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warningsine · 8 months

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Just over a year ago, a woman told a crowded room that her ex-husband had kicked and slapped her. She described him throwing a phone at her face. She described him penetrating her with a wine bottle. “I remember not wanting to move because I didn’t know if it was broken,” she said. “I didn’t know if the bottle that he had inside me was broken.” While she said all these things, people laughed. People called her a whore and a liar. People cheered for her ex-husband, and made posters and T-shirts emblazoned with his face.

Only about 14 months have passed since Amber Heard was mocked and shamed on a global stage. But, apparently, that means it’s now high time to relive it. This week, a new three-part series from director Emma Cooper drops on Netflix (UK viewers can also watch via Channel 4 on demand). That’s right folks, we’re back in the hellscape that is Depp v Heard.

There are certain legal cases that transcend courtroom drama to become full-blown ‘where were you when’ cultural moments. Usually, these ‘trials of the century’ are criminal trials. Charles Manson in 1970; OJ Simpson in 1995. But, occasionally, a different calibre of case will grip the public consciousness – one that spins around sex and humiliation; one that strikes to the heart of how contemporary culture understands gender and power. In 1991, attorney Anita Hill testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her while she worked as an adviser to him. The Senate ultimately confirmed Thomas’ nomination, while Hill received death threats. Just a few years later, as the new millennium swam into view, another sex scandal rocked American society. This time, the main characters were President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Despite Clinton eventually admitting to having had an affair with Lewinsky, for many years the court of public opinion was clear in its verdict: Monica Lewinsky was either a whore, or a liar, or both.

In a sense, the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial, which took place from April 11 to June 1 2022, in Fairfax County, Virginia, combined elements of all of these previous ‘trials of the century’. As with Clinton and Lewinsky, a relationship between a younger woman and an older, more famous and more powerful man was under the microscope. In an echo of Hill v Thomas, during which lawmakers accused Anita Hill of suffering from a ‘delusional disorder’, a psychologist hired by Depp’s legal team ‘diagnosed’ Heard with borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. Like Charles Manson, the man at the centre of proceedings was also the figurehead of an obsessive fan club. And if that fan club grew to resemble a cult, in its slavish devotion to Depp against all reason, it’s largely because, like Simpson’s trial, the whole thing was televised.

However, one key difference between Depp v Heard and these other previous high-profile trials, is the influence of social media on public opinion. The trial was not only ‘televised’ but also TikToked, live-streamed and memed. The tagline for Cooper’s three-parter Depp v Heard even bills the trial as ‘the first trial by TikTok’.

The show opens with the Hollywood sign flickering into Amber Heard’s face on a red carpet. There’s old footage of Depp and Heard on the Hollywood walk of fame, at a dinner, and stepping off a boat in Venice glitch and distort into shots of Los Angeles freeways. News anchors read headlines about the couple, and about the trial. The screen glitches again, into a tree lined highway in Virginia. More clipped footage, more contextualising news clips. Then one anchor raises an important issue – a crucial factor in the trial proceedings that, a year on, often gets lost in the heady internet fog of misinformation, conspiracy, clout-chasing and PR campaigns. Why was the whole sorry spectacle staged in Virginia, when neither Heard nor Depp live or work there?

Well, the ‘official’ reason Depp was allowed to sue in the state is because the news outlet that ran Heard’s article, The Washington Post, “houses its printing press and online server in Fairfax County.” Yet, it’s also because, under Virginia law, the trial judge can decide whether to allow cameras in the courtroom.

Heard’s team tried to exclude the cameras from the trial. At a pre-trial hearing in February, attorney Elaine Bredehoft noted there was already a huge amount of media attention on the trial, as well as scrutiny from what she described as “fearful anti-Amber networks”. “What they’ll do is take anything that’s unfavourable,” Bredehoft said, “they’ll take out of context a statement, and play it over and over and over and over again.” Depp’s team, on the other hand, wanted the trial televised. “Mr. Depp believes in transparency,” his lawyer, Ben Chew declared. It should have been a sign of what was to come that the judge sided with Depp. “I don’t see any good cause not to do it,” Penney Azcarate, the chief judge of Fairfax County, announced. Others saw it differently. “Allowing this trial to be televised is the single worst decision I can think of in the context of intimate partner violence and sexual violence in recent history,” Michele Dauber, a professor at Stanford Law School said in May 2022. “It has ramifications way beyond this case.”

One of the ramifications of Judge Azcarate’s decision is that Depp v Heard is now on our screens. But, none of those quotes from various legal professionals are taken from the series. Indeed, there are no expert voices at all. There is no narration. No one who was involved in the trial is involved in this directly. There is no ‘broad view’, or ‘behind the scenes’, or ‘recontextualising with the benefit of hindsight’. This is a documentary in the loosest of senses. Early takes from the other side of the pond have been split – some critics have suggested it “casts the trial of the decade in a new light”, while others have deemed it “nothing more than a tactless win for pro-Johnny fans”. Perhaps this shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that the trial itself was so notoriously divisive. Personally, I’m inclined to agree with Audra Heinrichs of Jezebel, who described the docuseries as playing “like a highlight reel from hell”.

If Depp v Heard suggests anything, it’s that people consuming the trial were biased. Well, that’s hardly a scoop, and to my mind, it’s certainly not worth the full, three-hour docuseries treatment. The series doesn’t dig into the motivations of the anti-Amber content creators or their backgrounds. For example, one prolific poster and top Depp stan who is featured extensively but anonymously in Cooper’s three-parter is Andy Signore. Not long before the Depp v Heard trial began, Signore had been fired from Screen Junkies, the YouTube-focused company he founded, for a variety of sexual misconduct allegations. Having set up his channel Popcorned Planet after being dismissed, Signore now posts livestreams about ‘daily news’ and ‘pop culture justice.’ Mainly, he covers what he characterises as the injustice of the #MeToo movement. Signore more than doubled the following of his YouTube channel during Depp v Heard. He made more than 300 videos about the trial, ratcheting up millions of views as he built a new reputation as a crusader for ‘justice’ and, crucially, making money in the process.

All the content creators immortalised in this series, and many more besides, were making money – but this also isn’t discussed or made explicit in Depp v Heard. Cooper presumably believes this allows the content to speak for itself, and lets the viewer weigh up their own thoughts, becoming another member of the public jury. But the true effect is just blur – an endless stream of stuff. Just how much money were all these #JusticeForJohnny content creators making? Was there a coordinated and well funded online PR campaign for Depp throughout the trial, fuelled by bots, as many alleged post-trial? Depp v Heard has no answers, just more clips. He said, she said. No thoughts, just vibes.

