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Vance’s Media Mastery
Vice President JD Vance gave another master class in shutting down media bias and disinformation last Sunday when he sat across from smug antagonist Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. When she challenged him on the deportation of illegals and vetting immigrants, Vance shot back that he doesn’t want unvetted migrants “like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago. He was allegedly properly vetted, and many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted. Clearly he wasn’t.”
Brennan tried to argue that he may have been radicalized after arriving here, but Vance returned, “I don’t really care, Margaret. I don’t want that person in my country, and I think most Americans agree with me.” Stymied, Brennan moved on.
That moment and Vance’s “I don’t really care, Margaret” are fast becoming an amusing internet meme (see below) which represents Vance’s indifference to liberal “feelings” about immigration. His refusal to accept the premises of the media’s subversive narratives is a lesson all conservatives must take to heart and employ in all media interactions.
I don’t really care, Margaret. pic.twitter.com/08NNrnUflo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2025
Captain UnAmerican
Actor Anthony Mackie, who is taking over from Chris Evans as Captain America in the forthcoming installment (Brave New World) of the Marvel superhero franchise, just torpedoed the movie’s box office potential by declaring, in an onstage interview making the rounds of social media, that Captain America “represents a lot of things” and that “America” shouldn’t be one of them.
“For me Captain America represents a lot of things, and I don’t think ‘America’ should be one of those representations,” Mackie stated. “It’s about a man who keeps his word, who has honor, dignity, and integrity. Someone who is trustworthy and dependable.” Perhaps sensing that he was straying off-script into controversy, he shifted gears and went on to blather about how actors want to recapture the imagination of a young kid playing with a stick as a sword, saving the princess from the dragon.
Mackie will probably be attacked by his Hollywood fellows more for this perceived sexism (“The princess can save herself! She doesn’t need a man!”) than his anti-Americanism, but he just alienated all those audiences in flyover country who would otherwise have thrilled at the latest cinematic exploits of the red-, white-, and blue-clad all-American.
Prominent conservative podcaster Dan Bongino posted the Mackie clip on X with the comment, “Another shit movie I won’t be seeing.”
Another shit movie I won’t be seeing. https://t.co/wlyLvR7pMI
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) January 28, 2025
Outkick founder Clay Travis posted, “The new Captain America says Captain America shouldn’t represent America. Are there any actors and actresses employed by Marvel who aren’t complete and total morons?”
The new Captain America says Captain America shouldn’t represent America. Are there any actors and actresses employed by Marvel who aren’t complete and total morons? pic.twitter.com/wIwEPlzTsa
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 28, 2025
Someone needs to remind Mackie of two things: one, “America” is literally right there in the character’s name, and if he wants his (reportedly) nearly $400 million film to make its money back perhaps he should think about connecting the dots between Cap’s heroic qualities and the exceptional country he represents; and two, undermining a beloved character by imposing your woke worldview while promoting the film is box office poison – just ask Rachel “Snow White” Zegler, whose open contempt for the classic character in interviews has doomed the forthcoming movie to epic failure.
We Don’t Need “Qualified” Nominees – We Need Wrecking Balls
President Trump’s unorthodox choices for cabinet members and department heads in the new administration – Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Elon Musk to the Department of Government Efficiency, and others – have sparked blustery complaints from Democrats and establishment Republicans that the nominees aren’t “qualified.” “Hegseth is just a Fox News host!” goes a typical objection.
These whiners need to get it through their thick skulls that MAGA Americans, who voted Trump into office in a nationwide red landslide, don’t give a rat’s behind about whether his nominees are conventionally “qualified” to take the reins of these government roles. The “qualified,” standard-issue politicians like lifelong politician Joe Biden are the ones who, over the decades, have run this country nearly over a cliff and got obscenely rich doing it. They constitute the Deep State, the Status Quo, the Establishment.
We don’t need or want nominees who check off all the usual “qualified” boxes that took us from being the freest and most prosperous country in world history to the brink of collapse. What we need and want is a team of wrecking balls who have the patriotic vision and courage to smash these entrenched, bloodsucking departments and lead America back to liberty and greatness. By that measure, Donald Trump, for all his loose-cannon volatility, is the right man at the right moment, as are his department picks.
According to conventional thinking, Hillary Clinton is qualified. Mitch McConnell is qualified. Nancy Pelosi is qualified. Lindsay Graham is qualified. Look where those people got us. Donald Trump, despite having been President once already and re-elected, is still not the sort of lifetime politico that the Establishment would consider conventionally qualified, and yet, at the rate he’s going, he’s going to end up with his face on Mt. Rushmore alongside other giants of American leadership.
Pete Hegseth, for example, is not “just” a Fox News host but a highly decorated Army veteran and advocate for servicemembers, whose top priority will be the lethality of the military, not its diversity of skin color and sexual orientation. This makes him more qualified than careerist General Mark Milley who, as Biden’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fretted that the greatest existential threat to America was not China or Iran but “white rage” in our own ranks.
Forget career politicians who check off all the “right” boxes. It is long past time for out-of-the-box visionaries like Trump and Elon Musk to step up and get the job done making America great again.
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The Falcon is not Captain America or qualified to be. The comic books have the same “woke” Cap crap of Sam Wilson, the Falcon, as Captain America #2. The woketard writers even refer to him as “the legend.” WTF? Bucky Barnes served as Captain America in the comics when Steve Rogers was believed to be dead and did a great job. That character is a highly skilled hand to hand combatant and assassin. But he isn’t black so bye bye, Bucky. I guess I should be happy Capatain America isn’t a lesbian.
Yes I’m a comics geek and I don’t care who knows it. Nobody would guess I’m a geek by looking at me.
I preferred underground comix in my youth.
Perhaps the difference can be split with “Captain America Meets Angel food McSpade” ~
David Brin has a cool short story entitled “Captain America meets Thor,” or something like that. The Premise is that in WWII, Hitler used magic to conjure what seem to be mythological Norse gods to help the Nazis. An American Captain has to deal with Thor and Loki betrays the Aesir and sides with the Americans for his own gain.
I read all the “Furry Freak Brothers” comic, or whatever they were called. I guess those were underground. I thought they were funny.
GD autocorrect broke apart Angelfood !
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Autocorrect sometimes replaces entire words on me. Always incorrect, of course.
I know more than a few tough geeks from my days in the tech room at AT&T.
One was my roommate who put me through a sheetrock wall. (We’re still close friends.)
You should check out Nerdrotic. My former tough geek roommate is a staunch conservative & comic geek who says the podcast rocks.
I’m going to bookmark it right now. Thanks. 🙂
Steve Roger, formerly a scrawny guy, was “enhanced” before he became Captain America. Wilson became Falcon with strap on wings. So wings and racial identity aside, what does he bring to the table that merits super-hero status?
They went and ruined G.I. Joe(Yo Joe)from THE REAL AMERICAN HERO to a Globalists now its Captain America What’s Next?! the JLA(Justice League of America)to the Global League?!
Superman has dropped “the American way” from “truth, justice and the American way.” He’s a “citizen of the world” now and his son Jonathan, the second Superman, is now retro bi-sexual. There are at least 7 Green Lanterns on Earth. They’re supposed to protect entire “space sectors,” not amass on one planet. The black John Stewart Lantern was a replacement character for the Hal Jordan original when Hal was gone for some reason. That’s cool because the character has been around since the seventies but they made him serve a VERY short stint in the Marines. The character is an architect. God forbid a black guy could be educated and have a good career. They had to go full cliche and make him a macho Marine with a bad haircut. One of the Lanterns is a camel jockey, one is a latina and one is a black lesbian.
And on and on. So many lesbian characters have been introduced, and so many male characters have retroactively been made gay I can’t even count them all. And the comics companies think it’s a great idea to pretend people are defined by their sexuality, race and ethnicity.
As if I walk around obsessing over how hetero I am or count how many chicks I run around with. As if things like that are important.
DC comics actually uses “woke” as an advertising line. Marvel comics turned Loki into a tranny. And on and on.
Leftists poison everything they come in contact with. They’re an infection.
Go watch an interview with Navy SEAL “Drago”… his life story of being in prison in Soviet Poland to his coming to America, then becoming a legendary SEAL is the stuff the ORIGINAL GI JOE was all about….
Shawn Ryan, Mike Ritland and many others have interviewed him YouTube.
Here’s a bio… https://www.dragodzieran.com/
A black Captain America? Gimme a break.
A white Kunta Kinte would at least be funny.
They did with classic movies like Flight of the Phoenix and The Nutty Professor
I saw the original ‘Absent Minded Professor’ as a kid, and laughed so hard by the end I was “honking” hoarse.
Jerry Lewis was Funny I saw his movie THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY
And the racists at Marvel comics retroactively came up with a black Captain America named Isaiah Bradley who supposedly preceded Steve Rogers and is the product of horrific experimentation by evil whitey. He was the only one who survived the process. All the other po’ black men forced to undergo the process died horribly. Of course. Blacks are victims and whitey is the oppressor. The character is featured in the upcoming Captain Fake movie, “Brave New World.” Even the title is racist and a rip-off. Bradley appears to be unjustly imprisoned by evil whitey in the movie.
And Captain Fake has no super soldier serum, Vita Ray treatment or training in multiple martial arts. But hey, he’s black and that’s all that counts. To “woke,” anti-white racists.
There are as many female characters in the movie as Marvel Studios could shove in there. One of them is Sabra, an Israeli heroine who they obviously included to pretend they’re tolerant.
Anthony Mackie has been in very many movies since he first played the Falcon in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which is an excellent movie. His career is going very well. And yet he resents the very country that made that possible. He’s an asshole. If he dfoesn’t like America and our values he should just leave. We don’t want him here anyway, not with an attitude like that.
If they had to make Captain America black (already arguable), they should have at least picked an actor who is politically conservative, not woke, or one who doesn’t air his moronic political views.
And one who’s good looking. Super heroes are supposed to be attractive, male and female.
Reverse discrimination is not legal.
This is an example of social engineering.
Make sure a beautiful blonde falls in love with him to top off the event.
Don’t care about Mackie or a black or white Capt. America. As Bongino said “Another shit movie I won’t be seeing”
Another woke Disney disaster in the making. Disney isn’t done destroying themselves yet.
Looks like I won’t be wasting my money to see this piece of garbage. (The actor and the movie…)
Why is Captain America black?
I guess because Disney changed “it’s a small world after all” to “it’s a woke world after all.”
Aside from DeNIro being AWOL, where’s that comedian Kathy Griffin been? As Kramer would call her, “The de-noggin’-nator”
The Captain America character transformed into a Hollywood woke politically correct DEI hire by the cosmopolitan brain donors at Marvel Comics, who should have stayed in the comics business.
The Falcon is Captain America #2 in the comics. too. That’s where Marvel studios got that crap from.
What a self righteous prick who is not satisfied with taking a Hero of most young Americans and turning him black for 12% of the population but he also suggests this doesn’t represent America even though that is the actual name of the Super Hero..
Why do all the Caucasian Heroes now have to be Negroes as I have yet to see the King of the Zulus being played by Brad Pitt though Denzel Washington, whom I highly respect as a man and an actor, managed to play the King of Scotland, King Lear, so I have to wonder why black folks dont create their own Heroes for their own children or would that be a racist question, however they do have a lot of Gun Carrying Nigga Rappers to follow and emulate.