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Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.
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Sean Hannity has been on the front line of a forever war – on Christmas – for years. Every December, the Fox News host eagerly covers what he considers a holiday “under siege” by the ruling class, which aims to cancel the beloved holiday and its time-honored traditions.
Now, Hannity’s yuletide crusade is getting the direct-to-streaming treatment with Jingle Smells, a so-called “anti-woke” Christmas movie produced by Hannity and streaming on Rumble, the company providing a platform for Russell Brand and Matt Gaetz.
When the ne’er-do-well son of a cop takes a job as a garbage man to prove he can hold down an honest job, he stumbles upon a room full of toys his bosses have ordered him to destroy. That’s because the action figures depict the newly canceled action star Mason Stone (we get it, he’s the Rock). The film asks viewers to believe that Hollywood dropped him after him for saying: “May God bless America, and may he protect our troops.”
Instead of following orders, the garbage collector becomes Jingle Smells, a “Robin Hood of the holidays” who doles out the figures to kids whose parents can’t afford gifts. While passing out the toys, Jingle Smells asks children to keep his act of kindness just between them – yep, a strange man offering kids toys and telling them not tell to their parents is the hero of this story.
As Joe Berkowitz at Fast Company wrote, the premise of Jingle Smells stinks just as much as the film’s dad jokes about veganism or climate change. Objectively, the film is not funny – but it is ironic: if the character of Mason Stone, a sort of off-brand Jason Momoa, were real, he wouldn’t lose his job for cheering on the troops. Real-life celebrities, including the Scream actor Melissa Barrera, the Hollywood agent Maha Dakhil, and the Harper’s Bazaar editor, Samira Nasr, have faced serious consequences for their criticism of a US military ally.
But there’s one surprising aspect of this Hannity-led film: it’s not really about the War on Christmas. In Jingle Smells, the villain is not some mayor here to pull down a town’s decorations or Starbucks CEO putting snowflakes on mugs instead of a Christmas tree.
Instead, the antagonist is the wishy-washy head of a toy company who pulls an action figure because triggered college students are crying about it online. Our heroes are fighting a War on Woke, not Santa Claus.……
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Now, Hannity’s yuletide crusade is getting the direct-to-streaming treatment with Jingle Smells, a so-called “anti-woke” Christmas movie produced by Hannity and streaming on Rumble, the company providing a platform for Russell Brand and Matt Gaetz.
When the ne’er-do-well son of a cop takes a job as a garbage man to prove he can hold down an honest job, he stumbles upon a room full of toys his bosses have ordered him to destroy. That’s because the action figures depict the newly canceled action star Mason Stone (we get it, he’s the Rock). The film asks viewers to believe that Hollywood dropped him after him for saying: “May God bless America, and may he protect our troops.”
Instead of following orders, the garbage collector becomes Jingle Smells, a “Robin Hood of the holidays” who doles out the figures to kids whose parents can’t afford gifts. While passing out the toys, Jingle Smells asks children to keep his act of kindness just between them – yep, a strange man offering kids toys and telling them not tell to their parents is the hero of this story.
As Joe Berkowitz at Fast Company wrote, the premise of Jingle Smells stinks just as much as the film’s dad jokes about veganism or climate change. Objectively, the film is not funny – but it is ironic: if the character of Mason Stone, a sort of off-brand Jason Momoa, were real, he wouldn’t lose his job for cheering on the troops. Real-life celebrities, including the Scream actor Melissa Barrera, the Hollywood agent Maha Dakhil, and the Harper’s Bazaar editor, Samira Nasr, have faced serious consequences for their criticism of a US military ally.
But there’s one surprising aspect of this Hannity-led film: it’s not really about the War on Christmas. In Jingle Smells, the villain is not some mayor here to pull down a town’s decorations or Starbucks CEO putting snowflakes on mugs instead of a Christmas tree.
Instead, the antagonist is the wishy-washy head of a toy company who pulls an action figure because triggered college students are crying about it online. Our heroes are fighting a War on Woke, not Santa Claus.……
Sean Hannity’s ‘war on Christmas’ movie isn’t about Christmas at all
The Fox News host’s direct-to-streaming crusade, Jingle Smells, features a canceled action star and triggered youth
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Sean Hannity has been on the front line of a forever war – on Christmas – for years. Every December, the Fox News host eagerly covers what he considers a holiday “under siege” by the ruling class, which aims to cancel the beloved holiday and its time-honored traditions.
Now, Hannity’s yuletide crusade is getting the direct-to-streaming treatment with Jingle Smells, a so-called “anti-woke” Christmas movie produced by Hannity and streaming on Rumble, the company providing a platform for Russell Brand and Matt Gaetz.
