I just think right now, the left is dumber and thought this brochure, explaining how kids can trans without their parents’ knowledge would benefit the left. Kind of like they thought disclosing the late Lindsey Graham was gay would help them (we were fine with him being gay; we just thought he should have come out of the closet and stopped being blackmailed to fall in line with the left. Lands’ sake. We don’t want to sleep with our representatives — ew — but we don’t want them to be compromised either.) Or their newest allegations about Trump, which apparently waited till now to come out. (Rolls eyes.) We’re in a race to the bottom of the IQ pile, and the left is somehow managing to win.
At the time, both my husband and I drove cars that were considerably older than the supposed “clunkers” so they didn’t qualify (not that we’d do that. We buy them used, take care of them, and drive them till their natural death.) This orgy of destruction made it hard for our kids to afford their first cars and made life difficult for the young and poor (which are often the same.) For … no reason. Except vague “green” feels and a president’s hatred of everyone not rich.
Keep in mind, I still think it’s governmental overreach to regulate what adults can consume. But the hypocrisy of demonizing one and practically encouraging the other has long boggled me.
When we think of Leftists, we do not think of Barack Obama or Ezra Klein. Yes, these guys are on the Left, but younger Millennials and Zoomers on the Right do not think of Leftists in their own age bracket as polished technocrats.
Polished what? Children, they are exactly like current leftists:
When we think of Leftists, the first thing that pops into our head are a bunch of disgusting, depraved, spiteful mutants who want to destroy everything around them as payback for the crime of being born.
And, in Obama’s case, the vile, disgusting, depraved, spiteful mutant who is not quite a year older than I wants to destroy America, because his interestingly exotic father abandoned him, and it must be all our fault. (Spits.)
The left has been evil and destructive for a long time. Now they’re not even doing the modicum of hiding Obama did.
Start with the lion. Lewis did not consider Aslan an allegory. He called him “an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, ‘What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia.’” In other words, within the story Aslan is Christ, and Lewis gave him the title to match: the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea. That makes the voice a theological decision, not a casting one. For Lewis, masculine and feminine were woven into the structure of reality, prior to biology and above it. In Perelandra he wrote, “Gender is a reality, and a more fundamental reality than sex.” And in That Hideous Strength he went furthest of all: the male we could escape, because it exists only on the biological level, “but the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it.” To invert that order is not to update Lewis. It is to take a crowbar to his metaphysics. The masculine none of us can escape, and Netflix may be about to find that out when it reads its box office receipts.
Defenders say the voice will be deep. A person who has seen the film told Relevant that “Aslan is clearly male,” and NarniaWeb reports that [Meryl] Streep gives the lion a deep, gravelly voice. Maybe so. But surely the best place to look for a gravelly masculine voice is a gravelly masculine actor. Hollywood isn’t short of them, but it seems short of the will to cast one. When you have to retune a woman’s voice so it sounds like a man’s, you’ve conceded the point and then hired a sound engineer to hide the concession. Lewis told us Aslan is not a tame lion, but Netflix seems determined to make him a lame one.
The Critical Drinker adds (via YouTube’s transcription, which was cleaned up by ChatGPT):
Casting a woman in an iconically male role like this, based around the central male figure of Christianity, was definitely a bold move on Gerwig’s part. I’ll say that much. And her justification left people with more questions than answers.
Quote: “I wanted someone who was profound but not pretentious, who had gravitas but not morose self-seriousness. Someone who could communicate depth and pathos as well as joy and delight. I wanted someone who was older than 70, so there was a wisdom of experience, but who also had the capacity for fresh wonder like a child, and also to be one of the greatest actors to ever do it. That list is not a long one.”
Oh, really?
That’s funny, because I can think of plenty of male actors off the top of my head who would tick all of those boxes, like Ian McKellen, Anthony Hopkins, Patrick Stewart, Charles Dance, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley.
