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Yasmine Abbas

Have a problem? #BlameBassil

What started out as a reaction to the electricity crisis has ended up an awesome response to everyone’s problems: just #BlameBassil. The Twitter hashtag is a reference to Lebanon’s infamously ineffectual energy minister, Gebran Bassil.

Here’s how it works: if something goes wrong for you today, nay – from this moment on and for the rest of your life – you point the finger at Gebran Bassil.

Why? Because the Internet cannot think of a better juice box to blame than Bassil. And the Internet, peeps, is never wrong. Don’t do it for you, do it for your country.

Here’s a roundup of some of our favorite tweets from #BlameBassil: