De Niro ..Do actors do a subsidiary course at drama school on how to have mouthy pc opinions? Mouthy actoors are possibly my lowest form of life... Below even slugs.
You gotta watch the video, he's reading a prepared statement - poorly - without even having memorized the lines. I said before he's playing a role, but he's doing it very badly. And they don't even realize how much people hate being talked down to by elites who are often hypocrites to the max, De Niro himself having quite the checkered criminal history including being entangled in a prostitution scandal in France and being linked to child sex trafficking. Compare that to Trump who is in trial for being extorted by a woman who claims to have had consensual sex with him and his scumbag ex-lawyer being the star-witness. It's hilarious.
Tim Dillon put it that way on his podcast that De Niro thinks he is the hero of one of those TV drama scripts where the wise old actor convinces the MAGA bigots of the error of their ways.
I don't watch TV but what you write reminds me of the cartoons they showed (to sell sugary cereal) in the 90ies that always had an extremely simple moral lessen embedded, sometimes even with some adult (who often later turns out to be a real-life scumbag) at the end explaining it. A lot of adult television seems to be structured the same way, you gotta show right from the beginning who the bad guys or good guys are with zero nuance or you just have it preprogrammed so the "white guy was evil all along" trope isn't a surprise to anyone anymore. But TV audience are very lazy, they don't even curate what they are watching. Lazy storytelling is fine but if they act all haughty like they're teaching a moral lesson everyone has heard a million times before that gets old very fast. The good/evil thing they even do it in newspaper articles, whenever they introduce a person they tell you immediately what you're supposed to think, "right-wing agitator" (evil), "civil rights activist" (good), "Harvard professor" (smart) while at the same time concealing where the information comes from ("people familiar with the matter", "anonymous sources").
Ryan, I think they know what they unleashed. They want the anger, and are planning to use it to strike a death-blow to Trump and his supporters. I just hope we all recognize it when we see it; something unthinkable that they will blame on the right.
I'm not sure that there is a conscious plan behind this because they have been wrong so often now it's comical. These people are so far removed from the realities that they don't understand what's going on. They are denying reality because they're locked in an echo-chamber. If you think about the fall of communism a lot of the communists were very much surprised by what's happening, not realizing that the rules have changed (Gorbachev even alluded to it in a famous quote) and the rules are changing faster than their capacity to adapt. They still think they control the narrative. That hasn't been true for quite a while. The spin isn't working. This might be a George Floyd moment for the Trump supporters.
I hope you are right. I just don’t think idiots accidentally stumbled into controlling most of our cultural institutions. The Soviet regime had been in power for 70 years, and was in its death throes. I think we are just at the initial power grab stage with this group, although they have been laying the groundwork for decades.
It has to get really bad for people to notice because most people dislike politics and people don't realize the value of freedom because it's their default state in Western society (or so they think). I think the default state for people is "mind your own business, leave me alone". You're always losing by default to those who make your own business their business, because you don't care what they do in their lives and expect them to reciprocate.
The saving grace is that the people who run the institutions have been proven to be so very bad at it that it's no longer possible to hide. That's when people start caring.
The George Mason Univ professor thinks this is a historically weird moment, when leftists want to pander to the elite at the expense of ordinary people.
Apparently he is not aware of the history of every leftist movement. They all start claiming to be the champions for the common man. And they all end up with a small group at the top prospering, while the bulk of the population suffers and pays for it. This happens Every. Single. Time.
When will idiot leftists stop believing that a powerful government will be benevolent and solve all problems? When will they understand that setting up a powerful government guarantees that sociopaths who crave power will find their way to the top? Every. Single. Time.
Instead they cheer for every piece of leftist crap, then whine “my party left me!” when the inevitable results become obvious even to them.
His school only charges "only" $26k (a doubling over the last 20 years according to the Commonwealth of Virgina, Chart 6 here: https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2004/RD59/PDF) per year for in-state students, still that's $62k total for undergraduates. He is part of the elite that this policy panders to and actually benefits. This policy is bailing out the lenders, not the students, buying off the votes of people with student loans by paying those who put them into their precarious positions in the first place.
WHERE DO YOU FIND THIS STUFF??? Amazing - keep up the phenomenal work
I think de Niro's rage contorted face and the U.S. Labor Department's communique about 'menstruators' probably mean we are in the end times......
It's quite funny how dehumanizing the supposedly inclusive language is getting. It's not a woman, it's a bipedal gestation unit.
