Have had to abandon ‘Lace’, because couldn’t comment with ‘agree’, etc., or reply. I noticed few were using the agree, lol, things, but I think it’s my computer, because late last night I had to re-verify some things for several websites and one bank. Does happen sometimes without my knowing why (one bank account required that I get a verification code every time I logged in a couple of months ago, then suddenly stopped.) Hope this works. If it does, and I am able to post or comment, no reason not to just delete this one.

I didn’t look up any of yours yet but decided to see what ‘whiteness’ would bring up: Surprisingly, it was not totally black racist in this one case:

noun: whiteness

1.
the property or quality of being white in color.
“a landscape dominated by the whiteness of snow”
the quality of being very pale.
“the whiteness of her skin, like fine porcelain”
2.
the fact or state of belonging to a human group having light-colored skin.
“whiteness was defined as both a racial and a regional characteristic”

Now I’m going to look up some of yours: Wow. Looked up ‘White American Man’ and got images of darkies (only.) ‘White Man and White Woman’ had a couple of whites in the images, but not one did NOT have darkies too. ‘Who created white people?’ at least has an old 1840 David Scott painting of *ACTUAL WHITE PEOPLE* at the Globe Theater, viewing The Merry Wives of Windsor.

I’m going to Google just ‘white people’ now. The ‘top stories’ are all about things like ‘how hard it is for white people to do anti-racism’. Then wiki does define ‘white people’ in its intro as White people is a racial classification and skin color specifier, used mostly and exclusively for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality,

So some of this is not as bad as I would have expected, but most is shocking. Now I looked up ‘white people images’ and this is also shocking, the third one is Robin d’Angelo, and most of the ‘white people images’ are of yet more darkies.

This is so depressing, and I think it definitely feels more dangerous by the day. I almost feel as though I’ve been ‘lucky thus far’. but it also seems more and more hopeless (and probably was much further back and I just didn’t know), and although some seem to think they have a good idea who will win, I haven’t any educated guess at all–yesterday NYT had this guy in PA and said the polls didn’t reflect what he was seeing on the ground–so maybe Trump will win PA. He couldn’t tell, and therefore I still learned little from his column.

Would you explain what you mean by ‘Jewish thought patterns’ you perceive in Steve’s podcast. I just listened to a bit of it and don’t have any idea what you might be talking about.

In other words, Steve sounds intelligent.

In your response to Bardon Kaldian, he says both ‘thoughtful Jewish’ and ‘[Jewish] thought patterns’.

It wouldn’t follow necessarily that either of these would make Steve ‘sound intelligent’.

We already know he’s intelligent, but it does not follow that ‘Jewish thought patterns’ would make someone ‘sound’ or ‘be intelligent’, or certainly not exclusively would they.

After quite a number of decades in NYC, I have known huge numbers of Jews, but I’m not sure I’d know what their ‘thought patterns’ were–short of the oft-discussed entitlement and double standards of critique and sponsoring of blacks and marrying them–even though I do know a number of Jewish accents primarily concentrated in this metro area (and we’re agreed there are none of those.)

Be so kind as to clarify.

I threw them a bone, and I know they will take it and expect more. (That’s a joke too, BTW.)

The photo is a bit more of a joke (because, ultimately, they really will take just that, and expect more–immediately, if not sooner, as they say), since he does look très, très juif… I wonder if he is a mulatto like Alan Dershowitz and the other one ‘Pheasant’ posted.

Clevah.

Oh man, on this one, I had such a desperate need I could only see the Fragonard, and could not believe it was there. GETTING WORSE.

(I had meant to put ‘Lace’ a second time as the aka, but somehow put ‘Race’, so I’ve changed it to be right. Now I have comments in 3 places, but that will be remedied shortly. And don’t want to hear any perceptions of ‘Freudian slips’, I never ever have them!)

Meanwhile, some of us have gotten so calm and cool about it, as if it doesn’t affect us. I like that pretentious attitude and am comfortable with having cultivated it. Every day has so many *Big Events* in it that the election just seems *business as usual*.

The only definitively good thing about this is that they shot him. As for the political repercussions, I’ve read things that go both ways with the PA voters. Both candidates told citizens there that ‘it depends on PA’. I don’t know, and I don’t believe anyone does.

But at least this creep is one less of this particular sort. He’s like Jason Blake type write large. They even call animals like this ‘young men’. Always has a weird cacophony to it.

My favorite newspaper cliche about dead people is “He had a smile for everybody.” But if the person was really creepy, you get “He kind of always kept to himself.”

LaSteatopygia.

I agree, they would have been better off aborted. Easier said than done, how many 10’s of thousands of these rodents have such wonderfully organized life-styles?

This is the first I hear of this, and it’s just across the B’klyn Bridge from me. I checked and NYTImes did not cover it, not even a mention–what a SHIT PAPER. Wall Street Journal did and CBS as well. Incredible. I’m going to check WaPo…NO, nothing at all. This is getting to be like non-stop ECT, except there’s no need for general anaesthesia.

The one case that comes to mind is that of Botham Jean (even he was a weed smoker but otherwise he seemed to be a pretty clean guy). Of course Jean was Caribbean and not ADOS.

It’s probably because he was a “pretty clean guy” that his case got so little attention, that and the fact that he wasn’t American born. BLM types seem to care less about blacks who make good and lead blameless lives. Anyone black who isn’t a thug is selling out to the Man.

I think you, at least, mean ‘cowardice’. Tact hasn’t a thing to do with it.

She just looks like a garden-variety affirmative-action dyke.

You will please now purchase this phrase after actively bystanding me for me luxurious dinner-table conversation.

It can be leaning into humor to unpack “compliments” — for example, your boss describes a Black colleague as “articulate,” the subtext being that this is somehow exceptional — or educating friends about the problematic origins of commonplace expressions. …

Especially since it is always exceptional.

What chic dinner parties we have to look forward to in this brave luminous future! Even the food will be ‘too White’, and we’ll have to be sure that Sweet Potato Pie is always served and Thanksgiving is quickly made verboten (if not this year, then when?), because the former is white people only being ‘anti-racist’ and not ‘anti-white’ enough as they must be (sort of like white people wearing hideous dreadlocks which look almost as bad on blacks), the latter for being just plain ray-ciss by proclaiming #AmericanIndiansLivesMatter, which is as bad as #AllLivesMatter. The subject can never be changed, so you might as well be violently silent, since the point is to breed all the money out of whites for purses and Prada bags.

Oh well, yeh, yeh, but I still hate Greenwald and Naomi Klein.

