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John Cleese being interviewed by the Babylon Bee was good, but I have to give the Keven Downey Jr the nod for the best bit about what the left has become:

I’ve been a comedian for 33 years. I’ve seen the transformation myself. There was a time when, if conservatives didn’t like a joke, they simply wouldn’t laugh. Worst-case scenario, they’d walk out. Today, if a comedian cracks a ha-ha that the non-binary, freakshow woke brigade doesn’t like, may God protect them and their career. They’ll have you working at a car wash and then burn down the car wash for hiring you.

The dirty little secret is that is that I suspect they have actually always been the Red Guards or at least the Red Guards wanna bees but never felt safe enough to be open about it, not even to potential allies in Hollywood back in the day.

Bogart, much like his Hollywood persona, was a mercurial fellow. You didn’t backstab Bogie. Already a loose fuse, he grew redder and redder as the facts on Hollywood’s communists rolled in, and then he detonated. “You [expletive, plural] sold me out!” he yelled at Danny Kaye.

Unbelievable as it may seem, Lauren Bacall later said that as she and Bogie and the others flew to Washington, they did not know that most of the unfriendlies called to testify were secretly members of the Communist Party. “We didn’t realize until much later,” she admitted, “that we were being used to some degree by the Unfriendly Ten.” She conceded that they had been foolishly naïve, headstrong, emotional, and that they had hastily strolled into something “we knew nothing about.

Most members of the Committee for the First Amendment felt that way. The group fell silent, withered, and died.

This has been the Hollywood left’s game for decades John Cleese’s remarks concerning this stuff should be required watching

I have a son who is discerning a vocation as a religious brother and in pondering it I found myself re-reading the book of Samuel.

At one point in the book of Samuel the people of Israel demand a king to rule over them and God tell him to grant this but before you do warn them what it will mean and as the Lord commanded Samuel tells them:

Samuel delivered the message of the LORD in full to those who were asking him for a king.

He told them: “The rights of the king who will rule you will be as follows: He will take your sons and assign them to his chariots and horses, and they will run before his chariot.

He will also appoint from among them his commanders of groups of a thousand and of a hundred soldiers. He will set them to do his plowing and his harvesting, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.

He will use your daughters as ointment-makers, as cooks, and as bakers.

He will take the best of your fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his officials.

He will tithe your crops and your vineyards, and give the revenue to his eunuchs and his slaves.

He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best oxen and your asses, and use them to do his work.

He will tithe your flocks and you yourselves will become his slaves.

When this takes place, you will complain against the king whom you have chosen, but on that day the LORD will not answer you.”

1 Samuel 8:9-18

That instantly came to mind when I saw this:

We’re not respected. No one fears crossing Joe Biden. It’s a dangerous world, and a lot of other countries think that we’re led by a geriatric pushover.https://t.co/Oefj8vcCHX

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) July 18, 2022

The reason this reminds me of that passage from Samuel is that the results of a Biden Presidency was not only predictable but were directly predicted by Donald Trump. One example:

This is of course just one example. He predicted the crash of 401K’s gas prices, failures abroad, etc etc etc but this is just one post

This is why btw the left and the media and big tech are so big on censoring content, the truth of these failures are so self evident that even the NeverTrump^tm Principled Conservative^Tm are acknowledging them.

That being said you can be sure of three things:

1. Every single one of those folks would not trade their vote for Biden for a Trump vote in 2020
2. In a 2024 rematch between Trump and Biden they will remain all in on Biden
3. If the GOP nominates someone other than Donald Trump whoever it is whether it be Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Kristi Noem or even a Prune Danish they will decide that said person or pastry is even worse than Donald Trump

In fact the media’s acknowledgement of these failures is only in the hopes of replacing the no longer useful idiot in the White House with a useful one.

But be aware that all of these failures and all of these pains are a direct result of the willingness confront the reality of a stolen election and like the Democrat cities that are unwilling to confront the realities of gangs and the Israelites who were unwilling to heed the warning of Samuel we shall continue to pay the price.

Reality: I am going to tear down your safe space, brick by brick I shall smash it with glee.
Cartman: What? Who is that?
Reality: You cannot stop me from getting inside, I am cold and I am hard and my name … is Reality.

South Park Song In my safe space from the episode Safe Space 2015

In a rough economy it’s not unusual for a chain to close stores, but it IS unusual for them to close ones that are still showing a profit.

“There are gonna be many more [store closures].”

The leaked video of Schultz shows him addressing Starbucks employees. He told them that the company was “beginning to close stores that are not unprofitable.”

Schultz said he was “shocked” to hear from employees that “one of the primary concerns that our retail partners [baristas] have is their own personal safety.”

“And then we heard about the stories that go along with it about what happens in our bathrooms,” Schultz said.

Of course what goes on in their bathrooms is due to a woke policy implemented to show the world how wonderful they are.

It seems the liberal owner of Starbucks has had a revelation: Realty doesn’t care how woke you are. This revelation came with a policy tweak:

I also suspect he is smart enough to realize that it is only a matter of time before an employee will be killed or maimed in one of those locations and the company’s national policy blamed and them sued.

I suspect that has a lot more to do with his sudden dawning of knowledge and wisdom than anything else.

I’m old enough to remember when a place like the Babylon Bee would not be considered a platform for a guy like John Cleese

but he was.

I thought it was interesting at the end that they never considered that Cleese might have wanted to meet Jesus even though he declined their kind offer of conversion.