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September 2, 2025 Kim du Toit Entertainment, Wokism

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?

Fear not, Kim:

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:

Same Tactic, Different Places

September 2, 2025 Kim du Toit Foreign Affairs, Marxists, Politics

I often hear this complaint when I’m at the liquor store to replenish my gin supplies:

“Kim, why the hell do you spend so much time talking about what’s happening in Yurp? What they do has so little to do with us here in Murka!”

Rather than argue the rationale, I’ll just go to the example reel, and play the movie:

France’s New Guillotine: Silent Dictatorship

On March 31, 2025, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced Marine Le Pen to five years of electoral “ineligibility” with immediate effect…. This sentence, described by the defendant as a “witch hunt”, bars the frontrunner in the polls from standing in the 2027 French presidential election.

The aim of this maneuver is clear: to remove the opposition leader from competing for the highest office in the land.

Never mind that this happened over The Pond in Frogland. If anyone can’t see the similarities between that and what the Left tried to do to Trump a few years ago, they are, to put it bluntly, fucking dense.

The Left, in both countries, have enlisted the aid of the politicized judiciary (and its lapdogs, politicized law enforcement) to try to stymie the election of someone who is far and away the most popular politician in the country: Le Pen Over There, and Trump Over Here.

Of course, what the Leftist DOJ did to Trump happened, as I said, some years ago, whereas the same thing happened to Le Pen just a couple months ago.

The order is unimportant. What’s important is that the Left are not going to stop trying to do the same, over and over again. Whether it’s because of alleged “wrongspeak” (in Yurp) or manufactured crimes (Trump), the end goal is the same: stop the voters from electing the “wrong person”.

Or the “wrong” political party. Step (goose-step?) forward, our old friends from Krautland:

Germany’s spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as “extremist”, enabling it to step up monitoring of the country’s biggest opposition party, which decried the move as a “blow against democracy”.

A 1,100-page experts’ report found the AfD to be a racist and anti-Muslim organisation, a designation that allows the security services to recruit informants and intercept party communications, and which has revived calls for the party’s ban.

“Central to our assessment is the ethnically and ancestrally defined concept of the people that shapes the AfD, which devalues entire segments of the population in Germany and violates their human dignity,” the BfV domestic intelligence agency said in a statement.

“This concept is reflected in the party´s overall anti-migrant and anti-Muslim stance,” it said, accusing the AfD of stirring up “irrational fears and hostility” towards individuals and groups.

And anyone who can’t see the parallels between the actions of the ~~Gestapo~~ BfV and our own beloved Biden-era CIA and FBI are also fucking dense.

So yeah: I continue to observe the goings-on outside our shores (especially in Yurp), because for those who still haven’t seen the wood for the trees, the Stalinist Comintern is alive and well.

These Commie bastards have comrades-in-arms all over the world.

Suggestion

September 2, 2025 Kim du Toit Immigration

This article caught my attention:

Britain’s ‘ghost’ island: Tragic reason why last residents of remote archipelago left 95 years ago today

He’s talking about St. Kilda in the Outer Hebrides, and I believe the answer may be found on this map:

…which makes me think of only one thing: future internment camp for illegal aliens.

Yeah, tell me you didn’t think of that too.

News Roundup

September 2, 2025 Kim du Toit Bad News

Speaking of squealing…

...I think I remember reading this headline back in the 1960s — although the “slaughterhouses” part has most certainly come true in most Democrat-controlled cities, anyway.

...or maybe it was because of Glueball Wormening, I dunno — I get so confused sometimes.

Speaking of Teh Green Issues:

...wonder how much that little wokey gesture has cost them.

More Woke Stuff:

...anyone think he would have done this if the Democrats still controlled the White House? Me neither.

And speaking of woke costing money…. heeeere’s Krautyboy!

...what was your first clue, Karl-Heinz-Gerhard-Hanspeter?|
#ModernGermany #KillingTheStereotypeThatGermansAreLogical

...you mean “artificial” like Biden’s victory in 2020?

...exactly which people are you talking about, Yeronner? Gold Coast liberals like Fatboi Pritzker?

...gosh, I wonder why that is. And:

…..gosh, I wonder why that is.
#DeepstateCriminalCorruption

And speaking of criminals… from the Lawn Ordure Files:

...excuse me, I’m off to borrow Sarah Hoyt’s Shocked Face (again).
#Don’tTrustGovernmentStatistics

...hey, if we’re going to use quote marks around ‘raped’, I thought we might as well go the whole hog.

In Political News:

...a.k.a. when Elon regained his common sense and stopped feeding his own vanity.

In Sex News:

...getting arrested is not usually the result of this activity on PornHub (or so they tell me).

...considering it happened about a hundred years ago, this might not be that big a deal.

...in which we play our popular “Guess The Race” game. (clue is in the headline itself) Then there’s the new game: “Guess Why White People Are No Longer Going On Carnival Cruises (Or Visiting Six Flags)”.