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August 4, 2022
OH, CAN’T WE? BECAUSE I DO, AND YOU SHOULD TOO: The Big Lies We Cannot Question.
If there’s one thing you can and should do is question. Insistently and loudly. They’re at war with reality. We have to fight on the side of truth. Speak the truth. Do not bend your knee to the idols because it’s easier.
OTHER THINGS NOT SPECIFIED IN THE KANSAS RESULT: There were ads place by entities out of state that poured untold money into the state. There was also a campaign of intimidation of those with “pro” signs in their yards, and removal of signs. (This was covered at Victory Girls, though I can’t find it now.) It was a lot of force brought to bear on a state not used to it. I don’t know how, but this will bite the left in the behind, partly because these days everything does. Primary reflections; plus Joe Manchin.
VODKA. MOSTLY JUST VODKA: Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan: brinkmanship, courageous support for a democracy, or just for show?
THAT’S A VERY STRANGE WAY TO SPELL “JOE BIDEN”: Whoopi Goldberg: Student Debt is the Reason People Can’t Pay for Gas or Food.
NOOOOOOO! UN-POSSIBLE! CNN’s Ratings and Profitability in Major Decline.
REJECTING REALITY AND BURYING ONE’S HEAD: NYC Mayor Adams Rejects TX Gov. Abbott’s Invite to Visit the Border.
WELL, OF COURSE IT DOES. THEY DON’T LIKE PEOPLE MUCH: Jean-Pierre: Biden EO ‘Paves the Way for Medicaid to Pay for Abortions’.
<Grumbles: on account of being lizard people in unconvincing human suits, that’s why.
GO READ: Nuclear 101: Targeting.
August 3, 2022
THE GREEN DREAM: Lights out, cold showers in Europe.
OPEN THREAD: Share your brilliance.
THE CLOWN SHOW CONTINUES: Saudi Arabia Humiliates Joe Biden with Major Oil Announcement.
IT’S ALREADY RANKED #1 IN POLITICAL FREEDOM: Larry Correia’s In Defense of the Second Amendment, now available for pre-order.
THIS HAS A STRONG WHIFF OF SMOKING GUN: From Just Facts. Emails reveal inner details of why Burisma paid Hunter Biden so generously for services having nothing to do with energy.
Yesterday I reported that David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery Warner, had fired female CEO Ann Sarnov and had replaced her not with a White Man but with… nobody. He just fired her, and replaced her with no one, deciding that what she had been doing simply did not need to be done by anyone.
And what was she doing? Well, Andrej says she was pushing Feminist Agenda into movies.
Specifically, he says she was the motivating force behind the master plan to eliminate the “problematic” figures of the troublesome, toxically-masculine figures of Superman and Batman from the DC Extended Universe, and replace them with… Supergirl and Batgirl.
Note that the Robert Pattison Batman movie exists in its own separate Batman universe where there are no other superheroes or real superpowers so that isn’t affected. This refers to the crossover universe, the “Justice League” universe.
And in that universe, Batman was going to be replaced by Batgirl, and Superman by Supergirl.
Now, I don’t think this is only about agenda: Ben Affleck simply does not want to play Batman ever again, and is only playing him in short appearances to finish up his contract, and DC cannot come to terms with fan favorite Henry Cavill, who wants a multipicture deal and a firm commitment to make standalone Superman movies.
Maybe it’s a mix of both Feminist Agenda and the brilliant idea of “Let’s just replace the male actors with female ones, who work for 70% of the male actors’ salaries!”
The plan goes like this: In the Flash movie, due to time-travel and multiverse-crossing nonsense, the Michael Keaton Batman enters the Justice League Universe and gets to share screen time with the Ben Affleck Batman. But the Ben Affleck Batman dies, making the older, retired Michael Keaton Batman the official, and only, Batman of the Justice League universe.
Being older and retired, his main role will be to serve as a Mr. Miyagi like mentor to his replacement, the race-swapped Batgirl.
Meanwhile, the Flash movie also introduced Supergirl (also race-swapped, if you can believe that!). She will be replacing Superman.
Henry Cavill isn’t coming back to film a death scene, so they’ll just have to claim he went back to Krypton but died on the way back to his home planet.
When Zaslav — or whoever the source for this story — says that the Batgirl movie will irreparably damage the DC brand, he’s almost certainly not just talking about the film’s quality, which is, of course, almost certainly down to the low level we’ve come to expect from DC.
He’s also talking about this movie establishing that Batman — the real one, the active one — and Superman are dead in this universe and have been replaced by Younger, More Diverse Female Replacements Who Are Superior In Every Way, Bigot.
Which he suspects won’t play as well with the mostly-male comic book movie audience as Girlboss feminist CEOs might. Activist Twitter lunatics demand that Hollywood make movies for them… and then never actually see these movies.
And speaking of franchises with an agenda: Actress in new Star Wars Andor series says it’s a ‘scurrilous’ take on the ‘Trumpian world’ and people losing their rights.
To be fair, Star Wars: Rogue One, from which Andor derives its characters and backstory, and which was released in December 2016, had a bit of an anti-American theme hidden in its subtext. However, it was more obsessed with American Original Sin, since the filmmakers couldn’t have known who was going to win the next election, when production began in the summer of 2015. But like the earlier, funnier Saturday Night Live still doing Nixon jokes six years after he resigned, they just can’t quit the Bad Orange Man.
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Karine Jean-Pierre Says It Was ‘Unconstitutional’ For Supreme Court To Overturn Roe.
THE LEGENDARY LANGUAGE OF IAN DURY RETURNS: Punk Rocker Foretold This Week’s ‘Spaz’ Controversy.
The late great Ian Dury left behind important words for pop musicians and fans to remember: “I wibble when I piddle / Cos my middle is a riddle.” That’s from Dury’s outrageous but inspiring 1981 single “Spasticus Autisticus,” the most controversial of the singer-songwriter’s bawdy tunes. It gains new relevance with the self-imposed censorship displayed by Lizzo and Beyoncé, the latest pop stars submitting to Internet mob intimidation.
Both Lizzo and Beyoncé announced they would change the lyrics of their respective songs “Grrrls” and “Heated” after public complaints that each track uses the word “spaz.” The slang term for an inept, gangly person who lacks physical control is a clipped version of “spastic paralysis,” as in cerebral palsy. Lizzo and Beyoncé have made it a cause, part of the ongoing language putsch that changes the use and meaning of words — whether “infrastructure,” “recession” or “spaz” — for political purposes and social regulation.
Apparently neither Lizzo nor Beyoncé was aware of Ian Dury’s artistry, bravery, and culture emancipation. Dury was afflicted with polio as a child, but his thin, slightly bent figure possessed compact determination that powered his musical rhythm and wit. He was one of the bright lights during the British punk movement’s efflorescence, carving personal space out of its famously political anarchy. Finding liberty in punk artistry, Dury updated the tradition of British music-hall ribaldry and rude folk humor. “Spasticus Autisticus” was ultimate proof that Dury presented his person as an example of proud self-identification — not shame or pity but unstoppable individual will.
The artistic censorship Lizzo and Beyoncé embrace is really just condescension. It goes against their pretense of free speech and feminist freedom, tactics that limit them as progressive icons. Yet this “sensitive” posturing exposes the PC game-playing that makes dupes of the fans they pretend to glorify. They belong to the new breed of political stooges who don’t know the difference between a label, an epithet, and an insult.
Related: Beyonce Caves to the Leftist Language Police and We Have a Few Things to Say About That.
At what point does the Orwellian attempt to curtail language stop?
The left wants to lock us into a cult where they get to decide what are acceptable words to use. That is absurd. Maybe that’s the point — to remove the ability to criticize anything that they say — so nothing can be idiotic, crazy, lame, or stupid, when so many things the left pushes are exactly that. It’s to stop the questioning of the narrative and conform. It creates continuing chaos, so we no longer have moorings to reality and our own thought. We are always kowtowing to what we are told we must say. Treat each other with respect and you can’t go wrong, but locking yourself into this kind of a construct is nuts.
So, no, I reject that as we all should. That’s just dumb and insane.
If Beyonce had ignored the outrage mob, or simply replied, “Guys, it’s just a song,” the mob would have shrugged its collective shoulders and moved on to the next target. Why would she enable them with her surrender?
I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Scientists Reveal The Full Danger of The World’s Largest Active Volcano.
TWO HILL AIDES DIED WITH WALORSKI: The Indiana Republican who was killed earlier today in a head-on car crash in her home district was accompanied by two of her top congressional aides, both of whom also died in the crash.
SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Rapid, at-home prototype saliva test that’s as good as RT-PCR.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Solar storm expected to hit Earth, but likely ‘weak,’ forecasters say.