IT’S OKAY: THE LONGER THEY FOCUS ON THIS FALSEHOOD, THE SLOWER THEY’LL CATCH UP TO THE MASSIVE MOVEMENT OF MINORITY VOTERS TO THE GOP:

C’MON, THAT’S AN EASY ONE: Guess Which Wicked Star Will Play Jesus in Hollywood Bowl Production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

We all knew this was coming, right?

In the era of wokeness, it was inevitable that some production would decide to make Jesus a diverse character, and it’s finally happening:

Will she keep her septum piercing while in character?

Exit quote:

Hey, let’s not lose our heads here — there are limits to stunning and braveness.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Whoopi Demands to Know When Was She Consulted on SpaceX-NASA Contracts.

There was a potent and toxic combination of righteous indignation and ignorance oozing from ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg, during Tuesday’s edition of The View. In addition to blaming the crash of a Delta Airlines flight on the runway of an airport in Toronto, Canada on Elon Musk, she demanded to know: when did she give permission to NASA to sign contracts with Musk’s SpaceX?

Here you go: Whoopi Goldberg Entertains Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories.

Real Clear Politics, July 20th, 2009.

Incidentally, just a reminder that The View is a production of ABC News.

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: “Dave” and Our Situational Politics.

Viewed from our current turbulent times, the [1993 movie, “Dave”] movie is something of a time capsule. It gives us a glimpse into a more egalitarian, less angry Hollywood, back in the days before the movie business went rabid… when the overriding impulse of the theatrical movie model was to tell stories that appealed to the widest possible swath of Americans… because that, as everyone in the world understood, was how you made real money.

The movie is certainly political, in ways we will get into, but its politics are subtle… it is subtext rather than text. If you were not a hyper-partisan, as most normal Americans were not in those pre-social media days, the politics were so subtle that they amounted to little more than background noise.

“Dave” (1993), and then later on “The American President” (1995) and “The West Wing” (1999) created a gauzy Federal fantasy land where Progressive Government was always and everywhere a force for good. Where all Americans aspired to a life beneath an all-powerful benevolent Government which did everything for us from birth to earth. In these movies, government never arrests you for speaking out at your local school board meeting. They don’t deny you disaster aid based on your political yard signs. And they never, ever, kick down your door and murder your pet squirrel. These movies built a world where the heroes were always coded Liberal, where they always did the right thing, and where screenplays written by prominent Hollywood Progressives ensured that Conservative-coded villains would always be frustrated by the ability of their opponents to tie them in rhetorical knots.

Most importantly, with the movies and TV shows of this era, Progressive Hollywood was telling us “this is how it ought to be… this is how Government should work.” But to watch “Dave” here in the post-Biden era… the era of Trump 2.0… is to realize that what Hollywood really did in the late-90’s, was to set a bunch of traps for itself and then gamely walk right into them thirty years later.

Read the whole thing.

CHANGE: NYSE Chicago Moving To Dallas. “Chalk up another case of another company in a failing high tax, high regulation, blue-run locale getting the hell out why the getting is good and moving to Texas.”

TIME FOR ‘SPENDING DECISION TREE TRANSPARENCY:’ The first great landmark in proving transparency is Big Government’s worst enemy was the Freedom of Information Act. (FOIA) in 1966. The second was the Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) of 2006.

The third should be, according to my latest PJ Media column, creation by Congress and President Donald Trump of web site that enables any citizen with access to the Internet to use the Spending Decision Tree Transparency (SDTT) system that makes public the names, titles and actions of every decision-maker in a series of decisions that results in federal tax dollars being spent.

Yes, it would require a great deal of creative thinking and insight into how government spending decisions are made. But I recall too well not that long ago when the “experts” said there was no way to put all federal spending on the Internet. They were wrong and today we have USASpending.gov, as mandated by FFATA. Why not Spending Decision Tree Transparency.gov?

 

THEY CHOSE IT BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH IT:

If my sons ever start to drift leftward — unlikely as that seems — I’ll remind them of the year the government stole from their childhoods.

METAPHOR ALERT:

WATCH: Shocking Video of Toronto Plane Crash Released.

As PJ Media previously reported, there was another commercial airline crash on Monday, when Delta flight DL4819, an Endeavor Air Bombardier CRJ900, crashed during landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Fortunately, all 80 individuals on board survived this harrowing episode, though 18 suffered injuries, with some requiring hospitalization. The crash on the snow-covered runway caused the plane to flip upside down and lose both wings.

NBC “News” knows exactly who to blame for the crash in, err, Canada: NBC News Aviation ‘Expert’ Blames Toronto Plane Crash on… Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Of course, NBC isn’t the only news group with a case of Toronto, err, Trump Derangement Syndrome:

C’mon guys — despite President Trump’s breakneck pace to kick off his second term, it’s not quite yet the 51st state.

JONATHAN TURLEY: Critics Prove Vance’s Point on the Threat of the Anti-Free Speech Movement.

Brennan could not have picked a better country to utterly destroy the point that she was trying to make in favor of limits on free speech.

Germany continued to censor and criminalize speech after World War II, targeting the neo-Nazi movement and other prohibited viewpoints.

Authorities charged citizens for everything from wine labels to ringtones with banned content. The government has sought to force figures like X owner Elon Musk to censor Americans and others to combat anything that it deems “fake news” or “disinformation.”

Of course, Germany’s massive censorship effort has done little to deter the thriving neo-Nazi movement. What it has done is chill the speech of ordinary citizens. One poll of German citizens found that only 18% of Germans feel free to express their opinions in public. Only 17% felt free to express themselves on the internet.

Other nations joined in the harrumphs with equally disingenuous statements, including the United Kingdom. British diplomats expressed shock despite their systemic suppression of free speech, including arresting citizens for simply praying to themselves near abortion clinics.

The British have doubled down on censorship with sweeping new laws. Hundreds have been arrested recently for speech crimes like spreading “fake news” or disinformation that could lead to “non-trivial psychological or physical harm.”

Previously, British citizens were arrested for criticizing religious groups or opposing homosexuality or immigration. In one case, Nicholas Brock, 52, was convicted of a thought crime.

This doesn’t look much like the Western Europe that brave men stood watch at the Fulda Gap to defend.

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Production Hell — It Ends With Us (Video).