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NEO: One movie after another.

The Oscars are tomorrow, and about a week ago I watched the first half hour of the movie One Battle After Another, nominated for Best Picture and several other awards. I was visiting a friend who lives at one of those large complexes for older people, and they show a movie for free every week. She wanted to take a look at that one, and so I went too.

But after a half hour of the movie we both left.

Simply put, it was the worst movie I’ve ever seen, bar none. Let me count the ways in which it was bad – no, maybe that’s impossible, because it was awful in every way. Its terribleness was absolutely astonishing.

Earlier: ‘One Battle After Another’ Is Irredeemable.

And from the Critical Drinker:

STRATEGERY:

As I have often pointed out, the administration deliberately conceals its direction of advance in OEF, like an NBA player faking and feinting to throw of the defense. There is a long list of "would never" actions that the administration has started, breaking every taboo, only to…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 14, 2026

IT’S THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID:

Fun Fact: There are now more muslims just in England (4m), than there are ethnically Irish in the whole of Ireland (3.9m).

— Queen Bee (@KingBobIIV) March 14, 2026

(Classical reference in headline.)

THERE’S NO CHOICE, YOU ACCOMPLISH THE FORMER BY ACCOMPLISHING THE LATTER: The False Choice Between Deterring China and Defeating Iran.

MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

OK, so the Abraham Accords. Taking down the Venezuelan cartel/dictatorship. Finally a response in the Iran War, the mullahs thought we were stupid and weak, they were right. Now Cuba.

You do get he's basically walking on water. Making every elected hack, bureaucrat and diplomat… https://t.co/iMOyB7xwA0

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) March 15, 2026

Tweet continues, “You do get he’s basically walking on water. Making every elected hack, bureaucrat and diplomat of the last 40 years or so look like dithering incompetent fools, when they weren’t actively and despicably enabling said dictatorships, that is. Could it all go wrong? Yeah. But for the first time since Ronald Reagan blew up the Soviet Union, someone’s trying.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Related thoughts here. “If the public realizes you can actually solve problems, there will be more pressure to do that — rather than just manage them endlessly.”

LOCK THEM UP:

I regret to inform you that white liberal women are now SINGING, DANCING, AND GRINDING on ICE agents in order to protest the removal of dangerous criminal illegal aliens from the country.

You cannot make this up…

Absolutely insane behavior on display here. pic.twitter.com/utWGFwwgWb

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) March 14, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM M-SNOW:

MSNBC anchor: Trump's attacks on Iran are "racism" pic.twitter.com/eEldKsunEy

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 15, 2026

But Democrats with lavaliers and Chyrons already took us down this route 14 years ago: Mark Steyn: Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them.

And so it goes with American racism: The less there is, the more extravagantly the racism-awareness lobby patrols its beat. The Walmart carding clerks of the media are ever more alert to those who “appear to be” racist. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews declared this week that Republicans use “Chicago” as a racist code word. Not to be outdone, his colleague Lawrence O’Donnell pronounced “golf” a racist code word. When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell observed that Obama was “working to earn a spot on the PGA tour,” O’Donnell brilliantly perceived that subliminally associating Obama with golf is racist, because the word “golf” is subliminally associated with “Tiger Woods,” and the word “Tiger” is not-so-subliminally associated with cocktail waitress Jamie Grubbs, nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel, lingerie model Jamie Jungers, former porn star Holly Sampson, etc, etc. So by using the word “golf” you’re sending a racist dog whistle that Obama is a sex addict who reverses over fire hydrants.

Last year, MSNBC considered Sydney Sweeney’s jeans a racist dog whistle: MSNBC Goes Full Racist, Attacking Sydney Sweeney Ad Campaign.

OIL PUMPING OPERATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN IMMINENTLY:  Stunning turnaround for California’s oil industry after Trump’s surprise executive order to help ease gas prices.

THE GREATEST ENTHUSIASM FOR COMMUNISM REMAINING IS FOUND AMONG UNDERGRADUATES AND THEIR PROFESSORS:

In 1980, there were 22 officially Communist or Marxist states.

Today there are five. Four of these have explicitly adopted capitalist objectives and elements such as foreign investment, market reforms, and private enterprise. Almost the only "communist" feature they've kept is… pic.twitter.com/UFSTP0UcbW

— Sandy Petersen 🪔 (@SandyofCthulhu) March 13, 2026

WHY WOULD THEY ANTAGONIZE THEIR BASE?  The Government has the powers to crack down on Islamic extremism – so why the pretence it hasn’t?

HE DOESN’T THINK DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO GET ILLEGALS IN TO TURN THEM INTO VOTERS?  This Quote From Gov. Stitt Is NOT Good News Regarding Who He’d Pick to Replace Markwayne Mullin.

WHAT ARE THESE UNNATURAL PRACTICES?  Self Care. Sunlight, fresh air, and exercise — oh, my.

DON’T FIGHT THEM IN TERRAIN OF THEIR CHOOSING:  “Bludgeonspeak”.

IT FEELS LIKE THAT:  Real Change is Coming.

APPARENTLY IT TAKES FOUR ACTS OF TERRORISM:  Democrat Senator Suddenly Open to DHS Funding After Michigan Synagogue Attack.

AMAZON SALES REPORTING HAS BEEN… WEIRD. I DON’T KNOW HOW ANYTHING ELSE IS:  Amazon Implements 90-Day Code Safety Reset after AI-Related Incidents with “High Blast Radius”.

I’M ALWAYS SHOCKED TO FIND MYSELF QUOTED:  When Vigorous Assertions are Their Native Language.

A MUCH NEEDED DATAREPUBLICAN HELLO:  You pre-emptively blocked me here on 𝕏, so I am forced to make this “Hello” a standalone post. You are a retired Army infantry officer. You served in Iraq and Afghanistan. You graduated from the National War College in 2018. You are now an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

X-Cancel.

INDEED:  Delayed Reaction. Islamic Terror Attacks in the United States.

SERIOUSLY?  Two tales of Covid Tyranny, which still exists six years later.

ALL SENSIBLE PEOPLE GET KICKED OUT OF POLITE SOCIETY. BUT CONSIDERING WHERE POLITE SOCIETY HAS GOT US, MAYBE WE SHOULD KICK IT OUT:  If the post below doesn’t get me banned from polite society… this one will.

X.CANCEL.

WE ARE DEFINITELY NOT THE WORLD’S SOCIAL WORKER:  Another Failed State.

INTERESTING:  Meta spent $26.3 million lobbying for “age verification” bills in 45 states. But the bills don’t regulate social media. They regulate your operating system. Someone traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records. Here’s what they found.

X.cancel.

THE MEMES, THE MEMES:  Memeing while the world burns.