Mamdani Begins to Implement Communism; Many thought he couldn’t do it in New York City. He has found a way.

From the city that gave us Mayor DeBlasio, "Hot Girls For Mangione", and outlawed Big Gulp drinks.

Mamdani to be first NYC mayor in 60-plus years to skip Israel parade, vows 'safety' and 'security'  But...but... he's so good-looking!     

Frontpage Mag  

"It will all work wonderfully — until, that is, Mamdani and his friends run out of other people’s money, and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. But they will be bringing a great deal more down with them."

"The Communist Twelver Shi’ite mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, made a major announcement on Tuesday: he is beginning to implement the Marxist seizure of property in New York City.

"He did not, of course, state that in so many words. As Marxists always do, he couched his plans in the language of social justice, claiming that he was striking out against bad landlords and providing an opportunity for all New Yorkers to live in decent, fairly-priced housing. And as is always the case with Marxist promises, Mamdani’s big announcement was an obvious and flagrant lie to cover up for his seizure of private property, not so much on behalf of the city government as for the benefit of his far-left cronies.

"Mamdani announced that he was going to seize rental properties from landlords who have not maintained them properly, and hand over ownership not to the city government, but to supposedly impartial players and fair dealers such as “community land trusts” and “non-profits.”

“'For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect,” Mamdani announced proudly, “we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”

"Anyone who has been paying attention to Mamdani’s rapid rise could have seen this coming. Intifada on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani details how he has made socialized housing a centerpiece of his program ever since he entered politics. “People often ask,” he wrote on December 3, 2020, “what socialists mean when we say we want to ‘decommodify’ housing. Basically, we want to move away from a situation where most people access housing by purchasing it on the market & toward a situation where the state guarantees high-quality housing to all.”

"The plan he unveiled Tuesday would move toward that, but the state wouldn’t own the housing; non-profits would own the housing, which means that he will be giving the properties over to his friends to give them a secure source of funding in order to help the far-left consolidate its power over the city." . . . More...

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 32 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad, The Critical Qur’an, and Muhammad: A Critical Biography. His new books are Intifada on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani; Holy Hell: Islam's Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It; and The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses. 

The Democrats’ Luciferian Beauty Play

"Take a look at why Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won their elections, and then look at Texas Senate candidate James Talarico"

Selwyn Duke - American Thinker

What’s for certain is that the Luciferian Beauty Principle combined with the idiot vote is a toxic mix. It can deliver an absolutely beautiful package — hiding a demonic inner ugliness that’s deadly to a republic.

. . . "Do you know when I realized Mamdani would win?

"The very first time I saw him on TV.

"No, it wasn’t that Mamdani was promising to rob Peter blind to pay Paul and then send both home to rent-frozen apartments on a free bus. It was that I understand the Luciferian Beauty Principle.

"Now, you can take the following as metaphor if you’re not a theist. In Christian theology, Lucifer chose pride over God, rebelled and became the purest manifestation of evil: Satan. But he also was something else: As Lucifer, whose name means 'light bringer,' he was known as the most beautiful of angels.

"There is an all-important lesson there. It’s not just that evil doesn’t appear comic-book style, with a pitchfork and horns; it masquerades as something beautiful and impressive.

"The malevolent know how easily humans are seduced by what pleases the eye and ear. We see this, for example, whenever a man is deceived by a comely gold-digger.

"As for Mamdani, the power- and national grave-digger, he’s a good-looking young guy with an easy smile, charisma on command and the most silvery of tongues, eloquent and articulate to the hilt. Note here the studies showing that it doesn’t matter what you say; if you say it well, you will sway people. It’s a testimonial to the power of style over substance." . . .

Which can take us to AOC, whom our beloved Louisiana Senator Kennedy said is the reason there are instructions on a shampoo bottle. Beware national leaders who get their opinions from MSNOW and "The View".

"Operation Let Her Speak."

. . . "Oh, it’s empty talk, you say? Ocasio-Cortez is ignorant?

"Sure, but you are not going to vote for her no matter what. You also probably wouldn’t buy snake oil. But the snake-oil salesman doesn’t need your business. He doesn’t have to know anything about medicine. He just has to be sufficiently charismatic and glib to convince enough suckers that he does, and he becomes wealthy. That is Ocasio-Cortez.