I wrote about Depp v Heard last year as the trial was ongoing. Then, I felt like I had to maintain some semblance of neutrality in my discussion of the ‘facts’ of the case itself. The piece wasn’t about who was ‘right’, or who was telling ‘the truth’ – it was about how strange the spectacle of the case had become, and how dangerous a precedent it seemed to set, if trials about intimate partner violence could be spun into comic TikTok clips. I didn’t want to come down on one ‘side’. I wrote that “treating an ongoing defamation trial, featuring graphic and distressing testimony about physical violence, coercive control, and sexual assault, like […] Netflix’s latest true crime documentary series is, at best, distasteful and, at worst, actively dangerous.” Now, as Netflix’s latest documentary series opens up the can of worms again, the only true takeaway is how little we’ve learnt since then.

#amber heard #Depp v Heard #netflix

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dhaaruni · 3 years

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Dude you can't pay me to watch the Ryan Murphy show on the Clinton impeachment that Monica Lewinsky is consulting on let alone read the think pieces about it which will obviously be written by people in Brooklyn who regularly tweet about Biden canceling their student loans from like, Brown.

#Personal #and it'll be Hillary Clinton's fault of course #Monica Lewinsky is the star like I refuse #I also don't trust Monica's fan club that just somehow magically started stanning her in 2016 #or 2015 rather

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While The World Was Burning, by Gene

1. Sucks To Be You: This song has really grown on me. I liked it this first time I heard it but I absolutely love it now. I think he has a unique voice. 9/10

2. Switching Sides: This feels like a continuation of track 1. This could be an issue if all the songs have this same beat but we’re only 2 songs in so I won’t jump to conclusions. While the beat sounds the same, I love how the flow is totally different. This shows his versatility. Enjoying this. 8/10

3. Freedom Is Priceless: Different beat; nice! I love songs that keep the same flow from start to finish but I can see another listener getting bored with this track. I feel like they could have done more with the instrumental. The production feels a little flat. 7.5/10

4. Roses Remix: I’m a Future stan so hearing him speak to open the track already excites me. This is a fucking banger! SAINt’s voice is so different. Future is a great addition; his “you already know” adlib is my favorite part. This is the song you take your shirt off at the club for. 9.5/10

5. Monica Lewinsky, Election Year: First of all, poor Monica Lewinsky. She made a mistake as a young lady over 20 years ago and still has to deal with pop culture references that use her name as a synonym for certain sexual acts. The song, on the other hand, is dope. DaBaby killed his part. So far, besides the first 2 songs having similar beats, every song sounds totally different. This is a versatility masterclass so far and I’m truly enjoying it. 9/10

6. High School Reunion, Prom: Shockingly underwhelming! If you showed me the tracklist prior to me listening asked me to rank the songs solely off expectations, this would be in my top 3. It’s my least favorite so far. Uzi rarely misses. This is a letdown. 6.5/10

7. Pray 4 Me: Um...okay so I’m going to remove my Kanye bias and review this song like someone who’s not completely obsessed with Mr. West. Firstly, featuring born-again Kanye on a song called ‘Pray 4 Me’ is too predictable. The song itself is fine; nothing special. I don’t think Kanye adds much to this. I’m not the biggest fan of introspective Kanye. 7/10

8. Smack DVD: Now we’re fucking talking! This is how you use a fucking Kanye Motherfucking West feature. Let’s goooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! I need to speed on the highway to this. LET’S GOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! “Man you talking about the president, I call the number up. Man you talking about Elon, I call the number up. Man you talking about Kim K, you know you effing up.” Talk your shit Ye! I missed this Kanye so much. He’s still alive. I’m so happy. 10/10

9. Time For Demons: Wow, very brave of SAINt to follow a song featuring Pastor West with a song called ‘Time For Demons.’ Okay I’m calling it now. This guy is going to be BIG!!! This is one of the most impressive albums I’ve heard from a new artist. I’m just more impressed by how different every song sounds and how he sounds like no one else out right now. This guy is really fucking good, man. I’m blown away. 9.5/10

10. Gorgeous: Remember my track 3 review? This is what I meant when I said I love songs that use one flow from start to finish. This isn’t boring because the beat is lively. I love “overspeeding on the highway” music. This is perfect for that. 9/10

11. Quarantine Wifey: Opening the song with a Blac Youngsta clip is already a homerun. “Bitch I’m trying to be the next Kanye.” Let’s go SAINt!!! Is this the best song ever or what?!? I love this guy. I love him. I’m stanning. This is the best album I’ve heard this year. This is an instant classic. The Italian couple at the end are so cute; “very fan!” I love everything about this song. 10/10

12. Ransom: I can’t do this. I can’t. I love this so much. This is perfection. This is an 11/10. This is the best song I’ve ever heard. I want to hear this masterpiece every single day. 6LACK & Kehlani sound beautiful together. Kehlani should do back vocals on every song; angelic voice. 10/10

13. Back On The Ledge: The last 5 songs were out of this world. This bring us back to earth. Not bad but we were on a crazy run that eventually had to slow down. This is a nice way to slow down because it’s a good standalone song. 8/10

14. Roses - Imanbek Remix: This is the first SAINt JHN song I ever heard. Only fitting that it’s the last song on this amazing album. It’s his biggest song today, but I know this won’t be his biggest song when he’s done. I’m very excited to follow his career. He’s going to be very big! I’m happy this review is documented and dated. 9.5/10

While The World Was Burning (album): 9/10

#saint jhn #while the world was burning #roses #imanbek

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The public swallowed a story of the wayward president’s son who cleaned up his act to take his place in the White House. Kitty Kelley exposes what really lurks in George W Bush’s past

On November 6, 1997, the exclusive club of America’s current and former presidents and first ladies gathered at a college campus in Texas for a celebration. President and Mrs Clinton arrived on Air Force One to join President and Mrs Ford, President and Mrs Carter, Nancy Reagan and Lady Bird Johnson.

They were there to honour President George Bush, who had raised $83m to build his presidential library at Texas A&M University.

His eldest son, George W Bush, governor of Texas, welcomed the 20,000 guests. With a few words, W smashed the bonhomie of the occasion: “I’m here to praise my father as a man who entered the political arena and left with his integrity intact . . . A war hero, a loving husband . . . and a president who brought dignity and character and honour to the White House.”

Spoken at the height of Clinton’s personal scandal in front of a predominantly Republican crowd, the assault on the current president’s integrity was not lost on anyone.

The Bush family had never accepted Clinton as a worthy successor, and they delighted in his unfolding scandal. They e-mailed one another ribald jokes about Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones’s sexual harassment suit against Clinton.

When it was reported that Jones claimed she could identify a “distinguishing characteristic” of Clinton’s anatomy, George Sr did not rest until he discovered what she was talking about. He then e-mailed his sons and friends: “His Johnson curves to the left.”

The family was looking towards its restoration to power through the presidential candidacy of George W. His mother, Barbara Bush, referred to him as “the Chosen One”. There was a problem, however. After eight years of Clinton, the American public “want to elect a statue”, as Oklahoma’s Republican governor Frank Keating put it. “They want a hero, an unblemished and untarnished guy in the White House.”

Karl Rove, the political adviser with the task of shaping W’s image, knew he had to present his candidate as the anti-Clinton: fresh (no drugs, no alcoholism), religious (acceptable to evangelicals) and faithful to his wife (majority of voters: women).

Fanning out across the country, Rove and the Bush team began to tidy up the governor’s past. Rove wanted no potentially devastating revelations to emerge that might portray W and Laura, his wife, as anything but an ideal and idealised couple. But to present W as pure and pristine was hypocritical and untrue.

George W Bush wasn’t Bill Clinton, certainly not in terms of sexual excess. But Clinton is not the standard to which he should be held. He must be compared with his own declarations on morality and his own carefully crafted public image — the image that the entire Bush family has cultivated for so long.

THE first hurdle facing the tidy-up team was to deal with W’s past drug use. As governor of Texas, he took a hard line on drugs. He supported increased penalties for possession and signed legislation mandating jail time for people caught with less than a single gram of cocaine.

Yet, as the claims of Sharon Bush, his sister-in-law, show, he could have been subject to jail time himself had he been caught “doing coke” with his brother Marvin at Camp David during his father’s presidency.

In the midst of an unfriendly divorce from Neil, another of the Bush brothers, Sharon told me last year: “He and Marvin did coke at Camp David when their father was president and not just once, either.”

As governor, George W had been very careful not to lie about doing illegal drugs himself, because he knew there were too many people who could testify to the truth. “When I was young and irresponsible,” he would say, “I was young and irresponsible.”

So what was his drugs record? When they were young, both he and Laura used to go down to the island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands where they attended and enjoyed heavy pot-smoking parties. Smoking pot was hardly a sin but it did not mesh with the strait-laced image the Bushes were now presenting to the voters.

Then there were the allegations about cocaine. When W was at Yale in the mid-1960s, it was the most popular drug on campus. One contemporary, who insists on remaining anonymous, admitted years later to selling cocaine to W at the university.

Another man who was at Yale’s graduate school recalled “doing coke” with George, but he would not allow his recollections to be used on the record. This was not simply through fear of retribution. He said he did not feel right about “blowing George’s cover because I was doing the same thing”. A confirmed Democrat, he also said that although he could not stand George’s Republican politics, he liked him as a person.

Alcohol, the more familiar thread in W’s life story, started at Andover, the exclusive school W attended.

Andover stressed athletics as part of its regimen. Unable to live up to his father’s legacy as one of Andover’s most outstanding athletes, George W played his own kind of sports and won a reputation as a prankster.

“He loved stickball, which is baseball played with a broomstick and a tennis ball and funny hats,” recalled his contemporary, J Milburn “Kim” Jessup. “George made himself the high commissioner of stickball, which was a joke job.”

Alcohol was absolutely forbidden on or off campus, but the high commissioner of stickball figured out a way to beat the system. He designed an official stickball membership card that seemed to carry the imprimatur of Andover. He distributed the cards as fake IDs.

“People took the cards and started slipping off campus to go to Boston so they could get drunk,” said Jessup.

When W moved on to Yale at 18, with the Vietnam war at its height, he felt alienated on the liberal campus because of his father’s conservative politics and his own Texan childhood.

“George was definitely not on the popular side of the war issue, but he stood his ground,” said Robert Dieter, his Yale roommate. “Saying someone was conservative back then almost had a moral sting. I remember him coming back to the room and telling me that someone had been in his face about his father’s position. There was a certain arrogance that the left conveyed back then. It was hurtful.”

As a result, George spent most of his time carousing at the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity house or “the drinking jock house”, as it was known. Some classmates remember him as a “hard-drinking good-time guy” and “a jock sniffer” who “loved to raise hell”.

Ken White, a DKE contemporary, told me: “My wife remembers him roaring drunk one night at a DKE party without a date doing the Alligator; that was some sort of dance back then when you fell to the floor on all fours and started rolling around.”

In the spring of 1972, after graduating from Yale and while serving part-time in the Texas Air National Guard, George W embarked on what he would later describe as his “nomadic years”. Seeing him adrift, his father got him a job with the Republican campaign in a Senate race in Alabama.

Those who worked with George at that time remember him as an affable social drinker who acted much younger than his 26 years. They recall that he liked to drink beer and Jim Beam whiskey at the Cloverdale Grill in Birmingham, Alabama. They also say he liked to sneak out the back for a joint of marijuana or into the bathroom for a line of cocaine.

According to their recollections, he tended to show up for work “around noon”, prop his cowboy boots on a desk and start bragging about how much he had drunk the night before.

Spending Christmas in Washington with his parents, W went out drinking with 16-year-old Marvin. Driving home, he smashed into several dustbins. He swaggered into the house with the bravado of someone who had drunk too much, and there was his father, sober and unsmiling.

“You want to go mano a mano right here?” George junior challenged.

Big George called John White, a former footballer with the Houston Oilers. Bush wanted his son to perform community service with a mentoring programme for inner-city youth started by White and his teammate Ernie “Big Cat” Ladd.

Young George reported for work in January 1973 at a warehouse in a tough district where kids up to 17 years of age were offered sports, crafts, field trips, free snacks, rap sessions, tutoring for those who had been expelled, and big-name mentors from the athletic, entertainment, business, and political worlds.

Ladd recalled young George as “a super, super guy . . . If he was a stinker, I’d say he was a stinker. But everybody loved him so much. He had a way with people . . . They didn’t want him to leave.”

W stayed only seven months before he was accepted at Harvard Business School — a more hostile environment. It was the height of Watergate and his father was running the Republican National Committee for Richard Nixon, who was considered the Antichrist at Harvard. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the town that surrounded the college, only 400 people were registered Republicans.

“I remember seeing Georgie at the Harvard Business School,” said Torbert Macdonald, an old classmate from Andover, “but he looked so lost and forlorn I didn’t have the heart to say hello.”

Others were less sympathetic. “I can still see him in his cowboy boots and leather flight jacket walking into macroeconomics,” recalled a classmate. “He sat in the back of the class, chewing tobacco and spitting it into a dirty paper cup . . . He was one red-assed Texan who made sure he was in your Yankee face and up your New England nose.”

Most of his contemporaries at the business school headed for Wall Street after graduation but W moved back to Midland, his boyhood home town in Texas, trying to become an oilman. He lived above a garage in an apartment that was piled high with dirty clothes that his friends’ wives periodically washed. Most of his nights were spent in bars, drinking with buddies in the oil business.

In July 1977, soon after his 31st birthday, friends introduced him to his polar opposite, Laura Welch. “We were the only two people among our friends who had not yet married,” she later joked.

Nobody expected the introduction to ignite, but George and Laura were married within three months at the First United Methodist Church in Midland.

