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No show captured American decline as The Sopranos did . Unfortunately, its prequel The Many Saints of Newark is less an analysis of this than another example of decline. America may have deteriorated so much that its rulers can’t even recognize collapse. Instead, they strengthen their support for the disastrous policies that brought us here.
The spoilers in this review won’t hurt the plot, largely because there isn’t one. You can tell that screenwriter David Chase’s experience is in television because the movie is just a few storylines mashed together. There are some great scenes, but they are disconnected.
The Sopranos showed the banality of daily life, even for mobsters, but there was a sense of direction. We followed Tony Soprano as he became a changed man. Somehow, this relatively short movie meandered more than 86 episodes of the television series.
The “legend” of Tony Soprano isn’t told here, false marketing notwithstanding. The movie begins with Tony’s protégé/victim in the subsequent television series, Christopher Moltisanti, talking about him from beyond the grave. Anyone who didn’t watch the show will be lost from the start. The teenaged Tony is well played, but the film isn’t about him. There’s more of him in the trailer than in the movie.
We don’t learn much about his father, “Johnny Boy,” or even much about the main character Dickie Moltisanti, Tony’s childhood role model and father of Christopher Moltisanti. But we are told plenty about race. Some of the black characters give speeches. “The numbers [illegal lottery] are the only way black folks got to get out of this sinkhole city,” says one black woman. The main black character, Harold McBrayer, takes an unintentionally amusing open-mic poem about black power at face value, and goes back to Newark to fight the Mafia.
We’re shown a bit more about the Italians. They are cruel, stupid, cowardly, and, in Dickie’s case, a literal parricide in a quasi-incestuous affair with his father’s sexy young second wife. The last part is repeatedly mined for comedic effect with the word “motherfucker.” The only sympathetic character (other than young Tony) is Dickie’s uncle “Sally.” He’s a murderer who has become something of a wise man behind bars because he studied Buddhism and listens to jazz, thus rejecting his roots. The Italians are casually racist towards blacks, but mostly tolerate insults from them. Their family relationships are uniformly poisonous.
While the Roman Catholic Church is in the background (and Christopher Moltisanti’s posthumous narration tells us hell is real) the only moral authority is a guidance counselor at Tony’s school. Tony Soprano’s bad relationship with his mother, it is suggested, could have been avoided if Tony could have gotten her on antidepressants. He might have been a respectable citizen if his mother had just listened to the counselor who told her that IQ testing proved that her boy was smart.
If there is a plot, it’s about the triumph of blacks over Italians. The story begins with the black Harold McBrayer as a subordinate to Dickie Moltisanti, accepting money that Dickie pools from a huge wad of bills. Harold helps the Italians control the numbers racket.
When the 1967 Newark riots begin, Dickie smirks at a crowd and banters about blacks with a cop. When a black dares to attack him, his sense of racial lèse-majesté is palpable. He scares a black crowd away with his gun, drives to the Italian hangout, and tells the mobsters there’s something they need to see. The mobsters are stunned and silent when he opens the door to show the burning city. White flight begins.
While the film can hardly conceal the violence of the riots, it’s suggested that it was justified. A policeman shoots a black looter and we get a Kent State-style noble, nameless, victim.
In the midst of the chaos, Dickie murders his father, “Hollywood Dick,” partly because he wants the hot new wife for himself, but also because he is furious at the way his father treats her. Hollywood Dick is violent with her, just as he was with Dickie’s own mother and with him. The riot is both cover for Dickie to hide the body and a way to portray National Guard troops as racists. They stop Dickie’s car but don’t bother to search it. “Let him go, he’s white,” says a soldier. The widowed Giuseppina quickly takes up with Dickie — who is already married.
Dickie feels bad about killing his father. He visits “Sally,” his father’s twin brother, in prison to do a “good deed,” so Dickie is symbolically seeking forgiveness from his murder victim. He also seeks absolution through occasional acts of charity, like coaching a Little League team. He swings wildly between savage acts of violence and contrition, almost like a medieval Catholic pursuing an indulgence, but he never seems to be troubled by betraying his wife.
Harold McBrayer leaves Newark after throwing a Molotov cocktail at police. He returns years later after listening to the black power poem, which he absurdly took as a sign to start his own criminal empire. He runs into his old numbers-game boss Dickie. He violently pushes the Italians out of the numbers racket and, for good measure, has his affair with Giuseppina. In the film, this is moral triumph. The pillow talk is about white men holding them back.
Dickie later murders Giuseppina when she, for no apparent reason, decides to confess her sexual betrayal. Dickie decides to kill Harold. The audience is poised for a final showdown, but it never comes.
Tony’s uncle Corrado “Junior” Soprano resents Dickie, who occasionally insulted him and laughed when Junior fell down some stairs. He takes revenge by hiring an assassin to shoot Dickie in the back. Those who have seen The Sopranos know this isn’t out of character for Junior, but in the film, it’s just another example of the Italians betraying each other. Blacks never do this; they stick together. The film ends with Harold, still alive, moving into a white neighborhood and condescendingly peeling off bills from a big wad to pay the white movers, just as Dickie used to pay him.
Where’s Tony during all this? He smokes, drinks, runs a numbers racket in school, gets suspended, and hijacks an ice-cream truck — though with the enduring idea of giving free ice cream to children. There’s none of the predatory instinct that the Tony of the TV series sees as his nature.
Tony makes a “pinky promise” with Dickie to behave better. He looks up to Dickie and thinks Dickie can do anything. Tony asks him to get antidepressants for his mom because he thinks this will help her. Dickie starts ignoring Tony, on the advice of Uncle “Sally,” who does not want Tony to be drawn into the Mafia.
Tony doesn’t realize Dickie is trying to save him from a life of crime, and is heartbroken at the loss of their friendship. After Dickie is murdered, we learn that he did get the antidepressants for Tony’s mother. He probably would have told Tony not to enter the crime gang, but Tony never knew this. When Tony sees Dickie’s corpse, he remembers the pinky promise. We hear the iconic “Got Yourself a Gun” theme from the future TV series, which prefigures Tony’s vicious future as a Mafioso.
This is hardly a convincing beginning to the legend of Mafia Don Tony Soprano. If he had known what led up to Dickie’s death, he would probably have been even further repulsed by the Mafia. In the movie, we see characters such as Silvio Dante and Paulie Walnuts whom Tony will boss around in the TV series, but we see no signs of this kind of future dominance. In the movie, these people dismiss Tony as a kid.
This is a bad film but with great performances, especially by Leslie Odom Jr. as Harold. The actors who portray younger versions of iconic Sopranos characters manage not to come off like Saturday Night Live impersonators, but they have little to work with.
“Wokeness” and the requirement that blacks always be victims make for boring characters. Blacks and liberated women can’t have flaws. They can’t grow or develop except insofar as they learn to fight white men. Harold is uninteresting because he is nothing other than victim or victor over whites. The “good guys” and “bad guys” are so obvious that this might as well be an R-rated Hallmark movie. The inner lives of fiends like Tony or Dickie, however, are complex and thought-provoking.
Unless you have seen The Sopranos, there’s no reason to watch this, and a lot would be incomprehensible anyway. The obvious “fan service” in the movie, with specific lines and catch phrases from the series, and quick glimpses of major characters are so obvious they are embarrassing. It hints at the beginning of a Sopranos “universe,” much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a decline into mediocrity and empty materialism the series criticized so savagely.
The Sopranos showed what American decline meant even during the optimistic days before September 11, 2001. In the series, Tony Soprano tells his therapist that he “came in too late” to be in something from the beginning. It’s not just that “the best is over” in America, but that the end is near. His Italian-American interlocutor replies that many Americans feel that way. Tony then says that even though he has reached the “heights” of money and power, he doesn’t have his “people,” their “standards,” or their “pride” — meaning, of course, the old Italian spirit.
Tony is something of a Spenglerian, he knows that we have reached the “weak men lead to hard times” part of the historical cycle. He despises himself for being weak, for not being a “Gary Cooper” type of American. At the same time, he also resents the WASPs who built the country and who (supposedly) look down on ethic whites. The WASPs may have the country, but we Italians have our people, or at least we used to. Tony Soprano, in his suburban mansion, is something of a traitor to his past, and he knows it.
His experience is arguably the defining American experience of the last century. The gangster film emerged when Westerns faded. This reflected the closing of the frontier and to some, the end of the real American experience. Battles with Indians and the conquest of the West arguably gave whites their racial consciousness. It gave us the will to conquer, which was the American character.
Once the continent was won, new racial battles were fought within cities, between blacks and ethnic whites competing for jobs and political power. Usually, whites simply moved into the larger American economy, leaving the crumbling cities to the blacks.
However, flight also felt like surrender. We can see it in films such as Godfather II when the prosperous Michael Corleone is at the height of his power. He’s also damned and alone in Nevada, on the other side of the continent from Little Italy. It’s quite a contrast to his impoverished father Vito who built respect within the broader ethnic community before becoming rich and powerful.
Success, somehow, feels like failure. In the series, Tony Soprano has the same kind of experience. He’s reached the “heights,” but he’s a slave to his passions, his identity is for show, and he’s just another guy in a McMansion. The new American identity isn’t John Wayne, it’s Tony Soprano.
The Many Saints of Newark chips away at this new form of American mythology. Some have suggested that Michael Corleone would have avoided his fate in The Godfather II and III if his more “traditional” Italian wife Apollonia had lived. However, Giuseppina is an Italian, but she clearly sees tradition as a something to cast off. She chases money, sleeps with a black man for the experience (decides it’s no different), wants independence from men, and dreams of owning a beauty shop.
Shucking all tradition as a heroic pursuit of freedom is a major part of the gangster movie. To succeed is to reject the remnants of family and religion. However, those things built the community in the first place. Then comes the move to the suburbs, or, if there is enough money, to a heavily guarded mansion. Eventually, marriages fall apart as the religious women of the first generation are succeeded by status-seekers pursuing the “American Dream.”
The New York Times Magazine says that The Sopranos has attracted a new following among younger Americans who think their country is in decline. It says there is an “openly left-wing subcurrent within it,” enough to sustain podcasts and merchandise. Of course, that’s because if there’s a hard-right podcast or media outlet, let alone one about pop culture, journalists get it deplatformed. If there’s a rightist take on The Sopranos, or anything else, it’s not something the media would understand or tolerate.
In fact, The Sopranos is inherently rightist, even traditionalist. It reflects a yearning for a better past and moral certainties. Leftists are unhappy with the modern world, but it’s the world they built. Those of us from North Jersey can remember the physical expressions of community in the cathedrals, cemeteries, and sooty brownstones that were left behind after the riots. The costs of collapse were incalculable, and millions of whites became refugees in the United States, just a generation or two after fleeing the old country.
East Orange, Newark, and Irvington are essentially “lost” territory. Whites took refuge in suburbs like Verona (home of Tony’s mother Livia), Cedar Grove (where a local cop pulled over Tony), North Caldwell (where Tony’s palatial house is), and Bloomfield (home of Holstein’s, a childhood haunt in both The Many Saints of Newark and the famous final episode.) In the show, Tony refers to the “guinea gulch” of Bloomfield Avenue, which runs through the suburbs the Italians built after the fall of Newark.
This flight didn’t happen all at once. In the series, Tony talks about Anthony Imperiale, the “White Knight” of Newark who became a necessary (if embarrassing) figure in the New Jersey Republican Party. Far from watching the riots with stunned silence, Italians in North Jersey defended their neighborhoods, armed themselves, and even formed security squads. Imperiale led these efforts, baseball bat in hand. Moderate Republicans didn’t like these uncouth methods, but people like Republican Governor Tom Kean couldn’t have been elected without men like Imperiale. Imperiale stayed on the Newark City Council, even after Little Italy began losing population.
Men of the Imperiale stamp still exist. They are the ethnic whites who were an important part of the Trump 2016 coalition. Donald Trump won critical primary victories in states such as New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts. Their delegates gave Donald Trump the nomination, even if the GOP didn’t come close in these states on election day. Catholic white workers in states like Michigan will also be indispensable if the GOP ever wins another presidential election.
Anthony Imperiale’s main political foe was Amiri Bakara, a poet who complained about whites in what Sam Francis would surely have called “crippled verse.” This didn’t hurt Baraka’s career and he was Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Bakara’s laureateship didn’t end until he hinted in a poem that Jews were warned about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Nonetheless, his son Ras is now mayor of Newark and recently presided over the unveiling of a statue of George Floyd and the selection of a Harriet Tubman monument to replace a statue of Christopher Columbus. (Silvio Dante would tell us what that is — anti-Italian discrimination.) While blacks have strengthened their identity and political power in decaying cities, whites have fled. We’re safe and rich, but at the cost of our identity.
Newark itself, though somewhat improved in recent years, has been a North Jersey punchline for decades. It’s a byword for squalor, crime, and Third World degeneracy. Newark was majority white in 1960. By 2010, it was majority black, with a foreign-born population of more than 40 percent. Fewer than half of high school students graduate. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million donation to Newark public schools was a waste.
The black takeover celebrated in The Many Saints of Newark doesn’t turn out well by the time we see Newark in The Sopranos. Tony shows his wastrel son Anthony Jr. (AJ) the wonderful church built by Italian immigrants and sustained by faithful pilgrims in a shabby neighborhood “because our people give a shit.” He has no reply when his son asks him why they never went to church. Aggressive blacks triumphantly tell them this is their neighborhood now — a neighborhood filled with addicts and trash.
Over the course of The Sopranos, the charming, conflicted Tony of the first season becomes a degenerate who has accepted corruption — his true nature — without regret. And yet the series can’t quite convince the audience that Tony Soprano was a monster. That’s a problem for the movie. Audiences don’t like a film that promised a character study of an icon but is instead the same boring racial lecture we get every day.
Blacks in The Sopranos were comic relief. When aspiring mobsters worked with blacks the results were often catastrophic or funny due to the level of incompetence. Some corrupt blacks worked with Tony, but usually in a subordinate position. At the same time, younger mobsters like Christopher Moltisanti see they are being outshined: “The moolies [blacks] got it going on.” Gangster rappers who never rubbed out anyone glory in their glamorous faux outlaw status while real mobsters like him are left to reminisce about a fading tradition.
Aside from a clumsy effort at intimidation, Tony can’t keep his daughter from dating a half-black student and his son from being dumped by a Hispanic single mother. He’s a stand in for whites who want rootedness, community and love in a country where only money matters. To get that money, they are willing to do terrible things and sacrifice their ideals. Tony cloaks this pursuit by calling it a “thing of honor.”
Somehow, we recognize the hypocrisy but still find it romantic. It speaks to us who are trapped in the same rat race but without even the pretense of community or purpose. UnHerd even saw Tony as a “basic conservative,” someone who wants social norms respected, even if he breaks them. He’s the kind of conservative who chases money and indulges vices, but doesn’t think this should be celebrated as virtuous. That’s an improvement over our rulers.
In The Many Saints of Newark, we see a young man who is a troublemaker but wants to be something more. Rather than reading “normal” comic books, Tony reads “Ivanhoe,” wants to go to college, and revolts against the criminal life of both his “families,” biological and criminal. If there is a sequel, perhaps we’ll see what this film falsely promised, the true moral corruption of a promising and intelligent leader. Tony never understood that Dickie was trying to look out for him and will thus lead a life of crime and self-destruction. We could argue that’s because Dickie never understood himself.
Despite the appeals to blood, the willingness to fight, and undoubted charisma, Dickie, like Tony, let his passions overwhelm his morals. Junior, who ordered the hit on Dickie, defined himself by his insecurities and so betrayed a member of his own family, leading to a larger defeat for his family and people. Perhaps all whites are guilty of this to some extent. Our baser instincts, our greed, and our self-doubt lead us to immoral and cowardly acts. Our children see and base their lives on our examples. Our character disintegrates, our people decline. In the end, we conjure up a false identity to hide the rottenness within.
The Mafia is attractive to many Americans because, at some level, we all sense the System is almost a criminal syndicate but pretends not to be. A group that is more honest about its nature seems better. In the face of the System’s relentless propaganda about blacks and the evils of whites, even criminals and degenerates look heroic. This isn’t to praise the characters from The Sopranos, but to suggest that this show really was something more than streaming entertainment. It identified the rootlessness, the identity crisis, and the creeping pessimism in what was once the most optimistic of all countries.
Leftists who recognize American decline but urge more of the immigration, cultural progressivism, and Critical Race Theory that has let us to this point are either willing things to get worse or are too stupid or cowardly to understand why we’re in this mess.
Identitarians have answers and offer hope. White identity was created by conflict with the Other from the Wild West to Little Italy. At its best, it led to communities with strong families. At its worst, it spawned criminal networks that still seem preferable to the wasteland that replaced them. Even at our worst, we’re better than others’ best.
The Many Saints of Newark is a poorly written, crudely racist attack against whites. However, as Jarhead’s Anthony Swofford said of war movies, one can’t truly make an anti-Mafia film. Even the most depraved gangsters are more appealing than what mainstream American culture offers. The lowest remnants of tradition, identity, and culture, even mixed with the worst hypocrisy, are superior to what the “experts” and the managerial class preach. Our majority non-white cities are embarrassments, and for those in North Jersey, the tragedy of Newark is especially painful.
When criminals become anti-heroes, it shows how far we have fallen. Yet if we recognize why these villains are still appealing to so many whites, we can find elements of European culture that can help us reclaim what we built.
Unless you’re a Sopranos fan, skip the film. Instead, visit the “old neighborhood” yourself and think about what it took to build those monuments that still endure. That potential lies within the blood. If we can overcome our flaws, passions, and vanity, we can accomplish even greater things.
Perhaps, one day, we can even Make Newark Great Again.
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The US is going to keep deteriorating in material terms but will still be pretty well off even in 2050. The overall mix of immigrants from poor migrants to smart scientists will net out to a little bit of growth. Of course, it does nothing for community cohesion and nationhood. What is in irreversible decline and will largely disappear by 2050 is the American Empire.
