Bodycam footage shows an Atlanta police officer repeatedly tasing Johnny Hollman Sr. during a response to a minor car accident after he refused to sign a ticket.
He later died, and an autopsy ruled it a homicide.
— Jeff Charles, An Awful Pundit🏴 (@jeffcharlesjr) November 26, 2023
“An Atlanta police officer responding to a minor car crash deployed a Taser on a church deacon who disregarded multiple commands to sign a traffic ticket, shocking the man after he repeatedly said he could not breathe, police body camera video released Wednesday shows.
Johnny Hollman Sr. became unresponsive during his arrest late on the night of Aug. 10 and later died. An autopsy determined the 62-year-old’s death was a homicide, with heart disease also a contributing factor, and his family has called on prosecutors to charge Officer Kiran Kimbrough with murder. An attorney for Kimbrough, who was fired, says the officer acted lawfully.”
Revolutions are not pretty things; they are violent, destructive. They happen in the streets when anger and oppression boil over in an explosive and organic mixture.
They are frightening because they are not distant and not at the actual seat of power. They are in your streets and your town. There is destruction and your courthouse and police department are on fire. Things are close to home and not on some distant field in a foreign land.
There is a slow and simmering anger burning in our country right now. Just below the civility that we all maintain is the collective feeling that we have had just about enough. In the recent elections only one third of eligible voters decided to turn out and vote.
What does that tell you? That 2/3 of the population is lazy? I think not. They have realized that their vote doesn’t count and those in power are going to do what it is that they want to do. The elite cadres that rule from on high don’t care what you have to say; they will do whatever it takes to maintain power. What comes next won’t be another wave election that sweeps people into power that are going to fix everything.
No one believes it or them. They will do what they want and stuff their pockets in the mean time, getting richer as the country gets poorer.
This won’t end until every town becomes Ferguson.
I hear a lot about “Keeping people on your side” by not attacking infrastructure or rioting, but that is not how revolutions work. Revolutions are born of chaos and violence and boil up in an instant . In an insurgency it is important to have the support of the populace but a revolution is different; it thrives on chaos.
When the anger quotient hits the appropriate level and boils over, it is directed at any symbol of the seat of power. The police become targets because they are either for or against the cause and the ones who attempt control become a symbol of the enemy. The court house, the county building, anything that supports the system becomes a target of the unleashed anger.
As I said, they are not pretty things and people die. It is not an end that most people want but at the current rate, that is where we are heading. Change is not coming at the ballot box. The vote has been bought before it is even cast. Without the backing of millions of dollars you can’t even have a chance at running.
Millions upon millions of Americans have the feeling that their liberty, their freedom, their republic are being stolen from beneath them. They have the feeling that the police state forming around them is becoming an occupying army. They have the feeling that their opportunity to change things peacefully has been stolen.
Sooner or later that is going to boil over and when it does it will not be pretty. Change won’t truly happen until people are that angry, until every town is Ferguson.
Is it time to declare the Disney brand dead? Only a couple weeks ago the entertainment giant suffered one of its worst box office showings ever with the failure of The Marvels, a feminist driven girl-boss movie which was widely applauded by social justice advocates but ignored by the vast majority of the public. The film is expected to lose $200 million to $300 million once receipts are totaled and marketing costs are accounted for.
In a bizarre attempt at maximum cope, the media is hailing The Marvels as the largest ever theatrical opening by a black female director. When, in fact, the movie is actually the largest box office bomb made by a black female director.
Now, Disney’s animated ‘The Wish’ is set to top that failure, falling well below box office predictions and bringing in only $32 million over a five day period including the once lucrative Thanksgiving weekend.
Numerous reports suggest that Wish is opening to empty theaters across the country. Media spin doctors have attempted to jump ahead of “get woke, go broke” accusations with articles claiming that the movie is not woke, but more “Libertarian” in its messaging. This is, for the most part, a dishonest deflection. The film’s producers openly admitted their woke methodology in a number of interviews including their desire to inject Diversity and Inclusion messaging.
While the woke intent is more obscure than previous films, Wish features yet another precocious ethnic teen female (named Asha) banding together with her diverse cast of friends to fight a revolution against the white male patriarchy. The main villain is, of course, a white guy named “King Magnifico” who rules over the kingdom of Rosas using the magical power to grant wishes. However, the King doesn’t grant everyone’s wish, only some, and those who don’t get their wish granted forget their wishes forever.
Asha believes this is unfair and that all people should have have their wishes returned or fulfilled (perhaps a vague nod to the concept of equity in which every person is taught to expect equality of outcome, not just equality of opportunity). When Asha finds a magical power that threatens the King’s monopoly, he loses his mind with envy and goes full-bore dark side to keep control.
While this story arc could be interpreted as a criticism of centralized governance, the greater plot is far more socialist in its agenda. The evil King is overthrown by the power of “collective love”, the Queen sides with the revolutionaries and rules in his place and everyone gets access to equal wish fulfillment. It’s a woke carnival side show.
Critics also argue that the film is mostly unoriginal, with an endless list of nostalgia references and character ideas stolen from better movies made decades ago. The most common reaction to Wish from theater goers? It’s boring. This has been the M.O. of modern Disney for some time now – They dig up the bones of their previous successes and try to reanimate them instead of making something new and imaginative. This is what happens when a company hires creators based on diversity stats rather than talent.
Massive losses have been plaguing Disney month after month. Lightyear and Strange World featured LGBT messaging for children, which did not go over well with audiences. Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny was another feminist replacement fantasy that bombed horribly. Almost every major Marvel and Star Wars release in theaters and on Disney+ has hit a brick wall in the past couple years, largely due to woke messaging. It’s a failstorm of epic proportions.
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