By adamg on Sun., 10/13/2024 - 5:29 pm
A correspondent forwards this video of some Trump supporters in Brookline's Coolidge Corner today, waving, among other things, the flag Iran used until the Shah was overthrown in 1979, as the Orange One blares about how he'll ban vaccinations in schools and suppress transgender athletes, in one of the places least likely to vote for him - in 2020, Biden defeated tfg 87-11 in Brookline.
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In my hometown in Long Island
By anon
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 5:45pm
In my hometown in Long Island there are a large number of emigres who left Iran when the Shah was deposed and also are vehement supporters of the orange one, though I have not heard of actual public demonstrations of this kind.
“Ahhh jeeezz.†-Archie
By Frelmont
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 6:08pm
“Ahhh jeeezz.†-Archie (Shoebootie) Bunker
Having said that…..as an exercise of the imagination… what would have happened had the Shaw had not been overthrown (and the revolution not usurped by the totalitarian theocracy) and there was a stable successor in his mold? Like, for instance would there had been a greater degree of equality and universal suffrage by now, or is history ill-satisfied with a revolution, but is conspiring towards a great reformation?
I don’t know. If we can muster the fortitude to stand up to Putin’s nuclear blackmail and give Ukraine stand off weaponry to restore their borders and don’t abandon Israel to be “Coalition of the One†against the Iranian axis…then! then! we may have a future where there is no nuclear saber-rattling. And, who knows, people just may one day breathe free in Iran and elsewhere.
Please UHub Overlord, give us Refugly back.
By Lee
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 6:57pm
I’ll even put up with Magoo and John Boy Costello. Anything …..
It’s like an Energizer Bunny of a three year old asking why why why ad infinitum.
Comment of 2024
By Friartuck
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 7:05pm
You got this!
Why do you care Lee?
By Frelmont
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 7:11pm
Why do you care? I’m just “the man on the street.†Isn’t this a marketplace of ideas?
Lol.
By Lee
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 7:24pm
Why do you ask?
Good point.
By Frelmont
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 12:49pm
Good point. Why is “why†the last of the five w’s?
Lee, I may have misinterpreted your comment as a request for Adam to give me the boot.
P.s., Why [I]do[/I] I ask is a good question. Thank you for the spur to self-examination.
Really wish the Shaw was
By steve_ce
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 7:15pm
Really wish the Shaw was overthrown. Was always a big Star Market fan.
It wasn't that great for
By Don't Panic
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 5:57am
It wasn't that great for women in Iran when the Shah was in power. Way better than Sharia Law as practiced by the Ayatollahs but no where near US Women's Lib level freedoms.
Not sure they would venture
By anon
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 9:47pm
Not sure they would venture out of their impressive residences to help the homeless, try petting a dog, or living in my high drama criminal activity neck of the concrete Sorry. cannot relate to the problems of those with cash flow, nice real estate, designer handbags, and a culture that does not believe that women are nothing but baby making machines with no civil rights
And better that they just stand around waving stupid Trump flags
By adamg
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 10:23pm
Than what's now going on in North Carolina:
Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia,’ email shows
That's MA Republicans for you
By lbb
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 9:42am
As with Republicans everywhere, there's a wide streak of low-information, lead-chip-eating, irrelevant and hating it losers whose greatest pleasure in life is "owning the libs", by which they mean showing up and acting provocative and imagining that they seriously disrupted someone's day. The MA bunch particularly like showing up in the most liberal areas for these little stunts. They are happiest when they are making life worse for others, and this scratches their itch with little effort and zero risk.
Notice the Israeli flags
By necturus
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 11:32am
There seems to be some idea that the Israelis are about to overthrow the Islamic Republic and restore Iran's monarchy. The Shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, lives in Egypt and aspires to reclaim his father's throne.
Netanyahu said "Iran will be free soon"
By deselby
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 2:54pm
last week.
So Iran royalist flags and Israeli flags have been going together in demonstrations lately.
since they're getting ready to bomb Iran.
Really?
By lbb
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 3:46pm
Isn't he getting a little long in the tooth?
King Charles III was 73 years
By Don't Panic
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:47am
King Charles III was 73 years old when he became the ruling monarch of England. Age has nothing to do with it @Ibb.
According to Wikipedia
By necturus
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 8:29am
...he's 64 years old.
I appear to be mistaken, however, about his place of residence. Wikipedia says he lives in Virginia not Egypt.
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