NOT WOKE NEWS

‘Project Hail Mary’ Blasts Off With $80.5 Million

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:03:05 GMT

Breitbart: The PG-13 rated film opened on 4,007 screens and easily topped the domestic box office charts, surpassing expectations and delivering a record opening for studio Amazon MGM, whose previous best was “Creed III” ($58 million in 2023). Not accounting for inflation, “Project Hail Mary” also scored the second biggest opening for a non-franchise movie behind only “Oppenheimer,” which opened to $82.4 million in 2023.

It’s now one of only three non-franchise movies in the past decade to open over $70 million (the third is Jordan Peele’s “Us” ). In the realm of modern space operas, it exceeded the debuts of “The Martian,” also an Andy Weir adaptation that opened around $54.3 million in 2015, “Gravity” ($55.6 million in 2013) and “Interstellar” ($47.5 million in 2014).

Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, “Project Hail Mary” cost about double the “Oppenheimer” production budget, with a price tag in the $200 million range. But it also carries strong reviews and audience scores and could be destined for a long run.

According to PostTrak exit polls, where it scored five out of five stars, 83% of audiences said they would “definitely recommend” the film to friends. The gender breakdown skewed slightly more male (57%), and 55% of the audience were under 35.

HBO Max and Paramount+ Combined Would Be Among World’s Top Streaming Services by Subscribers

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:25:50 GMT

Breitbart: Paramount will combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into one streaming service if the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery passes federal scrutiny, Paramount CEO David Ellison said Monday.

He made the announcement on an investor conference call, but he also said that Paramount wants HBO to operate with independence.

“As we said, we do plan to put the two services together, which today gives us a little over 200 million direct-to-consumer subscribers,” Variety reported Ellison said. “We think that really positions us to compete with the leaders in the space. At Paramount, by the middle of this year, we’ll have completed the consolidation of our three services under one unified stack, and you can see us taking a similar approach to this platform going forward. And we think the combined offering, and given the amount of content and what we can do from the tech side, really will put us in a position to be able to compete with the most scaled players in [direct-to-consumer content].”

The combined service would have about 200 million subscribers if existing totals stay, Ellison said. Paramount already owns HBO competitor Showtime, and HBO owns Cinemax.

Paramount didn’t give details on price or what the combined service would be called. It also didn’t say if the content would fully integrate into the service or be a tile within Paramount+.

But Ellison said Paramount will give HBO the autonomy to keep developing content with little intervention from Paramount. HBO Max is run by CEO Casey Bloys, whose contract runs out in 2027.

ROB SCHNEIDER: Go woke, go broke isn't a slogan — it's becoming Hollywood’s reality

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:39:48 GMT

Fox News: Hollywood used to be about what brought us together. Now, it’s about what divides us. They’ve traded the Dream Factory for an Indoctrination Lab .

Towards the end of the fifth season of "Stranger Things," the character of Will Byers gathers his family and friends together. He has good reason. They need to prepare for the final battle against Vecna, a terrifying, skinless monster with a penchant for mass murder and apocalyptic terrorism. But instead, Will comes out as gay.

This is perhaps the most anticlimactic moment in television since Pam woke up to reveal that the entire tenth season of "Dallas" had been a dream. In laborious and earnest tones, Will takes four minutes to tell everyone that he just isn’t into girls. Cue the inevitable chorus of solidarity from his friends and a warm group hug. Given that this series is set in the 1980s, a more realistic approach would have been for them to storm out and declare Will to be more disgusting than Vecna.

This has happened so often in Hollywood that it’s become the norm. A storyline is upended to promote the ideological obsessions of the present. We’ve had a Black Cleopatra, a lesbian kiss in the "Toy Story" spinoff "Lightyear," empathetic, home-loving orcs in Middle Earth, and a robot in an animated series of "Transformers" declaring its pronouns as "they/them," as though mechanized killing machines are sensitive about their gender identities.

A key aspect of storytelling is verisimilitude. Movies can present completely unreal worlds, but unless an audience buys into the internal logic, they quickly lose interest. Consider the recent Netflix series "Ripley," in which a major male character is played by a female actor who identifies as "nonbinary." The characters don’t notice that she’s a woman, and we’re expected to play along. It insults our intelligence and completely derails an otherwise brilliant series.

The audiences know it, too. The "coming out" episode of "Stranger Things" is currently the lowest-rated episode on IMDb. The recent live-action remake of "Snow White," with its emphasis on diversity rather than murderous stepmothers and subterranean dwarves, reportedly lost over $115 million for Disney.

The all-female leads of "The Marvels" might have made a few executives feel good about themselves, until it turned out to be the franchise’s biggest bomb of all time. And after poor test screenings, HBO’s big-budget wokefest "Batgirl" was shelved altogether.

So, while executives pat themselves on the back for their "virtue," their studios are plunged into debt. According to public filings, as of late 2025, Disney’s debt is roughly $35.3 billion and Warner Bros. Discovery’s debt stands at approximately $33.5 billion. Cinema attendance continues to decline, with annual box office receipts in North America struggling to reach $9 billion. In a world where production and marketing costs have skyrocketed, these numbers represent a dying industry.

Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy To Exit Disney and Lucasfilm, Major Overhaul Revealed

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:26:01 GMT

Inside The Magic: Both The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm are set to replace their CEOS in 2026. It’s hard to believe that it’s been over three years since Bob Iger made a surprise return as CEO of Disney. Since starting his second stint, reports have emerged that Iger long had a contentious relationship with his successor, Bob Chapek, with other executives feeling like Iger would steer Disney away from the downward turn taken during the latter’s brief rule.

Whether or not that’s come to pass is up for debate. The Walt Disney Company has experienced a series of blows in recent years, from a decline in domestic theme park attendance at Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort, to mass Disney+ cancellations in the wake of suspending TV host Jimmy Kimmel following pressure from a federal regulator. Lucasfilm hasn’t fared much better.

Over five years on from the disappointing release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), the studio has faced a slew of negative critical and audience responses to its Disney+ projects (The Acolyte, in particular, proved particularly divisive).

It’s also hit a brick wall on several planned movies. Fans were furious to discover in late 2025 that Disney had axed a planned return for Ben Solo (Adam Driver), while Daisy Ridley’s reprisal of Rey in a standalone film that would see her rebuild the Jedi Order appears to face setback after setback.

Many fans have pinned these issues on Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.

Having led the studio since Disney’s purchase in 2012, some have used Kennedy – fairly or not – as a scapegoat for the issues they perceive in the sequel trilogy. A portion of the fandom has attributed the increase in “woke” Star Wars projects to Kennedy, particularly in the wake of comments she made about how female fans struggle within the franchise’s male-dominated fanbase.

Report Says 41 Percent of Netflix Shows for Children Contain LGBTQ+ Content in 2025

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:31:37 GMT

Breitbart: A massive amount of streaming TV shows aimed at small children contain sexualized LGBTQ+ content, despite efforts to create a more detailed ratings system to help parents navigate streaming content.

For instance, 41 percent of shows that are supposed to be G-rated for kids on Netflix still has blatant gay content, including transgenderism, according to a year-end report by the activist group Concerned Women for America (CWA).

The group also found that 21 percent of shows in the TV-Y category, which is meant to cover kids up to seven years, also has LGBTQ+ content. And the numbers only get worse for older kids. In the TV-Y7, covering ages seven and above, the content soars to 41 percent. Over all, across all the child-rated categories (TV-G, TV-Y, TV-Y7), 33 percent contain such content.

The group also rated how extreme the content is, as well, rating it from “meta,” to “implied,” to “queer-coded,” to “explicit,” and found that 24 percent of TVY7-rated programs had explicit gay sexual content, which included outright declarations of homosexuality and transgenderism and sexual behavior.

CWA went on to note that reboots of older series also upped the ante for gay content, even where there was no such content in the older shows.

“It is also worth noting that ‘reboots’ of older series, or later seasons of long-running series frequently introduced LGBTQ characters where none existed before. In addition to The Magic School Bus, this was observed with Power Rangers, The Baby-Sitter’s Club, She-Ra, and The Fairly OddParents, among others,” CWA said in its report.

Netflix Stocks Take Biggest Weekly Drop Since April as Trans Content Aimed at Children Drives Users Away

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:32:16 GMT

Breitbart: Netflix shares slumped again Friday as they ended the week with their biggest decline since April 4. The slide comes on the back of subscriber desertion driven by revulsion at trans content aimed at children.

The stock dropped nearly five percent over the five-day trading period ending before the weekend as billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk continued to urge consumers to boycott the streaming giant.

As Breitbart News reported, Netflix has been struggling as it chooses to stream animated programs that expose small children to homosexuality, gay kisses, and a little boy in a dress prancing around for his gay dads.

Yahoo Finance notes Musk has been behind calls for a boycott, urging his 227 million followers on X to drop their Netflix subscriptions and accusing the streamer of pushing alleged transgender messaging in kids’ shows.

Over the past several days, Musk has posted or reposted a series of messages criticizing Netflix’s programming: “Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids,” Musk wrote last Tuesday.

Could Woke Backlash Crush ‘Wizard of Oz’ Remake?

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 02:23:57 GMT

Hollywood In Toto: “Casablanca.” “Citizen Kane.” Even “Back to the Future.” Hollywood studios may have remake mania – There’s a new “Basic Instinct” on the way, as well as a race-swapped “Death of a Salesman.”

Even film executives know there are some titles that shouldn’t be touched.

For many movie fans, “The Wizard of Oz” falls into that category. Yes, we’ve had a musical spin on the tale (1978’s “The Wiz”) and various prequels and spinoffs (1985’s “Return to Oz,” 2013’s “Oz the Great and Powerful”).

The original remains so magical, so remarkable, that a remake seems a fool’s errand. The film classic just debuted at The Sphere in Las Vegas, confirming its cultural cache in the 21st century.

Tell that to Kenya Barris. The “Black-ish” creator announced in 2022 that he was reimagining the 1939 film classic for a new audience.

The completed screenplay, according to a January 2024 Variety article, finds Dorothy living in an apartment complex in Inglewood, Calif. and features a protagonist of color.

So, where are the updates on the project?

Barris’ IMDB page has no listing for a “Wizard of Oz” film. We haven’t heard any official news about the project in over a year.

No casting announcements. No possible release dates.

Barris initially promised plenty of Identity Politics in the new version. The story will be set in a black neighborhood, and he told the press the film would feature LGBTQ+ representation.

“Now we’re going to turn a mirror on where we’re at right now and take disparate characters from the LGBTQ community, from different cultural communities and socioeconomic communities, and tell a story that reflects the world. I think this is the best time to do that.”

He made those comments in 2022.

Today, Hollywood is backpedaling furiously on all things woke. Disney just ditched a Colin Kaepernick docuseries by Oscar-winner Spike Lee. The Mouse House famously scuttled a trans storyline in its “Win or Lose” Pixar series.

Woke late-night host Stephen Colbert got a pink slip from his CBS bosses earlier this year. The newly woke Howard Stern may part ways with SiriusXM after more than a decade of gargantuan radio contracts.

SiriusXM Plans to End Howard Stern Show After 20 Years

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:28:37 GMT

Breitbart: Radio shock jock Howard Stern’s show with SiriusXM will reportedly end its revolutionary run after 20 years.

Sources close to the radio program confirmed the cancelation to The Sun . “Stern’s contract is up in the fall and while Sirius is planning to make him an offer, they don’t intend for him to take it,” an insider confirmed to the outlet.

Stern will likely cut a deal with Sirius to keep his catalogue.

“Sirius and Stern are never going to meet on the money he is going to want. It’s no longer worth the investment,” the source added. “But as far as him coming back to doing the show, there’s no way they can keep paying his salary.”

The source compared the cancelation to CBS ousting Stephen Colbert: too high a cost.

“After you saw what happened with Stephen Colbert, it’s like they just can’t afford to keep him going,” the source said. “If Sirius isn’t going to give Stern a good offer, I don’t think it would have anything to do with his ratings. It’s more likely everything to do with the political climate.”

As Breitbart News reported on several occasions, Howard Stern repeatedly expresserd disdain for Trump and his supporters, even going so far to admit he hated those who voted for the former president.

“This whole idea of you like me, you are good, and if you don’t, you are bad… I’ve been the victim of this,” he said on his Sirius XM show. “I don’t agree with Trump politically, I don’t think he should be anywhere near the White House. I don’t hate the guy. I hate the people who vote for him. I think they’re stupid. I do. I’ll be honest with you, I have no respect for you.”

Stern said he did not care if he lost listeners due to airing his political views and even later compared the former president to Hitler regarding his rhetoric toward immigrants.

South Park Roasts Paramount, NPR, AI, Trump, Transgenders, in Season 27 Opener: ‘Woke Is Dead’

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Breitbart: The South Park season 27 opener trolled President Donald Trump, Paramount, wokeness, and just about everyone else in its season 27 opener after the show’s creators inked a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount, dampening the claims that the company canceled Stephen Colbert’s show for political reasons.

The show returned after an over two year hiatus and certainly stayed true to its roots as an equal opportunity offender in that it poked at both President Trump, wokeness, and the rise of ChatGPT, per The Hollywood Reporter:

Government censorship, the death of wokeness, ChatGPT, and religion in the nation’s public schools were the main topics of the season premiere. After Cartman learns of the cancellation of the radio show where “liberals bitch and whine about stuff,” an assembly is called by series favorite PC Principal, who introduces a guest at an assembly: Jesus Christ. Before the first act break, the town’s parents are rioting and a cut-out of President Trump turns up, as the plot shifts to the White House and a president at odds with Canada and lying naked in bed with Satan, with his small penis on full display.

The episode follows Trump as he finds himself in crisis, as his South Park supporters turn on him over Jesus entering the education system. After shimmying through a White House lawn party, the president finds himself on a call with Randy Marsh (Stan’s dad). The call ends with Trump threatening to sue the people of South Park for $5 billion.

By the end of the episode, the cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert comes up as Jesus pleads with the people of South Park not to mess around with Trump. The town settles Trump’s lawsuit for $3.5 million, but must also produce pro-Trump public service announcements; check out the disturbing NSFW deepfake ad below.

Eventually, the Trump character winds up in bed with Satan and is confronted about his name allegedly appearing on the “Epstein list.”

50-year-old ‘Gunsmoke’ Reruns More Popular than Disney’s Star Wars/Marvel Junk

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:51:05 GMT

Breitbart: Throughout the entire first half of 2025, reruns of Gunsmoke earned more streaming minutes than any of the super-expensive woke crap pumped out by the Disney Grooming Syndicate on Disney+.

Nielsen ranked the top 20 streaming programs for the first half of the year, and Disney+ earned just one title out of 20. Hilariously, it’s not even a Disney original show. Bluey is imported from Australia and distributed by Disney. It’s a sweet, little animated children’s show. It also ranked at number one on the streaming chart.

Other than that, the groomers got skunked.

Despite literally spending billions of dollars on a countless number of Marvel and Star Wars streaming shows, not a single one placed in the top 20, and yet a whole bunch of older shows did, including Grey’s Anatomy (#2), NCIS (#3), Family Guy (#4), Spongebob (#6), Criminal Minds (#13), and, yes, Gunsmoke (#18).

This isn’t a one-time blip. It’s not as if Peacock/Paramount+ made Gunsmoke available for streaming and there was a bump in interest. No, instead, a Western that has not been in production for half a century maintained its popularity for six whole months.

Gunsmoke first arrived on the scene in the form of a radio drama in 1952. Before it went off radio in 1963, 480 episodes were produced.

The television show premiered in 1955 and ran straight through to 1975 with 635 episodes. Unless you count the few seasons where Burt Reynolds appeared, there are no A-list stars. What you have in Gunsmoke is a traditional TV Western set in Dodge City, Kansas, starring James Arness as Sheriff Matt Dillon.

But.

What you also have in Gunsmoke is something sorely missing in television today, especially on Disney+, and that’s complicated but relatable characters who strive to do the right thing and are often faced with difficult choices. Gunsmoke has endured because its themes are timeless. It’s a mature, very well-written and acted drama that appeals to Normal People because it is about Normal People. There’s nothing simplistic about Gunsmoke. It is an impressive piece of human drama that understands human nature, which is something no one can say about the crap Disney+ produces, which is all about sexuality, identity politics, and political posturing.

Monty Python comedy legend confirms new film on wokeness may fail, because Trump killed all that is woke!

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:41:39 GMT

World Net Daily: 'He's turned the world upside down – everything. We may have to rework some of the story because parts of it was very specific about the wonderful world of woke before'

A filmmaker who is a veteran of comedic satire, Terry Gilliam of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "Jabberwocky," "Time Bandits" and "12 Monkeys" fame, says his newest project featuring satire about wokeness may face heavy headwinds because President Donald Trump killed the movement.

"The script, in some ways, is out of date because it was a satire of the world two years ago, and Donald Trump has come along, and he is the carnival. He's turned the world upside down – everything. We may have to rework some of the story because parts of it was very specific about the wonderful world of woke before The Donald took over again. That very narrow way of thinking of life. We'll see where it goes. At the moment, I may be out of a job for another 10 years," explained Terry Gilliam in an interview documented by HollywoodInToto.com.

The report explained he saw the "woke revolution" that stifled comedy and culture under Joe Biden "and wanted to make a movie about it. After all, no one in the greater Hollywood community would even attempt such a satire."

He planned "Carnival at the End of Days."

Then, the report said, things changed: "A certain real estate mogul defied an assassin's plot and returned to the White House last fall. How could Gilliam mock the 'woke mind virus' when President Donald Trump's comeback snuffed its fading embers?"

He explained, "I think Trump has changed things considerably. He's turned the world upside down. I don't know if people are going to be laughing more, but they're probably less frightened to laugh. There have been woke activists with a very narrow, self-righteous point of view. That's frightened so many people, and so many people have been very timid about telling jokes, making fun of things, because if you tell a joke, these people say you're punching down at somebody. No, you're finding humor in humanity!"

Jaguar sales crater a shocking 98% after ‘woke’ rebrand, EV pivot

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:31:21 GMT

New York Post: Jaguar sales in Europe plunged a shocking 97.5% following a botched rebrand that included a commercial featuring men in skirts to announce its upcoming pivot toward an all-electric fleet — but the cars have yet to arrive at dealerships.

The luxury British automaker registered just 49 vehicles in Europe in April, compared with 1,961 vehicles in the same month last year, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association.

Sales between January and April plummeted 75.1%, with just 2,665 cars sold across the continent.

The stunning decline comes after Jaguar rolled out a controversial ad last November that featured non-binary models wearing a rainbow of colors with slogans like “Copy Nothing” and “Live Vivid” — but excluded any images of its sleek sports cars as it touted its transition to a fully electric, ultra-luxury company.

The uproar over the “woke” ads was likened to Bud Light’s bizarre 2023 partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, which led to a boycott of America’s best-selling beer and severely damaged the brand.

However, the collapse in sales can mostly be attributed to the delay in releasing its flagship model, a four-door GT. The EV, expected to cost around $200,000 won’t be out until late 2025, according to India-based The Economic Times.

Making matters worse, Bloomberg reported that the company has effectively “gone dormant” this year as it phased out all of its gas—and diesel-powered models ahead of time, leaving dealerships empty.

Disney Layoffs Continue, Hitting Product and Technology Division Hard

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:50:01 GMT

Breitbart: Entertainment giant Disney is continuing its campaign of employee layoffs with its latest round of cuts hitting its product and technology division.

While Disney insists that the P&T division is critical to its future success, the layoffs nonetheless cut an additional two percent of the company’s workforce, The Wrap reported.

This latest round of cost cutting is just one of a long series of cuts lasting several years. Indeed, it isn’t even the first round of layoffs this month.

Early this month the company pushed out several hundred workers from its marketing for both film and television, television publicity, and its casting and development departments.

It was the fourth round of layoffs in the last ten months and came about a month after 200 employees were eliminated in March.

The layoffs in March hit Disney’s ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks unit. That round of layoffs even included the elimination of its once popular “538” website.

Bill Maher Scolds Sean Penn for Refusing to Meet Trump: ‘But You’ll Meet With F**king Castro and Chavez’

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:48:50 GMT

Breitbart: HBO host Bill Maher scolded radical, left-wing actor Sean Penn for meeting with dictators but refusing to meet with President Donald Trump.

Penn visited with Maher on the latter’s Club Random podcast posted on Sunday, and as the show was winding down, Maher asked Penn if he still refuses to take a meeting with President Donald Trump. Penn admitted that he would still refuse and even said he wished Maher had said less about his own visit with the president. Maher was shocked that Penn would take meetings with multiple socialist dictators, yet wouldn’t meet with the democratically elected president of the United States.

“But you do, I hope, think I did the right thing to have dinner with him,” Maher asked Penn late in their discussion.

In reply, Penn rambled about how “smart” Maher is, but didn’t really answer the question. Although, he did seem to be upset that Trump was “successful” by even having Maher attend.

Maher disagreed that Trump was the one “successful,” though.

“Well, it was less successful, because I never stopped saying all the things I’ve always said about him. It would have been successful if he had somehow seduced me into supporting him,” Maher pointed out.

36 Percent Fewer Gay TV Characters Can Only Mean We’re All Gonna Die

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:29:44 GMT

Breitbart: With the Woke Terror finally receding, the good news arrives that as of last year, there was a 36 percent decline in gay characters on TV.

And when you realize that every character on TV (and in commercials) was gay for a while there, you understand just how big of a drop that 36 percent is, and what a win it is for gay and straight Normal People who have no interest in how a television character sexually gratifies him or her or theyself.

What I’ll bet you didn’t know is that this decrease in gay TV characters literally means we are all gonna die.

Someone at the Ankler sat down with someone named Benito Skinner to look into what the horror of fewer gays on TV means for the future of mankind.

“Would a show like Overcompensating be greenlit in today’s contracted industry and against a political backdrop of increasing threats to LGBTQ rights from the Trump administration?” someone at the Ankler asked.

“That’s scary. I don’t know… I would hope so. I hope that the industry does not need to reflect the White House,” Skinner answered. “We don’t need to pander to the clown parade.”

Then this someone from The Ankler asked the CEO of the fascist organization GLAAD, Sarah Kate Ellis, about a 14 percent increase in something called “anti-LGBTQ incidents.”

“We’re seeing a growing threat on our community, and it has to do with this rhetoric [from the White House], and the antidote to that rhetoric is storytelling, and the antidote to misinformation is meeting us through these characters,” the GLAAD CEO said.

“Having Hollywood pull back on that at this critical inflection point is a recipe for disaster for our community,” she(?)/they(?)/them(?) added.

A disaster.

Nothing less than a disaster.

Push to Defund PBS Grows After Sesame Street Pride Month Grooms Children

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:16:03 GMT

Breitbart: PBS stands accused of “grooming” children after Sesame Street, one of the nonprofit TV network’s premier programs, shared a social media post hailing LGBTQ Pride Month that drew an immediate response from a group of Congressional Republicans.

The veteran children’s education and entertainment program went on social media to welcome the annual event built around an image of puppets holding hands, as Breitbart News reported .

On both X and Instagram, the Sesame Street pages shared a graphic of multi-colored puppets reaching out so that they resembled the colors of an LGBTQ Pride flag.

“On our street, everyone is welcome. Together, let’s build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are. Happy Pride Month,” they said.

Brooke Midgon of The Hill reports the Republican Study Committee (RSC), a coalition of GOP House members whose membership is not public, responded to the post with a meme of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and the words “I am once again asking PBS to stop grooming children.”

Other House and Senate Republicans added their voices to the chorus of displeasure.

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) accused PBS of “grooming” children with the post which she said “is evil and should infuriate every parent in America.”

“DEFUND!!” Miller wrote Monday on X.

Ubisoft Creates “Transformation Committee”For A New Lease On Life

Tue, 27 May 2025 03:25:55 GMT

Bounding Into Comics: Amid a falling reputation and stock price, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has reportedly moved to assemble a “Transformation Committee” whose main goal it will be to both “guide the evolution” of the Assassin’s Creed studio and help them find a “new lease on life”.

Per an internal Ubisoft email reviewed by French news broadcaster BFM Tech & CO Nathan Cocquemopot, the ten-person committee, as hand-picked by CEO Yves Guillemot, will spend the next 100 days formulating the best ways to help the studio recover from their recent string of failures and chart a new direction for their future operations.

“We have just passed a monumental moment in Ubisoft’s history which, strengthened by this agreement and the success of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, will benefit from a new lease in life,” wrote Guillemot, as per a machine translation of his company-wide email provided by DeepL. “The future ahead demands a new energy and a passion for the games that corresponds to the current moment.”

Notably, one of the committee’s members is none other than Yves Guillemot’s son, Charlie Guillemot, who will co-lead the group alongside Ubisoft’s Chief Studios & Portfolio Officer Marie-Sophie de Waubert.

Having previously served as the Studio Manager for Ubisoft subsidiary, Howrse developer Owlient, Charlie exited the company in 2021 after his decision to approve the association of Black Lives Matter imagery with the villainous UMBRA faction in Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad drew massive blowback from the general public.

USC Professor Says Oscar Diversity Rules Not Woke Enough

Tue, 20 May 2025 15:58:44 GMT

Breitbart: Dr. Stacy Smith, a USC professor and founder of something called the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, says the stupid and bigoted diversity and inclusion rules the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has already laid down in order to ensure your movie qualifies for an Oscar are not woke enough.

In other words, Dr. Smith is demanding the Academy increase its racial, sex, and sexual preference discrimination.

As Breitbart News reported previously, the Academy already requires an indefensible amount of illegal and immoral discrimination to qualify for an Academy Award. This lunatic wants even more bigotry…“Dr. Stacy Smith … said she ‘started laughing’ when the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences shared their standards for representation and inclusion for Oscars eligibility in 2020,” the far-left Wrap reported. She believes that even by these standards, “90 to 95%” of films already passed the test.”

“These are really conscious ways in which, as soon as you say a certain person can’t open a film by gender or race, ethnicity, it’s over,” Smith believes. “As soon as you say people won’t watch these types of love stories between individuals from the LGBTQ+ community — these are all conscious biases.”

How much of this crap has to flop before people wake up?

You will never sell mainstream audiences on homosexuality. Never. It’s been tried and rejected over and again. When most of the public is heterosexual, that means most of the public will be made uncomfortable by anything involving same-sex intimacy. Sorry, we are born that way, and no amount of Hollywood propaganda will rewire thousands of years of human nature.

That doesn’t mean gay romance movies should not get produced. Movies should be made for everyone. But two hairy guys necking in a $300 million superhero movie? Nope. Two teenage boys crushing on each other in a Disney cartoon? Nope. Not gonna fly. Ever.

'Doctor Who' actress tells fans to get over show's extreme woke content because it's 'pure and beautiful'

Tue, 13 May 2025 02:39:35 GMT

The Blaze: A ctress Millie Gibson praised the woke narratives of the "Doctor Who" franchise and said fans need to simply ignore the overt LGBT tones and watch the show.

Gibson, whose real name is Amelia Eve Gibson, said in a recent interview that she was not concerned with how woke the show was, despite hordes of backlash and criticism over its extremely sexual and liberal storylines.

Last year, the show pushed rampant progressive politics right from the onset of its reboot, ushering in actor Ncuti Gatwa as their new "queer black" lead. Writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies also expressed that he had looked at other "nonbinary" actors for lead roles.

After The Standard's Martin Robinson framed the series as a critique of society that fights fascistic thinking, he asked Gibson about fan reactions to the show's strange direction that has included a drag queen and gay dance scenes.

"I'd just watch the show for what it is," Gibson said, excusing the content as nonpolitical. "I remember watching an episode where David Tennant goes back — I think it's with Martha — and they meet Shakespeare. And he's like, 'Oh yeah, Shakespeare's quite hot.' [This is] literally what Who does."

Gibson further excused the stories as "the way the world is" and said critics have been "making jabs" anywhere they could over the content.

"The show is so pure and beautiful and is literally about two best friends traveling the universe, so just watch it and get over it somewhat!" the 20-year-old requested.

The young actress then praised the aforementioned drag queen, "Jinkx Monsoon," and referred to the male entertainer as a woman.

"I'm her biggest fan. I don't think it's a problem at all."

Gibson's suggestion for fans to remain blissfully unaware of the show's politics strays from the methods her co-star has implemented to deal with the show's record-low ratings.

After critics took issue with dialogue from Gatwa's character like, "I spent a long, hot summer with Harry Houdini," the actor told the audience not to watch if they were not in support of "queer rights."

Disney superfans speak out on the company's woke policies

Wed, 07 May 2025 04:08:05 GMT

The Street: When you think of the "happiest place on earth," The Disney Company hopes you think of its theme parks.

And since the vast majority of Americans have visited a Disney theme park at least once in their lives, there's a good chance you actually do have happy memories of your own.

Whether it's screaming with joy — or is it terror? — on Space Mountain and Tron Lightcycle rollercoasters, watching a live show like Beauty and the Beast or viewing the nightly parade, Disney is synonymous with family fun.

Over the last 70 years (that's when the first theme park opened in California), the company has managed to create immersive experiences that combine fun and escapism with a huge dose of magic. It's safe to say no other company has managed to come even close in packaging nostalgia in quite the same way.

There are also few other companies that can make headlines in the same way. Most recently, Disney has been criticized for two things: raising prices on park tickets and food, and decisions regarding its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies both at a corporate level and in its entertainment. Basically, the company has been denounced for being woke.

Believe it or not, the term "woke" has been around in America for almost 100 years. It was introduced by African Americans in the 1940s to “literally mean becoming woken up or sensitised to issues of justice," linguist and lexicographer Tony Thorne told The Independent.

More recently, the term has been adopted by conservative politicians who use it as an umbrella term to criticize policies related to race, gender, and LGBTQ issues.

Disney is often mentioned as an example of a woke company but others include Starbucks, Target, Bank of America, Nike, Apple, and Netflix, although some of these have recently backed away from some of their stated DEI policies.

Hollywood Panics After Trump Proposes 100% Tariff on Movies Filmed Outside the U.S.A.

Tue, 06 May 2025 01:21:27 GMT

Breitbart: President Donald Trump responded to the continuing flight of movie production to other countries by floating a 100 percent tariff on films made outside the U.S. Many in Hollywood and elsewhere are not responding with gratitude but are, instead, lashing out at Trump’s proposal.

The film industry has been steadily fleeing Hollywood and California for more than a decade as locations in Georgia, Louisiana, New Mexico, and cities like New York and Chicago have been increasingly drawing productions their way. However, film producers have also been waving goodbye to the U.S. and taken up business in the U.K., Canada, Australia, and many spots in Europe.

California’s radical, left-wing, Democrat Gov., Gavin Newsom, has desperately tried to offer tax incentives to filmmakers, but the enticements are simply too little and too late for many producers. Film and TV production in the U.S. is already down 40 percent and that slide is continuing.

The result has been that many film industry workers have lost their jobs, and some have been forced to move elsewhere to try and keep their livelihoods intact.

Now, Trump has stepped in to offer a tariff incentive to keep film producers from fleeing the country.

The president took to his Truth Social account to speak to his alarm about the decline of the film industry in the U.S.

“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote on Sunday. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat.

It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”

Box Office Comeback Makes Fools of Woke Entertainment Media

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:35:11 GMT

Breitbart: Americans went to the movies this weekend, and did so in droves, which proves once again just how ideologically dishonest, brain-dead, and professionally compromised the entertainment media are.

“Mostly everything is up… with the overall domestic box office ‘coming in at around $146 million,’” reports the far-left Deadline. “Not only is that the best result for the final weekend of April since the end of COVID, but it’s also the fourth best overall after Avengers weekends 2019 ($402M) and 2018 ($313.9M) and 2011, when Universal’s Fast Five drove the Friday-Sunday period to $158M.”

So, in the history of movies, we just had the fourth greatest box office haul ever for the final weekend of April.

I’m confused.

How is such a thing possible?

I only ask this because the entertainment media assured and reassured me that moviegoing was dead and that COVID and the rise of streaming had killed it. Even more fascinating is what the entertainment media refuses to blame the current box office drought on, which is 1) the polluting of most every movie with obnoxious, left-wing politics, 2) homosexuality everywhere, and 3) the diminished quality of movies.

You see, according to the palace guards in the entertainment media, the death of moviegoing could not be caused by any of those three things because to in any way admit it might be one of those three things would mean admitting 1) Americans reject your heavy-handed, left-wing political lectures, 2) Americans don’t want to be exposed to alternative sexual lifestyles, and 3) the awesome studios that purchase our advertising and give us access and scoops suck at their jobs.

And yet, here we sit with the fourth-greatest final weekend of April in history. If streaming and COVID are killing moviegoing, this weekend should not have been possible. If streaming and COVID are killing the box office, nothing should be able to lift the box office, right?

Let’s take a look at the titles that delivered this weekend’s shocker…

Original ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Director Blasts Rise Of “Political Correctness” In Games And Anime

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:59:35 GMT

Bounding Into Comics: In the opinion of Ghost in the Shell anime film director Mamoru Oshii, while the concept of “political correctness” may have been borne from a place of genuinely good intent, its over-emphasis in recent years has had a profoundly detrimental effect on not just entertainment media, but society at large.

An industry legend whose lengthy list of credits also includes such works as Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, Angels Egg, and the original Urusei Yatsura anime adaptation, Oshii offered his thoughts on the hot-button issue in the most recent entry of his monthly Q&A opinion column That Thing from That Movie, What Was It Again?, as commissioned and hosted by the Japanese entertainment news outlet Pia.

Amidst a larger discussion on the future of “disinformation”, Oshii eventually turned to share his thoughts on the fact, as presented by the outlet, “that there will be an increase in such things now that [Donald] Trump, who is a leading proponent of fake news, has become president.”

Per an excerpts of his column shared to Twitter by user @Char_Tweets (the full piece is currently exclusive to the Pia News app, which itself is region-locked to Japanese app stores) and subsequently machine translated by ChatGPT, the famed anime director noted that the reason Trump’s various false claims were so widely accepted by his base was due to their willingness to believe in their “hero”.

“The reason why Trump, who was so poorly regarded, is being treated like a hero by some is not because of his national policies,” said Oshii. “It’s because he overturned political correctness. That’s why he’s a hero.”

His thoughts now turned to this specific topic, the director proceeded to assert, “Political correctness started with the aim of giving legitimacy to socially vulnerable groups. And that’s not wrong.” “In a mature society, that’s a natural responsibility,” added the Ghost in the Shell lead. “However, the problem arose when, starting from that point, they ended up elevating the socially vulnerable to a position of power.”

“They get priority admission to schools and preferential treatment in employment,” Oshii continued, before making a surprise reference to the specific operations of narrative consultation companies like Sweet Baby Inc. “What’s more, there are companies that charge outrageous consulting fees to guide them through the process. Game companies, for example, are being asked to pay millions of dollars by these companies.”

After 97 Years, Oscars Academy Finally Requires Voters to Watch All Nominated Movies

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 03:12:51 GMT

Breitbart: For 97 years, Academy of Motion Pictures members were allowed to vote for or against movies they had not bothered to watch. This new rule mandating voters watch every movie in every category they vote on will take effect in time for the 98th Academy Awards ceremony next March.

“In a procedural change, Academy members must now watch all nominated films in each category to be eligible to vote in the final round for the Oscars®,” the Academy announced Monday. “All designated nominees will also be included on the final ballot.”

One of the reasons I don’t publish year-end “best of” lists here at Breitbart News is due to the fact that I don’t see everything. It seems unfair to leave out those unseen titles. But, for nearly a century, Oscars voters were only encouraged to see the movies they were charged with the responsibility to enshrine (or not) into history.

And over the years, Oscars voters have become more and more vocal about admitting they have not watched every title in every nomination category.

Still, they cast a vote.

That’s nuts.

That’s like voting on Miss America without bothering to check out all the states.

The question now, however, is how does the Motion Picture Academy intend to enforce this rule? Ticket stubs? Attendance records? A pop quiz?

The truth is that the Academy cannot enforce this. It can only encourage it with even more rules that will be easy to work around. Most voters watch these movies at home through a special streaming app. All that can be gauged is whether the movies were streamed and then streamed from start to finish. It cannot verify that a specific Oscar voter sat there and watched everything.

Bungie Says No Proximity Chat For ‘Marathon’ Revival In Order To Create “A Safe Space” For Players

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:42:26 GMT

Bounding Into Comics: Trading in the ‘narrative-based first-person shooter’ identity of its predecessors for one more akin to a ‘multiplayer extraction shooter’, the new Marathon game will put players into the role of ‘Runners’, cyber-augmented humans who use their unique upgrades to raid the ruins of the Tau Ceti IV colony on behalf of the highest bigger, and task them with fighting against both other Runners and the Pfhor forces over resources and territory.

However, while both the Marathon series and Bungie’s later Halo rhyme in a myriad of ways, including but not limited to their shared focus on the dangers of AI and their respective antagonists multi-species force of interstellar alien conquerors who operate on a strict subjugation-and-hierarchy system (an unsurprising fact given both series came from the relatively same development teams), it seems the former’s upcoming entry will differentiate itself from the Master Chief’s adventures in a major way: By going out of its way to cut down on its players’ exposure to online multiplayer toxicity.

“When it comes to prox chat, I don’t think we’re against the experience of it, to be fair,” explained director Joe Zigler to PCGamer following the game’s full trailer reveal on April 2nd. “I think the challenge is how to make sure we’re creating a safe environment for players inside of that space.”

“I don’t think anyone really has a good solution to that just yet.” he added. “Because we’re so dedicated to making sure that we’re creating a safe space where we don’t have players just flaming each other or doing terrible things to one another, I think we’re not ready to invest in prox chat until we have a solution.”

Drawing his thoughts on the subject to a close, Ziegler concluded, “I think that’s where we stand right now. Like, if it was magical and we could somehow come up with that solution, I think we totally would do it. But right now, it is a challenge that many companies are trying to figure out.”

The NWO Religion: How The Woke Postmodern “Faith” Glorifies Evil

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:14:41 GMT

Infowars: It’s not as if it was ever a secret: The very core of the woke movement is fundamentally rooted in evil. The general definition of “evil” being a conscious act of deception and destruction, the deliberate victimization of others for the sake of personal power, pleasure and gain. When I try to imagine what a religion of evil might look like I consistently come back to the far-left woke movement along with its rabid mantras, agendas and self righteous narcissism.

The majority of human beings have an inherent sense of good and evil; we often refer to this condition as conscience or moral compass. The intuitive inner voice that guides us and warns us when we stray into “the dark side” is a product of archetypal knowledge – What psychologist Carl Jung described as a set of inborn complexes or symbols that tap into our deepest emotions and sense of identity. All our social interactions are in some way affected by these archetypes.

These ideas are universal, present in nearly every culture in every part of the world at every point in time in the world. Societies with zero social interaction and separated by thousands of years and thousands of miles all have these symbols and principles present in their mythology, academia and ideologies. The building blocks of everything from language, to mathematics to religion and morality are influenced by inherent psychological imprints present in our minds from the moment of birth.

I have written extensively about these inborn characteristics since 2006 because their existence is a fascinating window into the human soul. Numerous philosophers, anthropologists and mind scientists have spent their careers studying archetypes and their meanings.

Some people (myself included) see archetypes as scientific proof of creative design; proof of God. Fatalists take it further and argue that they are a kind of genetic “pre-programming” or divine software that controls everything we think and do. However, because archetypes share dual identities and competing concepts, this means we are not necessarily “programmed” like robots. Rather we are given the ability to choose and with choice comes the free will to do good, or evil.

For other people (globalists, leftists and run of the mill psychopaths) free will means the ability to choose not to believe in archetypes, or morality or even objective truth. They choose nihilism, but this is only part of the problem. The defiance of truth goes beyond some misguided attempt to be free from societal judgment.

Instead, evil people define freedom without responsibility as the ultimate state of being – In other words, they view the capacity to inflict suffering and destruction without regard as an evolutionary advantage. They think their lack of humanity makes them superhuman.

Estranged frontman of iconic punk band says he will never return to woke group

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:28:14 GMT

Mass Live: “They’ve killed the content, or done their best to, and turned the whole thing into a rubbish, childishness, and that’s unacceptable,” Lydon told the news outlet. “Sorry, I’m not going to give a helping hand to this any longer, as far as I am concerned, I am the Pistols, and they’re not.”

C L ydon (whose stage name is Johnny Rotten) has publicly clashed with his former bandmates repeatedly over the years, including a high-profile court battle against the rest of the band in a bid to stop Sex Pistols songs being used in a Disney+ series of their story, called “Pistol.”

Lydon has also reportedly dismissed Sex Pistols for replacing him with singer Frank Carter — an English musician known for his work with punk bands like Gallows, Pure Love and Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes. Carter has fronted multiple U.K. shows for Sex Pistols up until last month.

Lydon was initially “insulted” by the group performing without him, but now finds the situation “hilarious,” according to The Independent. He last performed with Sex Pistols in 2008.

“The last thing he wants to do is have anything to do with us right now,” Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones told The Associated Press while referring to the lawsuit.

“Good luck to him,” bassist Glen Matlock told the news outlet. “I wish he thinks, maybe, ‘good luck’ to us. Probably doesn’t. But over the years, John (has had) all our phone numbers, and I can’t see many missed calls from him.”

Lydon is preparing for his own tour with Public Image Limited (Pil), The Independent reported. ydon (whose stage name is Johnny Rotten) has publicly clashed with his former bandmates repeatedly over the years, including a high-profile court battle against the rest of the band in a bid to stop Sex Pistols songs being used in a Disney+ series of their story, called “Pistol.”

Lydon was initially “insulted” by the group performing without him, but now finds the situation “hilarious,” according to The Independent. He last performed with Sex Pistols in 2008.

“The last thing he wants to do is have anything to do with us right now,” Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones told The Associated Press while referring to the lawsuit .

Minecraft Fans Ravage Movie Screenings, Throw Popcorn, Sodas During Popular Scene

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:39:41 GMT

Breitbart: Teenage fans of the Minecraft Movie have been ravaging screenings by throwing popcorn and sodas around the theater during key moments of fan service.

Minecraft fans, mostly teenage boys, have been seen going berserk and turning the theater into a trash heap during one particular moment in the movie when Jack Black’s character mentions a “chicken jockey” – an inside-joke for game lovers, per Forbes:

Things have gotten out of hand with (mainly) teens doing things like using enormous bags of popcorn like confetti, slinging it all around theaters during specific moments (often the “chicken jockey” scene).

This has resulted in everything from warning signs at theaters telling people not to throw popcorn or drinks (which the poor theater staff will have to clean up) or even (unconfirmed) reports of police being called to screenings. Sometimes the theaters are such a mess that the screening afterward has to be cancelled due to the extensive cleaning needed, which of course, is lost ticket sales and potential mass refunds.

One theater brought the police in to handle the situation and another theater in New Jersey set a rule that minors must be accompanied by a responsible guardian.

Anti-'Woke' Comics Push Forward in the Age of Trump

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 02:35:12 GMT

The Wrap: If there was an effort to make stand-up comedy a bit more genteel a few years ago -- with offensive words and phrases placed out of bounds -- a second Trump administration has emboldened more transgressive voices who are willing to wind it back to the days when it was fine to have a laugh at the expense of women, trans people, people of color and the mentally disabled.

Tony Hinchcliffe generated a wave of controversy at a pre-election Trump rally when he called Puerto Rico "a floating island of garbage." Shane Gillis was fired by "SNL" when audio surfaced of his homophobic comments and his use of derogatory term for Chinese people. Matt Rife drew heat for jokes in a Netflix special about domestic violence, quipping of a restaurant hostess, "If she could cook, she wouldn't have that black eye."

Comics like Gillis, Rife, Hinchcliffe and Theo Von possessed loyal audiences even before Donald Trump's reelection, but now they seem to be finding wider opportunities. With Trump back in the White House, Hinchcliffe has signed a deal with Netflix for three "Kill Tony" comedy specials (the first of which is the #2 TV show on Netflix as of publication). Gillis has hosted "SNL" twice since his dismissal, and has made two specials for Netflix in addition to starring in his own sitcom, "Tires."

Amid a wave of pushback against "wokeness" as well as efforts to broadly dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion policies, the question of where "the line" gets drawn appears to have shifted.

"You can offend a bunch of people, but if you still have enough fans to support you, and if streamers feel like that would help their subscription base, they might want your content on their platform," said Wayne Federman, an L.A.-based comedian and actor who is also a professor at USC. "It's as simple as that. It is just a numbers game."

"Attention is attention," a female executive at a major streamer, who asked not to be named, told TheWrap. "Hinchcliffe was selling out The Forum well before we knew who Tony Hinchcliffe was. We might think that these guys are fringe, and now they've come into the mainstream. More people now cover them because of the political environment we're in."

The perception that comedy has been shackled by "woke" attitudes hasn't been confined to the fringes of the stand-up world. Jerry Seinfeld, for example, griped on a New Yorker podcast last year about the "extreme left" and "PC crap" having homogenized network sitcoms, before walking that back in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in October, acknowledging that culture changes before adding, "You can't say certain words, you know, whatever they are, about groups -- so what?"

Media Invent Anti-Science Excuses for ‘Snow White’ Box Office Collapse

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:14:20 GMT

Breitbart: The hacks in the entertainment media are much more interested in retaining the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s advertising dollars and access than telling the truth and have invented a litany of hilarious excuses for why Snow White bombed like nothing’s ever bombed in the history of bombs.

Let’s run through this anti-science nonsense one by one…

Disney could have screened the movie early for social-media influencers to get great word of mouth out there. But the movie sucks. And its suckage has nothing to do with the controversy created by star Rachel Zegler or Disney’s decision to alter the dwarfs and the prince and turn the Snow White character into a girlboss.

The movie objectively blows chunks. And, in fact, there were early Twitter/X reviews, all of which I would sum up this way: Not as bad as I expected. Where exactly was this “great word of mouth” expected to come from?

Still, as we reported, the uphill with Snow White is the fact it’s a feature take of a classic Disney toon (Dumbo, Maleficent). And those have a very different box office outcome than anything being adapted past the 1989 Jeffrey Katzenberg musical renaissance (Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King).

So, live-action adaptations of pre-1989 productions are bound to struggle at the box office for generational reasons.

Okay.

Then why did the 2016 live-action adaptation of 1967’s Jungle Book nearly clear a billion dollars worldwide?

Why did the 2015 live-action adaptation of 1950’s Cinderella clear $542 million worldwide?

Why did Maleficent, the 2014 live-action adaptation of 1959’s Sleeping Beauty, clear $759 million worldwide and spawn a sequel that grossed $491 million?

Why did the 1996 live-action adaptation of 1961’s 101 Dalmations clear $321 million worldwide 30 years ago, which is $653 million in today’s dollars?

Alice in Wonderland is the exception with a $1 billion global take, made with the acid stylings of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp when the latter was hot as hell in a pre-streaming 2010.

But-but-but excuses… And I just listed FOUR “exceptions,” which makes Snow White the exception. And Snow White is the exception because Rachel Zegler trashed the beloved original. Disney woke-raped the beloved original. And the movie sucked. This has ZERO to do with pre-1989.

Trump FCC to Investigate ‘DEI Discrimination’ at Disney, ABC News

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:34:37 GMT

Breitbart: The Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau has launched an investigation into hiring practices at Disney and ABC to ensure neither is violating equal employment opportunity regulations through “DEI discrimination.”

“I want to ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employee opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of [diversity, equity and inclusion] discrimination,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday in a letter to Walt Disney Company Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger.

The FCC investigation is to ensure Disney and ABC have ended “any and all discriminatory initiatives in substance, not just in name,” Carr said.

He also wants to determine whether Disney’s actions complied at all times with applicable FCC regulations, even if those actions have ended.

“Disney started out a century ago as an iconic American company,” Carr said.

“For decades, Disney focused on churning out box office and programming successes,” he continued. “But then, something changed. Disney has now been embroiled in rounds of controversy surrounding its DEI policies.”

Carr said “numerous reports” suggest Disney’s leaders “went all-in on insidious forms of DEI discrimination” in a manner that “infected” the company’s decision making.

The Communications Act and FCC rules prohibit entities like Disney and ABC from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age or gender, Carr wrote.

“I am concerned that ABC and its parent company have been or may still be promoting invidious formed of DEI in a manner that does not comply with FCC regulations,” he said.

Carr said Disney in recent years prioritized DEI and “embedded explicit race- and gender-based criteria across its operations.”

Such practices include implementing “racially segregated affinity groups and spaces” and launching Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow” initiative that Carr called a “mechanism for advancing its DEI mission.”

Robert De Niro’s Gangster Movie ‘Alto Knights’ Bombed Planet-Wide

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:24:59 GMT

Breitbart: Trump-hater Robert De Niro’s gangster movie Alto Knights bombed all over planet Earth this weekend.

This weekend, Alto Knights grossed a devastating $3.2 million in its domestic haul on some 1,200 theaters. Throughout the rest of the planet, the $50 million production (not including promotion costs) grossed just $1.8 million in eight foreign markets. Nowhere in those eight overseas markets, reports the far-left Variety, did Alto Knights gross more than $500,000 over its entire debut weekend.

