It makes me sick to my stomach how brainwashed the “Activists” are. Majority are bought and paid for shills. But I’m glad we see them on the streets so we don’t have any illusions about who they are and what they’re up to. Let them scream, they’re demonstrating their own ignorance, stupidity and hypocrisy.
Though as Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, the Stupid among us are more dangerous than the evil ones.
Then there’s the Iranian group celebrating the possibility of freedom and the hope for the future to chart their own course. It’s a beautiful thing. After watching the March of the Shills it feels like being covered in mud then taking a nice hot shower watching the Iranians in their joy.
You have no actual evidence any of them are paid for but your lunatic mind has no problem being propagandized into believing it without needing evidence because YOU are the one who is brainwashed, not these anti-war activists who don’t want to see Americans dying for Jewish supremacist Israel.
There is plenty of evidence they’re paid. You’re being cognitively dissonant about it that’s all.
That aside here’s a response I gave to someone earlier. Do yourself a favor and get educated:
Iran is not Vietnam. And if you were educated in what’s actually happening you’d know this is actually about not shedding the precious blood of our youth in the future. This is solely about Iran and the greater ME only for Israel, but not for the US. For the US there is a much bigger picture.
For the US It’s about China primarily and Russia. Iran embedded itself with China and Russia allowing them all to move forward with their goals of destroying the West and replacing America as the world’s superpower. The war in Ukraine is propped up by Iran as a proxy to Russia and China. Iran supplies energy and arms and even a base for China in the port of Jask in Iran. Read Haviv Rettig Gurs excellent analysis here: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/this-isnt-israels-war-its-americas?r=kp9du&utm_medium=ios
So, so called “Activists” or the hired shills protesting this war are brainwashed, ignorant and useful tools for despots. Because if they were not so ignorant and brainwashed and actually did some research they’d know exactly why reigning in the snake that’s at the head of Iran’s IRGC and helping liberate Iranians to chart their own course is paramount to the West’s survival.
Clearly some of the activist don’t think that a universal good. But it is and their sorry asses will be saved too.
Linking the Jewish Supremacist Free Press to tell me how China caused us to go to war with Iran while calling other people unthinking paid shills is the funniest shit I’ve seen in a Racket comment section in a while.
Of course you are fine with that. No one is surprised, least of all Jews. Oldest hatred in the world. You’re in good company; Hitler, Nazis, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, racist Karl Marx. The list of those who loathe the most successful tiny nation in the world is long. Oh, yes, and all the terrorist supporting, keffiyeh wearing, Iranian flag flying paid “Protesters”.
One cannot get a word in edgewise there without crazed religious hyenas flinging shit on you -- and I'm not talking Muslims. There is an overwhelming gang-up factor, as you must know, that spreads out from somewhere and infects every alt blog I subscribe to. Hog-the-bullhorn is the nakedly obvious rule of the day. Zionists won't be worrying just about Muslim immigrants soon, they'll be mad about everything and everybody, and the hoary old antisemitism charge against all comers is wilting in the sun.
The effect is now wholesale backfiring, and I suspect that fact fuels their rage and paranoia.
Glenn Greenwald has a white hot hate towards Israel. I love him, but I had to finally unsubscribe after two years of the exact post day after day, quoting Hamas, etc.
I'm saying that I found it impossible to have a sober, good-faith discussion about Israel and Zionism in The 'Free' Press. It's almost as if the correctness of conclusions is pre-ordained, rather than with an attitude to *discovery*, so that one aims to learn accurately why a non-psychopath/non-idiot could possibly think differently about the subject.
You know, something like the way MSM journalism was apparently conducted in its 20th-century heyday. Or the way Right and Left used to talk to each other in the US (e.g. Reagan and Tip O'Neil), leaving less need for Alts. Or the difference between diplomacy and, well... war. Hmm.
Listen to yourself, again asserting without a shred of evidence and CONTRARY to Racket’s OWN REPORTING that these protesters are NOT paid.
You can’t offer any evidence at all that it’s actually true, so instead you bring up reports that are totally irrelevant to proving the actual claim you made. Because you can’t prove it, you can’t even offer the most basic evidence that any of these protesters are “paid shills.” Let alone the vast majority of them, which you claimed.
When pressed for evidence, you assert it’s true on its face and that anybody who disagrees is in denial.
These are the words of a brainwashed idiot trying to convince others that *they* are the ones who don’t think for themselves. It’s so stupid it hurts. But more than stupid, it’s arrogant and self-assured. Fueled by jingoism, a false sense of patriotism, and a media diet that feeds you shit you want to hear.
Zero. Evidence. Ford Fischer himself reported this last time in Minneapolis, no paid protesters. Then people like you called him a shill for failing to report the collective fantasy you toddlers believe in because Fox News told you so.
Oh my goodness, truth hurts obviously. But for your own sake calm down. Or not, up to you. Maybe have a cup of tea or go for a walk. Or carry on hurling the insults, which is I’d hazard a guess what you’ll do. You’re mad and you’re wrong.
Good grief. Those videos show one paid organizer/manager at protests with hundreds of people. Just because the organizer/manager is getting paid does not mean the protesters are being paid yet right wingers believe it must be true because how could anyone have liberal beliefs unless they’re being paid.
None of what you linked even attempts to provide evidence that the majority of the people protesting are paid, which is what you claimed.
You don’t seem to understand that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Linking a video that shows one person who works for a non-profit and gets paid to organize, a totally legitimate and legal activity, doesn’t mean the people who THEY end up organizing to protest are also paid, which is what you’re claiming when you say that the majority are paid protesters.
Do you have any actual receipts? Do they get 1040’s or 1099’s? Where does one apply for a job as a paid protester? If such things exist there would be evidence of it, so show me. And no, I refuse to watch any YouTube videos on the subject. Show me primary source documents.
Hahahaha! Look at you all foot stamping and demanding. Nah, I know you. You’re a very typical Leftist, nothing changes your made-up subjective mind on any subject. I’d be wasting my precious time. Besides it’s quite likely you already know where to apply.
Yes and I gave it earlier but the Lefties didn’t like it. Just like you they’re impervious to facts. So given that, I respectfully suggest you take a hike. Hikes being beneficial for your mental and physical health.
These aren't "anti-war activists." They're anti-Israel activists.
And they're so narrowly focused on Israel that they're blind to the fact that the risk of nuclear war -- a war that would negatively impact everyone on the planet, Americans included -- goes up astronomically if Iran were to develop a nuclear weapon.
Why? Because sooner or later, one of them would use nuclear weapons on the other.
You mean the neo conservative Iranian diaspora dumbasses who support an unjust illegal War?? that makes you feel like you took a shower when you see them.... 😆
In continuing to be outraged by everything Trump says or does, the left embarrasses itself again; it should never, ever again be allowed to proclaim that it stands for the politically oppressed outside our borders.
In ignoring his betrayal on this core belief and promise, Trump supporters allow themselves to look like people without any personal principles, only a belief in one person.
Ah, I have a close friend who is an officer in US intelligence and has been deeply involved in Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs for decades.
Believe me, when he - - not a person who cares much for Trump - - says this action is "spot on," I believe it. I thought so, anyway, before he offered that opinion.
You miss the point that we look to people who know what we as ordinary citizens don't know to tell us when action is advisable.
I would hate to think that any president, having said he or she was anti-war, would then stand idly by as an enemy put the final pieces in their ultimate strategy to destroy other nations.
