On Rob Reiner And His Murder
Rob Reiner directed two, possibly 3 great films, and a few others that are often described as great, but aren’t. One of them is absolute garbage. His best work was when I was a child and a teenager, which is a long time ago.
So no, the world hasn’t lost one of the greatest ever directors. It’s lost a guy who let his talent get swamped by his crazed politics long, long ago. His attempted hit piece on Republicanism, patriotism and any kind of Christianity that isn’t focused on progressive ideology, the documentary God & Country, made just $38,415 on its opening weekend.
So far as his main talent went, he was pretty much finished.
What he had devoted his life to more recently was TDS, and a constant screeching and hypocritical insanity and malice in his politics. He repeatedly tried to equate Republicanism, MAGAism, and traditional US faith and patriotism with Nazism and Fascism, like many other hysterical Democrats have done.
He did everything he could to poison US politics and demonise those with a different opinion, while pretending he was standing up for decency and democracy. He wasn’t doing anything positive-the ideas he pushed were poison, and the way he pushed them was poison, and it all supported vast levels of Democrat corruption and served to normalise extremism and violence from progressives and leftists of all kinds.
Reiner also presented himself as a philanthropist interested in early child learning and development. He funded and fronted orgsnisations devoted to education. He was also a supporter of trans rights.
While Rob was doing all these allegedly worthy things his son became a heroin addict. His son apparently also started to transition and take powerful drugs that have known psychotic effects. Being a good Democrat, Rob supported his son’s delusions and ‘affirmed’ his (or her) gender transition. To be fair, it’s a horrendous situation for any parent to deal with-a grown child who becomes an addict and a danger, demanding money constantly and with no ability to control themselves or get off their addiction or forge a decent life despite the starting advantage of coming from wealth.
US reports are suggesting Rob eventually cut off the family money tap, which led to his transitioning son stabbing both his parents to death.
All this is grim and terrible and not a fate that even the most dishonest political opponent deserves. But it’s also a fate, like any other, shaped by bad choices, and those bad choices came from both the son and the father. Trans hormone treatment is linked to psychotic actions, as is of course severe drug addiction. Rob came from the side of politics though that thinks drugs are cool, that still retains a pathetically selfish and naive 1960s view of recreational drug use, and that has added Trans rights and submitting to delusions as a kind of sacred act. Everyone in Hollywood has or knows trans kids, but they never ask themselves if the transitions and politics supporting them are dangerous, either to the person taking those drugs, or to others.
Rob would have been the first to howl that his son should be treated as mentally stable, even when he wasn’t.
Many will think this post inappropriate, heartless, or cruel. But the truth is never any of these things, and if Hollywood media can report that Rob’s son murdered his parents and that Rob’s son was a drug addict and trans, then we must be honest about these things and honest about the political environment Rob created in his own house, and supported in society as a whole.
Rob chose to portray traditional faith and family as dangerous and extreme, but it was very modern changes he supported that proved to be the danger in the end. The very people he spent his last decades demonising were actually the people who were more cautious and wise about the things that contributed to Reiner’s family tragedy and his murder.
Pointing that out and being honest about it is not the rightwing version of celebrating death and murder. I still leave that to the party and people Reiner always considered better than people like me or you.
PS: a longer version of this appears on my Substack. Anyone who hasn’t joined or can take a paid subscription it all really, really helps. Progress is very slow building a following there. Link in the comments.