De Niro is, of course, most famous for his gangster roles and in Alto Knights moviegoers were promised two De Niros for the price of one. For whatever bizarre reason, De Niro stars opposite himself as both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, two of New York’s most infamous mob bosses.

Alto Knights was also hailed, not only as a return for De Niro to the genre that made him famous but his fifth pairing with Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson. Above all, the screenplay was written by Nicholas Pileggi, the genius behind Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1996) — two De Niro classics directed by Martin Scorsese.

But Pileggi is 92, Levinson is 82, and De Niro is 81. At some point, we all face the inevitability of losing our powers. And I take no pleasure in saying that. All three have created magnificent art and will someday represent an irreplaceable loss.

Black 'Power Ranger' shuts down race-based casting claims: 'The kids didn't care'

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:36:27 GMT

Blaze Media: A former "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" actor has a message for the fans: Don't judge him by the color of his skin ... or the color of his suit.

In a recent episode of "Toon'd In! with Jim Cummings," actor Walter Jones shut down rumors that his casting as the black ranger had anything to do with the color of his skin.

Jones appeared on the hit show for 79 episodes, becoming a viewer favorite alongside the green and white ranger played by the late Jason David Frank.

While Jones said he was "proud" to don the black suit — "I thought it was cool" — his casting had nothing to do with race.

The 54-year-old also addressed claims that actress Thuy Trang was cast as the yellow ranger because of her Asian ethnicity.

"We originally, in our pilot, had a Latina playing the yellow ranger. But after we got picked up, and we came back, she asked for more money, and they fired her," the actor revealed.

Jones admits he finds the rumors a bit strange, as race on the set just "wasn't a big deal."

Most important, "The kids didn't care."

Still, conspiracy theory-minded "Power Rangers" fans have managed to turn a strange pair of coincidences into "something that was never meant to be," said Jones.

"People try to make it and see something that was prejudiced. I've had a lot of people [say], 'What do you think about Power Rangers being prejudiced?' And I'm like, 'Well, one, I'm a role model for kids in 40 different countries, and what's prejudiced about that?'" Jones continued.

Hollywood Celebrities Asking Trump to Protect Them from AI After Smearing Him for Decades

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:13:28 GMT

Breitbart: Hollywood celebrities took a break from calling President Donald Trump a fascist, a con man, mass murderer, and a dictator to sign a letter begging his administration to help them combat artificial intelligence. The letter, signed by more than 400 members of the entertainment industry, asked the administration to refrain from rolling back copyright protections they say would allow AI companies to “exploit” their work.

“We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” hundreds of Hollywood members said in a letter to Trump’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, according to a report by Variety.

To name a few of the smears celebrities have hurled at Trump: Hollywood film director Judd Apatow, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Anchorman, and Talladega Nights, has called President Trump a “mass murderer.” Actor Mark Ruffalo, just this week claimed President Trump is “march[ing] to dictatorship.”

Actor Ben Stiller, who in 2021 reacted to Trump getting banned from social media platforms saying the president’s so-called “divisive rhetoric” has “real-life consequences.” Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt called Trump a “con man.” Bette Midler wished for someone to “shiv” or “stab” Trump. They, along with also signed off on the letter begging the Trump administration to hear their plea.

Moreover, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black star Natasha Lyonne, who just the other weekend went on a bizarre rant about a looming danger for American minorities and an alleged “death toll” in the U.S. under Trump, also signed the letter pleading with his administration for help.

The letter went on to claim, “AI companies are asking to undermine this economic and cultural strength by weakening copyright protections for the films, television series, artworks, writing, music, and voices used to train AI models at the core of multi-billion dollar corporate valuations.”

Hollywood’s letter was sent in response to OpenAI and Google recently asserting to the Office of Science and Technology Policy that U.S. copyright law should allow AI companies to train their systems on copyrighted material without first being granted permission.

Here Are Some of the Biggest Bombshells Uncovered by Internet Sleuths in the Newly Released JFK Files

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 04:11:30 GMT

The Gateway Pundit: President Donald Trump ordered the release of approximately 80,000 pages of previously classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, fulfilling a long-standing promise to declassify all remaining records.

These files, part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, are accessible online at the National Archives (JFK Release 2025) or in person at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

Internet sleuths and researchers have been combing through these files, uncovering what they believe are significant revelations.

Below are some highlights found online (some of which were previously known):

Lee Harvey Oswald was reportedly considered a “poor shot” during his target practice in the USSR.

JFK Files Reveal Lee Harvey Oswald Was a Spy, Tried Twice to Obtain USSR Visa from Mexico City

CIA Memo from September 24, 1963, Confirms Lee Harvey Oswald Was Under Surveillance by CIA, 59 Days Before JFK Assassination

Gary Underhill claimed the CIA was responsible for JFK’s assassination—then he was later found dead in what was ruled a “suicide.”

A man named Sergy Czornonoh allegedly had knowledge that Oswald would be killed after assassinating Kennedy and that Martin Luther King Jr. would also be assassinated. He also knew in advance that Kennedy would be killed in Dallas.

Michelle Obama's podcast draws embarrassingly low numbers in first week

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:48:32 GMT

Daily Mail: Michelle Obama's brand new podcast has drawn low views and subscribers in its first few days.

The former first lady's podcast with her brother Craig Robinson, titled IMO, premiered on Wednesday. According to her YouTube page, she has managed to obtain only 19,000 subscribers on the platform as of Thursday.

As well as the subscriber count her videos have also gathered little views, with her first podcast clocking in the most with just over 50,000 views. Other podcasts, which have been on the internet for much longer like 'Call Her Daddy' has over 1 million subscribers on YouTube, and Joe Rogan's 'The Joe Rogan Experience' boasts 19.5 million on the site alone.

Rogan had signed a deal to see his show available on Spotify for three years, the streaming giant had previously said he would average 11 million listeners per episode.

Last year he again signed a partnership deal worth $250 million with Spotify, which would allow the show on other platforms. Football stars Travis and Jason Kelce also have their own podcast, 'New Heights', which has over 2.5 million subscribers on YouTube.

Despite the low numbers, his videos have gathered some large views with his sit down with Charlie Kirk breaking over 700,000 views.

While other legacy podcasts have of course had longer to gain momentum, some critics have been quick to note that Michelle Obama's position as former First Lady ought to have created better traction in her launch week.

With her already-celebrity status, successful book deals under her belt, and her powerful position in world politics, Michelle Obama's numbers so far have shocked some social media users.

One person wrote: 'I had to go and check to see if these numbers were real. Genuinely astonishing. I could upload a video of me picking my nose and get more views/subs than this.'

Disney’s PR Poison ‘Snow White’ Premieres in Far-flung Location, With Limited Press, No Gal Gadot; ‘Disappointed’ Cast Member

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 03:16:06 GMT

Breitbart: Another day, another disastrous news cycle for Disney’s Snow White.

Disney kicked off promotion in earnest for its troubled $300 million live-action remake — not with an extravagant, press packed red carpet event in Los Angeles, but — 5,700 miles away from Hollywood in Segovia, Spain, on Wednesday. Star Rachel Zegler and director Marc Webb attended the event that was limited to little press and no co-star in Gal Gadot.

It’s the first of a few tightly coordinated event Disney is planning, with another set for March 15th. Again, few media outlets have been invited, a few photographers, no normal Q&A, but Gadot is scheduled to attend.

The thick cloud of horrible headlines hovering over this slow-motion train wreck is getting darker by the day.

It's Official: BlackRock’s Woke Era Is Over

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:55:20 GMT

The Wall Street Journal: When BlackRock joined a U.N.-sponsored climate coalition in March 2021, sustainability groups were thrilled.

Having the world’s largest investment firm on board instantly lent credibility to the Net Zero Asset Managers, an initiative committed to support the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Dozens of major investment managers followed BlackRock’s lead.

“BlackRock is proud to put its name behind this initiative,” Chief Executive Larry Fink said at the time.

Nearly four years later, Fink was distancing himself. NZAM got a phone call on Jan. 9: BlackRock was out. Within days, the coalition was teetering.

BlackRock’s departure from the coalition and its reversal this week on several diversity, equity and inclusion policies are the latest examples of the company’s retreat from advocating for issues related to environmental, social and corporate-governance factors.

It has been gradually walking back its ESG initiatives for years after conservatives criticized the movement as being “woke” and legal risks grew. BlackRock’s recent actions show the reversal is almost complete, though the fallout might not be. The company has been able to maintain strong results throughout the controversy, reporting record inflows last year.

Crucially, BlackRock has remained out of the crosshairs of President Trump, who has a personal relationship with Fink. Trump has publicly commended Fink for managing his money well in the past, and Fink and other BlackRock executives still have the Trump team’s ear on economic issues, according to people familiar with the matter.

Anti-woke new Tim Allen sitcom becomes monster hit for Disney as Hollywood goes conservative

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:25:24 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: Shifting Gears starring Tim Allen has become a surprise hit on both ABC and Hulu, new numbers show. Since its debut in January, the Disney-backed sitcom has secured an average of 10 million viewers, according to Nielsen. Several experts who spoke to The Wall Street Journal this week are chalking it up to the so-called 'Trump effect.'

The show, starring an outspoken Trump supporter played by Allen, is being bolstered by an array of other programming across the industry some might view as right-leaning.

Whether it be an increasingly centered Bill Maher interviewing Kid Rock on 'Real Time' or A&E bringing back 'Duck Dynasty', it's clear Hollywood has reconsidered its programming.

Such a shift could be called sudden when put up against programming of years' past, when dramas like 'The West Wing' and HBO's 'The Newsroom' dominated the industry.

Decades later, it's become apparent producers who once politicized shows to take aim at Republicans are being given less prominent platforms - as news networks also shift operations early on in Trump's presidency.

A series of television agents and executives spoke to Journal about the dynamic, and how any hint of programming that could be perceived as 'woke' is seemingly being scrubbed.

Further fueling it are the president's legal battles with channels like ABC News and CBS's '60 Minutes', they said - likely leaving execs like Disney boss Bob Iger, not to mention Amazon Studio's Jeff Bezos, to take note.

'There is a course correction when it comes to entertainment,' Dan Abrams, host and executive producer of 'On Patrol: Live,' told the Journal Monday of what he framed as a clandestine campaign.

'There has been a bit of a wake-up call - not just in Trump being elected but in the lead-up as well.'

Inside Grok's war on woke

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 03:32:47 GMT

Business Insider Reports: I s it OK to misgender Caitlyn Jenner to prevent a nuclear apocalypse? Is it possible to be racist against white people? How do you define a Black person?

These are among the sample prompts xAI has used in training its chatbot Grok, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider. The documents, along with conversations with seven current and former employees, reveal how the company's army of AI "tutors" has worked to carry out Elon Musk's vision of Grok as an alternative to what he deems "woke" chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Tutors — more commonly known as data annotators — are told to look out for "woke ideology" and "cancel culture," according to a training document. The document defines wokeness as "aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)."

"Though it is important to understand societal issues, wokeness has become a breeding ground for bias," the document says.

It lists certain topics that Grok should avoid unless prompted, including what the company calls "social phobias" like racism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism. It also suggests avoiding "activism" centered on politics and climate. Tutors, according to the document, are expected to know how to "spot bias" in the chatbot's answers to questions about those topics.

A spokesperson for xAI did not respond to requests for comment.

Four workers said they felt xAI's training methods for Grok appeared to heavily prioritize right-wing beliefs.

"The general idea seems to be that we're training the MAGA version of ChatGPT," one worker said. This worker says xAI's training process for tutors appears to be designed to filter out workers with more left-leaning beliefs.

Is ‘Dark Woke’ the Answer to Trumpism—or Just Liberal Cringe?

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:06:21 GMT

GQ Reports: Soon after Donald Trump was sworn in for the second time, the internet started to fill up with clips of leftist vengeance, like the video of an anonymous body sprinting up to a Cybertruck and defacing its silver sheen with spray paint and a woman saying she used her daughter’s inheritance to buy a Corvette in reprisal for her having voted for Trump.

This is “dark woke.” It’s the newest evolution of what was once labeled, in Trump’s first term, the dirtbag left—a name for young progressives who weren’t afraid to viciously mock their political opponents. It’s things that you wouldn’t normally say or do, made acceptable because they’re directed at Republicans. The idea is to subvert the qualities that people think made wokeness cringe—the virtue policing, the polite “when they go low, we go high” posturing—and go Joker Mode to Make Democrats Cool Again.

What qualifies for dark woke, per social media: A kid calling Trump “GAY,” A$AP Rocky calling homophobia in hip-hop “retarded” in 2012, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez telling the woman behind the Libs of TikTok account to “cry more” and asking if she’s triggered. One viral tweet described a dismal Travis Kelce stat from the Super Bowl—0 RECEPTIONS IN POSTSEASON FIRST HALF FOR FIRST TIME IN CAREER—as dark woke.

The flurry of these memes comes in direct opposition to the flood of new executive orders every week, as Trump and Elon Musk attempt to dismantle the government in real time. Over the next four years, liberals will test a slew of stances and slogans to see what sticks—and this is just the first spark of a wider reaction to Trump 2.0. There are already some hints of elected Democrats adopting it: see California Rep. Robert Garcia saying he’s imitating Marjorie Taylor Greene’s playbook by bringing a “dick pic”—a photo of Musk—to a DOGE subcommittee meeting.

The culture war has splintered into a million digital skirmishes, where viral tweets can have butterfly effects, creating the illusion that one side is more dominant (depending on what your algorithm surfaces). Surfing sites like X now can make it feel like you’re trapped in a digital Times Square, where every screen is blasting some new atrocity or slur-filled post or far-right harassment campaign.

It’s frustrating, and “dark woke” offers something like an alternative. It could serve as a cathartic release for the many jaded progressives fed up with the tame grandstanding and insipid inertia of their party’s leaders. And maybe at best, dark woke memes infesting the content streams will prime centrist Democrats for hardcore leftist awakenings. But right now, it mostly feels like an algorithmic fad built on quick thrills, destined to become cringe just like “Dark Brandon” did. It’s a meme, not a movement, and many people are already dismissive of it.

Kathleen Kennedy Crushes Star Wars Fans Again by Not Retiring

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:43:11 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The best news Star Wars fans have received since we watched in disgust as Luke Skywalker tossed away his father’s lightsaber in The Last Jedi (2017), is that Lucasfilm would dump franchise serial killer Kathleen Kennedy by the end of this year.

Well, once again, Kennedy has decided to crush the hopes and dreams of Star Wars fans by announcing that she is not retiring. All the news about her retiring was fake news.

Or, is it…?

After six paragraphs of far-left Deadline shamelessly sucking up to Kennedy — “Kennedy arguably is the most successful female producer/executive in Hollywood history … a first-ballot Hall of Famer, not someone who deserves to be batted around like a piñata” — the CorporateSpeak is off the charts.

The whole interview is premised on the news of her retirement as Lucasfilm boss being fake news. Here is her answer to the first question…

“The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies. That is the first thing that’s important to say. I am not retiring.”

Okay, but then we get this…

“What’s happening at Lucasfilm is I have been talking for quite some time with both Bob and Alan about what eventual succession might look like.”

And then, later in the interview, we get this exchange:

DEADLINE: How far down the road do you expect before a change gets made and then you go off and produce these two big Star Wars things?

KENNEDY: We’ll probably make an announcement months or a year out, and I have every intention of sticking around to help that person be successful. I’m already producing the Mandalorian movie, and Shawn Levy’s is after that.

The “change” here is Kennedy stepping down as Lucasfilm boss “months or a year out.”

Former Bond villain has solution to prevent spy franchise from going woke

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:36:31 GMT

Fox News Reports: Former Bond villain Robert Davi was concerned about the future of the 007 franchise even before the bombshell news it would be leaving the hands of a family dynasty.

For decades, the James Bond franchise has been under the creative control of the Broccoli family, first under Albert Romolo Broccoli, nicknamed "Cubby," and co-producer Harry Saltzman. It then fell under the care of his daughter, Barbara Broccoli, and his stepson, Michael G. Wilson.

But on Thursday, the entertainment world was rocked by the news that they'd be giving the reins to Amazon MGM studios. Now, Amazon MGM Studios, Wilson and Broccoli have formed a new joint venture to house the James Bond intellectual property rights. The three parties will remain co-owners of the iconic franchise, but Amazon MGM will have creative control, Variety reported.

Since Daniel Craig officially hung up his hat as Bond with his final film, "No Time to Die," there has been constant chatter about what direction the franchise will be taking next. Rumors have swirled that there could even be a female Bond or a gay Bond for the next installment.

Davi, who played the Bond villain Franz Sanchez in "Licence to Kill," recalled having a close relationship with "Cubby" and his wife Dana, and weighed in on where the franchise is headed in comments made before the Amazon announcement, admitting he's concerned that Bond may go "woke."

"I hope it doesn't," Davi, an outspoken conservative, told Fox News Digital. "You know, I was very close to 'Cubby' Broccoli and his wife, Dana, and the legacy... And they were, as far as I'm concerned, they were Ronald Reagan conservatives and wonderful people. And you know, I think if we succumb to every fad – especially one that's not based on total science – it's a little frightening."

Davi said a simple solution would be to create a whole new character, instead of completely changing the lead fans have come to know and love as the masculine and woman-chasing 007.

Rachel Maddow Staff Get Axed Amid MSNBC Shake Up

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:11:37 GMT

TV Insider Reports: The major shake-up at MSNBC continues to affect both on-camera talent and behind-the-scenes staff, with a new report claiming the majority of the team on Rachel Maddow‘s prime-time news show is being let go.

As reported by The Guardian on Tuesday (February 25), most of Maddow’s production team are set to lose their jobs, though sources told the outlet the staff will be given the option to claim severance or reapply for new roles at the network.

The publication notes that Maddow, who hosts MSNBC’s highest-rated show Mondays to Fridays, will get to keep her executive producer, Cory Gnazza, in addition to several other senior producers. However, the rest of her team will be axed, along with producers who worked on recently canceled shows hosted by Joy Reid, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mohyeldin, and José Díaz-Balart.

On Monday (February 24), Maddow opened her show by speaking out against MNSBC for canceling Reid’s show, in addition to Alex Wagner losing her nightly prime-time show. “Personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let [Reid] walk out the door. It is not my call, and I understand that. But that’s what I think,” she said.

She also called it “unnerving” that “both of our non-white hosts in prime time are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend.”

The Guardian reports that Maddow’s team was let go due to a “quirk” of how they worked on both Maddow’s and Wagner’s shows. Maddow had previously scaled back to hosting only Mondays but has returned to five nights a week for the first 100 days of President Trump‘s term. Wagner previously hosted Tuesday to Friday.

Kathleen Kennedy Reportedly Leaving Lucasfilm But Can New Leadership Save ‘Star Wars’?

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:22:27 GMT

Forbes Reports: One of the most controversial figures in modern Star Wars could be bowing out by the end of 2025 according to a new report.

According to the report from Puck a source with knowledge of Kennedy’s plans says she intends to retire once her current contract ends, though another anonymous source rebuked these claims as “pure speculation.”

Kennedy joined Lucasfilm in 2012, co-chairing the company alongside George Lucas, and became president when Disney acquired the company for $4 billion shortly thereafter. Her tenure has been a mixed success.

Kennedy’s accomplishments include the excellent Disney+ live-action Star Wars shows The Mandalorian and Andor and some big box office wins but the bigger picture has been one of disarray, as Star Wars slides further and further into cultural and commercial irrelevance. The last two Disney+ Star Wars series were unmitigated failures.

Both The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew had the worst viewership numbers of the entire franchise. While other Star Wars Disney+ offerings were more successful, it’s hard to look at Obi-Wan or The Book Of Boba Fett as anything but lackluster TV shows that failed to capture the magic and imagination of the Star Wars legacy.

Meanwhile, the House of Mouse has struggled to find lasting success on the big screen with what ought to have been a slam dunk for Disney rivaling its success with the MCU. While the sequel trilogy saw big box office numbers (The Force Awakens remains the top-grossing film in US box-office history at $936 million domestic / $2 billion globally) it also managed to divide the fanbase.

The fact that a coherent story and direction for the three sequel movies wasn’t conceived prior to filming remains one of modern cinema’s most egregious unforced errors.

Filmmakers Jon and Andrew Erwin launch a Christian 'revolution' in Hollywood

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 04:00:21 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: There have been scattered efforts by Christians to influence this powerful medium. The late evangelist Billy Graham created World Wide Pictures in the 1950s, which went on to make over 100 films. But most of those films struggled to find an audience outside churches.

In the 1980s and 1990s, smaller, independent filmmakers — among them, my former film school professor Edward McDougal — attempted to blaze a trail in an industry that was indifferent and often hostile to Christianity. Alex and Stephen Kendrick's 2008 hit "Fireproof" earned enough at the box office to put faith-based films on Hollywood’s radar.

More recently, Angel Studios has used its unique crowdfunding model to perform a successful end run around the traditional Hollywood system. Likewise, Dallas Jenkins’ "The Chosen" series has become such a phenomenon that it now draws fans to an annual event called “ChosenCon.”

The Erwin brothers break through

Then there are writer-director-producers Andrew and Jon Erwin, often credited on-screen as “the Erwin brothers.” With fellow filmmakers such as Jon Gunn (director of the terrific films "The Case for Christ" and "Ordinary Angels," among others) and Jenkins, they've formed a sort of Christian "fellowship of the Ring" — dedicated to storming the gates of Mordor/Hollywood.

What's remarkable about the Erwin brothers is that their success has earned them a seat at the Hollywood table. It's a seat they seem intent on keeping, as they work within a system that has long neglected the Christian audience.

Riding the momentum of their hit "I Can Only Imagine," the Erwins teamed with producing partners Kevin Downes and Tony Young to launch Kingdom Story Company in 2019. A distribution deal with Lionsgate soon followed.

Kingdom Story Company’s 2023 film "Jesus Revolution" (co-directed by Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle) raised the bar for Christian movies, employing top-notch talent to tell a truly touching story about authentic Christian faith. Kingdom’s latest film, "The Unbreakable Boy" (directed by Jon Gunn and starring Zachary Levi) hits theaters February 21. And Andrew Erwin recently announced that a sequel to "I Can Only Imagine" is in development.

Far-Left Target Stores Face Backlash After DEI Retreat

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:29:24 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Far-left Target is facing a glorious customer backlash after retreating from its fascist DEI programs.

If you recall, back in 2023, the groomers at Target used Pride Week as an excuse to queer little children, including drag shows featuring little kids. Target even went so far as to hire a Satanist to design a Gay Pride clothing line.

This is a once-respected company that went entirely off the rails, and the backlash among us Normal People was brutal.

Well, now that President Trump has signed an executive order outlawing the bigotry of DEI, Target has supposedly rolled back some of its racist hiring practices. But because Target alienated us Normal People, a large part of the retailer’s remaining customers are leftists. In other words, Target painted itself into a corner when it lost its Normal People customers. Now the big box store must keep its customer base of leftists happy.

Well, that’s not easy to do. We Normal People want politics out of things like shopping and sports, which makes us pretty easy to please. Leftists, however, demand you prove your fealty by championing their politics 24/7, and any retreat on this will result in a brutal backlash. So all I can say to Target is, Ha ha, you got this coming…

“Jamal Bryant, a prominent pastor in Atlanta, has called for a 40-day boycott of Target beginning in March,” reports far-left CNN. “More than 50,000 have signed the online pledge.”

Christian animated series 'Gabriel and the Guardians' to get its own comic adaptation with Rippaverse

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:44:43 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: A Christian anime series is heading to print after hosting an incredibly successful crowdfund that spawned the series.

Angel Studios, the company behind the film "Sound of Freedom," ran a massively successful campaign for the new animated show that garnered over $550,000 and promised to deliver 13 episodes. With just under 1,500 backers, the show drew a whopping average contribution of over $370 per person.

Now that the series is coming to fruition, Rippaverse Comics will bring the show to print as its own manga-style comic series.

The move is part of what has become a massive swing in the media space in terms of publishing and content.

For starters, "Gabriel and the Guardians" is inspired by ancient Hebrew text, taking themes from sources like the book of Genesis. The story follows Gabriel, a celestial guardian who is tasked with recovering a powerful artifact. The show features themes of identity, faith, and the Bible, which are not often broached in an animated series of this caliber.

At the same time, Rippaverse Comics has pushed its way into the publishing space with a firm stance of focusing on content, not progressive themes.

Rippaverse Comics founder and BlazeTV contributor Eric July called the new partnership a "gift from the Lord."

"Couldn't be more grateful," July added in an X post.

Disney’s Latest Sneak Peek for ‘Snow White’ Gets 84K Dislikes in Just Two Days

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:10:16 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The latest sneak peek for the Walt Disney Company’s live-action remake of Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler, is getting hammered online, with the video receiving 84,000 “dislikes” on YouTube in just two days.

Disney released the sneak peek video over the weekend as part of the studio’s massive publicity effort to pump up public enthusiasm for the troubled movie, which has been plagued by delays, negative publicity surrounding its leading lady, and a budget that is estimated to be near $300 million.

Online reaction to the latest trailer has so far been vicious, with the video getting pummeled with 84,000 “dislikes” in two days — more than 15 times the number of “likes.” YouTube hides the “dislikes” counter on its app and on most browsers, but a Google Chrome extension can bypass the cloaking mechanism.

The site That Park Place was the first to report on the negative reaction to the video.

Snow White, which is set to open in cinemas March 21, stars Rachel Zegler as the fairytale princess alongside Gal Gadot as the evil witch. Disney originally planned to release the big-budget movie in early 2024 but delayed the opening by a full year following rumors of extensive reshoots.

Zegler recently exacerbated the situation by insulting supporters of President Donald Trump.

Staffers Feel Abandoned By Bob Iger, Pandering to Keep MAGA Happy

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:34:17 GMT

Breitbart Reports: It’s been a brutal week for Disney.

Several anxiety-ridden senior staffers ran to the left-leaning Hollywood trade publication Deadline to bash CEO Bob Iger, accusing him of capitulating to President Donald Trump through a series of moves that have Disney employees across the company wondering “What’s next? Where do we go from here? What do we stand for now, keeping MAGA happy?”

“This is not what I expected from Bob — I thought he had our back,” an unnamed staffer told the outlet of Iger.

On Monday, Captain America: Brave New World, Disney’s latest attempt to recapture its diminished box office magic, announced a final forecast opening of $70 to $85 million. “For a new Marvel movie, especially a Captain America movie, those are not very promising numbers,” Breitbart’s John Nolte noted.

Tuesday dumped dueling disastrous headlines on Bob Iger’s desk. “Disney Executives Worried as Soaring Prices Drive Families Away from Theme Parks,” read one Breitbart headline while “Disney Drops Two DEI Programs as Investor Backlash Grows” read another. The latter headline led to Disney employees saying they feel abandoned by Iger.

Wednesday’s news coverage on the Captain America 4 world premiere in Los Angeles on Tuesday night was dominated by reports of the protesters who crashed the glitzy event, waving signs and shouting “free Palestine” and “boycott Disney.”

Disney Waters Down Its Stupid Trigger Warnings on Older Movies

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:20:24 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate has watered down its fascist trigger warnings that told people how to think about its older movies.

Starting in 2020, after the death of George Floyd fueled and emboldened the Woke Gestapo, classic Disney titles such as The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, The Aristocrats, Dumbo, and The Swiss Family Robinson were vandalized with labels looking to shame viewers who dared enjoy them.

“The updated content warnings for other classic Disney animated and live action titles like Swiss Family Robinson and Dumbo follow the studio consulting with a third-party advisory council that includes groups like the African American Film Critics Association, Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and GLAAD,” the far-left Hollywood Reporter reported at the time.

This meant that viewers were told some variation of this pandering:

This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe.

All I can say about that is … this .

Specific movies inspired specific attacks.

Peter Pan (1953) fans were told the movie “neither reflects the diversity of Native peoples nor their authentic cultural traditions.” Jungle Book (1968) fans were warned “that King Louie, the jazz-singing orangutan, was intended as a racist caricature of African Americans.” Fans of Dumbo (1941) were told the movie’s crows “ridiculed enslaved Africans on Southern plantations” and that the Siamese cat in The Aristocats (1970) “depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples.”

It’s all so stupid and condescending, not to mention dishonest. We all know the difference between ridiculing and demeaning a culture and not. Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is difficult to watch. His comedic take on Asians is not good-natured. The black crows in Dumbo might be stereotypical but they are also smart, likable, and even given character arcs as their sympathy with Dumbo grows. Nuance matters. Common sense matters. Let’s not be dumb.

USAID Primer Claim: Gaming Sites” Spread “Problematic Information

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:53:36 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: With the recent shuffle occurring around the United States Agency for International Development, a deeper look into their work has revealed that the organization’s central “Disinformation Primer” listed “gaming sites” as notable sources of potential disinformation.

As covered en masse as part of the current news cycle, shortly after being sworn in for his second term on January 20th, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring that “From this day forward, the foreign policy of the United States shall champion core American interests and always put America and American citizens first.”

From there, the weekend of February 1st saw employees from the Department of Government Efficiency and their boss Elon Musk, who is now seemingly the sole head of the department following Vivek Ramaswamy’s sudden exit, set their sights on USAID and began gutting the entirety of its operation.

In the days since this development, more and more scrutiny has been placed on USAID’s past work history, with many individuals taking the opportunity to scour the organization’s publicly released writings in search of anything that may shed light on whether or whether not their funds were truly being mismanaged.

And it was as a result of this newfound attention that the group’s official “Disinformation Primer” was brought to public light.

Created in 2021 through a collaboration between USAID’s Joshua Machleder and Shannon Maguire and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago’s Susan Abbbott, Renée Hendley, and Luis Camacho, the primer serves to help “USAID staff and partners to understand the basics of disinformation, how it is spread, why it is spread, and how programming can help reduce its damaging impact on societies around the world.”

Disney dumps two DEI programs as investors pressure company to ax more woke initiatives

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 03:02:07 GMT

NY Post Reports: Disney is reportedly pulling back on its diversity, equity and inclusion policies — the latest major company to walk back the woke initiatives amid pressure from activist investors and the Trump administration.

The media giant — which saw its bottom line hurt by the battle over Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — quietly dropped its “Reimagine Tomorrow” program from the DEI section of its 2024 SEC 10-K report, according to a recent regulatory filing

The program, which was mentioned in its 2023 report, has a mission statement of “amplifying underrepresented voices and features some of Disney’s DE&I commitments and action,” according to its w ebsite .

The initiative promised 50% of regular and recurring characters across the Disney universe would come from “underrepresented groups.” The program sparked outrage in 2022 when a company-wide Zoom call was leaked on social media .

One Disney executive touted her “not at all secret gay agenda” at the company, while another boasted that the company was ditching the words “ladies, gentlemen, boys, and girls” at its theme parks in order to not alienate transgender children.

Although the program’s website is still up and running, Stefan Padfield, director of the Free Enterprise Project for the National Center for Public Policy Research, told Fox News Digital on Monday that its exclusion from the SEC filing could signal change at the Mouse House.

EA CEO Admits BioWare’s ‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’ Failed Because “It Did Not Resonate With A Broad Enough Audience In This Highly Competitive Market”

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:37:52 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: In continuing to publicly cop to the failure of BioWare’s latest release, EA CEO Andrew Wilson has admitted to investors that the failure of Dragon Age: The Veilguard was primarily motivated by the fact that the heavy-handed RPG “did not resonate” with a financially-profitable amount of players.

Wilson offered this post-mortem reflection on The Veilguard while addressing attendees of EA’s Q3 2025 Earnings Cal l, as held on February 4th.

Opening the meeting with a brief summary of the company’s less-than-stellar performance in the relevant quarter, Wilson bluntly confirmed to investors that “Q3 was not the financial performance we wanted or expected.”

Proceeding to note how “great titles even when built and delivered with polished execution can sometimes miss our financial expectations,” the CEO then explained to his audience that “In order to break out beyond the core audience, games need to directly connect to the evolving demand of players who increasingly seek shared world features and deeper engagement alongside high-quality narratives in this beloved category.”

To this end, he then affirmed, that while “Dragon Age had a high-quality launch and was well reviewed by critics and those who played,” the BioWare RPG ultimately “did not resonate with a broad enough audience in this highly competitive market.”

Following a subsequent review of both the quarterly underperformance of the EA Sports brand, itself a result of “lower-than-expected engagement” with the series’ 2025 release, and the company’s forward facing initiatives, Wilson was succeeded on the call by EA CFO Stuart Canfield, who used his time to provide a deeper look into the financial effects of these stumbles.

“In Q3, net bookings were $2.2 billion, down 6% year-over-year,” he told investors. “Dragon Age: The Veilguard underperformed, highlighting the competitive dynamics of the single-player RPG market and EA Sports FC 25 started strong, but softened through the holiday period. We saw minimal impact from [foreign currency conversion rates] within the quarter. Within total net bookings, full game was $633 million, down 3% year-over-year and live services and other was $1.58 billion, down 8% year-over-year. On a trailing 12-month basis, live services are 74% of our business.”

Disney+ Streaming Service Sheds 1 Million Subscribers Following Price Hike

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:27:33 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Disney’s traditional television business continues to decline with operating income at so-called linear networks dropping sharply by 11 percent to $1.1 billion in the last financial quarter.

Subscribers for the company’s flagship streaming video service, Disney+, slipped one percent from the prior quarter to 124.6 million, Reuters reports.

The company had warned of a drop in subscribers because of a price increase that took effect in October. It also forecast a modest decline in Disney+ subscribers in the second quarter, compared to the first.

Advertisers are also hesitant to engage with Disney+.

As Breitbart News reported, the streaming service is reportedly facing an exodus of advertisers from its ad-supported tier after subscriptions failed to meet expectations last year and several high-profile Star Wars and other Lucasfilm series flopped with viewers.

The Left won’t let go of woke So much for the ‘vibe shift’

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 03:53:25 GMT

UnHeard Reports: “Wokeness” is receding, according to the mainstream conventional wisdom. Having peaked in the plague-and-reckoning year 2020, the story goes, Left identity politics and the disciplinary practices that usually go with them have been on a downward trajectory ever since. The election of 2024 decisively affirmed the decline of woke: how could progressives continue to use terms like “Latinx” when half of Latino men pulled for Donald Trump’s GOP at the ballot box?

But the woke Left apparently hasn’t received the memo. Witness the social-media mobbing of Vivek Chibber, a professor of sociology at New York University and the editor of the socialist journal Catalyst, after he dared to historically analyse wokeness as an illiberal, authoritarian tendency.

Chibber made his comments last week on a Jacobin magazine podcast titled Confronting Capitalism: The End of Wokeness. It triggered a firestorm of angry “X” comments that ranged from mischaracterising him as a Right-wing goon to outright obscenity. Ajay Singh Chaudhary, the director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, dismissed Chibber’s critique of wokeness as “tripe” and a “carbon copy” of the Right’s.

Laleh Khalili, a Mideast scholar at the University of Exeter, denounced Chibber as a “brownshirt waving a red flag.” William Clare Roberts, an assistant professor of politics at McGill University, suggested that Chibber is “no different” from liberal writers like Matt Yglesias or Jonathan Chait: “I am weary of having to treat him like he’s a serious thinker on the socialist left, much less a Marxist”. Many other commenters didn’t even bother with full sentences. Instead, they simply called Chibber a “paedophile” and the like.

So much for the vibe shift. But what did Chibber actually say that so incensed the professional Left? Perhaps it was because he dared to point out that wokeness is not popular. Or perhaps it was his definition of wokeness that rankled its acolytes: Chibber defined wokeness as a professional-class movement for social justice that excludes socialism from its political project and that is highly intolerant to boot.

Trump signs executive order aiming to cut federal funding for woke schools

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:11:38 GMT

MSN Reports: President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aiming to cut federal funding for some schools as part of his goal to rid America’s schools of perceived "wokeness" and "left-wing indoctrination."

He says he wants to end classroom lessons on gender identity and structural racism, to abolish diversity and inclusion offices, and wants to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports.

What's in the executive order

The executive order is titled, "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling."

The order aims to eliminate what it describes as "radical, anti-American ideologies" in K-12 education, which it claims undermine parental rights, promote racial division, and encourage gender identity discussions without parental consent.

"In recent years, however, parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight," the order stated. " In many cases, innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics."

"In other instances, young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed," the order continued. "These practices not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity."

Netflix announces ‘Little House on the Prairie’ reboot, raising concerns about a woke take on the West

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:08:19 GMT

Desert News Reports: Laura Ingalls Wilder is coming to Netflix, and some potential viewers think it’ll be a bumpy ride.

The streaming giant unveiled its plans for a “Little House on the Prairie” adaption on Wednesday, noting that the goal is to offer a “kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the American West.”

“‘Little House on the Prairie’ has captured the hearts and imaginations of so many fans around the world, and we’re excited to share its enduring themes of hope and optimism with a fresh take on this iconic story,” said Jinny Howe, Netflix’s vice president of Drama Series, in a statement.

While many fans of the book series celebrated the news, others questioned why Netflix described the upcoming show as a “reimagining.”

“They lost me at ‘reimagining,’” one X user wrote.

Several replies to and reposts of Netflix’s X post about the series included questions about whether it would respect the conservative nature of the original books.

Through her writing, Wilder promoted values like independence, faith in God and family togetherness.

“Netflix if you wokeify Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project,” wrote Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News host who now headlines a Sirius XM show, in a post on X.

Captain America Actor: Captain America Shouldn’t Represent America

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:50:22 GMT

NY Post Reports: Anthony Mackie is not a hero to everyone right now.

The Marvel actor, 46, is facing online backlash for comments he made at a “Captain America: Brave New World” press event in Rome, Italy, on Monday.

Mackie, who is taking over the role of Captain America from Chris Evans in the upcoming film, said that he doesn’t think the star-spangled superhero “represents” America.

“For me, Captain America represents a lot of different things and I don’t think the term, you know, ‘America’ should be one of those representations,” the actor said to the audience.

“It’s about a man who keeps his word, who has honor, dignity and integrity,” he continued. “Someone who is trustworthy and dependable.”

Mackie, the first Black actor to play Captain America, also said that the role is “kind of like an aspect of a dream coming true” for him.

Mackie’s comments about Captain America went viral on social media, sparking a negative reaction from many X users.

“Well that’s sure to sit well with your American audience,” one person wrote on the app formerly known as Twitter.

‘Snow White’ Spoof Scores Three Times the Views in Three Days Than a Disney Sneak Peek Trailer in Three Months

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:04:21 GMT

Breitbart Reports: A music video spoof of the upcoming Disney live-action remake of Snow White is proving to be a viral sensation, garnering nearly 1.2 million views in just three day — more than three times the number of views an actual Disney sneak peek video has received in three months.

The spoof video brings together some of the meanest social media comments about Snow White and sets them to a hard rock beat. The video was posted to the YouTube account known as “Chat Music” — which roasts popular social media posts, memes, and other online phenomena.

Among the comments featured in the spoof video are “If I saw this movie on a plane, I’d still walkout”; “This trailer makes me want to sit on the TV and look at my couch”; and “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the biggest Disney flop of all?”

As of Monday, the spoof had garnered 1.18 million views on YouTube since being posted on Friday. An actual Disney sneak peek of Snow White has been seen 342,000 times after being released three months ago.

Snow White is set to open in cinemas on March 21.

The big budget remake has caused a series of publicity headaches for the Walt Disney Company, with actress Rachel Zegler recently insulting the 77.3 million Americans who voted for President Donald Trump, saying they are part of a “deep, deep sickness in this country.”

Robby Starbuck: How Target Is Ending Woke Policies

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:39:13 GMT

Real Clear Politics Reports: ROBBY STARBUCK: All right, most of y'all already know what I do here. We expose woke companies and we get them changed and today we've got a new company to talk about and that company is Target. Target, as many of you know, has had a major wokeness problem for years now.

You might remember this and who could miss the tuck-friendly swimsuit that people found in their stores? Target was put on notice at the end of November that we were coming for them when we were able to flip the woke policies at Target. Knowing that a story was coming, Target executives wisely got together and figured out how to get rid of some of these woke policies.

And when we learned they were making changes, we decided to focus on the changes instead of going through and exposing all the crazy stuff, which can happen at a later date if they continue with craziness. However, we wanted to focus on the changes today because change is the name of the game and we are very pleased to see them make some changes and I'm gonna lay out to you what they are changing. Let's dive right into change number one.

The page you're looking at behind me is the human rights campaign corporate equality index score for the Target Corporation of which they had a 100% score. If you don't know about the Human Rights Campaign CEI scoring system, it has nothing to do with human rights. In fact, the Human Rights Campaign is probably the most Orwellian name for an organization I've ever seen because they do positively nothing for human rights.

They are focused entirely on spreading and pushing the trans agenda and forcing it into your workplace and into your cities. So the Target Corporation is no longer going to be participating in the HRC CEI scoring system. This is going to be going bye-bye.

They are not going to participate anymore and not only that but they are going to pull back and they will not have merchandise marketed to kids for pride going forward. I should note that to get this 100% score, you have to provide transition coverage for your employees and their dependents. You have to sponsor LGBTQ plus events every year.

Disgraced, Far-left CNN to Lay off Hundreds as Viewership Collapses

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:01:30 GMT

Breitbart Reports: CNN, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and political violence, is set to lay off hundreds, according to various reports that have me so excited I’m having to call my doctor every four hours.

“CNN is reportedly set to lay off ‘hundreds’ of employees in the early days of President Trump’s second administration,” reports Fox Business. “CEO Mark Thompson will announce to his staff about the network cuts on Thursday[.]”

Naturally, over at CNN, the rich stay rich: Per CNBC, these layoffs “won’t affect CNN’s most recognizable names, who are under contract.” Gee, Jake Tapper could do a lot of good if he were willing to contribute just half of his reported annual $7 million salary to save those jobs. But he won’t because he loves the troops.

The layoffs come as CNN is rearranging its linear TV lineup and building out digital subscription products. The cuts will help CNN lower production costs and consolidate teams, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss nonpublic changes.

Certain shows that are produced in New York or Washington may move to Atlanta, where production can be done more cheaply, said the people.

Back to Atlanta, you go.

As Breitbart News reported previously, if you wanted to buy CNN in 2021, it would’ve cost you $4.4 billion. Today, you can buy the fake outlet for about half that: $2.3 billion.

Why?

The primary reason is a drop in gross revenue of $400 million over a mere three years. In 2021, CNN grossed $2.2 billion. In 2023, that number dropped to $1.8 billion. In that same period, CNN’s profits sunk from $600 million to $400 million.

CNN is dying.

Here’s How Woke Federal Employees Could Keep DEI Alive In Defiance Of Trump’s Order

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:45:16 GMT

Daily Wire Reports: President Donald Trump signed an executive order purging diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from the federal government. But groups of left-leaning bureaucrats could keep DEI alive if left unchecked.

Shortly after Trump signed his executive order, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a memo to executive agencies directing them to put their DEI officials on leave and report any attempts within the departments to rename and conceal DEI efforts. The memo asks agency heads to “send an agency-wide notice to employees informing them of the closure and asking employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.”

One such effort, The Daily Wire has learned, could be undertaken by employee resource groups (ERGs), identity-based organizations that were central to the Biden administration’s DEI agenda. Many ERGs function as de facto DEI offices, offering trainings, organizing conferences, and enforcing DEI policies in their agency. ERGs tend to be very left-wing, and in some cases only accept people if they belong to a certain race or share a specific sexual orientation.

Activist and reporter Robby Starbuck, known for fighting DEI in corporate America, told The Daily Wire that ERGs will be central to efforts to defy Trump’s order.

“Affinity groups like ERG’s are the hotbed where left wing radicalization occurs. We’ve seen it in company after company through our investigations,” Starbuck said. “The federal government must disband these divisive groups who control entry on the basis of race or sexual proclivity preferences. These groups are where many of the DEI schemes are hatched and I guarantee it’s the hotbed for planning how to conceal DEI in defiance of the President.”

Trump reverses Biden’s woke policies, bolsters energy production, pardons Jan. 6 defendants

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:09:04 GMT

Washington Times Reports: Many of the core policies and practices of the Biden administration were halted Monday with the stroke of President Trump’s pen as he began implementing his agenda with a record number of Day 1 executive actions.

Mr. Trump didn’t wait until he arrived at the White House to reverse Mr. Biden’s policies. He brought a folder of executive orders and signed nine at Capital One Arena, where he met with supporters and watched the inaugural parade diverted inside because of frigid temperatures.

“We are restoring control of our government to the people,” Mr. Trump told a roaring crowd. Many of his immediate actions aim to secure the southern border, a top campaign promise.

Mr. Trump also sought to address the economy, another top voter concern. He declared a national energy emergency, withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, which he called a “rip-off,” and taking other actions to boost reliable energy production and “drill baby drill,” as he frequently promised during his campaign.

He declared an end to all diversity, equality and inclusion programs in the federal government and said he would reverse Mr. Biden’s policies promoting transgender rights.

The federal government, he said, would recognize only two genders: male and female.

Mr. Trump later signed pardons for about 1,500 people and commutations for six people convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Some remain in prison, and Mr. Trump labeled the group “the J6 hostages.”

Team behind upcoming animated Pixar movie 'struggled' with order to cut out environmentalist message

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:20:03 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: A team working on an animated Pixar film reportedly struggled after being ordered to cut out the environmentalist message at the center of the plot.

The development was reported by the Hollywood Reporter and hailed by many as the latest in victories by opponents of woke politicization in popular media.

The Hollywood Reporter cited a former Pixar artist who had worked on "Hoppers," an upcoming film about a human being and a beaver who swap bodies. The artist claimed that environmentalism had been ordered out of the project.

“Unfortunately, when you have your whole film based around the importance of environmentalism, you can’t really walk back on that,” said the artist. “That team struggled a lot to figure out, ‘What do we even do with this note?'”

The report comes soon after Disney ordered creators to drop references to a character being transgender in "Win or Lose," a series developed by Pixar Animation Studios that is scheduled to be released in February on the Disney+ platform. The character was voiced by a transgender actor and had been written to describe struggling with gender dysphoria.

Disney confirmed that the decision was made to ease parental concerns despite outrage from left-wing activists.

Domestic Movie Ticket Sales Have Collapsed 46 Percent Since 2004

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 02:24:20 GMT

Breitbart Reports: If you go back 20 years to 2004, ticket sales have dropped from 1.495 billion to 817.9 million, or an astonishing 46 percent. Naturally, Hollywood and its minions in the entertainment media will blame everything but a shitty product.

Oh, it’s the pandemic (that is now four years old). Oh, it’s streaming (as though streaming wasn’t around in 2020). Oh, it’s racism and sexism and toxic fandom and everything but our shitty product.

Riddle me this, Penske Corrupt Media Monopoly And Studio Butt-Smoochers: If streaming is stealing movie theater customers, why did the average American cut their streaming costs by 23 percent last year?

Lemme guess, that’s also the fault of the pandemic.

No, no, no, it must have been the strikes!

No, it must be that movie theaters are stealing streaming customers!

Wait! I know what it is: streaming customers are stealing streaming customers!

What else could it be? Because it surely isn’t your shitty product, is it? If the dogs refuse the dog food, the problem can’t possibly be the dog food. It’s like I pointed out earlier this week…

Movie theaters are like carnivals. Each theater is its own attraction. If you offer ten attractions and three break attendance records while no one lines up for the other seven, the problem is not that people have stopped attending carnivals. The problem is that seven of your attractions suck.

‘A Huge Win’: Woke Climate Cartel Goes Belly Up

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:42:31 GMT

Daily Caller Reports: The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) coalition — a United Nations–sponsored collection of financial services companies that have pledged to negate their portfolio’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner — suspended activities after investment firm BlackRock announced its departure from the group, according to a press release.

BlackRock, which manages over $10 trillion and has been a leader in environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, announced its exit from NZAM Thursday, with its vice-chair Philipp Hildebrand saying the firm’s involvement in the environmental coalition “caused confusion regarding BlackRock’s practices and subjected us to legal inquiries from various public officials.” Now, NZAM has pressed pause altogether, halting operations while it conducts a review of its activities, an NZAM press release published Monday stated.

“Recent developments in the U.S. and different regulatory and client expectations in investors’ respective jurisdictions have led to NZAM launching a review of the initiative to ensure NZAM remains fit for purpose in the new global context,” NZAM reportedly wrote in the letter. “As the initiative undergoes this review, it is suspending activities to track signatory implementation and reporting. NZAM will also remove the commitment statement and list of NZAM signatories from its website, as well as their targets and related case studies, pending the outcome of the review.”

Return to sanity with the 2024 video games of the year (unwoke edition)

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:33:02 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: F ans overwhelmingly supported games in 2024 that shied away from progressive ideologies, opting for a return to normalcy.

Whether it was through sports or some good, old-fashioned hack-and-slash, the best games of the year didn't need to sell you on nonbinary adventures; they let the gameplay do the talking.

Warhammer

The first on that list is Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. The game was well received not only by the general public but by skeptics who worried the game would take a turn toward the dark side.

As That Park Place reported in May, Warhammer lore was rewritten to ensure inclusivity to females, removing the words "sons" and "men" from older texts.

Thankfully, the only thing that was "questioning" in this game was whether the gamer should first kill the massive horde of aliens coming from his left or his right.

A sprawling landscape, while feeling choked at times, still delivered a graphically impressive title that is easy to pick up and play and even included couch co-op. Step into a giant suit of armor and kill aliens with giant swords and machine guns? Yes.

Stellar Blade fought the machine and won — multiple times. The game was plagued with bad press from the start, but for all the right reasons. First, South Korean video game director Hyung-Tae Kim was accused of sexism when he dared to make his lead character look like an actual woman.

Complaints said character Eve was an unrealistic portrayal of the female body, but it was quickly pointed out that the character was a body scan of a living person.

Disney’s Woke ‘Snow White’ Trailer Nears 1.4 Million Downvotes

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 02:11:14 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Gee, for some reason a Snow White remake that wants to gaslight us into believing Rachel “The Unibrow” Zegler is more attractive than Gal Gadot is finding itself downvoted by more than ten-to-one.

The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s live-action remake of Snow White is scheduled to dead-cat-bounce into theaters this March. The teaser trailer for this much-delayed boondoggle has now been viewed 11 million times. Still, only 100,000 have upvoted it, while 1.4 million — million — have downvoted it.

We’ve already gone over all the dumb and smug things Snow White star Rachel Zegler has said to undermine her own $350 million movie. No need to do that again. Still, Zegler and the movie have another problem: Rachel Zegler is neither likable nor appealing.

She has a smug face when Snow White should be the picture of innocence, someone we root for, worry over and care about. Zegler is so busy girlbossing, there’s nothing vulnerable about her, and it’s Snow White’s vulnerability that should pull us into the story and gives it its stakes.

The whole trailer feels so sterile and artificial, like it’s going through the woke motions. Gal Gadot, of course, is always a joy to look at, but the idea of being force-fed two hours of over-CGI’d bullshit about The Unibrow being more attractive than Wonder Woman is too much to ask of anyone.

Google Goes Full Jaguar with Christmas Ad Featuring Man in Women’s Clothing

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:50:16 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Tech giant Google has launched a woke Christmas advertisement featuring a man wearing women’s clothing who laments over having dry skin in the winter during “holiday” season. The ad has dropped just weeks after Jaguar’s disastrous ad featuring crossdressers instead of cars, earning it the moniker “Bud Light 2.0.”

In a newly-launched ad for Google Shopping, a man clad in women’s attire is seen looking at himself in his camera phone, bemoaning, “So dry,” adding, “This winter dryness is not it, especially when I have so many holiday looks to pull off!”

“Thankfully, I know just the thing,” the man continues, and then uses Google’s “Shopping” tool to search for a product that will fix his dry skin issue.

“And it’s in stock nearby!” the man exclaims upon finding a product via Google Shopping.

Social media users reacted by blasting Google over its woke Christmas ad.

“Disgusting,” the popular X account Libs of TikTok reacted.

“Google is officially a Clown Company,” another X user wrote.

Hollywood Trump Resistance Broken, Demoralized, Won’t Mass Organize — ‘Leave Your Pussy Hats at Home’

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:37:23 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Don’t expect to see Hollywood celebrities demonstrating in pussy hats on inauguration day like we did nearly eight years ago.

Hollywood’s Trump resistance faction is still in a state of shock following President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Kamala Harris, according to a new report from The Hollywood Reporter. Their demoralized state means that they won’t be mounting a broad “resistance” against the incoming president as they did back in early 2017.

“Leave your pussy hats at home,” THR advised.

Instead, Hollywood elites are reportedly re-focusing their efforts on local and down-ballot candidates, with a special focus on abortion and climate change.

“I do think that the approach will be much more micro than macro this time around,” Hannah Linkenhoker, the chief engagement officer at the industry law firm Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, told the outlet.

“We’ll see more of a focus on state and local levels. The fight to protect abortion is a good case study. You’re seeing states ratifying abortion at the state level. The abortion movement has pivoted there,” Natalie Tran, the executive director of the CAA Foundation, reportedly said.

Back in early 2017, Hollywood elites literally poured onto the mean streets of Beverly Hills to voice their resistance toward President Trump’s first term.

Get Woke, Go Broke: Pro-LGBT Fantasy Game 'Dragon Age' A Complete Failure

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:59:34 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: One of the primary complaints about the intrusion of woke ideology into popular entertainment is how it often throws the audience out of their suspension of disbelief. When you are entranced by the astonishing worlds of science fiction or fantasy movies and video games, the last thing you want to be confronted with is a character preaching real world left-wing politics.

At the very least, such discussion should be had through symbolism and allegory, not literal pontificating from a woke narrator force feeding the audience lessons about diversity, equity and inclusion. Frankly, no one cares about woke nonsense, and even if they did there's better content to inject it into and better ways to go about it.

Another problem with leftist rhetoric which many consumers complain about is that it is often used as a replacement for good writing. It doesn't seem to matter to activists if a film or book or game is compelling and entertaining, it only matters that all the right minority groups and victim groups are included in the story. The audience is expected to applaud for the mere presence of DEI and overlook the mediocre content. If they don't, well, they must be "bigots".

Anyone attempting to lace political propaganda into their storytelling must also consider that what is trendy at the time they write the project might not be very popular by the time they finish it. This is especially true of AAA video games, which often take five years or more to produce. The developers of failed ultra-woke games like Concord and Dustborn probably should have taken into account the possibility that wokeness would be widely despised by gamers and the public at large by the time they finally got a final product ready to release.

This is exactly what happened with Dragon Age: Veilguard, a pro-LGBT fantasy RPG that took over a decade to make.

The AAA game is now officially considered an embarrassment for developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts; a month of spin by gaming journalists was not enough to save it. The production hired on LGBT activist writers for character development and the game focuses specifically on trans identity - A disastrous error when one sees the cringe inducing dialogue and plot devices scattered throughout.

Walmart Caves: Massive Retailer The Next Woke Domino To Fall Under Pressure From Robby Starbuck

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 01:41:34 GMT

Daily Wire Reports: Conservative activist Robby Starbuck announced on Monday that retail giant Walmart was the next major business to abandon woke policies and practices under pressure and the threat of wider public exposure.

Starbuck, who has been systematically exposing major businesses that have implemented such practices, took to X and shared a video and a series of points he said he’d discussed with Walmart executives.

“MASSIVE news: Walmart is ending their woke policies,” Starbuck announced. “I can now exclusively tell you what’s changing and how it happened. Last week I told execs at @Walmart that I was doing a story on wokeness there. Instead we had productive conversations to find solutions.”

“I have to give their executives major credit because this will send shockwaves throughout corporate America,” Starbuck continued, adding, “This is the biggest win yet for our movement to end wokeness in corporate America.”

He went on to say that the massive retailer had actually committed to implementing a number of changes that would root out wokeness that had permeated the company culture.

Woke Department Store, Target's Stock Price In Free Fall

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:01:26 GMT

Trending Politics Reports: The ongoing battle against “woke” corporations is nearing the three-year mark, and conservatives have their sights set on one department store that hasn’t learned its lesson after previously being called out.

Target Corp., the vanguard of Pride Month clothing for children, is entering a winter of discontent after badly missing its earning mark right before the holiday season, sending its stock tumbling while shareholders fret about a much-needed change in leadership.

CNBC reported that Target’s stock slipped at the opening bell after the company reported third-quarter earnings of $1.85 per share, missing the $2.30 consensus among 29 analysts covering the company. The revenue was 19.6% lower than anticipated and led to a 21% slide in the company’s share price.

In response, Target’s leadership has slashed full-year guidance after raising it the previous quarter, Yahoo reported. Adding insult to injury, Walmart beat expectations on Wednesday, posting outperformances in quarterly same-store sales performance, online sales growth, and overall narrative to investors. Target has been cutting prices on everything from groceries to home goods in a bid to stave off the bleed.

During a call with reporters, executives had little explanation for the slide other than to speculate that consumers are being “cautious” about their spending, a defense at odds with economic reports that consumer spending remains robust despite high costs.

Target’s longtime Chairman and CEO Brian Cornell told Yahoo that supply chain disruptions played a role as warehouses overflowed with unsold inventory; still, he insisted, leadership has the “appropriate approach” for the holiday season, but is “guiding for some conservatism.”

On the year, Target’s stock is up just 9% compared to 24% for the broader S&P 500. Walmart has seen a skyrocketing advance of 64% in that time.

Woke Mob Tries to 'Cancel' Biblical Series For Casting a Jew to Play a Jew

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:16:25 GMT

Newsbusters Reports: The “social justice” keyboard warriors are waging war on their latest target: A forthcoming biblical drama.

Why? Because its Jewish main character is being played by… a Jew. Shocker!

Netflix just released its trailer for the new series, “Mary,” depicting the Virgin Mary’s “journey to give birth to Jesus.” This has set off the Jew-hating Left, which is campaigning to “cancel” the show because the mother of Jesus is being played by an Israeli actress, Noa Cohen.

“Played by an Israeli actress lmao go f*ck yourself,” screeched one self-identified “lesbian” in a post that received over 117 thousand likes on X.

Another unhinged user took a page out of the Hamas rulebook and went straight for execution as punishment for the casting choice.

“If you make a movie about mary and she’s played by an israeli you deserve to be shot in the head,” posted this keyboard warrior.

The self-identified “Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation” also chimed in.

“Half the cast is Israeli, including Noa Cohen who plays Mary,” the user whined.

“Looks like shit anyway, but needless to say avoid this like the plague,” the post instructed followers that garnered 80 thousand likes and 15 thousand shares.

Woke Disney Actress Goes On Expletive-Ridden Rant Against Trump Supporters

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:10:30 GMT

Headline USA Reports: Disney actress Rachel Zegler went on a tirade against Trump supporters this week, saying she hopes they “never know peace,” Outkick reported.

Zegler, the star of Disney’s upcoming woke rendition of Snow White, posted the rant on Instagram shortly after President-elect Donald Trump’s win was announced.

“May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace,” she wrote, according to screenshots of the post.

“I find myself speechless in the midst of this,” she continued. “[A]nother four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world i do not want to live in.”

Zegler went on to claim she was “heartbroken” for those “who awake in fear this morning,” and vowed “to cry, to yell,” with them.

“This loss should not have been. And it certainly should not have been by so many votes,” she said.

Ziegler claimed she was terrified by the “number of people who stand behind what Trump preaches.”

Trump’s agenda is “a foolish subscription to a false sense of security, of masculinity, of intelligence, of patriotism, and of humanity,” she continued. “There is no help, no counsel, in any of them. I could go on. I won’t. I feel sad. You probably do, too. F*** this.”

Kamala Harris learns the hard way that woke doesn’t work

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:19:01 GMT

NY Post Reports: If you read these pages, you know companies are literally going broke by going woke (some smart dude wrote a book about that, I hear). Woke also was part of what cost Kamala Harris the election.

Yes, progressivism is a horrible business model, or the stock of big progressive companies like Disney wouldn’t be dead money for the past decade as it embarked on a crusade of cultural transformation in programming — including inculcating children with same-sex kissing scenes in its animated movies.

Kamala Harris exudes wokeness — she said as much when she once opined that “everyone needs to be woke.”

Well, the American people have had enough of wokeness at Disney, Budweiser, Boeing and across corporate America — and, it turns out, in government.

Donald Trump campaign people tell me that as part of their deep dive into why they won and Harris lost, they looked at a variety of polls, including the exit variety. That analysis showed huge swaths of voters — across demographic and racial lines — were rejecting wokeness.

The Harris Campaign Is Testament to the Toxicity of Woke Politics

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:34:51 GMT

National Review Reports: We’ve passed the peak of woke politics in the U.S., and the Harris for president campaign is the leading indicator. Of all the things that Kamala Harris wants you to know about her — that she grew up in a middle-class family, that she’s not Joe Biden, that she has a “to-do list” for the American people — perhaps foremost among them is that she’s not woke.

She doesn’t have any rote line asserting this, but achieving distance from the fashionable left-wing politics that defined the Trump years and their immediate aftermath motivates much of what she says and does.

That Harris now feels compelled to disavow so many of the ideas that she once embraced is powerful testament to their political toxicity.

An idea has won or lost in American politics when both parties favor or oppose it, or simply don’t want to fight over it anymore. Ronald Regan’s economics truly prevailed when the Democratic Party, via Bill Clinton in the early 1990s, accepted his basic approach. Gay marriage won politically when Republicans decided to stop talking about the issue.

By this standard, woke attitudes and policies are in marked decline, and Kamala Harris is Exhibit A.

Except for her abortion radicalism, she’s turned her back on much of what she once professed to believe or sympathize with.

Defund the police? Absolutely not.

Abolish ICE? No way.

DEI? Haven’t heard of it.

Medicare for all? That was a long time ago.

The Green New Deal? Let’s not get carried away.

She has backed off her extravagant positions on the trans issue and the border. She now insists that rather than pushing the envelope on either, she simply wants to follow the law. You could be forgiven for thinking the only pronouns she knows are she/her and he/him.

Three Reasons to Cherish the Washington Post’s Latest Meltdown

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:39:20 GMT

Breitbart Reports: I once watched a seven-year-old crippled kid pull himself out of his tiny wheelchair and walk for the very first time. That touched me almost as much as watching the Washington Post meltdown Friday afternoon.

After a decade of telling us Donald Trump is Hitler, the Post announced that Kamala Harris is so awful that the paper would not endorse her over Hitler. In the choice between Hitler and Kamala, the Post decided to not endorse anyone—which I think makes her Eva Braun.

What followed was the usual-usual from our moral betters — what we’ve come to expect when our oh-so dignified elites don’t get their way: a full-blown-lay-down-on-the-floor-in-the-middle-of-the-grocery-store-kicking-and-screaming tantrum.

This included a high-profile harrumph-harrumph-harrumph resignation, frequently unemployed celebrities rushing to cancel their Post subscriptions, politicians who showed no emotion about Americans dying in Benghazi discovering their outrage, and my personal favorite, a wild-eyed corporate media freak-out combined with an internal insurrection at the Post itself.

Normal people must embrace and cherish these moments. Here are three reasons this is glorious…

Win: Sweet Baby Inc. Fires Woke Chris Kindred

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:59:45 GMT

Geeks And Gamers Reports: Gamergate 2 is not going the way the people who instigated it (or, at least, they think they did) thought it would go.

You’ll recall it began when Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League failed spectacularly after being exposed as a woke middle finger to DC Comics that destroyed the beloved Arkham video game universe and literally (and I mean literally) urinated on its corpse.

This was what inspired Kabrutus to look into Sweet Baby Inc., the DEI consulting firm Rocksteady hired to help them make the game the best it could poss… okay, that’s not true; they were hired to make it palatable to “modern audiences,” the group consisting of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the people who demanded an Ironheart show.

Kabrutus created Sweet Baby Inc. Detected, a Steam curator that flagged games Sweet Baby Inc. consulted on, to warn gamers that they were in for a heaping dose of woke. Then, the other side retaliated, and the most glaring example of it was Chris Kindred, a Sweet Baby Inc. employee, calling for Kabrutus and his curator to be mass-flagged and canceled.

It didn’t work, of course, but it pissed a lot of people off, and the media declared Gamergate 2 in full swing.

Progressives Finally Realize That Latinos Don't Like Being Called 'Latinx'

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 02:01:43 GMT

Red State Reports: Here’s something you don’t see every day: Progressives finally realizing that their terminology is silly.

It appears progressives have finally gotten the memo on the term “Latinx,” a new woke label that has been applied to Hispanic Americans. During a Tuesday discussion on a CNN panel, host Kasie Hunt questioned whether Democrats should stop using the term because it is clear Hispanics aren’t embracing it.

Hunt asked Kate Bedingfield, a former White House Communications Director under President Joe Biden, whether Democrats should abandon the term. Bedingfield acknowledged that “what we would hear from voters on the ground is it didn’t necessarily resonate with them” and that “It felt a lot more like language that people who were, again, professional, political professional, political class was using.”

Several polls have shown this to be true, which could be a significant issue given that a recent USA Today/Suffolk University poll showed former President Donald Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris 49 percent to 38 percent among Latino voters.

In case you were wondering where the “Latinx” nonsense came from, it was originally introduced as a gender-neutral alternative to “Latino” and “Latina” by activists, academics, and entertainers, which should shock absolutely nobody. The objective was to move beyond gendered language among Spanish speakers because of sexism and stuff.

Yet, Latinos were clearly not on board with the new term. In fact, if I had a billion dollars, I’d bet it all that most of those who were pushing this ridiculous term were white progressive savior types.

A Pew Research survey found that while 47 percent of Latinos have heard the term, only about four percent actually used it to describe themselves. Even further, 79 percent felt it should not be used to describe the Hispanic population.

‘Inside Out 2’ Scored Big, But Woke Pixar Staffers Still Complain

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:10:22 GMT

IGN Reports: From the outside, Pixar’s narrative is a clear story of redemption: after an undeniably tough few years – battered by COVID-19 theater shutdowns, two Hollywood strikes, and a couple of box office disappointments – the studio needed a win, and that win was Inside Out 2.

The sequel to Pete Docter’s Oscar-winning 2015 blockbuster is Pixar’s biggest hit in years, and it’s not even close. Inside Out 2 isn’t just Pixar’s highest-grossing film. It’s the highest-grossing animated movie of all time, sitting at a jaw-dropping $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office. It’s a stunning turn of events when considering the studio’s aforementioned recent struggles. And who doesn’t love a redemption story, especially when a brand as beloved and nostalgic as Pixar is involved?

But for many of the workers behind Inside Out 2, its record-shattering success is more than a little bittersweet. As reported earlier this year, the studio began layoffs affecting 175 workers, or 14% of its staff, in May. And not only are laid-off employees unable to benefit from a bonus for Inside Out 2’s success – some are also recovering from what several sources describe as an “unprecedented” crunch surrounding Inside Out 2.

“I think for a month or two, the animators were working seven days a week,” one source says. “Ridiculous amounts of production workers, just people being tossed into jobs they'd never really done before… It was horrendous.”

IGN spoke to 10 former Pixar employees for this story under the condition of anonymity. They go into detail about the pains of the layoffs, the financial struggles those layoffs have left them with, and the details behind what one source calls “the largest crunch in the studio’s history." It’s a claim disputed by a senior executive at Pixar, who tells IGN that the crunch at the end of Inside Out 2 was no different from those on many other films from the studio. But the fact remains: there are many who feel like they rushed to give Pixar the hit it so desperately needed, and were hung out to dry.

“I would venture that at least 95% of the people that got laid off are financially f*cked right now,” one person says.

Outside of the financial strain of it all, sources also paint a picture of a studio that’s terrified to rock the boat, with some internally pushing to avoid LGBTQ themes, requiring edits to Inside Out 2. It’s a studio, they say, that’s overly reliant on Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter, stubbornly set in its ways, and setting its remaining team up for more crunch in its future films.

“The internal culture of Pixar right now is really rough,” one former employee says. “There is just an incredible amount of people who are like, ‘I can't do this anymore.’ “

‘Dustborn’ Director Refuses To Admit Game Was A Flop, Rejects Criticism Regarding Story’s Woke Writing

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:50:32 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: Quick question, dear reader: In regards to Dustborn, which is set in an alternate, fascist version of the United States, depicted said regime’s enforcers rejecting the idea of ‘politics in entertainment’, and had players using the idea of ‘canceling’ someone as a genuine combat mechanic, would you consider the game to be an explicitly political one, or one whose politics were incidental to its adventure?

Common sense suggests that most, if not all players would place it under the former label. However, the same cannot be said CEO of Dustborn developer Red Thread Games Ragnar Tørnquist, who believes that not only is his game apolitical, but that critics accusing it of being such are completely off-base.

Tørnquist, who also served as the game’s director, offered his thoughts on players’ rejection of his studio’s latest game during a recent interview given to Mikkjell Lønning, the Editor-in-Chief of the Norway-based video game news outlet Gamer.no, on the subject of the Dustborn backlash.

To start, the dev was directly asked by his host about the accusations that the game was pushing a “woke agenda”, to which the developer asserted, “It caught us completely off guard. We were very surprised by the extreme reaction to the launch, and we had no plan for how to handle it.”

From there, Tørnquist turned to speak on an alleged wave of harassment and death threats he and his team had supposedly received from critics, admitting to Lønning, “You can easily ignore what’s said on forums or on X. Emails feel a little closer to home, but receiving text messages where someone wishes you dead, is unsettling”.

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ CinemaScore Grade Is Even Worse Than ‘Madame Web’, ‘Morbius’, And ‘Batman & Robin’

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 02:02:30 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: Joker: Folie à Deux has a huge chance to go down as the worst comic book movie of all time, and that isn’t merely some wild guess or prediction trending on social media. The sequel has earned the numbers and grades to back it up.

On Rotten Tomatoes , first of all, Joker 2 currently sits at a dour 33 percent with critics. Audiences aren’t far behind with a 31-percent score. These numbers reflect the lukewarm-to-dismal reactions the film is getting, which are deeming it redundant at best, and incoherent at worst.

Over at CinemaScore, things are much grimmer. Todd Phillips’ initially anticipated followup has set a record for CBM’s, and not a good one for Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix to brag about. Folie à Deux is now the worst-rated of all time, having been given a big fat “D” based on the firm’s market research.

This grade is lower than Madame Web, which earned a C+ after audience polling. In perhaps a more embarrassing case, Morbius has the same rating. As does Batman & Robin – one of the most universally reviled installments in DC/superhero film canon.

Dragon Age Creator Addresses Veilguard's Woke Criticism

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 02:46:39 GMT

Game Rant Reports: The criticism of Dragon Age: The Veilguard becoming "woke" is uninformed, series creator David Gaider has suggested, all the while labeling those who propagate it as "tourists." His rebuttal is just the latest development in the culture wars that have recently encompassed the upcoming Dragon Age game.

Multiple popular online boards, including The Veilguard's Steam Discussions forum, have lately been flooded with criticism about the fourth entry in the long-running franchise being "woke." Some of the posters contributing to this wave of complaints seem to have taken issue with Dragon Age: The Veilguard's companions being canonically pansexual , arguing that this attempt at offering diverse romance options robs them of personality. Others appear to be irked by the game's diverse cast of characters for various stated reasons.

Dragon Age series creator David Gaider has recently opted to respond to some of these complaints by remarking how "the usual suspects are upset at how 'woke' the new Dragon Age is, an apparently sudden and unexpected development in the series." Following up on that train of thought, the industry veteran called the people who spread this sentiment "f*****g tourists" in a recent Bluesky post .

The label was meant to imply that these critics are falsely presenting themselves as Dragon Age fans, who would know that the series could have been categorized as "woke" from its very first entry, which hit the market back in 2009.

In a subsequent interaction with another Bluesky user, Gaider clarified that he has no issues with people liking or disliking whatever they have seen from the upcoming Dragon Age game so far. His initial comment was intended to counter the notion that The Veilguard introduces a new level of "wokeness" to the franchise.

WNBA Announcer Wants Caitlin Clark To Be More 'Proactive' In Spreading Woke Narratives

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:50:48 GMT

Outkick Reports: Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark has set numerous rookie and WNBA records, brought record viewership and attendance numbers for the league, and made a previously irrelevant league mainstream - all in her first season. What more could she possibly do for the WNBA?

A lot more, according to Ros Gold-Onwude, a woke media personality who works as a broadcaster for the New York Liberty.

Earlier this week, she appeared on "The Dan Le Batard Show," which should have been your first indication that you were about to hear something dumb. She accused Clark of not being "proactive" enough in condemning the (usually baseless) accusations of her fans being racist.

"Caitlin has not had a proactive approach around toxic fandom, or…being proactive against any type of hateful discourse around the WNBA and its players," Gold-Onwude said.

Thankfully, she did recognize that Clark has condemned these actions when asked. But apparently, Clark has to spend more time online condemning trolls for Gold-Onwude to be happy - and that's just the first item on her list.

She then transitioned to how Clark must use her popularity (which many past and present WNBA players have been jealous of) to fight against injustice for the black and or LGBT players scattered throughout the league.

"This is where she has agency, in how loud of an advocate she wants to be…for fellow WNBA players, for her teammates…for the most part are majority black women, a number of people identify as LGBTQ," Gold-Onwude said. "It's her choice how she wants to participate as someone who is willing to say, ‘I am them and they are me,’ and anything nasty is unacceptable…and to do that on her own."

She then tried to give Clark a little bit of grace for not being a hard-core social justice warrior (like literally everyone else in the WNBA), but did so by condescendingly calling her uneducated about racial tensions in America.

Go Woke Go Broke: Netflix Cancellations Surge After Co-Founder Donates to Kamala Harris

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:39:53 GMT

Bloomberg Reports: The rate of cancellations almost tripled after Trump backers called for action against the streaming service.

Netflix suffered a surge in cancellations in the days after its co-founder and chairman, Reed Hastings, endorsed Kamala Harris for president and donated millions to her campaign.

The rate of cancellations – churn in industry parlance – nearly tripled in the US after his endorsement, according to the researcher Antenna. The streaming giant has the lowest churn in the industry.

Customers in the US canceled Netflix at a higher rate in July — 2.8% — than any month since February. That is largely due to the company’s decision to phase out its basic tier. Basic was the cheapest advertising-free version of Netflix. But the five-day period after Hastings’ endorsement was unusual, even for July.

Hastings, a longtime Democratic donor, endorsed Harris in a post on the social media platform X on July 22. A day later, Hastings told The Information that he donated $7 million to a pro-Harris super PAC. Shortly after Hastings’ endorsement, fans of Donald Trump began urging people to drop the service. Some posted photos showing they had closed their accounts alongside the hashtag #CancelNetflix. Three days later after the donation became public, July 26, was the single worst day for Netflix cancellations this year.

The company declined to comment while Hastings didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The spike in cancellations at Netflix lasted just a few days. It wasn’t as severe as the reaction in 2020 when conservatives asked Netflix to take down the French movie Cuties, which they felt exploited children. (Some of the people who attacked Netflix had not actually seen the movie.)

The long-term effect of these incidents can be hard to gauge. Advertisers and companies were eager to speak out on social issues following the murder of George Floyd. Many companies raced to show their support for the Black community and started new programs or initiatives to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (or DEI). Netflix shifted cash to Black-owned banks while Hastings donated to historically black universities.

Yet in recent years opponents have started to take on DEI initiatives. Sales of Bud Light tanked after an advertising campaign featuring a transgender influencer sparked a boycott by conservatives. Critics of DEI have been emboldened since the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action programs designed to boost racial diversity on college campuses are discriminatory.

In their rush to save the world, woke celebrities actually cause more problems than they solve

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:14:27 GMT

New York Post Reports: Corporations, billionaires and celebrities are all shrill champions of social justice causes — so why haven’t the problems been solved?

That’s the central question that sociologist Musa Al-Gharbi aims to answer in his book “We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite,” out October 8.

“There are social movements that are happening at the local level all around the country to pass different kinds of legislation to address problems in concrete, successful and useful ways,” Al-Gharbi told The Post. “But the problem is a lot of times they become nationalized into a popular cause of elites — and then they stop being successful.”

Al-Gharbi, a professor of journalism, communication and sociology at Stony Brook University, explores how society’s elites are able to square idealistic notions of social justice with the rising economic inequality baked into their lives — and why they trip over themselves to champion the downtrodden.

He pinpoints the emerging knowledge economy class he calls “symbolic capitalists” — academics, consultants, journalists, administrators, lawyers, people who work in finance and tech — for perpetuating this hypocrisy.

“The people who work in these fields today are most likely to self-identify as anti-racists or feminists or environmentalists and so on,” he explained. “You’d expect that, as these people have grown in power and influence, you would see inequalities shrinking, social problems being resolved, greater trust in institutions — but instead you see just the opposite.

Disney Shares Downgraded as Theme Parks Face More Trouble, Woke Streaming Series Flop

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:07:44 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Walt Disney Company isn’t out of the woods yet in its effort to reverse its financial troubles, with a prominent firm downgrading the company’s stock this week citing continued troubles at Disney theme parks, once the company’s most reliable revenue-generating division.

Disney shares dropped more than 2 percent Tuesday following the downgrade by Raymond James analysts who wrote that Disney’s “parks are under pressure,” with a “questionable consumer outlook” as demand slows.

Households hammered by record-high consumer prices under the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden administration are cutting back on non-essential spending, like pricey vacations.

Disney confirmed this in its most recent quarterly earnings report in August, with executives specifically citing inflation when it said that its “Experiences” division — which includes theme parks, cruise ships, and other live entertainment offerings — will see a decline in income in the next few quarters.

Disney’s chief financial officer Hugh Johnston even said lower-income consumers are being hit hard in the current economy and as a result, are no longer visiting Disney parks like they used to. For the most recent quarter, Disney reported its Experiences operating income fell 6 percent.

Disney parks have long been a reliable cash cow thanks to middle and working class American families — many of whom save up for years to afford the expensive trip. But under the Biden-Harris administration, consumer prices have risen to record levels, forcing families to slash spending in order to pay for groceries, rent, and insurance.

‘Agatha All Along’ Looks Like Another Disney Woke Flop

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:26:34 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Disney decided to publicize the Marvel streaming series Agatha All Along as the “ gayest Marvel project ” ever, one full of “ gay explosions ,” and guess what happened? No, go ahead, guess…

Headline : “ Agatha All Along Ratings Crash Below Canceled The Acolyte On Disney Plus: Media Run with Misleading Numbers

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

That Park Place did the math and found this hidden beneath the corrupt entertainment media’s spin :

Variety stated, “The opening of Agatha All Along appears to be roughly on par with that of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which debuted with 13.3 million views in six days, as well as The Acolyte, the Star Wars series that hit 11.1 million views in five days.

…

If we divide the viewership measured for The Acolyte by the number of days for which we are given [five], we discover that The Acolyte averaged 2.22 million views per day in its first five days. If we divide the viewership measured for Agatha All Along by the number of days for which we are given [seven], Marvel’s new series only picked up 1.32 million. In other words, per diem, Agatha All Along only nabbed 59.5% of The Acolyte’s viewership for the days which we have been provided. [emphasis original]

To pretend the series is popular, the corrupt media are comparing Agatha All Along’s seven-day viewership total to the six-day numbers for Percy Jackson and the five-day numbers for the already-canceled The Acolyte — which was itself a massive flop after being publicized as the “gayest Star Wars ever.”

Disney Flop: The Acolyte Cost Nearly Quarter of a Billion Dollars

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:01:43 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate spent almost a quarter of a billion —with a “B”— to produce a humiliating flop called The Acolyte.

The Acolyte is — er, was ; it’s already been canceled — the latest Disney+ Star Wars -raping streaming series. This one was all about how lesbian witches created everything or something.

Anyway, the groomers told us the eight-episode series cost only $180 million. But now, thanks to the fact the United Kingdom does not allow studios to fudge or hide their numbers, we know The Acolyte $231 million.

United Kingdom tax documents filed by the Walt Disney Company’s UK branch reveal that Lucasfilm and The Walt Disney Company spent over 172 million GBP (231 million USD) on the production of The Acolyte, a prequel series set in the Disney Star Wars universe.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, The Acolyte series creator Leslye Headland publicly claimed the show cost “180 million,” which was assumed by several to be stated in US dollars. It is evident that if Headland had knowledge of the series financials that she was more likely referring the the amount in Great British Pounds. Accounting for exchange rates at the time of this article, this means that The Acolyte cost almost $230 million US dollars.

That works out to about $29 million per episode.

It must be awesome to be Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy. Disney literally handed her the most popular franchise in Hollywood history along with billions and billions of dollars for only one purpose: to act out her leftist fantasies. It’s like giving a three-year-old child the Mona Lisa and a box of magic markers.

Comedian Katt Williams Says Diddy Ready to Snitch on Everybody

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:15:32 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Comedian Katt Williams, who refused to attend any of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ debauched parties, posted an AI-generated video clip joking that Combs is ready to snitch on all his former associates in his forthcoming sex trafficking trial.

Williams posted the altered clip from the 1991 crime flick, New Jack City, with the Wesley Snipes character replaced by Diddy and saying that he was going to take everyone down, according to Yahoo News.

Williams added the caption, “Diddy about to snitch on everybody,” along with a pair of hysterical emojis on his Instagram post.

The fashion and music mogul is facing federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges in an indictment that was unsealed last Tuesday. He was arrested last week after the indictment was handed down and was denied bail on the charges.

The indictment covers explicit details of assaults on several women by Combs that allegedly go back to 2008. He is accused of “verbal, emotional, physical and sexual” abuse and that he “hit, kicked, threw objects at, and dragged victims, at times, by their hair” in assaults that took “days or weeks to heal.”

Woke Video Game Includes Avatars with 'Top Surgery' Scars for 'Non-Binaries,' Other Weird Things

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:56:55 GMT

MRC TV Reports: The video game, “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” has just unveiled its new “inclusive” avatar customization features and they’re as woke as you’d expect them to be.

“She/her, he/him and they/them, and then your gender is man, woman (or) non-binary,” listed a gender-deluded internet streamer who celebrated the game’s latest character additions.

Players can now customize the size of their avatar’s boobs (or moobs?) and even “top surgery” scars “for all of our non-binary” people “out there,” the streamer announced with a giddy smile.

But wait… there’s more! You can also be a midget, and according to some accounts, identify as a Lamborghini!

These changes come in light of an initial promise made by the game’s director, Corriane Busche to “feature more skin tones and inclusive customization.”

She claims the game "has traditionally not done skin tones well."

Woke Panic: Civil Rights Groups Demand That Corporations Stop Cutting DEI Programs

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 02:34:11 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: The invasion of woke ideology and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies into every facet of American life seemed to happen out of the blue starting in 2015-2016, but in reality the agenda had been quietly and insidiously slithering into western institutions for decades prior.

Establishment controlled NGOs like the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Foundation had been pumping billions of dollars into US universities since at least the 1960s, launching social justice programs and placing propagandists into teaching positions with the intent of "manufacturing consent" as Noam Chomsky once dubbed it.

The effort was to control the thinking of a top percentage of American professionals, turn them into rabid adherents of Cultural Marxism and globalism and then send them out into the world to create a progressive trickle-down effect in every major corporate and political institution. In other words, the establishment believed that if they could dominate the professional class with their suits and lab coats and specialized degrees the rest of the public would blindly follow along due to "expert bias.".

As it turns out, they were wrong.

It took almost ten years to root out this tiny contingent of cult manipulators, but today the woke movement is well and thoroughly exposed. Woke organizations and DEI departments are now in fast decline and even the activists are beginning to admit they're losing the battle for the minds of the masses. Let's not forget, only a few years ago the political left denied the DEI agenda even existed and called anyone talking about it a "conspiracy theorist."

Big Tech companies like Meta and Google made cuts to DEI staffers and resource officers in 2023. Dozens of major corporations are completely dropping their DEI initiatives in 2024. The Hollywood Reporter recently published an article lamenting the fall of DEI in Hollywood, spotlighting a list of DEI producers in an effort to assert that leftist activists still have power in Tinsel Town despite their failing ideology. Gay activist group GLAAD has complained that "LGBT representation" has started to decline in popular entertainment, with only 27% of films and television promoting gay and trans characters (given these people make up less than 3% of the global population, this level of representation is still far too high).

The reason for this precipitous collapse of DEI programs is three-fold:

Babylon Bee's Kyle Mann says people 'are ready to laugh' about J6 hysteria with new satire film 'January 6: The Most Deadliest Day'

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:16:37 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: The Babylon Bee made a movie . In keeping with their satirical tradition, it's a mockumentary, and in keeping with their penchant for making fun of the most controversial events in the US, it's on January 6. The mockumentary "January 6: The Deadliest Day," follows a journalist, played by Babylon Bee Editor-in-chief Kyle Mann, who conducts man-on-the-street interviews and tracks the day where AOC was killed "seven times" (lol).

He asks everyone where they were on that most memorable of all days in American history, January 6, and speaks to political pundits and commentators like Michael Knowles and Dennis Prager about one of the most fateful days in history, that is if you believe what Kamala Harris has to say about it.

The Post Millennial caught up with Mann to talk to him about the film and if America is ready to move on from January 6, or at least laugh about it. The film is in the great satirical tradition of films like Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and television shows like The Office or Parks and Rec, Mann said.

After Woke ‘Star Wars’ Release, Ubisoft Stock Hits 9-Year Low

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:34:43 GMT

The Federalist Reports: Ubisoft, the company behind the massively successful “Assassin’s Creed” and “Far Cry” series, has been having a rough go of it after a new “Star Wars” game rife with identity politics. On the heels of their latest release, “Star Wars: Outlaws,” Ubisoft’s stock value took a sharp nosedive, reaching a nine-year low after a grim 13 percent drop.

“Outlaws” immediately courted controversy from players when it was revealed the game’s protagonist, Kay Vess, received cosmetic edits from her real-life character model to make her look more masculine. Also, gameplay trailers displayed Vess achieving feats of enormous strength despite her small stature, leading many to assume she would be yet another “girlboss.”

Fears of an overly politicized game amplified when players learned the writing team for “Outlaws” was made of leftist activists including Nikki Foy and Youssef Maguid. Before she put her social media under lock and key, Foy was known for trashing white people and promoting LGBT ideology in gaming. Maguid’s X account hosts a plethora of anti-Israel posts alongside terrorist apologia.

It seemed inevitable that a game written by militant leftists would flop, and flop it did. Exact sales numbers are not public yet, but it’s clear the game failed to meet expectations.

One industry reporter took to X and wrote, “We don’t have digital data yet. And this is just the UK. But … it was a weak launch for Star Wars Outlaws at UK retail. Launch sales are 55% lower than what Star Wars Jedi: Survivor did. It was 15% bigger than Ubisoft/Massive’s last game, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.”

The United Kingdom is not the world’s largest market, but the data is indicative of larger trends. The game barely sold better than another flop, and sold fewer than half as many copies as a previous “Star Wars” game. That’s a bad sign.

Former Pixar Employee Says ‘Inside Out 2’ Team Was Specifically Ordered By Disney Leadership To Make Protagonist Riley Anderson Come Across As “Less Gay”

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:59:12 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: According to a new report, in an apparent attempt to avoid any controversy surrounding the film’s release, Disney responded to the original draft of Inside Out 2 by asking Pixar to rewrite the script in order to make teenage protagonist Riley Anderson came across as “less gay”.

This supposed Disney directive was first revealed to the public courtesy of numerous and allegedly now-former Pixar employees who spoke to IGN ‘s Alex Steadman regarding the studio’s purported less-than-stable status.

“I think for a month or two, the animators were working seven days a week,” said an insider in reference to what one of their colleagues described as “the largest crunchy in the studio’s history”.

“Ridiculous amounts of production workers, just people being tossed into jobs they’d never really done before,” the anonymous employee added. “It was horrendous.”

One former team member even revealed that due to the laid off employees not being official members of the Disney workforce at the time, they did not qualify for any bonuses related to Inside Out 2‘s potential (and ultimately eventual) success.

“To be told by our HR reps that we were not going to qualify for that bonus felt like an ultimate ‘f–k you’ from Disney,” said one of the laid off Pixar employees.

Another insider revealed that the reason for Pixar’s supposed scramble regarding Inside Out 2‘s production was the fact that it was considered by many to be “a life or death situation” for the the studio’s future.

Robin DiAngelo responds to being 'deceived' by Matt Walsh in new film 'Am I Racist'

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 02:16:12 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: Anti-racist educator and author Robin DiAngelo, who wrote the much-maligned (on the right), much-praised (on the left) book White Fragility about how all white people are racist, has spoken out after she was unwittingly featured in Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire's first cinematic release, Am I Racist. She says she was essentially duped, felt uneasy about the interview as it went on, claims she could see that Walsh was wearing and "ill-fitting wig," and that from now on she'd be way more careful about who she would speak to when requests were made—even Walsh's well-funded one, at $15,000.

"Back in 2023," her lenghty post begins, "I was contacted by a group who claimed to be making a documentary film called Shades of Justice, about efforts to address racism in the United States. They planned to interview anti-racist activists, authors and thought leaders in service of supporting the cause of racial equity. They offered me between $10-20,000 for an interview. I said let’s meet in the middle with $15,000 and agreed to participate." She notes that, since becoming aware of the circumstances, she has "since donated that sum to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund."

"When I arrived for the interview, a few things felt off," she notes, though she appeared perfectly comfortable on camera. "The grips would not make eye contact with me," she claimed, "and the interviewer, who was introduced as 'Matt,' appeared to be wearing an ill-fitting wig. Matt presented himself as someone new to antiracist work and seemed earnest, and his questions did not come across as adversarial. By the end, however, things got weird."

She then writes about the key moment in the film where she was convinced by Walsh to pay cash reparations to his producer, Ben, who is black. DiAngelo admits her white privilege and takes bills out of her wallet, handing them to Ben. The moment in the film made her look foolish.

Cable TV’s Collapse Now Seen as Inevitable — and That’s a Good Thing

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:17:21 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The pay-TV industry lost 1.6 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2024, reports Business Insider, adding that “there doesn’t seem to be any reason for those losses to stop.”

Pay TV is cable and satellite TV (CSTV). It also includes “digital alternatives,” like YouTube TV, where you stream the equivalent of CSTV — the same channel packages.

Those 1.6 million subscribers lost in the second quarter account for 6.9% of the industry’s base, and there’s no reason to think the slide is going to slow down at all, analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson write: “It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no longer any floor.”

As we’ve discussed here before, a few years ago there was a thought that digital pay-TV distributors like YouTube TV and Hulu Live would replace losses at conventional distributors, but that’s no longer true.

For context, in 2019, a mere five years ago, 90.4 million households subscribed to some form of CSTV.

That number is now down to about 68.76 million .

In six months, a staggering four million households have canceled their CSTV, and that is net losses with however many new sign-ups included.

In another five years, that number is projected to be below 60 million.

Compared to the second quarter of 2023, CSTV has lost seven percent of its customers.

Everyone thought — except me — that the CSTV bundle could move to streaming and make up for the conventional losses. What everyone didn’t understand, though, was the value of a streaming service compared to the giant ripoff that is CSTV.

As Players Grow Tired Of Activism In Games, GameStop Announces Plans To Bring Back Retro Titles And Consoles

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:30:49 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: GameStop is making a bold move with its new Retro Program. The program will bring back classic retro consoles such as Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation 1 and 2, Xbox 360, and more to certain, well-established GameStop locations.

This launch comes just after the Xbox 360 Marketplace shutdown. The unfortunate event has left many gamers yearning for a way to preserve their favorite titles. If successful, this move could be a game-changer and lead to more consoles being added, new store locations, and even other retailers jumping on board.

However, its success hinges on the pricing and availability of the most sought-after games.

With the rise of digital games and other changes in the industry, GameStop has been dealing with a pretty steep decline and layoffs over the last decade. Nevertheless, one of the best-known video game stores has overcome the toughest times and is adapting to new circumstances.

GameStop ventured into selling gaming merchandise with toys, shirts, and more. However, it’s still a key place where gaming enthusiasts can find hardware, including headsets, controllers, and consoles. By reintroducing some of the consoles that changed the industry for the better decades ago, GameStop plans to bring back retro game collectors to their stores.

A complete list includes 18 retro consoles from SNES to PlayStation 3, and this shows just a growing trend among gamers who are becoming wary of modern games. Many players are frustrated with the constant online requirements, toxic community behavior behind the most popular games of today, and the fact that many titles are influenced by political correctness.

Looks Like Jack Black Has Another Incoming Flop with ‘Minecraft’

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:08:09 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Actor and musician Jack Black is closing out an already terrible summer with the publicity launch of what looks like another humiliating box office flop.

Minecraft, yet another movie based on a popular video game, does not hit theaters until April, but the release of the trailer is already a public relations disaster. As of this writing, the Warner Bros. wide release has accumulated nearly twice as many YouTube downvotes as upvotes — 965,000 to 534,000 — and the trailer… The first word that comes to mind is dreadful:

The animation looks like something you’d see on a 1996, low-budget cartoon on some off-brand cable network like KidsTV 6.

I’m not the only one saying so. Forbes spent seven paragraphs trashing the trailer.

“What I can’t understand is why anyone would make such an unforced error,” writes Forbes. “An animated Minecraft movie that actually looked more like the game … makes far more sense than this soulless, low-effort abomination. I am aghast.”

The YouTube commenters are equally aghast:

My expectations were low. They should’ve been lower.

I expect nothing and yet somehow I’m still disappointed.

How brave of Warner Bros. leaving the comment section open.

Dear movie companies, if you don’t like having money, you could always just send it to me.

Can we go back in time when movies coming out were good?

Somewhere out there, there is a timeline with a good Minecraft movie. We are not in that timeline.

Borderlands movie: Damn I flopped so hard. Minecraft movie: Hold my beer.

Of course, Borderlands, one of the biggest flops of the summer, is another video game adaptation starring … Jack Black.

Apparently, Hollywood believes that since Jack Black co-starred in two successful Jumanji movies — which are kinda based on a game — if they add him to other movies based on games, the magic can only come along with him.

PlayStation To End Service For ‘Concord’ Just Two Weeks After Launch, Will Issue Complete Refunds To All Players

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 02:48:19 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: AND THAT’S THE GAME!

In a development that absolutely everyone saw coming but definitely did not expect this soon, given the hero shooter’s absolutely abysmal market performance, PlayStation has announced that they will officially be shutting the doors on Concord.

Announcing the closure of the widely panned hero shooter by way of an official PlayStation Blog post, Concord game director Ryan Ellis informed players that “while many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended. Therefore at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.”

“While we determine the best path ahead, Concord sales will cease immediately and we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased the game for PS5 or PC,” added the Firewalk Studios representative. “If you purchased the game for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct, a refund will be issued back to your original payment method.”

For those who bought the game digitally via the PlayStation, Steam, or Epic Games storefronts, refunds will be issued automatically.

Meanwhile, players who were unfortunate enough to go so far as to buy a physical version of the game will need to contact their given retailer and obtain their refund through their respective processes.

Politics-Free ‘Black Myth’ Sells 10 Million In Three Days As DEI Games ‘Dustborn’ And ‘Concord’ Flop

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:26:02 GMT

The Federalist Reports: The Chinese-developed “Black Myth: Wukong” has seen monumental success, selling a jaw-dropping 10 million copies in only three days. The game is based on the ancient Chinese classic Journey to the West and features a plethora of characters and items from the myth as enemies, companions, or accessories.

Notably absent is the forced diversity and politics many Western games have embraced of late, much to the chagrin of gaming journalists. Leftist outlet ScreenRant dinged the game for “lacking in inclusivity and diversity,” while Forbes reported that creators who requested a review copy of the game were asked not to include “politics” or “feminist propaganda” in their coverage.

God forbid a reviewer talk about the actual game and not their leftist bugaboos, right?

But as the gaming media gnash their teeth, the numbers speak for themselves. “Concord” may end up going into the history books as one of the biggest video game failures of all time while “Black Myth: Wukong” could shatter sales records.

The failures of “Concord” and “Dustborn” offer game developers a stark lesson: Nobody wants to buy these over-the-top woke disasters. Instead, developers should focus on courting gamers with the actual content they want, bereft of leftist politics.

As the old adage goes: Go woke, go broke.

Why it’s fair to blame wokeness on atheism

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:06:22 GMT

Lifesite Reports: Non-woke atheists have a problem – their worldview opens the door for wokeness.

Colin Wright is an evolutionary biologist and an atheist who holds to the truth that sex is binary.

He is also critical of transgender drugs and surgeries for minors and left academia due to hostility he faced for his factual views (though unorthodox in higher ed) about sex and gender. He recently suggested atheists are not to blame for the growth in wokeism.

“It’s possible that the decline in Christianity created a void that wokeness rose to fill. But who/what is to blame for that?” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

“It is the fault of atheists for lacking belief? Or is it the fault of Christianity for not being very factually believable?” he wrote on August 21.

A day earlier, Helen Pluckrose posted an essay on Wright’s Substack page, “Reality’s Last Stand,” titled “Atheism Did Not Cause Wokeness.” Pluckrose is a British author who is critical of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

She participated in the “Grievance Studies” hoax, where she, along with Portland State University Professor Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, had fake papers published. The papers were ostensibly about feminism, gender studies, and other socially leftist ideas, but were actually nonsense to prove the low publishing standards in academia.

“As we (anti-woke atheists) clearly see that wokeism is terrible for society, can we not admit that Christianity was better and consider going back to it?” Pluckrose wrote. “Absolutely not, no.”

While agreeing with Wright, she appears to take a contradictory stance that religion is rising, and so is wokeness, therefore atheism cannot be to blame.

Ford Announces End to LGBT Ranking Involvement, DEI Initiatives in All-Hands Letter

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:02:59 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: Ford Motor Co. is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and ending involvement in an LGBT ranking system after realizing radical leftist policies do not represent the company’s customer base and employee corps.

Wednesday morning, conservative activist Robby Starbuck posted the all-hands letter received by Ford employees.

“In the past year, we have taken a fresh look at our policies and practices to ensure they support our values, drive business results, and take into account the current landscape,” the letter, signed by Ford CEO Jim Farley, said.

Although Farley said the company is still “deeply committed” to an “inclusive” workplace, he denied any race-based quotas or diversity goals.

“Ford does not utilize hiring quotas or tie compensation to the achievement of specific diversity goals,” the letter read. “Likewise, while we continue to develop a dealer body that reflects the communities they serve, we will not use quotas for minority dealerships or suppliers.”

In a shrewd business move, Farley signaled a retreat from the company’s radical social positioning.

“We made the decision early this year to stop participating in external culture surveys such as the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index and various ‘best places to work’ lists,” he wrote.

To Avoid Woke Hollywood Curse, Coppola Hired ‘Canceled’ Actors for ‘Megalopolis’

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 02:25:00 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Cinema legend Francis Ford Coppola was so concerned about his upcoming Megalopolis being labeled woke that he made sure to hire “canceled” actors.

In an interview with the disgraced, far-left Rolling Stone , the 85-year-old multiple Oscar winner said:

What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers. The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another. There were people who are archconservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive. But we were all working on one film together. That was interesting, I thought.

He is speaking, of course, of Oscar-winner Jon Voight, Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman, and Oscar nominee Shia LeBeouf.

Voight is blacklisted for supporting Trump.

Hoffman is blacklisted for one unfounded allegation of misconduct some 40 years ago.

LeBeouf is blacklisted for an unfounded allegation of abuse and for becoming a Christian.

Coppola said of LeBeouf:

You could see the actors find the characters. Shia [LaBeouf] really took to it. I had no experience working with him prior to this, but he deliberately sets up a tension between himself and the director to an extreme degree. He reminds me of Dennis Hopper, who would do something similar, and then you’d say, “Just go do anything,” and then they go off and do something brilliant.

LeBeouf is an actor I ridiculed mercilessly for years, but he has grown into a legitimate talent. And I don’t doubt Coppola’s description of the tension and edge he brings to a role.

Let’s return to the most important thing Coppola said: “What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers,” he explained. “The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another. There were people who are archconservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive.”

Zuck Finally Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Him to Censor Millions

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:56:34 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now trying to save himself from the controversial relationship between his company and the Biden-Harris regime.

In a letter addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg throws the Biden-Harris regime under the bus.

He openly admitted that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was subjected to relentless pressure by the Biden administration to censor content related to COVID-19, even when the content was satirical or humorous, and the infamous Hunter Biden laptop.

The Meta CEO allegedly expressed deep ‘regret’ for not being more vocal in resisting the government’s demands, stating that “government pressure was wrong,” and he now recognizes that his company should have been more outspoken about the administration’s overreach.

In the letter, Zuckerberg detailed how senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, exerted consistent pressure on Meta’s teams to remove or suppress content that did not align with the regime’s narrative on COVID-19.

This included posts that were clearly humorous or satirical.

Zuckerberg’s letter also revealed another explosive detail: Meta’s decision to demote the New York Post’s bombshell story on the Biden family’s corruption in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

Death of Woke: Queer Activist Video Game Funded By EU Can’t Find Players

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:20:13 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: If the new punk rock is to be politically correct, then it's not punk rock. The woke activist invasion of popular media since 2015 continues to ignore the reality that they are not "rebels", they are villains, and their delusions are becoming more embarrassing for them with each passing year.

Woke tropes have become poison for any brand seeking a wider audience or greater profits, to the point that activist media projects must now be funded by governments and NGOs through DEI initiatives just to pay developer salaries. The goal? To saturate the market with multicultural ideology and LGBT propaganda until the public was forced to accept it and consume it as "normal." The agenda has failed.

Every new woke product seems to bomb harder than the last these days and that's a good sign for the future. Video game players, a market which now dwarfs movies and TV streaming, are rejecting woke material en masse. Case in point: Dustborn.

The aggressively advertised game features a cast of queer activist "punk rock" characters that set out on a road trip across an America controlled by "conservative oppressors" that are really uncool. Set in North America in 2030, The American Republic is under the iron fist of "Justice" and The Puritans, a fascist police force presided over by President Samuel Ward. California has gained independence and is now Pacifica, a corporatocracy ruled by the wealthy few. Texas has seceded, rebranding itself as the libertarian Columbia.

Hilariously, players fight the fascist government by using the "power of words" to gain allies and divide their enemies. Characters can also build up their "trigger meter" to really punch the patriarchy.

Michael Keaton Promises Beetlejuice Character Won’t Be ‘Politically Correct’ In Sequel

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 02:21:52 GMT

Daily Wire Reports: Actor Michael Keaton discussed some details about the upcoming “Beetlejuice” sequel, insisting that the main character he plays didn’t change to accommodate the politically correct crowd.

The 72-year-old star said one of his stipulations for agreeing to participate in the sequel project 36 years later was not giving his titular character a lot of screen time, just like in the first film.

“The idea was, no, no, no, you can’t load it up with Beetlejuice, that’ll kill it,” Keaton told GQ during an interview published Monday. “I think the Beetlejuice character doesn’t drive the story as much as he did in the first one. He’s more part of the storyline in this one as opposed to the first one, which is a case of, this thing comes in and drives the movie a little bit.”

In the 1988 fantasy horror film, Beetlejuice was only on screen for 17 minutes total. Keaton elaborated that Beetlejuice is an “it” but not because of society’s obsession with pronouns.

“He’s a thing. He’s more of a thing than a he or a she, he’s more of an it. And I’m not saying ‘it’ to be politically correct. I just viewed it as a force more than anything. I mean, there’s definitely strong male energy, like stupid male energy, which I love,” the actor explained. “You don’t want to touch that because it’s not like you go, ‘Well, it’s a new year and this thing would now act like that.’”

The “Batman” alum previously raved about reuniting with director Tim Burton for the project. “It’s the most fun I’ve had on a set in a long time. On one hand, you’d go, ‘Well, of course it’s the most fun. It looks like fun.’ As you know, it doesn’t always work like that,” he said in February, as The Daily Wire previously reported.

Burton went on to discuss using older special effects methods instead of relying on computer-generated imagery (CGI).

Harley Davidson Backtracks on DEI Policies After Backlash, Silent on Fate of CEO

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 02:37:12 GMT

PJ Media Reports: Harley-Davidson announced that it would pull back from enforcing its corporate Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policy after the famed American motorcycle manufacturer faced severe backlash from consumers and conservative activists.

The motorcycle firm said it would halt efforts to impose DEI on Aug. 19, making it the latest major corporation to pull back from woke ideology. John Deere did so weeks ago.

“We remain committed to listening to all members of our community,” the company wrote in a letter posted on X. “We are saddened by the negativity on social media over the last few weeks, designed to divide the Harley-Davidson community."

Regarding its DEI policies, Harley-Davidson added that “we have not operated a DEI function since April 2024, and we do not have a DEI function today. We do not have hiring quotas and we no longer have supplier diversity spend goals.”

According to CNN, the Milwaukee-based motorcycle maker said it would review all sponsorships and outside organizations that they are affiliated with and will set up a central clearinghouse to review those partnerships.

Harley-Davidson, which has a generally conservative-leaning client demographic, said it would also terminate its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign, a major gay advocacy organization. The firm said it may further drop its sponsorship of Gay Pride festivals and focus more on highlighting motorcycling events, after being a longtime member of the Wisconsin LBGT Chamber of Commerce.

This is another win for Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist who helped lead the charge against DEI initiatives at other major American corporations.

Hollywood Sold Its Soul to China, Then the Devil Tricked Them

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:53:28 GMT

Breitbart Reports: For two decades, Hollywood pandered to the Nazis in the communist Chinese government, and now China hardly screens Hollywood’s movies anymore.

Ha. Ha.

“By the time Hollywood movies returned to screens in China [after the pandemic], they were met with a much more insular as well as developed home market,” reports CNBC.

“China learned all they could from Hollywood. Now they make their own big-budget blockbuster films with good special effects and even good animated films.” Stanley Rosen, a professor who specializes in Chinese politics, society, and film, told the outlet. ”They don’t need Hollywood anymore.”

“Chinese audiences may also be growing tired of repetitive Hollywood storylines, particularly since China has recently begun importing more films of non-Hollywood origins[.]”

China’s not alone in growing tired of repetitive films. More …:

For years, films have caught bad publicity for pandering or making changes to movies to appease Chinese audiences and win approval from authorities.

For instance, Disney was criticized for filming “Mulan” in the Xinjiang region in China, and thanking domestic government entities in the movie credits. The U.S. maintains that Muslim minority groups have faced human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang.

Not that I would ever defend the demonic Disney Grooming Syndicate, but it wasn’t just the Louse House appeasing this mass-murdering government. In what was once accurately described as “China taking over America’s film industry,” among others, blockbusters like Barbie , Mission: Impossible 3 , that Red Dawn remake, The Martian , 2012, and Transformers all either agreed to China’s censorship wishes or portrayed a mass-murdering government as heroic.

And that wasn’t even the worst of it.

TV series The Acolyte, 'Gayest Star Wars ever' canceled, won't be back for season 2

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 02:56:06 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: The spin-off dubbed the "gayest Star Wars ever" will not be returning for season 2. The Acolyte, from showrunner Leslye Headland, has been canceled.

"The Acolyte” will not return for Season 2," Variety reports. "Lucasfilm has elected not to continue with the 'Star Wars' series following its first season, which depicted the rise of the Sith roughly 100 years before the events of 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.'"

The show featured the first instance of trans pronouns in the Star Wars universe and while it had an 83 percent average among critics on Rotten Tomatoes, viewers only have it a 14 percent.

Despite that, the cancellation was a surprise as season 1 ended on a cliffhanger. But fan response was pretty lackluster and the viewership dropped substantially after the series premiere. Headland's Acolyte was the first in the Star Wars universe to be set outside of the core storyline.

In an interview about the series, headland and series star Amandla Stenberg, was asked about the rumor that The Acolyte was the "gayest Star Wars ever." The two were super into it .

"I wanna ask you about this," The Wrap's Drew Taylor began, "because this is arguably the gayest Star Wars yet by a considerable margin."

Warner Bros. Considering Licensing IPs to Outside Gaming Studios

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 01:24:38 GMT

Geeks and Gamers Reports: Warner Bros. is considering changing up its approach to video games following another bad earnings call. The company is still feeling the effects of the disastrous Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the follow-up to Rocksteady’s Arkham games that, according to the previous earnings call in May of this year , was singled out as having cost Warner Bros. $200 million, more than even their worst-case scenario, according to Forbes .

The failure is so catastrophic that there’s speculation that Rocksteady will close down, which, after the four Arkham games that preceded Suicide Squad (well, three of them; Arkham Origins was made by WB Games Montréal), is a shock. The loss is so bad for Warner Bros. that it offset their big win with the Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy last year, and now, the studio is considering drastic measures.

In the recent quarterly earnings call ( via IGN ), Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav suggested they could begin licensing their IPs to outside studios to make games rather than handle everything in-house. That’s actually what Warner Bros. used to do; the problem is that when a game was successful, they bought the studio that made it so they could reap all the benefits from the inevitable sequels, as Game Developer points out .

Rocksteady is the most glaring example; Warner Bros. licensed Batman to them so they could make Arkham Asylum, and when that game was a smash hit, Warner Bros. quickly bought Rocksteady . This was great for them for a while, with the sequels being best-sellers, but now, they’ve got to eat the cost of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and apparently, it’s a buffet.

Similarly, Warner Bros. licensed a bunch of their properties to Player First Games for MultiVersus, a free-to-play fighting game featuring various Warner Bros. characters from properties as diverse as DC Comics, Looney Tunes, Game of Thrones, and more. (I had lots of fun with the titular duo from Rick and Morty .) But after its first season proved successful, Warner Bros. bought Player First , and the game was taken offline for a year , something players were told wouldn’t happen.

Jack Black’s $110M ‘Borderlands’ Opens to Dismal $10M

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 02:22:58 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Despite an all-star cast that includes Kevin Hart and Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black’s Borderlands took a dive at the box office with an opening weekend take that will be lucky to top $10 million.

Borderlands is also a popular IP. The science-fiction space western is based on a best-selling series of video games. With a budget that ranges from $110 to $120 million (I’d add another $20 or $30 million for promotion), Borderlands is already a full-blown catastrophe.

Terrible reviews and a troubled production history might have had something to do with this disaster. The movie had the stench of a box office bomb all over it. Generally, though, a cast like that can at least get you to a $20 million opening. Part of the problem might very well be the scandal surrounding Jack Black.

Just a day after former President Donald Trump was shot in the face in a failed assassination attempt, Black’s Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass took to the stage in Australia and said his birthday wish was that the next assassin not miss Trump. Black reacted by laughing, and the show marched on.

Within a couple of days, though, the backlash forced Gass to apologize, and Black announced he was canceling the remaining dates of the Tenacious D tour.

Elsewhere at the box office, non-woke movies made for Normal People continue to make a fortune.

REPORT: Facebook Trying to Censor ‘Reagan’ Promotional Content

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:03:59 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Actor Dennis Quaid has accused Facebook of censoring promotional content for the upcoming movie Reagan, claiming the social media giant has refused to allow ads with inspirational quotes from Ronald Reagan.

He also claimed Facebook suspended the movie’s official page for posting clips of Quaid speaking to Fox News, Jordan Peterson’s podcast, and other outlets, though the page is currently active.

“Facebook is once again censoring the free flow of ideas, deciding what’s best for us to see and hear; only this time it’s throttling advertising and promotion for my movie about Ronald Reagan,” the actor said via an email sent exclusively to Newsweek.

“Like the old Soviet Union—are we turning into a country of tech oligarchs who control the platform of groupthink to silence the individual or ‘other’ groups?”

The actor hinted that Facebook may be trying to censor Reagan due to pressure to silence conservative voices during an election year,

Facebook told Newsweek the restrictions may have been a mistake.

Woke Star of Disney ‘Snow White’ Remake Declares ‘Free Palestine’ While Promoting Movie Trailer

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 02:40:48 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Actress Rachel Zegler appears determined to continue being a PR nightmare for The Walt Disney Company and its CEO Bob Iger.

Rachel Zegler, who stars in Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Snow White, declared “Free Palestine” on social media this week while promoting the new trailer for the big-budget movie, whose release is being delayed by a year after what was rumored to be extensive reshoots.

Zegler’s political stunt comes after the actress ignited an enormous backlash from Disney fans last year over her past comments in which she insulted the original 1937 animated film. Old videos resurfaced showing the actress pompously trashing the Disney classic, claiming that the Prince character is a creepy stalker and that women no longer crave romance.

A Roundup of the Worst Woke Moments at the Paris Olympics

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:42:43 GMT

NewsBusters Reports: The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris have come to a close, and while countless athletes shined, the games' organizers brought shame to this global event.

Ominous signs began even before the opening night of the games. The opening ceremony's creators told French media in July that their show would be an anti-"Puy-du-Fou." Puy-du-Fou is a popular French theme park in the more conservative Vendée region with spectacular shows that celebrate French history, culture, and religion. Why would the creators want to make the opposite of that?

Then in the days before the opening ceremony, a drag queen with a ridiculous wig, fake breasts, and clown makeup took the torch in Paris.

It all went downhill from there.

The awful opening ceremony included, among other things, a drag queen representation of the Last Supper. The grotesque mockery of France’s Catholic heritage then transformed into a bizarre Dionysian feast with a blue Smurf-like man as the center of the meal.

The following night, numerous regions of Paris fell into an unexpected blackout. An area of the city with the stunning Basilica of the Sacred Heart remained lit, creating a beautiful image of the church’s light against the city’s darkness. Many on Twitter saw it as a sign.

Gina Carano responds to rumors about Elon Musk using her lawsuit in Disney acquisition scheme

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:36:23 GMT

The Blaze Reports: Actress and former mixed martial artist Gina Carano recently addressed the rumors that South African billionaire Elon Musk might be using her lawsuit against Disney to drive down the company's stock value as a means to ultimately acquire the House of Mouse at a favorable price.

Fellow actor Matthew Marsden detailed for Blaze News the significance of a possible Disney takeover by Musk as well as what it would entail.

Background

Carano played the character Cara Dune on the smash hit Disney series "The Mandalorian," providing the show with a genuinely strong female protagonist. However, in February 2021 — following the conclusion of the show's second season and several months after she enraged LGBT radicals by jokingly stating her pronouns were "beep/bop/boop" — Lucasfilm canned Carano, letting her find out herself from second-hand sources.

"Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future," said a Lucasfilm spokesman. "Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable."

Musk, who has publicly stated "Disney sucks," helped fuel such speculation in February when he told a reporter at a film premiere, "I'm just here with friends, thinking about companies to acquire."

At the time, Musk was attending the premiere of "Lola" with billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz who had previously expressed interest in taking over Disney.

In April, Musk suggested he would buy a stake in Disney if Peltz was elected to its board, posting, "His track record is excellent."

Peltz, who has decried Disney's capture by race obsessives as well as its recent turn towards lecherous themes, was unable to secure seats on Disney's board. The Hollywood Reporter indicated in May that Peltz dumped his entire stake in the company for $120 a share, which works out to roughly $1 billion.

Kathleen Kennedy Wants to Leave Lucasfilm on a “Big Win”

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 03:43:41 GMT

Geeks & Gamers Reports: For years, Star Wars fans dissatisfied with the franchise since Lucasfilm’s acquisition by Disney in 2012 have been hoping for Kathleen Kennedy, the president of the company since George Lucas sold it to Disney, to leave. Now, it looks like their wish may come true… under certain circumstances.

The figure most responsible for the transformation of Star Wars from the uplifting, aspirational hero’s journey it was to the depressing, morally gray, revisionist deconstruction it’s become is apparently interested in leaving.

This report comes from Film Threat founder Chris Gore, a veteran of entertainment news since 1985, who was recently the first to reveal that Marvel Studios had secretly fired all of its woke producers and will attempt to right its wayward movie ship. Gore appeared on WDW Pro’s livestream and said that Kathleen Kennedy is ready to retire from Lucasfilm with one caveat: she wants to go out on “a big win.” You can see the segment below:

Disney Shares Plummet as Theme Parks Hit Hard by Kamalaflation

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 01:06:36 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Walt Disney Company has warned that its theme parks are facing trouble as record inflation has made a trip to the Magic Kingdom unaffordable for millions of middle and working class Americans. The news sent Disney shares crashing more than 3 percent during the day on Wednesday.

During its quarterly earnings call, Disney specifically cited inflation when it said that its “Experiences” division — which includes theme parks, cruise ships, and other live entertainment offerings — will see a decline in income in the next few quarters.

Disney’s chief financial officer Hugh Johnston said lower-income consumers are being hit hard in the current economy and as a result, are no longer visiting Disney parks like they used to. For the most recent quarter, Disney reported its Experiences operating income fell 6 percent.

MSNBC Posts Deceptively Edited Video Implying Joe Rogan Backs Kamala Harris

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 02:20:40 GMT

Breitbart Reports: In what appears to be a brazen act of willful misdirection, MSNBC apparently posted a deceptively edited montage of clips implying that Joe Rogan is backing Kamala Harris for president. The video even uses clips of Rogan praising Tulsi Gabbard but edited to make it seem like Rogan was referring to Kamala.

MSNBC appears to have posted the montage to social media late last week but has since deleted the post after a swift backlash, including a rebuke from Tulsi Gabbard, who has called on the FEC to look into the radical leftist cable news network.

Furious bikers turn on Harley Davidson boss for 'going woke' after he publicly promoted DEI programs, LGBT policies and climate change issue

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 03:30:22 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: Furious bikers have turned their back on iconic motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson, accusing its CEO of 'going woke.'

The growing movement - spearheaded by conservative influencer Robby Starbuck - cites CEO Jochen Zeitz's support for hardline policies on trans care for kids, critical race theory, climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Starbuck, 35, is now demanding the company drop its CEO - and is rallying motorcycle enthusiasts to his cause at the largest bikers' event in the world, the 84th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.

'Bikers @SturgisRally are going to be spreading the word about this,' Starbuck vowed last week, just days before the 10-day event kicked off.

'Harley is hoping this all blows over. Are y'all ready to give up, or make your voices heard?'

Starbuck's rallying cry seemed to work, with one rally-goer telling him, 'I rolled into South Dakota on my 2003 100th anniversary pre-woke edition Electra glide,

'I heard [Harley-Davidson] Sturgis HQ is gonna be like Bud Light tent was last year,' the rally-goer wrote, referencing the conservative boycott of the beer manufacturer following an ad featuring transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, according to USA Today.

Country music star Travis Tritt also called the accusations against Zeitz 'disturbing.

'I seriously doubt that pushing a DEI agenda will be very popular with any of the HOG members I know,' he wrote.

'Looking forward to discussing these issues with many of my Harley-Davidson owner friends @SturgisRally next week.'

Sean Strickland, former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion and a longtime Harley enthusiast, also shared a video to X saying he no longer supports the company.

'I've owned Harleys most of my life, but I will never own a Harley again,' he said in the video, calling Zeitz a 'zealot.'

'If you love America, you will not own a Harley,' he said.

Rumor: Marvel Studios “Fired All The Producers That Could Be Labeled ‘Activist'”

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 01:14:54 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: As the old adage goes, “The more things change, the more things stay the same.”

According to a new whisper from within the halls of Disney, while Marvel Studios has reportedly learned from their recent mistakes and “cleaned house” of any and all of its “activist” producers, Lucasfilm is choosing to keep on their creatively bankrupt path to self-destruction.

Word of this apparent divergence between the House of Mouse’s two subsidiary studios was first raised on August 2nd by Film Threat founder Chris Gore during a recent appearance on The Critical Drinker’s Drinker’s Open Bar podcast.

Drinker’s Chasers – Major Course Correction At Marvel?

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Offering his thoughts on the Marvel Studios’ near-future outlook in light of their showing at the recent 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, Gore opined, “I think we’re gonna get a year of bad Marvel stuff. TV shows, you’ve got Agatha [All Along], you’ve got Ironheart, these two movies [Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts]. Fantastic Four, we’ll see.”

“We’ll see how Robert Downey Jr. will be used,” he added, referring to the news that the former Iron Man actor would be playing Doctor Doom in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars duology. “Is he a variant of Tony Stark? Is he just an actor playing a different character? So, whatever it is, I think it’s interesting.”

In further arguing for his optimism, Gore then asserted “I do know people who work at Marvel – they have cleaned house. They quietly, months ago, fired all the producers that could be labeled ‘activist’.”

Woke Disney Announces MASSIVE Job Cuts, Is Now ‘Shrinking’

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:34:38 GMT

Trending Politics Reports: Entertainment giant Disney has announced a massive new round of job cuts as the company’s woke agenda continues to alienate audiences. This time around, the cuts will be made from the television division. Disney, once a leader in family entertainment, has seen several box office flops and a steep decline in TV viewership. Its streaming service, Disney+, has been a gaping wound through which the company has gushed profit. However, according to Newsweek, they stopped the bleeding by raising the prices for subscriptions to the service – but the entertainment giant as a whole is “shrinking.”

Even Disney’s theme parks, a huge portion of its revenue, have experienced losses in recent times. Experts have chimed in, saying the parks are underperforming because of price hikes and more competition in the industry. The company is looking to try and offset its losses by cutting 140 jobs in the TV division, which is equal to two percent of staff.

A report from Bloomberg UK , citing “people with knowledge of the matter” who wish to remain anonymous, said that the stations that will be impacted most by the cuts are NatGeo and Freeform, along with other ABC stations. NatGeo is set to lose 13 percent of its staff. Disney will also be getting rid of positions from its marketing and publicity teams.

“Since Disney CEO Bob Iger returned to the entertainment conglomerate in 2022, he has cut billions of dollars in costs at Disney and eliminated over 8,000 positions as part of a plan to eliminate $7.5 billion in annual expenses. In January a representa tive for Pixar, a subsidiary of Disney, confirmed to Newsweek that the Disney-owned animation studio would be undergoing layoffs in 2024. According to TechCrunch, staff numbers could drop from 1,300 members to under 1,000 in the next few months—up to 20 percent of Pixar’s workforce—with further job losses a possibility down the line,” Newsweek reports.

Reality Imitates ‘South Park’ as Man Pummels Woman in Olympic Boxing Match

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:53:56 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Imane Khelif, an Algerian fighter who was disqualified from the International Boxing Association 2023 World Boxing Championships after failing gender-eligibility tests, beat Italian fighter Angela Carini in a boxing match at the 2024 Paris Olympics — after just 46 seconds in the fight — on Thursday, and within minutes the social media pipes were being clogged with users sharing a clip from a 2019 South Park episode that many say predicated men eventually box against women in professional sporting events.

“Now, this is the first year that a trans woman is in the competition. How do you feel about that?” a reporter in the November 2019 South Park episode, “Board Girls” is heard saying to a female athlete, who naively replies, “Amazing. I feel honored to be a part of history.”

The scene concludes with the male athlete standing on the first place pedestal on the medal podium, proclaiming, “I won! I’m the strong woman!” while two female athletes — one heavily bruised and bleeding — stand on either side of him on the second and third place pedestals.

“Look at it! It’s mine!” Swanson proclaims while showing off his First Place trophy. “I’m the best! I’m the strongest!”

Disney loses fight to dismiss Gina Carano's wrongful termination suit

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 02:44:03 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: Gina Carano's wrongful termination lawsuit against Disney over her firing from The Mandalorian will proceed after Disney lost their battle to have the case tossed out. "Defendants have not identified any evidence," a ruling from Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett states, "—in the Complaint or otherwise—to substantiate a claim that they employ public-facing actors for the purpose of promoting the 'values of respect' 'decency,' 'integrity,' or 'inclusion.'"

"Accordingly," Garnett said , "Defendants' invocation of the supposedly detrimental effects of Plaintiff's 'mere presence' as one of Defendants' employees lacks constitutional import."

"I am moved to tears. After a brutal 3 1/2 years, I am being given the opportunity to move forward in the court of law before the judge and my peers to clear my name. I am so grateful for this opportunity," Carano said on X.

"What happened to me was unacceptable, absurd and abusive, among other things. It should not have happened to me, and it should not happen to anyone else moving forward. Let it stop here," she continued.

"I quite literally fought to get to where I got to in my career through intense ups and downs, and I’ll keep up that fight to continue doing what I love. I appreciate all of you who stood by me and defended me, and I am so sorry that similar situations have happened to some of you. I want you to know that I see you and I stand with you," Carano said, before thanking Elon Musk for funding her suit.

Matt Walsh fools anti-white author Robin DiAngelo in new Daily Wire film 'Am I Racist?'

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:28:38 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: Just in time for election season, Matt Walsh has a new documentary out. Something of a follow-up to his acclaimed What is a Woman? film, Am I Racist? tracks Walsh, who poses as a DEI guy, attending workshops on anti-racism, participating in lectures on the evils of whiteness , and in a mic drop moment, conducting an interview with the unwittingly trolled anti-white author Robin DiAngelo.

Walsh followed the formula for What is a Woman?, in which he asked every day Americans, African tribesmen, political leaders and academics that seemingly simple question only to get baffling answers. In Am I Racist?, a Digital Astronaut production of a Justin Folk film, Walsh speaks to a similar cohort, including many individuals who have gone viral on social media for their hatred of white people, such as Saira Rao, who holds dinner parties for white women, at thousands of dollars per plate, to tell them they cannot distance themselves from "the bad white people."

He was able to go undercover by wearing his hair long, parted in the middle and bunned at the back, along with a leftist uniform of skinny jeans and a blazer, in order words a departure from his usual plaid flannel and normal-fitting pants. In the interview with DiAngelo, she even asks who he is, saying that they "have to be careful." It's an amazing exemplar of how easy it is to fool someone who believes that appearances literally are everything.

The question of just who is racist and what constitutes racism has morphed over recent years. No longer is racism considered that which is obviously and overtly racist, but new levels and kinds of racism have been identified, such as microaggressions, or unconscious bias, or just being white. Rep. Jasmine Crockett recently said in the House of Representatives that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was racist in pointing out her fake eyelashes. Other lawmakers have said Presidents' Day is racist .

Walsh digs into all of this, which hit a crisis moment in 2020 during the George Floyd Covid riots that began 10 weeks into pandemic lockdown with the firecracker point of the death of Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.

New York Times Lies About Hollywood Catering to Conservatives

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:40:02 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Urban leftists hate woke movies every bit as much as us deplorables. How do we know this? Let’s use the science of math, shall we…?

Almost 66 million people voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. All that’s required to get your movie to a $200 million domestic gross is for about one-third of those voters to show up and buy tickets.

That’s it.

In a country where nearly 66 million people voted for Hillary Clinton, Hollywood does not need a single red-state customer to make a profit. Hollywood’s problem is not that Republicans refuse to pay for this woke trash, Hollywood’s problem is that not even their own lefties are interested in paying for this woke trash.

If Hollywood made movies only to appeal to Hillary voters, to Democrats, that pool of customers would be more than large enough to create one box office hit after another. If you add in their kids, you’re talking about blockbuster after blockbuster.

What the New York Times cannot face is this fact: No one wants to watch this crap. No one —and that includes people in their own tribe.

We are all human beings and from our storytellers, we are hardwired to ask only two things: 1) cast a spell, 2) don’t break that spell.

That is a universal part of the human condition.

This means that even though woke is aimed at the left’s sweet spot, it violates rule number two. And while leftists might appreciate Hollywood propaganda, they still won’t pay for it with their time or money.

Woke Olympics Opening Ceremony Apologists Get Greek History Wrong Over ‘Dionysus’ and ‘Greek Bacchanal’ Excuses

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:09:50 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The left-wing apologists have come out of the woodwork to excuse away the hyper-sexualized woke trans Paris Olympics opening ceremony by claiming to rely on historical analysis to explain the debacle. Still, they are often garbling and mixing up history in the process.

The Daily Mail, for instance, claims that people are “getting it wrong” when they are criticizing the opening ceremony, especially the satirical depiction of Christianity and “The Last Supper.”

“The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics sparked outrage for the so-called blasphemous depiction of the Last Supper, but a new theory has emerged about what the bizarre performance was really about.,” the paper attempted to explain.

“It was a representation of the event called the Feast of Dionysus. Greek god of festivity and feasting and ritual and theater,” said Reverend Benjamin Cremer.

“The Olympics are from Greek culture and tradition. French culture is deeply rooted in feasting, festivity, and performing arts,” Cremer added.

This, though, is misleading.

Firstly, Dionysus, the Greek god of Wine, had practically nothing to do with the Greek traditions of the Olympic Games. Indeed, Dionysus isn’t even mentioned among the Greek gods listed on the Olympics’ own history webpage .

The webpage explaining the Greek traditions of the Olympic Games properly mentions Zeus, Hera, Athena, and Apollo. However, Dionysus is not mentioned because that particular god was not part of the group of gods that the Games were originally created to honor.

Further, there are a lot of liberals on social media claiming that the opening ceremony is not an attack on Christianity because it is a depiction of the “ancient Greek Bacchanalia festivals.”

This is also a garbled history. Bacchus is a Roman god, not a Greek god, and there is no such thing as an “ancient Greek Bacchanalia festival.”

Harley-Davidson sparks boycott call for going ‘totally woke’ with DEI policies

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:08:00 GMT

New York Post Reports: Harley-Davidson became the latest major brand to face backlash over its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives — with a conservative online influencer calling for a boycott of the iconic motorcycle maker.

Robby Starbuck, who has more than half a million followers on X, accused the Wisconsin-based company of having “gone totally woke” by hosting an LGBTQ+ boot camp at its offices, sponsoring Pride events and subjecting white employees to DEI indoctrination.

Last week, Starbuck, a former GOP candidate for a congressional seat in Tennessee, organized an online campaign that forced John Deere and Tractor Supply to walk back its DEI initiatives, including eliminating Pride parades and festivals.

In a 10-minute video that was posted to X, Starbuck noted that Harley-Davidson is a “platinum founding member of the LGBT Chamber of Commerce in Wisconsin,” which opposed banning transgender sex changes for children.

Starbuck posted an advertisement in which the company touted the fact that it was “all in on diversity and inclusion.”

The Post has sought comment from Harley-Davidson.

He also noted that Harley-Davidson’s CEO, German-born businessman Jochen Zeitz, “uses his millions to change opinions on climate change.”

DEI-inspired Assassin's Creed game admits to being 'works of fiction' after backlash from Japan over black samurai

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:28:16 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Shadows has caused significant uproar in Japan due to creative licenses and historical inaccuracies.

The game focuses on the greatly exaggerated depiction of Yasuke, an alleged black samurai from the mid-1500s. Ubisoft turned the vague story of the "black slave" in Japan into a fierce and heroic samurai.

As expected, Japanese gamers did not take kindly to the setting of feudal Japan being used for a game inspired by diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The game has caused such great offense that Japanese political aides have made comments, and letters have been sent to Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as well as to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among others.

A petition regarding the "lack of historical accuracy and cultural respect" in the game is nearing 100,000 signatures.

"This game is based on the samurai of Japan, ignoring the fact that the samurai is the upper class," the petition continued. "Ubisoft continues to misunderstand the essence and role of samurai. This is a serious insult to Japanese culture and history and can lead to racism in Asia. We call on Ubisoft to immediately discontinue the launch."

Ubisoft initially decreed complaints to be hateful and essentially racist, with CEO Yves Guillemot making remarks in June 2024.

"I want to make it clear that we, at Ubisoft, condemn these hateful acts in the strongest possible terms," Guillemot said, according to Game Developer. "I encourage the rest of the industry and players to denounce them, too."

As YouTuber Shohei Kondo stated, the game's creative director, Jonathan Dumont, originally said the idea behind the black samurai character came from "looking for a character who could be seen by us as a samurai, someone who is not Japanese."

Mr. Beast's trans sidekick 'Ava' Kris Tyson resigns after accusations of grooming 13-year-old boy

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:47:51 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: YouTuber Mr. Beast 's trans sidekick "Ava" Kris Tyson apologized on Tuesday for recent controversy after being accused of grooming a 13-year-old boy. Tyson had been with the multi-million dollar channel since it was created in 2012.

"I would like to apologize for any of my past behavior or comments if it hurt or offended anyone," Tyson said. "It was not my intent. Seeing recent events we’ve mutually decided it’s best I permanently step away from all things MrBeast and social media to focus on my family and mental health." Tyson is a father of one and separated from his wife after he came out as trans.

Reports emerged on Monday that Tyson communicated with a 13-year-old boy when Tyson was a 20-year-old man. The report from YouTube account Prism42 cites posts from X users in asserting that Tyson had made these communications and that the two "joked" about sending nudes. As allegations swirled, Tyson deleted all his posts on X.

"Kris Tyson reached out to this guy when he was 13-years-old" and Tyson was 20. Essentially, Tyson was making friends with a middle-schooler. They communicated one-on-one and also without supervision and they were connected on multiple platforms, including Snapchat. Their "friendship" began after LavaGS won a Mr. Beast challenge.

Musk says trans child was figuratively 'killed by the woke mind virus,' vows to destroy it

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:00:29 GMT

Fox News Reports: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he was "tricked" into giving consent for his child to go on puberty blockers, adding that he believes "the woke mind virus" figuratively killed his son.

Musk made the comment in an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson on Monday after he was asked about his thoughts on doctors performing sex change procedures on children, a practice both Musk and Peterson described as "evil." Musk said that his experience with his child Xavier, who now goes by Vivian Jenna Wilson, opened his eyes to what he called "the woke mind virus," which he has since vowed to "destroy."

"It happened to one of my older boys, where I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier. This is before I had any understanding of what was going on. COVID was going on, so there was a lot of confusion and I was told Xavier might commit suicide if he doesn't…" Musk told Peterson.

"That was a lie right from the outset," Peterson interjected.

"Incredibly evil, and I agree with you that the people that have been promoting this should go to prison," Musk responded.

Musk said it wasn't explained to him that puberty blockers are "actually just sterilization drugs" when he gave his consent for his son to undergo the treatment. He called the term "gender affirming care" a "terrible euphemism."

"I lost my son, essentially. They call it deadnaming for a reason," Musk said. "The reason it's called deadnaming is because your son is dead. My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus."

Puberty blockers have been shown to cause long-term fertility problems in boys, a preprint study from Mayo Clinic concluded earlier this year. The study found that puberty blockers’ impacts may be permanent, disputing claims that such effects can be reversed.

The Astroturfing of Woke, Progressive Causes

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 01:46:09 GMT

Spike Reports: The woke love to claim that they are the authentic voice of the oppressed. But unlike past struggles for equal rights and civil liberties, the causes championed by modern ‘progressives’ – from trans rights to climate extremism – have the fulsome backing of the state. These campaigns tend to be astroturfed, rather than grassroots.

Take Pride, for instance. The early gay-rights campaigners who established the first parades faced extraordinary hostility. But now that Pride has become a celebration of trans and so-called LGBTQ+, all that has changed. Earlier this week, the Daily Mail revealed that police officers in Scotland have been encouraged to attend Pride parades as part of their official duties. Police Scotland said that they would pay their uniformed personnel to spend the day at LGBT marches. Presumably, getting covered in rainbow facepaint, or taking selfies with blokes in bondage gear, is a better use of their time than fighting crime.

To be clear, officers don’t even need to actually police the parade in order to get paid. They are just expected to take part and ‘show support’ for the LGBT community. Because, apparently, Pride ‘is a community-engagement opportunity, therefore participation will be considered a duty day’. Officers taking part can choose between either receiving normal pay or getting a day off in lieu.

The wisdom behind this move is questionable, to say the least, given that Police Scotland’s resources are currently spread incredibly thin. In March, they announced that officers would no longer be expected to respond to every crime , instead leaving ‘minor’ incidents uninvestigated. Already, non-emergency 101 calls can take up to 20 minutes to be answered. Encouraging officers to spend a day doing the ‘Macarena’ seems like a colossal waste of time and money – and indeed a stunning dereliction of duty.

Needless to say, it is not actually a police officer’s job to take part in Pride – or any kind of political demonstration. But officers are not alone in this. The Times reported this week that UK Sport, the government agency responsible for investing in Olympic and Paralympic sport, has been training athletes in how to be social activists.

No Longer Business Critical: Microsoft Lays Off a DEI Team Sending DEI Staff Spiraling and You Did It

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:50:27 GMT

RedState Reports: DEI another day.

That's the message America is sending to corporations, and it seems these woke behemoths are finally getting the message and kneeling before you.

Among them is Microsoft, probably one of the largest of the beasts. According to IGN, it recently laid off a "key" DEI team, stating that their "role and team were eliminated due to 'changing businesses needs' as of July 1.

This sent one of its former employees ranting about how Microsoft no longer sees DEI as important to its business in an email, and as you'll see, the panic isn't just that DEI is dying at Microsoft, but that it's dying everywhere:

"Unofficially in my opinion, not specific to Microsoft alone, but [ conservative policy plan ] Project 2025 looms and true systems change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020. Hence the purposeful and strategic 3-5 year shelf life of many company's inclusion commitments post the murder of George Floyd are being reevaluated," the email reads. "And the way I see it, the timing was impeccable so businesses everywhere could reevaluate the path forward should their U.S. federal contracts be at risk if the work continues on its face."

The email goes on to praise the work of DEI teams at Microsoft, saying that "impossible mountains were moved" during their tenure and celebrating the "brilliant, ethical, and world class strategists at the company, helping to make the world a better place." However, they also accused executive leadership of "investigated and evidenced discrimination, harassment, and toxicity" directed toward them during their time at the company.

"He Did It Again": Robby Starbuck's Anti-Woke Crusade Results In Deere Pulling Back On DEI Policies

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:47:35 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: Weeks after Tractory Supply nuked its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives following conservative backlash and boycotts sparked by commentator and filmmaker Robby Starbuck, Deere & Co. announced on X on Tuesday that it will no longer participate in "cultural awareness parades" and pull back on "woke" workplace policies.

Starbuck said the Moline, Illinois-based Deere has committed to:

No longer funding pride parades
Business resource groups will no longer be divided on identity lines
Audit all training materials to ensure the absence of socially motivated messages
No hiring quotas or pronoun usage

"Another huge win in our war on wokeness, BUT I don't think this is enough for customers to go back. Customers want to hear that DEI policies are entirely gone and that they will no longer participate in social credit CEI scoring by HRC," Starbuck wrote on X.

He added, "This half measure shows that we're a powerful force to be reckoned with though. While I'm not completely pleased, I don't want to downplay the fact that this is another massive win. All of you are helping me force corporate America back to sanity. I won't rest until we eliminate leftism from corporate America."

Disney Investigating Major Hack Of Internal Slack Channels

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 03:10:13 GMT

Deadline Reports: Ten years after a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures , Disney said Monday that it’s investigating a reported hack of its internal Slack workplace messages by a group calling itself Nullbulge.

“Disney is investigating this matter,” a company spokesperson told Deadline of the hack, which was first reported in the Wall Street Journal and is said to include data from thousands of Slack channels at the media and entertainment giant.

The Nullbulge website, under a header ‘Disney Internal Slack,’ said it’s hacked “almost 10,000 channels, every message and file possible.”

“Unreleased projects, raw images and code, some logins, links to internal api/web pages, and more! Have fun sifting through it, there is a lot there,” the website said.

The WSJ said it couldn’t immediately verify the group’s claims of the scope of the documents involved and how they were obtained. The publication said material it viewed went back to 2019 and included conversations about maintaining Disney’s corporate website, assessments of candidates for employment, programs for emerging leaders within ESPN, and photos of employees’ dogs. Nullbulge has posted screenshots of the documents online.

The group told the WSJ that it targeted Disney “due to how it handles artist contracts, its approach to AI, and its … pretty blatant disregard for the consumer.”

Disgraced CNN Caught Lying About Disbanding ‘Race and Equity’ Team

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 03:20:45 GMT

Breitbart Reports: CNN, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and violence, tried to lie its way out of the awesome news that it had disbanded its stupid “race and equity” reporting team.

Disgraced CNN CEO Mark Thompson is hoping to restructure his failing Hate Outlet into something sustainable by adding on some kind of a subscription “lifestyle journalism” service. The far-left New York Times has successfully funded its news lies and propaganda with puzzles, recipes, and travel tips. CNNLOL is hoping it can do the same.

But this means restructuring, and that means job cuts and that stupid “race and equity” reporting team was part of a reported 100 CNN job cuts. But… CNN being CNN, a spokesperson assumed CNN’s normal default position of telling bald-faced lies and at first, lied about not having disbanded its stupid “race and equity” team.

“A network spokesperson first claimed the Race and Equality team was not disbanded before admitting to [reporter Phil] Lewis that it will no longer exist as a mission-oriented unit,” the New York Post reports .

Then CNN eventually admitted to Lewis that “the team is not a team anymore. They’re assigned to different areas so that [their] perspective and work is brought into all of our types of programming. It’s not a unit in the way it was before,” CNN added, “but [race and equality] is very much still their focus.”

Except…

That’s not even true.

50 Cent After Trump Assassination Attempt: ‘You Come at the King, You Best Not Miss’

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 02:12:10 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Rapper and entertainment mogul 50 Cent shared an image to his Instagram account following Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, which read “You come at the king, you best not miss.”

“You come at the king, you best not miss,” 50 Cent’s Instagram post read, referencing a paraphrased sentiment derived from Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince.”

Meanwhile, on X, the rapper shared a photo of President Trump with blood on his face after the assassination attempt, writing, “I know the vibes ‍♂️we are all in trouble now !”

The photo included a clip from 50 Cent’s 2003 song, “Many Men (Wish Death),” which featured the lyrics, “Many men wish death upon me, blood in my eye, dog, and I can’t see. I’m trying to be what I’m destined to be, and n****s try to take my life away.”

Nintendo's rejection of AI sets the stage for the future of gaming

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 03:26:52 GMT

The National Reports: While the wider world of tech is diving headfirst into adopting artificial intelligence into their systems, Nintendo has signalled that it will not be doing the same anytime soon.

During a Q&A session with investors, Nintendo’s president Shuntaro Furukawa said: “Generative AI, which is becoming a big topic recently, can be used in creative ways, but we recognise that it may also raise issues with intellectual property rights.

“We have decades of know-how in creating the best gaming experiences for our players. While we are open to utilising technological developments, we will work to continue delivering value that is unique to Nintendo and cannot be created by technology alone.”

Furukawa’s comments on AI signal that Nintendo will probably stand alone, at least for a while, as its competitors have expressed a more supportive tone when speaking on the developing technology.

Microsoft, the maker of Xbox, previously revealed plans to add an AI chatbot to its consoles, aimed at assisting players with queries and refunds. The adoption is restricted to consumer services at the moment, but Microsoft executives outlined an “Xbox Everywhere” vision that included “AI innovation” as a central part of that ambition.

PlayStation, on the other hand, is rumoured to be preparing for a new PS5 Pro console, which will include PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, an upscaling technique that uses AI to improve the quality of images.

These moves signal that unlike Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox will be integrating AI into their consoles – and most likely into their games in the near future. Acceptance and adoption are not necessarily a bad thing, but Furukuwas's point still stands – the further you go into the world of AI, the more issues concerning intellectual property rights may arise.

BBC continues its DEI-fication of British history with 'racially diverse' series about the Battle of Hastings

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 01:19:16 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Leftists appear conflicted about Western history. On the one hand, they have endeavored to sever ties with it, tearing down statues, renaming places and species, and digging up graves. Yet, they also appear keen to transmogrify Western history — to rewrite it and reimagine it in order to bolster their contemporary worldview, advance their agenda, or to accommodate the sensitivities of their peers.

This latter impulse to transmogrify history appears to dominate in the United Kingdom where there is a burgeoning genre of revisionist agitprop aimed at either distorting facts to paint Caucasians uniquely as history's villains or to erase Caucasians from the isles' history.

The British Broadcasting Corporation has contributed to this genre for years and has shown no signs of stopping.

The Telegraph recently revealed that a forthcoming BBC historical drama series about the Battle of Hastings — between Anglo-Saxons and Norman-French forces for control of England in 1066 — will be played by a "diverse cast."

"King and Conqueror," a CBS Studios coproduction picked up by the BBC, will apparently feature non-white actors as Anglo-Saxon characters.

"Adding diversity to a high medieval period setting follows the BBC’s 'colour-blind' casting of non-white stars as Tudor courtiers in another upcoming historical drama, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light," reported the Telegraph.

For instance, Elander Moore, an actor of Trinidadian decent, will play Morcar, son of Ælfgā, the earl of Mercia, and himself an earl of Northumbria, who fought against Viking and Norman invaders.

Jason Forbes, a black English actor from Bristol, will reportedly play a fictional Anglo-Saxon aristocrat named Thane Thomas.

In the BBC's original announcement of the show, Lindsey Martin, senior vice president of international development and coproductions at CBS Studios — formerly of Netflix — indicated the show would be a "bold and fresh take on a story that has endured for nearly 1,000 years" with themes "as contemporary and relevant as ever."

Caitlin Clark’s Popularity Dispels Woke Myth About WNBA Fan Sexism

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 02:28:25 GMT

The Patriot Post Reports: Caitlin Clark’s popularity shows sexism isn’t holding back the WNBA.

Earlier this month, the Las Vegas Aces thumped the Indiana Fever, 88-69. But the score wasn’t the big story. The massive crowd was. It was a sellout crowd of 20,366. It was the most people to watch a WNBA regular season game since 1999.

The biggest draw was Clark, the former Iowa star who plays for the Fever. Her step-back threes and scoring prowess have made her a major celebrity. This year, the Fever had more fans in Clark’s first five home games than it did in 20 home games last year. Clark draws massive crowds on the road, too. The Aces usually play their home games at the 12,000-seat Michelob Ultra Arena. For this game, they played at T-Mobile Arena, which has a significantly larger capacity.

Clark boosted the Aces’ attendance numbers for this game, but the team has done a great job drawing fans all season. They sold out their season tickets this year, the first WNBA team to do so. Last year, their average home attendance was around 9,500 fans. That’s more than double their home attendance in 2019.

Even this success isn’t without its critics. Clark’s rookie contract guarantees her less than $77,000 this year. With incentives, she could earn $500,000 or more from the WNBA. But that’s a fraction of the $12.1 million that 2023 NBA No. 1 draft pick Victor Wembanyama made in his first year.

“Women in sports continue to push new boundaries and inspire us all,” President Joe Biden tweeted about this in April. “But right now we’re seeing that even if you’re the best, women are not paid their fair share.”

Leave aside the irony of that complaint coming from someone who believes men should be competing in women’s sports. WNBA players have long bemoaned the supposed gender pay gap.

In 2018, Aces player A'ja Wilson tweeted about NBA superstar LeBron James signing a $154 million contract. “Must be nice. We are here looking for a (million) but Lord, let me get back in my lane,” she wrote.

To celebrate the anniversary of Title IX in 2022, then-Los Angeles Sparks forward Katie Lou Samuelson wore shoes that said, “Pay women athletes.”

But it’s not sexism that keeps the pay of WNBA players below their NBA counterparts. It’s economics. The NBA’s annual revenue is more than $10 billion. In 2023, the WNBA’s total was around $200 million. In 2023, the WNBA’s total was around $200 million. That was a massive jump from the $60 million it brought in 2022.

As You Might Expect, Movies for Normal People Save the Box Office

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:58:40 GMT

Breitbart Reports: For years, as one woketard movie flopped after another, we were told by the sycophant entertainment media that the problem was everything but the woketardery: The strikes! The China flu! Streaming! Superhero fatigue!

No one had the moral courage to acknowledge the obvious: Normal People do not want to watch guys kiss, girlbosses girlboss, their heroes emasculated by the aforementioned girlboss, or characters judged (and condemned) based on their racial or sexual identity.

But now…

The box office is back, baby!

Why, just like that *that* The strikes! The China flu! Streaming! Superhero fatigue! are not keeping moviegoers away.

Wow!

What changed?

This is not a difficult question to answer…

If you look at the recent box office hits, they have one thing in common… There is no social or political controversy around them. In other words, they are Normal Movies made for Normal People.

After something close to a dozen flops in a row, The Disney Grooming Syndicate finally released a movie that looked normal, Inside Out 2, and it has already grossed $1.2 billion. Inside Out 2 is what people want from Disney: no gay sex, no transvestites, no pronouns, no lectures, just a nice story about relatable characters.

...

Another lie these box office hits expose is the smear that racist Americans want nothing to do with franchises starring non-whites — and yet there’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die; that we want nothing to do with female stars — and yet, Inside Out 2; that we bigots especially want nothing to do with non-white females — and yet A Quiet Place: Day One.

This is not difficult…

Woke = bad storytelling.

Bad storytelling = lousy movies.

Bad movies = lousy box office.

10 ways woke culture is reframing civilization

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 01:13:30 GMT

Christian Post Reports: Revolutionaries have consistently redefined reality and classifications to control the narrative and advance their agendas.

The French Revolution (1789-1799): The revolutionaries dismantled the feudal system and abolished titles of nobility; redefining citizens as equals to establish a new social order. They also introduced a new calendar, renaming months and resetting the year to Year I, symbolizing a complete break from the past and creating a new identity.

The Russian Revolution (1917): The Bolsheviks restructured society by emphasizing the proletariat (working class) and the bourgeoisie (capitalist class), instigating class warfare. They employed new symbols like the hammer and sickle and terminology like “comrade” to unify and motivate the masses. Their extensive propaganda efforts redefined justice, equality, and the role of the state.

Nazi Germany (1933-1945): The Nazi regime redefined racial categories to assert Aryan superiority and justify the persecution of Jews, biblical Christians, and other minorities. Through relentless propaganda, they reshaped reality, portraying these groups as subhuman and dangerous. Nazi education policies indoctrinated the youth with these distorted values and racial theories. Today, Western nations are experiencing a profound revolutionary transformation under the “woke” ideology banner.

This new wave of cultural redefinition is occurring in the following ways:

Anti-white DEI industry in full collapse as woke America runs out of steam

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 23:37:17 GMT

Natural News Reports: America's university campuses are slowly phasing out their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs due to widespread and growing disapproval of its anti-white agenda.

MIT and Harvard University have both publicly abandoned their requirement that all job applicants submit "diversity statements" as part of their job applications. The New York Times reported on this with the headline: "The End for Mandatory DEI Statements."

"The switch has flipped as of now," commented Jeffrey S. Flier, Harvard Medical School's former dean.

"I think the large, silent majority of faculty who question the implementation of these programs and, in particular, these diversity statements – these people are being heard."

The first education system in the country to require diversity statements was the University of California (UC) system, which implemented them about 10 years ago. Supporters of the requirement say it is necessary to build a "welcoming environment for a diverse student population," but critics say it shames and promotes hate against white people.

For now, the UC system appears to be sticking with its diversity statement requirement, but faculty at Harvard and MIT feel differently about the matter.

(Related: Remember when DEI "expert" David Austin Walsh complained publicly that nobody wants to hire him because he is white and male?)

Perhaps the biggest shift away from anti-white DEI is taking place in Republican-led, or "red," states where, in some cases, entire DEI departments are being dismantled and their employees fired.

Judge Rejects Alec Baldwin’s Request to Drop Charges over Evidence Dispute

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 01:44:58 GMT

Slay Reports: Hollywood star Alec Baldwin’s request to have his involuntary manslaughter charges dropped has been rejected by the judge overseeing the trial.

The judge denied Baldwin’s request to dismiss the charges based on the alleged destruction of exculpatory evidence.

Baldwin’s lawyers claimed that the FBI impaired the actor’s right to a fair trial by destroying the handgun at the center of the case during forensic testing.

But the judge sided with prosecutors in a Friday ruling.

The judge’s decision sets the stage for a trial next week.

Baldwin has long denied any wrongdoing in the tragic shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The young mother was killed in October 2021 when Baldwin shot her with a prop gun loaded with a live bullet.

The case has taken a winding path.

Prosecutors previously dismissed charges only to refile them in January upon further analysis of the revolver.

Investors Flee ESG Funds As Bubble Bursts On Woke Investing

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 02:43:14 GMT

Amac Reports: The woke investing craze may have reached its zenith.

According to a new report from the Financial Times, investors have withdrawn a net $40 billion from so-called “environmental, social, and governance,” or ESG, funds since the start of 2024. These withdrawals represent “the first year that flows have trended negative” and come amid, according to the Times, “poor performance, scandals, and attacks from U.S. Republicans.”

This trend has been particularly pronounced in the United States. In April alone, American investors pulled $4.4 billion from ESG equity funds. BlackRock, once one of the most prominent champions of ESG, has now halved its ESG assets since 2021. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has also publicly stated that he will no longer even use the term “ESG” because “it’s been entirely weaponized.” Parnassus Core Equity, “the largest US sustainable fund,” managing $28.4 billion in assets, has “been one of the ten biggest losers in terms of flow for two years straight.”

As the Times also reports, perhaps the primary cause of ESG’s sudden fall from grace is notably diminishing returns. Over the past year, while conventional stock market funds averaged a 21 percent return, ESG funds averaged just 11 percent. As fossil fuel companies have seen sharp upticks in their stock prices, ESG-laden funds have missed out on all those gains.

Jamie Franco, global head of sustainable investments at asset manager TCW, told the Times that many ESG funds launched in 2020-2021, right at the height of the movement’s popularity, “probably went out a little too quickly [and] probably took advantage of some ESG marketing sentiment.” In other words, Franco appears to be suggesting, ESG “investing” is driven more by politics than actual sound economic reasoning.

Wall Street Journal Reveals DEI Did Nothing for Corporate Profits

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:10:24 GMT

Headline USA Reports: The myth that DEI is good for corporate profits began long ago, when the state attempted to leverage its power to help those at a perceived market disadvantage, such as women or minorities.

By 2015, studies were being published suggesting that not only was DEI necessary as a matter of justice, but that it was also financially beneficial for corporations to partake in it.

The most notable of those studies was conducted by the management consulting firm McKinsey—which, in 2015, declared that DEI was a boon for business and corporate profits.

Leading investment companies such as BlackRock dove headfirst into the new strategy, eager for a business model that aligned better with the values of Manhattanites and other bicostal elites who undoubtedly disdained the corporate world’s long-running love affair with conservative-friendly capitalism.

Putting a greater emphasis on social capital over shareholder returns allowed them to stave off negative publicity over their less savory practices—for example, the exploitation of Chinese slave labor—by simply virtue signaling toward a handful of woke objectives.

From the initial desire for greater corporate diversity soon was spawned the Environmental, Social and Governance movement, exerting pressure on companies to follow a political agenda through targeted investment and divestment strategies.

Rockstar Co-Founder: No 'GTA' or 'Red Dead' Film Adaptations Due to Too High Risk

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:11:01 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser has revealed that the reason why the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption never received any sort of film or television adaptation was nothing more than their own belief in artistic integrity.

Houser, who served as Rockstar Games’ head writer and VP of creativity until he resigned in 2020 to form his own Absurd Ventures production studio, spoke to the franchises’ lack of respective Hollywood outings during a recent interview given to The Ankler’s Peter Kiefer.

Reflecting on the unsurprising bevy of times he met with studio executives to discuss a potential adaptation, the writer-turned-produced detailed, “After a few awkward dates. We’d ask, why would we do this? [They’d say] ‘Because you get to make a movie,’ and we’d be like, ‘No, what you’ve described is you making a movie and us having no control and taking a huge risk that we’re going to end up paying for with something that belongs to us.”

“They thought we’d be blinded by the lights and that just wasn’t the case,” he further detailed to Kiefer. “We had what we considered to be multi-billion-dollar IP, and the economics never made sense. The risk never made sense. In those days, the perception was that games made poor-quality movies.”

Tucker Carlson destroys a mindless woke reporter bot in Australia

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 04:07:18 GMT

American Thinker Reports: Six years ago, a video emerged of Jordan Peterson speaking to Cathy Newman. It’s fascinating. Newman perfectly illustrates the leftist media’s inability to process what conservatives say. What you see is a woman whose brain is no longer her own. She’s a drone, and everything a conservative says goes through the translation filter:

The other day, Tucker Carlson, while speaking in Australia, had the same experience as Jordan Peterson did, although the reporter was much uglier in her approach. The video is almost six minutes long and worth every minute, because The reporter opens by announcing that Tucker’s “replacement theory” claims are premised on keeping nations white, with the implication being that he’s a white supremacist.

Tucker asks the reporter for a citation which, of course, she cannot provide. He politely explains to her that he’s never mentioned race in connection with the replacement argument. Instead, he’s talking about the way that Western governments are replacing all citizens of their home countries, regardless of race, color, creed, etc., with more compliant people from other countries. In that way, our Western governments can avoid the responsibility of actually implementing good policies that keep their existing citizens happy, healthy, and productive.

The reporter, however, denies that Tucker is saying what he’s saying and just keeps coming back to implying that his views are racist, even as she carefully avoids a direct accusation to preserve plausible deniability. Then, having ignored everything that Tucker said and established to her own satisfaction that Tucker is, indeed, a racist sending out dog whistles across America, the reporter blamed Tucker’s speech for the shooting in “Buffalo” New York, which saw “11 Jewish Americans killed.” (The only mass shooting I know of in Buffalo killed ten blacks. The shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh killed 11 Jews.)

With this accusation, Tucker ceases to be polite, exclaiming, “How do they get people this stupid in the media?” I don’t think it’s entirely stupidity, though. While ignorant and not that bright, the reporter shows the feral intelligence of programmatic cult thinking. After all, even stupid people can recognize the truth when it stares them in the face. Cultists can’t.

Tractor Supply Co. Ditches Everything Woke, Declares It Won't Ever Touch DEI or Pride Celebrations

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:39:23 GMT

RedState Reports: While some corporations don't seem capable of figuring out that the American people aren't into woke policies and DEI initiatives, Tractor Supply Co. (TSC) seems to have deduced the secret code into keeping customers, and possibly even expanding their base.

According to Filmmaker and journalist Robby Starbuck, TSC was found to have given $100,000 to an activist group that "worked around the clock" to stop deportations under the Trump administration. The group was called "Conexion Americas' and was previously headed by the National Council of La Raza, a George Soros funded organization.

When Starbuck broke the news, Hal Lawton was inundated with posts from angry customers, causing him to lockdown his X account. Meanwhile, the company lost over $2 billion in market cap.

After some silence by the company, it released a statement on Thursday that wasn't just a step back from the leftism the company had engaged in. It threw the car in reverse and slammed on the gas pedal. It made a list of five promises to its customers.

1. It will stop submitting data to the Human Rights Campaign.

2. It will refocus its engagement groups on mentoring, networking, and supporting the business.

3. It will prioritize rural American concerns including "ag education, animal welfare, veteran causes and being a good neighbor and stop sponsoring non-business activities like pride festivals and voting campaigns."

4. It's kicking DEI to the curb and abandoning any DEI related goals.

5. Abandoning its carbon emission goals in order to focus on land and water conservation efforts.

This is a massive message to send in this day and age. TSC did what every company should do and listened to its customers, wholly abandoning the radical leftism that's plaguing much of corporate America and getting back to what its customers find important.

Paramount Deletes Woke MTV News Website and Archives

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:12:23 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Last May, the far-left MTV News was just one of many left-wing news outlets that closed down forever (tee hee). A year later, Paramount (MTV’s owner) has now taken it a delicious step further. The MTV News website and its archives have been deleted.

Wow. Some 20 years of puddle-shallow, left-wing propaganda and snark written and published by know-nothings who believe the real world is a reality show are gone forever with the touch of a button.

Is this a great country, or what?

“Some two decades’ worth of content published on MTVNews.com is no longer available after MTV appears to have fully pulled down the site and its related content,” reports the far-left Variety.

“As of Monday,” Variety continues, “trying to access MTV News articles on mtvnews.com or mtv.com/news resulted in visitors being redirected to the main MTV website.”

“So, mtvnews.com no longer exists. Eight years of my life are gone without a trace,” xweeted one former MTV News staffer. “All because it didn’t fit some executives’ bottom lines. Infuriating is too small a word.”

A writer for the disgraced Rolling Stone added his own harrumph: “This is disgraceful. They’ve completely wiped the MTV News archive. Decades of pop culture history research material gone, and why?” He added, “[O]lder articles don’t even turn up on the Wayback machine. Just a total wipe-out. Really despicable.”

You gotta love the bloated sense of self-importance here. You know, I’ve been writing online for 20 years now, and I could not care less if all of it is deleted. Two or three websites from way back in my Dirty Harry days are probably gone forever. I sure wasn’t going to pay to keep all the bad writing alive … forever.

Why Even ‘Woke’ Companies are Turning Their Backs on Toxic HR Diversity Schemes

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 04:01:05 GMT

The Telegraph Reports: Behind office doors, HR departments at some of Britain’s biggest businesses have recently been feeling defensive and on the back foot.

Increasingly laid at their doors is the blame for allowing toxic identity politics to enter the workplace, and wasting millions of pounds on pointless diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes.

Pointing the finger are belt-tightening senior leaders scrutinising their returns amid soaring wage bills, with some even feeling betrayed for being shepherded by HR into the vicious culture wars.

Christoffer Ellehuus, the Chief Executive of workplace training company MindGym, says: “A lot of them are blaming HR for not having reined it in and having had a much clearer business focus about what they were doing.”

Fuelling this blame game are recent findings that Britain’s diversity drive is “counterproductive” despite businesses spending millions of pounds on ultimately ineffective workplace initiatives.

It was the conclusion of an independent report commissioned by Kemi Badenoch, the Business Secretary, which discovered popular so-called ESG (environmental, social and governance) practices had little to no tangible impact on boosting diversity or reducing prejudice.

Ms. Badenoch in March warned British companies against outsourcing or delegating to workplace training consultants with “potentially conflicting incentives” which are ultimately selling “snake oil”.

She told the Times: “There are lots of people who just cook up stuff and say, ‘Oh, I’ve got a course. Why don’t you buy my course?’ … They’ve been making money out of selling stuff that is not evidence-based.”

Badenoch’s report is damning for HR departments who now face questions from their superiors about why they fell prey to so-called snake oil sellers in the first place.

Creator of Disney's 'The Acolyte' Tries Denying the Woke Content That Was Originally Celebrated

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:25:35 GMT

RedState Reports: If there is one word that can be used to describe "The Acolyte," the latest series released on Disney+, it would be “polarizing.” When it comes to impressions from those who have seen the series, there is zero middle ground. Either we see the militant defense of the series, or there is fervent opposition to how the show bastardized the “Star Wars” canon.

We can get a feel for how this is trending by the fact series creator Leslye Headland is attempting to recast the interpretation of her program. As predicted in prior coverage of this show , we have seen the exact “Disney Formula” followed step-by-step:

Create a blatantly woke product
Preemptively respond to non-existent complaints
Experience low interest in the product
Lash out at the audience as being intolerant

Ms. Headland appears to be adding an additional step: denying what fans are complaining about actually exists. This has to be a sign that they are feeling the pushback and the failure of the product.

One example of this polarity is seen on Rotten Tomatoes, where critical favor has been consistently high but the audience scores have plunged into the low double digits. Of course, this also reflects the coordinated efforts of many to review-bomb the show, so it cannot be regarded as a true portrayal of impressions. But one more accurate metric is the audience figures.

Disney senior VP caught on camera claiming company hires based on race and believes 'it's just good for society'

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:25:17 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: An executive from the Walt Disney Company alleged that the historic brand thoroughly engages in race-based hiring practices but uses coded language to avoid liability.

During a series of undercover videos made by investigative journalist James O'Keefe's O'Keefe Media Group, a Disney senior vice president named Michael Giordano appeared to detail a series of questionable hiring practices and beliefs ingrained at the company.

Speaking to an undercover reporter, Giordano claimed that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives go right to the top, including through CEO Bob Iger.

"Do you think Bob has a say in the diversity stuff when they’re casting people?" the journalist asked.

"100%. He gives the directive ... 'Hey, I want every show to have substantial diversity,'" the executive said.

Iger had said in April 2024 that the company does not infuse any messaging into its content. He noted that the company is trying to reach a "diverse audience" and said certain viewers can sometimes be "turned off by certain things." He added that Disney has to be more sensitive to the interests of a broad audience.

It is perhaps the latter that was coded terminology signaling the DEI beliefs at the company.

Giordano said in the undercover videos that diversity is sometimes "so front and center. ... We have so many shows where we're casting and we're like 'yeah, we're not even gonna see certain people for it.'"

The Woke Video Game Industry Needs a Bud Light Moment

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 03:31:41 GMT

Daily Signal Reports: Influencers and leaders of the video game industry are enthralled with the idea of using a market predominantly targeting minors to sway a whole generation into adopting and accepting LGBTQ+ ideology.

Major game studios have embraced Pride Month this year in a manner that gamers cannot escape. What this industry truly needs now more than ever is a Bud Light moment to correct course.

Bud Light faced a boycott last year after hiring far-left transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson. Americans boycotted the brand for endorsing gender ideology, and sales are still foundering a year later. Sales of Bud Light fell 9.1% from January to March this year.

Most of the largest corporations in the video game industry appear to be more than willing to use their platform and influence to ensure the next generation of children embrace an extremist LGBTQ+ ideology that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

So it’s time for the video game industry’s Bud Light moment.

The goal of activist leaders in the industry is to use their power to influence children. Whether it is Xbox or Nintendo, parents and gamers alike need to speak with their wallets.

Just as Bud Light and Target reversed course, game corporations would do the same if it meant losing profits. We simply cannot allow them to target children anymore. This time next year, let’s hope we are referring back to the video game industry’s “Mario moment.”

Joy Behar Mocked Hard After Claiming Trump Will Cancel ‘The View’ if Elected

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:47:26 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Internet trolls came out in force after Joy Behar shared her paranoid delusion former President Trump would cancel ABC’s The View if elected in November.

As Breitbart News reported, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow inspired conspiratorial dread during an appearance on The View this week when she said “no one will be safe” if Trump wins. Joy Behar took it a step further to suggest that Trump would even seek to have The View canceled.

“Some people think that sounds overdramatic but I’m right there with you. I think that he is so vindictive that he will go after, however he has to, whether it’s through the IRS maybe, or even through sponsors to get us off the air maybe or you. How seriously should we be taking that?” wondered Behar.

“Well, so I was asked am I worried about me and my answer was I’m worried about all of us. I’m no worried about me than I am worried about everybody in the country,” Maddow responded.

Planting their tongues firmly in their cheek, people on social media used Behar’s paranoid thinking to troll her even further.

“Until now, I was planning to vote for Donald Trump for a third time But I cannot in good conscience support a man who will cancel The View, long known for its total impartiality and the towering intellect of venerated panelists such as Whoopi Goldberg & Joy Behar,” said one user.

The Woke Movement Is Actually Corporate Enslavement – The Culture War Is A Fight To Stop It

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:21:39 GMT

Info Wars Reports: I was recently watching a video by some of my favorite movie commentators in which they were lamenting the apparent death of the movie theater business. They cited a long list of recent blockbuster bombs with some confusion as to why so many films were failing. In particular, they had predicted the film ‘Furiosa’ (a feminist bait and switch movie designed to replace the more popular male Mad Max character) would do relatively well. Yet, the movie bit the dust in epic fashion. They were bewildered as to why this occurred.

They posited numerous social and economic theories trying to explain why so many big budget bonanzas were losing money. They of course suggested that the covid event might have pushed people to adjust to streaming services as the better option. They noted that theaters can be more frustrating because of loud customers. They tried to apply some economic theories to the situation (these theories were overly simplistic and painful, but these guys aren’t economists so I gave them a pass).

However, when the concept of the culture war was briefly broached, they dismissed it immediately.

They acted as if it wasn’t a part of the equation at all; a mere fringe element of “click baiters” trying to make something out of nothing. The idea that people are boycotting Hollywood on principle was too much for these film critics to handle. And, I have to say, the level of delusion required to ignore the effects of the culture war is mind boggling to me. If you don’t understand the culture war, then you don’t understand a thing that’s happening in America (and many parts of Europe) today.

I realize that there are people out there that refuse to engage in anything political. Some of them don’t like to involve themselves in conflict of any kind. Others see themselves as “above it all” and superior to anyone that spends time on politics, social issues or “conspiracy theories.” This seems more like a coping mechanism for those that don’t grasp the complicated nature of civil division.

Yes, it’s easier to turn a blind eye to what’s happening and pretend like the chaos is random, but the fact is that our civilization is changing and breaking apart rapidly and this is by design. EVERYONE will be affected by these conditions and consequences whether they believe in the culture war or not.

The world of film might be seen as frivolous to a lot of conservatives out there, but it has always fascinated me because it’s a perfect window into cultural conflicts. Film is supposed to be an expression of modern day mythology, but it can also be a look into ideological influences behind the curtain. It’s often used as a vehicle for establishment propaganda.

The utter failure of Disney’s efforts to force woke cultism into Star Wars is a good example. Their latest series, The Acolyte, is perhaps the worst performing Star Wars production of all time. The show has been described as “morally relative lesbian witches in space” and a DEI propaganda disaster.

The response from Disney and the media? Blame the audience, the consumers, instead of admitting they created a bad product that no one wants. They say you should want to watch it. If you don’t, then there’s something wrong with YOU.

Move Over DEI... Here's MEI: Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:26:48 GMT

Redstate Reports: It's 2024 and that means smart people are circling back to age-old common sense ideas, and it's becoming "new."

Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI in 2016, is making new friends and gaining praise for his tech company's vision statement where he coined a new term to combat DEI, which stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Wang’s phrase is DEI’s new nemesis: MEI, for Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence:

Alexandr Wang's company has come far in its six years. It's worth $14 billion, has won government contracts with the Department of Defense, and has partnered with OpenAI. This is something he attributes to having a quality team not based on color, gender, or any other stereotype.

Wang calls his company a "meritocracy," and vows it will always stay that way. It's silly to think that over 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement, we are having to combat an inverted, whitewashed, new type of racism and discrimination branded as "equality." Wang puts the woke in their place and explains it in simple words that they should be able to understand.

"There is a mistaken belief that meritocracy somehow conflicts with diversity. I strongly disagree," Wang wrote. "No group has a monopoly on excellence. A hiring process based on merit will naturally yield a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

Achieving this requires casting a wide net for talent and then objectively selecting the best, without bias in any direction. We will not pick winners and losers based on someone being the ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ race, gender, and so on. It should be needless to say, and yet it needs saying: doing so would be racist and sexist, not to mention illegal."

Disney’s Non-Woke ‘Inside Out 2’ Opens Huge at Box Office

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:42:44 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s Pixar division has a huge hit on its hands with Inside Out 2, a movie made for Normal People without any attached controversies involving homosexuality, child grooming, transvestites, transsexuals, gender-swapping, race-swapping, or anything close to woke.

As of Friday night, the sequel to the 2015 hit has already grossed $60 million and is looking at an opening weekend haul of $140-$145 million. That $60 million Friday haul is the second-best opening day for an animated movie ever, behind only the $71.2 million earned by Incredibles 2.

But-but-but I was told 2023’s strikes killed the box office.

But-but-but I was told Disney killed Pixar by releasing everything too soon on the Disney+ streaming service.

But-but-but I was told sexist internet trolls always undermine the box office of female-led movies.

But-but-but my butt. All the entertainment media do is lie.

After nearly a dozen massive flops in a row, Inside Out 2 is shaping up to be Disney’s biggest hit since 2023’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3., which was also released without any political or cultural controversy.

Funny how that works.

To cover up the fact that the woke-era collapse at the box office is due to 1) lousy movies and 2) off-putting political and cultural content, the gerbils in the entertainment industry eagerly have made fools of themselves by blaming the pandemic (still!), the strikes, and streaming. But, as I stated just before the release of last week’s box office hit Bad Boys: Ride or Die, I believe the opposite is true — that Normal People are dying to go to the movies, miss going to the movies, and, if something normal and appealing hits theaters, they will show up in droves.

WOKE L.A. Removes 'No U-Turn' Signs Because... "They Are Homophobic"

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:59:54 GMT

Hot Air Reports: Earlier today, I wrote about why Jillian Michaels fled California--it has been taken over by woke fanatics and is becoming unlivable and even "demonic."

Well, here's a perfect example of just how stupid, even ridiculous, the state has become.

In their ever-expanding efforts to wipe out all vestiges of common sense, Los Angeles is removing 'No U-Turn" signs from a gay neighborhood because, supposedly, they were put up to deter gays from cruising for sex on the streets.

I do not know nor care about the history behind the signs. There is a rational basis for wanting to prevent anybody from cruising for anonymous sex on the streets. Having people walk the streets advertising their availability for sexual encounters in cars is not only disgusting but damaging to the health of any community. Whether they are gay, straight, bi, or goats is hardly the point.

But this is California, which decriminalized street walking and even allowed residential neighborhoods to be taken over by prostitutes advertising their wares on the streets.

Trauma, Chaos, Crisis: Hollywood Insiders Panic Over Rejection of DEI

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 02:46:32 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The growing backlash against DEI has Hollywood elites hitting the panic button.

At the annual CAA Amplify Summit in Ojai, California, this week, various Hollywood leaders pow-wowed with assorted figures from the left, including former first lady Michelle Obama as well as leaders of the ACLU and HRC.

One of the main topics of discussion was DEI — or, in yet another case of left-wing alphabet creep, “DEIA” — diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

CAA power agent Maha Dakhil told attendees there is a “crisis” as Hollywood studios are pulling back their diversity efforts, according to a report from The Wrap.

“This year feels particularly crucial. I’m having déjà vu because I think I stood up here last year and said, ‘I think this year feels particularly crucial,’” she reportedly said. “But I think we can agree that this year is giving trauma, it is giving chaos, it’s giving crisis.”

She was referring at least in part to the recent exodus of DEI executives at major studios including Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Netflix. More broadly, many corporations and universities are moving to dump DEI amid a popular backlash against wokeness as well as efforts by GOP lawmakers to put an end to DEI indoctrination in education and government.

Pride Woes: BMW Finds Out the Hard Way That Virtue Signaling for Virtue Signaling's Sake Is Rather Stupid

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:52:14 GMT

Redstate Reports: The only thing the woke left/media loves doing more than trotting out the racism/sexism cards when they have no other defense is to virtue signal about what loving and tolerant and accepting people they supposedly are.

While their claims might sound good on paper and social media platforms to the audiences they're trying to attract, the reality of the matter is that in most instances it’s all for show and not much more than that.

Case in point, BMW, which landed itself in hot water on the Twitter machine after its response to a Twitter user who wondered why they had changed their logos on all their other accounts to denote support for "Pride Month" but not the one for BMW Middle East.

It all seemed to start after the Libs of TikTok account posted a screengrab of company accounts that had Pride-themed logos, but... not for the Middle Eastern ones:

Woke Hollywood Panics – ‘People Are Not in the Moviegoing Habit!’

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 02:12:06 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The domestic box office is down 24 percent compared to last year and 42 percent—42 percent! lol—compared to 2019, the last pre-pandemic year.

And yes, Hollywood is panicking, but Hollywood and the sycophantic Hollywood media are still lying to themselves (and to us) about the reason why.

“We are concerned,” one studio insider told the far-left Hollywood Reporter. “People are not in the moviegoing habit [.]”

Yeah, they’re not in the moviegoing habit because movies suck.

That’s what’s killing moviegoing—movies suck. Ever since Hollywood went woke, and we’re talking five dreadful years now, more and more people have wisely given up their “moviegoing habit.”

Naturally, Hollywood and its sycophantic media refuse to admit this. Instead of looking at this year’s flops and asking why they flopped, they blame last year’s strike:

"Toward the end of the SAG-AFTRA talks, studio chiefs were accused of being disingenuous when saying their 2024 release calendars were in danger every day the four-month strike dragged. Now the impact of those warnings is coming into view. Without the usual parade of tentpoles, including a Marvel superhero pic to kick things off over the first weekend of May, the early summer box office is in tatters after a tough winter and spring.

Domestic box office revenue year-to-date is $2.68 billion, down a whopping 24 percent over the same corridor last year and 42 percent behind 2019, the last normal year before the COVID-19 crisis, according to Comscore. In fact, every week has been down this year from 2023; the smallest gap was 11 percent, when Dune: Part Two and Godzilla v. Kong: The New Empire opened."

Now the question is whether theatrical “can survive the post-pandemic world and the rise of streaming:”

"Box office observers agree that the ecosystem is incredibly fragile but hang on to the hope that moviegoing will pick up in the coming weeks when all-audience tentpoles Inside Out 2, Despicable Me 4 and Deadpool & Wolverine come out, followed by Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in early September. But there won’t be a steady volume of product until 2025. Nor does it help that many movies are opening behind expectations (all eyes will be on Bad Boys: Ride or Die this weekend to see if it can clear $48 million to $50 million in its launch). “We are concerned,” says one studio insider. “You’d be a fool to not be thinking about that. People are not in the moviegoing habit and are firmly ensconced in appointment viewing, which is a huge problem. But there hasn’t been a real igniter.”"

Except…

There is no shortage of superhero movies in 2024.

DEI is a 'Marxist worldview' pushed by 'empty suits'

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:18:05 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Republican congressional candidate Marty O'Donnell said that diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are a product of Marxism and are not "deeply held beliefs" by the executives that push them.

O'Donnell is a former member of the board of directors at Bungie, a video game studio, but is now running for Congress in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District.

He told Blaze News that during his time in the gaming industry, representation and inclusion were not points that were considered.

"Were diversity, equity, inclusion, or representation of certain sexualities or races ever something that you thought about?" O'Donnell was asked.

"No, it wasn't," he answered. "The current 'go woke, go broke,' we just keep seeing that over and over again. DEI is not DEI. It is not diversity, equity, and inclusion. It is code word for, essentially, a Marxist worldview of power structures," he continued.

"There's so many catchwords that are being injected into the conversation: colonization, decolonization. It is so far from — especially in the entertainment business — what people are worried about. Are you going to tell a good story? Are you going to make a good game?"

"That's what creators should be concerned about," he added.

O'Donnell said the actual faces of DEI programs aren't what fans take issue with; it's the obvious method through which they are wedged into entertainment that doesn't make sense.

"The fans don't necessarily reject the movies or games because diversity or equity or inclusion things are forced into their face," he explained. "Certainly they don't like being preached to, but basically these are not good products. At the end of the day it's not fun to play. It's not interesting. These characters don't sound real."

Disney Tops Long List Of Woke Failures With Upcoming Release Of Gay Star Wars Show

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:56:27 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: Almost every film and streaming show they have launched in relation to “a galaxy far far away” has met with increasing public disdain. The decay even spread into Disney's theme park projects. They would certainly prefer people forget all about their embarrassing “Galactic Star Cruiser” hotel, a Star Wars LARP experience that cost around $6000 or more for a family for only two days.

Under the guidance of Kathleen Kennedy and woke Lucasfilm the hotel refused to use themes from the original movies. The project imploded within a year after it was thoroughly ridiculed by fans.

Apparently not deterred by the abject humiliation, Kathleen Kennedy barreled forward with several more increasingly political iterations of the science fiction classic. This effort tied into Disney's overall wokification culture, determined to saturate western entertainment with DEI. Kennedy dismissed all criticism until the creators of South Park dissected her in hilarious fashion. The anti-woke movement was now officially mainstream and Disney made it all possible.

Today, there is almost zero chance of a woke movie or TV series success story. For every 'Barbie' there are a hundred bombs like Furiosa or The Marvels. Of course, film and streaming series productions are usually initiated at least a couple years in advance of release. So, even with the sweeping sea change in public awareness of woke propaganda, media companies like Disney are still stuck with the garbage projects they already sunk money into back in 2022-2023.

This is why we now have 'The Acolyte' to look forward to – Another woke Star Wars travesty featuring lesbian representation, a perfect diversity pie chart, and director Leslye Headland, the former personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein. Headland noted that this version of Star Wars will break from the good vs. evil roots of the franchise and will instead explore morally relative characters. Truly, a crowd pleaser...

The Acolyte, to be released this week, is expected to plunge in viewership after the first episode much like every other Star Wars show featured on Disney+. The corporation and the establishment media are already in damage control mode declaring that the fans are the problem, instead of the show and its content. It is likely that The Acolyte signals the end of any fantasy that Disney Star Wars will ever win an audience.

Call of Duty Faces Bud Light Treatment for Tranny Camo Pack

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 23:54:32 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: There have been multiple mass shootings executed, attempted, or at the very least planned by transvestites and LGBT radicals in recent years.

In April, police arrested a trans-identifying high school student in Maryland who was allegedly plotting to shoot up classrooms full of elementary school children. In February, a gender-bending anti-Semite from El Salvador opened fire in Joel Osteen's Houston-based Lakewood Church. In January, a Nazi-supporting transvestite in Oregon was arrested after threatening to "go out in a blaze of glory."

The same month, a trans-identifying teen stalked the halls of a school in Iowa, murdering a sixth-grader and wounding five others. Last year, a female transvestite murdered three children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. There was also the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch mass shooting in Colorado and the November 2022 massacre at a LGBT club in Colorado Springs.

Trans-identifying suspects' share of mass public shootings nationwide over the 2018-2023 period is reportedly well over seven times their share of the population.

Despite the apparent instability of this cohort, particularly when cross-sex hormones are factored in, a major video game developer has decided to pair LGBT propaganda with its popular first-person shooter — a move some critics figure serves to glorify violence in the activists' colors.

Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty franchise is from far innocuous, having long courted controversy.

For instance, one mission in the Infinity Ward-developed 2009 title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, generated outrage with its "No Russian" mission, which had players fill the shoes of an undercover agent drawn into a false flag attack at a fictional Moscow-based airport. Instead of mowing down the usual waves of armed enemies, players were instead tasked with becoming terrorists and massacring multitudes of unarmed civilians.

Your favorite brand no longer cares about being woke

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:29:51 GMT

Vox Reports: For most of advertising history, “red” or “blue” as partisan loyalty signaled more your taste for Coke or Pepsi than your identity as Republican or Democrat. Mass markets, by definition, necessitated selling to both sides of the aisle.

As with so much else, the presidency of Donald Trump — built upon a self-conceived human brand — radically upended those norms.

Post-2016 election, one Adweek column thundered, “Brands cannot expect to play Switzerland as the rest of the world picks a side.” Consumer culture suddenly became the vehicle for political expression, with Madison Avenue giving voice to countless causes. The staid “corporate social responsibility” morphed into the more muscular “brand purpose,” which beget impassioned activism. Social justice became “trendy;” politics, the means to signal commercial “integrity.”

Today, just as during the Trump presidency, controversial issues abound, protesters convulse public spaces, and a divisive election looms. The world is picking sides — on abortion and Gaza and Trump’s trials. And from brand-land? By and large, the sound of silence.

That’s because, despite prior pretense, advertising follows, not leads; it needs markets, not morality. That silence, therefore, says much about our sociopolitical moment: As culture warriors find themselves on the defensive, brands, wary from the backlash against Bud Light’s use of a trans influencer, no longer show interest in advancing their causes.

Indeed, today’s primary “cause” — and, arguably, election issue — is lower on the hierarchy of needs: cost of living. That makes for a more practical, less symbolic battleground for commercial content.

'They never make it better': George RR Martin slams Hollywood remakes for ruining classic stories

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 01:17:51 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Celebrated author George R.R. Martin expressed disappointment in Hollywood writers and producers for ruining the legacy of great written stories.

The "Game of Thrones" author took to his own website to share his thoughts on the constant remakes and reimaginings being pumped out by Hollywood studios.

After reminiscing about his past comments on the obligation to stay true to source material, Martin stated that little has changed since he made such remarks in 2022.

"Very little has changed since then. If anything, things have gotten worse. Everywhere you look, there are more screenwriters and producers eager to take great stories and 'make them their own,'" Martin wrote on his blog.

The writer then cited numerous authors who he claimed have had their legacy trampled on by studios adding their own twist.

"It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by Stan Lee, Charles Dickens, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, or … well, anyone," he continued.

"No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and 'improve' on it. 'The book is the book, the film is the film,' they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound. Then they make the story their own."

Martin had similar sentiments in 2022 when he and fellow author Neil Gaiman buried Hollywood for its love of reimagining books. The 75-year-old said it was a controversial issue in Hollywood to feel obligated to be "faithful to the written material."

Kathleen Kennedy Pre-Blames Next Possible ‘Star Wars’ Flop on Male Fans

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:38:25 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Notorious franchise-killer and Disney’s Lucasfilm Princess Kathleen Kennedy appears to already be blaming her next Star Wars flop on male Star Wars fans.

Here’s what’s next for those of you still dumb enough to care about Star Wars… The Acolyte, a $180 million Disney+ streaming series which premiers next week, and I swear I’m not making any of this up [emphasis added]: “The Acolyte embraces what some people call ‘New Star Wars,’ reports the far-left New York Times, “an era defined by diversity and expansion beyond the Skywalker saga, which started with Disney’s purchase of the franchise in 2012.”

In the show, the star is “a dreadlocked warrior who has a complicated relationship with a Jedi master [and] Jodie Turner-Smith (“Queen & Slim”) plays the lesbian leader of a regal coven of witches ,” the report adds. “In one of her most action-oriented roles since “The Matrix,” Carrie-Anne Moss plays a steely Jedi named Master Indara.”

Some Filipino guy also has a starring role.

Man alive.

It’s those three words—“defined by diversity”—that perfectly sum up everything wrong with Kathleen Kennedy’s mindset. A franchise that was once defined by great stories, great adventures, and great characters is now “defined by diversity.”

Idiocy.

As far as The Acolyte, to get in front of what looks like yet another woke flop from the Disney Grooming Syndicate, Kathleen Kennedy is already pre-blaming the toxic male Star Wars fan base.

Companies scale back Pride Month after last year’s public response cost them millions

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 04:11:12 GMT

Just The News Reports: Get Woke, Go Broke: The adverse experiences of last June appear to have corporate boardrooms reevaluating some of their practices with respect to “Pride” month and related merchandise after sales and share prices plummeted.

Saturday will mark the start of “Pride” month, in which advocates of LGBTQIA+ causes celebrate that movement. In recent years, June has seen major corporate chains feature an array of “Pride”-themed merchandise and decorations, though some offerings have prompted considerable backlash from a non-receptive -- even hostile public -- in recent years.

2023 saw major retailers such as Target become the subject of boycotts over more controversial products marketed for children. Other companies, such as Anheuser-Busch came under scrutiny over marketing campaigns that failed to resonate with their traditional clientele.

The adverse experiences of last June appear to have corporate boardrooms reevaluating some of their practices with respect to “Pride” month and the merchandise related to it. Here’s a look at some of the major disasters of 2023 and how brands plan to handle things in 2024.

Industry analysts and executives in May suggested that the boycotts of last year and targeted campaigns from conservatives intended to push back against the pervasiveness of “Pride”-themed merchandise had evidently pushed companies to pursue a toned-down approach to “Pride” this year.

Lara Croft goes woke; no longer a ‘raider of tombs’ to ‘escape colonial past’

Fri, 31 May 2024 02:28:11 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Phoebe Waller-Bridge has officially taken on the role of director for the Lara Croft TV series, and Amazon has announced that the show has been greenlit — but fans are not happy.

Waller-Bridge recently starred alongside Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," where she played a very feminist character who berated Ford at every turn.

“So, is this Amazon iteration of Lara Croft going to be more of the same? Just an obnoxious girl boss who only exists to undercut her male colleagues and costars? We’ll see,” Lauren Chen says, calling her Indiana Jones film “a pretty spectacular failure.”

Lara Croft’s Tomb Raider video games have also faced criticism from fans across the globe who believe that each time a new version of the game comes out, Croft gets less attractive.

“To those of you who are Tomb Raider fans and are thinking, ‘You know what? Doesn’t matter, I’m just going to ignore the series and play the games because at least those will continue to be good.’ Well, I mean, I wouldn’t be so sure,” Chen says.

“As people have pointed out, it seems like there is actually an effort being made to make Lara Croft uglier and uglier, because of course due to feminism, as women now we are supposed to be offended by attractive women for some reason.”

Not only have video games across the board been catering more to woke ideology, but Croft especially has formerly represented the “pinnacle” of female attractiveness in video games.

‘Experts’ Demand Even More Global Warming Alarmism in Movies

Thu, 30 May 2024 03:39:17 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The box office is down 42 percent over the last pre-pandemic year of 2019, Hollywood just suffered the worst Memorial Day weekend in over a quarter-century , and now a bunch of “experts” are demanding the movies become even more woke with even more Global Warming alarmism.

Before we go any further, let me ask you something… How many times would you put up with this?

Ding-dong…

YOU: Can I help you?

EXPERT: We’ve checked and re-checked our data, and have bad news. A meteor will hit your house in three days, you have to move.

YOU: I’ll get packed.

Six months later, there’s no meteor, and the house you vacated is just fine. Then…

Ding-dong…

YOU: Can I help you?

EXPERT: We’ve checked and re-checked our data, and have bad news. A meteor will hit your house in three days, you have to move. I know we got it wrong last time, but this time we’re positive.

How many times would you put up with that before you stopped fleeing your house? Well, these Climate Change “experts” are asking us to vacate our house even after they have been wrong 53 times in a row .

Anyway …

[F]ewer than 10% of the 250 films passed [a “climate reality check” test], and climate change was mentioned in two or more scenes of fewer than 4% of the films. That’s out of touch with a moviegoing public that wants “to see their reality reflected on screen,” said Colby College English professor Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, lead researcher on the study.

“The top line is just that the vast majority of films, popular films produced over the last 10 years in the United States, are not portraying the world as it is,” Schneider-Mayerson said. “They are portraying a world that is now history or fantasy — a world in which climate change is not happening.”

Don’t laugh. This is the exact same tactic GLAAD used, which is why absolutely everything is gay now.

Anti-woke comedy wins as Matt Rife, Tom Segura, and Shane Gillis specials dominate Netflix viewership

Wed, 29 May 2024 03:38:19 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: The biggest comedy specials on Netflix are predominantly from the most politically incorrect comedians, according to recent numbers released by the platform.

Comedians Matt Rife, Tom Segura, and Shane Gillis had the biggest streaming numbers for stand-up comedy specials on Netflix in the latter half of 2023, capitalizing on what most feel like is a return to uncensored comedy.

Rife has been particularly successful after "Matt Rife: Natural Selection" dominated streaming with a total of 13.5 millions hours watched on Netflix. Variety reported the special garnered over 10 million views in its first few weeks. It also reached the Netflix top 10 in 42 countries.

This parlayed into two more comedy specials on the platform for Rife, and according to Deadline, he is in the development stage for a sitcom with Netflix.

Rife had previously faced cancelation attempts for making a joke about a Baltimore waitress with a black eye. After the media's attempt to re-educate him, Rife posted an image from his stand-up special on his social media page with the caption, "If you've ever been offended by a joke I've told — here's a link to my official apology."

The link read, "Tap to solve your issue." Anyone who clicked was sent to a website selling "special needs helmets."

George Lucas Strikes Back at Woke Critics of Star Wars

Tue, 28 May 2024 02:56:58 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: "Star Wars" creator George Lucas defended the franchise from criticism that it was mostly composed of white males on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival.

The 80-year-old was at the festival to receive Palme d'Or honors on Saturday at the closing ceremony when he made the comments about the first six movies of "Star Wars."

“They would say, ‘It’s all white men.' I'd say, it's not. Most of the people are aliens," he said, according to People magazine.

"And the idea is you’re supposed to accept people for what they are, whether they’re big and furry or whether they’re green and whatever — the idea is all people are equal," he added.

He went on to point out that his original movies only showed discrimination against robots and droids.

“And that was a way of saying, people are always discriminating against something, and sooner or later, that’s what’s going to happen,” he continued. “I mean, we’re already starting with AI, saying, ‘Well, we can’t trust those robots.'”

He cited several minority actors who were featured in the original movies including Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian and Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu in the prequel movies.

Lucas then pointed to the strong female characters in the franchise.

“Who do you think the heroes are in these stories? What do you think Princess Leia was? She’s the head of the rebellion," Lucas added. "She’s the one that’s taking this young kid who doesn’t know anything and this boisterous, I-know-everything guy who can’t do anything and trying to save the rebellion with these clowns."

Lucas became fabulously wealthy as a result of the lucrative deal he struck to receive merchandise royalties from the "Star Wars" movies. He later became even more fabulously wealthy when he sold the franchise to Disney in 2012 for $4.05 billion.

While many fans saw the Disney purchase as a new hope for the franchise, the subsequent trilogy of movies has angered many by dismantling some of the popular narratives of the original storyline.

‘Mad Max with a Girl’ Faces Worst Memorial Day Weekend Debut in 41 Years

Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:10 GMT

Breitbart Reports: They called it Mad Max, put a girl in it, and now Woke Hollywood’s staring down the throat of the worst Memorial Day weekend opener in 41 years—since Return of the Jedi in 1983. Before we get to the Sycophant Media’s lamer-than-lame excuse for this failure, we’ll start with the boilerplate…

“Ouch, it’s looking really bad,” reports the far-left Deadline. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga could post the “lowest opening for a Memorial Day movie in 41 years with a 4-day between $31M-$35M. How the holy heck is that?”

If Mad Max with a Girl “comes in on the low end,” Deadline adds, “the last time a No. 1 movie or Memorial Day opening title filed a 4-day gross take that was lower was back in 1983 when Return of the Jedi made $30.5M.”

Back in 1983, it should be said, a $30.5 million opening was huge. Today, it’s a catastrophe. As of right now, it’s looking like the best Mad Max with a Girl could do is have the worst Memorial Day opening weekend in a mere 40 years, or since Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom opened to $33.9 million in 1984.

I saw both Return of the Jedi and Temple of Doom on their opening weekends. I don’t have a good memory, but I sure remember those two experiences. Man, back then we had it so good we had no idea how good we had it. But at least we had it.

Anyway, the sycophants at Deadline are in a tough spot with Furiosa. The prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road earned great reviews, opened on the perfect weekend for a blockbuster, and with no competition in its action lane. What’s more, it’s based on a successful franchise and Warner’s promoted the living hell out of it. So how does Deadline explain away this breathtaking failure? How does Deadline write around the truth of how stupid it is to make a girl the star of a movie called Mad Max?

THIRTEEN conservative counties in Oregon approve ballot measures for SECESSION vote that would see them join non-woke Idaho

Fri, 24 May 2024 03:56:46 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: Thirteen fed-up counties in liberal Oregon have voted in support of measures to start negotiations to secede from the state and join conservative Idaho.

Crook County became the latest to approve the 'Greater Idaho Measure' following a vote on Tuesday.

The proposal seeks to move the Oregon border 200 miles to the west, meaning that 14 counties and several partial counties would fall under Idaho state lines.

Organizers behind the Greater Idaho movement say east Oregonians are being alienated by the state's progressive policies which they blame for high crime rates.

They claim a move to Idaho would allow residents to take advantage of lower taxation and provide better representation and governance.

Organizers behind the Greater Idaho movement say east Oregonians are being alienated by the state's progressive policies which they blame for high crime rates.

They claim a move to Idaho would allow residents to take advantage of lower taxation and provide better representation and governance.

Get Woke, Go Broke: New "Queer" 'Doctor Who' Suffers Worst Ratings In Series History

Thu, 23 May 2024 03:09:47 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: Woke activists today often like to hearken back to nostalgic media from the 1960s; what they consider the golden era or genesis moment of far-left movements in British and US history. These were the days when being a progressive was considered "counter-culture" and cool, with every major rock star and celebrity tapping into youth angst and hippie philosophy. The progressive shift led to considerable social instability in the 1970s.

It is common these days to hear leftists in popular media argue that TV shows like Star Trek or Doctor Who were "always woke" and that they are simply carrying on the tradition. This is simply not true. While many productions in the US and in Europe displayed liberal sensibilities, woke activists are not liberal and do not hold liberal values. They are, rather, a hybrid ideology combining elements of Marxism/communism/fascism, collectivism, moral relativism and narcissism.

