Video of a feud raised to the duel level between superstars Chris Rock and Will Smith
Hollywood's Version of Tribal Crime--A Multi-Millionaire Entertainer Slapping Another Multi-Millionaire in Front of Their Diminishing TV Audience that Has Grown More and More Disinterested in Their Product--But Duels Go Way Back
(BenQQ 3.28.22) Modern sociologists will have a field day with this one. An industry that at its core job is to play to emotion, validated that of one powerful member against another. Among the most successful in their sphere of influence, one man was offended at a public joke at the expense of his wife so he publicly humiliated the man who uttered it.
There will be debates. Some conservatives even will say Smith not only had the right but the obligation to inflict a symbolic beat down (albeit only one manly slap) for the offense. Perhaps more preferable than a public duel.
Public duels go way back. Andrew Jackson, well experienced in challenging duels to opponents, famously dueled with another horse trader Charles Dickinson. The latter, who had accused Jackson of being a cheat and also his wife a bigamist, met his end in a duel with the future hot-headed President of the United States. (Good we had no nuclear codes back then.)
In modern times, Chris Rock, allowed to play the gadfly that landed in everybody's party punchbowl, made a crack about Smith's wife, Jada Pickett. She had written a book about her romantic dalliances with others not her husband Will who he himself is the subject of defcon 4 Hollywood gossip. This is modern duel territory.
Regardless the perceived offense, and judged only by today's cultural standards all of these dramatic characters deserve a break. Maybe influencing my view is the nature of today's cultural beast itself. After all, we don't live, happily enough, in 1806 when duels were mediated by seconds, men chosen by the duelers to make sure duel etiquette was played out. (But we do live in an era where you can get shot for "dissing" someone because you looked at him or her.)
Nevertheless, as such, it would have been far more telegenic if Smith's and Rock's 'seconds" had leapt to the fore to avert physical contact. Just as in the early 1800's each man's "seconds" would try to avert the duel and if not make sure it was played out fairly. In the Smith-Rock duel, one man might stand to receive the slap with an open hand the other. Or they could negotiate a more dramatic conclusion to their contretemps suitable to current television such as dodging each others rounds from an AK-47 in the parking lot. Whatever, it would be great television.
At any rate, most of the tribal members in attendance approved of the display. Will Smith was permitted to accept his reward for a role of a person most people could care less about. But that's no different than most of the Hollywood product rewarded last night. Not that their bad art. They are good movie art. They just don't strike a broad social chord relevant to most people other than the coastal elite artistes, LGBTQs and to a lesser degree, Democrats. But that's what art is. Eventually, people like it over time.
The only film that I consider worthy of an Oscar is Belfast (best script). However it is the only one that I have seen. By the way, Ukraine, where real offense is going on, seemed to never get mentioned at least by the post event news I saw. Nor were the offenses to the little people, such as inflation, crime and increasing food shortages. What were mentioned, of course, were those damn Republicans.
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The New York Times has just admitted what Daily Mail uncovered a year ago: lots of bad s*** will surface from Hunter Biden's laptop, the stench of which may waft directly under sleepy Joe's nose.
No longer can the Democratic politicians, their allied big tech socials and media propaganda machine pass it all off as Russian disinformation. The facts bubbling up like turds from a broken sewage cannot be ignored and will not be ignored.
It appears Biden tried to avoid disclosing to the Department of Justice that he was working domestically for foreign interests.
Begrudgingly, a former French general Admits Trump Was Right about NATO
When you run across anyone admitting that Trump was right about anything in today's media, its worth noting. But let that person be an official from France and it cries out for attention. In fact, there are plenty of the Democratic propaganda mouthpieces proclaiming Trump is the cause of Ukraine.
Retired Lt. Col Alexander Vindman, the pompous star of one attempted Trump coup by impeachment (and who was rewarded from Hollywood with a part playing himself on an admittedly hilarious Curb Your Enthusiasm segment, said Trump emboldened Putin and left Ukraine unprepared to defend itself. Balderdash. Putin bit off a huge chunk of his neighbor when Barack Obama was infamously "leading from behind." The West did nothing about it, as the general somewhat begrudgingly admits.
And perhaps the normie media Biden mouthpieces have not been able to figure out that Biden himself had been in office for about a year before invading Ukraine a second time under another weak Democratic administration.
The media have refused to look at this possibility: Biden's demonstration to enemies he could care less about countrymen, friends and foreign policy catastrophe left in Afghanistan is no different than Obama's abandonment of Americans in Benghazi. It has the same Democratic stamp of approval.
As he brutalizes his neighbor, and then perhaps others, we are destined to hear more of this political canard from corporate journos who know better but have put themselves in the camp of the corrupt, powerful and leaderless.
A Question Local Democrats should ask themselves:
How has the Democratic Party served me?(BenQQ 3.23.22) "Cognitive dissonance." That's a term that was first used in the 50's to describe "psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously."
Of course, like all pop-sci jargon that ends up being used in magazines or web sites, it eventually appears in political media to advance the interest of one side or another.
For example, Merriam-Webster
sites Jean Guerrero Columnist,
Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022 using the term this way: "Ali juxtaposes such humor with questions aimed like daggers at the
cognitive dissonance of white supremacy."
She refers to Wajahat Ali, a student from Pakistan, who grew into being a standup comedian that used what she probably correctly termed cognitive dissonance against "white supremacists."
