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Stephen King is the Bruce Springsteen of horror novels, a mediocrity savvy enough to make his take on a genre seem deep by draping it in fake working class politics. Whatever working class Maine authenticity King ever had was long ago traded for elitist lefty hot takes while jetting around from California to New York. In his last act, his horror consists of the lurking terror of… Republicans.
In Holly, Holly must deal not only with the limitations and stress imposed by the rampaging Covid pandemic but also with the recent death of her mother, who didn’t believe Covid, the illness that killed her, was real and refused to get vaccinated.
and the villains are racist homophobic Republicans who probably didn’t even get vaccinated…
Professors Rodney and Emily Harris are hiding a lot of dark secrets under their respectable facade. The octogenarians are a cute, devoted, eloquent couple of semi-retired academics who don’t shy away from social situations. They’re also racist and homophobic, and that’s not the worst of it — the worst happens in their basement.
Could anything possibly be worse than racist, homophobes? Whatever they’re doing, that will be a tough sell for wokes.
While on paper, King claims that Republicans are the scariest things that he can think of, in reality he’s as terrified of his own woke movement as the rest of the cultural elites. He still remembers what happened when he dared to suggest that cultural appropriation is nonsense and that writers should be able to write any characters they want or that art transcends diversity.
King, 72, tweeted on January 13 that he would, ‘never consider diversity in matters of art,’ which set off a firestorm of controversy and lead to black filmmaker Ava DuVernay calling him out for the tweet.
On Monday, King penned an op-ed piece for The Washington Post, where he admitted that he, ‘stepped over’ a line with his comments in a piece titled, ‘The Oscars are still rigged in favor of white people.’
He added that, ‘lines of belief are drawn with indelible ink’ and admitting he, ‘stepped over one of those lines recently’ with his comments that he, ‘mistakenly thought was noncontroversial.
He concluded that creative works should be judged ‘blind,’ with no consideration to diversity, but he acknowledged, ‘this would be the case in a perfect world, one where the game isn’t rigged in favor of the white folks.’
‘We don’t live in that perfect world, and this year’s less-than-diverse Academy Awards nominations once more prove it. Maybe someday we will. I can dream, can’t I? After all, I make stuff up for a living,’ he concluded.
Did anyone do something to him in a basement?
Stephen King is insanely wealthy, but he clearly wants more which is why he pivoted to writing embarrassingly bad ‘mom reads’ like this that are to horror what Stephen Colbert is to comedy. J.K. Rowling, who is far younger than King, was able to sneer and walk away from all that.
So what’s the real story? Yes, King probably doesn’t want to be canceled. It would be bad for his future book sales and his nepotist son’s career, but more significantly he’s afraid of the social sanction. Unlike Rowling, King is too afraid to find out who his real friends are.
Is Stephen King afraid of Republicans? No, what really scares him is the Left.
These people have absolutely nothing which is why we need to have something.
If this clown is afraid of being indicted by the “get-Trump” Georgia grand jury then he may have reason to tremble. It looks like that horror show has recommended indicting multiple defendants totaling the size of a small town’s phone book for feloniously “threatening their democracy.” Now there’s a storyline fit for a Stephen King thriller. Imagine the title; “Innocent Until Indicted.”
I mean Stephen King is affeared of what he’s held in contempt for all of his life?
Is Stephen King afraid of Republicans? Or the natural accoutrements to the left Republicans quite natural tendency is to become?
Let’s be very clear about the questions we’re asking.
Since, let’s be honest if we can? The Left now represents power.
But let’s be honest if we can with most of of these people it really doesn’t amount to anything except feeling justified and vindicated.
Don’t go and make me release the Sparrows
I’ve seen King in person. He spoke at a graduation. He is nauseatingly self absorbed, totally lacking in insight, downright mean and unworthy of even this small amount of notice. But omg, is he ugly! I am afraid of his face.
He is ugly, isn’t he? It’s easy for me to judge because I’m so incredibly handsome but some people are just born ugly.
I’ve read some of his stuff and I think he has a good writing style, but I don’t like his stories. I think he’s ugly on the inside, too.
And in my opinion, it’s what’s inside a person which truly matters.
He did make one movie I liked, I think it was called “Christine”, about a car 🙂
the overall effect of Stephen King in a movie as some sort of extra is of some sort of inside joke the audience isn’t aware of.
that is the screen presence that Stephen King brings to the table
Once, he wrote well – but that has been a long time since those days. He has found something of horror, and yes – it is the left. He’s been running for years now trying to make happy what can never be long happy. It’s a bit of a mystery how we are distant cousins – but that is that matter of Maine…and those Coffins.
BBC released a really good documentary on 9/11 recently. Mainly it consists of the tragedy of people trying to go on with their lives as if nothing happened but obviously they can never really do that.
Instead our benevolent media custodians can help them find meaning in all sorts of meaningless rubbish.
“The game is rigged in favor of the white folks?!”
Just how insane is Stephen King? Just how FUCKING stupid is he?