"Rest assured, too: If she bested 10,000 other applicants, she has some skills — not at being a statesman, but a politician. 

"To cement the point, it’s instructive noting why professional commentators, and politics wonks generally, under-emphasize the Luciferian Beauty Principle. Such people are more likely than average to proceed intellectually, to evaluate candidates on their positions. But even the smartest among them can make a very human mistake: projecting your own mindset onto others." . . .

The Fan Girls are back: Young women file into court for Luigi Mangione hearing - AOL   They include a ‘Hot Girls for Zohran’ influencer and a Fulbright scholar turned sex video game creator.

NY Post: "Natero, 57, a trained pharmacist, has worked for big pharma for more than two decades, according to her LinkedIn profile. 

Weissbrot, 32, unleashed her fury at the healthcare industry Monday, when she coldly proclaimed outside the New York State Supreme Court where Mangione is on trial that Thompson’s grieving kids “are better off without him.” 

Natero meanwhile is the lead director of medical affairs for the Formulary Clinical Analysis team at CVS Health, where she’s worked since October 2021."

Notice the cheering for reprehensible actors is
 largely made of young girl's voices?

The Left's Assassination Cult Welcomes The 'Mangionistas'

"The left’s lust for political violence, its hero-worship of assassins, has exploded with Trump Derangement Syndrome."

 The Federalist 

 "And taxpayer-funded universities are mass producers of radicals, some bent on violence to achieve their left-wing agenda. Or as Joe Rogan once called U.S. higher education, “cult camps'”

. . . "Meet ‘The Mangionistas’  "As alleged cold-blooded killer Luigi Mangione appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday, three of his biggest groupies “covered” the hearing. Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas, and Lena Weissbrot, the self-styled “Mangionistas” incredibly received press passes from the office of their good Marxist friend, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. ". . . 

. . . "The fangirls used their coveted press access to justify homicide for the good of their political cause and to celebrate the December 2024 murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare. 

“F— Brian Thompson, I don’t give a flying f— he died,” Rojas told the New York Daily News in a now-viral video. 

“His children are better off without him,” Weissbrot heartlessly told reporters outside the court. “They need to learn to not be like their dad — and enjoy the blood money.”

"Interestingly, Rios zealously served in the volunteer campaign cult for Mamdani known as “Hot Girls for Zohran.” The influencer and model works as a social media manager for Ali Design & Consulting Services in New York, according to her LinkedIn account. The leftist digital marketing firm boasts that it has “a passion for justice, equity, and inclusion.” Its clients include the Unity & Justice Fund, which contributed $100,000 to Mamdani’s super PAC, according to the California Globe. The Unity & Justice Fund is the political fundraising arm of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a nonprofit organization with alleged ties to Hamas, according to InfluenceWatch." . . .  More...

The American Left Is In Thrall To Political Violence  . . . "As always, the people saying this pretend it’s a “both sides” problem, that the political left and right are both at risk of becoming dangerously violent, and that for the sake of our democracy we all need to calm down.

"What nonsense. There is only one side in America today that has a persistent and very real-world problem with political violence, and everyone knows it’s the left.

"It’s the left that has produced four would-be assassins of President Trump. It’s the left that produced Charlie Kirk’s assassin and the sneering online hordes who celebrated his murder. It’s the left that produced Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood, and overnight became a folk hero to his fellow travelers.

"The left riots and burns down cities in a way that makes Jan. 6 look tame, and the corporate press justifies it as a form of political speech. The left regularly threatens conservative speakers and events, forcing organizers to provide a level of security that liberal events never need. The left foments violence not just by spreading false propaganda about conservatives but by funding the supposed right-wing extremists they warn about, as the recent federal criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center has shown.

Let’s Remember the Democrats’ Lies

 Itxu Díaz  

"Democracy in America is the same as, or even better than, it was under Biden. The Constitution is stronger than it was before. And national values are healthier than ever. The only thing that has actually changed for the worse is that now people try to kill the president far more often."

 "Election campaigns are fertile ground for lies to flourish. Politicians are only allowed to lie on the campaign trail because, instead of calling them lies, people often call them “campaign promises.” And, in any case, almost no one pays attention to campaign promises. The average citizen agrees to vote for one party or another while holding their nose, but they also feel little enthusiasm for what we call election propaganda.

"And yet, everything has its limits. Now that some time has passed since Trump returned to power, we need to bring back into focus some of the lies Democrats spread through every media outlet. Perhaps the funniest of all went something like this: democracy or Trump. In case there’s anyone on the far left reading this, with their brain colonized by wokeism, the idea was to suggest that the only person capable of guaranteeing democracy was Kamala Harris.

"It wasn’t Harris’s only big lie. She also suggested that Trump was quietly working on a plan for authoritarian or dictatorial rule if he won the election. She even hinted that the Republican planned to persecute and imprison opposition political leaders and govern completely outside the bounds of the Constitution.

"In short, Harris spent the entire campaign assuring everyone that a Donald Trump victory would mean the apocalypse, the destruction of the United States, and the emergence of a supremacist dictatorship in the world’s most powerful nation. Harris has the mental capacity of a clam — but a clam that’s already been hit with a hammer — and that has led some to suggest that his predictions were not manipulation but pure stupidity, sheer intellectual incapacity.

"That, however, is no excuse. Democrats lied again and again during the campaign, and now that time has passed and we can see that none of what they predicted has come true, it’s worth remembering. Generally, the things said during election campaigns stay there, and nobody seems to remember them afterwards, as if they were harmless white lies or socially acceptable falsehoods. I refuse to let it be forgotten that the pack of beasts leading the Democratic Party since its abduction by Obama lied about the gravest, most sacred thing in the United States of America: democracy — that is, freedom — that is, the Constitution.

"I know Trump never misses an opportunity to point out that Joe Biden spent his days sleeping through official events and had no idea what he was signing or saying. And that’s fine. But I do miss hearing him remind people that Democrats lied about the end of democracy. As far as I know, there is still a separation of powers, there are still elections, and citizens still vote freely. And, for the moment, it doesn’t seem that Trump is throwing opposition leaders into gas chambers." . . .

Itxu Díaz is a Spanish journalist, political satirist, and author. He has written 10 books on topics as diverse as politics, music, and smart appliances. He is a contributor to The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, National Review, American Conservative, and Diario Las Américas in the United States, as well as a columnist at several Spanish magazines and newspapers. He was also an adviser to the Ministry for Education, Culture, and Sports in Spain.

Spare Us the Selective Outrage

 Victor Davis Hanson   

"After October 7, we were also lectured that Israel was not just guilty of various war crimes but illegitimate in its very existence. Indeed, it became chic to condemn Israeli Jews as "settler colonialists" — despite residing in the 3,500-year homeland of the Jewish people."

"Since October 7, we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel.

The campuses, the left-wing media, and the new Democratic Socialist officials, both federal and state, following the cue of student activists and professors from the Middle East, have painted Israel and their Jewish supporters as Nazis, fascists, and among the worst murderers in today's bloody world.

This is nonsensical. The medieval-style massacre of 1,200 Jews in their homes on October 7, during a time of peace, should have increased awareness of the existential dangers Israel faced. Instead, it spawned a gathering storm of antisemitism.

What Was Israel Supposed to Do?

Note that leftists and pro-Hamas students and faculty were shouting the eliminationist slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" in euphoria almost immediately in response to the news of the slaughter. Hundreds of dead Jews set off a Pavlovian spasm of glee from the Middle East to American campuses.

Indeed, during the three-week hiatus following the mass killings – well before the IDF entered Gaza on October 27 – Israel and its supporters were damned in ways we have not seen for years. Even as Israel sought to negotiate a release of the 251 hostages and a surrender of all those in Hamas responsible for the massacres, the international furor at Israel only mounted. Or was it instead an ebullition of anticipation that still more slaughter of Israelis would follow?

Yet Israel's demands were met with more defiance. Hamas, and its delusional supporters, both in the Middle East and in the West, saw October 7 not as the end of bloodletting but as the beginning of far more slaughter – and of the hoped-for end of Israel altogether." . . . More...

Never believe leftists statements nor their professionally printed posters:

"Note that the current Arab population of Israel is close to 77 times larger than the remnant of 27,000 Jews who remain in Muslim-majority Middle Eastern nations."

Devastating: Boy Sweeps Girls' Track Events in California

Ward Clark – RedState  

"But the way to stop this is simple, not easy, but simple: If there is a boy or man on the field, every girl or woman should walk off. Leave the male "transgender" competitor alone on the field. Alone. Nobody to compete against."

"The entire lunatic practice of allowing boys to claim they "identify" as girls and compete against actual girls in sports isn't going away until angry parents and actual girls and women who compete force it to stop. There's a surefire way to do that; more on that in a bit. In the meantime, one of those boys, "Becky" Pepper-Jackson, defied the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)'s claim that there is "no competitive difference" between boys and girls in sports to sweep almost an entire girls' track event in West Virginia.

Transgender athlete Becky Pepper-Jackson won a girls' state championship in West Virginia this week, before the U.S. Supreme Court could make a ruling on whether the state can ban Pepper-Jackson from competing against females.

Pepper-Jackson took first place for Bridgeport High School in the Class AAA state title with a personal best of 38 feet, 11.75 inches. The second-place winner, Paislee Babiczuk, of John Marshall, finished more than two feet shorter, only managing 36 feet 11 inches.

"Two feet shorter. "No competitive advantage." Yeah, right. It gets worse:

Pepper-Jackson has now earned state champion status in dominant fashion, after the athlete's own lawyers at the ACLU argued that males don't have a competitive advantage over females, with ACLU attorney Joshua Block arguing "if the evidence shows there are no relevant physiological differences between B.P.J. and other girls, then there's no basis to exclude her."

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey, who is helping to lead the legal defense against Pepper-Jackson and the ACLU, sent a letter to the Supreme Court on Tuesday highlighting Pepper-Jackson's performance this season and how it compares to female competitors.

"As a high school sophomore, Pepper-Jackson is not finishing 'near the back of the pack ...' but is instead defeating every— or nearly every — female in the state in these events. I would appreciate it if you could circulate this message to the members of the court," McCuskey wrote.

 More...

Disaster recovery should not be complicated by politics

 Reason  

Housing recovery needs certainty and speed. The first weeks and months after a disaster determine whether a community can recover. 

"The distribution of federal disaster aid has drawn renewed scrutiny as approval rates have varied sharply across states. Since President Donald Trump returned to office, about 23% of aid requests from Democratic-led states were approved, compared to nearly 89% for Republican-led states. In some cases, requests were denied even when federal officials agreed the damage deserved help.

"Under the current system, the Executive Branch has broad authority to approve or deny disaster aid requests. That means the final decision over whether communities receive support is not governed by fixed rules or timelines, but by discretionary judgment at the federal level. The problem is not any one political outcome. The problem is a system that leaves decisions that should be as data-driven as possible vulnerable to political discretion.

"Concerns about political influence over disaster aid decisions are not new. Economists and policy analysts have long documented how political incentives shape the allocation of disaster aid. A 2020 review found that federal disaster spending often followed electoral considerations more than actual need, a pattern visible from New Deal programs to modern Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) declarations.

"No matter the reason for these differences in how disaster aid is approved across states, the system produces the same result: recovery becomes slower, less consistent, and harder to plan. That lack of consistency affects recovery at every stage, especially in housing, where rebuilding depends not only on federal decisions, but on how quickly systems at every level can respond." . . .   More...

FEMA Official Told Workers to Skip Homes With Pro-Trump Signs After Hurricane Milton | Snopes.com

About The Muslim Reform Movement

 MUSLIM REFORM MOVEMENT   "How much more slaughter of innocents in the name of Islam do we need to endure before the free nations of the world wake up and admit that we are at war with the ideology of Islamism? We are in a global struggle of a magnitude we have not seen since the end of the Cold War — and this time we are fighting an enemy whose natural constituency includes almost one-fourth of the world’s population. The steady drumbeat of Islamist violence around the world has now reached a climax. No longer can pseudo-experts, apologists, and the media hide behind excuses, platitudes, and clichés. Enough is enough.

"With defeat of Radical Islam as the foundation, on December 4, 2015, our courageous founders from around the world outlined our Declaration for Muslim Reform, a living document that we will continue to enhance as our journey continues.

"We invite our fellow Muslims and neighbors to join us."   More...

Euthanasia Follows Evaluation Outside Canadian Fast Food Restaurant

Moonbattery   

There are no limits to its applications, the sanctity of innocent human life having been rejected.

"Mind what you eat. An ill-chosen meal might put you on the fast track for Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying.

"The New York Posts reports:

A Canadian doctor euthanized a 45-year-old patient suffering from inflammatory bowel disease and depression after a quick assessment outside a Tim Hortons, according to officials.

