Two of Hollywood’s most classic films — ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ and ‘Wizard of Oz’ are slated for modern reboots with “diverse characters.”
The details: Writer and director Kenya Barris recently told Variety magazine and late-night host Jimmy Fallon that he’s currently working on scripts for both modern adaptations that will re-tell the stories from a “different point of view.”
It’s A Wonderful Life: Harris’ plans for the 1946 classic include replacing Jimmy Stewart’s character with an actor who has “black or brown” skin. He added that the movie was “the perfect vehicle to tell that story from.”
The Wizard of Oz:The original movie takes place in Kansas, but Barris imagines his remake in Inglewood, California, adding: “and I want to do it with diverse characters.”
Who is Kenya Barris: He’s famous for many race-centric movies like, ‘Black-ish,’ ‘#BlackAF, and ‘You People.’
Barris has a track record of ruining classics. Last year, he released a remake of the classic 90s film White Men Can’t Jump. It has a 26 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert called it “as unimaginative as it is corny.”
My two cents: I hear a lot about so-called cultural appropriation from the left. If you were to concede to such a notion, would this not be a perfect example of it?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is scheduled to attend a virtual meeting from his home on Tuesday addressing Ukraine’s military needs, according to the Pentagon.
This marks his first ‘public’ interaction since his undisclosed hospital admission on January 1. Austin was hospitalized following complications from prostate cancer treatment. He and his staff took pains to keep the hospitalization secret and did not notify the White House of his condition for days.
Austin underwent a procedure to treat prostate cancer on December 22, 2023. He was readmitted to hospital on January 1 due to post-surgery complications that included a urinary tract infection. Neither his deputy secretary, Kathleen Hicks, nor President Biden were notified about the hospitalization until January 4. Austin withheld his cancer diagnosis from the White House and senior defense officials until January 9.
President Biden agreed that the Defense Secretary’s decision to withhold his condition was a “lapse in judgment” but expressed continued faith in the nation’s most senior defense official. Others, including former President Donald Trump, have called for Austin to be removed from duty. Austin was bedridden in the hospital during an anti-Houthi military operation off the coast of Somalia that resulted in the deaths of two U.S. Navy SEALs.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is scheduled to attend a virtual meeting from his home on Tuesday addressing Ukraine’s military needs, according to the Pentagon.
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A poll of Donald Trump and Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley supporters in New Hampshire reveals that Trump supporters are backing the 45th President because of his record and stances on issues like immigration. The same data reveals that Haley is primarily backed only as a vehicle to “stop” Trump. While Haley has argued she is the candidate best placed to defeat Joe Biden, no poll respondents gave this as their reason for supporting her.
The poll of primary voters in the Granite State by J.L. Partners found Haley supporters are motivated mainly by anti-Trump sentiment, with 54 percent backing the former United Nations ambassador “to stop Trump.” Fifteen percent said they believe she is “more moderate,” but only three percent said she “has good policies.” Just one percent said she would “make a difference.”
The share of Haley supporters who said she was “best to beat Biden” was zero percent.
Trump supporters cited more positive reasons for backing their preferred candidate. Thirty-four percent cited his “strong record” in the White House, while 14 percent said they support him because they believe he would “save the country,” and 11 percent praised his “strong leadership skills.”
“He has proven he can run our country as a leader should,” said one poll respondent. Contrary to efforts to paint Trump supporters as “cultists,” he added he did not like the former president “personally” but “agreed with his policies and how the United States was a strong force in the world and not viewed as weak” under his stewardship.
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A poll of Donald Trump and Nimarata 'Nikki' Haley supporters in New Hampshire reveals that Trump supporters are backing the 45th President because of his record and stances on issues like immigration. The same data reveals that Haley is primarily backed only as a vehicle to "stop" Trump. While Haley has argued she is the candidate best placed to defeat Joe Biden, no poll respondents gave this as their reason for supporting her.
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Just one day after suspending his primary campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took to X (formerly Twitter) to boast that he would veto any attempts to help defer the legal costs of the 45th President’s state persecution. Currently, Trump’s legal costs are covered by himself personally and fundraising efforts. Meanwhile, the U.S. government uses the public purse to fund its prosecution of Trump.
An initiative to help Trump, meaning more of his cash-on-hand could be spent fighting the November 2024 election, was launched by Florida State Sen. Ileana Garcia. Garcia argued supporting Trump as a Floridian and presidential candidate would be beneficial for both the state and the nation, especially given how much revenue Trump brings to the Sunshine State with his golf courses, residences, and Mar A Lago Club.
DeSantis, however, disagreed, taking to X last night to announce his opposition. As a result, Garcia announced she would withdraw the bill.
Trump is embroiled in four distinct legal struggles on both federal and state levels. These include state charges in New York related to alleged ‘hush money’ payments, federal allegations over improper handling and retention of classified documents, and two indictments related to his efforts to dispute the establishment’s 2020 election claims.
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Just one day after suspending his primary campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took to X (formerly Twitter) to boast that he would veto any attempts to help defer the legal costs of the 45th President's state persecution. Currently, Trump's legal costs are covered by himself personally and fundraising efforts. Meanwhile, the U.S. government uses the public purse to fund its prosecution of Trump.
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MSNBC host and Russia hoaxer Rachel Maddow has claimed President Trump’s return to the White House would represent “the end of politics,” comparing the 45th President to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, implicitly suggesting the nation of Hungary has “no politics.”
Billing herself as an expert in authoritarianism, Maddow proffered, “On the Viktor Orban thing… that’s really what [Trump] is offering.”
She continued: “What he’s offering is….’If you pick me, that’ll be the end of politics, and you won’t have to deal with politics anymore. You won’t have to deal with contested elections, you won’t have to deal with contests or divisions when it comes to power. You’ll have a strongman leader and I’ll just do what I want, and won’t that be a lot simpler?'”
Former Biden spokesman Jen Psaki nodded her head in agreement throughout Maddow’s rant, flexing their shared geopolitical ignorance.
Hungary contests elections regularly, with “politics” and political debate as fierce as anywhere else in the world.
Under Orban — who has previously lost an election, departing office without resistance — the country regularly holds referendum-like “national consultations” on major issues, to discover whether the public backs government policies against LGBTQ content aimed at children, mass migration, and so on. Hungary is also a NATO ally and European Union member-state.
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.@maddow: "This is the special sauce. Donald Trump is not leading the Republican Party and leading the Republican field because of his youthful vigor… What he's offering is strongman leadership, the end of politics, the end of elections." pic.twitter.com/dzht9VNz8D
MSNBC host and Russia hoaxer Rachel Maddow has claimed President Trump's return to the White House would represent "the end of politics," comparing the 45th President to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, implicitly suggesting the nation of Hungary has "no politics."
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Maddow, supposedly so concerned about “the end of politics,” has openly suggested that Joe Biden’s Justice Department should use the political prosecutions it has been piling on Trump to force him out of the presidential race
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The New Hampshire Republican presidential primary is set to kick off today — but the first-in-the-nation state has a few features that make it unique. Polling suggests former President Donald Trump should win the primary comfortably. Still, the high number of independents expected to vote could complicate matters and give some hope to the Haley campaign.
The National Pulse has compiled a few quick facts to help explain what to expect as the people of New Hampshire head the polls.
Some Votes Were Already Cast At Midnight.
A handful of localities began voting at midnight. New Hampshire law stipulates polling places — at a minimum — must be open from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. ET. However, some smaller localities open their polling places at midnight — and with only a handful of residents, they can often report results shortly after.
Dixville Notch is the most famous of these midnight-voting towns. From 1968 to 2012, the town’s handful of voters backed the candidate who would eventually win the nomination in every Republican presidential primary. However, in 2016, Dixville Notch voted 3 to 2 for John Kasich over Donald Trump — breaking the streak. This morning, it voted 100 percent for Nikki Haley, having voted 100 percent for Joe Biden in 2016.
What Is At Stake?
Despite only awarding 22 delegates — less than one percent of the total who choose the nominee at the Republican National Convention later this year — New Hampshire’s position as the second state to vote in the Republican primary makes it critical to candidate momentum. To that end, the state has seen $77.5 million spent on campaign advertising since the start of last year.
Former South Carolina Governor Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley’s campaign has dropped $30.9 million in the state. The Trump campaign has spent just shy of $16 million. Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s SuperPAC spent $8 million before DeSantis dropped out of the race on Sunday and endorsed former President Donald Trump.
Where After New Hampshire?
Nevada’s primary and caucus both follow the New Hampshire primary. Democrats in control of the Nevada state legislature attempted to enact a state-run primary of Democrats and Republicans. However, the Nevada Republican Party opted for a party-run caucus instead.
The Nevada primary will be held on February 6th — though no convention delegates are awarded. The Republican party-administered caucus will be held on February 8th, with the convention delegates up for grabs. Nimrata ‘Nikki’ Haley is in the primary, while former President Trump is in the caucus.
While polling has been scant, some expect that “none of these candidates” may receive more votes than Haley in the primary. Trump is widely expected to win the caucus and most, if not all, of the state’s delegates.
After Nevada, South Carolina is next on February 24th. There is speculation that Haley will stay in the race through South Carolina — hoping to regain momentum in her home state. However, polling shows former President Donald Trump with a commanding lead in the state primary and is widely expected to win most of South Carolina’s convention delegates.
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The New Hampshire Republican presidential primary is set to kick off today — but the first-in-the-nation state has a few features that make it unique. Polling suggests former President Donald Trump should win the primary comfortably. Still, the high number of independents expected to vote could complicate matters and give some hope to the Haley campaign.
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Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) has told POLITICO that he tries to dissuade black American men from voting for President Donald J. Trump by referring to a 2018 tweet that called black former staffer Omarosa Manigault a “dog.”
“Every time a black man says to me that he’s looking at Trump, I look him in the face and ask him, ‘Do you have a sister? I know you’ve got a mother. Would you vote for a person who looks in a TV camera and refers to a black woman as a dog? Would you do that?’” Clyburn confessed to West Wing Playbook.
The comments are in reference to former Apprentice contestant and White House staffer Omarosa Manigault being fired by General John Kelly, after which Trump tweeted: “When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!”
Clyburn signaled he was concerned that “15 percent of them” (black men) were telling pollsters they’ll vote for Trump in November. He also strangely noted that he – on his quest to help Joe Biden get re-elected – expects “help from the media,” concluding, “My whole thing is, I think we’ve got to rely less on TV ads and more on validators. We’ve got to flood the zone because this is not going to be an ordinary election.”
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Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) has told POLITICO that he tries to dissuade black American men from voting for President Donald J. Trump by referring to a 2018 tweet that called black former staffer Omarosa Manigault a “dog.”
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In a high-stakes decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden government, permitting Border Patrol officers to remove concertina wire installed along Texas’s border with Mexico. Texas Governor Greg Abbott erected the fencing in response to the Biden administration’s lack of border security enforcement.
The makeshift barrier was part of Texas’s effort to impede the invasion of migrants crossing the border since Biden took office. The fencing measure and an order by Gov. Abbott to seize a public park situated on the border in Eagle Pass created an intensifying standoff between the federal agents and the state of Texas.
The Supreme Court’s decision was close, resulting in a 5-4 split in favor of the emergency appeal filed by the Biden government, which objected to a previous appellate ruling in favor of Texas. Chief Justice Roberts cast the critical vote that tipped the scales toward the majority. Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh all registered their dissent.
Rounding out the court’s vote count, Justice Amy Coney Barrett — a Trump appointee — sided with the majority. Both Roberts and Barrett appear to have been swayed by arguments favoring the federal government’s constitutional authority over the U.S. border.
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In a high-stakes decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden government, permitting Border Patrol officers to remove concertina wire installed along Texas's border with Mexico. Texas Governor Greg Abbott erected the fencing in response to the Biden administration's lack of border security enforcement.
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Former President Donald Trump would defeat Joe Biden, the Democrat incumbent, even if Trump were convicted in two of the three major law-fare prosecutions he faces, according to new polling data. The Biden government has pushed prosecutions against former President Trump in Florida, Georgia, and Washington, D.C., in the hope of undermining Trump’s popularity in the lead-up to the 2024 general election.
The two federal — and one state — prosecutions of former President Trump by the Biden regime appear to be doing little to boost the incumbent Democrat’s chances in November. Voters said they would back Trump over Biden by 53 to 47 percent, even if the former President were convicted of mishandling classified documents by a jury in Florida.
Former President Trump also maintains an electoral edge even if he were convinced in the Georgia state RICO case alleging he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. With a conviction, Trump still defeats Biden with 51 percent to 49 percent of the vote. Accusations of misconduct surrounding Fani Willis and her affair with the man she appointed to prosecute the RICO case have thrown the entirety of the court proceedings into question.
The only case that favors Biden to win the 2024 general election is the Washington, D.C.-based prosecution alleging former President Trump incited the January 6th, 2021 riots. A conviction in this case gives Biden a slight electoral edge with 52 percent to Trump’s 48 percent.
However, Department of Justice special prosecutor Jack Smith’s Washington, D.C. prosecution has stalled pending hearings over former President Trump’s claims to ‘presidential immunity.’ The trial now appears unlikely to begin in early March, and each passing day makes it increasingly unlikely that it will happen before the November 5th, 2024 election at all.
If Trump is convicted of crimes related to his handling of classified pres. documents, who would you vote for president?
Trump: 53% (+6) Biden: 47% — If Trump is convicted by a jury for RICO in trying to influence the 2020 election results in Georgia, who would you vote for… https://t.co/906N7w10Rqpic.twitter.com/bQOyPlurLW
Former President Donald Trump would defeat Joe Biden, the Democrat incumbent, even if Trump were convicted in two of the three major law-fare prosecutions he faces, according to new polling data. The Biden government has pushed prosecutions against former President Trump in Florida, Georgia, and Washington, D.C., in the hope of undermining Trump's popularity in the lead-up to the 2024 general election.
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Alice Weidel, co-chairwoman of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, believes there should be a referendum on ‘Dexit’ — a Deutsch (German) exit from the European Union — if the bloc cannot be reformed.
“If a reform isn’t possible, if we fail to rebuild the sovereignty of the EU member-states, we should let the people decide, just as Britain did,” said Weidel, whose party is polling significantly above the three globalist parties that form Germany’s coalition government, in an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday.
“And we could have a referendum on ‘Dexit’ – a German exit from the EU,” adding that the British referendum provided “a model for Germany, that one can make a sovereign decision like that.”
In alliance with France, Germany is widely seen as the dominant force in the European Union. Compared to smaller countries like Greece and conservative countries like Hungary and, under its previous government, Poland, Germany has been able to break EU rules with impunity.
Only around 10 percent of Germans currently support leaving the European Union. Even among AfD voters, it is presently a minority position, with 45 percent support.
Nevertheless, Weidel’s anti-mass migration, anti-net zero party looks poised to make significant gains in regional elections and elections to the European Parliament in 2024, topping polls in the areas that used to comprise East Germany.
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Alice Weidel, co-chairwoman of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, believes there should be a referendum on ‘Dexit’ — a Deutsch (German) exit from the European Union — if the bloc cannot be reformed.
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