An enforced orthodoxy. Supported by a morality police and a politicized security apparatus. Where people are afraid to speak their mind. And stand up for their rights. Where a media is controlled by and a flack for government. And remains silent in the face of political arrests and persecution.
Yip it does, sounds like home! In fact when I read Bruce’s post I hadn’t listen to the podcast, I thought he was talking about America. I sometimes go to the comments first to get a heads up to what’s in CS
OMG Lynn you have no idea what I have been called, my one friend and a very good friend screamed at me when I said this 2020 election has been a serious mistake. She screamed “what has Donald Trump ever done for America”. I replied “what hasn’t he done for America” Needless to say everybody has become very Schtum about Brandon this year especially after the Ukraine war, it seems the amount we spending on the war and our rate of inflation appear to have shut up a lot of my mates TG 🤣🤣
Inflation, soaring gasoline and diesel prices, galloping utility and home heating costs, open borders, eroding 401-k values, climbing mortgage rates, spiraling crime, a war in Eastern Europe.......but wait. The biggest problem we face is white nationalists. I believe there are KKK rallies in Walmart parking lots all over America. Didn't see any? But Joey can't be making it up? Can he?
Wait a minute, Biden and his feckless team want to revive the Iran nuclear deal whereby sanctions will be lifted in addition millions returned to Iran. We better stand up for Ukraine where Iran is sending drones to Russia to destroy civilians in Ukraine.
The Iran situation can be laid firmly at that lying, hypocritical, bumbling, incompetent, sleaze, Jimmy Carter. He stabbed the Shah of Iran in the back. The Shah was the dictator of Iran. He may have been a brutal dictator. All of the Islamic run nations are.
The Shah was westernizing Iran, no more dress codes, no more dress/Islamic police. Women could go to university and wear western clothes. A theocracy is the most brutal of all dictatorships because God is on your side and no matter how brutal you are, God approves.
Carter withdrew US support of the Shah and the Shah had to flee for his life. Carter knew who would replace the Shah. It was to be the brutal, religious fanatic, the Ayatollah Khomeini. Why would any sane person do this? Carter knew what would happen as soon as Khomeini disembarked the plane in Iran yet he did it anyway.
So lay the brutality and riots right at Carter's feet. What an asshole!
I lived in Iran as the revolution was unfolding. I left a few months before the Shah. He and his father, much like Attaturk in nearby Turkey, sought to modernize Iran, and succeeded to a great extent. Yes there were cruelties and excesses (Savak quickly comes to mind), but that’s true of pretty much every nation state. Education and industry were booming, the middle class was rapidly expanding and, most especially, women had equality and opportunities unknown in that part of the world. In modernizing, however, he created an elected legislature which removed consultative decision-making from the Bazaars, where it traditionally lay. His father, Mohammad Reza, took land from the (Islamic) church and redistributed it to the poor. Since land=power in such a society, he greatly weakened the power of the mollahs. When the revolution unfolded, it was led by the two groups which had been disenfranchised by modernization, the bazaaris and the mollahs.
100% truth! I was in high school in the late 70s. 2 Persian girls came to our school because their parents in Iran had sent them to live with a relative in the US when they realized that the Shah would be ousted. Their parents were academics who worked at a University there. They told me that their parents knew that things were going to go backward for women in Iran once the Ayatollah gained power. They preferred the Shah because he was more progressive thinking and knew that the Ayatollah would be as brutal a dictator or worse. Carter was ineffective and weak like Biden. At least he wasn’t corrupt, like Biden, but he certainly was complicit, similar to Barry’s withdrawal of support for Mubarak.
And another thing. Dems love Islam, the religion of peace. If Islam is so peaceful, why are they trying to build an atomic bomb? Where is the outrage from the Feminist Party on Iran and Islam in general, murdering women and treating women like crap?
You will never hear those questions from the Democrat ass kissing press.
We don't worship Trump. We just can't bring ourselves to vote Socialist. You apparently think that senile idiot in chief is really a great President. If you think he is competent, think Afghan withdrawal.
The Insane Clown you worship after losing the election was prepared to order a mass exodus at the end of 2020. The few cabinet officials who were not obsessed with overturning the election got wind of it and talked Insane Clown out of it. Insane Clown being similarly obsessed and couldn't be bothered with such trivial matters rescinded the order..
You are a left wing fanatic with a one line argument. I resent that you say I worship Trump so how about not calling me that. It is offensive. I won't call you a loud mouth glassy eyed leftist. I won't call you a lemming, who believes everything the left lays out. No I won't call you any of those things so stop insulting me.
It also brings to mind (mine, anyway..), Bruce, if I may say so, if a state in this country of ours that outlaws an abortion for any reason (even if the life of the mother is endangered) is considering legally going after a woman who goes to another state for the procedure - would that not qualify as a 'politicized security apparatus' and an 'enforced orthodoxy'?
Hi Lee., hope all is well. You don't think I support that insanity, do you? I'm for liberty. Which includes a woman's sovereignty over her body, until it affects a viable fetus. The model adopted in most European countries suits me just fine. Abortion is a pretty good test. Those on either extreme end are usually lunatics. We need to squash the lunatics. Or we'll lose our country.
Point there. Huge excess and extremism on our (conservative) side and we (conservatives) out to be forcefully denouncing it. Let's police the extremism on our side.
Can you expound a bit on your comment? I don’t think this fits our current government very closely, although some use of the FBI lately seems problematic. But mostly we don’t have an enforced orthodoxy, but a great division in the country. I sure hope the “common good” faction of Republicans don’t get the power to enforce their orthodoxy. I think maybe at many elite universities there is this orthodoxy you speak of, with people afraid to speak their minds, and the ability of those in power to enforce that orthodoxy. Is this what you were getting at?
