Althouse: "I thought this was Putin."

November 9, 2019

"I thought this was Putin."

I thought this was Putin. https://t.co/hOuQSmVPpn
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) November 9, 2019

110 comments:

madAsHell said...: They even managed to capture that constant constipated scold in her eye's.; 11/9/19, 1:18 PM
wendybar said...: He's kinda right...it looks like him. I heard they SPRAY painted this mural. So much for the environment when you are a cult, huh???; 11/9/19, 1:22 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: Bet it’s gone in a year.; 11/9/19, 1:24 PM
chuck said...: Little sister is watching you.; 11/9/19, 1:25 PM
Shane said...: One man's Putin is another's climate extremist.; 11/9/19, 1:26 PM
Danno said...: They're both "little" dictators. But at least Putin was supposedly elected.; 11/9/19, 1:28 PM
ALP said...: This season's South Park is over and I will never forgive them for leaving Greta alone.; 11/9/19, 1:29 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Hah - the idiots of San Francisco painted over a nice mural of George Washington and put up a mural of a propagandizing 12-year old babbling passionately about shit she doesn't know or understand.

This is the modern Democrat Party at its finest. An ahistorical collection of wackos.

Anyone here still voting Democrat?; 11/9/19, 1:30 PM
RK said...: She even looks like a scold.; 11/9/19, 1:31 PM
Wince said...: How can they not see the creepiness of this spoiled little brat?

"And you people are supposed to be sensitive and sharp?"; 11/9/19, 1:33 PM
Ken B said...: Ha! Nice.

Seriously though, this is odious and depraved. It is worship of Big Sister. You Are Being Watched. It is medieval in its fetish of teenaged prophets and visionaries. It is part of the politics of emotion over reason.

And you shouldn’t use kids as shields, which is what this is doing.especially kids with a history of mental disturbances.

If anything makes me think Buwaya is right and we have gone past the point of no return — which most days I do not believe — this is it.; 11/9/19, 1:36 PM
FullMoon said...: I wonder if she will continue to be an item. Also, David Hogg. Hogg may get into politics and be around forever as I believe he has connections. Greta may be autistic and will fade when her backers have got maximum benefit from her.

Have to admit it took a search to recollect the name 'Cindy Sheehan', who was seemingly very important for quite awhile, until they were done with her.

Of course, things are different now, with much more mass communication so she, and he, may be in the public eye for years and years.; 11/9/19, 1:36 PM
Patrick said...: Little sister is watching; 11/9/19, 1:36 PM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: I can't wait to see what the graffiti will look like :-); 11/9/19, 1:37 PM
Darrell said...: How dare you!; 11/9/19, 1:38 PM
Ken B said...: Wrong Andrew tag. Should be Andrew Yin.; 11/9/19, 1:40 PM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Are they going to fly her out to view the unveiling?; 11/9/19, 1:44 PM
dgstock said...: Good Lord. Add a mustache and she could pass for Big Brother. And how many cans of paint aerosol were used?; 11/9/19, 1:44 PM
ALP said...: I grew up in a artsy-type household. I mention this so you know why I was thinking about the kind of images I liked or did not while young. Early on I decided I did not like portraits. Hate hate hate having a face stare at me from the wall. THIS is disturbing.

One wonders how long before graffiti shows up and what that will do to Greta's mental state. Because we all know any defacing will go viral.

Would love to see another image on the next building over, side view, scowling at her.; 11/9/19, 1:46 PM
The Bergall said...: Nope. It's Wednesday Addams.; 11/9/19, 1:49 PM
Static Ping said...: Big Sister is watching you.

I'm starting to understand why Orwell thought 1984 to be plausible.; 11/9/19, 1:52 PM
tcrosse said...: It's enough to make you shit on the sidewalk.; 11/9/19, 1:57 PM
whitney said...: I just did an image search of Putin and got that same part of this face and it's pretty stunning. I guess it's the same area the world they probably have a lot of DNA in common. He has a better nose than she does; 11/9/19, 2:10 PM
whitney said...: ALP said...
This season's South Park is over and I will never forgive them for leaving Greta alone.