Laura, the only child of a Midland builder, is remembered by some former students at Southern Methodist University in Dallas for not being as conservative as most. She had smoked marijuana and backpacked through Europe after graduation. A Democrat, she had also supported the anti-war candidate, Senator Eugene McCarthy, for the presidency in 1968.

In the early years of their marriage Laura joined her husband in his revels. “George and Laura ran in a much faster and fancier crowd than we did — their friends were all hard-drinking and drugging. That was part of the oil business scene then,” said Robert Whitt, a Midland lawyer.

But after a hard struggle to conceive and a fragile pregnancy with twins, Laura pulled back from the hellraising while he charged on, leaving her behind.

“I suppose there were strains in her marriage, just because he’s so difficult and high-energy and . . . she isn’t, but she never talked about it . . . Just read paperbacks and smoked cigarettes,” said Sharon Bush.

The couple kept their distance from the Bush family for several years in the 1980s, staying in Midland and even skipping the big surprise party that George Sr — by then vice-president of the United States — threw for his wife on their 41st wedding anniversary. “It’s a long way,” Barbara said, “and too expensive.” But family members confirmed that she had stopped speaking to her son, whose drunken outbursts had become a source of unending embarrassment to his wife and parents. The last eruption at a family gathering had been a tactless crack to the wife of one of his parents’ friends at her 50th birthday party: “So, what’s sex like after 50, anyway?”

He was 40 by the time he gave up tobacco, alcohol and drugs in 1986 and became a born-again Christian. In his memoir, A Charge to Keep, W credited his family’s good friend, the Reverend Billy Graham, with planting “a mustard seed in my soul”. He did not mention that he actually came to Jesus in a coffee house conversion with a much more flamboyant evangelist, Arthur Blessitt, who was known among born-agains as the man who had wheeled a 96lb cross of Jesus into 60 countries on six continents, winning a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

W figured, perhaps, that Graham was more palatable to churchgoing voters than Blessitt, who came to Midland after the bottom dropped out of the oil boom and fortunes crashed overnight. In a desperate effort to rescue lives and restore morale, some church elders invited the evangelist to stage a revival in the town. Loudspeakers exhorted the populace “to experience the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the holy spirit”.

George, who had already begun attending a men’s Bible class, asked a friend to arrange a meeting at a hotel coffee shop. As Blessitt recalled, George began with a few pleasantries, and then plunged in: “I want to talk to you about how to know Jesus Christ and how to follow Him.”

“I was quite shocked at his direct and sincere approach,” said Blessitt. “I slowly leaned forward and lifted the Bible that was in my hand and asked him about his relationship with the Lord: ‘If you died this moment do you have the assurance you would go to heaven?’” “No.”

“Then let me explain to you how you can have that assurance and know for sure that you are saved.”

“I’d like that.”

The evangelist read from the Book of Romans. He quoted Mark, John and Luke to the vice-president’s son, who held hands, repented his sins, and proclaimed Jesus Christ as his saviour.

Conversion and abstinence did not affect W’s machismo, however. He still swaggered and cursed constantly. When a friend accused him of taking the Lord’s name in vain, George exploded: “That’s bullshit. Total bullshit.”

Whether talking to reporters, congressmen, or heads of state, George made no effort to curb his trash mouth. Israel’s prime minister Ariel Sharon was taken aback to hear, “I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.”

Those closest to George agreed that the key to his new persona lay in his steely discipline. His sister Doro described him as a fat boy who deprived himself to stay thin. His mother depicted a drinker who denied himself to stay dry. Both acknowledged that the effort to control these appetites was monumental.

In order to maintain his rigid discipline, George imposed an inflexible order on his life. Like any addict in recovery, he needed a regular schedule, rising early and retiring early. He prayed daily from his One-Year Bible, which was divided into 365 readings, each from the New Testament, the Old Testament, Psalms and Proverbs.

Edgy and impatient, he exercised at least one hour, sometimes two hours, a day. With martinet punctuality, he started and ended meetings exactly on time. The routine became the core of his developing political career, first as governor of Texas and then as president.

He refused to read memos longer than two pages. He thrived on making quick decisions. His religiosity allowed him to live in a black-and-white world of absolutes with no bedevilling in-betweens. His decisiveness sprang from his need to control and to establish order amid chaos. Once he made a decision, he rarely looked back.

Despite his quick temper, he was capable of nice gestures, as he showed on the presidential trail. Ruth Gilson, an estate agent, recalled a touching moment during a $1,000-a-head fundraiser in a Washington hotel in 1999.

She was one of very few women to attend the event. “All the men looked to be lobbyists in expensive suits with huge stomachs. The room filled up fast and we were all squished together. I was at the front of the rope line. A little old lady about 85 years old crept in beside me. She said she needed to see the governor. ‘I just have to talk to him,’ she said.”

The elderly woman was frail and wearing clothes that looked worn and dated. “She looked like a church lady from the 1950s.”

George W arrived and started working the crowd. The old lady stepped forward and asked if she could say something.

He reached out and took her hand. She whispered in his ear to please do something about the price of prescription drugs for the elderly.

He nodded. “I’ll try,” he said. Then he stepped back to look at her. “Did you pay $1,000 to come here?” “Yes, sir, I did.”

“Well, I want you to get your money back.” He turned to the man with him. “Get her name and address and see that she gets a cheque for $1,000.”

The little old lady shook her head. “No, I want you to have it all, Mr Bush. I want you to win.”

“Well,” said George. “I’ll tell you what. I’ll keep $100 and you keep $900 and we’ll both win. That’s what we’ll do.”

She smiled gratefully.

“It was such a sweet gesture on his part,” recalled Gilson. “Others might have seen it as patronising, but I didn’t. In a crowd of fat-cat lobbyists that little woman in her tattered coat looked like someone’s poor grandmother, and he responded sensitively.”

Extracted from The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty by Kitty Kelley.

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Why I hate Beyoncé

Back in 2015, Beyoncé released her long-awaited sixth studio album, ‘Lemonade’ , much to the delight of her ever-growing global following. Along with the release of her ‘sportswear’ brand, Ivy Park, the singer also released a 60-minute film, a series of ‘poetic visuals’ in which the singer attempts to provoke a variety of ideas such as race, parenthood and gender.

Obviously it went huge, obviously. And that’s great for her. That’s all very well and good, and I bow down to her success. If I had achieved the same amount as she has by the age of 34 then I like to think that people would bow down to me too, but there’s just something about the proclaimed ‘Queen B’ that I just don’t get. I’m even going to go as far and say that I think she’s incredibly overrated and we all give her far too much credit than she deserves.

