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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

We must end democracy in order to save it! Just another chapter in the color revolution playbook. The EU is the new Iron Curtain.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Nationalists want democracy, Globalists want Our Democracy™, where the house always wins.

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HeathN's avatar

Exactly right. I couldn't have put it better than that. Nice touch with the trademark, perfectly fitting!

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

thanks!

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miles.mcstylez's avatar

I came up with populists vs. elitists instead of nationalists vs. globalists, but same idea I think:

https://milesmcstylez.substack.com/p/populists-are-trying-to-save-democracy

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Gym+Fritz's avatar

Dollars to donuts, that there was a lot of election interference . . . and that most of it was by the US, CIA, USAID, Soros, & Brussels.

Why is it that the US, and only the US, is supposed to interfere in everyone else’s elections - billions of dollars worth of interference - but nobody else is supposed to interfere, not even a little?

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ado's avatar

You mean like Ukraine in 2014?

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Robert Hunter's avatar

Yer exceptional, doncha know!

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Daily Growler's avatar

Garland Nixon said that a source in DC told him that big bucks were transferred to some folks in Romania to make things happen, the proverbial "suitcases full of cash" scenario. I don't know if that info is true, or if the money flowed from Brussels or DC, but I understood him to be referring to the invalidation of the first election. If that in fact happened, it would have been under the Biden regime. Interesting, given Vance's comments about the Romanian election.

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K S Springer's avatar

As Matt and Walter Kirn so aptly stated in their recent cast: "settled democracy" is what the EU is after. Democracy on their terms.

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Tarun's avatar

Well each to their own sort of fascism I guess.... Love Russians hate Arabs.... what's that about?

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B.L.'s avatar

The wet dream of modern Democrats is becoming true in Europe. What a technocratic nightmare.

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JD Free's avatar

This is what technocracy is. This is always what technocracy was.

https://principlesvstribes.substack.com/p/on-technocracy

When the modern Leftist says "democracy", he is being Orwellian. The last thing he means is that majority votes should decide; he means that he and his should rule as technocrats, and we'll call it "democracy" for legitimacy's sake.

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Jack C's avatar

Left:right::technocracy:plutocracy

The political cadres of the hard left represent the id of the academic middle class, and their preferred form of government is authoritarianism where authority flows from intellect.

The political cadres of the hard right represent the id of the commercial middle class, and their preferred form of government is authoritarianism where authority flows from wealth.

Neither extreme cares about the well-being of the masses.

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JD Free's avatar

Horseshoe Theory is the epitome of midwittery. The extremes do not resemble each other; you just have bad definitions.

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Jack C's avatar

Agree to disagree. Since WWII the hard right has been neutered and the hard left has been given a longer leash, so it appears as though the left is more extreme. But let's not forget what the right is capable of.

The middle doesn't represent virtue or moderation. It represents plurality and nullification of opposing views.

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Han's avatar

List of the six major leaders of wwii, ranked from most (1) to least (6) conservative

1. Hirohito

2. Churchill

3. Mussolini

4. Hitler

5. Stalin

6. FDR

Your boy was a socialist, right down to his fingertips.

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Andi's avatar

same thing for "respecting minority" -- it means making their pet, fringe projects mainstream and not allowing minority parties any access to committees etc.

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Tom Larson's avatar

Meanwhile, the pressure has no way to equalize, and will increase until "Something Gives".

If the pressure is contained long enough and to a high enough level, the end result could be "Leaders" dragged from their homes.

All it takes at the breaking point is one single 'spark'.

Think "Georg Floyd and the summer of Love", only with a REAL cause and righteous indignation to back it up. HEADS will literally roll.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Pretend that this were happening in Russia or some other country that the Empire doesn't like.

Imagine the howls of outrage from every diplomat from Tokyo to Washington to Warsaw. Every MSM talking head would be wrapping his eyebrows around his nose, bloviating on how this is a Threat To Democracy Everywhere. Any protesters would be getting wall-to-wall fawning news coverage, and that even before USAID and its european buttbois got into the act.

But when our pets do it - crickets.

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Paul Harper's avatar

Bingo!

