Coming Soon To A Theater Near You

Well I’m back and I see Raj and Little Mo did an excellent job keeping you apprised of developing stories in the political swamp. But I’d like to turn our attention for a moment to the Hollywood sewer. George Clooney opened his latest directorial effort, Suburbicon, this week starring Matt Damon:

Suburbicon is a confused mishmash of a movie that attempts to blend two different storylines and fails to fully develop either in an engaging fashion. Chris Agar, Screen Rant

But its attempt to haphazardly take on a far weightier tale makes Suburbicon a much rarer, and more mesmerizing, kind of catastrophe. David Sims, The Atlantic

And those were reviews by people inclined to like the movie. Some were less subtle:

‘Suburbicon” is not only unfunny, a bad sign for a black comedy, but deep-dyed dislikable. Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

It might have been better if George had tried harder to keep his anger at America and Americans for electing Donald J. Trump in check.

Clooney noted that he re-cut “Suburbicon” after the 2016 presidential election — but long before this summer’s racist march in Charlottesville — fired by his own ire and sense of betrayal, and his sense that the film needed to be angrier, less silly.

I haven’t seen the movie of course but from what I can make out from the reviews he nailed the “angrier” part but not the “less silly.” Rolling Stone zeroes in on the point at which the movie begins it’s death spiral:

Where the film goes wrong is its grafting on a subplot about racism that, however admirable, gives the film a hectoring tone that wreaks havoc with its blistering comic thrust.

Suburbicon is based on an old, unproduced Coen brothers script that Clooney picked up. I guess he didn’t think that flyover Americans have had enough opportunity to buy theater tickets to watch movies that mock and judge them. But as the above tweet indicates, it seems an inopportune moment for the Hollywood elite to be lecturing us on morality. It’s bad enough that Clooney and Damon in their private personas feel compelled to tell the rest of us how to live our desperate little lives, but they actually expect us to pay to watch their on-screen liberal propaganda diatribes as well.

We get it: racism is bad. But do you know what’s worse? Injecting racism just to trigger liberal anger. Take the NFL for instance:

Coming soon to a theater near you. Thanks, Donald Trump.

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The Ruling Class Really Is Better Than You

NOTICE: MOTUS will be back tomorrow but while she is enjoying her vacation on the shores of the Great Lakes, Raj and Little Mo continue to occupy her blog, burrowing into the Deep State rabbit hole.  

Holy Carp Batman! The “conservative” Washington Free Beacon originated the Trump Russian Dossier!?! The Washington Free Beacon? As in the GOPE (Grand Old Party Establishment) Never-Trumpers Michael Goldfarb, Paul Simon and Bill Kristol Washington Free Beacon? In a word, yes.

Lawyers for the conservative publication Washington Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee Friday that the organization was the original funder for the anti-Trump opposition research project with Fusion GPS.

The Free Beacon funded the project from the fall of 2015 through the spring of 2016, whereupon it withdrew funding and the project was picked up by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Of course the WFB is quick to point out that they “dropped” it before GPS Fusion hired Christopher Steele to fabricate the tale. It sounds more like a “hand-off” than a “drop” but either way that the GOPE and Club Clinton could have worked together to pull off a Trump-takedown operation should surprise no one ever. As they say, politics make strange bedfellows.

Oh, and by the way, don’t forget that Hillary knew NUTH-INK! about any of this; and I’m certain her disappeared emails would have confirmed that. This pre-election premonition of hers was just tweeted out last year on the advice of one of her aides-de-camp who was embedded in the Deep State:

And so you see, the Ruling Class really is different from you and me, les Deplorables.

Our Betters will stop at nothing to maintain their power. You’ve been warned.

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. ” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Investigating The Investigators

NOTICE: While MOTUS enjoys a well deserved vacation on the shores of the Great Lakes, Raj and Little Mo occupy her blog.

Just when Mueller, Comey, Ronstein, McCabe et al, thought they had the Russia! Russia! Russia! investigation under control, it turns radioactive.

The Justice Department lifted a gag order that will allow a former FBI informant speak to congressional panels investigating an Obama-era deal in which a Russian-backed company was able to get control of a significant amount of the United States uranium supply.

A DOJ spokesman late Wednesday cleared the way for the informant to disclose to the committees “any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market, including but not limited to anything related to Vadim Mikerin, Rosatom, Tenex, Uranium One, or the Clinton Foundation.”

Now, Congress is calling for ANOTHER Special Counsel to investigate the other one…

And Chuck’s not alone:

House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Thursday called for a new special counsel — to investigate Hillary Clinton, James Comey and Loretta Lynch.

In a letter addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Republicans said they were writing to "request assistance in restoring public confidence in our nation's justice system and its investigators, specifically the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)."…

"The unbalanced, uncertain, and seemingly unlimited focus of the special counsel's investigation has led many of our constituents to see a dual standard of justice that benefits only the powerful and politically well-connected," the letter said. "For this reason, we call on you to appoint a second special counsel to investigate a plethora of matters connected to the 2016 election and its aftermath, including actions taken by previously public figures like Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."

In other news, after he apologizes for sexually harassing female reporter, MSNBC, HBO, Showtime and Penguin Books can Harvey Weinstein…er, uh…Mark Halperin.

The Perv is strong in this one

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The Worm Turns Part 2: Dangerous Times Ahead

NOTICE: While MOTUS enjoys a well deserved vacation on the shores of the Great Lakes, Raj and Little Mo occupy her blog as Little Mo burrows into the Deep State rabbit hole digging up dirt.  

DC ROCKED: CLINTON PAID FOR KREMLIN DIRT ON TRUMP
RUSSIA SCRIPT FLIPPED...
Top Hillary lawyer lied for YEAR about dossier...
MESS: Pressure builds on Mueller to recuse himself...
FBI On Hot Seat...
Busted Media Downplay Revelations...
TRUMP: 'HOAX IS TURNED AROUND'...
'They are very embarrassed'...

FLASHBACK: Media Hysterical Over Don Jr Russia Dirt Meeting...
'Treason,' 'Collusion,' 'Jail'...

ELITES TURN ON CLINTONS? THE SACRIFICE...
TOXIC...

Raj: Do these headlines mean that Mrs. Clinton’s digestive discharges are striking the ventilator blades Little Mo?

Little Mo: [patience: I promised MOTUS I’d be patient…]

Yes Raj,that’s what it means. It also means that America’s historic, last black president has his fingerprints all over this mess too. Barry wasn’t just talking about “missile defense” when he asked Medvedev to tell Vlady that he’d have “more flexibility after the election.”

Raj: So, deflecting the digestive discharges away from the Magic Negro™ is why the “Elites” – led by the Washington Post - are throwing the Clinton Crime Machine under the bus?

Little Mo: Is the Pope Catholic?

Raj: I don’t know, he used to be, but this Pope…

Little Mo: …rhetorical question, Raj; the answer’s yes. And it means that ValJar, the queen of Deep State, has authorized a “hit” by the drive-by media. WaPo wouldn’t dare publish anything unless it’s been cleared and stuff this hot can only be cleared by VJ.

“Leading from behind” since 2008

DC is a scary place right now. Much too much being revealed about way too many party heavyweights. There’s a frantic search for pawns to take the fall, but there’s too much weight on the left side of the scale. Nothing’s on the level. Hard to get balance. Sky’s getting dark.

Raj: Does this mean that Hillary will go to jail?

Little Mo: In the real world she’d already be there. So would Bubba, Lynch, Holder, Johnny & Tony '”pizza” bros, Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe, Weisman, Manafort and probably Mueller. But we don’t live in the real world, we live in the D.C. rabbit hole. Here corruption is dealt with differently. You’ll see people who normally spend their days in the shadows suddenly emerge and make calls on people like Sessions, Ryan, McConnell and Trump. Conversations will drift to the irreparable damage that would be done to our system of government if a former Secretary of State, two Attorneys General, two former FBI Directors and dozens of other high ranking officials are implicated, let alone convicted of such crimes. Blah blah blah…threats will subtlety be made. “Surely we can find our way around such a Constitutional crisis.” Deals will be made, sanctions imposed, money given back. Apologies made. There will be much bowing and scraping; one hand washes the other, no harm intended. Cheerio and carry on.

And If that doesn’t work, if DJT hangs tough and orders the DOJ to pull the plug on the swamp, things will get very, VERY dangerous, very fast, for very many people.

So be it.

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The Worm Turns: Part I

NOTICE: Raj and Little Mo will be occupying MOTUS’ blog while she enjoys a well deserved vacation with her BFF at an undisclosed location somewhere along the shores of the Great Lakes.

And just so you know what to expect in her absence: there will be dirt.

And right out of the chute Little Mo scores the first dirt strike. Straight from WaPo: Clinton, DNC Paid for Dirt; Russian Dossier. But, but but…Hillary said the Russians were trying to bury her in the dirt! What’s going on here? This could actually prove to be dangerous for Camp Clinton.

