The Grouchy Editor

 

 

Trump or death?

OK, I guess.

Why not?

 

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When I’ve had it with politics, culture wars, and any other noise, I gravitate to this YouTube channel, wherein a young woman and her boyfriend describe life in Svalbard, Norway.

Her videos are scenic, peaceful, and addictive. I highly recommend them.

 

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Remember George Will?

Yeah, I don’t either.

 

Why is it that these bitter old men (looking at you, too, Stephen King) are such big fans of baseball?

 

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I can’t believe that I used to watch this idiot on MSNBC. I should have been warned about his mental instability during those bizarre James Thurber segments he used to air.

 

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Where have you gone, Siskel and Ebert?

 

From Vulture:

 

 

From Rotten Tomatoes:

 

 

In the name of “diversity and inclusion,” Rotten Tomatoes critic consensuses are watered down and unreliable.

Bottom line: The scores you see on RT are increasingly reflective of the opinions of snot-nosed college grads who write for politically correct blogs.

 

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Disturbing Trend on Twitter – er, “X”

 

 

Once upon a time, pundits would post provocative comments and hope to generate views and comments. Maybe they would get 75 comments.

Now that X is monetizing “engagement” (reader comments), the pundits have learned that it pays to ask questions, instead. Simple “yes or no” questions are best. With any luck, your 75 comments could triple, or quadruple.

 

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Look at those eyes. Look at that sneer. Now tell me that Dick Cheney isn’t evil personified.

 

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Hey, I’m no spring chicken myself. But this is getting ridiculous:

 

 

On the other hand …

 

Young, Fresh, and Vital!

 

 

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Nothing “old” about Blue on this season’s Big Brother:

 

 

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Hey, you voted for this:

 

 

I’m sure they are weeping for you in Texas.

 

 

 

Again, Hawaii voted for this “leadership.”

 

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OK, OK, I was never in Kim Kardashian’s league when it comes to “impressions” on Twitter (or X). But this is ridiculous.

Not that long ago, I would get actual replies and “likes” for the same kind of comments I make today. As you can see above, that’s no longer the case.

And so once again, screw you, Elon Musk. Your so-called “free-speech” platform is still under the thumb of woke censors.

I might as well post only on Gab.

 

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Sorry, ladies, but I’ve had it with your irrational hatred of Donald Trump. Because you would prefer to support the far-left over anything Trump-related, the country is going down the shitter.

So yes, I blame a lot of this on you.

 

(Is this the kind of sentiment that got me shadow-banned on Twitter?)

 

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Heavy sigh. More anti-straight-white-male bias

 

 

This Decider story is about the cancellation of A League of Their Own. I didn’t see the series, but I loved the movie.

But you know, God forbid that Amazon give the audience what it wants.

 

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Heavy sigh. Swamp creature Kevin McCarthy

 

 

Kevin McCarthy “threatens.” McCarthy “warns.” McCarthy actually does … nothing.

 

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In lighter, irrelevant, trivial news, The Grouch is disappointed with timid Big Brother:

 

 

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I am back from Ft. Lauderdale. I am happy to no longer be staying next to an alligator swamp and I am thrilled to escape the humidity.

 

On the other hand, I am not happy to be away from the thong bikinis.

 

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Neil Howe, surviving author of The Fourth Turning, has a new book and a slew (OK, at least a couple) of new YouTube videos. I could listen to this guy all day.

 

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This is old news, but I’ve been on vacation and cannot leave this story without comment.

Hopefully, this jock-idiot will not follow in the footsteps of fellow jock-idiot Colin Kaepernick and will instead fade out of the public eye.

 

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I guess if you are a conservative big-shot, you no longer have to worry about being suspended or “shadow-banned” on Twitter (X). Good for you.

If, however, you are a “little guy” (like me), you can expect no such luck. Thanks to this Yaccarino woman, apparently. And “free-speech hero” Elon Musk is either unaware or uncaring about this.

Screw you, Elon.

 

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Too many people get this wrong:

 

 

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These are the first two hamsters to get the boot on this season’s Big Brother:

 

 

 

What the hell is wrong with you people?

 

Last but not least, because I am missing Florida beach bums, here is more Reilly (click on pics for a larger view):

 

 

 

 

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Gone to Florida 

 

 

Be Back Soon!

 

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Gone to Florida 

 

 

Be Back Soon!

 

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Whatever happened to the term “androgynous”? I don’t hear it anymore. I guess it’s not a part of LGBT-blah-blah-blah, which is much too difficult to remember:

 

 

That’s ridiculous. It’s surpassed only by “undocumented worker” (illegal alien) and “they” used as a singular pronoun on my Annoying Scale.

 

I’m going to shorten the term to BLT, which includes a few of the groups and is much easier to remember. Especially if I’m hungry.

 

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There’s nothing funnier than a misunderstanding. The funniest misunderstandings occur when two sharp cookies get together for a YouTube video, and something happens which reveals that they are not always such sharp cookies.

Such was the case when Bill Maher had Jordan Peterson on his podcast:

 

 

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Power must be one hell of an aphrodisiac. How else to explain why so many of these half-human, half-corpse politicians cling so tenaciously to it?

McConnell, Feinstein, Pelosi, Biden, Fauci, Schumer — all of them are too damned old and need to go.

Except for Trump, who is an ageless wonder.

 

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Letter From the Social Security Administration to Yours Truly:

 

“We need updated information about your work to make sure that we pay you the right amount of Social Security benefits.

“For the following months in 2022, you previously told us you would not earn over (number here) and would not work over 45 hours in self-employment.”

They then asked me to report my earnings for each month in 2022. Don’t they already have this information?

This is the second such letter I’ve received from the kids at Social Security in the past, oh, nine months or so.

 

It boggles the mind that our government devotes so much time and effort to little old me, while on a daily basis we read about hotshots and bigshots ripping off the system for millions or billions of dollars and, when caught, skating by with a wrist slap.

 

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I am so over these “bombshell” UFO stories.

Unless you have something tangible to offer — and not just what someone says he witnessed, or grainy, tiny images from radar or security cameras — then please just go away.

 

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#redpilled

 

 

 

I’ve never been a soccer fan.

So why am I enthusiastically cheering for any country that plays the U.S. women’s team?

 

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I haven’t been a churchgoer in nearly 50 years.

So why am I suddenly so supportive of this movie?

 

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I’ve never been a fan of country music.

So why am I now a booster of Jason Aldean and his latest hit song?

 

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I’ve been calling Oprah Winfrey a smarmy fake for years. Could I have been right about her?

 

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Meanwhile, as the country burns, Sleepy Joe does his thing:

 

 

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Seven … dwarfs?

 

 

From the Department of “Walt Disney

Rolling Over in His Grave” 

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Peter Dinklage complains about using real dwarfs, and so we get this:

 

 

 

From the Department of “Time to

Fucking Move On” 

 

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Eric Shawn continues to provide updates about Jimmy Hoffa on Fox News.

 

 

Greta Van Susteren continues to provide updates on Joran van der Sloot on Newsmax.

 

Didn’t the public lose interest in van der Sloot, oh, about 10 years ago, and Hoffa about, oh, 40 years ago?

Is there something in Greta’s and Eric’s contracts — or do they have dirt on network executives — that permits them to keep boring audiences with these stories?

 

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Hollywood Strike

 

 

This reminds me of when professional athletes go on strike. It’s basically asshole players vs. asshole owners.

Sorry, Hollywood, but I’m more concerned about the financial struggles of regular folks.

 

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All we had to do was say a few kind words about Kennedy in last week’s Review, and then shit hits the fan.

 

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The hullaballoo over Sound of Freedom, which reportedly has harrowing scenes of child sex trafficking, reminds me of the premiere episode of the second season of the late, great FX series The Shield.

Anyone who watched that episode, titled “The Quick Fix,” and who saw the scene involving a little girl with a dove tattoo (above), will know exactly what I’m talking about. That scene was so powerful that it still haunts me, 20 years later.

 

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Just when I begin to think that perhaps there are a few institutions that haven’t been corrupted by the progressive left, this happens.

 

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Sometimes serial killers don’t look a bit like serial killers:

 

 

Sometimes they look every bit like a serial killer:

 

 

By the way, the seven dwarfs pictured at top all look like serial killers.

 

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There’s only one presidential candidate on the left who interests me, and that’s Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I like him. He seems like a decent guy. I need to read more about his positions.

Also, at the fresh, bloom-of-life age of 69, Kennedy is just a babe compared to four-score seniors like Biden and Trump.

 

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I was surfing YouTube and got sucked into a rabbit hole of dating-advice videos. Because that’s what YouTube is good at: sucking you into rabbit holes of trivial timewasters.

Anyway, I stumbled across a dating-site video of a middle-aged male critiquing a Gen Z girl’s post and … it was the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages.

And so, I want to share this three-minute clip:

 

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Dark Winds season two is coming to AMC in a few weeks. It’s a so-so cop show with a more-than-so-so hottie named Jessica Matten (above) in the cast. She plays a Native American cop. This is Matten in a scene from the first season:

 

(Click photos for larger views)

 

That’s our sexist post of the week.

You’re welcome.

 

 

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What the hell is wrong with Lindsey Graham? First, he did everything in his power to sabotage the Republican “red wave” in last year’s midterms by terrifying voters with his extreme anti-abortion stance. Now, he’s doing what he can to promote war with Russia.

South Carolina, why in hell do you keep sending this guy to D.C.?

 

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I don’t know what more to say about Joe Biden and his criminal clan. He is easily the worst thing to happen to this country … and yet he is still in the White House?

 

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QAnon!

 

 

I’ve been reading about this movement/ideology/whatever for years, and yet I still don’t understand it.

Here’s what I do understand: When the mainstream media, increasingly in the business of lying to the public, decries QAnon as a nest of liars, and when far-fetched “conspiracy theories” of the past continually turn out to be true, well … I’m not so quick to judge.

 

Which brings me to this week’s cultural battleground, the movie Sound of Freedom:

 

 

Great point, Charles from Brooklyn. Why should I bother to exercise my own critical thinking and judgment about anything when I can just rely on you?

 

 

 

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Damned if you do …

 

 

Damned if you don’t 

 

 

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