On another note, these "anti-woke" types like the Huffmans are so pathetic in their total ignorance of anything, it boggles the mind. I watched the one video you referenced where the guy says he is signing up for the Russian army so he can get his Russian citizenship expedited, otherwise it takes 5-6 years, and he is doing it in order to secure the government healthcare and benefits that come with the Russian citizenship for his family. In the same sentence that he says "people are coming into the US and getting everything haded out to them", like he knows... How is what he is doing in Russia different than what some poor Guatemalan or Venezuelan person doing in the US. At least the Guatemalan and Venezuelan people have a language advantage, unlike this idiot who can't even speak a word of Russian to boot. How brainwashed are these people! And they deserve every bit that's coming to them.
Exactly! I was thinking about those poor girls who were dragged out of their schools and friends half way across the world and dropped in the middle of a place they don't speak the language of, don't know anybody and nowhere to go to even play. Then left fatherless with a mother who is clueless. It's child abuse pure and simple.
Thanks, but then what's with the "woke excesses" Gary is getting frustrated about? What is a "woke excess"? Anyway, I'll let him explain, although I doubt he will take the time.
Not sure how many Americans are familiar with the story of the North American Finns. Finland had an unsuccessful communist revolution not long before the Russian Revolution. The communists lost and some were executed but most fled to North America. They mostly settled in Ontario and the Upper Midwest of the US. Many had worked in the forest industry in Finland and
did the same in North America.
In the 1930's, Stalin invited these leftist Finns to immigrate to the USSR and help build socialism. He wanted them to help build up the Soviet forestry industry. They had tools not currently available in the Soviet Union.
They were mostly settled in Karelia in the area around Onego Lake, especially Petrozavodsk and Kondopoga. Things were OK for a few years, but the Finns found conditions harsh. And the Finns didn't always get along well with the local population. And Russians are very xenophobic people and tend to be paranoid about outsiders.
To make a long story short, even though Stalin had invited them, the Soviet authorities never really trusted them. Then along came Stalin's purges in the mid to late 1930's. They eventually ran afoul of the government and most of them were shot. Although some survived. There are still a fair number of people with Finnish surnames living around Petrozavodsk. And there is a Lutheran church and a theater that does plays in Finnish. The Finns fought off a Soviet invasion in the Winter War of 1939-40 and actually occupied Petrozavodsk during the Continuation War from 1940-45.
There is a long history of ideological foreigners seeing Russia as some kind of paradise and immigrating. They soon meet up with the reality of Russia. Russians treat each other like shit so how do you think they are going to treat these naive fools? And it is hard for me to have any sympathy for a guy who goes to Ukraine to murder Ukrainians. If he isn't dead yet, he probably will be soon. This family is so worked up about LGBT stuff in America that they are willing to live among sociopaths in Russia.
And Russia is hardly a country with Christian values. Only 6% of Russians ever go to church and most who do are probably from the Muslim population in the South. Compare that to 43% of Americans who go to church at least once a week. Rates of divorce, adultery, spousal abuse, abortion, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, suicide and sexually transmitted diseases are exponentially higher than Europe or North America. The homicide rate in Russia is more than twice that of the gun-obsessed US and five to six times some European countries. Russians are not the people you want to pattern yourselves after.
While I agree we have access to quality information and reporting, the phones in the Huffmans’ pockets along with millions of Americans are flooded with lies from grifters and cranks. Derek and DeAnna Huffman undoubtedly saw Tucker Carlson extolling the virtues of Russia, including its beautiful grocery stores. In terms of frustration against wokeness, my understanding the Huffmans packed their bags after one of their daughters heard the word “lesbian” from a classmate at school. It was not the TX school where she attended was teaching anything “woke”. These people were always going to take up extreme measures if they are so easily triggered.
The Huffman’s are deluded fools and I’m using the present tense in the event they are still alive. Good riddance regardless.
But woke has become an inflated whipping post by right wing hyenas so it is a shame the perspetive is included in this commentary. At this point woke could mean using tp and some moron would still have an issue. It’s those elites doncha know.
"Woke" has been reduced to a catch-all term by MAGAlomaniacs for "f*g**t", "n*g**r", "towelhead", "k*ke", "mud races", "commie", "feminazi", and all sorts of other slurs. It's effectively "race mixing is communism" for the digital age.
Was Melania Cheeto Involved With the Epstein Ring?
There are at least 2 photos of the 2 swinger couples together in public during Cheeto’s bad boy years….Melania and Cheeto along with Epstein and Maxwell Cheeto started dating Melania in 1998 This is 2 years after Maria Farmer had come forward to file a complaint with local and then FBI authorities about what Epstein and Maxwell were up to with their international sex trafficking ring It’s now public knowledge that Epstein said the Melania and Cheeto first had intercourse on Epstein’s plane and then in 2005 Melania married Cheeto but Epstein and Maxwell were not on the invitation list Was Cheeto trying to divest himself to Epstein’s friendship?