We can assume this is made in the Hollywood propaganda factory. Better to spend time reading the works of Kipling. Or watching the clouds float by.
What garbage the movie sounds like, as well as the show which I only saw a couple times and several clips over the years. I remember years ago thinking that the television show that was being constantly raved about was what frustrated scared people imagined tough guys to be like. It was so cartoonishly stupid to me.
As far as the movie, if I understand correctly, it is portraying: betrayal and disrespect towards a father, in defense of “women’s rights,” it signifies that adultery is OK and permissible, it condones and celebrates the negro by having him get the married white slut and then show the male whites how cool and tough he is, and come out on top societally and financially…
After Jesus and Adolf/Germans, there’s no one Jews hate — and envy — more than Italians.
“Kill the best Gentile”
I watched the orginal Sopranos 20 years ago. I have been watching clips on Youtube since then. But when I heard about Saints, I just knew that pop culture had deteriorated so much since then that it would be unwatchable. I was really surprised that Scorsese was permitted to create the Irishman with a 99.7% white cast in 2019. Also, I don’t want to support Hollywood in the least these days. Starve the beast.
David Chase was actually quite a sloppy writer, and it is self-evident.
…Tony was born in 1959 (We hear this referenced on the show)
…How is Tony Soprano 16 (And played by a 20 y/o) in 1970 when Chris is born?
…Sylvio is played by 30 y/0 actor in 1968 but is constantly referenced as being a childhood friend of Tony’s throughout the Sopranos born in the late 50’s.
…How could Sylvio as an adult participate in the Feech Le Mann robbery? Which Ralphie mentioned was done when they were kids.
…Of course everything was written around James Gandolfini’s son’s casting but his son does not even look all that much like him (Longer nose, oval shaped head, different cheekbones).
After making an attempt on The Many Saints for a good (bad, actually) 20 minutes I gave up. The characters are so unremittingly unpleasant to look at, listen to and watch: a raw celebration of human debasement.
“Wait,” I said, “let me go take a look at the TV series, starting with Episode I!” Never saw it before – doubt I ever see it again. I realize I am in a very small minority who doesn’t appreciate this series but, again, the characters are just too unappealing and, worst of all for me, that crashing background music, heavy on frenzied drumming, that destroys any sense of ‘atmosphere’ the often rather excellent sets might convey.
And the first two Godfathers are right at the top of my favorite movie list – Sopranos is more true to real life? I won’t argue that one at all – most probably it is. No style, man.
The psychological triviality and moral evasiveness of this article rapidly proceed from being annoying tics to becoming intolerable disfigurements. Life is too short—mine at least is—to point to more than a few of the most egregiously distasteful of them, so consider what follows a mere sample of what a more industrious disliker of this article could point to.
(1) For some twenty years now, pretentious people and overt propagandizers have waxed self-importantly profound in concluding that Deep Truths about American society are everywhere for the taking in The Sopranos. I suggest instead that it was an utterly dishonest portrayal of organized crime and its primary (((masters and beneficiaries))) and a program whose true hallmarks were grosser violence, fouler language, and bigger, barer tits (far more of them, too) than were elsewhere to be found on the home screen, at least at the time. If this prequel is even half as ridiculous as Gregory Hood’s description suggests it is (and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s twice as bad), one might reasonably wonder why Mr. Hood thinks that going to the most degenerate segment of American society—the Tribe whose Hollywood racket has single-mindedly perverted the country’s “entertainment” for roughly 110 years—for insight into what is wrong with the rest of that society is a modus operandi that is likely to lead to edification.
(2)
In this brief paragraph, the words we and us appear five times in toto. In the article as a whole, we and us, along with their adjectival form, our, appear about forty times. Rather less often than they should be, one or more of these words are used innocently, in a grammatically sound, unexceptionable way: “After Dickie is murdered, we learn that he did get the antidepressants for Tony’s mother.” More common and much more exceptionable is the sort of use where the aim of the words is to con the reader into thinking that the writer’s point of view is the only reasonable one, the one that more or less everyone shares. For instance, that approach is to be seen here— “[Tony Soprano] knows that we have reached the ‘weak men lead to hard times’ part of the historical cycle.” —and here— “Our baser instincts, our greed, and our self-doubt lead us to immoral and cowardly acts. … In the end, we conjure up a false identity to hide the rottenness within.” Inasmuch as I and me are the pronouns an honest author should be using, this is nothing but social-science analysis on the cheap and on the fly. Surely we [ahem] readers have the right to expect better!
(3) To the extent that there is not a single reference to Jewish involvement in organized crime, in the more general corruption of American society—the world’s center of production of pornographic materials is Tel Aviv, after all, not northern New Jersey—or even in the paternal lineage of the “half-black student” that “Tony can’t keep his daughter from dating,” this article has American Renaissance written all over it. ‘Nuf said?
The movies doesn’t sound like it’s worth watching based on its inaccurate portrayals of Italians and blacks. Italians are depicted as corrupt and untrustworthy while blacks are depicted as long suffering but noble and dignified. Gag me with a spoon.
The series, however, is well worth watching because it’s very entertaining but also because it tends to depict race relations and underlying racial tension somewhat accurately. Blacks are often portrayed as criminal and violent similar to Dirty Harry movies instead of noble and high minded. While Tony Soprano and his gang might occasionally do business with blacks they do not trust them and sometimes refer to them as “moolinyans”.
Even some Jews were depicted as double dealing and deceitful in a few episodes.
In one episode Jackie Aprile Jr. and one of his Italian friends see three Mexicans inside a pizza joint smoking when they weren’t supposed to and being disrespectful. Jackie Jr. and his friend rough them up and chase them out of the restaurant and later complain about “spics disrespecting a pizza joint”.
TONY WAS A MORON
From his teen years through making his bones in 1982 all the way through his assassination in the ice cream place when NYC annexes his territory really Tony was an idiot.
Jackie Aprile was a better boss.
Tony Soprano was stupid. Paulie & Syl were even more stupid, of course, but Tony was an idiot.
After awhile the show is quite depressing-watching idiots in the ghastly polluted swamps of Jersey.
In my experience, Jews admire southern Italians as natural men, which is in contrast to Jews who tend to live in their heads too much. We Jews tend to be prejudiced against many ethnic groups, but I can’t remember a Jew disparaging Italians
I don’t know that Tony Soprano was “changed” over the course of the series. I thought they ended the psychoanalysis storyline perfectly when his shrink is convinced by a colleague that he’s a sociopath and has been manipulating her the whole time. The point, and a good one, is that people don’t really change. Tony’s time in therapy was an attempt to domesticate him, which he half-heartedly took up, but we saw over the course of his therapy his gradual abandonment of it, as his nature inevitably draws him back.
It’s interesting that he cited Gary Cooper, because High Noon (to me) shares a theme with the Sopranos: the decline of vitality attendant upon progress. Tony finds himself in the suburbs with a soft, dull son watching American decline, just as Gary Cooper found himself, as he neared retirement, among wretched cowardly townsfolk trembling at the arrival of three gunslingers. I’m with John Wayne. I think frontier townsfolk were hardier stock than that. But as stand-ins for Americans in the fifties, the triumph of WWII transitioning into the Korean War, getting rich and fat and soft? Then it makes sense. Their last real man is aging and just trying to get out of town with his young wife while there’s still a little lead in his pencil, but the town is helpless. The film was a different type of Cold War paranoia.
It’s remarkable how different the take on Italians is. In the series, there’s the typical perverse admiration for their audacity (I think Chase as a Jew sees them as a proxy of sorts for Jews), and the characters live in a world populated not only by gangsters, but by Italian professionals such as Dr Melfi. Chase is a fine writer, but a damaged man.
Do you have any basis for asserting that David Chase is Jewish? Numerous sources give his original family name as DeCesare, which his paternal grandparents, in an effort to assimilate into the American mainstream, changed to Chase. A quick check of Wikipedia, which is of course a Jewish hasbara operation from top to bottom, makes no reference to Jews in Chase’s ancestry—and there’s no doubt that if there had been a Jew anywhere in his maternal line, the Wikipedians would be all over it!
Chase’s walking-on-eggshells approach to Jewish characters in The Sopranos is evidence only of the familiar desire to maximize his own career opportunities (and profits) in a sphere—i.e., so-called popular entertainment—in which sycophancy toward the Jews who run the racket is a sine qua non.
No, I made the assumption. I just found an article in the Forward that seems to confirm gentile status.
https://forward.com/culture/476084/the-secret-jewish-history-of-the-sopranos/
I’m pleased to claim a good writer for our side, but he’s a total shit for throwing the Italians under the bus–if this review is accurate.
You forgot the Russians. The Jewish run Soviet NKVD and later KGB murdered and sadistically tortured millions of ethnic Russians. The Jews hate everyone it seems. It’s a part of the megalomania. Such a sad and shitty way to live. I prefer to live with and among my people and wish others no ill will.
This looks like another blockbuster hit for monsters from days of yore. Just wait till the Film Actors Guild (FAG) awards show dishes out those Oscars (Oscarillas) come awards season.
I thought the Sopranos would have been good if they cut the shows to 30 minutes and got rid of the awful psycho therapy sessions. Some of the Italian characters were also too corny and would have been shot over their hijinks. Anglo characters were often depicted as weak and open to exploitation whereas real life successful Italian gangsters were low profile and didn’t bother their neighbors.
Tony Soprano was just an unlikable fat bastard and I really couldn’t stand to sit there and listen to him whine about his problems. I openly look down on men that go to counseling and share all their personal problems with some loser lib shrink that keeps people on meds for a living.
And the first two Godfathers are right at the top of my favorite movie list – Sopranos is more true to real life? I won’t argue that one at all – most probably it is. No style, man.
I enjoyed Goodfellas but the actual gangsters behind the Lufthansa heist definitely lacked style and sense for that matter. They really did buy a bunch of tasteless furs and gaudy jewelry with the money while continuing to hang out at some dreg bar.
Fun fact: Hiring a Black gangster is what screwed up the real heist. Their gangster driver decided to get high instead of taking the escape vehicle to the scrap yard. They executed him which then set off a chain of cover up murders just like in the movie.
Chase is Italian. He is from the same neck of the woods The Sopranos is set in. He’s writing about his people, warts and all. Chase had a very troubled relationship with his psychologically damaged mother, and his wife told him he needed to write about it. That was the inspiration for The Sopranos.
Chase makes fun of Jews on numerous occasions in the series. My favorites are: when the total pussy old yuppie Jew played by Peter Bogdanovich fetishizes the old school Jewish mob. “Those were some tough Jews,” he says, with an almost sexual pleasure. And Tony’s run-in with duplicitous Orthodox Jews is hilarious.
Ariel: You ever heard of the Masada? For two years, 900 Jews held their own against 15,000 Roman soldiers. They chose death before enslavement. And the Romans? Where are they now?
Tony: You’re looking at ‘em, asshole.
The Many Saints of Newark, though, does present the Italians as almost entirely negative grotesques.
I actually read half of your review. And then I asked myself, “Why are you reading this?”
The Sopranos was largely before the “woke era” and eggplants could be called eggplants. This abomination is so far afield of reality that one cannot countenance it’s nonsense. Not if one has any experience with the “urban” and particularly the “”urban crime” situation. This is woke bullshit layered atop a sad imitation of the Italian crime syndicate.
It’s hilariously bad even by comparison to the original HBO series or the other HBO series The Wire (FAR more common if not more realistic).
You suburban crackers have no clue. Unless you have watched some pathetic weak little limp wrist get gang raped in the showers, you know nothing.
But, because you have laughed at me for decades, “HaHa, Detriot is funny! Look at the poor honkies getting raped!” I don’t care. You have laughed at us for my entire lifetime. Now, I watch you whining about murder rates in Chicongo, San Negrisco, and Jew York City. And I laugh.
Not one of you said a damn thing when the ghetto boys stuck a gun in my face. Not the first time, not even the third time. And not one of you has the courage to tell the cowardly ape with a firearm to go fuck his whore mother.
And that’s 100% of our problem. It took little courage for me the second time a negro pushed a pistol in my face (knowing that my bro was behind me with 12ga). But the first and third times, it was simply me saying “fuck you” to the negro and to death itself. Where were you?
We’ve become pathetic cowards. The negroes are FAR FAR braver concerning the chink cold virus. We’ve become a race of pussies. I don’t know how to demonstrate this, but how many of you would accompany me on a stroll of Cass Ave or Rosa Parks Blvd (my birthplace) after dark?
It’s great to say that you’ll defend your home. Maybe you will. Maybe you won’t cry like a bitch while you watch your wife or daughter being gang raped by Stone Age savages. I’ll try to imagine you having a set of balls. But, since you don’t have a prison number and you aren’t an indicted enemy of the state, it’s certainly reasonable for the rest of us to question your bona fides.
While my people are hiding behind ridiculous cloth masks (and NOT for the purpose of anonymity), the negro and the mestizo are metaphorically (if not actually) raping your mom.
Congratulations. You are the most pathetic cowards in existence. Spread your other cheek for the JewGod. You are beneath contempt.
Lol, more like 2025. But it is true that illegal aliens are not getting vaxed, haha.
The N Y Wops got taken over by Jews and Guys like Jewliano Who prosecuted them. No one told You – Who – replaced the Itailian Mafia, but it s pretty obvious by now.
Rootlessness
Well said – Whites in our Society are very much rootless. White Christians less so, but still it’s remarkable to observe.
I‘m horrified by how normal it has become to cast the ashes of one‘s deceased father or mother into the sea rather than in a proper church graveyard.
It’s entertainment folks, very successful entertainment. I agree that the movie was not much but I will bet it was a toe in the water for a new Sopranos TV series which will make Billions.
Thank you, Mr Hood, for warning about this movie. I watched a lot of the series, fast forwarding through the boring parts, but I have zero desire to watch black-White bullcrap. These Hollywood clowns really get off on miscegination, I don’t get it.
I looked forward to this movie for 2 years. Now, knowing it has jew written all over it, I wont waste my time. I will never blame blax for taking advantage of the turmoil. Who wouldn’t? I blame our supposed leaders who were on the wrong side of WW2 and have made us a slave to parasitic joos.
Come on, Stan, plenty of us stood right next to you. We fought the animals all our lives. Chased them out of our neighborhoods, fought them in the schoolyard and the street, voted for candidates who claimed to be on our side. Finally, against a criminal coalition that managed to take control of cities like Detroit, New York and Chicago, we had to move into the suburbs. For the safety of our families. One of the biggest problems is that suburban Whites who are relatively prosperous, have little dealings with blacks and want to be “nice”. With the new push for forced integration, suburban Whites are about to learn what those of us who grew up in the cities learned. If it’s not too late, that could save us.
joos are primarily weak and gay. Italian men usually have to F joos gold digging shiksa to keep her happy. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Rich joos are so gay, they can’t help lusting after strong Aryans. Even though they hate us.
Well, you have a limited experience. If Jooz admire ‘Southern’ Italians it’s because they need them to build their houses, fix their plumbing and cook edible food…and deflect any and all criticisms of Kikes by portraying Italians as worse than them.
I’m going to let the Spergs of Unz in on a fact they missed: the Sopranos is a comedy, not a drama.
How can you milquetoast dorks not get this?
I laughed my ass off in the movie—it is def a visual treat as well.
How can you watch Junior fall on the steps and not guffaw?
I wasted two hours watching this sick movie after reading Hood’s review. We had a limited free subscription to HBO Max – I sure as hell wouldn’t pay for it. Unlike in the “Sopranos,” which I loved, the movie did not have one redeeming Italian character. All the humor in the series was gone.
But, fear not, the movie ended with Tony Soprano still a teenager who hadn’t yet joined the family business. There should be enough of a time gap to have another two prequels, or maybe another “Sopranos” series. It was pretty cool, however, that James Gandolfini’s son played young Tony, though I suspect he won’t be half the actor his father was.
Agree 100%. The Jew, Inc. that is running roughshod over the Western World is the mightiest crime family in the world. I call them legal criminals. Mafia crime families infiltrated unions, and sometimes local businesses. But Jew Inc. has infiltrated higher education, lower education, politics at every level, the Vatican, media, international business, and of course banking and finance.
What gets me is that the Mafia was just after their power and our money. The legal criminals mafia is after our childrens’ minds and souls.
He’s probably become a Joo by osmosis since he’s been in Jewlywood most of his life.
Yeah he threw the Italians under the bus many times in the TV series but the one scene I will always bow in admiration to in that show was when Soprano was dealing with Hasidic Jews and the cowering, beaten up young Hasidic, who wasn’t cooperating, was still trying to stick it to the Italians by talking about history and how the Jews survived the Roman Empire and were still here and then asking Tony ‘where are the Romans heh?’ With that Soprano replied ‘you’re looking at them asshole’.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwipocTj98nzAhXAVTABHfHRAp0QwqsBegQIBxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqmFhsts8WC4&usg=AOvVaw1hca-uLjnRDI9nLBDjwIAf
Who are the Sopranos ? Are they a group of Opera singers ? Never watched he show. I always assumed it was some kind of musical. In any case, Tv and the movies is not my thing. I rather take a massive dump and look at it for 1 hour and 58 minutes.
Now we got another TV soap with blacks getting the better of Italians ? LOL.
I dont believe blacks have the leadership, organizational ability, brains, experience, connections, influence and worldwide reach of the Italians or Sicilians. Even the South American/ Mexican cartels can reach out and touch you no matter where you are.
Blacks are limited to the boundaries of their slums and cities. As in every other profession or line of work the Blackie is under the thumb of Whitey. Without the big boys to parent them they would be restricted to holding up liquor stores and murdering each other more frequently.
I will pass on the Saints of Newark. I like to spend my money wisely and funding a meaningless shit soap produced by the J’s about the I’s and starring the G’s is gross idiocy.
Yes I agree. If I were into the TV thing I would find the Keystone Cops, Inspector Gadget and Manimal more interesting.
One Manimal episode showed the star turn into a Pigeon so he could eavesdrop on the Godfather. Manimal also solved his cases in one hour minus the commercials. Talk about a nightmare for the criminal underworld. Is this where the phrase “stool pigeon” originated or did the Jews in Hollywood do a reverse thing ie there were always stoolies and so they made Manimal turn into one? Why not a Canary ? Who knows ? No doubt these nuances of art consumed many hours of hot debate in H/wood. A pigeon ? A Canary ? or………a budgie !!
We wonder why the general population is so dumb. Hint ! They look at this bunk from 5 pm until bedtime.
I worked with an ex-FBI agent who was part of the Gotti Task Force. His name was even mentioned in one of the Gotti take-down videos. He said The Sopranos was the only fictional production he had seen that even approximated Mob life as it is.
That said, I binged watched the Sopranos on DVD’s after the series ended, fast forwarding through almost all of the non-Mob scenes because most of it was boring dross. Who cared about Carmela’s angst? Or A.J. playing the adolescent Nitwit? Or Meadow’s mostly uneventful growth and transition to Columbia? The Sopranos was/is a very good piece of work, but could have been even better without the extraneous padding.
Under the fast-forward rubric, for me each episode of The Sopranos was compressed to perhaps 15 interesting minutes of Mob pathology. If the prequel movie is similarly scripted, I suppose I could watch it with the remote in hand over a light lunch.
Lol
Are you sure you don’t want to go back on the meds, Stan?
“Perhaps all whites are guilty of this to some extent. Our baser instincts, our greed, and our self-doubt lead us to immoral and cowardly acts. Our children see and base their lives on our examples. Our character disintegrates, our people decline. In the end, we conjure up a false identity to hide the rottenness within.”
It’s good to admit one’s shortcomings and by doing it so, one can begin the process of slow but certain healing.
The white hating Jews in Hollywood keep on rolling and the average conditioned white normie doesn’t have a clue.
ROFL!!!
Read ‘The Crap Chronicles’ by Rod Zchitski, you’ll enjoy it.
Nobody admires Southern Italians at all
You just described the gross idiocy of the last 100 years in the bogus Catholic melodrama throughout the big ‘urbs of Eastern America. The whole thing is a delusional fantasy about a small group of people with a huge ego that are inferior to everyone else and know it. The idea of celebrating the ethnic “white” (are Italians and Greeks white??) is sloppy and unhistorical. Like the author here pining for “da good ole days”.
Soon as the younger generations were able they fled their own history because after all WHO WANTS TO LIVE IN A 2 BEDROOM ROWHOME FOREVER. Catholics are unable to generate national development and all history comes from the North. Most “immigrants” 1870-1920 were just castoff peasants and workers looking for a better life, there was nothing European about it.
These people never acculturated to the real America or made their own commonwealth either. And they are incompetent as a group, unable to work without direction and somebody else’s planning.
Have never watched one episode of Sopranos because by the time it came out I was already hip to the Jew glorification of the Italian mafia and why there were so many movies like, “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas” that tried to glamorize Italian mobsters and make them somehow appear cool or heroic.
First off with these Eye-talian mobster movies, the goal is to make people think that all mobsters are Guidos or Russkies in the so-called “Russian Mafia.” LMAO. The “Russian Mafia” is about as Russian as the “Russian Revolution.” Lest we forget the largest and most powerful mafia is not run by a group of NYC dagos, but is Jews that currently run what the late Lush Limbaugh always referred to as the (((Deep State.))) Now the (((globalists))) make John Gotti and company to appear about as threatening as the Lil Rascals “Our Gang.”
About time to start making movies featuring the Jews in organized crime and movies about how Jews who run the (((Deep State))) take out people who oppose them, are bent on destroying Whites and White nations, etc., etc. Did not Meyer Lansky have a role in the creating of muh Israel?
Are you the Z-man blog Z-man?
“ We Jews tend to be prejudiced against many ethnic groups”
Why is that?
haha. I just thought of how the very Jewy has been, (((Andrew Dice Clay))) tried to be an Eye-talian. Jews often portray themselves as dagos in the movies or television sitcoms. How about another very Jewy Jew, Henry Winkler doing an Italian character, “Arthur Fonzarelli.” I guess a lot of Jews secretly want to pass as Wops. Joy Behar claims to be Italian but the Jewdar goes ballistic when I see her. She doesn’t look Italian to me, she looks PURE kosher.
Well… not exactly;
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You suburban crackers have no clue. Unless you have watched some pathetic weak little limp wrist get gang raped in the showers, you know nothing.
But, because you have laughed at me for decades, “HaHa, Detriot is funny! Look at the poor honkies getting raped!” I don’t care. You have laughed at us for my entire lifetime.
What the hell are you talking about? I’ve never once heard someone say that Detroit is funny.
Are you upset that White people moved out of Detroit? Well tough guy do you think children should be raised in that type of an environment?
We’ve become a race of pussies. I don’t know how to demonstrate this, but how many of you would accompany me on a stroll of Cass Ave or Rosa Parks Blvd (my birthplace) after dark?
There is courage and there is stupidity. I’m not going to risk my life to become a blip on the evening news. You are directing your rage at the wrong people.
Western society chose to pretend that race doesn’t exist and nothing is to be gained by putting yourself on the frontlines of the resulting mess.
I’m sorry if your neighborhood was ruined but you won’t change anything by martyring yourself on Rosa Parks Blvd.
While the Sopranos were playing mafioso crime syndicates, the Shekelsteins and Shysterwitzs were playing dark overlords running bank cartels and destroying goy via political proxy and by darkening his neighborhood with drugs and sexual perverted filth.
Soon as the younger generations were able they fled their own history because after all WHO WANTS TO LIVE IN A 2 BEDROOM ROWHOME FOREVER. Catholics are unable to generate national development and all history comes from the North. Most “immigrants” 1870-1920 were just castoff peasants and workers looking for a better life, there was nothing European about it.
Anyone that complains about Italians or Irish really hasn’t been to Black areas.
Italians may not have the best taste (see New Jersey) but they at least show some guts and don’t play the ridiculous WASP game of trying to ignore reality by not speaking of it.
WASPs create too many soft intellectuals that lack the guts to face reality as it is and end up submitting to liberalism. Most WASP bloodlines could use some Italians in the family tree. This is especially true for Norwegians/Swedes. They create too many soft egalitarians.
Washington DC is now a federal depository for white Supremacists domestic terrorists, administered by former Black Panther/Bloods/Cripps thugs given a badge and power to phuc whitey for slavery 150 years ago.
Why are there no rallying protests at these federal gulags is despicable. It just shows the majority of whites are wankers. Meanwhile millions of illegals, refugees and BLM hoodrats are literally getting away with Burning, Looting, Murdering Raping and Robbing whitey as if everyday is free shit day.
The way this article colludes “white” – a race, and “Italian” – an ethnicity, at every turn, is odd and conspicuous. Statements that are true when said of the ethnicity, become specious when applied to the race, but the author seems to need those statements to be true so he holds up the collusion.
Meanwhile – to this day, Italians are barely considered “white” by the racists who care – so your comment does a service of a kind.
The loss of Italian identity is indeed something. Every other person of European descent who has lost their ethnic identity should take some disquiet when even the Italians can’t retain theirs. If not the Italians, then what, any of us?
As to the “loss” of “white” identity, hmmmm. It seems – from main stream to Alt right, from Woke to WN – everyone needs us to stop being our ethnicities, and start being “white”. WN and Woke alike – celebrate as ethnicities dissolve into “white”.
Dissolve. Become weaker – until they are an atomized byproduct.
And like most things that no one wants to talk about, that seems like the thing we should be talking about.
The Mafia is attractive to many Americans because, at some level, we all sense the System is almost a criminal syndicate but pretends not to be. A group that is more honest about its nature seems better.
That reminded me of this
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Unfortunately Italians, especially in Italy try to compete with the Nordics as far as being egalitarian.
The original Sopranos is one of my favorite series. I have watched it several times over the years and it never gets old. I always pick up on something new that I missed when watching it before.
I could only get thru 10 minutes of this prequel movie. Wokeness has ruined all tv shows and movies. Anything made after 2016 is crap.
I sponge off of my son’s HBOmax and Netflix account. I always check to see when a show was made before watching it. If it was made after 2016, I don’t even start it cause I know it will be full of forced diversity, bad whitey, anal sex and child tranies. I made an exception for the Sopranos prequel even though I knew better.
Insert tolken jewish actor Jon Bernthal – always ready to play some stereotypical form of a real Euro-American – southern cop, imprisoned Aryan Brotherhood member, WWII war hero, The Punisher for chrissakes – now as a Sicilian mobster, and no doubt his portrayal is equally as bad as all of the former. Jew actors love playing mobsters in the movies, and Jewish producers love to portray Jews as peripheral crime geniuses in Italian mob movies – even though jews had a much larger role in organized crime since the days of Prohibition.
Tony is something of a Spenglerian, he knows that we have reached the “weak men lead to hard times” part of the historical cycle.
I recognized that sentiment from Tony when I first watched the show. It didn’t resonate with me much then, maybe because I was half his age. But now I’m closer to the age Tony was, and I don’t feel that way in the current year. I think we’re fast approaching the hard times that will make strong men.
(“Fast” is a relative term here, of course)
In my most inner moments of maximum Naivete , maybe inexperience idealism. As a new immigrant I pictured the USA evolving into a Benign Global Empire, the FREEST most prosperous, the leading power in the expansion of Western Democracy (values) in the planet. Now I know I would never make a good politician. I envision America as an open society to all those that accepted immigration under LAW/Order assimilation of its values. I see the USA evolving into a Cyber/Space/planetary POWER with egalitarian, meritocracy opportunities. I saw a Pax Americana in the Centuries to follow with breakthrougs on FOOD production, clean energy, medicine, space colonization, moving from the 40hrs workweek to the 30hrs weekly. more INCOME/salaries$$ and more Leisure for the Working classes Labor Sabbaticals with$$ for those pursuing some life fulfilling objective (write a novel,). I saw an American Empire where the basic neccesities of daily life will be readily available such as health. education, security, FOOD, shelter, retirement,, etc. provided according to your needs and conditions to labor or not physically/mentally able to do so,,…. A socio/scientific/therapeutic approach to crime, homelessness, sickness, penal system, policing, even of the most fringe deviant social pathologies. I still dont understand why provoke pandemias, WARS. racial strife, extreme poverty, bankruptcies, urban violence/racial strife, rural mass addictions, debt slavery, LABOR super/exploitation…WHY??? WHO gains the most??? Is it about building a more HUMANE rational/fair/PEACEFUL universal order..or is it about maximizing profits no matter what??? peace is not profitable… am I the biggest fool on this earth????
IF Italians are so rough and tumble and politically incorrect, what the hell happened to the Cuomo brothers. LMAO. Another two Jewy acting Eye-talians.Just kidding, I know damn well the average Italian doesn’t claim either one of those fairies. This would be like saying Honest Joe and his loser son, Hunter represents the average Irish American male, far from it.
All good White people should get rid of their TV’s and advise their friends and family members to do the same.
TV is a Jew sewer pipe flowing into your home and into your children’s minds.
LOL, a really amusing skit. On a more serious note, here is the sad part of criminality regardless of the perpetrators: it makes good people turn bad.
A thinking man, playing by the rules must at times wonder at his insanity. While he keeps his pecker in his pants, does not claim a sandwich on his tax returns and is scrupulous in his money transactions, he observes whole groups of people fucking everything and everybody, for profit, for pleasure, for control or for plain malice.
When corruption and criminality is so bald faced, only an asshole obeys the law and follows the rules. We are mostly there, sadly, and when we attain a 100% vaccination rate to immunize us from righteousness is the time when the real fun will begin.
Very few virtuous, uncompromising people go far in politics. That has has pretty much been the rule since the creation of the institution to date.
It’s always fun to hear the blue blood Yankees talk about how spotless American politics were when they were running the show. And on and on with the Krauts and the Micks and the Wops and the Pollacks and the Chinks and the Niggers etc…
Notice I didn’t even mentions Jews. Their sort of corruption is on a whole different level.
Well it was corrupt and tyrannical Englishmen who were the cause of The Founding Fathers to set sail for greener pastures or that is what we are told as least. Micks and Wops have done some damage and I have no problem admitting that as a person of Irish ancestry, but yeah, spare me the Anglo is Holy horseshit. Pollacks? I don’t know enough about their kind to comment but I hear the Krauts were not to fond of them across the pond. Chinks? A Chinaman has no business holding any political office in America. “Niggers” aka Africans In America? See Chinaman. Jews? THEY are indeed the most corrupt group out there, and even more racist than the Negro or Chinaman, and IF you think the Anglo thinks his shit doesn’t stink? Try the Jew on for size. Oh and as for a Jew holding a political office in America? I would elect a Chinaman over a Jew any day of the week and I actually have to sit down and think about which is worse, the Negro or the Jew? Probably the Jew. Jews especially should NOT be allowed to hold a political office in America. The Jew and the Negro have done 100 times the damage to America than all the other groups combined. IF neither the Jew nor Negro had entered White nations, just think how much better off we would be now. In the case of the Negro, some fools actually were stupid enough to bring them here. Probably were blue blood Anglo Yankees and Jews.
As much as I agree with your post I liked that they had Jon Bernthal play Lee Iacocca in ‘Ford vs. Ferrari’.
More like the many saints of JEWARK, am i right?
There is some truth to what you said but……I have never seen anything like what has happened in the last few years due to jewish influence and supremacy.
The level of corruption and degeneracy perfectly coincides with the level of jewish influence….as their power increases we get closer and closer to having a complete societal meltdown.
Amen.
These reviews are always interesting.
Reading articles and commentary about who is the better criminal whites, blacks — italians, irish, poles, russians or jews.
Laughing
Why must I be concerned with this issue at all?
Why should anyone be concerned about all this social decadence promoted by Jews, that rots the humans who pay attention from their brains outwards?
I was indeed impressed that only as few as 68 paid attention, actually commented over what – a 24 hour period? Lots of people don’t want their brains rotted out.
But it would be better for us if the Jews stayed focused on their alleged Italian hate. Freed from that triviality they appear ready to do in all the rest of us. Isn’t this here most urgent, critical! than this extensive trivia package from G Hood: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/pfizer-former-chief-scientist-dr-michael-yeadon-gives-us-a-final-warning/
The USA will be toast within 10 years from massive Earthquakes and Yellowstone erupting as well as whatever War is launched against it by Russia/China before that — also the problem of the approaching Asteroid/Comet the “Elites” know about but not so much the Peons which will hit into the Atlantic Ocean at some point also in the next 10 or so years (probably 2029) — the Coastal USA will be obliterated one way or the other.
Florida will be under water, the country cut in two by a massive Earthquake and another one devastating California which will basically cease to exist — all those Masonic Wars killing millions of innocent people were a very bad idea as well as giving God the finger thru abortion and other degradations (GAE) the USA exported across the World — economic collapse will be coming sooner than later and of course famine and plagues man made and otherwise — also a period of extreme cold will blow in and not blow out….People not prepared are going to be in a World of hurt.
The slave trade was a jewish affair….the slave ships were owned by jews.
Although the jews claim that whites invented slavery, the truth is that jews and muslims ran the slave trade for thousands of years until white men ended slavery.
Historically speaking, in the Bronx “defund the police” was fine because the Italian neighborhoods were protected by the Mafia. The various streets were well known protected borders, unlike those of the USA. Area people would know which streets not to cross if they were up to no good. The Italians were more working class and couldn’t afford to move so they had to dig in. Affluent Jews did white flight from the Bronx leaving all those empty apartment buildings.
These gangster films are “Pizzaface” in this lame time of “woke.” Denigrating Italians in all media is also a favorite propaganda attack by far too many Jews who don’t like the competition or the Catholic Church. However, the Cuomo’s have done it to themselves!
Of note to those interested. Italians like the Cuomo’s, Pelosi, Guiliani and the Soprano’s are from Southern Italy. (De Blasio is Italian in name only, even Italians aren’t that bad!)
Generally the criminal types come from the South. In the US many Americans think all Italians are Southerners. That would be as if all Italians thought Americans were like the Beverly Hillbillies!
The Northern Italians are the ones you don’t see in these make believe shows on BS TV. In America they are assimilated and somewhat low profile. They even come from parts of Italy that were acceptable to the Klan as parts of mainland Europe. You can’t really tell them apart from other Europeans. Their genetics are advanced hybrids that replicate themselves from the vast genetic types of the Roman Empire at it’s greatest!
Century after century, generation after generation…you know the rest. Brazil is part of the way in this process, in the USA it’s just beginning, and the area we call China predated the Romans!
The educated blacks know this but still they don’t attack the Jew. Farakhan and his followers have been silenced it seems. Such is the power of the international Jew.
Other blacks are too stupid to see the difference between Jews and Europeans and are used by the Tribe to attack the white because of the hatred they both have for whitey.
James, one of the astounding aspects of human nature is the fact that people do things that are harmful to themselves, know this, are told this, are begged to discontinue shafting themselves AND YET will not change their behaviour or habits. It is something I find fascinating !
I worked at a company with a common lunch room and at the 12-1 pm lunch hour there was the soap General Hospital while from 1-2 All My Children on the big screen. What incredible SHIT, day after day and yet the patrons would discuss this rubbish endlessly, like it was Shakespeare. After a few lunch breaks like that I would go for a walk sometimes in freezing temperatures just to escape the insanity.
These people would then go home and look at Mork and Mindy, Simon and Simon , Cagney and Lacey etc from 6 pm to midnight, day after fucking day. When things got bad and the company had to lay off, many long time low level workers complained bitterly they were being dumped on the street like trash. Yet, some of them with decades of service had spent that time looking at TV. They could have been anything they wanted with an advanced education in 5 years but 80%+ devoted their time to staring at the TV.
