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06/17/18

Thank you, Punchy

By: Joan Swirsky | Canada Free Press

I remember as a young teenager going by myself to see “On the Waterfront” at the Whalley Theater in New Haven. I was so mesmerized by the performance of Marlon Brando (30-years old at the time) that it took a dozen more viewings—really, that’s how many times I saw the film, maybe more—before I realized that the greatest actors of the day—Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger—were also featured in the movie.

In the years since that spellbinding experience, I saw dozens more movies, many with tremendously talented stars and amazing performances. But Brando remained a towering icon to me, unchallenged by any of his many idolaters and competitors.

But 20 years later, in 1974, Godfather: Part II debuted, and 31-year-old Robert De Niro, playing the young godfather-to-be, Vito Corleone, hypnotized me as Brando had decades before.

In fact, I remember walking out of the theater and, like a crazy person talking out loud to myself, I said, “I’m sorry, Marlon.” In fact, at that moment, I left Marlon for Robert. Not that I still didn’t—and still do—love Brando for the artistry he has given to the world. But for me, it was De Niro all the way, in spite of the silly films he has made in recent years to keep his decadently lavish lifestyle afloat.

Again, I saw Godfather Two at least a dozen times, even quite recently on TV, and always marvel at De Niro’s staggeringly powerful and affecting performance. The performance, I remind myself, of an actor, a person who pretends professionally to be someone else.

THE CHILD WITHIN

But when the pretending is done, and the actor returns to his or her actual persona, that is when the public gets an inside view of “the real thing.”

No matter how people describe themselves—which is usually in positive, even self-aggrandizing terms—the arch determinant of who they really are—their characters, decency, maturity—comes down to their behavior.

Show me a man or woman of great accomplishment, who in public has what amounts to an obscenity-spewing temper tantrum, and I’ll show you an adult fixated in childhood, in essence a child who has no self-control, no concern about the effect vile language has on young viewers, no respect for community norms, no awareness of his or her infantilism.

And the support that such a person receives—as Robert De Niro’s standing ovation at the recent 2018 Tony Awards attests—is a testimony to the uniform immaturity of his show business colleagues.

That’s right, when De Niro stood up and practically spat into the microphone: “I’m just going to say one thing—F…Trump! It’s no longer ‘down with Trump.’ It’s ‘f… Trump!’” The crowd of like-minded children jumped to their feet to applaud the vulgarity.

As I said, children. Examples abound….here is a teeny tiny sample:

  • Think of all those Madonna fans who bought what she pretended to be—a peace-preaching, red-bracelet-wearing, love-and-understanding adherent of Kabballah—only to realize that she was just another leftist hypocrite when she suggested that the only way to cope with a Trump presidency was to blow up the White House…this before she segued into obscene language for the entire world to hear, including her children.
  • Think of Kathy Griffin, the consistently unfunny comedienne, who thought the only way to cope with a Trump presidency was to hold up a grotesquely gory, blood-soaked head of the president, detached from his body.
  • Think of Bill Maher, another remarkably unfunny comedian, who thought that they only way to cope with a Trump presidency was to wish dire economic hardship on his fellow citizens in the form of a crashing economy and recession.
  • That is not to omit classless media people like Samantha Bee, who could not control inflicting her poisonous venom on Ivanka Trump, or the scandal-plagued Joy Reid whose Twitter tantrum objected to the president’s use of the words church, family, police, military, and national anthem in his State of the Union address.

Once again….children.

De Niro was echoing the behaviors of these children—all Democrats, significantly—who simply cannot control themselves in public and invariably resort to flailing tantrums and filthy language to express their displeasure

What does this remind you of? Hint, hint….visit any daycare or preschool or elementary school playground in America where children ages three to six are playing. What do they do when they get into a conflict? Why they have tantrums, they throw things, they call names, and they cry.

Speaking of calling names, blogger Jeff Dunetz reminds us that, “Just a few weeks before Trump was elected president, De Niro confessed: “I’d like to punch him in the face…he’s a punk, he’s a dog, he’s a pig, he’s a con, a bullsh‚Äì artist, a mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, doesn’t do his homework, doesn’t care…”

Uh huh….a child.

AN AHA MOMENT

Aside from Brando and De Niro, one of the actors I also admired for his blazing talent on screen was Rod Steiger, not only pitch perfect as Marlon Brando’s older brother Charley as the right-hand man of mob boss Johnny Friendly in “On the Waterfront,” but for his searing performances in “The Pawnbroker, “In the Heat of the Night,” and “Dr. Zhivago,” among many other unforgettable movies.

And then it happened. While my husband Steve and I were watching late-night TV, we saw Johnny Carson interview Rod Steiger. I don’t remember the exact words the famed actor said, but it was crystal clear from the beginning of the interview to the end that we were witnessing a person of bloviating self-importance and genuine stupidity!

How could this be? How could someone with the sensitivity and insight to portray both a mob boss lackey and a Holocaust survivor be such a stupendous idiot?

Actually, it’s not such a mystery. As we saw with De Niro’s unhinged, Travis Bickle performance at the Tony Awards, it’s pretty easy to pretend, but impossible to fake who you really are.

At this point, as President Trump approaches 18 months of non-stop dazzling accomplishments—from an upwardly-zooming GDP to record employment to the end of strangulating regulations to strengthening our military to unprecedented leaps forward in foreign affairs to the complete dismantling of every destructive program and policy of the Obama regime—the Democrat children among us are still drooling, spitting, kicking, throwing mud pies, hurling dirty words, crying, lying, and generally devolving at a record pace.

Frankly, I’m quite pleased. For all the contempt the left has for We the People, they proved in the last election that they are not only infantile but clueless. While they—and their corrupt enablers in the media and Hollywood and Obama’s FBI, CIA and DOJ, et al—were clucking about President Hillary, every poll they cited, every spin of every expert was wrong, wrong, wrong.

What they failed to appreciate was that America was watching….and listening…and absorbing the sheer power and promise of Donald Trump and the utter fecklessness and, well, crookedness of Crooked Hillary.

America is still watching, still listening, and now more than ever valuing the difference between a tireless warrior who is Making America Great Again and an entire population of whining, dirty-mouthed, out-of-control children.

President Trump, in response to De Niro’s deranged rant at the Tony Awards, speculated that he had “received too many shots to the head by real boxers in movies” and that “he may be ‘punch-drunk.’”

“Wake up Punchy!” the president tweeted.

Personally, I can’t wait to see the ads of “Punchy’s” tantrum in the upcoming midterm races! They ought to be worth millions of votes.

Thank you, Punchy!

06/17/18

Trapper’s Quote Of The Week

By: Trapper Pettit

In today’s justice system, emails seem to be the only form of concrete evidence. If one looks critically at actions taken and the resulting consequences, remember this… there is a phenomenon called verbal communication.

06/17/18

MSNBC Analysts And Former CIA And NSA Chief Michael Hayden Claim Trump Admin Is Operating Concentration Camps

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

It doesn’t get much more ludicrous than this. The Marxist left is now using the Holocaust as a new talking point on illegal immigration. One after another, they are comparing President Trump’s immigration policies to Hitler. The Nazis killed millions, Trump has killed no one. He certainly wasn’t the one who put in place the policy of separating children from their parents at the border. You can thank previous administrations for most of that. Not to mention the fact that when the children are separated from their parents while their cases are adjudicated, they are placed in a comfortable room with a soft bed, clean clothes, hot meals, education and medical treatment for approximately three weeks while their paperwork goes through. They aren’t put in dog cages – that was Obama, not Trump.

Two hacks pretending to be analysts on MSNBC falsely claimed on Friday that the Trump administration is operating concentration camps for illegal immigrant children who are separated from their parents. That is just obscene and a loathsome insult to the families of those who have lost loved ones in actual concentration camps and gulags… all run by communists, who are the ultimate leftists. Guests Stephanie Cutter and Michael Steele made the remarks, which went completely unchallenged by host Stephanie Ruhle. You remember Michael Steele, right? He used to head up the RNC… yep, he’s a Republican. Shame, shame on him. What a leftist tool he’s become.

Cutter was a high-level official in Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign and she claimed that what the Trump administration is doing was not the law, just merely their “interpretation” of the law. Not true. “We can’t find a solution to this problem without harming children? Without putting them in concentration camps?” Cutter asked, according to the Free Beacon. Again, there are no concentration camps and she damn well knows it. The Democrats are blocking the law being changed that would keep these children with their parents, not the Republicans. They are lying through their teeth and trying to lay the blame on the right to hurt President Trump.

