Mass Protests Break Out in Iran to Protest Government's Increase in Fuel Prices

"Some people are no doubt worried by this decision ... but sabotage and arson is done by hooligans not our people," the Iranian Supreme Leader said in a live speech on state TV.
Riot police and security forces clashed with demonstrators in Tehran and dozens of other cities on Saturday, Iranian news agencies and social media said, a day after the government increased the price of gasoline.
"The counter-revolution and Iran's enemies have always supported sabotage and breaches of security and continue to do so," Khamenei said. "Unfortunately some problems were caused, a number of people lost their lives and some centres were destroyed."

They shut down -- or "curbed" - - the internet.

Iranian internet access was curbed this week on the orders of a state security council, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported, a move apparently aimed at preventing protesters from communicating with each other and sharing video on social media.

An Iranian dissident says that the Iranian government is afraid.

The protests began last Friday, and before the weekend was over, the Islamic Republic of Iran was in a state of insurrection. Major disturbances have been reported in more than 100 towns and cities across Iran, from Ardabil in the north, on the Caspian Sea, to Bandar Abbas in the south, on the Persian Gulf.
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Shouting "death to the dictator," hundreds of thousands of protesters have been streaming through the streets of Tehran and Mashad, Tabriz and Shiraz. Billboards and posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been put to the torch.
"I'm getting first-hand information from people in the streets in different cities. They're mostly young people, and they’re crying, but they're full of hope. People are very angry," the prominent women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad told me on Sunday. "These people have nothing to lose. They’re fearless now. It is the government that is full of fear."
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Although the gas price hikes triggered the protests that began last Friday, the popular demands explicitly call for regime change. Unlike 2009, the current protests are leaderless and organic, and thus more difficult to decapitate. "People are angrier and getting angry faster. The regime is already using live bullets, firing into crowds."
"This is the first time the government is afraid of the people right away. They shut down the internet right away. Straight away the government is full of fear. A leaderless movement is more dangerous. If the movement had a leader, they would go and arrest them. Now everyone is a leader."

She claims the Iranian thugs have already killed more than 40 people, but they're covering that up, the same as they covered up the actual death toll during the 2009 Green Uprising.

I've seen commenters mention a central bank in Iran being set fire to, or even "burned down," and have seen some references to that on some less-than-authoritative websites. If any of you have a good cite for that, please let me know.

Khamanei himself mentioned "arson," but did not specify what had been set ablaze.

Below is a tweet showing a building pouring out smoke, but, you know, we don't know what building this is, or what year it's from, or what country it's from. A lot of photos and videos get repurposed in the Middle East.

#BREAKING VIDEO: Protesters Have Burnt Down The Central Bank In Behbahan, #Iran. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/mmE9LlY62e
— Global Breaking News (@GBNReports) November 16, 2019

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 06:20 PM

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1 Anyone remember McDonald's finger puppets?
They were plastic gloves, really. With the Hamburgler and the others on the fingers.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 18, 2019 07:20 PM (oJjzX)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at November 18, 2019 07:21 PM (FxM44)

3 Quick! Send them more money!

Posted by: Barry the Feckless at November 18, 2019 07:21 PM (T6t7i)

4 Virtually nothing on this in the international media. Well, I DID see ONE story on my BBC app, but that was IT. As if I need more reasons to love my e-mails from The Foreign Desk (by Lisa Daftari).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at November 18, 2019 07:22 PM (71NaS)

5 Islam is no match for sexually frustrated adolescents.

Posted by: pep at November 18, 2019 07:22 PM (T6t7i)

6 They are swimming in oil. Increase fuel prices???

Islamo-captialism is about as successful as socialism.

FAIL.

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:22 PM (fK2gX)

7
Rachel, fake or not, none of this would have happened if we'd simply given nukes to the mullahs.

Posted by: 26-year-old reporter briefed by Ben Rhodes at November 18, 2019 07:22 PM (QfRqO)

8 Meh. Over 10 miles from me.

Posted by: freaked at November 18, 2019 07:22 PM (Tnijr)

9 a day after the government increased the price of gasoline

Ahhh, central planning. The government makes market decisions.

Turns our Islamo-capitalism is socialism. No wonder it's a total disaster.

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:23 PM (fK2gX)

10 Turns our = Turns out

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:24 PM (fK2gX)

11 Drill baby drill

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2019 07:24 PM (QZCjk)

12 6
They are swimming in oil. Increase fuel prices???

aiui, swimming in oil but a bit lacking in the refinery department.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2019 07:24 PM (sGtp+)

13 That purported "Central Bank" looks pretty poorly built from what I can make out through the smoke. Also, a lot of windows for a "Bank".

Posted by: Surfperch at November 18, 2019 07:24 PM (WU8si)

14 Well, 40 years of assholery.

Thanks Jimmy!.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 18, 2019 07:24 PM (Z+IKu)

15 If gas prices are up, guarantee FOOD prices are up.

And almost every revolution started right after a major increase in food prices (only real outlier is the US Revolution).

Posted by: Don Q at November 18, 2019 07:25 PM (NgKpN)

16 Swimming in oil they can't refine. seems like a bad plan.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 18, 2019 07:25 PM (0OmEj)

17 In any case, we know that they aren't going to drill their way out of this situation.

Posted by: Jug-eared One at November 18, 2019 07:25 PM (Y4EXg)

18 This is going to be bad for Hong Kong

Posted by: not so at November 18, 2019 07:25 PM (HALdu)

19 That's a baby milk factory!!!

Posted by: Wolf Shitzer at November 18, 2019 07:25 PM (EgshT)

20 How do you think things would go if they had nuke electricity and they raised electrcity rates?

Posted by: not so at November 18, 2019 07:26 PM (HALdu)

21 Who cares, Iran so far away.

Posted by: Flock of Numbskulls at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (Tnijr)

22 And that's why all dictators and socialists here don't like the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (2DOZq)

23 ace-

Follow this twitter feed and you will see stuff on fire all over Iran including the bank in question.

Been following this guy for quite some time as he has been delivering reports on Iran and the uprising there. He's the real deal.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (ZLI7S)

24 Time to sic the Killer Swimming Rabbit on those mullahs.

Posted by: 1979 all over again at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (fK2gX)

25 Californians, the Iranians are showing the way.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (wpPM0)

26 I thought I had heard that there was a huge oil find in Iran not long ago. Something like 150 billion barrels.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (SCnqN)

27 IMPEACH THE #BADORANGEMAN

-Your MSM High Priests

Posted by: CNNMSNBCCBSABCWAPONYT at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (Gf0s/)

28 Would help if I gave the link

https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (ZLI7S)

29 Could not happen to a better set o muzzie socialist thugs.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (0OmEj)

30 Quite possible this photo was taken at a shooting range in Kentucky....

Posted by: Molly k. at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (SN/FM)

31 I look back fondly on the heady days of Emperor Barack the Perfect's administration, when Iranians were holding up signs begging Barry for support.

And by fondly, I mean like a broken ankle.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (ptqGC)

32 Iran is having a little imperial ove-rextension between Syria, Iraq, the Houthi in Yemen, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The money that Obama gave them can evaporate pretty quickly when subsidizing proxy wars, especially with their economy cratering thanks to the sanctions placed on them. Let their own people take them down, just sit back and cheer.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Laments: Mimes, Why Did It Have To Be Mimes? at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (L5Ypf)

33 "See? Obama had this all straightened out and fixed, and stupid Orange Man came in and wrecked everything!"