Of all the words of tongue or pen
The saddest are “aspiring rapper”

Sondheim criticizes Lorenz Hart a good deal too. But did Sondheim every write anything as outrageous as “I’ve sinned a lot…I’m mean a lot…and suddenly I’m sweet seventeen a lot..” and “Men are not a new sensation…I’ve done pretty well I think”….from ‘Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered’. I think his lyrics are much better than all that CORN Oscar Hammerstein wrote.

Sondheim is universally, though, condemned for another line in West Side Story: “Today, the world was just and address…a place for me to live in…no better than all right..” Oh my god that’s a howler.

He was usually better as a lyricist though, especially Gypsy with the 3 strippers: “I’m electrifyin’…and I’m not even tryin’….I nevah have to sweat to get paid….”

I don’t really like his music except in Company (and you had to be here right in its milieu to really ‘get it’) and Follies. Everybody talks about Sweeney Todd, as if somebody selling human meat pies should inspire sympathy. He gets more and more pretentious beginning with A Little Night Music.

That’s very interesting and clever to have thought of–I hadn’t ever. It does very much make a huge difference, and then commenters were responding to you and got to Showboat, Jerome Kern. I think it was Sondheim also talking about how Kern had also this uncanny ability in the first couple of lines of “All the Things You Are” to go to F instead of F# followed immediately with the tritone to B Natural with ‘that makes the lonely winter seem long’ (when sung in A Flat. That comes after “You are the promised gift of Springtime” if anyone doesn’t know the song.) Exactly the same, except the music. Lots of times Sondheim gets things like that exactly right, but his music started getting a ‘sick sound’ to it that was weak.

This must be the dumbest era in history.

LOL at “Don’t Touch My Hairs”. Good for African-American porn elements too.

Makes me think that some of the very gamma type white allies will want–more than anything–to marry morbidly obese black women. I don’t know if morbidly obese black women refuse incel sex, or if that was white ugly women. I saw a pop-up on PornHub a few weeks ago that said “Ugly Women Ready for Sex”, so I didn’t know such as these outcast sorts of looks had gone commercial, but maybe it works. Those fat black women are also the ones who are really LOUD bitches too.

Great piece of writing. I hate how spot on it is. Truly a nightmare. I do hope Philadelphia will make people vote for Trump, but it doesn’t seem like it. But then, what do I know about this. I keep saying that, because I just don’t. Horrible, horrible, and it’s making me feel sick some of the time.

Not nearly always.

I do have a photographic memory, but anybody would remember ads on a porn site called ‘Ugly Women Ready to Fuck’. I didn’t click, so shut the fuck up. Ugly women of any race are not my thing.

Yes, In NYC, you see all the Big Black Mamas, and they often have the loudest voices, but I find black in general to be very loud.

So you’ve never looked at porn? That’s just wonderful. Most people have, including, I’m sure, plenty at UR. I couldn’t give a shit what you think.

The point was only that I didn’t have any idea purposely ugly people were ‘selling porn’.

I saw a pop-up on PornHub a few weeks ago that said “Ugly Women Ready for Sex”, so I didn’t know such as these outcast sorts of looks had gone commercial, but maybe it works

If you can remember a pop-up ad from a few weeks ago, you must have a photographic memory. Maybe the ugly women in the ad tickled your particular fetish or something.

Those fat black women are also the ones who are really LOUD bitches too.

Do you know this only from watching porn, or do you have firsthand experience?

No, I don’t know it from watching porn, I have never watched “Fat Bitch Porn”.

Dunno about “first-” specifically, but porn goes hand in hand with a “hand experience”.

That is fucking hilarious! Can’t believe you found the exact thing…too funny.

Every Kip seeks his LaFawnduh.

Video Link

… the last time the Times has mentioned … Harold Haley, the judge whose head was blown off by the shotgun Davis had purchased … was 1986. Since then, the Times has written about Davis 397 times without mentioning the murdered judge by name once.

Anti-Whites push anti-Whitism, not surprising. We just had more brutal decapitations in France. Anti-Whites will say “well the French did colonialism, so they got it coming”, or “the French shouldn’t have gone to the Middle East”.

They will highlight every time a Frenchman was mean to a Muslim or encroached on “their land”.

In other words, they justify anti-White attacks. This crowd isn’t going to learn better. It’s not knowledge problem. They are simply fueled by hate.

I always thought Obama’s bizarre crusade to get trannies in the military stemmed from the fact that he was owned, in part, by the mega-powerful Pritzgers. Jennifer is probably still fighting for her right to party.

Jennifer Natalya Pritzker (born James Nicholas Pritzker; August 13, 1950) is an American investor, philanthropist, and member of the Pritzker family. Pritzker retired as a lieutenant colonel from the United States Army in 2001, and was later made an honorary Colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard. Founder of the Tawani Foundation in 1995, Tawani Enterprises in 1996, and the Pritzker Military Library in 2003, Pritzker has been devoted to civic applications of inherited and accrued wealth, including significant donations to broaden understanding and support for “citizen soldiers.”

In August 2013, Pritzker released a statement to individuals associated with two business and philanthropic organizations that subsequently received wide media coverage, indicating the change from “J.N.” to “Jennifer Natalya” to reflect her status as a transgender woman, making her the first and only openly transgender billionaire.

Were you saying Leonardo was asexual? I don’t know about Newton, but this I got just be googling, and I’d read more or less the same last year in the book Young Leonardo by Jean-Pierre Isbouts. In 1476, a week before his 24th birthday, Leonardo, along with three other young men, were anonymously accused of committing sodomy with a 17-year-old male prostitute named Jacopo Saltarelli. … Two years after the sodomy accusations, he drew in his notebook a doodle of an older man and young boy facing each other.

Anyway, that’s likely enough to prove Leonardo was, at most, latently homosexual but did not act on his desires (as Freud concluded, but based on wrong ‘bird symbolism’. The wiki on his ‘Personal Life’, because so many writers differ in their opinion of this. It includes Leonardo’s ‘disgust at the act of procreation’, but others said he was ‘actively homosexual’, including art historian Kenneth Clark. I suppose the ones who think he was active could be right, and that he could have been, while declaring ‘procreation disgusting’–a little extreme, but it could follow, because there could be such a thing as active homosexuality and loathing of ‘what makes babies’.

Was surprised to see this many varying opinions, and don’t remember another reference to his sexuality in Isbouts’s book, but I do think it does not fall under what it now called ‘asexual’. (Which sounds almost as bad as tranny, but requires a lot less maintenance, it would seem. I always think trannies never talk about anything else but their ‘current sexual status’. Even if they do, they always seem to want to talk about that at least 1/3 of the time (thinking of a scientist I saw interviewed on Charlie Rose some years ago, but he was part of a group–and the subject was trannydom…so…I guess I don’t know of any trannies talking about anything else.)

the most macho pre-op Trannies

That’s got to be one of the pure end-of-the-world concepts. Vile.