No it's not. They just faked you out with the name of the episode; 11/9/19, 2:13 PM
Bilwick said...: Creepier than the Obama Youth Choir--and that's going some.; 11/9/19, 2:14 PM
Rory said...: It seems that in Europe people are hanging up little Greta photos in common kitchens, so she can see who's using plastic utensils.

Seriously, why would anyone want to live with people who volunteer to make a culture like this? Even if they're subdued, there's no peace in that. They should be encouraged to found their own crazy little city-states post haste.; 11/9/19, 2:16 PM
gspencer said...: Looks like one of those creepy dolls.

Here's a similar one,

https://www.kxl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/creepy-doll-3-Copy-640x360.jpg

If the producers of those scary elevator videos (most come from Brazil) ever need a new face, Greta will fill the bill,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUD4cuTQn2E; 11/9/19, 2:23 PM
TJM said...: San Francisco should be designated an insane asylum and be walled off from the rest of the state; 11/9/19, 2:30 PM
tim maguire said...: Their oracle is an autistic teenager. What is broken in their brains that they can’t see what’s wrong here?

More and more when I hear liberals go on about whatever excites them today, I’m reminded of Appalachian snake handlers and children of the corn.; 11/9/19, 2:31 PM
chickelit said...: Said Thunberg: "You gotta be Putin' me on."; 11/9/19, 2:42 PM
daskol said...: Teenage Hate Stare...not a terrible band name.; 11/9/19, 2:57 PM
rcocean said...: Big Sister is watching you. SF shows the problem with Liberals. There aren't that many left-wing crazies in SF, but they rule the City because the Liberals won't fight them. They don't like the side-effects of Left-wing rule, homeless, crime, weird murals, etc. - BUT they have typical "No enemies to the Left" philosophy that paralyzes them. All the Crazy Lefty has to do, is say "Y'know, that's just what Trump or Limbaugh would say" and the Liberal skulks away in shame. Its why every Revolution led or co-led by Liberals ends up with Commies or Robespierre in charge.; 11/9/19, 2:57 PM
rcocean said...: Don't be a Russian Asset - Stop Climate Change.

Expected Subtitle.; 11/9/19, 2:58 PM
YoungHegelian said...: San Francisco. Doing its aesthetic part to make sure that Soviet Socialist Realism looks good by comparison.; 11/9/19, 3:05 PM
JAORE said...: "Tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs to me".; 11/9/19, 3:07 PM
Mark said...: Has anyone ever seen them together at the same time?

Hmm.; 11/9/19, 3:23 PM
RLB_IV said...: Europeans have weird fantasies. She's not the modern age Joan of Arc.; 11/9/19, 3:29 PM
wildswan said...: Remember this?

"If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair"

I guess there's a new vibration in San Francisco. A whole generation with a new explanation.; 11/9/19, 3:35 PM
wildswan said...: Remember this?

"If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair"

I guess there's a new vibration in San Francisco. A whole generation with a new explanation.; 11/9/19, 3:35 PM
MeatPopscicle1234 said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/9/19, 3:37 PM
cubanbob said...: Putin looks more human than Greta's image on the mural. Weird cult going on there.; 11/9/19, 3:37 PM
Rosalyn C. said...: The child icons of our age: Greta and the 11 year old drag queen, Desmond is Amazing. Creepy. WTF IDK. Reseach shows that the earth is wobbling more than usual, along with all the rest of the changes. Don't blame the kids if they are turning out weird.; 11/9/19, 3:38 PM
wildswan said...: Under the picture it's going to say "Epstein killed himself"; 11/9/19, 3:40 PM
Lazarus said...: My guess was Madame Blavatsky. Same round face. Same penetrating stare.; 11/9/19, 3:41 PM
n.n said...: Whereas the [catastrophic] [anthropogenic] global warming Propheteers ride the carbon wave, Putin was last observed riding a Ritz cracker, mitigating the progress of catastrophic anthropogenic immigration reform and other social justice reforms.; 11/9/19, 3:41 PM
Jimmy said...: fascinating to watch Western culture commit suicide. The leftists, aided and abetted by the Universities, the intellectuals, corporations and the media. A group of mostly white, spoiled, wealthy, healthy comfortable people, enjoying the benefits of thousands of years of toil, respond to living in the most advanced civilization in history, not by being grateful, but by self loathing, self hatred, and a willingness to embrace totalitarianism.
The entire world is getting better. It is safer, more prosperous, than at anytime in history. Capitalism has brought more people out of poverty, and into the middle class than any system in memory.
Yet Professors preach the joys of socialism,communism. and there is no push back from anyone.
yeah, so let us manufacture a fake crisis, whether it is the impeachment ofTrump, or climate change, or racism.
If you are sane and rational, this continued assault is astounding.
beware the wrath of patient men(and women).; 11/9/19, 3:41 PM
n.n said...: I'm starting to understand why Orwell thought 1984 to be plausible.