Posted by: Beto O'Rourke at November 18, 2019 07:28 PM (Ct55T)

34 heh.

apropos sock-fail

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 18, 2019 07:28 PM (Ct55T)

35 Are the Persian kittehs ok?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at November 18, 2019 07:28 PM (Vy7tf)

36 24
Time to sic the Killer Swimming Rabbit on those mullahs.

If they had Hansen's Disease, they'd be Leprous Lepus.

Posted by: pep at November 18, 2019 07:28 PM (T6t7i)

37 I must confess, due to my extreme honor. Twas I who burned the bank down. You see, a young trollop attempted to seduce me whilst there, so I immediately converted the vault to a pizza oven, as is my wont. Alas, my handiwork was insufficient.

Posted by: Prince Andrew at November 18, 2019 07:29 PM (87EdW)

38 They are swimming in oil. Increase fuel prices???

Islamo-captialism is about as successful as socialism.

FAIL.

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:22 PM (fK2gX)

They subsidize fuel prices. Unfortunately (for them) the sanctions are breaking their one source of income so they cannot do that and run their proxy wars.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Laments: Mimes, Why Did It Have To Be Mimes? at November 18, 2019 07:29 PM (L5Ypf)

39 If gas prices are up, guarantee FOOD prices are up.

Plenty of folks love to talk about their moral code, political beliefs, and such.

That shit always changes when they go hungry for a couple days. All the sudden, the "This is how we live together" BS goes away, while they sneak through a window.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at November 18, 2019 07:29 PM (180Hg)

40 And the Democrats think President Trump is a dictator

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2019 07:29 PM (ZCEU2)

41 Venezuela. Also swimming in oil they cannot refine.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at November 18, 2019 07:29 PM (Vy7tf)

42 Windmills and unicorn farts FTW.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:29 PM (ptqGC)

43 At various Iranian community centers here in California, they invite the public to Zoroastrian fire-jumping parties. I kid you not. Lots of great free food, hotttt ladies and all the atheist/nonbelieving/Zapastrian good-guy Iranians who fled in 1979. I go every year!

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:29 PM (fK2gX)

44
How do you think things would go if they had nuke electricity and they raised electrcity rates?
Posted by: not so at November 18, 2019 07:26 PM

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The Chileans are rioting over the increase in electricity prices and the increases in the transit fares. The increases are required because Chile is pursuing windmills and other green fantasies.

Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (+0uDE)

45 California. Swimming in electricity it cannot distribute.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (Vy7tf)

46 Zapastrian = Zoroastrian

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (fK2gX)

47 Burn all central banks.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (sU5UX)

48 Bomb bomb bomb Iran

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (BiNEL)

49 It'd be nice to have the Iranian people revolt and attack and string up the mullahs from cranes, and on that same day have Carter kick the bucket. A two-fer.

Posted by: Roy at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (ABjxW)

50 47
Burn all central banks.

Posted by: squirrelly dan

That's enough out of you, Andrew Jackson.

Posted by: pep at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (T6t7i)

51 Well, whatever comes next, I'm sure it will be great. Because Islam means peace and once the real muslims are in charge, Iran will be idyllic.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (H5knJ)

52 *rubs little hands gleefully* Now all we need are some Scuds!

Posted by: Wolf Shitzer at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (EgshT)

53 And if we had a CIA that was more concerned with America's national interest and freedom in the world than they are in executing a coup against a sitting President, we'd be getting all kinds of covert aid to the protesters.

But, sadly . . .

Posted by: filbert at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (NiXyF)

54 45 California. Swimming in electricity it cannot distribute.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (Vy7tf)

actually... uh, no.

We now import a lot of energy from other states.

Posted by: Don Q at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (NgKpN)

55 49
It'd be nice to have the Iranian people revolt and attack and string up the mullahs from cranes

Gas stations also acceptable.

Posted by: pep at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (T6t7i)

56
At various Iranian community centers here in California, they invite the
public to Zoroastrian fire-jumping parties. I kid you not. Lots of
great free food, hotttt ladies and all the
atheist/nonbelieving/Zapastrian good-guy Iranians who fled in 1979. I go
every year!

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:29 PM (fK2gX)

I used to watch Shahs of Sunset on Bravo to kill what's left of my brain. I still can't understand how the gay Iranian Jews just hate the hell out of Trump. What did Barry the Weak ever do for them?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (ptqGC)

57 Why don't they just fly tf out of there on a magic carpet?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at November 18, 2019 07:32 PM (Vy7tf)

58 48 Bomb bomb bomb Iran
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

I was waiting for someone to sing that, so I wouldn't have to.

Posted by: 1979 all over again at November 18, 2019 07:32 PM (fK2gX)

59 BTW, the new increased gasoline prices drove the price up to about 50 cents a gallon.

Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:32 PM (+0uDE)

60 This is all Trump's fault. I told him people were going to die if he trashed Obama's Iran agreement.

Posted by: Rex Tillerson at November 18, 2019 07:32 PM (aS1PU)

61 Once again, gang. Let's all sing the praises of Jimmuh Carter.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:33 PM (ptqGC)

62 57
Why don't they just fly tf out of there on a magic carpet?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid

Why, it would be a whole new world. A new fantastic point of view.

Posted by: pep at November 18, 2019 07:33 PM (T6t7i)

63 swimming in oil but a bit lacking in the refinery department.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2019 07:24 PM (sGtp+)

Don't think anyone with the brains to create and run a refinery wants to get anywhere near Iran...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at November 18, 2019 07:33 PM (BiNEL)

64 Why don't they just fly tf out of there on a magic carpet?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid

flying horse

Posted by: not so at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (HALdu)

65 When you have nothing and they have everything, it's time to cut some tits and balls!

Posted by: Fritz at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (wo3c/)

66 It's about time for Rick Steves to return to Iran for another travel show about how totally awesome, tolerant, and diverse the country is.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (ptqGC)

67 Once again, gang. Let's all sing the praises of Jimmuh Carter.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:33 PM (ptqGC)

Lets not forget the french who played host to the ayatolla for years and let him leave to go back to iran

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (cEsBM)

68 Why don't they just fly tf out of there on a magic carpet?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid

Why, it would be a whole new world. A new fantastic point of view.
Posted by: pep at November 18, 2019 07:33 PM (T6t7i)

You don't know what we could see...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (Ct55T)

69 gay Iranian Jews just hate the hell out of Trump.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

They're ben brainwashed into the Hierarchy of Victim identities.

Gay > Jewish > Iranian.

Thus, hate Trump. Totally illogical.

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (fK2gX)

70 I still can't understand how the gay Iranian Jews just hate the hell out of Trump.

Sometimes - you just need to step out of the way and let folks meet their fate.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (180Hg)

71 50 47
Burn all central banks.

Posted by: squirrelly dan

That's enough out of you, Andrew Jackson.
Posted by: pep at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (T6t7i)

Interesting piece of History Trivia.

Did you know the John F Kennedy actually signed an Executive Order taking the power to create money away from the Fed Res Bank, hoping to return Monetary policy to the Government.

He was assassinated a couple months later, and Johnson immediately rescinded the order.

I find that.... interesting.

Posted by: Don Q at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (NgKpN)

72 Don't think anyone with the brains to create and run a refinery wants to get anywhere near Iran...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at November 18, 2019 07:33 PM (BiNEL)

Hold mein bier.

