(For reference, nearly all of the terrible Disney remakes of the past 7-8 years have opened around $100 million. A couple did close to $200 million opening weekend. Already knowing that woke expired on November 5th, and went absolutely rancid January 20th, Disney laughably pegged $50 million as the “success” metric for Snow Woke. Too bad she only managed $43 million. -nvp)
Snow White box office results land after devastating reviews
Disney remake has a long way to go before turning a profit
The Disney live-action remake, which stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, took $16m across Friday and preview screenings from 4,200 venues across the US. Varietyreports that this figure puts the film on track to land a projected opening weekend north of $45m.
Snow White has a steep climb ahead – it carries a production cost of more than $250m, meaning it will have to have a successful theatrical run to reach profitability.
By comparison, 2023’s The Little Mermaid, which had a similar budget of $240m, made $95m on its opening weekend, more than double what Snow White is projected to make…
Imagine waking up to this. Showing up in the *high school auditorium* for the big reveal of the New Mass. They told you it would be groovy, man. But you had no idea just how groovy. 55 years ago today.
(NewsNation) — Steve Bannon, who served as White House chief strategist, said in an interview on NewsNation that he and others are working on ways for President Donald Trump to seek a third term despite constitutional term limits.
“We’re working on it. I think we’ll have a couple of alternatives,” Bannon told NewsNation’s “CUOMO” when asked how Trump could overcome term limits. “We’ll see what the definition of term limit is.”
“I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028,” Bannon said. “We’ve had greater long shots than Trump 2028.” He added that they’re “not prepared to talk about it publicly, but in a couple of months, I think we will be.”
When pressed on whether he was suggesting revolution or overthrow, Bannon rejected that characterization, describing himself as a “huge believer in democracy” while claiming the country is experiencing a “1932-type realignment” comparable to the FDR era.
“We’re in the middle of a 1932-type realignment if we can continue to have populist nationalist policies,” Bannon said. “We have African-Americans coming to our side. We have Hispanics coming to our side.”
He described the current administration’s actions as a “revolution of common sense to deconstruct the administrative state” and claimed anti-democratic forces are working through the courts to “obstruct a sitting president” from fulfilling his executive mandate.
Please pray for the mentally ill, as their numbers grow Legion by the day…
White glamour model Martina Big, after having tanning injections announces plan to ‘move to Africa’
A white woman who ‘identifies as black’ has revealed she is planning to ‘move to Africa’.
Martina Big, 36, who is from Germany, and her husband Michael Eurwen, 38, both inject Melanotan, a synthetic hormone to darken their skin, and have faced fierce backlash over the years from those who insist they’ll ‘never be black’.
But the glamour model, who has 32T breasts after operations to enhance them, has since claimed she’s ‘received invitations from fans in many African countries’.
‘We have received invitations from fans in many African countries and so it hasn’t been easy to choose,’ Big said. ‘Currently, we have Kenya and Namibia on our shortlist.
The glamour model – who goes by the name of Malaika Kubwa, meaning Big Angel in Swahili, after a baptism ceremony – claims to have the largest breasts in Europe. As well, she has undergone lip augmentations and plans to undergo a butt augmentation and surgery to ‘widen her nose’ before heading to Africa.
I’ve been a bit grumpy and on edge this week. It’s the 5 year anniversary of lockdowns. I’m still mourning the loss of my life as it was. I love my new life. But it’s harder. And I’m 56 and I guess I was hoping for easier at this point.
You see, I loved my old life and I’d spent more than 3 decades building it and it was taken from me because I dared say “open the public schools.” Yes, it was taken from me by a bunch of psychotic covid alarmists and authoritarian censors. Which was almost everyone. I’ll never forgive them. I don’t care what they say about letting go of anger and how it poisons you to hold it. Those who targeted and cancelled dissenters deserve for our rage to be trained on them. They deserve it and I hold it in a place, I make room for it to exist, while building joy around it with my family, my new city, my new start up, my new friends. But it’s there, make no mistake.
I don’t really know what to say about it all. I’ve written extensively on the subject, even a book — about what it was like to dissent from the outset. I feel tinges of rage at prominent “heterodox-ers” who now, or perhaps 2-3 years into it all, pretend at dissent. We needed you then.
There is broad recognition that school closures went on too long, and even some acknowledgement that lockdowns were ineffective and terrible human rights violations.
The Boston Globe published a review of the book “In Covid’s Wake” about a week ago. The book, while being praised as redemptive for those of us who pushed back early and often, provides no such redemption. While I’ll admit I haven’t read it, I’ve read the review several times now. It allows for “it was early we didn’t know” and seems to scapegoat Fauci and even other public health officials without excoriating EVERYONE who went along with the hysteria, turning in neighbors to police and targeting colleagues for firing.
As philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke famously said in 1795: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
All those who did nothing are also responsible for the global human rights violations of the covid era. And of course the covid enthusiasts who acted as snitches, and joyfully targeted friends and neighbors for punishment deserve our ire. Beyond that you have those directly responsible, the media which utterly failed in their duty as the 4th estate resorting instead to publishing Big Pharma and government issued talking points as “news”; the medical community, with few exceptions; the academics; the teachers; I could go on.
The vaccine (and of course mandates — which people lost jobs over) have disappeared from public consciousness. I mean does anyone actually get that thing anymore?
We are still reminded of masks, as any good leftist protesting about anything…
Do you know St. Joseph? It’s a really good idea to befriend him, stay close to him. You will be very glad you did, because he is very generous. Let us pray, for ourselves, for our intentions, for the Church and impending circumstances. Happy feast!
