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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2017 9:21:24 GMT -5
HA! HA! HA! liberals eat their own! If fake News CNN Defends her! CNN would be Toast closed for good! I was Hoping CNN will Keep her so CNN will fall off the cliff. I'm with you on this one. I hope CNN, owned by evil Time Warner, goes under. I still can't forgive them for looking the other way as Bush lied us into the Iraq invasion. And to see "Morning" Joe, Wolf Blitzer, and Anderson Cooper out of a job would be fun. Will You Stop It I'm having another Big One! This it! My End is Near!
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Post by jdredd on Jun 10, 2017 19:39:02 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/448517/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-literature-lecture-rock-lyrics-homer-oral-tradition"Dylan is aware of how quickly and haphazardly he wrote many of his songs, and that they often barely make sense from one line to the next, let alone constitute a sustained work of disciplined thought. They don’t belong on the shelf next to Homer, Melville, and Remarque. “Masters of War” is not the equal of any single chapter in All’s Quiet, but it’s informed by it, indeed haunted by it. Dylan says that after reading Remarque, he never wanted to read another war novel, and never did. The defense he is mounting is that his work is at least grounded in, aware of, adjacent to the literary tradition. He is respectful of his betters, but he understands that literature exists on a higher plane than rock lyrics, and his mood is one of respect and gratitude toward the artists who taught him. He bows to the literary world as T. S. Eliot, in The Wasteland, acknowledged his debt to Ezra Pound by calling him il miglior fabbro — the better craftsman." I'm not sure who this Kyle Smith guy is, how old he is, or why he feels the need to slam not just 50-year-old Dylan songs but rock music in general. Maybe it's because he's on the other side of the cultural divide, or maybe it's just he's a snob.
P.S. I googled Kyle Smith and found out he's a Gen X dufus, born in 1966. So he can just piss off.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 13, 2017 16:42:10 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/448574/broadway-donald-trump-obsession-julius-caesar-shakespeare-park"Over the weekend the arts community stepped a little too close to the flame of their hatred for President Trump. They got singed, and by Sunday night they were backing away, looking confused and hurt. The New York theater scene is so far left that it makes Hollywood look like the Chamber of Commerce. Picture a culture in which Sean Penn would come across as unremarkable and you’ll have some idea. The single most beloved and respected person in New York theater right now — Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of Hamilton — isn’t remotely controversial in New York theater. Yet he publicly celebrated the release from prison of the Marxist-Leninist terrorist Oscar López Rivera, saying he was “sobbing with gratitude.” Oskar Eustis, the theater director whose stature in his community is comparable to Quentin Tarantino’s in film, chats amiably in interviews about being raised by Communists and describes himself as a “recovering Marxist.” This is the same NR Gen X Culture Warrior Dufus who trashed Bob Dylan a few day ago.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 24, 2017 12:09:58 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/arts/johnny-depp-glastonbury-trump.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=17&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F06%2F23%2Farts%2Fjohnny-depp-glastonbury-trump.html&eventName=Watching-article-click&_r=0"LONDON — The actor Johnny Depp is the latest American entertainment figure to suggest — however jokingly, ironically or obliquely — the killing of President Trump. Speaking on Thursday at the Glastonbury arts festival in southwest England, Mr. Depp asked the audience, “Can you bring Trump here?” The remark was met with booing and jeering, and he continued: “You misunderstand completely. When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? I want to clarify: I’m not an actor. I lie for a living. However, it’s been awhile, and maybe it’s time." "Mr. Depp, who was introducing a screening of the 2004 film “The Libertine” — in which he played the womanizing poet John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester — acknowledged that his words would cause a storm. “By the way, this is going to be in the press and it’ll be horrible,” he said. “It’s just a question; I’m not insinuating anything.” Mr. Depp’s comments immediately drew rebukes, including from the White House. On Friday afternoon, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, invoked Mr. Depp and Kathy Griffin, the comedian who last month appeared with a fake decapitated head of the president, in responding to a question about a Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar” that has drawn criticism from Republicans for depicting a Trump-like Caesar being assassinated." Well, this could be a career killer. I don't even have a career and I wouldn't say it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2017 16:06:01 GMT -5
[quote author="FAKE NEWS ALERT! NYT IS FAKE NEWS! SDS DOES NOT CONDONE FAKE NEWS!
