Nathan Carson

Alternate account after my main account @ndcarson was hacked.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@EricRichards22 The gas prices today are higher than during any point of the Biden Admin.

[EKO @EkoLovesYou]

They changed Aslan's voice, which is what the ape did.

Netflix's The Magician's Nephew moves C.S. Lewis's story from 1900 London into 1950s glam rock Britain. They gave Aslan a red-striped face and multicolored eyes, which director Greta Gerwig says was inspired by David Bowie, and the lion speaks in Meryl Streep's voice.

In The Last Battle, Puzzle did all the work. He carried the water and hauled the loads and said of course, Shift, of course. When something yellow came over the waterfall into Caldron Pool, Puzzle went in after it. The water nearly killed him. He came out half-drowned and bruised, dragging a lion's skin the size of a hearthrug.

Puzzle wanted to bury it. Lions are solemn, he said, "because of you know Who."

Shift just called it a winter coat. He sent the donkey downriver to a market that had no oranges. Alone, he got out a needle and thick thread and a big pair of scissors. He cut the body short. He sewed a long collar for a long neck. He put ties under the belly. Every now and then a bird passed overhead and he stopped his work and watched it, because he did not want anyone to see what he was doing.

Puzzle wore the costume, but Shift was the engineer.

Every generation puts a new skin on the old stories. Totally normal. But lately the new skin keeps the old face and sews in a new mouth. The story you were raised on comes back wearing its own face.

Lewis opened his last Narnia book with this test..

"A good deal of Puzzle's grey nose and face could be seen through the open mouth of the lion's head. No one who had ever seen a real lion would have been taken in for a moment. But if someone who had never seen a lion looked at Puzzle in his lionskin, he just might mistake him for a lion, if he didn't come too close, and if the light was not too good, and if Puzzle didn't let out a bray and didn't make any noise with his hoofs."

A costume only works on somebody who has never seen the real thing.

A skin holds up from far away, on a screen, in a trailer. Up close, in the pages, the stitches show. Every costume looks better in the dark, so hold the new version next to the old book in daylight. The disguise dies the moment the creature opens its mouth. Lewis's lion sings a world into being.

Gerwig told christian media critic Ted Baehr a year and a half ago that she loved the old 1979 cartoon. Now she has swapped the mouth of the one who sings the world. Wait and hear what the new one sings.

When Puzzle finds his conscience and asks what will become of them if the real Aslan turns up, Shift says he never does turn up, not nowadays. At that exact moment the sky answers with a thunderclap. The ground trembles. Puzzle hears a warning. Shift, whose mind works very quickly, hears permission. He tells the donkey he was just going to say the thunder was the sign they were waiting for. The objection gets sewn into the costume.

Every single no from heaven gets tailored into a yes.

And that's the needle still in the ape's hand.

Notice who Lewis refused to mock in the story. Puzzle isn't the villain. He's cold and tired, and a voice he trusts keeps telling him he isn't clever. Lewis saved his anger for the ape with the scissors and gives the donkey mercy. So if people we love get swept up by the trailer, they are not the enemy. The film itself may be lovely. We'll judge it the way Lewis taught us, up close and in good light. Nobody gets taken in because they are stupid. They get taken in because nobody ever walked them up to the real lion.

The enemy has never made anything.

He wears. He puts on light, he puts on scripture, he puts on a lion's skin. Lewis was writing about what the war looks like when it comes for the children. That part belongs to us. The answer to a dressed-up story has always been familiarity.

So read the real books. Read them out loud to the kids in your life until the real lion's voice lives in their ears. Kids who walk with Aslan thru seven books can't be sold a donkey in a skin, at any distance, in any light.

The movie comes out next year but the war is older than any calendar, and it's always been a fight over who speaks in the lion's voice.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@DoDeportations The refiner went offline due to a power outage and is back in full capacity today. Have a friend who used to work there who confirmed.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@politicalmath This is the best thing you’ve ever said years later btw.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@ThisThatOther2 The answer is no.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@CarolinaLion2 It’s more likely that it is than it isn’t.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@contramordor @HarmlessYardDog “Young people need to get involved” is coded Boomer language for “young people need to do what I want them to do and stop having their own opinions.”

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@JohnCornyn You're just a butthurt loser

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@johnddavidson They’re not conservatives, they’re libertarians wearing a skin suit of traditional American values.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@GrayConnolly That’s not Protestantism, that’s godless libertarianism which infected Evangelicalism because of the Moral Majority. Reagan and Conservatism failed.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

Jefferson had nothing to do with drafting the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. He was in Paris as a Diplomat during all the debates. Jefferson had more a role in drafting the post-Bastille Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen than he did the Constitution.

Stop being a historical revisionist.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@johnddavidson That’s because Goldberg is just a libertarian. There’s nothing conservative about him except for conserving the power and wealth of economic elites.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@drsuffy It’s as if none of them understand basic IR theory and supply chains. Which they don’t.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Democrats historically wanted to import foreigners and put them on welfare because they believed this would lead to the immigrants voting for Democrats.

Republicans historically wanted to import foreigners because their
big business donors wanted a class of indentured laborers who cost less than actual Americans.

Democrats kept this state of affairs alive by calling anyone who opposed it racist. Republicans kept this state of affairs alive by calling anyone who opposed it communist and anti-market.

Our country is now overrun with foreigners, welfare seems to be entirely fraudulent, we’re $40 trillion in debt, our cities are ground zero for millennia-old ethnic and tribal conflicts, and our own countrymen can’t find work or afford a home in a nation built for them by their ancestors.

And if you have a problem with this, Democrats will call you a racist and Republican politicians will call you communist and also call you racist.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@ThisThatOther2 @HollyBullardFL What’s going to happen is the price housing is going to inflate as people can afford a more expensive home because of lower property taxes. This means bigger commissions for real estate agents and all those involved. Housing affordability remains unchanged.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@drsuffy A friend of mine sued to work at that facility. I ran it past him and it’s exactly what you said. Capacity fully back online by end of the week.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@HarmlessYardDog And the actual answer is the shoes that we Americans wear and our gait. There's a confidence and swagger that is impossible to unsee once you pick up on it v other cultures.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@HarmlessYardDog Not technically German, but when I was in Brazil years ago for an academic conference, my actual Canadian friends and friends from Spain got approached in Portuguese all the time. Locals took one good look at me and went "GRINGO"

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@aidannonx I’m ok with it, but legends such as Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, and Ted Williams deserve similar treatment.

[Nathan Carson @ndcarsonFL]

@DonMiami3 @CarolinaLion2 What makes you say that? Could it also be an issue with the wells instead? That was a major issue highlighted by the GAO.