Oh Boy It Never Ends: November 2024

Via THENUMBERS.COM, here's the weekend box office:

1	(1)	Venom: The Last Dance	Sony Pictures	$15,904,148	-39%	3,905	-226	$4,073	$114,497,886	3
2	N	Heretic	A24	$11,016,055		3,221		$3,420	$11,016,055	1
3	N	The Best Christmas Pageant Ever	Lionsgate	$10,752,502		3,020		$3,560	$10,752,502	1
4	(2)	The Wild Robot	Universal	$6,613,615	-11%	3,051	-186	$2,168	$130,851,450	7
5	(3)	Smile 2	Paramount Pi…	$5,110,307	-24%	2,822	-413	$1,811	$60,650,331	4
6	(4)	Conclave	Focus Features	$4,125,260	-18%	2,283	+487	$1,807	$21,537,965	3
7	(11)	Anora	Neon	$2,520,131	+40%	1,104	+851	$2,283	$7,283,523	4
8	(5)	Here	Sony Pictures	$2,403,121	-51%	2,733	+86	$879	$9,479,686	2
9	(6)	We Live in Time	A24	$2,210,612	-36%	1,865	-1,099	$1,185	$21,812,338	5
10	(7)	Terrifier 3	Cineverse	$1,470,354	-54%	1,563	-794	$941	$53,311,838	5

Thoughts? There are two films in the top ten that have made over $100 million. VENUM: THE LAST DANCE has passed the one hundred million mark and remains at number one. The other big money maker is THE WILD ROBOT at number four.

Looking at the top ten, I've never felt further removed from films. The bulk of this list is poorly written and directed crap. Maybe it's just my mood?

A few e-mails about my book review "He should have called it HOW TO GET AWAY WITH DROWNING YOUR WIFE" on Saturday asked why I didn't do a book talk Sunday with Ava and C.I.

I didn't want to. That's nothing against them. I'm just trying to come to grips with a second Trump administration and with the vast racism in America that led fools to vote for Trump. They asked me and I asked if we could do it next weekend. I spent most of Sunday just sleeping. I wouldn't have even done the book review this weekend if Isaiah hadn't done a comic I needed to note.

I read the book for a review I planned to do the weekend before. But I was so tired. I was tired this past weekend but Isaiah's comic was something I needed to note so I just did a brief review of the book and called that my weekend.

Be sure to read "Media: White supremacy won the 2024 election (Ava and C.I.) ."

Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Monday, November 11, 2024. He didn't endorse Kamala, he didn't vote for her but he thinks he can now go on MSNBC and make demands from Democrats? Oh, hell no.

We don't link to trash so forget the garbage interview that Ayman Mohyeldin did with the Mayor of Homophobia Abullah Hammoud. Abdullah -- who wants to be something more than a mayor but, sadly, never will be.

MSNBC, we don't need to hear from Abdullah and we don't want to hear from him. If he's got time to jaw bone, he's got time to address his city's homophobia.

Idiot Ayman tries to put force together contrary facts and pretend that they fit. They don't. Nor do you.

Please note, Black women, that MSNBC can't bring you on for a serious panel about racism -- in the media coverage of the election, in the campaign that Trump ran or anything. But the mayor of a city that has gone homophobic under his watch is someone to celebrate.

We'll he's a man, isn't he. And in the end, isn't that always the most defining qualification for the All Things Media Big and Small when they're inviting guests on.

And I don't want to hear a damn thing about what the US needs to do with regards to Gaza.

Anyone who wanted the Democratic Party to address Gaza? They should have voted for the Democrats.

Instead, a nation of idiots voted against their own interest and have given control to the Republicans.

So go beg Donald. Go beg him. He's your president and he's the one you wanted. So get on your knees, crawl like the dogs you have made yourselves into by refusing to vote for the alternative go Donald and beg.

No, no, no. You don't get to come to the Democratic Party now. Not after you tanked the Democratic Party's chances to be in the White House.

Was it too much for your macho fundamentalist Muslim beliefs to have a woman in the White House?

I don't know. And at this point I don't care.

Here's what I had planned to do today. Note Gaza. We were going to seriously address the ongoing genocide. And then I get all telling me about that interview. And how the host and the guest want to make demands on the Democratic Party. After failing to turn out votes?

Ayman, you're going to have a seriously interesting day because you pissed off above me and your boss' boss will be hearing about your stunt.

As for the mayor?

How dare you make demands on a party you just stabbed in the back.

You know, I can make the case for the Israeli government. I can do that. Whether debate or moot court, I had to make a lot of arguments I didn't believe in. So I could make the case for the Israeli government and you piss me off enough? I will do it. And it will further crater support for Gaza.

So stop you're lying. Just stop lying. Stop your demands of what 'we' have to do. What we, in America, had to do was save our country.

You didn't give a s**t about that, Abdullah Hammoud. No, your last interview had to talking the importance of Palestinians and then the importance that you serve your city.

No where in there .-- and I hope your opponent will make much of this in your next race -- did you ever talk about anything you owed your country or the people in it.

So just take your single-issue on home because no one's buying your lies except the idiots you already had on the hook.

Again, the plan was to address Gaza. Many more pieces of s**t like Abdullah showing up in the media telling us what to do? I'll bury them and their argument

Grasp that we, Democrats, wanted Abdullah and others to vote for Kamala. They didn't want to do that. We wanted it to save our country. They didn't care.