Newspapers since their beginning, learned running stories laced with the
emotion appeals to the body politic paid off. That feeling of validation increased readership. That doesn't mean their stories, like Ms Guerrero's, are untrue. At their worst, they are pandering. However, they can do their job to journalistically redress current wrongs.
So how does cognitive dissonance have meaning to the body politic of Memphis, Tennessee? Democrats have long dominated the politics per se of Memphis, its institutional businesses and universities.
In order to maintain control, the Democrats have long maintained the story of what I call "white people bad" politics. Frankly, considering history, that's pretty easy to do.
But its wrong. Why is it wrong? Ans: it blocks all policies from an opposing party that would benefit the members of that party. In this case, the Democrats. What Democrat in his or her right mind, wouldn't agree with lower food and energy prices, safer neighborhoods and an economy that created more jobs and opportunity?
Democrat members had that. Under Trump. This is what is chipping away at the "cognitive dissonance" the Democratic Party uses to keep its members in its ranks.
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Panic: Democratic corporate media replaying the same Trump tune to staunch the 'walkaways' in 2022. Beware the hearings with midterms defeat.
(BenQQ 3.20.22) You could have smelled it coming even upwind. Question is will old line Democratic voters, such as the information deprived block in Memphis, continue to fall for the party that keeps screaming fire in a rainstorm?
First lets talk polls even from last year. One such is from
HIT Strategies that bills itself as a "a firm of young, diverse, innovative social scientists that use research and data to understand and communicate with hard-to-reach and underrepresented voters."
The Hill (Jan. 22) reported their work to show Biden had eroded black approval from 68 to 48 percent in just a few months of his first year. (Along with specific Biden's failings, it could be--my thought injected here--blacks have realized the old days of discrimination are over and the need for a party mired in racial polemics is no longer needed but actually hurts them in jobs, energy and income.)
I did a video (which I now see that YouTube has removed) about the spontaneous "walk away" movement that showed how blacks were catching on to the made-up reasons why they should stay in the constrictive Democratic club. That reason, according to me: the old non-stop mantra: white-man-bad had grown as old as an overcooked noodle. After its all boiled down, there are pretty skimpy dried up scraps at the bottom of the Democratic pot once bubbling over with the Klan, Jim Crow and the famous 'systemic racism.' And that didn't even work against Trump back in 2018 despite massive documented Democratic voter fraud.
Yet, the Democratic Party elites continue to play the same
old canards in political discourse. Now, they are saying he is breaking campaign law by NOT admitting he will be running for president since he has his rallies without announcing. That's a twist. Does the law force him to announce? If so, the lawmakers clearly were out of step like a Trump candidate that simply bypassed the old rules.
Democrats have little left to peck on other than Trump's open sarcasm. Consider this from the deep state rag
Washington Post where they blame Trump for Ukraine.
More black voters than ever are saying there are real things to vote on, such as food, gas prices and inflation caused by government spending that is devaluing the dollar in paychecks.
Another example: following the story that had already broke 18 months before--and ahead of enough months hopefully to cool down by 2022-the great New York Times, from which small fry journo rags imitate, finally admitted Hunter Biden's laptop was a real story.
And as reported year+ earlier, in that story was, among other sordid items, possible evidence Joe Biden could be compromised by assorted governments and billionaires facilitated by his son possibly selling access to his powerful dad. And all this and more was covered up by the FBI.
For these reasons alone, see the snarling Dems, like our own Steve Cohen (D-9th), emerge once again to win elections at all costs in order to avoid Congressional hearings that will uncover Biden's alleged financial connections to Russia, China and the FBI coverup to protect them both.
Cohen who parlayed the fake reasons for both Trump impeachments repeatedly before a compliant local and national media, will come out again with charges and claims nomatter how outrageous to help Democrats win the midterm elections.
Added to Biden's previously known knack for always making the wrong decision, his family corruption could go a long way in understanding America's current weaknesses in the economy, energy, foreign policy and basic executive leadership.
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BenQQ 3.18.22)
Since Biden took office, the Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) has "encountered" at least 2.25 million migrants at the southern border. Officials expect those numbers to surge with the impending ending of Trump's Title 42. Trump instigated Title 42 to fight Covid-19. Effectively it slowed the waves of illegal immigrants until Biden lifted the restriction.
The Biden admin fought Title 42 in court but lost. Now it has the opportunity to open doors to the illegals again.
Instead of closing the border so it can physically rebuild and reinstitute a legal barrier to the United States, the Biden admin is calling for volunteers to help with the expected new flood of illegal immigrants.
Some of these illegal immigrants, unvetted and untracked, as well as unvaccinated, will no doubt be associated with the drug cartels and smuggling syndicates. Memphis is on a major route to the north were a lucrative drug market
That one policy falls in line with other Biden policies that are against the interests of the United States but is supported by his progressive coterie in the White House. Biden's immigration policy follows the "unwritten" program to wash the country with illegal and ultimately Democratic voters, some say.
Further, little is reported that the wave of immigrants floods the contract labor market that makes up a large part of the city's economy.
The flood of workers into the contract labor market depresses the salaries of legal American workers, thus making the market institutionally geared for illegal laborers.
Again, those workers are mostly unvetted and unreachable by the people who hired them when crimes or scams are committed.
In another insult to the American people with Biden's ongoing incompetency, Ukrainian refugees--real ones--reportedly have been turned away at the southern border. The DHS sent a memo to the field saying they did not have to do that.
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