De Niro ..Do actors do a subsidiary course at drama school on how to have mouthy pc opinions? Mouthy actoors are possibly my lowest form of life... Below even slugs.
You gotta watch the video, he's reading a prepared statement - poorly - without even having memorized the lines. I said before he's playing a role, but he's doing it very badly. And they don't even realize how much people hate being talked down to by elites who are often hypocrites to the max, De Niro himself having quite the checkered criminal history including being entangled in a prostitution scandal in France and being linked to child sex trafficking. Compare that to Trump who is in trial for being extorted by a woman who claims to have had consensual sex with him and his scumbag ex-lawyer being the star-witness. It's hilarious.
Thanks. Yes.... media people - luvvies, producers and scriptwriters - Yuk! I think you'd find this essay an interesting read on that subject: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/non-binary-sibling-is-entertaining
Tim Dillon put it that way on his podcast that De Niro thinks he is the hero of one of those TV drama scripts where the wise old actor convinces the MAGA bigots of the error of their ways.
I don't watch TV but what you write reminds me of the cartoons they showed (to sell sugary cereal) in the 90ies that always had an extremely simple moral lessen embedded, sometimes even with some adult (who often later turns out to be a real-life scumbag) at the end explaining it. A lot of adult television seems to be structured the same way, you gotta show right from the beginning who the bad guys or good guys are with zero nuance or you just have it preprogrammed so the "white guy was evil all along" trope isn't a surprise to anyone anymore. But TV audience are very lazy, they don't even curate what they are watching. Lazy storytelling is fine but if they act all haughty like they're teaching a moral lesson everyone has heard a million times before that gets old very fast. The good/evil thing they even do it in newspaper articles, whenever they introduce a person they tell you immediately what you're supposed to think, "right-wing agitator" (evil), "civil rights activist" (good), "Harvard professor" (smart) while at the same time concealing where the information comes from ("people familiar with the matter", "anonymous sources").
This is profound weakness by the D's.
They have no fucking clue what they've unleashed.
Yesterday I had 7 people I know who weren't going to vote for Trump but now are.
Ryan, I think they know what they unleashed. They want the anger, and are planning to use it to strike a death-blow to Trump and his supporters. I just hope we all recognize it when we see it; something unthinkable that they will blame on the right.
I'm not sure that there is a conscious plan behind this because they have been wrong so often now it's comical. These people are so far removed from the realities that they don't understand what's going on. They are denying reality because they're locked in an echo-chamber. If you think about the fall of communism a lot of the communists were very much surprised by what's happening, not realizing that the rules have changed (Gorbachev even alluded to it in a famous quote) and the rules are changing faster than their capacity to adapt. They still think they control the narrative. That hasn't been true for quite a while. The spin isn't working. This might be a George Floyd moment for the Trump supporters.
I hope you are right. I just don’t think idiots accidentally stumbled into controlling most of our cultural institutions. The Soviet regime had been in power for 70 years, and was in its death throes. I think we are just at the initial power grab stage with this group, although they have been laying the groundwork for decades.
It has to get really bad for people to notice because most people dislike politics and people don't realize the value of freedom because it's their default state in Western society (or so they think). I think the default state for people is "mind your own business, leave me alone". You're always losing by default to those who make your own business their business, because you don't care what they do in their lives and expect them to reciprocate.
The saving grace is that the people who run the institutions have been proven to be so very bad at it that it's no longer possible to hide. That's when people start caring.
Exactly. Me too.
Does De Niro think he is auditioning for a monster movie?
The George Mason Univ professor thinks this is a historically weird moment, when leftists want to pander to the elite at the expense of ordinary people.
Apparently he is not aware of the history of every leftist movement. They all start claiming to be the champions for the common man. And they all end up with a small group at the top prospering, while the bulk of the population suffers and pays for it. This happens Every. Single. Time.
When will idiot leftists stop believing that a powerful government will be benevolent and solve all problems? When will they understand that setting up a powerful government guarantees that sociopaths who crave power will find their way to the top? Every. Single. Time.
Instead they cheer for every piece of leftist crap, then whine “my party left me!” when the inevitable results become obvious even to them.
His school only charges "only" $26k (a doubling over the last 20 years according to the Commonwealth of Virgina, Chart 6 here: https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2004/RD59/PDF) per year for in-state students, still that's $62k total for undergraduates. He is part of the elite that this policy panders to and actually benefits. This policy is bailing out the lenders, not the students, buying off the votes of people with student loans by paying those who put them into their precarious positions in the first place.