Posted by: Germany at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (aS1PU)

73 54 45 California. Swimming in electricity it cannot distribute.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (Vy7tf)

actually... uh, no.

We now import a lot of energy from other states.
Posted by: Don Q at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (NgKpN)

Because we're green. Not like those other states that are not green, and from which we buy our electricity. They're baaaaad. We're gooood.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2019 07:35 PM (wpPM0)

74 Alternate CNN Headline: Trump's sanctions responsible for hundreds of deaths in Iran! Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 18, 2019 07:35 PM (WqPYg)

75

Riots and upheaval in Iran.

Gas prices doubled and people revolt.

No, President Trump's policies had nothing, nothing, nothing to do with this.

OK, maybe just a little.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (sy5kK)

76 The gay, Iranian Jews I was speaking of live in So. Cal.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (ptqGC)

77 53 And if we had a CIA that was more concerned with America's national interest and freedom in the world than they are in executing a coup against a sitting President, we'd be getting all kinds of covert aid to the protesters.

But, sadly . . .
Posted by: filbert at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (NiXyF)

I'm way out of fucks to give for any country until we seal and secure our borders, deport all invaders, stop all immigration, end anchor babies, and invest in healing our country for a generation or 2.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (sU5UX)

78 73 54 45 California. Swimming in electricity it cannot distribute.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (Vy7tf)

actually... uh, no.

We now import a lot of energy from other states.
Posted by: Don Q at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (NgKpN)

Because we're green. Not like those other states that are not green, and from which we buy our electricity. They're baaaaad. We're gooood.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Gray Davis to the Rescue! Liberal politicians know how to solve the energy crisis! Hold my beer!

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (fK2gX)

79 59 BTW, the new increased gasoline prices drove the price up to about 50 cents a gallon.
Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:32 PM (+0uDE)

Or, about a normal weeks price fluctuation in California...

/facepalm

Posted by: Don Q at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (NgKpN)

80 Alternate CNN Headline: Trump's sanctions responsible for hundreds of deaths in Iran! Developing ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 18, 2019 07:35 PM (WqPYg)

nah they can't break away from PDT worse than Nixon and Dean even said so

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (cEsBM)

81 This is going to be bad for Hong Kong

Posted by: not so at November 18, 2019 07:25 PM (HALdu)

Thing is, mainland China can replace the entire population of HK and barely decrease the population of Mainland China!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (BiNEL)

82 46
Zapastrian = Zoroastrian

pretty sure the Zappastrian pope is Sheik Yerbouti.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (sGtp+)

83 Don't think anyone with the brains to create and run a refinery wants to get anywhere near Iran...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at November 18, 2019 07:33 PM (BiNEL)

Turd World types uniformly fail to grasp that by expropriating foreign investments, they are guaranteeing that henceforth foreigners will not put a dime into developing anything they can't take with them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (wpPM0)

84 75

Riots and upheaval in Iran.

Gas prices doubled and people revolt.

No, President Trump's policies had nothing, nothing, nothing to do with this.

OK, maybe just a little.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (sy5kK)

Iran, Hong Kong, Chile, Bolivia and some other places I'm forgetting.

World's changing and probably won't be for the better.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 18, 2019 07:37 PM (j3npP)

85 We now import a lot of energy from other states.

Posted by: Don Q at November 18

Some blame to Grand Coulee, made so much power some places didn't have to step up to the plate. You folks tried with Nukes, but, best laid plans of mice and men...

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 18, 2019 07:37 PM (LOq4H)

86 I'm way out of fucks to give for any country until we seal and secure our borders, deport all invaders, stop all immigration, end anchor babies, and invest in healing our country for a generation or 2.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (sU5UX)

H8r!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at November 18, 2019 07:38 PM (BiNEL)

87

I'm way out of fucks to give for any country until we seal and secure our borders, deport all invaders, stop all immigration, end anchor babies, and invest in healing our country for a generation or 2.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM

toss in the elimination of the designated hitter & you've got yourself a movement right there

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2019 07:38 PM (KCxzN)

88 Did you know the John F Kennedy actually signed an
Executive Order taking the power to create money away from the Fed Res
Bank, hoping to return Monetary policy to the Government.

He was assassinated a couple months later, and Johnson immediately rescinded the order.

I find that.... interesting.

Posted by: Don Q at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (NgKpN)

_______

You've got to hand it to JFK -- he made a lot of dangerous enemies, including the Pentagon, CIA, mafia, etc. in addition to the one you note.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 18, 2019 07:38 PM (WqPYg)

89 Zapastrian = Zoroastrian

Zapastafarian, zombie? Jump over fires wearing spaghetti strainers as hats.

Posted by: LizLem at November 18, 2019 07:38 PM (hvf9s)

90 Here's a link to a map of all the places in Iran where protests are taking place. Special notation for places where banks are being burned.

Banks appear to be targeted.

https://tinyurl.com/whrjky2

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2019 07:38 PM (ZLI7S)

91 Gray Davis to the Rescue! Liberal politicians know how to solve the energy crisis! Hold my beer!
Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:36 PM (fK2gX)

Gasoline? We don't need no stinkin' gasoline. We've got bike lanes!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2019 07:38 PM (wpPM0)

92 It's a shooting range in Kentucky

Posted by: Josephistan at November 18, 2019 07:38 PM (Izzlo)

93

If only we had an American-based cable news organization that would brag about being the best source of news, that actually reported this.

They covered the important stuff, like the 1990 Irag invasion, or the infamous criminal Roger Stone's home invasion at 4am by armed thugs.

Where are they now? Oh, OrangeManBad. I almost forgot.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2019 07:39 PM (sy5kK)

94 If you missed it after 'nood', see previous thread #367 for rickl update.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2019 07:39 PM (xSo9G)

95 World's changing and probably won't be for the better.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 18, 2019 07:37 PM (j3npP)

I rate this as mostly true!

Posted by: World History at November 18, 2019 07:39 PM (BiNEL)

96 You've got to hand it to JFK -- he made a lot of dangerous enemies, including the Pentagon, CIA, mafia, etc. in addition to the one you note.
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 18, 2019 07:38 PM (WqPYg)

Because he sucked contrary to the subsequent Camelot myth.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 18, 2019 07:39 PM (2DOZq)

97 Has Barky said that these protestors don't represent our values yet?

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 18, 2019 07:40 PM (uDh3k)

98 85 We now import a lot of energy from other states.

Posted by: Don Q at November 18

Some blame to Grand Coulee, made so much power some places didn't have to step up to the plate. You folks tried with Nukes, but, best laid plans of mice and men...
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 18, 2019 07:37 PM (LOq4H)

Actually still a lot of places we could do Hydroelectric power in the State.

Greens won't let us build any more dams though.

Posted by: Don Q at November 18, 2019 07:40 PM (NgKpN)

99 Our son's BFF has a place in the country (complete with airplane landing strip for crop dusters) where the guys go to blow stuff up and get shooty.

I'm sure they could send some footage to MSLSD and CNN (and hell, Fox, for that matter) and claim it's from Iran.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:40 PM (ptqGC)

100 Said it B4, say it again, if it was my foreign policy, we would have a munition like one of those fancy cluster-bomb things, but instead of a couple hundred toepoppers or heat-seeking shaped charges it would be packed with updated Liberator 2 pistols, each with its little parachute.

And the Stealth bombers would be flying missions full of them every night, all over the world.