"LONDON — The actor Johnny Depp is the latest American entertainment figure to suggest — however jokingly, ironically or obliquely — the killing of President Trump.
Speaking on Thursday at the Glastonbury arts festival in southwest England, Mr. Depp asked the audience, “Can you bring Trump here?”
The remark was met with booing and jeering, and he continued: “You misunderstand completely. When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? I want to clarify: I’m not an actor. I lie for a living. However, it’s been awhile, and maybe it’s time."
"Mr. Depp, who was introducing a screening of the 2004 film “The Libertine” — in which he played the womanizing poet John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester — acknowledged that his words would cause a storm.
“By the way, this is going to be in the press and it’ll be horrible,” he said. “It’s just a question; I’m not insinuating anything.”
Mr. Depp’s comments immediately drew rebukes, including from the White House.
On Friday afternoon, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, invoked Mr. Depp and Kathy Griffin, the comedian who last month appeared with a fake decapitated head of the president, in responding to a question about a Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar” that has drawn criticism from Republicans for depicting a Trump-like Caesar being assassinated."
Well, this could be a career killer. I don't even have a career and I wouldn't say it. [/quote] Your Career as a Mentally Deranged Troll!
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Post by jdredd on Jul 28, 2017 20:00:22 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Aug 12, 2017 11:07:37 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/12/nazi-white-nationalist-rallies-virginia-protests"A white nationalist rally, which some have predicted could be the largest in the US in years, is expected to descend on Saturday on Charlottesville, Virginia, and be met by counter-protests. Far-right monitoring groups estimate that between 500 and 1,000 people and 30 speakers and groups will descend on the downtown area for the afternoon event, organised by the local rightwing activist and former Daily Caller writer Jason Kessler. Those attending the Unite the Right event will hear speeches from leading “alt-right” ideologues including Richard Spencer, the podcaster Mike Peinovich, AKA “Mike Enoch”, and Matthew Heimbach, leader of the Traditionalist Workers party. There was a confrontation late Friday ahead of the main rally when protesters and a smaller group of counter protesters came together on the University of Virginia campus. When the marchers reached and surrounded the counter-protesters there was a short verbal confrontation. Counter-protesters said they were then attacked with swung torches, pepper spray and lighter fluid."
Ha-ha! Right supremacist Deplorables on the march again. The video shows them chanting "You will not replace us!." Oh gosh, you winners ARE irreplaceable.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 13, 2017 17:18:26 GMT -5
I have to hand it to the right wing punditocracy. They do sell a lot of books. I guess Mark LeVine's new book "Rediscovering Americanism" has sold a bazillion copies. Every once in a while I actually have to buy one of these books just so I can know my enemies. I think I've read books by Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, and Anne Coulter. So I bought "Rediscovering Americanism" and started reading it. Sadly, the problem with this book is not that it's opinions are wrong, I can handle that, it's that the book is really BORING, a much worse crime. Really, do the right wing punditcrats really expect to win the culture war with this kind of a yawner? Yikes!
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Post by jdredd on Aug 22, 2017 10:22:42 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see how an administration run by the generals will affect American culture. Will people rally around it with the military so popular with so many, or will it make the cultural divide even more severe? But look at how much military related programming is appearing on the major networks (not to mention so much military hoopla at sporting events). It seems Hollywood is betting on the side of the cultural divide they are alleged not to be in. They will go wherever the bucks are, so what else is new?
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Post by jdredd on Sept 11, 2017 15:06:18 GMT -5
Ken Burn's 18-hour (who has time for that?) documentary on Vietnam is around the corner, and I've learned more about it. It's going to be heavy on the "personal story" aspect of the participants, which is a turn-off for me. What can they say we haven't heard before? That war is hell? And what about all those Vietnamese we turned crispy? I'd love to hear what they thought. I guess he also interviewed anti-war people, but who wants to hear the frustration of trying to put an end to the horror again? I'm trying to forget. I'd rather hear something new about America's duplicity and China's naivete at the Geneva Convention of 1954 that created the faux State of Vietnam with all its corruption, and the million Vietnamese who would die as a result. I'm sure Ken will skip by all that.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 15, 2017 12:48:43 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/us/chelsea-manning-harvard-fellow-cia.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"Facing harsh criticism, a Harvard dean said early Friday morning that he was revoking his invitation to Chelsea Manning, a former United States soldier convicted of leaking classified information, to be a visiting fellow at the university. The sudden turnabout by the Harvard Kennedy School came after a day of intense backlash over the university’s announcement on Wednesday that Ms. Manning would become a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics this school year. Douglas W. Elmendorf, the dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, said that while the university encourages a diversity of opinions and does not shy from controversy, naming Ms. Manning a fellow was a mistake for which he accepted responsibility." Ha-ha! Boomer CIA guy trumps Millennial trans leaker at Harvard!
