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by John Cole|  November 14, 200910:41 am| 44 Comments

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I honestly have no idea what the “transnational left” is, but anything that pisses off NRO birther and all around insane person Andy McCarthy is alright by me.

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  1. 1.

    Brascal

    November 14, 2009 at 10:47 am

    My guess is that they are wearing out the synonym dictionary at NRO and needed a new qualifier for the fascist/liberal/socialist/communist/sodomite/freeloading Left.

    Expect to see more innovations soon.

    “…as is often defended by the ‘answers-cell-phone-at-the-theater’ Left….”

  2. 2.

    General Winfield Stuck

    November 14, 2009 at 10:48 am

    I read that little opus from the wingnut asylum. All I can say is McCarthy ought to keep a look out for the men in white coats carrying a net. Crazy mofo, that one.

  3. 3.

    me

    November 14, 2009 at 10:49 am

    Aren’t those the people who believe we should live in the world without trying to blow up the rest of it?

  4. 4.

    dSquib

    November 14, 2009 at 10:49 am

    My grandparents were members of the Fourth International, and also believed that terrorists should be tried in civilian courts. McCarthy is on to something.

  5. 5.

    dmsilev

    November 14, 2009 at 10:49 am

    I first read that as ‘transactional left’, and was wondering for a bit what that meant. “I’ll gay-marry you if you promise to vote for a Giant Tax Hike.”

    -dms

  6. 6.

    DougJ

    November 14, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Doesn’t the “Transnational Left” do that annoying orchestral version of “Bells” that comes on the radio this time of year?

  7. 7.

    Anoniminous

    November 14, 2009 at 11:00 am

    I suppose “transnational Left” is a bat-whistle¹ of some kind. If I cared to know I’d roust through the Right Wing sites to see.

    I don’t. So I won’t.

    ¹ like a “dog whistle” only more shrill and thus only ‘hear-able’ to Palinists, Tea Baggers, & etc.

  8. 8.

    4tehlulz

    November 14, 2009 at 11:00 am

    >>no idea what the “transnational left

    See also International Jew George Soros.

  9. 9.

    4tehlulz

    November 14, 2009 at 11:01 am

    Derp. Strikethrough didn’t work, but that works too.

  10. 10.

    Michael

    November 14, 2009 at 11:03 am

    Transnational Left=Space Jews

  11. 11.

    Third Eye Open

    November 14, 2009 at 11:08 am

    They figured us out folks. Time to pack it in.

  12. 12.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    November 14, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Transnational Left

  13. 13.

    cleek

    November 14, 2009 at 11:11 am

    my family always sings La Transnationale, every December 25 (Karlmas), right before we burn the sacrificial Capitalist on the altar of Equality. it helps purify our hearts for the Purging Of The Bourgeois we aim to carry out in the coming year, should St George Of Soros deem it necessary.

  14. 14.

    kay

    November 14, 2009 at 11:17 am

    [T]he great hope of the terror-backing neo-communist left, at home and worldwide, is that the Obama administration will continue to build a case for torture trials for former Bush administration officials.”

    It’s just same-old, same-old, but you have to read a lot of tripe to get there.
    They’re terrified of torture trials. Like the memos and the photos and the rest, this all goes back to them, as individuals.
    They want military tribunals because there’s no transparency, but it isn’t about national security, it’s about protecting Dick Cheney’s fat ass.

  15. 15.

    valdivia

    November 14, 2009 at 11:22 am

    @DougJ:

    LOL that is the transsiberain orchestra!

  16. 16.

    El Cid

    November 14, 2009 at 11:40 am

    In cases in which “left” (= revolutionary Mao politically correct Pol Pot) isn’t evil enough, you add on “transnational” to suggest that such types aren’t as truly committed to USA FIRST as of course all right wingers are, and you may betray your nation in order to be more like Holland and then the American experiment will die because you hippie left internationalist traitors let all the Muslims kill us simply because of Paris envy.

  17. 17.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    November 14, 2009 at 11:40 am

    @Michael:
    May the schwartz be with you.

  18. 18.

    Citizen_X

    November 14, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Sigh. Trans-Siberian, hell. Must I be the first to put up this?

  19. 19.

    Little Dreamer

    November 14, 2009 at 11:56 am

    @valdivia:

    and Orly Taitz is the transsiberian anarchist!

  20. 20.

    Xenos

    November 14, 2009 at 11:57 am

    Transnational = Jewish, as in rootless cosmopolitans, and so on.

    From the Wiki link above:

    Rootless cosmopolitan (Russian language: безродный космополит, “bezrodniy kosmopolit”) was a Soviet euphemism widely used during Joseph Stalin’s antisemitic campaign of 1949–1953, which culminated in the “exposure” of the alleged Doctors’ plot. The term “rootless cosmopolitan” referred mostly (but not only) to Jewish intellectuals, as an accusation in their lack of patriotism, i.e., lack of full allegiance to the Soviet Union. The expression was first coined by Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky to describe writers who lacked national character.

    The cornerites are well into the realm of Stalinism by now.

  21. 21.

    Jamey

    November 14, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    “Transnational Left”? Wasn’t that one of Art Vandelay‘s businesses?

  22. 22.

    Xenos

    November 14, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    @El Cid: “Paris Envy” – I’ll admit to a serious case of that by now. How to ease those Stupak blues…

    A week in Paris will ease the bite of it,
    all I care is to smile in spite of it

  23. 23.

    valdivia

    November 14, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    @Little Dreamer:
    double LOL.

  24. 24.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    November 14, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    @Xenos:

    The cornerites are well into the realm of Stalinism by now.

    So let me see if I’ve got this straight [checks scorecard]. The neocon movement, which has intellectual roots in disaffected 1960s era Trotskyism before it turned hard right a few decades back, is now throwing around recycled Stalin era anti-Semitic slurs, while simultaneously demanding that the US bomb Iran on behalf of Israel?

    Talk about “Do not try this at home. Trained proferssionals only…“. Are there any sort of double-jointed ideological gynmastics these folks are not capable of? Can we make cognitive dissonance an Olympic sport and clean up in the medal rounds with Team USA?

  25. 25.

    Anoniminous

    November 14, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Oh, jesus … the Hudson Institute.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ @ 24

    Yup.

    Over the last 30 – 40 years there has been a switch in positions between the “Left” and the “Right” wrt Foreign Interventionism. It used to be the non-communist Left who was all agog for bombing the shit outta brown people. Now it’s the Right. Naturally, those heavily invested in bombing the shit outta brown people easily moved from one camp to the other.

    And the pay was better, which didn’t hurt.

  26. 26.

    The Bearded Blogger

    November 14, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ: Wait until they blend scientology with mormonism, hard right free market liberalism and totalitarian maoism!

    It will be cool.

  27. 27.

    Demo Woman

    November 14, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    And the intelligence bounty will make our enemies more efficient at killing us.

    Andy, Intelligence officials actually knew that they planned on attacking us and they did do a pretty efficient job. Asshole!!!
    Maybe if they had used the intelligence they had they could have locked the cockpit doors.

  28. 28.

    Demo Woman

    November 14, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    When Bush pulled troops out of Afghanistan, did Andy complain? I don’t remember the neocons of TV questioning the judgment of the President during that time.

  29. 29.

    Bubblegum Tate

    November 14, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    @Xenos:

    Transnational = Jewish, as in rootless cosmopolitans, and so on.

    It’s Jews AND commies. And yes George Soros is the leader.

    In a way, I admire the economy of the term. It ties together so many far-spreading right-wing conspiracy theories–“Teh Joooooooooos!” “Teh Soshulists!” and “One-world government!”

  30. 30.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    November 14, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    @The Bearded Blogger: For Xenu sent his only begotten sons Adam and Joseph Smith..

  31. 31.

    Hob

    November 14, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    This has been a noticeable part of Freeper cult-speak for at least the last few years– don’t know who popularized it most, but it makes sense that (per Wikipedia) it was coined in 2001 to rally the ClintonGoreSoros-was-the-devil crowd. The seriously far-gone wingnuts say “tranzi” for maximum irony points.

  32. 32.

    noncarborundum

    November 14, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    -testing- -testing-

  33. 33.

    slag

    November 14, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    I honestly have no idea what the “transnational left” is

    So, you haven’t seen our commercials then? “Transnational Left: We love to ally and it shows”.

