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Even its critics must admit that Yellowstone was a cultural force. It drove a minor boom in “Western” clothing and aesthetics and more than one spinoff series. Several mainstream media outlets thought it was key to understanding American conservatives, especially the fantasy version of America they supposedly hold. The show’s popularity derived partially from its aesthetics: tough, all-American white guys with cowboy hats talking down to effete outsiders who try to boss them around. However, the aesthetics were a bait and switch. When it came to substance, the show offered the same “stolen land” foolishness you get in Northeastern universities.
The series finale ended with triumph over the whites. The ranch where audiences followed the Duttons is sold to American Indians for a song. Presiding over the sale is Kayce Dutton, who married a left-wing teacher, an Indian. The actress portraying the Indian is Chinese; there was a flap over whether she has any “Native” blood.
Yellowstone finale is just as horrible as I thought. White libtard guilt complex garbage pic.twitter.com/PGPMTuvhtL
— captive dreamer (@captivedreamer7) December 18, 2024
The Indians celebrate by desecrating whitey’s graves, though a patriarch gently rebukes this impulse and magnanimously decides to leave the dead in peace. Conservatives are cheap dates. Thus, conservative influencer Dana Loesch declared that it was a positive message. Do you disagree? Well, then you are part of the “woke right.”
The last episode of Yellowstone was great for the people who actually watched it. The tribal elders and the Duttons realized they were on the same side all along and Mo defended the family's sacrifice for the land. pic.twitter.com/492khKVxBv
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) December 17, 2024
Because they’re the “woke right.” They want to be like the left and be offended over everything for influence.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) December 18, 2024
Dana Loesch too likes to cosplay as a cowboy.
Implicit in this ending is that the land itself is what matters, not who owns it. This is also the core meaning of “Native Americans.” Whites built America. Insofar as the Founders thought of Indians at all, they were the “merciless Indian savages” in the Declaration of Independence. To call Indians “Native Americans” is ridiculous, because they were never Americans at all. If “America” is just a geographic expression, there is little reason to care about it. If “Native Americans” have a blood-and-soil exclusive claim to North America, what about whites in Europe? Either way, it renders American identity ridiculous and incoherent.
The story is almost a perfect distillation of American conservatism. Traditional masculine norms and old-fashioned values have their place, but only in the service of handing over power to non-whites. It is weakness to fight for one’s own and strength to surrender. The final Dutton who hands over the ranch is a former Navy SEAL, but in the end, he not only surrenders but acts as if it is a moral triumph.
Some argued that the ending was still somehow right-wing because it was a protest against taxes that make it unaffordable to run a ranch. However, fans of the show noted that the ranch briefly seemed to have a way out of its financial difficulties if it started selling premium steaks. This idea disappeared. Co-creator of the show, Taylor Sheridan, is now in the steak business; surely a coincidence.
It is difficult not to see the parallel to the Clint Eastwood film Gran Torino. That film got a right-wing following because Clint Eastwood plays a grizzled veteran who tells racist jokes and complains about “zipperheads” moving into his neighborhood. But in the end, he sacrifices his life for a young Hmong and even leaves him his prized car. His wartime service dissolves into a confession of executing a child soldier who was trying to surrender. Before he dies for his new Hmong friend, he writes his biological family out of his will. His money goes to the church he probably does not believe in. The “Lutherans” are the ones bringing Hmong to America; his money will now presumably help resettlement efforts.
The bait-and-switch sometimes operates more subtly. Shows such as Peaky Blinders, which is about British interwar gangsters, draw much of their appeal from “tough guy” swagger and stylish, old-fashioned clothes. However, the story is mostly about outsiders (a predominantly Gypsie gang) triumphing over stuffy British conservatives. Naturally, the protagonist becomes an ally of Winston Churchill, who is worried about one of the show’s leading villains, Sir Oswald Mosley — so fearsome that he scandalizes even the murderers and gangsters. Mad Men also showcases old-fashioned masculinity and stylish clothes. The world that produced these characters was then dissected and disposed of by 1960s social liberalism. That doesn’t stop social media influencers from citing characters in both those shows as inspirations for how to talk or dress. Masculinity becomes a costume.
