that finally happened four years later, the CDs were mailed almost immediately, and the songs hit YouTube not long after that.


Grade A spite. The band had even disbanded at that point, but they still held up their end of the deal and released the song and the physical copies.

mentalfloss.com/article/642934…

@cestith @shauna

Chumbawamba Released an Album Celebrating Margaret Thatcher’s Death | Mental Floss

The “Tubthumping” rockers bid adieu to the Iron Lady with a touching musical tribute featuring “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead.”

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