Disney+ streams
the newest series in the (apparently never-ending) "Star Wars"
franchise, and the newest of these is "Andor."
“Andor,”
created by Tony Gilroy, is purportedly the tale of a desperate rebellion
arising against the despotic Empire. Fiona Shaw portrays a character named
“Maarva” in the series and was recently interviewed by something called Empire
magazine.
In
the interview, Shaw said that Gilroy wrote the show as a commentary on former
President Donald Trump. She stated: “Tony has written a great, scurrilous
[take] on the Trumpian
world. Our world is exploding in different places right
now, people’s rights are disappearing, and ‘Andor’ reflects that.”
Shaw added, "[In the show] the Empire is taking
over, and it feels like the same thing is happening in reality, too.” Huh? Shaw,
like many actors and actresses, wouldn’t recognize reality if it bit her in the
ass.
If Shaw could recognize reality, she’d see
that the world started “exploding” immediately after Biden took office, surely
not a coincidence. It is sorely in need of Trump, who-- juxtaposed to Sleepy
Joe—appears to have superpowers worthy of a movie or television series. Despite
facing literally incessant attacks, Trump engineered a roaring economy (until
the pandemic), with low inflation, low gas prices, and record low unemployment for minorities. The stock market was booming. We were, almost
miraculously and for the first time in 62 years, energy independent.
And our global adversaries were not invading other nations—or threatening to do
so. And, even after Trump has been out of office for the better part of two
years, Democrats-- and media and “entertainment” types—simply cannot stop
talking about him.
Shaw is accidentally correct about one thing:
people’s rights are disappearing. Too many citizens have seen their right to life, liberty and
happiness taken from them because of people like her…and the leftist influencers
and leaders who brainwash and manipulate them. Vaccine and mask mandates,
lockdowns, social distancing rules, and remote learning have devastated—and
taken—countless lives. Free speech is under relentless attack, as are our
Second Amendment rights. The streets of our cities are dangerous and plagued
with violence specifically due to the policies that leftist thugs and would-be
tyrants have enacted. And now these hypocritical authoritarians are attempting
to take away our inherent right to defend ourselves and our loved ones. Incredibly,
progressives don’t believe in free speech but think they have a “right” not to
hear anything with which they disagree. They don’t believe conservatives
deserve physical safety on the streets, or in their homes for that matter, but they
demand “safe spaces” to hide from words.
The return of Carter Era inflation-- courtesy of the Biden administration—is
even stripping us of our right to food, clothing and shelter.
Remember this: when so-called
“progressives” like Gilroy and Shaw say, “our rights are disappearing” or “our
democracy is in peril,” what they really mean is that they are afraid they
may be losing their “right” to strip others of their rights and tell
others what to do.
Democrats, nearly all of whom
today are leftists, never cease trying to enhance their power over others.
Ever. Ever. Ever. This puts conservatives (and libertarians) at an inherent
disadvantage, as they generally wish to let people have control of their own
lives.
Yet, as Ronald Reagan once noted,
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We
didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our
sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once
like in the United States where men were free.”
Or, as
Yoda, a character from an earlier Star Wars iteration warned: “Once you start down the dark path,
forever will it dominate your destiny.”
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