Jeremy Irons spends most of Margin Call (2011) off-screen, which only makes his entrance hit harder. The second he walks into that late-night meeting, the movie feels like it belongs to him. Every line lands like a decision everyone else has to live with.
"The homosexual movement is not about what people do in their bedrooms. It is about power, and specifically about using the apparatus of the state and the culture to compel acceptance of behavioral norms that are deeply destructive to the bourgeois family."
-Samuel T. Francis
Is this bad from Barrett, admitting weakness and the effectiveness of leftist terror?
Yes, but to be honest this is not on her
Women should not be in this role, they should not hold this position for this exact reason, but she didn’t put herself there
The administration did, the conservative movement did, because for all their talk about “knowing what a woman is” they don’t
They embrace feminism, they embrace the lie of egalitarianism, they make DEI appointments to please popular political narratives, andnow the price comes due
The administration should have inflicted absolutely draconian punishments for leftist violence
Grand spectacles of raw authority, mass arrests, comically long sentences, raids in the middle of the night leaving progressives terrified to sleep
Instead they did nothing, watched more leftist violence unfold, and doubled down on nothing while fighting a foreign war for a foreign government
Barret is weak and useless, but she should have never been here in the first place, and conservatives have only themselves to blame
Gary Oldman gets one scene in Oppenheimer (2023), walks in as Harry Truman, completely dismisses Oppenheimer’s guilt with a few cutting lines, and walks back out. It’s astonishing how much weight that brief encounter carries.
The reason vintage advertisements are radicalizing is that they offer a window into a not so distant past and remind us of what they took from us.
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I watched the Auburn-Arkansas game from 1995 the other day. Aired on ESPN the same night the Braves won the World Series. All commercials intact. Like seeing a different world. Commercials all healthy White people and families.
Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
I believe European man shares a special kinship with the higher creatures of the ocean: the whales, dolphins and the octopi. These special animals recognise our elevated moral sentiments and loft ambitions, but also our playful spirit. This is why orcas attack migrant boats.
If you don't celebrate your own traditions, then you will have to celebrate someone else's traditions.
The Norwegian team celebrates the right way and we all love it.
The Viking way. But also wearing the Cross of Christ with pride.
Can you imagine being an Irish monk illuminating manuscripts on a soggy little island and all of a sudden a few dozen of these guys show up on boats that look like dragons? Must’ve been awful.
So, I have a huge soft spot for Tales from the Crypt, but one of my favorite little nods was when William Sadler reprised his role of Death from Bill & Teds for an opening segment. Sadler also starred before in the show's pilot.
Women like this used to grow on trees before Proctor and Gamble invented crystallised cottonseed oil, aka Crisco. They did it on purpose to prevent you from having a wife of your own just like this. Never forget that.
Put a White man in a frozen wasteland and he creates Sweden.
Put him in the savanna and he creates Rhodesia.
Give him a wide open continent and he creates America.
Give a Black man anything and he creates Africa.
Back when Whites worked at and owned the gas stations and women could work a job like this because America wasn’t filled with people who want to kill them.
*Average Shelby Foote scene on Ken Burns' Civil war*
"Uh so heeere we see Captain Mellifluence Beauregard Johnson Johnston III a.k.a 'big shot' (top of his West Point class, heir to vast plantation estate) bravely leading his diminished company of 37 barefoot emaciated men against the fresh onslaught of vicious Union artillery. He went to be with the lord at 6:42 PM crowned with the resplendent rays of the setting sun."