re: #5 Summer

Mubarak has got to be the most incredibly tone deaf politician currently around. Even if he manages to crush this thing completely, or stifle it, or even just waits them out until people end up going home, how can he not understand that he has completely lost all credibility inside and outside of his country and the world at large…?

Power hasn’t only corrupted him - it’s driven him absolutely fecking mad.

Honestly, its pretty normal for leaders to ignore protests. According to some estimates, 300,000 to 400,000 protesters marched in New York alone during the Feb 15, 2003 Anti-Iraq War protests (which took place around the globe and in 150 US cities). I dont think the US administration even acknowledged it.