Nerdrotic and The Critical Drinker Discuss the Election with Piers Morgan
Like a pair of gunslingers moseying back into an unruly town, Gary from Nerdrotic and the Critical Drinker returned to Piers Morgan Uncensored today. This time, the topic was – to the surprise of no one – the American Presidential election, specifically as it pertains to Hollywood. Celebrity endorsements and their positive or negative effects, wokeness, White Dudes for Harris, the 4B movement, and some liberal cope were all discussed, and it was a fun time, as always. Joining Gary and the Drinker were Esther Krakue, author Ernest Owens, conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren, and Kamala Harris advisor Mike Nellis – a pretty good mix of political ideologies. You can watch the full episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored with Gary and the Drinker below (and just to warn you, this one is very politics-heavy with only the occasional cursory step into entertainment; I don’t like to go this far into politics on the site, but that’s the nature of the video, so my sleeves are rolled up):
The first topic is celebrity endorsements, and Ernest Owens makes a decent point initially when he says the issue was not so much with celebrity but with class. I agree, to an extent; I think part of why so many people get annoyed at celebrities endorsing politicians is that they’re rich and don’t have to deal with the same problems middle-class (and under) people do. I was watching a few clips from Oprah Winfrey’s show where she had a slew of celebrity guests stumping for Kamala Harris, and even though the election has been over for more than a week, their attitude pissed me off. Julia Roberts wants to be greeted with adulation when she travels to foreign countries, so ignore your grocery bills. Chris Rock wants his daughters to see a black woman in the White House, so who cares if your daughters get their teeth knocked out by a guy in a wig? It’s utterly disgusting, and I’m so proud of America for telling these elitist snobs to shove it.
Of course, Owens also accuses Trump voters of doing so for racist and sexist reasons because that’s all the left has anymore, and Piers immediately pushes back. Gary then talks about how America rejected celebrity and the woke mind virus, as Elon Musk calls it, and Esther Krakue points out that Hollywood is so morally debased with its history of fostering sexual predators and whatnot that it has no business wagging a finger at anyone. Damn skippy. With the Drinker, Piers discusses the shift in tone towards Trump, how there were no real “mostly peaceful” protests when he won, and how the Madison Square Garden rally in New York didn’t have any trouble. The Drinker attributes this to the general disregard for the celebrities insisting Trump is evil, which is now falling on deaf ears. I think that’s true, but I think it’s more than that and has to do with the people who finance those things realizing that public opinion has shifted solidly against them, and they’d be doing themselves more harm than good by looting cities and setting stores on fire again.
The next topic is whether wokeism has reached its “tipping point.” Ernest Owens spews a bunch of word salad about Trump’s agenda (avoiding the issue, in other words), and Esther Krakue brings up the nonsense of white liberals demanding Latin people refer to themselves as “Latinx” and how it probably pissed off a lot of Latin voters. (My favorite part of that issue is seeing the people who constantly accuse the West of being colonizers forcing their insane woke garbage on another culture.) This leads to a discussion of Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico, which Owens refuses to admit had no impact and didn’t offend Latin voters because of the huge number of them who voted for Trump; Owens has no answer to that, either, aside from complaining about Project 25. Women, as Piers points out, also didn’t turn out for Democrats in the numbers they expected, which Drinker attributes to common sense prevailing over issues like abortion. And I think there’s truth to that; it’s hard to care about some of these things when you can barely afford to feed your family.
The next part is a doozy, as Piers Morgan brings on Mike Nellis, the Harris advisor who came up with the White Dudes for Harris movement. When it’s just Piers and Nellis, Nellis talks about the “toxicity” of white men (of which he appears to be one, but I don’t want to assume), proving that the left is having a hard time learning anything from their loss. Funnily, there’s a connection here between the attitude of Hollywood and the attitude of the Democrats in blaming the voters for their loss as Hollywood blames their customers (but that’s just me talking). As someone who is currently breathing a long sigh of relief for Western Civilization, I’m glad they don’t get it. Next, Piers brought on Tomi Lahren to discuss the 4B movement, a form of protest where women abstain from sex, marriage, and anything else romantic to punish men for not doing what they were told to do in the voting booth. Tomi Lahren observes that the very fact that these women are making videos about their protest proves they’re doing it for attention (and that most of them… you know… probably don’t have a lot of propositions to turn down). She also makes the excellent point that this is exactly the kind of thing that likely turned a lot of men off of voting Democrat. The idea that men don’t want to be ordered around, condescended to, called toxic simply for existing, and threatened with losing their dessert privileges if they don’t vote the way these scolds demand of them shouldn’t be as shocking as it is to some of these people, but this is what echo chambers do to the mind.
When the panel returned, Piers introduced an article from the British newspaper The Guardian that encouraged its employees to offer their help to their grief-stricken American colleagues while also offering counseling to Guardian staff. Once again, I can’t imagine why this ideology doesn’t appeal to men. Gary posits that this intense coping is a result of the media realizing that they’re being made obsolete, being replaced by what is essentially citizen journalism. And the election results prove this; the media called Trump every evil name in the book, going so far as to blame him for the two assassination attempts against him (one of which killed a man who was protecting his family; talk about evil), and the majority of Americans voted for him anyway. Their days of relevance are over because they’ve gone too far and lied too much, and people are done listening to them. Piers then brings up The Guardian leaving X, along with a host of other lefties like Don Lemon, and says it’s a trait of the woke that they demand everyone conform to them, but the second they receive pushback, they run away because they’re too emotionally fragile to handle it. The Drinker correctly observes that this is due to losing the Twitter echo chamber for the free town square of X, where they either can’t compete or simply don’t want to. Tomi Lahren repeats what she said about the 4B videos: Don Lemon made a video announcing his departure from X because he wants attention. (I think this may have been filmed before a lot of the other celebrities followed suit; to think, there was a time when I’d have been bummed not to get to see Stephen King post.)
After this, Piers brought up Joy Reid and her reprehensible message that people should decline to spend Thanksgiving with family members who voted for Trump. I can’t begin to tell you how much I despise people like this; when I was growing up, the notion that you would abandon family or friends over politics was unheard of, and now there are news anchors and psychiatrists recommending it. The left is attempting to split families apart, and they wonder why the country is rejecting them. Esther Krakue attributes it to the lack of masculinity on the left, which she says is representative of the “clown car” they’ve turned into. Mike Nellis agrees that this is wrong but doesn’t think anyone should blame the left for it because of course he doesn’t. (An exchange between Esther and Nellis that made me laugh was Nellis lamenting the idea of “defining people a certain way” and Esther replying with, “You literally started a group called White Men for Kamala!” That she got the name wrong makes it even funnier.) Next, Ernest Owens just gets catty while Nellis disputes that the election was a landslide and Trump has a mandate, which everyone correctly laughs at. This is probably him coping with his loss, but if he and the Democrats truly believe it, good; let them keep pushing people away. Finally, Piers asks the Drinker if Hollywood will dispense with woke in the wake of the election, and Drinker says that they will if they’re smart, but they probably aren’t very smart. Piers’ requiem for James Bond acting like James Bond again is beautiful, and I hope it comes true.
And that was this Piers Morgan Uncensored with Gary and the Critical Drinker. Again, this one was more about politics than the entertainment industry, and since it’s American politics, there was only so much the Drinker could say as a Scotsman who doesn’t live here (not that I don’t welcome his input because he’s the man). But I laughed, and I once again celebrated the election results, so it was a good time.
Let us know what you thought of Gary and the Critical Drinker’s latest appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored in the comments!
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