Did you miss the memo by the demented dwarf who runs "Justice" about the FBI needing to intimidate parents who questioned the leftist shite their children are being fed? What sort of perverts want to teach sex ed to kindergartners? These people are fiends. And now we're to call pedophiles MAPs? Truly the inmates are running the asylum. And then there was the Senile Imbecile, face contorted, raging and snarling about evil MAGA republicans, replete with a lurid red background and mannequin Marines trying to look menacing. Yeah that kind of enforced orthodoxy.....
Complete horseshit. No one is teaching sex ed to kindergartners. Even if they tried kindergartners wouldn't know what the fuck they were talking about. Schools are going to teach the unvarnished truth about slavery and racism whether parents like it or not. You call that enforced orthodoxy that is your problem.
It is not a few elite universities stifling speech that opposes the quasi-religious belief in race-centering all things. I just went through helping my son find a U.S. Uni (with exceptional grades behind him, and scores). Speech supression and bullying other students for holding different views is the norm. Also the norm to segregate student spaces, which encourages animosity. All of this comes from the left, not the 'monster in the closet' you are making of others that you label as 'the right'.
And why has the Biden regime not taken action to retaliate for the two attempts on Ms. Alinejad's life? And why do Biden, Blinken and Nod continue to kow tow to and shower favors on the brutal Iranian terrorist regime?
To answer your question the American Left is fascist. It has aligned itself with the Iranian conservative right which is also fascist. Both regimes are opposed to freedom of speech, free and fair elections, individual sovereignty, equality under the law and rationalism. Both regimes are also anti-Christian.
I do not believe that the Iranian regime is Climate Alarmist, so in that respect it is more grounded in reality than the American Left.
'Both regimes are opposed to freedom of speech, free and fair elections, individual sovereignty, equality under the law and rationalism. Both regimes are also anti-Christian.'
So, Terence, I won't argue that Dems (progressives) are in a mess vis a vis Iranian cultural mores (repression)..
But..let us also look at Saudi Arabia. No freedom of speech, no free and fair elections, no individual sovereignty, no equality (obviously..) - and a darling of Republican administrations forever, especially the last one (and benign neglect from Democratic ones..).
It may never be proven as to why, but when 90% of the killers orchestrating 9/11 came from that country and the Bushies did absolutely nothing about it, what does that tell you?
The idea here is to point out that there is a parallel to what the far left is being accused of, and what the right has done in the past. Though the countries are different, the intent on the part of our two competing ideologies is the same. Both have blinked an eye to the ongoing oppression in these two countries. In my opinion.
You are absolutely correct. The Democrats want a useless treaty with these fanatics to stop their nuclear march to an atomic bomb.
The Koran says you can lie, cheat and steal from infidels and does anyone with half a brain think these Islamic fanatics will honor the treaty? I don't and neither to the Dems but they are going ahead with it anyway.
Wait a minuet. I'm wrong. The Dems aren't that smart. They do believe these fanatics will abide with the treaty.
When the treaty is signed Iran will get billions of dollars that were seized when sanctions were imposed.
Here's another thought. In the 70s the policy was we would never negotiate with terrorist. Iran is the world's biggest supporter of international terrorism. Why are the Dems negotiating with terrorists? You will never see this question asked by the Democrat ass kissing press.
I challenge my Jewish Democrat friends on this issue and they play “whataboutism” and dodge the question. It is beyond frustrating at this point.
I’ve read a lot on this topic, some good analysis by conservative foreign policy experts and they all agree: Obama wanted the USA to exit the Middle East and he wanted Iran as the strongest power there to keep the others in line. This is why Israel has been so successful in achieving peace with their moderate Arabs neighbors under the Abraham Accords. It turns out that security is more important to moderate Arabs than oil. Who’d a thunk it ?
1. When your friends use “whataboutism”. Stop them in their tracks. tell they are diverting and ask them to stay on topic. You will lose friends that way because they can't refute you and they will get explosively angry.
I do try to redirect back to the subject at hand. But too many of my friends have zero intellectual integrity to have a conversation where they can admit a shortcoming of their party (Biden seeking JCPAO) and still remain loyal to their beliefs. They just don’t have the horsepower between their ears to do this. And yes, I am looking for some new friends.
Lonesome, it will never be completely proven, as I'm sure you will retort, but reports over the years have suggested Reagan dealt with the terrorists in power in Iran in 1980, before the election here, in order to release the Americans held hostage there but only after the election..
In doing so in defeated the hapless Carter, though he probably would have anyway..
However, I don't think Regan went that far. I wouldn't call this a negotiation but a threat. He could have threatened to bomb their port facilities, oil fields and their highway infrastructure. That would have prompted them to release the hostages.
I think this is a pretty good guess as the Iranians respond only to violence. It is all they know. Diplomacy doesn't work with these fanatics.
I have nothing to back up this assumption but I don't think Regan was in the negotiating mood. Negotiation would never work with these religious fanatics.
The moment the Iranians took over our embassy, Carter should have told Iran that he would bomb them back to the stone age if they didn't release the hostages unharmed but Carter was a dithering fool, a wimp with no stomach for tough talk, no backbone.
You can't play kissy face with an Islamic terrorist.
Has she met with Cortez, Boonie Sandas, Omar, Tlaib, Sarsour and the other fake progressive American Muslims nervous about losing their Mullah muscle leadership in Iran?
I apologize to for making a critical and snarky comment on a prior article sharing a morning news show clip of Masih Alinejad. I had never heard of her and spouted off in ignorance.
Things have become so confusing I feel I can’t tell up from down anymore.
Prominent women of the Democrat party screamed bloody murder over someone like justice Brett Kavanaugh. Women like AOC and the squad, Linda Sarsour are promoted as media darlings.
I did a google search and learned Ms. Alinejad had her instagram account shut down this past summer.
