Blockbusters Hollywood Is Ignoring

It is pretty well understood that Hollywood is a Leftist outpost.  Located in the blue state of California, it is an unpaid arm of the Democratic Party.  Many of these fools see themselves in the same roles as their forebears who, during the McCarthy Era, stood up for traditional American values.  What these idiots see now as American values are foreign to me.  

With their vast platform, they make movies mocking conservative presidents and touting Leftist icons.  W, Rendition and other movies that pillory conservative figures were made, while On the Basis of Sex, about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, conveniently sidesteps the first female justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, because she didn't vote the way Leftists liked.  The power that Hollywood has to twist history is vast.

Imagine, though, the movies Hollywood is bypassing to protect their Leftist politician friends.  These films would make millions.  Sadly, until theirs a seismic shift in Hollywood, these will never be made:

--  The Clinton Family Fraud Machine:  The story about a family that goes into politics for personal gain, all the while pretending to care about the ordinary citizen.  Special attention is paid to the Clinton Global Initiative in Haiti, which received virtually no money after the devastating earthquakes while the family got rich, Slick Willy's name on the Jeffrey Epstein manifests for flights to Pedophile Island, Cankle's destruction of her hard drives, Chelsea Clinton getting six figure salaries for doing nothing for CGI and other nuggets from a lifetime of corruption.

--  The story of how the SCOTUS leaker was never pursued by the media, contrasted with Deep Throat and the Watergate story.

--  The Biden Crime Family, with an expose of how family members were paid by foreign governments for doing nothing.

--  The story of Bill Gates, who stole the idea of Facebook from fellow students, built it up to the behemoth it is today, then fooled around on his plain wife and then decided to lecture Americans on what to eat.

--  The Clinton Hit Squads.  Vince Foster and a cast of dozens whacked under mysterious circumstances.  More films have been made about Jack the Ripper with less evidence.  Jeffrey Epstein, anyone?

-- The real story of how Barack Obama came to power -- see, Jeri Ryan -- and the scandals that occurred under his watch that the Left refuses to acknowledge.

--  The true story of the 2020 election and how voting regulations were changed or ignored to allow Man of Dementia to defeat Donald Trump.

--  The true story of the concerted effort by Hollywood, the Democratic Party and the MSM to tar and feather Donald Trump every day of his life since he announced his candidacy for the 2016 presidency.

--  The mystery of the election of John Fetterman to the US senate.

--  The story of Nancy Pelosi and her enrichment while in Congress.

--  A film about Fast and Furious.

--  A film about the shysters in BLM.

--  The true story of how the Left ignored the brave men in Benghazi and denied them the support they needed to defend Americans.

--  The story of how illegal aliens are getting into the country and the wealth of benefits they received under the Biden administration.

These are just a few of the tasty morsels Hollywood is ignoring.  

(c) 2023 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles

Country Music and Women

 I like country music.  There are certain artists I like better than others -- Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Martina McBride, the Judds, Toby Keith, Casey Musgraves, Sugarland -- and I don't really get involved in the controversies that arise in Nashville.  From what I hear, women in country music aren't getting their fair share of air time on country radio, and they're upset about it.

From my perspective, they have every right to be upset.

There are some good young male singers in Nashville.  My favorite, bar none, is Luke Combs.  Not only does he have a distinctive voice, but he has hilarious songs and poignant songs and songs that evoke the true spirit of country music.  He even came out with a cover of Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, and it's phenomenal.

But I find most of the rest of young male artists lacking.  They drone on about whiskey, beer, girls shaking their booties and...little else.  Not only that, few of them are nice to listen to.  Alan Jackson has a deep, rich baritone.  Garth Brooks has a nice, even twang.  Some of these yokels now sound like they dropped out of high school and have been working on oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico far from English speakers.

Young women, on the other hand, usually can not only carry a tune, but they sing about interesting themes that tell a story beyond getting drunk.  Miranda Lambert is a master storyteller.  Casey Musgraves writes intricate, thought-provoking lyrics.  Megan Moroney has a song, Tennessee Orange, that's almost an apology for falling for someone from a different fanbase, something to which people in the south can certainly relate.

The Judds' songs were all soulful.  They had great harmony and were almost the kind of discussions one would have with family members or friends.  Sugarland -- yes, it's a duo with both a man and a woman, but Jennifer Nettles carries it -- has thoughtful lyrics.  Rare is the male artist who can match the material the women are putting out.

Certainly, my bias is also rooted in the fact that I love to listen to women sing.  Not all women nowadays are nightingales, but the vast majority of them have pretty voices.  The soulful lyrics they write and then sing are easy on the ear.

Country radio -- Give the women the airtime they deserve!

(c) 2023 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles

Recent Random Thoughts

 --  Since we'll be in Alaska sometime this summer, I intend to ask a fast-food joint why coupons and offers from the Lower 48 aren't good in Hawaii and Alaska.  I've always been very curious.

--  Watch out for Congressman Dan Goldman from Connecticut.  He thinks very highly of himself.  He's not as good looking as Gavin Newsome, nor does he run anything, but one can tell that he's ambitious and he's the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.  First the Senate, then the presidency.

--  I'm constantly amazed at politicians who contradict themselves with public statements.  Don't they realize that in this day and age of the internet, virtually everything they've ever said is taped somewhere?

--  Think what you will of Megyn Kelly, but her podcast is one of the best out there.  She has very interesting guests and the discussions are usually quite informative.

--  I really have given up on most sports.  The NBA is a woke league, the NFL bores me, the NHL is fine but underpublicized and MLB is too long unless my Cubs are doing well.  I doubt I could even participate in a fantasy league anymore -- which used to be quite fun -- because I just can't pay attention.  Even the NCAA, with its NIL rules and instant transfer rules, is no longer much fun.

-- I'm very interesting in the upcoming SCOTUS rulings in the affirmative action cases.  It's high time affirmative action went away.  Not because I was ever affected by it; if I was, I was unaware of it.  Rather, it stigmatizes African-Americans unfairly.  And at what point do we say merit over skin color?

--  The View is a joke.  I like Senator Tim Scott, and I applaud his courage in going on there and showing how to debate without getting in the gutter.  But the sanctimonious tone of the show and the absolute hypocrisy of the panelists is disgusting.

--  So CNN will have a new boss.  Soon enough it will rival post-war Italy for changes in leadership.

-- Jonathan Turley is a national treasure.  For a Democrat born in Chicago who attended Northwestern University Law School, he's amazingly fair and balanced.  I highly recommend him to everyone interested in straightforward analysis.

-- I don't watch Fox much.  I admire Shannon Bream, Dana Perino, Bill Hemmer and Bret Baier.  I watch The Five.  But the rest of that lineup is nothing more than a right-wing arm of the Republican Party.  Still, it's got to be better than CNN and MSNBC.

-- Yard work is getting more tedious by the year.

-- I'm quite comfortable being alone.  I always have been.  But what makes me curious is why I'm almost always the one to reach out to my friends to see how they're doing.

-- Why is it called America's Got Talent when almost every act on there is from a foreign country and all the judges are foreign born?  Why not just rename it We Are The World Got Talent?

-- No one -- and I mean no one -- can plan a vacation like my Karen.  She could teach the military a thing or two about logistics.

(c) 2023  The Truxton Spangler Chronicles 

Questions In the Aftermath of the Durham Report

Now that we finally have the Durham Report, which investigated the whole notion of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, let the questions begin.

First, here's the link to the report:  https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23813490-durham-report

Now, the questions:

-- When will Cankles be forced to answer for what she's done to the country and to Donald Trump?

-- Will any responsible journalist ask Cankles about her involvement in the Steele dossier and the funding of the effort to brand Donald Trump as a Russian agent?

-- When will St Barack be forced to answer about his knowledge of the plot and the fact he did nothing to stop it?