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Boris Petrov's avatar

I am sure you can find USA.I.D all over Romania - media, judges, politicians, academia….

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Tatiana Croissette's avatar

I am originally from Romania; left 30 years ago. It’s horrific what is going on in Romania: my friends are shocked, puzzled and angry. EU IS THE NEW SOVIET UNION

THANK YOU FOR THE ARTICLE, MATT! Very good job on explaining everything.

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Chris Gorman's avatar

Oh very nicely put.

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ktrip's avatar

I have a few Romanian friends who grew up under Communism and immigrated to the US in the 90s. They still have family in Romania. To echo what others have said, they feel Europe is imposing similar totalitarianism as under Communism (new boss same as the old boss to reference the Who). I learned so much about living in a police state from them. We worked closely together and I would complain about our superiors and they would just nod until we were outside of work. Real the walls have ears stuff. It was ingrained in them even after decades. They have no huge love for the Russians or Putin. They say support for Georgescu is about Romania autonomy and freedom to use Romania's resources for the benefit of Romanians. It is also about preserving Romania and avoiding the importation of people who do not share their culture and values. It sounded very similar to Hungary. I think there is something to be said that those who lived under Communism are recoiling at what western Europe has become.

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Karen's avatar

This is a great start for we who wish to understand what is going on in Romania. Thank you Matt

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Evans W's avatar

Elon Musk canceled his trip to Romania amid security concerns after the government canceled elections, arrested Georgescu, raided and arrested his supporters, and banned him from running in the upcoming elections.

Romania is lost and the EU can no longer be trusted.

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Tatiana Croissette's avatar

Unbelievable! These poor people in Romania are begging for help from US and they are so excited about Tulsi’s trip to Europe; they hope that she’ll speak to the EU and Romanian authorities about the coup against Georgescu. I honestly don’t believe that Tulsi will go to Romania or that she can do much about the dictatorship that governs EU.

I pray that maybe the Trump administration can help these desperate people in Romania; they are honestly dragged into a dictatorship against their will.

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hepps's avatar

Not lost yet. Trump, Vance and Musk have called it out. I think this is the hill they have chosen for the battle.

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Evans W's avatar

Let’s hope

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Heidi Kulcheski's avatar

In the long run what the EU is doing won't succeed, it never does. How long it takes before EU 'democracy' is overthrown is another story.

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BRIAN CAM's avatar

They should pick transgender in women's sports that's a better Hill to die on for the EU and the Democrats I mean

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Richard Fahrner's avatar

seems like the Tate brothers departed Romania at the right time.

I imagine if they treat "their next president" in this fashion, the Tates and others are fair game. pretty messy and unclear for sure.

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JD Free's avatar

I missed the protest over this at Columbia.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

The EU is getting overtly authoritarian while ignoring their own homegrown problems. (Ironically, talking about those problems is the most common target for the authoritarianism.) Now these seals are clapping along, as if "We had to destroy democracy to save democracy" makes even the slightest bit of sense.

The truth is the people are sick of the WEF/globalist "party", and allowing real elections shows that.

How many votes did Canada's new PM get? The UK finally got a new PM, but they were in the same boat for years.

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DaveL's avatar

New Canadian PM was appointed. Elections too messy.

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WI Patriot's avatar

How can someone run for office, win, canceled, and then not allowed to run again? Did they hire someone from Colorado?

The Canadians just 'elected' a Central Banker and former British banker. With no prior political experience. Something seems a little off...

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Max Dublin's avatar

Depends on how you define political experience. It’s true that Mark Carney has never won an election but that’s not the only kind of political experience in our brave new world. The powers that be in the Liberal party of Canada’s have just swapped out a globalist puppet (Trudeau) for a globalist puppet master (Carney). Fundamentally politics is all about the quest for power, whether it be for the public good or the good of certain individuals. Do you think that a dictator is not a polician? Or the Pope? We must not equate politics with elections and democracy. Mark Carney having become Prime Minister of Canada without having been elected to that position by the people of Canada is a master politician. The only question is will the people of Canada learn soon enough what he really is to throw him out in the coming election. And btw a notorious figure in US politics, one Christopher Steele has heaped much praise on this clever politician.