  34. 34.

    Shell

    November 14, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    McCarthy. Isn’t he the guy who thinks Orly Taitz is too squirrely for the Birther movement?

  35. 35.

    Martin

    November 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    ‘Transnational left’ refers to the people that don’t think the UN Building should have a 747 flown into it and all the people that work there tried for crimes against humanity and executed. Basically anyone to the left of John Bolton.

  36. 36.

    Suicidal Zebra

    November 14, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    Funny, I know a couple of UK right-wing bloggers who have been using ‘Tranzi’ to describe the British left for a long time.

    Or it may have just been the pro-EU British left.

    Anyway, I don’t think it’s a term used exclusively by those that subscribe to the Global Jewish Banking Conspiracy meme.

  37. 37.

    Chuck Butcher

    November 14, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    One World Government was its previous incarnation

  38. 38.

    bago

    November 14, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: That is too much win for just one god.

  39. 39.

    JenJen

    November 14, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    I’m still laughing at lefarkins referring to Andy McCarthy as “Blane McDonnagh.” Ha!

  40. 40.

    Hob

    November 14, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    I know history is for gay commie nerds etc., but just how much ignorance/chutzpah does it require for someone to pretend that not being nationalist is somehow a feature of an especially sinister and ambitious new strain of leftism… rather than pretty much a common trait of nearly every leftist movement ever, except for the ones that were power-hungry and violent enough to take over a national government?

    I mean, if you get rid of the “transnational” leftists, you’re left with the likes of Robespierre and Stalin. Those are guys who would actually kill you or throw you in a gulag for being a capitalist pig (among other reasons), but they sure did respect the motherland– so, would Andy McCarthy be cool with that, if the alternative was to be ruled by the monstrous “world citizen” junta of George Soros and Woody Guthrie? Maybe if they wore flag pins?

  41. 41.

    Wile E. Quixote

    November 14, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Transnational Left == Zionist Occupational Government

    Andy has to be careful because there’s a fine line between harshing on the evil self-hatin’ Jooz of the ZOG (George Soros, everyone in Hollywood, Barack Obama (any day know we’ll learn that in addition to being a Muslim and a Kenyan that President Obama is also a self-hating Jew.)) and the good Jooz who want to make the Middle East safe for white Christoids and teh Book of Revelationz (Billy Kristol, Dr. Strangehammer, Jonah Goldberg, the chosen people over at AIPAC, etc) by killing all of those icky brown people who worship Allah and if he goes over that line Dr. Strangehammer will run his toes over with his wheelchair.

  42. 42.

    Jay C

    November 14, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Like I said over at LGM – the real fear that gets the more intellectual of the wingnuts’ drawers soiled like no other is the prospect that open trials for terrorists will expose the fundamental bogosity of the Bush Administration’s whole “War on Terror” shtick: the bottom-line excuse that any and all abuses – of any type – can be excused or condoned on the grounds that it was all done to “protect America”. The sight of the desired result (terrorists convicted and tossed in slam) being done according to the rules – and not just at the whim of Fearless Leader -would be just too much to bear.

  43. 43.

    Wile E. Quixote

    November 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    So let me see if I’ve got this straight [checks scorecard]. The neocon movement, which has intellectual roots in disaffected 1960s era Trotskyism before it turned hard right a few decades back, is now throwing around recycled Stalin era anti-Semitic slurs, while simultaneously demanding that the US bomb Iran on behalf of Israel?So let me see if I’ve got this straight [checks scorecard]. The neocon movement, which has intellectual roots in disaffected 1960s era Trotskyism before it turned hard right a few decades back, is now throwing around recycled Stalin era anti-Semitic slurs, while simultaneously demanding that the US bomb Iran on behalf of Israel?

    You forgot the irony of the fact that the Republicans are all concentrated in the red states now and hang out at RedState, but that 50 years ago they were the ones screaming “Better dead than red”. None of this matters though because cognition is a pre-requisite for cognitive dissonance, and when it comes to cognition and Republicans and conservatives and the hate-filled morons of the right, well, there is no there, there.

  44. 44.

    snarkout

    November 15, 2009 at 12:15 am

    don’t know who popularized it most

    Steven den B/este, if memory serves, came up with “tranzi”.

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