Go fix your own damn government.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at November 18, 2019 07:40 PM (JwHjN)

101 Did you know the John F Kennedy actually signed an Executive Order taking the power to create money away from the Fed Res Bank, hoping to return Monetary policy to the Government.

He was assassinated a couple months later, and Johnson immediately rescinded the order.

At this point I'm willing to believe any story of malfeasance involving our corrupt 3-letter agencies.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2019 07:40 PM (6XLoz)

102 The Chileans are rioting over the increase in
electricity prices and the increases in the transit fares. The
increases are required because Chile is pursuing windmills and other
green fantasies.

Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (+0uDE)
FYI two days ago, fifty immigrants - including many illegal - were expelled from Chile after being caught throwing up barricades, interfering with police, etc. I was reading about it this morning in the paper El Rancaguino. Thirty were Cuban, nine Venezuelans, seven Dominicans, three Haitians, and one each of Colombian and Bolivian. Not surprisingly, some Chilean writers think that the rioting is an outside job to pressure for socialist "improvements."

Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 18, 2019 07:41 PM (fxCK2)

103 41 Venezuela. Also swimming in oil they cannot refine.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at November 18, 2019 07:29 PM (Vy7tf)

call me crazy, but I think I am spotting a trend.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2019 07:42 PM (sy5kK)

104 As someone noted over at Sarah Hoyt's blog earlier today, Iran is in a state of insurrection, Hong Kong is under siege, the French yellow vest protests are still in full swing, Sweden is caught up in blasts caused by gangs of Middle-Easterners, and Dutch farmers are driving tractor convoys to their capitol in protest.
But if you read the news, then the only important thing going on right now is Schiff's impeachment hearing.

Posted by: junior at November 18, 2019 07:42 PM (J+kl4)

105 Probably already covered, but various branch locations of Bank Meli [national bank] torched, along with regime offices, police vehicles, etc.

ace look at Heshmat Alavi, Amir Taheri, Rita Panahi, and those they link on the twatters for updates on generally public info. Waled Phares for policy stuff, many many others.

Posted by: schlichter at November 18, 2019 07:42 PM (QDnY+)

106 At this point I'd believe the real JFK assassin was a 15 year old Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 18, 2019 07:42 PM (j3npP)

107 Gas prices doubled and people revolt.
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Hardest hit: Working womyns, who can't afford to drive to work.

Oh, wait...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2019 07:42 PM (xSo9G)

108 Mike Hammer, thanks:

Hi, Horde. I'm back in the hospital again. I went
in by ambulance early Sunday morning for difficulty breathing.
Yesterday was pretty horrible, but I'm feeling much better today.

At least this time I have a laptop so I can go online.

Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (7CmMD)

Dear Lord, I wish I lived near him so I could bring food and comfort. He is an incredibly brave man.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:43 PM (ptqGC)

109 John Kerry hardest hit.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 18, 2019 07:43 PM (BPDpo)

110 67 Once again, gang. Let's all sing the praises of Jimmuh Carter.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:33 PM (ptqGC)

Lets not forget the french who played host to the ayatolla for years and let him leave to go back to iran
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 18, 2019 07:34 PM (cEsBM)

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I heard his apartment in Paris was down the street from Pol Pots place.

Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:43 PM (+0uDE)

111 Greens won't let us build any more dams though.

Posted by: Don Q

Heh, they not only will not let us build more, they want to start removing...idiots.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 18, 2019 07:43 PM (LOq4H)

112 Rickl, if you are still here, feel better! Sorry you had to go back to the hospital.

If you need entertainment while you convalesce, I am sure the Horde can provide it.

Posted by: LizLem at November 18, 2019 07:43 PM (hvf9s)

113 "77 53 And if we had a CIA that was more concerned with America's national interest and freedom in the world than they are in executing a coup against a sitting President, we'd be getting all kinds of covert aid to the protesters.

But, sadly . . .
Posted by: filbert at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (NiXyF)

I'm way out of fucks to give for any country until we seal and secure our borders, deport all invaders, stop all immigration, end anchor babies, and invest in healing our country for a generation or 2."

Same.

The only things of interest coming out of Iran are the "how-to's" in the event "our" government cannot get its act together.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at November 18, 2019 07:43 PM (iw59Q)

114 82 46
Zapastrian = Zoroastrian

I Saw Frank Zapastrian open for the Pomegranites in Reno in '82

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at November 18, 2019 07:44 PM (Vy7tf)

115 Rickl, feel better brother.

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 18, 2019 07:44 PM (uDh3k)

116 At this point I'd believe the real JFK assassin was a 15 year old Hillary Clinton.

Hillz was involved in Watergate too, which we now know was precipitated by a man angry that he was passed over for the Director's job.

Someone call Billy Joel, I think we know who DID start the fire.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2019 07:44 PM (6XLoz)

117 I'm trying to imagine the ginormous boners neocons will get if the government of Iran falls shriveling to nothing when Trump gets credit for doing with without firing a shot.

Mike

Posted by: MBunge at November 18, 2019 07:44 PM (7Nkan)

118 " updated Liberator 2 pistols,"

still in .45 ACP; if you only get one shot, better make it count.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at November 18, 2019 07:44 PM (JwHjN)

119 108 Mike Hammer, thanks:

Hi, Horde. I'm back in the hospital again. I went
in by ambulance early Sunday morning for difficulty breathing.
Yesterday was pretty horrible, but I'm feeling much better today.

At least this time I have a laptop so I can go online.

Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (7CmMD)

Dear Lord, I wish I lived near him so I could bring food and comfort. He is an incredibly brave man.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:43 PM (ptqGC)

I would go too, Jane.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 18, 2019 07:45 PM (TdMsT)

120 Also, 2OO+ claimed KIA so far. As in Iraq recently, regime snipers shooting protesters [in Iraq, they were probably Iran-linked militia snipers, and they shot both protesters *and* police].

Posted by: schlichter at November 18, 2019 07:45 PM (QDnY+)

121 rickl, I wish I lived nearby. I'd bring you loads of good food my husband can't eat.

Yuge hugs, hon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:45 PM (ptqGC)

122 Said it B4, say it again, if it was my foreign policy, we would have a munition like one of those fancy cluster-bomb things, but instead of a couple hundred toepoppers or heat-seeking shaped charges it would be packed with updated Liberator 2 pistols, each with its little parachute.

Surely there's some leftover Fast and Furious guns we could put to good use.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2019 07:46 PM (6XLoz)

123 /sock

Posted by: DR.WTF at November 18, 2019 07:46 PM (aS1PU)

124

Barry O: Quick send Iran more pallets of cash

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 18, 2019 07:46 PM (o3WRR)

125
The Chileans are rioting over the increase in
electricity prices and the increases in the transit fares. The
increases are required because Chile is pursuing windmills and other
green fantasies.
Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (+0uDE)

FYI two days ago, fifty immigrants - including many illegal - were expelled from Chile after being caught throwing up barricades, interfering with police, etc. I was reading about it this morning in the paper El Rancaguino. Thirty were Cuban, nine Venezuelans, seven Dominicans, three Haitians, and one each of Colombian and Bolivian. Not surprisingly, some Chilean writers think that the rioting is an outside job to pressure for socialist "improvements."
Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 18, 2019 07:41 PM (fxCK2)

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The Chileans should have given them Helicopter Rides back home.

Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:46 PM (+0uDE)

126 One of the profs at my son's university, was one of the Iranian hostages. He's very "fond" of Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:46 PM (ptqGC)

127 I can't find the original mash-up of this with the Ayatollah.
Someday soon they'll be gone.

https://youtu.be/pY8UUetyaFk

Posted by: DaveA at November 18, 2019 07:46 PM (FhXTo)

128 I used to watch Shahs of Sunset on Bravo to kill
what's left of my brain. I still can't understand how the gay Iranian
Jews just hate the hell out of Trump. What did Barry the Weak ever do
for them?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (ptqGC)

Barry O: Blow jobs. Lots of blow jobs

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 18, 2019 07:47 PM (o3WRR)

129 Zoroastairean. Masked Mexican Dancers etc.

Posted by: klaftern at November 18, 2019 07:47 PM (RuIsu)

130 "John F Kennedy actually signed an Executive Order taking the power to
create money away from the Fed Res Bank, hoping to return Monetary
policy to the Government.
He was assassinated a couple months later, and Johnson immediately rescinded the order." DonQ

indeed ... but at this point, it seems clear "government" would have also inflated the currency wildly, to buy votes via free shiit. The difference would be that the oligarchs would not hold all the liens on America, as "government" (in the people's name) went $200T into debt (counting all our retirement obligations).

Wee need a balanced budget amendment, tied to a $25T QE. Tie that to a cut in the massive retirement promises, some real health care reform, big haircuts to bond holders, many golden pensions become copper pensions ... there are solutions.

But they are not politically viable solutions at the moment. Giving congress unlimited money printing ability ... MMT (magic money tree) is how Warren would fund her $10T free health care plan, and even more for the GreenNewDeal. We need more discipline than congress could muster ... but we don't need the globalist oligarchs in charge either. ...

Posted by: illiniwek at November 18, 2019 07:47 PM (Cus5s)

131 I really hate I missed the Prince Andrew thread.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:48 PM (ptqGC)

132
Said it B4, say it again, if it was my foreign policy, we would have a munition like one of those fancy cluster-bomb things, but instead of a couple hundred toepoppers or heat-seeking shaped charges it would be packed with updated Liberator 2 pistols, each with its little parachute.

it's been my stated position that there is practically no problem in the world like this what can't be solved by dropping in two containers of SKS rifles & a container of 7.62x39

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2019 07:48 PM (KCxzN)

133 Zapastrian = Zoroastrian

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2019 07:30 PM (fK2gX)

Zapastrians worship Zap Rowsdower

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 18, 2019 07:49 PM (o3WRR)

134 I really hate I missed the Prince Andrew thread.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:48 PM (ptqGC)

Sorry Jane. You snooze you lose!

The blog requires 24/7 attention.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 07:50 PM (BiNEL)

135

rickl, you da man.

hang in there, brother.

you are one of us, all the way, you deplorable moron.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2019 07:50 PM (sy5kK)

136 I really hate I missed the Prince Andrew thread.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

As long as a former thread is in your heart, it's never dead.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 18, 2019 07:50 PM (LOq4H)

137 And in other newz, Joy Behar said today that Buttgiggy is in a "traditional marriage."

Let's send Buttgiggy and his husband to Iran and see what happens!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:50 PM (ptqGC)

138 I really hate I missed the Prince Andrew thread.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

----

Jane, Reader's Digest version:

Randy Andy - I didn't do it. Can't sweat. Pizza place.

Reality not visited and no shame displayed. Sweaty tho'.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2019 07:50 PM (Y4EXg)

139 122 Said it B4, say it again, if it was my foreign policy, we would have a munition like one of those fancy cluster-bomb things, but instead of a couple hundred toepoppers or heat-seeking shaped charges it would be packed with updated Liberator 2 pistols, each with its little parachute.

Surely there's some leftover Fast and Furious guns we could put to good use.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2019 07:46 PM (6XLoz)

Single Action Colt .45 long barrels.

easy to operate. easy to fix. don't jam. and I find them more accurate then a .45 semi.

And would let the enemy know EXACTLY where they came from.

Posted by: Don Q at November 18, 2019 07:50 PM (NgKpN)

140 >
it's been my stated position that there is practically no problem in the world like this what can't be solved by dropping in two containers of SKS rifles & a container of 7.62x39
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2019 07:48 PM

With steel core ammo and berdan primers??

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 18, 2019 07:51 PM (uDh3k)

141 126
One of the profs at my son's university, was one of the Iranian hostages. He's very "fond" of Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:46 PM (ptqGC)

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You know what's crazy (would love to hear objections): if the Iranian hostage attempt -- Operation Eagle Claw -- had been successful, Carter would likely have won reelection ... and we may never have had a President Reagan.
Hard to believe given the destruction of the economy on Carter's watch, but obviously the American voting public is fickle.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 18, 2019 07:51 PM (WqPYg)

142 Wasn't Freddie Mercury a Zororassinatrain when he wasn't sipping the penis?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 18, 2019 07:51 PM (Z+IKu)

143 Just imagine how tough the government of Iran would have it if Obama hadn't given them BILLIONS?

Why...they might not have been able to afford the bullets they are shooting peaceful protesters with!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2019 07:51 PM (WdocV)

144 The old saying: Dictators don't fall because their regimes are evil; they fall when they are perceived as weak.

Iran & China aren't weak. Street rioting won't lead to regime change.

Regime change usually occurs when the military decides, "no mas."

Posted by: mnw at November 18, 2019 07:52 PM (Cssks)

145 Get well soon, rickl.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (HaL55)

146
FYI two days ago, fifty immigrants - including many illegal - were expelled from Chile after being caught throwing up barricades, interfering with police, etc. I was reading about it this morning in the paper El Rancaguino. Thirty were Cuban, nine Venezuelans, seven Dominicans, three Haitians, and one each of Colombian and Bolivian. Not surprisingly, some Chilean writers think that the rioting is an outside job to pressure for socialist "improvements."
Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 18, 2019 07:41 PM (fxCK2)

Yeah, that detailed report on the scene from all the big 3 news networks, combined with the Wolf Blitzer reporting door-to-door, really showed us Americans what is going on over there.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (sy5kK)

147 With steel core ammo and berdan primers??
Posted by: Muad'dib at November 18, 2019 07:51 PM (uDh3k)

Plus a .50 cal desert eagle made by bad-ass Hebrews.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (SgjGX)

148 Sorry Jane. You snooze you lose!

The blog requires 24/7 attention.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 07:50 PM (BiNEL)

I went shopping for veterans living in our Tiny House Vet community, and for elderly in local nursing homes. And stupidly decided I could just put on a soft bootie instead of the ortho boot for my broken ankle.

I'm an idiot.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (ptqGC)

149 it's been my stated position that there is practically no problem in the world like this what can't be solved by dropping in two containers of SKS rifles & a container of 7.62x39

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2019 07:48 PM (KCxzN)

Sorry, flawed analysis, but I agree with the concept. I'd posit that multiple drops of AK-47s in widely separated (different) locations and MOAR ammo are required!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (BiNEL)

150
This uprising may be different. We have a president who intends to bring down the Iranian government, not prop it up.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (Xs85z)

151 From the top of my head
Zoroastrianism is a religion, Zapastrian are Cossacks

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (ZCEU2)

152 Zapastrians worship Zap Rowsdower

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 18, 2019 07:49 PM (o3WRR)

And Larry Csonka is their Prophet.

Posted by: HTL at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (rvJrw)

153 The are reported attacks on the Basiji Militia barracks, where they overran the barracks and liberated the armories.

We can hope.

