Posted on 11/18/2024 8:50:11 PM PST by Rummyfan
I had little to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago. Like the billions who grew up with the monstrous structure, I thrilled to watch it get torn down by Germans on each side of it. And I celebrated the man responsible for the glorious sight, in journalism and fiction, although he was no longer President. Ronald Reagan brought down the Soviet Union with a singular vision which dispelled a 70-year-old belief — that the Cold War was the permanent status quo. He’d articulated it a decade earlier and shaken the world. “Here’s my strategy on the Cold War,” Reagan said. “We win, they lose.”
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Today, they would rather lose money by imposing unwanted fantasy dreck about butt-kicking women (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Marvels), mutating boy-friendly franchises into girl-driven flops (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Mad Max), and defeminizing beloved fairy tales. On that third point, nothing has been more unintentionally entertaining than Snow White starlet Rachel Zegler being a one girl wrecking crew against her movie, once trusted Disney, and the beloved film that built it.
As I wrote last summer, Zegler obnoxiously ridiculed the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as “weird, weird” and Prince Charming as “a stalker.” “She’s not going to be saved by the Prince,” Zegler snorted. “And she’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be.” Scratch every romance-loving girl and mom from the potential audience.
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I find myself speechless in the midst of this. Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in. Leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in. Leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a baby she doesn’t want. Leaning us towards a world that is fearful.
I shouldn’t be this shocked. But I am. I am heartbroken for my friends who awoke in fear this morning. And I am here with you. To cry, to yell, to hug. To wax poetic on how the left continues to fail us in forging a new path forward. This loss should not have been. And it certainly should not have been by so many votes.
The little Columbian ho needs to be deported back to Columbia. Refugees should not bad mouth the people who take them in and feed them. It’s obvious the ho doesn’t like America and Americans.
What a moron. She should lean toward the open window in a skyscraper.
Later.
Ronald Reagan brought down the Soviet Union with a singular vision which dispelled a 70-year-old belief — that the Cold War was the permanent status quo. He'd articulated it a decade earlier and shaken the world. "Here's my strategy on the Cold War," Reagan said. "We win, they lose."
Alice Cooper, when quipping about rock stars speaking out about politics, could have been talking about actors too when he said, "First of all, why do people think rock stars know more than they do? That is the biggest fallacy in the world — if anything, we're dumber. We're not smarter than anybody else. I mean, why do you think we're rock stars?
And as Jiminy Cricket once famously said in the animated Disney classic, "Pinocchio", "What's an actor need with a conscience anyway?"
Snow White was written in '21 and filmed in '22, a time when Americans were getting fired from their jobs for not embracing every social justice agenda item. It is slated for release in March '25 to a much different country where it will look like some weird woke time capsule to a movement that no longer has any relevance.
Disney really ought to just shelve it.
If Trump were really Hitler/Putin she probably would.
I personally do not think she’s all that beautiful. Frankly I don’t see what other people see in either her looks or brains. She seems to be an unserious dolt.
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The country is Colombia, not Columbia. Get it right.
I remember the bed wetting when Reagan quipped, “the planes are on the way” when warming up for an address.
That was a fun read! Schadenfreude and all.
>> I personally do not think she’s all that beautiful.
She’s in no way “beautiful”. But she has high cheekbones, pale skin, dark black hair so she kinda fits the snow white mold. Except for her black heart.
>> Frankly I don’t see what other people see in either her looks or brains.
Well, there’s no brains to see. She’s, like, twenty-three years old. A real sage, right? To the extent that it’s looks, it must be some video-gamer goth thing.
Yup. And after the bombing of Libya, Sam Kinison’s “Where’s the baby’s room?” :^) It was the idiotic bigoted reaction to Reagan’s victory by folks at my first ‘real’ job that finished off any political equivocation I’d felt up to then.
Sorry chief. I’ll look it up next time. Right now I’ll do five Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys. Sure wouldn’t want to piss the Colombians off.
What a shame. She's going to let her daughter grow up with neither self control nor morals.
I predict Snow White (2024/25) will never lighten a theater screen.
>> Right now I’ll do five Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys.
You sure that’s enough? ROFL.
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