But now, not even seven days after the election, Abdullah thinks he can go on television and make demands about what Democrats should do.

F**k you. Truly. Servant of god Abdullah (that's what the name means), you weren't serving anyone when you helped elect Donald Trump. You weren't using your head either. But you picked a butcher to put into the White House. So go beg your butcher, your man. And see how it works out because, I don't think it's going to.

Then take your ass home back to other rejects and bathe in the blood of the dead that your actions are responsible for.

People in Dearborn feel betrayed? The country was betrayed by Dearborn. Nobody needs to hear from you. Kamala promised to be a leader for everyone, I didn't.

"My only family -- sob sob sob -- unsubscribed from me." Good. Everyone should. You're trash.

As Brett Meiselas points out after going over the various Trump voting expressing regrets now, you can't vote against human rights and expect that your family -- impacted by your vote -- won't respond.

"They sold out their family for a carton of eggs," Tennessee Brando points out below.

And that is correct.

Let's stay with social media for a moment.

Some of us gave money to Trump, some of us on the left. That's me. I'm not pointing at others and acting like I didn't do the same thing.

How did we give money to Trump?

By using Twitter. By enriching Elon Musk in any way or manner.

On Friday, in the post-mortem (the first of three, actually) with other big donors we began the discussion on what worked and what didn't. And Twitter came up.

Elon Musk is not our friend. Do I need to do screen grabs from Twitter of the various MAGA trash using the N-word and putting up photos of Black men on their knees in front of White men?

Those pictures by the way? It's porn. It's from pornography. And it's from gay pornography. Got it. They pretend they're straight but they clearly consumer a lot of 'raceplay' pornography.

Ted Cruz was never concerned about that, was he? He's not limiting porn on Twitter -- because I said photos, let me clear that some aren't photos, some are videos.

This is what Twitter does. It promotes hate. And it enriches Elon Musk.

And it defeats us. As a people, it defeats us.

That's THREADS. No, Zuckerberg is not a saint.

But we're not idiots in Dearborn, are we? No, we're able to look at two things and see the one is awful. We did that when choosing between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. By the same token, we can look at Zuckerberg and Musk and clearly conclude that Elon Musk is a threat to democracy and we don't need to be giving him our money or time.

I'm not asking for a big lift here.

A big lift? That would be asking people to give up AMAZON due to Jeff Bezos actions.

This isn't a big lift. This is asking that those of you who can consider migrating over to THREADS and abandoning TWITTER.

THREADS currently has an estimated 200 million users. TWITTER -- I don't work for Elon, I don't have to use his new name for the company -- is estimated to have 600 million users -- though the internal stats I studied Saturday make clear that only a little over 320 million of that 600 have Tweeted in the last six months.

So let's do our part for our democracy by telling Mr Racist from South Africa that we're not going to help him anymore. It's free labor, grasp that. Free labor for Elon. It's time for us to reject him that same way the wise Black people in South Africa did. Aparethied was falling and he and hideous family suddenly needed to leave.

And let's focus on what we can do. I'm dictating these snapshot -- I dictate them while I work out in the morning -- so I'll be basing it on the feedback I get from this community, on what people in my life that I respect advise and on my own thoughts.

If something I propose does not work for you, I get it. Don't think twice about it. That's true on TWITTER. I'd like to see us all leave but that might not happen. If you're able to, please consider doing so.

This snapshot is where I'm at right now. Others are still mourning and I respect that and I honor it. This is not my, "Get over it and get to work!" You deal with what you need to. You process and you determine when you come back to any activism and whether or not you even do that.

We were sold out and betrayed and I don't expect anyone to just get over that.

Two videos. Karen Hunter and Roland Martin.

Bernie is not our leader. And outlets who mistake his own coded language -- intentional or not -- and overlook the reality of his positions (he's very build a wall when it comes to economics -- or did no one ever tell you), better expect that you're going to lose a lot of people. He may be your Messiah but for a lot of us, he's just another old White man trying to keep us down.

An e-mail yesterday to the public e-mail account was from a drive-by who is so upset that they didn't read the following before the election:

Don't give a dime to the racist NATION magazine

Media: The election winds down

Media: The double standard

Media: Are they trying to elect Donald Trump?

Media: Abusers Donald and JD fit the pattern

Media: The damage done by Dave Zirin and The Gaza ...

The death of corporate media has been widely misre...

Media: Broadcast TV and Jill Stein -- two things t...

Media: Hard Truths and Soft Media

Media: The stupid on the right and the stupid on t...

Media: They don't know any better

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Why or why didn't he read it before he voted. He's a Gaza Freak. He now regrets his protest against Kamala. You know what, it's really too late at this point. He also wishes he'd seen any of the above sooner and wants to know why I didn't promote it on social media?

Oh, I'm sorry. Let's dock my pay for a week -- Oh, wait. I don't ask for money on any of this. Never have, never will. It's not my fault that you didn't stumble on it before, somehow you managed to after.

Missing what Ava and I wrote is not your excuse or justification for not voting for Kamala. There were other people -- many, many people -- especially Black women -- all over the net addressing the topics we covered and similar topics. If you're serious in your e-mail, then what you need to do is expand on who you follow. Most of your news content and public affairs content is exclusively White. Try working on that in 2024 and see if you can't expand your mind.

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