Posted on 05/31/2023 8:09:00 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny
Huh! These lying bastards and their lying media accomplices deserve jail. We need our own Club Gitmo for Canadian criminals.
Ditto that!
Thanks! I swooped in and snatched it as a birthday gift to myself!
That’s right, it IS your Birthday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR RUSTY!!!!
A double reason to party.
Great meme.
The NTs need to see that, repeatedly :)
Thanks!
Woke Marvel Eliminates The Punisher Due To “Problematic” Conservative Fan Base
The goal is relatively obvious – To erase competing ideals and viewpoints while saturating the market with only one political vision; a woke vision. It’s called social engineering, and anyone who claims this is not happening in the US today is gaslighting.
Strangely, the American comic book industry has become a major battleground in the culture war, with heroic symbols being increasingly erased or hijacked as vehicles for woke talking points. A vast array of comic book characters are now race-swapped, converted to LGBT or they have had their histories rewritten to make them more “acceptable for modern audiences.” At the same time, they promote everything from BLM, to climate change propaganda, to gender identity politics and anti-gun messaging.
Why would leftists target something as frivolous as comic books heroes? Because pop-culture is first and foremost a playground where children grow up, and by rewriting heroes as social justice crusaders and communists they hope to indoctrinate the next generation.
However, one hero figure in particular is seen as so egregious and so triggering that leftists want him memory-holed altogether – The Punisher.
The Punisher character (Frank Castle), originally created by writer Gerry Conway in 1974 with artists Ross Andru and John Romita, was a product of a chaotic era; a reaction to the rise of war, stagflation, instability and exploding crime rates in the US. The Punisher’s story is a tragedy of a returning military veteran whose family is killed during what seems to be a gangland hit. With federal agencies doing little to arrest the perpetrators, Castle takes matters into his own hands and begins systematically assassinating the criminals.
The Punisher as an icon has been highly popular among conservatives, military veterans and law enforcement officers in recent years. The trademark skull symbol can be found everywhere, with patches, gear and flags sporting the image, often as a representation of citizens taking matters into their own hands. The symbol was also seen at the January 6th protests.
This month, though, Marvel officially declared the Punisher persona non grata, eliminating the character as readers know him. Did he go out in a blaze of glory? No, in typical woke fashion Frank Castle is captured by progressive heroes, chained up and forced to go through a struggle session in which he is admonished as a murderer and a terrorist. Marvel even brings the Punisher’s wife back from the dead, only so that she can divorce him and take his money and property, and then inform him that his lifelong crusade against the criminal underworld was all for nothing.
Are they going to make “The Equalizer 3”?
Rusty! Happy Birthday Happy Birthday and Happy Birthday! Hope it’s great one, and that getting post 2000 isn’t your best gift lol.
Great idea, Jane!
Maybe we can work together on this.
Since you are out on the Forum fighting the good fight much more than I am, ping me to any NT and I will be happy to sweep in and post the meme to them.
I will be proud to do my part, I find engaging NTers with facts and logic to be a waste of brain cells.
Thanks! My daughter texted me a picture of a rectangular box that said “apple pie” as a gift, lol.
My son and DIL are taking me to dinner and a play tonight so that’s a great gift.
GMTA I was thinking of The Equalizer as I read this.
Love those movies and Denzel.
This just might be Marvels Bud Light/Target moment.
That is a lovely gift! Enjoy yourself! I mean the dinner and play....not so sure about the texted apple pie, although they’d be lower in calories....hopefully you get your hands on the actual pie!
Thanks lyise, are we out at a restaurant again?
Gran has the tip money!! heh heh
Raheem Kassam is ripping on DeSwamptis, borrowed it, on WR.
He blasted his tweet that condemned the indicting of Trump in one breath and then turned around and said that in his administration this would never happen.
Campaigning off the indictment of Trump, hmmmmm.
I think DeSwamptis is tone deaf!
TRUMP TRAIN PLOWS ON THRU THE STORM
Eternal shame on DeSwamptis. I hope he’s happy for causing division on the right at this most crucial time. He could redeem himself EVER SO SLIGHTLY by bowing out of the race in show of support of President Trump. Boy, I live in dreamland, don’t I?
DeSwamptis is sure showing his TRUE colors for sure.
I may have missed some, though I doubt it, but only one person running has given a full throated condemnation against this indictment of Trump.
That decent person was Vivek Ramaswamy.
Steve Stern was just on WR talking about what is planned for June 14th, Flag Day.
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Steve Stern Hypes Upcoming Flag Day Celebration With Bannon, Gen. Flynn, Lindell & More
Vivek is a GREAT candidate, I have been finding that LEGAL immigrants of this nation are OUTRAGED they are going to save this nation, they KNOW what the hell is happening, they have lived it before coming here!! The actual citizens born in this nation need to go live in Cuba for 5 years not allowed to leave under ANY circumstances!! You SAW that female basketball player change her tune when she got back on American soil NOW STANDING TALL for the National Anthem!!!
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