Same here! I've been goading Dave to give us more Hollywood insights (and also dirt, because he "knows some stuff" that he will only tease about, and then refuse to dish it out! i.e. Natalie Wood), industry gossip, insider info... but alas, he's still hung up on this political theater, and some supposed genocide from, like, the dark ages!
He did a great audio interview where he was amazing, offering the type of inside the industry intel that could make him rich, but I just can't convince him.
Basically, he's giving the GOP great advice, and they won't listen, and I'm trying to make him a multi-millionaire and a household name, and he won't listen to me!
Incisive as usual, Dave. This article gets to the core of our national "problem" and highlights the reason I moved from optimism to pessimism. The obvious thing is the appalling level of ignorance among the populace who seem to eat up these kooks who thrive on ridiculous Nazi/WW2 mythology. The less obvious thing is the compressed sense of any historical continuity that makes people believe two amazing things: One, that what went on in the 30s and 40s is, like, a bazillion years ago and doesn't matter and, Two, that modern America is basically late Weimar Germany and anything any politician says means that everyone on the "other side" is some kind of crypto Nazi. It's really some kind of peculiar schizophrenia, innit? The media gurus who give these wackadoodles oxygen should be ashamed of themselves, but large stacks of $$$ can abrogate a lot of shame. Looking forward to your next
As insightful as I find your columns I am greatly looking forward to reading about the Hollywood meltdown. And I would take no issue with any number of columns devoted to zombie movies. Hell, I might have to go watch one now.
I think I spoke of that in one of my old YT videos. Loved Train to Busan. A good, serious zombie film (not "wacky" like Shaun). And for once the director seemed to choose three male leads who looked different (businessman, athlete, bum). My biggest problem with Korean flicks is that I can't tell the dudes apart.
Hi Dave! As I was reading your column, I was reminded of a line from the movie Men in Black. Tommy Lee Jones' character says to Will Smith's character: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
I don't think Robinson is representative, but a fluke. But there are enough of those flukes in the black / brown / *insert your skin color* crowd, to make it uncomfortable. As I see it, Trump's cult of personality is a scapegoat for their failures: You need to blame Big Jew for not being able to speak English when you set foot on this side of the Rio, for not being a doctor [without help from Affirmative Action], or a successful businessman, ... and all other shortcomings they need to explain. The 2016 [Coulter inspired Trump] was not of their liking as he spoke of realistic and effective solutions to Americans issues. The nuttery that followed is what fits their grievances.
For the GOP, he was avoidable. There was no need to side with that freak. My comment is in reference to the many "Robinsons" out there: that is, people who H&H would have enjoyed sending to Sobibor.
The first full-on Nazi black I personally met was in 1995. My GF had been in a terrible short film along with a grossly untalented, ugly black actress. Total waste of weave. And when my GF told her about me, Blacky was like "David Cole? The GOOOOOD Jew? I'd dun lovded to meet him, he mah hero and sheeet, 'cuz he calls his peeps out on they wickedness." She was completely insane. Sadly, I met her in person when she came to an IHR meeting (I was out of the circle by then, but I'd still go hear Mark Weber speak, as he's a friend).
I have met my fair share of "colored Nazis", and the one thing they ALL have in common, is the delusion someone else - usually, a lighter skin, or hooky nose "else" is responsible for their failures.
Anyone remember that Comedy Central Roast when Sommore was on the roast panel, and either Jeff Ross or Greg Giraldo was at the podium and said, "Sommore? Please, some less." ? When are they gonna bring back those Comedy Central Roasts, how's Lisa Lampanelli s'posed to pay her bills?
Lampanelli left the biz and became a life coach. She realized being an insult comic made her look 'mean.' She does storytelling appearances but no comedy. Also lost the weight.
Really excellent advice for my beloved conservative brothers. I hope they can receive it and incorporate it into effective political campaigns to run all the left wing wackos out of the government.
As to the "Black Nazi" guy I have met a few, and they were amusing to me, but I never dreamed any dumbass would vote for them as a Republican nominee! It is like we ran a spy operation on ourselves, not only to lose an election, but to look like stupid motherfuckers as well. We need to plant undercover operatives in the Democratic party so they will run stupid idiots we can surely defeat.
The truth is Dems are more racist than Republicans. They expect black people to be "less than," it won't stop them from voting for them. They don't expect black people to be able to hold an office in their own right - they think the "right kind" of white advisors will actually be running the show. They run a lot of dumdums as it is.
I think they also have the emotional strength to keep it to themselves and not discuss it, but they all essentially do it. Maybe that is why they think they are better than we are - they keep their secrets unspoken among themselves.
Plus, if we ever caught any of them discussing it, they would spin it in their favor, or say they misspoke.
Clever devils. I wouldn't care if they weren't destroying what I used to like about America.
I must say, Dave, that Herr Hitler cuts a dashing, teutonic figure. He must have been quite a catch to the fräuleins.
Years ago, I read Norman Mailer’s “The Castle in the Forest” in which he wrote that Der Führer suffered from monorchism. Do you think that’s what made him so irritable?
After Hitler's arrest in 1923 following his failed Beer Hall Putsch, the future Führer underwent a medical exam, according to documents found in a Bavarian archive by University of Erlangen history Professor Peter Fleischmann.
At the Landsberg prison, Hitler was examined by Dr Josef Brinsteiner, who found that he suffered from "right-side chryptorchidism", or an undescended right testicle, Fleischmann told Bild.
Normally men's testicles descend from inside the body into the scrotum during childhood.
But in some cases, one or both fail to descend – meaning that they atrophy and wither away rather than developing.
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There may be something to it, though I wouldn't overrate its importance for his overall motives. Hitler had looked at a lot of nationalist and anti-Jewish ideology back in Vienna before the war. But at that time the nature of the Hapsburg and Hohenzollern monarchies meant that he could never have become more than third-rate bureaucrat, so he just treated it as a casual interest. When the monarchies were overthrown, he saw this as an opportunity to go further. He spent some time in 1919 hanging with the Bavarian Soviet and attended the funeral of Kurt Eisner. Then he was assigned by Captain Mayr to join the German Workers Party, and he started figuring that this was a party where he could make something of himself.
All of his ideology had been learned a lot earlier from George Schoenerer and Karl Lueger in Vienna, but now with the party that Captain Mayr had assigned him to, he saw the potential to rise as a leader. That thought drove him more than anything in his scrotum ever did. When Ludendorff's attempted uprising in 1923 proved to be a snafu, then Hitler really emerged as the most logical choice of leader. All of this keyed up his own personal fanaticism to a degree which was totally lacking at the time of the Bavarian Soviet when he was hanging around Kurt Eisner.
If I remember correctly, there was another black fascist in Mother Night, but he was for Tojo and used to argue with the Harlem Führer over Axis policy towards the colored peoples of the world saying that the "Japanese were for ALL the colored peoples of the world when they created their Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere." Yeah right, that's exactly what they were up to. That and killing lots of colored people in their zone of occupation. My favorite Black Hitler is the one from the woefully underrated Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. The black master of disguise who "fools" everyone with his Hitler getup.
It's been so long since I saw that film but one of the things I remember was someone infiltrating the tomatoes and being discovered after asking one of them for catsup. Was that the disguise guy?
Yep -- that was his death scene. Though they brought the character back in the sequel, a film that was so bad even I never saw it. But a young George Clooney's in it. It's likely his best film.
Tbf, most people don't pay enough attention to history to know about the "Churchill: Savior or Satan?" debated. Or have the Boomer "it's all commie propaganda" take, because they read a 1 page article by an opinion columnist.
"SchvartzeKorps" should have been Mel Brooks' greatest film!
Dave, do you have a theory about why people like Musk & Zuck became so influential? Zuck I kind of understand - I know people older than you who use Threads and Facebook. He married a nice Asian doctor and they've made huge donations to hospitals. Every so often his 'tism shows its ugly face, but mostly he does normal rich guy stuff and tries to appear upstanding.
Musk baffles me. He's physically ugly. The computer scientists & engineers who actually coded for Twitter/X openly laughed at him because he seems to know nothing about coding. One of his children openly mocks him online. He has a bunch of babymamas. The first ex-wife seems like a nice lady/decent mom, then he moved on to a second-rate pop star, now a subordinate from one of his companies. He alarmed the shareholders' by smoking weed with Rogan, and used gov't money for his companies like Tesla. Tesla's also NU and I know someone who got injured working at their plant.
Who is this guy for? Is he actually popular with anyone? I think he's like the male Meghan Markle, he lucked into a good spot (daddy's a millionaire; PayPal needed a rich kid onboard whether or not he had brains) but there's no reason for anyone to think he's special in terms of his political opinions. Why hasn't a more normal rich guy stolen his lunch money by now? Or like, the IRS, why hasn't the IRS hassled him into submission?
Elon reminds me of these two dweebs I went to HS with who always insisted on "why can't we DEBATE!" One teacher agreed to let them have a debate in front of the class but it got so autistic so quickly that she broke it up before they could finish.
How did guys like THAT become "influencers" - where did all the normal adults go?
Elon Musk’s big spike in popularity as I see it is just him stating the obvious back in the late 2010’s - that the internet sucks and that shitty people act like thought police. When he took over Twitter it pissed off the people we like to see get pissed off - like Trump in 2016. It could have been Zuck, Dorsey, Brin, or some other geek and they’d still have a lot of “base-shitters” getting hot for them.
But yeah, you’re absolutely right with the Markle comp. I think there’s some younger, weirder richboy freak out there who we’re going to hear from soon enough and Elon will be as fondly and barely remembered as Ted Turner.
Not sure if you watched the 6 part Vince McMahon documentary on Netflix but there are some great Turner moments when they talk about the Monday night wars. There are holes in that doc (it's authorized - McMahon agreed to participate until his most recent scandal broke) but it's still pretty interesting.
Speaking of crazy rich dudes (and giving a prayer of thanks that Bernie Madoff died in prison), how long do you think Sam Bankman-Fried will stay locked up?
If I had to guess, I’d give it 5 years for a loophole or technicality to get him out. He’ll be forgotten by then. I have less hope for Elizabeth Holmes; she embarrassed a lot of big names with long memories. Sam Bankman-Fried just made some Crypto freaks look stupid before they moved on to some other shiny thing.
Dizzy Ms. Lizzie is in Texas doing 11, but I wonder, will Sam do his whole time at MDC Brooklyn?
Speaking of prison, is anyone a fan of the 2006 film Let's Go to Prison, in which Chi McBride steals the show as a lover of the music of Chuck Mangione and the body of Nelson Biederman IV (played by Will Arnett)? And how about the book You're Going to Prison by Jim Hogshire, which supposedly inspired the film?
Elon is defending free speech with his own money on the line while being a billionaire who sells electric cars to liberals, who might not like what he has to say.
He is giving free internet access to the victims of the hurricane.
He lands rockets on platforms out in the ocean.
I only started to like him after he saved X. Plus, he is supporting Trump.
I think he made a mistake by not keeping the inimitable Mr. Cole on his site, but history will judge David Cole as a great writer in spite of his detractors.
I’m a North Carolinian and I have heard Robinson speak (though he was destroying the porno books in school libraries issue back then). The guy is a moron.
The NC GOP is a lot like the Cali GOP in that they can’t stop stepping on rakes and getting distracted by every new dumb thing at the expense of crime, immigration, and unaffordable housing.
I wouldn’t say that “no one dared to” speak out against transgenderism before Robinson. The same view was and is quite common in NC. He just added his own brand of “FUCK YOU! WAR!!!” to it. The school board meetings went from dignified parents approaching school systems that were amenable to getting rid of explicit material to freaks howling about “groomers” and a load of smug housewife board of ed types circling the wagons. It actually ended up hurting NC Republicans! I couldn’t believe it.
Oh yeah, we had the “Bathroom Bill” back in 2015 (I think that was the year) before Robinson was even heard of. Robinson was the one who took an easy issue in 2021 to put the Dems and the Teachers Association on the ropes and turned it into a clown show. Don’t get me wrong, the NC Dems and their not-a-union teachers union have a lot to answer for, but Robinson made sure that people remembered the freaks instead of the gross arrogance and incompetence of the schools.
The trans stuff was always a distraction. A good way to get suburban resistance moms and the affluent oppressed to get out their checkbooks
"Send enough emails to the editor demanding it, and I’ll shut up about everything except zombie films." --- See, this is the Dave I like best. Not just zombie films, but in general when the revisionism fades into an "origin story," like when Charles Nelson Reilly was big on Broadway and then was just famous for being famous. Or Frank Nelson hanging around for years after Jack Benny. And no I'm not 70 years old.
There's a lot of Zoomers who are really into the spicy stuff. Couple months ago a Zoomer I know dropped a bon mot on me, I didn't get it, gave him the "huh?" face - "dude, I was paraphrasing William Luther Pierce." Haha, yeah of course, good one - had to go look WLP up. Had kinda-sorta heard of him. Now I run with a lot of right-wingers, libertarians (know a lady who used to have Rothbard over for Passover), Catholic / Orthodox types, and general dissidents, and being GenX, have for decades ... but this Zoomer contingent is really "overdosed on red pills."
Well NOW maybe I'll do a piece on the time I MET Frank Nelson!
True story.
Never met Pierce, but my longtime friend Mark Weber knew him well.
Turner Diaries is a scary-as-hell book, much more effective than anything by King or Barker or Koontz, because it's written by a guy who WANTS the events of the book to happen,, and you can feel it on every page.
My late father was a DEA analyst and actually had to special order a copy of Turner Diaries at the local B&N because it related to a case he was working on.
Sadly I don't know any specifics because he never told me the details. I just remembered going with him to B&N (which I often did to get the latest issue of NR, American Spectator and The Hockey News) for that purpose.
I actually recommend the book, because as a horror tome, as an apocalyptic novel, it carries a sincerity that can only come from a genuinely evil mind. No normal author could take the pleasure Pierce does in detailing global genocide. There's a scene, after "The Order" (the white supremacist brotherhood) takes over California, and begins executions of all mixed-race blacks. It's fucking chilling because it's written by a guy who's likely jacking off at the prospect.
Now that I think of it does anyone remember a drive-in movie called "The Black Gestapo" from 1975 about a revolutionary black power movement which adopts National Socialism as well as the spiffy uniforms and takes over Watts. It's better than that Star Trek episode in which a fleet admiral introduces NS ideology to a defeated alien race on another planet and is suprised when they start acting up and killing their enemies like the real thing. I think YouTube has the Blaxploitation movie for free. It is definitely worth a look.
Nah. She's now just a full-time "personality." Some actors want nothing more than to not be actors, to reach a point where they don't have to act anymore. Richard Belzer parodied this in 1985, doing a summer of talk show appearances in which he stated that he was done telling jokes, because being funny is too hard, so instead he just wants to be "important" and visit orphanages and cheer up injured veterans. It was a great bit because it spoke to a truth among certain performers, that many of them want to be "great humans" and coast on that the rest of their lives.
Is anyone a fan of the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, and of the late great comedian Arte Johnson, and would a reading of the former (albeit in an abridged form) by the latter hold any appeal?
Why couldn't he have read the whole thing? Was he not interested, or was the company not willing to shell out the money for an unabridged version? And why has Malcolm McDowell never recorded A Clockwork Orange? Wouldn't that be a guaranteed best seller even with his 81 year-old voice?
Looking forward to hearing about the meltdown in Hollywood.
It's epochal. An earthquake. More than worthy of several columns.
My friend, all of this stuff is nothing compared to the REVISIONISM coming our way:
https://lincolnsquestforempire.com/
Jesse Lee Peterson makes an appearance which means you know it’s gonna be a quality release.
I am reading Michael Walsh's latest book. You write as well as anyone in it. I can see why you talk smack about everyone he did pay and publish.
Bet there will be a Nazi angle somewhere in Big H!
LOL! Nope! I'm purposely doing it as a palate cleanser.
Same here! I've been goading Dave to give us more Hollywood insights (and also dirt, because he "knows some stuff" that he will only tease about, and then refuse to dish it out! i.e. Natalie Wood), industry gossip, insider info... but alas, he's still hung up on this political theater, and some supposed genocide from, like, the dark ages!
He did a great audio interview where he was amazing, offering the type of inside the industry intel that could make him rich, but I just can't convince him.
Basically, he's giving the GOP great advice, and they won't listen, and I'm trying to make him a multi-millionaire and a household name, and he won't listen to me!
Oh well...
I heard Christopher Walken is moving to Canada...
Incisive as usual, Dave. This article gets to the core of our national "problem" and highlights the reason I moved from optimism to pessimism. The obvious thing is the appalling level of ignorance among the populace who seem to eat up these kooks who thrive on ridiculous Nazi/WW2 mythology. The less obvious thing is the compressed sense of any historical continuity that makes people believe two amazing things: One, that what went on in the 30s and 40s is, like, a bazillion years ago and doesn't matter and, Two, that modern America is basically late Weimar Germany and anything any politician says means that everyone on the "other side" is some kind of crypto Nazi. It's really some kind of peculiar schizophrenia, innit? The media gurus who give these wackadoodles oxygen should be ashamed of themselves, but large stacks of $$$ can abrogate a lot of shame. Looking forward to your next
Thank you, Patrick. Much appreciated!
As insightful as I find your columns I am greatly looking forward to reading about the Hollywood meltdown. And I would take no issue with any number of columns devoted to zombie movies. Hell, I might have to go watch one now.
Amen!
Dave, are you a fan of Train to Busan (2016), or is it a thumbs-down-er like Shaun of the Dead?
I think I spoke of that in one of my old YT videos. Loved Train to Busan. A good, serious zombie film (not "wacky" like Shaun). And for once the director seemed to choose three male leads who looked different (businessman, athlete, bum). My biggest problem with Korean flicks is that I can't tell the dudes apart.
Hi Dave! As I was reading your column, I was reminded of a line from the movie Men in Black. Tommy Lee Jones' character says to Will Smith's character: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
I don't think Robinson is representative, but a fluke. But there are enough of those flukes in the black / brown / *insert your skin color* crowd, to make it uncomfortable. As I see it, Trump's cult of personality is a scapegoat for their failures: You need to blame Big Jew for not being able to speak English when you set foot on this side of the Rio, for not being a doctor [without help from Affirmative Action], or a successful businessman, ... and all other shortcomings they need to explain. The 2016 [Coulter inspired Trump] was not of their liking as he spoke of realistic and effective solutions to Americans issues. The nuttery that followed is what fits their grievances.
To me it's not an issue of being "representative," but avoidable. Robinson was avoidable.
For the GOP, he was avoidable. There was no need to side with that freak. My comment is in reference to the many "Robinsons" out there: that is, people who H&H would have enjoyed sending to Sobibor.
The first full-on Nazi black I personally met was in 1995. My GF had been in a terrible short film along with a grossly untalented, ugly black actress. Total waste of weave. And when my GF told her about me, Blacky was like "David Cole? The GOOOOOD Jew? I'd dun lovded to meet him, he mah hero and sheeet, 'cuz he calls his peeps out on they wickedness." She was completely insane. Sadly, I met her in person when she came to an IHR meeting (I was out of the circle by then, but I'd still go hear Mark Weber speak, as he's a friend).
I have met my fair share of "colored Nazis", and the one thing they ALL have in common, is the delusion someone else - usually, a lighter skin, or hooky nose "else" is responsible for their failures.
Anyone remember that Comedy Central Roast when Sommore was on the roast panel, and either Jeff Ross or Greg Giraldo was at the podium and said, "Sommore? Please, some less." ? When are they gonna bring back those Comedy Central Roasts, how's Lisa Lampanelli s'posed to pay her bills?
Lampanelli left the biz and became a life coach. She realized being an insult comic made her look 'mean.' She does storytelling appearances but no comedy. Also lost the weight.
Really excellent advice for my beloved conservative brothers. I hope they can receive it and incorporate it into effective political campaigns to run all the left wing wackos out of the government.
As to the "Black Nazi" guy I have met a few, and they were amusing to me, but I never dreamed any dumbass would vote for them as a Republican nominee! It is like we ran a spy operation on ourselves, not only to lose an election, but to look like stupid motherfuckers as well. We need to plant undercover operatives in the Democratic party so they will run stupid idiots we can surely defeat.
Robinson's only chance is to deny, deny, deny.
Like Joy Reid. "I wuz hacked!" But never contacts the police or FBI.
The truth is Dems are more racist than Republicans. They expect black people to be "less than," it won't stop them from voting for them. They don't expect black people to be able to hold an office in their own right - they think the "right kind" of white advisors will actually be running the show. They run a lot of dumdums as it is.
I think they also have the emotional strength to keep it to themselves and not discuss it, but they all essentially do it. Maybe that is why they think they are better than we are - they keep their secrets unspoken among themselves.
Plus, if we ever caught any of them discussing it, they would spin it in their favor, or say they misspoke.
Clever devils. I wouldn't care if they weren't destroying what I used to like about America.
I must say, Dave, that Herr Hitler cuts a dashing, teutonic figure. He must have been quite a catch to the fräuleins.
Years ago, I read Norman Mailer’s “The Castle in the Forest” in which he wrote that Der Führer suffered from monorchism. Do you think that’s what made him so irritable?
✌️out, Buzz Lightyear 🚀
I hadn't taken the bit about one testicle very seriously, but supposedly in 2015 a doctor's report was found which supports this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151220174856/https://www.thelocal.de/20151218/hitler-really-did-have-just-one-ball-professor
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After Hitler's arrest in 1923 following his failed Beer Hall Putsch, the future Führer underwent a medical exam, according to documents found in a Bavarian archive by University of Erlangen history Professor Peter Fleischmann.
At the Landsberg prison, Hitler was examined by Dr Josef Brinsteiner, who found that he suffered from "right-side chryptorchidism", or an undescended right testicle, Fleischmann told Bild.
Normally men's testicles descend from inside the body into the scrotum during childhood.
But in some cases, one or both fail to descend – meaning that they atrophy and wither away rather than developing.
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There may be something to it, though I wouldn't overrate its importance for his overall motives. Hitler had looked at a lot of nationalist and anti-Jewish ideology back in Vienna before the war. But at that time the nature of the Hapsburg and Hohenzollern monarchies meant that he could never have become more than third-rate bureaucrat, so he just treated it as a casual interest. When the monarchies were overthrown, he saw this as an opportunity to go further. He spent some time in 1919 hanging with the Bavarian Soviet and attended the funeral of Kurt Eisner. Then he was assigned by Captain Mayr to join the German Workers Party, and he started figuring that this was a party where he could make something of himself.
All of his ideology had been learned a lot earlier from George Schoenerer and Karl Lueger in Vienna, but now with the party that Captain Mayr had assigned him to, he saw the potential to rise as a leader. That thought drove him more than anything in his scrotum ever did. When Ludendorff's attempted uprising in 1923 proved to be a snafu, then Hitler really emerged as the most logical choice of leader. All of this keyed up his own personal fanaticism to a degree which was totally lacking at the time of the Bavarian Soviet when he was hanging around Kurt Eisner.
Your informational commentary is what makes these platforms so vital to the unencumbered flow of information.
In the past, one had to peruse a dozen or more references (if you could find them at all) to obtain what I learned from you in a few paragraphs.
All that said, my original query was non compos mentis as I imagine the likes of Stalin, Mao, and Castro had two-balls descended.
Thanks to Best Served Cole and Patrick.
Shana Tova!
This is why I love Substack! Great commenters, no word-limit, and a lively discussion.
If I remember correctly, there was another black fascist in Mother Night, but he was for Tojo and used to argue with the Harlem Führer over Axis policy towards the colored peoples of the world saying that the "Japanese were for ALL the colored peoples of the world when they created their Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere." Yeah right, that's exactly what they were up to. That and killing lots of colored people in their zone of occupation. My favorite Black Hitler is the one from the woefully underrated Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. The black master of disguise who "fools" everyone with his Hitler getup.
In the movie, it's the main character (Nolte) who argues the Tojo point, and the Black Fuhrer replies, "now whoever told you a Chinaman was colored?"
Yep, "Sam Smith," the master of disguise. I still have my 1980s Betamax video of that film.
It's been so long since I saw that film but one of the things I remember was someone infiltrating the tomatoes and being discovered after asking one of them for catsup. Was that the disguise guy?
Yep -- that was his death scene. Though they brought the character back in the sequel, a film that was so bad even I never saw it. But a young George Clooney's in it. It's likely his best film.
Tbf, most people don't pay enough attention to history to know about the "Churchill: Savior or Satan?" debated. Or have the Boomer "it's all commie propaganda" take, because they read a 1 page article by an opinion columnist.
"SchvartzeKorps" should have been Mel Brooks' greatest film!
Yes Dave, the time is right - don’t be stupid, be a smarty, go ahead and drop the Nazi party.
After all, it's springtime, baby!
Where have all the Dick Shawns gone / long time blooming?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejDx-zn7M5Y
LOL!!!!
Dave, do you have a theory about why people like Musk & Zuck became so influential? Zuck I kind of understand - I know people older than you who use Threads and Facebook. He married a nice Asian doctor and they've made huge donations to hospitals. Every so often his 'tism shows its ugly face, but mostly he does normal rich guy stuff and tries to appear upstanding.
