Really nice catch on a white female college grad randomly deciding to study Arabic in Cairo and Syria followed by returning to get a series of decently paying job -- which is implausible on its face if one were not part of a three letter agency.
Now that you mention it, she's basically Claire Danes' character Carrie Mathison in Homeland. I updated the post next to Jason Bourne to reflect your great point.
When I lived in Amman from 2011-2013, I met plenty of fellow westerners who strived to see the "self-determination" of the people region. It's such a meaningless platitude.
I wrote propaganda-lite for a German political foundation and I didn't know a damn thing about the Middle East when I started. 99% of the expats I met, including myself, were there to build our resumes so that we might become a rent-seeking employee of these bureaucracies and propaganda outlets, which provide no ostensible benefit to the tax base which supports them. It took years of soul searching to realize the absolute folly of the pursuit.
A shameless plug - because I had a guy literally tell me he had come to Jordan to help people self determine (hopefully it's good for a laugh). Maybe this will help contextualize some of the personalities that are attracted to the foreign aid system... If only we were as passionate about our own citizens and the collapse of our social systems and infrastructure. https://warrenaltounian.substack.com/p/37-burnout
And Yuri - if this is inappropriate or poor form, I am happy to delete the link.
Many people grow up idealizing traveling the world, learning exotic things and participating in U.S. global hegemony using softer language. It’s actuallly an understandable gig if you can get it. Anyway, ones parents (especially Boomers) would necessarily brag about their kid doing such things, becoming a polyglot, ascending the latter if international influence, etc. To project a suspenseful Hollywood narrative that regular readers hungry for intrigue is not necessary and I’d suggest, unhelpful unless the goal is creating division based on Hollywood caricatures.
I literally accept everything as fact that has been “fact checked as misinformation” by Wikipedia. That is what a bunch of lefty lying lizards they are.
I find it disgusting free America has to pay for this NPR crapshow! Trump was trying to dismantle it but swamp sewage employed by us impeached him for a perfect phone call exposing real corruption. Just sick of all of the DC swamp.
It’s going to be pretty weird to explain to our grandchildren how our society was destroyed not by foreign invaders but by our own affluent white women.
Correction: Your grandma educated by NPR, the MSM and colleges indoctrinating liberally! There’s plenty of uneducated peasants left, that will rise up against the globalist filth!
Yeah that would be weird if that’s what I said. Good thing I didn’t say that. You know what’s really weird though? When someone hears racism everywhere b. When they are sooooo desperate to find racism that they make it up and knowingly misinterpret what other people say.
People that do this aren’t just “weird”. They are evil. They are human garbage and the true enemy of mankind.
So you opined: It’s going to be pretty weird to explain to our grandchildren how our society was destroyed not by foreign invaders but by our own affluent white women.
“Your grandma did it kids.”
That’s not only bigotry, but a healthy dose of misogyny as well. I can understand that you are so deep into Confederate propaganda you would miss this, but let’s just take a look at the Antebellum South as the Daughters of the Confederacy would have it remembered: Large plantation houses with cool patios for the women to sip their mint juleps on whilst they watch their slaves take care of the work of homesteading. A time that never really existed and it only goes to marginalise women.
On top of that, though you didn’t state it outright, clearly your comment is one that designates white people superior to others and your lamentation clearly demonstrates that. I just got rid of the flowery Daughters of the Confederacy propaganda from your comment and went right to the point: You’re a bigot and a racist and are being disingenuous about this society and how to fix its ills. Of course, you also support a Turnip that wants to become a dictator so I am not surprised.
This comment is so bizarre. First, your version of the Antebellum south might have been enacted once or twice somewhere. Very few people in the south owned slaves. It was something like 4%. And only 1.5% in the North. Of those 4% very few would been of the sort who had the grand mansion etc. Second, the poster, presumably white, was trashing WHITE women. Yet somehow this proved to you the poster was a white racist!! How in the world do you get that? Liberal white women in positions of authority are ruining whatever they touch. That is just a fact. Utterly destructive.
