{"id":64477,"date":"2022-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/64477\/9-times-lebanese-politics-jumped-the-shark"},"modified":"2023-05-08T15:42:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:42:04","slug":"9-times-lebanese-politics-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/64477\/9-times-lebanese-politics-jumped-the-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Times Lebanese Politics Jumped the Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping the shark is a term coined for when the series Happy Days had a character literally jump over the shark. It is defined for when something &#8220;reaches a point when far-fetched events are included merely for the sake of novelty, indicative of a decline in quality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>  <B>1. &#8220;Leh el 7ara2ey bas bel manate2 el masi7iye&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Leh bas 3anna 3am te7tere2 el shark jumps? Like if you asked a white person to do a parody of Lebanon they would have invented this Mario Aoun quote and we would\u2019ve all made fun of them for being unoriginal, but here we are. <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/64477.png\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>2. When we defeated COVID in 2 months<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Remember when Hamed Hassan was the talk of the town for a year, dark dark times.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/64477-1-scaled.png\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>3. When Aoun said rayheen &#8220;3a jhanam&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Your president literally says we\u2019re all going to hell, can you jump higher than that.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/wpVOf4QHepEAAAAC\/hell.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>4. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any bank accounts nor credit, I rely on God&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Samir Geagea, please don\u2019t lie to me. <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tenor.com\/niH8Ibjlv3QAAAAC\/lebanon-samir.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>5. When Mryiam Klink was elected for president<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  In an alternate timeline, she is elected president instead of Michel Aoun and the dollar is now 750 L.L.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imcdn.org\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Myriam-Klink.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>6. When Riad Salameh said &#8220;El Lira b Alf Kheir&#8221; back in October 2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Speaking of the dollar, could this have been any more on the nose?<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tenor.com\/0oMT8YaFTYwAAAAC\/riad-salame-riad-salemeh.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>7. When Michel el-Murr became an MP<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Ma 7a ou3edkon b shi.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/64477-2.png\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>8. When Gebran Bassil said 7a yjeeb el kahraba 24 hours<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Look at us now king, look at us now.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FC0JYuaaMAAipK6.jpg:large\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>9. When Nabih Berri makes jokes in parliament<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Like come on, a pandemic, an explosion, the coming apocalypse, yet one man stands strong.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tenor.com\/UNaNpUIpxg8AAAAC\/nabih-nabih-berri.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping the shark is a term coined for when the series Happy Days had a character literally jump over the shark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":425459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-64477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[56],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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