This is not "twisting oneself into knots." This is not being a dumbass.
Respectfully, I think most Trump supporters understand that America first includes protecting America and Americans from the results of a nuclear war between Iran and Israel. And as for personal principles, non-proliferation is clearly the high road here.
Some neocon faction now appears to be recruiting Iranian ex-pats to push the deposed Shah's son to jockeying his way into power. I think a majority of the Iranians themselves are not so stupid to believe any effort to replacing the current killer regime with the scion of (with even the appearance of) a *prior* killer regime need not be looked at with extreme suspicion.
After all, it was the *US-installed* Shah's regime which catalyzed religious zealots to succeed in their 1979 takeover. History didn't start 47 years ago, but that's of course what the warmongers are pushing. The neocons are, once again, laughing in our faces.
We hear all the time out of groups like these when it comes to military Budget that the money could have been used for school meals.
Low income housing, free education, Healthcare. Ending poverty is a good one!
Yet since 1969 when a Texas Democrat Racist who was president named Lyndon Baines Johnson started his "GREAT SOCIETY" initiative designed to end all the ailments of poverty.
There's been around a total of 8+ trillion spent and hasn't ended it !
As a matter of fact it's provided a healthy lifestyle for those who are the CEOs and board members of all those NGOs that receive all that money for false government funded Altruism.
And people wonder how so many can show up in DC to protest so quickly and who are they!?
Well look at how many Colleges and Universities, and Junior College's there are Along the East Coast that can arrive in DC by Train within 3 hours.
Those institutions of "HIGHER LEARNING" are mainly just training centers for activism .
The Majority don't attend to learn how to develop a cure for Cancer, or maybe finally find Atlantis, or engineer something new !
Nope it's all about "ACTIVISM" whether it be for some endangered tick . Or because some dictator and it's horrible regime who violates the basics human rights of its population or the population of those in surrounding countries.
No the dictatorial regimes are the victims.
Not the people that they harm .
And I know someone will counter and say well if we'd have Left them alone 50 years ago we wouldn't be dealing with it now .
The same could be said for their end of the pole as well.
Yes ! For the first few years it was, mostly because it wasn't as hard for doctors to receive the remittances from the government and fraud wasn't as big of a problem at the time.
But you're comparing how things were back then to how things are now . At that time there weren't as many seniors and low income drawing off of it as there are now . Back then one didn't have to have any insurance coverage to se a local doctor, a family could make payments to them . But do to a couple factors like Malpractice insurance etc the requirement for coverage for office visits was required more and more .
And with the allowance of older foreign born elderly onto it that haven't paid into it . Etc , along with the amount of personnel that is required to run both state and Federal agencies that takes a good chunk of the funding as well. However since the passage of the ACA more and more Doctors are no longer accepting government plans . Why ?! Because the government red tape in payment . And government wants them to accept amount that doesn't even meet the minimum cost of the visit. Even still though the promise of the Great society has never been met and can never be met .
Hahahaha! I love how you on the Left use “Zionist” as a pejorative. Unbelievably ignorant when you consider the ancient land of Israel is Zion, a name given to it by God. So call me Zionist all day long, go right ahead.
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Nothing. They’re a Leftist/Marxist/Islamist coalition. Their sole purpose is to brainwash, cause chaos, sew division, and use violence against others they deem not conforming to their poisonous ideologies. This is their playbook and it’s not new. It never ends well.
Interesting perspective, especially since the brainwashing that has occurred is among the Trump supporters who loved him for "No new wars of choice!" but who are now totally defending a war of choice. And the violence being used isn't by protesters, it's the bombs being dropped and the missiles being fired.
No one wants war. In life the right thing to do is almost always the hardest thing to do.
I really don’t care what you think, but I feel the world is a more human and compassionate place when we don’t ignore thousands of innocent people being executed before our eyes. For years we’ve just shrugged and looked away, it didn’t serve our purposes. But once Iran embedded with Russia and China, all bets were off. So we finally did the right thing, but for many different reasons.
Sickeningly the same people who ignored Iranians being brutalized and murdered were “protesting” and screaming on the streets in support of terrorists who raped, murdered and kidnapped and tortured men, women and children. So spare me your feigned concern because their worldview is what you’re defending and bloviating about.
Inevitably for better or worse there will be a superpower in the world. Choose who you want it to be while you still can.
Hopefully if they choose wisely, those who sit around bleating will have their asses saved too.
By the way, violence is violence. The protestors are violent and so is war. War may be justified, violent protest never.
Look back 13 years ago to his comments regarding Iran...it's making the rounds...look at the big picture at what is actually going on...it's not just about Iran...
I don't know what traditional hours are, really. I had three different careers. In two, I rarely had weekends off and had to respond to certain events whenever they occurred. In the third and last, I was on call 24/7/365 as a systems analyst. With what little time I could call my own - - even if for a few minutes during the day - - I did whatever I damned well pleased.
The contrast between supporters of the war and its detractors is telling. Knowing their country, their people and the Theo-kleptocracy running Iran, Persians worldwide are enjoying unadulterated celebration. The naysayers are our professional protesters from organizations like BLM, Antifa, Code Pink, etc. who could barely find Iran on a map. Yawn.
The Persians in Iran have been cheering as well, at least until the Basij shoot them or haul them off to be tortured. Your comment is so misinformed it doesn’t merit a serious response.
Remember people like Dolgin only yesterday learned their new pet slurs, “Goyslave” is one of them. Probably got them from Candace or Fuentes, Kasparian perhaps.
I’m not sure how much there is to learn from seeing another protest. They’re all pretty much the same. The only notable thing is that they are always left wing without a right wing analog. The other thing is the strong suspicion that they are organized and funded at least in part by individuals, organizations, and possibly other nations that don’t have American interests at heart. But of course nothing will be done about that.
"I’m not sure how much there is to learn from seeing another protest."
On a visceral level, they demonstrate at least the level of will that is rising, constantly appearing, day after day, month after month. They show that there's plenty to learn about the opposition to the decades-long series of wars US/Israel have taken to conquer the Middle East.
Completely deranged lunatics in the comments on Racket insisting, without a shred of evidence and CONTRARY to reports from Racket News itself, that these protesters are paid to protest.
This is a claim repeated without even a fleeting requirement for any factual substantiation. It’s simply asserted without evidence and if you disagree, YOU’RE PAID TOO!
This is a kind of low IQ mental illness that many saw in Democrats when it came to their beliefs about everybody being white supremacists or secret Nazis. No evidence required, simply slap the label on and continue to drool like a retard, most importantly, lumping in ANYBODY who dares demand evidence as also being white supremacist secret Nazis.
This kind of disgusting troglodyte behavior is what one expects from brainwashed lemmings with a tainted infotainment diet fed by propagandists, yet they are the first ones to consistently label other Americans expressing their own free speech as paid for and brainwashed.
It’s disgusting. Send your family to go fucking die for Israel. Then when you’re crying at their funeral I can tell you all the attendees are “paid” mourners.
You're wasting your time bringing this to Andrew's attention. Despite his repeated use of the word 'evidence' he has no respect whatsoever for evidence, to the extent of wilfully reinterpreting any evidence he unavoidable encounters (spontaneous expressions of joy in the streets, for example) as being something else entirely. It's comical, really. In the nineteenth century, religious dogmatists insisted fossilized shark teeth weren't evidence of ancient creatures (Earth was only six thousand years old, after all) but were the petrified tongues of snakes Saint Peter had turned to stone. Andrew's approach to evidence is in this tradition, which is why he has to dismiss everyone here as “brainwashed lemmings,” etc. He needs to believe this, since acknowledging the evidence otherwise would be incompatible with his narrative.