It gets worse by the day. For me, it started with Gwynn Awful (RIP) and now it is propagandist extraordinaire, Ken Burns, aka Weasel. Anytime I turn to that channel it feels like the room is being sucked of oxygen at lightning speed.
I was a loyal monthly supporter for almost two decades. In 2021 I finally couldn’t stand it anymore and defunded them. I occasionally tune in on the way to work mostly to hear what it is that they are still discussing... they never asked me why or canceled my membership (neither did the NYT, the Atlantic and the Economist that used to be staples in my house)
Glad you unplugged from the matrix! They are the past, independent journalism like substack and x are the future. Unfortunately they will take our tax dollars to help them with censorship and staying afloat for now...
You aren’t for “independent journalism,” you’re for being allowed to be as bigoted as possible without any repercussions for white people, but do bring the hammer down on anyone else.
How is that a problem? We are entitled to be racist if we choose. That’s called freedom of thought. You might try it some time. Just don’t let it run wild, you obviously aren’t wrapped too tight
I was also a paying subscriber of NYT, Atlantic for years, listened to NPR daily and bought the Economist at airports to read on the plane. It's been more than a decade since I've looked at any of them. So sad. They've even ruined Rolling Stone. Substack is the only thing I have left!
I subscribed to The Economist for years and even that magazine now seems quite left of center. Then again, when I start to think everyone else is weird, maybe I should just look in the mirror...
Is it just me or does this woman look like/remind anyone of that pathetically drunk, Hollywood maven, Chelsea Handler? Thanks for the laughs. From the angel wings comment to three cats named Vagina, I had a good chortle-fest.
NPR is a neoliberal propaganda outlet. These people are not “commie’s.” They’re exactly the people who’ve traditionally helped the establishment destroy radicals and iconoclasts who had the guts to fight corrupt abuse of power. They’re money grubbing, nihilistic, paid off, self centered careerists who support every war, worship fame & celebrities, helped throw Julian Assange under the bus, help do the bidding for the military industrial complex and neocon psychopaths at the state department. They’re passive consumers of information who fall for every lightweight, feel good crap story NPR feeds them. They’re brainwashed by universities who indoctrinated them on what, not how, to think. They aren’t trained to critique power or challenge cultural assumptions. Sheep. Low info sh..t libs with “hate has no home here” signs that mean nothing. Here’s my idea for a daily NPR segment;
“Today on all things inconsiderate; we welcome an old British man who smokes a pipe and talks for 4 minutes on the history of tank warfare and says Putin is losing.” This segment will be presented as a chess game you can enjoy while drinking tea. It may be disturbing to some listeners so we’ll warn ahead so as not to upset you.” Then; it’s on to the 55th anniversary of Sesame Street and the positive impact Oscar the grouch had on minority kids.”
Back in the day when I was still a lib, I loved NPR and thought it was so “fair and balanced” hahahaha. Now it is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Cringe
This chick is so obviously connected with intel.....& I find her beyond cringey. Unfortunately the women around me - nice but clueless, listen to NPR & would find this fake a “powerful” woman. I can’t stand that description & women that use it or want to be referred to as powerful are lacking in self confidence. Do the reverse, do I need to refer to my husband as a powerful man?
Such an odd sentence. The sum total of the family lore of standing up to the oppressive British empire was the following:
"He spoke of his aunt, who, as a schoolgirl during colonial rule in India, briefly stepped foot on a road designated only for the British."
If there had been ANY more to the story it would have been printed. So we can conclude that the aunt lived a privileged life if that is the most enduring memory of life in British-occupied India.
In November 2022, Carroll filed her second suit against Trump (a.k.a. Carroll II), renewing her claim of defamation and added a claim of battery under the Adult Survivors Act, a New York law allowing sexual-assault victims to file civil suits beyond expired statutes of limitations. This suit went to trial in April 2023. Evidence included testimony from two friends Carroll spoke to after the incident, a photograph of Carroll with Trump in 1987,[a] testimony from two women who had separately accused Trump of sexual assault, footage from the Trump Access Hollywood tape and his October 2022 deposition.[b] A verdict in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, and ordering him to pay $5 million in damages. Trump appealed the decision and made an unsuccessful counterclaim.
