Some consider the Nation’s Capital as “Fantasyland on the Potomac”. Other outsiders are “Fed Up” with the Federal City. It's better to consider D.C. as “the District of Calamity” (sic).
Monday, February 27, 2017
Sunday, February 26, 2017
L.A. Street Artist Sabo Skews Tinseltown by the Discounting of Hollywood
On the eve of the Academy Awards, L.A. Street Artist Sabo did a real life installation that skewered Tinseltown.
Sabo created posters that looked very similar to Tinseltown publicity but which sported a message which did anything but hype the 2017 Oscars, particularly quoting from Quentin Tarantino's True Romance (1993).
The host of this year's Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel has warned that viewers acknowledges that much of his Academy Awards monologue will be about President Donald Trump (and it won't be all light commentary) because that is what people are talking about. Still Kimmel worries that the Oscars will talk too much about Trump, and inevitably such political talk will alienate some people.
For those "Deplorables" who are already alienated from the progressive pontifications from Hollyweird, Doc Thompson is hosting the #SnowFlakeAwards on The Blaze TV (which will also be livestreamed on The Snowflake Awards website). That will be a show that will be much more simpatico with Sabo, albeit the ceremony will not simply skewer the entertainment industry.
However, it is dubious if those who achieve the Peoples' Choice in the Snowflake Awards will pick up their trophies before they melt in the hot studio lights or the glare of public opinion.
Sabo created posters that looked very similar to Tinseltown publicity but which sported a message which did anything but hype the 2017 Oscars, particularly quoting from Quentin Tarantino's True Romance (1993).
The host of this year's Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel has warned that viewers acknowledges that much of his Academy Awards monologue will be about President Donald Trump (and it won't be all light commentary) because that is what people are talking about. Still Kimmel worries that the Oscars will talk too much about Trump, and inevitably such political talk will alienate some people.However, it is dubious if those who achieve the Peoples' Choice in the Snowflake Awards will pick up their trophies before they melt in the hot studio lights or the glare of public opinion.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Friday, February 24, 2017
On the Danger of the Alt-Right
The opening of CPAC 2017 featured a speech by American Conservative Union President Dan Schneider, who warned of the dangers of conservatives and the Republican Party being infiltrated by elements of the Alt-Right.
CPAC 2017 was supposed to have a keynote address by Alt-Right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, but this invitation was quickly cancelled as Yiannopoulos again uttered sympathetic statements towards pederasty.
This year's CPAC also expelled Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer when he showed up to the conference at National Harbor, Maryland.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
The GOP's Milo test
Last week, CPAC seemed to have scored a coup in landing provocateur extraordinaire Milo Yiannopoulos as the "Conservative" Political Action Committee's keynote speaker. Yiannopoulos was slated to speak about free speech on campus, as he was at the center of the UC Berkeley riots at the start of February.
However, less than three days later on Washington's Birthday Observed (a.k.a. Presidents' Day), this honor was unceremoniously yanked from Milo, after Yiannopoulos made some statements which seemed to condone pederasty. Yiannapoulos' book deal also was cancelled.
Many new to the political scene in support of President Donald Trump seemed ideologically enamored to Milo's in-your-face publicity stunts and alt-right rhetoric. Whether this episode establishes the high mark for Alt-Right infiltration of Republicans or it underlines the tension between the establishment GOP and the so-called "basket of deplorables" nationalist populist wing remains to be seen. Milo Yiannopoulos on Policing Humor
Perhaps, but such a hermaneutic is not true for utterances which CPAC organizers exclaimed: "You must be joking."
Monday, February 20, 2017
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Friday, February 17, 2017
Thursday, February 16, 2017
On Trump Resistance and a Soft Coup D'Etat
Between the astroturf agitation seemingly sponsored by George Soros and the strategic intelligence leaks from holdovers inside the government, former US attorney Joe Di Genova frets that a soft coup d'etat is underway.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Ex Senator Jim Webb Laments the Democrats' Loss of Flyover Country
Former Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) has long exulted his Scots/Irish heritage from the Appalachians. Webb's political pedigree is a Republican who served as President Reagan's Navy Secretary but who shifted to be a moderate Democrat who was elected Senator in 2006. Webb was briefly a candidate for the Democrat Party's nomination in 2016 but received utterly no traction in the primaries.
Webb is the epitome of a Blue Dog Democrat, which has become an endangered species in the District of Calamity (sic). Considering the progressive push in Democrat ranks, Webb's woes are unlikely to be abated anytime in the foreseeable future.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
Thursday, February 9, 2017
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