I don’t know, man. Maybe if you’d just been honest and said you really wanted to work with Meryl Streep and this was a good opportunity to do it, people might have been a bit more receptive. As it stands, it sounds like you’re arrogantly dismissing way more appropriate actors with a pretty flimsy excuse because you’d already made up your mind who you wanted to play Aslan.
And there’s no getting away from this one: considering Gerwig’s history with subversive feminist film projects, the inevitable assumption was that she wanted to put a subversive feminist spin on a traditional male-led fantasy series with Christian undertones. Maybe she did, maybe she didn’t, but optics and perception are everything in this business. And it feels like she walked straight into a major controversy before the film even started shooting.
And for what? To get Meryl Streep on the credits? I don’t know, man. It doesn’t seem worth it to me.
We’ll find out in February, which as the Drinker goes on to note, is usually a dumping ground for movies Hollywood didn’t consider good enough to succeed in the much more lucrative (and thus much more competitive) summer and Christmas release seasons.
Flávio Bolsonaro has been summoned by the Federal Police to hand over his passport within 24 hours by order of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
The Supreme Court Justice argues that there is a risk that Bolsonaro could flee abroad to avoid prosecution. pic.twitter.com/dfL55NPTlF
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace has admitted that he aims to piss off MAGA fans as he debuts his car sponsored by vaccine provider Kroger Health and the COVID-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid.
Indeed, Wallace got people talking when he drove his No. 23 Toyota Camry in the YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, the Daily Mail reported.
In an interview with the New York Times-owned The Athletic, Wallace admitted that his vax-pushing sponsors are “feeding right into” those who are uncomfortable with the COVID vaccines. He added that he is “Just pissing off the keyboard warriors. Man, why not, right? Here we are.”
He went on to explain why he took on the sponsors.
“The Kroger Health side of things: get your flu shot. People are going to lose their minds over the COVID-19 stuff, but for us it’s about building opportunities for people to be more educated on getting their flu shots, and then taking care of their health and moving forward with that,” he said.
“Everyone else can make their own in lines, but we’re all in it together to help everybody’s health,” Wallace insisted.
SOMEHOW HISTORY DIDN’T BEGIN UNTIL HOGAN’S HEROES:
The mislabeling is not accidental, of course. The Left calls any opposition “fascist,” “Nazi,” etc., as a way of justifying extralegal measures to suppress dissent, including terrorist violence. https://t.co/IEd2qt3Gog
Last year, when CBS’s Margaret Brennan absurdly claimed to Marco Rubio that JD Vance “was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Mark Steyn responded, “I did not think it was possible to despise the ‘mainstream’ media more than I already did. In a society thoroughly moronized by Brain-Dead Brennan and her ilk, Hitler is the sole remaining historical figure anybody’s heard of. And they can’t even get that right. ‘Weaponising’ free speech? What does that even mean? In Germany, tweets get you gaoled but rape is just part of your ‘cultural tradition’. And CBS News knows which side it’s on.”
The left playing the Nazi card should a death’s head, err, dead end these days:
Please tell me more about the need to vote for the party that nominated a Nazi-insignia tattooed individual to combat Nazis. pic.twitter.com/VxEdb3nVlV
Leftwing white women are always trying to argue that they should be considered equals with, say, immigrant men and black men in the Privilege Pyramid, but black men and immigrant men continue to disagree about that.
The looters not only don’t care about what the leftwing white women say, but they completely disagree with them. Looting their stores is their cause. Leftwing white women say “no, only loot from the straight white men,” and their allies say, “According to our rules, rules you signed up for by the way, you are oppressors, nearly as evil as straight white men, and your stores should be looted alongside those of straight white men.”
In the same post, Ace of Spades links to another example of leftist autophagy, in which a white woman and a Latino man scream at each other in woke leftist cliches to compete for the gold medal in the Victim Olympics. Definitely stick around to the end, for the perfect punchline:
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