It's hilarious how in L.A. we saw expatriate Iranians celebrating in the streets and thanking Trump, while a few streets away activists were waving placards telling Trump “Hands off Iran!” Apparently, one additional TDS symptom is being unassailably convinced that you know better than victims of oppression themselves what's good for them.
These people protesting (not celebrating) are useful idiots. They are protesting everything and have no plan. Its frightening to think some of these dolts may be the leaders of tomorrow.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) operates as a primary hub for funding the Iranian diaspora's political and civil society efforts. While the NED rarely funds organizations that are explicitly and exclusively royalist in their mission (as its mandate is "democracy promotion" rather than "monarchy restoration"), it heavily funds the broader secular-democratic opposition, which is largely led by or aligned with individuals who support a role for the Pahlavi family in a future transition.
The following organizations and connections are the most prominent in the current (2026) landscape:
1. The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center (ABC)
The ABC is one of the most consistently NED-funded Iranian human rights organizations.
* Leadership: It was founded by sisters Ladan and Roya Boroumand. Their father, Abdorrahman Boroumand, was a top associate of Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Prime Minister under the Shah and a leader of the National Resistance Movement.
* Alignment: While the center focuses on human rights documentation (the "Omid" database), its leadership originates from the pre-1979 secular political elite. They advocate for a secular democracy that often overlaps with the "Constitutionalist" vision held by many royalists.
2. The Cyrus Forum (and former Tavaana leadership)
Mariam Memarsadeghi, a long-time and major recipient of NED and State Department funding through the e-learning platform Tavaana, now leads the Cyrus Forum.
* Royalist Ties: Memarsadeghi has been one of the most prominent voices in the U.S. advocating for a "secular-democratic transition" in which Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi plays a central, unifying role.
* Activism: She is highly active in the U.S. policy circuit (Washington D.C.), frequently bridging the gap between NED-funded "civil society" work and the more overtly political "regime change" circles favored by pro-Pahlavi activists.
3. National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI)
NUFDI is the most prominent pro-Pahlavi activist group currently operating in the United States. * Chains of Funding & Personnel: While the NED is often opaque about direct grants to political lobbying groups like NUFDI, there is a "revolving door" of personnel. For example, former NED grants officers and fellows often transition into senior roles or fellowships at NUFDI.
* Indirect Support: NUFDI frequently collaborates with NED-funded human rights groups (like HRANA/HRAI) to provide data for their U.S.-based advocacy and briefings to Congress.
4. International Republican Institute (Yes, GOP are the ones behind paid protesters)(IRI) & "Chain Funding"
The NED funnels a significant portion of its budget through its "core institutes," particularly the International Republican Institute (IRI).
* The Chain: NED -> IRI -> Iranian Diaspora Activists.
* Strategy: The IRI’s Iran programs have historically focused on "capacity building" for political parties and leadership. In the U.S. diaspora, this often translates into supporting activists and "young leaders" who are part of the Constitutionalist (Pro-Shah/Pahlavi) or Nationalist camps, as these groups are seen as the most organized secular alternatives to the current regime.
5. Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI / HRANA)
HRAI is a major U.S.-based (Fairfax, VA) organization that has received millions in NED funding (averaging $900,000+ annually in recent years). Its data is the primary "fuel" used by pro-royalist advocacy groups in the U.S. to lobby for sanctions and "maximum pressure" policies. The leadership and staff are deeply integrated into the same D.C. ecosystem as NUFDI and the Cyrus Forum.
I'm not suggesting I think they are paid (at least, not all of them) but it might help to leave your ideological bubble once in a while. These are just two examples of evidence, but there is plenty more if you bothered to look. Which you probably won't.
Yeah, well. In our rural county we now have a chapter of Indivisible (how grass roots!). Protesting because we have kings, pedos, pedo kings, and so on.
These people stand for nothing but unhappiness. And if Vance or Little Marco or anybody not their choice is elected* president next time, their unhappiness and resistance will carry on.
*Elections. They must be controlled.
These people are very dissatisfied with America. Wise the hell up about what they intend.
Which, as you probably know, was inspired by the 1979 Iranian revolution. It’s delicious irony that the “our democracy” feminists are oblivious to this fact.
Which becomes all the more interesting when you note that Atwood refuses to talk about that in the present day (at least in the 2025 interview I recently saw). She talks about her influences being Puritan history, Reagan's religious revival, Mormons, and anything but the Iranian revolution.... and seems to love the cosplay protests that have grown up in Handmaid's wake. As she put it to Dua Lipa (!), when filming the first season in 2016, they all woke up the day after the election of Donald Trump and realized (loved?) that the show would now be seen as a fight against ... him.
Embarrassing on her part, she should be ashamed. We need to back shame as a motivator. Our society needs it to right the ship. It’s a phenomenal novel all that aside. The TV show… not so much, and after they finished the plot of the novel it became downright unwatchable.
There is a remarkable difference in behavior between the bed wetting, green haired, pro-IRGC/Hamas/Palestine brats and those marching for Iranian independence from the mullahs and those wanting to be free of Hamas. The campus window lickers demand free food, cops out, destroy property and whine like 3 year olds when they're hauled away after blocking LEOs from doing their jobs. The Iranian independence/anti-Hamas protestors wave flags and say thanks to the cops.
Gosh, it's hard to figure out which side are the good guys.
Out of the 8 minute production barely one minute was of the Pro-Iranian freedom demo. You can see the professionally made signs of the anti-war protest as opposed to the mainly US and free, as in sun and lion, Iranian flags. I think I saw one Israeli flag.
Of course the issue most important with Ford Fischer is the anti-war group.
Palestinian flags abound as well as the Keffiyah. The last shot had the Islamic Republic of Iran flags prominently displayed.
Words cannot describe when the gasp went up with the announcement of the Ayatollahs death. A real cognitive dissonance or mental illness seems to have infected the brains of an already very troubled mass of far left fanatics. And of course they have absolutely no idea of their words, they are used to following out of hatred of a certain peoples or the usual white guilt that motivates them against a perceived racism chimera.
In short, as the fentanyl and tens of thousands of ODs sweep the nation, what better way is there to put the chant "death to America" into practice.
America first would mean stopping the terror state run by the Islamists who, through their proxy, Hezbollah, have run long standing crime and drug operations in latin America.
The leftist simpletons refuse to believe that their families are targeted daily, ruining American cities with drugs. It does not require an increased homocide rate to kill Americans.
The pathetic Obama administration sidelined investigation and prosecution of the Hezbollah cartels in order to slide his failed no nukes deal with the Iranian mullahs. Basically offering up our youth as a sacrifice to the Ayatollah.
And these pukes held pictures of him.
Getting rid of the 48 years rule of the 7th century savages can only bring a new light into the world. imo
Notice the right wing idiots asserting these are paid protesters never make this accusation against the equally, if not better, organized ethnic diasporas that constantly march in the streets as well. Not one of these shit brained morons calling the anti-war protesters “paid shills” EVER make that same accusation of the people protesting in support of the U.S. bombing their own country of origin.
