Jason Watson

“The army could not have been happier. The result of the referendum was a repeated slap to the faces of those liberal powers who thought they could change the country. The army never wanted change, not with so many interests, businesses, and powerful people involved. It was a system sixty years in the making. Removing Mubarak didn’t even touch the deep state that he was a disposable face of. The Muslim Brotherhood were never serious about the revolution either. They used it simply to come into power. They had no problem with the old regime as long as they were on top of it. One”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“it easier to use religion to mass-control people with shitty lives?”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Or maybe it is the very nature of military rule: they hate diversity and they don’t know how to deal with it, so the best thing is to make everyone as homogeneous as the uniforms in their training camps. The”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring