I HOPE WE’RE NOT TOO MESSIANIC, OR A TRIFLE TOO SATANIC: Cosmo Promotes Satanic Abortion Ritual: Killing Babies to “Empower” Women.
.@Cosmopolitan who claim to be the “largest young women’s media brand in the world” promoted a “satanic abortion” ritual to empower women getting abortions. This is demonic. pic.twitter.com/1CJPXuFcxY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 30, 2023
Earlier: We Are Repaganizing.
BLUE-ANON: The Anti-Israeli Left Is Turning Into QAnon. Not all of the Left! But a lot of it!
HO, HO, HO/HO CHI MINH/THE PLO/IS SURE TO WIN:
It is sometimes noted that in the 1960s, only about 5 percent of the college-age population were participants in the anti-war movement and the large protests they organized. (And I’ve been told by several older Boomer acquaintances that they attended anti-war protests chiefly to meet girls.) My friend John Tamny noted this fact recently, generously citing some of my own work in fact, to suggest the current pro-Hamas protests are unrepresentative and don’t need to be taken that seriously. I disagree; the lesson of the anti-war movement of the 1960s—which by rapid degrees became an anti-American movement (remember “Amerikkka”)—is that it only takes a determined minority to de-range the politics and culture of a nation, with baleful results. Back in the 1960s the liberal establishment was befuddled by the New Left and didn’t know how to respond, so it mostly capitulated. Seems the same thing is happening today after October 7. In the face of a demented, deranged left, our liberal establishment is once again calling for “dialogue.”
Unlike the 1960s though, the CCP has a tool to directly influence millions of impressionable young Americans: TikTok made Gen Z pro-Palestine.
SO HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS HENRY KISSINGER’S CAREER? So successful that he caused the would-be AARP-anarchists at Rolling Stone to have an entirely predictable meltdown, as the London Daily Mail reports: Rolling Stone dances on Henry Kissinger’s grave with brutal ‘good riddance’ headline: ‘Finally, the war criminal is dead.’
Of course, at Rolling Stone, some mass bombers are much cooler and dreamier than others:
And it took them decades, but in recent years, the magazine was finally very much pro-Vietnamese bombing as well:
Still, some members of the ancien regime remain steadfast in their hatred of civil rights for all:
This is like something you'd say to impress Jann Wenner in the 1980s. https://t.co/5V76zFoNgy
— ryuge (@0ryuge) December 1, 2023
It looks like the Tiny Totalitarian still has his U.S. Marshals security detail, despite being “retired” from government service. His full time chauffeur and fully staffed taxpayer-funded security detail puts American on the hook for a million dollars a month.
The BBC interviewer, worshipping Fauci, discusses his fitness routine. Asked about the status of his diet, Fauci jokingly responds, “I can’t tell a lie.”
Next up, they walk past the church at Georgetown where Fauci got married. We then find out that the good doctor no longer practices religion, as he is guided by a higher moral authority: “my own personal ethics.”
“As far as practicing, it seems almost like a pro forma thing that I don’t really need to do,” he adds.
Fauci doesn’t need God. God needs Fauci.
“What is sin?”, a legendary community organizer was asked by a Chicago Sun-Times reporter covering religion-themed topics in 2004. He famously replied, “Being out of alignment with my values.” Or as the late Tom Wolfe wrote in his epochal 1976 article, “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” “It is entirely possible that in the long run historians will regard the entire New Left experience as not so much a political as a religious episode wrapped in semi military gear and guerrilla talk.”
Or these days, alternating between Antifa’s paramilitary togs and the bio-suits worn inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, lest a lab leak of a particularly dangerous virus escapes out into the open.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Left’s fear of fascism under Trump is the ultimate example of projection:
The liberal crazies, from actor Rob Reiner to the once conservative but now ideologue-for-sale Joe Scarborough, have their knickers in a knot over the potential that America may drift into “fascism” upon the possible election of former President Donald Trump in 2024.
How deliciously ironic that these leftists express concern over phantom fascism in the future as they look the other way while their Grand Poobah, President Joe Biden , is laying out a clinic on fascist tactics.
This is the same Biden administration that has actually brought criminal charges against its political enemies. Trump never did so, even though he had ample opportunity and justification against Hillary Clinton. In an act of unappreciated magnanimity, Trump began his first few days in office by declaring he would let bygones be bygones and, for the good of the country, would not pursue charges against Clinton for illegally moving her server to an unprotected base.