I begin my somewhat controversial argument by saying that in no way is she an artist. She doesn’t write her own lyrics, produce her own music or I can imagine choreograph her own dance routines. She’s a performer, and merely a blank canvas for other, somewhat more creative people to work with. She’s certainly not talentless and if I could belt out a tune like her in the shower then I probably wouldn’t be sitting here in my house, but rather than simply embrace her vocals like Adele would, she tries too hard to be ‘edgy’, especially in her new Lemonade reincarnation. I’ll admit that she pulls it together well, but she’s nothing more than a hugely successful product of other peoples’ hard work, not the second coming of Christ.

Some of her older music is reasonably catchy and I think you’d be mad to not whip out your best booty shaking when Crazy in Love comes on in the club at 2am. But none of her singles evoke the same kind of emotions as other female singers out there. Most of her memorable song are duets or collaborations with another artist, often featuring her own (cheating) husband. If you don’t associate yourself as being part of the ‘Beyhive’ fan base, then I dare you to name one of her singles from the past few years that has had as big an impact as Single Ladies.

And that’s the other thing. Her music lacks originality, a substance, using the same mindless hip-hop beats as most chart music. I’d challenge you to name one of her performances where she isn’t wearing a leotard and a blonde weave, and her hair isn’t being blown seductively by a giant wind machine that’s blocking some poor member of the Beyhive’s view.

The one thing that gets me however is how can anyone call her a female role model? She claims she’s a feminist pioneer, yet the majority of her songs conform quite heavily to gender stereotypes. The lyrics to Partition for example say “I just wanna be the girl you like/The kind of girl you like”. Her music also contains several sexual and vulgar themes, singing about fucking her husband and taking him out if he ‘sexes good’, whilst quite happily singing lyrics such as “He popped all my buttons and he ripped my blouse/ He Monica Lewinsky-ed all on my gown/ Oh Daddy, Daddy, he didn’t bring the towel/ Oh baby, baby, we better slow it down”. Does she merely embrace the issues of gender and race as marketing tools? She knows what sells and how to sell it, but surely if you want to empower women, then you don’t do the complete opposite and degrade them. Isn’t there a massive dichotomy in standing in front of a huge neon feminist sign, but embracing the opposite of feminism?

I don’t know, maybe I’m biased because I don’t think there’s ever been a female singer as great as Christina or Celine and firmly believe that only Blair Waldorf can be Queen B, but there’s just something about Beyoncé that I will simply never understand. I’ll never dismiss her talent, of course she can sing, but behind the peroxide, the Super Bowl performances and endless advertising campaigns, there’s nothing more than a product of someone else’s creativity and a good PR team.

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Noticias de series de la semana: Las noticias de las vacaciones

Renovaciones

AMC ha renovado NOS4A2 por una segunda temporada

AMC ha renovado Fear The Walking Dead por una sexta temporada

MTV ha renovado The Hills: New Beginnings por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) por una segunda temporada

HBO ha renovado Los Espookys por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado Black Summer por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado 13 Reasons Why por una cuarta y última temporada

Pop ha renovado Flack por una segunda temporada

TNT ha renovado Animal Kingdom por una quinta temporada

TV Land ha renovado Younger por una séptima temporada

Netflix ha renovado Big Mouth por una cuarta, quinta y sexta temporada

Starz ha renovado The Girlfriend Experience por una tercera temporada

Hulu ha renovado The Handmaid's Tale por una cuarta temporada

Amazon ha renovado The Expanse por una quinta temporada

Amazon ha renovado Carnival Row por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado Trinkets por una segunda y última temporada

Showtime ha renovado City on a Hill por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado Family Business por una segunda temporada

FX ha renovado Atlanta por una cuarta temporada

FX ha renovado Snowfall por una cuarta temporada

DC Universe ha renovado Doom Patrol por una segunda temporada

La tercera temporada de The Orville se emitirá en Hulu y no en FOX

Netflix ha renovado Mr. Iglesias por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones

CBS ha cancelado The Code tras su primera temporada

Netflix ha cancelado Designated Survivor tras su tercera temporada

Netflix ha cancelado Tuca & Bertie tras su primera temporada

FX ha cancelado Baskets tras su cuarta temporada

La undécima temporada de Will & Grace (NBC) será la última

Amazon ha cancelado The Romanoffs tras su primera temporada

Amazon ha cancelado Patriot tras su segunda temporada

Amazon ha cancelado Too Old to Die Young tras su primera temporada

Amazon ha cancelado Forever tras su primera temporada

Amazon ha cancelado Lore tras su segunda temporada

La séptima temporada de The 100 (The CW) será la última

Netflix ha cancelado The OA tras su segunda temporada

Noticias cortas

Afton Williamson (Talia Bishop) no estará en la segunda temporada de The Rookie. Ha abandonado al no recibir respuesta a sus quejas sobre el acoso sexual por parte del actor Demetrius Grosse (Kevin Wolfe) y el bullying, la discriminación racial y la agresión sexual de Sally Nicole Ciganovich, jefa del departamento de peluquería.

Es probable que la cuarta temporada de Victoria no llegue hasta 2021, ya que Jenna Coleman busca trabajar en otros proyectos antes de ese, aunque cadena y productora quieren renovar.

Habrá un crossover entre Runaways y Cloak and Dagger en la próxima temporada.

La quinta y última temporada de Lucifer tendrá dieciséis episodios.

Sara Ramirez (Kat Sandoval) no volverá como regular a la sexta y última temporada de Madam Secretary.

Colton Haynes (Roy) no volverá como regular a la octava y última temporada de Arrow.

Netflix ha fichado a D.B. Weiss y David Benioff, creadores de Game of Thrones, por 200 millones de dólares. Confederate, su serie de HBO, finalmente no llegará a nuestras pantallas.

La segunda temporada de A Million Little Things tendrá diecinueve episodios.

Julio Macias (Spooky) será regular en la tercera temporada de On My Block. La tercera temporada ha comenzado su producción tras las subidas salariales que buscaban sus protagonistas.

Se empieza a hablar sobre un revival de Happy Endings (2011-2013).

ABC prepara un spin-off de Fresh Off the Boat con un reparto nuevo.

Showtime ha decidido no seguir adelante con el remake de The Wrong Mans.

Forrie J. Smith (Lloyd) será regular en la tercera temporada de Yellowstone.

Good Trouble tendrá un especial de Navidad de dos horas.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Shannen Doherty (BH90210, Charmed) participará como invitada en el primer episodio de la cuarta temporada de Riverdale, que servirá como homenaje a Luke Perry tras su fallecimiento. Kerr Smith (Dawson's Creek, Charmed) y Sam Witwer (Supergirl, Being Human) serán recurrentes como Mr. Honey, el nuevo director del instituto; y Mr. Chipping, nuevo profesor de Jughead.

Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) será Hedy Lamarr, actriz austriaca que inventó el espectro ensanchado (base del Wi-Fi), en una limited series de Showtime aún sin título escrita por Sarah Treem (The Affair, House of Cards) y producida por Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid's Tale, Fargo).

