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‘Woke’ James Bond Novel Slammed for Having Conservative ‘Anti-Trans’ Villain
NewcYork Post ^ | Sep. 9, 2023 | Alexander Hall

Posted on 09/09/2023 12:19:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Multiple conservative critics condemned a recent James Bond novel for vilifying former President Trump and other conservative politicians in a story about a dastardly international plot against King Charles III.

Author Charlie Higson had been authorized by Ian Fleming Publications, who own the rights to the James Bond franchise, to write a new book to celebrate King Charles III’s coronation. Higson touted that his new book, “On His Majesty’s Secret Service,” would feature “sex, violence, cars, a colorful villain with a nasty henchman, and of course, Bond himself, so well-known and yet so unknowable.”

But in early September, conservative culture critics from multiple outlets condemned the novel as yet another beloved franchise that has been corrupted by modern “woke” political messaging. The New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat scorched the novel in a piece headlined “How America Made James Bond ‘Woke,’” warning that it juxtaposes a progressive version of the globetrotting spy against a caricature of conservatism, “007 is charged with protecting King Charles III from a dastardly plot hatched by a super villain,” Aethelstan of Wessex, who can be described as a “Brexiteer, a right-wing populist, apparently the true and natural heir to Goldfinger and Blofeld.”

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1 posted on 09/09/2023 12:19:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sounds like the villain is the hero and it is time that a woke bond, an agent of the Crown and MI6 meets a more than timely death.


2 posted on 09/09/2023 12:21:24 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: nickcarraway

The left ruins everything


3 posted on 09/09/2023 12:21:45 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: nickcarraway

how about klaus schwab?

he personifies the bond villain

he could play himself


4 posted on 09/09/2023 12:21:47 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: nickcarraway

They already made him a black female...

... and killed him off.

So is he going to come back as a trans ghost?


5 posted on 09/09/2023 12:23:14 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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George Soros is best Bond villain name never used!


6 posted on 09/09/2023 12:25:04 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh no, How horrible! /sarc


7 posted on 09/09/2023 12:27:29 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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Author is against President Trump?

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4dde5dbf-b04e-4af2-8453-060db5ce6246


8 posted on 09/09/2023 12:28:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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For the “woke”, “Everything is politics, and politics is everything”. And every novel, book, movie, work of art, music, etc., provides a “teachable moment” when the poor, stupid, uneducated plebians can be instructed in the proper ways of thought.


9 posted on 09/09/2023 12:31:46 PM PDT by motor_racer ("We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends" - Barak Hussein Obama)
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Author is against President Trump?

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4dde5dbf-b04e-4af2-8453-060db5ce6246

Like so many impotent beach boys...

https://clip.cafe/diamonds-are-forever-1971/how-disappointing-i-expected-one-head-of-state-at-the-very-least/


10 posted on 09/09/2023 12:32:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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If it wasn’t written by Ian Fleming, it’s not JAMES BOND.


11 posted on 09/09/2023 12:41:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't know what the hell it is but you can bet in America it's "racist" and needs to be cancelled)
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Liberals hate anything to do with guns. So I’m sure this new, woke James Bond movie will have no guns.

Perhaps 007 could carry a loud whistle instead.
Yes, that would work.


12 posted on 09/09/2023 12:47:48 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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I can't wait to see Wokefinger or The Spy Who Misgendered Me.
13 posted on 09/09/2023 12:53:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The Left is fixated on the idea that they can transform society, brainwash entire populations.

This has been true since Karl Marx, and his theories about evolution and society.

During the French Revolution, the radicals tried to do away with the system of timekeeping, hours, minutes and seconds. This to disorient the population and sweep away the past.


14 posted on 09/09/2023 12:53:29 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Liberal ruin everything they touch


15 posted on 09/09/2023 12:57:20 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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Bud Light ‘em...


16 posted on 09/09/2023 1:04:21 PM PDT by GOPJ ( If diversity makes us stronger, why does it require lower standards? Daniel Greenfield )
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...conservative culture critics from multiple outlets condemned the novel...

In other words, because the book didn't carry the LBGTQ water bucket, the "conservative culture critics" complained. Know what? I don't really care what they think.

17 posted on 09/09/2023 1:11:26 PM PDT by econjack
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So is he going to come back as a trans ghost?

That brings up the old Scooby Doo argument: Are ghost pirates a) pirates who died and became ghosts or b) ghosts who had to turn to piracy in the afterlife?

Is a trans ghost a tranny who died and became a ghost, a ghost who started cross-dressing in the afterlife, or a live person who insists on annoying you by saying "Boo!" and pretending on passing through walls but really just sneaks through the door and calls you a "hater" for calling him on it.

18 posted on 09/09/2023 1:20:02 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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“UK politician David Kurten posted an excerpt from the novel where Bond sees a villainous conservative among a gathering of evildoers, the book describing him as being “famous for promoting COVID/vaccines/mask-wearing/5G conspiracy theories, which had spilled over into the usual anti-immigrant, anti-EU, anti-BBC, anti-MSM, anti-cultural Marxist, Climate Change Denial pronouncements,” noting that this villainous Englishman had made an infamous “anti-trans diatribe.”

On that same page, Bond notices that this villainous gathering has a lack of “diversity” or “disabled” representation.”

I actually guffawed out loud reading that.

If anyone sought to write a Bond bookthat satirizes libs, they couldn’t do better.

Libs have become a caracture of themselves.


19 posted on 09/09/2023 1:20:31 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Vivek for VP!!!!)
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How ironic. After over 60 years, Bond is finally killed by a bunch of Beta males and communists.


20 posted on 09/09/2023 1:22:33 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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