(04-26-2021 12:10 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 10:55 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

WTH? Doesn't all beer contain hops?

Quote:Last night, a lot of people were watching the Oscars (including RedState’s Brad Slager, who was live blogging the event as it was happening last night), as the event attracted a lot of commentary on social media. It spawned multiple social media trends on the awards, the fashion, and the movies that were up for nomination.

Perhaps the most bizarre commentary of the night came from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who tweeted this oddly-phrased declaration from what appears to be a small living room or large home office space.

Naturally, most of Twitter was confused at what appeared to be the Senate’s top Democratic losing his mind on social media, but there was actually an explanation.

No, the United States government is not poorly hiding the existence of an animal-based beer, as the tweet would imply. Rather, Schumer was apparently making fun of former President Donald Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow, who went on a rant on television and said the Democrats would force us to drink “plant-based beer.”

This was reported by the Huffington Post, and I only stumbled across it via Reddit. I have not seen anyone really talking about it, and that was the only mainstream-ish coverage the rant seemed to have gotten. However, it would appear that someone in Schumer’s office came across the story and thought it would be a stellar jab at Kudlow, so the whole thing was set up.

But, if you look at Schumer’s photo, there are some greater concerns that I think need to be addressed. First and foremost, that is entirely too close to the TV for someone Schumer’s age, as well as for someone who is already wearing glasses. That is just asking for eye problems, and when you’re one of the most important people in the Senate (behind Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin), you need to be able to read the legislation coming through your chamber.

I’m also greatly concerned with Schumer’s furniture. The kitchen chair should be in the kitchen. You are the Senate Majority leader. You can afford an office chair. Please return that chair to the kitchen where it belongs. It doesn’t even look like it has great lumbar support. You need to think about these things.

But most important in all this is how stupidly inside-baseball this tweet as a whole is. There are a ton of political insiders, pundits, and others who had no idea what this tweet was talking about. There were several questioning comments from people who live and breathe politics and had no idea what this was referencing. And, it’s pretty obvious Kudlow misspoke — clearly he meant to say “plant-based beef” instead of “plant-based beer” — which makes the mockery kind of sad. You save the good dunks for when someone is just ignorant, not when they say the wrong word on accident. No one believes the Democrats are going to ban animal-based beer, or even that such a thing exists.

Whoever thought this tweet was a good idea needs to be sat down in a conference room and have it explained to them that this is unacceptable. And whoever hired this person should be forced to hear it, as well.

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Quote:Just as we at OutKick predicted, the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony tanked to unimaginable lows. The 2021 Oscars fell more than 50% year-over-year in overnight ratings, OutKick has learned. Here’s a look at the past three years:

2021: 8.9/19

2020: 18.1/33

2019: 21.6/36

Last week, an Oscars producer who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the New York Times data found that “minute-by-minute post-show ratings analysis indicated that ‘vast swaths’ of people turned off their televisions when celebrities started to opine on politics.”

Of course, this year was no different with Hollywood elites injecting progressive politics into as many lines as possible. Regina King, who directed this year’s Oscar-nominated film One Night in Miami, used her stage time to tell the world (or at least the few who were watching) that if Derek Chauvin hadn’t been convicted on all three counts that she would have “traded in her heels for marching boots.”

How is that?

Award shows are already hemorrhaging viewers. Between cord-cutting and the industry nominating films no normal human would spend a dime to watch, ratings for the Oscars crashed 44 percent between 2014 and 2020. Hollywood isn’t exactly a brand that can afford to tell half of the country it’s racist, yet it does so anyway.

A ratings collapse. Expected, but still staggering to see in print.

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People are tired of being lectured to. It really is that simple.

They simply think they're better than us and we should worship them and they are astonished that we don't agree.

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MY BOLOGNA HAS A SECOND NAME IT’S M-A-Y-E-R

(04-26-2021 12:10 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 10:55 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

WTH? Doesn't all beer contain hops?

I haven't figured that one out yet either?

I brewed my own for several years, don't recall any meat based beers.

Water, malt, hops, yeast and a li'l TLC and that's pretty much it.

These people are certifiable.

To oblivion ya derps



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Quote:Filmmaker Amanda Milius told Breitbart News on Monday that Hollywood undermined its own influence over America by abandoning conservatives.

Ambition within the entertainment industry blocks Hollywood insiders from publicly criticizing false orthodoxies espoused by their peers, Milius stated on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. She noted Tinseltown’s decades of direct and indirect left-wing political advocacy.

“What Hollywood is — and what it’s always been — is a bunch of people who seek relevance and influence more than anything,” she remarked. “Nobody’s going to say the emperor has no clothes. Nobody is going to turn around and say, ‘This thing we’ve dedicated ourselves to — changing American culture and this sort of cultural Marxist point of view [has] snowballed out of control.'”

Milius pointed to the Oscars ceremony’s focus on COVID-19 as illustrative of Hollywood’s disconnection from most Americans.

She added, ‘They really are just culturally irrelevant, like this weird COVID ceremony performative thing that they did last night about. That was also part of it. It wasn’t just the usual wokeness. They also had to do this insane hypochondriac performance while they were awarding their wokeness, which was even weirder. … It was totally bizarre, totally out of touch.”

The New York Times observed the emphasis of the Oscars ceremony on COVID-19, highlighting special procedures implemented by the event’s organizers that were said be done in the interest of health and safety. It wrote, “[The Oscars] had to do it in a Covid-19-safe manner (while continually pointing out that it was doing so).”

Hollywood diminishes its influence by alienating conservatives, Marlow determined.

He said, “They’re really struggling with this thing where they want to be these cultural trendsetters with the wokeness. But they’ve hemorrhaged so much of their audience. … How are they going to be this influential culturally if there isn’t any shared culture? And there’s not that much of a shared culture anymore, because of Hollywood. Hollywood was a closest thing we had to a shared culture other than sports, which is, I guess, next to try to destroy itself with wokeness.”

Milius described Hollywood’s abandonment of conservative audiences as an opportunity for filmmakers.

“The door is wide open, because Hollywood has abandoned every type of movie that could be appealing to people across all kinds of spectrums [in] the United States,” she said. “My friends and I like to say we really have a great future in front of us. It’s really an amazing thing, because I want to make movies for the other half of America, and so if Hollywood is going to abandon half the American audience … basically, they’re making an ideological business decision.”

Lowering costs of film production relative to previous decades further weakens the hold held by Hollywood over film and television production, Milius noted.

She continued, “What they’re doing is just leaving a giant pile of money and content on the table for somebody to come along and make. [This is enabled by] technological changes and things that have been going on for … quite a few years. You don’t have to make movies in Hollywood, anymore. There’s no need to be there, and there’s no need for their system of acceptance, because I don’t need their money. There’s no more gatekeeping to movies really in that way.”

Milius warned that left-wing institutions amplify their authoritarianism to coerce ideological compliance among the public as their politics become increasingly disconnected from reality.

“What [leftists] do when they’re wrong and they can’t admit it — and their wrongness bumps up against [the] empirical reality of whatever the situation is — [is] they become more authoritarian,” she remarked. “So when the wokeness doesn’t catch on … [and when] people didn’t adopt their little verbal modifications the way that they had hoped, they just became more authoritarian about it. They started cancelling people if they said the wrong thing. They started having punishments for people who didn’t go along with [this] culturally Marxist agenda that they had.”

She concluded, “What’s scary is whenever they’re confronted with wrongness, they just try to break reality into their perspective instead of adjusting their point of view.”

Los Angeles’s temporary removal of homeless people from Union Station in Los Angeles — vacating the area so the Oscars could be hosted there — epitomizes the contradictions of Hollywood, Milius shared.

She said, “The best thing I heard about the Oscars that wasn’t actually part of the ceremony was these stories about how they had to shoe all the homeless people away from Union Station so that they could film their Oscars thing. I mean, to me, that image just sums up Hollywood better than anything they could have actually written.”

Fox 11 in Los Angeles reported, “[Union Station is] an area that is plagued by homelessness. But come Oscar Sunday, the homeless will not be seen anywhere near Union Station. … Not exactly a surprise to Andy Bales of Union Rescue Mission. Bales says anytime there is a big national event, Los Angeles tries to sweep its homelessness problem under the rug.”

Millius directed The Plot Against The President, a documentary film based on Lee Smith’s book of the same name.

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(04-26-2021 12:28 PM)VA49er Wrote:  People are tired of being lectured to. It really is that simple.

^^^^^THIS^^^^

I stopped watching these pompous opinionated blow hards 4 or 5 years ago. But, if they keep injecting politics into their movies, I'll stop going to those too. These people seem to literally hate half their audience---and these Hollywood morons are so stupid----they seem to think its important to make sure we KNOW they hate us conservatives. Well----when the Blockbusters hit the theaters again post Covid---I have a feeling they are going to find their box office ticket sales are going to tank about like their Oscar ratings. That will be middle America saying---"Hey Disney, now that your sales are down 50%---How ya like us now?"

(04-26-2021 10:55 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

That's the portrait of leisure, I tell ya.

Sitting upright in a hard, wooden chair in my business attire a foot away from the TV.

Missed it clean.

(04-26-2021 12:47 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 12:10 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 10:55 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

WTH? Doesn't all beer contain hops?

I haven't figured that one out yet either?

I brewed my own for several years, don't recall any meat based beers.

Water, malt, hops, yeast and a li'l TLC and that's pretty much it.

These people are certifiable.

Larry Kudlow supposedly had a brain fart on TV a few days ago. The Dims were all giddy.

That Schumer picture is about as authentic as Pocahontas having a beer in front of her Beta Boy.