-- Is there any punishment available for the intelligence officers -- Comey, Brennan, Clapper, etc. -- and the FBI underlings -- Page, Strzok, etc. -- who perpetuated the fraud on the American people?

-- Will anyone begin investigating the Bidens and their criminal family enterprise that participated in this hoax to give the family cover to engage in more corruption?

-- Does the Pulitzer Prize Committee rescind the prizes it awarded to the Washington Post and the New York Times for its shoddy investigative reporting and its likely involvement in perpetuating the Russian Collusion Hoax on the American people?

--  Can Merrick Garland be impeached for abdicating his responsibility as Attorney General to put a special counsel in place to investigate, independently, the government's complicity in the hoax?

-- Likewise, can Garland put in place a special counsel to investigate corruption at the FBI and the CIA?

-- Will Congress tweak Section 230 to provide some measure of oversight on social media companies to prevent their interference on the transmission of opposing viewpoints that run counter to their political affiliations?

-- Do the American people owe Donald Trump an apology for not only accusing him of being a Russian agent but also for believing it?

-- What can be done to prevent this from happening again?

(c) 2023 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles

The Emperor's Clothes

Watergate was a terrible event in our political history.  Frankly, our historical past is littered with dirty tricks, horrible personal attacks and outright lying.  But in my lifetime, I've never witnessed such obvious misrepresentation on the part of a sitting president coupled with the assistance of the mainstream media.

The hatred of former president Trump is palpable.  They're still going after the man.  As insufferable as he is and was, he's also the most mistreated political figure in the country's history.  No one deserved the attacks that he's endured from his political opponents.  Yet because he's brash and combative, not to mention an outsider, his opponents are sworn to destroy him.  They won't, but the next best thing for them is to keep him from a second term.

To that end, they are willing to reelect the most unqualified and corrupt president we've had in my lifetime.  Joe Biden -- the Man of Dementia -- the man who never knew a lie he didn't like, is the chosen tool the Left and the MSM have chosen to occupy the White House in place of president Trump.  No matter what harm comes to the country because of this fool, the Left and its complicit MSM are determined to reelect him.  

They are willing to keep him in place as their puppet despite the patently obvious corruption of the man and his family, who have enriched themselves at the expense of the country while lying about it.  Man of Dementia always says his ne'er-do-well son, Hunter, hasn't done a thing wrong despite the confirmed veracity of the laptop that idiot left with a repair shop in New Jersey, the testimony of countless of Hunter's colleagues, a treasure trove of emails detailing meetings with Man of Dementia while he was Obama's Vice President and a lack of an explanation for how Joe Biden, despite being a public servant for nearly five decades, amassed the amount of wealth he has acquired.

What's particularly worrisome is that Man of Dementia has used Kamala Harris, the master of the word salad and as quick on the draw to cry racism as Jemele Hill, for her skin color to get the black vote.  As vice president she is, as they say, a heartbeat away from the presidency, and Man of Dementia is nearly eighty; he will be the oldest serving president in our history if he's reelected.

At some point, accountability for both the Bidens and the MSM has to happen.  Sadly, it may not come until historians are able to uncover the truth.  

I hope I live long enough to see it.

(c)  2023 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles

Racism On Every Corner

I'm getting tired of being called a racist simply because I'm white.  Or because I disagree with a black person.  Or because I was born white.  The cries of racism have gone too far.

Don Lemon was let go by CNN because, frankly, he was horrible.  It wasn't because he was black or because he was gay.  He was horrible and insufferable.  But Jemele Hill, who seems to have racism on the tip of her tongue any time something happens to a black person, descried the racist firing.

Phil Jackson, the venerable coach of my Chicago Bulls, complained about how the NBA was too woke now.  Jalen Rose, another person who can find racism in anything, complained that Jackson's statement showed his true colors, suggesting without saying it that Jackson is racist.

It's gotten to the point that any time there's a negative outcome for a black person, someone will cry racism.  It's diluting the actual racist incidents and it's insulting.