My poorly written and uninformed comment was really a criticism of media and the performative outrage of the left in our culture. Claiming to care about women’s rights, human rights, etc. yet always tossing any woman, any minority under the bus who doesn’t fall directly in line with the regime, or says anything to harm their messaging and agenda. Women like J.K. Rowling and also Bari Weiss.
Christine Blasey-Ford was touted as a national hero who bravely came forward for women’s rights. Everyone saw and heard the outrage from Sarsour and the squad. Social media has never sensored them for lies or even outright antisemitism. As far as I know.
But this woman? I’m just starting to learn about her. Yes there are some articles and network appearances to be found and now this podcast which I intend to listen to.
Apparently sensorship of her content on instagram was an “oops” according to FB executives. It’s just odd how these errors only seem to go one on one direction.
Again, I was wrong and irresponsible to criticize her without being fully informed.
It is so frightening who are made visible and who are kept invisible. When Washington, Madison, and Thomas Jefferson are only slave owners and all the other attributes and amazing contributions are dismissed, how do we begin to understand the complications of our history and our future? It is a struggle to find perspectives and depth when information is so often served in such stupefying simplicity of telling a one note "truth". Who hasn't struggled to get information that has dimension and to find out who a leader is and their depth of character?
It’s all staring to feel exhausting. Trying to figure out where to go for information. Who and what to believe, learning, unlearning, re-learning. I’m getting too old for this crap, I have too much time on my hands, spend far too much time alone with my own thoughts. I need to become obsessed with a new hobby, volunteer or something more productive.
Most of the reasons I take any interest at all is because I have a 20 yr old kid who I want to prepare to live and get on in life on her own and once I am gone. That has also been exhausting.
It is exhausting! While I believe that there are an infinite varieties of individuality and infinite ways to stake an identity, biological sex is defined by xx and xy. The Harvard statement about fetuses knowing that they are trans and a graduate class demanding that a professor be fired for daring to say that there is only two sexes incredibly are just two examples of strong incentives to keep swimming to avoid being swept into the what-the-heck drain.
You are in good company. Remember after the truth came out and the Duke Lacrosse players were completely exonerated and the mob was exposed as cowards and fools only one reporter had the guts to admit she got it wrong and apologize. Her name was Ruth Sheehan and she stands tall in my book. The rest of the howling mob just slink away like the rats they are and then shriek in outrage at the next hoax and lie.
But you are not only admirable in this political environment but rare - one who can admit a mistake and learn from it. I too was in that comment thread and discredited her because she was on the Today show. I look down on the Today show so questioned her bravery. I too was wrong.
Maybe all of the brave women screeching in America should be required to listen to what a true freedom fighter sounds like. Listen to the real struggles that women have in this world and realize that just maybe you could do something really useful by supporting bravery from people like Masih. Then think if you would trade places with any women in Iran or do you really have it pretty good?
Or maybe tell your hero Brandon and the Mistress they should actively support true freedom and tell the Dictator in Iran to shove his agreement and actively support freedom for women who actually don't have any rights. But that might take away your capacino time.
Masih and all like her deserve our countries support and protection in their fight for true freedom for women.
Perhaps western feminists, after they've solved the pressing pronoun issue, can begin to vocalize their full-throated support of Iran's brutal crackdown on the protests. Yup. That'll happen right after the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Maybe POTUS Biden can fist bump the mullahs into the 21st century, hell the 18th century.
They should be throwing Nobel Peace prizes at Masih Alinejad left and right.
So true. Omar is mentioned in the interview for her complete silence on the current uprising. How anyone can support the left’s take on “feminism”, specifically poseur’s like AOC, Omar, Pressley, Talib, amaze me. Oh but Israel is the problem.
I guess "Silence is Violence" depends strictly on the expediency of the political moment.
Yes indeed, where is Michelle, where is the Squad?
Where is every other bloated, bloviating blowhard from Hollywood?
Where is LeBron James (counting his slave-generated zillions no doubt)? Where is the caring NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA and every other overpaid gaseous gasbag that can bounce, catch, hit or throw a ball?
I don't know how anyone can support the left's take on just about anything.
To briefly veer off of today's topic, New York City and State, places where I spent most of my 71 years, are prime examples of the grip of the left's indoctrination to get and keep power. I don't get it.
To reiterate an excellent point by an earlier commentator, it is beyond me why leftists are infatuated with the Islamic fundamentalists. Why leftists in the U.S. never shut up about diversity, inclusion, gender rights, etc. Continue to fawn over Islamic fundamentalists is bizarre to me. Maybe one of them can explain it to me without calling me a racist colonial?
Leftists are infatuated with anyone who is anti-American and anti-Israel. Until 40 years ago, it was the communists and the USSR. Che still shows up on t-shirts.
After USSR self-destructed and especially after 9/11, they started sympathizing with those who danced in the streets. Because America is the most evil regime in the world.
Anti Western values, anti American. The progressive or leftist is a supporter of all things anti American. They support only anti American, Islamic fundamentalists. The Mullahs make them wet. An Islamic strongman that might lean pro American, and there are a few, they would hate.
It's very simple. They're insane. Whenever we hear them spouting or endorsing some such piece of insanity, we can stop, take a deep breath and remind ourselves: , "Oh right, now I remember, I had forgotten. They're insane".
It's inspiring and heartening to see young people rising up against this odious theocracy. Unfortunately, it will fizzle, just as the previous rebellions did.
There are about 2 million Revolutionary Guards and Iranian Hezbollah forces who are fanatically dedicated to supporting the regime, they are well armed, and the regime has had 40 years to build an internal security network, secret prisons with torture chambers, etc. They will not be budged that easily, certainly not by a few thousand or even a few hundred thousand young urban rebels. The regime will just say "Pfft" and put them down.
Obama offered the regime a glimmer of hope, by offering them money in exchange for "stopping" their nuclear program, but of course they simply moved it under a mountain where it could not be detected. Thanks to Obama, the regime is stronger today than ever; they have no reason to change.
Trump saw that only when the country has hit rock bottom will anything change. He cut off the lifeline and actually tried to treat Iran like the pariah state that it is. He also demonstrated the willingness to drone attack the Iranian terror leadership. Their economy tanked, and there was a sense of desperation in the air.
Trump also reaffirmed the U.S.-Israel alliance and actually treated Israel like an ally; his son-in-law led an initiative to work out a truce/mutual recognition treaty between Israel and 5 Arab/Muslim states, bypassing the intractable Palestinian issue. Saudi Arabia was not a part of the agreement but it was widely suspected they were about to join. Iran was faced with a united front including Israel's military might.
Then, unbelievably, Trump was toppled and replaced with a pro-Iranian regime led by Biden and a whole crew of Obama alumni. Biden offered Iran an olive branch once again, making mockery of the past 4 years of tough diplomacy and progress toward destabilizing the mullah regime.
Biden, like Obama, ignores democracy uprisings as an embarrassment. He'd much rather the Iranians be suppressed into silence, so that he can achieve a "nuclear deal" and look good in the upcoming elections.
The American people who voted for this odious man have a lot to answer for.
Excellent post if President Trump was in power today none of this crap would be happening. Brandon so weak I’m really surprised we haven’t been nuked yet.
“I am not fearful of dying, because I know what I am living for.”
We need a whole lot more of this. We've been conditioned to think in terms of phases: this too shall pass. But the turmoil, hate, greed, oppression, confusion, and destruction consuming us will not pass during our lifetime or the next or the next. Eventually, maybe in many hundreds of years, it will probably fade but not before it takes down all the beauty and wisdom we have built in the last five hundred years.
This will not pass. But WE can make it stop. Future generations will judge us. Can we live with the history that will be written? I know I can live with the history that would be written about me. But my story is meaningless. OUR story means everything. WE need to fire the ghost writers and write it ourselves.
In Canada, we used to have an adult led government under Harper that sanctioned the Iranian regime. Then Trudeau got elected in 2015 and started dismantling that because a liberal connected airplane manufacturer, Bombardier, wanted to sell their new lemon plane, the CS series, and no one was buying, so it seems like the brilliant plan was to hopefully get Iran to buy them as they had nowhere else to turn.
Then Airbus bought that company.
But the Liberals still want normal relations with the butchers.
Biden just needs more Blood Oil to replace the USA production he foolishly decreased.
In a different life, I worked very closely with two women from Afghanistan. I will simply never understand the men in their lives. It is not all the men, but it is a lot of them for sure.
I will try to listen to the podcast later and I did read Bari and Masih's Op-Ed. Peace to Masih and her family.
I’m going to listen to this while driving later this morning. Preliminarily, I want to thank Bari for enlisting Mary Katherine Ham, another supremely impressive woman.
Just don't feed the troll. This community of thoughtful commenters is great Also, this podcast is well worth the listening time. When she describes being a child and not permitted to do things like play outdoors, swim, sing, have fun ( yet her brother could do all of that), and hearing how she had to keep her hair covered even while sleeping at 7 years old - very eye opening as to what true oppression of women and girls looks like
An enforced orthodoxy. Supported by a morality police and a politicized security apparatus. Where people are afraid to speak their mind. And stand up for their rights. Where a media is controlled by and a flack for government. And remains silent in the face of political arrests and persecution.
Hmmmm....
Sounds eerily familiar doesn’t it?
Yip it does, sounds like home! In fact when I read Bruce’s post I hadn’t listen to the podcast, I thought he was talking about America. I sometimes go to the comments first to get a heads up to what’s in CS
Hmmmm.......Biden as the mad Ayotollah, screeching about he apostates?
We on a rocket ship to hell Lynn!
OMG Lynn you have no idea what I have been called, my one friend and a very good friend screamed at me when I said this 2020 election has been a serious mistake. She screamed “what has Donald Trump ever done for America”. I replied “what hasn’t he done for America” Needless to say everybody has become very Schtum about Brandon this year especially after the Ukraine war, it seems the amount we spending on the war and our rate of inflation appear to have shut up a lot of my mates TG 🤣🤣
Inflation, soaring gasoline and diesel prices, galloping utility and home heating costs, open borders, eroding 401-k values, climbing mortgage rates, spiraling crime, a war in Eastern Europe.......but wait. The biggest problem we face is white nationalists. I believe there are KKK rallies in Walmart parking lots all over America. Didn't see any? But Joey can't be making it up? Can he?
Thanks for info.
Wait a minute, Biden and his feckless team want to revive the Iran nuclear deal whereby sanctions will be lifted in addition millions returned to Iran. We better stand up for Ukraine where Iran is sending drones to Russia to destroy civilians in Ukraine.
Thank goodness for Masih Alinejah
The Iran situation can be laid firmly at that lying, hypocritical, bumbling, incompetent, sleaze, Jimmy Carter. He stabbed the Shah of Iran in the back. The Shah was the dictator of Iran. He may have been a brutal dictator. All of the Islamic run nations are.
The Shah was westernizing Iran, no more dress codes, no more dress/Islamic police. Women could go to university and wear western clothes. A theocracy is the most brutal of all dictatorships because God is on your side and no matter how brutal you are, God approves.
Carter withdrew US support of the Shah and the Shah had to flee for his life. Carter knew who would replace the Shah. It was to be the brutal, religious fanatic, the Ayatollah Khomeini. Why would any sane person do this? Carter knew what would happen as soon as Khomeini disembarked the plane in Iran yet he did it anyway.
So lay the brutality and riots right at Carter's feet. What an asshole!