It's plausible and perspicacious. 2024 is imminent.; 11/9/19, 3:44 PM
reader said...: I see a young Bela Lugosi.; 11/9/19, 4:12 PM
mockturtle said...: "Caught the attention of the world" meaning she and her inane preaching has been pushed down our reluctant throats like castor oil.; 11/9/19, 4:13 PM
mockturtle said...: JAORE observes: "Tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs to me".

Glad I'm not the only who who has made this connection.; 11/9/19, 4:14 PM
Milwaukie guy said...: Earth's wobble? It is the imminent coming of the magnetic poles flipping. Repent!; 11/9/19, 4:17 PM
Jersey Fled said...: The end times are truly upon us.; 11/9/19, 4:26 PM
madAsHell said...: Is it just me

No!; 11/9/19, 4:29 PM
tim maguire said...: Morkoth4682 said...
Is it just me, or does her face not remind you of some stern, cruel nurse or taskmaster who takes delight in her application of he state-sanctioned torture disguised as for your own good, ala 1984?

Actually, she reminds me of a humanoid robot from AI.

She is in the uncanny valley.; 11/9/19, 4:29 PM
madAsHell said...: Under the picture it's going to say "Epstein killed himself"

"This is why Epstein killed himself"......FIFY; 11/9/19, 4:31 PM
traditionalguy said...: Good take. The Swedes and the white Russians are both of viking descent.; 11/9/19, 4:31 PM
Iman said...: She lives on Poop Street
Glowers on on Poop Street
She’s on a wall and mural
Little scolding Swedish meatball; 11/9/19, 4:32 PM
rcocean said...: I left my brain in San Francisco
High on a mural, it calls to me
Where all the Commie arts, Climb halfway to the stars
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care; 11/9/19, 4:34 PM
Ken B said...: “Tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs to me”
My new response to “OK boomer”.; 11/9/19, 4:37 PM
Iman said...: Little sister, don't you
Little sister, don't you
Little sister, don't you scold me once or twice
Then say I’ll pay a price
And then you shun
Little sister, don't you
Know what it’s like to have fun; 11/9/19, 4:41 PM
stan said...: Sad child with severe mental problems becomes the poster child for the insane Left. Bizarre.; 11/9/19, 4:41 PM
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...: Supposedly, it's 700 gallons of aerosolized paint. Now asthmatics' inhalers are officially a cause of climate change -- er, "climate crisis"; the word keeps changing. I don't think that Greta really needs her vast portrait quite as much as people need to breathe. Or cows to fart, come to that ...; 11/9/19, 4:47 PM
Jim at said...: A scowling 12-year-old is going to shame us into ignoring 4.6 billion years of history.

Yeah. OK.; 11/9/19, 4:51 PM
Orly said...: Needs a Hitler mustache.; 11/9/19, 5:09 PM
Yancey Ward said...: chuck sees the same thing I saw in the mural- Big Brother. If you position the mural on the front page with the top of the screen just above the eyes, it does look like Putin a lot.; 11/9/19, 5:12 PM
ALP said...: whitney at 2:13 -

Praise Jeebus! I was hoping they were psyching us out with the episode name but was too traumatized to look. Ah, there is still hope!; 11/9/19, 5:13 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "it's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes" --Quint; 11/9/19, 5:20 PM
Beth B said...: And the people bowed and prayed
To the nagging god they'd made...; 11/9/19, 5:28 PM
Drago said...: stan: "Sad child with severe mental problems becomes the poster child for the insane Left. Bizarre."

Correction!

Sad child with severe mental problems becomes the poster child for the insane Left. Inevitable and entirely predictable.

The only thing missing is greta waving her little red book in the face of citizens as they are hauled away for "re-education".; 11/9/19, 5:33 PM
FullMoon said...: “Tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs to me”
My new response to “OK boomer”.

How about:
HOW DARE YOU!; 11/9/19, 5:35 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: I see Mayor Pete.; 11/9/19, 5:56 PM
Brad said...: "You vill be made to care."

It sounds better in the original German.; 11/9/19, 6:06 PM
Unknown said...: Someone tell the left
1984 was a warning

not a plan; 11/9/19, 6:33 PM
gilbar said...: tomorrow belongs to me

never forget; Sweden was Basically a German Ally in WWII. They Claimed 'neutrality', which THEY SAID meant they could sell war materials to the nazis.
See that Panzer Tank? Guess war Germany got the Steel?; 11/9/19, 6:36 PM
Unknown said...: subtitle:

"I'm not stopping with global warming..."; 11/9/19, 6:37 PM
Jupiter said...: Can someone explain to me what it is that this activist is active at? I gather that she addressed the UN, and now she's trying to figure out how to get back to Europe without her boat. But I don't get why she is supposed to be famous. Hss she actually done anything? Written a book? Sung a song? Done a little dance? She seems kind of like a Kardashian, a celebrity because she celebrates herself. Is she an "influencer"?

I guess it doesn't matter, we'll all be dead in a week or two anyway, right?; 11/9/19, 7:08 PM
mockturtle said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/9/19, 7:09 PM
Howard said...: You people are afraid of a little girl.; 11/9/19, 7:11 PM
mockturtle said...: BTW, that mural is downright creepy. Nightmare-inducing. Village of the Damned writ large. VERY large.; 11/9/19, 7:16 PM
tastid212 said...: true.
is vlad on the spectrum? legit q.; 11/9/19, 7:19 PM
pious agnostic said...: Man, pretty cool that Animal House was in your school curriculum. We had to watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High.; 11/9/19, 7:53 PM
gilbar said...: mockturtle said...
I read Nineteen Eighty-four while in HS, as did most of my friends. While it wasn't in our school curriculum, Animal FARM was.
fify (i hope*)

I hope* though; that would be COOLER THAN SHIT (and! a little bit creepy) if your mid 1960's high school assigned, as reading material, movies from the early 1980's; 11/9/19, 8:09 PM
gilbar said...: Jupiter said...
But I don't get why she is supposed to be famous. Has she actually done anything? Written a book? Sung a song?

She's like THE ULTIMATE DEATH METAL SINGER, of ALL TIME , she's got that hit song
How DARE You; 11/9/19, 8:13 PM
chickelit said...: gilbar said...See that Panzer Tank? Guess war Germany got the Steel?

It was iron ore the Germans lacked and Sweden had. Other sources had been blockaded. The Baltic was relatively safe of the German merchant marine. They had plenty of coal and steelmaking capacity until the RAF bombed the shit of Essen and the Ruhrgebiet.; 11/9/19, 8:13 PM
Gospace said...: My son pointed out to me last night that her facial features indicate fetal alcohol syndrome. For whatever reason, what those features are I was unaware of. Until just now, when I looked them up because of this post.

He's not wrong.; 11/9/19, 8:18 PM
mockturtle said...: Yes, I meant Animal Farm. :-D LOL! Man, I hate it when I can't correct something immediately.; 11/9/19, 8:26 PM
mockturtle said...: I read Nineteen Eighty-four while in HS, as did most of my friends. While it wasn't in our school curriculum, Animal Farm was. Back in those days [mid 1960's] schools still seemed to want kids to think. We read many of the classics, for which I feel blessed, considering the tripe thrown at kids today under the guise of 'literature'.

Reposted after correction. Although the unedited version was funnier...; 11/9/19, 8:31 PM
mockturtle said...: Actually, Animal House might have been appropriate since the class was called 'College Prep Lit'. ;-); 11/9/19, 8:35 PM
elkh1 said...: Poor Greta, all downhill from here.; 11/9/19, 8:42 PM
stephen cooper said...: Gospace - Mickey Rooney had the same problem.
So did John Cheever, and the actress known as Rose Marie.
Feel free to look them up on google images - it is really sad to see the similarities.

