QUENTIN TARANTINO’S AMAZING FILM PORTRAYING WHITE MASCULINITY AS GOOD
His immensely enjoyable buddy comedy Once Upon in a Time…in Hollywood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt at their considerable best, has The New Yorker fulminating that it’s “obscenely regressive.”
Critic Richard Brody complains, “Tarantino delivers a ridiculously white movie” that “celebrates white-male stardom (and behind-the-scenes command).”
Well, Hallelujah…
CIVIL WAR AS ENTERTAINMENT
If you lived in Dayton, Ohio, you might consider this a realistic premise, although I don’t think that is what the filmmakers had in mind. The video above is the official trailer; if I interpret it correctly, the ‘deplorables’ fight back and win what looks like a civil war.
In that respect, one might say that the film is realistic.
IGNITING CIVIL WAR
Government sponsorship of violence against opponents or complacency in the face of incitement to violence is a powerful tool of political repression. Regimes such as Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, China, and other tyrannies have used such tactics to great effect.
When mobs attack anti-government demonstrators, for example, the police either disappear or stand by watching. In American cities run by Democrats and on the U.S. college and university campuses, the authorities increasingly have been standing by as radicals do the dirty work of beating up or silencing conservatives.
In societies riven by mutual hate, the people who control the police and public communications make all the difference. When societal hatred or the partiality of authorities results in deaths, long-smoldering cold civil war can blaze into holocaust. We Americans are now facing the danger of a civil war thus ignited.
We do not think of civil war this way because our Civil War from 1861 to 1865 was less a conflict within society than it was a highly organized war between states. What we face now is worse.
THE DEMOCRAT MAELSTROM OF HATE FOR AMERICA
After denouncing hate on Sunday, Democrats went back on Monday to calling for violence against conservatives.
In Kentucky, Mitch McConnell is convalescing at home after breaking a shoulder. Nancy's Army went to his house to harass him. He's 77. A video of the protest shows them demanding he be stabbed in the heart.
We have to start taking the Democrats’ creation of a maelstrom of hate very, very seriously.
WHY ARE THE DEMS CREATING THE “WHITE SUPREMACY” HOAX?
The anti-Trump forces, now stripped of their Russian collusion ammunition, have invented another imaginary threat they hope to weaponize against the president: The public menace posed by “white supremacist” terrorism.
Much like the collusion conspiracy theory—which relied on random incidents, fictional villains, unconvincing evidence, and the Bad Orange Man in the White House—there is little substance to this purported danger.
Unironically, the whole ruse is being pushed by the same people who foisted the Russian collusion hoax on the American people for three years in the hopes of prompting President Trump’s impeachment and removal.
The “white supremacy” canard is intended to further demonize Trump; falsely defame his supporters as white supremacists; and pressure nervous voters into defeating Trump and Republican candidates next year. The strategy is as cynical as it is pernicious.
MASS MURDERERS AND DEMOCRAT DERANGEMENT
Anyone over the age of sixty-five was most likely put off by the original trailer for the newest Quentin Tarantino film because what at first seemed a lighthearted story about a couple of aging television stars was going to go dark and murderous.
The quick shot of Charles Manson was then removed from the trailer so the Manson aspect of the film sneaks up on the viewer. Charles Manson was the man of our nightmares in 1969–70, especially for those of us who then lived in Los Angeles.
Yet the group that Manson assembled at the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth were as disconnected from reality as were the mass murderers in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton.
But what was shocking then is now practically an everyday event, particularly in cities long governed by Democrats. More deaths occur in Chicago and Baltimore every month than the number lost in El Paso and Dayton. It is the Democrat Party that has brought us to where we are today.
AND SUDDENLY
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/02/19
Conservatives had a great week as the Democrats told the nation their plans to spend $130 trillion if elected to build their utopia.
Racism! Became the new Russia! Moreover, Baltimore’s Elijah Cummings misplaced $13 billion. Oops!
We have been waiting for recess. Let the recess appointments begin!
Let’s talk a little about MMT, the financial theory behind the new left.
DEMS PULL “A REAGAN”
10 Dem candidates agreeing to give free health care to illegal aliens
Ronald Reagan famously said, "I didn't leave the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me."
Now it's left the rest of us.
If every candidate on stage raising their hands for free healthcare for illegal aliens during the first MSNBC debate wasn't enough to brand the party and its faithful as a collection of virtue-signaling lemmings, the subsequent CNN debates should have finished the job.
Or should I say debates or game shows? They were basically contests for who could go the furthest left.
DEMS ROUND 2: AND THE WINNER – GABBARD’S PANTSUIT
Night Two of the second round of Democratic presidential primary debates was expected to be a fireworks display between former Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and CNN did its best to light the fuses early on. Sadly -- for the viewers who didn't want to be bored, anyway -- all of those fuses were duds.
The following is my assessment of the painful display, using some of my live tweets from the evening rather than having to type more. Thank you in advance for indulging me, dear readers.