When the ne’er-do-well son of a cop takes a job as a garbage man to prove he can hold down an honest job, he stumbles upon a room full of toys his bosses have ordered him to destroy. That’s because the action figures depict the newly canceled action star Mason Stone (we get it, he’s the Rock). The film asks viewers to believe that Hollywood dropped him after him for saying: “May God bless America, and may he protect our troops.”
Instead of following orders, the garbage collector becomes Jingle Smells, a “Robin Hood of the holidays” who doles out the figures to kids whose parents can’t afford gifts. While passing out the toys, Jingle Smells asks children to keep his act of kindness just between them – yep, a strange man offering kids toys and telling them not tell to their parents is the hero of this story.
As Joe Berkowitz at Fast Company wrote, the premise of Jingle Smells stinks just as much as the film’s dad jokes about veganism or climate change. Objectively, the film is not funny – but it is ironic: if the character of Mason Stone, a sort of off-brand Jason Momoa, were real, he wouldn’t lose his job for cheering on the troops. Real-life celebrities, including the Scream actor Melissa Barrera, the Hollywood agent Maha Dakhil, and the Harper’s Bazaar editor, Samira Nasr, have faced serious consequences for their criticism of a US military ally.
But there’s one surprising aspect of this Hannity-led film: it’s not really about the War on Christmas. In Jingle Smells, the villain is not some mayor here to pull down a town’s decorations or Starbucks CEO putting snowflakes on mugs instead of a Christmas tree.
Instead, the antagonist is the wishy-washy head of a toy company who pulls an action figure because triggered college students are crying about it online. Our heroes are fighting a War on Woke, not Santa Claus.……
Sean Hannity’s ‘war on Christmas’ movie isn’t about Christmas at all
The Fox News host’s direct-to-streaming crusade, Jingle Smells, features a canceled action star and triggered youth
Why anyone would watch this sort of thing baffles me. Hannity is an idiot and a hack.
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Republican leaders in Florida are expressing outrage over a reported proposal that party chairman Christian Ziegler be paid as much as $2 million before he’ll step down amid a sexual assault investigation.
Ziegler is battling to keep his powerful position despite dual scandals, one of which has also ensnared his wife, Bridget Ziegler, a Moms for Liberty co-founder who sits on the Sarasota County School Board.
The couple, whose political influence has grown along with the ascent of the Florida GOP, have been asked to quit their jobs, even by friends and allies as well as political opponents. Each has refused.
Party members say a buyout for Christian was floated more than a week ago. Florida Politics first reported on it Thursday, saying the demand may have been as high as $2 million.
Ziegler, in reply to a text message, said the buyout report was “100% not true.”
Michael Thompson, who leads the Lee County Republican Executive Committee, said two individuals are trying to broker a resolution on behalf of Ziegler in advance of a meeting Sunday, where the committee will be asked to vote him out of the chairmanship.
“My first thought when I heard it was I laughed, and so did the person who told me what was being discussed or asked,” Thompson said. “There will never be a buyout.”
Ziegler’s annual salary as chairman is $120,000. He was elected to the position by party members in January for a two-year term.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, all members of his cabinet, the speaker of the Florida House and the state Senate president, along with U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and others, have called on Ziegler to step down. Rep. Vern Buchanan, who hired Ziegler for his congressional staff in Washington when he was first elected in 2006, also said this week that Ziegler should resign.
The 40-year-old chairman has refused despite the increasing pressure. In a statement to the party earlier this month, he denied the rape allegation against him and called the interaction in question consensual. It involves a woman with whom he and his wife have acknowledged having a three-way sexual encounter. The woman claims Christian Ziegler raped her after she tried to cancel another meeting with the couple when she learned Bridget would not be there.
Sarasota police say their investigation is continuing..............
Ziegler is battling to keep his powerful position despite dual scandals, one of which has also ensnared his wife, Bridget Ziegler, a Moms for Liberty co-founder who sits on the Sarasota County School Board.
The couple, whose political influence has grown along with the ascent of the Florida GOP, have been asked to quit their jobs, even by friends and allies as well as political opponents. Each has refused.
Party members say a buyout for Christian was floated more than a week ago. Florida Politics first reported on it Thursday, saying the demand may have been as high as $2 million.
Ziegler, in reply to a text message, said the buyout report was “100% not true.”
Michael Thompson, who leads the Lee County Republican Executive Committee, said two individuals are trying to broker a resolution on behalf of Ziegler in advance of a meeting Sunday, where the committee will be asked to vote him out of the chairmanship.
“My first thought when I heard it was I laughed, and so did the person who told me what was being discussed or asked,” Thompson said. “There will never be a buyout.”
Ziegler’s annual salary as chairman is $120,000. He was elected to the position by party members in January for a two-year term.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, all members of his cabinet, the speaker of the Florida House and the state Senate president, along with U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and others, have called on Ziegler to step down. Rep. Vern Buchanan, who hired Ziegler for his congressional staff in Washington when he was first elected in 2006, also said this week that Ziegler should resign.