I lived in Iran as the revolution was unfolding. I left a few months before the Shah. He and his father, much like Attaturk in nearby Turkey, sought to modernize Iran, and succeeded to a great extent. Yes there were cruelties and excesses (Savak quickly comes to mind), but that’s true of pretty much every nation state. Education and industry were booming, the middle class was rapidly expanding and, most especially, women had equality and opportunities unknown in that part of the world. In modernizing, however, he created an elected legislature which removed consultative decision-making from the Bazaars, where it traditionally lay. His father, Mohammad Reza, took land from the (Islamic) church and redistributed it to the poor. Since land=power in such a society, he greatly weakened the power of the mollahs. When the revolution unfolded, it was led by the two groups which had been disenfranchised by modernization, the bazaaris and the mollahs.
100% truth! I was in high school in the late 70s. 2 Persian girls came to our school because their parents in Iran had sent them to live with a relative in the US when they realized that the Shah would be ousted. Their parents were academics who worked at a University there. They told me that their parents knew that things were going to go backward for women in Iran once the Ayatollah gained power. They preferred the Shah because he was more progressive thinking and knew that the Ayatollah would be as brutal a dictator or worse. Carter was ineffective and weak like Biden. At least he wasn’t corrupt, like Biden, but he certainly was complicit, similar to Barry’s withdrawal of support for Mubarak.
And another thing. Dems love Islam, the religion of peace. If Islam is so peaceful, why are they trying to build an atomic bomb? Where is the outrage from the Feminist Party on Iran and Islam in general, murdering women and treating women like crap?
You will never hear those questions from the Democrat ass kissing press.
But Islam is tolerant of the LBGTQ community. Oh wait a minute…….
Yep, the party that claims to be the champions of women’s rights, gay rights!
Like everything of todays left, those are now exposed, blatant, lies and the chief liar, this guy;
Obama: Honesty Is 'Absolutely Necessary' Trait for a President - http://freebeacon.com/politics/obama-honesty-absolutely-necessary-trait-president/
Obama, The Only People That Don’t Want to Disclose the Truth Are People With Something to Hide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypAU28t5Ya0
Senator Obama on honest intelligence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF3zFIVpb-U
Barack Obama and Company Dishonestly Lecture UChicago Students on ‘Disinformation’
Combating ‘disinformation’ is actually code for America’s elite recapturing the gate-keeping powers it lost during the advent of social media.
https://thechicagothinker.com/barack-obama-and-company-dishonestly-lecture-uchicago-students-on-disinformation/
The Dems remain silent about all the violations committed by Islamic regimes. Oh wait, no it's crickets again.
Hey, look at the bright side of things. With Joey in the White House, Carter no longer lives in fear of being the worst US president of modern times.
I'm laughing. You are so right. Carter should send Biden a congratulatory letter but it would be a waste of time. Biden wouldn't understand it.
Truth.
The Insane Clown you worship has a lock on that.
We don't worship Trump. We just can't bring ourselves to vote Socialist. You apparently think that senile idiot in chief is really a great President. If you think he is competent, think Afghan withdrawal.
The Insane Clown you worship after losing the election was prepared to order a mass exodus at the end of 2020. The few cabinet officials who were not obsessed with overturning the election got wind of it and talked Insane Clown out of it. Insane Clown being similarly obsessed and couldn't be bothered with such trivial matters rescinded the order..
You are a left wing fanatic with a one line argument. I resent that you say I worship Trump so how about not calling me that. It is offensive. I won't call you a loud mouth glassy eyed leftist. I won't call you a lemming, who believes everything the left lays out. No I won't call you any of those things so stop insulting me.
Talk about "obsession....."
And clowns.
You're correct, Biden is an insane clown. I wish the blind half of the country would just open their eyes.
The Trump Virus ate your brain.
Where is the corporate media on this one? CRICKETS
Politics for $1000, Alex. What is...FASCISM?
It also brings to mind (mine, anyway..), Bruce, if I may say so, if a state in this country of ours that outlaws an abortion for any reason (even if the life of the mother is endangered) is considering legally going after a woman who goes to another state for the procedure - would that not qualify as a 'politicized security apparatus' and an 'enforced orthodoxy'?
Hope things are well..
Hi Lee., hope all is well. You don't think I support that insanity, do you? I'm for liberty. Which includes a woman's sovereignty over her body, until it affects a viable fetus. The model adopted in most European countries suits me just fine. Abortion is a pretty good test. Those on either extreme end are usually lunatics. We need to squash the lunatics. Or we'll lose our country.
Point there. Huge excess and extremism on our (conservative) side and we (conservatives) out to be forcefully denouncing it. Let's police the extremism on our side.
Can you expound a bit on your comment? I don’t think this fits our current government very closely, although some use of the FBI lately seems problematic. But mostly we don’t have an enforced orthodoxy, but a great division in the country. I sure hope the “common good” faction of Republicans don’t get the power to enforce their orthodoxy. I think maybe at many elite universities there is this orthodoxy you speak of, with people afraid to speak their minds, and the ability of those in power to enforce that orthodoxy. Is this what you were getting at?
Did you miss the memo by the demented dwarf who runs "Justice" about the FBI needing to intimidate parents who questioned the leftist shite their children are being fed? What sort of perverts want to teach sex ed to kindergartners? These people are fiends. And now we're to call pedophiles MAPs? Truly the inmates are running the asylum. And then there was the Senile Imbecile, face contorted, raging and snarling about evil MAGA republicans, replete with a lurid red background and mannequin Marines trying to look menacing. Yeah that kind of enforced orthodoxy.....
Complete horseshit. No one is teaching sex ed to kindergartners. Even if they tried kindergartners wouldn't know what the fuck they were talking about. Schools are going to teach the unvarnished truth about slavery and racism whether parents like it or not. You call that enforced orthodoxy that is your problem.