In 2006 the FBI contacted Maria Farmer and she divulged all her details of her relationship with Epstein and Maxwell In 2006 Epstein got a plea deal with Florida authorities and then continued on with his pedophilia journey with schoolgirls(not young women)
An interview with the Daily Beast(https://bit.ly/46px65j) Michael Wolff(author of 4 books on Cheeto) states that Maxwell’s shot across the bow with her release of the birthday wishes from Cheeto to Epstein, Blanche’s interview with Maxwell is to find out what she will divulge and what can be done to shut her up For Cheeto and Melania Cheeto a lot is riding on this settlement
And what does Baron Cheeto think about his momma’s past sordid group she hung out with including his lecherous father?
Thank you for this story. While it’s easy to say “good riddance” to this poor family, they fell prey, like many in the cult, to the repeated lies from the right and the constant drum putting down transgender, gays and migrants. We need to be able to welcome MAGA back when they come to their senses. If they’ve no place to go we are all doomed.
No matter how bad things are in US, it is better than the most of the world. And if you believe that things can be improved, put in an effort. I am sure there are a lot of people who expressed this idea much better than I could. But the point is, USA is the successful experiment and still has unrealized potential. Let's realize this potential.
Please enlighten us what are the "woke excesses" in America you are frustrated with, Gary? Is it the DEI? Do you think women or POC are worth less and cannot be trusted with any job or be in charge? I am genuinely curious, because I used to respect and admire you, and now you are sounding like one of those Hegseth or DeSantis types.
Kinda ironic considering conservatives call liberals “Commies.” But then again, conservatives believe that Nazls were socialists because it’s in the name Adolf created.
On a related note, Arend Feenstra moved with his family from Canada to Russia, for the same reasons - "too many gays". While he hasn't yet been conscripted for the Ukraine War, Feenstra has also FAFO'd.
On another note, these "anti-woke" types like the Huffmans are so pathetic in their total ignorance of anything, it boggles the mind. I watched the one video you referenced where the guy says he is signing up for the Russian army so he can get his Russian citizenship expedited, otherwise it takes 5-6 years, and he is doing it in order to secure the government healthcare and benefits that come with the Russian citizenship for his family. In the same sentence that he says "people are coming into the US and getting everything haded out to them", like he knows... How is what he is doing in Russia different than what some poor Guatemalan or Venezuelan person doing in the US. At least the Guatemalan and Venezuelan people have a language advantage, unlike this idiot who can't even speak a word of Russian to boot. How brainwashed are these people! And they deserve every bit that's coming to them.
I’m sorry for the children
Exactly! I was thinking about those poor girls who were dragged out of their schools and friends half way across the world and dropped in the middle of a place they don't speak the language of, don't know anybody and nowhere to go to even play. Then left fatherless with a mother who is clueless. It's child abuse pure and simple.
Beautifully stated, Maria. But I would respectfully disagree with you that Gary sounds like Hegseth or DeSantis.
Thanks, but then what's with the "woke excesses" Gary is getting frustrated about? What is a "woke excess"? Anyway, I'll let him explain, although I doubt he will take the time.
The Huffmans et al are what putin would characterize as "useless idiots."
Not sure how many Americans are familiar with the story of the North American Finns. Finland had an unsuccessful communist revolution not long before the Russian Revolution. The communists lost and some were executed but most fled to North America. They mostly settled in Ontario and the Upper Midwest of the US. Many had worked in the forest industry in Finland and
did the same in North America.
In the 1930's, Stalin invited these leftist Finns to immigrate to the USSR and help build socialism. He wanted them to help build up the Soviet forestry industry. They had tools not currently available in the Soviet Union.
They were mostly settled in Karelia in the area around Onego Lake, especially Petrozavodsk and Kondopoga. Things were OK for a few years, but the Finns found conditions harsh. And the Finns didn't always get along well with the local population. And Russians are very xenophobic people and tend to be paranoid about outsiders.
To make a long story short, even though Stalin had invited them, the Soviet authorities never really trusted them. Then along came Stalin's purges in the mid to late 1930's. They eventually ran afoul of the government and most of them were shot. Although some survived. There are still a fair number of people with Finnish surnames living around Petrozavodsk. And there is a Lutheran church and a theater that does plays in Finnish. The Finns fought off a Soviet invasion in the Winter War of 1939-40 and actually occupied Petrozavodsk during the Continuation War from 1940-45.
There is a long history of ideological foreigners seeing Russia as some kind of paradise and immigrating. They soon meet up with the reality of Russia. Russians treat each other like shit so how do you think they are going to treat these naive fools? And it is hard for me to have any sympathy for a guy who goes to Ukraine to murder Ukrainians. If he isn't dead yet, he probably will be soon. This family is so worked up about LGBT stuff in America that they are willing to live among sociopaths in Russia.
