Delaying repentance of sins because you have all your life to do so is a risk like the driver in today’s Indy 500 who was in first but delayed pitting too long so when a car crashed behind him he had to take a penalty to fuel up that might cost him the race.
Nothing is more empty than a leftist following the rent-a-crowd protestors under the theory that they are doing something virtuous when they are in fact try to find meaning for themselves that real life hasn’t provided.
I know I’ve said this before but all those folks who keep trashing western civilization, oil, nuclear energy and industry are in danger of being reminded that the natural state of humanity is starvation and scrounging to find food to feed themselves and shelter from the elements.
The more I see of the modern left there more I’m of the belief that they would not only exterminate or enslave us if we were unarmed, but would consider it being virtuous.
The number of fully vaccinated and boosted famous people who keep getting COVID doesn’t surprise me as much as the fact that this development hasn’t convinced the majority of the public that they have been played big time.
On occasion I get accused of living in a right-wing silo, or if you prefer, bubble.
But it’s left-wingers who are more likely to dwell in their own political silo. And it’s hurting their side.
Good.
And because many people, particularly leftists, are terrible listeners, I have to repeat myself yet again.
Here we go.
Even if I wanted to, I can’t remain in a right-wing silo. Besides–broadcast and cable media, as well as streaming services, are dripping wet with liberal and woke bias. And I can’t always avoid them. Last year, Mrs. Marathon Pundit underwent a minor medical procedure. In the waiting room I had to sit through ABC’s Good Morning America, hosted by Clintonista George Stephanopoulos, and then, on the same network, The View.
Earlier this year I had some complicated dental work done. My dentist has TVs in front of each chair. What was on? The View. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was one of the show’s guests.
“John,” my dentist calmly said to me as she drilled, “tell me if you experience pain.”
Conservatives–and if you are a regular viewer of MSNBC or CNN this will shock you–are more tolerant of people who hold opposing views.
It’s an old study, but Pew Research found that liberals were more likely to block or unfriend a conservative than the other way around.
The mainstream media, the Biden White House, and big-city governments are leftist monocultures. Big tech too, but I’ll attack them again, I am sure, in a future blog post.
When you live in an echo chamber, you are bound to inadvertently come up with ideas that outsiders will mock. Or even, like a lit stick of dynamite with a long fuse, have them thrown back at you.
Last month, a contender–and oh my, is the competition steep–for worst Biden cabinet member, Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, revealed the formation of the Disinformation Governance Board. Conservatives immediately pounced, and almost in unison, called the group “Orwellian” and labeled it “the Ministry of Truth,” which is where reluctant liar Winston Smith toiled in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. When it was revealed that a disinformationist, who had cast doubts on the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, Nina Jankowicz, was the head of that panel, the Orwell analogy was complete.
One rule of politics, one that the woke ignores because of what Ben Shapiro calls the left’s “unearned sense of moral superiority,” is that when (not if, because the right errs too) you make a whopper of a mistake, you must immediately correct it. So rather than eliminating the Disinformation Governance Board as soon as Mayorkas acknowledged its existence, “the Ministry of Truth” and Jankowicz dangled for three weeks. During that time the Orwellian memes of Jankowicz flooded social media, and an embarrassing TikTok video of Jankowicz, singing to the tune of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” emerged, which gained her the nickname Scary Poppins.
Anita Dunn, who in 2009 cited the genocidal Mao Tse-Tung as one of her favorite philosophers, which led to her departure from the Obama White House, worked on the 2020 Biden campaign. She was briefly a senior White House advisor to Biden. Dunn is said to have been behind the president’s recent use of not only MAGA as a pejorative, but the heretofore unheard moniker “Ultra MAGA.” Conservatives on social media immediately and proudly declared themselves as “Ultra MAGA,” mirroring the response in 2016 when Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump supporters “deplorables.” During a speech earlier this month, Biden referred to his predecessor as “the great MAGA king.” On Truth Social, Trump struck back with a Lord of the Rings-themed meme as he gleefully adopted the nickname.
If Dunn didn’t live in a left-wing bubble, she would have seen all of those snarky responses coming.
On the local level, last month Chicago’s inept leftist mayor, Lori Lightfoot, declared that the summer of 2022 will be “the Summer of Joy.” John Kass has derisively referred to the Summer of Joy in several of his columns and he poked fun at it in his most recent podcast. Hey Jackass, the sarcastic yet accurate tabulator of Chicago murders and shootings, is selling Summer of Joy T-shirts and coffee cups. Now that Memorial Day weekend has arrived, every time there is a mass shooting in Chicago–and we only have to look back a few hours to find the most recent one–bloggers and right-leaning social media users will quip something along the lines of “Wow, here is more ‘Summer of Love’ Chicago carnage for you.”
All Lightfoot would have needed to prevent this mockery is to have a politically moderate advisor–she would never hire a conservative–who would be bold enough to say, “I don’t think ‘Summer of Love’ is a wise idea, and here’s why.”
As Mary Poppins, not Biden’s Scary Poppins, said in that classic movie, “Sometimes a person we love, through no fault of their own, can’t see past the end of his nose.”
Such is the status of liberalism in 2022.
Which is why it will be a glorious election season for the right this year.
I watched the first episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi last night, and I’d say it was pretty good. I’ve been warned by a few people its a “bait and switch” and we’ll get less Obi-Wan and more Sith Inquisitor Reva, but that remains to be seen. Her character so far is decent: dark, conniving, and ruthless, if a bit hot-headed, but certainly not dumb.
