Virtue Signalling Hollywood Threatens To Boycott Georgia Over Heartbeat Law

Legal Insurrection
Film production crews: “It’s not going to affect the politicians and the actors …. They’re still going to keep going to work in other places …. But with us here, it’s going to destroy us.”

. . . "It is worth noting that this is little more than virtue signalling on the part of many of these Hollywood entities.

For example, the Daily Caller notes that Disney is threatening Georgia over its abortion law but still partners with China (which is currently holding Muslims in detention camps).

The Walt Disney Company is considering boycotting Georgia over its new abortion law, even as Disney profits from doing business in China, a notorious human rights violator that is putting Muslims in internment camps.

Disney CEO Bob Iger told Reuters on Thursday the company is likely to cease filming in Georgia if the pro-life law takes effect.

. . . "Disney apparently has no issue with doing business in China, which has undertaken mass detentions of Uighur Muslims, placing them in internment camps.

"Disney opened a $5.5 billion resort in Shanghai, China, in 2016. Iger called Shanghai Disney the company’s “greatest opportunity since buying land in Florida.” Disney partnered with a state-owned company, Shanghai Shendi Group, for the resort." . . .

Film Crews In Georgia Are Starting To Rally Against Hollywood’s Boycott Threat Over The New Abortion Law

The entertainment industry has it's boot on the neck of any who do not share their values. All this nation must adopt the moral standards of the Hollywood left or be ostracized socially and economically.
The publicity glare Milano gave for the camera at the Kavanaugh hearing is searching for others of us whom Hollywood finds unacceptable. Like the Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings. TD

Let’s Count The Times Beto Has Flip-Flopped On Impeachment

Hot Air

"Beto O’Rourke is nothing if not consistent. By consistent, I mean he can change his position on any issue on a moment’s notice, and he usually does. Thursday Beto cashed in on a renewed enthusiasm from his party to impeach President Trump.

"In order to provide cover for himself, O’Rourke told supporters in a fundraising appeal via email that he was openly in favor of the impeachment of President Trump last year. He was for taking a stand before he was against it. Now that he has lots of company in support of beginning impeachment hearings, he is all for it again." . . .

Nothing Prepares You for Visiting Omaha Beach

 The Atlantic:  COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France—The first thing you notice, at the end of the narrow roads that lead to this precipice, is how peaceful this place is. The cliffs are thick with rough green vegetation and drop down—sharply, then more gradually—to a Prussian-blue sea and a windswept beach. Omaha Beach." . . .

. . . "But something else will be different too: Ceremonies are held every five years, and this will likely be the last time D-Day veterans will attend. It’s hard not to see this year’s ceremony as the end of a cycle of history—one that began with the Allies, led by the United States, turning the course of war here in Normandy and ended with the president of “America First,” who has made questioning the transatlantic alliance a pillar of his presidency." . . .

DeWayne Craddock was violent with co-workers before Virginia Beach shooting: report

NY Post  "The gunman who shot dead 12 people at a Virginia Beach municipal building had been facing disciplinary action for a violent fight at work, according to a report.nlarge Image

"DeWayne Craddock, 40, was still employed as an engineer with the Department of Public Utilities when he went on his shooting rampage Friday, killing 12 and injuring several others, including a cop.

"But he recently started showing serious behavioral problems and got into physical “scuffles” with other city workers, a source told The New York Times.

"The source told the paper that the troubles had escalated in the week leading up to the mass shooting — and Craddock was involved in what it called “a violent altercation on city grounds.' " . . .

Review: The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

 The safety culture burgeoning in US universities is a danger both for ‘coddled’ students and the future of society, warns Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson  "Trigger warnings. Safe spaces. Preferred pronouns. Checked privileges. If you work at an American university these days, you have to tread as if on eggshells, if not land mines. One ill-judged microaggression is all it takes to be accused of racism or sexism, transphobia or Islamophobia, harassment or full-blown rape. Often, such accusations lead to investigations that are the antithesis of due process, with the transgressor deemed guilty until proved innocent. 

"I remember when it was not like this. Sixteen years ago, what lured me away from Oxford to New York University (NYU) and Harvard was the sense that the real intellectual action in my field (economic history) was on the western side of the Atlantic. The US economists, in particular, were impressively free in their speech. To present a paper at one of their seminars was to run a gauntlet of caustic criticism. “There are idiots,” Larry Summers famously began one of his papers. “Look around.” He was right. Unfortunately, idiotic ideas were in the process of taking over large swathes of academic life.

"The speed with which campus life has changed for the worse is one of the most important points made by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in this important if disturbing book. Lukianoff is a lawyer and head of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire), which works to protect academic freedom. Haidt is a professor of social psychology at NYU’s Stern School of Business and the founder of Heterodox Academy, which promotes intellectual diversity in academic life — the one type of diversity that universities appear not to care about." . . .

Veterans walk out of meeting with Ocasio-Cortez after she bashes US foreign policy

NY Post

Anthony Vitaliano (left) and Silvio Mazzella

. . . "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bashed US foreign policy during a private meeting with Bronx community leaders, prompting two military veterans to storm out.

“She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that’s not what America is about,” said Silvio Mazzella, a Vietnam War vet and treasurer of Community Board 11.

Anthony Vitaliano — an Army veteran who worked in the NYPD for 38 years, and commanded the Bronx’s homicide detectives — was sitting between Ocasio-Cortez and a staffer for the freshman Dem.

“I just couldn’t hear her BS anymore,” the former CB11 chairman said. “I just got up, got my umbrella in my hand and walked right out.” . . .

Beto O'Rourke Town Hall Drags CNN Ratings Down 30%

Forbes

. . . "According to ratings data compiled by Nielsen, the O'Rourke town hall delivered a total audience of 714,000 viewers, while MSNBC and Fox News Channel both exceeded two million viewers in the same time period: 2.196 million for MSNBC and 2.260 million for top-rated Fox News.

"CNN's ratings delivery was down nearly 30% compared to its average Tuesday night, which over the last few months has typically reached more than one million viewers. O'Rourke even failed to exceed the audience that watched a CNN town hall featuring third-tier candidate John Hickenlooper, which drew 745,000 viewers in March. The lowest-rated town hall so far this cycle was CNN's event with Julian Castro, which reached just 654,000 viewers in April.

"Among viewers 25-54, the demographic group most valued by national advertisers, CNN's O'Rourke town hall had 194,000 viewers, down 38% from its average Tuesday night delivery of 313,000. In the demo, Fox News finished first with 362,000 viewers, followed by MSNBC (315,000).

"The poor ratings will raise questions about O'Rourke's ability to generate buzz in a crowded field, but also about the debate among Democrats over the wisdom of going where the viewers are and appearing on Fox News. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren* recently announced she would not accept an offer to appear in a Fox town hall, while candidates like Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have reached large audiences on FNC. Sanders' Fox town hall remains the highest-rated town hall this cycle, with a total audience of 2.554 million viewers." . . .

* I do not need to hear any more from this scold.

Hollywood's cluelessness about Southerners and soldiers

First, there are the terrible southern accents made obvious here in Plano, TX where the Dynasty filming at Southfork Ranch took place. There were local hands working on the set who were distinguished by genuine Texas accents that came from a different planet than the Hollywood efforts of "Californians" trying to appear "Texan." As a California transplant, it is all too obvious to me.
Ever notice shows taking place in Los Angeles where the characters drive out of town? The small country town where they finally stop is populated by people with "southern" accents, especially the hick sheriff; the only decent, intelligent person is the beautiful waitress working at the local cafe. ( If I may digress, notice movies where Californians stay among the Amish and teach them how to dress stylishly and more, well...California-ish?)

That said, on to the military portrayals:
Notice the soldier or Marine coming home from deployment: his hair is uncut and the uniform is grossly unmilitary. The most obvious item to me is the headgear being worn, or "cover" as Marines call it. Notice the cover being worn by the actor looks like this:

Unknown to Hollywood apparently, Marines wear their covers looking like this:

The filming of "Rocket's Red Glare" on the installation where I worked was interesting as well. Two of our Air Force women were used as extras for about five seconds (their scene eventually cut!) but for that, their normally closely worn hair was redone and increased liberally in size, looking most nonmilitary, but very Hollywood. The Tunnel Dweller

Congressman says MSNBC won't let anyone on unless they talk about impeachment

Monica Showalter  "Does it get more blatant than this? A lefty congressman, Brad Sherman of Sherman Oaks, California, says he can't get airtime on MSNBC unless he promises to talk about impeachment. No impeachment talk, no airtime for him.

"Here's what the Right Scoop spotted:

A Democratic Congressman actually complained on-air to a host on MSNBC that they wouldn’t have him on except to talk about impeachment:

California Rep. Brad Sherman told MSNBC host Ari Melber that he’s been trying to get on his show to talk about other issues like drug prices and the Saudi nuclear program, but all they want to talk to him about his impeachment:

“Actually I’ve been trying to get on your show to talk about the Saudi nuclear program. And if it was my time we’d be talking about efforts to control drug prices. There’s this image in this country that Congress is focused only on impeachment. That’s the only thing I can get on TV to talk about, but it’s not really what I’m working on.”

"Washington Times has more about it here." . . .

Man places 390th in men's hurdles, calls himself female, snatches women's NCAA national title

American Thinker  " Association Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships, they conclude tWhen normal people thinking normal thoughts read that a man named Craig Tefler "took home the women's 400-meter hurdles national title" at the 2019 National Collegiate Athletichat he stole it.  In our brave new world, where Craig goes by "CeCe" and calls himself a woman, things are a little different.

"Legal Insurrection has the video:

. . . "What won't be asked is the elephant-in-the-room question: why have we long segregated sports by sex?  To admit that women can't win if we don't would enrage feminists.  To admit that women are much safer this way would threaten to knock over decades of girl-power social engineering, wherein 120-pound wonder-women are depicted beating the pulp out of multiple men twice their size.

"Conservatives had better come to terms with the truth that there will be no Solomonic splitting the baby on this issue.  Men are men all the time, and women are women all the time.  If we stick to chromosomes, that's a truth easy to implement, even if it makes some people feel bad.  If we base it on feelings, we're headed for a Hobbesian "all against all" hellscape of which the destruction of sports is only one of the lesser consequences."

. . . 
"So far, there has not exactly been a feminist hue and cry over men encroaching on women's sports.  Only a few are speaking out.  The problem for feminists is that the transgender putsch in the sporting world sets what was once a simmering pot of cognitive dissonance to boiling: throw out the delusional "men can be women" part, and you're left with the bald-faced truth that men and women are inherently, inexorably different.  And not only are men and women different, but — heresy of all heresies — men are stronger than women.  Feminists have been fighting this fact tooth and nail for decades, to the point where mentally disturbed or opportunistic males who can't win against other males can ride the feminist train all the way to snatching trophies from girls." . . .

Legal Insurrection: The patriarchy’s plans to destroy women’s sports continues apace.

Fake News: Ilhan Omar Did NOT Propose Tax on Pork Products 'So Costly Nobody Will Buy Them Anymore

Lead Stories  "Did Ilhan Omar propose a tax on pork products so costly nobody will buy them anymore? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters and Republicans about the need to actually click and read links before sharing or liking them in order to avoid being embarrassed by fans of the site later. All the events described in the article are not real.

"The story originated from an article published by BustaTroll on May 26, 2019 titled "Ilhan Omar Proposes Tax on Pork Products 'So Costly Nobody Will Buy Them Anymore'" (archived here) which opened:" . . .

Untrue except perhaps in communities that voted for Omar, Tlaib, and Keith Ellison.

UPDATED: Obama Tells Multiple Lies About Guns In The U.S. To A Crowd In Brazil

Daily Wire  

"Former President Barack Obama told multiple lies on Thursday to a crowd in Brazil while discussing gun laws in the United States — something that he repeatedly did during his presidency.' . . .
'Everything stated by Obama was a blatant lie.
"Stephen Gutowski, a Second Amendment reporter for The Washington Free Beacon, highlighted some of Obama's in a series of tweets on Friday.
" 'Former President Obama just straight up lied about America's gun laws while at an event in Brazil--a country with strict gun laws and an unfathomably-high gun murder rate," Gutowski tweeted. "Former President Obama told the Brazilian crowd 'anybody can buy any weapon any time without much, if any, regulation' of our gun laws which is just plain false on its face. A complete lie.' " . . .

Thomas Lifson UPDATE:  Obama offers blatant lies about US gun laws in speech given in Brazil

. . . "Brazil, where Obama was speaking, has had strict gun control laws, but also has one of the highest murder rates in the world. just like Chicago. However, Jessica Chasmar in the Washington Times notes that Brazil’s new populist president is moving the country in the direction of firearms freedom in order to stem the tide of lawlessness:

Mr. Obama’s comments come just weeks after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree easing restrictions on gun imports and increasing the amount of ammunition a person can buy. In January, Mr. Bolsonaro signed a decree making it easier for Brazilians to keep weapons at home without first demonstrating that they have a need to own a gun.

"Abysmally ignorant or blatant liar?  Either way, Barack Obama is a hideous ex-president."