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In the summer of 2023, a poet by the name of Gennady Rakitin began publishing his “patriotic” works on VKontakte, Russia’s version of Facebook. He wrote about war, mercenaries killed in action, the Fatherland, and Russia’s “leader.” Russian lawmakers and senators soon began following his page en masse. And his poems were entered into competitions, celebrated at festivals, and shared on channels dedicated to “Z-poetry.”

But it turns out that Gennady Rakitin doesn’t exist. According to Russian journalist Andrey Zakharov, some of his acquaintances are behind the account — and these anti-war activists have actually been publishing translations of poetry written in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s.

The Gennady Rakitin page has an AI-generated profile picture and includes only sparse details about the “poet,” describing him as a 49-year-old who graduated from the Philology Department at Moscow State University. But this was enough to fool dozens of Russian senators and lawmakers, who added Rakitin as a “friend.”

Rakitin’s friends list includes Russian senators Dmitry Rogozin and Andrey Klishas, State Duma deputies Dmitry Kuznetsov and Nina Ostatina, Putin’s cultural advisor Elena Yampolskaya, and pro-Kremlin “war correspondent” Yuri Kotenok. Zakharov counted a total of 95 State Duma lawmakers and 28 senators among Rakitin’s followers. The account’s creators said that they started out by adding “various public figures and just random people” as friends. “When a critical mass of well-known names was reached, we went after lawmakers and other celebrities,” they explained. The activists also claimed that they “didn’t invest a dime” in promoting the page.

The works published on Rakitin’s profile include, for example, a translation of Eberhard Möller’s poem “The Führer” — accompanied by a photo of Vladimir Putin emblazoned with a pro-war slogan. Zakharov described Möller as a “committed Nazi and anti-Semite, who became a member of the Nazi Party even before Hitler came to power.” On February 23, 2024, a VKontakte group called “SVO. Quotes from Vladimir Putin. Russia” shared the translation of Möller’s poem to its 112,000 followers.

The Rakitin page also shared a translation of a poem by Herybert Menzel, a German writer who joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and later became a Stormtrooper. The original poem in question was inspired by a portrait of Adolf Hitler and includes reflections on “what it means to be a son of Germany.” Another Rakitin poem takes a work by Nazi songwriter Heinrich Anacker and replaces the title “Faceless Stormtrooper” with “Faceless PMC Soldier” (a reference to Russian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine).

Rakitin only “wrote” 18 poems in total, but they’ve made a splash in pro-war poetry competitions and festivals. In early June, one of Rakitin's poems won a prize at an All-Russian Patriotic Poetry Competition held by the Kaluga branch of the Professional Writers’ Union, reaching the semifinals in the “Poems about war and defenders of the Motherland” category. The magazine Moskva entered another one of Rakitin’s poems into a “Patriotic free verse” competition.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/06/28/anti-war-activists-dupe-russian-officials-with-translations-of-nazi-poetry

https://slaynews.com/news/biden-campaign-sends-instructions-supporters-defend-debate-performance/

President Joe Biden’s campaign, the White House, and the Democrats are now taking their gaslighting efforts to the next level as the November election draws near.

Following the president’s historic trainwreck debate performance last week, the Biden campaign is now emailing supporters with a list of instructions on how they can gaslight their friends and family that everything is okay in the Oval Office.

The Biden campaign’s email details how supporters can respond to friends who are critical of the president’s debate performance.

According to the Biden campaign, the only people who spotted something amiss during the debate, such as a “panicked aunt” or a “MAGA uncle,” are just part of the “bedwetting brigade.”

“If you’re like me, you’re getting lots of texts or calls from folks about the state of the race after Thursday,” reads the email.

“Maybe it was your panicked aunt, your MAGA uncle, or some self-important podcasters.

“It’s a tough position to be in, so I thought it might be helpful to send you a few responses.”

The campaign email acknowledges that “the debate started rough.”

However, it argued that the real takeaway was that “voters saw what a threat Donald Trump is to the country.”

The email encourages supporters to forcefully push back against those calling on the president to drop out of the race.

It goes on to accuse such critics of being part of the “bedwetting brigade.”

“That is the best possible way for Donald Trump to win and us to lose,” the email argues.

“Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee, period.

I sure hope he remains the nominee.

Patrick says

According to the Biden campaign, the only people who spotted something amiss during the debate, such as a “panicked aunt” or a “MAGA uncle,” are just part of the “bedwetting brigade.”

LOL.

The more mental illnesses the democrats have to accept, the fewer insults they can use. Probably somebody replied that bedwetting shouldn't be shamed or something.

'When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."
- Edward Snowden

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/speaking-of-abortion

They are chattering about Mr. Trump “using the military” against them in the months to come — as if the Abrams tanks were going to roll up to DNC headquarters and blast away. By now, you know that such thoughts expressed by Democratic pols and news pals are always projections of their own wishes. The New York Times published just such a classic paranoid projection exercise last week “. . . telling Americans that if he [Trump] wins, he plans to bend, if not break, our democracy.”

Patrick says

telling Americans that if he [Trump] wins, he plans to bend, if not break, our democracy.”

Notice that the phrase is "our democracy" which means Dem Party power, otherwise the term would be "our republic."

The Dems fuck the 'democracy' moniker in the ass fairly routinely.

It is part ritual humiliation of the populace (we are not a democracy, we are a constitutional republic) mocking the people's ignorance of government, and a Satanic inversion euphemism for their heedless, corrupt, centralized, absolute power.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/revenge-of-the-nerds-saturday-december

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The UK Daily Mail ran a pair of pandemic articles this month, dripping with combined irony. The Mail ran the first one on December 7th under the headline, “Alarming reason strokes are rocketing in men under 40.” I’ll give you one guess who they blamed.

You probably guessed it; it was an easy one. They blamed us. Junk food. Heavy boozing. Stressful modern living, with all our jetsetting and materialism. Stupid people. The doctors keep telling you how to live healthy but you just won’t listen. ...

Apparently, nowadays in 2024, the very same alcohol recipes also cause strokes and always have. You’re just remembering it wrong.

All those anti-drinking campaigns, and they somehow forgot to mention stroke risk until now.

It doesn’t have to be vaccines. I could maybe see energy drinks. But junk food? Beer? That, my friends, is just expert “woo-woo” hand waving, designed to shift blame to the victim and to generic products lacking strong political lobbies. The article was salted with internal contradictions, too, almost intentionally. “Alcohol consumption in younger age groups,” the Mail sheepishly explained, “is, on average, falling.”