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Post by jdredd on Sept 20, 2017 3:54:54 GMT -5
Ha-ha! Gov Jer called Trump supporters "troglodytes", a term I've used for them more than once. I guess he didn't get the memo that Dems are supposed to pander to the white working class to get them back voting Democrat (good luck with that). I didn't get it because I'm not a Dem, and they won't get me back unless they become an actual peace party.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 27, 2017 3:47:14 GMT -5
Juat barely been keeping up with all the controversy over the NFL and the National Anthem. Might be more interested if Trump was tweeting about the Guardians of the Galaxy instead of how the NFL should handle dissent over patriotic hokum. Really, why do countries have goofy national anthems anyway? Control? Brainwashing children and the weak minded? I don't know. It's almost as stupid as the Pledge of Allegiance. Who the f**k is questioning my allegiance that I have to mouth some moronic words to prove I'm a patriot? I'll kick their ass.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 27, 2017 15:17:09 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/opinion/abbie-hoffman-donald-trump.html?mabReward=CTS2&recid=876f64cb-5656-44a6-6551-6d27e1531a3e&recp=9&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0"I don’t know which planet is bigger, or which would win an election, but that frankly doesn’t matter. All that matters is that Trump is shredding the culture and ending the dominance of the meritocratic establishment. He continually goes after racial matters in part because he’s a bigot but also in part because multiculturalism is the theology of the educated class and it’s the leverage point he can most effectively use to isolate the educated class from everyone else. He is so destructive because his enemies help him. He ramps up the aggression. His enemies ramp it up more, to preserve their own dignity. But the ensuing cultural violence only serves Trump’s long-term destructive purpose. America is seeing nearly as much cultural conflict as it did in the late 1960s. It’s quite possible that after four years of this Trump will have effectively destroyed the prevailing culture. The reign of the meritocratic establishment will be just as over as the reign of the Protestant establishment now is. Of course Donald Trump is a buffoon. Buffoonery is his most effective weapon. Because of him, a new culture will have to be built, new values promulgated and a new social fabric will have to be woven, one that brings the different planets back into relation with one another. That’s the work of the next 20 years." How can he destroy the "meritocratic establishment"? Because it was a fraud that elected Boomer bozos like Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack Obama, all war criminals. So what should a "new culture" look like? How about one not built on empire and militarism. Fat chance. But the chance of a new culture that rejects multiculturalism is probably just as unlikely as demos are moving against the white working class.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 10, 2017 1:41:42 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/452409/christopher-columbus-day-left-marxists-anti-capitalist-ku-klux-klan-anti-catholicIt is true too that Columbus faced challenges we can hardly imagine, and was, by most accounts, a poor colonial administrator, who took sides in battles between tribes, captured enemy combatants, and brought them back to Spain. But warfare was never his intention. In a world where slavery and barbarism were commonplace, it is remarkable that Columbus’s goal remained trade and evangelization of the natives, not conquest or elimination, and that he punished (even executed) those who abused natives against his express orders. Those who denounce Columbus reflexively or seek to eliminate the holiday in his name may be well-intentioned, but they have allowed themselves to become the pawns of hateful extremists. We must remind them that their one-dimensional perspective has its roots not in tolerance but in both Marxist ideology and the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic views of white supremacists." Here may be the cutting edge of the culture wars. Finally the role of Spanish/Catholic imperialism is being examined, including the role of genocidal brutes like Columbus. So the right is tying criticism of Spanish colonialism with Marxism AND white supremacy as a desperate defense. And to characterize "evangelization", that is, the replacement of existing indigenous cultures with a foreign culture, as a good instead of an evil is also a salvo in the present culture war.
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