I like the idea of a parachute package of two or three rifles or carbines and a spam can of the appropriate ammunition. Do a few drone drops in the right neighborhoods. Add grenades and RPGs if successful and as needed.

This is the kind of stuff the CIA should have planned and ready to go when the President asks for it.

No boots on the ground.

Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (+0uDE)

154 Randy Andy - I didn't do it. Can't sweat. Pizza place.

***

Isn't it interesting that the American press goes gaga for any royal news...except the news one of the royals was in a global underage sex trafficking ring.

Because apparently unlike the color of Markle's shoes or the crown prince's hair line....that just isn't news.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2019 07:54 PM (WdocV)

155 ... MMT (magic money tree) is how Warren would fund her $10T free health care plan, and even more for the GreenNewDeal ...

______

"We're gonna need a few more zeroes added to the end of those figures, comrade!" -- Fauxcohantas

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 18, 2019 07:54 PM (WqPYg)

156 >
Plus a .50 cal desert eagle made by bad-ass Hebrews.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (SgjGX)

*fist bump*

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 18, 2019 07:54 PM (uDh3k)

157 This is the kind of stuff the CIA should have planned and ready to go when the President asks for it.

No boots on the ground.

Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (+0uDE)

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the CIA is too busy supporting the regime.

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (J1R3A)

158 This is the kind of stuff the CIA should have planned and ready to go when the President asks for it.

____

We are pretty busy on operation Take Down the Presid...err operation Stop Global Meanness.

But we'll get right on your idea soon!

Posted by: The CIA at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (WdocV)

159 Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (ptqGC)

Jane, my sister (who, by the way, you remind me of) suffered a similar ankle problem and it took a while for her to fully heal. Please pace yourself and baby the heck out of that ankle!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (BiNEL)

160 I really believe there's a percentage of our population that would love to have been kept under the servitude of the British Crown.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (ptqGC)

161 Zaporozhye cossacks.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (QDnY+)

162 Zaporozhians are the Cossaks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (Ct55T)

163 143
Just imagine how tough the government of Iran would have it if Obama hadn't given them BILLIONS?

Why...they might not have been able to afford the bullets they are shooting peaceful protesters with!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2019 07:51 PM (WdocV)

______

The single greatest individual funder of terrorism in history! Hurry up and get him a second Nobel ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 18, 2019 07:56 PM (WqPYg)

164 the CIA is too busy supporting the regime.

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (J1R3A)

which one?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 07:56 PM (BiNEL)

165 it'd be a DAMN shame if their one refinery had an industrial accident that cut fuel production, wouldn't it?

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2019 07:56 PM (J1R3A)

166 I knew it's something like that

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2019 07:56 PM (ZCEU2)

167 So are gas prices higher in Tehran than in California?

Posted by: notsothoreau at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (JKNZq)

168 142 Hairy

Well... his family were certainly Zoroastrians. I don't think Freddy was interested in it. I once read a biography of him. Took about 90 minutes from cover to cover. There's a full-size statue of him in Switzerland, btw.

Posted by: mnw at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (Cssks)

169
For the Left, the big story in the Middle East remains Trump's supposed abandonment of the Kurds in Syria. The violent Iranian riots are an embarrassment they pretend aren't happening.

Obama solved everything. That's the ticket.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (Xs85z)

170 MMT (magic money tree) is how Warren would fund her $10T free health care plan, and even more for the GreenNewDeal ...

***

Step 1: Start the Printing Presses

Step 2: Buy free health care for everyone...and find a way to pocket some percentage of that free-ness

Step 3: Act shocked when inflation goes through the roof and an avacado toast costs more then a millennial earns in a week.

Posted by: Lizzie Warren at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (WdocV)

171 104 As someone noted over at Sarah Hoyt's blog earlier today, Iran is in a state of insurrection, Hong Kong is under siege, the French yellow vest protests are still in full swing, Sweden is caught up in blasts caused by gangs of Middle-Easterners, and Dutch farmers are driving tractor convoys to their capitol in protest.
But if you read the news, then the only important thing going on right now is Schiff's impeachment hearing.
Posted by: junior at November 18, 2019 07:42 PM (J+kl4)

There are only 24 hours in a news cycle, and we have to make decisions on which is the most important stuff.

Hope you understand. Comrade.

Posted by: ABCBSNBCNN, controlling the message at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (sy5kK)

172 I really believe there's a percentage of our population that would love to have been kept under the servitude of the British Crown.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (ptqGC)

I think it was a close run thing back in the day. Lots of Tories had their hands in the till even then.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (BiNEL)

173 Zapastrian are Cossacks

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (ZCEU2)

They're pudgy Canucks with a stache and mullet

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (o3WRR)

174 I really believe there's a percentage of our population that would love to have been kept under the servitude of the British Crown.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (ptqGC)

They're called Canadians.

Posted by: DR.WTF at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (aS1PU)

175
So are gas prices higher in Tehran than in California?
___

ON IT!!!

Posted by: Gov Newsom at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (WdocV)

176 The islam is an equal opportunity murderer. Come one come all, plenty of death to go around. You there, young girl! We have a nice bullet just made for you!

Posted by: Eromero at November 18, 2019 07:58 PM (UUkQp)

177 Thanks, Hordesters.

Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2019 07:58 PM (7CmMD)

178 164 the CIA is too busy supporting the regime.

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2019 07:55 PM (J1R3A)

which one?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

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Whomever is the most antagonistic towards traditional American values. Be they foreign or domestic.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2019 07:59 PM (Y4EXg)

179 For the record Prince Andrew is just as innocent of raping sweet, sweet teenagers as I am.

Would I lie to you?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at November 18, 2019 07:59 PM (WdocV)

180 For the Left, the big story in the Middle East remains Trump's supposed abandonment of the Kurds in Syria. The violent Iranian riots are an embarrassment they pretend aren't happening.

Obama solved everything. That's the ticket.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (Xs85z)

Iran was a model mostly peaceful islamic society until Trump betrayed the Kurds!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 07:59 PM (BiNEL)

181

With steel core ammo and berdan primers??
Posted by: Muad'dib at November 18, 2019 07:51 PM (uDh3k)

after reading last night's Gun Thread, don't joke about that around Mark Andrew Edwards. you've been warned.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2019 08:00 PM (sy5kK)

182 I do believe that since the Green Revolution the good people of Iran have been getting a lot of good advice.

Starting with no centralized leadership to target. Going after banks and other monetary functions. They have to get that oil out of the refinery so I picture some pipeline bombings in the near future.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2019 08:00 PM (SCnqN)

183 169: I'm surprised the FNM are not already castigating Trump for causing this violence in Iran by ending Barky's deal with the mad Mullahs.

Posted by: paleRider is simply irredeemable at November 18, 2019 08:01 PM (eASYU)

184 We do a GREAT disservice to protesters, some of whom carry the U.S. flag, if we encourage them to believe that 101st Airborne will soon drop in & save them.

Posted by: mnw at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (Cssks)

185 Over 100 so I'm going there...........

OMG I wish this was a joke. No wonder people think people from my state are rednecks. No words!

https://preview.tinyurl.com/t99h82c

Posted by: Molly k. at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (SN/FM)

186 Starting with no centralized leadership to target.
Going after banks and other monetary functions. They have to get that
oil out of the refinery so I picture some pipeline bombings in the near
future.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2019 08:00 PM (SCnqN)

Well, that could kick things up to Sporty x 2.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (ptqGC)

187
I have heard that supposedly some Iranians want to set fire to their one and only oil refinery. That would definitely muss the mullahs' hair for sure.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (zBaqJ)

188
25 Californians, the Iranians are showing the way.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2019 07:27 PM (wpPM0)

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I'm on board. I don't want to burn my savings and loan though, the branch offices are widely spaced.

I think that guy who tried to ram a gasoline tanker into the state capitol a few years ago had it more or less correct, it was the execution that was the problem.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (Xs85z)

189 150
This uprising may be different. We have a president who intends to bring down the Iranian government, not prop it up.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (Xs85z)

The old "We win, They lose" strategy. It worked for Reagan.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (jp0Bv)

190 Starting with no centralized leadership to target. Going after banks
and other monetary functions. They have to get that oil out of the
refinery so I picture some pipeline bombings in the near future.
***

Honestly the answer to dealing with the likes of Iran's leadership is random acts of violence against those in it by the normies in Iran.

Peaceful protest ain't gonna cut it.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (WdocV)

191 "This is the kind of stuff the CIA should have planned and ready to go when the President asks for it.

No boots on the ground.

Posted by: rd at November 18, 2019 07:53 PM (+0uDE) "

LOL, too busy trying to overthrow the American government.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (JwHjN)

192 Today we ended a waiver for Iranian activities at their Fordow nuke-related facility. Considering ending others. Naturally the Iranians have been cheating like mad on the nukyler deal, naturally in an inept fashion, so badly that even the IAEA, usually useless except as an intel lever, has been noting "problems" with Iranian activity.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2019 08:03 PM (QDnY+)

193 so I picture some pipeline bombings in the near future.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2019 08:00 PM (SCnqN)

I seem to remember a number of real experts telling me that almost every problem can be solved, if only you have a sufficient quantity of HE.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 08:03 PM (BiNEL)

194 >
after reading last night's Gun Thread, don't joke about that around Mark Andrew Edwards. you've been warned.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18,

Chill. It's from a song. See James McMurtry.

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 18, 2019 08:03 PM (uDh3k)

195 190 Starting with no centralized leadership to target. Going after banks
and other monetary functions. They have to get that oil out of the
refinery so I picture some pipeline bombings in the near future.
***

Honestly the answer to dealing with the likes of Iran's leadership is random acts of violence against those in it by the normies in Iran.

Peaceful protest ain't gonna cut it.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (WdocV)

Iran has ZERO refining capability which is rather ironic in the extreme. Blockade and or sabotage their single refinery and they crumble like a wet biryani.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2019 08:03 PM (zBaqJ)

196 Well... his family were certainly Zoroastrians. I don't think Freddy was interested in it. I once read a biography of him. Took about 90 minutes from cover to cover. There's a full-size statue of him in Switzerland, btw.
Posted by: mnw at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (Cssks)

Thanks mnw! I always liked the guy even though Queen was a little odd for my tastes.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 18, 2019 08:04 PM (Z+IKu)

197 OMG I wish this was a joke. No wonder people think people from my state are rednecks. No words!

https://preview.tinyurl.com/t99h82c

Posted by: Molly k. at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (SN/FM)

Every single state has its rednecks. However, that slogan is hilarious.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 08:04 PM (ptqGC)

198 183 169: I'm surprised the FNM are not already castigating Trump for causing this violence in Iran by ending Barky's deal with the mad Mullahs.
Posted by: paleRider is simply irredeemable at November 18, 2019 08:01 PM (eASYU)

They're truly stupid if that's what they think.

The people of Iran are at the point of literally Burning It Down because their so-called "government" sucks so hard. Barky props them up. Trump weakens them. And *Trump* is the bad guy?

Bloody Nora. They're too damn stupid to actually call it chutzpah.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 18, 2019 08:04 PM (Ct55T)

199 even the IAEA, usually useless except as an intel lever, has been noting "problems" with Iranian activity.

Strong letter to follow.

Posted by: pep at November 18, 2019 08:04 PM (T6t7i)

200
187
I have heard that supposedly some Iranians want to set fire to their one and only oil refinery. That would definitely muss the mullahs' hair for sure.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (zBaqJ)

----

In view of the fact that the Iranian government is so inept that they import almost all of their gasoline, and Trump's sanctions are interfering with that, I'd say so.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (Xs85z)

201 They're called Canadians.
Posted by: DR.WTF at November 18, 2019 07:57 PM (aS1PU)

No. They ain't.

A certain group loves authority. And they love showing authority how much they love it. They love telling authority whenever others don't follow authority.

It is most certainly not a Canadian thing.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (180Hg)

202
No boots on the ground.

***

This is actually a core point. With the smart use of black ops and air power the need for boots on the ground should be rare.

If we need to assassinate foreign leaders or level foreign cities to save American lives I'm on board.

And if it is too "icky" to assassinate and bomb it is too icky to see a bunch of American kids come home in body bags as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (WdocV)

203 Good thing Obama gave them all those billions.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (r+sAi)

204 I need to go to bed and elevate my foot, but I hate typing on my phone with the heat of a million suns.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (ptqGC)

205 https://www.thediplomad.com/
Impeachment Hearings : Ego and the Ambassador, and a Mistake by the President
Besides always a good read, even better than most.

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (ZCEU2)

206 These family squabbles are always blown out of proportion by the media. A couple of puffs on the hookah, a swapped wife, the gift of a goat, and everything be right by Allah.

Posted by: Fritz at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (wo3c/)

207 Burn baby burn, disco inferno

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 18, 2019 08:06 PM (M+Lyo)

208 Good thing Obama gave them all those billions.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (r+sAi)

We seem to be getting our money's worth, right?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 08:06 PM (ptqGC)

209 We do a GREAT disservice to protesters, some of whom carry the U.S. flag, if we encourage them to believe that 101st Airborne will soon drop in & save them.

Posted by: mnw at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (Cssks)

If you don't care enough about your own country to fight and possibly die for it, why should our country do your job for you?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 08:06 PM (BiNEL)

210 Inflation in Iran is also out of control (over 50% on the official exchange rate and probably way higher on the ground). So over and above the government changing prices they fixed, everything else is more expensive too. Except the value of their petroleum... that value has not increased at all so hug a fracker if you see one.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 18, 2019 08:06 PM (imSgd)

211 If you don't care enough about your own country to fight and possibly die for it, why should our country do your job for you?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 08:06 PM (BiNEL)

THIS. They need to watch The Patriot on a loop.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 08:07 PM (ptqGC)

212 Good thing Obama gave them all those billions.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (r+sAi)

Barry O: It's almost as if I was working against the best interests of this country and trying my damnedest to destroy it at every turn

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 18, 2019 08:07 PM (o3WRR)

213 185 Over 100 so I'm going there...........

OMG I wish this was a joke. No wonder people think people from my state are rednecks. No words!

https://preview.tinyurl.com/t99h82c
Posted by: Molly k. at November 18, 2019 08:02 PM (SN/FM)

Crazy like a fox. For a bit under $449k spending, your Governor got about $10 million in free advertising.

With a disaster like drug deaths, there is no bad publicity. Getting eyeballs focused on the problem is the first step to solving it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2019 08:08 PM (sy5kK)

214 David French is a sad fuckin' parody of a man.

That homunculus isn't fit to shine VDH's boots.

He ought to be groveling and begging forgiveness for his impudence.