WTF is a "nondenominational Seder"? Is that just lunch in the spring?
It’s when you stick your ring finger in a warm hole
ROFL
lololol
Exactly what I thought. Is that like non-denominational-Catholic-mass? A Seder BY DEFINITION is very specific and denominational.
Classic blasphemous leftist inversion. Inversion, especially when blasphemous, is the m.o. of satanists everywhere, and of course always has been.
How do you get to satanism? Because they want to have a secular sedar? Which we know just from the term it can’t be done.
It's a bunch of confused secular pagans in a room together. And it's catered.
It is very similar to a Satanist bris. But in that one you keep the foreskin and chop the baby up. Very popular in these ecumenical times.
Dying! 😂
I was wondering that myself! Lol
It's a Seder with foreskin. Duh;)
If you have ever seen been to a bris, funny and sad and scary, all at the same time, kinda like all of her tweets.
I think it's sort of like straight gay porn.
"Seed her"
Yuri
Really nice catch on a white female college grad randomly deciding to study Arabic in Cairo and Syria followed by returning to get a series of decently paying job -- which is implausible on its face if one were not part of a three letter agency.
Now that you mention it, she's basically Claire Danes' character Carrie Mathison in Homeland. I updated the post next to Jason Bourne to reflect your great point.
yup right down to the hair and make up. I do like the sack cloth dress of the "prols' tho
When I lived in Amman from 2011-2013, I met plenty of fellow westerners who strived to see the "self-determination" of the people region. It's such a meaningless platitude.
I wrote propaganda-lite for a German political foundation and I didn't know a damn thing about the Middle East when I started. 99% of the expats I met, including myself, were there to build our resumes so that we might become a rent-seeking employee of these bureaucracies and propaganda outlets, which provide no ostensible benefit to the tax base which supports them. It took years of soul searching to realize the absolute folly of the pursuit.
A shameless plug - because I had a guy literally tell me he had come to Jordan to help people self determine (hopefully it's good for a laugh). Maybe this will help contextualize some of the personalities that are attracted to the foreign aid system... If only we were as passionate about our own citizens and the collapse of our social systems and infrastructure. https://warrenaltounian.substack.com/p/37-burnout
And Yuri - if this is inappropriate or poor form, I am happy to delete the link.
Nice article. I don't know Yuri's opinion, but I like the occassional link to another author on substack. Thank you.
Thank you!
Many people grow up idealizing traveling the world, learning exotic things and participating in U.S. global hegemony using softer language. It’s actuallly an understandable gig if you can get it. Anyway, ones parents (especially Boomers) would necessarily brag about their kid doing such things, becoming a polyglot, ascending the latter if international influence, etc. To project a suspenseful Hollywood narrative that regular readers hungry for intrigue is not necessary and I’d suggest, unhelpful unless the goal is creating division based on Hollywood caricatures.
100% yes.
I don’t suspect many who dig this deep into threads such as this to find my comment interesting, useful, or helpful. Perhaps antagonistic. Sorry!
It's useful and correct. I've been working on a piece that delves into what you've said, almost too presciently.
Its a good story.
Yuri...if you don’t have time to read it, it is a good story. Not inappropriate.
Those kind of people are why I don’t listen to NPR anymore and stopped donating to Wikipedia.🤮
I know a few comrades who work at Wikimedia, it's even worse than you think.
I literally accept everything as fact that has been “fact checked as misinformation” by Wikipedia. That is what a bunch of lefty lying lizards they are.
LLL LOL
I find it disgusting free America has to pay for this NPR crapshow! Trump was trying to dismantle it but swamp sewage employed by us impeached him for a perfect phone call exposing real corruption. Just sick of all of the DC swamp.
Trump was more swampy than the swamp
"we are legion"
We are pissed.
Same
It’s going to be pretty weird to explain to our grandchildren how our society was destroyed not by foreign invaders but by our own affluent white women.
“Your grandma did it kids.”
Should I do a post on the the most dangerous AWFL Karens?
You should make a deck of playing cards like the CIA did to catalog the most wanted Al Qaeda members
Yes! Great idea.
Correction: Your grandma educated by NPR, the MSM and colleges indoctrinating liberally! There’s plenty of uneducated peasants left, that will rise up against the globalist filth!
These women are mental and when president Trump is re-elected Canada can take ALL OF THEM AND WE GET AMERICA BACK TO SAFETY.
Society is “destroyed” because you need to make room for people of colour? That’s a bit weird.
Yeah that would be weird if that’s what I said. Good thing I didn’t say that. You know what’s really weird though? When someone hears racism everywhere b. When they are sooooo desperate to find racism that they make it up and knowingly misinterpret what other people say.
People that do this aren’t just “weird”. They are evil. They are human garbage and the true enemy of mankind.
Always at least two in every crowd - desperate despots.
James needs to take a remedial reading course.
Except you. You aren’t better then most. In fact you’re a gay Karen in a costume.
So because you’re a bigot and under the influence of Daughters of the Confederacy propaganda I’m weird?
What are you talking about you fucking lunatic
So you opined: It’s going to be pretty weird to explain to our grandchildren how our society was destroyed not by foreign invaders but by our own affluent white women.
“Your grandma did it kids.”
That’s not only bigotry, but a healthy dose of misogyny as well. I can understand that you are so deep into Confederate propaganda you would miss this, but let’s just take a look at the Antebellum South as the Daughters of the Confederacy would have it remembered: Large plantation houses with cool patios for the women to sip their mint juleps on whilst they watch their slaves take care of the work of homesteading. A time that never really existed and it only goes to marginalise women.
On top of that, though you didn’t state it outright, clearly your comment is one that designates white people superior to others and your lamentation clearly demonstrates that. I just got rid of the flowery Daughters of the Confederacy propaganda from your comment and went right to the point: You’re a bigot and a racist and are being disingenuous about this society and how to fix its ills. Of course, you also support a Turnip that wants to become a dictator so I am not surprised.
You look like a child molester
This comment is so bizarre. First, your version of the Antebellum south might have been enacted once or twice somewhere. Very few people in the south owned slaves. It was something like 4%. And only 1.5% in the North. Of those 4% very few would been of the sort who had the grand mansion etc. Second, the poster, presumably white, was trashing WHITE women. Yet somehow this proved to you the poster was a white racist!! How in the world do you get that? Liberal white women in positions of authority are ruining whatever they touch. That is just a fact. Utterly destructive.
Actually I must be a racist, because white people are better than most. Any proof otherwise?
Sounds like NPR wants to become MOAR NPR!
Republicans should hang their head in shame that they have not managed to defund NPR yet. The raised pinky finger RINOs actually support it!
Exactly. Newt-er NPR, RINO cucks! It’s still our money financing a good part this of this Pravda gynocracy.
Pravda wishes their people could be as stupid as Americans.
It gets worse by the day. For me, it started with Gwynn Awful (RIP) and now it is propagandist extraordinaire, Ken Burns, aka Weasel. Anytime I turn to that channel it feels like the room is being sucked of oxygen at lightning speed.
I was a loyal monthly supporter for almost two decades. In 2021 I finally couldn’t stand it anymore and defunded them. I occasionally tune in on the way to work mostly to hear what it is that they are still discussing... they never asked me why or canceled my membership (neither did the NYT, the Atlantic and the Economist that used to be staples in my house)
Glad you unplugged from the matrix! They are the past, independent journalism like substack and x are the future. Unfortunately they will take our tax dollars to help them with censorship and staying afloat for now...
You aren’t for “independent journalism,” you’re for being allowed to be as bigoted as possible without any repercussions for white people, but do bring the hammer down on anyone else.
How is that a problem? We are entitled to be racist if we choose. That’s called freedom of thought. You might try it some time. Just don’t let it run wild, you obviously aren’t wrapped too tight
I was also a paying subscriber of NYT, Atlantic for years, listened to NPR daily and bought the Economist at airports to read on the plane. It's been more than a decade since I've looked at any of them. So sad. They've even ruined Rolling Stone. Substack is the only thing I have left!
Are you me?
I subscribed to The Economist for years and even that magazine now seems quite left of center. Then again, when I start to think everyone else is weird, maybe I should just look in the mirror...
