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And as far as MAGAs being a Cult, did anyone else notice in the Trump clips the crowd was yelling "USA! USA! USA!" and the crowd in the Harris video was chanting "KAMALA! KAMALA!"?

Caught the end of the NBC Nightly News tonight and it was killing them to say anything positive about Trump. Every single comment was so convoluted that it ended up being a back-handed insult. And that got me thinking to what won this election for Trump. The Mainstream Media have held the reins of power for decades and they thought they were too big to fail. They spun a fabricated tale this entire election of "razor thin margins", "unprecedented voter turnout" and "Red Wave fears". And almost nobody in the country fell for it. They became an obsolete laughingstock overnight and everyone can see it. For the first time in a long time, I am proud of my country. And not just because they voted in the administration I preferred, but also because they recognized the media bullshit factory for what it is. They refused to jump aboard the sinking ship that is the Woke agenda. They saw Kamala for what she is: an under qualified figurehead promoted way above her rank just because she was a Minority Woman. And even though her entire party knew that it was a mistake to run her, they couldn't back out and offer up a better candidate because that would have alienated the Woke Mafia. They were stuck between a rock and a much harder rock. In short, they lost the minute they embraced this fucked up fashion trend that is Wokeness. The media spun a tale of only Racist White fanatics voting for Trump when nothing could be farther from the truth. Not just White people made this win happen. Black, Latino, female and Gen Z voters came out in droves for Trump too. This is what legitimizes this election and cements it. And I love how the Happy, Shiny People are suddenly showing their true faces for the hateful turds they are. They had a moment of power and they blew it. They destroyed Budweiser, Gillette, Disney and the entire gaming and entertainment industry. And now they're going to be demoted and shoved to the back where they belong because the pack is refusing to move at the speed of its slowest members. Applaud yourself, America. You won't ever hear it from the media. But you fucking Matter and you refused to let this country fail.

I've posted this, like, eight times today on Farcebook:

My brother mentioned an awesome idea about them creating a Bond Universe. That way you could try out stories with other characters, still meet the quotas and not have to touch the James Bond character. I would love to see a movie or sub plot where Q is kidnapped and engineers his escape using only his wits, knowledge and the items on hand. Picture him finding his way into a janitor's closet and creating Tear Gas out of cleaning products! And you want a female agent? Add one. Give her a sub plot or even a whole movie. But don't whine and blame straight males if it tanks. Maybe it's just not meant to be. What makes me think this isn't going to happen, though, is when EON experimented with making a spin-off movie with Jinx, Hallie Berry's character from Die Another Day. Apparently, though, the idea was so unpopular and tested poorly that it didn't even make it into pre-production. So maybe that's telling us something. JB is Guy Stuff. Leave it there.

As usual, my inarticulate ass hovered around but never actually landed on the point. If these DEI companies want to keep their similarly minded allies on their side then they have to double down on their failures. This is what's going to suicide them. They so want to be "on the right side" that they're ignoring good business practices. Look, I'm not naive enough to think that there aren't capable Ethnic, Female and LGB-whatever-letter-is-added-this-week people who can do the job. But lately, they're being promoted or positioned way over their capabilities. If you're passing over a middle-aged White Guy with two decades of experience to look like you're "With It" by hiring some kid fresh out of college to meet a quota instead, your business is fucked. Hire them into entry level positions so they can learn the ropes and work their way up. But the DEI initiatives will call you out if you do this, even though it is a fair way to begin integrating said subjects into the workforce. Instead of being lauded for hiring more DEIs in the first place, you'll be excoriated for not giving them the plum jobs. And this is what's fucking over these companies. I mean, how does Budweiser lose half a billion dollars in one fucking quarter? And Disney? They have Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Disney and what else that should, by all rights, give them a license to print money. Instead, they're hemorrhaging it! All I know is, if Broccoli and Eon are smart, they'll just keep making movies with a White Male James Bond. If they deviate one degree from that we're going to witness the first James Bond movie to lose money. I mean, View to a Kill was a fucking turd and even it made a decent profit!

and this is the problem with the whole DEI initiative: it's going to eat itself. There's no way you can insert this ideology into a successful business. If the concept isn't selling, you can't back out without calling down a whole shitstorm from the rest of the initiative. For example, if Ubisoft backs out and replaces the character with an Asian Samurai (you know, like, the version that would have made the game a hit), they get canceled. Similarly, if they fire the people who tanked their stock price, they look like Racists. It's a never ending circle. This whole DEI thing is a fucking joke and I can only wonder what new industries are going to spring up by taking away market share from the floundering corporations who are shooting themselves in the head over this Utopian Daydream. Christ, I wish I had a few million dollars and a business plan right now!

I laughed way too hard at this. Hezbollah propagandist gets hit with airstrike on live TV!

It's like that line from comedian (comedienne?) Eddie Izzard. "Go ahead, kill each other. We've been trying to kill you for ages!"

The Peace , Love and Understanding party just tried to take another (literal) shot at Trump. This from the same people who were planting IEDs in Portland police stations during the pandemic riots. I'm not going to pretend Jan 6th never happened but c'mon. When is someone going to call these Radicals out?