That doesn’t look much like fascism.
Meanwhile, Biden‘s Justice Department and FBI have engaged in one action after another that would make even J. Edgar Hoover blush.
When you combine a love of ever-expanding totalitarian government with a burning passion for antisemitism, asking yourselves “Are we the baddies” is long overdue:
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record wrote in 2019: Antifa Shatters Mirror In Attempt To Punch Nazi.
THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND: George Santos Expelled from House, Teeing Up Special Election in Toss-Up District.
OUT ON A LIMB: Whistleblower claims CIA analysts bribed to change position on COVID lab leak theory. “A whistleblower has come forward to claim CIA analysts who favoured the COVID-19 lab leak theory were bribed to change their position. The bribe was made to take the focus off China and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Taylor Swift Dumps Travis Kelce For Face Paint Boy.
DISPATCHES FROM THE HAMAS WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Deputy Director of Analysis at the CIA, One of Two Officials Responsible for the Presidential Daily Briefing, Publicly Posts Her Support of the Officially-Designated Terrorist Group Hamas.
MERRY CHRISTMAS FUN CITY, HAMAS-STYLE: Pro-Palestinian protesters, one carrying swastika, swarm Midtown in bid to derail Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting.
THEY HAD PLENTY OF HELP FROM ACADEMIA, BUT YEAH: TikTok made Gen Z pro-Palestine.
I’m a student in one of Britain’s largest high schools and know no one who supports Israel over Palestine. Some readers might find that shocking. Consider, though, how my generation gets its news. TikTok is today by far the preferred source of news for teenagers; YouTube is next, Instagram third. Studies show the average teen spends two hours every day glued to their screens. Few my age buy or read a newspaper, or would ever think of doing so. Even the idea of sitting down to watch TV news seems alien to us. We view the world through smartphones; we understand current affairs through video snippets.
In theory, the videos TikTok shows you relate to what you have previously watched: if the algorithm sees that you like something, it gives you more. It’s designed to be addictive. One survey found that just over half of teenagers who go on TikTok use it for news. There are almost no checks and balances to make sure that what TikTokkers see is fair, balanced or accurate.
I have come across many videos about the war on my TikTok “for you” page and I can confidently say that I’ve only seen pro-Palestinian ones. If such material were all assembled in a newspaper or a TV channel, it would look like pretty hardcore propaganda.
CTRL-F “China” or “CCP,” brings back zero results, even though: TikTok May Be A Chinese Superweapon.
PROFILES IN MALARKEY: Biden Gets Roasted After Insisting He Kept the Promise to Be a President For Everyone in All States.
Which is odd, because last week: Biden Calls for Unity as his White House Released Thanksgiving Guide on ‘Crazy MAGA Nonsense.’
Your handy guide for responding to crazy MAGA nonsense this Thanksgiving
A thread pic.twitter.com/rf0hFRXa80
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) November 23, 2023
The year before there was of course, to paraphrase Tom Wolfe, that party at Leni’s:
From the previous year: White House Christmas message to unvaccinated: You’re looking at a winter of death for yourselves and your families:
And even earlier, before Joe’s brains had congealed into apple sauce: Joe Biden called Tea Party members “terrorists” in 2011.
DISPATCHES FROM THE HAMAS WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY:
BREAKING: George Washington University students occupy entrance of Elliot School of International Affairs to #FreePalestine & have GWU “divest from genocide”.
Pics taken thru window as MPD will not anyone into building who is not a GWU student #FreePalestineFromIsraeINow pic.twitter.com/jlglTZsx0I
— #StopCopCity (@ChuckModi1) November 29, 2023
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMER AMERICA: Trans-Identifying Professor Will Teach Course On Taylor Swift At Harvard.
DEADSPIN REPORTER BLASTED BY MOM OF YOUNG KANSAS CITY CHIEFS FAN HE FALSELY SHAMED FOR WEARING ‘BLACKFACE:’ ‘He is Native American.’
The mother of a young football fan who wore a headdress and painted his face red and black to a Kansas City Chiefs game has blasted Deadspin for accusing him of “doubling up” on racism against black and Native communities — noting that her son is himself Native American.
Holden Armenta became an unexpected focus of an article by senior writer Carron Phillips that focused on a photo of the boy standing sideways, suggesting he was wearing blackface with no mention of the red side.
“The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress,” read the headline, which accused the boy of “doubling up on the racism.”
Phillips, a former New York Daily News reporter, also slammed Holden’s Native American headdress and his “Tomahawk Chop” gesture, claiming the boy “found a way to hate Black people and Native Americans at the same time.”
“It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once,” Phillips wrote in the article, which has since been tagged with a community note on X branding it “purposely deceiving.”
Related: “Phillips got so much backlash that he later deleted his tweet claiming that the red and black paint might be ‘even worse’ than full blackface. The now-deleted tweet read, ‘For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument it makes it even worse.’”
Yes, he could make that argument, but why in 2023 are professional sports journalists going out of their way to attack young football fans? Darkening Skies for Sports Journalism.
FOR SOME, IT’S VERY SMALL, INDEED: Naked man arrested at Disneyland wandering around It’s a Small World.
LIVE BY TIKTOK; DIE BY TIKTOK: White House in Disarray As TikTok Turns Against Biden.
The Biden administration’s Chinese Communist Party-controlled social media birds appear to be coming home to roost. Despite concerns from Republicans and some Democrats about the way TikTok is used to influence its American users, the president and most of his party slow-walked processes and ambiguously dismissed questions about the administration’s plan to address concerns about the viral video app.
Instead of sharing any worries, the Biden White House doubled-down on its work with TikTok influencers in attempts to promote the president’s agenda among young people as Democrat campaign veterans explained the usefulness of the app amid a decline in traditional news consumption.
Then, TikTok’s youthful user base turned on Biden and now it seems there’s nothing he or his administration can do about it, other than “seriously fret.”
Noting that the “president’s popularity with young voters is already sliding because of Israel’s war against Hamas,” Fox News Channel’s Jacqui Heinrich reported Wednesday morning that “the administration is starting to seriously fret about trending terms on TikTok like ‘silent depression'” that are catching fire among young people also feeling the negative impacts of Bidenomics. “The campaign is working with content creators to try to amplify a more positive message about the economy,” Heinrich added of the president’s re-election team’s harried response.
Why support an administration which is attempting to cripple America slowly through half-measures when you can support someone whose destructive efforts achieved spectacular results immediately? Osama bin Laden’s infamous ‘Letter to America’ after 9/11 promoted by TikTok influencers, goes viral.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Donald Trump in Newsweek: I Will Make America Great Again for Young People. “Sadly, many younger Americans are putting their lives on hold because they think the Biden economy leaves them no choice. . . . Instead of helping our young people confidently begin their lives, careers, and families, Joe Biden is crushing their dreams with debt, taxes, and inflation, and paving the way for a future of anger and despair. Under Joe Biden, we are a nation in decline and rapidly losing the American Dream.”
HOW IT STARTED: Mayor Rahm Emanuel: ‘Chicago Always Will Be A Sanctuary City.’
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel added his voice to the chorus of big-city mayors who say theirs will remain “sanctuary cities” in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line positions on illegal immigration.
Surrounded by immigration activists, business leaders and state and federal lawmakers, Emanuel sought to reduce the fear of immigrants living in this country without authorization.
“To all those who are, after Tuesday’s election, very nervous and filled with anxiety … you are safe in Chicago, you are secure in Chicago and you are supported in Chicago,” said Emanuel at a news conference called to publicize the expansion of mental health services for people anxious over the election results.
“Chicago has in the past been a sanctuary city. … It always will be a sanctuary city,” the mayor said.
—NPR, November 14th, 2016.
How it’s going: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Blames City’s Illegal Immigrant Crisis on ‘Right Wing Extremism’ (Video).
JOHNSON: It has to be better coordination. What we have seen is a raggedy form instituted by right-wing extremism. Everyone knows that the right-wing extremism in this country has targetted Democratically-ran cities and quite frankly, they’ve been very intentional about going after Democratically-ran cities that are led by people of color.