It is fairly common among Native Americans, too, but none of those who suffer from it are famous, as far as I know.

The reason the poor young person is so angry is because she knows she has been dealt a bad deal in life.

It is easier for her to say "how dare you" to people who she considers unenlightened on an obscure scientific subject (a subject of which she can not possibly have any real understanding) than it would be for her to realize that her parents have been complicit in ruining her best chances for happiness since before she was born.

The suffering of people who live in a post-Christian world can be very severe.; 11/9/19, 8:44 PM
n.n said...: "You vill be made to care."

It sounds better in the original German.

They're doing that with planned parenthood a.k.a. selective-child. There are judges ruling that medical professionals must operate abortion chambers and provide reproductive health rites ("wicked solution") to remove "burdens". You will be a Good American.; 11/9/19, 8:47 PM
n.n said...: is vlad on the spectrum?

Transgender? Probably not. He was married, with children. He's been dating feminine females exclusively.; 11/9/19, 8:51 PM
TheDude said...: daksol @ 2:57

“ Teenage Hate Stare...not a terrible band name.”

I think I saw them open for Tool and Toad the Wet Sprocket in the midx90s.; 11/9/19, 9:14 PM
Rusty said...: chickelit said...
"gilbar said...See that Panzer Tank? Guess war Germany got the Steel?

It was iron ore the Germans lacked and Sweden had. Other sources had been blockaded. The Baltic was relatively safe of the German merchant marine. They had plenty of coal and steelmaking capacity until the RAF bombed the shit of Essen and the Ruhrgebiet."
it wasn't so much the iron ore but the chromium,cobalt and nickle the needed to make armor plate.; 11/9/19, 9:15 PM
Kevin said...: She’s the world’s Elf On The Shelf.; 11/9/19, 9:45 PM
Sheridan said...: No, Howard. It's the people who allow themselves to be influenced by the Gretas of the left who are the most concerning. Would you follow Greta on her children's crusade?; 11/9/19, 9:46 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

Bet it’s gone in a year.

Bet she'll acquire a Hitler mustache in 6 weeks.; 11/9/19, 11:34 PM
Blair said...: Greta is so far ahead of her time. Normally that sort of resting bitchface takes years of wearied hatred to perfect.; 11/10/19, 12:59 AM
walter said...: Should be duly noted on the SF shit mApp.; 11/10/19, 1:11 AM
West Texas Intermediate Crude said...: Nurse Ratched.; 11/10/19, 5:42 AM
Tina Trent said...: I would think that if autistic people tweezed their eyebrows at all, they would take them off completely.

I get to say this because I'm so bad at handling the niceities of womanliness that the only eyeshadow I have (and still very occasionally use) was purchased when Son of Sam was still terrorizing New York City.; 11/10/19, 7:37 AM
wendybar said...: They only used over 700 gallons of aerosol spray paint to do this mural....so much for the environment.....; 11/10/19, 8:53 AM
Ken B said...: Howard
If she is a little girl, she shouldn’t be used this way. Your moral blindness is on display here.; 11/10/19, 9:04 AM
Sam L. said...: Well, it IS in Frisco, so what difference does it make?; 11/10/19, 9:49 AM
Michael K said...: Howard, nobody on the right/ climate reality side is afraid of her. We pity her. She is being used and doesn't know enough to get home and grow up.; 11/10/19, 11:34 AM
crescentcityconnection said...: Little Greta, future president of the junior anti-sex league.; 11/10/19, 11:46 AM
crescentcityconnection said...: Little Greta, future president of the junior anti-sex league.; 11/10/19, 11:47 AM
Jim at said...: You people are afraid of a little girl.

Once again, Howard mistakes mocking for fear.; 11/10/19, 1:46 PM
McCackie said...: It does look like Putin! For me she will be called mini-he.; 11/10/19, 4:26 PM
Bunkypotatohead said...: They're gonna have to paint over it in 12 years.; 11/10/19, 4:30 PM