An actor is charged with taking on different personalities, which is why the Romans thought them little better than prostitutes. Similarly, actors who play “tough guys,” often try to parley that image into convincing audiences to adopt liberalism. Charleton Heston championed the NRA late in life, but in the prime of his career, he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. Robert DeNiro, in contrast, has turned his golden years into a sad spectacle of fighting with Donald Trump — and losing. Sam Elliot’s grizzled cowboy characters are occasionally used for memes by low-quality conservatives, but in the last election, he made an ad for Kamala Harris. Nick Offerman’s Ron Swansen character in Parks and Recreation became a libertarian icon, so has tried to make up for it by campaigning for Kamala Harris and playing a thinly disguised President Trump who gets killed in Civil War. Dave Bautista and Arnold Schwarzenegger also backed Kamala. Yellowstone star Kevin Costner campaigned for Liz Cheney during her failed re-election bid.
There is bait-and-switch in films, television, video games, and Intellectual Property generally. The world of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is now the scene for new movies and television series, with racial diversity and awkward egalitarian messages. Games Workshop’s Warhammer Fantasy and 40K brands moved into racial diversity, female elite warriors, and anti-fascist corporate announcements as it sought a new customer base. Even Civilization, the classic grand strategy game series beloved of history nerds, now stars Harriet Tubman as a leader of the new America.
Sometimes, people inside these companies try to build power and reputation by undermining a traditional brand so they can tell their own story and recast it in their own image. Some of this is pure political indoctrination. Celebratory confessions from those who produced everything from Sesame Street to Dirty Dancing make it clear that those who put messages into entertainment know exactly what they are doing. Much of it may be pure spite.
Is this what happened to Yellowstone? It had to humiliate its viewers precisely because it was seen as representing red-state America. Shows that highlighted rural characters, such as the Dukes of Hazzard, were wiped out in the “Rural Purge” of 1971. Yellowstone’s popularity showed there is still a big audience for such programs, but the series finale showed the creators’ contempt for its fans. Conservatives who continue to praise the show prove that the contempt was well deserved. The cattle on the Dutton ranch showed more independence.
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It is easy to underestimate how much the emotion of self aggrandizement that accompanies putting other people down motivates people.
We used to say it like this, “I’m okay. You’re not okay.” It’s that simple.
And for noting that you’re not okay and for leading society in throwing rotten eggs at you, I’m especially okay. That’s right everyone, I’m especially okay. Now compliment me and share my feelings. Validate me! And I’ll validate you. We’ll all validate one another. We’re a big group of happy campers. Let’s get together to award each other awards. Little gold (plated) icons.
Let’s share interpretations of cultural events we all participate in as audience and bask in the warm glow of mutual recognition and belongingness. You too can share the warmth, just watch the event and learn to talk about it using the approved vocabulary while mimicking the appropriate emotional signals.
See? Life is easy. Just mimic the behavior of the group you wish to join. Hominids are great at imitation. Any critter can do it.
And if someone can’t or won’t? If they have their own agenda? Are finding their own way, taking their own bearings on the Pole Star they correctly perceive as Center about which every phenomenon and illusion in this realm revolves? Well, they’re losers. Incompetents. Can’t even do the simplest thing correctly. Doubly damned. They deserve worse than rotten eggs. Let’s stone them.
Make a correction in the last paragraph. The Dukes of Hazzard didn’t exist in 1971. The ’71 Hillbilly Holocaust was more Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, I think. The Dukes started late ’70s and lasted into the ’80s. It’s shows were actually pretty lefty.
These are the wages of the sin of allowing jew parasites and their accomplices to get their hooks in the U.S. Had Americans remained Constitutionalists and restrained themselves from Zionist Empire building, this country wouldn’t be swirling down the drain. But scum like Dick Cheney and his predecessors got hypnotized by Zionists and their promises of unlimited riches and power.
Why was his ilk so easily hypnotized, seduced and bought off? As I said: because they’re soulless scum with zero Christendom principles.
But maybe it was inevitable, as the world’s destiny is Christendom, and as cowboy parasites like Cheney have been replaced with fat, citified parasites like Musk and Trump — to show us why all non-Christian Logos peoples can’t be trusted.
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64787
Joe “I am a Zionist” parasite Biden is another.
They’ve given up their Christendom culture and heritage like the hicks, rubes and belly-crawling, money-grubbing snakes they are, and the world is now feeding.
The Synagogue of Satan is a “big tent”. It will welcome all manner of parasites in order to finance the engine of its insatiable appetite for destruction: the Golden Calf Ponzi.
I have eschewed Hollywood movies, and television practically my whole life. After an in depth expose in advertising techniques I took in 11th grade summer school (purpose was to graduate a year early), I began to realize, with help from Frank Zappa’s I’m The Slime, that the whole of media was rotten to the core. Maintaining a healthy skepticism of all input from all sources is imperative to living sanely; once you understand that the battle is on for your mind, and ultimately your money, can you make better informed choices of where both will go.
Boycott Hollywood.
Never give them even one penny of your money.
The Indians were conquered long ago but our sentimentalization (i.e., positive stereotyping) of them has grown over the years. In Oklahoma, almost every white man — even those with ruddy, Scotch-Irish faces — will proudly state he is part Indian. I’m sure there are people in Oklahoma who are part Indian — maybe even more than Elizabeth Warren! — but until “Dances with Wolves” (Kevin Costner again), it wasn’t anything to boast about. Now it’s a status symbol. I can’t imagine a white man in Mississippi bragging about being part black. On second thought, the way things are going these days, maybe that will be the case at some point in the future.
You Hollywood types MAKE ME SICK!
especially kevin “man boobs” costner. what a fag.
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the problem with conservatives is_they_don’t_conserve_anything.
the ending of Yellowstone is a prime example of how dumb they really are.
BTW Liz Cheney belongs in jail for what she did to the J6 patriots.
Her reckoning is coming in 2025.
That’s why – I suspect – lots of pro-White, anti-anti-White and even normies have switched to… anime! Seriously. I mean it.
(I wish that would be studied.)
Say what you will about anime, but… no PC culture, let alone, Woke ideology, that plagues The West.
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I) To the uninitiated, anime’s quirks might seem like defects – thing is: you have to understand the brain of the Japanese firstly.
II) Of course, most anime are bad – but so are most of Anglo-American series, films etc.
How bout that 1883? That was even horribiller. Horrible. Horrible. Depressing and stupid and absurdly anachronistic. And that mighty mighty blonde girl riding around and kissing the Indians with her kickass abilities.
On the upside, it did reveal that Faith Hill has an actual personality. Too bad they didn’t give her a half-decent part.
The ultimate purpose in everyone’s life is to “know thyself”, even the ancients knew this basic fact.
Watching the drivel that Hollywood (cast a spell) produces, will make that task all the more difficult.
Do you think that any TV “program” or Hollywood movie would be budgeted for unless it had some MSM brainwashing / social engineering message to it. And let’s remind ourselves that mostly all MSM “content” has to get CIA / Agenda 2030 messaging approval.
Bronx Tale, American History X etc etc.
Right. That brings up some baggage too.
In 1977 Burt Reynolds and his stunt man came up with a movie called Smokey and the Bandit which was mostly a car chase. And vulgar jokes. And music by Jerry Reed, the most overlooked guitarist of the last fifty years. In 1977 his music from this movie was all over the place.
The Dukes of Hazzard saw a market here and jumped in. It came out in 1979 and reworked and mimicked Bandit without the vulgarity (or Reed) and served as a soft TV version of the original.
It was common at the time. Hit movies shadowed by a TV knockoff. Best example: Star Wars, in the 1977, followed by the knockoff Battlestar Galactica in 1979.
You sure can dispense adjectives.
Again I ask, how do you know so much?
Did you read 1 book or something?
Still waiting for your answers from my last reply. Approximately, when, who and where? I thought you were supposed to love enemies, be humble and forgive sinners like yourself who don’t know as much as you seem to ? You mention Cheney, Musk and Trump as if they’re not doing the best they can as self proclaimed Christian men who serve with concern.
“Big tent” sounds like projection as well. Seen the movies Elmer Gantry or Leap Of Faith? Big tents for some, but not you?
The show was created and written by a CIA asset, so how surprised can people possibly be?
Mr. Costner is said to be able to whisper to horses in Hollywood, telling them what to do or not to do. Hard to believe, because although Costner reportedly owns a house on Sylt, he barely understands German despite his German ancestry. In other words: We are dealing with a “typical American” here. In this context, chewing gum, boastful bragging, and bow-legged posing mean a thousand times more than a thousand wise words.
A couple more examples come to mind:
The great success of James Bond films triggered a wave of TV knockoffs – Man from UNCLE was one of my favorites, as was the comical Get Smart.
It took over 2 years for Yellowstone to come back with the ill-fated second half of its last season. Without Kevin Costner to hold it together, it should have been allowed to ride off into the sunset. I got hooked on it, but the longer it was on the worse it got, until I couldn’t wait for it to be over. Yellowstone without Costner, was like “Roseanne” without Roseanne Barr, though I understand the show (which was renamed The Connors) keeps limping along after they killed her off for making a silly joke about an Obama advisor. (Or maybe it was because she turned Republican). Wokeness has ruined comedy as well as Hollywood.
The strong handing over everything to the weak — except their own wealth and position — is an ego trip masquerading as a moral stance.
“I am so powerful I can afford to be generous.” (with other people’s money in most cases).
Eventually, there is nothing left to hand over.
Will the weak then be grateful? Of course not. They will no longer be the weak, but rather the strong. They will be out for revenge against the descendants of the formerly powerful. They will seek to erase from history any reminder of the humiliation occasioned by their ancestors’ dependance on handouts.
This shouldn’t be hard to understand.
But ego trumps common sense. This death spiral can only be stopped by the application of brutal force. It cannot happen in any existing Western nation, but only in a new nation that emerges out of the collapse of the old one.
Boycott government.
Never give them even one penny.
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Many blacks and browns have also switched to it, too.
RE Dana Loesch:
“Loesch was raised by her mother, Gale, in an extended family of Southern Baptists. She claims descent from Cherokees in Georgia, who she described were “moved on the Trail of Genocide” and later listed on the Dawes Rolls”
and I see she’s another pushing the “woke right” term. The shekel hoarders are really trying to make that a thing with their conservitard puppets. It doesn’t seem to be taking, though.
Mr. Hood,
I appreciated the email reminders for articles.
I don’t watch television soap operas. I’m too busy, working, taking care of my house and kids, living my life. Don’t have enough spare time to invest. Anyone who remembers the anti-White “Dances With Wolves”, knows where Costner is coming from. I didn’t know about the Liz Cheney thing, makes him look even worse. If you watch a lot of Eastwood, he usually has a black or a woman for his partner and most of the villains are Palefaces. But, then, Whites have been fighting and dying for their enemies since the War Between the States. Some kind of brain disease spreading, keeps getting worse.
