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Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment
Matt Taibbi Substack ^ | 10 Feb 2022 | Matt Taibbi

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; convoy; justintrudeau; ottawa
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To: Rummyfan

Kiev has just about nothing but high rise apartments - just a few detached houses in the city, as far as I could see.

They could remake “Miracle on 34th Street” with an entirely different bent.


21 posted on 02/10/2022 7:10:44 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: ctdonath2

He was at the government summer cottage. Like camp david


22 posted on 02/10/2022 7:10:56 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: waterhill

Is the leg crossing some kid of faggot dog whistle? Obama does that too


23 posted on 02/10/2022 7:15:54 PM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: martin_fierro

Justin’s socks are a capital offense.


24 posted on 02/10/2022 7:37:34 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: atc23

Hate when guys cross their legs like women.

Repulsive.


25 posted on 02/10/2022 8:36:17 PM PST by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: Rummyfan
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.

Ys, there is. They're birds of a feather.

26 posted on 02/10/2022 8:36:47 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Rummyfan

Does anyone think the truckers’ protest might be reminiscent of the protests in Lansing a couple of years ago?


27 posted on 02/10/2022 8:38:17 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Rummyfan

Don’t count a castrudo down. Dictators got to dic.


28 posted on 02/10/2022 8:43:04 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Rummyfan
Psyops.

But I didn't think our side had it in them. Maybe it's the Canadians...

-PJ

29 posted on 02/10/2022 8:44:58 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Rummyfan

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.

Man, this guy crafts a mean sentence.


30 posted on 02/10/2022 8:46:02 PM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: Rummyfan

Can we refer to Justin Trudeau’s real name, Justin Castro, for any reference on this site? He is the bastard son of Fidel Castro.


31 posted on 02/10/2022 11:10:21 PM PST by uzumaki_naruto
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To: Flick Lives
an honorarium-gobbling technocrat like Hillary Clinton

Is that the best he could do in describing Killary?

How about "power-mad, entitled, divorced-from-reality, hard-drive-erasing, Constitution-shredding, Benghazi-ambassador-killing Deep-Stater?"

Regards,

32 posted on 02/10/2022 11:59:21 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: AndyJackson

U have to subscribe for the whole article


33 posted on 02/11/2022 12:12:39 AM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever wa day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: wardaddy

I got right in with no subscription.


34 posted on 02/11/2022 12:17:25 AM PST by Lazamataz (The forces of fascism and oppression are on the move in North America. We cannot let tyranny stand!)
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To: dead

LOL!


35 posted on 02/11/2022 12:19:13 AM PST by nutmeg
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To: martin_fierro

There are some pics of him with socks that have penises on them, too.


36 posted on 02/11/2022 1:22:39 AM PST by Trillian
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To: martin_fierro

That’s quite a tan.

Margaret and Pierre were both quite pale.


37 posted on 02/11/2022 1:29:09 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Jim Noble; Trillian
I don't care what the timelines supposedly disprove.

Absent a legit DNA test to the contrary, I believe Fidel is Justin's real daddy.

38 posted on 02/11/2022 11:09:35 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Trillian

The fact that there is a major Western country which as recently as 1945 had a large army and a blue water navy, which is now reduced to having this assclown as its leader, and elected to that position to boot, is very concerning.


39 posted on 02/11/2022 11:26:52 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Lazamataz

It blocked me after about five paragraphs
Requesting a sign up


40 posted on 02/11/2022 2:49:34 PM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever wa day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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