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Hollywood Haters
Brace yourselves – another superhero film franchise reboot is coming. Superman, with David Corenswet as the Man of Steel, opens this coming Friday and director James Gunn talked to The Times of London about the themes and ideas behind his epic.
“I mean, ‘Superman’ is the story of America,” Gunn explained. “An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.”
“Yes, it’s about politics,” he added.
They just can’t help themselves, can they? Nothing sends a thrill up the collective leg of Left-wing, mainstream Hollywood filmmakers like the opportunity to tear down, either literally or figuratively, an all-American icon who inspires patriotic pride and unifies us as a people. In this case, Gunn saw his opportunity to politicize the film by centering it on the most divisive and violent political conflict in the country right now – immigration – and giving it a Democrat spin.
“It’s about human kindness,” he continued, “and obviously there will be jerks out there who are just not kind and will take it as offensive just because it is about kindness. But screw them.”
So there you have it. If you believe a nation should have sensible immigration laws, that citizens should be prioritized over noncitizens, and that the law-abiding should be prioritized over lawbreakers, you’re an unkind jerk and screw you.
The subsequent MAGA online backlash to this arrogant dismissal was sufficient to force Gunn to pretend to walk it back. On the red carpet of his film debut, he was asked, “You said it’s an immigrant story, it’s a political movie. MAGA today is going nuts. What do you have to say to MAGA?”
“I think this movie’s for everybody,” Gunn replied more diplomatically. “I don’t have anything to say. I’m not here to judge people, you know. Um, you know, I think this movie is about kindness, and I think that’s something everyone can relate to.”
Everyone? Even the “unkind jerks” on the opposite side of the immigration debate? Sorry James, but that carefully crafted response was too little, too late. You already gave away your game, and now you’ve given half the country incentive to avoid your $225 million political statement (to clarify that number: the film will need to rake in $500 million just to break even, at least $700 to be a hit).
Sean Gunn, James’ actor brother who is in the film, didn’t help matters for his brother when he too was asked about the MAGA backlash, at the same red carpet event.
“We support ‘our people’ we love our immigrants, and yes Superman is an immigrant, and yes the people that we support in this country are immigrants. If you don’t like that then you are not American,” Gunn said. “People who say no to immigrants are against the American way. That is what the American dream is all about,” he added.
Again, there you have it. If you’re not onboard with the Democrat agenda to flood the country with illegal immigration to create a permanent, one-party hegemony – consequences for America and her citizens be damned – then you’re not even truly American. That’s what these privileged elites think of you.
Celebrating the Flood Victims
If you think Hollywood hates you unkind MAGA jerks, just scan some of the comments from ordinary progressives in the media and online in the wake of the horrific Independence Day flooding tragedy in Texas, which took the lives of at least 109 people (as of this writing), nearly 30 of them children as young as eight, with dozens more still missing.
The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro blasted Democrat media propagandists such as George Stephanopoulos and ambulance-chasing race-monger Al Sharpton for seizing the opportunity to politicize the tragedy and falsely blame President Trump. Former Fox News star Megyn Kelly, in her popular online show, also slammed the
absolute ghouls all over the internet trying to blame the president and DOGE for the tragedy, claiming cuts by DOGE to the National Weather Service are to blame, that they left the agency unprepared. There’s a long list of disgusting political ghouls who are doing this. They’re insane.
But some Democrats – who are always touting themselves as compassionate, tolerant, and kind in contrast to their MAGA opponents – took things even farther. Because those victims lived in a red state, many on the “compassionate” Left shamefully took to social media to openly express their indifference to the fate of the victims. And not just indifference, but in some cases gleeful satisfaction.
In one notable example, Dr. Christina B. Propst, a pediatrician at Blue Fish Pediatrics in Houston posted, “May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry. Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”
Never mind the fact that “gutting” FEMA had nothing to do with the response to this catastrophic weather event. This is a pediatrician snarkily wishing a terrifying drowning death upon those she perceives to be Republican voters and their children.
“Imagine being a PEDIATRICIAN and spewing this filth about innocent babies who DIED. You are absolutely vile,” wrote one social media commenter. “I hope she never gets to practice medicine another day in her pathetic life.”
Blue Fish Pediatrics first issued a Facebook statement on Saturday condemning its employee’s comment, then on Sunday announced on its website that “The individual is no longer employed by Blue Fish Pediatrics.” And to those Democrats who screech that this is the Right engaging in cancel culture (which is a Left-wing phenomenon): this is not the same as the Left’s politics of personal destruction. Terminating Probst was a just outcome, because no medical professional who would post such a thing can be trusted to care for patients she so clearly despises because of their perceived politics.
In another example, Sade Perkins, who served on the Houston Food Insecurity Board until earlier this year, posted a video last weekend in which she accused the flood-ravaged Camp Mystic of intentional racial segregation. Camp Mystic, located along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, lost at least 27 counselors and campers, including children:
With all the black people in East Texas, with all the Hispanic people in East Texas, somehow, some way, you have carved out an all white, whites only enclave in East Texas for your white children. Yeah, I have a problem with that. I have a big problem with that.
She went on to make the ugly claim, “You best believe, especially in today’s political climate, if this were a group of Hispanic girls… this would not be getting this type of coverage that they’re getting. No one would give a f**k.”
Then Perkins irrelevantly tried to link the poor girls who drowned at Camp Mystic to the Trump administration taking lawful action against illegal aliens, including gang members and felons:
They want you to have sympathy for these people [the flood victims]. They want you to get out of your bed and to come out of your home and to go find these people and donate your money to go find these people. Meanwhile they are deporting your family members. Meanwhile, they’re setting up concentration camps and prisons for your family members.
Continuing in the vein of inexplicably blaming racism for the flooding deaths, a “woman of color” posted a relentlessly profane video in which she grinned while stating, “I don’t give a damn… Them little girls, them people died because of racism… I don’t give a f**k. Am I sad? No!”
More examples:
Sick, racist, and unimaginably hateful. But that’s the progressive way.
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