This is not an oversight but a sign of a totally artificially constructed narrative that anti-war protesters are paid shills while diaspora ethnic groups who want America to bomb their home country are all just civic minded individuals expressing their right to speech without any influence at all, paid or otherwise. This is despite the fact that these diaspora protesters constantly organize as well or better than anti-war protesters and get funding from international non-governmental organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy.
Yeah, the same NED that Taibbi pretends to hate. Stunning how backwards the right wing has it.
It’s validating to know my opponents are low IQ and have no substantive response to any argument. It’s a blessing they reveal this consistently and publicly.
Actually, that is worth looking into, I agree. Now why don't you actually go look into the evidence (and there is a lot) that the pro-communist and pro-extreme Islam protests (okay, I suppose they are also anti-war) are paid for.
On Saturday, RevCom, DSA and ANSWER Intl' held the field on the front lawn of the state capitol. Over the past year they have gotten pretty disciplined. I'm recognizing cadres one from No Kings to the next. The crowd obediently parrots the call and answer slogans. They are learning to march crisply in formation. Actually rather impressive given the, er, rainbow nature of so many of the troops. Apparently the Denver Police Department has made an arrangement with them - they stay a block away and Antifa with safety vests divert traffic to make room for the march. A potpourri of radical signs and banners, lots of Mexican and Palestinian flags. Epstein and pedo accusations most common.
On Sunday, it was the local Iranian community. They were boisterous and happy. Lots and lots of kids running around and playing like cousins at a family reunion. (They were rolling down the gentle hill, just like I did back when ... ) There were speakers in both English and Farsi, but mostly singing along with songs. Lot's of Jewish people as well. Royal flags, American flags and Israeli flags. What I found especially moving was a line of photos purported to be victims of the regime in the last couple of weeks. The party wound down with a pastel Colorado sunset and everybody singing and dancing YMCA.
Forgive the sexist invocation of the male eye, but the Persian lasses were much prettier than the angry AWFLs.
Here in my rural Illinois county we have an Indivisible group. Uh, why? But they are outside village hall, in front of the courthouse, blah, blah, blah — No Kings! Whoop di do.
Apparently just being unhappy is a reason to do politics.
To all you people defending the protestors for Iran, propping up the mullahs, because you think you have a conscience and compassion. Pretty sure you’re same people who supported the protesters who took to our cities to support Hamas, murderous terrorists who raped and murdered with glee, videoing themselves doing it. You know who you are, you chanted “From the river to the sea” in your little keffiyehs. You spewed unquestioning the propaganda of the terrorists to bolster your “cause”.
Why were you silent about the execution of thousands on the streets of Iran?
You were silent because it’s not about conscience or compassion. It’s about hate. Your hate for Trump, for Jews, for the West, for police and all law enforcement, for Republicans, for the thriving family, for white men, for those against transitioning children, for Christians, for free speech, the list for your hate is long and poisonous.
So spare us all your outrage at the Iran war. You don’t care about Iran. You care only about destroying what you hate.
However we all know what these levels of hate do. They destroy the hater along with every thing else around us.
We can only hope and pray one day you will love more than you hate.
It makes me sick to my stomach how brainwashed the “Activists” are. Majority are bought and paid for shills. But I’m glad we see them on the streets so we don’t have any illusions about who they are and what they’re up to. Let them scream, they’re demonstrating their own ignorance, stupidity and hypocrisy.
Though as Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, the Stupid among us are more dangerous than the evil ones.
Then there’s the Iranian group celebrating the possibility of freedom and the hope for the future to chart their own course. It’s a beautiful thing. After watching the March of the Shills it feels like being covered in mud then taking a nice hot shower watching the Iranians in their joy.
You have no actual evidence any of them are paid for but your lunatic mind has no problem being propagandized into believing it without needing evidence because YOU are the one who is brainwashed, not these anti-war activists who don’t want to see Americans dying for Jewish supremacist Israel.
There is plenty of evidence they’re paid. You’re being cognitively dissonant about it that’s all.
That aside here’s a response I gave to someone earlier. Do yourself a favor and get educated:
Iran is not Vietnam. And if you were educated in what’s actually happening you’d know this is actually about not shedding the precious blood of our youth in the future. This is solely about Iran and the greater ME only for Israel, but not for the US. For the US there is a much bigger picture.
For the US It’s about China primarily and Russia. Iran embedded itself with China and Russia allowing them all to move forward with their goals of destroying the West and replacing America as the world’s superpower. The war in Ukraine is propped up by Iran as a proxy to Russia and China. Iran supplies energy and arms and even a base for China in the port of Jask in Iran. Read Haviv Rettig Gurs excellent analysis here: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/this-isnt-israels-war-its-americas?r=kp9du&utm_medium=ios
So, so called “Activists” or the hired shills protesting this war are brainwashed, ignorant and useful tools for despots. Because if they were not so ignorant and brainwashed and actually did some research they’d know exactly why reigning in the snake that’s at the head of Iran’s IRGC and helping liberate Iranians to chart their own course is paramount to the West’s survival.
Clearly some of the activist don’t think that a universal good. But it is and their sorry asses will be saved too.
Linking the Jewish Supremacist Free Press to tell me how China caused us to go to war with Iran while calling other people unthinking paid shills is the funniest shit I’ve seen in a Racket comment section in a while.
You’re anti semitic, there’s no help for you.
I’m America first and believe in human equality. You support a Jewish supremacist state bombing children.
If that makes me anti-Semitic, I’m quite fine with that.
Of course you are fine with that. No one is surprised, least of all Jews. Oldest hatred in the world. You’re in good company; Hitler, Nazis, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, racist Karl Marx. The list of those who loathe the most successful tiny nation in the world is long. Oh, yes, and all the terrorist supporting, keffiyeh wearing, Iranian flag flying paid “Protesters”.
"[The] Free Press"
One cannot get a word in edgewise there without crazed religious hyenas flinging shit on you -- and I'm not talking Muslims. There is an overwhelming gang-up factor, as you must know, that spreads out from somewhere and infects every alt blog I subscribe to. Hog-the-bullhorn is the nakedly obvious rule of the day. Zionists won't be worrying just about Muslim immigrants soon, they'll be mad about everything and everybody, and the hoary old antisemitism charge against all comers is wilting in the sun.
The effect is now wholesale backfiring, and I suspect that fact fuels their rage and paranoia.
A commenter over at Glenn Greenwald called them Ziocons, which I thought was pretty good. The Zionist Neocons.
Glenn Greenwald has a white hot hate towards Israel. I love him, but I had to finally unsubscribe after two years of the exact post day after day, quoting Hamas, etc.
"Crazed religious Hyenas" like Talarico and his supporters?
Hadn't been following that race, sorry.
I'm saying that I found it impossible to have a sober, good-faith discussion about Israel and Zionism in The 'Free' Press. It's almost as if the correctness of conclusions is pre-ordained, rather than with an attitude to *discovery*, so that one aims to learn accurately why a non-psychopath/non-idiot could possibly think differently about the subject.
You know, something like the way MSM journalism was apparently conducted in its 20th-century heyday. Or the way Right and Left used to talk to each other in the US (e.g. Reagan and Tip O'Neil), leaving less need for Alts. Or the difference between diplomacy and, well... war. Hmm.
Listen to yourself, again asserting without a shred of evidence and CONTRARY to Racket’s OWN REPORTING that these protesters are NOT paid.