Their whole motivation is to create disruption and chaos because that’s what this particular party has been about. This is the same political party that did not want to accept that President Obama was actually an American. It’s the same Republican right-wing extremism that stormed the Capitol. It’s the same right-wing extremism that refuses to accept the results of the Civil War. It’s raggedy. It’s disrespectful it’s mean-spirited. It’s an unclean spirit, quite frankly.
So I got you. I got you. I just want to make sure that people understand what we’re facing. That’s why it’s so important that the faith community is leaning in at this moment. And so what what I’ve said, there has to be better coordination.
—Gateway Pundit, yesterday.
Earlier: Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive.
The surest sign that public policies are simply virtue signals is when the messages don’t cost anything. The easiest way to tell when that signal starts to fail is to watch politicians flounder as the costs start to rise and voters demand relief.
It was free—and meaningless—for progressive churches to post banners calling themselves “nuclear free zones” during the Reagan era. Their dwindling congregations loved it. It was free, after George Floyd‘s murder, to post woke catechism signs on your front lawn, proclaiming “In this house, we believe: Black Lives Matter, women’s rights are human rights, no human is illegal” and so on. Maybe the neighbors gave you high-fives. And for years it has been free for deep-blue cities to proclaim themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. That’s changing now that voters want some sanctuary for themselves.
Changes like this happen when voters realize the old virtue signals actually entail serious costs—and that they will have to pay them. That is exactly what’s happening in New York City and Washington D.C. now that Texas governor Greg Abbott is sending those cities a few busloads of illegal immigrants from his state.
These progressive bastions were silent when the Biden administration flew planeloads of illegal immigrants to suburban airports in the middle of the night. TV coverage was prohibited, and the arrivals were secretly dispersed. Abbott’s buses, by contrast, arrive downtown greeted by local TV crews. Now you can hear the politicians screech.
The ghost of Saul Alinsky smiles: “Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. ‘You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.’”
DOMINIC GREEN REVIEWS NAPOLEON:
Napoleon is a tortured love story, punctuated by six brutal battles. Or Napoleon is six tortured battles, punctuated by a brutal love story. Scott manages the rhythm of the romantic battles and military conquests with deceptive ease, merging the two in Napoleon’s image as a dictatorship merges the public and the private. French society is brutalized and desperate after the Revolution of 1789 and the mass executions of the Terror. Napoleon is brutal, a Corsican artillery officer who rises by the cannon. Joséphine de Beauharnais is desperate, a single mother whose aristocratic husband was guillotined in the Terror and who narrowly avoided the same fate.
As in Scott’s Thelma and Louise, the union of Napoleon and Joséphine is a grand alliance of the damaged and the doomed. Joaquin Phoenix specializes in awkward and inarticulate passions; recall Johnny Cash falling over his microphone or stuttering out his love for June Carter. Phoenix’s Napoleon is brooding, clumsy, and desperate. He puffs up a ladder to surprise the British garrison at Toulon in the first of his battles, fear all over his face. His sexual performance with Joséphine is comically perfunctory; it is clear she doesn’t much enjoy it. Yet once he’s on his horse, he’s firmly planted in the saddle, as though his pot belly has the weight of one of his cannon balls. Horse and rider swagger like a centaur, a mythical figure from Europe’s past and future. We see what Hegel saw when Napoleon passed him in the street at Jena. The emperor is an idea moving through history, marching to the rhythm of his mount and his inner drive.
In his interviews promoting Napoleon while it was in its ultimately stillborn pre-production phase in the late 1960s, Stanley Kubrick made its eponymous character sound like Nietzsche’s Ubermensch:
His life has been described as an epic poem of action. His sex life was worthy of Arthur Schnitzler. He was one of those rare men who move history and mold the destiny of their own times and of generations to come — in a very concrete sense, our own world is the result of Napoleon, just as the political and geographic map of postwar Europe is the result of World War Two. And, of course, there has never been a good or accurate movie about him. Also, I find that all the issues with which it concerns itself are oddly contemporary — the responsibilities and abuses of power, the dynamics of social revolution, the relationship of the individual to the state, war, militarism, etc., so this will not be just a dusty historic pageant but a film about the basic questions of our own times, as well as Napoleon’s. But even apart from those aspects of the story, the sheer drama and force of Napoleon’s life is a fantastic subject for a film biography. Forgetting everything else and just taking Napoleon’s romantic involvement with Josephine, for example, here you have one of the great obsessional passions of all time.