I didn’t see the final season, now I don’t care to. I’m from Montana myself and don’t care for what it’s turned into. It’s very different even since like 2003-2007 when I was in high school there. The Liberal cancer propagated by the small hats has already ruined the country, North Carolina is turning into crap as well. This series highlights how it’s beyond saving. Mother Russia is the new refuge and I’m basically a local in Moscow at this point. After 8 years there. I have more close friends there anyhow. Time to gather my things and get on the next plane there to stay for good this time. Do svidanya America, proshai
Conservatives are just stupid people. Anyone with a knowledge of history and historical norms among successful civilizations would abhor our current circumstances of inverted ethics. Anyone who wants to “conserve” the status quo is a moron.
Liberals and progressives want to double down on all the mistakes which brought us to the present, so they are even dumber.
The wider truth is both groups are sitting on an average 100 IQ which apparently isn’t nearly high enough to combat coordinated propaganda. Conservatives are only the way they are because as Boomers and old Xers, they grew up watching Westerns on TV and film. But the Westerns themselves were only pushed so heavily in order to push a new multi-cultural ethic on America (for the benefit of Jews of course.) Neo-Westerns are not trying to capitalize on organic beliefs passed down from the ages. Neo-Westerns are the what happens when Hollywood Jews return to the well of a classic ploy: leftist talking points disguised by romantic landscapes and sweeping cinematography.
The original Western genre films pushed the idea that America is not the product English thinkers, inventors and scrappy soldiers. No! America is the product of accent-having *Europeans (wink, wink) who created magic soil when they took government handouts for free acreage out West. Watch some old John Ford movies and you’ll see there is always some wise old continental to represent the American ideal. The movie McClintock even has a Jewish best friend named Mr. Bernbaum and an old Chinese cook who gets “adopted” into the cattle baron’s family. Every episode of Bonanza was like an after school special about tolerance, and incidentally half of the Cartwright clan is portrayed by Jews.
Millennial libtards and zoomers are exactly the same as their Boomer/Xer parents. They simply repeat what they saw on television and in films during their formative years, which had become aggressively more multicultural, antinatalist and antiwhite by then.
“undermining a traditional brand so they can tell their own story and recast it in their own image”.
This is exactly the playbook in the woke/leftist capture of churches, where “the brand” being undermined is Christianity. Similar with colleges, art museums, sports, etc etc.
“Celebratory confessions from those … who put messages into entertainment know exactly what they are doing. Much of it may be pure spite.”
A certain ethnic group purposely de-Christianized Christmas by injecting a flood of tacky ‘Christmas’ songs into the culture. They knew precisely what they were doing. They say so in their own writings.
I have to wonder whether the author actually watched Yellowstone. I don’t know how you could watch it and come away saying that the Duttons failed to fight until the very end. The whole show is them fending off outsiders (and the treacherous adopted son) to keep these various developers from destroying the land and culture of the Montana ranches that they’d like to keep operating forever. Sometimes in the show it feels like every episode has one of the Duttons lamenting that the ranch is doomed but the patriarch (Costner) is simply an immovable object who finds a way to keep going. Who knows what direction they might have taken if Costner had not become difficult and ultimately decided to leave/ be written out?
Personally I’m glad that Yellowstone is over. By the end of season four the storylines were becoming strained and a bit stale. Best for it to conclude before it becomes awful. My question is, how much do you have to hate injuns to think that giving the land to them was worse and less conservative than just allowing New York investors to take it all in the end?
Before you go, watch the final season. It’s not as good as the earlier seasons but you shouldn’t let this preachy hit piece on TUR make up your mind for you.
1971? You must be a clueless Milliennial. The Dukes of Hazzard, 1979-1985, was a 1980s TV show and is as associated with the 1980s as Miami Vice.
Giving the land to the Indians was just AWFUL.
I hated Caseys stupid Indian wife…..she constantly spouted anti-white propaganda……she made me sick to my stomach.
It just goes to show that no matter how much conservatives want to believe they had ONE show that reflected their values…..in the end the small hats anti-white agenda won…..because the small hats own and control all of mainstream tv and movies.
Sheridan is not our friend…..he’s just another tool for the nose….and if he wasnt that he wouldn’t have a career at all.