You can’t offer any evidence at all that it’s actually true, so instead you bring up reports that are totally irrelevant to proving the actual claim you made. Because you can’t prove it, you can’t even offer the most basic evidence that any of these protesters are “paid shills.” Let alone the vast majority of them, which you claimed.
When pressed for evidence, you assert it’s true on its face and that anybody who disagrees is in denial.
These are the words of a brainwashed idiot trying to convince others that *they* are the ones who don’t think for themselves. It’s so stupid it hurts. But more than stupid, it’s arrogant and self-assured. Fueled by jingoism, a false sense of patriotism, and a media diet that feeds you shit you want to hear.
Zero. Evidence. Ford Fischer himself reported this last time in Minneapolis, no paid protesters. Then people like you called him a shill for failing to report the collective fantasy you toddlers believe in because Fox News told you so.
Oh my goodness, truth hurts obviously. But for your own sake calm down. Or not, up to you. Maybe have a cup of tea or go for a walk. Or carry on hurling the insults, which is I’d hazard a guess what you’ll do. You’re mad and you’re wrong.
https://youtu.be/2d7Fj-uHyDE
https://youtu.be/MJ7hQm3uYbU?si=0XeO7zAQzXEamcBQ
https://youtube.com/shorts/q5T5OHxRU0c?si=gm_4ksfa5fGrAJLo
That’s just a very few. Don’t want to overwhelm you.
Good grief. Those videos show one paid organizer/manager at protests with hundreds of people. Just because the organizer/manager is getting paid does not mean the protesters are being paid yet right wingers believe it must be true because how could anyone have liberal beliefs unless they’re being paid.
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
Jonathan Swift
None of what you linked even attempts to provide evidence that the majority of the people protesting are paid, which is what you claimed.
You don’t seem to understand that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Linking a video that shows one person who works for a non-profit and gets paid to organize, a totally legitimate and legal activity, doesn’t mean the people who THEY end up organizing to protest are also paid, which is what you’re claiming when you say that the majority are paid protesters.
There’s no evidence that is true.
I repeat, “It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
Jonathan Swift
Where's Walter Kirn when you need him?
anybody that can do simple keyword search
“paid protestor jobs”
can find hundreds of sites to make contact and get paid to protest.
Damn I guess all of media including Matt Taibbi and Racket News missed that.
we can just scroll down a few comments on here and find you yourself shrieking about paid protestors funded by ned.
Do you have any actual receipts? Do they get 1040’s or 1099’s? Where does one apply for a job as a paid protester? If such things exist there would be evidence of it, so show me. And no, I refuse to watch any YouTube videos on the subject. Show me primary source documents.
Hahahaha! Look at you all foot stamping and demanding. Nah, I know you. You’re a very typical Leftist, nothing changes your made-up subjective mind on any subject. I’d be wasting my precious time. Besides it’s quite likely you already know where to apply.
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So you don’t have any evidence to support your assertion
Yes and I gave it earlier but the Lefties didn’t like it. Just like you they’re impervious to facts. So given that, I respectfully suggest you take a hike. Hikes being beneficial for your mental and physical health.
Thank you.This Racket piece is disembodied-as to what is at play.
These aren't "anti-war activists." They're anti-Israel activists.
And they're so narrowly focused on Israel that they're blind to the fact that the risk of nuclear war -- a war that would negatively impact everyone on the planet, Americans included -- goes up astronomically if Iran were to develop a nuclear weapon.
Why? Because sooner or later, one of them would use nuclear weapons on the other.
And you can't get anymore "pro-war" than that.
You made a good point and then couldn't stop yourself from pointing at the Jooos.
Comrade Dolgin, Americans don't really like antisemitism.
You mean the neo conservative Iranian diaspora dumbasses who support an unjust illegal War?? that makes you feel like you took a shower when you see them.... 😆
In continuing to be outraged by everything Trump says or does, the left embarrasses itself again; it should never, ever again be allowed to proclaim that it stands for the politically oppressed outside our borders.
In ignoring his betrayal on this core belief and promise, Trump supporters allow themselves to look like people without any personal principles, only a belief in one person.
Ah, I have a close friend who is an officer in US intelligence and has been deeply involved in Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs for decades.
Believe me, when he - - not a person who cares much for Trump - - says this action is "spot on," I believe it. I thought so, anyway, before he offered that opinion.
So what? You know a guy. Great.
Doesn’t address my point of all the people twisting themselves into knots trying to justify Trump breaking a significant promise.
You miss the point that we look to people who know what we as ordinary citizens don't know to tell us when action is advisable.
I would hate to think that any president, having said he or she was anti-war, would then stand idly by as an enemy put the final pieces in their ultimate strategy to destroy other nations.
This is not "twisting oneself into knots." This is not being a dumbass.
Respectfully, I think most Trump supporters understand that America first includes protecting America and Americans from the results of a nuclear war between Iran and Israel. And as for personal principles, non-proliferation is clearly the high road here.
No. Nice try brainwashed.
What makes the war illegal?
Some neocon faction now appears to be recruiting Iranian ex-pats to push the deposed Shah's son to jockeying his way into power. I think a majority of the Iranians themselves are not so stupid to believe any effort to replacing the current killer regime with the scion of (with even the appearance of) a *prior* killer regime need not be looked at with extreme suspicion.
After all, it was the *US-installed* Shah's regime which catalyzed religious zealots to succeed in their 1979 takeover. History didn't start 47 years ago, but that's of course what the warmongers are pushing. The neocons are, once again, laughing in our faces.
It's amazing isn't it!
We hear all the time out of groups like these when it comes to military Budget that the money could have been used for school meals.
Low income housing, free education, Healthcare. Ending poverty is a good one!
Yet since 1969 when a Texas Democrat Racist who was president named Lyndon Baines Johnson started his "GREAT SOCIETY" initiative designed to end all the ailments of poverty.
There's been around a total of 8+ trillion spent and hasn't ended it !
As a matter of fact it's provided a healthy lifestyle for those who are the CEOs and board members of all those NGOs that receive all that money for false government funded Altruism.
And people wonder how so many can show up in DC to protest so quickly and who are they!?
Well look at how many Colleges and Universities, and Junior College's there are Along the East Coast that can arrive in DC by Train within 3 hours.
Those institutions of "HIGHER LEARNING" are mainly just training centers for activism .
The Majority don't attend to learn how to develop a cure for Cancer, or maybe finally find Atlantis, or engineer something new !
Nope it's all about "ACTIVISM" whether it be for some endangered tick . Or because some dictator and it's horrible regime who violates the basics human rights of its population or the population of those in surrounding countries.
No the dictatorial regimes are the victims.
Not the people that they harm .
And I know someone will counter and say well if we'd have Left them alone 50 years ago we wouldn't be dealing with it now .
The same could be said for their end of the pole as well.
I'm pretty sure LBJ's Great Society efforts started well before 1969, since LBJ stopped being President on January 20 of that year.
Well thought out analysis. Thank you.
Actually I was off by one year.
Even still though the Great Society programs didn't really kick in till 69 .
Dude, you're off on this. Medicare and Medicaid were providing huge benefits by 1965. Go back and do a little research.
Yes ! For the first few years it was, mostly because it wasn't as hard for doctors to receive the remittances from the government and fraud wasn't as big of a problem at the time.