I have always been astonished at this. Now its worse with Social Media 24/7/365. Who I considered idiots back in the day seem like sheer genius now compared to the present screen gazers.
I have never seen so many dummies as we have today and this obsession with a screen of any sort, then and now, greatly contributes to the jackass mentality we encounter everyday in this “advanced” civilization we continually bray about.
That’s a strange opinion to have considering Italian Americans are solidly liberal as a voting bloc. More so than Swedes/Norwegians.
WASPs created modern liberalism, Italians submitted to it.
I bet you’re a riot at cocktail parties.
Yup.
And worst of all, Biden will get a second term…
No, goofball….WASPS did NOT create modern “liberalism.”
Modern liberalism is a cover for the naked self interest of organized jewry.
When WASPS ruled, they might have had more money, but they still had the same Christian value system as the rest of the populace, and they had a racial and ethnic connection with the citizens.
The current ruling elite (organized jewry) has no racial or ethnic connection with the citizens, and in fact has an atavistic HATRED of white Christian people.
Italians (and other dipshit Catholics) submitted to the Sanhedrin, so they could be accepted as good shabbos goys, and they have assisted the jews in the destruction of western civilization.
The current Pope would blow you for 50 cents, and add another dollar for butt play.
Soo, if someone kidnapped your daughter and sold her to someone else, who is using her as a sex slave, you would have no problem with the buyer?
Rachel, did you shut yourself into your apartment with a bunch of cats in 1982?
The dago italians were simply the first stage of decline themselves. The entire premise of the sopranos as some traditionalist film is yet another idiotic pastiche of the actual founding stock of settlers which these dagos married into. dagos are only a fews steps above the jews and blacks frankly. the utter destruction that italians wrought upon the labor union system and the public works bureaucracies in the middle west from the 1950s to the present day has made american construction into something far worse than anything late soviet society produced. the italian gambinos and cosa nostra filth were often just the hireling paid killers of jewish banking syndicates. anytime there is a movie lionizing dago mobsters on screen know that it is the jews telling the story of their own actions while hiding behind the italian lower classes which moved here. I have never really found these idiotic movies lionizing dagos to be anything other than garbage made for dumb blacks to watch and pretend they be tony montana and sh*t know-what-im-sayin? America was born a country founded by Anglo-Saxons with the british racial caste system of anglos/scots on top, then ulstermen/catholic irish as warrior caste and germans as farming caste and the below this is the city lumpenproles which were for a time dagos, and today exist as whatever type of brown filth the state can shove into airplanes
Keep an eye on cumbre vieja in the canary island la palma….
Chase is Italian, his family name had been DeCesare before being changed
That’s a strange opinion to have considering Italian Americans are solidly liberal as a voting bloc. More so than Swedes/Norwegians.
You are talking about the Irish/Italian urban Catholic Democrat voting bloc. That doesn’t make them liberal. They mostly elect mainstream Democrats.
Italians are now split while the Nordic cities (Seattle, Portland, twin cities) are not at all mainstream Democrat and have embraced the left which includes extreme race denial and self-loathing.
Florida will be under water, the country cut in two by a massive Earthquake and another one devastating California which will basically cease to exist — all those Masonic Wars killing millions of innocent people were a very bad idea as well as giving God the finger thru abortion and other degradations
If God wanted to punish the US he would leave Florida as it is.
You don’t know too many Italians do you? They are part of the solid Republican base, which is why they get nothing from the democrats but grief.
I have a sister in law and her 3 daughters in my family and none vote Democrat.
My sister in law showed this tripe to her ailing father in my living room and so I went for a two hour ride. Later that night I heard her try to tell me that it was really a stupid movie about black lives matter which I knew to be true but found pleasing to hear coming from her, evincing the fact that reality is not wholly lost on her, a good sign really, for her and all of us.
Nah he’s right. 100%. Didn’t miss a thing. Coulda went on pretty long in the tooth had he cared more but yeh what he said.
Face it. It’s over.
Sorry
Bobby, that wasn’t bad, you know for a novice, but please, snark is my job here, don’t infringe. Traffic flows a lot better when everyone stays in his lane. Now I realize that my lane is empty, like the autobahn and I have a Ferrari, and yours is bumber-to-bumber, has a crash every 75 feet, and it will take you 11 hours to get home.
Again, withering insults, ridicule and snark, my lane; Impotent rants about Knee-grows porking white girls in movies (and real life), your lane.
Let’s keep things orderly around here.
He was Cuban, Old Sport.
Oh, so that’s why New Jersey and Rhode Island are crimson Red states!
Rhode Island – Gov McKee, Senators Reed and Whitehouse.
New Jersey – Governor Murphy, Senators Booker and Menendez.
Now i know we all look alike to you, but none of those “high officials” from the states you mention are Paisanos.
New Joisey is basically either a NYC or Philly suburb. Last time I checked New Joisey had tons of Blacks, mud people, and others besides a sprinkling of Italians. And lest we forget the Garden State is probably loaded with Jews and generic white traitor trash who work in “the city” but live in Joisey. Rhode Island is probably loaded with a significant amount of Yankee blue blood puritans as well along with Muds, and Blacks in Providence.
I seriously doubt the Italians are the cause of New Joisey voting democrat. Hell, boy, I worked with a guy on Governors Island in NYC who traveled from Middletown, New Joisey every other day to work in the fire department on GI, the dude was Eye-talian and he hated Negroes more than any git-r-done ball cap wearing and tobacco chewing JawJuh cracka that I have run up against. The bonus is he hated heebs as well.
And speaking of democrats or more specifically Dixiecrats, used to be a repuke didn’t have a chance in hell of taking a Southern state until the Nixon strategy. Good ole George Wallace would have done very well had it not been for an assassination attempt on his life in Maryland. Wallace was doing well with states as far north as Michigan. Lots of Whites in Baltimore were sure pulling for Wallace, I can tell you that. Probably lots of Guidos were Wallace supporters in the Land of Pleasant Living for sure.
LOL, would you care to expound on this story, Big Stan?
Hey, what are you gonna do, Old Sport? “You” didn’t say shit when “I” had to pick cotton 16 hours a day either…
I think that most of the married honkees I know, would be dissapointed that we didn’t bring a couple more savages…
Sport, you have never even been within 100 miles of a cotton patch much less picked any. PLENTY of Whites picked cotton but you wouldn’t know that because you have been bottle fed on Jewy horseshit lies your whole life. It probably took the average Black man or woman 5 hours to pick the same amount of cotton as a White sharecropper did in an hour and half as well. Blacks have always been the lazy sort, even way back then. Sure they got the dirty jobs but so did a lot of poor Whites, ONLY THE WHITES BACK THEN LIKE NOW HAD TO PICK UP THE SLACK FOR LAZY BLACKS. Some things never change.
I seriously doubt the Italians are the cause of New Joisey voting democrat.
They aren’t but there was a time when they voted Democrat so the stereotype exists for a reason.
You are correct that NJ is now a bedroom community for NY.
I suspect a lot of NJ’s Blacks are from NY gentrification. Where do the supporters of gentrification think the Blacks go? Wakanda South?
Camden was actually a nice city when it was managed by Italians.
Then you know who moved in and the Democrats turned it into a mass surveillance city.
https://www.insider.com/inside-camden-new-jerseys-high-tech-police-control-center-2021-2
Camden is the future of US cities unless something changes. Democrats would rather adopt 1984 style surveillance than admit they were wrong about race.
No. Old Sports, I’m afraid that you are misinformed again…
R.I is 19% Italian 12% Black
https://www.ciaopittsburgh.com/states-with-the-highest-population-of-italian-americans/
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/rhode-island-population-change-between-census-decade.html
CT is 19% Italian, 11% Black
https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/connecticut-population
NJ is 18% Italian, 12% Black
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/new-jersey-population-change-between-census-decade.html
And Italians vote almost exactly along with the general public in America
https://www.niaf.org/niaf_event/the-italian-american-vote-does-it-count/
Just because they didn’t want to vote for a Broad does not mean that they are anywhere near conservative, no, they vote for the party of unions, because that is where “most” of you work.
https://italicsmag.com/2020/10/28/donald-trump-and-his-italian-american-supporters/
Obviously not, Old Sport, or they would have ended slavery a year or two in instead of 250.
Thank you. Now it all comes into focus. Chase gave HBO the BLM narrative they wanted for this:
https://nypost.com/2021/10/01/sopranos-creator-david-chase-inks-deal-with-hbo/
He’s a whore, or, as the guys on the Sopranos would say, a “hoah”.
Oh and these stats were probably INVENTED by the (((same people))) who told us for MORE THAN A DECADE that illegal Mud invaders totaled “11 million.” LMWAO, Sport. Hey Sport, I have been reading or hearing that Jews make up ONLY 2% of America’s population MY ENTIRE LIFE and I have also heard the same figure of 13% for Africans In America MY ENTIRE LIFE, hard to believe those figures never change.
