Delta Farce [2007)

Just when you think Donald Trump can’t get any more idiotic, he goes and insults the intelligence of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (calling him “the dumbest member of the Kennedy clan”).

https://t.me/real_DonaldJTrump/16737

In so doing, Donald Trump has signaled that he still believes his Operation Warp Speed vaccines to be “safe and effective” (they are neither).

Furthermore, Trump has signaled that he intends to alienate all those who voted for him in 2016 and/or 2020 and with whom Kennedy’s message (as brilliantly laid out in the book The Real Anthony Fauci) resonates (including yours truly).

But this problem (denying the awful truth of the COVID vaccines) has plagued Trump for the past four years.

Now Trump has a new problem: Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first world leaders (along with Boris Johnson) to congratulate Joe Biden on his “victory” in 2020.

This pissed Trump off (as well it should have).

But Trump’s delusions don’t end with his safe and effective vaccines.

Donald Trump’s blind allegiance to Israel is a threat to American national security.

And sadly, RFK Jr.’s brilliance appears to begin and end with the vaccine issue.

RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are equally moronic and callous when it comes to blind faith in Israel and willful blindness regarding the disproportionate riposte (to put it nicely) Israel has leveled against Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.

Trump and RFK Jr. don’t care about the 34,000+ dead men, women, and children in Gaza.

They only care about securing that juicy Israeli support.

Trump “loves America”, but he doesn’t have the balls or brains to admit his vaccines are worse than worthless.

He doesn’t have any moral backbone when it comes to telling the truth about those vaccines.

Trump “loves America”, but he doesn’t give a fuck about all the Americans who have been killed by his precious vaccines.

https://openvaers.com/covid-data

At least RFK Jr. sees that (and speaks about it…at great cost of derision to himself).

Then there’s Cornel West.

West is a genius when it comes to Palestine and Israel.

But a moron when it comes to the COVID vaccines.

West is getting even less traction than RFK Jr.

Wonder why.

Because he’s not kissing Israeli ass à la Kennedy?

Joe Biden, of course, may be even worse on the COVID vaccines than Trump.

Biden coerced millions of Americans to take these unsafe, ineffective vaccines.

Trump merely encouraged people to take them.

As for Israel and Palestine, Genocide Joe keeps arming Israel.

So Joe, like Trump, is a failure on both issues.

RFK Jr. and West are a failure on one of the two issues.

And a success on one of the two issues.

The only person to be getting any traction whatsoever from their anti-genocide stance is Jill Stein.

But the traction she is getting is very, very little.

I could be wrong, but it seems Jill Stein has not said jack shit about the COVID vaccines.

So she is basically just Cornel West with a bit more traction.

And West was far more vocal when it mattered.

Stein wasn’t able to register on the pro-Palestine radar (as far as I know) until a couple of days ago.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/4/29/us-presidential-candidate-speaks-out-after-anti-war-protest-arrest

So all of these candidates fail basic tests regarding intelligence (ability to do rudimentary research with integrity) and humanity (empathy for everyone…even the “out group” [Palestinians]).

RFK Jr., as it turns out, is BY FAR the smartest candidate, but he has no empathy for the 15,000 dead children in Gaza.

He has no empathy for the 7,500 dead women in Gaza.

He has no empathy for the 7,500 dead men in Gaza (were they all HAMAS militants?).

Two candidates are morons with empathy: Cornel West and Jill Stein.

And two candidates (the two most likely to win) are heartless nincompoops: Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

At this point, the only positive thing I can say about Trump is that he has the best position (of all these candidates) regarding the U.S. southern border.

Other than that, he is an utter failure (both morally and intellectually).

That being said, Trump is a marginal improvement over Biden if only these three issues are under consideration (COVID vaccines, Palestine/Israel, and illegal immigration/border security).

All of this foretells of a very bleak future for America.

The only hopes:

A. Trump comes clean on the vaccines and recognizes the evil Israel has wrought in Gaza

B. RFK Jr. opens his fucking eyes to the genocidal slaughter of Palestinians at the hands of Israelis

C. Cornel West buys a clue (good place to start is with RFK Jr.’s book)

D. Jill Stein goes full-truth (all she has to do is visit OpenVAERS…is that so fucking hard for a “doctor”?!?)

E. Joe Biden tells Israel to fuck off and apologizes for his totalitarian wielding of the COVID vaccines

All of these possibilities seem HIGHLY UNLIKELY.

If given the choice of all these candidates, I pick RFK Jr.

Genocide via vaccine has been a greater killer than even Israel has been in Gaza.