But you're comparing how things were back then to how things are now . At that time there weren't as many seniors and low income drawing off of it as there are now . Back then one didn't have to have any insurance coverage to se a local doctor, a family could make payments to them . But do to a couple factors like Malpractice insurance etc the requirement for coverage for office visits was required more and more .
And with the allowance of older foreign born elderly onto it that haven't paid into it . Etc , along with the amount of personnel that is required to run both state and Federal agencies that takes a good chunk of the funding as well. However since the passage of the ACA more and more Doctors are no longer accepting government plans . Why ?! Because the government red tape in payment . And government wants them to accept amount that doesn't even meet the minimum cost of the visit. Even still though the promise of the Great society has never been met and can never be met .
OK, Zionist.
Hahahaha! I love how you on the Left use “Zionist” as a pejorative. Unbelievably ignorant when you consider the ancient land of Israel is Zion, a name given to it by God. So call me Zionist all day long, go right ahead.
I'm beginning to think that we should be concerned not about paid protesters, but paid commenters.
Does AIPAC pay you by the column inch, word, or frequency of posts?
yawn
That’s a compliment, genius.
Well it's not difficult to figure out!
Just applied common sense.
Listen to this post from Sasha Stone it applies.
What we see now has its roots at what happened at Evergreen State eight years ago.
https://substack.com/@sashastone/note/p-184815540?r=1mnd9c
Who gives a fuck if they are paid? Do they lose their First Amendment protection is they're getting paid?
I'm pretty sure the organizers are paid, but not the common radicals.
There are people who are against the military actions but it's pretty far from those crowds promoting intifada under the pretense of "anti-war".
Even the common Radicals are paid .
As written here in this piece.
Who Funds the Groups Harassing ICE Agents in Minnesota? The Left's Premier Foundations and Dark Money Networks Have Given Millions, Records Show. https://share.google/1occ3EdTPtYMNZPHT
I'm not clicking on any suspicious "link".
Radicals can't exist if they're paid, they're not radicals but just actors. Unicorns are prancing on rainbows.
hahahahahaha that’s so very typical.
“Show me evidence!” “I won’t click on links!”
The Washington Free Beacon?!
Suspicious link!
It's a legitimate news agency!
There are those who do get paid to show up and protest.
And the Radicals are being paid to show up.
Especially when an organization is funding them like the Ford Foundation,Tides, and Open Society.
They are still paid opposition.
Sure, the Washington Free Beacon URL is share.google. Nice try.
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/who-funds-the-groups-harassing-ice-agents-in-minnesota-the-lefts-premier-foundations-and-dark-money-networks-have-given-millions-records-show/
Many of them get paid by Roy Neville Singham and George Soros via the Tides Foundation. Look up Nate Friedman’s videos
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Nothing. They’re a Leftist/Marxist/Islamist coalition. Their sole purpose is to brainwash, cause chaos, sew division, and use violence against others they deem not conforming to their poisonous ideologies. This is their playbook and it’s not new. It never ends well.
Interesting perspective, especially since the brainwashing that has occurred is among the Trump supporters who loved him for "No new wars of choice!" but who are now totally defending a war of choice. And the violence being used isn't by protesters, it's the bombs being dropped and the missiles being fired.
No one wants war. In life the right thing to do is almost always the hardest thing to do.
I really don’t care what you think, but I feel the world is a more human and compassionate place when we don’t ignore thousands of innocent people being executed before our eyes. For years we’ve just shrugged and looked away, it didn’t serve our purposes. But once Iran embedded with Russia and China, all bets were off. So we finally did the right thing, but for many different reasons.
Sickeningly the same people who ignored Iranians being brutalized and murdered were “protesting” and screaming on the streets in support of terrorists who raped, murdered and kidnapped and tortured men, women and children. So spare me your feigned concern because their worldview is what you’re defending and bloviating about.
Inevitably for better or worse there will be a superpower in the world. Choose who you want it to be while you still can.
Hopefully if they choose wisely, those who sit around bleating will have their asses saved too.
By the way, violence is violence. The protestors are violent and so is war. War may be justified, violent protest never.
That robot DOESN'T care.
Look back 13 years ago to his comments regarding Iran...it's making the rounds...look at the big picture at what is actually going on...it's not just about Iran...
Sow
I bet many of them are on some kind of benefit. Some maybe fraudulently
What do you do, while reading and posting on Substack during traditional work hours?
I don't know what traditional hours are, really. I had three different careers. In two, I rarely had weekends off and had to respond to certain events whenever they occurred. In the third and last, I was on call 24/7/365 as a systems analyst. With what little time I could call my own - - even if for a few minutes during the day - - I did whatever I damned well pleased.
Traditional hours are M-F, 8-5. Everyone knows this.
That doesn't mean everyone has those hours. But everyone knows those are the traditional work hours.
I see - - back when cassette decks were standard auto equipment, then?
No, now dude. I know the schedules are different for pizza delivery, Uber, and The Gap, but look at commuter highways between 7-8am and 5-6pm.
All of healthcare except for hospitals is M-F, including the insurance and pharma industries. The entire finance
and financial services industry is M-F.
those are traditional hours for life-failed, submissive drone bees.
Yeah, whatever you say.
What do you do?
they activate. :-).
Well, I work in property management and have protested every war of my lifetime. Hope that helps!
The contrast between supporters of the war and its detractors is telling. Knowing their country, their people and the Theo-kleptocracy running Iran, Persians worldwide are enjoying unadulterated celebration. The naysayers are our professional protesters from organizations like BLM, Antifa, Code Pink, etc. who could barely find Iran on a map. Yawn.
Persians worldwide aren’t the ones being bombed by Jews and their goyslave American mutts.
The Persians in Iran have been cheering as well, at least until the Basij shoot them or haul them off to be tortured. Your comment is so misinformed it doesn’t merit a serious response.
You don’t care about Iranians other than to kill enough of them to capitulate to whatever your demented leaders want.
I have to assume you’re a paid meddler. Your comments are ignorant beyond belief. You should try another line of work. Drywalling?
I have to assume you’re mentally ill and treat any dissent as paid for to make it easier on your soft head.
Don’t engage with Dolgin, been trolling all day long. Nasty with it and a waste of your precious time. Just spews leftist lunacy and insults.
So it seems
Someone change Andrew's diaper. He's soiled himself again.
so unfunny-you omitted the old chestnut"forgot to take your meds"
that's why you're here. You're my Ed McMahon.
Remember people like Dolgin only yesterday learned their new pet slurs, “Goyslave” is one of them. Probably got them from Candace or Fuentes, Kasparian perhaps.
So cute when a tybla tries to pretend at being human.
Always fails though.
I really love Ford's on the ground reporting - unbiased and just presenting the events as they occur - how journalism should be done! 👏
I’m not sure how much there is to learn from seeing another protest. They’re all pretty much the same. The only notable thing is that they are always left wing without a right wing analog. The other thing is the strong suspicion that they are organized and funded at least in part by individuals, organizations, and possibly other nations that don’t have American interests at heart. But of course nothing will be done about that.
"I’m not sure how much there is to learn from seeing another protest."
On a visceral level, they demonstrate at least the level of will that is rising, constantly appearing, day after day, month after month. They show that there's plenty to learn about the opposition to the decades-long series of wars US/Israel have taken to conquer the Middle East.
For the most part the protestors appear to have had mental breaks. They are not well.
Or maybe there is another reason.