Musk baffles me. He's physically ugly. The computer scientists & engineers who actually coded for Twitter/X openly laughed at him because he seems to know nothing about coding. One of his children openly mocks him online. He has a bunch of babymamas. The first ex-wife seems like a nice lady/decent mom, then he moved on to a second-rate pop star, now a subordinate from one of his companies. He alarmed the shareholders' by smoking weed with Rogan, and used gov't money for his companies like Tesla. Tesla's also NU and I know someone who got injured working at their plant.
Who is this guy for? Is he actually popular with anyone? I think he's like the male Meghan Markle, he lucked into a good spot (daddy's a millionaire; PayPal needed a rich kid onboard whether or not he had brains) but there's no reason for anyone to think he's special in terms of his political opinions. Why hasn't a more normal rich guy stolen his lunch money by now? Or like, the IRS, why hasn't the IRS hassled him into submission?
Elon reminds me of these two dweebs I went to HS with who always insisted on "why can't we DEBATE!" One teacher agreed to let them have a debate in front of the class but it got so autistic so quickly that she broke it up before they could finish.
How did guys like THAT become "influencers" - where did all the normal adults go?
I hate typing on these fucking phones...now for the second try.
He became an influencer, because the market offered an abundant supply of nuts willing to be influenced by him.
Normal adults hang out on Dave's 'Stack.
You got that right!!!
Now, to set the record straight, Porkins was grandfathered in.
LOL!!!!
Elon Musk’s big spike in popularity as I see it is just him stating the obvious back in the late 2010’s - that the internet sucks and that shitty people act like thought police. When he took over Twitter it pissed off the people we like to see get pissed off - like Trump in 2016. It could have been Zuck, Dorsey, Brin, or some other geek and they’d still have a lot of “base-shitters” getting hot for them.
But yeah, you’re absolutely right with the Markle comp. I think there’s some younger, weirder richboy freak out there who we’re going to hear from soon enough and Elon will be as fondly and barely remembered as Ted Turner.
Not sure if you watched the 6 part Vince McMahon documentary on Netflix but there are some great Turner moments when they talk about the Monday night wars. There are holes in that doc (it's authorized - McMahon agreed to participate until his most recent scandal broke) but it's still pretty interesting.
Thanks for the recommendation. I do think it’s funny how the biggest figure in cable tv is so forgotten today as that medium dies.
Speaking of crazy rich dudes (and giving a prayer of thanks that Bernie Madoff died in prison), how long do you think Sam Bankman-Fried will stay locked up?
If I had to guess, I’d give it 5 years for a loophole or technicality to get him out. He’ll be forgotten by then. I have less hope for Elizabeth Holmes; she embarrassed a lot of big names with long memories. Sam Bankman-Fried just made some Crypto freaks look stupid before they moved on to some other shiny thing.
Dizzy Ms. Lizzie is in Texas doing 11, but I wonder, will Sam do his whole time at MDC Brooklyn?
Speaking of prison, is anyone a fan of the 2006 film Let's Go to Prison, in which Chi McBride steals the show as a lover of the music of Chuck Mangione and the body of Nelson Biederman IV (played by Will Arnett)? And how about the book You're Going to Prison by Jim Hogshire, which supposedly inspired the film?
Elon is defending free speech with his own money on the line while being a billionaire who sells electric cars to liberals, who might not like what he has to say.
He is giving free internet access to the victims of the hurricane.
He lands rockets on platforms out in the ocean.
I only started to like him after he saved X. Plus, he is supporting Trump.
I think he made a mistake by not keeping the inimitable Mr. Cole on his site, but history will judge David Cole as a great writer in spite of his detractors.
I’m a North Carolinian and I have heard Robinson speak (though he was destroying the porno books in school libraries issue back then). The guy is a moron.
The NC GOP is a lot like the Cali GOP in that they can’t stop stepping on rakes and getting distracted by every new dumb thing at the expense of crime, immigration, and unaffordable housing.
Wasn't much of his support due to his speaking out against transgenderism when no one else dares to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GxN5tyLl0A
Hence the irony of his personal obsessions.
I wouldn’t say that “no one dared to” speak out against transgenderism before Robinson. The same view was and is quite common in NC. He just added his own brand of “FUCK YOU! WAR!!!” to it. The school board meetings went from dignified parents approaching school systems that were amenable to getting rid of explicit material to freaks howling about “groomers” and a load of smug housewife board of ed types circling the wagons. It actually ended up hurting NC Republicans! I couldn’t believe it.
Great observations, Evans. Thank you.