And if that isn’t enough to send Hillary in search of a  little dirt nap, there’s this this exclusive scoop that Little Mo got right after Tucker aired it last night:

In a nutshell: Former senior employee of the Podesta Group says that the media reports about the Russian collusion not only have it wrong, they have it backwards. Paul Manafort is at the center of the Russia collusion investigation, not because he was Trump’s campaign chairman for about 2 minutes, but because he was working with the Podesta group on behalf of Russia and Russian oligarchs for years. And oddly, not one of the MSM crack investigative journalists managed to get a hold of that bone over the course of the past 11 months. That’s not exactly dogging this story to the ground; no wonder that dog won’t hunt.

This is breath taking. And it certainly makes Hilz’ 40,000 delete emails about yoga lessons and wedding plans a lot more interesting.

It could very well indicate that the time has come, my friends, for that worm to turn.

As MOTUS said yesterday, “buckle up Buttercup, this is going to be a long hard ride.” And stay tuned, with enough covfefe Little Mo will continue digging until he gets to the bottom of this story.

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Hurry It Up, We’re Burning Daylight

Russia!

Russia!

Russia!

And oddly not one tie to Trump has been made after nearly a year of ongoing investigations. But the other players, the ones really involved in Russian collusion are growing too numerous to keep track of. But thankfully Clarice covered the waterfront in her Sunday piece, Secrets and Lies: Three Russian Stories. It includes all the players, multifarious relationships and illegal shenanigans (bribery, kickbacks, extortion, money laundering) surrounding the Clinton/Uranium One/Russian deal. And a bonus round as well: the Second Hillary-Russian scandal in which Russian spies target…Hillary. Why? Who knows, they were scooted out of the country before the FBI finished its business with them. And who knows who paid for the creation of the 100% made up Trump dossier either; all the GPS-Fusion people have taken the Fifth and are trying to get a judge to block the disclosure of their bank records. As Molly Hemingway sarcastically notes:

We have reports at CNN of the FBI paying expenses for the dossier, and trying to pay him even more, according to the Post and Times. We have Fusion GPS already claiming that Democratic supporters of Clinton paid for it. And we have New York Times and various other reports that Russians paid Fusion GPS for allegedly unrelated work, though no evidence that those funds were not used on the dossier. So who paid for it? Russia? The FBI? The Democrats? Or all? Gosh, wouldn’t it be nice to know? If only we had some means of finding out the answers to these questions!

All I can say is buckle up Buttercup, this is going to be a long hard ride. But it’s going to be worth it because thar’s gold in them thar Hills. And we’re going to find it.

Oh, and by the way: Trump was right again.

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Time To Revisit the Calculus

Is anything drearier than a dreary Monday? I think not. So how about some dreary news:

Update from the Russian Collusion Factory: there might not have been any. I can’t hear you, what did you say? There may not have been any collusion? But, but, but - Macedonian Content Farms!

h/t Oleg

Don’t despair, it turns out there may have been no Trump collusion, but lots and lots of Russian interference:

Have you noticed? In recent public comments, the lawmakers investigating the Trump-Russia affair, along with some of the commentators who dissect its every development, seem to be focusing more on the facts of Russia’s attempts to interfere with the 2016 election and less on allegations that Donald Trump or his associates colluded with those efforts. - Byron York: Is tone of Trump-Russia probe changing?

It’s unclear to me what their objective was. Did they mis-misunderstand who they were helping/hurting? Did they really want Hillary to lose just because they hated her as much as we did? Did they really want Trump to win?

The left-wing Mother Jones describes troll factories that "spent about $2.3 million during the 2016 election cycle to meddle in US politics, paying the salaries of 90 'US desk' employees who helped wage disinformation campaigns via social media that reached millions of Americans. The operation also contacted US activists directly and offered them thousands of dollars to organize protests on divisive issues, including race relations." – Richard Fernandez: Closing In On The Last Sacred Thing.

And all they needed was a few bucks and access to the wonderful world of social media.

Fake hotdogs, deluded activists, big results. It was as if the impecunious Russians had found the secret thermal port that led to the reactor spaces of the media Death Star and sent a bomb down it. The mesh topology of social media connections allowed ideas to propagate very quickly…

Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter have been called to give sworn public testimony before a US congressional panel early next month about what happened on their platforms in the run-up to the presidential election, now almost a year ago. The companies have also been approached by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged ties between Russia and the Donald Trump presidential campaign.

Imagine that, our wonderful world of social media can be used against our own best interests by evil doers! Who’d of thunk. Well at least we won’t let it get any worse – oh wait:

Silicon Valley is in the midst of building an even bigger monster machine.  Steve Kovach describes Google's project to create a herd of Trojan Horses to get inside every aspect of your life. "Google’s hardware division will be used to sneak the company’s AI technology into everything" you touch.

All of Google’s new products incorporate its AI technologies in one way or another. For example, Google Clips, its new camera, uses AI to monitor what’s happening around it to determine the best time to take short video clips. It then transfers those clips to Google Photos, the company’s photo storage service, which offers image recognition that’s constantly improving thanks to machine learning (aka, Artificial Intelligence)…

No one anticipated this all-powerful network could be potentially hijacked by actors like Putin…

Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter have been called to give sworn public testimony before a US congressional panel early next month about what happened on their platforms in the run-up to the presidential election, now almost a year ago. The companies have also been approached by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged ties between Russia and the Donald Trump presidential campaign.

For all the repercussions of Trump’s presidency, among the most surprising may be the hostile scrutiny that has sprung up of America’s star-dusted tech companies, as awareness dawns of how Russia took advantage of the companies’ platforms – and their highly profitable obsessions with targeting individuals and content sharing, minus oversight – to elevate Trump and attack Hillary Clinton.

If any part of the Russian meddling story is true it does make one wonder: what were they thinking?

What part of “Make America Great Again” do they not get?

They may wish to revisit their calculus. The arc length of their parametric curve seems a bit off.

Whereas ours is not.

PS Read the whole thing

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Postmodern Bravery: Harvey Weinstein Edition

Hollywood has clearly lost what little grasp on reality they had:

Oh for heaven’s sake: “How brave women –from superstars to assistants- stood up to a powerful movie mogul accused of horrifying sexual abuse.” In the immortal words of John McEnroe, “you cannot be serious!” I would like to think the People cover is intended as irony, but we all know better.

Let’s start with Rose McGowan, who’s been running her mouth non-stop about what a pig Weinstein is and how Hollywood just turns women into sex objects – there’s a real news flash! Here’s Rose at the 1998 MTV Music Awards in a dress that exposs her derriere, along with other lady parts:

Doesn’t appear to me that she needs much help turning herself into a sex object. I’m sorry she was raped by the pig when she was 23. But let’s be clear: she could have decided to be “brave” at the time, not 21 years later. She didn’t though; she opted not to press charges (blaming her lawyer) and she accepted Harvey’s $100K settlement. She didn’t have to do that, unless she decided she wanted stardom more than she wanted justice. She made her bargain with the devil and understandably regretted it later. 

But why would you agree to continue to pose for photo ops with the creep? WHY?

No, I’m not blaming the victim. I’m just asking People Magazine, what “bravery” are you citing here? How is it that Ashley, Gwyneth or Angelina “stood up to” Harvey at the time? Did they file charges? Did they pen an editorial for the New York Times, LA Times, Hollywood Reporter or Washington Post exposing the misogynistic behavior of old Uncle Harv? Did they call for the end of exploitation of women in Hollywood when they were young, hot and exploitable?  Did they provide People Magazine with an up-close and personal expose of the perv who was molesting and assaulting young actresses and wannabes when they ran the risk of being black listed?

No, I think not. They were silent. So how does keeping your yap shut for years on end, allowing this pig to continue his abusive attacks on other young women with impunity constitute valorous behavior? They didn’t “take down a Hollywood predator” they simply piled on when someone else finally did, decades later.  They may have been victims but stop casting them as heroic – another word that has come to mean nothing in the postmodern transformation of America.

RELATED: Michelle’s chosen role model for her girls, Beyoncé, according to US Weekly, is rockin’ her toned post-baby bod in a crop top and form fitting skirt from her Ivy Park clothing line. Because shouldn’t every girl aspire to looking like a Barbie doll dressed up like a pimped out whore? So they can be more empowered, or something.

And by-the-way, why is it cultural appropriation for white women to wear hoop earrings but perfectly okay for black women to sport straight blonde hair?

Michelle embraces her blonde black role model friend

Never mind, I know: because RACISM! And while I’m at it, isn’t dressing like a slut some kind of cultural appropriation? After all, Madonna did it first. Or is it racist of me to even suggest that?

 Spare me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning for the marquee, The wretched refuse of the teeming whores. Send these, the soulless, tempest-tossed, debris: they lift their lamps to the gold they grope for.

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