And Russia is hardly a country with Christian values. Only 6% of Russians ever go to church and most who do are probably from the Muslim population in the South. Compare that to 43% of Americans who go to church at least once a week. Rates of divorce, adultery, spousal abuse, abortion, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, suicide and sexually transmitted diseases are exponentially higher than Europe or North America. The homicide rate in Russia is more than twice that of the gun-obsessed US and five to six times some European countries. Russians are not the people you want to pattern yourselves after.
Putin's Russia has been likened to a "poor, drunk soccer hooligan" in the Boston Globe:
https://archive.is/20160624082423/https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/06/21/putin-russia-poor-drunk-soccer-hooligan/0HjzEzAUT4J58guK170F0H/story.html
While I agree we have access to quality information and reporting, the phones in the Huffmans’ pockets along with millions of Americans are flooded with lies from grifters and cranks. Derek and DeAnna Huffman undoubtedly saw Tucker Carlson extolling the virtues of Russia, including its beautiful grocery stores. In terms of frustration against wokeness, my understanding the Huffmans packed their bags after one of their daughters heard the word “lesbian” from a classmate at school. It was not the TX school where she attended was teaching anything “woke”. These people were always going to take up extreme measures if they are so easily triggered.
One wants to feel sorry for the Huffmans...
They “woke” to Russian reality—and seem to have rediscovered what many once fled: the illusion of “moral clarity.”
As Russians say: “За что боролись, на то и напоролись” — “What you struggle for, you stumble over.”
History does have a dark sense of humor.
I do feel sorry for the children.
The Huffman’s are deluded fools and I’m using the present tense in the event they are still alive. Good riddance regardless.
But woke has become an inflated whipping post by right wing hyenas so it is a shame the perspetive is included in this commentary. At this point woke could mean using tp and some moron would still have an issue. It’s those elites doncha know.
"Woke" has been reduced to a catch-all term by MAGAlomaniacs for "f*g**t", "n*g**r", "towelhead", "k*ke", "mud races", "commie", "feminazi", and all sorts of other slurs. It's effectively "race mixing is communism" for the digital age.
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/10/10/race-mixing-is-communism
Was Melania Cheeto Involved With the Epstein Ring?
There are at least 2 photos of the 2 swinger couples together in public during Cheeto’s bad boy years….Melania and Cheeto along with Epstein and Maxwell Cheeto started dating Melania in 1998 This is 2 years after Maria Farmer had come forward to file a complaint with local and then FBI authorities about what Epstein and Maxwell were up to with their international sex trafficking ring It’s now public knowledge that Epstein said the Melania and Cheeto first had intercourse on Epstein’s plane and then in 2005 Melania married Cheeto but Epstein and Maxwell were not on the invitation list Was Cheeto trying to divest himself to Epstein’s friendship?
In 2006 the FBI contacted Maria Farmer and she divulged all her details of her relationship with Epstein and Maxwell In 2006 Epstein got a plea deal with Florida authorities and then continued on with his pedophilia journey with schoolgirls(not young women)
An interview with the Daily Beast(https://bit.ly/46px65j) Michael Wolff(author of 4 books on Cheeto) states that Maxwell’s shot across the bow with her release of the birthday wishes from Cheeto to Epstein, Blanche’s interview with Maxwell is to find out what she will divulge and what can be done to shut her up For Cheeto and Melania Cheeto a lot is riding on this settlement
And what does Baron Cheeto think about his momma’s past sordid group she hung out with including his lecherous father?
Thank you for this story. While it’s easy to say “good riddance” to this poor family, they fell prey, like many in the cult, to the repeated lies from the right and the constant drum putting down transgender, gays and migrants. We need to be able to welcome MAGA back when they come to their senses. If they’ve no place to go we are all doomed.
No matter how bad things are in US, it is better than the most of the world. And if you believe that things can be improved, put in an effort. I am sure there are a lot of people who expressed this idea much better than I could. But the point is, USA is the successful experiment and still has unrealized potential. Let's realize this potential.
Darwin prize for the man.
He’s not qualified - he already procreated and thus his genes are passed on.
Please enlighten us what are the "woke excesses" in America you are frustrated with, Gary? Is it the DEI? Do you think women or POC are worth less and cannot be trusted with any job or be in charge? I am genuinely curious, because I used to respect and admire you, and now you are sounding like one of those Hegseth or DeSantis types.
V-e-r-r-r-y interesting!!!!!!!
Kinda ironic considering conservatives call liberals “Commies.” But then again, conservatives believe that Nazls were socialists because it’s in the name Adolf created.
On a related note, Arend Feenstra moved with his family from Canada to Russia, for the same reasons - "too many gays". While he hasn't yet been conscripted for the Ukraine War, Feenstra has also FAFO'd.
Back end/front end I guess there’s a difference?!?
Not Orthodox, can’t speak the language, and no curiosity to even learn these basics of Russian society and culture. Embarrassing.