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/who-funds-the-groups-harassing-ice-agents-in-minnesota-the-lefts-premier-foundations-and-dark-money-networks-have-given-millions-records-show/
Nothing will be done to prove any of these people are paid protesters but that won’t stop mentally ill maniacs from repeating it as a fact.
"Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man” - The Dude
Thanks. It is always time, but especially in a heated debate, for an excellent pop culture reference.
Your screen name is literally a pop culture reference🤣
No actually, he is just documenting people going to “work.” On the left.
Completely deranged lunatics in the comments on Racket insisting, without a shred of evidence and CONTRARY to reports from Racket News itself, that these protesters are paid to protest.
This is a claim repeated without even a fleeting requirement for any factual substantiation. It’s simply asserted without evidence and if you disagree, YOU’RE PAID TOO!
This is a kind of low IQ mental illness that many saw in Democrats when it came to their beliefs about everybody being white supremacists or secret Nazis. No evidence required, simply slap the label on and continue to drool like a retard, most importantly, lumping in ANYBODY who dares demand evidence as also being white supremacist secret Nazis.
This kind of disgusting troglodyte behavior is what one expects from brainwashed lemmings with a tainted infotainment diet fed by propagandists, yet they are the first ones to consistently label other Americans expressing their own free speech as paid for and brainwashed.
It’s disgusting. Send your family to go fucking die for Israel. Then when you’re crying at their funeral I can tell you all the attendees are “paid” mourners.
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/09/04/chairman-smith-exposes-u-s-nonprofit-as-likely-ccp-funded-propaganda-arm-operating-under-tax-exempt-status/
You're wasting your time bringing this to Andrew's attention. Despite his repeated use of the word 'evidence' he has no respect whatsoever for evidence, to the extent of wilfully reinterpreting any evidence he unavoidable encounters (spontaneous expressions of joy in the streets, for example) as being something else entirely. It's comical, really. In the nineteenth century, religious dogmatists insisted fossilized shark teeth weren't evidence of ancient creatures (Earth was only six thousand years old, after all) but were the petrified tongues of snakes Saint Peter had turned to stone. Andrew's approach to evidence is in this tradition, which is why he has to dismiss everyone here as “brainwashed lemmings,” etc. He needs to believe this, since acknowledging the evidence otherwise would be incompatible with his narrative.
I hope you have a spotter in the room who can hand you brown paper bags to breathe slowly into. Gotta get that hyperventilating under control.
It's hilarious how in L.A. we saw expatriate Iranians celebrating in the streets and thanking Trump, while a few streets away activists were waving placards telling Trump “Hands off Iran!” Apparently, one additional TDS symptom is being unassailably convinced that you know better than victims of oppression themselves what's good for them.
These people protesting (not celebrating) are useful idiots. They are protesting everything and have no plan. Its frightening to think some of these dolts may be the leaders of tomorrow.
The celebrators are paid protesters funded by NED to foment a war with Iran.
Reference that.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) operates as a primary hub for funding the Iranian diaspora's political and civil society efforts. While the NED rarely funds organizations that are explicitly and exclusively royalist in their mission (as its mandate is "democracy promotion" rather than "monarchy restoration"), it heavily funds the broader secular-democratic opposition, which is largely led by or aligned with individuals who support a role for the Pahlavi family in a future transition.
The following organizations and connections are the most prominent in the current (2026) landscape:
1. The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center (ABC)
The ABC is one of the most consistently NED-funded Iranian human rights organizations.
* Leadership: It was founded by sisters Ladan and Roya Boroumand. Their father, Abdorrahman Boroumand, was a top associate of Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Prime Minister under the Shah and a leader of the National Resistance Movement.
* Alignment: While the center focuses on human rights documentation (the "Omid" database), its leadership originates from the pre-1979 secular political elite. They advocate for a secular democracy that often overlaps with the "Constitutionalist" vision held by many royalists.
2. The Cyrus Forum (and former Tavaana leadership)
Mariam Memarsadeghi, a long-time and major recipient of NED and State Department funding through the e-learning platform Tavaana, now leads the Cyrus Forum.
* Royalist Ties: Memarsadeghi has been one of the most prominent voices in the U.S. advocating for a "secular-democratic transition" in which Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi plays a central, unifying role.
* Activism: She is highly active in the U.S. policy circuit (Washington D.C.), frequently bridging the gap between NED-funded "civil society" work and the more overtly political "regime change" circles favored by pro-Pahlavi activists.
3. National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI)
NUFDI is the most prominent pro-Pahlavi activist group currently operating in the United States. * Chains of Funding & Personnel: While the NED is often opaque about direct grants to political lobbying groups like NUFDI, there is a "revolving door" of personnel. For example, former NED grants officers and fellows often transition into senior roles or fellowships at NUFDI.
* Indirect Support: NUFDI frequently collaborates with NED-funded human rights groups (like HRANA/HRAI) to provide data for their U.S.-based advocacy and briefings to Congress.
4. International Republican Institute (Yes, GOP are the ones behind paid protesters)(IRI) & "Chain Funding"
The NED funnels a significant portion of its budget through its "core institutes," particularly the International Republican Institute (IRI).
* The Chain: NED -> IRI -> Iranian Diaspora Activists.
* Strategy: The IRI’s Iran programs have historically focused on "capacity building" for political parties and leadership. In the U.S. diaspora, this often translates into supporting activists and "young leaders" who are part of the Constitutionalist (Pro-Shah/Pahlavi) or Nationalist camps, as these groups are seen as the most organized secular alternatives to the current regime.
5. Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI / HRANA)
HRAI is a major U.S.-based (Fairfax, VA) organization that has received millions in NED funding (averaging $900,000+ annually in recent years). Its data is the primary "fuel" used by pro-royalist advocacy groups in the U.S. to lobby for sanctions and "maximum pressure" policies. The leadership and staff are deeply integrated into the same D.C. ecosystem as NUFDI and the Cyrus Forum.
You have no job. Sad.
Oh, now we want references.
Thank God for free speech. Not a big fan of these rented protesters but a price we must pay for our freedoms of assembly and redress.
Zero evidence they are paid, asserted endlessly by clowns who don’t care if it’s true or not but just like how it sounds.
Stop crying.
I'm not suggesting I think they are paid (at least, not all of them) but it might help to leave your ideological bubble once in a while. These are just two examples of evidence, but there is plenty more if you bothered to look. Which you probably won't.
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/who-funds-the-groups-harassing-ice-agents-in-minnesota-the-lefts-premier-foundations-and-dark-money-networks-have-given-millions-records-show/
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/09/04/chairman-smith-exposes-u-s-nonprofit-as-likely-ccp-funded-propaganda-arm-operating-under-tax-exempt-status/
Yeah, well. In our rural county we now have a chapter of Indivisible (how grass roots!). Protesting because we have kings, pedos, pedo kings, and so on.
These people stand for nothing but unhappiness. And if Vance or Little Marco or anybody not their choice is elected* president next time, their unhappiness and resistance will carry on.
*Elections. They must be controlled.
These people are very dissatisfied with America. Wise the hell up about what they intend.
Were any of the "Handmaids" there?
https://aynsrants.substack.com/p/the-handmaids-tale-sequels-are-so
Which, as you probably know, was inspired by the 1979 Iranian revolution. It’s delicious irony that the “our democracy” feminists are oblivious to this fact.
