Archive for 2024

OPEN THREAD: Still stuffed.

WELL, THIS CERTAINLY COUNTS AS “THINK DIFFERENT” IN THE AD WORLD IN 2024: Apple Releases Shocking Pro-Family Christmas Ad.

Apple released a pro-family ad reflecting on the joys of fatherhood to kick off the Christmas season after Jaguar’s recent ad was accused of peddling wokeness:

The ad is shot mainly through the eyes of a loving father who struggles with hearing loss. It traces back over memories of his young daughter throughout her childhood, but they are muffled in sound because of his handicap.

In present day while the family is exchanging gifts around the Christmas tree, his daughter, whom he watched grow up, receives a guitar and begins to sing and play “Our House” by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Once again, the father only detects muted notes as she strums. But then his wife hands him a pair of Apple AirPods Pro 2 that have a hearing aid feature. Suddenly, his daughter’s voice and the music become crystal clear. The old memories of his daughter that were previously dulled by his disability become vibrant.

The father sheds a tear as he listens to his child, presumably for the first time, with new aural acuity.

Many reactions on X were stunned at the wholesome, life-affirming ad from Apple, a company that has engaged in wokeness over the years. In its 2022 spring software update, Apple added a new emoji depicting a pregnant man, wading into the ever-escalating culture war debate about transgender issues. One takeaway after the 2024 presidential election has been that voters rejected Democrats’ focus on gender ideology while they neglected kitchen-table issues such as inflation and border security.

Going forward, with, hopefully, the woke era winding down, I’ll be genuinely curious what style and tone of advertising wins out during Trump’s second term.

LOL, TIM KAINE TALKING ABOUT PATRIOTISM:

THE CRITICAL DRINKER ON WICKED: “I Can’t Believe I’m Reviewing This Movie” (Video).

BRAVO:

Caution: Contains internet-transmissible onion fumes.

MY CONGRESSMAN WEIGHS IN:

OUR “SHOCKED FACES” ARE GETTING A WORKOUT: JustTheNews has a story today that needs to be told, yet should surprise nobody who is even remotely red-pilled about the damage George Soros has done to the fabric of American life.

“Kimberly Gardner was prototype for Soros prosecutors, then ethics and illegality crashed her career:” 

“When she was elected chief prosecutor in St. Louis in 2016 with the backing of far-left megadonor George Soros, Kimberly Gardner was the prototype for a new era of progressive lawfare: unabashedly liberal, the first black female to hold the job and eager to make her mark with headline-grabbing cases.

Soon, she went big-game hunting by indicting Missouri’s new Republican governor, a Navy SEAL and rising political star named Eric Greitens, by claiming he tried to blackmail his female hairdresser lover.

There was just one problem: Gardner, a Democrat, never had the evidence to back up her charges in 2018. She managed to force Greitens to resign in disgrace before a court called her bluff and she was forced to dismiss the charges.

[***]

Missouri’s chief legal disciplinary officer accused Gardner of sweeping misconduct in the failed Greitens prosecution, concluding she engaged in 62 acts of misconduct that resulted in 79 false representations during the case.”

Having spent more than 30 years in major newsrooms, 14 of them in arguably the world’s leading financial news outlet (Bloomberg) I still cannot understand the thrall over left-leaning journalists that George Soros has. Any criticism is labelled “anti-Semitic” while they make excuses for his moral cowardice in helping identify Jews to the Nazis.

Every single one of his sponsored prosecutors have done their best to turn their jurisdictions into pro-crime sh*tholes. Trump’s mandate (yes, I said it) may very well turn the tide. Poor people, people of color, and the working class that his supporters pretend to care about are more affected by the crimes he has helped taken “off the books.”

I just don’t get it.