Wrong again, dipstick. But I'll bet the idea of teaching sex ed to little kids sends tingles down your little legs.
And I'll double that bet that you think the 1619 Project is "unvarnished truth," too.
It's just too easy to own you.
Which is why you're ridiculed and mostly ignored.
I know it's not nice to tease the village idiot but sometimes setting you off is just too rich....
Apologies to the saner precincts here
It is not a few elite universities stifling speech that opposes the quasi-religious belief in race-centering all things. I just went through helping my son find a U.S. Uni (with exceptional grades behind him, and scores). Speech supression and bullying other students for holding different views is the norm. Also the norm to segregate student spaces, which encourages animosity. All of this comes from the left, not the 'monster in the closet' you are making of others that you label as 'the right'.
It is also not just Universities. https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/10/providence-ri-schools-bow-to-radical-mob-remove-whistleblower-ramona-bessinger-from-teaching-position/#more-400905 (Cornell Law Professor William A. Jacobson runs the site the link leads to)
Yep.
I would LOVE to READ the transcript. Is there a reason we aren't allowed to do so?
I second the transcript idea!
I third it.
Although I firsted it the other week.
I even "implored" Bari. But she spurned me.
Alas.....
Transcripts used to be posted if I recall correctly? Tara Henley posts transcripts the day following audio releases (for her Substack subscribers).
Her bravery is breathtaking.
It is.
And why has the Biden regime not taken action to retaliate for the two attempts on Ms. Alinejad's life? And why do Biden, Blinken and Nod continue to kow tow to and shower favors on the brutal Iranian terrorist regime?
Bruce Miller
To answer your question the American Left is fascist. It has aligned itself with the Iranian conservative right which is also fascist. Both regimes are opposed to freedom of speech, free and fair elections, individual sovereignty, equality under the law and rationalism. Both regimes are also anti-Christian.
I do not believe that the Iranian regime is Climate Alarmist, so in that respect it is more grounded in reality than the American Left.
Great post Terry captured the Democrats in one post!
Thanks Skinny. I couldn’t resist.
And next up, Venezuela, for a cup of oil.
First the Saudi’s, they told Brandon to f..k off believe me if he goes to the Venezuelans it will be the 2nd f..k off!
'Both regimes are opposed to freedom of speech, free and fair elections, individual sovereignty, equality under the law and rationalism. Both regimes are also anti-Christian.'
So, Terence, I won't argue that Dems (progressives) are in a mess vis a vis Iranian cultural mores (repression)..
But..let us also look at Saudi Arabia. No freedom of speech, no free and fair elections, no individual sovereignty, no equality (obviously..) - and a darling of Republican administrations forever, especially the last one (and benign neglect from Democratic ones..).
It may never be proven as to why, but when 90% of the killers orchestrating 9/11 came from that country and the Bushies did absolutely nothing about it, what does that tell you?
Saudi Arabia isn't even part of this story. The entire article is about a woman and the situation in Iran. Stay on task!
There is a relationship
The idea here is to point out that there is a parallel to what the far left is being accused of, and what the right has done in the past. Though the countries are different, the intent on the part of our two competing ideologies is the same. Both have blinked an eye to the ongoing oppression in these two countries. In my opinion.
The Bush family is definitely in the WEF camp in terms of world order~ it's all about power and wealth, not the USA or it's citizens.
Because O’Binden wants to sign a new JCPOA with Iran.
You are absolutely correct. The Democrats want a useless treaty with these fanatics to stop their nuclear march to an atomic bomb.
The Koran says you can lie, cheat and steal from infidels and does anyone with half a brain think these Islamic fanatics will honor the treaty? I don't and neither to the Dems but they are going ahead with it anyway.
Wait a minuet. I'm wrong. The Dems aren't that smart. They do believe these fanatics will abide with the treaty.
When the treaty is signed Iran will get billions of dollars that were seized when sanctions were imposed.
Here's another thought. In the 70s the policy was we would never negotiate with terrorist. Iran is the world's biggest supporter of international terrorism. Why are the Dems negotiating with terrorists? You will never see this question asked by the Democrat ass kissing press.
I agree, Iran will not honor the treaty.
I challenge my Jewish Democrat friends on this issue and they play “whataboutism” and dodge the question. It is beyond frustrating at this point.
I’ve read a lot on this topic, some good analysis by conservative foreign policy experts and they all agree: Obama wanted the USA to exit the Middle East and he wanted Iran as the strongest power there to keep the others in line. This is why Israel has been so successful in achieving peace with their moderate Arabs neighbors under the Abraham Accords. It turns out that security is more important to moderate Arabs than oil. Who’d a thunk it ?
Two things:
1. When your friends use “whataboutism”. Stop them in their tracks. tell they are diverting and ask them to stay on topic. You will lose friends that way because they can't refute you and they will get explosively angry.
2. Your topic is absolutely correct.
I do try to redirect back to the subject at hand. But too many of my friends have zero intellectual integrity to have a conversation where they can admit a shortcoming of their party (Biden seeking JCPAO) and still remain loyal to their beliefs. They just don’t have the horsepower between their ears to do this. And yes, I am looking for some new friends.
Lonesome, it will never be completely proven, as I'm sure you will retort, but reports over the years have suggested Reagan dealt with the terrorists in power in Iran in 1980, before the election here, in order to release the Americans held hostage there but only after the election..
In doing so in defeated the hapless Carter, though he probably would have anyway..
https://theintercept.com/2021/10/11/bani-sadr-reagan-iran-hostages-october-surprise/
Yes, I heard Regan had talked to the Iranians. Nobody knows what he said but I believe he did what Eisenhour did to the North Koreans and the Chinese. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/08/world/us-papers-tell-of-53-policy-to-use-a-bomb-in-korea.html
However, I don't think Regan went that far. I wouldn't call this a negotiation but a threat. He could have threatened to bomb their port facilities, oil fields and their highway infrastructure. That would have prompted them to release the hostages.
I think this is a pretty good guess as the Iranians respond only to violence. It is all they know. Diplomacy doesn't work with these fanatics.
I have nothing to back up this assumption but I don't think Regan was in the negotiating mood. Negotiation would never work with these religious fanatics.
The moment the Iranians took over our embassy, Carter should have told Iran that he would bomb them back to the stone age if they didn't release the hostages unharmed but Carter was a dithering fool, a wimp with no stomach for tough talk, no backbone.
You can't play kissy face with an Islamic terrorist.
Of course there's the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid eighties...Reagan did know how to bargain, though he claimed no knowledge of it at the time..
oh well..
So dangerous for Israel Brian however, I don’t think the Israelis are going to let it happen.
I agree, they will strike with force to destroy Iran’s nuclear threat.
They either don’t have the wherewithal or they just don’t care. Ms Alinejad at this stage is not important to the Democrats base.
It is! Rather than Tweeting her life away on a keyboard, she's actually doing something. I love her!
Amazing, yes.
Very smart too.
Has she met with Cortez, Boonie Sandas, Omar, Tlaib, Sarsour and the other fake progressive American Muslims nervous about losing their Mullah muscle leadership in Iran?
I apologize to for making a critical and snarky comment on a prior article sharing a morning news show clip of Masih Alinejad. I had never heard of her and spouted off in ignorance.
Things have become so confusing I feel I can’t tell up from down anymore.
Prominent women of the Democrat party screamed bloody murder over someone like justice Brett Kavanaugh. Women like AOC and the squad, Linda Sarsour are promoted as media darlings.
I did a google search and learned Ms. Alinejad had her instagram account shut down this past summer.
My poorly written and uninformed comment was really a criticism of media and the performative outrage of the left in our culture. Claiming to care about women’s rights, human rights, etc. yet always tossing any woman, any minority under the bus who doesn’t fall directly in line with the regime, or says anything to harm their messaging and agenda. Women like J.K. Rowling and also Bari Weiss.
Christine Blasey-Ford was touted as a national hero who bravely came forward for women’s rights. Everyone saw and heard the outrage from Sarsour and the squad. Social media has never sensored them for lies or even outright antisemitism. As far as I know.
But this woman? I’m just starting to learn about her. Yes there are some articles and network appearances to be found and now this podcast which I intend to listen to.
Apparently sensorship of her content on instagram was an “oops” according to FB executives. It’s just odd how these errors only seem to go one on one direction.
Again, I was wrong and irresponsible to criticize her without being fully informed.
I have not read your other comment, but it’s so rare to see people actually apologize, especially here on the interwebs.
So bravo
And a ❤️
It is so frightening who are made visible and who are kept invisible. When Washington, Madison, and Thomas Jefferson are only slave owners and all the other attributes and amazing contributions are dismissed, how do we begin to understand the complications of our history and our future? It is a struggle to find perspectives and depth when information is so often served in such stupefying simplicity of telling a one note "truth". Who hasn't struggled to get information that has dimension and to find out who a leader is and their depth of character?
It’s all staring to feel exhausting. Trying to figure out where to go for information. Who and what to believe, learning, unlearning, re-learning. I’m getting too old for this crap, I have too much time on my hands, spend far too much time alone with my own thoughts. I need to become obsessed with a new hobby, volunteer or something more productive.
Most of the reasons I take any interest at all is because I have a 20 yr old kid who I want to prepare to live and get on in life on her own and once I am gone. That has also been exhausting.
I just want to retire to margaritaville.
It is exhausting! While I believe that there are an infinite varieties of individuality and infinite ways to stake an identity, biological sex is defined by xx and xy. The Harvard statement about fetuses knowing that they are trans and a graduate class demanding that a professor be fired for daring to say that there is only two sexes incredibly are just two examples of strong incentives to keep swimming to avoid being swept into the what-the-heck drain.
You are in good company. Remember after the truth came out and the Duke Lacrosse players were completely exonerated and the mob was exposed as cowards and fools only one reporter had the guts to admit she got it wrong and apologize. Her name was Ruth Sheehan and she stands tall in my book. The rest of the howling mob just slink away like the rats they are and then shriek in outrage at the next hoax and lie.
But you are not only admirable in this political environment but rare - one who can admit a mistake and learn from it. I too was in that comment thread and discredited her because she was on the Today show. I look down on the Today show so questioned her bravery. I too was wrong.
Maybe all of the brave women screeching in America should be required to listen to what a true freedom fighter sounds like. Listen to the real struggles that women have in this world and realize that just maybe you could do something really useful by supporting bravery from people like Masih. Then think if you would trade places with any women in Iran or do you really have it pretty good?
Or maybe tell your hero Brandon and the Mistress they should actively support true freedom and tell the Dictator in Iran to shove his agreement and actively support freedom for women who actually don't have any rights. But that might take away your capacino time.
Masih and all like her deserve our countries support and protection in their fight for true freedom for women.
Perhaps western feminists, after they've solved the pressing pronoun issue, can begin to vocalize their full-throated support of Iran's brutal crackdown on the protests. Yup. That'll happen right after the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Maybe POTUS Biden can fist bump the mullahs into the 21st century, hell the 18th century.
They should be throwing Nobel Peace prizes at Masih Alinejad left and right.
So true. Omar is mentioned in the interview for her complete silence on the current uprising. How anyone can support the left’s take on “feminism”, specifically poseur’s like AOC, Omar, Pressley, Talib, amaze me. Oh but Israel is the problem.
I guess "Silence is Violence" depends strictly on the expediency of the political moment.
Yes indeed, where is Michelle, where is the Squad?
Where is every other bloated, bloviating blowhard from Hollywood?
