It's not needed.
Too often, that's our feeling as we look around -- at TV, at the political scene.
Last week, Stan noted the unwelcome return of THE PUNISHER. He is right. It's not needed.
MARVEL
live action TV shows in this century largely aired on NETFLIX. And
they did very well; DAREDEVIL, JESSICA JONES, LUKE CAGE, IRON FIST and
THE DEFENDERS did very well. THE PUNISHER really was where the quality
seriously declined. And then MARVEL decided that they were going to
make the content instead for DISNEY+.
They
did a lot of damage as did girl fannies -- 'critics' who were both male
and female and bought into sexism despite many proclaiming themselves
to be feminists.
MS.
MARVEL, for example, was Little Miss Weakingly. Not only was she a
never ending embarrassment, she was also too pudgy to be a super hero.
Worst of all, she was a secondary character to the man on the show. (See our "TV: Good taste is the reason viewers ran from MS. MARVEL" from 2022.) Then they took her over to the film and she helped tank that because she
was a fat little roly poly there to provide laughs. No one gave a damn
about that weakling except for the girl fannies.
And
it was the girl fannies who promoted WANDAVISION as a feminist
statement. It was not. (See our "TV: Can anything be worse than fall 2020?" and "TV: The way things are or are thought to be .") It was an attempt to ridicule and devalue
Wanda. Now after this storyline was established over the nine episodes
of that bad, bad series, the character pops up in the film DR. STRANGE
AND THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS and, all the sudden, girl fannies show up
to weakly remake some of the points we'd made a year earlier. (See our "TV: No, MARVEL movies do not make stars.") Some even
blamed the director Sam Raimi despite the fact that Raimi had nothing
to do with setting up the degrading and trivializing storyline of
WANDAVISION.
And then came THE LIFE AND LOVES OF THE SHE-HULK. Or was it LAWYERS IN LOVE STARRING THE SHE-HULK?
It was 'cute' and it was 'funny' and it was mocking women.
Here's
the thing, those three bad programs were presented as "woke." Had
Kamala Harris won the presidency -- as she should have -- our plan was
to do a lengthy feature on all the ways in which bad things were
marketed as "woke." They weren't "woke." But they were presented as
that and when these bad things bombed, it let the fright wing giggle and
chant: "Go woke, go broke."
There was nothing woke about DISNEY's MARVEL series.
They were nonsense and they were garbage.
And they bombed as a result.
But
having been falsely presented as feminist and woke, their failures were
supposed to reflect upon the left and not upon the minds of idiots who
thought weak and frivolous was the way to go.
People do not watch superhero programs to see weak.
Somehow
MARVEL -- working for NETFLIX -- got that. JESSICA JONES was about a
strong woman. She wasn't giggling. She wasn't competing with the
Hulk. She was doing her job.
The
backlash to woke was about racism, to be sure. But the reality is that
a lot of airheads encouraged and fed the backlash with their pathetic
portrayals of women.
And
when we should have all been calling the nonsense out. There was never
the need for action series for boys and STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE for girls.
That was nonsense and that was misgendering.
There
are many other ways that certain cultural touchstones and politicians
helped further the attacks on woke. Again, had Harris become President,
that was the first article we planned to write.
The
return of PUNISHER -- and not the actually popular JESSICA JONES --
goes things that are not needed so we're noting the above now.
Not needed also included Karine Jean-Pierre last week.
She
was the White House spokesperson from May 2022 until Chump was sworn in
January 20th of this year. Overall, she was good at her job.
She is lousy at her retirement.
Last week, she was in the news whining and whining some more.
Bad
Nancy Pelosi and bad other people caused Joe Biden to (finally) step
aside in late July and announce he would not seek re-election. They
shouldn't have, insisted KJP, Biden would have won!
Crazy isn't needed nor is it required.
And it helps no one.
Reality: Joe Biden did lousy in the debate with Chump.
That's why the calls began.
We
don't think Joe was that awful in the debate. Go back and check ("").
One week later, we did join the chorus calling for Joe to step aside.
We watched his interview with George Stephanopoulos. He should have
been prepared. He wasn't. He should have addressed the issue and then
flipped it. He was unable to. He was unable to reassure the public.
That interview depended upon that. He had to come off energized and in
charge. Instead, he looked tired and weak and the narrative coming out
of the debate was now established: Joe is too weak to run.
Joe
was so weak, he wasn't able to campaign effectively for Kamala and we
need to remember that as well. On a very small schedule, he still
managed to make one misstep after another. Karine wants to rewrite
history and that's not helping anyone.
At
the start of the year, the press started writing pieces about how out
of it Joe was and how his staff worked to conceal that fact.
Some pundits tried to argue that they were lied to.
Karine
is aware of that, right? She does get that and that she and others in
the administration are the ones who lied, that they are the ones who
should have informed the public but felt serving Joe was more important
than serving the country?
He couldn't have run. He would have collapsed on the road. That's reality on how bad his health was.
He
shouldn't have run but if by some miracle he had, Karine, was your plan
to lie to the American people for four more years and pretend Joe was
on top of his game?
Instead
of slamming Nancy Pelosi, Karine should be singing Nancy's praises.
Nancy did what was best for the country. She stood up to a man in the
Oval Office in clear cognitive decline.
We've got that again, Karine may not be aware of that. Maybe Joe's cognitive decline rubbed off on her?
Karine's nonsense helped no one -- not when Joe was president, not now.
Now?
Now we are calling on Republicans to do their job. And Karine's
hypocrisy makes it a little harder since she willing lied and continues
to lie for Joe Biden.
She
is a hypocrite. But for GOPers who want to accuse the Democratic Party
of being hypocrites? We're not. The pushback Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
Schumer -- among others -- actively gave Joe Biden demonstrates that.
So
the real question for Republicans officials and office holders is
whether they want to be the next Karine (looking the other way) or a
Nancy or a Schumer actually serving their country.