What a joke he is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 18, 2019 08:08 PM (IOAjO)

215 This is the kind of stuff the CIA should have planned and ready to go when the President asks for it.

If President Khameni asks, they're ready.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at November 18, 2019 08:08 PM (Ndje9)

216
THIS. They need to watch The Patriot on a loop.
***

I'm amused at the hate the left has for that movie.

No the history isn't 100% right...which the left doesn't care about in every other "historical" movie they make...but I think the original patriots would see them in the movie.

Every independence day I toast my liberal friends with "to shooting people trying to bring you commonsense gun control!"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2019 08:09 PM (WdocV)

217 2OO KIA, 3K+ wounded, per Iran's own interior ministry.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2019 08:09 PM (QDnY+)

218 "Meth, We're On It"

well, she got a lot of attention with the ad, and surely it was intentional, to have the double meaning. You can't overcome a problem till you admit you HAVE a problem ...

not that bad an idea, to phrase it so bluntly ... imo.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 18, 2019 08:09 PM (Cus5s)

219 Seems to me the best case we might expect in Iran is that the govt might have to recall some of its military from Lebanon & Iraq at some point... & even that's probably wishful thinking.

Posted by: mnw at November 18, 2019 08:09 PM (Cssks)

220 I need to go to bed and elevate my foot, but I hate typing on my phone with the heat of a million suns.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (ptqGC)

Bluetooth keyboard, you can thank me later!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 08:10 PM (BiNEL)

221 French, Goldberg, etc and their ilk controlled the right for almost 20 years.

And failed at EVERYTHING.

And yet they don't apologize let alone stop trumpeting their own virtue

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2019 08:10 PM (WdocV)

222 204 I need to go to bed and elevate my foot, but I hate typing on my phone with the heat of a million suns.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 08:05 PM (ptqGC)

get an iPad or a clone, they make surfing on the horizontal much easier than a phone.

get one with the phone option, and you can answer and make calls, too.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2019 08:10 PM (sy5kK)

223 NOOD

#TwoWeeks

Posted by: Max Power at November 18, 2019 08:10 PM (q177U)

224 Bluetooth keyboard, you can thank me later!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 18, 2019 08:10 PM (BiNEL)

Meh. I hate being in bed. Period.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 08:11 PM (ptqGC)

225 PDT knew where he wanted this to go without the input of the CIA. He doesn't need them and doesn't want them.

PDT is putting enough pressure on the M/M twins and that is more than the CIA could ever do.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2019 08:12 PM (SCnqN)

226 Kind of elegant, in a dumb thuggish way -

Lots of Iranian $, and muscle, being used by proxies in Iraq in their attempt to [likely, unsuccessfully] maintain their grip there. Now, Arabic-speaking thugs from Iraq being bused into Arab Khuzestan [southwest Iran] to return the favor.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2019 08:12 PM (QDnY+)

227 215
This is the kind of stuff the CIA should have planned and ready to go when the President asks for it.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at November 18, 2019 08:08 PM (Ndje9)

They're too busy working to bring down our President.

Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2019 08:13 PM (7CmMD)

228 I saw Burning Mullahs open for Blue Oyster Cult at the Forum in '76

Posted by: Builder Berg at November 18, 2019 08:13 PM (+Yu7u)

229 Meh. I hate being in bed. Period.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 18, 2019 08:11 PM (ptqGC)

*hangs head*

Posted by: Mr. Doh at November 18, 2019 08:13 PM (180Hg)

230 210 red

There's a global oil glut. The value of Iran's oil has gone DOWN. Worse than merely stagnant.

Anyone who owns ANY stock that has the words "oil" or "gas" connected to it has had their adz handed to them all year.

Posted by: mnw at November 18, 2019 08:15 PM (Cssks)

231 Because he sucked contrary to the subsequent Camelot myth.
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 18, 2019 07:39 PM (2DOZq)

This is true.

He was a Celtic affirmative action candidate. With performance to match.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2019 09:00 PM (wpPM0)

232 Freedom's just another word
For nothing left to lose.

You betcha, sweetheart. Tell it to these folks.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at November 18, 2019 09:02 PM (17+9D)

233 I remember the Iranians from back in 1979.

They're getting what they deserve, good and hard.

To hell with all of them.

Posted by: Patrick C Carroll at November 18, 2019 09:31 PM (2D4Ga)

234 77 53 And if we had a CIA that was more concerned with America's national interest and freedom in the world than they are in executing a coup against a sitting President, we'd be getting all kinds of covert aid to the protesters.

But, sadly . . .
Posted by: filbert at November 18, 2019 07:31 PM (NiXyF)

I'm way out of fucks to give for any country until we seal and secure our borders, deport all invaders, stop all immigration, end anchor babies, and invest in healing our country for a generation or 2.
And promise to nuke the capital of anyone whose people attack us.

Posted by: Bookdoc at November 18, 2019 09:32 PM (PzBTm)

235 Oh, and Jonah Goldberg sucks donkey dick.

Posted by: Patrick C Carroll at November 18, 2019 09:33 PM (2D4Ga)

236 To completion. With great joy.

Posted by: Patrick C Carroll at November 18, 2019 09:34 PM (2D4Ga)

237 That vid of burning building is not of Iran's Central Bank, the Central Bank is a glass and steel high-rise.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 18, 2019 10:01 PM (0lZF/)

238 Some insight into why this is happening now -- It starts with Iraq, and is related to the article Ace previously linked. For years, Iran has been funneling money from Iraq's central bank (CBI) through their currency auctions. These auctions sell Iraqi dinar for US dollars and other currencies, and the CBI earnings are intended to build bank reserves and fund government projects. A huge stream of this income was illegally diverted to Iran and the corrupt Iraqi politicians who were in cahoots with them. The Iraqi people got wise to this and saw the political class living comfortably while Iraqi unemployment was 30%, so they revolted. Now, since the US Treasury and IMF have invested the past 15 years guiding Iraq to open its market and fly solo, Trump relocated military resources from Syria to Baghdad. They are now protecting Iraqi citizens (no more sniping the past 48 hours) and the banks. With the US military, US Treasury, IMF, and UN all in Baghdad now, they have pressured Mahdi and the parliament to proceed with monetary reforms that have ended the CBI auctions and cut off Iran's last lifeline under sanctions. This is why fuel prices spiked, why the Iranian people are torching the banks. They know the racket, and they want to help the US suffocate the regime.

Posted by: Brisco_County_Sr at November 18, 2019 10:46 PM (DBPIP)

239 This is delicious.

Having sat in gas lines in 1979 when another feckless democrat let our people become hostages to the mullahs and then seeing carter's reincarnation in the form of obama sending pallets of cash to now see that country go through insurrection as a result of oil shortages is just too much.

Drill, baby, drill. Gotta love fracking and having a president with the stones to take it to those who don't have our best interests at heart.

Posted by: Sir lurks alot at November 19, 2019 01:23 AM (/Cday)

240 They know the racket, and they want to help the US suffocate the regime.

I have not heard or read of any of this until now.

But we will get wall-to-wall coverage of the Schiff-Show going on in Washington Theater.

I feel robbed having thousands of channels all broadcasting the same lame cartoon.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy
Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. at November 19, 2019 06:50 AM (lD3vL)

241 Every independence day I toast my liberal friends with "to shooting people trying to bring you commonsense gun control!"

I still hate the Left for hijacking the title of the most anti-Left document out there Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and converting it into a pro Marxism trigger word.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy
Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. at November 19, 2019 06:56 AM (lD3vL)

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