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Lisa Savage's avatar

"Widespread protests in Iran prove it is a dictatorship whereas widespread protests in the US prove it is a democracy. The protests in the US are illegitimate because they were orchestrated by Iran whereas the protests in Iran show the will of the Iranian people... because they were orchestrated by Mossad."

House of mirrors!

DMarlene's avatar

The only truth and exposès comes from satirists.

damien flinter's avatar

And its getting harder by the day to satirise the KKK£own $how.

Ed McKeon's avatar

Having left Twitter because it was going downhill rapidly and as they're imminently implementing policy to abuse data rights, I'm relying on you for the news and you don't disappoint!

Sean Griobhtha's avatar

Brilliant💫 as usual❣️

Ron Stockton's avatar

Are you ever going to go back to doing satire, Laura?

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Ron Stockton's avatar

Reality has overtaken satire. "1984" has become an instruction manual not a novel.

Baz's avatar

About time for a spot of regime change in the US too

Priscila Garcia's avatar

Brilliant, as always!

Sylvia Frost's avatar

This is awesome!! I love your sense of humor in these scary times. Viva la Palestine, Venezuela and Iran!!

Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

I remember reading an article -- perhaps from Amnesty International, although it might have been some similar organization -- asserting that the Shah's police tortured physically and psychologically, often raping wives and daughters of political prisoners in front of the jail cells, and on some occasions inserting poisonous snakes into the vaginas of the female victims. What a great champion of "democracy" and "human rights" the Shah was. I suspect his son is cut from the same cloth...

susan cartwright's avatar

Laura sees things so clearly. She is one of the few people who is fully aware of what's happening in the world.

I swear being this aware must equal non-stop pain and suffering on her part.

Laura is the modern Cassandra. She knows exactly what's happening while the rest of the world is blithely ignorant.

Rebel Nun's avatar

The only thing Iran and Venezuela have in common is their un-democratic human rights abuses that we must correct for them. It's only a bizarre coincidence that both Iran and Venezuela have huge oil reserves.

Laura rules. Or should.

susan cartwright's avatar

Absolutely. Laura is amazing.

Mitch Ritter's avatar

"Don't confuse 'correlation' with 'causation' is a constant J-School scold. Aw, go ahead! Hall of Mirrors doesn't begin to describe our sober present funhouse.

Tio Mitchito

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Sam's avatar

Laura you've outdone yourself this year 👏. The way you Parellel the absolute absurdity of our times, the contradictions is class. To think some out there just don't get the absolute obvious

Dona White's avatar

One of your best Laura!

Spunty's avatar

It must be terribly difficult for satirists these days, when writing like this article almost reads like a Washington Post editorial. 😟

Frances Lynch's avatar

Now THIS epistle of yours is absolutely terrific!!!

Nothing better illustrates, "Free-dom" than the snide remark!

wilter downs's avatar

The shah will turn Iran into a charnel house.

Adeel Mirza's avatar

Incredible.

The Devil IsRael. The Antichrist.