One could argue that the woke cult is the natural end state, the unavoidable final evolution of liberal thinking. That may be true, but that's a debate for another day. The point is, the woke activism of today has very little in common with the political movements of the 1960s. In fact, if you were to go back in time only 15 years ago and tried to explain to a typical Democrat in the US or Labour member in the UK what leftists are trying to get away with in 2024, they would laugh in your face and call you crazy.

In our decade nearly every major television and film franchise of the past has received the woke treatment; what leftists call "updating for modern audiences." As a consequence, nearly every franchise has suffered an extreme collapse in audience number, ad revenues and box office receipts. Why? Because woke ideology is a fringe movement making up a tiny percentage of the population. Almost no one likes it, hence the reason why "Get Woke, Go Broke" has become a rule rather than a theory.

Disney Bleeding: Pixar Slashes 14% of Workforce Amid Brutal Budget Cuts

Wed, 22 May 2024 03:45:42 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The once-mighty Pixar is laying off 14 percent of its workforce as the Walt Disney Company continues to make brutal budget cuts across its many businesses.

Pixar Animation Studios is slashing about 175 jobs, or 14 percent of its staff, due in large part to Disney+ reducing the number of series it is putting out, according to a Deadline report. Earlier estimates had put the layoffs closer to 20 percent of staff.

The cuts come after Pixar laid off 75 jobs earlier this year, including two executives behind the box-office flop Lightyear.

CEO Bob Iger recently acknowledged Disney massively overspent on streaming content in an attempt to draw more subscribers to Disney+ and its other services, causing the company to lose billions of dollars.

“As we got into the streaming business in a very, very aggressive way, we tried to tell too many stories,” Iger said on a recent earnings call. “Basically, we invested too much, way ahead of possible returns. It’s what led to streaming ending up as a $4 billion loss.”

“We tried to tell too many stories,” he added.

Disney recently laid off a stunning 7,000 workers globally, or more than 3 percent of its total head count. Iger said earlier this year that more budget cuts were in the works as the company tries to pull itself out of its recent financial difficulties.

Like the rest of Disney, Pixar has embraced woke content, putting out titles like Lightyear and Elemental, which both bombed at the box office.

Disney ‘Stops’ Being Woke and ‘Changes Their Ways’ By Promoting New LGBT Transgender Show on Disney+

Tue, 21 May 2024 03:02:49 GMT

WLT Report Reports: Some people thought Disney had learned their lesson and were going to course correct this year after CEO Bob Iger stated that they’ll be more focused on entertainment and not agendas.

They were sorely mistaken.

Though the once beloved entertainment giant hinted at a return to its roots, it wasn’t long before that was proven false.

They’ve shown that they’re married to the core woke ideologies of DEI and LGBT and have no plans on getting a divorced.

The latest evidence?

The Disney+ teaming up with the British Broadcasting Corporation to stream yet another season of the the anti-White race-swapped Dr. Who.

The newest season has a flaming transgender that looks like he’s on his way to a drag queen story hour for the main villian.

And I didn’t even mention the two new Disney Star Wars projects: The Acolyte and Tales of the Jedi. Both include a transgender character.

Email reveals Activision creating WOKE characters for Call of Duty, focusing on “inclusive game design”

Sat, 18 May 2024 23:04:18 GMT

The Right Scoop Reports: An email reveals that Activision, the developer of Call of Duty, is focusing on creating woke games and characters and his hiring DEI developers to that end.

In the email Activision’s Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion says they’ve created an IGD Council (Inclusive Game Design) of ‘experts’ to help review their content with their IGD team.

Here’s the email via StillGray :

Activision is now consulting with DEI people to produce “inclusive” character designs for Call of Duty. You could not make this up. Here’s an email they sent to everyone at the company.

The company has also formed an “IGD Council” consisting of external “experts” to review the games they develop to make them very, very woke. They’re already explicitly hiring “diverse” talent instructed by DEI.

Insane stuff.

Descent Into Woke Cost Disney+ $4 Billion as Stock Continues to Sink

Fri, 17 May 2024 03:05:13 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate has already lost $4 billion — with a “B” — on Disney+, according to disgraced CEO Bob Iger.

Does Bob Iger acknowledge that Disney’s open crusade to groom and “queer” little kids hurt Disney’s bottom line and permanently destroyed what was once the greatest brand in entertainment history?

Nope.

So what does Bob blame this breathtaking $4 billion loss on? Get a load of this [emphasis added]…

“As we got into the streaming business in a very, very aggressive way, we tried to tell too many stories,” Iger said on a recent webcast. “Basically, we invested too much, way ahead of possible returns. It’s what led to streaming ending up as a $4 billion loss.”

"We tried to tell too many stories."

Yeah, that was the problem. Iger does at least admit that the quality of those stories was also an issue:

The result of spending more on content than could be turned to profit “resulted in volume and not quality, which turned out to be a mistake,” Iger added. The Disney boss conceded volume was required to win the streaming wars against rivals like Netflix and Prime Video.

But he added: “There’s a very fine line that you can cross and get in trouble if your volume ends up diluting management’s attention to what is being made is right. And that’s what happened to us. So I have pulled that back,” Iger told the conference.

Too many stories without enough focus on quality. In other words, this $4 billion loss had nothing to woke diatribes, gay propaganda , and left-wing talking points .

Brett Cooper Drops New Details About Bentkey’s ‘Snow White And The Evil Queen’

Thu, 16 May 2024 03:45:49 GMT

Daily Wire Reports: Daily Wire host Brett Cooper shared new details about her upcoming Bentkey movie, “ Snow White and the Evil Queen ,” making it clear that the film will be “in line with the values in which it was written.”

During Cooper’s recent appearance on “ The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast ,” the two hosts discussed her role, in the first feature-length live-action production for Bentkey, The Daily Wire’s children’s entertainment platform, and the film’s challenge to Disney’s “woke” “Snow White” movie.

“People were very disappointed, very upset about the way Disney was rolling out this project,” the actor and host of “ The Comments Section ” said, revealing that they are currently “in pre-production” on the film which is coming out soon.

“As somebody who is more traditional … it’s sad to watch these stories be completely destructed for that [woke] agenda,” Cooper said, noting that she grew up reading classic literature and loved Brothers Grimm’s version.

She said that Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing told her they wanted to do a Snow White story that will be “in line with the values in which it was written. We want to honor the story.”

Cooper also revealed that Bentkey’s “Snow White” will be a musical, after sharing that she’d taken singing and dancing lessons for her role as Snow White.

Suicide Squad video game loses $200 million after Warner Bros. Discovery hires DEI consulting group

Wed, 15 May 2024 04:39:41 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. announced on an earnings call that the game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League lost the company $200 million.

On the Q1 2024 earnings call, investors heard from President and CEO David Zaslav and CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels.

Zaslav broke the bad news first and stated that "unfortunately," the studio's Q1 financials were overshadowed by the tough sales in the games department "following the great performance of Hogwarts Legacy last year and the disappointing release of Suicide Squad in Q1 in our gaming group."

"On the advertising front," Zaslav continued, "total company ad sales were down 7% in the quarter."

Wiedenfels then spoke to the studio losing hundreds of millions of dollars year-over-year. He, too, explained that despite a great performance of the game Hogwarts Legacy, the studio still hemorrhaged from the Suicide Squad game.

"Starting with Studios, the $400 million plus year-over-year decline in Q1 was primarily due to the very tough comp [comparable sales] we faced in games against the success of Hogwarts Legacy last year in the first quarter, in conjunction with the disappointing Suicide Squad release this past quarter, which we impaired, leading to a $200 million impact to EBITDA [Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization] during the first quarter."

Woke Scouts and the death of another American institution

Tue, 14 May 2024 03:03:38 GMT

Washington Times Reports: Another week, another headline that has millions wondering what has happened to the America of our youth. “Woke” social engineering by the far left appears to have claimed another victim: the Boy Scouts of America. The organization that had molded millions of boys into leaders who valued nature, personal responsibility and hard work has announced it will rebrand itself as “Scouting America,” removing the word “boy” from its name. It’s a wonder they didn’t remove America too.

The storied institution says that its core mission remains the same, and that its European counterparts have already rebranded to be more inclusive. They say this rebrand to focus on inclusivity is necessary to boost membership.

On the contrary, BSA’s mission is and until recently has always been about the development of boys into responsible young men. It was never some ridiculous commentary on society or the inability of girls to earn merit badges that requires reform. Brand Marketing 101 makes clear you don’t water down your core mission or change your values, especially when you’re already viewed as kowtowing to political pressure. It doesn’t attract more people to your cause.

Last, and for good measure, Americans shouldn’t follow the lead of Europe on anything.

Boys are different. They deserve to feel special. They need to have experiences that are uniquely their own, geared toward how they bond and how they learn.

Bob Iger Insists Disney Stock Drop Not Caused By Failure Of Latest Movie 'Gay Black Pinocchio Protests For Palestine'

Sat, 11 May 2024 22:21:02 GMT

The Baybylon Bee Reports: As concerned shareholders sought answers, Disney CEO Bob Iger insisted the company's stock drop was not caused by the failure of the studio's latest movie Gay Black Pinocchio Protests for Palestine.

Despite the film's troubled production and poor word-of-mouth buzz due to an overwhelming majority of the viewing audience not being interested in seeing a film titled Gay Black Pinocchio Protests for Palestine, Disney leaders remained certain that it was not in any way to blame for the precipitous plunge of the company's stock value.

"Don't be ridiculous," said Disney CEO Bob Iger. "The fact that we're hemorrhaging money, customers, and stock value has absolutely nothing to do with any perceived unpopularity of our newest film about a flamboyantly gay, race-swapped Pinocchio standing up for the people of Gaza. This movie appeals to everyone."

Corporate America Is Going Un-Woke: Reversing DEl, Sustainability Plans

Fri, 10 May 2024 02:55:29 GMT

Business Insider Reports: Unilever spent years crafting its image as a corporate goody-two-shoes. The owner of Dove, Vaseline, Hellmann's, and a bunch of other brands axed quarterly reporting and earnings guidance in the name of focusing on sustainable long-term growth. Under Paul Polman, its CEO from 2009 to 2019, it said it would take into consideration all its stakeholders, not just shareholders, and set out to halve its environmental footprint — including greenhouse-gas emissions, waste, and water use — while doubling its sales over a decade.

Five years and two chief executives later, Unilever is changing its tune. It's not doing a U-turn on environmental, social, and governance efforts, but it says it's being more realistic about what it can achieve and when. And, oh, those shareholders Unilever wasn't so beholden to? It's paying them a little more mind now, too.

Unilever isn't alone in this. Plenty of companies are reining in their rhetoric and in some cases action on issues such as sustainability and diversity. They're being extra cautious about weighing in on the social and political debates of the day, especially in an election year. In some cases they're telling their workers to cool it, too; Google, for example, fired more than two dozen workers for protesting its contract with Israel's government.

"Many executives have made the decision that it's sometimes safer to just be silent versus to take a stance, because they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders and their bottom line and are very concerned about how this will be perceived," said Naomi Wheeless, a board director for Eventbrite who was formerly a global head of customer success at Square.

‘News’ meant to scare people into capitulating to ‘green’ communism

Thu, 09 May 2024 05:15:37 GMT

American Thinker Reports: Polling proves the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s brand is on life support, with a pathetic 46 percent favorability rating. In a virtual tie, 45 percent view the Louse House unfavorably. Those numbers would not be all that great for a politician. They are death for a corporation.

The reason for this is obvious: Rasmussen discovered that 71 percent want Disney to cease grooming small children. In an exclusive to Breitbart News, Rasmussen Reports polled 1,255 adults between April 21-23, and found only terrible news for what was, only a few years ago, one of the most universally-beloved brands in American history.

This is not the first poll to show Disney’s brand cratering. This exclusive Rasmussen poll does, though, confirm previous polls and shows that the Degenerate Disney brand is still in free-fall. For example…

According to a Public Strategies poll taken in early 2021 — when Disney was still Disney, a company dedicated to protecting the innocence of small children and not attempting to “queer” them using drag queens, gay sex, transvestites, and transsexuals — Disney enjoyed a +56 favorability rating (77 percent favorable/21 percent unfavorable). That’s exactly where a company wants to sit.

Flash-forward to May of 2022 — months after Disney launched a crusade to prey on your children’s innocence with drag queens, gay sex, transvestites, and transsexuals — and an NBC poll showed that Disney’s net favorability rating had collapsed by an astounding 53 points — from a +56 to just +3.

71 Percent Want Disney to End LGBTQ Agenda, Brand in Freefall

Wed, 08 May 2024 03:48:54 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Polling proves the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s brand is on life support, with a pathetic 46 percent favorability rating. In a virtual tie, 45 percent view the Louse House unfavorably. Those numbers would not be all that great for a politician. They are death for a corporation.

Hollywood Reporter Finally Admits ‘Divisive Politics’ Damage Star Appeal

Tue, 07 May 2024 04:14:17 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The only time the far-left Hollywood Reporter (THR) reached out to me was nearly ten years ago. It was after I’d argued that Seth Rogen’s divisive political ranting had damaged the box office of the highly anticipated biopic Steve Jobs (which flopped). THR basically called me on the carpet to explain myself — to defend the commonsense belief that divisive celebrities damage their box office appeal.

Thankfully, I was interviewed by the only good guy over there, Paul Bond (who’s since moved to Newsweek), so the Q&A was reported accurately. But the premise of the interview was obvious: explain yourself, Nolte! So, I did — and did so using facts, logic, and THR’s own reporting. I also brazenly predicted that Quentin Tarantino’s grotesque patronizing of the black community by trashing cops would hurt The Hateful Eight’s box office appeal (the movie then flopped).

Needless to say, THR has ignored me ever since.

I don’t mean to brag, but as someone who winces a whole lot more often than not at his past work, that interview is something I’m proud of. Oh, and if you’ve noticed, Seth Rogen isn’t making headlines with his political insults anymore. Nor is Tarantino.

But my point is that THR is so bubbled and corrupted that I was publicly challenged to explain the commonsense idea that if the spokesperson for your product — be it Ronald McDonald, Captain Crunch, or a movie star — offends half the customers, it will hurt the bottom line.

THR refused to admit such a thing was true because to admit it would hurt the leftist cause. Dumb stars and celebrities could no longer be fooled into believing it was good PR to trash half the country.

Colleges kowtow to protesters but are met with blowback from donors

Mon, 06 May 2024 04:36:56 GMT

Just The News Reports: Colleges that kowtow to anti-Israel protest encampments are in turn being kicked to the curb by major donors for it.

At least half a dozen colleges and universities have come to an agreement with anti-Israel protesters on campus over the past week, while other schools are not taking action to stop the illegal encampments. While the pro-Palestinian demonstrators celebrated the decisions as victories, donors are less than happy.

One of the most notable schools to reach an agreement with demonstrators is Brown University, where administrators last week committed to allowing students to speak with the school's investment advisory committee about divesting from Israel-linked companies before holding a vote on the matter. The agreement at Brown also stated that no one who participated in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment would face retaliation over the demonstration, and that students who participated would at worst be subjected to an Administrative Review Meeting, but they would not be at risk of being suspended or expelled.

Billionaire real estate mogul Barry Sternlicht, who has previously donated more than $20 million to Brown, said he "paused" donations to the school because he found the agreement with demonstrators "unconscionable."

Northwestern University went even further by agreeing to provide the "full cost of attendance for five Palestinian undergraduates to attend Northwestern for the duration of their undergraduate careers" and agreeing to fund two visiting Palestinian faculty members per year for two years. The school also agreed to re-establish an investment advisory committee and provide a building for Arab and Muslim students. The school also agreed to "allow one aid tent" to remain on campus and to "advise employers not to rescind job offers for students engaging" in campus protests.

Woke Disney Lost $628 Million on Four Woke Flops

Sat, 04 May 2024 23:03:23 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate released four of last year’s five biggest flops and lost $628 million.

The Disney sycophants over at the far-left Deadline crunched the 2023 box office numbers and published the five most costly bombs from last year. Only The Flash, which came in second, wasn’t a Disney production.

Here are last year’s five biggest bombs with their net losses:

The Marvels: -$237 million

The Flash: -$155 million

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: -$143 million

Wish: -$131 million

Haunted Mansion: -$117 million

All on its own, The Marvels lost nearly a quarter of a billion — with a “B” — dollars.

Tee hee.

By the way, those numbers factor in theatrical grosses and revenue made from home video, along with licensing deals with TV and streaming. It’s all included.

Naturally, Deadline attempts to spin some of these losses. In the case of Wish:

[A]udiences have seen this plug-and-play princess and silly sidekicks (in this case a talking goat and puffy star) movie before, and waited this one out for Disney+ (another potential catalyst for dwindling Disney moviegoing).

If Disney+ is hurting Disney’s box office, why did Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 make a fortune last year? Why did The Little Mermaid remake gross $300 million domestic last year? Why did Avatar: Way of the Water become one of the biggest hits in history?

Disney is bombing because people can smell woke dog shit a mile away. Add to that Disney’s decision to destroy instead of protect the innocence of children. In just a few years, Disney went from a brand associated with innocence, fun, imagination, and universal themes to a scumbag brand desperate to queer and groom our kids using drag queens, gay sex, transvestites, and transsexuals.

Oh No! Indoctrinated Woke Extremists Destroy Woke Extremist Indoctrination Center

Fri, 03 May 2024 04:36:28 GMT

The Babylon Bee Reports: The world watched in horror last night as a large group of indoctrinated woke extremists destroyed a woke extremist indoctrination center.

Experts expressed serious concern that woke extremist indoctrination may slow to a crawl after an unexpected turn of events resulted in woke indoctrinated extremists launching a violent, destructive assault on a renowned woke extremist indoctrination center.

"We didn't see this coming," said one official. "After spending decades brainwashing young, impressionable people into volatile, savage revolutionaries, we were shocked to see them unleash such volatility and savagery while trying to launch a revolution. We wish there had been warning signs along the way."

Students who engaged in the violent attack were thankful for the years of intense training they received from the institution they were now actively working to destroy. "I owe everything I am to this place," shouted one protester as he threw an improvised Molotov cocktail through the window of the administrative building. "I could never have grown into the angry, destructive, violent person I am without the education I received here. While you're here, can you help me set the place on fire?"

GLAAD Finds ‘Concerning’ Drop in LGBTQ Characters on TV, Demands Hollywood Create More ‘Inclusive’ Content

Thu, 02 May 2024 03:55:19 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The number of LGBTQ characters in Hollywood TV shows fell more than 20 percent during the 2023-24 season, with declines seen across broadcast, cable, and streaming shows, according to GLAAD’s latest Hollywood report card.

GLAAD called the drops “concerning” and chastised Hollywood studios for failing to create more gay and transgender characters.

“We know that LGBTQ stories are crucial now more than ever—it is paramount to see our lives reflected on screen, challenging the misinformation and harmful rhetoric that is running unchecked by politicians and journalists,” GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in the report, which was issued this week.

She didn’t elaborate on her phrase “misinformation and harmful rhetoric.”

For the 2023-24 period, GLAAD counted to 468 LGBTQ characters, a 21.4 percent drop from the previous season’s total of 596. Of those counted, 36 percent of the 468 LGBTQ characters will not be returning next season.

Katt Williams new comedy special Woke Foke releasing May 4

Wed, 01 May 2024 04:18:17 GMT

Washington Examiner Reports: “Anything can happen” when comedy legend Katt Williams’s new special Woke Foke hits Netflix on May 4, according to a trailer released Friday.

Described in the trailer as one of the greatest living “provocateurs,” “philosophers,” “truthsayers,” and “comedians,” Williams’s set will feature in the Netflix live event performed at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, according to a report.

The set will be “provocative, raunchy, and irreverent,” according to Netflix, and will see the 52-year-old comedian perform his third special for the platform.

Woke Foke will also serve as Netflix’s second livestreamed stand-up event and be part of the “Netflix Is A Joke Comedy Fest.”

New York Court Of Appeals Overturns Disgraced Hollywood Producer Harvey Weinstein’s 23-Year Conviction, Orders New Trial

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:10:07 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: Harvey Weinstein’s 23-year rape conviction has been overturned by a New York appeals court and ordered a new trial, as they find the former Hollywood producer’s trial judge allowed prosecutors to call additional accusers unrelated to the trial to testify against him.

Per Fox News , originally sentenced to 23 years in prison — following his February 2020 conviction of forcing oral sex on Mimi Haley in 2006 and third-degree rape of Jessica Man in 2013 — the state Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s sentence in a 4-3 decision.

According to the outlet, the appeals court came to this decision after they found the judge presiding Weinstein’s trial had allowed prosecutors to call four additional women, who were in no way involved in the Hollywood producer’s trial at the time, to testify.

In an statement issued to Fox News, Weinstein’s lawyer Donna Rotunno declared, “Justice was served. I believe this decision is larger than Harvey Weinstein. Courts cannot operate on emotion and lack of due process.”

“The world is off-balance, and when the justice system does not work, nothing does. This decision restores faith in the foundation of our system,” she concluded.

John Leguizamo says he'd 'consider' a role in a 'Super Mario Bros. Movie' sequel if they 'do the right thing' and make it more inclusive

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 23:06:29 GMT

Business Insider Reports: John Leguizamo said that he'd "consider" accepting a role in a sequel to "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," but only if the film became more inclusive.

Leguizamo, long an advocate for Latin representation in Hollywood, starred in the 1993 "Super Mario Bros." movie as Luigi opposite Bob Hoskins' Mario. The actor has called out the new animated "Super Mario Bros. Movie," which is voiced by Chris Pratt and Charlie Day as Mario and Luigi, for its comparative lack of diversity in the voice acting cast.

Leguizamo told IndieWire that if the film became more inclusive in a hypothetical sequel, he wouldn't necessarily be opposed to joining the franchise.

"If they start to do the right thing and add more inclusivity, I'd consider it," he said.

Leguizamo is currently promoting his new MSNBC series 'Leguizamo Does America," which features the actor traveling from city to city in the United States highlighting Latino stories. He's also currently starring in "The Power" on Prime Video alongside Toni Collette, Toheeb Jimoh, and Auli'i Cravalho.

Lousy and Woke Movies Drive Box Office Down 21% over Last Year

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:31:45 GMT

Breitbart Reports: With the year nearly a third over, the domestic box office is down 21 percent from last year, and last year’s box office stunk.

Box Office Mojo shows the 2024 domestic box office at $1.935 billion as of today, April 23. This same time last year, the domestic box office had grossed $2.449 billion.

Already, 2023 was considered a disappointment. Two full years out of the pandemic, the year still fell 16.2 percent behind 2019, the last full pre-pandemic year.

But this year is shaping up to be a full-blown catastrophe, and despite what the sycophants in the entertainment media tell you, it has nothing to do with the strike or the pandemic or weather or marketing or anything other than what the science tells us: people are falling out of love with the movies.

People are rejecting the movies. After some seven years of woke garbage, gay sex, grooming, DEI, and the politicization of absolutely everything, by a margin of 2-to-1, Normal People say the movies are worse today than in past decades.

Square Up Shut NOT WOKE SHOWS Down (Our CC Processing Anyways)

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:11:03 GMT

NOT WOKE SHOWS Reports: Some potentially spooky news from the deep state may be affecting NOT WOKE SHOWS.

Yesterday someone donated a dollar to us through our web site that caused our credit card processor (square) to associate the donation with a red flag in their system.

I had to fill out some paperwork to explain the nature of our business and that we simply receive donations from people who find value in the web site and that many of those donations come from people all around the world. Sometimes those donations are as little as a dollar and sometimes they're a lot more. We're thankful for every cent that people feel compelled to send our way be it small or large.

Well... today, square shut down our credit card processing and ~~didn't~~ wouldn't give a reason why. I've since escalated the issue with square's technical support however the support representative confirms that the shutdown is final... and it will probably stay that way.

The email I received from square said,

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"We recently reviewed your account and found activity that our platform is unable to support. Because of this, we are sorry to inform you that your Square account is now deactivated."

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Maybe it's the tin-foil hat that I'm seemingly having to wear all the time these days but this whole thing is looking to me like a case of de-banking because someone within square doesn't like the premise of our web site.

I've since found a new credit card processing company... (Found on " PublicSq. " Check them out if you're unfamiliar!) and was fortunate to speak with the owner who agreed to wave all monthly fees because he likes what we're doing and wants to be of assistance to our cause. Shout out to Forthright Services LLC If you want an honorable credit card processing company that isn't woke... check them out!

We don't process a lot of online transactions as we're still a fairly new service and are lucky if we break even on expenses. If however my assumptions are right though and they are shutting our account down because of the site's *premise* ... I'll bet Square takes a P.R. hit for this.

I'll keep everyone updated as this plays out.

Still too woke: Google can’t stop at canning subversives

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:44:34 GMT

New York Post Reports: It looks like Google finally got around to googling Winston Churchill’s famous quote: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

When radical leftist employees occupied Google’s New York and Sunnyvale offices in an anti-Israel, pro-terrorist sit-in, the tech giant felt the hot crocodile breath, called the police and had them arrested. Good for Google. But that’s still not far enough.

Don’t believe for a second that Google is walking away from its woke policies.

Had those employees not occupied Google’s offices, they’d still be sitting in their little Google pods, working away, actively subverting businesses that are not part of the Woke religion.

A couple of dozen employees gone; hundreds who are just as politically malignant still on the job.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., must do more than have executives issue a statement saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.”

That ain’t gonna cut it.

Pichai must be wholeheartedly devoted to changing Google’s culture, not just its policies, because unless the culture changes, the political subversion will remain.

Refusal to Release Subscriber Numbers Means Woke Netflix Has Likely Peaked

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 03:57:15 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Netflix’s decision to end its quarterly reporting of subscriber numbers tells me Netflix knows it has peaked.

On Thursday, Netflix released a glowing report that showed the streaming service attracted 9.3 million new subscribers during the first quarter of 2024, which brings its total number of worldwide subscribers to 269.6 million.

That’s a great number that embarrasses second-place Disney+. The Disney Grooming Syndicate has 149.6 million worldwide subscribers. But a peak is a peak, and corporations are all about growth.

Netflix also reported $9.37 billion in total revenue during the last quarter and $5.2 billion in earnings per share, which is better than Wall Street expected. But then Netflix announced it would no longer release quarterly subscriber numbers starting in 2025. The streamer will also stop reporting average revenue per member (ARM), another metric Wall Street counts on.

“As we’ve noted in previous letters, we’re focused on revenue and operating margin as our primary financial metrics — and engagement (i.e. time spent) as our best proxy for customer satisfaction,” the Netflix earnings report said. “In our early days, when we had little revenue or profit, membership growth was a strong indicator of our future potential. But now we’re generating very substantial profit and free cash flow.”

Wall Street said that’s all well and good, but those subscriber numbers tell us about the future.

Netflix hasn’t made many mistakes in its revolutionary approach to entertainment. Netflix single-handedly changed how we watch TV, has won the streaming wars, and is the only streaming outlet not losing billions.

Longtime NPR Editor Who Exposed Their Woke Bias Resigns, Rips 'Divisive' New CEO on the Way Out the Door

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 22:48:45 GMT

RedState Reports: Uri Berliner, the longtime senior business editor and reporter for National Public Radio (NPR) who wrote an illuminating piece a week ago confirming the network's Trump-era transition from liberally biased to full-on woke, has resigned.

He posted this statement to Twitter Wednesday morning:

"I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don't support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay."

As RedState previously reported, the backlash in the NPR newsroom in response to Berliner's Free Press article was immediate, with some staffers reportedly feeling betrayed while non-NPR media figures busily tried to downplay Berliner’s accusations or outright accused him of lying.

In her response, NPR chief executive Katherine Maher called Berliner’s write-up “profoundly disrespectful" and "demeaning" to staffers of color in particular. The network suspended him for five days without pay as punishment, and also threatened him with termination.

Disney’s Marvel Division Announces Layoffs, Output Reduction After Woke Flops

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:04:20 GMT

Tending Politics Reports: Disney’s Marvel announced a round of layoffs on Monday as the company hopes to adjust after a series of woke flops over the past several years.

The studio announced that it will be laying off a total of 15 employees, including production and development employees in Marvel Studios in Burbank, as well workers in the Marvel Entertainment division in New York, according to a report from Variety.

Following a disappointing 2023 slate of film and television releases, the studio is expected to cut back on its generally rapid pace of releases, which was initiated to support the Disney+ streaming service. Layoffs were also expected as Disney formalizes its decision to absorb the Marvel Entertainment banner, which had long operated independently, into the other divisions within the company.

Disney had already dismissed a number of Marvel executives, including chairman Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, after the decision was announced.

2023 included a number of box office disasters for Marvel and Disney as a whole. The once mighty studio suffered its biggest loss ever with the feminist themed “The Marvels” last year. “The Marvels,” which functioned as a sequel to 2019’s “Captain Marvel,” pulled in just $47 million in its opening weekend before finishing with a global haul of $140 million.

The film was an unprecedented disaster for the company considering its budget exceeding $300 million.

Following the film’s abysmal run at the box office, director Nia DaCosta followed the familiar theme of labelling movie goes as “sexists, racists and homophobes.”

Studio Behind ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ & More Woke Message Movies, Shuts Down

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 02:50:37 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Left-wing billionaire Jeff Skoll’s woke film studio Participant is reportedly shutting down operations and eliminating most of its staff — the latest victim of Hollywood’s sharp downturn that has seen a bloodbath of layoffs and budget cuts.

Participant, founded in 2004, often financed projects with social justice and globalist themes, including former Vice President Al Gore’s climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth and its sequel. Other titles include the Obama’s Netflix documentary American Factory and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg doc RBG.

The studio also helped bankroll two best-picture Oscar winners — Green Book and Spotlight.

Jeff Skoll (pictured, left) broke the news to Participant’s staff of roughly 100 on Tuesday, with almost all of them set to lose their jobs, according to a Variety report. There will be no new content development or production, while a skeleton crew will remain to oversee the studio’s library of about 135 titles.

“I founded Participant with the mission of creating world-class content that inspires positive social change, prioritizing impact alongside commercial sustainability. Since then, the entertainment industry has seen revolutionary changes in how content is created, distributed and consumed,” Skoll wrote in a memo obtained by Variety.

Hollywood’s tectonic shift to streaming entertainment has wreaked havoc with the specialty movie model that depends heavily on theatrical distribution to generate word-of-mouth business and awards-season buzz. Specialty titles that would once have received a theatrical release now almost all end up on streaming platforms in lieu of cinemas.

Participant also experienced a number of high-profile box office flops — including the environmentally themed Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo, and the Matt Damon thriller Stillwater.

Disney Still Billions in Hole 12 Years After Lucasfilm Purchase

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 03:37:19 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Last month, the Disney Grooming Syndicate told stockholders the company has “generated a 2.9 times return on the purchase of Lucasfilm.” According to Forbes , that’s a big, fat lie.

The idea behind releasing that lie was to prop up Disney CEO Bob Iger, who was facing a stockholder rebellion he eventually won, thanks to lies like this like this one:

[B]uried in the fine print is the revelation that the purchase price of Lucasfilm isn’t even included in the R[eturn] O[n] I[nvestment] calculation. Instead, it is purely based on the box office performance of Disney’s Star Wars trilogy, its two spinoff movies, merchandise, DVD and Blu Ray sales.

As revealed, the methodology is questionable as Disney based the ROI on the revenue generated by the movies, merchandise, DVDs and Blu Rays rather than the profit they made as it should have done. Using the revenue rather than the profit artificially inflates the result as it doesn’t factor in the costs that Disney had to pay out.

Back in 2012, Disney purchased everything attached to Lucasfilm — Star Wars, Willow, Indiana Jones — for $4.05 billion. Twelve years later… Well, let’s take a look at the lay of the land…

After three abysmal sequels, as a film franchise, Star Wars is doornail dead. We were told Disney intended to take the most beloved brand in movie history and Marvel it — meaning, two Star Wars movies a year, baby! That legendary Star Wars universe would be explored up, down, and sideways. Get ready for adventures galore, Star Wars fans! The result? Not a single Star Wars feature since the abysmal Return of Skywalker in 2019.

Over and over, we’ve been told a half-dozen Star Wars movies are on the way, only to see them canceled or forgotten.

The Inability to Read the Cultural Scoreboard Leads to Significant Layoffs at Woke Nike Corporation

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:08:02 GMT

Red State Reports: It was just over a year ago that we witnessed one of the biggest self-induced corporate fiascos ever when Anheuser-Busch engaged in a promotional campaign with trans-influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

While this led to easily the biggest plummet of a brand in the beer industry - as well as in the corporate spectrum - surprisingly another global entity was making the exact same mistake but managed to avoid that level of public outrage.

Nike has to be grateful that the beer backlash was so loud and widespread that its own involvement with Mulvaney at nearly the same time was overshadowed, though not entirely ignored. People and journalists became fascinated with the downfall of the beer brand, as it dominated news coverage for months, but Nike was not entirely unscathed.

Calls to avoid the brand as well were heard, and while the outrage may not have been so loud the ramifications were still felt. The reason is that the company has been caught up in the virtue-signaling craze but fell prey to the shortsightedness of these efforts.

The company has backed the likes of Colin Kaepernick, and frequently is vocal on other social issues, but it could very well be a case of the company being so monolithic that when it absorbs strong economic hits it is able to weather the challenge before moving on. Well, currently it is experiencing inclement weather.

The apparel company is enduring enough hardships that it is in the process of laying off a significant amount of its workforce. One thousand six hundred jobs are in the process of being shorn, all in an effort to cut $2 billion in operating expenses.

ESG funding is why woke entertainment keeps getting made despite losing audiences

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 01:12:53 GMT

FOX NEWS Reports: Mark Kern, a former team lead of the popular online game "World of Warcraft," claims the video game industry and entertainment at large cater to progressive views in their content in exchange for access to money.

Fans of beloved franchises like Indiana Jones have become frustrated when they think movie studios and writers have adopted divisive identity politics or gone "woke." Kern puts the blame on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) consulting companies that often work with a movie, series, or video game in development and help write or influence their stories.

While some games with DEI consultancy influence such as "Marvel's Spider-Man 2" and "God of War: Ragnarok" have met commercial success despite pandering to liberal identity politics, the recently released "Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League" has been widely panned for both its gameplay and its story.

This game was so poorly received that Discovery Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels on February 23rd amidst the company’s Q4 2023 earning calls declared, it "has fallen short of our expectations since its release earlier in the quarter, setting our games business up for a tough year-over-year comp in Q1."

In the video game industry, one consultant agency made headlines recently for being at the center of controversy over pushing diversity politics in certain video games. Sweet Baby Inc. (SBI) describes itself as an "inclusion-focused narrative and consultation company" working toward "diversifying and enriching the video games industry." On the video game digital distribution service Steam, over 250,000 gamers have followed a list called "Sweet Baby Inc. Detected." The list consists of games that SBI is affiliated with and doesn't recommend them for purchase.

Kern has weighed in on the controversy involving SBI and told Fox News Digital , saying "there is a coordinated effort to insert diversity politics into games by ALL parties involved to the detriment of the quality of the games themselves. Sweet Baby’s Inc.’s very public and self published involvement is just the tip of the iceberg."

Failing Theaters Would Receive $5 Billion Taxpayer-Funded Bailout under WOKE Plan

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:53:58 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Non-profit theater companies across the country would receive a $5 billion taxpayer-funded bailout under a new plan being promoted by a group of Democrats in the Senate. The proposed bailout comes as prominent stages are facing unprecedented financial crises following their embrace of woke identity politics, which has alienated audiences and donors.

Among the companies poised to receive the new federal dollars would be New York’s Public Theater, which staged the gruesome stabbing death of President Donald Trump in its infamous 2017 production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) is leading the way with the legislation, which is called the Supporting Theater and the Arts to Galvanize the Economy (STAGE) Act of 2024.

The STAGE Act would earmark $1 billion annually for five years in grants to theaters that would be administered through the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration. The amount represents a significant increase over the $2.5 billion proposed by Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda when he lobbied Congress back in September.

Other lawmakers backing the legislation include Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Jack Reed (D-RI). Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) is also supporting the bill.

The legislation faces an uphill battle in Congress.

Many theaters have already received federal money from the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, which set aside more than $16 billion for performing arts companies and other venues during the pandemic.

Move Over Latinx: There’s a New Fake Word No One Is Going To Use

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:45:36 GMT

PJ Media Reports: "Latine is the new Latinx," declared Axios.

I guess that means no one is actually going to use this new term either.

"'Latine,' a gender-neutral way to describe or refer to people with Latino origins, is surging in popularity on university campuses, in museums, and among researchers and media," the outlet insists.

Is it really? If Latinx was never popular, why are we supposed to believe Latrine—I mean Latine—is now becoming widely used?

"Catch-all terms like Hispanic or Latino have come under scrutiny for blurring important nuances and presenting a large part of the U.S. population as a monolith," Axios notes.

According to Carlos Zavala, vice president at consulting firm Whiteboard Advisors, the term "Latine" is "part of a movement centered on wanting to build and foster an inclusive community."

Apparently, Latinx is becoming less fashionable in woke circles, and Latine is now the gender-neutral option du jour. "Latinx had been pushed by U.S. academics as a gender-neutral option for Latinos but was criticized for using the letter 'x' in a manner that's unnatural to Spanish speakers" -- which sounds about right.

Does "Latine" have a chance of becoming mainstream? That's not likely. According to an Axios-Ipsos poll, the preferred terms by a huge margin are still "Latino," "Latina," and "Hispanic," garnering over 80% acceptance, followed by identifiers linked to specific countries of origin, like "Cuban American" or "Mexican American."

There is also significant discomfort with "Latine," particularly in border states, in the Midwest, and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, where it is considered unnecessary and distorts grammar rules.

Woke People lied about transgender suicide — but there is hope

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:20:06 GMT

New York Post Reports: When nonbinary teen Nex Benedict committed suicide a day after allegedly being beaten up at school, the tragedy was quickly hijacked as a textbook case of anti-LGBT bullying.

The president and the first lady weighed in with a “heartbroken” White House statement.

“Nex Benedict, a kid who just wanted to be accepted, should still be here with us today. Nonbinary and transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know . . . In memory of Nex, we must all recommit to our work to end discrimination and address the suicide crisis impacting too many nonbinary and transgender children . . . No one should face the bullying that Nex did.”

Hatemongering Nancy Pelosi went further: “The anti-trans fervor fueled by extreme Republicans across the country is having deadly consequences for our children,” posted the former House speaker.

“We must stand up against anti-trans hate.”

The New Republic was just one media outlet that blamed the death on conservatives: “Oklahoma Republicans Passed a Bathroom Bill. Now a Trans Kid Is Dead.”

But as usual with news stories that slot too neatly into a favored political narrative, it was a lie.

The truth was equally tragic but had no electoral payoff for Democrats wishing to paint their opponents as cruel bigots and Neanderthal book-banners.

The Oklahoma medical examiner who ruled Benedict’s overdose death a suicide said the 16-year-old “did not die as a result of trauma” from the fight at school and nor did handwritten notes at the scene make reference to difficulties at school.

Benedict suffered from “bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, self-harm (cutting), chronic tobacco abuse and chronic marijuana abuse.”

Woke ‘Monkey Man’ Disappoints at Box Office

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 03:17:08 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Monkey Man was supposed to be the next John Wick. Instead, it’s just one more piece of woke garbage that failed to perform anywhere near expectations.

Monkey Man was projected to open at a low end of $15 million to as high as $20 million. Instead, it crash-landed well below that low end with just a $10 million opening. Maybe all the transvestites in Monkey Man turned off Normal People? Just a guess… Here’s how the “next John Wick” was advertised…

“Monkey Man is far more successful at exploring sexuality in the genre via a group of transgender women who teach the Kid how to harness his pain into power,” reports the far-left Los Angeles Times.

“The Hijra community is a society of intersex, trans, and other third-gender groups who live across South Asia, largely removed from wider society,” says Pink News. Star, director, and co-writer Dev Patel “said that it was important for him to represent this community as a form of solidarity.”

“The main protagonist, Kid, joins a group of trans and gender-non-conforming characters to fight the elite oppressing them.”

“The movie also includes a group of trans and gender-nonconforming characters who join Kid in his fight against India’s elite,” reports the far-left Variety.

Guys in dresses should be used only for comic relief, not normalized. Also, in order to be successful, movies and stories should be based on a foundation of truth. So the idea that transsexuals fight oppression rather than spread oppression is way too much disbelief for Normal People to suspend.

We all know that the transsexual mafia is the biggest group of bullies around today — bullying our language, bullying the truth, bullying biological fact, and bullying us into accepting something that is neither normal, moral, or healthy in the spiritual or physical sense.

Experts Already Predict Global 2024 Box Office Failure

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 03:55:12 GMT

Breitbart Reports: After a disastrous 2023 at the global box office, Hollywood’s 2024 is already predicted to be even worse.

“Gower Street Analytics has revised its 2024 Global box office projection to $32.3 billion,” reads the press release. This is a little better than the original prediction of $31.5 billion, but still “down about 3% from the $39.9 billion grossed in 2023 based on current exchange rates.”

Here’s the key figure: “It would also be 18% lower than the average of the global box office totals between 2017-19.”

Even with population and ticket price increases over the last five to seven years, the movie business is looking at nearly a 20 percent drop.

Wow.

And even though the science tells us why the movie business is down nearly 20 percent — hint: the quality of the product — here’s how the sycophant entertainment industry spins it:

A downtick in box office grosses was expected this year due to production delays caused by the Hollywood double strike last year and a lack of major blockbusters on the level of recent hits like “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” and “Barbie.” Exhibition sources have told TheWrap that 2025 is seen as a potential rebound year with higher profile tentpoles and a greater quantity of theatrical titles on the slate.

Uhm, Super Mario Bros . and Barbie both came out in 2023 , and both domestically and worldwide 2023’s box office was an embarrassment.

As the first quarter of this year already proved , the problem is not a lack of product,

The lackluster [box office] start comes despite audiences having more theater options than they have had in years. This year through Feb. 18, there have been 11 wide-release movies, or those showing in at least 2,000 locations nationwide. There were nine wide-release titles through the same time frame last year.

Stellar Blade: Woke Activists Enraged By Video Games With Attractive Female Characters

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:48:30 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: Recently we covered the exposure of leftist activist run "consulting firms" that have been discreetly involved in the widespread wokification of the video games industry. These firms have been know to operate on a protection racket-like model: They threaten video game developers with the cancel-culture mob unless they hire said firm to "fix" their games for them. This fixing usually involves a host of DEI requirements, from forced diversity to the inclusion of LGBT related propaganda for the kiddies.

The reason these consulting outfits exist is singular - They do not care about games, gaming or gamers. In fact, they seem to hate game consumers with a passion. Their only purpose is to inject as much woke ideology as possible into an industry they know has immense influence on the next generation. Leftists see video games as a platform to manipulate the collective thinking of the future.

One agenda which has been incredibly important to them is their war on the "male gaze" and western beauty standards in general. The reasons for this are varied.

Some activists believe that men should not be allowed to set standards for women in any form, even though women set standards frequently for men. Biological imperatives and inherent attractions for men are treated as "toxic aggression" that needs to be snuffed out.

Other activists argue that beauty representations in popular media are "unattainable" and cause young girls and women to have a negative sense of self worth. In reality, many beauty standards are perfectly attainable through self improvement, but this is a violation of the "beauty at any size" cult as well as claims by feminists that attractiveness is nothing more than a social construct.

Perhaps traditional beauty is attainable for most women - It's just not attainable for feminists.

'Not what we're up to': Disney CEO Bob Iger denies company is 'infusing' messaging into content

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:18:48 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger denied that the organization is pushing any particular messaging into its content, claiming it is focused on delivering entertainment first.

Appearing on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street," Iger was asked about woke ideology at the company, with host David Faber claiming that Iger had told him that he would "love to be out of the culture wars."

"Do you think you're succeeding in that?" Faber asked.

"I think the noise has sort of quieted down," Iger replied. "I've been preaching this for a long time at the company, before I left and since I came back, that our number one goal is to entertain."

The CEO added that he didn't think the often-used term "woke" was fully understood by many audience members, and that the company's first priority is to be entertaining.

"The bottom line is that infusing messaging as a sort of number one priority in our films and TV shows is not what we're up to. They need to be entertaining. Where the Disney Company can have a positive impact on the world, fostering acceptance and understanding of people of all different types, great. But generally speaking, we need to be an entertainment-first company."

When asked what ways he has tried to foster such an environment, Iger shared that he has been engaging with executives and creatives at the company to influence a return to their roots, and align priorities.

Iger did mention that the company is trying to reach a "diverse audience" and said certain viewers can sometimes be "turned off by certain things." He added that Disney has to be more sensitive to the interests of a broad audience.

Unemployed Hollywood Writers Resorting to Bartending, Doordash Gigs as Studios Slash Spending

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 03:21:16 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Unemployed Hollywood writers are reportedly resorting to gig work as bartenders and Doordash drivers as studios continue to slash spending across the board, resulting in a dramatic reduction in the number of TV pilots and shows receiving the green light.

“As a showrunner who is a queer woman of color and I can’t get work? That’s saying a lot. It’s very frustrating.” one industry veteran told The Hollywood Reporter.

“I never thought I’d be a writer for as long as I have, but I didn’t expect to run into a brick wall. I thought it’d be a slow tapering, but this feels like a cataclysm,” another said. “I don’t know if I’m ever going to forgive Hollywood for this.

Another writer moaned: “That’s where a lot of us are. Almost everyone I know who had a deal, that deal doesn’t exist anymore.”

The demise of “peak TV” has meant far fewer opportunities for even seasoned Hollywood writers. Studios are taking an ax to their budgets as the industry is facing near-catastrophic economic headwinds.

American households continue to cut the cords by the millions, depriving studios of lucrative carriage fees. At the same time, TV advertising revenue is plunging due to weak consumer sentiment tied to historic levels of inflation brought about by the Biden administration.

Studios are trying to save themselves by betting the farm on streaming entertainment, but most are still unable to make streaming profitable. Making matter worse, most of Hollywood’s new streaming content is failing to resonate with subscribers, despite non-stop hype by the entertainment media.

Disney Shareholders Support Bob Iger & Defy Activists Amid Losses

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:41:29 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Disney shareholders rallied behind longtime CEO Robert Iger, voting Wednesday to rebuff activist investor Nelson Peltz and his ally, former Disney chief financial officer Jay Rasulo, who had sought seats on the company’s board.

The company had recommended a slate of directors that did not include Peltz or Rasulo.

The dissident shareholders had said in a preliminary proxy filing that they wanted to complete a successful CEO succession at Disney and align management pay with performance.

Disney announced in November 2022 that Bob Iger would come back to the company as its CEO to replace his hand-picked successor, Bob Chapek, whose two-year tenure had been marked by clashes, missteps and weakening financial performance.

Elon Musk's anti-woke-Disney agenda flourishes in potential April Fools tweet: ‘Can’t wait to work with…'

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:43:48 GMT

Hindustan Times Reports: “Excited to join Disney as their Chief DEI Officer,” wrote Elon Musk, taking a dig at Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy.

The SpaceX founder has never missed a beat to double down on his Disney hate train. Seizing the April Fools moment on the first day of the new month, Elon Musk quirkily transitioned to unleashing his fury at the ‘woke Disney’ agenda in an idiosyncratic move.

Swerving from his usual online tirades targeting the mass media company, he sardonically wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “Excited to join @Disney as their Chief DEI Officer.”

Having previously slammed the Disney CEO, Bob Iger, for the company's content and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) approach, Musk again indulged in jibes at his expense. In the same tweet, he continued: “Can't wait to work with Bob Iger & Kathleen Kennedy to make their content more woke! Even the linguini.”

Paramount’s Debt Rating Downgraded to ‘Junk’ Status as Cable TV Subscriptions Plunge

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 03:29:20 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Hollywood studio Paramount Global has been downgraded to junk status by S&P, which cited the ongoing plunge in cable TV subscriptions as the reason for the credit rating change.

Paramount — which owns numerous linear TV properties including CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, and Comedy Central — is facing a dire economic forecast that is shared by other legacy studios.

Studios are trying to save themselves by betting the farm on streaming entertainment, but most are still unable to make streaming profitable. Last year, Paramount lost more than $1 billion on streaming in a six-month time span.

The result is a media doom loop that threatens to tank Hollywood’s most venerated institutions.

S&P said it downgraded Paramount’s rating due to the “accelerating declines in linear media and the shift toward a more competitive and less certain streaming model.”

Data Confirms No One’s Watching Hundreds of Woke Streaming Shows

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:30:28 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Data revealed by Variety in March confirmed that, other than the top 20 shows, pretty much no one is watching any of that woke crap on America’s lousy streaming services.

“As series output soared to historic heights in 2022, with nearly 1,000 original titles released on the major [streaming] platforms,” the useless, far-left Variety reported without ever explaining why “viewership on most services was concentrated among fewer than two dozen shows.”

“Data … shows the top 20 most-watched TV seasons” on every streaming service other than Netflix “accounted for the vast majority of original series viewership on almost all of the major U.S.-based [streaming] platforms in 2022.”

None of this surprises normal people, but it is nice to see what we all knew to be true confirmed.

“The drop-off between the top performing shows and the remainder is, if anything, even more striking,” the report continued.

