6 Will Smith Oscar Fight Thoughts

 

6 Will Smith Oscar Fight Thoughts

1. Jada Pinkett Smith can stand up for herself.
   I like her. I think she’s an intelligent, beautiful actress and, yes, I have watched her show the Red Table. She is strong. Arguably, she could have landed a better punch. Bottom line, it was her fight, not her husband’s. She was obviously upset, but she doesn’t need Will Smith fighting her fights.
   
   
2. Will Smith sucker slapped/punched Chris Rock.
   Please don’t justify a cheap shot. It still failed. The fact it happened on an international stage, on what should be the happiest night of Will Smith’s life, makes it even worse. Additionally, Chris Rock is the smaller man, didn’t take up boxing to support an acting role and wasn’t protected. The fact that Chris Rock has an iron jaw came in handy as he didn’t go down.
   
   
3. Chris Rock is a comedian.
   He is paid to take those shots. Regina Hall felt up men on stage, alluded to Jada Pinkett Smith’s entanglements, and people kind of laughed and no action. Imagine if Chris Rock had done that joke. He is an edgy comedian.  Whether he knew about her alopecia, understood the brewing anger after taking shots at Smiths’ in the past, or he simply misread the audience, he gets paid to say that type of stuff. He can certainly be more caustic and funnier. The Oscars was a swing and a whiff.
   
   
4. Will Smith just reinforced a horrible stereotype.
   I turned to my bride Alexis and good friend Trudi and said as much right when the incident happened. My friend Cullen is right about the reinforcement of the angry black men stereotype. Broadcaster Stephen A Smith said it best “..he just stained the greatest moment of his career. You cannot do that S$&@!!Especially as a BLACK MAN, in that position, to ANOTHER BLACK MAN(@chrisrock) on THAT STAGE.”
   Toxic Masculinity, standing up for your wife, or immaturity, regardless there is no justification. It is a stain on Will Smith. Chris Rock will be membered for telling a bad joke then getting sucker punched. It will be part of his monologue by the end of the week.
   
   
5. Spin Machine:
   The commentators all talked about how Denzel Washington and Tyler Perry comforted, or settled down, Will Smith. What we didn’t see was Will Smith’s publicist talking to him at the commercial break. Damage control, spin the image, recovery, and comfort, were the topics of that short conversation. My point is that the Smiths’ have a very crafted image. From open marriage, to entanglements, to TMI from the Red Table they have put themselves in full public view. They are insulated and privileged people. Equating a debatable bad joke as an excuse to protect your family is entitlement. I’m sorry, kick the ass of the guy in the entanglement with your wife, not the comedian. Smith apologized to the Academy, but not Rock. The apology is as hollow as the pipeline in North Dakota.
   
   
6. WWJD – What would Jimmy do?
   My friend Sally made me think, “What would I have done in the same situation?” Great question. Someone makes a joke at my wife’s expense. The joke is public, not funny, and insulting. If I were in my 20s, maybe I launch at Defcon 1. Otherwise, I wait. My first thought was; I would pull the person aside and say “WTF, let’s go outside or go right now. Either way we settle this now.” Then I started to think, if the joke was at Alexis, she is a strong woman who doesn’t take shit. I would have let her say something from the chair and stopped her from rushing the stage. In the end, it is her fight, I am support

6 Reasons Putin Doesn't Care

 Jimmy Dee Greek Is Upset!!

Zero, wrong, godless, ignorant and we shouldn’t be surprised. The naked aggression of Vladimir Putin into the Ukraine is horrific and expected. Here are 6 reasons why:

1) Putin is soulless:  He said he found God a while back. Well, it’s safe to say, Vlad lost him. What God fearing person, or person of any faith, acts like Vlad, a ruthless killer. The head of the Russian Church, Patriarch Kyril, is just his lacky. (A tough pill for me to swallow as I am an Orthodox Christian.) The church is a tool for Vlad to control the faithful, and Kyril is simply an enabler. Vlad’s soul is darker than my coffee, and that’s saying something.

2) Putin was head of the KGB. Putin was a member of the KGB (now the FSB which I think stands for Friendlier Soviet Beatings), the soulless secret police for 80 years in Russia. We think he cares about feelings, trigger warnings, or humanity? He craves absolute power over whatever he thinks belongs to him. That means Ukraine!

3) The war is too slow: Speed is not an issue. It’s westerners projecting how they think Putin should feel. Back to rule 1, he’s soulless, doesn’t care how many people will die, whether they are Russian or Ukraine. 

4) Vlad is scared of no country: The West has ceded everything to him since the year 2000. Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea and now Ukraine. NATO did nothing. The world said, “You’re mean, stop that!” and Putin moved forward. He was the head of the freaking KGB. No one has stood up to him. He's routinely tried to poison heads of state who don’t agree with him. The west’s response?  Crickets. Official memos of censure and condemnation do not count. At least not to Vlad. The world is outraged, and we will impose economic sanctions. The US sanctions won’t start till June of 2022. Ouch, but he won’t care. People are expendable in Putin’s war. Russia will, at whatever cost, destroy. Sanctions will hurt the Oligarchs, but they have no leverage over Vlad. His biggest disappointment is that he can no longer get a McDonald’s McBorscht Half Kilo-Burger with Tvorog. He will improvise.

5) The BOMB is in play. If Vlad drops the bomb tomorrow, what will be the Western response. Will we invade Russia? No. Will the West nuke Russia back? No. Will we impose sanctions? Yes, and Vlad will still not be able to get a contraband McBorscht Half Kilo-Burger with Tvorog. He knows there are no repercussions to his actions.

6) Who will stand against Vlad? Rhetoric, sanctions and clever memes are good for morale, but they do not beat boots on the ground. Poland is justifiably freaking out because they border Ukraine. What’s to stop Vlad from going south. Until NATO and the European Union put troops on the border, enforce a no-fly zone and put up a buffer, then Vlad marches on. I don’t like using Hitler comparisons, but here, it is apropos. The West appeased Hitler until half of Europe was gone. We are doing that now. Ask Poland what they think.