[only about 1% of vaccine adverse events and reactions (including deaths) are reported to the voluntary CDC/FDA VAERS system. Likewise, it appears the system stopped accepting (quite a while ago) ANY REPORTS WHATSOEVER regarding the three COVID vaccines which were/are available in the USA. Re: point #1, you must add a couple of zeros to the “reports of death” to arrive at an accurate number. Not 37,000 but 3.7 mil.]

However, if the choice is between Biden and Trump, I would choose Trump.

That said, if RFK Jr. makes it on the ballot in Texas, I would be very tempted to vote for him.

Trump can’t cling to his beloved vaccines and to Israel both.

Both entities (COVID vaccines and the IDF) have been on a murderous rampage.

Trump is the moron.

RFK Jr. is the genius.

Too bad Kennedy apparently has no heart.

-PD

Der Untergang [2004)

Donald Trump has continuously and repeatedly betrayed the U.S. military and the American people by maintaining that the COVID vaccines available in the USA are “safe and effective”. The U.S. military were coerced into taking the COVID-19 vaccines which Trump rushed to market under Operation Warp Speed (more like “ludicrous speed” [think Spaceballs, but no laughing matter]). He refuses to confront reality:

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-he-saved-100-million-lives-covid-vaccines-1774178

The only possible caveat is the hypothesis that the U.S. military were given a vaccine that is not available to the general public (because the safety profile of all three of the vaccines commercially-available in the USA [as documented below by the VAERS system {as open-source-compiled by OpenVAERS}] is, frankly, atrocious [by any historical definition of a “safe” vaccine {see the 1976 U.S. halt to the swine flu mass vaccination program, after just 362 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome were reported in 45 million Americans vaccinated, as an instructive example of what previously defined “unsafe”}]):

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/04/07/armys-own-vaccine-that-could-fight-covid-variants-begins-clinical-trials/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/175/11/1129/140385

Data from the U.S. government’s VAERS system (a dual-agency [CDC and FDA] product) has borne out the dangers of these vaccines for the past two years.

The data (including numerous, copious reports of heart attacks [18,181] and death [33,591] in reasonably-close temporal relation to the administration of the three COVID vaccines available in the USA) are available here:

https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data

Even the CDC admits “18,649 preliminary [sic] reports of death”…”after COVID-19 vaccination”:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html

These statistics should (if history is any guide) be read as being at least one order of magnitude too low. The voluntary “passive surveillance” of the VAERS system caught roughly just 2.5% of the cases of Kawasaki disease in children (a serious vaccine adverse reaction) during the period 1990-2007 associated with the vaccine RotaTeq:

https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/underreporting-vaccine-adverse-events

Therefore, 18,649 vaccine deaths (current CDC number[an extremely-low number compared the the actual statistics in the VAERS system]) should be read as 745,960 vaccine deaths in the USA (so far).

The seemingly far-more-accurate current OpenVAERS number of 33,591 vaccine deaths should be read as 1,343,640 vaccine deaths in the USA (so far).

N.B. The actual submitted VAERS reports can be read (and counted!) at OpenVAERS. The same cannot be said of the CDC’s adverse events page (link above). Why is VAERS not available as a read-only product anywhere but at http://www.openvaers.com ? Why don’t the CDC and/or FDA make the VAERS system available in a read-only version to the American public (if there is indeed nothing to hide)? It should be noted that the CDC and FDA have gone in the opposite direction since 11/18/2022–making the VAERS system MORE SECRETIVE and hidden from the public. “Text field information” is no longer a part of the free public data if users are accessing VAERS from Europe/UK.

As for the efficacy of these vaccines, more Americans died “of COVID” during Biden’s first year in office (2021)–a year in which these vaccines were widely available and taken en masse by the American public–than died during Trump’s last year in office (2020): a year in which no COVID vaccines were available in the USA until after that year’s November elections.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-covid-deaths-2021-vaccines-b1963790.html

-PD

Last Night in Soho [2021)

First off.

I am in love with Thomasin McKenzie.

I think Saoirse Ronan has lost her touch.

Kat Dennings doesn’t even bother with films anymore.

And Thora Birch is too much of a liberal moron.

But then all actors are liberal morons, aren’t they?

Except for a precious few.

Jon Voight.

James Woods.

Rob Schneider.

Kirstie Alley.

Robert Davi.

Jim Caviezel.

Secondly.

This film is a masterpiece.

Edgar Wright is the best filmmaker in the world right now.

Is he better than Jean-Luc Godard?

No.

But Godard is not making films for mass consumption.

Is he better than Wes Anderson?