Which becomes all the more interesting when you note that Atwood refuses to talk about that in the present day (at least in the 2025 interview I recently saw). She talks about her influences being Puritan history, Reagan's religious revival, Mormons, and anything but the Iranian revolution.... and seems to love the cosplay protests that have grown up in Handmaid's wake. As she put it to Dua Lipa (!), when filming the first season in 2016, they all woke up the day after the election of Donald Trump and realized (loved?) that the show would now be seen as a fight against ... him.
Embarrassing on her part, she should be ashamed. We need to back shame as a motivator. Our society needs it to right the ship. It’s a phenomenal novel all that aside. The TV show… not so much, and after they finished the plot of the novel it became downright unwatchable.
So, they oppose the war in Iran (still too early to tell what it is) but want their own global war, intifada.
That's not what intifada means. Research better.
Who cares? How many of those "protestors" speak Arabic? Duh.
Hi troll, I have good memory for names.
You obviously care, based on your previous comment.
Keep trolling
I will absolutely keep calling out hasbara propaganda like yours when I see it.
Please, repeat it 58740 more times. Blah-blah-blah.
I think reasonable people can disagree. I like the "2 movies on 1 screen" as Scott Adams used to call it.
When everyone is arguing about stuff I feel right at home 😊🇺🇸
When everyone agrees on something I get the heebee jeebees 😱😔
There is a remarkable difference in behavior between the bed wetting, green haired, pro-IRGC/Hamas/Palestine brats and those marching for Iranian independence from the mullahs and those wanting to be free of Hamas. The campus window lickers demand free food, cops out, destroy property and whine like 3 year olds when they're hauled away after blocking LEOs from doing their jobs. The Iranian independence/anti-Hamas protestors wave flags and say thanks to the cops.
Gosh, it's hard to figure out which side are the good guys.
Hey! That’s unfair to the Bed Wetter Community throwing them in with those assholes.
It's reductive to distill current events into a neat little black and white dichotomy. Nuance and gray areas still exist for some of us.
Yes, for some.
Out of the 8 minute production barely one minute was of the Pro-Iranian freedom demo. You can see the professionally made signs of the anti-war protest as opposed to the mainly US and free, as in sun and lion, Iranian flags. I think I saw one Israeli flag.
Of course the issue most important with Ford Fischer is the anti-war group.
Palestinian flags abound as well as the Keffiyah. The last shot had the Islamic Republic of Iran flags prominently displayed.
Words cannot describe when the gasp went up with the announcement of the Ayatollahs death. A real cognitive dissonance or mental illness seems to have infected the brains of an already very troubled mass of far left fanatics. And of course they have absolutely no idea of their words, they are used to following out of hatred of a certain peoples or the usual white guilt that motivates them against a perceived racism chimera.
In short, as the fentanyl and tens of thousands of ODs sweep the nation, what better way is there to put the chant "death to America" into practice.
America first would mean stopping the terror state run by the Islamists who, through their proxy, Hezbollah, have run long standing crime and drug operations in latin America.
The leftist simpletons refuse to believe that their families are targeted daily, ruining American cities with drugs. It does not require an increased homocide rate to kill Americans.
The pathetic Obama administration sidelined investigation and prosecution of the Hezbollah cartels in order to slide his failed no nukes deal with the Iranian mullahs. Basically offering up our youth as a sacrifice to the Ayatollah.
And these pukes held pictures of him.
Getting rid of the 48 years rule of the 7th century savages can only bring a new light into the world. imo
Of course do not check my sources here.
https://www.congress.gov/115/meeting/house/108155/witnesses/HHRG-115-HM05-Wstate-OttolenghiE-20180417.pdf
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
Thanks for those links. I always seem to get so much more from the Comments than from the initial stories. One reason I come here.
Notice the right wing idiots asserting these are paid protesters never make this accusation against the equally, if not better, organized ethnic diasporas that constantly march in the streets as well. Not one of these shit brained morons calling the anti-war protesters “paid shills” EVER make that same accusation of the people protesting in support of the U.S. bombing their own country of origin.
This is not an oversight but a sign of a totally artificially constructed narrative that anti-war protesters are paid shills while diaspora ethnic groups who want America to bomb their home country are all just civic minded individuals expressing their right to speech without any influence at all, paid or otherwise. This is despite the fact that these diaspora protesters constantly organize as well or better than anti-war protesters and get funding from international non-governmental organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy.
Yeah, the same NED that Taibbi pretends to hate. Stunning how backwards the right wing has it.
Take your ritalin.
It’s validating to know my opponents are low IQ and have no substantive response to any argument. It’s a blessing they reveal this consistently and publicly.
Does your employer offer mental health benefits? They are there to help.
Actually, that is worth looking into, I agree. Now why don't you actually go look into the evidence (and there is a lot) that the pro-communist and pro-extreme Islam protests (okay, I suppose they are also anti-war) are paid for.
Those signs sure got a fast print. I wonder if anyone is following the $$$.
Nate Friedman video "I Exposed Paid Iran Protestors"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm2rJfIzEH0
Thanks. The usual suspects.
It was a study in contrasts in Denver.
On Saturday, RevCom, DSA and ANSWER Intl' held the field on the front lawn of the state capitol. Over the past year they have gotten pretty disciplined. I'm recognizing cadres one from No Kings to the next. The crowd obediently parrots the call and answer slogans. They are learning to march crisply in formation. Actually rather impressive given the, er, rainbow nature of so many of the troops. Apparently the Denver Police Department has made an arrangement with them - they stay a block away and Antifa with safety vests divert traffic to make room for the march. A potpourri of radical signs and banners, lots of Mexican and Palestinian flags. Epstein and pedo accusations most common.
On Sunday, it was the local Iranian community. They were boisterous and happy. Lots and lots of kids running around and playing like cousins at a family reunion. (They were rolling down the gentle hill, just like I did back when ... ) There were speakers in both English and Farsi, but mostly singing along with songs. Lot's of Jewish people as well. Royal flags, American flags and Israeli flags. What I found especially moving was a line of photos purported to be victims of the regime in the last couple of weeks. The party wound down with a pastel Colorado sunset and everybody singing and dancing YMCA.
Forgive the sexist invocation of the male eye, but the Persian lasses were much prettier than the angry AWFLs.
Here in my rural Illinois county we have an Indivisible group. Uh, why? But they are outside village hall, in front of the courthouse, blah, blah, blah — No Kings! Whoop di do.
Apparently just being unhappy is a reason to do politics.
To all you people defending the protestors for Iran, propping up the mullahs, because you think you have a conscience and compassion. Pretty sure you’re same people who supported the protesters who took to our cities to support Hamas, murderous terrorists who raped and murdered with glee, videoing themselves doing it. You know who you are, you chanted “From the river to the sea” in your little keffiyehs. You spewed unquestioning the propaganda of the terrorists to bolster your “cause”.
Why were you silent about the execution of thousands on the streets of Iran?
You were silent because it’s not about conscience or compassion. It’s about hate. Your hate for Trump, for Jews, for the West, for police and all law enforcement, for Republicans, for the thriving family, for white men, for those against transitioning children, for Christians, for free speech, the list for your hate is long and poisonous.
So spare us all your outrage at the Iran war. You don’t care about Iran. You care only about destroying what you hate.
However we all know what these levels of hate do. They destroy the hater along with every thing else around us.
We can only hope and pray one day you will love more than you hate.