"It is unclear whether the fast food served at Tim Hortons caused a bellyache requiring the patient to be put down.

"Even in Canada, you can get in trouble for pushing euthanasia too far too fast. Dr. James MacLean of London, Ontario faces a minimum 6 months of supervision for killing Thomas Dillon.

"The details are macabre:

MacLean exchanged dozens of text messages with Dillon about plans to be medically euthanized, and even personally drove him to a morgue facility to carry out the procedure.

There, in June 2024, the doctor injected Dillon with a lethal cocktail of drugs inside a holding facility room at an industrial unit where human cadavers were prepared for funerals, officials said.

"National Post has more:

In another case, Dr. James MacLean failed to administer one of three drugs used in assisted deaths — one that paralyzes the body’s muscles, including the muscles involved in breathing. The patient resumed spontaneously breathing again after initially being pronounced dead, and after MacLean had already left the home.

Blue States Starting to Curb 'Free' Healthcare to Migrants

 Breitbart 

 "It is likely all these cuts would be quickly reversed if Democrats take control of Congress and the White House again, but the fact that cuts are being made now shows the success that the Trump administration enjoys today and should get credit for."

 

"A host of deep blue states are quietly pulling back from their generous programs of “free” healthcare to migrants as federal dollars dry up and their budgets continue to spiral into the red.

"With the Trump administration beginning to close the spigot of billions in federal aid that many states lavishly spent caring for illegal migrants, sates including California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oregon Washington, and the District of Columbia are finding that they cannot afford to replace the chocked off federal dollars with their own state budget dollars. This reality setting in has caused state officials to begin scaling back their freebies to illegals, which all come at the expense of American citizens.

"According to the Washington Examiner, 14 states have had been devoting untold millions to migrants, for their children, and for pregnant, non-citizen women.

"But after President Donald Trump signed his “Big Beautiful” spending bill, cutting billions in federal aid with cuts to Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare, and Obamacare insurance subsidies, many states have been forced to make decisions about their migrant programs.

"The cutbacks also reflect the Democrats’ difficulty in funding their hugely expensive urban political machines. Those “Sanctuary City Ponzi scheme” political machines need poor migrants to help conduit federal funds back to local city and state politicians, partly because many productive Americans move away to low-migration cities and states that have lower taxes, less diversity, better schools, higher wages, and cheaper housing.

"Thus far, California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and Washington the District of Columbia have already begun cutting free migrant healthcare budgets. And several others are in the process of evaluating similar measures." . . .

Democrat Pastors: Infiltrating Republican Pews For The 2026 Midterms; UPDATED

Mike Robertson  

"James Talarico, the Presbyterian seminarian running for Texas Senate, is the poster child for the strategy. He brandishes his faith credentials while twisting Scripture to bless every left-wing priority from “reproductive justice” to expansive welfare."

 "The numbers don’t lie. Democrats are staring down the barrel of another midterm cycle where their secular base simply isn’t big enough to win in the places that matter. So they’ve decided to stop pretending and start poaching. Not with policy changes or soul-searching. With collars. With Bibles. With men and women who once stood in pulpits now running for Congress and statewide office as proud Democrats.

"Progressive faith networks like Vote Common Good are tracking roughly 30 white Christian clergy (mostly from mainline Protestant denominations) seeking Democrat nominations this cycle. That’s no coincidence. It’s a deliberate surge aimed straight at the heart of Republican strength: the religious voter. White evangelicals, practicing Protestants, and traditional Catholics have anchored the GOP for generations. Democrats know it. They’ve studied the polls. And instead of reforming their agenda on life, family, and religious liberty, they’re trying to rent the pews.

"Look at the map. In Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, a Trump stronghold, Presbyterian pastor Lindsay James is on the ballot. Former United Methodist minister Clint Twedt-Ball is right there with her. Over in the 3rd District, ordained Lutheran minister and state Senator Sarah Trone Garriott is pushing the same line. Three pastors in one battleground state, all Democrats, all framing bigger government, open borders, and progressive priorities as pure Gospel.

"Up in Alaska’s at-large House seat, Presbyterian pastor Matt Schultz campaigns on feeding the hungry and standing up to “bullies” ‒– code, of course, for anyone who dares defend biological sex or parental rights in schools. In Kansas, the senior pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the country, Adam Hamilton, with his 24,000-member congregation, is running for Senate as an “independent-minded Democrat.” These aren’t outliers. They’re the vanguard of a strategy that treats faith communities like enemy territory to be infiltrated rather than ignored.

"Here’s the problem for them: real faith voters see the disconnect. White Protestants still lean Republican by nearly 60-40. Traditional Catholics hold a similar edge. The religiously unaffiliated crowd that forms the Democrats’ reliable core simply doesn’t deliver majorities in the districts that decide the House and key Senate seats. That’s why this clergy surge exists. It’s an admission that the old secular playbook is failing in flyover country." . . . More...

Beto O'Rourke: 'Talarico Will Be the 51st Vote in the U.S. Senate'   

"O’Rourke said, “I don’t think that the conditions could get any better for Democrats. I mean, maybe they will over the next five months, but this is as good as I’ve seen it in my lifetime. James Talarico pulling in record amounts of money from small dollar donors all across the state of Texas.”

Turkey Leg Talarico, Not Ken Paxton, Increasingly Looks Like Texas Toast

. . . "But Republicans did not invent this out of thin air. Talarico, in one of his campaign’s many own goals, handed the GOP the issue.  “I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign,” he told voters earlier this year. “We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.”" . . .

Democrats Hopeful Average Texas Voter Wants To Ban Steak And Thinks God Is Gay | Babylon Bee

The Laugh’s on Hollywood; "The disappearance of comic risk has left American entertainment joyless, preachy, and unintentionally absurd."

 The American Spectator   

"The Industry’s woke intransigence is no longer annoying, now it’s amusing. You can almost see the in-crowd tossing the banana peel they themselves are going to slip on, and wreck their habitat.

"The long whimpering finish of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week confirmed a sad truth. Hollywood killed comedy. A century of laughter provoked by comic geniuses — Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Fields, Hope, Brooks, Martin, Carrey, and Saturday Night Live alumni (Belushi, Aykroyd, Murray, Murphy, Sandler, Ferrell, Myers, Stiller) ended in the first decade of this one. Mirth has either been missing from the screen since 2010 or reduced to conservative man-bashing, as on every late-night show. The latter is questionably rewarded by “clapter,” the former depends on mocking the now unmockable — to Hollywoke if not the audience.

"The last great comedy film was Tropic Thunder in 2008, directed and co-written by the brilliant Ben Stiller, before the Hollywoke Strain broke his mind and spirit. Tropic Thunder lampooned everything and everyone, including Asian communist terrorists and Hollywood, with a hilarious Tom Cruise as amoral studio executive Lee Grossman (“I don’t know what kind of pan-Pacific bullshit power play you’re trying to pull here,” Grossman snarls at the commie leader. “But Asia, Jack, is my territory!”). The gem also features Robert Downey, Jr. in blackface uttering the classic politically incorrect line, “Never go full retard.” Any part of the picture would melt down real studio execs today — and, sadly, Ben Stiller.

"The highest rated, and funniest, sitcom of the 2010s was Two and a Half Men. Every episode featured the hedonistic Charlie Sheen not only enjoying the Male Gaze on a bevy of ridiculously sexy underdressed women but acting on it.  And viewers of both sexes loved it, making the show number one for the whole decade. The audience for such humor hasn’t disappeared, only the producers of it.

"The Hollywoke Strain is fatal to the comic mind. Will Ferrell, for instance, is responsible for some of the biggest howls and hits of the 00s — Elf, Old School, Anchorman, Blades of Glory, others. His last major film, however, was Will and Harper, a documentary about a road trip he took with his ex-SNL writer friend Harper Steele after he “came out” as a trans woman. Mostly groans replaced laughs. Ferrell’s most recent appearance on the Saturday Night Live season finale as the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein yukking it up with “old pal” Trump, was cringeworthy.

"Meanwhile, the once uproarious Jim Carrey never recovered from Trump Derangement Syndrome. He was all over Twitter insulting the President during his first term, and composing anti-Trump cartoons. Trump’s 2024 election must have totally broken Carrey. He’s been absent from any screen during the man’s second term." . . . More...

And there’s no end in sight to the comedy. Next year, Random House is coming out with Connie, a feminist sequel to The Godfather. It will feature Connie Corleone, Don Vito’s daughter and Michael’s sister, with a movie already in the works.