BY A MILLION FUCKING MILES!!!

Don’t get me wrong.

Wes Anderson made one perfect film.

And that film was The Grand Budapest Hotel.

And that film wouldn’t have been perfect without Saoirse Ronan.

That’s how important her presence in that film was.

Saoirse has made another perfect film.

Hanna.

But her others are mediocre.

Brooklyn.

Meh.

Lady Bird.

Even more meh (not a good thing).

Saoirse has gone astray.

Just as Thora Birch went astray.

Ghost World is a perfect film.

And American Beauty is close to perfect.

For my money, Homeless to Harvard is her other perfect film.

Kat Dennings films kinda suck.

Her masterpiece is actually 2 Broke Girls.

I’m serious.

But that’s not cinema.

Twin Peaks is cinema.

Even though it’s a TV show.

Histoire(s) du cinéma is the best film ever made.

And it was made for TV.

Homeless to Harvard is a Lifetime movie.

Made for TV.

It is not cinema.

Not exactly.

But it may be a perfect film.

Wes Anderson made his perfect film with Saoirse Ronan.

And he made a good film (Tenenbaums).

The rest are shite.

I did not understand Edgar Wright’s film language when I first saw Shaun of the Dead.

I thought it was crap.

How wrong I was!

Here is my contention.

Every Edgar Wright film is perfect.

Shaun of the Dead?

Yes.

Hot Fuzz?

Yes.

The World’s End?

Yes.

Baby Driver?

Yes.

Scott Pilgrim?

Yes.

And this film is perfect too.

But this is not quite the Wright you are used to.

This is a genuinely scary film.

But it stands up with Psycho, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Shining as one of the four best horror films ever made.

Edgar Wright films are all about detail.

But not the twee obsession with detail that Wes Anderson has.

Edgar Wright is overflowing with talent.

Wes Anderson is not.

Anderson needed Saoirse Ronan to make his perfect film.

And there was a bit (just a bit!) of grit in Grand Budapest.

Saoirse is missing from his other films.

And there is no real grit in any of the others.

Tenenbaums is good.

But the Wes Anderson players are tiresome.

Is Bill Murray amazing?

Yes.

But are his performances in Wes Anderson films his best work?

Absolutely not.

No more Jason Schwatzman (for fuck’s sake!).

Is Luke Wilson a great actor?

Yes.

What’s his best film?

Masked and Anonymous.

Maybe it’s Paltrow and Hackman which make Tenenbaums good.

For my money, Luke Wilson is the one who makes that film go.

But it is not on the same level as Grand Budapest.

Last Night in Soho is the Grand Budapest of the ’20s.

We’re in the ’20s now.

Are they roaring?

Like a fucking mouse.

Last Night in Soho is a gazillion times better than No Time to Die.

This film has everything the Bond film didn’t.

Substance.

Competent directing.

A story worth sticking with.

And so it is fitting that Diana Rigg’s last role should absolutely trump the death of James Bond.

The one George Lazenby film was WAY better than No Time to Die.

The death of love is more sad than the death of the hero.

Diana Rigg is the linchpin in the Bond franchise.

Pull that thread, and the sweater unravels.

Léa Seydoux is boring as fuck in the Bond films.

She was great in Blue.

But she was nothing compared to the one who carried that film (Adele Exarchopoulos).

Exarchopoulos made one perfect film.

Blue is the Warmest Color.

None of her other films are even good.

Wright makes what Youth in Revolt might have been.

He is not glib.

This is not a hipster film.

Michael Cera (who has made one perfect film [Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist]) is, mercifully, NOT in Last Night in Soho.

[correction…Kat Dennings DID make one perfect film]

Thomasin McKenzie’s obsession with ’60s London music is real.

It’s not a fucking Austin Powers joke.

Rita Tushingham is wonderful as Gram.

Excellent casting.

[take note, Bond franchise]

Thomasin hooks up with a black dude.

No big deal.

Take note, Bond franchise.

NOT EVERY FUCKING PERSON HAS TO BE BLACK IN ORDER FOR A FILM TO BE VIABLE!!!

Thomasin’s love interest is a black fellow.

I have no problem with that.

He does a good job.

For fuck’s sake…he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page!

Michael Ajao.

Fine acting!

There can be important black characters WITHOUT A FILM BEING A WOKE FUCKING JOKE (like the recent Bond film).

No big deal.

Don’t make it a big deal.

It has to fit with the story.

The story is the most important thing.

The writers of the Bond film (Purvis and Wade) have allowed their name to be attached to the fucking pathetic shit of No Time to Die.

So you get a kiwi to speak in a Cornish accent.

GREAT ACTRESS!

Thomasin McKenzie.

Say that name with me.

Jacinda Ardern’s father (or mother?) was a horse.

Ugly bitch.

Ugly soul.

Thomasin McKenzie is the best thing to ever come out of New Zealand.

However, there has been one perfect kiwi movie: Eagle vs Shark.

Synnøve Karlsen is so fucking annoying in Soho.

And she was supposed to be.

So, good job (I guess).

Every film needs a villain.

And Jocasta (Karlsen’s character) is the real villain of this film.

Thomasin is different.

Jocasta beats her down.

Mentally.

A stingy spirit.

Can never share in any of her joys.

Do you know anyone like that?

But Thomasin is troubled.

Hallucinations?

Maybe.

Seeing ghosts?

Maybe.

We’re trying to solve a case here.

Cold case.

Maybe a lot of cold cases.

Maybe a serial killer.

To the Belle and Sebastian bedsit.

Salad days are short-lived.

Don’t underestimate Sandie Shaw.

Always something there to remind me.

1964.

Puppet on a string.

Gotta pay your dues.

As a wind-up bird girl.

Brian Epstein.

Giorgio Gomelsky.

Andrew Loog Oldham.

ABKCO.

The influence of Vertigo upon Last Night in Soho cannot be understated.

The red of the Café de Paris.

The blonde of Anya Taylor-Joy’s hair.

And Thomasin’s hair.

[also, don’t underestimate Bergman’s Persona]

The glance to the side.

It’s not Jimmy Stewart.

It’s Thomasin.

Allusions to The Way of the Dragon and The Lady from Shanghai in the mirrors.

Sure, a bit of Pulp Fiction.

But that’s just for the kids.

Edgar Wright’s grasp of cinema history is way deeper than some Tarantino bullshit.

And yet, he likes zombies.

And shitty horror films from the ’80s.

I mean REALLY shitty, camp ones.

Slasher films.

Back to Vertigo.

Kim Novak’s apartment is bathed in green neon.

But Thomasin’s bedsit is a red, white, and blue homage to Godard.

An homage to Une Femme est une femme.

Dancing.

Dancing girls.

Prostitutes.

Vivre sa vie.

Pink dress fembot.

Pew pew.

Thomasin is way sexier than Anya Taylor-Joy.

Thomasin is the girl next door.

The frumpy hair of Homeless to Harvard.

I love it.

It must be this way.

To juxtapose the transition to Swinging Sixties glamour.

Is Trump just culture jamming with his vaccine tack?

Either that, or the hero has become the villain.

Did the D.C. swamp make Trump into a swamp zombie?

Maybe no one comes out clean.

International law was broken.

War crimes.

All these Wright films have zombies.

Or robots.

Faceless automatons.

A bit of Dragon Tattoo.

We all like a good microfiche scene!

Is Terence Stamp her father?

If Sandie is her mother?

Could be.

Otherwise, she would be the daughter of a prick.

But Stamp tried to save Sandie.

Arsenic and old lace.

The ones you never suspect.

Sicario.

“Buried” in the walls.

Decomposing.

Poe.

Gacy.

Wright’s “sympathy for the serial killer”.

What happened to these people that made them monsters?

Don’t underestimate Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (his only English-language film…and a flat-out masterpiece).

In the world of Edgar Wright, it is records.

Vinyl.

Not books.

And sometimes the elderly want to die with their memories.

They are not going anywhere.

They are not fleeing.

It’s been a good life.

Going down with the ship.

Up in flames.

The shitbags want their deaths avenged.

After all, they were just horny, well-to-do dads who needed a little excitement.

Prostitution.

It’s the law, after all.

Murder is murder.

Crimes of passion.

By reason of insanity.

Not guilty.

Not insane.

But traumatized.

But Thomasin has been on the adventure.

She knows what Sandie has been through.

Trump was abused for four years.

That is true.

And he fought like a champ.

Is there no justice?

Is it culture jamming (I ask again)?

Confusion.

Keeping his enemies off balance.

Getting a foot in the door.

Truth Social will censor “hate speech” with a Silicon Valley AI bot.

In order to get on Apple App Store and Google Play.

But the roll out is delayed?

Lie about the vaccines.

“Safe and effective”.

Move in for the kill shot.

Against whom?

Big Pharma and the New World Order.

But we have to call out serial killers for who they are.

If you are saying the COVID vaccines are “safe and effective”, you are spreading misinformation that is endangering the lives of those who hear and trust you.

CDC: 11,879