When @realDonaldTrump was elected for his first term, innumerable people including most of my academic colleagues said that the worst realities would befall the United States. None of those things happened. They then said that he would wait until his second term to end democracy, institute martial law, etc. None of those things have happened. Is there a SINGLE honest individual amongst those people who is willing to admit that they were grossly incorrect and hence irrationally unhinged?
I went to see the new Sense and Sensibility movie yesterday.
In general, I was disappointed.
They changed the story in a few key ways, the overall mood was gloomy, and the styling was awful.
Much worse, though, Mr. Palmer was played by a “non-binary” woman.
When the character came on the screen, my husband and I looked at each other in confusion.
The styling was male, but the character had a weak voice, short stature, and effeminate appearance.
I googled it mid-movie, and apparently the actress is Eliot Sumner, the daughter of singer Sting.
As is always the case with this kind of casting, it was distracting and confusing and weakened the plot.
Presumably because of the odd casting/choice, they gave Mr. Palmer a smaller role than usual.
All the humor of his character was deleted.
Fans of the 1995 version with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet might remember that the character was played by Hugh Laurie (famous as Dr. House).
Laurie was perfect – droll and hilarious.
Wokeism ruins everything it touches.
This is known, in the military, as the Deliberate Planning Process, and it's done to prepare for the conduct of an operational campaign to, in this case, destabilize and undermine the Federal Government and 'block' the response of the government to stop the Seditious actions...
@ElissaSlotkin is one of the senior planners and a co-conspirator whose needs to be arrested by the @FBI ...
Nous ne vivons pas la fin du monde mais la fin d'un monde, de leur monde.
À nous de réinventer celui qui vient, plus beau, plus juste, plus sûr et plus fort. Mes amis, ne craignez pas d'espérer, n'ayez pas peur de vouloir ! L'avenir nous appartient.
Wow. The peace deal scuppered by Zelensky was even better than we thought. Remember, Ukraine had already been fighting a civil war in its own Russian speaking regions for 8 years by the time Russia invaded in 2022. The invasion did not come out of nowhere. And yet Zelensky had an opportunity to walk away with not just the status quo ante, but an even better position than Ukraine had been in before 2022.
It is absolute insanity to have rejected such a deal. So many dead sons, brothers, and fathers. So many shattered families. So much needless suffering. And for what? Zelensky’s desire to be celebrated as a hero by Western elites?
HORRIFIC: What happened in Paris yesterday was horrific. A man is dead. Others are fighting for their lives. A 12-year-old girl was shot eight times.
And before the blood was even dry, Macron was on camera declaring it a “racist terrorist attack.” Declaring that victims were selected for the colour of their skin and their religion.
He called it a “turning point.”
Then he said this:
“It is the first time we have had a terrorist act that was planned to kill our compatriots, our children, based on the colour of their skin or their religion.”
The FIRST time.
Let that sink in.
The first time?
That single sentence should make every French citizen furious.
So Toulouse wasn’t a turning point? When Mohamed Merah walked into a Jewish school and executed a rabbi and three small children point-blank, one of them just three years old?
Charlie Hebdo wasn’t a turning point? When Islamists massacred journalists for drawing cartoons?
Hyper Cacher wasn’t a turning point? When four Jews were murdered simply for being Jews while shopping for Shabbat?
The Bataclan wasn’t a turning point? When 90 young people were slaughtered like animals inside a concert hall?
Nice wasn’t a turning point? When a truck was driven through families and 86 people were crushed to death, children included?
Father Jacques Hamel wasn’t a turning point? When his throat was slit at the altar of his own church?
Samuel Paty wasn’t a turning point? When a teacher was beheaded in the street for showing his class free speech?
Dominique Bernard wasn’t a turning point?
How many corpses did France have to bury before it counted? How many Jewish children, journalists, shoppers, concertgoers, priests and teachers had to die?
And let’s be clear about something else: the investigation into yesterday’s horror is still establishing motive. The facts are still being gathered.
Yet Macron already has the narrative, the motive, the moral, and the political lesson ready to go.
If the evidence proves racist intent, then condemn it to the fullest extent of the law. Call it what it is. No one will defend it.
But do not rewrite French history to do it.
Do not insult the memory of the dead to serve today’s narrative.
France changed long ago. The French people know it because they lived it. They bled through it.
They remember the little girl in Toulouse. They remember the editors slumped over their desks. They remember the hostages in the kosher store. They remember the bodies on the floor of the Bataclan. They remember the strollers shattered on the promenade in Nice. They remember the priest. They remember the teacher.
You can try to push those atrocities into the background because they are inconvenient to your politics.
But you cannot make a nation forget what it saw with its own eyes.
Politicians can rewrite the narrative.
They will never rewrite people’s memories.
And they will never make France forget its dead
BREAKING: Brazil's election could be annulled, according to the New York Times.
Electoral lawyers say Brazil's current situation is "extremely serious" and a "critical situation."
The NYT reports that confusion over a last-minute voting extension by Justice Cristiano Zanin, who was appointed by Lula, could lead to the election being annulled.
"This is an extremely serious, critical situation," said electoral lawyer Priscilla Sodré Pereira to the New York Times.
When Zanin made the last-minute decision to extend voting hours, some polling stations had already closed and shut down their voting machines. They could not reopen.
"Fernando Neisser, an electoral law professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas, a Brazilian research institute, said the election could be annulled if the margin is very narrow and it is shown that polling stations stayed open longer in areas that strongly favor one candidate," the NYT reported.
Wow.
The same people that are going to investigate the Brazilian election are the same people who pulled off the coup in the first place.
How will the great people of Brazil ever get justice?
🚨 HUGE: Conservatives just took British Columbia for the first time in almost 100 YEARS.
64 seats. NDP left with 27. First Conservative majority since 1928.
President Trump shared it himself.
Even Canada is dumping the left.
THE RED WAVE IS REAL.
The entitlement from these Pakistanis is beyond amazing. Telling Aussies to go back to Europe while invading Australia and protesting against the country they fled.
They are actually coming after the cartoonists.
Meanwhile, those that preach "kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush …" are handed taxpayer funded grants.
Australia is in big trouble.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES IT ALL MAKES SENSE. 2 hours before poll close, Lula was having a MELTDOWN and crying on national TV worrying that his voters were somehow blocked from the polling places
...so just a couple hours later, JUST IN TIME and RIGHT ON CUE, his former PERSONAL lawyer Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered voting to continue through 7PM, right after pro-Bolsonaro precincts permanently locked their electronic voting machines
Conveniently, that order benefited pro-Lula areas immensely, and he "won" by the end of the night, by a few points 😡
THIS RESULT MUST BE THROWN OUT!
There was CLEAR cheating and tampering through this Supreme Court "order."
Oh, and just so we're clear, Brazil's Supreme Court has *NEVER* issued this kind of order before during a presidential election in the electronic voting age.
Brazil MUST BE FREED. 🇧🇷🇺🇸
"We are asking the Supreme Court so that it can extend the electoral process so that people who were prevented from voting due to the mayor's mischief...show up to vote."
Cheater.
TRANSLATION: Once the French rioters began breaking into apartments & raping women, and X reported it, social media in France had to be shut down.
Our global elites must maintain the fiction that these are just frustrated "students" who've taken to the streets agitating for a better "education."