Current events

Sorry, this is currently all over the news and normally this isn't something I don't cover. (Be grateful. I have reams of stuff I wanted to post/write but well, reasons.)
But here we go: Hear thee now the words of Jayda Fransen, Deputy Head of the organisation "Britain First". The excessive capitalisation is all hers:

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP, HAS RETWEETED THREE OF DEPUTY LEADER JAYDA FRANSEN'S TWITTER VIDEOS! DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAS RETWEETED THESE VIDEOS AND HAS AROUND 44 MILLION FOLLOWERS! GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA! OCS

You know. what DJT has done is hardly groundbreaking. It's not the first time he shared unverified material from an extremely right-wing source and it is well know that the KKK loves him and he loves the KKK, so this is only shocking inasfar as he shared material from a gasp! non-American source.

But Jayda, do you recall what your organisation is called? Yes, that's right: "Britain First". And do you know what Trump's slogan for the election and his guiding principle for the past year of his presidentship was? "America First". So yeah, suck up to him, why don't you? It shows how much you are actually interested in the nation you profess to love so much. Your toadying will be renumerated after Brexit, no doubt.

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Ridley Scott talks about cutting Spacey out of film (BBC Entertainments)

"In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Scott said: "You can't tolerate any kind of behaviour like that."

The director said: "You can't condone that kind of behaviour in any shape or form," adding that keeping Spacey in the picture would have spelled disaster for the film.

"We cannot let one person's action affect the good work of all these other people. It's that simple," he said."

Or in other words: You had words with the accounting department and they told you what it would cost to reshoor the scenes with Plummer, compared it to the projections of how much money you would lose in revenue and potential awards and told you to go ahead. Do not insult anybody's intelligence. This has nothing to do with moral integrity. It all comes downs to money.

It was known for decades what Weinstein was up to but as long as nobody made too much of a fuss and the dough kept rolling in, who cares about a few starlets? Even if damaged, they are a renewable source of revenue. Now was a good time to hang the fat Jew out to dry. The political climate is right and as long as everybody uses him as a pinata, everything else can go as always without drawing any attention. Nice going.