I seem to recollect mentioning here a time or three that the Left’s hatred for us is so deep, so frenzied, so caustically desperate that there really is nothing they can leave alone. We HAVE talked about that here before, right?
WELL. About all that.
A year ago progressive news outlets were calling the idea of the culture war a “right-wing conspiracy theory” that had no basis in reality. Yet, the injection of far-left politics into entertainment media had already started years previous, with noticeable propaganda efforts in movies, streaming television, children’s shows and books, even commercial advertising was replete with progressive ideological imagery by 2016 onward.
The goal is relatively obvious – To erase competing ideals and viewpoints while saturating the market with only one political vision; a woke vision. It’s called social engineering, and anyone who claims this is not happening in the US today is gaslighting.
Strangely, the American comic book industry has become a major battleground in the culture war, with heroic symbols being increasingly erased or hijacked as vehicles for woke talking points. A vast array of comic book characters are now race-swapped, converted to LGBT or they have had their histories rewritten to make them more “acceptable for modern audiences.” At the same time, they promote everything from BLM, to climate change propaganda, to gender identity politics and anti-gun messaging.
Why would leftists target something as frivolous as comic book heroes? Because pop-culture is first and foremost a playground where children grow up, and by rewriting heroes as social justice crusaders and communists they hope to indoctrinate the next generation.
The Punisher character (Frank Castle), originally created by writer Gerry Conway in 1974 with artists Ross Andru and John Romita, was a product of a chaotic era; a reaction to the rise of war, stagflation, instability and exploding crime rates in the US. The Punisher’s story is a tragedy of a returning military veteran whose family is killed during what seems to be a gangland hit. With federal agencies doing little to arrest the perpetrators, Castle takes matters into his own hands and begins systematically assassinating the criminals.
The Punisher as an icon has been highly popular among conservatives, military veterans and law enforcement officers in recent years. The trademark skull symbol can be found everywhere, with patches, gear and flags sporting the image, often as a representation of citizens taking matters into their own hands. The symbol was also seen at the January 6th protests.
This has made leftists at Marvel Comics livid. They first attempted to make fundamental changes to the character, including a redesign of his popular skull symbol, as well as taking away his guns and giving him swords in 2021. Instead of fighting against criminal organizations, Frank Castle joins with one, violating his fundamental code of ethics.
This month, though, Marvel officially declared the Punisher persona non grata, eliminating the character as readers know him. Did he go out in a blaze of glory? No, in typical woke fashion Frank Castle is captured by progressive heroes, chained up and forced to go through a struggle session in which he is admonished as a murderer and a terrorist. Marvel even brings the Punisher’s wife back from the dead, only so that she can divorce him and take his money and property, and then inform him that his lifelong crusade against the criminal underworld was all for nothing.
Marvel writers, including original Punisher creator Gerry Conway, specifically cite the popularity of the character among conservatives as the reason for his virtual elimination. As Newsweek noted, the Punisher was “problematic” for Marvel because conservatives liked him too much. He represents the every-man: He has no superpowers, he’s not a billionaire like Batman, but he still fights evil with an immovable will and a lot of guns.
Emphasis mine, because Jesus tapdancin’ CHRIST. I mean, seriously, folks: kill off a popular, profitable franchise entire simply because people you hate are among those who enjoy it? Sheesh. Mere “crazy” doesn’t even begin to cover this; it’s far too gentle a word to adequately describe it. Confirming yet again that these “people” truly are just totally, hopelessly, irremediably bugfuck nuts.
(Via Wes Renegade)
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Cut off your nose to spite your face. Always a winning plan.
Ditto.
Yep, it’s funny how these retards think they’ve accomplished something momentous
I guess I need to purchase a shit ton of Punisher skull stickers and cover every “rainbow” sticker I see… adding “BFYTW” to them. Although in Montana there likely aren’t many “unnatural rainbows”
You just gave me the idea for my next Gimp project, OG. 😉 I’ma get cracking on that toot sweet; results will of course be posted here when I’m done. Thanks!
Excellent idea OG.
What’s funny, to me at least, is I never heard of the “punisher” until this post.
OK, done and done, OG.
hey man, thanks. I’m sort of proud that the ol’ brain still can be semi-creative and do something worthwhile and wholesome ‘n shit… and not just wile away the day contemplating kinetically altering these asswipes.
As I said in other posts, like the Cracker Barrel one, it seems like these subversions of what might be called Americana are targeted on purpose.
I cited a number of things from my childhood that were being savaged.
Here is another example. Comic Books. Entertainment in general. All being subverted into a Unreality which 90% of people over 40 wouldn’t recognize as America and a good 70% under 40 didn’t grow up with either.
We really need to exorcise these Wokesters from Corporate America without also killing the patient as well.
Danged if I know the best way to do that, because frankly the incentives that were in place when I was growing up would have sent every CEO in America bounding over each other to avoid Woke at all costs at this point.
Think back to Enron. Imagine if, after Enron, every other Company began deliberately setting up Shell Companies in order to shuffle debt off their balance sheets. To be caught would mean certain destruction of the Company.
The tricky little secret about Enron was that there were a number of analysts warning for several years that Enron was a Scam. They simply reconciled the Cash Flow Statements, which showed a hemorrhaging of cash out of the company in spite of them reporting Income Statement profits. Any accountant worth their salt knows that there can be a little lag between cash flow and reported profits but that after 6 months or so, one or the other has to catch up. Since cash flow is difficult to jigger compared to income, then Cash Flow is always an important metric to look at.
From there it was a simple exercise in math to compare the Balance Sheet and see that static liabilities and hemorrhaging cash outflows didn’t reconcile either.
“We really need to exorcise these Wokesters from Corporate America without also killing the patient as well.
Danged if I know the best way to do that…”
An excellent point and one that I apply to President Trump routinely. Trump wanted to make America Great, not take revenge on the people that helped the decline. So, in the end he ignored* the Hillary Clinton crimes thinking it was best to just let them go. No need to destroy the system to save it was the thinking. We all know better now, including Trump. There is no salvaging. Destroy and rebuild and just eliminate the worst (FBI) and never bring it back.
*would anything have been done if Trump insisted? I doubt it but we’ll never know.