Flashback

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I remember thirty years ago, when all the Democrats who’d backed the wrong side in the Cold War got very, very quiet when the crimes of the Soviets over the previous seven decades became too clear to miss.

They ducked, weaved and deflected – but they ultimately got quiet.

As we speak, Iranian police and “Basij” – the Iranian version of Brownshirts, ZOMO or government-sanctioned “Anti”-Fa – are gassing, beating and shooting people protesting the death of a woman who was beaten to death, not for not wearing a hijab, but for not wearing it right. Up to 400 have died, and the demonstrations – which the Biden Administration hasn’t thrown under the bus quite yet – aren’t slowing down yet.

Seeing how the most stridently Muslim members of the Democrat Party, and 3/5 of “The Squad”, are doing exactly the same thing re Iran:

It is obscene that the Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar have failed to say anything about these brave Iranian women, let alone offer their moral support.

Sarsour and Omar continue to glorify their wearing of hijab as a protest against white racism and alleged “Islamophobia.”

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib posted a statement Sept. 23 expressing solidarity with the protesters “as they fight for a woman’s right to bodily autonomy and against police brutality in the wake of the horrifying murder of #MahsaAmini.”

I’m so looking forward to sitting on the right side of history and heckling Omar.

94 thoughts on “Flashback”

  1. Those Iranian women are downright brave.
    Every single obstacle you can imagine put in front of them. Oh, the irony — “morality police” are actually murderers. I had to kill her — she showed her hair!

    At the core of such laws is not religion but an atavistic desire to control women’s sexuality and reproduction expressed through religion. Most of the US anti-abortion movement seems to have the same character. To be fair, that isn’t exclusive to religion.

  3. Emery is describing half of the people in a country he chooses to live in.

  4. In the shithole Omar comes from, stoning is too lenient. They opt for a necklace of flaming tires.

  6. It strikes me that too often, the left today forgets how wrong they were about the Soviets back in the 1980s. For that matter, too many conservatives forget about what life was in the Soviet Union and under the Warsaw Pact, and ignore signs that the KGB just went undercover instead of disappearing altogether.

    And, for that matter, the left seems to have the same blind spot dating back about the same time vis-a-vis Islamic fundamentalism.

  7. After Stalin’s death, the KGB became the ruler of the USSR.
    Putin’s position is that the Communist Party failed Russia, while the KGB remained loyal.

  8. 🚨More than a bit surprised MBerg hasn’t gotten into The ‘Lizzo Playing James Madison’s Flute’ controversy. Apparently it’s bloggy gold…

  9. 🚨More than a bit surprised MBerg hasn’t gotten into The ‘Lizzo Playing James Madison’s Flute’ controversy. Apparently it’s bloggy gold

    It would have been better if she gave it the Ron Burgundy jazz flute treatment, or perhaps worn an Ian Anderson codpiece over the top of her outfit during her performance, or both. In the greater scheme of things, de minimis.

  10. Almost everybody was wrong about the USSR back in the 80s. One common idea among conservatives was that the US would become more socialist, and the Soviets more freedom oriented, and we’d meet somewhere in the middle.
    The collapse was really fast. I was pretty politically aware back then, I remember in 1989 there was an idea that the Soviets MIGHT permit German reunification in return for the new Germany being officially neutral.
    Less than two years later the whole ball o’ wax fell to pieces.
    I can’t emphasize this enough: the USSR collapsed for economic reasons. Gorbachev didn’t come up with glasnost and perestroika because he was possessed by the ghost of Thomas Jefferson. Russia had no history of civil liberties and democratic reform to draw from. It was a desperation move to modernize the Soviet economy by making it more consumer directed.
    And, despite a seventy year history of the USSR quashing nationalist tendencies inside the USSR with unimaginable strength and cruelty, the USSR fell apart on national fault lines.
    So the two lessons of the fall of the USSR were:
    -Centrally directed economies cannot compete with free market economies.
    -National identity cannot be erased.
    I’m not sure which lesson is more important, or which is more ignored by our elites.
    The Soviets did everything they could to erase Polish nationalist identity, including taking advantage of WW2 to move hundreds of thousands of Soviet peasants into Poland and murdering the Polish officer and educated class in cold blood. It didn’t work, the Poles were the first to break out from the Eastern bloc. And Poland had only been an independent nation for twenty years before the Soviets and Germans occupied and annexed its territory.
    But our elites never learn . . .

  11. Breaking!

    Senile, geriatric pedophile pushes nuclear clock to 11:59:30. Declares NATO ready to sacrifice humanity in support of corruption, buttseks, child trafficking and degeneracy…

    “After Ukraine said it had submitted an “accelerated” NATO application, Biden warned, “I want to say this again. America is fully prepared with our NATO allies to defend every single inch of NATO territory… So Mr. Putin, don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. Every inch.”

    Stealing elections has consequences, Patriots! Pedo Joe has nothing to lose, and so by extension neither do you!

    At this point, it seems nuclear devastation isn’t such a bad thing

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  13. Zelensky’s application to join NATO seems like a needless provocation. Hungary and Turkey are certain to block Ukraine’s application. Maybe the US would as well, if there is anyone with common sense at the State Department.
    Now that Russia has annexed the Ukrainian provinces it occupies, will it consider an attack on those provinces to be an attack on Russia itself? Because Zelensky is going to use NATO supplied weapons to attempt to recover the “lost provinces.”
    The Russia hands I respect think that any replacement for Putin would likely be even worse — more militant, and more nationalistic.
    What, exactly, will Slow Joe do if Putin uses a tactical nuke in Ukraine? Your guess is as good as mine. No one seems interested in de-escalation, not us, not NATO, not the EU, not the Ukrainians, and certainly not Russia.
    It’s going to be a long, cold winter in Europe, and maybe here, too.

  15. ^^ Being a Putin apologist is never a good look…..

    Putin 18th February 2022
    “These military exercises, drills, are purely defensive and are not a threat to any other country. They were planned and all the objectives of these drills have been achieved.”

    Putin 24th February 2022
    “Our plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories. We are not going to impose anything on anyone by force.”

    Putin 8th March 2022
    “I understand how you’re worrying for your beloved ones … I emphasize that conscript soldiers are not participating in hostilities and will not participate in them. And there will be no additional call-up of reservists.”

    Anyone who still doubts that we are dealing with an obsessed, paranoid madman in the Kremlin should just listen to his speech the other day.
    This is neofascism in its purest form, combined with an imperial revisionist agenda.

    Russia is showing the rest of Europe and the West what awaits them if Russia ever succeeds in Ukraine.

  17. Castro’s revolution in Cuba wouldn’t have succeeded without the support of the Russian commies. For decades the Soviets sold them oil below market price and paid above market price for Cuban sugar. This “special relationship” between Russia and Cuba was diminished after the fall of the USSR, but it never quite ended. Russia was Cuba’s economic safety net.
    Especially since the Russian invasion of Ukraine that safety net seems to have vanished. After Hurricane Ian passed over the island, Cuba, for the first time, is asking for US aid. US aid was offered after past hurricanes and other disasters but angrily refused.
    Now, after days with no power and store shelves growing emptier, there are reports of widespread protests and demonstrations in Cuba.
    It would lovely if the Cuban government were to fall and a democracy take its place. It would terrify all of the right people in North Korea and Iran.

  18. “Russia is showing the rest of Europe and the West what awaits them if Russia ever succeeds in Ukraine.”

    Pedo Joe’s federal police are getting us used to Russian occupation.

  19. “It would lovely if the Cuban government were to fall and a democracy take its place.”

    Well, they just made gay weddings a thing, so it’s only a matter of time before Cuban kids are enjoying full fledged Democracy(tm) on the laps of dress wearing male pedophiles.

  21. Fuck Graham, UMMP. It was he and his Neo-con pals were complicit in getting us into this mess when they could have stopped it. He has zero authority to speak for NATO, and he should be censured.

    None of this shit would have happened if leftist trash had not stolen the election from Trump. Trump didn’t trust NATO, for good reason, and he wouldn’t have played their stupid fucking game. He’d have quashed the NATO/Ukraine talk immediately, and we’d still be enjoying a healthy economy.

    Instead, we have Ukraine asking for accelerated admittance to NATO, and faggot Neo-con Senators threatening nuclear retaliation. It’s insanity.

    Let me tell you something; Putin is not going to lose this war; period.

    The referendum in the Donbass is done, and fair or crooked, that is now Russian Federation territory. If the Khazar crime boss attacks it, Putin will respond, all in with a massive attack, and maybe nukes. I expect Putin will soon declare that arming the Uke’s is tacit participation in the war by NATO.

    I’m on the East coast, and surrounded by large military bases; not good. But if there is justice, I’ll survive long enough to see DC go up in a fireball, and smell those fetid corpses roasting up there.

  22. I don’t have a dog in this fight, Blaze. It’s Graham’s fecklessness that I find shocking. Okay, we make the threat, and maybe it stops Putin from using a nuke.
    But if it doesn’t? And we follow through? We’ve got World War Three, economic collapse world wide and hundreds of millions dead, global politics and the internal politics of ALL western nations transformed in ways that Graham cannot even guess at.
    The Germans want to use subsidies to lower the price of gas, but the subsidies themselves will increase demand above what it might be w/o subsidies (QED). The German Economics Minister seems to have caught on to this:
    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/german-economy-minister-energy-situation-extremely-tense-2022-09-30/
    Once again we have an utter lack of prudence and no one seems to care.

  23. Looks like Lindsay Graham isn’t the only person losing his mind in South Carolina. Just sayin’.

    My take is that even Putin knows better than to use strategic nukes, and if he wants to use tactical nukes, he’s dealing with the same Russian armed forces that bought cheap tires and failed to maintain the vehicles they were installed on–and those tactical nukes are by and large out of range of Ukraine. And if he does manage to get a few of those trucks moving to get them in range, let’s just say that the world will see F-16s over Ukraine. And yes, Russia. Long and short of it is that unless he wants full war with NATO, Putin’s boxed in.

    Maybe it’s time to tell him that if he steps down, we can get him a nice little dacha in San Francisco Bay. Great view of San Francisco and the Golden Gate.

    Slava Ukraini! Putin delenda est!

  25. Now Petraeus has gone mad, too.
    “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a NATO, a collective effort, that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea.”
    Apparently Petraeus believe that Russian reaction to this direct attack on all of its armed forces would be to surrender. Or to ignore it. But they wouldn’t respond with more nukes aimed at NATO forces, nope, no way, never, because that would be crazy.

  26. UMMP, look up the very link you said. If it says “mobile”, that missile is on a truck, and the vaunted Russian attention to vehicle maintenance is in play. Plus, keep in mind that Shoigu is one of the article’s sources, and we’ve learned very clearly in the past year that if Shoigu says it, it’s bullshit.

  27. C’mon MP, get with the program and only use sources personally approved by BB! Geez… BTW, MP, everything you said is absolutely correct. And of course, the IintWH will rush with supplies to Cuba, propping up Castro regime, because only BB believes aid will end up in people’s hands.

  28. Bikebubba, Russia has submarines that can fire cruise missiles. Can they fit a nuke on one of those cruise missiles? Don’t know, don’t want to find out.
    They also have these things called “airplanes.”
    Are you seriously suggesting that we can ignore the possibility of WW3 because the Russians won’t be able to find a way to deliver a tactical nuke?

  29. I dunno, UMMP. Listening to these Neo-con morons is frustrating, but I don’t feel demoralized; I’m in a philosophic mood. Perhaps being vaporized in defense of degeneracy and corruption was always in the final script draft for the USA.

    The sad thing is, the idiots who are responsible will most likely survive the initial exchange. The good thing is, there’s a good chance the Chinese overlords will treat them quite harshly.

  30. Like the Neo-con nitwits shooting their mouths off in the MSM, Delenda is old and deluded, UMMP. In his cartoon bubble there is an American flag waving gently in the breeze, and mom has a turkey on the table.

    10/10 he has a “thin blue line” flag on his F-150.

  32. The #1 US foreign policy goal should be “Prevent World War Three.”
    This is because World War Three would result in the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and set the world back, economically, a century, at least.
    The same people who engineered the Afghan debacle now seem to be willing to pull that dragon’s tail.
    The US got rid of its tactical nukes in 1992 because it was impossible to use one of the darn things w/o risking escalation to the use of strategic nuclear weapons, AKA World War Three.
    But instead of urging Zelinsky to trade territory for peace, as we have done with the Israelis, for example, we tell Zelinsky we will provide him weapons and cash as long as he is willing to fight.
    It is madness.

  33. The good thing is, there’s a good chance the Chinese overlords will treat them quite harshly.

    The bear is most dangerous when cornered. If you give him a reason to fight, you will get hurt.

  34. This is because World War Three would result in the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and set the world back, economically, a century, at least.

    All part and parcel for the Malthusian overlords, no?

    But instead of urging Zelinsky to trade territory for peace, as we have done with the Israelis, for example

    Well, IitWH just channelled $$$s to Hezbolah. What can go wrong?!

  35. Yo, JPA, notice that I took UMMP’s source seriously, noting that most of the tactical nukes are land-based and on mobile launchers. Hence Russia’s vaunted vehicle maintenance abilities and tendencies come into play.

    Not arguing that we don’t take Russia’s nuclear “disability” for granted, but there is a reality that (a) Russian missile subs are not going to get through the Bosphorus right now and (b) if Russia can’t ground Ukraine’s air force, they’re going to have some serious problems with ours if those missile trucks or bombers start moving.

    And since Dullee thinks he knows about me, never owned a Ford, never put a thin blue line sticker on anything. I submit that his “knowledge” about Ukraine is just about as good as his knowledge about me.

  37. Bikebubba, I think that it is foolish to believe that the Russians would have stockpiles of tactical nukes, designed to be used on the battle field, and not have a way to deliver those tactical nukes to the battlefield. Some are mounted on cruise missiles that can be fired from an airplane within Russia’s border, for example.
    Some could be fitted to an IRBM.
    Putin is probably playing the brinksman. What do we do if he starts moving and prepping those weapons? Shake our saber harder? Or tell Zelinsky to go into peace talks?

  38. The second Putin uses a tactical Nuke it’s over for him. No one can possibly support Russia after that and the rest of the world will have to get involved. Putin may think it is a show of force, but it would signal the end of Russia.

    The Ukrainians should have another month or so before the weather worsens and Russian conscripts get thrown at them. Let’s hope they pull off another breakthrough or two before winter.

    Ukrainian forces break through Kherson frontline
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/10/03/ukraine-russia-invasion-live-updates/8166415001/

  39. Hence Russia’s vaunted vehicle maintenance abilities and tendencies come into play.

    Darn it. Foiled again!
    If only Pep Boys had opened franchises in the Russian Federation, Putin would rule the world! Bwaaahahaha!

    🤡

  40. You have to feel sorry for the Russians. They can’t even define the borders of their annexed territory because the Ukraine army is changing them so quickly.

  41. Paradoxically, the Kyiv Khazar’s best defense against the coming revelations regarding the billions of US federal fiat currency that have disappeared, lies in the ultimate defeat of the Uk’e forces.

