…me neither. On that day I’ll be watching some real football — you know, when the foot is used to kick the ball all the time, and not just for punts and kickoffs.
Category: Wokism
Welcome News
When I heard that Woke Disney was going to remake one of my favorite-ever movies, I was immediately overcome by a Black Mood. What foul atrocities, I asked myself, are they going to inflict upon this jewel?
Disney fans are breathing a sigh of relief after it was reported that a live-action remake of The Aristocats has been quietly cancelled.
Plans for the new movie, based on the 1970’s classic, were initially announced in 2022 with Questlove attached to the project.
But, speaking on the August 20 episode of Score: The Podcast, the director – real name Ahmir K. Thompson – claimed that the film has been shelved.
Addressing the project’s demise, Questlove told the podcast: ‘A new administration came in, and then I was like, “Okay, well, this is what I plan to do, and dadada, do the song and dance, and here’s some of the music examples and there’s some team I’m working with dadada.”
‘And then they had another administration shuffle, and it was like, “Okay well. All right.” And by the third time I was just like, “Maybe this isn’t meant for me, because there’s also, at least, like right now, there’s so many options I have in pickings.”‘
Questlove said that The Aristocats live-action make could be revived years down the line.
‘Maybe it’ll happen in the future,’ he added.
I bloody well hope not.
Of all the old Disney movies (The Aristocats was made in 1970), this one represented all the good things about the classic animated Disney movies: funny, satirical, heartbreaking, full of suspense, lovely musical numbers (Maurice Chevalier!), with wonderful supporting characters (e.g. Madame’s ancient lawyer and the gaggle of elderly English geese) and the most villainous of villains, Edgar the butler.
It is an example of the perfect movie — and, it should be said, the last okayed by Walt and made under Roy Disney’s supervision before their respective deaths. (Since then…)
There is no doubt that any “new” take on this classic would only be foul, wrong and at the end, a commercial failure. And making it “live-action” (i.e. mostly CGI) would add to the cataclysm.
Some movies — especially the perfect ones — never have to be remade. And The Aristocats most certainly belongs in that category.
Hell, I always thought (and still do) that Duchess was just about the perfect woman: gorgeous, unwittingly sexy, loved her family… the list is endless. And as voiced by Eva Gabor… rowrrr.
And one last thought:
Rollback
Right off, I have to admit that I don’t really have a dog in this particular fight.
I don’t follow the NFL, never watch any of their games, and could not possibly care less what or how this little cartel names their teams.
That said: I am concerned about the reasons behind this name change.
“Ooooh, we can’t bear the thought that eeevil old White men named their football team using a disgusting racist slur!” (This despite the fact that No Actual Indian Felt Insulted By The Name, Ever.)
So on that basis alone — just to stick it to the Perpetually Indignant — I support changing the name back to one which has a proud heritage and, lest we forget, was the first football team to win a Super Bowl behind a Black quarterback, at a time when few if any of the other teams even had a Black quarterback.
It’s really time we pushed back against this fucking wokism — including the re-erection of all those statues the Leftoids pulled down because raaayyyycissss or slaverrrryyyyy or some such nonsense.
And while we’re on the subject of renaming, let’s get all those institutions back to their original names which honored past heroes. (Frankly, I’d support renaming the pitifully-woke VMI to the Robert E. Lee Military Institute, as long as they also kicked out all the G.I. Jane wannabes in so doing. Fuck it, let’s also go back to our proud heritage of men-only military colleges.)
Of course, The Donald is behind many of these initiatives, because it’s all part of Making America Great Again, and I am all for it.
Screw the wokisti.
A.I. Development
Here’s an interesting factoid about this wunderbar techno-thing:
Bug, or feature? I report, you decide.
Censorship By Algorithm
…or by A.I., the outcome is the same.
Seen SOTI:
Since when could we not say simple words like “racists” and “pedophiles”*?
Since “bad” words could be flagged by built-in website algorithms and cause the post and/or writer to be “flagged” or even “banned”, is when.
Which is why I don’t bowdlerize my writing here; if I want to say “rapist” I’ll fucking well say “RAPIST”, and if I want to say “porn” I’ll say that too, and not “p*rn” or its pathetic ilk.
It’s too bad, because the above statement lends itself to being quite funny, provided that you don’t encounter the linguistic roadblock of having to hunt for the substitute letters for the asterisks.
*(For my Brit Readers, “paedophiles” which would emerge as “p**dophiles”, which is doubleplusunreadable.)
The No-Sales Company
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, this has happened:
Jaguar sales take a nosedive after fierce backlash to ‘woke’ brand
Jaguar sales have nosedived by more than a quarter in the last year following the legendary British car marque’s dramatic ‘woke‘ rebrand.
The company was mauled for ditching the iconic ‘growler’ badge, used for decades on grilles and bonnets, and replacing it with a curved geometric ‘J’ badge.
Other controversial changes included unveiling a bright pink concept car, which was aimed at updating Jaguar’s image for the electric age.
But design experts and Jag fans ridiculed the makeover, branding it ‘cultural vandalism’ and the ‘most destructive marketing move ever’.
Now new industry registration figures released by parent company, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) revealed the number of cars sold by the Indian-owned firm fell by 12,459 to just 33,320 in 2024.
Fear not, however:
…but carmaker’s classic Range Rover and Defender models are still popular
Meanwhile, sales of JLR’s Range Rover SUV have boomed, with the firm championing ‘strong wholesale growth’ for the 12 per cent increase during the quarter compared to a year earlier.
Sales of classic Range Rovers rose by 22 per cent, while the Sport and Evoque models rose by 17 per cent and 15 per cent respectively. Defender sales also surged by 13 per cent, while Discovery sales increased by 1.5 per cent.
Which leads us to this tragic scenario:
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of wokistas.