In contrast, as Rich Lowry asks: “Was Napoleon a dullard?” Or at least the version Ridley Scott wants his 21st century audiences to see. Exit quote: “Napoleon can be considered a proto-fascist dictator, or an enlightened reformer, or some of both, but he could never be considered dull, at least not until portrayed by a stolid Joaquin Phoenix, seemingly unaware that the general was a sparkling personality, a hugely energetic reformer and an inspiring leader of men. As the Wall Street Journal critic Kyle Smith puts it, ‘Mr. Phoenix’s Napoleon could never have commanded so much as a squadron of the Salvation Army.’”
QUESTION ASKED: When you Wish upon a star: is the Disney shine fading?
This isn’t so far from what Apple have done with Napoleon and Killers of the Flower Moon, namely using the theatrical release as a preview for what will eventually be a prestigious part of their Apple TV+ service. If the films go into profit at this point, great, but that’s hardly the sole intention. And, besides, Apple is the largest and most profitable corporation in the world. Disney, for all of its rapacious acquisition of other companies, has to make its money in a variety of ways, and people going to see their films in theaters — as well as streaming them on Disney+, or paying a fortune to go to their theme parks — is an essential part of their current business model.
Is it curtains for Disney and its increasingly embattled CEO Bob Iger, after the let-down of Wish and the utter failure of The Marvels? Probably not. There will be a can’t-miss Frozen sequel, or two, round the corner. And it’s more likely than not that fan-favorite characters like Iron Man and Black Widow will be returning in some multiverse jiggery-pokery to give the Marvel series a shot of familiarity amid the growing suspicion that audiences don’t especially care about Captain Marvel, Kang the Conqueror and the like. The Star Wars series, which has largely pivoted to streaming, will surely produce another big-budget film in the next few years, once it’s been decided who will be the guiding force behind it, and Pixar remains a force to be reckoned with, even if its glory days are behind it.
Perhaps there’s only one thing left to do with the House of the Mouse: Destroy Disney To Save It?
Reading between the lines, Disney doesn’t seem to care that their woke agenda is hurting their business. It’s our fault for wanting to protect the innocence of our children instead of exposing them to the harmful gender ideology. We don’t want kids watching Disney content if that means they’ll be asking about preferred pronouns and whether they’re really a boy or a girl. Disney may not care that its political agenda is hurting its business, but how long will Disney shareholders tolerate it?
If Disney was putting out movies audiences actually liked, they’d be in a much better position to at least attempt to wait out the storm. But they’re not. Therefore, we must keep the pressure on, not watch Disney’s woke films or go to the parks. Let’s see how Disney shareholders are willing to lose money.
And it seems to be working! At least according to America’s Newspaper of Record: Disney Awarded Defense Contract After Producing More Bombs Than Lockheed Martin.
METAPHOR ALERT: National Christmas Tree does best Biden impression by falling over ahead of president’s lighting ceremony, may not be salvageable.
🚨The National Christmas Tree set to be lit by Biden in 48 hours was just “toppled” by the wind, US Parks Service says tree may not be salvageable
Very fitting for the Biden White House.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 28, 2023
In a 2010 article headlined, “Obama’s Hell of a Ride,” John Podhoretz wrote:
Something weird happens when presidencies go wrong — presidents become incompetent at doing the things they were always able to do in their sleep, and their aides follow suit. I noted this when I wrote my first book, Hell of a Ride, about the decline and fall of the first President Bush, back in 1993. When Bush spoke, it rained, and his advancemen weren’t quick-thinking enough to move his events indoors. When he went to Japan on a state visit, he vomited. He was so intent on getting out his message of the day that he referred to it as “Message: I Care.”
For the past four years though (including his elegiac basement campaign), Biden’s variation on the above quote would be, “Message: Trunalimunumaprzure, Fat!”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Chuck Schumer: GOP ‘Dangerously’ Trying to Tie Ukraine Aid to ‘Hard-Right Border Policy.’
So hard right that it was the policy of — checking notes — a crazed stalwart of the vast right wing conspiracy called Chuck Schumer in 2009:
Here's Chuck Schumer on "partisan border policy" in 2009. Do your homework for once, Manu: "People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the U.S. legally. The American people… https://t.co/noTOrlfnOi
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) November 28, 2023
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