MUSIC VIDEO for all Beach Boys fans

Thanks and a tip o' the toque to Agent 3 for sending this along.

VIDEO: "Never Die" - AGENT 047 discovers who's behind SPECTRE

POTUS stars in this James Bond parody, a trailer featuring the song "Never Die", from an as yet unreleased movie called NEVER DIE (047). Agent 047, played by Donald Trump, goes around the world to find out who's at the centre of SPECTRE and the havoc being wreaked on the American people. Coming soon to a cinema near you... especially if you live in Greenland!

Thanks to our assiduous reader in the Low Countries.

VIDEO: "The Dukes of MAGA"

This brilliant parody may have been intended as a campaign ad, but Walt didn't see it until today. MUCH deserving of this repost.

No wonder the Trump Republicans won Georgia... and over 50% of the popular vote.

VIDEO: Matt Taibbi and Walt talk about Tampon Tim and man stuff

This is a follow-up to "The video challenging 'real men' to vote for Harris", WWW 11/10/24. It seems that the Awalz part of the Dumbocrat campaign is tasked with bringing in the vote of "real men" -- blue-collar workers with hairy chests and sweaty balls. Joe Sixpack, the Marlboro Man, Dirty Harry -- those guys. That was what that "Man enough" ad was all about.

Now there's another one, produced by the same people, called "And Tim", featuring Tampon Timmy Walz, the Great Manly Hunter. It's even funnier than the previous one, and in this vlog, Matt Taibbi and Walter Kim [no relation to Walt Whiteman. Ed.] explain why.  It's a looooong video, but after five minutes you'll want to watch the whole thing.

I wondered, as I watched it, if there's something wrong (physically) with Matt Taibbi. (His mental acuity is obviously fine.) I stopped following MT when he wrote Smells Like Dead Elephants, but have started paying attention again now that he has come over to our side.

I note that Mr Taibbi is wearing a baseball cap, and his voice sounds kinda shaky. I wonder if he is suffering from some disease. Could be cancer. Chemotherapy would cause him to lose his hair. Or, given his sexual orientation, it could be HIV-AIDS. Hmmm. I wouldn't wish such things on anyone, and wish Matt a good recovery from whatever's ailing him.

VIDEO: Ad for a Bubba's birthright

Yesterday afternoon, as I was watching the Cowboys fall just short of a hyuge comeback, I got to thinking of what happens on TV when there's nothing happening on the gridiron. When there's no action on the field, viewers are treated to -- what else -- commercial after commercial after commercial. 

So, since there's nothing going on in American politics at the moment [Well, is there? Ed.] we feel no shame in filling this space with an ad [a parody, OK? Ed.] for that great American institution, the tank-like American SUV. 

This ad parody is mentioned in Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions, by Clyde Prestowitz (Basic Books, 2003). In the chapter entitled "Running on Empty", the author has this to say about

Bubba's birthright

The standard definition of a "Bubba" is a man who feels it's his God-given right to drive his pickup truck down the highway at 80 miles an hour with the windows open, the CD payer and air-conditioning both at full blast, and an open can of beer in his lap. While he's generally thought of as a white man from the South, the truth is that Bubbas can be found from Connecticut to California among all races and both genders....

Leave aside the stereotype's nonessentials for a moment -- the music, the beer can, the large dog in the passenger seat, the hunting rifle in a gun rack behind the rear window, the patriotic bumper stickers -- and pay attention to the overpowered and over-accessorized vehicle (mostly provided by American industry), the road (provided by American government), and the sense of entitlement (provided by American history). Where do these things come from, and where are they taking us?

Mr Prestowitz's answer is the waste of fuel required to power the cars which we think we deserve has led us to a serious dependence on oil imported from countries that hate us (like Iraq) and countries which merely dislike us (like Canada). He writes:

If U.S. vehicles got the same fuel economy as European and Japanese vehicles, the United States would need to import no Persian Gulf oil at all.

He isn't arguing for the replacement of internal combustion engins by sparky cars. The fad for EVs hadn't begun in 2003, and the idea of a Biden-Harris-style EV mandate would have been dismissesd out of hand as insane. Besides, the same criticism appliesa to the American waste of electric power. 

The Japanese [Mr Prestowitz again] have put such emphasis on energy efficiency that they can produce a dollar of GDP with less than half the energy of the United States.... To create the equivalent of $1 of GDP, Europeans use only about two thirds as much energy as the Americans.

If America had the same energy efficience as the EU, it could not only do without oil imports from the Persian Gulf, it could do without oil imports period.

Let us hope (and vote!) that the new Trump administration will feature Elon Musk as Czar of Energy Efficiency, in charge of making America a powerhouse again... in every possible meaning of the word!

VIDEO: Musk Harris parody: You didn't see it here first

Unless you're living on another planet (like Senile Joe), you've already heard about Elon Musk's hilarious fake ad targeting Hawk-Tuah Harris, the wokesters' choice for president. To save you searching for it, we're reposting the "Blux" version, complete with big subtitles.

  

And while we're at it, here's a new meme. 

Click on the updated version of "The 'Hawk Tuah' twins, separated at birth?", where "Hawk Tuah" is explained... sort of... Comments are welcome (but moderated); click on the headline to open the comments window.

Further reading: "Democrats Condemn Obviously Manipulated Audio Of Kamala Harris Where She Sounds Sober", from the Babylon Bee (of course), 29/7/24.

FAKE poster for Monkey Premium Cereal

Yes, folks, it's a fake. The image of LeBron James is real enough, but there's no such product as Monkey Premium Cereal.

This poster is supposed to be a joke, but I can see where some might call it "racist". It was created by a student at New Hartford Central School in Utica NY as a parody of cereal advertisements, as an entry in a contest..

According to Breitbart News (whose editors deleted a tweet containing the image), some sensitive parents contacted Utica radio station WIBX in alarm. How, they asked, could the school could allow the art featuring the word "monkey" to be coupled with a photo of a famed black athlete to be entered into the art contest and to go on display at the school. 

It is a longstanding racist trope to equate blacks to monkeys, and the complaining parents were shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- that the school did not put a stop to the student’s use of LeBron James’ image in the “Monkey Cereal” artwork.

New Hartford Superintendent of Schools Dr Cosimo Cramer [Ed., please check before posting. I think his last name is Tangorra] said the school is investigating the incident and noted that the student, whose identity and other details [Like his/her race, maybe? Ed.] he did not divulge, was "contacted."

Dr Tangorra [is correct, Ed.] seemed untroubled by the incident, saying that officials are "using this as a teachable moment.... Despite our efforts," he added, "it is clear that more work needs to be done to challenge and raise awareness about stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination."

VIDEO: Hitler gets furious talking to a call centre

These Hitler parodies have been around forever, it seems. Or at least since November of 2009 when we posted links to seven of them, specially selected by Poor Len Canayen for hockey fans. See "If Hitler was a hockey fan". WWW 26/11/09.

Most of the dozens of clips floating around the internet use the same scene from Downfall (2004), in which Hitler's last secretary tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. But there are other scenes, and other parodies. Here, for the first time on WWW, is one that we can all identify with, in which Hitler gets frustrated talking to an ISP's call centre. (Spoiler alert: It's not really an Indian call centre, but the routine is always the same no matter where it is. Right?)

WARNING: Several F-bombs and other strong language.