But were any other high-level NC politicians speaking out against TGism?
Oh yeah, we had the “Bathroom Bill” back in 2015 (I think that was the year) before Robinson was even heard of. Robinson was the one who took an easy issue in 2021 to put the Dems and the Teachers Association on the ropes and turned it into a clown show. Don’t get me wrong, the NC Dems and their not-a-union teachers union have a lot to answer for, but Robinson made sure that people remembered the freaks instead of the gross arrogance and incompetence of the schools.
The trans stuff was always a distraction. A good way to get suburban resistance moms and the affluent oppressed to get out their checkbooks
"Send enough emails to the editor demanding it, and I’ll shut up about everything except zombie films." --- See, this is the Dave I like best. Not just zombie films, but in general when the revisionism fades into an "origin story," like when Charles Nelson Reilly was big on Broadway and then was just famous for being famous. Or Frank Nelson hanging around for years after Jack Benny. And no I'm not 70 years old.
There's a lot of Zoomers who are really into the spicy stuff. Couple months ago a Zoomer I know dropped a bon mot on me, I didn't get it, gave him the "huh?" face - "dude, I was paraphrasing William Luther Pierce." Haha, yeah of course, good one - had to go look WLP up. Had kinda-sorta heard of him. Now I run with a lot of right-wingers, libertarians (know a lady who used to have Rothbard over for Passover), Catholic / Orthodox types, and general dissidents, and being GenX, have for decades ... but this Zoomer contingent is really "overdosed on red pills."
Well NOW maybe I'll do a piece on the time I MET Frank Nelson!
True story.
Never met Pierce, but my longtime friend Mark Weber knew him well.
Turner Diaries is a scary-as-hell book, much more effective than anything by King or Barker or Koontz, because it's written by a guy who WANTS the events of the book to happen,, and you can feel it on every page.
A piece on meeting Frank Nelson? --- I say, "YEhhhhhsssssss ...."
Never read Turner Diaries, sounds like a good decision.
My late father was a DEA analyst and actually had to special order a copy of Turner Diaries at the local B&N because it related to a case he was working on.
That's REALLY interesting, Mike! I'd love to know more.
Sadly I don't know any specifics because he never told me the details. I just remembered going with him to B&N (which I often did to get the latest issue of NR, American Spectator and The Hockey News) for that purpose.
I actually recommend the book, because as a horror tome, as an apocalyptic novel, it carries a sincerity that can only come from a genuinely evil mind. No normal author could take the pleasure Pierce does in detailing global genocide. There's a scene, after "The Order" (the white supremacist brotherhood) takes over California, and begins executions of all mixed-race blacks. It's fucking chilling because it's written by a guy who's likely jacking off at the prospect.
Now that I think of it does anyone remember a drive-in movie called "The Black Gestapo" from 1975 about a revolutionary black power movement which adopts National Socialism as well as the spiffy uniforms and takes over Watts. It's better than that Star Trek episode in which a fleet admiral introduces NS ideology to a defeated alien race on another planet and is suprised when they start acting up and killing their enemies like the real thing. I think YouTube has the Blaxploitation movie for free. It is definitely worth a look.
YES! I bought it on VHS at a Maxway back in the day
But Whoopi says that Hollywood is right wing!
LOL!!!!
Funnier still is that her idiot minions will believe it.
Has she done anything funny lately, as good as her work in The Player (1992) and Soapdish (1991)?
Nah. She's now just a full-time "personality." Some actors want nothing more than to not be actors, to reach a point where they don't have to act anymore. Richard Belzer parodied this in 1985, doing a summer of talk show appearances in which he stated that he was done telling jokes, because being funny is too hard, so instead he just wants to be "important" and visit orphanages and cheer up injured veterans. It was a great bit because it spoke to a truth among certain performers, that many of them want to be "great humans" and coast on that the rest of their lives.
Is anyone a fan of the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, and of the late great comedian Arte Johnson, and would a reading of the former (albeit in an abridged form) by the latter hold any appeal?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVDb450WDPGMMW7fiybBxv0Ux_PpbgRuO
Dang! Veeeeeeery interestink!
Why couldn't he have read the whole thing? Was he not interested, or was the company not willing to shell out the money for an unabridged version? And why has Malcolm McDowell never recorded A Clockwork Orange? Wouldn't that be a guaranteed best seller even with his 81 year-old voice?