The 40-year-old chairman has refused despite the increasing pressure. In a statement to the party earlier this month, he denied the rape allegation against him and called the interaction in question consensual. It involves a woman with whom he and his wife have acknowledged having a three-way sexual encounter. The woman claims Christian Ziegler raped her after she tried to cancel another meeting with the couple when she learned Bridget would not be there.
Sarasota police say their investigation is continuing..............
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Some US far-right figures have made renewed attempts to rehabilitate the 20th century Spanish dictator Gen Francisco Franco in recent months, praising him as an avatar of religious authoritarianism, and praising his actions during and after the Spanish civil war as a model for confronting the left in the US.
But historians say that this Franco fandom is based on partial or revisionist accounts of the 1936-1939 civil war and Franco’s ensuing 37-year dictatorship and continues a long-term hostility to democracy on the American right.
It also comes as fears of authoritarianism and Christian nationalism in the US are on the rise with Donald Trump almost certain to win the Republican party nomination amid fears he would misuse his powers in any second term to erode or dismantle American democracy.
Franco, a general in the Spanish army, led a nationalist revolt against Spain’s democratic second Republic in 1936, and won by 1939 with the support of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Some 500,000 Spaniards died as a result of the war, with 150,000 of Franco’s opponents being executed during or after the conflict and half a million held in concentration camps by 1940.
Nevertheless, in October, Josh Abbotoy asked in an article at religious-conservative outlet First Things: “Is a Protestant Franco inevitable?” The article was a development from a May post on X, formerly Twitter, in which Abbotoy had more affirmatively claimed that “Basically, America is going to need a Protestant Franco”.…….
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But historians say that this Franco fandom is based on partial or revisionist accounts of the 1936-1939 civil war and Franco’s ensuing 37-year dictatorship and continues a long-term hostility to democracy on the American right.
It also comes as fears of authoritarianism and Christian nationalism in the US are on the rise with Donald Trump almost certain to win the Republican party nomination amid fears he would misuse his powers in any second term to erode or dismantle American democracy.
Franco, a general in the Spanish army, led a nationalist revolt against Spain’s democratic second Republic in 1936, and won by 1939 with the support of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Some 500,000 Spaniards died as a result of the war, with 150,000 of Franco’s opponents being executed during or after the conflict and half a million held in concentration camps by 1940.
Nevertheless, in October, Josh Abbotoy asked in an article at religious-conservative outlet First Things: “Is a Protestant Franco inevitable?” The article was a development from a May post on X, formerly Twitter, in which Abbotoy had more affirmatively claimed that “Basically, America is going to need a Protestant Franco”.…….
Why is the US far right finding its savior in Spanish dictator Francisco Franco?
The military general led a nationalist revolt against Spain’s democratic republic from 1936-1939, executing 150,000 of his opponents
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they keep saying the quiet part out loud, but they know the ones they are talking to don't care, and welcome the vile with open arms..
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Good lord. It’s such a perfect fake story for the MAGAs - the idea that military prosecutors start arresting the people who have testified against Trump for treason. It fits their dystopian fantasy where their beloved military takes it upon itself to defend their false messiah, applying some higher legal authority against their enemies with that most consequential of charges - treason. The one that is punishable by death . . . the violent reckoning they so deeply long for.
Of course they should not be bothered with the fact that JAGs have no general arrest authority, nor do JAGs have jurisdiction over civilians or regarding matters outside of what is strictly military. They're so damned ignorant - which makes them highly gullible but also quite dangerous.
Wow. These people have no interest in joining reality. They need conspiracy theories because it allows them to blame some sinister “other(s)” for the world and justifies why they are in the place they are in.
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Sounds familiar to how things started in Germany after World War 1.
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It is apparently a one-man website. He writes all the articles. He does include this disclaimer:Is that article supposed to be satire?
“Information on this website is for informational and educational and entertainment purposes. This website contains humor, parody, and satire. We have included this disclaimer for our protection, on the advice on legal counsel.”
But he makes it clear that he only does it for legal protection against his lies. His statement about fact checkers sounds very very familiar to anyone on this website, and could have been written by one of the posters here.
I don’t believe he intends any of it as humor or satire, whether he is truly unhinged or just grifting off of the unhinged, I cannot tell. He knows enough to protect himself legally, so maybe he’s a grifter. He is a former mainstream journalist (he doesn’t say where) and English teacher (he also doesn’t support this claim).
He says further that fact checkers use his disclaimer to say his articles are fiction, but he has explained why he keeps the disclaimer.
Here’s the wiki page on the guy and his site. This isn’t his first RWNJ website. I’m leaning towards the idea that he’s delusional.
Real Raw News - Wikipedia
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He knows the ones who'll use this are the ones who actually will believe it. They don't care he actaully admits its a lie... they don't have time to care about the little details like that...It is apparently a one-man website. He writes all the articles. He does include this disclaimer:
“Information on this website is for informational and educational and entertainment purposes. This website contains humor, parody, and satire. We have included this disclaimer for our protection, on the advice on legal counsel.”
But he makes it clear that he only does it for legal protection against his lies. His statement about fact checkers sounds very very familiar to anyone on this website, and could have been written by one of the posters here.
I don’t believe he intends any of it as humor or satire, whether he is truly unhinged or just grifting off of the unhinged, I cannot tell. He knows enough to protect himself legally, so maybe he’s a grifter. He is a former mainstream journalist (he doesn’t say where) and English teacher (he also doesn’t support this claim).
He says further that fact checkers use his disclaimer to say his articles are fiction, but he has explained why he keeps the disclaimer.
Here’s the wiki page on the guy and his site. This isn’t his first RWNJ website. I’m leaning towards the idea that he’s delusional.
Real Raw News - Wikipedia
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The thing is - he doesn’t admit that any of it is a lie. In other places on his webpage he says he stands by every article and that MSM is trying to control and conceal the facts. He’s delusional IMO.
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he has the same respect for the military as the Westboro Baptist people.
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Hide your children, hide your wives. A radical force is sweeping the nation, threatening to destroy everything that God-fearing Americans hold dear.
That threat, according to Fox News? Tap-dancing, one of the most quintessentially American art forms there is.
Last week, first lady Jill Biden shared a festive holiday video of tap troupe Dorrance Dance performing their swingin’ spin on “The Nutcracker,” set to a jazz arrangement by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
Festooned with wide smiles, whimsical headpieces and a healthy helping of sequins, the dancers percuss their way around the White House.
Familiar characters from the “Nutcracker” — such as a rodent king and the young heroine Clara — sprinkle kinetic joy through the East Wing’s Christmas trees.
The video opens and closes with saucy flourishes from “Sugar Rum Cherry” (performed by co-choreographer Josette Wiggan).
The piece is wholesome and exuberant. As a longtime admirer of Dorrance Dance, I watched the two-minute clip over and over when it was released and gushed over it with my dance-nerd friends.
Not every viewer was enthralled, though. Over in the right-wing mediaverse, people practically lost their minds.
The G-rated performance, which happened to feature some dancers of color, was “woke nonsense” and part of the “Biden freak-o-rama,” declared Fox News host Laura Ingraham. She said it was designed to “offend” the public and appeal to “flag burners and the America haters.”
“Anything connected to the American tradition has to be reimagined and then remade through a far-left lens,” Ingraham said of the troupe’s take on the Russian Christmas classic, adding that “it is kind of a big middle finger to Christians in this country, I think, and frankly to all Americans, not just Christians.”
Newsmax host Eric Bolling called the routine “replete with tasteless perversions” and “beyond woke.” Former Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller lambasted its “freakishness.”
The Federalist called the video an “abomination” and an attempt by the Bidens to slip “radical Marxism into the country’s Christmas celebrations.” Who knew anyone could get so triggered by jazz hands?……..
That threat, according to Fox News? Tap-dancing, one of the most quintessentially American art forms there is.
Last week, first lady Jill Biden shared a festive holiday video of tap troupe Dorrance Dance performing their swingin’ spin on “The Nutcracker,” set to a jazz arrangement by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
Festooned with wide smiles, whimsical headpieces and a healthy helping of sequins, the dancers percuss their way around the White House.
Familiar characters from the “Nutcracker” — such as a rodent king and the young heroine Clara — sprinkle kinetic joy through the East Wing’s Christmas trees.
The video opens and closes with saucy flourishes from “Sugar Rum Cherry” (performed by co-choreographer Josette Wiggan).
The piece is wholesome and exuberant. As a longtime admirer of Dorrance Dance, I watched the two-minute clip over and over when it was released and gushed over it with my dance-nerd friends.
Not every viewer was enthralled, though. Over in the right-wing mediaverse, people practically lost their minds.
The G-rated performance, which happened to feature some dancers of color, was “woke nonsense” and part of the “Biden freak-o-rama,” declared Fox News host Laura Ingraham. She said it was designed to “offend” the public and appeal to “flag burners and the America haters.”
“Anything connected to the American tradition has to be reimagined and then remade through a far-left lens,” Ingraham said of the troupe’s take on the Russian Christmas classic, adding that “it is kind of a big middle finger to Christians in this country, I think, and frankly to all Americans, not just Christians.”
Newsmax host Eric Bolling called the routine “replete with tasteless perversions” and “beyond woke.” Former Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller lambasted its “freakishness.”
The Federalist called the video an “abomination” and an attempt by the Bidens to slip “radical Marxism into the country’s Christmas celebrations.” Who knew anyone could get so triggered by jazz hands?……..
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