@hanatsumarimasu@VannaT28 At times, the acting has been terrible. Louis on stage at the award ceremony when Harry was “missing” in the loo comes to mind. Terrible and very obvious acting.
@larrybeliever91 He was looking at Niall there though - the video makes it clear because he stayed leaned up looking that way until Niall gave him a smile and a little shoulder shrug, then he moved back. That’s the context - the boys were teasing Niall.
This case should be getting A LOT more attention. Should be massively viral. We need the White House on it. A man who broke into a house and stabbed a child to death is now walking free. One of the most heinous miscarriages of justice in American history
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
My dear American friends,
We British Christians would get excited when, once a year, Queen Elizabeth would make a mild but sincere reference to the love of Jesus Christ in her Christmas address.
In Charlie Kirks' Memorial service, watched by tens of millions, I just heard:
- Multiple clear presentations of the gospel from men like @robmccoyus and @DrFrankTurek with clear calls to repentance and faith
- Worship songs full of Scripture sung by tens of thousands live and millions at home
- Personal testimonies of lives transformed by the work of Christ and the witness of believers
- Demonstration and explanation of the value of marriage, child-rearing and family
- Calls to Romans 13 for the government to bear the sword for the protection of good and punishment of the wicked
- Declarations of spiritual warfare on the forces of evil and promises to endure no matter the cost
- Calls to be prophets and call the nation to repent
- More Scripture references and Bible readings than I can count
- And a widow publicly forgiving her husband's killer because Christ forgave his killers on the cross.
All of it done before, and by, the most powerful people in your nation and the world.
You guys should be on your knees thanking God for your country. It is a light to the world.
Never stop fighting for it.
“I want to live in a country where if a woman does not want to go to work after having a kid, she does not have to go to work and she could stay at home and raise those kids.”
When they tell you Charlie Kirk was an awful person, remember this video.
All the Charlie Kirk videos responding to questions should be clipped, categorized by topic, made searchable and the database made available on the @TPUSA website and also in an app for students.
He left an incredible encyclopedia of how to deal with the left and how to address all our various social and cultural issues.
I personally would like this to help make better arguments.
I wonder if @DataRepublican could help.
@CrackerBarrel Are you going to stop funding all ages pride events? Are you going to end DEI and never again do a pronoun training at your headquarters?
For those who don’t know about how woke they really went, watch this video…
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The solution to this problem is obvious: Congress must quit sending the damn money to USAID!
Republicans now control the House and Senate, yet here we are facing a vote on a continuing resolution next week that would fund everything in 2025 as it was funded in 2024.
Keep note of who doesn't stand or applause for the mothers of Laken Riley & Jocelyn Nungaray. Two women who never asked for the spotlight, but were thrust into it when their daughters were murdered by illegal aliens who were caught and released at the border by Biden admin.
My main takeaway from the past two days is that eliminating NGOs isn’t just about tackling corruption—it’s a matter of survival. The current trajectory carries a real risk of leading us toward nuclear catastrophe.
The so-called foreign policy “experts” are nothing more than mediocre thinkers with no real capacity for logic. These are the people steering global decisions, yet they lack the competence to handle serious geopolitical threats. If we want to avoid disaster, we need to destroy their mystique and dissolve their money.
Does anyone else find it deeply unsettling that the primary argument for prolonging the war in Ukraine is purely emotional?
The loudest voices advocating for continued conflict are the same hawkish figures who pushed for interventions in Iraq and Syria—people hailed as foreign policy experts and respected leaders. Yet, their entire position boils down to outrage at Putin. They offer no strategy for ending a war with a nuclear power, no clear endgame—just rhetoric and name-calling. If you question the war’s continuation, you’re accused of supporting Putin.
These are the people shaping our foreign policy, embedded in influential think tanks and NGOs, yet they seem to have no intellectual substance behind their stance.
The emperor has no clothes.
When Zelensky challenged JD Vance for advocating diplomacy with Russia, the Ukrainian president invoked his December 9 2019 agreement with Putin and claimed:
"We signed the exchange of prisoners, but he [Putin] didn’t do it."
Here are pictures of Zelensky attending a December 29th, 2019 ceremony welcoming the return of Ukrainian prisoners freed under his agreement with Putin. Here's also an April 2020 announcement from Zelensky's office welcoming the completion of a third prisoner exchange: