“Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
What a joke.
A lot of my Trump Deranged Facebook friends flipped out in fury after owner Jeff Bezos fired much of the Washington Post staff, including many unethical, lying pundits and columnists. How dare Bezos interfere with his paper’s partisan propaganda just because it was losing money by the millions? Many of my mentally ill friends announced that they would boycott Amazon in vengeance.
I’m thrilled to be able to inform my miserable friends, relatives and colleagues that they now have a reason to buck up. The Post may be gutted, but whatever remains in the ruins is still dishonest, unethical, biased and as partisan as ever.
In a story three days ago headlined, “Outside White House, hundreds protest attack on Iran, urge end to conflict,” the Post highlighted a protest that broke out near the White House hours after “Epic Fury” began. The reports chose to explain the event though the eyes of Ermiya Fanaeian, “a 25-year-old PhD candidate in political science at Howard University” whom the Post introduced as a young woman who “has lived in the United States since she was 1, but still has family in her home country of Iran.”
As “word spread of attacks there by Israel and the U.S.,” Post reporters Jasmine Golden and Liam Scott wrote, Fanaeian “grew concerned about her relatives and other Iranians” and “decided to protest the military action.” “It hits close to home,” Fanaeian was quoted as saying. “I also know that the people in Iran are the ones who are going to experience the most, the biggest consequences from these attacks.”
Poor Ermiya! This is the news media playing the cognitive dissonance game. Let’s watch the President’s attack on an international villain and purveyor of terrorism that has been declaring “Death to America!” and planning death to Israel for decades, as filtered through the emotions of an innocent young female student worried about her family.
Ethics Alarms 
“Sometimes violence, protest, and really riots and those kinds of loud rebellions must take place for tangible change,” Fanaeian said in an interview she gave as a student at the University of Utah, according to the New York Post.
New wine in old skins? You’ve got to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Old wine in new skins? Old wines in old skins? How did Marxism become an aphrodisiac?
Armed queers?
“We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re ready to shoot you.”
“Sometimes violence, protest, and really riots and those kinds of loud rebellions must take place for tangible change.”
So…. she’s ok with the attacks on Iran?
The Washington Post gave a remarkable obituary about Khamenei:
“With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables.’ But like the uncompromising Khomeini, he opposed moderates’ efforts to promote political and social reforms domestically and to secure rapprochement with the United States.”
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/02/you-dont-hate-media-enough-nyt-wapo-remember-ayatollah-as-cleric-with-easy-smile/
““With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables.’ “
So, basically, he was Santa Claus.
In a culture motivated and driven by propaganda narratives, populations are trained in derivative versions of the “two minute hate” (Orwell). It is a shared activity, deeply emoted and psychological, where an “enemy” is located and in group sessions a visceral anger is directed toward the proper hated object. The function is to exteriorize “the shadow” onto an object and personality separate from oneself, and what is uniquely useful is if that hated enemy is seen as aligned with or manifesting “Satan” and Satan’s nefarious actions which can be hallucinated as anywhere and everywhere apparent.
Now with that said it is obvious to the discerning individual that Khamenei really was aligned with a diabolic power. You only have to look carefully at his eyes to see the Dark One there lurking. Or notice his hands which have the features of claws.
Joking aside, one should at least be aware the degree of Biblical and prophetic projection going on around everything surrounding Judea, Jerusalem, the wars and conflicts in the Middle East, and the notion of return of the Jewish messiah (a national warlord charismatic) and the tie to the Christian notion of “final wars” and the return of Jesus in balls of flame, etc. It is a big deal among the ultra-orthodox in Israel and as well among both the Muslim and Christian believers.
I came across this. Mourning for Khamenei in Dearborn, Michigan.
https://www.memri.org/tv/dearborn-shiite-mosque-khamenei-memorial-devil-lucifer
Now this is a very interesting video essay by (I gather) a Muslim woman in the soil of the America that she (I also gather) holds in contempt. This is “theology in action” and you can find almost the exact corresponding theological rhetoric among the ultra-haredim and Christian Evangelical fanatics. (Like that lunatic who wished Israel to drop a “big old missile” on the Dome of the Rock so the Third Temple could be rebuilt and so Jesus would (be forced to?) come back.)
https://www.memri.org/tv/dearborn-rights-khamenei-martyrdom%20spiritual%20guide
I do appreciate that the Post and other leftist sources think the tens of thousands of Iranian protesters killed by their own government are not noteworthy or important.