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, True Detective) participará como invitado en la segunda temporada de Ramy.

Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures, Moonlight) protagonizará la segunda temporada de Homecoming. Interpretará a una mujer que se despierta en una canoa sin saber quién es ni cómo llegó allí.

Chris Messina (Sharp Objects, The Mindy Project) protagonizará la tercera temporada de The Sinner junto a Matt Bomer.

Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Peaky Blinders) y Daniel Dae Kim (Lost, Hawaii Five-0) se unen a la segunda temporada de Flack. Serán Duncan, alguien con una complicada relación con Caroline (Sophie Okonedo); y Scott, un titán de la tecnología.

Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart, What We Do in the Shadows), Sarah Paulson (American Crime Story, American Horror Story) y Annaleigh Ashford (Masters of Sex, American Crime Story) serán Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp y Paula Jones en la tercera temporada de American Crime Story, titulada Impeachment. Escrita por Sarah Burgess, estará basada en el libro de Jeffrey Toobin (1999). Producida por Lewinsky.

Nico Tortorella (Younger, The Following) protagonizará el segundo spin-off de The Walking Dead.

Michael Stuhlbarg (Boardwalk Empire, Call Me by Your Name) y Sofia Black-D'Elia (The Mick, The Night Of) se unen a Your Honor. Serán Tommy, el líder de una familia de criminales; y Frannie, la novia de Adam (Hunter Doohan).

Auli'i Cravalho (Moana, Rise), Queen Latifah (Chicago, Star) y Shaggy serán Ariel, Ursula y Sebastian en The Little Mermaid Live!

Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom, Life in Pieces) sustituye a David Fierro en el papel del alcalde de Los Angeles en Tommy.

Mary J. Blige (The Umbrella Academy, Mudbound) protagonizará Power Book II: Ghost, el spin-off de Power. No se conocen más detalles de su personaje.

Eric Roberts (Runaway Train, The Dark Knight) y Mae Whitman (Good Girls, Parenthood) participarán como invitados en la segunda temporada de Kidding. Serán Bernard Paley, un ejecutivo de Amazon; y Chloe, empleada de un dispensario de marihuana medicinal y fan de Puppet Time.

Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes, Covert Affairs) será recurrente en la sexta temporada de The Flash como el doctor Ramsey Rosso, también conocido como el villano Bloodwork.

Ali Larter (Heroes, Legends) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de The Rookie. Harold Perrineau (Lost, Claws) participará en varios episodios como invitado.

Lesley Manville (Mum, Harlots) será Jennifer Charles, esposa de Gideon (Adrian Edmonson), en la segunda temporada de Save Me.

Denise Richards (Wild Things, Starship Troopers) interpretará a una versión irreal de sí misma en BH90210.

Genevieve Angelson (Good Girls Revolt, Flack) será la doctora Eve Watson en la segunda temporada de Titans.

Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock) y Anthony Alabi (Raven's Home, Family Reunion) serán recurrentes en la décima temporada de Shameless como una corrupta agente de la condicional de Ian (Cameron Monaghan) y un ejemplo a seguir por Liam (Brenden Sims).

Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, American Woman) y Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains, Prison Break) serán Elizabeth, la madre de Kristy; y Watson, un interés amoroso de Elizabeth; en The Baby-Sitters Club.

Daniella Alonso (The Night Shift, Revolution) sustituye a Ana Brenda Contreras en el papel de Cristal en la tercera temporada de Dynasty.

Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me, The Good Wife) sustituye a David Denman en Filthy Rich.

Meagan Rath (Being Human, Hawaii Five-0), Staz Nair (Game of Thrones, Humans) y Julie Gonzalo (Dallas, Veronica Mars) se unen a la quinta temporada de Supergirl. Serán una Brainiac 5; William Dey, un reportero cínico; y Acrata, nueva jefa de CatCo.

Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll, Chicago Fire) se une como regular a la octava temporada de Arrow. Será John Diggle Jr.

Nick Robinson (Love Simon, Melissa & Joey) protagonizará A Teacher (limited series de diez episodios de FX) junto a Kate Mara. Serán un alumno y una profesora que mantienen una relación.

JoAnna Garcia Swisher (Once Upon a Time, Kevin (Probably) Saves The World) sustituye a Monica Potter como protagonista de Sweet Magnolias. Será Maddie Townsend.

Alexis Denisof (Angel, How I Met Your Mother) se une como recurrente a la segunda temporada de Legacies. Será Vardemus, un hechicero británico.

Burt Ward (Batman) volverá a interpretar a Robin en el crossover del Arrowverse.

David Ajala (Falling Water, Supergirl) se une a la tercera temporada de Star Trek: Discovery. Su personaje se llama Cleveland Booker.

Tom Hughes (Victoria, Paula) será Kit Marlowe, viejo amigo de Matthew (Matthew Goode) y una versión demoníaca del poeta, en la segunda temporada de A Discovery of Witches.

Holly Curran (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Z: The Beginning of Everything), Colby Minifie (The Boys, Jessica Jones), Peter Jacobson (Heroes, The Americans) y Colby Hollman se unen a la sexta temporada de Fear The Walking Dead.

Markella Kavenagh (The Cry, Picnic at Hanging Rock) es el primer fichaje de The Lord of the Rings. Su personaje se llama Tyra.

Kali Hawk (New Girl, Black Jesus) se une como regular a la segunda temporada de Schooled. Será Wilma, profesora de ciencias.

Casimere Jollette (Code Black, Dirty John) y Daniela Norman (Cats) serán Bette y June en Tiny Pretty Things. Brennan Clost (The Next Step, Spiral), Michael Hsu Rosen (Jessica Jones), Damon J. Gillespie (Rise, The Society), Bayardo De Murguia (Shooter), Jess Salgueiro (The Boys), Barton Cowperthwaite (Fosse/Verdon), Tory Trowbridge (The Cher Show), Kylie Jefferson y Lauren Holly (Designated Survivor, Dumb and Dumber) serán Shane, Nabil, Caleb, Ramon, Isabel, Oren, Delia, Neveah y Monique.

Simone Brown (The Night Manager), Eve Hewson (The Knick), Tom Bateman (Vanity Fair) y Robert Aramayo (Game of Thrones) protagonizarán Behind Her Eyes.

Talitha Bateman (Love Simon, Annabelle: Creation), Ato Essandoh (Altered Carbon, Blue Bloods), Mark Ivanir (Homeland, Barry), Ray Panthaki (Gangs of London, Marcella) y Vivian Wu acompañarán a Hilary Swank y Josh Charles en Away.

Pósters

Nuevas series

Showtime encarga Rust, sobre un policía que debe proteger al hijo de la mujer que ama cuando le acusan de asesinato. Protagonizada y producida por Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom, The Looming Tower), escrita por Dan Futterman (The Looming Tower, Gracepoint) y basada en el libro de Philipp Meyer (2009). USA Network la canceló antes de empezar la producción, bajo el título de American Rust, por problemas para encontrar a un protagonista.

Netflix encarga Entergalactic, serie de animación que sigue a un joven en su viaje para encontrar el amor. Escrita, producida y protagonizada por el rapero Kid Cudi (Westworld). Escrita también por Ian Edelman (How To Make It In America) y producida por Kenya Barris (Black-ish).

Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) escribirá y producirá una nueva versión de The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy para Hulu.

BBC One encarga cuatro episodios de Best Interests. En ella, los médicos creen que es mejor permitir morir a Marnie, debido a su enfermedad, pero sus padres no están de acuerdo y toman acciones legales. Escrita y producida por Jack Thorne (National Treasure, This Is England).

Busca cadena Dr. Death, limited series basada en el podcast que cuenta la historia real de Christopher Duntsch, neurocirujano de Dallas que asesinaba a sus pacientes. Protagonizada por Jamie Dornan (The Fall, Once Upon a Time), Alec Baldwin (30 Rock, The Looming Tower) y Christian Slater (Mr. Robot, Heathers).

Starz ha encargado ocho episodios de Dangerous Liaisons, precuela de la novela de Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782) que contará desde la perspectiva de Isabelle de Merteuil cómo conoce al vizconde de Valmont. Escrita por Harriet Warner (The Alienist, Call the Midwife).

HBO Max encarga ocho episodios de Circe, adaptación de la novela de Madeline Miller (2018) inspirada en la diosa griega con una visión moderna y feminista. Escrita por Rick Jaffa y Amanda Silver, creadores de Rise of the Planet of the Apes o Jurassic World.

FX encarga The Old Man, basada en la novela de Thomas Perry (2017). Protagonizada y producida por Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, Hell or High Water), se centra en un fugitivo que se esconde de la CIA desde hace décadas pero que deberá reconciliarse con su pasado si quiere sobrevivir. Escrita y producida por Jonathan E. Steinberg (Black Sails, Jericho) y Robert Levine (Black Sails).

Lifetime ha encargado College Admissions Scandal, una película sobre dos madres adineradas que comparten una obsesión por conseguir que sus hijos entren en las mejores universidades.

Amazon España encarga El Cid, protagonizada por Jaime Lorente (Elite, La casa de papel). Creada por José Velasco y dirigida por Adolfo Martínez. Música original de Gustavo Santaolalla.

Amazon España encarga Un asunto privado, drama creado por Ramón Campos, Teresa Fernández-Valdés y Gema R. Neira y ambientado en los años 40 en el que una mujer de la alta sociedad se propone cazar a un asesino de prostitutas con la ayuda de su mayordomo.

Amazon España encarga La templanza, basada en la novela de María Dueñas (2015). Protagonizada por Leonor Watling (Mi vida sin mí, Hable con ella) y Rafael Novoa (Sala de urgencias, El señor de los cielos) y escrita por Susana López Rubio (El tiempo entre costuras, Presunto culpable).

Movistar+ ha encargado seis episodios de El tesoro del Cisne Negro, adaptación de la novela gráfica de Paco Roca sobre la lucha de España y Estados Unidos por el tesoro hundido junto al barco Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes en 1786. Creada por Roca, Guillermo Corral y Alejandro Amenábar (Los otros, Mar adentro).

Fechas

The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk se estrenó en BBC Two el pasado 4 de agosto

This Way Up se estrenó en Channel 4 el pasado 8 de agosto

ITV estrena Deep Water el 14 de agosto

Frontera verde llega a Netflix el 16 de agosto

La segunda temporada de Stath Lets Flats se estrena en Channel 4 el 19 de agosto

Sky One estrena Brassic el 22 de agosto

La tercera temporada de 13 Reasons Why se estrena el 23 de agosto

La quinta temporada de Peaky Blinders se estrena en BBC One el 25 de agosto

La quinta temporada de Ballers se estrena en HBO el 25 de agosto

La segunda temporada de Elite llega a Netflix el 6 de septiembre

La segunda temporada de Titans se estrena en DC Universe el 6 de septiembre

La tercera temporada de Room 104 se estrena en HBO el 13 de septiembre

Undone llega a Amazon el 13 de septiembre

Criminal llega a Netflix el 20 de septiembre

El episodio final de Transparent se estrena en Amazon el 27 de septiembre

Godfather of Harlem se estrena en Epix el 29 de septiembre

La tercera temporada de Get Shorty se estrena en Epix el 6 de octubre

Modern Love llega a Amazon el 18 de octubre

La décima temporada de Shameless se estrena en Showtime el 3 de noviembre

La segunda temporada de Kidding se estrena en Showtime el 3 de noviembre

Dollface se estrena en Hulu el 15 de noviembre

La 4ª y última temporada de The Man in the High Castle llega a Amazon el 15 de noviembre

La séptima temporada de Ray Donovan se estrena en Showtime el 17 de noviembre

Reprisal llega a Hulu el 6 de diciembre

The L Word: Generation Q se estrena en Showtime el 8 de diciembre

Work in Progress se estrena en Showtime el 8 de diciembre

La cuarta temporada de The Expanse llega a Amazon el 13 de diciembre

La tercera temporada de Runaways llega a Hulu el 13 de diciembre

La octava y última temporada de Homeland se estrena en Showtime el 9 de febrero de 2020

La tercera temporada de American Crime Story se estrena el 27 de septiembre de 2020

Tráilers y promos

American Horror Story: 1984

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Snowpiercer

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Why Women Kill

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Jack Ryan - Temporada 2

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Preacher - Temporada 4 y última

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Mindhunter - Temporada 2

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Ballers - Temporada 5

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Hit & Run Commentary #106

Technically, referring to some of these countries as excrement holes would be an actual improvement as to their actual conditions.

Regarding the tolerancemongers and diversity fanatics outraged that President Trump would invoke blunt earthy language to accurately describe a number of countries. Would these outraged voices continue to reside in neighborhoods with noticeable influxes of migrants from these particular regions continuing to adhere to the second rate standards of conduct sparking the decline of these respective homelands in the first place? Would those placing multiculturalist dogma over survival either vacation in or retire to these particular countries?

In Venezuela, it is claimed that the starving are feeding upon flamingos and anteaters in an attempt to satiate gnawing hunger. But the true outrage would apparently be to insinuate that this particular country is anything less than a first rate place in which to live or vacation.

For articulating earthy language to accurately describe the countries for which some of the most questionable immigrants originate, Donald Trump has been accused of taking the country to a new low. Shouldn’t the lowest point be viewed as the moment when those that govern this nation decided not to enforce immigration law with the utmost vigor and those that guide the culture decided to allow Third World squalor to take root.

Fascinating how multiculturalists are tossing a bigger fit over Trump articulating a blunt assessment to describe certain countries than that significant numbers from these places are allowed to enter or remain here for the purposes of dragging the quality of life in this country down to Third World standards.

So was the $1000 bonus granted to many WalMart employees provided from proceeds retained from Trump tax cuts or from eliminating the positions of those having lost their jobs as a result of layoffs in the company’s Sam’s Club division?

Senator Dick Durbin has said, “I cannot believe that in the history … of that Oval Office any President has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our President speak yesterday.” And are we to assume that when Monica Lewinsky was underneath the desk in the Oval Office and her head between the legs of Bill Clinton that he only spoke to her using terms found in Grey’s Anatomy or in Elizabethan love poetry?

So since the media has declared that we must only speak of other countries in the most glowing of terms, does that mean that the only thing that can be said of Nazi Germany is that the regime excelled at chemistry and the moving of large numbers of people by railway? Ironic that some no doubt complaining the loudest about President Trump articulating an earthy term for digestive effluent are part of the media elite slipping the term more and more into the dramatic dialog of their television and cinematic productions.

Religionists opposed to Donald Trump’s alleged articulation of an earthy term to describe certain countries is one thing. Because at least these folks are usually consistent about it an eschew such language in all circumstances. However, the hypocritical ones are those that any other time insist such lignuistic formulations are merely words or downplay their use in such urban or ghetto artforms, instead celebrating such as expressions of the unique truth as embodied by the artists bold enough to convey them.

An U.N. spokesman has denounced President Trump’s categorization of certain countries as excrement receptacles as “shocking and shameful”. Perhaps U.N. elites would be willing to surrender the organization’s prime New York real estate and instead set up headquarters in one of these lovely locations the foreign policy establishment apparently feels compelled to deny the prevailing conditions of.

Charlie Daniels is correct in reflecting upon the Taco Bell commercial spoofing concerns regarding the globalist conspiracy that the Illuminati is no laughing matter. So does this often insightful country singer refute the frivolity of his classic “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” suggesting that a mere human could best the Old Deluder at Satan’s own game?

In the President’s Martin Luther King Day proclamation, Americans were told to use the day off to perform acts of service. Given that the employed will be serving the public the other four remaining days of the week, how about directing that imperative at the deadbeats on public assistance that never get off their rears to do anything productive?

Lindsey Graham has denounced President Trump’s characterization of certain Third World nations as “blank hole” countries. Yet in 2013 Senator Graham referred to similar places as “hellholes”. Is one acceptable because some do not even believe that the modifier describing one type of hole doesn’t even exist while proof for the other presents itself whenever someone drops a proverbial number two in the toilet?

Regarding the pastor that got up on his moral high horse regarding what the minister characterized as Trump’s “dehumanizing and ugly” remarks pertaining to certain Third World nations while Vice President Pence was in the audience. Interesting that the church (and most likely the pastor’s residence) is located in the part of the county celebrated the world over for higher than average minority income rather than the part of the county where immigrant squalor and gang infestation predominate to the point that it rated recent coverage by the Washington Post.

The White House website on Martin Luther KIng Day featured an essay the title of which characterized the civil rights figure as a “Model Of An American Patriot”. Will those that regularly get jacked out of shape about President Trump’s past praise or associations with questionable entities of the AltRight pitch a hissy fit just as loud about this? It must be admitted that King’s philosophy of judging by character rather than color is admirable. However, can someone without reservation be celebrated as a “model patriot” if there are documented instances of him working in close affiliation with people and organizations agitating on behalf of Marxist upheaval?

Outcry has erupted over the deportation of a 39 year old father of two residing with his family in Detroit who has been living in America as an illegal since he was 10 years old. This raises a number of questions. First, if his family is not accompanying him by choice, doesn’t that mean that they love the American standard of living more than their father? Do religionists such as Russell Moore and even James Dobson have anything to say about that? They certainly don’t mind invoking alleged Hispanic family values when these can be invoked to bash the rest of us over the head as supposedly being morally superior to those of the average American. Second, if it is not the American legal system that will not allow his family to accompany him back to his homeland, shouldn’t humanitarian and related bleeding heart types be as vocal in their condemnation of Mexican immigration law as they usually are of that of the United States?

A Christianity Today article is titled, “What Student Ministry Really Needs? Homework”. Maybe so. But how is a church or youth ministry going to compel such? If students don’t do the homework assignments of their formalized schooling, they will fail which will prevent them from entering college or even obtaining a desirable job. But if church gets too pushy about assignments, the student is simply not going to return to the church.

According to the Federalist, actor Kevin Sorbo --- best known to genre fans as Hercules from “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” and as Captain Dylan Hunt in “Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda” and to Christian audiences from the film “God’s Not Dead --- has been preemptively banned from East Coast ComiCon. Interestingly, this is news to the actor as he revealed to the Federalist that he had no plans on attending that particularly convention in the first place. In the article, others claimed to have been similarly blacklisted by Marvel over matters of ideology. Seems the company has more in common with Hydra than Captain America. Perhaps it is about time for conservatives of assorted varieties to organize their own pop culture conventions or even zine and small press festivals.

In an article titled, “Moralism Is Not The Gospel (But Many Christians Think It Is), Southern Baptist Theologian Albert Mohler points out this important observation. But there is no self-reflective criticism in this essay where he points out where his own ministry has fallen short of this noble realization. For nowhere in the Scripture does one find the condemnation Mohler himself propagates of those not having married by the time they are 25 years of age. What he teaches in this regard is merely personal opinion that has no place in a pulpit claiming to stand for Sola Scriptura.

In an op-ed, Senator John McCain has issued a warning about President Donald Trump’s constant attacks against the media. It is the Senator’s concern that these will harm democracy. As if his own McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act with its own suppression of free speech raised to the level of statutory law with threats of severe punishments did not. While concerning, about all Trump has really done thus far is to shoot off at the mouth. Like it or not, that is still an act protected by the First Amendment.

By Frederick Meekins

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It was billed as a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Clintons’ ascension to the White House, held in some of the same haunts of the Arkansas capital where it all began.

Yet the election that Bill and Hillary Clinton were most eager to revisit here was not Mr. Clinton’s triumph of a quarter-century ago. It was the one that Mrs. Clinton lost last year — one that the former first couple and many of their supporters have clearly not gotten over.

For the first part of a 90-minute conversation with the Clintons on Saturday moderated by James Carville, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton made all manner of references, both direct and indirect, to the man who denied their bid to reclaim the White House, Donald J. Trump.

However, it was not until Mr. Clinton invoked his wife’s losing campaign — “I’m proud of her for getting caught trying to put people first,” he said — that her admirers rose to their feet in what was an obvious emotional release.

That was the cue to Mr. Carville, the 1992 campaign maestro who now makes a living delivering speeches and can read an audience, that the attendees hungered for more than Clinton-Gore nostalgia. And Mrs. Clinton gave it to them.

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