Our friends over at Burning Platform have posted one that seems to be going viral, getting linked all over the place, reposted on Twitter/X, etc. It kicks off thusly:
I’m sorely tempted to say, “Doodly squat!” if only out of pure pig-headed contrariness, seeing as how Josey Wales fans—and who isn’t?—will recognize that memorable line from the flick. But never mind that right now. Onwards.
“Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.” – Josey Wales
“To hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.” – Josey Wales
As our political, economic, civic, and social structures continue to degrade, dissolve, and disintegrate before our very eyes, it is easy to become apathetic and surrender to hopelessness. There are relentless powerful forces actively trying to destroy the fabric of our society and force the masses into economic servitude while caged in an electronic gulag, controlled by an oligarchy of evil totalitarian minded billionaires and their lackeys in key governmental, political, banking, military, media, and corporate positions of power. We are in the same situation as Josey Wales in Clint Eastwood’s epic 1976 film – The Outlaw Josey Wales.
An intriguing proposition, that, one I must admit had never occurred to me before—even though I must’ve seen TOJW about, oh, eleventy kajillion billion times by now. Even though it’s a long ‘un, and can be sorta…well, slow in places, I still like the movie a lot. Follows in boldface, a fun fact about the film I also didn’t know before.
I found it interesting the film was based on the novel Gone to Texas, written with a virulent anti-government slant by a former George Wallace speechwriter. When the script writer/director tried to tone down the anti-government aspects, Eastwood told him no and eventually fired him, taking over as director for the remainder of the film. Eastwood’s refusal to bow to Hollywood pressure and soften the dialogue and story line is a tribute to his resolute dislike and mistrust of governmental authorities. He has essentially gone his own way and made his films his way, never letting the Hollywood elite dictate his path.
Eastwood equates the plight of the Confederacy with the plight of the American Indian, as both groups were bullied, bloodied and crushed under the weight of the Federal government, which began its unfettered growth during the Civil War and has now reached its zenith of incompetence, arrogance, lawlessness, and hatred towards the citizens it is supposed to serve. Most people just want to be left alone, like Josey Wales, to live their lives in peace and harmony with their fellow community members. But the federal government makes that impossible, with their rules, regulations, taxes, fees, and enforcement thugs harassing the public on a daily basis.
In Eastwood’s movie they murder his family, murder his comrades, and are hell-bent on murdering him. The song remains the same. Our government murdered people minding their own business at Ruby Ridge. They murdered women and children at Waco. They murdered a rancher at Bundy Ranch. They send young men to war for bankers and corporations. They have been unlawfully imprisoning protestors in dungeons for a fake insurrection fomented and initiated by government agents. They rigged the presidential election and have convicted the leading political candidate of fake crimes he did not commit in order to maintain control over the political system.
The government is in the midst of creating millions of vengeful Josey Wales characters. As political chaos increases in the coming months, the threat of global conflagration escalates and the economic plight of the masses deteriorates, revenge against politicians, government drones, and the globalist financial elite for creating this madness will expand rapidly. We know what Josey Wales would do. The question is what will we do.
Dang, that thorny question just keeps popping up over and over again, don’t it? Again: an intriguing notion for sure, one which strongly suggests that you should read the whole thing.
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Point of Order: IIRC, no ranchers were killed at Bundy Ranch.
One was killed at the asinine wildlife refuge takeover, led by one of the Bundytards. He maybe didn’t need killin’ but the video of his last moment, when his car was stopped by multiple agencies pointing guns at him, and running outside a felony-stopped vehicle like a headless chicken yelling “Shoot me!”, was a FAFO Award with gold star cluster, and epically (and terminally) stupid.
Government sucks no less, and all the other incidents apply with full force, but sometimes, they aren’t entirely nor mostly the biggest idiot in the mix.
Harsh truths are firstly, True.
TOJW is a first-tier 5-star cinematic epic. Coming out in the same era as Jeremiah Johnson, the pair set the bar for Top Ten Western movies of all time.
And Eastwood had a pattern of not sufering Hollywood idiots gladly.
The tale is still recounted on the studio tour at Universal, when, after Eastwood had done a fall off a platform into a lake about half a dozen times, and Some Nameless Hack @$$hole Director was screaming at him that he hadn’t gotten it “just right”. So Eastwood shoved the director off the platform and into the lake from 30′ or more up, with the invitation “Why don’t you show me how to do it right?” Giant brass balls.
Of course he got fired from that gig, but he was legendary to the behind-the-camera crews for all time. And his career managed to survive, now entering something like 60-70 years working in Hollywood.
So many great scenes and great lines from this movie, it would be tough to list ’em all. Uneven pacing or no, it’s a bona fide classic.
“But the federal government makes that impossible, with their rules, regulations, taxes, fees, and enforcement thugs harassing the public on a daily basis.”
It’s very simple, government is the root of all evil. Every, and I do mean every, problem we have is caused by government.
I’m trying to think if there is any movie Eastwood has been in that wasn’t exceptional. Seems they all are.
Some people just need killin
SomeA lot of people just need killinFIFY 🙂