Mother Russia Talks Trash – Truthfully
His name is Stanislav Mishin, and he’s making a lot of sense in a news outlet not known for making much of that over the course of its history.
You’ve heard of Pravda, right?
The official communications organ of the communist party from 1912-1991, Pravda has since been sold and splintered to the point of non-recognition. The paper’s current online edition still bears the famous name and spouts plenty of the same nationalist zeal – albeit in a more tabloid-style tone.
From Mishin’s piece in Pravda:
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American de(s)cent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people …
… The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
Sheeple?
While he’s clearly got some issues with the native tongue, we gotta hand this guy some style points … too bad he wasn’t around to pimp Yuri Gagarin.
Anyway, the point is this … in less than two decades we’ve gone from a communist Pravda railing against the capitalist pigs in America to a capitalist Pravda railing against Amerika’s “descent into Marxism.”
The script, it would appear, has truly been flipped.
Comments
By cecil on May 18th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
The man’s right. Our glorious leaders in Washington have borrowed more in the last 100 days than all previous administrations in the history of our republic.
Downright frightful.
By ts on May 18th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
And the libs mocked Gov. Sanford for telling us exactly this:
Barack Obama’s fiscal policy for the US = Zimbabwe economy on the half-shell
By Pat Hendrix on May 18th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Cecil,
I’m no expert, but I’m fairly certian you need a class in elementary math. Our account deficit for the year is 1.8 trillion. Yes, an enormous and unsustainable number, a fact readily conceded by the current occupant of the White House, but the account deficit was 11 trillion when Obama took office. That’s considerably more than 1.8 trillion.
Besides, a one time stimulus and TARP bailout – which happened during the last administration and was passed to the current one – pales in comparison to future entitlement outlays. Fix that and 1.8 trillion will be a blip. There will be a grand entitlement reform in next four years. Count on it.
By roofus on May 18th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Isn’t it interesting that, in the midst of two wars, the only budget that is axed is defence spending by Obama?
By Pat Hendrix on May 19th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Hey roofus, why can’t conservatives count?
The military budget for fiscal year 2010 is $527 billion – an 8 percent increase from the 487.7 billion allocated in 2009. That’s the kind of “axe” most government agencies would like.
And ts, it’s really no surprise that Sanford sees the economy through the prism of Zimbabwe. Afterall, look at the third-world status of SC’s economy.
But to be fair, Obama did nationalize then banks and hand them to his supporters – just Zimbabwe. He also dispatched thousands of Obama-PF hit squads into the mid-west to take over farms and kill McCain supporters. And with the introduction of the stimulus package, our inflation rate is bound to be 89.6 sextillion, just like Zimbabwe.
Flawless analogy.
By roofus on May 19th, 2009 at 9:43 am
According to the Washington Post, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ya know, those guys with olive-green jackets and tacky military metals appended to their chests, requested $584 billion dollars for the 2010 fiscal military budget.
Obama has apportioned a meager $527 million, $57 billion LESS than requested by the military experts who are actually doing the war planning.
Vital programs like the F22 raptor and tanker planes were cut, inevitably compromising our nation’s security and defence capabilities.
Isn’t it nice to know that our guys are flying around in 60 year old planes?
At least the CRIMINAL organization known as ACORN received 5 billion to commit more voting fraud…
By Pat Hendrix on May 19th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Roofus,
Again, the budget was increased by 8 percent. Then consider this fact: We currently spend more on the military than every country in the world combined. What in the hell are talking about?
But I give you credit for shoehorning in ACORN on a discussion of defense spending. Predictably, your numbers are completely bogus.
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_the_stimulus_bill_include_a_52.html
Seriously, I didn’t know somebody could be right less often than a broken clock, but you’re living proof.
By roofus on May 19th, 2009 at 11:19 am
US defence spending as a proportion of GDP continues to slide since the 1960’s…
No one really knows what China spends on defence as China notoriously deflates their published defence spending… Besides, their currency is masterfully manipulated by their government so we’re comparing apples to bannanas by guestimating their military expenditures… (but dont’ fret, soon China will be making cars for GM sold to the US–thanky Obama for driving another manufacturing industry to another country!)
It’s important to note that a majority of our defence budget is spent on troop health care and benefits, not on weapons symptoms.
It sure would be nice to know that our guys weren’t flying 60-year-old birds. Then again, Hamas controlled Gaza got over $600 million from our dear Washington leader…
Incidentally, your factcheck.org and snopes have been linked to actist political causes and therefore are not without some subjectivity.