Posted on 02/10/2022 5:23:54 PM PST by Rummyfan
On the morning of the 21st of December, 1989, Romanian General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu was in a foul mood. The Berlin Wall had fallen, and Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush had recently announced the end of the Cold War, making the end of Ceaușescu’s rule inevitable, though he couldn’t see this yet. Worse, his security leaders had just failed to violently put down protests in the city of Timisoara, a fact that enraged his wife Elena.
“You should have fired on them, and had they fallen, you should have taken them and shoved them into a cellar,” she said. “Weren’t you told that?”
Long one of the world’s most vicious dictators, Ceaușescu’s most recent plan for winning over the heartland was forcing half the country’s villagers to destroy their own homes — with pick-axes and hammers, if they couldn’t afford a bulldozer — and packing them into project apartments in new “agro-industrial towns,” for a “better future.” Despite this, and his long history of murder, terror, and spying, Ceaușescu to the end did not grasp that his unpopularity had an organic character. He was convinced ethnically Hungarian “terrorists” were behind the latest trouble.
After reaching the balcony of Bucharest’s Central Committee building to give a speech that December day, he’s genuinely surprised when the crowd turns on him. When he tells them to be quiet, he’s befuddled by their refusal, saying, “What, you can’t hear?” Elena jumps in and yells, “Silence!”, to which Ceaușescu, hilariously, replies, “Shut up!” The crowd listens to neither of them.
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When you’ve lost Matt Taibbi ...
I would die a happy man if I lived to see a lamppost decoration party with Justine as the guest of honor.
Paywall.
The socks >>> total lightweight
No paywall. I don’t pay and I can read it.
“Trudeau fled the city, removing his family to what aides called a “secret location” for “security reasons,” a politically disastrous move denounced by just about everyone with a microphone or a Twitter account, including members of his own party.”
Trudeau then released a video.
Someone challenged the “autistic 4chan types” to find him based on the unremarkable backdrop.
They did find him, within hours.
Was he in Cuba with fake snow?
(couldn’t really blame him it’s 70F warmer)
Castro, must be spinning in his grave...
Those socks are gay as sh!t.
Beautifully written.
Excellent commentary. Thanks for posting!
Favorite paragraph of the part I could read without subscribing:
“There may be no real-world comparison between a blood-soaked monster like Ceaușescu and a bumbling ball-scratcher like Joe Biden, or an honorarium-gobbling technocrat like Hillary Clinton, or a Handsome Dan investment banker like Emmanuel Macron, or an effete pseudo-intellectual like Justin Trudeau. Still, the ongoing inability of these leaders to see the math of populist uprisings absolutely recalls that infamous scene in Bucharest. From Brexit to the election of Donald Trump to, now, the descent of thousands of Canadian truckers upon the capital city of Ottawa to confront Trudeau, a consistent theme has been the refusal to admit — not even to us, but to themselves — the numerical truth of what they’re dealing with.”
This makes me feel like the meme of the young child at some sporting event with a red face and balled up fists screaming, “YEAHHHHHH!!!!”
“Someone challenged the “autistic 4chan types” to find him based on the unremarkable backdrop.
They did find him, within hours.”
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Got story or link? Would enjoy to hear the story.
4chan impresses.
Wasn’t it the Cecescus (sp) who were caught flushing money down the toilet? I assume they had stolen it from the public treasury and were trying to dispose of the evidence.
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