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WI Patriot's avatar

Thanks for the intel.

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Tim's avatar

As many as Kamalamadingdong in the “democratic” Democratic primaries.

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MDM 2.0's avatar

If only HRC had thought of these machinations in 2016

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Tim's avatar

Probably did. Took 4 years to plan.

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OpenBook's avatar

A major military base is being constructed for NATO in Romania on the Black Sea. I imagine that fact is a major factor in Romanian and EU politics.

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Shortstack's avatar

So, Romanian intelligence reported "election interference" from Russia as a reason for nullifying the election results, and barring this guy from running again? Why does that sound familiar? Most Democrats believe that Russian interference elected Donald Trump in 2016, though the accusation proved to be based more on HIllary's wanting to save face than any real evidence that but for Russia the election would have gone the other way. The truth was, after 8 years of Obama, the electorate was tired of being talked down to and told to get in line - a problem Democrats seem to have across the board, this notion that the people have a say in government. That was the #1 reason Trump won again in 2024 - only this time it was four years of Biden surrogates, constant gaslighting, and being told that the world should be turned upside down to accommodate trannies.

The EU leadership seemed to gloat over this Romanian debacle, as if to taunt the Romanian electorate that if they didn't vote the right way next time, that election would be canceled as well. There is a reason the UK mostly seceded from the EU, and that was that the EU was becoming increasingly tyrannical and dictatorial in its administration of the EU, which originally was to be an economic organization but which has now become a political pan-Europe government proxy. Is it any wonder that Klaus Schwab looked at the EU and said to himself, if they can take over Europe, I can take over the world!

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Tim's avatar

Mean Joe “Auto Pen” didn’t make all those decisions?

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rick laney's avatar

Europe is a dumpster fire everywhere - from the Farmer Rebellion in Netherlands to their never-ending attacks on Orban to this. Post the insane desire to open borders for invasion under Merkle in 2014 to the Central Banks debt bombs to resuscitate the Euro to the implosion of the Conservatives in the UK after refusing to implement Brexit - Davos Man is shrinking into a Lilliputian Sea of red ink and impotency. Runaway crime collides with a dependency on Russia for energy - where the EU SPENDS MORE TO BUY RUSSIAN GAS THAN THEY DO TO SUPPORT THE WAR IN UKRAINE - THEREBY SUBSIDIZING THE EVIL EMPIRE THEY CLAIM TO FIGHT?

How long before Vance is delivering a 'get them out by Friday speech' evicting the UN in the newly minted TRUMPIAN NEW YAWK?

Will/should America care?

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Billy Masterson's avatar

Have you heard about Magda Lupescu,

Who came to Rumania's rescue?

It's a wonderful thing

To be under a king-

Is democracy better, I esk you?

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Ashby McDonald's avatar

Apropos of nothing, Romania has very strict gun laws and, therefore, one of the lowest gun ownership rates in the EU, at 2.6%.

I’m not even sure why I bring this up, because it has nothing to do with the fact that power is being taken away from the people in Romania

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Kevin Schilling's avatar

It means a lot. !!!,,,,,in a society where individual gun ownership is low or prohibited the “ruling political class” fear nothing,,,,and it is vitally important for the “ruling political class” to fear the populace

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WilliamD's avatar

I think Ashby was being sarcastic.

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Kevin Schilling's avatar

I wasn’t

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Ashby McDonald's avatar

correct.

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Mark Kennedy's avatar

This is the logical consequence of living in a world in which legacy media has repeatedly proved itself untrustworthy and language has been debased. If you thought you were really opposing fascism, that would be one thing; but when everyone who questions the wisdom of immigration policy, or suggests that letting men who 'identify' as women infiltrate women's athletics and dressing rooms may not be a good idea after all is deemed a fascist, how can we be sure what Georgescu is really like or what he stands for? We know our judgment can't be more reliable than the information it's based on, and we also know we don't have a trustworthy information commons. Anyone these days who believes information is accurate because it's 'official' either lives in a hermetically sealed silo or had no judgment to begin with.

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