I HOPE IT’S NOT AN ONCOMING TRAIN: The Light at the End of the Week.
Archive for 2021
September 2, 2021
GOOD QUESTION: Is It Any Surprise That A Military That Believes America Is ‘Evil’ Botched The Mission In Afghanistan? “Maybe there is a silver lining to the national humiliation that just concluded. If anything good can come of the tragedy in Kabul, it should be a national reckoning on whether we have the national unity and confidence that remaining a superpower requires.”
THAT’S NOT ENTERTAINMENT: ‘Cinderella’ review: A horrid fake-feminist adaptation nobody asked for.
Writer-director Kay Cannon has shattered Cinderella’s glass slipper. And we the audience are forced to walk across the shards barefoot. Yes, the new ‘Cinderella’ movie — out Friday on Amazon Prime — is that excruciating.
The rotten revamp is pseudo-feminist claptrap that begs us to feel empowered when Ella’s (Camila Cabello) evil stepmother, now named Vivian (Idina Menzel), confides to her stepdaughter that she is a classically trained pianist who never got to play professionally. So, she’s a cruel parent because she didn’t become Liberace? Brave!
The Queen (Minnie Driver), meanwhile, keeps complaining that her “voice has been completely silenced” by her husband the King (Pierce Brosnan). How is this serious marital issue resolved? During the grand finale, the Queen yells, “you’re wrong!” at his majesty and gets applauded by her subjects. Groundbreaking!
When Cinderella marries Prince Robert (Nicholas Galitzine) — I’m sorry I’ve just spoiled this centuries-old fairytale — she refuses to be called a princess.
Pandering nonsense.
Leftists ruin culture. So why do they dominate it?
But it’s not science. As Isaac Asimov once wrote, the chief characteristic of the religion of science is that it works. That’s hardly the case here. Joe Rogan appears to have had a mild case of Covid, and is recovering nicely, which is in fact the norm. Rogan figured that if he got it, he’d be one of the vast majority whose cases are mild or asymptomatic, and he figured right. Science!
Now, with all the hysteria, it becomes a big deal and Rogan can say, I stood where no man goes, and conquered demon foes!
But in the press, knowledge and reason change like the season. A jester’s promenade.
ALL I KNOW IS, ATTEMPT NO LANDING ON EUROPA: What’s It Like Inside Jupiter? Below The Clouds Of A Gas Giant (Video).
DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS OR WHATEVER: Illinois School Will Reevaluate ‘Gag Order’ Barring Parents From Recording Zoom Classes.
THIS IS CNN: Don Lemon: ‘Stop beating up’ on Biden admin over Afghanistan, ‘We don’t know’ if we left Americans behind.
Just think of Lemon as a Democratic Party operative with a Chyron, and it all makes sense.
Evergreen:
SO MUCH OF OUR DECADENT CULTURE IS, WHICH IS WHY IT’S DECADENT: Amherst College’s insane COVID rules are all about upper-class virtue-signaling. “Years ago, I remember reading about a hostel in Bangkok that allows tourists to experience a taste of prison life. Upon entering guests are “booked,” complete with mug shots. They sleep behind bars and are subject to a strict curfew. Even their bathrooms are shared. A night at the Sook Station runs about $50. Meanwhile, tuition, room and board at Amherst run about $77,000 a year. I can’t help but think that parents could save a lot of money sending Dylan and Heather to Thailand this fall. For the price of two semesters of ersatz imprisonment at the famously selective liberal-arts college, their kids could enjoy four years at the Sook. I bet the food is better.”
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Matt Margolis: Joe Biden Needs to Stop Using His Late Son to Avoid Criticism. “This is hardly a new strategy for Biden. In fact, throughout the campaign, Biden would reference his late wife and infant daughter, as well as Beau’s death from cancer, to maximum political advantage.”
Bryan Preston: Austin Soccer Fans and the Club Deliver a Stirring and Patriotic National Anthem. “At the lines ‘rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air’ fireworks blasted from black boxes on the pitch up into the dusky sky. It was a welcome, fiery surprise. When the anthem was over the stadium erupted in cheers.”
Yours Truly: Code Pink Goes All Red Defending Tiny Little Communist China Against Imperial Taiwan. “Was Xi Jinping given a pass at the final edit of Code Pink’s press release?”
LIFE ON MARS: Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago.
Let me explain. Dead-internet theory suggests that the internet has been almost entirely taken over by artificial intelligence. Like lots of other online conspiracy theories, the audience for this one is growing because of discussion led by a mix of true believers, sarcastic trolls, and idly curious lovers of chitchat. One might, for example, point to @_capr1corn, a Twitter account with what looks like a blue orb with a pink spot in the middle as a profile picture. In the spring, the account tweeted “i hate texting come over and cuddle me,” and then “i hate texting i just wanna hug you,” and then “i hate texting just come live with me,” and then “i hate texting i just wanna kiss u,” which got 1,300 likes but didn’t perform as well as it did for @itspureluv. But unlike lots of other online conspiracy theories, this one has a morsel of truth to it. Person or bot: Does it really matter?
Dead-internet theory. It’s terrifying, but I love it. I read about it on Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe, an online forum with a pixelated-Margaritaville vibe and the self-awarded honor “Best Kept Secret of the Internet!” Right now, the background is a repeated image of palm trees, a hot-pink sunset, and some kind of liquor pouring into a rocks glass. The site is largely for discussing lo-fi hip-hop, which I don’t listen to, but it is also for discussing conspiracy theories, which I do.
In January, I stumbled across a new thread there titled “Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake,” shared by a user named IlluminatiPirate. Over the next few months, this would become the ur-text for those interested in the theory. The post is very long, and some of it is too confusing to bother with; the author claims to have pieced together the theory from ideas shared by anonymous users of 4chan’s paranormal section and another forum called Wizardchan, an online community premised on earning wisdom and magic through celibacy. (In an email, IlluminatiPirate, who is an operations supervisor for a logistics company in California, told me that he “truly believes” in the theory. I agreed not to identify him by name because he said he fears harassment.)
Peppered with casually offensive language, the post suggests that the internet died in 2016 or early 2017, and that now it is “empty and devoid of people,” as well as “entirely sterile.” Much of the “supposedly human-produced content” you see online was actually created using AI, IlluminatiPirate claims, and was propagated by bots, possibly aided by a group of “influencers” on the payroll of various corporations that are in cahoots with the government. The conspiring group’s intention is, of course, to control our thoughts and get us to purchase stuff.
The Internet didn’t die — it was simply incorporated into the version of the Matrix that Tom Wolfe programmed shortly before his death in 2018. And as the last two years have demonstrated — that’s been working perfectly.
Classical reference in headline:
HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Study promotes ‘princess culture’ for boys as way to combat society’s idea of ‘masculinity.’
WHY NOT, JOE’S ALREADY FORGOTTEN IT: No, Mr. President, we won’t ‘move on’ from your Afghanistan disaster. Of course, Joe’s already forgotten breakfast.
WELL, ALL THE WOKE BULLSHIT ISN’T VERY APPEALING EITHER: Large drop in international student enrollment shows US colleges still reeling from COVID.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Liberal Jewish Group’s ‘White Paper’ Warns Critical Race Theory Fuels Growth of Antisemitism.
LET THE COUNTERREVOLUTION BEGIN: Poor Lamb! Antifa Teacher on the Run, Claims He Fears For His Safety and Job After Project Veritas Blows His Cover.
WHEN “CHRISTIAN” SCHOOLS GO WOKE: Christian university commissions pro-LGBTQ, pro-Democratic murals for dormitory.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The Actual Number of Afghan Allies Evacuated Leaves the Biden Administration Flailing.“New numbers on how many Afghan allies (translators, intel operatives, etc.) actually got out are exposing the reality of just how much of a boondoggle this was. While the administration has touted the total numbers of evacuees as some kind of vindication for their strategic and tactical blunders, it appears that most of those people were not former US military allies at all. In fact, while only 5,400 or so Americans were brought to safety, only about 8,500 SIV holders were rescued, with the vast majority left behind.”
WHEN SATIRE HITS CLOSE TO THE BONE: Psaki: ‘A Record 331 Million Americans Have Not Been Abandoned In Afghanistan.’
THE SCHOOL BOARDS DESERVE TO FEEL THE HEAT: School board members look for exits as meetings get heated over CRT, other topics.
This is what democracy looks like. And there needs to be a lot of turnover in school boards, which have been infiltrated by activists who don’t reflect the communities they supposedly serve.
Flashback: Roger Simon: To Save America, Run for School Board.
Forget Congress, the Senate, or whatever glamorous position you ever fantasized about or not, even president of the United States, if you want to have a serious impact from your work, if, as they say, you want to make a difference, to change this country for the good in the short and long term, run for your local school board.
You would be saving America from turning into the bleakest, socialist-communist state imaginable because that is what our current educational system, K-12, is designed to do and, sadly, has been successful in doing, literally for decades—and it’s only getting worse.
You would in the process also be a true revolutionary in the tradition of the Founders of our country in bringing back truth, justice, and the American way to our children and our children’s children.
Someone’s gotta do it—the hour is late. But you, dear reader, can save us, especially if we band together—and there are plenty of us to do it.
Please consider running for the school board to radically change a highly-corrupt and evil leftwing educational system, which has crossed the border into child abuse.
It’s both necessary and fun to point out the errors of the DNC-MSM, but education reform should be the ultimate focus: The End of the Long March.
WELL, SHE’S NOT WRONG: Rose McGowan calls Oprah Winfrey ‘fake as they come’ in scathing Twitter post.
MY HEART BREAKS: Taliban fighters upset, feel betrayed that US military left non-working helicopters: report.
Meanwhile the Biden Administration is scrubbing federal websites of information about what was left behind.
CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL. Confiscating Entire Wealth of All Billionaires Couldn’t Pay for Bernie Sanders’ Spending Plans.
WHAT A RIDE: NASA’s ‘quiet’ X-59 supersonic plane is coming together as space agency chases faster flight. “NASA hopes the X-59 could pave the way for a new era of supersonic travel that could see people zoom across continents in half the time it currently takes. After the plane takes to the sky for the first time probably at the end of next year, the space agency will run an extensive test campaign that will see X-59 fly over selected communities in the U.S. After each flight, local residents will be asked to answer questions about how much they had noticed the re-engineered supersonic sound.”
RESIGN NOW: Resign now: 52% want Biden out but fear worse under Harris.
Yep. Putting 4 incompetent Democrats in the line of succession — Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Leahy — was a terrible idea. Voters really need to do better. I think they’re beginning to realize that.