Do “white folks” go into stores and loot at will right on video with impunity? Do they sucker punch old Asian Ladies on the street without being arrested? Do they attack cops or start brawls on piers without being convicted? Do they have the highest rape rate and crime level in the country, BY FAR!? Do they benefit from Affirmative Action and have the lowest standards, performance and expectations in the country, both in employment and schools? Are they excused for every crime and depravity they commit? Do they break into your homes and shoot at you or rape your wives and daughters while they steal your TVs?
FUCK Stephen King. What a douchetard. Wake up and get used to reality, you asshole! The only privileged people in America are blacks, islamopithecines and trannies! Not even women are as privileged as them, and women get a free pass for every transgression they commit, unless they transgress against blacks, islamopithecines or trannies
Son of a bitch. Why do I even have to write this? It’s like saying the sky is blue, Summer is hot and Winter is cold.
Fuck me!.
Whoever down voted me sucks rt balls.
Rat balls. rt balls is a typo.
You suck flea ridden rat balls. And you enjoy it.
Hello Daniel and all. Interesting point. Though I don’t want to criticise anyone for being afraid to speak truth to power. It is, by definition, a scary business.
But isn’t it possible to make a choice not to pick on the easy targets? The best thing is to listen to our loving Creator, the God of Abraham, and follow the Golden Rule, and treat everyone with the kindness and respect that we would want for ourselves. That way we make God’s heart glad, which, considering all He has done and will do for us, is wonderful.
And then we won’t get caught out by the ever-shifting currents and devious politics of “the world”, the current system of things on the earth. Today’s easy target could be tomorrow’s protected minority. For example, as a Polonian, I have long been put on the “unter” page by the most powerful media and academe in the world, but tomorrow who knows? And who cares? Not me, really. The Book I long to be in is the Creator’s Book of Life. I want to “inherit the earth” and live forever on it. I hope we all will.
It doesn’t take a psychoanalyst to see that something happened to King when he was a child, and whatever that ‘something’ was, it has royally screwed him up. It might be easy to feel sorry for the frightened little boy inside him, but (and probably following his analyst’s advice) his writings became his catharsis; his primary method of purging that repressed fear, with each novel’s protagonist representing a different facet of his self-perceived persona and psyche.
Fast forward to now and you have a self-obsessed millionaire who has made a sizable living telling scary, self-aggrandized tales about himself and has become accustomed to having the public’s ear ON DEMAND. The only thing King is afraid of now is obsolescence, being ignored and being alone with his thoughts, finding out far too late in life that it was the public’s opinion of his writings, not the cathartic process itself, that mattered most to him and provided his tentative and precarious stability.
A truly self-made liberal. I’ve always been curious as to what the childhood event was that spooked him, but I have a feeling that his latter years are going to be even more frightening.
Growing up with an absent father when left him behind?
I shouldn’t judge his writing style by one book, but trying to get through ‘The Tommyknockers’ was a waste of valuable time. Made it halfway. Apparently King never heard the phrase “brevity is the soul of wit”
People who compare him favorably to Edgar Allan Poe display a level of ignorance. Poe could fit more interest and excitement into ten pages than King could in 200. There is little to compare between the two.
Poe, of course, remains the master of the horror story. He was also a wonderful poet: ‘The Raven’, first published in The Saturday Evening Post, brought him fame. He also invented the detective genre (‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’), wrote one of the first science fiction stories (‘The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall’), wrote comedy (example: ‘Loss of Breath: A Tale Neither In Nor Out of ‘Blackwood”), adventure (example: ‘The Gold Bug’). fantasy (example: ‘A Tale of the Ragged Mountains’). satire (example: ‘King Pest’).
Stephen King has his place, but it’s not alongside Poe.
Indeed. Poe’s output was incredibly diverse but he got pigeonholed into the gothic especially after his wife’s tragic death and then his own death under mysterious circumstances
He was a talented, groundbreaking writer who was too far ahead of his time and never reaped the rewards of his talent
There’s a movie that came out last year called “The Pale Blue Eye” about Edgar Allen Poe. The guy who played the legless and armless character in “The Ballad of Buster scruggs” Played Poe to utter perfection, in my opinion. Christian Bale was the star of the movie, and I think he did a great job, too.
The movie is bit odd and has a twist ending but it’s good. The cinematography is especially good. The very first scene draws you in.
Yes, he;s pretending very hard isn’t he?
Nice observation. King says he’s afraid of Conservatives, but shows he’s afraid of the left. A lot of people do that. I haven’t read anything he’s written since “The Wastelands,” in the early 90s, and unusual for me, haven’t reread any of his earlier books or short stories.
Two elderly academics are most likely leftists. I know many of your books require a willful suspension of disbelief, but c’mon Stephen. Get real, lol.
How about the story of a creepy corrupt US medical bureaucrat that diverts research funding into a chicom biowarfare lab to weaponize a bird virus against humans and gets released on the world, killing millions, while pocketing millions of dollars for himself?
Regarding this article’s first line (I’ve always thought Springsteen and King were mediocrities, but thought, “Maybe it’s just me.”):
From the ANDY WARHOL DIARIES, after Warhol saw Springsteen in concert at Madison Square Garden: “Why is Bruce Springsteen big, though? He talks the dumb way. Like Sylvester Stallone. Is that why these people are big? Because they talk that way and people identify?”