All of them are doing it. For Pete’s sake, Ted Cruz and Jimmy Kimmel played a basketball match yesterday for charity and Kimmel taunted Cruz using these talking points during the game. I’m glad to say that Kimmel lost. Figures that Kimmel would use cheap lying political talking points at a game that was supposed to be non-political and for charity. He’s a sore losing piece of Hollywood trash.

Steele turned the rhetoric up a notch, warning Americans that their children could be next. “I call this a concentration camp for kids,” Steele said. “When you give kids 22 hours of lock-up time and two hours of airtime, what else can it be? And if this is where this country’s going, the American people need to wake up and pay attention, because your kids could be next.” Just despicable. He should be persona non grata in the GOP from now on.

And then there is former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden who was lambasted by thousands on social media after what he said this weekend. He had the gall to compare the Trump administration’s immigration policies to Nazi concentration camps that were used to murder millions of Jews during World War II. Yep, he went there. This is the kind of ‘leader’ we had in intelligence under Bush and Obama. The comparison came less than 24 hours after the MSNBC outrage over throwing children into concentration camps. “Other governments have separated mothers and children,” Hayden wrote on Twitter, attaching a black-and-white image of Auschwitz, the most notorious Nazi concentration camp.

Hayden, who served as CIA director under former President George W. Bush, did not specifically mention the controversial Trump administration policy. However, it’s clear Hayden’s strong message was directed toward it. Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration means that children will be separated from their parents at the border, just as they were under Obama and Bush. However, where they are staying is far better than it was under previous administrations. And Trump wants it to stop so the children can stay with their parents. Follow the law here just like we do with anyone else. The children should be deported with their parents who illegally sneak in. That’s the bottom line here. They are not political weapons for the left to get their way to open our borders so they can have a permanent Marxist voting base.

Hayden is not the first high-profile figure to compare the policy to Nazi Germany. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough started all of this on Friday. The White House is furious and immediately responded to the lie.

I previously wrote:

“You won’t be shocked in the least to know he was referring to the Thursday White House press briefing where Sarah Sanders gave CNN’s Jim Acosta and Playboy Magazine’s Brian Karem a spanking over making dishonest statements concerning illegal immigration, the border and separating children from parents. Scarborough accused Sanders of lying on his “Morning Joe” program. “So why is she lying this much?” Scarborough asked. “I know children are being ripped from their mother’s arms, even while they’re being breast-fed. I know children are being marched away to showers, marched away to showers. Being told they are — just like the Nazis — said that they were taking people to the showers and then they never came back,” he said.”

The White House had this to say:

“It is appalling that Joe Scarborough would compare sworn federal law enforcement officers— who put their lives on the line every day to keep American people safe— to Nazis,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement provided to Fox News. “This is the type of inflammatory and unacceptable rhetoric that puts a target on the backs of our great law enforcement.”

“It is also horribly insulting to the memory of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust. Not only is Scarborough’s rhetoric shameful, but his facts are categorically false. When American citizens break the law, they are separated from their children and prosecuted. It’s unclear why Scarborough believes that illegal aliens are entitled to more rights than those afforded to American citizens. While Scarborough is quick to launch into his straight-to-camera outrage over the temporary separation of illegal alien families, he has never shown similar outrage for the permanent separation of American families forever torn apart from their children, who were killed by criminal aliens as a result of Democrats’ open borders policies,” Gidley continued.

“If Joe Scarborough actually cared about keeping illegal alien families together, he would use his platform to support the Trump Administration’s efforts to close loopholes in federal immigration law,” the statement said.

This is the left weaponizing the media, leftist analysts and anyone else they can dredge up to take a swing at President Trump on illegal immigration. We need to stand strong on this issue because the very freedom and existence of our country depends on it. The Democrats are trying to bludgeon us to death with mocked up scenes of the Holocaust and concentration camps using ‘poor children’ and religion as weapons. But no one is buying it and what they are doing is hitting themselves over the head repeatedly. The blunt truth is if these people did not break the law, they would not be separated from their children at all. I am disgusted by all of this and America is as well.