Reid is Out
With the recent announcement that radical Joy Reid’s hate platform The ReidOut has been cancelled, there is jubilation throughout the land – except on MSNBC, which is now Joy-less. For years she has been the most blatant racist and hate-mongering liar in the entire mainstream media – no small feat.
Her show was axed not because her ugly propaganda offended MSNBC or violated its principles, but because it’s a different America now. Breitbart reports that the most recent ratings for The ReidOut were abysmal: 708,000 total viewers, a 47 percent collapse from the 1.4 million she averaged prior to the 2024 election. Reid’s viewership in the all-important 25-54 age group plummeted 52 percent to 76,000.
After her firing was announced, she took to social media (naturally) to break down sobbing, “My show had value!”
In all fairness, it did have propaganda value for years, until Americans finally threw off the stranglehold of far-Left lunacy. Now Joy will just have to learn to code.
For her final episode, Reid’s parting shot was the unhinged warning that America is in the grip of – say it together with me – fascism. No, Joy, America is in the grip of a MAGA movement to restore common sense, patriotism, and unity, and to reject the kind of divisive, Hate America First racial smears in which you trafficked for far too long.
The ReidOut reportedly will be replaced by a trio of anchors including former Democrat strategist Symone Sanders (another Joy Reid in the making), former RNC traitor Michael Steele, and some random media hack-of-color, Alicia Menendez. Yawn.
Woke is Back
The Left proudly embraced wokeness for years until the word deservedly became a label of relentless Right-wing scorn. Then they tried the strategy of distancing themselves from the term, even asserting the conspiracy theory that “woke” was nothing but a conservative boogeyman (the Left has long claimed, and still does, much the same thing about the damning term “cultural Marxism”).
But the Left is embracing the label once again like a badge of honor. At the recent Screen Actors Guild awards show – yes, Hollywood still insists on broadcasting these masturbatory ego-trips despite the fact that no one watches anymore – Vietnam-era traitor and anti-American activist Jane Fonda accepted a lifetime achievement award and predictably took the opportunity to speechify about politics.
“What we create is empathy,” Fonda pontificated, referring to her and her fellow elites. “Make no mistake: empathy is not weak or woke – and by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people, even if they’re of a different political persuasion.”
False. Wokeness is not the same as caring. The essential definition is that wokeness is viewing everything – everything – through the distorted lens of social justice power dynamics. It means dividing the world into the Marxist oppressor-versus-oppressed paradigm, and undertaking violent (if necessary) revolution to overthrow the status quo. So in terms of “caring,” as Fonda put it, you pretend to care only about those who fit neatly into oppressed categories of skin color and sexual preference; everyone else, you demonize, marginalize, and ultimately eradicate.
Jane Fonda cares about exploiting illegal immigrants to help crash the system she wants to destroy; she doesn’t “give a damn” about the rights or welfare or property or lives of legal citizens. She cares about exploiting women’s legal right to kill inconvenient children in order to hasten the abolition of the family, as Marx so fervently desired; she doesn’t “give a damn” about women themselves. She “cares” about exploiting the so-called Palestinian people to support the genocidal imperative “From the river to the sea” against the Jews who are considered part of the “oppressor” category.
And quite the contrary of her claim, she cares least of all about those “of a different political persuasion” whom she and the rest of the Democrat Party without exception see as racist “deplorables” and obstacles to one-party hegemony.
Thursday on The View, ABC’s inexplicably long-running gab-fest, ringleader Whoopi Goldberg asked her co-witches if people are going to take Fonda’s “message to heart.” Legal analyst Sunny Hostin replied,
I thought about the conversations you and I have had, Whoopi, so many times about the co-opting of the word woke, and the fact that the right somehow has made it a dirty word. To be woke is a word that came out of the African-American community, and it was about acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging people’s suffering. It is not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it.
Again, the “caring” she’s talking about is selective and agenda-driven. She continued:
So it angers me when people are, like, this woke stuff’s got to go. That’s telling me you don’t care about my lived experience. You don’t care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community. You don’t care about the oppression of the disabled. You don’t care about the oppression of immigrants. You don’t care about your fellow neighbor, and that is ungodly. That is not Christian.
Hostin and her co-harpies only care about Christian values insofar as they can be weaponized against actual Christians. Let me be perfectly clear, as Barack Obama used to say: wokeness is not Christian and has nothing to do with compassion – it is a Marxist strategy to exploit those that the Left purports to care about in the service of dismantling the capitalist West. Wokeness is ultimately about seizing and maintaining power.
The Stories Hollywood Won’t Tell
Speaking of Hollywood awards shows and wokeness, the Oscar nominations are out and as almost always, the Documentary Feature Film category is entirely dominated by social justice commentary. I haven’t seen any of them, and virtually no one else cares to either, including most of the Hollywood stars who are supposed to watch and vote for them, but here are their descriptions:
Black Box Diaries – a sort of #MeToo film produced and directed by a woman documenting her own sexual assault investigation in Japan.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat – the story of famed jazz musicians lending their voices for decolonization in the Congo during the Cold War.
Sugarcane – An investigation into abuse and missing children at a Catholic residential school for Indians in Canada.
Porcelain War – A pair of artists document their poignant placement of porcelain figurines throughout the war-blasted Ukrainian landscape.
No Other Land – a film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of activists documenting resistance to Israeli “occupation” and “apartheid.”
Unsurprisingly, there are no entrees among the nominees for any film on topics viewed through a lens that is not Left-wing activism. No film exposing the hoax of the Catholic genocide of Indian children, for example. No film documenting the horrors of the October 7th attacks in Israel or the shocking treatment of hostages abused and murdered by Hamas. No film exposing the Democrat political persecution of the J6 “insurrectionists.” No documentaries such as those by my filmmaker friend Gloria Greenfield, for example, warning viewers about demonstrable threats to Western civilization.
Not that Hollywood or the Oscars matter anymore, but filmmakers take note – there is a vast underserved audience of Americans out there who are hungry for the stories Hollywood won’t tell.
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