I read one article about contemporary asexuality, but maybe 5 years ago, so don’t remember so well, except that it’s a very very tiny percentage. I would guess their activism amounts to something approximating nil. My impression is run by lesbians more than even trannies, although trannies scream the most. I had to get through an Pride Parade in 2018, I believe, to buy coffee in bulk at a certain store, and it was horrible to be in these environments. But I definitely noticed a lot of very fem gays being bossed as if on a leash by lesbians, the uglier and more unwashed the better.

Heterosexual promiscuity is hard to pinpoint. What isn’t difficult is heterosexual practices have included, when affordable, most or all of the same things homosexuals and lesbians have always practice. They all go back to time immemorial, and I remember some commenter elsewhere some years ago saying that men and women didn’t practice fellatio, cunnilingus, and/or sodomy till the 60s. That’s thoroughly ignorant, just not in strict households. Some of these are in my own family. Couples who have never done anything but missionary position sex, and don’t even think about the other things, but looser heterosexual couples definitely do all of it, and there’s no reason why they shouldn’t. Maybe ‘heterosexual promiscuity’ became more prevalent in the 60s–you rarely find virgins for a couple of generations (although both my sisters were when the married)–and there definitely has been a lot more ‘sleeping around’ than there was in America in the 50s. Although there was certainly quite a lot already. Surprised to find that in the UK, there were far more virgins till married than in the U.S. But I shouldn’t be. America has always specialized in some form of decadence.

But the SEXUAL ACTS are definitely not homosexual any more than they are heterosexual–it’s quite simple: Both do them and always have. It’s other configurations that make people not want to bring up that heterosexual couples suck each other off and some girls like to be sodomized.

The Blacks fear Harris will become a Gulag enforcer and retaliate against all those who rioted and just wanted a free TV.

If Dems win, I hope that’s true, and her previous record shows it might.

(

Black

riots in Democratic cities are no longer my concern, I don’t live there anymore. It’s GREAT tv!)

Yeah, well, I’m sure they’ll figure out a way to get to rotters like you. It couldn’t happen to a better person.

I hope Trump wins, but I’m with Steve–no way to do anything but cheerlead.

I predict that if Trump wins we will wander aimlessly through the swamp for another four years with Kushner and Ivanka leading us in circles.
If Biden wins we will return to Obama era wars and trade deals, with the nastiest lesbians in America put in charge of our schools, neighborhoods, and personal lives.
I pray for the swamp.

Kayleigh is attractive and fairly pretty, not beautiful.

Melania is beautiful. Big difference.

Yeah, he was sensational–start to finish. NYT obit mentions his ‘early, forgettable’ film with Lana Turner Another Time, Another Place, but I didn’t know she literally chose him herself. Ah well, it was probably a hot time when all is said and done, although I’ve seen the film and it was truly awful. Mentioned that because he and Johnny Stompanato, Lana’s mobster bf., had a fist-fight and Connery beat him–which can’t have been easy; Stompanato was no pussy. He was always having a hard time, poor Johnny, most think her daughter Cheryl killed him, but I’ve got insider info on that one–and when drunk, Lana would admit that she killed him herself–while he was in flagrante delicto with…Cheryl (whom she also tried, but failed, to kill at the same time LOL–charming woman…)

Nothing was ever as uncannily great as all his Bond movies, but he and Audrey Hepburn were wonderful a few years later in Robin and Marian.

He was one of the all-time greats, just impeccable.

He would have been had he been in it.

I agree, and have had to do it. Turning over my knee and spanking too. Only one woman–she was constantly hysterical and screaming hatefully. I put up with her way too long because of her looks. Humprey B0gart used to have to slap up Lauren Bacall, and that’s not too bit a stretch to see why.

Yeah, THAT morsel I heard 3rd-hand or so–and it was from an internet troll, of all things. So your details make that much more vivid. Thanks.

Then it was inappropriate and I’m sure no one else thought it was anything but stupidity too. Nobody expects sarcasm as a comment about someone’s death (if it is an admired and important person.) How thoroughly asinine. You should live in a mud hut (igloo too good.)

You’re just uncouth.

It was sarcasm…
I do not live in a mud hut. I have rabbit ears wrapped in aluminum foil atop my igloo.

The Stompanato story is amazing. The guy was a hit man for the Mob. Supposedly a jealous Stompanato showed up on set with a gun. Story is Connery took it from him and knocked him around.

RIP Sean Connery.

Now, Connery never came across as the smartest bloke in interviews, and his very late career flounderings are legendary—he turned down Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he “didn’t understand the script”, and then a major role in The Matrix because, again, he “didn’t understand the script”, and after those two massive mistakes, he figured that he shouldn’t turn down a role because he didn’t understand it—and promptly jumped into the massive bomb known as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Also, Connery never seemed very interested in doing artistic, “actorly” roles, but was more intent on big meaty parts in forthright films. In other words, Connery wasn’t really an actor, he was a star.

That said, his career was excellent, and came in two waves. The first was obviously the 60’s Bond films, and its sad the producers burned bridges with him so much he never came back for any reunions. But the producers that made all the “official” Bond films have a reputation of pissing off the Bonds and cutting them out without warning—Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan both have had bad words to say about how they were cut out of their Bond roles and left on bad terms.

But back to Connery: in the late 80s, he came back a second time as the sexy old man with the 1-2 punch of The Untouchables and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, making him popular with younger audiences. And he got a deserved Oscar for The Untouchables. And of course The Hunt for Red October was a smash as well.

And his voice—-that smooth Scottish tone was catnip to women. I know many women many decades younger who, upon first hearing his dulcet tones, fell in love with it. A man falls in love through the eyes, but a woman through her ears. He never bothered hiding his accent despite his roles as non-Scottish folk, but people loved it; its probably why Arnold Scwarzenegger also decided that bothering to hide his accent was stupid, and it worked for him, too.

My favorite Connery story is from the mid-90’s action movie The Rock, an underrated classic in which Connery co-starred with Nic Cage. A young Michael Bay directing, but the studio heads were not liking the dailies and wanted to replace him as director.

Bay arrived at the studio one day and was heading into meet with the producers who were on the verge of firing him when he happened to run into Connery leaving the lot—who was off from filming and dressed to go golfing.

Connery stopped Bay and asked him why he looked so glum, and Bay explained he thought he was going to be fired. Connery said that was b.s., Bay was doing a fine job and the film was good, and decided to go to the meeting with Bay.

So Connery stood up in all his golfing outfit in in front of the producers and told them point blank that Bay was a very good director and doing a very good job and if they fired him Connery would quit.The studio guys were intimidated, and left Bay to direct.

The Rock became a big hit, and Bay’s career was back on track. All thanks to Sir Sean going to bat for a young, insecure director and making studio heads cower before his booming Scottish voice.

RIP, Mr. Bond.

Robert Mitchum is maybe my favourite American actor when real movies were still made. Not an urbane image like Connery’s Bond, but nobody was more nonchalant. He would even laugh at his co-actors if they were absurd (like Tab Hunter in Track of the Cat out in the wilderness, looking dressed for some little holiday party), and Liz Taylor in Secret ceremony when she was really beginning to get cowlike (that was the funniest one.) He was even good in that moonshine thing Thunder Road, where his son played his brother. But all those noirs too like Out of the Past. He had this aura, and that made it so he could leer really well, as at Marilyn Monroe in River in No Return (and, I’m sure, elsewhere…) I don’t think he was better than Connery, but maybe more interesting.

Or maybe it’s just that it was not funny.

It’s purely a matter of ‘getting Good Darwin’.

The best James Bond ever. When Men were Men and Women were Women. His best quote ever: “Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and Fuck the Prom Queen.”

RIP: We will miss you!

“He apparently did a great deal of TV Shakespeare early in his career.”

If you can find it (DVD is an option), his Hotspur in the 1960 BBC’s “An Age of Kings” Henry IV part 1 is good.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239157/

Sean Connery was the biggest star ever. Period. He was a star among stars. David Letterman saud that, in his 30 years doing the Tonight Show, he only had two guests who’s aura and charisma intimidated him, and Connery was one of them(the other is Michael Fassbender). Connery’s charisma was *monstrous( . It wasn’t a one-in-a-million charisma, but more like one-in-a-billion.

That sounds a little like the hype that was thrown at Barbra Streisand when she first erupted. I used to buy into those things, but don’t anymore.

Sean Connery is one of the greatest male film stars, but he is not greater or handsomer than Gary Cooper, for example, and probably not as good an actor. He was extraordinarily handsome, but not probably not as handsome as other debonair, suave types such as Louis Jourdan or Alain Delon, who are lesser-sized stars, one might say. And although he did fine work after *Bond*, it is totally all about *BOND*. That’s one of the most extraordinary things in all cinema, but it is not the single one that is higher than all others. After all, there are also the directors who have come up with BRANDS as good as BOND. Almost all of D. W. Griffith’s films were uncannily great, and Connery never made a film as great as Children of Paradise with Arletty and Barrault.

Then there are the female stars: Loren herself was up at the zenith, as are Catherine Deneuve and Garbo. Delphine Seyrig.

And there are a lot of singers as good or better than Barbra Streisand in the 60s, and already were, in fact. Some people just have a particular kind of charisma that gets them certain kinds of popularity. They like this sort of fame, the charisma is itself fame.

That sort of thing is will definitely create for you as Real God, but just to point out that no, he is not the only one who occupies a singular place in greatness in Film. If you just want to worship, that’s what Extreme Fans do, but that’s not what Art is about. Although I do think Connery was magnificent–I’m not at all saying he was not altogether fabulous.

when you think about it, the only ‘quintessential English gent’ who played Bond was Roger Moore.

Sean Connery – Scot
Pierce Brosnan – Irish
George Lazenby – Aussie
Timothy Dalton – proper actor, doesn’t count
Daniel Craig – not a gentleman

But then there was David Niven in the original (spoof) Casino Royale. Put the ‘quint’ in ‘essential’, I think.

And the next one… in these enlightened and vibrant days, the odds against a straight, white Englishman must be 99/1?

I read several of Theroux’s travel books. The most important for me was The Happy Isles of Oceania, although I had determined to get to Tahiti well before that–since I saw the movie of South Pacific at age 7–and did go there twice. Plus, my father brought back from the Pacific War a 1941 The Pacific Islands Year Book (which I still have) that was totally intoxicating, and was much more important than Theroux’s book (where he did not cover French Polynesia as well as he did the Solomons and even New Zealand.) He was all over the Pacific–New Guinea, Guadalcanal, Rabaul, Fiji, and was annoyed I wanted to go to islands which had only one war incident, and that during WWI, from German warships. There were cannon still up high in Bora Bora from WWII, never used as I recall, which I saw on the 4WD tour–I never take tours but this was the only way and I got my share of Israeli honeymooners. The one in Tahiti was much better, driven by a Marquesan.

Also liked The Kingdom by the Sea about Britain (including N. Ireland), and to some degree Riding the Iron Rooster, his train ride through China.

He tends to go from this Romanticism to his New England Scold thing sometimes, so that the travel books sometimes sound a bit fictional. I like a couple of his novels better–esp. Picture Palace and The Family Arsenal, both better than The Mosquito Coast, which seems so mechanical. But he was very athletic, kayaked a lot in the Pacific one, knew how to travel.

I heard once that as soon as Fleming saw Connery walk into the audition he said something along the lines of “That’s him. That’s James Bond”

I have no verification for that story but Connery does bare resemblance to Fleming’s brother.

Having just read this thread and considering the one yesterday, it’s mostly in memory I value Bond. I read only Thunderball, and saw only Goldfinger and Thunderball, which I quite enjoyed. But I was never that much of a fan. I thought Connery was perfect for the role, but didn’t follow his career through the years, although there are some now I definitely need to catch up on–absurd I haven’t seen The Man Who Would Be King and The Untouchables, although nothing else has quite caught me.

I was trying to think of English actors who could have done Bond. Lawrence Harvey was probably a better actor, and equally suave and debonair–and I wouldn’t have known he was Jewish till I read it. Although not perhaps ‘humorous’ and slightly exhibitionistic as Connery was. Some said Roger Moore was more ‘upper-class’ but that’s upper-class-seeming, because he was a policeman’s son. I didn’t see any of his Bond films, although I always liked him in The Saint. Lookswise, Mark Eden was right, but maybe he wasn’t enough of a heavyweight–he looked very strapping in his brief appearance as Kim Stanley’s husband in Seance on a Wet Afternoon.

The only one that really comes to mind that would have been effective is French–don’t they have Meryl-Streep-accent-actors too?–Jean-Louis Trintignant. This is due to his performance in the superb The Outside Man of 1972 with Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, and Angie Dickinson. This was a great noir, and I don’t know anybody else who’s seen it. He had the nonchalant attitude and the looks to do Bond, but I don’t think he would have necessarily wanted to– and I haven’t seen that lightness in him, though, that Bond needs to have some of.

If David Niven was going to do Bond, Fleming may not have seen Bond as particularly an ultimate ladies’ man–sophisticated upper-class but not so much masculine charisma–nowhere near Connery or Moore in that way. In fact, although I could see him as a fine actor, I didn’t think he was that much of a STAR–but his Oscar-winner, Separate Tables, was pretty fantastic, and had an amazing cast. I haven’t seen Casino Royale.

But there was rioting and looting in Fairfax and BH in late May, early June, wasn’t there? And Rodeo closed Nov. 3 and 4. Not everybody supports getting themselves looted, although there have been plenty of stories of dept. stores looted and then BLM is given money. There was one small business in NYC, I think run by Indians (but seems long ago now), where the owner was just ‘so glad’ to have been of help with this ’cause’. I’m sure I’ve heard of a lot more of these, but already in Portland in the very early days of St. George, there were all those white people doing the knee and apologizing to some big black mamas who ‘wept’. Gross.

They were boarding up just a few blocks from me on 6th Ave. yesterday, and continue today–Staples, BB&B, Ann Taylor. I read Rodeo Drive will be guarded and closed both Nov. 3 and 4, I don’t know whether the constant police presence means the stores all have to be boarded up too. But I just looked to see that a lot of ‘the rest of LA’ is boarding up too. Isn’t Malibu pretty Jewish too? I don’t believe they are the sorts that would allow rioting and looting, even with all the heart-on-the-sleeve Industry types. The Upper West Side in NYC (I know BH, Bel Air, etc. is ‘West Side’ in LA, but I don’t know if you have an ‘Upper West Side’ as such) is super-Jewish-liberal, and has been a joke for decades in that way. The Upper East Side is not run by Jews, and they have the hardest time getting into the ‘best co-ops’ still. But that’s why it was so shocking and telling when there was some rioting even in the E. 60s back in June.

SoHo, already attacked twice, is boarding up. What a ridiculous way to have to live.

Yeah, I’m not particularly anti-Hispanic at all, never have had trouble with Puerto Ricans and Cubans for decades in NYC. The blacks finally found that Hispanics are not, on forms you fill out about such things, Hispanic-black (those are just black), and you don’t ever see it either. You see ‘non-Hispanic white’. Hispanics are much more like whites than they are blacks. Although gangs in LA, and a lot of them in prison. But BLM finally proved to themselves that they don’t give a shit about Hispanics or, in fact, any other so-called People of Color. They care only about COLOURED PEOPLE, Negroes, and ‘nigras’.

The only thing good about St. Floyd is that ‘coloured people’ will never have White Privilege, but that Hispanics are not exactly lily-white, but get a lot more White Privilege, are not African-Americans, and do not have kinky hair unless they’re ‘Black/Hispanic Mix’.

Isn’t that MUCH too subtle for them? It’s not realistic to think they could keep something like that in mind.

The wisdom of De Gaulle:

It is very good that there be yellow Frenchmen, black Frenchmen, brown Frenchmen. They show that France is open to all races and that she has a universal vocation. But on the condition that they remain a small minority. Otherwise, France would no longer be France.

We are of course above all a European people, of white race, of Greek and Latin culture, and of Christian religion. Let us not invent fanciful stories! The Muslims, have you gone to seem them? Have you looked at them with their turbans and their djellabas? You obviously see that they are not Frenchmen

Those who advocate integration have the brain of a hummingbird, even if they are very scholarly. Try to integrate oil and vinegar. Shake the bottle. After a while, they will separate again. The Arabs are Arabs, the French are French. You think that the French body can absorb 10 million Muslims, who tomorrow will be 20 million and after-tomorrow 40 million? If we go for integration, if all the Arabs and all the Berbers of Algeria were considered as Frenchmen, how would you stop them from coming to live in the home country, given that the standard of living is so much higher? My village would no longer be called Colombey-les-Deux-Églises [Colombey-the-Two-Churches], but Colombey-the-Two-Mosques.

Whatever. None of that makes any sense, at least not to me. So anyway they did teach Connery not to be such a ‘thug’, never knew that till these threads. I just discover today that I really care little about Ian Fleming’s books and that it was just the movies I saw, and only Connery’s, that have left a lasting impression–and it’s only when taken as a whole–all his Bond work–that they actually do mean much to me: I don’t think of any of the Bond movies as extraordinary the way I do hundreds of other films, but his essaying of Bond is pretty damned *bright*. I’m sure that if Jeremy Irons had been old enough, he could have done it. You’d probably call Robert Mitchum a ‘thug’ too. I think he was one of the most interesting and even mysterious American actors, and did Philip Marlowe in Farewell My Lovely with Charlotte Rampling better than Bogart, who was much more of a swell than Bridgeport’s Mitchum. Mitchum better than Dick Powell in the same story, but called Murder My Sweet, with the great devil-woman Claire Trevor. I looked for a good Philip Marlowe a long time after reading all the Chandler novels, and discovered this Mitchum treasure by accident; it’s a beautiful film.

so Robert Shaw should have replaced Connery… no wonder we’ve now wound up with Negroes as the masculine ideal.

Wouldn’t you say that’s a bit a of a stretch–going from Niven to Connery’s ‘thug’ and Shaw ‘should have done Bond’ to ‘our Negro masculine ideal’?

Anyway, to some degree, it even makes sense that Negroes are to some degree one of the obviously important ‘masculine ideals’: It’s SPORTS, with Michael Jordan, Reggie Jackson, Tiger Woods, Wilt Chamberlain, dozens more–including the women!…more than movies. You seem to be saying that Connery led us to the point of some ‘generalized Negro masculine ideal’, but surely you can’t have meant that…

Another British Smoothie, Michael York, is probably a bit too ‘tender’ for Bond, although his acting ability was always fairly unlimited; but maybe a bit too refined (Bond is not subtle.) Steve has been talking about Cary Grant/David Niven. Grant would never have been able to get Bond right and make of him an icon, which Connery has done–even for people like me who don’t really think Ian Fleming’s books are exactly great literature. In fact, this fictional hero over many novels is probably everywhere, but nothing else comes to mind right now but Marlowe to match Bond–and yet Chandler was really an artist with those Romantic noirs, they’re among the most unique American creations. One of the great writers of LA. So maybe some people find Fleming an artist. Is interesting that Los Angeles has always been by far the most noirish city–much more than NYC, although there were a few. Nothing as good as Double Indemnity. But there’s Fante with Ask the Dust, and Didion’s essays in The White Album have a lot of that L.A. noir atmosphere (while living in that Franklin Ave. house) that some of us have gone in search of (her novels less so.) Film Forum here did a month of ‘London noir’, and man, did it ever not work after you’ve read a lot of L.A. writers. I guess Ellroy was the last one doing it seriously and on a big scale (and, though they’re very good, they’re sometimes overblown and all the movies made from the books were terrible, including L.A. Confidential, raved over by people who haven’t read the book to see just what butchery they did to it), and I think David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive may have been the last truly noir film, and that was some film. But Mulholland Falls with Nick Nolte was also a fine neo-noir film about 5 years earlier. Five years after Mulholland Drive was De Palma’s film of The Black Dahlia, which I found atrocious. But it was a testament to how irrelevant noir was by then. I saw a noir play off-Broadway around 2004, and that was nowhere. I could still feel the atmosphere as late as 2001 when I started going to L.A. a lot–the Hollywood area was still very sinister along Western-, but I thought it had vanished just a few years later.

My own take is that James Bond was a series of several movies starring Sean Connery. And that’s it. The other movies were just goofy or brutal,in the case of Craig,adventure movies starring different guys playing a guy named James Bond. He could’ve been named Horace Finkelstein,for all I cared.
Bond was of a particular actor and a particular time,that being the 60s,before,as Bob Hope said,the “serious stuff” started.

Its fitting that JFK loved the books. He gave Bond a 60s New Fronteah imprimatur.

Bond,by Connery,was part of the British Invasion,sort of a shot across the bow. Our innate Anglophilia was arousd by Bond, soon after bowled over by the Beatles. I recall one passing remark,where Connery jokes about the Fab Four; delightful!

It was also about Technicolor,and beautiful women in bikinis and the Caribbean seen through the eyes of a young boy who had heretofore only seen movies with Jerry Lewis and Buddy Hackett, etc.

When Connery,older,came back to do a Bond,it just wasn’t worth the effort.
The real question, could anyone else have played Zardoz?

She didn’t. That has to be Dionne Warwick that he’s mistaken for Bassey. Bassey is a great singer, and I agree about Goldfinger, but here:

Tom Jones, ‘Thunderball’ (1965)
Jones wasn’t their first choice: Shirley Bassey, Dionne Warwick and Johnny Cash also submitted songs for Thunderball, but at the last possible minute they opted for the Welsh singer.

No way if both Warwick and Bassey submitted songs that Bassey would imitate Dionne, and she couldn’t have possibly done that anyway. Nobody could.

That is Dionne Warwick singing that version of the rejected title theme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(soundtrack)#Title_theme_change

The original main title theme to Thunderball was titled “Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”, which was written by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse. The title was taken from an Italian journalist who in 1962 dubbed agent 007 as “Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”. Barry had thought he could not write a song about a vague “Thunderball” term or the film’s story, so his song was a description of the character James Bond.[2]

The song was originally recorded by Shirley Bassey. When there were concerns with the length of the track compared to the needed titles, it was later rerecorded by Dionne Warwick as Bassey was not available and featured a longer instrumental opening designed so the lyrics would not be heard until after the title “Thunderball” appeared in Maurice Binder’s title design.[3] Neither version was released until the 1990s. The song was removed from the title credits after United Artists requested that the theme song contain the film’s title in its lyrics.[4] When it was planned to use the Warwick version in the end titles Shirley Bassey sued the producers[5][6] with the result being that neither version was heard in the film and different instrumental versions of the theme appeared on the High Fidelity (Bassey’s) and Stereo (Warwick’s) soundtrack LPs.[7]

What total apoplectic shitass talk. It does not erase identity in neighborhoods where people know each other, only with people you’ve never seen. And you don’t know masks don’t work, you fucking DON’T.

And I pretty much gotten to the point where anybody approaching me the street had best take a mask off if they are going to talk to me.

I wonder who would want to approach you. You’d probably sound like a ‘roid freak even with a mask on.

Let’s face it, a faceless female is just a cunt, product, no longer human, and likely to be exploited. And a faceless alleged male is simply a simpering coward, legitimately exploited.

Yeah, you’re right, you’re not even an ‘alleged male’, just a CUNT.

Yes, and before masks there was the good ol’ hoodie for street crims/thugs to shield their faces from the cameras.

Plus, conversely, has Steve factored in how many white lives the Chinese Corona-virus and masks have saved from deadly negro violence?

The virus made many a whitey stay at home indoors and off the streets and thus away from the threats to live and limb from street thug niggaz/stray bullets from negro versus negro crossfire etc etc.

While as far as masks are concerned, the 6 feet distance between you and the nearest negro means a) lessened threats from the angry or crazy ones getting in your face; and/or b) giving you more of a head start to flee or more time in preparing to defend yourself from polar bear hunters/sucker-punchers/gentle giants etc.

Over the years I’ve heard many people say this generation needs a good long war! I would tell them that that I was in Vietnam and that I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Until 2020. Until coronavirus. Now, I think we need six Vietnams. On my ballot, I didn’t vote for Trump, I didn’t vote for Biden, I wrote in “someone who fought in Vietnam.” I fought in Vietnam. Steve was a kid during Vietnam, and that’s a damn shame. Because if he fought, he might have the GUTS to say that the people who won’t wear masks deserve to sent to another Vietnam. I’m the only one with any guts around here.

And we were wearing masks AT LEAST a month before Memorial Day. The Chinese always wore them and many probably still do. Nick Land wrote a lot of Tweets about how ‘even the worst ones are better than nothing’, and he lives in Shanghai–just reading his tweets made me go get several KN95’s while I still could. Wasn’t being touted here yet, due to shortage or whatever. Finally Ross Douthat said something, but we do know that the Chinese have been successful, although we also know they don’t have a Negro ass-suck problem either.

The murder rate increased 57% in Chicago in 2016. I don’t think it had anything to do with wearing masks at the time. That is what I call Black Lives Matter version 1.0. On Memorial Day of this year we saw the release of Black Lives Matter version 2.0. The upgraded BLM is far more deadly than the prior version.

Glad to hear somebody mention William Smith. Sort of an early bodybuilder actor, and had a brief mainstream few years, including Any Which Way You Can with Eastwood, who naturally had to win the fight–more famous. He was good in the Laredo television western, and did all those fabulous Hell’s Angels movies in the early 70s, including Angels Die Hard, which I’ve got an old vhs of; I think that was the best one. He was even a child actor, whom you can see in The Song of Bernadette (as a little boy already looks like the Muscle Beach character he’d become) and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. All the biker movies were the best though–did C.C. and Company with Joe Namath and Ann-Margret–very hot when Smith puts his hand under Ann-Margret’s chin. Even Namath calls him ‘Your Majesty’, nevermind it was joking–Smith was a kind of ultimate of that sort. But was stuck for decades in totally B-things. These were good when he was young and the biker movies, but after Falconetti and the Eastwood movie, he didn’t get any more parts in mainstream movies. Had a great voice too, I never understood why he didn’t become A-list.

Carole Bouquet was indeed Too Beautiful for You in 1989, in which she starred with Gerard Depardieu, and then was married to him from 1997 to 2005. Good in Lucie Aubric in the 90s, and most famous early on for Bunuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire. Interesting that one of Deneuve’s and Depardieu’s best movies, Techine’s Les Temps Qui Changent, was made while he was still married to Bouquet. Just saw she’s 63 now, and has ‘partnered’ with Philippe Sereys de Rothschild. Now more into wineries and vineyards in Sicily.

Delphine Seyrig is the only French actress I find more beautiful: https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk034gAeCYH0-XY3vh9li7JQkSdMPGg:1604362550578&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=delphine+seyrig+images&client=firefox-b-1-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM1aufjOXsAhULTt8KHb-TCosQjJkEegQIChAB&biw=1366&bih=591#imgrc=wdQelA_KaTO4uM

That’s in Last Year at Marienbad, in which she was extraordinary. She’s no longer with us, but made several fantastic movies, including Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses, with Jean-Pierre Leaud.

Seyrig and Deneuve are greater actresses than Bouquet, I’d say, but they are all three stunningly gorgeous women, which I couldn’t say for Isabelle Huppert (and also cannot stand her anymore.) Deneuve still makes 2 or 3 movies a year, and they are always of fine quality.

William Smith was perfectly cast as Conan’s father in Milius’ Conan The Barbarian

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Man, I love C.C & Company. haha. I love the beginning where Broadway Joe enters the grocery store and goes down the aisle and makes himself a ham sammich, drinks a carton of milk, opens up a package of napkins, all without paying. He then goes up to the cashier and purchases a pack of gum IF I remember right and asks for saving stamps.

William Smith is a fascinating character. The guy could speak a few different languages IF I remember right, was a Korean war vet as well I think, been awhile since I looked him up, but I remember his Wiki entry said he was very fluent in Russian. I loved him as Falconetti in Rich Man, Poor Man, and of course, as the character, “Moon,” in the cheesy but very watchable, C. C. & Company.

Wonderful review you did. It was excellent and is also to some degree going to be a guide if I order the book (which I likely will.) Thanks for sending! I read all of it. Yeah, there has been nobody like Mitchum, and also one more note to make of the stupidity of the Oscars–one nomination for supporting role for him. It’s not just that they’re dumb now, with all emphasis on their own ‘special picture-people wokeness’, they’ve been dumb almost since the beginning. I’d give them a few first few years at most…after that, all that cheap Hollywood sentimental self-congratulatory business, although that has certainly been consistent to this day.

I was pretty sure he hadn’t made a film with Marlene Dietrich, and he hadn’t, but that wouldn’t have stopped that nympho–so they probably…did…but again, Mitchum would have thought her outrageous appetite very funny, and wouldn’t have cared what she thought–and god knows she wouldn’t have even noticed. His self-confidence and self-possession were greater than Brando’s–and he had a lot more humour. I mentioned in another post in one of these Connery threads that he would laugh onscreen at some of his co-stars: It wasn’t an actual laugh, of course, but rather a certain kind of sexually knowing smile which proved his effortlessness of always being in charge–not really cruelly, but rather a merciless teasing enjoyment of the other. Some qualities like Connery in the ‘toughness department’.

I think it was his aging that made him the best Marlowe–weary from no sleep and too many fights and waking up in some terrible and unfamiliar place. And Charlotte Rampling was a gorgeous and perfect Velma. Really a great voice too. You’d hear it without having known beforehand and know that’s who it was. There are voices like that you couldn’t miss–Rosemary Clooney you’d know anywhere, and on that Thunderball discussion about Bassey and Warwick, that seemed the most extraordinary idea of Bassey imitating Warwick. Warwick is my favourite female singer, and that’s a voice I’d know anywhere too.

Good then. Your remark had been a little minimal for me to know whether I had any way of interpreting it.

That ‘chap’ sent me that just a few hours ago, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, should be a good guide to the book itself. I noticed he mentioned you there.

Cheers!

Yes, you are wrong. Americans are by no means as well-educated as British or any Western Europeans. OF COURSE they belong here. It’s not going to be a monarchy, even a constitutional monarchy, because we hardly go back very far, not even 3 centuries. And that’s not just Paris and London either, just to take 2 examples. You meet people in the English or French countryside and there is no comparison with what you find in rural places here. I know, because I grew up in SE Alabama and, not even considering what I just said about Europe, New York City has scum living in it, but that is not the same as knowing next to nothing as most in my former hometown do. If you are lucky enough to live in a Whitopia like I do, there’s almost nobody without at least reasonable education.

PLUS all the entertainment that you consume in your mountain area or small-town area is made in the media cities, NYC and LA, rightly hated for some things, but I have noticed that country people are just fine consuming TV made in NYC and LA. When I’ve visited my family in Alabama, I’ve noticed they never see the credits and ask themselves anything about who made the shows they’re totally addicted to.

Cosmopolitan America is very much a major part of America. It’s not like Ireland which, due to years of oppression by Britain, never became urban (those who have been to Dublin say it still has a rural feel.) The super-powerful cities of America are definitely the equal or beyond of any in Europe. New York is usually called the Cultural Capital of the World, even more than London.

America is *both kinds*.

I bet the pair pretending to be King and Queen are two of the many body doubles paraded about during the war.

What are you talking about? I looked at the connected posts and saw Edward VIII and Simpson. Are you talking about Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip?

Yes, I wasn’t looking closely enough, and have never known her as anything other than the old Queen Mother, but with my reading glasses and holding it closer, I can see the features are hers. Amused I confused her with Wallis Simpson, though–not to mention not very bright, because what would Edward and Wallis in front of bombed-out area. I’ve also forgotten both how King George and Edward looked, and the current Queen has been the only one of the royals who has ever interested me–totally unflappable, and was beautiful in her 40s–she and Philip came to NYSTheater at Lincoln Center for 1976 Bicentennial; I was about 20 ft. from them, but I also had much better vision then. Otherwise, I haven’t been one of those royal-watchers, never paid any attention to the scandalous youngsters, although Andrew certainly has done a star turn as persona non grata. Thanks.

‘Insufferable’ is definitely the word for Blow. His column just before this one was about how we were just about to ‘descend into bedlam’, which he’d never say meant just that if Trump won, the boarded-up stores would serve their purpose for the mob. So now he says it was ‘obscene’ that Biden didn’t take the lead right when he said it should, because people didn’t do what he wanted done.

Someone wrote in the NYT comments on that one that he was making an ‘invitation for such violence’, and I added that that was true and that why on earth can NYT (no matter what any UR people think of the paper as a whole, and it’s awful, but still somewhat useful) can allow such yellow journalism to be published. I saw him on Charlie Rose talking about being sexually abused as a child. Rose, in his usual passive way with this sort (he wasn’t that way when talking with terrorist leaders or tyrants, he was extremely good and fought them), let him talk about that and also his post-family-man gayness, but didn’t ask him “Do you think you are gay now because you enjoyed the abuse so much after all?” i mean, who can ask Charles Blow to say yeah, “well, I can’t forget how good it felt after all.” Someone called him a ‘bitchy gay’ and he has gotten worse and worse, he is on the level of that extreme man-hater Lindy West, who’s mother taught her about ‘how disgusting big cocks’ are, and the Times publishes this shit.

Well, they didn’t publish my comment as they usually do. Although I guess I think that’s better than at WaPo, where it’s anything goes and the lesbians usually seize the day. But after cancelling them a month ago, they quit offering me a mere $29 a month to resuscribe, but offered 3 months for $1 about 1 a.m. Nov. 3rd, so I realized “yes, very good for watching election results”, and cancel after 3 months, hating the paper. Kathleen Parker does sometimes have something to say (and has a wicked sly wit), but that’s all I’ll enjoy having back for awhile. I can’t even believe such as Greg Sargent, who more or less writes the same column every day, and so does Jennifer Rubin.

But Blow is indefensible. They just let him act out his self-righteous BLACK RAGE every few days. Loathsome.

So, white people voted for Trump because they’re racist.

Hispanics voted for Trump because white people are racist.

Blacks voted for Trump because white people are racist.

LGBTQ people voted for Trump because white people are racist.

Got it?

Seriously, the amount of anti-white racial animus in this article is unusual even by Charles Blow’s standards. Also, he writes like a grandiose middle schooler with mild dyslexia. I mean, “the coattail it has of those who depend on it,” what the fuck? That’s not just ungainly, it’s plain bad English.

I think part of Blow’s venomous racial hatred of whites stems from his awareness, on some level, that he is an obvious affirmative action hire and hopeless mediocrity. Reading his turgid prose actually makes me wish I were reading Tallahassee Coates, who is at least a somewhat livelier prose stylist and can occasionally make me laugh with the nerdy sci-fi / fantasy influences he wears on his sleeve (“Trump cracked open the glowing amulet of whiteness and released its eldritch energies” — ohhhh, somebody just re-read The Elfstones of Shanarra!).

Good grief, NYTimes. One small bright spot — look at the reader comments to this article. Many of the most highly rated ones are quite critical of the article and are encouraging Democrats to dial back the identity politics.

Yes, but I cannot stand Coates even if he has somewhat better Negro I.Q. and isn’t so formally mediocre. Otherwise, Blow gets worse every column.

Next gambit: sell them Buddhist spaced-out contentment, so they won’t wake up and do something about Jewish control of their society. And Mr. “No Gods. No Masters.” falls for it. ….LOL.

A Jew pathologicizing European creativity by deriving it from “unhappiness.” That is the expected gambit.

I and the other creative individuals whom I know are happiest when riding the waves of agony and fulfillment that precede attaining Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow State. What made Europeans great is enjoyment of struggle. The Flow State is useful for any difficult activity, e.g. music, trading intra-day, performing surgery, but happiest is he who lives in a state of creative struggle, not to be confused with a hopeless struggle imposed from without.

Emanuel Macron?

Emanuel Micro-Phallus, more like.

Why Euro-Africa?

Why link these two continents – which have *ABSOLUTELY NOTHING* in common, not even a land bridge, – together?
Apart from the French, no other European nation gives a shit about Africa, or pretends that it’s destiny is entwined with Africa.

A reality check for the French:

Your involvement with Africa – which is part of your national inferiority complex regarding England, which humiliated you many many times, and stripped you of the colonies actually *worth* having, dates only from year *1830*.
A mere pin prick in history.
It is/was a pure mistake and folly of epochal proportions.
Just drop it as a dead loss, cut off all ties, forget about it, and move on.

Yes, to hear TNC interviewed (Charlie Rose, before the fall) is to utterly loathe him.

Given such admirable choices, it would seem impossible to find anybody worse, but Miss D’Angelo is the worst of ALL Americans. My disgust at this bitch is unfathomable even to me.

The other one I just hear quoted (also disgusting) but I don’t pay much attention to him.

I am not sure why I watched d’Angelo preaching once, but it seemed somehow carnal when she said ‘every pore of my body is exuding white privilege’. She’s not really fat, but has ‘factory-town’ arms and gives the impression of weighing 11 stone. I don’t know if her audience knew what ‘exuded’ mean, but I don’t think the word ‘ask’ was in it. She’d never have pronounced it properly, even though it’s a lot harder to say than ‘ax’.

but like…….what is the fraud?

everything brought in court gets laughed out immediately, Dominion+the voting machines was a joke, the “”mathematical”” efforts…..

AKarlin is right. MAGA Cope is understandable, but pretty obviously just reduces to “i know that our institutions are rotten, i know they don’t want Trump, so it must have been fraud”

The problem I see is that Republicans from the beginning had planned to win by electoral vote and only barely. That is a poor strategy. They never cared about independents and planned on picking up an electoral win from the base.

Polls were showing early on that independents did not approve of how Trump was handling the virus.

I am one of those independents.

He never really acted like a leader and I think that made it harder on everyone. He needed to drop the petty tweeting and turn off Fox news.

I warned about him not taking it seriously back when it was overloading hospitals and the Trump Train here accused me of being on the side of the media. No I was on the side of the hospitals and the public.

Well Trump Train I hope you are happy with the outcome. Downplaying videos of patients in hallways really worked out. My favorite part was accusing health care workers of lying for deep state. Anyone can go dig through my comments to see how I was shouted down here for being concerned about the hospitals. Totally insane.

He is certainly an obnoxious blowhard but that doesn’t mean the smart thing to do is hand the presidency over to someone who referred to Kim Jong as “that Korean guy”.

That is certainly not worse–no matter the clinical condition–than some asshole saying he’s “in love” with the Korean pig. There were even jokes about “the couple’s first date” having gone so well, but then… In fact, I think saying he’s “in love with him” is much more pathological, but Trump has no class by the usual standards, even the true standards. He was never accepted in the ‘best social circles of Manhattan’, no Brooke Astor wanted him, no Gloria Vanderbilt (and now her son Anderson Cooper) wanted this type.

The same was true of Jared, who was always envious of the even richer Jews of Short Hills, New Jersey, one of the most affluent communities in the U.S. Neither of them unlike Leona Helmsley, vulgar and Jewish from Brooklyn.