Litany of St. Joseph
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God, have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, pray for us
St. Joseph, pray for us
Noble son of David,
Light of the Patriarchs,
Spouse of the Mother of God,
Chaste Guardian of the Virgin,
Foster-father of the Son of God,
Sedulous Defender of Christ,
Head of the Holy Family,
Joseph most just,
Joseph most chaste,
Joseph most prudent,
Joseph most valiant,
Joseph most obedient,
Joseph most faithful,
Mirror of patience,
Lover of poverty,
Model of all who labor,
Glory of family life,
Protector of virgins,
Pillar of families,
Consolation of the afflicted,
Hope of the sick,
Patron of the dying,
Terror of the demons,
Protector of Holy Church,
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
V. He made him the lord of his household.
R. And prince over all his possessions.
Let us pray. God, Who, in Thine ineffable Providence didst vouchsafe to choose blessed Joseph to be the Spouse of Thy most holy Mother; grant, we beseech Thee, that we may be worthy to have him for our intercessor in Heaven whom, on earth, we venerate as our protector. Who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.
Look closely. I think it’s his phone. Was he texting Langley during Mass? If that’s even him, yet living. Also, they couldn’t remove the glass of water with the straw in it from the altar, sitting between the still-lit candles? Is that stole just really plain, or did they put it on him upside down?
(Dr Briggs is already all over this, in long form substack reply to yesterday’s NYT op/ed by a certified Full Covidian. He quotes from the Times article and offers counterclaims and assorted truths. Most importantly, that all of the actual truth was knowable in real time, and many of us reported it in real time. Also, no one “forced” you to get the vaxx. Not one person was strapped down, kicking and screaming. If you got it, that was your choice. -nvp)
Excerpt from Briggs:
Yesterday the New York Times, the written order-of-the-day for the old school left, put out an op-ed admitting, in so many words, the covid lab-leak theory. Check the revealing title: “We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives“. Some were surprised about this.
I am not. I’ll tell you exactly why these prevaricating no-good slime-pushing would-be tyrants are admitting what the rest of us have been saying for years. Because they are scared for their jobs, their funding, their money, their slipping prestige.
Good. Be afraid. We should take it all away. All of it.
Gain-of-function is the euphemism. Gain-of-lethality is the truth. Scientists, funded by you, dear reader, monkey with bugs to see if they can make them deadlier. To you. Which you pay for. They do this out of morbid curiosity, from the fiction that having created Frankenstein bugs they’ll be able to find cures for their own creations, cures which they wouldn’t need if they didn’t invent Accelerated Death, and because they have money to spend and prestige to seek. Your money.
They made the covid bug in a Chinese lab, which you partly paid for, and they were sloppy and it got out. That story has been told so many times you’re sick of it. But one item I don’t always emphasize. Why did they panic, when it was obvious to the sober there wasn’t any need?
Because of their Uranus-sized egos, egos pumped to colossal size, funded by you. They said to themselves, “We, being credentialed geniuses, made this terror. It must therefore be the Mother of All Bugs. It will kill everybody. The only thing to do is panic. And lie. Lie our asses off.”
So that’s what they did. And yesterday, the most prominent of the guilty was thrown under the Greyhound. All in an effort, I say, to save what’s left of the crippled system.
We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story.
Op-eds don’t just find their way into the main propaganda source of the old regime. They put this here, now, for a reason.
Read this whole quotation (my emphasis):
The first was a March 2020 paper in the journal Nature Medicine, which was written by five prominent scientists, and which declared that no “laboratory-based scenario” for the pandemic virus was plausible. But we later learned through congressional subpoenas of their Slack conversations that while the scientists publicly said the scenario was implausible, privately,many of its authors considered the scenario to be not just plausible but likely. One of the authors of that paper, the evolutionary biologist Kristian Andersen, wrote in the Slack messages, “The lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.”
Spooked, the co-authors reached out for advice to Jeremy Farrar, now the chief scientist at the World Health Organization. In his own book, Farrar reveals heacquired a burner phoneand arranged meetings for them with high-ranking officials, including Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of Health, and Anthony Fauci. Documents obtained through public records requests by the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know show that the scientists ultimately decided to move ahead with a paper on the topic.
Operating behind the scenes, Farrar reviewed their draft and suggested to the authors that they rule out the lab leak even more directly. They complied. Andersen later testified to Congress that he had simply become convinced that a lab leak, while theoretically possible, was not plausible. Later chat logs obtained by Congress show the paper’s lead authors discussing how to mislead Donald G. McNeil Jr., who was reporting on the pandemic’s origin for The Times, so as to throw him off track about the plausibility of a lab leak.
Government scientists in charge of handing out NIH science grants conspired. The NIH controls almost all medical research, directly or indirectly.
It is worse (again my emphasis):
Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks.Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology — research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world — no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.
So, the Wuhan research was totally safe and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission: It certainly seemed like consensus.
Consensus in science is a long-running joke, or used to be. And should be on any question of policy, because that is very definition of scientism. There is a “consensus” in “climate change” being the end of the world, too. The worship of Nobel prizes must also end. Having one has not proven to confer immunity from idiocy. What value is some “laureate” spouting off on subjects like this? Not one of the “laureates” had a “degree” in lying to the public.
Again, you’re tired of hearing it, but it wasn’t only these eminences being loosey goosey or being ignorant-but-opining on the facts, it was also officials like the CDC, ours and others, spitting lies about how you couldn’t get sick or pass on the bug if you got the shot, or it couldn’t possibly have any side effect, this being the first in the history of all medicine of achieving a perfect drug. I’m nauseous having to tell it over and over…