Where is LeBron James (counting his slave-generated zillions no doubt)? Where is the caring NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA and every other overpaid gaseous gasbag that can bounce, catch, hit or throw a ball?
Crickets.
You answered it Israel is the problem for the squad. They congresswomen who don’t give a stuff about the districts they represent.
I don't know how anyone can support the left's take on just about anything.
To briefly veer off of today's topic, New York City and State, places where I spent most of my 71 years, are prime examples of the grip of the left's indoctrination to get and keep power. I don't get it.
Neither do we. We have to get these idiots and radicals out of power we 32 days away from the midterms let’s do it vote them out!
To reiterate an excellent point by an earlier commentator, it is beyond me why leftists are infatuated with the Islamic fundamentalists. Why leftists in the U.S. never shut up about diversity, inclusion, gender rights, etc. Continue to fawn over Islamic fundamentalists is bizarre to me. Maybe one of them can explain it to me without calling me a racist colonial?
Leftists are infatuated with anyone who is anti-American and anti-Israel. Until 40 years ago, it was the communists and the USSR. Che still shows up on t-shirts.
After USSR self-destructed and especially after 9/11, they started sympathizing with those who danced in the streets. Because America is the most evil regime in the world.
Anti Western values, anti American. The progressive or leftist is a supporter of all things anti American. They support only anti American, Islamic fundamentalists. The Mullahs make them wet. An Islamic strongman that might lean pro American, and there are a few, they would hate.
It's very simple. They're insane. Whenever we hear them spouting or endorsing some such piece of insanity, we can stop, take a deep breath and remind ourselves: , "Oh right, now I remember, I had forgotten. They're insane".
When they do explain, please share.
It's inspiring and heartening to see young people rising up against this odious theocracy. Unfortunately, it will fizzle, just as the previous rebellions did.
There are about 2 million Revolutionary Guards and Iranian Hezbollah forces who are fanatically dedicated to supporting the regime, they are well armed, and the regime has had 40 years to build an internal security network, secret prisons with torture chambers, etc. They will not be budged that easily, certainly not by a few thousand or even a few hundred thousand young urban rebels. The regime will just say "Pfft" and put them down.
Obama offered the regime a glimmer of hope, by offering them money in exchange for "stopping" their nuclear program, but of course they simply moved it under a mountain where it could not be detected. Thanks to Obama, the regime is stronger today than ever; they have no reason to change.
Trump saw that only when the country has hit rock bottom will anything change. He cut off the lifeline and actually tried to treat Iran like the pariah state that it is. He also demonstrated the willingness to drone attack the Iranian terror leadership. Their economy tanked, and there was a sense of desperation in the air.
Trump also reaffirmed the U.S.-Israel alliance and actually treated Israel like an ally; his son-in-law led an initiative to work out a truce/mutual recognition treaty between Israel and 5 Arab/Muslim states, bypassing the intractable Palestinian issue. Saudi Arabia was not a part of the agreement but it was widely suspected they were about to join. Iran was faced with a united front including Israel's military might.
Then, unbelievably, Trump was toppled and replaced with a pro-Iranian regime led by Biden and a whole crew of Obama alumni. Biden offered Iran an olive branch once again, making mockery of the past 4 years of tough diplomacy and progress toward destabilizing the mullah regime.
Biden, like Obama, ignores democracy uprisings as an embarrassment. He'd much rather the Iranians be suppressed into silence, so that he can achieve a "nuclear deal" and look good in the upcoming elections.
The American people who voted for this odious man have a lot to answer for.
Excellent post if President Trump was in power today none of this crap would be happening. Brandon so weak I’m really surprised we haven’t been nuked yet.
Very well stated.
It is so frustrating to see how fucked up this is under OBiden since 1/20/2021.
This is a really big problem.
“I am not fearful of dying, because I know what I am living for.”
We need a whole lot more of this. We've been conditioned to think in terms of phases: this too shall pass. But the turmoil, hate, greed, oppression, confusion, and destruction consuming us will not pass during our lifetime or the next or the next. Eventually, maybe in many hundreds of years, it will probably fade but not before it takes down all the beauty and wisdom we have built in the last five hundred years.
This will not pass. But WE can make it stop. Future generations will judge us. Can we live with the history that will be written? I know I can live with the history that would be written about me. But my story is meaningless. OUR story means everything. WE need to fire the ghost writers and write it ourselves.
Good point. Personally I know there are things worse than dying and therefore there are things worth dying for.
If only there were some computer that could generate a transcript.
What a novel idea! Do you think such a thing exists? 😉
Hmmmm. ..........Sounds like Harvard
In Canada, we used to have an adult led government under Harper that sanctioned the Iranian regime. Then Trudeau got elected in 2015 and started dismantling that because a liberal connected airplane manufacturer, Bombardier, wanted to sell their new lemon plane, the CS series, and no one was buying, so it seems like the brilliant plan was to hopefully get Iran to buy them as they had nowhere else to turn.
Then Airbus bought that company.
But the Liberals still want normal relations with the butchers.
Biden just needs more Blood Oil to replace the USA production he foolishly decreased.
In a different life, I worked very closely with two women from Afghanistan. I will simply never understand the men in their lives. It is not all the men, but it is a lot of them for sure.
I will try to listen to the podcast later and I did read Bari and Masih's Op-Ed. Peace to Masih and her family.
I’m going to listen to this while driving later this morning. Preliminarily, I want to thank Bari for enlisting Mary Katherine Ham, another supremely impressive woman.
Just don't feed the troll. This community of thoughtful commenters is great Also, this podcast is well worth the listening time. When she describes being a child and not permitted to do things like play outdoors, swim, sing, have fun ( yet her brother could do all of that), and hearing how she had to keep her hair covered even while sleeping at 7 years old - very eye opening as to what true oppression of women and girls looks like