ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:
TEXAS SENATE RACE: James Talarico (CIS) caught putting supporters falsely claiming to be Republicans on air once again. Bennett Ratliff lost his Texas House seat to Matt Rinaldi in 2014 and began voting for, endorsing, and funding Democrats after that. For example, last year he… https://t.co/dz5NvyTTLg
— @amuse (@amuse) September 10, 2026
MEMORY HOLING THE BIGGEST AMERICAN EVENT OF THE 21st CENTURY:
United 93 was great but it flopped because it was too real. People couldn’t handle it. Oliver Stone did a silver-lining story with World Trade Center, which also was not a hit. Studio executives want very badly not to get fired so they avoid things that audiences reject.
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) September 10, 2026
As far back as 2005, Mark Steyn how strangely quiet Hollywood was on both 9/11 and the GWOT: Hollywood’s real slump is in storytelling.
Say what you like about those Hollywood writers of the Thirties and Forties, but they were serious lefties. Their successors are mostly poseurs loudly trumpeting their courageous “dissent” while paralyzed into inanity. This year’s Sean Penn thriller, “The Interpreter,” was originally about Muslim terrorists blowing up a bus in New York. So, naturally, Hollywood called rewrite. And instead the bus got blown up by African terrorists from the little-known republic of Matobo. “We didn’t want to encumber the film in politics in any way,” said Kevin Misher, the producer.
But being so perversely “nonpolitical” is itself a political act. If there were a dozen movies in which Tom Cruise kicked al-Qaida butt across the Hindu Kush, it would be reasonable to say, “Hey, we’d rather deal with Matoban terrorism for a change.” But, when every movie goes out of its way to avoid being “encumbered,” it starts to look like a pathology.
And by the time Hollywood released this summer’s “Stealth,” some studio exec must have panicked that, what with all this Bono/Live8 debt-relief business, it might look a bit Afrophobic to have any more Matoban terrorists. So “Stealth” was a high-tech action thriller about Air Force pilots zapping about the skies in which the bad guy is the plane.
That’s right: an unmanned, computer-flown plane goes rogue and starts attacking things. The money shot is – stop me if this rings a vague bell – a big downtown skyscraper with a jet heading toward it. Only there are no terrorists aboard the jet. The jet itself is the terrorist.
Similarly, in 2015, Hollywood released The Walk, about Philippe Petit’s insane 1974 tightrope walk between the two towers. Cheer for the nostalgia of seeing the World Trade Center digitally recreated on a tall movie screen! Thrill to the sight of a daredevil Frenchman 1,350 feet in the air! Pay no attention to our industry’s inability to tell the story of how the twin towers were felled 27 years later!
JUST BECAUSE THEY’RE KOOKS DOESN’T MEAN THEY AREN’T DANGEROUS: Covid Masks, a “Gay Communism” Hat, and Hasan Piker: Inside the Socialism 2026 Conference.
Related: ‘Transfeminist Abolition’ and ‘Communist Sex Forests’: Inside the Socialism 2026 Summit.
I DON’T HAVE ANYTHING IN, BUT GOOD FRIENDS DO, AND YOU SHOULD CHECK IT OUT: The 2026 BasedCon Based Book Sale. Runs Today through Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
IN BOB DYLAN’S WORDS, THEY’D RATHER SEE US PARALYZED: The Europeans’ Post-9/11 Advice: The urge to blame America and stop it from responding began immediately.
Just as people started blaming Israel for 10/7 . . . on 10/7.
THE BREAK IS STILL RAW AND BLEEDING: The Rift Across Our World.
FOR CERTAIN VALUES OF ‘GREATEST’: An American Professor Is Calling Mao ‘Perhaps the Greatest Historical Figure of the 20th Century’.
Academia in its present form is a walking corpse that simply hasn’t fallen over. Yet.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS FOREVER PEEING ON YOUR LEG TO CONVINCE YOU IT’S RAINING: No One Believes Mark Kelly’s Story About Getting a Letter From a Fellow Airline Passenger.
SOCIALISTS ALWAYS START WARS THEY CAN’T WIN: ‘You Better Get Ready for … War’: Socialists Convene to Plan Next Phase of Revolution.
TROLLS OUGHT TO BE GRATEFUL FOR SACRIFICES TO PRESERVE THEIR RIGHT TO MOUTH OFF: Here’s the Tweet That Shut Down This Snotty Post About the 9/11 Attacks.
SEN. SHAHEEN (D-NH) LIED AND KNEW SHE’D BEEN CAUGHT: The Facial Expression on This Dem Senator’s Face About Illegals and Healthcare Says It All.
DON’T GET ME STARTED: Respect for the past.
Ain’t no one got time to hear me rant for three hours.
IT DOES HAVE USES IN EDUCATION: My Son Had Six Weeks to Learn Two Years of Saxon Math. We Used AI.
NO PENSION IS SAFE: Government pension funds.
THE PRC IS DRIVING SOME OF THIS SHIT: The Return of What is Truth.
However, Russia and our native pudding heads came up with some of it too.
THEY’RE A SORRY LOT: NeverTrumpers: Jilted Lovers, Daddy Issues, Cocktail Party Rejects.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Charlie was murdered by the Dark for showing people the Light
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 21, 2025
OFT EVIL WILL SHALL EVIL MAR: Here in Knoxville at UT there was a lot of snarkiness about Charlie Kirk on social media, which drew attention from politicians and some University officials, but the actual “Kirkiversary” gathering on the HSS Lawn at UT was 400 people chanting “Kirk! Kirk! Kirk!” and singing “We Are Charlie Kirk.”
As usual, the nasty left is a minority pretending to be a majority. They aren’t. They’re a nasty, mean, violent fringe, but they’re outnumbered and it’s good to remind them of that.
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