Neither did the ACLU when I pulled the plug there and gave them scathing feedback on why I did.
Biggest sellouts all time.
They never asked because, deep down somewhere, they know.
There's a t-shirt slogan:
Defund NPR!
Is it just me or does this woman look like/remind anyone of that pathetically drunk, Hollywood maven, Chelsea Handler? Thanks for the laughs. From the angel wings comment to three cats named Vagina, I had a good chortle-fest.
NPR is a neoliberal propaganda outlet. These people are not “commie’s.” They’re exactly the people who’ve traditionally helped the establishment destroy radicals and iconoclasts who had the guts to fight corrupt abuse of power. They’re money grubbing, nihilistic, paid off, self centered careerists who support every war, worship fame & celebrities, helped throw Julian Assange under the bus, help do the bidding for the military industrial complex and neocon psychopaths at the state department. They’re passive consumers of information who fall for every lightweight, feel good crap story NPR feeds them. They’re brainwashed by universities who indoctrinated them on what, not how, to think. They aren’t trained to critique power or challenge cultural assumptions. Sheep. Low info sh..t libs with “hate has no home here” signs that mean nothing. Here’s my idea for a daily NPR segment;
“Today on all things inconsiderate; we welcome an old British man who smokes a pipe and talks for 4 minutes on the history of tank warfare and says Putin is losing.” This segment will be presented as a chess game you can enjoy while drinking tea. It may be disturbing to some listeners so we’ll warn ahead so as not to upset you.” Then; it’s on to the 55th anniversary of Sesame Street and the positive impact Oscar the grouch had on minority kids.”
Oscar now will be eating only cookies made gluten free with bug frosting
Very very very well done John!
My God, Yuri, how the fuck do you READ that vomit???? I do appreciate the breakdown though. It's important to know thine enemy.
It’s my duty. Someone has to do it. Appreciate your support!
He does it so we dont have to. LOL
Back in the day when I was still a lib, I loved NPR and thought it was so “fair and balanced” hahahaha. Now it is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Cringe
This chick is so obviously connected with intel.....& I find her beyond cringey. Unfortunately the women around me - nice but clueless, listen to NPR & would find this fake a “powerful” woman. I can’t stand that description & women that use it or want to be referred to as powerful are lacking in self confidence. Do the reverse, do I need to refer to my husband as a powerful man?
That wedding “announcement” is a real trip. If you didn’t any it was legit I’d swear I was reading The Babylon Bee.
Such an odd sentence. The sum total of the family lore of standing up to the oppressive British empire was the following:
"He spoke of his aunt, who, as a schoolgirl during colonial rule in India, briefly stepped foot on a road designated only for the British."
If there had been ANY more to the story it would have been printed. So we can conclude that the aunt lived a privileged life if that is the most enduring memory of life in British-occupied India.
Parents and future parents don’t raise your daughters like Katherine Maher. It really is that simple.
We can only imagine how broken-brain boomer her parents are. You are right it is up to the parents.
E. Jean Carroll, the world's most expensive whore.
Rather a mysoginistic view to sexual assault.
There's not a shred of evidence for the sexual assault.
In November 2022, Carroll filed her second suit against Trump (a.k.a. Carroll II), renewing her claim of defamation and added a claim of battery under the Adult Survivors Act, a New York law allowing sexual-assault victims to file civil suits beyond expired statutes of limitations. This suit went to trial in April 2023. Evidence included testimony from two friends Carroll spoke to after the incident, a photograph of Carroll with Trump in 1987,[a] testimony from two women who had separately accused Trump of sexual assault, footage from the Trump Access Hollywood tape and his October 2022 deposition.[b] A verdict in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, and ordering him to pay $5 million in damages. Trump appealed the decision and made an unsuccessful counterclaim.
What afucking clown. You a faggot? You gotta be.
So in your rather delirious mind, you equate supporting a woman who has been raped as meaning a male is a faggot? That’s one hell of a leap.
Except a jury disagreed with you.
Trump identifies as a ham sandwich. OJ had a (criminal) jury trial.
FED FED FED FED FED 🚨