Five Quick Things: The Impending Death (By Suicide) of Reacher
Here’s a collection of items that wind their way from Hollywood to the real purveyors of make-believe:
1. Alan Ritchson can go to hell, and he can take Reacher with him.
I’ve been a real fan of Amazon Prime’s streaming show Reacher for both of its two seasons. Alan Ritchson, the hulking behemoth who plays lead character Jack Reacher, is a pretty good fit — he says little, deadpans his role, and is very believable in perpetrating acts of righteous brutality.
Richard Burton he isn’t, but the role doesn’t call for Richard Burton.
The problem is that Ritchson thinks the notoriety Reacher has given him — and it’s led to a role in the new Guy Ritchie World War II action romp The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare — somehow makes him relevant as a political commentator. So he decided that he would throw a verbal hand grenade at cops by saying this:
Cops get away with murder all the time, and the fact that we can’t really hold them accountable for their improprieties is disturbing to me. We should completely reform the way that we do it. I mean, you shouldn’t have to spend more time getting an education as a hairstylist than as a cop who’s armed with a deadly weapon. We should make it very hard for people to make mistakes or abuse power in our institutions.
That from an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
Can’t hold cops accountable? Really? Tell that to Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who is in prison and who was nearly stabbed to death a few months ago after being railroaded by a jury full of people intimidated by a mob of folks who believe all the same crap Ritchson believes, because Chauvin had the misfortune of trying to restrain George Floyd as the latter expired from a fentanyl overdose.
Is that the murder Ritchson thinks cops get away with? Or is he talking about the Chicago cops who killed Dexter Reed after he shot one of them? Was that murder, or was it self-defense?
Nobody cares what this face-man who gets paid to pretend he’s somebody else in front of a camera thinks. And it’s so tiring to constantly have to listen to “celebrities,” most of whom are unqualified nincompoops when it comes to their personal lives, pontificate about politics and current events.
The makers of, and investors in, Ungentlemanly Warfare ought to sue Ritchson in the event the movie lays an egg at the box office, which is a decent possibility. It’s time for Hollywood’s obnoxious leftists, from producers to actors on down, to start facing consequences for alienating the audiences. So far those consequences have come courtesy of bad box office figures, but that clearly isn’t enough for any of them to learn anything. Maybe it’s time for trial lawyers to get involved.
Either way, count me out of season three of Reacher. Unless Ritchson is canned and replaced with somebody I don’t find repellently moronic, I’ve got better things to do with my time.
2. Joy Reid Is Right About Trump’s New York Trial
Boy, that’s a weird little subhead, isn’t it? But this is a rare case in which I can say Joy Reid isn’t completely full of crap.
What, you ask, could Joy Reid possibly be right about? Well, there’s this:
Joy Reid: “Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he’s trying to dismantle … Go DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 16, 2024
That is spot on. Absolutely 100 percent correct.
It is completely true that the people perpetrating the worst abuses of the legal system in the history of the country, persecuting a former president of the United States in courts controlled 100 percent by a corrupt, lawless, unethical, and morally bankrupt political cabal are “her DEIs.”
Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fani Willis are all black. They’re all cogs in the Hard Left machine. They’ve all got immense ethical deficiencies in the overall performance of their offices. And they’re all doing the bidding of the Biden White House — meaning that, at least officially, they’re a collection of step-n-fetch-its for a guy whose best pals in the Senate were Robert Byrd and James Eastland.
That applies to the judge in Bragg’s case against Trump, a leftist Latino political activist named Juan Merchan, who is so mean-spirited and hostile toward Trump that he’s attempting to deny him the right to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation or even to attend the oral arguments at the Supreme Court over Trump’s contention that presidential immunity attaches to another kangaroo-court prosecution, that in the Jan. 6 trial in Washington. Merchan is actively seeking to keep Trump off the campaign trail for two months in the middle of this presidential election, an abuse nobody would have conceived of before 2024.
So yeah, Reid is right. This is what DEI gets you. It gets you a bunch of meritless, unethical thugs who are slaves to a bankrupt ideology and a crooked, mostly white elite who want to destroy America as founded not because of the DEI creed that this is somehow a country founded on racism but because they can get more power for themselves if they can clear away the checks and balances our Founders built into our Constitution.
Call this metaphor racist if you want, but these are the flying monkeys sent out by the Wizard of Oz — the old white man behind the curtain (whether that old white man is Joe Biden or George Soros doesn’t really matter, does it?) — to terrorize the hinterland. And that’s what they’re doing, because if they can do this to Donald Trump in New York and Atlanta and D.C., don’t think for one second they can’t do it to you.
A sane country would inflict so much punishment on New York for this disgusting travesty that the state’s governor, Kathy Hochul, would pardon Trump in both James’ and Bragg’s cases just to get the ordeal over with. But we’re not a sane country. We’re more of a banana republic. And we have Joy Reid’s DEI’s — and their evil white masters — to thank for it.
3. Oh, by the Way … at NPR…
This is who’s running that place now:
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the "the number one challenge" in her fight against disinformation is "the First Amendment in the United States," which makes it "a little bit tricky" to censor "bad information" and "the influence peddlers" who spread it.
