CHRISTIAN TOTO: HBO-Max Adds Trigger Warning to Blazing Saddles.

Yes, you must be lectured about “Blazing Saddles” because you’re too stupid to process satire in its highest forms. Yet Max understands how beloved the film, and Brooks, remain and cannot say there’s anything actually wrong or offensive about the film.

It’s unclear when the video introduction first hit the streaming platform, but a Twitter user alerted the platform to the shift on Feb. 5.

NOTE: Both Netflix and Paramount+ include “Blazing Saddles” on their content rosters without trigger warnings.

Flashback: Ridiculous trigger warning for ‘Blazing Saddles’ shows how far culture has gone off rails.

A few years ago, conservatives who pointed out worrying or silly campus adventures in speech modification and idea policing were told, “Relax, it’s just college kids. Why do you care?” Less than a decade later, Andrew Sullivan was able to write a column titled, “We all live on campus now,” and everyone knew he was exactly right.

Ridiculous, unnecessary trigger warnings are getting plastered all over everything, Realtors are afraid to use the term “master bedroom.” But HBO Max seems to think we all live in kindergarten. What kind of melonhead doesn’t realize the purpose of the slurs in “Blazing Saddles” is to make the racists look bad? We don’t need this explained to us, unless we just arrived on this planet from a faraway star system or attended Oberlin.

Better get it on Blu-Ray while you can. As John Nolte warned in 2014, “Buy a Copy Before the Left Burns Them All.”

SPEAKER JOHNSON SAYS IT’S DOA ON THE HOUSE SIDE: GOP Reps. Slam ‘Spineless Sell-Out’ Border Deal.

PUSHBACK WORKS: CUNY cancels ‘Globalize the Intifada!’ panel at anti-racism conference: ‘Not a podium for protest.’

WOEING: ‘Progressive decline’ in Boeing’s standards, says Emirates airline president.

Emirates President Tim Clark told the Financial Times in an interview published Sunday that Boeing was in the “last chance saloon.” Boeing has faced scrutiny since one of the company’s 737 Max 9 jets suffered a midair blowout during an Alaska Airlines flight last month, necessitating an emergency landing.

More than 100 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft were temporarily grounded as the planes were inspected due to the incident, but they have since begun returning to the air.

Clark said Boeing needs to “get their manufacturing processes under review so there are no corners cut,” saying the company must instill a “safety culture which is second to none.” Emirates is a major customer of Boeing and made a $52 billion aircraft purchase from the company last November.

“Will Boeing restore itself to its former glory? Of course it will. Will Boeing continue to produce and design great aeroplanes well put together reliable for the customer base? I’m sure they will. But they’ve got to put the house in order at the moment. And this is a major shift in the priorities,” Clark said in the interview.

That would be nice but it’s going to take new management instead of more of the same that the CEO-apparent seems to bring to the table.

JOHN LUCAS remembers Toby Keith.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: A Quick Ride on the RFK Jr Third Party Unicorn Distraction. “Because the potential for normalcy to be blown out of the water even worse than it was in 2020, a lot of people are willing to stretch the boundaries of credulity when pondering the viability of candidates not named Trump or Biden.”

AMERICA’S MILITARY SELF-DECEPTION:

Long post warning!

Admirals repeatedly claiming that European allies can make up for deficiencies in US Naval capacity has nothing to do with overestimating European capabilities.

They claim that Allies are strong because it’s a solid defense when congress (or the media)… https://t.co/3AanmEyEBf

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) February 3, 2024

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: CNN Makes Drastic Cut As Ratings Slump Takes Its Toll.

HUNTER BAKER ON El Salvador’s Bukele and the Essence of Government.

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A FREE SPEECH VICTORY: ABA Gives Final Approval To Law School Free Speech Accreditation Standard. “The proposal follows protests that disrupted conservative speakers at Stanford Law School and Yale Law School and continuing tensions on campuses since Hamas attacked Israel last fall. Standard 208, however, forbids disruptive activities that hinder free expression or impede law school activities.”

DEMS WOULD UNDERESTIMATE MAZI MELEDA PILIP AT THEIR OWN PERIL: The GOP May Not Lose George Santos’s House Seat After All.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Lefant Robot Vacuum Cleaner with 2200Pa Powerful Suction. #CommissionEarned

BIDENOMICS IS WORKING: Some Americans have become saddled with credit card debt as rent and everyday prices remain high. “Americans held more than $1.05 trillion on their credit cards in the third quarter of 2023, a record, and a figure certain to grow once the fourth-quarter data is released by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. next month. A recent report from the credit rating company Moody’s showed that credit card delinquency rates and charge-off rates, or the percent of loans that a bank believes will never be repaid, are now well above their 2019 levels and are expected to keep climbing.”

Weird how every month I see reports like this one about ever-increasing credit card debt when every month I’m also told how great the employment situation is.

HELEN DALE: Permission to Speak: Thoughts on the campaign to shut down Substack.

FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY:  The Wheels Run Truly: A Science Fiction Lost Colony Adventure.

Two brothers fight for freedom. A lost colony’s governor strives to reinvent the feudal state. Can Martha’s sons escape to liberty and a future?

Thaddeus Dawe is a patient man. On a planet where only the valley of First Landing is fully terraformed, he waits for spring’s agonizingly slow arrival. He plans to take the colony’s last terraseeder to fortify a secret northern enclave outside the governor’s control. When the palace loses power in late winter, Thaddeus scrambles to save his and his brothers’ hopes for independence.

Peter Dawe suffers under another secret. When he receives his brother’s call to return from exile to save the terraseeder, Peter forces himself to disclose his long-planned departure to those who sheltered and befriended him, including the woman he wants in his life. None of that goes as planned, and he heads north responsible once again for too many lives.

With the terraseeder losing power, a promise he has yet to fulfill, and the governor’s men against him, Thaddeus fears the new chaos marks the imminent death of the essential terraforming microbes and the failure of the new world he plans to build. Peter has spent the winter learning skills for his brothers’ northern plans, but joining Thaddeus’ team puts not only his own life at risk, but that of the woman he gives up to friendship.

Can the Dawe brothers escape the governor’s dominion with the life-giving terraseeder in time, and with their friends and loved ones alive?

The Wheels Run Truly is the final installment in the gripping science fiction colonization series, Martha’s Sons. If you like driven heroes, deep bonds of love and friendship, and a fight for freedom, you’ll need to read Laura Montgomery’s thrilling adventure tale.

Pick it up now to reach for independence!

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