I hear the Barbie movie is a woke-fest – but it is making huge money, likely because they didn’t push it as a woke-fest. Gotta say that’s some clever marketing…Barbie, of course, having huge market just on the name so large numbers of little girls and their parents would go see it if they thought it was just a Barbie movie. We’ll see how it does long-term as the woke comes out.
The other big movie release is Oppenheimer – which I am suspecting is a good movie based on Nolan directing; he usually doesn’t disappoint. I bet, though, it will have all that nuclear weapons angst which Soviet propaganda generated during the Cold War to make sure the USA never pressed its overwhelming advantage in nuclear weapons. The other aspect to look for is just how much they explore Oppenheimer’s Communist connections. I figure if Oppenheimer, himself, had been a Commie that would have come out some time after the end of the Cold War…so, he probably wasn’t a card-carrying member. But his social and professional connections were shot through with Commies. Of course, part of that was the times: the intellectual class, which has always been a little stupid in practical affairs, fell hook, line and sinker for Communism in the first half of the 20th century. A portion of them woke up about it but not before the damage was done – not just in allowing spies to run wild, but also the deep infiltration of American institutions, public and private, by Communists.
We’ve talked about atomic bombs before so I’ll just briefly re-state: it is just a big bomb. The only legitimate hesitation in using one is the immense amount of death and destruction it causes. That is, do you need to destroy that city and end all those lives? In a lot of war situations, you simply would not have to and so use would be gratuitous and immoral. But in the context of Japan in 1945, there was at that point no other way out for us or the Japanese. It was either fight it out conventionally at the cost of millions of lives (mostly Japanese but quite a lot of American and allied as well) or blow up a couple cities at the cost of a couple hundred thousand lives and end it. Whether or not we and the Japanese should have got ourselves into that predicament is an entirely separate issue – and not just in Japan’s decision to attack, but our decision to demand unconditional surrender in 1942…my view is that we should never have done that and should have opened negotiations in 1943 after the Battle of the Philippine Sea for a peace deal which got Japan out of the Philippines and China proper but left the Japanese Empire intact as a counter balance to Russia and China.
But, such wasn’t to be. And because we had Commies and because we got ourselves jammed with Japan…we were pretty much prevented from using nukes during the Korean War when the obvious best way to get the Chinese out of Korea was an ultimatum to get out or Shanghai gets nuked.
The latest trope in the Reparations issue is the insistence that “black people built America”. I see it more and more often – so, you see, we owe it! As I’ve discussed before, there is an injustice here which can be corrected without inflicting a new injustice – that is, out of the national wealth (public lands and mineral rights, mostly) provide funds to the descendants of slaves in order to help them catch up given their ancestors were illegally prevented from building wealth at all from 1776 to 1865 and then hampered in it from 1865 to 1965. But the concept that slaves built America is not just a lie, it is a stupid lie. Slave labor is a moral abomination and lousy economics.
The South was economically and intellectually backwards by 1861 – not just behind the North but massively behind and falling back further year by year. The Southern leadership thought they had the talisman of power in King Cotton but the fact of the matter is that by 1860 the agricultural products of free labor in the North were more valuable than what the whip could drag out of Southern soil. The whole project of the Confederacy was a con – I’m willing to concede that some of the leaders of the Confederacy conned themselves along with the mostly middle class soldiers who did most of the dying (that is North and South, by the way), but it was still a con. A stupid, regressive idea who’s only possible beneficiaries were the tiny class of wealthy slave drivers (who weren’t all that wealthy; they were heavily in debt because the costs of keeping slaves was very high). The leaders of the South would have been better off – and cost a lot less lives – if they had just freed their slaves and hired them.
But the main point here is that there was no building of America by slaves. Having slaves was probably a net economic loser for the USA as a whole. But if it did generate any net wealth, it was small and all of it was burned down in the Civil War. And you’d think black radicals would want to understand that slavery doesn’t work…but what they’re essentially saying is that it was the most effective economic system ever.
This is because they’re very, very stupid people.
Little bit of shift out there, guys. We dumped Bud Light and their sales are down like 30% or some such. The Left tried to shut down Jason Aldean for his latest song…and all it did was drive the tune to number one. We can win this. The more insane the Left gets, the harder it is for them to defend themselves and attack us.
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Democrat Strategist David Axelrod Warns Third-Party Bid Could Sink Biden’s Re-Election Hopes
Awwww. So sad. Just think—Dems being given a choice about who to vote for! While trying to deprive Republicans of the same right!
Ain’t it funny when reality turns on you and bites you on the butt?
Actually, the Dems have two threats, regarding unapproved candidates. RFK Jr is out there, looking to bleed off JFK-era voters and people who actually gave some thought to the Plandemic scam.
What’s funny is that West, the guy Axlerod is fretting about, is really just calling on black people to consider that the Democrats have been using them as livestock, feeding and training them so they can harvest them for votes. He still wants them to be Marxist, just AWARE Marxists.
And Kennedy wants them to still be socialists, just socialists questioning science orthodoxy.
In the meantime the rest of the Dems are still stuck on “Vote for Biden Because He Isn’t Trump”–which will still resonate with the Zombie Dems but might not carry the others.
And that, my friends, is the Democrat Party 2023. So inept and impotent that it is actually looking to Gavin Newsome (!) as a savior!
Spot on lol. Things aren’t going well for Democrats. Middle America is waking up to all their bullshit and saying enough.
I can’t say I’ve had THIS kind of reaction, but I admit to being attracted to smart people. (This does include a range of indifference to unsmart people to overt revulsion, depending on the level of stupidity and how much it includes malice and smugness.)
Sapiosexual: Person attracted to smart people
Don’t Let Corporatists and Central Planners Own You
Because I don’t just blindly accept what I am told, I’m going to look into what is presented here. For example, I did not know that there is a move by big corporations to buy private homes, outbidding average buyers.
(Author Carol Roth)……… skewers ESG for delivering low returns-on-investments (ROI), perpetuating green-flation in the form of higher energy prices, and distorting free-market enterprise by aggressively forcing behaviors on consumers. Its backers aren’t altruistic either: ESG, she argues, is simply a return on ego (ROE) for its ardent proponents, not a wise return-on-investment (ROI) for regular people.
ESG investing is potentially an antitrust violation and even its most stalwart backers are renouncing the acronym. And backlash from within corporate boardrooms could soon doom the movement.
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(She)…………also exposed the nefarious attack on home ownership by crony corporate buyers – namely the likes of Tricon Residential – who desire homebuyers to, instead, “rent the American dream.”
Firms like Tricon can heavily outbid first-time home (often Millennial) homebuyers, she notes, because they are “flush with Fed-enabled cheap capital and who can waive a whole host of purchasing requirements, including inspections or even viewing a home.”
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Roth not only warned about the “new financial world order’s” goal of separating us from property rights, money, wealth, and general freedoms, but also against those arguing “individual rights are substituted with “common good”–a popular refrain often uttered by national (or “common good”) conservatives.
I love the term ROE, or Return On Ego, to describe the virtue signaling of the whole ESG scam.
When Noah and his sons left the ark after the flood waters receded, God told him, “I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” God further told Noah, “When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
………….. the LGBTQ movement’s use of the rainbow over time has gradually replaced its religious meaning. Biblical and religious studies professor Carl Trueman notes that such efforts, particularly among clergy, represent a deathwork which he describes as, “the willing subversion of the sacred in the service of the profane.” Just as Adolph Hitler perverted the ancient meaning of the Sanskrit swastika, a symbol of good luck, LGBTQ ideologues are doing the same with the rainbow.
No, Jackson did not “define the rainbow” nor was he one of the first to do so. But I don’t think his use of that symbol in fighting racism is nearly as destructive as what we’re seeing today among militant LGBTQ advocates. They’re taking a page from Hitler’s playbook and that’s something we should pay close attention to.
The tearing down of monuments is along the same lines – entirely destroy what was and what is good and true and replace it with evil.
What has the Left ever built? When I was in Berlin it was easy to see which buildings were pre-war and which were built by the Soviets. Friends who have gone to Russia have said the same thing. There is no art, no architecture, no music created by the sterile Left. There is no beauty. The closest there is to great literature is literature about the evils of Leftism–Dr. Zhivago, the Gulag Archipelago….anything else come to mind?
The Left destroys. It doesn’t just destroy the human spirit, it destroys the physical manifestations of human spirit.
There certainly isn’t much, certainly not much recent – and Dr Zhivago was written partially as an indictment of the Left (as well as clearly being influenced by War and Peace). Garbage art, garbage architecture…just a wasteland.
Even Hollywood—which has produced some real cinematic art—-has degenerated into derivative crap, with no originality and no soul. Avatar, the most popular movie ever, was a hodge-podge of ripped-off themes of prior science fiction, with the only claim to originality being BUT THEY’RE BLUE !! and now it’s just really bad remakes. America has produced some fine music, including traditional true jazz and things like Rhapsody in Blue, that are timeless. Do we really think Lady Gaga or rap will age well?
I’ve been thinking I should watch “Cabaret” again—its portrayal of the social and moral decay of 1930s Germany leading to its acceptance of tyranny is starting to feel prophetic more than historical.
Kinda makes you wonder why anyone in their right mind would identify with such a soul-crushing ideology. I haven’t heard the expression in a while, but we used to say that Liberalism was a mental disorder. I can’t think of a better explanation.
Once you have chosen a political model that lets you believe you are morally superior, it must be hard-to-impossible to give up that delusion.
Some are realizing it was an ego-driven fantasy, but most still cling to it because it feeds their sad need to think of themselves as “special”. On top of that the Left reinforces this by convincing them that the opposition is so inherently evil that opposing them is just another example of their moral purity.
(Of course, to us their “special” is short-bus special, cuckoo’s nest special, but they still preen in their imagined moral glory)
Clearly their brains are wired differently.
Quite symbolic.
Heh, heh.
The chyrons are great