In her interview with the Independent, the “Obi-Wan” actress tackles diversity issues in the franchise. “To me, it’s long overdue. If you’ve got talking droids and aliens, but no people of colour, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s 2022, you know. So we’re just at the beginning of that change. But I think to start that change is better than never having started it.”
The Post Millenial.com
No people of colour?
So this guy is white?
Lando Calrissian, from Wikipedia
And this guy?
Finn from StarWars.com
And this guy?
Ahmed Best, from IMDb
(No, seriously, Jar Jar was played by Ahmed Best)
And who can forget this guy, the MOST iconic voice in Star Wars?
James Earl Jones, from IMDb
Star Wars has always had people of all races. It’s Science Fiction, which gives you the license to bring in darn near anyone with any background. Almost all of the portrayals have been good, and when they aren’t, its normally the studios fault. Lando Calrissian plays an awesome character in The Empire Strikes Back, and fans love him. James Earl Jones will never be forgotten for voicing Darth Vader.
Finn would have been a cool chracter had Rian Johnson not gutted his backstory to prop up Rey. I and many fans thought it was cool to see the man behind the stormtrooper helmet, but then Rian Johnson sacrificed him to become the butt of jokes in The Last Jedi. Remember when he uncovered that the Resistance was buying weapons on the black market illegally while on Canto Bight? That cool side story lasted for all of 30 seconds, so you could be forgiven for missing it. Wouldn’t it have been cool if Finn spent the films coming to grips with the Resistance using similar methods to the First Order? What if he had come from a crappy backwater planet that the First Order had rescued? The fact that Finn was a mediocre character had nothing to do with fans and everything to do with crappy directing, crappy plots and a box-ticking thinking when it comes to putting diversity on screen.
But the article doesn’t stop, because it has this gem:
John Boyega of the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy has said that their experience with the franchise has included a racial component to it. In order to comply with Chinese authorities, Disney shrunk Boyega’s character on the “The Force Awakens” poster in December 2015.
The Post Millenial
So where’s the outrage over this? Please actors and actresses, jump all over this one like you do with every single social issue here in the United States. But we know you won’t, because that sweet, sweet cash will keep your mouth shut.
To recap: there have always been people of color in Star Wars. Always. Some get great characters, some don’t. When the character is well acted and well developed, people love it. When that doesn’t happen, fans don’t like it. That goes for every character in Star Wars. Americans love good Star Wars characters, but the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t like black people.
Now, I’m sure some dumbass on Reddit will claim to be a Star Wars fan and make a bunch of racists remarks on black characters. To which I say…so what? I’m sure some racist loser wishes Lando Calrissian was white. Nobody takes that guy or gal seriously. Heck, one could say that when fans fall in love with good, well developed characters that are portrayed by black people, it helps breakdown any racist tendencies they might have had.
I hope Disney gives us some good characters in the Obi-Wan series, and I hope they make Reva an intriguing, cool anatagonist. Because perhaps what we need is a new hope.
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Funny how the left is using the Texas shooter to tell us we don’t need guns when it turns out the armed people that they provide us with (the police) were unwilling to act. ‘
I would think that this demonstrates that we need armed citizens more than ever.
It’s rather insulting to see singers cut and run over the NRA convention because of the school shooting. The whole: because one person is guilty all the innocent have to be punished should be beneath them but it’s even more insulting to see fools in congress doing the same. I hope conservatives remember both in November and when it’s time to spend their entertainment dollars.
It’s been three or four years since I suggested the easiest way to permanently solve this problem is recruiting a group of ex police/military among the grandparents to act as armed guards in schools. Not only would such sixty somethings be highly motivated to protect their grandkids schools but they would serve as excellent role models for the kids.
That’s why it will never happen, the left goal is not to protect kids it’s about having an issue to run with politically and disarming the American people who they see as serfs at best and enemies at worst.
You know there was a time in living memory when schools were awash with guns and with gun clubs yet these type of school shootings never ever happened. By an odd coincidence these were times before prayer was removed from schools by judicial fiat and when corporal punishment was removed by the cultural fiat of those who had no respect for what they now call the greatest generation.
Hey, the left wanted a post Christian society where the principles of “Thou Shalt not Kill” and “Love your enemies and “pray for those who persecute you” were gone. So that Godless society, how’s that working out for you?
Finally what the Democrat/left would really like is a Uvalde every other week from now till election day to change the subject from their horrible performance in office. Of course Don Surber pointed out a rather obvious bit of reality that the Democrats have been providing a Uvalde every other week when it comes to kids getting shot in America and that’s just in Chicago
14 school massacres in 23 years led to 169 deaths
415 children ages 17 and under were killed in Chicago alone in 2021
We should talk about the media obsession over 7 deaths a year while ignoring the daily carnage in inner cities
— DonSurber.substack.com (@donsurber) May 27, 2022
Don Don Don Don Don, don’t you know that since those kids are shot in Democrat Cities controlled by Democrat Mayors and Democrat City Counselors and Democrat activists (all places with though gun laws btw) you are not allowed to bring this up as it doesn’t advance the narrative that is being advanced?
When I see Elizabeth Warren or Gavin Newsome of Beto outraged over the biweekly Uvaldes that take place in Democrat cities then I’ll take their outrage seriously. Until then they’re to be ignored.
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