    When his forces finally capitulate and he skips town with sacks of cash, he can just say all the evidence of corruption and theft are Russian propaganda. Neo-con boomers, and leftist degenerates will join hands and be at the vanguard of his defense in this.

    https://www.npr.org/2022/07/20/1112414884/corruption-concerns-involving-ukraine-are-revived-as-the-war-with-russia-drags-o

    Of course, that is only the likely scenario in the absence of a low yield nuke detonation on the Presidential palace….vaporization would make a trial moot as well.

  43. Seriously, NPR?
    . . . the Biden administration is now once again grappling with longstanding worries about Ukraine’s suitability as a recipient of massive infusions of American aid.
    Those issues, which date back decades and were not an insignificant part of former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment
    How do you turn “Biden’s son had a no-show, $830k/year job with Ukrainian energy firm Burisma while Biden was Obama’s point man on Ukraine” into “not an insignificant part of former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment”?

  45. Looks like it’s all falling apart for the Russians. And as the map shows the Russian troops have their backs to a wide river on this front so there’s now the risk of a large force being enveloped and forced to surrender. They should have evacuated to the other side of that river weeks ago.

    Pride and hubris have overshadowed strategy in the Kremlin. Now thousands of Russian soldiers are paying the price for the incompetence of the Kremlin billionaires.

  46. UMMP; read the article you linked. Get past the breathless awe at “a train is moving from a base that might hold nuclear weapons” and watch the danged video. It’s tanker trucks and armored personnel carriers that are breathlessly described as “mine-proof”.

    In the same way, the range of the Kursk’s (“oops”, its sister ship’s) cruise missiles is 388 miles. You could dock in Kaliningrad or right south of the Dardanelles and still not be in range.

    In other words, it’s all hat and no cattle, as anyone who’s been paying attention to Russian bluster in the past year could tell you. If Putin’s still alive in a few months, offer him an all expenses paid vacation at Alcatraz. He’ll likely take it.

  47. Despite the assurances of General Delenda, and his Aide de Camp, Corporal rAT, Putin is not going to lose this war. Period.

    It’s the Crips against the Bloods fighting for turf. The Vice Lords (the US & NATO puppets) enjoyed the Bloods twerking, and have come as allies, but in the end, the Crips will prevail.

  48. “Daily Mail” 😂😂😂😂😂

    The Ukrainians should sue for peace before the Russians take their gloves off.

    There you go, no need to comment Woolly.

    😉

  49. Bikebubba, the way you escalate is that you first move equipment that is meant to work in an irradiated environment near the battle field.
    Putin has been escalting towards the use of a nuclear weapon rhetorically for some time. The next step is to get the Twelfth Directorate on the move.
    Once people become alarmed at the degree of escalation, you will see grocery stores empty, gas stations run out of gas, and prices for everything grow insane.
    And that will be before we find out if Putin is really ready to detonate a nuke.
    I’m waiting for someone in the know — the Pentagon or the State Department or the CIA — tell us not to worry because those incompetent Russkis can build nukes, but they can’t launch them because their trucks have flat tires or haven’t been maintained properly.

  50. Fox news says

    “A top-of-the-line Russian nuclear-powered submarine has gone missing from its harbor in the Arctic along with its rumored “doomsday weapon,” according to multiple reports.

    NATO has reportedly warned members that Russia’s Belgorod submarine no longer appeared to be operating out of its White Sea base, where it has been active since July. Officials warned that Russia may plan to test Belgorod’s “Poseidon” weapons system, a drone equipped with a nuclear bomb that Russia has claimed is capable of creating a “radioactive tsunami,” according to Italian media.

    The drone can be deployed from the submarine at any time and detonated at a depth of 1 kilometer near a coastal city. Russian state media has claimed the device can create a 1,600-ft. wave that smashes into the coast and irradiates it.”

    Eh, they probably forgot to change the oil…it’ll sink.

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