NPR's censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO
— Christopher F. Rufo
(@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024
I don’t know why I’m forced to support this assault on the constitutional republic I have a right to as an American. Katherine Maher on my payroll is a personal affront to me.
At the end of the day, a regime that would inflict her on me and those like me is an illegitimate regime. It fixes elections, it openly denies basic civil rights, and it recoils from objective truth like a vampire from the sun. We keep discussing consequences in this space, and this is another example. Somebody can step in and fire this woman, or NPR can lose its federal funding, or something worse than that will ultimately happen. But you can’t force the American people to pay to be insulted by people like this forever.
This bough will break. I can’t tell you how, but it will.
4. Speaking of Consequences, When Do They Come for the Climate Nuts?
Amid all of the bovine scatology you continue to hear about how the planet is burning up thanks to your SUV and that ribeye steak you ate last night comes this:
More evidence emerges that Antarctica has undergone rapid glacier and sea ice expansion in recent centuries, in line with the long-term and recent Antarctic cooling trend.
West Antarctica’s mean annual surface temperatures cooled by more than -1.8°C (-0.93°C per decade) from 1999-2018 (Zhang et al., 2023).
Not just West Antarctica, but most of the continent also has cooled by more than 1°C in the 21st century.
The glaciers covering Antarctica are bigger than ever. So there’s your stupid narrative about how the planet is warming up and the sea levels will rise to engulf … Barack Obama’s house on Martha’s Vineyard, for example.
The link that the above excerpt came from is worth reading in full. Nothing is happening at present that is different from natural warming and cooling patterns of the Earth throughout history. What’s different is that there is an army of Marxist grifters who see climate alarmism as a profitable grift that can pay off in money and power. It’s just a new way to pillage the wealth of those people who actually create things for a living.
But the question is this: given that these liars haven’t just bullshitted their way into ill-gotten swag by way of grants and funding but have done real damage to our economy and culture — there are studies out there showing that belief in climate doom is a factor in high rates of depression and suicidal ideation, particularly among the young — at what point should there be consequences laid onto these people?
It isn’t enough for the liars to be exposed and the lies discredited, which isn’t quite where we are yet but it looks like that day is coming. No, what we need is a cost imposed for the lies.
Where is the massive class-action lawsuit against the purveyors of climate alarmism for the economic and social damage they’ve done? Why aren’t museums across the world suing the funders of these radical groups who send lunatic idiots out to deface public art in the name of the Earth?
It’s interesting that Katherine Maher decries the purveyors of “disinformation,” which she defines as things the universally leftist staff at NPR disagrees with, and yet the most obvious disinformation artists are the people telling you that your gas stove and water heater will drown your grandchildren. Will Katherine Maher agree that they belong on the menu?
Of course not.
Can we at least agree to stop paying for this stupid and destructive demoralization campaign?
5. Oh, Apparently Not!
I’d normally end with something light, like for example that book sales of King of the Jungle are ever-so-slowly beginning to mount (and, if you’ve read the serialized version, you might consider doing me a favor and leaving an Amazon review!), or to pass along Daniel Greenfield’s excellent review of the novel:
A rollicking ride that looks ripped from the headlines with plenty of corrupt politicians, danger and firepower. And, unlike real life, there’s a happy ending.
But I won’t do that. Instead, I’ll pass along something weightier and far more disgusting, which is that no, we aren’t getting our government out of the idiotic climate change nonsense business in the immediate future. Instead, Dirty Joe Deadhorse Biden is going to use it to do … something in an effort to rig the election this fall.
At least, that’s the suggestion one draws from this:
White House officials are weighing whether to declare a national climate emergency several months out from the 2024 election, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
President Joe Biden’s top advisers have returned to conversations about declaring such a national climate emergency, though those in discussion appear to be divided on the move, the sources told Bloomberg. While the move, the sources say, would stunt offshore drilling and curb greenhouse gas emissions, others think the move would help energize youth voters, particularly those with a focus on climate, Bloomberg reported.
“President Biden has treated the climate crisis as an emergency since day one and will continue to build a clean energy future that lowers utility bills, creates good-paying union jobs, makes our economy the envy of the world and prioritizes communities that for too long have been left behind,” White House spokesperson Angelo Fernandez Hernandez told the outlet while not commenting directly on the reported discussions.
Yes, you want to roll your eyes at this and say, “Nah, no way.” You can’t do that.
Let’s not forget that the people who believe the things Joe Biden’s handlers do saw the COVID lockdowns and were overjoyed, and immediately began wishcasting about the potential for climate lockdowns.
This is on their radar, and their strategy is a pure base-mobilization campaign. Pander to the Hard Left at every turn and then get as many of them out to vote using every trick possible, and that way you don’t have to win any arguments at all in front of the public.
Which you can’t do anyway when your candidate is a talentless, credibility deficient crook who can’t even walk like a normal man.
So keep your eye on this. In a sane country declaring a “climate emergency” and inflicting gross inconvenience on your countrymen as you ask them to reelect you would signal a stupidity punishable by immediate political oblivion. But we are not quite that sane country at present. We’ve been driven mad by these people, and the consequences for that have not yet come.
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