I started Netflix’s new series “Transatlantic.” Contrary to what you might think, it’s not the story of a transgender love boat, though I’m sure Netflix is working on that.
It’s about Varian Fry’s heroic efforts to evacuate Jews from Hitler’s…
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…Europe.
Transatlantic is an elegant, expensive period piece full of lush French vineyards and charming villas. There’s even time for romance.
In some ways, the series forges new territory, injecting some levity into an otherwise heavy topic. This isn’t Schindler’s List.
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Distance from the actual events affords filmmakers some creative license, and to this extent I do not object.
They don’t make light of the Holocaust nor of the war itself. Instead, they’ve almost given this topic its own version of “The Great Escape,” making the victims…
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…heroes.
Almost.
Creative license can go too far, perverting history and its heroes, and that’s what Netflix has done here.
Bowing—or should I say ‘bending over’?—in #Budweiser fashion to the gay times in which we live, Netflix made Varian Fry a homosexual.
While…
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…many other characters in this series are fictitious, Varian Fry, an American, was as real to WW2 as Winston Churchill or Ernie Pyle. But it seems that the homosexual lobby decided WW2 needed some gay heroes, and since it is well-known that Ike and FDR liked the ladies, a…
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…lesser known figure was chosen to carry the gay banner forward.
Only it never happened.
Not only was Fry not a homosexual, he was a twice-married father of three. The book upon which Transatlantic is based established the gay legend for Fry.
Predictably, The New York…
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…Times brushed off this historical inconvenience as trivial.
History is full of inconveniences for those wishing to rewrite it. For example, did you know that many of the early Nazis were notorious homosexuals? William Shirer (see excerpt from “The Rise & Fall of the…
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…Third Reich” below) and others made this connection long ago. I’m waiting for that Netflix series.
There’s a moral obligation on those who would tell the stories of history’s heroes and victims that they do it with care and integrity.
So, let it be hereby known that…
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…Robert the Bruce was the real “Braveheart,” not William Wallace;
80% of men on the Titanic died while only 25% of women perished (and neither Jack nor Rose were among them)—
—and Varian Fry was a hero and he was not, according to both wives and his biographer, gay.
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This is me filming in front of the US embassy in Mexico City last week.
These are all people trying to get into the US via the CBP One App—a program funded by you.
They didn’t want me filming. You’ll hear a Mexican security guard stop me and…
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…demand I delete the video.
I had been assured by Mexican lawyers that I could film anything so long as I did not enter the US embassy. As you can see, I did not enter.
The US uses a Mexican security firm outside the embassy and they had clearly been instructed to stop…
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…me. He spoke a mix of Spanish and English. I refused to give him my phone and, being much bigger than him, I did not let him detain me even though he tried.
He threatens to call the police. I kept walking while my translator distracted him.
As a guy who travels A LOT, I’m having a hard time with the fact that Tim Waltz has been in China 30+ times. It smells.
Let me explain to you how this works practically….
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China isn’t Canada. Meaning, there’s a visa process for Americans. It’s not visa-upon-arrival as in some Latin American countries. You must apply for entry. It takes time.
Communist states are historically suspicious of Americans, and for good reason. We seldom share…
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…their values. In the age of Google, which prioritizes negative results for conservatives, communist states make liberal use of the Leftist search engine.
For example, I slipped into Cuba a couple of years ago with a cigar tour group. The police came to our hotel to…
Yesterday @MattWalshBlog got dragged across Twitter concrete for his take on the #RNC platforming #AmberRose.
Judging from the responses, his critics didn’t read what he said, but instead read highly emotional takes on his tweet.
Let’s take a look:
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After the tweet above, social media keyboard warriors sprang to Rose’s defense as if Walsh were her verbal assassin perched atop a sloped Twitter roof.
Catturd led the way.
Walsh was an “egomaniac,” he said, who had set himself up as “judge and jury.”
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Heidi here unholstered her Twitter prose like a tiny secret service agent in Butler, PA, saying Rose had already done more for the cause than Walsh.
(NOTE: This is a weak argument I often see Christians employ against other Christians: “He’s done more for the Kingdom…
I saw the BBC doc that provoked @RealCandaceO’s absurd historical claims regarding “Allied ethnic cleansing” of Germans post-WW2.
I’ll record an episode of “Ideas Have Consequences” to address this. But first, a🧵to help you decipher it:
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The documentary, “The Savage Peace,” produced by Peter Molloy, focuses on the very real post-WW2 reprisals against Germans in Eastern Europe. The documentary, while factual in many respects, is quite deceptive at 3 key points:
1. WHO DID IT
The documentary ends with…
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…these words:
“Peace always has a dark side, and what happened after liberation throws the spotlight on the moral compass of the victors. When ethnic Germans became objects of violence after the war, many saw, but few were interested. The largest ethnic cleansing in…
#Immigration Update from South America 8: One Night in Bangkok
I’m in Necocli, #Colombia, a dangerous cartel town where #immigrants try to get a ferry across the Gulf of Urabá to the #Darién Gap. There’s never been a place of more hope & hopelessness.
Human degradation…
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…in its many forms is everywhere. I hadn’t been in town 15 minutes before I was offered cocaine and sex. Beggars of the authentic variety are everywhere. Street vendors price gouge. Cartel “eyes” are upon you and everyone else.
But you also encounter those who are…
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…intoxicated with the American Dream. They are sure they are on the cusp of it.
These disparate visions coexist in the human quagmire that is Necocli.
I’m reminded of Murray Head’s “One Night in Bangkok”:
“One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble. Not much between…
UPDATE FROM SOUTH AMERICA 3: THE IMMIGRATION SHELL GAME🧵
I’m current driving through rural Colombia with a hired driver. With an hour to go, I thought I’d make use of the time.
I try to distinguish for you between what I know to be factual and my theories or opinions….
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FACT:
The #Biden administration is using the #UN and a series of NGOs to traffic humans across this continent — and the globe — to the US border, or, increasingly, to bypass the #border altogether and fly them to undisclosed locations in the US.
But a number of questions…
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…arise, chief among them is this: where is the money coming from to do it?
When I began this research project 4 years ago, it was individuals or families making it up as they went.
Not now.
Now it is a highly organized, well-funded industry.