When Martin Luther King declared that he dreamed of a day when his daughters would judged by the content of their character and not by the color of his skin, he meant that his daughters would be judged by the same standards as white people.  Blacks nowadays seem to think that what Dr. King said was that whites cannot judge black people.  If that's so, then blacks and whites are not equal.  Moreover, it begs the question of whether blacks can judge whites.  Most whites, I believe, have no truck with a black judging them.  As with blacks, whites would hope for fair judging.  And as with blacks, they would be entitled to fair judging.  Undeniably, our history is rife with examples of unfair judging of blacks by whites, but there are plenty of examples of fair judging of blacks by whites.

To start with, Brown v. Board of Education, the SCOTUS opinion that overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, was a unanimous decision.  Although the case was argued for Brown by Thurgood Marshall, the decision rendered by the SCOTUS was brought by nine white justices.  Thus, it is more than possible that blacks can get a fair judgment from white judges.

If blacks are to be truly equal to whites, they have to accept judgments against them that are unfavorable to them.  To insist that every judgment rendered must favor them is illogical.  It is also racist in and of itself.  The law of averages suggests that it's not possible for one group to always win.

I'm not sure what's worse:  Blacks feeling aggrieved at every unfavorable decision of liberal whites declaring that unfavorable decisions against blacks are based in racism.  At some point, for true equality to exist, blacks have to accept the good with the bad, just as whites must.  This does not deny that there are still, very unfortunately, instances where racist decisions are rendered against blacks.  These racist institutions must be rooted out.  But to insist that every unfavorable decision is based in racism is wrong.  And it's tiresome.

What these incessant calls of racism have done to me is make me draw back and stop engaging with blacks.  I used to try to debate them, honestly, but all I'd ever get was a lecture.  I probably read more books about the black experience in America than most whites who aren't woke, so I don't need the lectures.  I'm really open to learning, but I want it to be an engagement, not a lecture.  

Unfortunately, that's not the tenor in this country.

(c) 2023 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles

Why I Left the Catholic Church

 I was raised Catholic.  I was an altar boy.  I faithfully adhered to Church doctrine as a child, although I became more of a buffet style Catholic as I grew older.  But one day I'd had enough.

My reasons for leaving the Church are many.  My Mother, good Irish Catholic that she was, is probably rolling in her grave.  But the Church lost me as I learned more about its perfidy toward its flock.  The decision, when I reached it, wasn't that hard.  

First, the roll of the Church in Ireland, where it hit the congregation hard to ensure its survival from its British masters, irks me.  The Church should have protected its flock from the Brits, not catered to the Brits to ensure its survival.  The way it sold babies from unwed mothers to wealthy Americans, how it would separate families for any perceived shortcoming, was particularly vile.

Second, pedophilia.  Res ipsa loquitur.

Third, it's amazing to me how wealthy Catholics are able to get annulments so they can remarry in the Church.  Name a Kennedy and you'll probably find an annulment.  Vanessa Williams got an annulment from her first husband so she could marry her third husband in the Church.  Boris Johnson was allowed to remarry in the Church after getting an annulment.  

Fourth, the Church's stance on in vitro fertilization is ridiculous.  According to the Church, in vitro fertilization is immoral.  But here's my quandry:  Thomas Aquinas, the doctor of the Church, declared there was such a thing as a just war.  Man, in pursuit of a just war, can use the genius God gave him to develop artificial means to take life in violation of a Commandment to which there is no exception of which I'm aware.  Meanwhile, man can not use the genius God gave him to bring life into being, which violates no Commandment of which I'm aware.

Fifth, the Church miraculously is divinely inspired to carve out exceptions to the rules.  For example, priestly celibacy was the result of divine inspiration, although priests have been allowed to be married for centuries...until prelates abused the practice.  But married Lutheran ministers who wish to convert and continue as a priest, are granted an exception.  Why?  The concern about the priest having to decide between his flock and his family is still there with the Lutheran minister turned Catholic priest.  

I was just tired of the inconsistencies, tired of the lying, tired of the unfairness.  Surely, this isn't what God ordained.

(c) 2023 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles