Nowadays, if the woke could really have their way with the Bond series, we’d see Bond beaten badly by a trans lesbian agent of color who worked for North Korea and then put on trial for war crimes.
How insidious? Well, take Caitlin Clark for example.
Never heard of her? She’s a star in the American WNBA?
Never of heard of that? It’s the Women’s National Basketball Association and it was formed more than twenty five years ago by the NBA as a sop to the feminist movement. It loses some $50 million per year and has lost money from the start. Bill Burr explains why you’ve never heard of it (3m starting at 1m 14s)
It’s a male subsidised league. We gave you a fucking league. None of you showed up! Where are all the feminists? None of you went to the fucking games. None of you….. You failed them. Not me. Not men. Women failed the WNBA. Ladies, name your top five WNBA players of all time….Name the WNBA team in your fucking city. You can’t do it. You. Don’t. Give. A. Fuck. About them. They play night in and night out in front of nobody, and it’s a fucking tragedy.
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And then meanwhile. You look at the Kardashians. They’re making billions…. They’re making money hand over fist. Because that’s what women are watching. The money listens. You don’t wanna watch this shit? You watch this shit…. BRRRRRRR. They just shoot it over there, drowning these whores in money.
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Real housewives, a bunch of women tearing each other down…. That’s the message you sent: we would rather watch that than see a bunch of women come together as a team and try to achieve a common goal. We would rather watch them actually fucking destroy each other.
And then in 2024 a miracle happened. A rookie player, who had already been a star for her Iowa basketball team, and who was the No 1 pick for the WNBA, lit up the place.
Still young, tall and skinny she didn’t drive to the basket much. But she could shoot three pointers from male range and did so, ending the season not just with rookie records but records for the entire history of the WNBA. Crowds flocked to watch her and the WNBA ended up losing only $40 million instead of the expected $50 million. Because of her. To nobody’s great surprise she won Rookie Of The Year.
But there were three big issues with her: she is White, Straight and Catholic. And that meant problems on and off the court. In the first forum she was regularly flattened in blatant fouls by the primarily black players (many of them lesbian), with her own team mates offering little protection. A few retired NBA players spoke out, saying that they’d never seen – nor would they have allowed as defenders and “enforcers” – such treatment to be dished out to a rookie. In the second forum she was regularly dissed as not being that great and her rough handling ignored by male and female commentators alike.
And then she ruined everything. TIME Magazine’s recent profile of her leaned into the narrative of her being a privileged white girl who doesn’t deserve the popularity she has. Instead of celebrating her incredible talent and achievements, the media and WNBA players have turned her rise into a referendum on identity politics. In the interview with TIME, Clark didn’t even stand up for herself; instead, she caved to the woke mob and “acknowledged” her privilege of being white, and insisted that it is more important to elevate black players, because, as she said, “This league has kind of been built on them.”
Clark was the WNBA’s golden ticket—a once-in-a-generation player with the skill and charisma to draw new fans and elevate the league. But instead of letting her shine, the WNBA and its media enablers have chosen to tear her down, weaponizing race and identity to stoke controversy. But what makes this even worse is that Clark herself has bought into this divisive rhetoric, expressing “white guilt” rather than fully owning her success.
A total cave to the forces trying to destroy her. Maybe she and the WNBA can recover from this. Maybe she can become the Michael Jordan of the WNBA and overwhelm her enemies by leading her team to years of Finals success. But even so, this was a pitiful sight.
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You’ve all heard of James Bond though. Seven actors have portrayed the handsome, dashing, licenced killer of Britain’s MI6 for over sixty years now, with the latest one, Daniel Craig, retiring from the role in 2021 after five movies. Despite doubts at the start, plus cracks about him steadily becoming more “emo” as the series progressed, I’d rank him second behind Sean Connery, and I consider his 2006 entry, Casino Royale, to be the best of all.
So what next for Bond? Well, in 2021 Amazon bought MGM studios, which carries the franchise and it seems they’re in a bit of a fight with longtime Bond producer Barbara Broccoli . You can probably guess at the reason from this quote alone:
During a recent meeting to discuss Bond’s fate, one Amazon executive laid it on the line, saying: “I have to be honest, I don’t think James Bond is a hero.”
Of course he isn’t to the likes of Woke Leftist shits like you. He doesn’t fit with any of the current theories in vogue in your world.
Bond is a White, Straight Male and although he likes woman a lot he doesn’t want to become one. He drinks a lot and has a lot of fun as he blows things up with cool gadgets, shoots people and shags the girls in between. He doesn’t get too emotionally tied up about, or depressed about all this (although Craig had a crack at that). No PTSD for Bond. Christ, he literally defends the British Empire. It’s just sin after sin after sin.
For the last several years, Broccoli has fended off a variety of ideas within the industry that Bond could take on a different identity in terms of gender or race in upcoming films. Broccoli, however, insists that Bond “should always be played by a man, and should always be played by a Brit….These people are fucking idiots.”
I’d heard those rumours too, but until now nobody knew they were coming from Amazon, who also apparently want Bond to battle villains based on real-life people that the left hates and fears. Bond vs Musk! Cool!
Nowadays, if the woke could really have their way with the Bond series, we’d see Bond beaten badly by a trans lesbian agent of color who worked for North Korea and then put on trial for war crimes.
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DEI has even penetrated the US military. I already partially covered this in two posts, here and here, about what Trump nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is going to have to deal with at the Pentagon (USAF Finds Itself With Critical Shortage of Pilots While It Says It Has Too Many White Officers). But RedState notes that the US Army is in particular disarray:
The current Army Chief of Staff collaborated with a now-fired general to break the rules of the command selection process and put the general’s mistress on the list even though she was not qualified…
The Former Army Ranger nominated to be Secretary of the Army, Daniel Driscoll, may actually have a tougher job than Hegseth himself because even though his focus will be more narrow it’s going to be confronting what lies in the souls of soldiers, whether corruption or despair:
More than half of the Army‘s senior officers are turning down opportunities to command, choosing instead the stability of staff roles over the high-stakes demands of leadership, or retiring, according to internal service data.
The embedded article from which that is quoted, military.com, blames this on work-life balance, family life, etc. But the author of the RedState article, Strieff, himself a former US Army officer with combat experience, points out that these have always been issues and have not stopped the majority of officers from pushing for command (although it’s already been declining for several years before exceeding the 50% mark in 2023-24), because that is the capstone to an Army career. He puts it down to two things:
- Micromanagement from senior officers, enabled by technology. Doesn’t do a lot to encourage initiative, which is the hallmark of great officers.
- The fear of career-ending consequences if soldiers are disciplined in any way: a “weaponized investigation” culture. “Someone is going to complain about you being homophobic, sexist, or racist…An IG report finding hurt feelings can get you a General Officer Letter of Reprimand, and that is the end of your career.”
To that end he has this link to another Army vet, who is more shocked than Strieff and has the receipts:
So basically, if you are a U.S. military unit commander in 2024, you necessarily live in fear of some subordinate claiming that you are a racist or a sexist or a homophobe, regardless of whether there is even the slightest hint of truth to the claim. I can promise you that the fear of such unwarranted claims being successful will compromise the judgment and leadership of anyone faced with such fear. A military unit or ship cannot function as a combat-effective force when its commander lives in the shadow of such fear. It cannot. And the service members in such a combat ineffective unit or ship will suffer—and some will die—as a result.
This is a tragically serious issue. It also explains why Army O-5s are declining command opportunities at unprecedented rates. Why offer to make yourself a sacrificial lamb and suffer life- and reputation-altering defamation and ignominy that stays with you forever? It all makes sense in this context.
The Yanks always seem to go to extremes in every area of life, but I do wonder how much of this DEI crap exists in other Western militaries, including ours here in NZ.
No Minister 
The NZ Navy seem to be D.E.I’ing.
That Bill Burr piece is awesome. A great way to start the day.
With Bond, I always thought that if you didn’t have a white actor playing the part, then a few years ago (say not long after The Wire came out) Idris Elba would have been great. Personally I always liked Pierce Brosnan.
but I do wonder how much of this DEI crap exists in other Western militaries, including ours here in NZ.
Wonder no further.
The New Zealand Navy put a bunch of woman-drivers in charge of it’s four ships – because they were woman drivers.
Now every time the ships need to reverse they risk crashing and/or sinking.
Given that NZ doesn’t have an airforce (the one discipline where reversing has no part to play therefore should be the home for those women) and the Army accepts fat poofs I’d say DEI ensures that New Zealand’s only actual defensive capability is to sing “God Defend New Zealand” loudly and Pray.
Many Western armed forces around the world seem to have forgotten what makes the grass grow. It’s not that DEI manure, ladies, it’s BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD.
I got about a third of the way through Daniel Craig’s first Bond movie before deciding that Bond shouldn’t be played by a woman, and I haven’t watched a Bond movie since. They should sell the franchise to Daily Wire and let them make a proper Bond movie. Ben Shapiro could play the evil Jew villain.
(Also, I know this was probably in Ian Fleming’s book, but no decent human being makes a martini with Gordon’s gin. Just stop that. Tanqueray or Bombay Sapphire are the only acceptable ingredients.)
I have no opinion on the WNBA, but I am concerned about pay parity between women’s and men’s cricket. We should not be paying Lea Tahuhu the same amount of money as Kyle Jamieson in international match fees just to bowl half as fast, to a quarter of the viewership. And then NZC whine like little bitches that they have no money for three test tours, even though they sold out the Aussie and Limey tours this last year.
DEI infected businesses and cultural hegemony will fail. It’s in their bone marrow now and severe chemo won’t help, only amputation.
in Japan now. No helmets. No cones. No DEI. Engineering wonderland. Trains going 500kph. The west I know can’t do high tech at this scale. I think it’s the trad, no woke culture. The feminised revolutionaries destroyed the west, while we sat by.