I saw Africans In America whether I was in Cape May, Wildwood, or Sandy Hook, Newark ( used to be a regular passenger on Peoples Express that only flew out of Newark, used to catch some mighty cheap flights back to St. Pete.), Bayonne, Jersey City, etc. Italians? Well unless I was strolling down Mulberry St. or Bensonhurst, Brooklyn I saw more jigs than wops. teehee. Never went to Joisey that much other than to go to the beach in Belmar.
Gawd, I saw tons of white traitor trash in the Village and lower Manhattan even back then. Still not near as bad today. No telling what that place looks like in 2021.
And they always make Italians act the same way on the Jewtube. The Jew portrays all Whites in a less than favorable view on the (((movie screen))) or the (((small screen.))) For instance the Italian guy I worked with who was from Joisey, was nothing like these goombahs portrayed on shows like “The Sopranos.” The guy was quiet and reserved even what I would call bookish. The only time I saw the stereotypical Eye-talian come out of the guy was when he invited me and another guy over to his house to enjoy his wife’s cooking. They had a pool and so after eating me and the other guy grab a pair of shorts and dive in the pool at our host’s request. Out comes the guy with his wife and the dude is in a pair of skimpy speedo swim trunks. Good lawd. smdh. That was very European of the good ole Cap’n but it was something I could have done without seeing.
Always the same horseshit stereotypes for Italians, just like they do Germans, Russians, and White Southerners. The Jew probably hates the Greek and Italian only behind the Krauts, the Russkies and White Southerners. Why the bagel heads hate White Southerners is anybody’s guess considering so many White Southerners think these pedophiles, perverts and sociopaths are “God’s people.” I guess the Jew needs no reason to hate Whites, kind of like Blacks, no matter how much you kiss their ashy feet, they are stilling going to hate you so to hell with that.
Of course the Jew always portrays himself and his negro grunt soldier as angelic, super intelligent, and noble creatures always out to condemn and fight White racism. ROTFLMMFWAO.
All working class people in the South USED to vote Democrat. A republican couldn’t get elected dog catcher in the South. But Nixon who was scared to death of George Wallace changed all that. I wonder about the assassination attempt on Wallace to this day. I think the guy who shot him in Maryland was some Wisconsin loner, have to double check on that one. The guy had no job, was nearly broke and yet somehow he has enough money to follow Wallace all over the country. ODD to say the least. Wallace was doing WELL in Maryland, lots of people liked Wallace in Maryland. I think Wallace also did well in states like Michigan and other Northern states.
Out comes the guy with his wife and the dude is in a pair of skimpy speedo swim trunks. Good lawd. smdh. That was very European of the good ole Cap’n but it was something I could have done without seeing.
Germans almost always wear speedos and while it is shocking at first you get used to it.
If you see a fat White guy in a speedo it is probably a German. They really like the hot tubs at ski lodges in the US. They also normally have confidence or a focused attitude which makes them easy to spot. I tend to prefer the Russians though for company. They are great fun for drinking and tend to be humble even if they are wealthy.
You have to fight corruption to maintain the world for which you yearn.
It is too hard to build Scandinavian societies without Scandinavians.
That would be worse than anything described above.
Well, okay, but there is overlap; it is not 1 or 0.
Reflects the exigencies of our time. When an outsider lays claim to your existence, the clans come together under one flag. In more bucolic times, the Lomard can battle the Tuscan; the Norwegian battle the Swede. But you get defined by your opponents, who have bifurcated us into White and non-White.
That dancing is definitely kosher
Funny u say that cuz it’s true Billy Joel had a thing for Italians too. My old boss was a roided out state champion wrestler who ended up on the Univ of MD team where he met & married some jewess from Long Island. It seems alot of jewesses went to MD back in the day. Although I digress I was at a super bowl party at his house & I noticed his wife was wearing a gold guinea horn. I said to her u aren’t Italian what’s up w/ the horn. She just grinned.
Yeah, Billy Joel was yet another Jew who liked to portray himself as some sort of Eye-talian roughneck looking to snag the gorgeous rich White WASP female. haha. What the hell did Christie Brinkley see in that little toad besides his money. Singers, man. Next to money, it looks as if women are turned on more by a good male lead singer than even famous athletes or famous movie stars. And then IF you happen to have a great voice and looks, like Elvis, the world is yours. Gawd, look at the number of lead singers who are butt ugly but still pull hawt babes.
Cue: Sometimes A Fantasy by Billy Joel
Who hurt you?
Marxist dribble, drivel etc.
Is that you Michael Snyder?
SF is now about 6% Black. Sure, they have a Black woman mayor and it’s OJ’s home town.
So? The last time I checked it takes 50+% to win elections.
You must’ve been bullied by some Italian American kid growing up. LOL 😆
There are some subtle jabs at Jews in the Sopranos.
Pussy’s wife having to wait over the weekend to get a lawyer because today is a “Jew holiday”.
Tony’s mother calling psychiatry a “racket for the Jews” and “who ever heard about a Jew owning horses?”.
The Hasidic Jew trying to swindle his son in law and cheat Tony out of money.
Tony resorting to stereotypes after he loaned money from Hesh.
Hesh always preferring black women.
The councilman and of course all the lawyers are Jews.
Compare to Deadwood written by a Jew:
The most sympathetic character in the show is a Jew (but the actor is white since you can’t find a sympathetic looking Jew).
All the whites are anti semites.
That’s what i used to think…
-Donald
Excellent film review and metapolitical commentary.
The bankruptcy of Hollywood is again on full display. There is no subtilty to the subversiveness which has now gotten so overt that it acts as a form of anti-propaganda, undoing it’s own attempts in how blatantly hamfisted and hackneyed the narrative goal is now.
Just reminds everyone how stale the bread is and how grotesque the circuses have become.
Your argument is that Italians are liberal and take States that have big Italian American populations over the top in elections. So even if 100% of Italian Americans and negroes voted Demo’krat you would still need another 20+% also at 100% shit lib. Statistically that doesn’t work. The reason those States go Left is the large cities with minorities and Jews that pull the strings.
Yes, I am quite aware of what my argument was. So, aside from blacks and Tallies, what else do CT, NJ and RI have? Some PR’s, and other Hispanics, a couple of Asians, and what else?
That’s right, the good ol’ American Whitus Honkus Americanus. A dying species, certainly, but at this point you can still catch them feasting on mayonaise sandwiches during the summer, with a strong pair of binoculars.
NJ
At the 2010 U.S. census, the racial and ethnic makeup of the state was: 68.6% White American, 13.7% African American, 8.3% Asian American, 0.3% Native American, 2.7% Multiracial American, and 6.4% other races. Non-Hispanic Whites were 58.9% of the population in 2011,[2] down from 85% in 1970.[74] In 2010, 17.7% of the population were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).
Eliminating the 19% Italians; still 40% “Whites.”
RI
According to the 2010 census, 81.4% of the population was White (76.4% non-Hispanic white), 5.7% was Black or African American, 0.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.9% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 3.3% from two or more races. 12.4% of the total population was of Hispanic or Latino origin (they may be of any race).[85
Eliminating the 18% Italians; still 58% “Whites.” Democratic
CT
66.4% White (63.2% Non-Hispanic White, 3.2% White Hispanic)
10.8% Black or African American
0.4% Native American and Alaska Native
4.8% Asian
0.0% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
8.3% from some other race
9.2% two or more races
Hispanics and Latinos of any race made up 17.3% of the population in the 2020 Census.[122]
The state’s most populous ethnic group is Non-Hispanic White, but this has declined from 98% in 1940 to 63% in 2020
Eliminating the 19% Italians, still 44% “White.”
So there you go.
RI
Like I said your argument would work if the rest of the ‘whites’ would vote as a block for the Dumbo’kratz, it doesn’t. The minorities vote as a block and the Jew controlled press and local politicians help with that.
Ok, I’m done.
“In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
“In the future, everything will be turned into a mediocre “universe” property”
Michael Franzese, crime family scion (he’s at the bar in Goodfellas) and YT movie reviewer, says it sucks, and that’s good enough for me.
Video Link
“Michael gives the prequel to “The Sopranos”, “The Many Saints of Newark”, a negative score, calling it “the worst movie he ever reviewed”. From the acting, the script, the storyline; this movie wasn’t supposed to be made, not even the great actors starring this movie could save it….An Attack Against the Italian-American Mafia.”
It is Fiction . What do you expect ? A peer reviewed paper headed for Elsevier ?
Doing something not quite right if your son HAS “HBOMax” and Netflix accounts in the first place, brother. Yes, it matters. Get your family to stop enriching and empowering these sick bastards.
You and he can avoid certain shows, but you’re giving them your money and the rest means nothing.
Thank you for saying that. I’m an American proud of my Italian heritage, and we want nothing to do with lying authoritarians and traitors like the Cuomos. (And good Lord, how hideously ugly can these two be? Maybe that’s why so many of the rest of us Italians are so damn good-looking: all the garbage genes went to the Cuomos.)