Get a load of this…

Disney+ “released 50 original series in 2022 (not counting kids’ content),” and the ten most popular “seasons captured nearly 80% of original series viewing time; the next 10, just over 16%.”

Disney seasons that were not in the top 20 “accounted for only about 5% of viewing time.” Other than Peacock’s three percent, that is the worst of all the major streamers.

The following is by far the most important revelation… The all-important rewatchable factor:

This data also indicates that most streaming originals do not have the rewatch value offered by many older series. Whereas beloved library shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy” reliably chart among the most-watched titles on streaming week after week, year after year, new originals are hard-pressed to keep viewers coming back.

Looking again at Disney+, only two of the top 10 original seasons in 2022 reappeared among the top 10 the next year: “The Mandalorian” Season 2 and limited series “Andor,” both “Star Wars” properties. (The former actually saw its share of viewing time rise year over year, likely bolstered by the third season’s premiere.)

So even if people are watching the top 20 streaming shows once, almost no one goes back to rewatch them again, and there is only one reason for that: they suck.

'Gamergate 2' is an attempt to stop the woke assassination of our childhood heroes

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:15:45 GMT

Human Events Reports: To understand the media phenomenon known as "Gamergate 2," which is sweeping the internet and producing ever more insane takes from the woke powers-that-be, you have to start with a "narrative consulting company" known as Sweet Baby Inc. Speaking for myself, I first became aware of Sweet Baby Inc. when I watched my childhood hero Batman die by execution.

As disgusted and furious as I was to see my childhood hero degraded and killed before my very eyes, I was not surprised. Nor was I surprised to find that The Flash was not only killed, but urinated on in this same game, because ever since I started my YouTube channel I’ve been covering this kind of cultural vandalism in pop culture. It’s open season on straight white males in Hollywood, in Silicon Valley, in literature and comics, in every form of entertainment.

Radical extremists regularly take delight in tearing down cultural icons like Batman, like Luke Skywalker, like James Bond, embarrassing them and then killing them off to land a blow against the fictional “patriarchy” that keeps these extremist snowflakes awake in their rainbow colored foot jammies at night. Extremists like the aforementioned Sweet Baby Inc.

As it turns out, Sweet Baby Inc. consulted on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. They’ve consulted with a number of development studios, “improving” video games by introducing just this kind of content. Unfortunately, to paraphrase Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon: when someone kills your childhood hero you’re supposed to do something about it. And pop culture fans did. They rose up.

They protested. They blasted Sweet Baby Inc. on social media, organized boycotts, compiled lists of games Sweet Baby Inc. had previously contaminated in order to warn people away from them. The exposure of Sweet Baby Inc. as covert agents of that societal malady known variously as ESG, DEI, or, as it is known on the street, “woke”, came as no surprise to those of us constantly immersed in the cultural battlefield that pop culture has become.

However, for those of you who had never heard of Sweet Baby Inc. before reading this article, I’d like to explain what they do, and why it’s so pernicious.

Pirates of the Caribbean is relaunching with a total reboot and the comments are priceless

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:06:57 GMT

Not The Bee Reports: At this point, I can't even hear the words "pirate" or "Caribbean" without thinking of the one and only Jack Sparrow. And when I think of Jack Sparrow, I think Johnny Depp.

Now that Disney producers of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise have announced a total reboot, I, like many others, are simply not having it.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer spoke to ComicBook.com about the reboot, but no information is currently available regarding the new storyline or potential cast members involved in the project.

We're gonna reboot Pirates, so that is easier to put together because you don't have to wait for certain actors.

In 2022, Bruckheimer told The Sunday Times that Johnny Depp's return to the role was highly unlikely. And last year, Sean Bailey, then-president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, told The New York Times that reviving the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was a top priority for the company.

We think we have a really good, exciting story that honors the films that have come before but also has something new to say.

Well, it seems as though no one wants to hear it! ��

Why Wokeness Has Pitched The Left Into Crisis

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:50:57 GMT

El Pais Reports: Woke is not what it used to be. For some years, the term was used to describe those who are sensitive and involved in the struggle against social injustice, especially in U.S. politics, but also in the politics of other countries following suit perhaps to a lesser degree. Woke was a label proudly worn by activists in pursuit of social and climate justice: from Black Lives Matter to the #MeToo movement and the fight against global warming. Woke seemed to advocate a new era of equality and justice.

Now, however, the concept is being turned on its head by a growing anti-woke contingent that, according to the laws of action and reaction, has imbued the term with the kind of contempt that discredits those progressive causes. What began as a kneejerk reaction from the right has now spread to encompass an element of the left that is dissatisfied with woke’s current prominence, is concerned by what they consider its excesses, and its lack of universality. Woke is now used as an insult. The growing criticism of the woke from some members of the left is generating tensions, as reflected by authors and philosophers such as Susan Neiman, Umut Özkirimli and Stéphanie Roza, not to mention the exuberance of right-wing critics within the field.

“By subverting the word ‘woke,’ the ultraconservative sector of the U.S. Republican Party managed to turn it into a kind of catch-all to criticize any progressive aspect of the political spectrum, be it education on racism, feminism, identity politics or even books they consider inappropriate,” explains journalist and writer Lucía Lijtmaer, author of Ofendiditos. Sobre la criminalización de la protesta (Anagrama, 2019). Today, anti-woke, especially among the U.S. right, could be considered a movement in itself.

The response to wokeness is complex and varies according to political sensitivities. The ultra-right has long used the term to attack identity policies and environmental movements in general, painting them in terms of dictatorships: the woke dictatorship, or the environmental dictatorship, or simply the dictatorship of political correctness, also encompassing gender ideology, the gay lobby and all things queer. In its fearmongering, it warns of the advent of a kind of cultural Marxism, which will destroy white, Christian, capitalist, heterosexual civilization. “There is a manic compulsion to discover the woke everywhere; they are like hyper-motivated Pokémon hunters,” says writer Gonzalo Torné, author of La cancelación y sus enemigos (Anagrama, 2022), who points out that attempts at censorship have generally come from conservatives in the past.

Games Journalism Is Burning to the Ground and Games 'Journalists' Can Thank Themselves

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 02:34:35 GMT

RedState Reports: Back in 2014, Gamasutra's news editor, Leigh Alexander, wrote an article that would be one of the opening salvos from the social justice left against a developing GamerGate movement. What would later become known as the "woke left" had infected gaming journalism and it was pretty clear that the cabal of radical leftists in the elitist circles didn't like gamers.

As such, Alexander released an article titled "Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over," to the applause and echoes of many of her ilk in gaming journalism circles. Alexander not only looked down on the audience she'd been writing articles for, but she questioned why she was even doing what she did:

‘Games culture’ is a petri dish of people who know so little about how human social interaction and professional life works that they can concoct online ‘wars’ about social justice or ‘game journalism ethics,’ straight-faced, and cause genuine human consequences. Because of video games. Lately, I often find myself wondering what I’m even doing here. And I know I’m not alone. All of us should be better than this.

Alexander's article remains one of the most flagrant examples of an elitist lack of self-awareness and an egregious sense of self-importance ever put on display. It also cemented the fact for many, that these "journalists" weren't journalists at all, they were activists bent on destroying the hobby that gamers loved. It's a lesson we never forgot.

But gamers are made of hardier stuff than many people realize. When they pointed at us and told us to feel shame for being us, accused us of social sins galore, and claimed a moral high ground...we laughed. In fact, we did something they didn't expect; we fought back, and in a much fiercer way than they anticipated. We deconstructed their arguments, proved their claims false, and demonstrated a sense of community between races, ideologies, political affiliations, etc. that bordered on the miraculous.

This is a community of people who slay dragons for fun and oftentimes together. Our hobby teaches us to fight and keep fighting, no matter how many blows we take. If you fail, you press "continue" and try again until you win.

As such GamerGate became one of the biggest black eyes the radical left ever received and they've never forgiven or forgotten how bad gamers made them look...nor how much gamers cost them and continues to cost them.

“People Go to Watch a Movie to Be Entertained, Not to Get a Message”: Billionaire Disney Investor Hits Out at Woke Company After String of Flops

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:10:12 GMT

The Daily Skeptic Reports: The billionaire activist investor waging war against Disney has hit out at the media giant over its use of all-black and all-female casts. The Telegraph has more .

Nelson Peltz, who owns a stake in Disney worth roughly $3.5bn (£2.8bn), sided with accusations that the Hollywood behemoth has become too woke.

He said: “People go to watch a movie or a show to be entertained. They don’t go to get a message.”

Mr. Peltz, whose daughter Nicola is married to Brooklyn Beckham, took issue with recent blockbusters The Marvels and Black Panther, which portray female and black superheroes respectively.

In an interview with the Financial Times, the tycoon said: “Why do I have to have a Marvel that’s all women? Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that?

“Why can’t I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-black cast?”

Disney’s recent push into more diverse casting marks efforts by the U.S. company to balance its output after decades of films starring mostly white and male characters and actors.

It has also updated some of its classic fairytales, including Cinderella and Snow White, for the modern era.

But the moves have fuelled criticism that Disney is focusing on political activism at the expense of its audiences.

After years of delivering blockbusters, Disney’s film studios, which include Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm, have suffered a string of disappointing box office openings.

Get Woke, Go Broke: Planet Fitness Stock Craters, Gym Chain Sees $400 Million Wiped Out After Transgender Bathroom Uproar

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:11:45 GMT

Gateway Pundit Reports: Bloodbath.

Planet Fitness continued to get pummeled a week after popular social media personality ‘Libs of TikTok’ reported the gym chain was allowing biological men into women’s bathroom facilities.

People began to cancel their Planet Fitness memberships after an Alaskan woman’s membership was revoked for taking a photo of a transgender (biological man) shaving in a women’s bathroom.

“A Planet Fitness Insider has even reached out and told me there is internal panic at the company and mass membership cancellations,” Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik said.

Less than a week later Planet Fitness saw more than $400 million wiped out.

RuPaul’s bookstore excludes Christian values in the name of diversity

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 02:34:33 GMT

Washington Times Reports: Inclusivity, as defined by the “woke” left, demands embracing radical, degenerate theories about gender and sex while flatly excluding traditional, family-friendly and above all Christian ideas about sexuality. In other words, you can’t be too accepting of opposing views, because that wouldn’t be inclusive.

The best recent example of this twisted logic is presented to us courtesy of an unexpected source: drag queen RuPaul and his “bookstore for all stories.” An “all-inclusive world of book lovers,” Allstora proudly touts its LGBTQ, female and “underrepresented” authors, plus a curated collection of so-called banned books handpicked by RuPaul himself. But the bookstore’s mainstay claim to inclusivity would quickly be tested.

You see, while the online site purported to support “all” books, it didn’t mean those published by Brave Books or other Christian or conservative titles. God forbid readers find wholesome stories at an “all-inclusive” bookstore.

Inclusivity, as defined by the “woke” left, demands embracing radical, degenerate theories about gender and sex while flatly excluding traditional, family-friendly and above all Christian ideas about sexuality. In other words, you can’t be too accepting of opposing views, because that wouldn’t be inclusive.

Former Google Insiders: Woke AI Was No Mistake -- It Was Intentional

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:29:45 GMT

Hot Air Reports: “When you have a broken culture," Shaun Maguire laments, "you’re just going to keep creating broken products. The Google Gemini images merely confirmed what I already knew.” Maguire is no disinterested observer, either. He spent three years as an investment partner at Google Ventures, until its relentless DEI authoritarianism forced him to look elsewhere for a "performance culture."

Maguire and several other ex-Googlers spoke to The Free Press about the disastrous rollout of Google's Gemini AI, which infamously projected its wokeness into its image and text products. Black and Asian Nazis are the least of the problems, Maguire and the others warn, because Gemini didn't malfunction at all. Gemini did exactly what Google wants to do overall -- create a reality on its own DEI and CRT terms rather than reflect objective reality and honest information-sharing:

“When the first Google Gemini photos popped up on my X feed, I thought to myself: Here we go again. And: Of course. Because I know Google well. Google Gemini’s failures revealed how broken Google’s culture is in such a visually obvious way to the world. But what happened was not a one-off incident. It was a symptom of a larger cultural phenomenon that has been taking over the company for years.”

Maguire is one of multiple former Google employees who told The Free Press that the Gemini fiasco stems from a corporate culture that prioritizes the ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over excellence and good business sense.

These ex-Googlers, as they’re called, said that they were discouraged from hiring white, male employees; that DEI “is part of every single thing” in the company; and that engineers even had to list the “DEI impact” for the tiniest of software fixes. All of them agreed that the Silicon Valley giant entered the artificial intelligence race with an upper hand but has squandered it by cowing to an activist faction in the company that’s more committed to advancing social justice than making world-class products.

It's not as if we didn't have warning signs about Google's perversion from an information portal to a manipulative DEI struggle session. Even before Maguire took his job in 2016, others in the tech industry tried to warn him that Google had abandoned technological advances for social engineering and had become a difficult environment in which to work.

Study suggests ‘woke’ people likely to be unhappy and depressed

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:57:16 GMT

Washington Examiner Reports: Researchers have found that people with “woke” ideas often have a higher risk of depression and anxiety.

The new studies were published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology and found that woke attitudes affect people’s happiness levels.

The researchers asked more than 5,800 college students and professors about general statements widely believed to be woke, further inquiring whether they agreed with the statements.

Researchers found that a lower degree of mental well-being tended to be associated with having a higher “social justice score.”

Oskari Lahtinen, a lead study author and senior researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of Turku in Finland, described “wokeism” as an American export that has spread to Europe.

“I had been paying attention to a development in American universities, where a new discourse on social justice became prevalent in the 2010s,” he said.

“The arrival of a critical social justice (often called ‘woke’) discourse sparked much debate in Finnish media in the last couple of years,” Lahtinen explained.

He added, “The gender divide was probably most surprising to me. Three out of five women view ‘woke’ ideas positively, but only one out of seven men.”

Oscar Ratings Take Embarrassing Tumble With Key Demographic After Endless Woke Propaganda

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 04:19:46 GMT

The latest broadcast is being celebrated as a success, as ratings climbed slightly from last year’s 18.8 million result. This gave the Academy Awards to their best numbers since the COVID-19 pandemic, a four percent increase overall.

Still, ratings for the Oscars continue to be way down from peak heights. In 1998, which featured “Titanic” as Best Picture winner, the show was watched by a whopping 57 million viewers. Even in 2014, the show still managed to pull in 43 million viewers.

Sunday’s figures were especially mediocre considering the fact that Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” won Best Picture, making it the highest grossing winner since “Lord of The Rings: Return of The King” in 2004. Nolan’s latest film pulled in $950 million at the global box office last summer and won a bundle of Oscars on Sunday, including “Best Actor” and “Best Supporting Actor” wins for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. respectively.

In addition to the popularity of “Oppenheimer” — as well as Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” — the show also started an hour earlier. This was expected to pull in viewers who otherwise would have skipped the show due to school, work, or other commitments.

Despite all this, the Academy Awards managed just a four percent increase over last year’s viewership, a troubling figure for the show’s future.

Blame Canada: Supreme Court in Canada Labels the Word Woman 'Confusing' and 'Unfortunate'

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:34:00 GMT

Twitchy Reports: Adult. Human. Female.

Three simple words. Three simple words that effectively and accurately describe a woman. You'd think this would be easy stuff, right?

Well, not if you are a woke Supreme Court justice in Canada, it's not.

This morning, The National Post in Canada reported yet another ridiculous case of mental and linguistic gymnastics handed down by Canadian Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin in a sexual assault case that has been going on up north for seven years.

According to The National Post , the ongoing case involves a sexual assault allegation made by a woman against Charles Kruk. We won't delve too deeply into the details of the case, but in short, Kruk took an intoxicated and lost woman home with him in 2017, ostensibly to call her family, but when she passed out, she woke to find her pants off and Kruk penetrating her. Kruk claims that this did not happen and she was just 'startled awake' after she had removed her own pants.

That's the ugly case summary, but it is important to have that context to understand the full depravity of what happened in the Supreme Court, where Martin added an even further insult to women everywhere, not to mention the one who had allegedly been assaulted.

2024 Box Office — Normal Thrives as Woke and Grooming Die

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 02:02:34 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The fourth chapter of the Kung Fu Panda series and Dune: Part Two are bright spots in an otherwise dismal box office year.

I wonder why?

Goodwill is so strong for Jack Black’s 16-year-old franchise that Kung Fu Panda 4 grossed $58.3 million in its debut weekend, which is better than 2011’s Kung Fu Panda 2 ($47.6 million) and 2016’s Kung Fu Panda 3 ($41.2 million). Maybe it’s a good thing Jack Black hasn’t called half the country Nazis. He’s just a good dude who enjoys life and making people smile.

The Disney Grooming Syndicate, which has had its last half-dozen or so animated films flop here at home and all over the world, must be wondering about that.

Also smoking up the box office is director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, which grossed another $46 million in weekend two, putting its domestic total at $157 million after ten days. The Disney Grooming Syndicate, which has seen almost all of its 2023 blockbusters flop here at home and all over the world, must be wondering about that.

Well, wonder no more, pervs.

Both of these movies are made for normal people. Kung Fu Panda 4 is aimed at kids, not at grooming kids into a sex cult filled with transvestites and drag queens. Kung Fu Panda is about entertaining and spreading joy among children, whereas Disney aims to destroy their innocence prematurely. Kung Fu Panda wants to let kids be kids. Disney wants kids to become neurotic, confused, and easily exploited by adult predators.

Tim Allen Returns With New Sitcom – Is Hollywood Seeing The End of Woke?

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:47:46 GMT

WLT Report... Reports: One of the last men standing over in Hollywood is definitely Tim Allen.

The actor who played Tim “The Toolman” Taylor on Home Improvement in the 90’s hasn’t drunk the liberal poison and hasn’t succumbed to the woke mob.

His previous tv sitcom, Last Man Standing, ended back in 2021, right when things were getting insane in that town with the rise of ‘woke’ culture, which is just a watered down term for cultural Marxism.

Well, it looks like after about 3 years of woke agenda and ABC’s parent company losing millions, they’re probably in desperate-mode and ready to get back to what works, back to what the people want.

So ABC just gave the green light to have a new sitcom starring Tim Allen. And it should be woke-free because Allen wouldn’t have signed on if that was the case.

Variety reports:

Tim Allen is one step closer to returning to ABC for a third time. The Alphabet net has given a pilot order to his latest sitcom, “Shifting Gears,” from 20th Television. Allen is on board to star and executive produce the multi-cam sitcom pilot — which is still a working title — which will also be written and executive produced by Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Scully.

In the project, Allen plays Matt, the “stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.”

Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Richard Baker and Rick Messina are the non-writing exec producers on the show.

“Shifting Gears” continues Allen’s long association with ABC and Disney, including the long-running hit (1991-1997) “Home Improvement.” Allen later starred on ABC’s “Last Man Standing,” which aired on the Alphabet web from 2011 to 2017, then moved to Fox from 2018 to 2021.

200,000 Gamers Took a Stand Against Woke Company: Now a Journalist Is Hunting Down Their Names

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:22:54 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: The folks at Kotaku would like you to know that, if you have a problem with video game consultation studio Sweet Baby Inc. for injecting wokeness into a game, you’re part of the problem. They’re not doing it — even though that’s what one of the stated goals of the studio’s founder was.

Furthermore, if you’re one of the 200,000-odd gamers who have joined a Steam group focused on identifying Sweet Baby Inc.’s involvement in various projects, the author of a piece on the backlash against Sweet Baby Inc. seems to want to dox you — and allegedly thinks it’s odd that you won’t let her hunt your info down.

By way of explanation, Sweet Baby Inc. is a “narrative design company” that has consulted on the storylines of numerous video game titles. Its work stays in the background and, as writer Alyssa Mercante pointed out in an article published at Kotaku on Wednesday, it isn’t “solely responsible for the characters and stories in recent high-profile releases like ‘Alan Wake 2,’ ‘God of War Ragnarok,’ and ‘Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.'”

However, the involvement of SBI is usually a pretty good indicator of whether or not you’ll end up with a certain kind of fantastically woke content — something that precipitated a group on Steam “[t]o encourage people to avoid those games because the group had deemed SBI was pushing a ‘woke’ agenda by working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion,” Mercante noted in her piece.

That group, which would trace and confirm whether SBI had been involved with a game’s development, currently has over 200,000 followers on Steam and a server on the chat service Discord with over 3,800 members.

The fact that there are groups this large boycotting SBI is a Very Bad Thing™, according to the author. Mercante made it clear where she stood on the matter, calling the group’s focus “a fundamentally misinformed, GamerGate-esque firestorm” — referencing the mostly aimless 2014 social media campaign against perceived feminist excesses in video gaming.

House GOP Probing if Biden Administration Colluded To Make Google’s AI Woke and Historically Inaccurate

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:27:55 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: To err is human. And behind every technological device, even one as sophisticated as an AI chatbot, there are humans and their biases involved.

The regrettable – and frankly, ridiculous – first impressions left by Google’s Gemini could possibly be partially disregarded as an honest mistake, was it not for the fact that parent company Alphabet has such a horrible track record.

In the past, Google has repeatedly shown the same ‘woke’ bias as the AI application, and also engaged in censuring information on behalf of the Biden administration.

So there’s a very good case to be made that they may be doing it again.

So the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan decided to chase that thread. He wrote a letter to Alphabet, demanding explanations about the degree of influence that the Biden administration may have had on the Gemini AI program.

The Judiciary Committee asked for documents on the creation and deployment of the chatbot.

Fox News reported:

“‘The Committee is investigating how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced or colluded with Big Tech and other intermediaries to censor Americans’ speech’, the House Judiciary Committee said in a Saturday news release.

Gemini has faced backlash after it reportedly showed historical figures like George Washington appearing wrongfully as Black and a search for a ‘pope’ prompting a Black woman in Vatican garb. White Supremacist Nazis also were not White. The chatbot also wasn’t sure whether Adolf Hitler or Elon Musk was a worse influence on society.”

Doritos Fires Trans Activist Featured in Woke Commercial After Post About Doing ‘Depraved Things’ to Minors Resurfaces

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:06:17 GMT

Independent Journal Review Reports: Doritos has fired a transgender activist it hired to sell its snacks in Spain after the brand said it became aware of disturbing social media posts from the individual, including one in which he said he wanted to do “depraved things” to a child.

Samantha Hudson, a 24-year-old man who claims to be a woman, was featured in an ad posted on the official Doritos Spain Instagram page on Sunday, according to Rolling Stone .

The ad quickly sparked calls for a Bud Light-style boycott .

According to the Daily Mail , Hudson has described himself in interviews as an anti-capitalist and a Marxist and advocates for an end to the traditional nuclear family.

But it was not until his old social media posts were unearthed that the Doritos ad featuring Hudson was removed and the partnership dissolved.

In one post from 2015, Hudson said he wanted to do “depraved things” to a 12-year-old girl, according to a translation from Rolling Stone.

The Daily Mail reported that Hudson wrote similar posts involving children as well as one that demeaned rape victims.

“In the middle of the street in Mallorca in panties and screaming that I’m a nymphomaniac in front of a super beautiful 8-year-old girl,” he wrote, according to a Daily Mail translation.

Another post translated to, “I hate women who are victims of sexual assault and go to self-help centers to overcome their trauma. Annoying sluts.”

Comic predicts woke Seattle club that canceled him will not ‘stay in business that long’

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 02:48:19 GMT

New York Post Reports: A Seattle comedy club canceled four comics because they didn’t align with its neighborhood’s “progressive values” — leading one of the funnymen to predict the club would go out of business.

The Capitol Hill Comedy Bar, which celebrates the “vibrant voices of the queer community” with a weekly “Queers to the front” open mic. had booked Jim Florentine, Dave Smith, Luis Gomez and Kurt Metzger for upcoming dates before the about-face, which the owner said was to “maintain the harmony within our community.”

Florentine, who voiced a mentally disabled teenage character named Special Ed on Comedy Central’s prank call show “Crank Yankers,” told The Post in a recent interview why he thinks he was snubbed from the club, which has a Dungeons and Drag Queens Pride Month brunch on its calendar and requires performers to use “respectful behavior and language.”

“I speak my mind on stage, I’m edgy, I don’t kiss the audience’s a–. I’ll talk about the transgender stuff,” the Brooklyn native and New Jersey resident said.

Florentine and the other comics, who share the same agent, were notified by the club’s booker, Jes Anderson, about the change of heart in a letter.

Anderson said in the missive that the club valued the “art of comedy” and “diverse perspectives,” but had been forced to draw a line after receiving “significant feedback expressing concerns about the alignment of these upcoming shows with the neighborhood’s ethos.”

Gina Carano opens up about Disney lawsuit, life after The Mandalorian

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:57:55 GMT

The Post Millennial: Gina Carano is suing Disney and Lucasfilm. The Terror on the Prairie actress, who starred in Disney's The Mandalorian, is fighting back after being cancelled by the largest entertainment company in the world. Her suit carries with it the hopes of the cancelled everywhere, all those who have been fired, ostracized, shut out of their careers, industries, friend groups. Now, she's got a fresh chance and this suit could be the rehabilitation of her career. At the very least, Disney Lucasfilm will have to face what they've done and and how they treated her.

She brought the wrongful termination suit in California with the help of attorneys provided by X. Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform, has promised to offer legal defense to those who have been cancelled or targeted for posts made on the platform.

An X lawyer reached out to see if she had a case and as soon as she started telling them her story, sending them her emails and interactions, they were sure they had a case they should pursue. "They want to see the right thing done by me," she told The Post Millennial. Another key component of this is that Lucasfilm attorneys will have to review her case and see the absolutely ridiculous reasons that she was let go.

"I'm happy that like, people are going to actually have to dig in and take my situation seriously, and they're going to have to understand, when they're looking through all this, what their company was doing. And by looking through that they're going to have to make adjustments so that it's gonna make it that much harder for it to happen to the next person. And that's why what I'm doing is important," she said.

When X attorneys reached out to Carano, she thought she might have a fighting chance. "A lot of people, billionaires, put their money wherever they put it," she said, "but to put your money into defending people that have been done wrong is such a noble cause. It's like Elon Musk is some kind of Batman."

"As a sign of X Corp’s commitment to free speech, the online platform is proud to provide financial support for Carano’s lawsuit, empowering her to seek vindication of her free speech rights on X and the ability to work without bullying, harassment, or discrimination," X Corp said.

There Is a Tool to Increase Climate Propaganda in Movies

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:42:47 GMT

Hot Air Reports: There isn't enough climate propaganda in the movies, so our friends in the environmental community have created a tool to help pressure Hollywood to become even more woke on environmentalism.

"Climate columnist" Sammy Roth wants to use it to ensure that more propaganda is pumped out of Hollywood .

As you know, the Left is all about Narrative, and when they aren't getting the results they want, their solution is always to amp up the propaganda. And, to be honest, at least in the short-to-medium term, the propaganda works pretty well with a large fraction of the population.

Unfortunately for the Left, there are diminishing returns when you pump out the BS. Once the low-hanging fruit is harvested, the rest of us start rolling our eyes and then looking away.

Sammy Roth understands this, so he is pushing a tool to be more subtle but more relentless in pushing The Message.

Let’s say you’re a heading to the movie theater to catch a quirky romantic comedy. Or you’re on Disney+ binging the latest Marvel superhero show after work. Or maybe you’re looking for a Netflix documentary about international cuisines.

Are any of those stories truly grounded in reality if they don’t at least nod at the existence of the climate crisis?

GROUNDED IN REALITY?! Romcoms and Marvel movies are exactly where audiences go to look for grounded-in-reality entertainment, right?

I can already hear some of you grumbling: Why does everything have to be about climate change? Let me have some fun without having to worry about the fate of the planet. Not all entertainment needs to be a vehicle for environmental messaging.

Agreed. But some of it should be — and now we have a tool for pressuring Hollywood studios to do their part.

Woke Content Is Killing Cable and Streaming TV Subscriptions

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 01:25:22 GMT

Breitbart Reports: If you’re looking for a feelzzzgood story, how about this? Millions of Americans are canceling their cable TV — and streaming TV is not picking up the slack.

“No version of TV — not cable, not streaming, no one — is able to meaningfully grow an audience right now,” reports the far-left Axios. “There simply aren’t many new viewers to be found, on any platform or through any means.”

And this is probably why Biden opened the border. Hollywood fascists now have millions of new potential customers, most of whom will subsidize these streaming services with welfare checks.

The Axios story includes a chart showing a “stark decline in cable TV subscribers.” Cable/satellite TV has lost nearly 12 percent of subscribers over the past decade. Even the “skinny bundles” that were supposed to save cable have dropped nearly seven percent in just four years.

“[Y]ou might expect that streaming services would be growing where cable is shrinking,” continues Axios, but “[t]hey’re not.”

Subscriber churn, which includes cancellations and lapsed subscriptions, has nearly tripled in the United States in the past four years. Just about every major streaming service has plateaued and is now adding fewer net new subscribers each year.

Why is this happening?

The corrupt Axios and entertainment media will never tell you the truth, but it’s happening because the content sucks.

Back in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when over a hundred million households subscribed to cable/satellite TV, we loved it because the content was awesome. We hardly noticed we were paying all that money for dozens of channels we never watched. We didn’t care. There was so much good stuff it felt like we were getting our money’s worth.

Those days are long over. Hollywood made billions every MONTH from our cable bills. It was unearned money, and it created laziness. Hollywood knew we would buy any dog food they put in front of us — which was true because there was no alternative — so the dog food got worse.

No wonder kids are turning toward conservative beliefs — it’s rebellion against parents’ woke ideology

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 02:40:42 GMT

New York Post Reports: “Can we keep our sons from conservative politics?”

That’s the question writer Kathryn Jezer-Morton posed in a recent column for New York Magazine’s The Cut.

“In her son’s case, I wouldn’t bet on it,” New York Times columnist Ross Douthat shot back on X.

He’s right.

Jezer-Morton is facing an age-old conundrum of parenthood: Kids rebel against their parents’ politics.

Except, in 2024, the classic trend is being inverted.

Progressive parents are desperately trying to keep their boys from becoming conservative, rather than the other way around.

Teens go against the grain, and the most rebellious thing a young person coming up in this ultra-progressive era — when left-wing politics are shoved down their throats by their schools, marketing campaigns and celebrities — can do today is swing right.

While Jezer-Morton’s concern that her 10- and 13-year-old sons are becoming “oppressors” before her eyes might be hyperbolic, she’s right that Zoomer boys are moving right.

A 2023 survey of 12th graders by University of Michigan found that, while American girls are headed leftward, their male counterparts are twice as likely to identify as conservative than liberal, as they tack toward a new, edgy kind of anti-woke politics.

BREAKING: Disney film president OUT immediately after woke remake flops

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:03:26 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: Sean Bailey, king of remakes at Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture production, has stepped down at the entertainment company after pressure from investors to "reverse Disney’s box office cold streak," The New York Times reports . Bailey will still be producing a new Tron movie, however.

Bailey has been in his role as a production president with Disney for 14 years and produced the live-action Aladdin, a more realistic version of The Lion King, and the live-action Beauty and the Beast. His latest remakes, however, have been less successful. He produced The Little Mermaid remake and The Haunted Mansion, which faired poorly at the box office.

Bailey will be replaced by co-president of Searchlight Pictures, David Greenbaum. "Our job now is to build worlds," Bailey said in 2011.

Disney has been struggling in recent months as their films have fallen flat with the American public. They have leaned hard into progressive messaging and been met with derision by long time fans, parents, and children. In a filing with the SEC in November, Disney even admitted that the "woke" programming has been bad for business.

“Generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods to make our offerings and products available to consumers, do not achieve sufficient consumer acceptance," the filing with the SEC read.

In response to Disney's failures, new entities have sprung up to fill the children's entertainment void. Daily Wire has even begun production on a life-action Snow White and the Seven Dwarfes as Disney sent their own remake version of that film back to the drawing board after being mocked for bizarre inclusivity inspired casting choices.

Hollywood Could Be Heading for Strike No. 3 as Crew Unions Prepare to Bargain: ‘These People Are Pissed’

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:35:50 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Hollywood loves trilogies.

After last year’s simultaneous strikes by actors and writers, which brought the industry to a historic standstill, crew members are next in line as their unions prepare to head to the bargaining table.

While nobody has called for a strike yet, the atmosphere appears tense as IATSE and the Teamsters are scheduled to enter negotiations with the major studios on March 4, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. Together, the unions represent the bulk of so-called “below-the-line” workers, including electricians, camera crew, sound engineers, location managers, make-up artists, costume assistants, carpenters, drivers, and many more.

They even represent some above-the-line talent, like cinematographers and editors.

On the table are numerous issues related to compensation, benefits, and other guarantees. The current contracts are set to expire July 31, after which a strike could theoretically begin, according to the Reporter .

Kirk Cameron tells TPM 'parents need to become the executive producers of their children’s programming,' launches new TV show with Brave Books

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:50:12 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: Kirk Cameron has been traveling the country with Brave Books bringing values-based stories to parents and kids who are tired of being force-fed progressive ideology disguised as entertainment. Now, he and Brave are taking their mission to the small screens with a new children's show Adventures with Mr. Kirk and Iggy.

Leading from the tradition of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, the show will be crowdfunded so that parents can be involved from the ground level. Actress Leigh-Allyn Baker, who plays "Creative Leigh" in the series, told The Post Millennial that "Parents need to become the executive producers of their children's programming."

"We cannot leave this in the hands of corporations," she said.

Cameron has been a big part of making that change in children's content. He made the decision to break away from a successful Hollywood career and begin a new journey based in Christian values. When asked about how he came to make that decision, he told The Post Millennial that he had to make the decision once he was faced with the reality of what was happening to our culture.

He referenced an iconic scene from Lord of the Rings where lead character Frodo realizes, with the help of his mentor Gandalf, that no one wishes to face the trial, but that when it comes, we must do so. We are called, Cameron said, we do not necessarily get to choose.

Riffing on the famous fourth turning concept concept that strong men produce good times, good times produce weak men, week men produce hard times, which in turn produce strong men, Cameron said "we are in difficult times and these are in fact producing strong moms and dads."

Google (Kinda) Apologizes After Woke AI Gemini Exposed As Anti-White Racist

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:32:34 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: Having been busted on some very clear race bias in the image generation segment of their new AI, Gemini Experiences Senior Director of Product Management Jack Krawczyk addressed the responses from the AI that had led social media users to voice concern.

In a statement to Fox News Digital,

"We're working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately," Krawczyk said.

"Gemini's AI image generation does generate a wide range of people. And that's generally a good thing because people around the world use it. But it's missing the mark here."

Was that an apology?

Maybe they thought they could get away with it?

Or it was being done for some higher purpose?

As Modernity.news' Paul Joseph Watson detailed earlier, Google’s Gemini AI program is being roasted for producing ‘diverse’ image results that show things like black Vikings and other historically inaccurate depictions.

Users report that the program’s artificial intelligence image search has a ‘woke’ bias baked in, to the point where it severely limits the display of images of white people.

One person searched for typical images of Australians, Americans, Germans and Brits and was given this in response.

Math-Challenged Disney Exec Blames Sexist Fans for Serial Flops

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:01:59 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate is blaming its string of box office flops on sexist fans, and I’m finding this nothing short of glorious :

Everyone says “It’s the movies, stupid,” which is an easy thing for people to say. More appealing movies are a great way to jump the political issues. But more and more, our audience (or the segment of the audience that has been politicized) equate the perceived messaging in a film as a quality issue. They won’t say they find female empowerment distasteful in The Marvels or Star Wars the latest trilogy starring Daisy Ridley], but they will say they don’t like those movies because they are “bad.” So “make better movies” becomes code for “make movies that conform to regressive gender stereotypes or put men front and center in the narrative.”

This was told to Puck by a Disney executive. Yes, this is what Disney’s executives— the people in charge — think.

This is extraordinary.

For just a moment, let’s forget the politics. Instead, we will focus on…The Math.

Question…

What is required to create a box office hit? Here in the States, when it comes to an expensive blockbuster like a Marvel or Star Wars piece of shit movie, you’re talking about $300 million gross. So, if the Disney Grooming Syndicate needs $300 million to have a hit on its hands, how many tickets must Disney sell? The answer is about 33 million.

That 33 million might sound like a lot, but it’s less than ten percent of the U.S. population.

And when you consider that most blockbusters are powered by repeat business, it’s even less than 33 million/ten percent, but let’s stick with that 33 million number.

Do you see where I’m going here?

Why Hollywood Doesn’t Know How To Adapt ‘Halo’

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 04:07:25 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: With the recent premiere of the Paramount Halo show’s second season, now seems like the time to delve into just why the series is facing fan backlash.

Let us not sugarcoat it— the first season was a disaster, and fixing its aftermath seems insurmountable. The Paramount production wears Halo like an ill-fitted Buffalo Bill skin suit, with showrunners admitting to deliberately ignoring the games.

But for all its terrible production choices, at the end of the day, one has to ask: Why?

Why does Hollywood consistently falter in capturing the essence of Halo? And why are random YouTubers who have played the games able to dissect what is wrong with the show and suggest a more fitting adaptation than the paid professionals?

The answer lies in a flawed cocktail of hubris and ignorance.

The first step in adapting anything for the screen involves a pivotal decision: picking the right genre. When crafting a screenplay for any adaptation, it’s crucial to grasp the source genre and determine the most effective way to translate it visually.

What makes Halo tricky is that it has pioneered its own genre.

What we normally think of as genres – ‘sci-fi’, ‘action’, ‘fantasy’, and ‘romance’ are actually marketing terms meant to provide a quick recap of the specific flavor of story a given work will provide its audience.

Hollywood’s Last Gasp Is Through Desperate Streaming Mergers

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:35:41 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Streaming mergers are Hollywood’s last hope. Thanks to lousy, hyper-political movies, the box office is cratering. Thanks to streaming, the cash cow racket of cable/satellite TV is dying. Thanks to lousy products, almost every standalone streaming service not named Netflix is losing billions.

All that’s left is for Hollywood to try and recreate the racket known as cable/satellite TV through streaming mergers. In other words, the entertainment industry intends to use these mergers to try and con the American people into paying a ton of money for content they never watch.

As I’ve explained for over a decade, the cable/satellite TV model propped up a dying entertainment industry for decades. Over 100 million households paid something like $100 a month to their cable/satellite provider.

Through those astronomical payments, those households subsidized dozens of channels they never watched — like CNN, MTV, and Comedy Central. But now, due to cord-cutting as people move to streaming, that 100 million number is closer to 60 million, which has cost Hollywood untold billions. And that household number keeps right on shrinking.

Streaming will not save Hollywood. Unlike cable/satellite TV, streaming is merit-based. We only subscribe if we want to watch the content. Since most of the content sucks, we don’t subscribe. So what’s Hollywood going to do…?

Well, it sure as hell isn’t going to produce better content. Hollywood hates normal people and has no desire to entertain us. What gets it off is insulting and offending us. And even if Hollywood did want to make better content, the talent is no longer there. Generations of in-breeding have produced an industry full of freaks, fetishists, and weirdos lacking anything close to the common touch.

So, we are going to get massive mergers…

Disney Hit with Federal Civil Rights Complaint over DEI — Alleges Discrimination Against White Men, Christians, and Jews

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:51:19 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Walt Disney Company has been hit with a federal civil rights complaint alleging the company’s DEI policies are unlawful and discriminate against white American men, Christians, and Jews.

America First Legal filed the complaint against Disney on Wednesday. The group cited publicly available documents published on Disney’s official sites as well as leaked internal documents showing how executives have made diversity, equity, and inclusion a central part of Disney’s hiring practices.

“It is sad and tragic that a company whose name was once synonymous with wholesome and charming childhood fantasies is now dedicated to spreading divisive bigotry. We urge Disney to cease and desist its unlawful and destructive conduct at once,” said Stephen Miller, president of America First Legal and former Trump administration official.

At the heart of America First Legal’s argument is that Disney has implemented de-facto quotas in its hiring, which violates employment law. These quotas are often disguised as “diversity and inclusion policies” but in some cases, Disney has publicly listed actual percentages when it comes to hiring for its productions.

Among the published quotas is the goal that 50 percent of Disney’s TV series directors must come from “underrepresented groups.”

‘Tomb Raider’ Remasters Will Remain Uncensored, Instead Feature Performative Disclaimer Condemning “Harmful Impact” Of Original Games

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 04:40:41 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: In a move that, while an admitted step in the right direction, still signals that the Western video game industry is still much too focused on performative activism than it should be, Crystal Dynamics has announced that though their upcoming remasters of the first three Tomb Raider games will release completely uncensored, they will also feature a disclaimer decrying the “harmful impact” the series has supposedly had on players.

(Spoilers: It hasn’t had any.)

As discovered by series-centric news outlet Tomb Raider Chronicles a day ahead of the remastered trilogy collection’s February 14th release, upon booting up the game for the first time, players are presented with a one-time disclaimer informing them that “The games in this collection contain offensive depictions of people and cultures rooted in racial and ethnic prejudices.”

“These stereotypes are deeply harmful, inexcusable, and do not align with our values at Crystal Dynamics,” the Marvel’s Avengers developer’s mea culpa continues. “Rather than removing this content, we have chosen to present it here in its original form, unaltered, in the hopes that we may acknowledge its harmful impact and learn from it.”

Though the developer did not provide details as to which specific “cultural depictions” they felt warranted such a warning, an educated guess suggests it was made in reference to the various ‘local enemies’ encountered by Lara Croft throughout her first three adventures, and more specifically the Polynesian ‘Tribesman’ enemies depicted in Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft.

As noted above, there’s no doubt that this is an absolutely embarrassing moment of political virtue signaling from Crystal Dynamics.

The Decline and Fall of Hollywoke: Going From Woke To Broke

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 04:04:56 GMT

The American Spectator Reports: T he dirty secret of Hollywood’s subservience to wokeness is that even the minorities it depicts are sick of it. Any group would rather be entertained like they once were — regardless of the racial representation on screen — than preached about by warped reflection. New proof of this came from one of my few remaining film-industry friends, Randy. “I was walking down the street in Hollywood yesterday, and overheard two black guys talking,” Randy said. “One said, ‘Man, we need to make a film.’ The other said, ‘Yeah, but no oppression movie. I’m tired of seeing movies about being oppressed because I’m black, and all this pandering sh_t.’”

For Hollywoke lemmings, virtue signaling is not just their raison d’etre, it’s all they know how to do and have been hired to do over the last decade. If they can’t keep doing it, then everyone will see how utterly untalented they are. They’re already finding out. Saturday Night Live, Colbert, Kimmel, and the rest may play to their liberal audiences, but they won’t get a genuine laugh out of them. (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: The Woke of Zorro )

Because comedy requires skill and guts, both of which modern screen writers lack, and a Trump mock is easier than a funny joke. Though the latter would attract more viewers from both ideological camps, as SNL, Carson, Leno, and Conan once did, the writers simply can’t rise to that level even if they wanted to, which they certainly do not. And the good writing deficiency extends to every aspect of the screen trade.

The headline of a Red State article last week identifies the trouble: Hollywood Doesn’t Have a ‘Toxic Fan’ Problem, It Has a Bad Writing Problem. Columnist Brandon Morse jabs Marvel Comics Eternals actor Kumail Nanjiani, who said he had to go to counseling after his lousy movie bombed. (What a contrast to 1941 Hollywood, when practically every combat-age male star enlisted in the military following Pearl Harbor.) Nanjiani blamed “a weird soup in the atmosphere” for the picture’s failure, but Morse correctly faults the writers and the politics that spawned them.

How Elon Musk could use Disney’s woke agenda to buy the company

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:07:37 GMT

The Telegraph Reports: We like to imagine that job recruitment is done on the basis of talent, or possibly experience. Not so in the world of Disney. The company, it turns out, has a mind-boggling list of criteria – laid out in its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policy – that managers must bear in mind before making an appointment.

Recruiting someone who has previously worked on a show is not “inclusive hiring”, the policy states. Half of all producers, writers and contractors must come from underrepresented groups. And recruiters are forbidden from asking candidates about their race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, military or veteran status, age, disability – or any other legally protected categories.

The extraordinary policy document – which has been sent to managers on all US and Canadian shows – was released this week not by Disney but by Elon Musk, who claims it was sent to him by an anonymous Disney insider. The owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter) has repeatedly slammed DEIs, which have taken over Hollywood in recent years, as being ineffective, counterproductive and tantamount to discrimination, especially against straight, white men.

Taking to X, he posted:

In further posts, he added: “Here is the full racist, sexist, etc discriminatory set of laws enforced by Disney’s DEI Gestapo. No wonder most of their content produced over the past several years has sucked. Just trying to navigate the DEI minefield is going to crush the creative process! It is mandatory, institutionalised racism and sexism!”

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This might have been dismissed as just another Musk provocation had he not then posed with fellow billionaire Nelson Peltz, 81, the father of Nicola. Peltz – who is thought to be worth $1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) and has a significant stake in Disney – has himself made headlines for wanting to “restore the magic” to the company and has been linked to efforts to oust its chief, Bob Iger, 72, who is behind the diversity drive.

Canceled: Disney+ Loses 1.3 Million Subscribers After Hiking Prices More Than 25 Percent

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:09:11 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Disney fans battered by inflation are hitting the “Cancel” button in droves.

The Disney+ streaming service lost 1.3 million subscribers worldwide during the last three months of 2023 as a steep price hike took a toll on fans’ wallets. In the U.S. and Canada alone, the streamer bid goodbye to 400,000 customers — Disney+’s largest-ever reported domestic decline.

The drop represents a major hit for Disney, which has been pouring billions of dollars into its streaming services without yet reaching profitability. Domestic Disney+ subscriptions have stagnated at around 46 million for the past year, an ominous sign for a streaming service that is only four years old.

The left-wing studio recently hiked Disney+’s monthly subscription price to $13.99 from $10.99 — a 27 percent increase. In 2022, the price rose to $10.99 from $7.99, which means Disney+ subscribers saw their monthly bill climb a total of 75 percent in less than two years.

The latest price increase took effect in October.

Like other streamers, Disney is trying to force subscribers to its ad-supported option, which costs $7.99 a month — the old price for Disney+ without commercials. Studios make more money from ad-supported streaming options due to the revenues from commercials on top of the monthly subscription fees.

Disney+ subscribers worldwide currently stand at 111.3 million, which doesn’t include HotStar customers in India. That’s still a long way off from Netflix, which boasts around 260 million customers around the world.

On Wednesday, Disney announced that its streaming services — which also include Hulu — lost $216 million for the final three months of 2023. That represents an improvement over more recent quarters, when the company was losing more than $1 billion on streaming.

Disney is coming off a disastrous 2023.

'Not a woke company': Trump urges 'second chance' for Bud Light parent

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:27:02 GMT

WND Reports: Former President Donald Trump praised the parent company of Bud Light in a Tuesday post on Truth Social, saying it “deserves a second chance.”

Conservatives began boycotting Bud Light after Anheuser-Busch sent a commemorative can to transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney as part of an endorsement deal in April 2023. Trump defended the company from allegations of being “woke,” citing its support for American farmers and for families of fallen military personnel.

“The Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions, and for that a very big price was paid, but Anheuser-Busch is not a Woke company, but I can give you plenty that are, am building a list, and might just release it for the World to see,” Trump posted. “Why not, the Radical Left does it viciously to well run, Conservative companies – and people! Very nasty, but it’s the way they play the game!”

“On the other hand, Anheuser-Busch spends $700 Million a year with our GREAT Farmers, employ 65 thousand Americans, of which 1,500 are Veterans, and is a Founding Corporate Partner of Folds of Honor, which provides Scholarships for families of fallen Servicemen & Women,” Trump continued.

The 'Crisis' in Mainstream Media Is Due to the Rise of Independent Journalism and the Reporting of Truth

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 03:07:27 GMT

Red State Reports: With the recent news of massive layoffs, an exodus of senior editorial staff, and rumors of additional layoffs looming, some believe that the Los Angeles Times is on the brink of collapse. Last week The Messenger, a relatively new entrant to the news landscape, which was populated by "experienced journalists from POLITICO, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, Reuters and elsewhere," suddenly shuttered, and the Wall Street Journal laid off 20 staffers in its Washington, D.C. bureau.

If you scroll through Twitter/X, some have been cheering these developments, while others are bemoaning them, especially the L.A. Times' difficulties, believing that some sacred role of bringing the "truth" to people will somehow not be performed in the absence of traditional media sources. But the role of one sector of the news media machine in America was being ignored: independent journalists such as those here at RedState.

The LA Times has been in severe trouble since 2018 when a new billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, bought the Times and allowed his liberal activist daughter to influence reporting, editorial, and endorsement decisions. However, the Times had been in trouble long before that due to the news media company shedding both paper and print subscribers. As reported by Jen Van Laar , the Times had been losing at least $30 million a year. That alone will eventually kill any company, but for some reason, the Times continued down a path of what more and more people saw as "activist journalism."

A prime example of activist journalism is when the LA Times editorial staff endorses a far-left activist District Attorney for re-election, even when that DA has turned the city and county of Los Angeles into a dumpster fire of crime, homelessness, and general decline in public safety.

Tone-deaf doesn't even begin to accurately describe the editorial staff's decision to endorse a person like that - if, in fact, it was the editorial staff's decision. (Some reports claim that owner Patrick Soon-Shiong's activist daughter, Nika, was calling the shots on endorsements.) Another example is when the same editorial staff has a member write an article "asking nicely " for people fleeing California not to bad mouth the state to others while admitting in the same article that California has become a bad place to live.

Student Grades Get Even Worse After California School Drops $250,000 On ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Program

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 02:23:33 GMT

Daily Caller: An elementary school in California paid an organization called “Woke Kindergarten” $250,000 to train teachers to confront “white supremacy” and “racism” in the classroom, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Woke Kindergarten has been giving teachers at Glassbrook Elementary School in Hayward training sessions for two years and is funded through a federal program for assisting low-performing schools, according to the Chronicle. Test scores for students at the school have fallen under the program, which pushes anti-police, anti-capitalism and anti-Israel messages.

Woke Kindergarten is founded on the idea of abolitionist education, Zeus Leonardo, a University of California Berkeley education professor, told the Chronicle. The idea is to make “politics part of the framework of teaching,” Leonardo told the Chronicle.

Several teachers at the school questioned the decision to use the program, saying the program is rooted in left-wing politics and activism, according to the Chronicle.

One teacher, Tiger Craven-Neeley, said he supports talking about racism in the classroom but was confused about one of the objectives set by the training to “disrupt whiteness” in the school, according to the Chronicle. He also questioned a trainer who used the phrase “so-called United States.”

Questioning the idea of “disrupting whiteness” got Craven-Neeley temporarily banned from training sessions, he told the Chronicle. “What does that mean?” Craven-Neeley told the Chronicle. “I just want to know, what does that mean for a third-grade classroom?”

Another teacher, who requested anonymity, said the program offered only one perspective, and there was no tolerance for deviation. “It slowly became very apparent if you were a dissenting voice that it’s not what they wanted to hear,” the teacher told the Chronicle.

English and math scores at the school hit new lows in spring of 2023, with less than 4% of students proficient in math and slightly under 12% scoring at grade level in English, which was nearly a 4-percentage-point drop in each category, according to the Chronicle.

If You're Going to Woke Virtue Signal, At Least Hit the Right...Target

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:12:18 GMT

Hot Air Reports: Ah, Target.

Jumping jiminy, those woke Minneapolis knuckleheads can’t do anything right. Now, I could say that’s what happens when you make a deal with the devil, but it was only his fashion designer, not the actual Satan-guy. So it was probably just their own innate, arrogant stupidity rearing its ugly head again.

Did you know it’s Black History Month?

Target Corp does, and they have merchandise for people to buy to celebrate with. In some circles it might even be considered educational instead of merely kitschy, like Satanist designed t-shirts for ‘tween transgenders. But in this instance, “educational” is in the eye of the beholder, because, while the faces are historical black icons whom every American should recognize instantly, the names…well…missed the target. It was an educator who busted them.

Target pulls Black History Month product from shelves that mixed up three civil rights icons

Retail giant Target recently confirmed it was removing one of its Black History Month products from store shelves after finding out that that product misidentified three civil rights leaders.

After historically savvy users pointed out that Target’s Black History Month magnet book mixed up the three civil rights icons, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson, the store confirmed the blunder.

Target noted it was removing the items from shelves and letting the product’s producers know about the mistake.

OOPS.

PBS Documentary: January 6 Committee Was Created as Propaganda ‘Miniseries’

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 02:32:57 GMT

Breitbart Reports: A PBS documentary released this week shows that the January 6 Committee used James Goldston, the former president of ABC News, to create a “miniseries” whose primary purpose was to create primetime propaganda that would reach the American public.

The committee was derided by critics as a “show trial” because then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rejected the nominees of the minority party, for the first time in American history, and appointed anti-Trump Republicans in their place.

Every single member of the committee opposed Donald Trump, and testimony was initially held behind closed doors, meaning witnesses were denied due process, since the other side of the argument was never represented, nor contrary evidence brought.

As Breitbart News reported at the time, the committee brought in Goldston as a consultant, despite his controversial history as the network’s leader at a time when ABC was said to have buried the story of the late billionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Goldston’s work for the committee was immediately apparent in the first publicly televised hearings, as committee members read their remarks from a TelePrompter.

Witnesses were carefully selected to offer damning testimony — whether it was true or not.

The documentary presents Goldston’s involvement as part of an effort to organize the “trove” of material the committee collected. Ironically, the committee destroyed much of that evidence — making it impossible to verify, and compromising Trump’s rights.

Woke California Introduces Reparations Bills, with No Cash Offer

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:02:27 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Legislators in California have introduced a first-in-the-nation package of reparations bills that aims to redress the legacy of racism in America. There is only one small catch: the reparations being offered do not include any actual cash payments.

The move is the culmination of a process that began in 2020, after the Black Lives Matter riots, when Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill to create a committee to study reparations and make recommendations. The committee had no white members.

California — which entered the Union as a “free” state in 1850 — had no history of legal slavery in the state. But proponents said that slavery continues to affect black Americans in general, and pointed to other racially discriminatory policies in the state.

The committee deliberated for months, and produced increasingly outrageous estimates of the value of reparations — $1.2 million for each black resident, for instance, or (later) $800 billion overall, some two and-a-half times the annual California state budget.

Other proposals were nearly just as controversial, such as separate schools for black children (which would, ironically, create a new Jim Crow system in California).

Newsom began to take a more cautious and skeptical approach to the committee’s work.

Now, the legislature will consider several bills to implement some of the committee’s recommendations — and it will not include any cash payments, according to Politico , except for cases of restitution of property seized under eminent domain.

Corporate media loses it after Ben Shapiro and Tom MacDonald drop #1 hit 'FACTS'

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:54:46 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: Since the release of the #1 iTunes hit " FACTS " with Ben Shapiro and Tom Macdonald, corporate media outlets have been struggling to handle it.

The idea for the collaboration was floated in May of last year during an interview of MacDonald and has had many media outlets turning their heads.

Clips of the music video went viral online with the YouTube version of the collaboration gathering nearly 5 million views since Friday and tens of millions have viewed clips of the video on X.

Corporate media outlets such as TMZ reacted to the hit with dismay, with one article publishing a bolded and oversized subtitle, "Ben Shapiro: I'M A RAPPER NOW!!! ... Internet Totally Cringes."

The outlet said Shapiro is "diving headfirst into the rap game" in the single calling the song "polarizing" because of its " lyrical content, which references culture wars and defunding the police" and called the song "jarring."

The Daily Beast headlined that "Ben Shapiro Is a Rapper Now Because That's What 2024 Deserves" and wrote that "the whole thing is purposely cringe, which is the entire point."

Mediaite released a headline saying, "'Homie I'm Epic': Ben Shapiro's New Rap Video is the Cringiest Thing You Will Ever Watch."

"Nobody asked for Ben Shapiro to drop an anti-woke rap song and unbearably cringe accompanying video. And yet, here we are," the outlet wrote in the lead.

Disneyland Posts Woke ‘Wheel Of Privilege’ In Employee Kitchen, Removes It After Daily Wire Inquiry

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 04:09:10 GMT

Daily Wire Reports: Posters featuring a “wheel of power/privilege” were hung in employee spaces in Disneyland, instructing employees that being white, “cisgender male,” and even speaking English means you have “unearned” privilege that your “marginalized” coworkers do not, according to images obtained by The Daily Wire.

The wheel featured for all employees to see has the word “power” in the middle, and is sectioned like a dart board, with certain traits fanning outward that are labeled “marginalized.” For example, being white, a “cisgender male,” owning property, and speaking English are all considered privileged, while being dark-skinned, transgender, homeless, and not speaking English are considered marginalized.

In between the inner and outer circle – which would be considered not completely marginalized but not totally privileged either – are “cisgender women,” gay men, people with a high school education, and who learned English.

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The image was provided by source who works for the Walt Disney Company, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from the company.

The employee said the materials were posted in the production kitchen on Main Street USA in Disneyland in Anaheim, California. This production kitchen services Carnation Cafe, The Tropical Hideaway, Jolly Holiday Bakery and Cafe, and Refreshment Corner sponsored by Coca Cola.

The employee said divisive materials like this are “destroying the magic” of the park.

WOKE-Media Collapse Marches On — Vice, BuzzFeed Sell Off Parts

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 03:16:41 GMT

Breitbart Reports: WBuzzFeed and Vice Media, two failing left-wing sites, are starting to sell off their parts, reports the Wall Street Journal .

“BuzzFeed … is looking to sell its food sites, Tasty and First We Feast, according to people familiar with the situation,” writes the Wall Street Journal. “Meanwhile, Fortress Investment Group, which took over Vice in bankruptcy last year, is in talks to sell its Refinery29 women’s lifestyle-focused site[.]”

The Wall Street Journal portrays these developments in much too narrow of a way — as “yet another chapter in the demise of these digital-media companies that raised money at sky-high valuations nearly a decade ago only to struggle amid a volatile ad market and a decline in traffic[.]”

That’s not the half of it.

If you take a good look around at the corporate media landscape, online and elsewhere, the wheels are coming off all over.

The corporate/establishment/leftist media are collapsing, and it is freakin’ glorious.

CNN has fallen off a ratings cliff .

The Los Angeles Times is losing about $40 million a year, cutting nearly a third of its staff over two recent layoffs.

The Washington Post slashed staff and lost nearly $100 million in 2023.

BuzzFeed laid off 15 percent of its staff and closed BuzzFeed News entirely.

Vice Media filed for bankruptcy in 2023.

Sports Illustrated shut down .

The Vogue , Vanity Fair , and Condé Nast layoffs are coming .

Jezebel closed .

Best of all, 2,681 liars lost their jobs in 2023, more than the previous two years combined.

Get a load of this…

BuzzFeed went public in 2021, valued at $1.7 billion, and lost 97 percent of its value in the few years since. Now, BuzzFeed is selling its parts, starting with its food sites. According to the report, Tasty and First We Feast had “been a key component of BuzzFeed’s efforts to generate revenue streams beyond advertising” through merchandise.

How Artificial Intelligence Actually Makes Video Games Less Woke

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 03:03:58 GMT

The Federalist Reports: With mountains of evidence indicating localizers and translators are more than willing to meddle with the texts and stories of our favorite games, moaning about the integrity of human translation or the mediocre quality of AI translation falls flat.

It seems less like these localizers are concerned with creating a good product and more like they’re terrified of losing the ability to fill content to the brim with ideology. It is very much in the spirit of the “woke” left to cry foul when they’re forced to compete on merit.

Activist translators have already failed to compete with literal word-to-word translations in the past. “River City Girls Zero” offered players two options for dialogue . One was heavily localized, filled with “creative liberties,” and the other was a more faithful translation based on the game’s original Japanese text.

Much to localizers’ chagrin, the literal translation won out handily. Cue the waterworks about how this was another example of “ ungrateful fans .”

That’s why AI should terrify these activist translators; it hastens their much-needed irrelevance to the game production process. Translators and localizers are supposed to enhance a player’s enjoyment of a game by crafting an experience that makes more sense for the Western gamer. Instead, they use their power and influence to poison games and twist them into yet another vessel for omnipresent leftism.

These woke infiltrators are realizing the jig is up once AI can do the job they were supposed to do but without any of the political nonsense. The “River City Girls Zero” debacle shows that gamers just want a no-frills translation, while “The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III” saga proves gamers will lose faith in a product if woke censorship is shown to have occurred.

The Most Hilarious Woke Pop Culture Fails Of 2023

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 02:25:40 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: 2024 is here, which means it is time to review the previous year in all its quirky and upended glory!

It was a year in which the steady march towards Leftism, which had already been frozen in its tracks by the latter half of 2022, had begun retreating and ceding ground.

The world, it seemed, had had enough of the Woke mind virus permeating and corrupting both society and pop culture, and the pendulum-like backlash was in full effect.

This lead to a series of amusing, surprising, and downright unexpected cultural twists that signaled the end of Woke dominance on the cultural sphere, and its slow, yet inevitable reversal. Society was fighting back, and winning.

To commemorate a glorious 2023, we are highlighting the most laugh-out-loud Woke blunders of the entire year.

So sit back, relax, and join us as we stop and smell the ashes.

Rumor: Disney Moving To Trim Rachel Zegler’s ‘Snow White’ Screen Time With New Childhood Subplot

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:27:26 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: According to the latest ‘ whistles ‘ on the digital streets, in hoping to undo at least some of the damage done by star Rachel Zegler’s very public denigration of the film’s source material, Disney is currently moving to trim her Snow White screen time by adding in a new subplot focused specifically on the titular princess’ childhood.

This rumor was first raised to the public on January 23rd courtesy of rising entertainment industry commentator and That Park Place editor WDW Pro.

Per information first relayed to him by an alleged insider source, in light of the Zegler’s star fading among audiences thanks to her aforementioned history of trashing every aspect of Disney’s original animated take on Snow White, the House of Mouse is presently working to “soften” the public’s perception of the princess’ live-action incarnation.

However, rather than do so by way of reshooting the film with a new actress or having Zegler attempt to portray a more traditional version of the princess – the former being considered unfeasible due to its costs and the latter because audiences would rightly find such a heel turn too unbelievable – Disney will instead attempt to salvage the live-action Snow White’s image with a new story beat centered on her younger self and brought to life by a completely separate actress.

To this end, as relayed by WDW Pro, “Disney has hired a young actress to play Snow White as a child.”

“The idea is to cut time out of Zegler’s performance, show Snow White as a cute little kid, and soften the character with flashbacks and/or major origin story portion at the beginning of the film,” he further recapped of his source’s information. “Of course, edits have not begun for these scenes as we believe they’re not shot yet, so things could change.”

Paramount Set to Lay Off ‘Hundreds’ Across Nearly All Divisions in Latest Hollywood Bloodbath

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:15:23 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Paramount Global — the parent company off CBS, Paramount Pictures, Showtime, and numerous other media properties — is reportedly set to lay off “hundreds” of employees across nearly all of its divisions.

The impending cuts represent the latest Hollywood bloodbath following layoffs at other corporations, including Disney, NBCUniversal, Amazon MGM Studios, and Universal Music Group.

Hollywood is feeling the squeeze on multiple fronts. Households continue to cut the cord by the millions while the advertising market is still in the doldrums due to poor consumer sentiment tied to President Joe Biden’s economic policies.

Meanwhile, consumers are cutting back on discretionary expenses, like entertainment, as the cost of food, energy, insurance, and other essentials continues to skyrocket.

Paramount’s layoffs will be in the hundreds, affecting virtually every division, with senior executives given reduction targets to hit, according to a Deadline report . The layoffs will start February 1, with those affected being told to leave as quickly as within three days.

Get Woke, Go Broke: Mass Layoffs At Sports Illustrated After Publisher Loses License

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 02:00:12 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: Sports Illustrated rights holder Arena Group has had its license to publish the magazine revoked by Authentic Brands Group after inability to make $3.75 million quarterly payment at the end of 2023.

In other words, the publisher likely isn't bringing in enough profit to maintain the brand. Under contract, Arena Group is required to pay another $45 million to ABG because of the loss of the license. As a result, Sports Illustrated has been forced to layoff their entire staff while discussions are underway to salvage the arrangement.

In a statement, Sports Illustrated Union and The NewsGuild of New York vowed to “fight for every one of our colleagues.” But how could this have happened? One of the oldest and best known names in sports commentary is now essentially defunct.

The signs were all there.

The shutdown takes place only thee years after the company committed to major layoffs in 2020 back when they were run by Maven, shaving $27 million from their costs compared to 2018. Apparently, this wasn't enough and ownership was acquired by Arena Group.

In November of 2023, SI was caught using fake journalists and AI generated content, further indicating that they were on the verge of going broke.

The true cause will be conveniently ignored by the corporate media, but the woes of Sports Illustrated began directly after they tied the publication to woke messaging. For example, the magazine began parading plus-sized (fat positivity) models in their sponsored runway shows and swimsuit additions in 2017.

For a publication that is supposed to be focused on athletic excellence, the idea of fat positivity is an obvious anathema for their core readership. People who are incapable of athleticism in most arenas should not be used as representatives of the sporting world (or the pinnacle of beauty, for that matter).

Good News! In Ten Years, Batman and Superman Enter Public Domain

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:32:14 GMT

Breitbart Reports: In about ten years, Batman and Superman will enter the public domain. This is good news. When these icons are wrenched from the grasping hands of leftist multinational corporations we have a much better chance of once again seeing both in some decent content.

The Disney Grooming Syndicate lost control of “Steamboat Willie” this year and, by extension, that version of Mickey Mouse.

And now…

“A sad fact of Hollywood is that while superheroes never truly die, all copyrights do,” laments the far-left Hollywood Reporter . “The DC characters are the next major expirations looming on the horizon. Superman and Lois Lane will enter the public domain in 2034, followed by Batman in 2035, the Joker in 2036, and Wonder Woman in 2037.”

After “Steamboat Willie” and Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain, we were hit with some cheapo horror movies based on those characters. I’m fine with that. Still, let’s hope a serious artist takes advantage of this public domain windfall of Superman and Batman and creates some serious art that honors these characters and creators instead of perverting them into drag queens and post-modern smugs.

Imagine Superman and Batman being like Dracula and Robin Hood, who have been in the public domain for decades. Sure, we’ve seen a lot of crap results from that free-for-all. Still, there have also been a number of terrific productions we might not have otherwise seen if one multinational corporation enjoyed total control.

Woke Sports Network FORCED To Give Back Awards Following Scandalous Discovery!

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 04:21:37 GMT

Breitbart Reports: All of these media companies pretend to have reached the pinnacle of righteousness, yet they are more corrupt than a hard drive found at the bottom of the ocean.

ESPN, which is owned by Disney, was recently forced to apologize and return 37 Emmy Awards following the discovery of a scandal dating back decades.

According to sources, the sports network faked the names and identities of ineligible personnel to be able to obtain more Emmy Awards.

The scandal, which dates back to 1997, was discovered by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and reported to ESPN’s current management.

As part of their apology and their quest to make things whole, the network voluntarily gave back the awards, so kudos to the new management for their honesty.

Here’s more on the story:

Amazon Studios Goes Big On Faith-Based Entertainment in Deal with ‘Jesus Revolution’ Filmmaker

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 03:45:48 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Amazon is betting big on faith-based entertainment in a new production deal that is expected to produce a pipeline of movies and series aimed at Christian audiences.

On Wednesday, Amazon MGM Studios announced it is teaming up with the recently formed The Wonder Project, led by Jesus Revolution co-director Jon Erwin and former Netflix and YouTube executive Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten.

Under the deal, Amazon Prime Video has already ordered its first project — a series called House of David that will dramatize the rise to power of King David of Israel. No release date has been announced for the streaming series.

The Wonder Project is an indie studio founded last year to make “stories that restore faith in things worth believing in.” Among the studio’s backers is Jason Blum, Lionsgate, and United Talent Agency (UTA).

Amazon has experienced firsthand the popularity of Christian-themed entertainment.

The Chosen — the hit series dramatizing the life of Jesus — has been one of Prime Video’s most-streamed series in recent months.

Reports Claim Disney Is Dumping Leading Ladies Rey and She-Hulk

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 04:12:43 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Two separate reports say the Disney Grooming Syndicate is finally dumping a couple of leading ladies we normal people rejected in droves long ago.

Jordan Ruimy’s World of Reel reports that the much-ballyhooed New Jedi Order, which would have centered on Daisy Ridley’s Rey, has been delayed “indefinitely.”

Even as countless Star Wars feature projects have crashed and burned over the last four years, New Jedi Order stood tall as a sure thing. The Force is Female and Returns in May 2026! Yawn. No rational person asked for this. Rey is one of the dullest, least charismatic characters ever to headline a major studio franchise.

Ruimy’s been told the “indefinite” delay concerns script issues.

“The problems seem to reside in creative differences between [Peaky Blinders] screenwriter Steven Knight and LucasFilm,” writes Ruimy. “I’m told that a draft had originally been written for the film, but LucasFilm gave him so many notes that he had to start from scratch.”

Knight is the third or fourth screenwriter to tackle New Jedi Order over the past couple of years. I’m sure all of Kathleen Kennedy’s “notes” come down to four words: “more vagina” and “emasculate him.”

My guess is the recent uproar over New Jedi Order’s obnoxious, bigoted, man-hating director might have had something to do with this. “[I] t’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape a story in a galaxy far, far away,” Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy said, proving she hadn’t seen the Rey Skywalker trilogy. It’s the Snow White PR debacle all over again.

Even people who say they want to see another Rey movie don’t want to see another Rey movie. They are lying and only say that because they are supposed to say that in this Brave Woke World. And I say that as someone who believes the female-led Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi (1983).

People with ‘Complete Paralysis, Epilepsy, Severe Intellectual Disability, Psychiatric Disability’ to Lead Air Travel Operations in Pursuit of Woke DEI Quotas

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 04:46:51 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been criticized for its latest diversity and inclusion hiring initiative.

The FAA is implementing a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative that specifically targets individuals with disabilities, including “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric disorders, and other physical conditions.

According to the FAA , Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring. The targeted disabilities are:

This initiative falls under the umbrella of the Department of Transportation, overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The FAA, a pivotal government agency responsible for regulating civil aviation, employs approximately 45,000 individuals, according to FOX News.

The timing of this initiative is noteworthy, particularly given the recent scrutiny faced by the FAA and the airline industry following a malfunctioning incident involving a Boeing 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight.

Disney’s Woke Pixar Unit to Slash Hundreds of Jobs

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:59:10 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s primary grooming branch, Pixar, will reportedly slash up to 20 percent of its staff, which amounts to more than 300 lost jobs.

People who hate us and seek to queer and sexualize our small children are about to be unemployed. Every decent American should cheer this news.

“Pixar Animation Studios is set to cut jobs as the studio has completed production on some shows and now has more staff than it needs,” Reuters has learned. “TechCrunch reported earlier that Pixar was set to undergo layoffs as high as 20% this year, with the studio’s team of 1,300 people reduced to under 1,000 over the coming months.”

Per Reuters, this comes after Pixar cut 75 staffers last June, “including those of two executives behind box office disappointment Lightyear .” Those 75 jobs amounted to the “studio’s first significant job cuts in a decade.”

Lightyear was the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s failed attempt to pervert its Toy Story franchise into a grooming tool.

Since then, Disney Animation and Pixar have released one flop after another: Elemental (which featured gender fluidity ), Strange World (centered on a gay love story between two young boys), and Wish , which had no chance given the goodwill Disney has forfeited in favor of preying on little kids.

Comedian Ben Bankas Defines How To Deal With Forever-Maskers

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:21:48 GMT

Daily Caller Reports: America’s first true anti-woke comedian went viral on social media Tuesday for an epic bit about a masker in his audience.

Comedian Ben Bankas looked like any other average American man in the short clip shared to social media Tuesday. He was wearing a black shirt, blue eyes and an expression of total exhaustion from keeping up with the stupidity of the modern world. But behind his everyman uniform, Bankas was hiding such sharp wit he should have registered it as a dangerous weapon.

“Are you sick ma’am,” Bankas asked an audience member wearing a big black facemask, despite the fact it’s 2024. Instead of answering, the woman burst into laughter. She knew what was coming next.

Go Woke, Go Broke: BlackRock Announces ESG Related Layoffs

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 04:02:50 GMT

NewsBusters Reports: The wages of ESG advocacy have come due for BlackRock according to Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino

Gasparino made clear that BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s obsession with pushing radical Environmental, Social and Governance investing was going to cost a significant number of BlackRock employees their jobs on Cavuto Live Jan. 6. Gasparino told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto, “More bad news coming out of BlackRock. As you know, BlackRock is… the world's largest money manager, huge into ESG.

And because of that, it's become a lightning rod for criticism, particularly–in red states.” Gasparino elaborated in a Fox Business report that BlackRock would fire “around 600 employees” or around 3% of BlackRock’s workforce.

During his Fox News appearance, Gasparino noted that the ESG backlash had reached as far as Republican presidential candidates and the average investor, leading people to withdraw funds from BlackRock in protest.

“Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, his name came up very negatively in the latest presidential debate because he forces, allegedly, ESG on companies, and that’s progressive investing,” Gasparino added. “People are pulling money out of BlackRock's funds, particularly–red state pension funds. And because of that, we understand, they're going to have a round of layoffs next week.”

Golden Globes Fail: CBS Broadcast Slammed as ‘Unfunny,’ ‘Near-Total Disaster,’ a ‘New Low’

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:14:28 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The verdict is in and the Golden Globes Awards on Sunday was an unqualified disaster.

Despite non-stop hype from CBS — Hollywood is back! Diversity! Jo Koy! (who?) — the broadcast fell flat on its face, with even the mainstream entertainment media deeming it as “unfunny,” a “near-total disaster,” and a “new low.”

Sunday’s primetime broadcast was meant to be a reboot of sorts for the beleaguered and rating-challenged awards show. CBS took over from NBC, seeking to rebrand the annual party as a new and improved version of the quasi-shady and ethically suspect awards-season ritual that just two years ago became the black sheep of Hollywood.

But despite the strong presence of numerous A-list stars, not to mention the Barbenheimer, the show struck many as a fiasco.

Vanity Fair magazine — not exactly a publication disinclined toward having a good time at a celebrity party — called the broadcast a “ near-total disaster ,” describing host Jo Koy’s strenuous opening monologue as a “horrid, sophomoric mishmash of lazy jokes” that failed to elicit much laughter.

“A cynical, grasping ceremony is nothing new for the Globes, but this year felt particularly desperate,” the magazine’s awards show axiom Richard Lawson concluded.

The New York Post called Sunday’s broadcast “godawful” and a “new low” for the show.

‘Existential Crisis’ as Woke Hollywood Loses 20% of Moviegoers

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 01:48:04 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The start of the COVID pandemic is about four years in the rearview and still being blamed for Hollywood losing 20 percent of moviegoers.

“One out of every five moviegoers has vanished since the pandemic, according to research compiled by one Hollywood studio,” reports the far-left Hollywood Reporter. “Whether they’ll ever return to see a film on the big screen is anyone’s guess — and, if they do, when.”

Compared to the last pre-pandemic year of 2019, the domestic box office is down 21 percent.

The lengthy article is full of facts and figures. It also accidentally answers the question it asks about why this is happening and how to fix it, but it never acknowledges the answer.

The answer is right here: Spider-Man: No Way Home , Barbie, Oppenheimer , John Wick 4 , Top Gun: Maverick , and Sound of Freedom . Those titles were monster hits during and after the pandemic for one very simple reason: people wanted to see them.

The idea that the reasons behind this drop in moviegoing ranks is a whodunnit is absurd. The titles above prove that people will still turn out in droves if they find something appealing. So, how can anyone still blame the pandemic for the drop in moviegoing? If the pandemic was to blame, nothing could succeed in theaters.

Mark Cuban's Woke Management of the Mavericks Gets turned Against Him with One Simple Challenge

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:15:27 GMT

The Federalist Papers Reports: C uban began his mini-lecture with the old favorite, “Let me help you understand,” as if whoever might disagree with his diatribe was a Neanderthal starving for Homo sapien wisdom. And then, according to Fox, he laid out “five separate points” to provide enough cover for the lack of substance of his argument to hide in.

I don’t want to bore you with Cuban’s meandering response but it’s to make a point. “Good businesses look where others don’t, to find the employees that will put your business in the best possible position to succeed,” Cuban rattled on.

“You may not agree, but I take it as a given that there are people of various races, ethnicities, orientation, etc that are regularly excluded from hiring consideration. By extending our hiring search to include them, we can find people that are more qualified. The loss of DEI-Phobic companies is my gain.”

Cuban then made the bewildering remark, “treating people equally does not mean treating them the same.” What does that mean? Treating people equally does not mean treating people equally? I thought that was what equity was all about. Is Cuban arguing for equity, or equality, or conflating the terms, or emptying them both of meaning?

Whatever the case, Cuban claimed to be arguing in favor of equity — a woke term that defies definition. It’s the “E” in DEI.

“Equity is a core principle of business, “Cuban droned. “Put your employees in a position to succeed. Recognize their differences and play to their strengths where ever possible. It is not a hard concept. But it is not easy to implement. Most workforces don’t have the depth of management to do this well. When it’s not done well it can create tension and resentment.”

OK. Enough. We get it. Only woke demigods like Cuban are capable of implementing DEI, let alone understanding it. Blah, blah, blah.

Musk didn’t take the bait. You could spend an hour or so dissecting the pitfalls in Cuban’s vapid defense of DEI. Musk doesn’t have time for it. He simply asked a question, “Cool, so when should we expect to see … short white/Asian women on the Mavs?”

Claudine Gay's downfall proves there is finally a way to make our woke elites to face accountability

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:58:55 GMT

Human Events Reports: Just last week, we opined that Harvard University had been destroyed by the so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) movement, a movement which, despite its name, makes a mockery of all three purported ideals; a mockery which many Americans have only just begun to notice now that they have, like all hate movements, turned on the Jewish community. “[Harvard’s] buildings may still stand, but its reputation has been warned,” we concluded sorrowfully.

What a difference a week makes. Just days ago, news broke that Harvard’s comically underqualified, disastrously inept, and morally obtuse president Claudine Gay has resigned. Hers will be the shortest tenure of any Harvard president on record. Not exactly a good sign for Harvard’s first black president.

This much, we must say, could have been avoided. Had Harvard chosen a president based on merit, not race, they may have found plenty of better candidates for the post who are also black. But for the Harvard Corporation that runs the school, it wasn't enough to have a launch a search based on scholarship, they needed someone who checked all the boxes and so that was their priority.

They sought a black, woman, leftist who would uphold principles of diversity, equity and inclusion, otherwise known as the principle of marginalizing the so-called oppressor, dismantling the dominant culture, and ensuring that Harvard continued on its path as a Marxist indoctrination center that would disrupt the American leadership class.

Had Harvard wanted to appoint a black president, it could have turned to the likes of Professor Carol Swain – who, among others, Claudine Gay plagiarized – or, if they wanted a less controversial choice with existing Harvard connections, to someone like Henry Louis Gates, who at least has the distinction of being a critic of Critical Race Theory and its resentful, undercooked creator, Derrick Bell. Moreover, while we would like to believe that the next Harvard president will be selected entirely based on merit, we are not naïve; the school has not exactly shown itself as a bastion of courage, lately.

Dear Bob Iger, Star Wars Is Not A Platform For Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Feminist Activism

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 03:42:08 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: The cognitive dissonance at Disney continues. In an interview with CNN, upcoming Star Wars director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy sounded off on the ‘historical significance’ of her being hired to lead the untitled “Rey film”, declaring that she is “thrilled” about the project because, “We’re in 2024 now, and I think it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story in a galaxy far, far away.”

Do you feel the excitement?

With media interviews like this for Star Wars directors, there’s not much for fans to be excited about. While journalists at CNN might find it cool that an award-winning documentarian and co-chair of the 2017 World Economic Forum annual meeting is doing a Star Wars movie, fans tend to be motivated by more simple things like the kind of story being told and why it fits into the galaxy far, far away created by George Lucas.

Jedi. Smugglers. The Force. Inquisitors. Bounty Hunters. Sith Acolytes. New eras on the Star Wars timeline! Does Obaid-Chinoy have anything to say about these things? Does she have some sort of misgivings about the contributions to Star Wars by women such as Marcia Lucas, who dramatically shaped A New Hope, Star Wars: Rebels co-creator Carrie Beck, or Obi-Wan Kenobi director Deborah Chow, or the work of Mandalorian director Bryce Dallas Howard and Ahsoka directors Jennifer Getzinger and Geeta Vasant Patel.

Unlikely. By all available metrics, Obaid-Chinoy is highly accomplished and talented as a filmmaker, but her interviews on this Star Wars opportunity only seem to point toward ego and using this intellectual property as a vehicle for scoring political points.

Obaid-Chinoy made this clear in 2015 in an interview on stage with Jon Stewart where she affirmed her enjoyment of “making men uncomfortable” after he noted that the “thread” in her films were men that are “a—holes.”

‘Sound of Freedom’ Edges Taylor Swift at Box Office to Finish in Top 10 for 2023

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 04:01:02 GMT

Christian Headlines Reports: The 10th-highest-grossing movie of 2023 is a faith-centric movie, thanks to a narrow win at the box office over Taylor Swift’s concert film.

Angel Studio’s Sound of Freedom finished No. 10 at the box office for 2023 with a gross of $184,177,725, edging Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which landed at No. 11 with $179,635,196, according to data at BoxOfficeMojo.com . For 2023, Sound of Freedom topped movies with significantly bigger budgets, including No. 12 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ($174 million), No. 13 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One ($172 million) and No. 17 Elemental ($154 million). Indiana Jones and Elemental both are Disney films.

Sound of Freedom was the surprise hit of the summer, opening at No. 1 on the Fourth of July and grabbing the top spot three more times. The PG-13 film tells the true story of government agent Tim Ballard, who quits his job at the Department of Homeland Security so he can dedicate his life to rescuing children in other countries from sex trafficking. Jim Caviezel portrays Ballard.

It received an A+ CinemaScore grade from moviegoers.

Sound of Freedom is the only wide release in Hollywood history to have a second-weekend increase greater than 35 percent at the summer box office. Movies typically decrease in revenue from their first weekend to their second weekend.

Dave Chappelle Keeps Skewering LGBTQQIAAP2S+ Sacred Cows in Netflix Special ‘The Dreamer’

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:58:11 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Comedian Dave Chappelle has defied the transgender cancel mob once again in his latest Netflix special, The Dreamer , which began streaming on New Year’s Eve.

While he devoted most of the hour-long special to other topics — including an extended bit rehashing the Chris Rock-Will Smith slap — Chappelle still managed to squeeze in several trans jokes, providing riotous punchlines at unexpected moments.

Near the beginning, Dave Chappelle recounted a story about meeting his idol Jim Carrey on the set of the 1999 movie Man on the Moon. But Chappelle explained how he was disappointed, because Carrey remained in-character as Andy Kaufman even between takes.

As a result, Chappelle had to pretend Carrey was Kaufman throughout the entire meeting. “All that to say… that’s how trans people make me feel,” he said.

As he has said before, Chappelle told the audience he no longer wants to provoke transgender people due to all of the negativity it spawns from corporate media. The comedian proceeded to tell several handicapped jokes, instead — because “they’re not as organized as the gays.”

Will 2023 be the year of peak woke?

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 02:31:22 GMT

FT Reports: Earlier this month, Barbara Furlow-Smiles pleaded guilty to criminal charges that she embezzled some $4mn from Facebook while serving as a top diversity executive at the tech company. That tawdry episode seemed a fitting end to the year the woke wave crested. In 2024, it is likely to recede.

The term “woke”, of course, has been twisted to the point of deformity. It can mean an awareness of one’s surroundings, usually related to racial and social injustice. Or, it can be stretched to cover such things as critical race theory and identity politics, and a conviction that most problems are systemic and must be addressed as such. At its most pejorative, it tends to denote a censorious and performative progressive tribe.

As a middle-aged, white-ish man, I may not be best placed to pronounce the decline of woke. Still, I can see its problems mounting.

In the corporate world, leaders have come to see that being woke is not necessarily profitable. Disney chief executive Bob Iger recently suggested that its creatives’ insistence on shoehorning progressive social messages into its films helped to account for their poor box office performance. “We have to entertain first,” said Iger. “It’s not about messages.”

Bud Light has been made to crawl since its move earlier this year to partner with Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender influencer, prompted a conservative boycott led by musician Kid Rock that knocked it from its perch as America’s top-selling beer. (How Bud Light could be the top-selling beer anywhere is a subject for a separate column.)

Its parent company made amends by launching a bro-ey ad campaign featuring professional footballers and paying up to again become the official sponsor of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Rock seems satisfied and has been spied necking Bud Light again.

Academic Bias and Censorship Are Huge Problems, and We Can Prove It

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 01:21:09 GMT

National Review Reports: A team of researchers measured contemporary levels of censorship in the American academy. Simply put, cancel culture is no myth. Academic censorship just got accurately measured.

For the prestigious professional journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of top academics — which, in the interest of full disclosure, included Yours Truly as a bit player — recently attempted both to examine contemporary levels of censorship in the American academy and understand the motivations behind it. The results obtained by our team, led by UPenn’s Cory Clark, were interesting and to some extent not very surprising — but deeply unsettling.

Censorship is extraordinarily prevalent across modern academia. Per one large data set reviewed for the project, 34 percent of all tenured and tenure-track faculty members report open “peer pressure” to “avoid controversial research.” Interestingly, the motives of today’s bluenoses seem to be, at some level, positive ones (Clark uses the term “pro-social”).

Censors genuinely want to interfere with the spread of ideas that they see as racist or sexist, rather than to simply exercise power. However, the in-practice effects are the same: Since contemporary leftists see almost everything as racist and sexist, the effects of the theoretically moral motivations that dominate on today’s campuses are frequently absurd — i.e., the resignation of Harvard president Larry Summers after he noted that men and women are different.

BBC Denies Report That It Feeds Viewers “A Steady Diet Of Woke Bias”, Claims Findings Are “Cherry-Picked Or Highlighting Genuine Mistakes”

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:24:49 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: It may have been a merry Christmas holiday for many, but not so for the BBC, as the UK-based public broadcaster has found themselves sour after a new analytical report claimed that their content – from Waterloo Road to Doctor Who – is feeding viewers “a steady diet of woke bias”.

The report, as published by the (for lack of a better definition, as the group does not provide one on their website) ‘anti-woke’ research group Campaign For Common Sense and shared exclusively with local news outlet The Telegraph , surveyed the broadcaster’s “news and drama output” to measure just how much their various programmes focused on such topics as the country’s history of colonialism and gender ideology.

In terms of the former, the group found “a preoccupation by BBC News about Britain’s links to the transatlantic slave trade, with articles about the subject appearing online at a rate of more than one a week in 2023.”

They also noted that two series, Murder is Easy and Waterloo Road, each had a respective episode wherein their production teams hamfistedly attempted to tackle the topic, the first having inserted a colonialism allegory into Agatha Christie’s original story and the second featuring its cast of teenage students protesting against their school’s being named after a historical slave trader.

Woke 'Aquaman 2' Drowns at the Box Office, Becomes a Disaster in the Making

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:57:11 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: According to early box office returns, “Aquaman 2” is sinking fast — let’s hope the woke movie movement is going down with it.

“Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” is on track for a four-day opening weekend take of between $38 million and $40 million, according to Deadline, the online entertainment news magazine.

That might sound like a lot to Americans gathering for Christmas celebrations, but it’s nothing for Warner Bros. and the DC Extended Universe to be happy about.

According to Variety , the movie had a production budget of $215 million. In Hollywood bookkeeping, that means it needs to bring in $400 million to make its money back, according to the entertainment website Screen Rant . But not even star Jason Mamoa (who got $15 million of that $215 million, according to Screen Rant), could save this one.

“Already, the sequel’s previews are less than that of Disney/Marvel Studios’ dud The Marvels which did $6.6M before a 3-day of $46.1M, the lowest start ever for a Marvel movie,” Deadline reported.

So, that $400 million doesn’t appear to be in the cards in a tepid opening weekend after a rash of lukewarm — at best — reviews. (“‘The Lost Kingdom’ isn’t well done, but it isn’t miserable either,” wrote the New York Post reviewer Johnny Oleksinski, in what should be a textbook example of damning with faint praise.)

It’s the latest in a string of Hollywood movies that have gone — as the saying goes — from woke to broke.

'They think third-wave feminist comic book stories are going to bring girls back': Chuck Dixon bashes Disney, woke comics

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:42:34 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Legendary comic book writer Chuck Dixon explained that the comic book industry's strategy of "feminist" storylines will not bring back a once formidable audience of young women, nor will Disney's transformation of male-centric franchises into "girly stories."

The former DC Comics and Marvel Writer, who now writes for the independent Rippaverse Comics, called the comic book industry's latest attempts at storytelling tired injections of "third-wave feminism."

Dixon added that not only are the new stories void of what comic book readers enjoy, the content actually turns the typical fan away.

Dixon spoke to Bounding into Comics' Brett Smith, who pointed out that companies have been abandoning the key male demographic in recent years.

"Something else we’ve talked about is that it’s always been a ‘male-centric,’ or it’s been a industry which has been driven for male readers, for boys," Smith said.

Dixon interjected saying "Not always! Not always." Dixon then explained that in the "'50s and '60s, it was girls buying the comic book market.”

"'Archie, Young Romance' sold three and a half million copies a month for years," he noted. "You had lots of romance titles. You had 'Archie.' And girls were reading regular comics too! They were reading 'Little Lulu' and 'Uncle Scrooge' and 'Green Lantern' – my sisters read Green Lantern because they though Hal Jordan was cute!" the writer continued.

Dixon, who was recently quoted as saying that new comics are " literally shaming the reader " with woke storylines, said that the industry "totally abandoned that [female] market," and now "they don’t know how to get it back."

‘VeggieTales’ Celebrates 30 Years of Faith and Fun with Bob and Larry

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 04:35:32 GMT

Christian Headlines Reports: The iconic faith-based children’s series VeggieTales turned 30 on Thursday, with fans and filmmakers alike celebrating a project that transformed Christian entertainment and shaped the childhoods of countless individuals.

The first VeggieTales release -- a VHS copy of “Where’s God When I’m S-Scared?” -- appeared in Christian bookstores on Dec. 21, 1993, according to Lifeway .

“On that day, not even VeggieTales’ creator Phil Vischer could imagine how the series would go on to impact kids and families for the next quarter of a century,” Lifeway said.

Vischer and co-creator Mike Nawrocki launched VeggieTales in 1993 through their new company, Big Idea, taking fans on a journey with Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber, and an eclectic cast of vegetable friends who sang silly songs, recreated Bible stories, and performed skits. Vischer voiced Bob, while Nawrocki voiced Larry.

The series taught children biblical values through cartoons that even parents and teens enjoyed. Eventually, the VeggieTales franchise includes books, toys and theatrical movies.

Netflix Faces Boycott for CoComelon Showing Boy Dancing in Tutu

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:38:30 GMT

The Post Millenial Reports: Netflix has come under fire after a recent episode of its most popular children's show "CoComelon Lane" featured a young boy dressing up as a girl and dancing for his two gay dads.

CoComelon Lane, which is produced by Moonbug Entertainment, is the most popular show on the streaming service for babies and toddlers ages two and up, and the episode has resulted in individuals across social media calling for a boycott of the company.

The episode in question features a young boy dancing around the room in a dress for the approval of his two homosexual fathers, who tell him to "just be you!"

The young boy is trying to decide whether he should wear boy or female clothing. He ultimately decides to wear a tutu and a tiara.

"How about you break out those moves for your two biggest fans," the two dads sing to the kid. "If you're not sure what to choose, think about all the things you like to do. Just be you!"

"Just be me!" the son replies as he goes through a heaping pile of clothes before choosing feminine attire. The show is intended for viewers from ages 3 to 5 years old. The clip comes from episode 8.

Report Says Disney Has Already Destroyed Next Year’s Box Office

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:07:31 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Thanks primarily to the Disney Grooming Syndicate, Hollywood is looking at a terrible 2024. And until the industry and the sycophants who cover it admit to why (their movies suck), things will only get worse.

The shameless suck-ups at the Hollywood Reporter have already written a pre-excuse for the 2024 movie season, which is expected to top out at $7.5 to 8 billion. How pathetic is that…?

Fact: In 2024, we will be three years out of Covid, and the domestic box office hasn’t dipped below $8 billion since 2001. Moreover, between 2015 and 2019, the domestic box office topped $11 billion. The box office won’t graze $9 billion this year, so a $7.5 billion 2024 is beyond pathetic.

The excuse?

Naturally, the suckups at the Hollywood Reporter are STILL blaming Covid. Oh, and the actor-writer strikes… Thank heaven for the strikes! They arrived just in time! The industry needed a new excuse to avoid coming to terms with the truth: Their movies suck.

Get ready to L-to-the-O-to-the-L :

In a major blow to the post-pandemic recovery effort, domestic box office revenue in 2024 is now expected to come in behind that of 2023, a reversal of fortunes no one predicted. If projections are right, domestic box office in 2024 could top out at $7.5 billion to $8 billion, compared to an expected $8.8 billion to $8.9 billion this year, say multiple studio executives who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter (a few are more bullish in thinking $8 billion to $8.5 billion is possible).

The culprit: a sparse release calendar, particularly during the first three months of the year. “It’s a disaster,” says one studio exec regarding the first part of the year.

All told, the global box office could lose out on $2 billion or more because of the 2024 movies that were bumped to 2025, including the next Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible installment, Marvel’s Anthony Mackie-led Captain America: Brave New World, Disney’s Snow White live-action reimagining starring Rachel Zegler and Sony’s next Spider-Verse film. Other movies that fled for 2025 when the strikes commenced include Blade, Elio, Thunderbolts and Dirty Dancing.

Yeah, that Dirty Dancing remake was certain to set the box office on fire.

But the culprit is not a lean release calendar. That’s only a symptom. Let’s do what the entertainment media would never do and look at why what should be three of the biggest movies of 2024 have been moved to 2025.

Woke Blue City to Pay 6-Figure Settlement to Farmer Who Refused to Host Gay Weddings - 1A Win

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 04:03:44 GMT

The Federalist Papers Reports: An effort to ban a Catholic farmer from a farmers market because he would not host same-sex weddings on his property backfired big time for East Lansing, Michigan.

In a settlement released Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Mahoney ruled that Stephen Tennes, who owns Country Mill Farms in Charlotte, Michigan, just outside East Lansing, could collect $42,000 in damages and $783,800 in legal fees after winning his six-year court battle, according to a settlement.

The order also states that East Lansing, which singled Tennes out for enforcement through vendor guidelines that equated not hosting same-sex weddings with discrimination, must not apply those guidelines to him in the future.

Given city costs of more than $292,000 through October for its defense in the case, the full bill for East Lansing will top $1.1 million, according to the Lansing State Journal.

Tennes told Fox News in an August interview after the initial ruling in his favor that it had been “a tough decision we had to make” when the city banned him from its farmers market for following his faith “when we were faced with the choice of providing for our family like we always had, or walking away from our religious beliefs. And as parents and as veterans, that was a very tough decision to make.”

Woke council’s ‘inclusive’ holiday branding ‘excludes’ the word ‘Christmas’

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:22:47 GMT

New York Post Reports: A small group of inner-east Melbourne residents have slammed their local council for removing the word “Christmas” from its “inclusive” holiday messaging.

This year, the City of Stonnington elected to use the slogan “Make Merry” in some of its public messaging and decorations for the Christmas period.

At the time of publication, some 200 residents of the local government area, which covers some of the state’s wealthiest suburbs, including Armadale, Kooyong, Malvern, Prahran, South Yarra, Toorak and Windsor, have signed a petition demanding the municipality: “Reinstate ‘Merry Christmas.”.

“While we appreciate efforts to promote inclusivity, we believe this change may unintentionally diminish the cultural and religious significance of Christmas for many residents,” petition lead Mikhail Anossovitch wrote.

“Christmas is a time-honoured celebration, and the phrase “Merry Christmas” has long been embraced as a warm and traditional greeting.”

Ms. Anossovitch said the community respected the “importance of diversity but argued the change threatened “diluting the unique cultural heritage associated with this festive season.”

“We kindly request that the local council reconsider this change and restore “Merry Christmas” on holiday signs,” she wrote.

Some of the hundreds who signed the petition also shared their thoughts on the council’s decision.

Hasbro Hitched Its Wagon to WOKE Disney and 1,900 Lost Their Jobs

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 03:23:45 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Hasbro Toys has just announced the layoff of 1,100 souls a few weeks before Christmas, which comes two years after extending a deal with the Disney Grooming Syndicate to sell Star Wars, Marvel, and Indiana Jones toys.

Hasbro already laid off 800 staffers earlier this year.

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks blamed this setback on “headwinds” and a slowdown in toy sales after the Covid Lockdown Toy Sales Boom.

Let’s not be too hard on him. Like the corporate media, the FBI, and politicians, CEOs are paid to lie. We all know what the “headwinds” are: To begin with, the insane inflation caused by Bidenomics, which has murdered the spending power of the average family.

And then there are the groomers…

With the benefit of two years of hindsight, this is pretty amusing:

Hasbro Inc. today announced an extended relationship with Lucasfilm, renewing its longstanding licensing deal for Star Wars, and announcing a new agreement to develop products based on the Indiana Jones franchise.… The Indiana Jones line by Hasbro will be available in globally in 2023, aligning with the release of the highly anticipated new Indiana Jones feature film.

“Disney has long valued its relationship with Hasbro in developing fresh, imaginative products and toys that delight our fans of all ages,” gushed Stephanie Young, President of the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s Consumer Products, Games and Publishing. “We’re thrilled to continue collaborating with this iconic company—one that will help lift our consumer experiences across the Marvel, Star Wars and now Indiana Jones franchises to new heights for years to come.”

Two years later, Star Wars is more hated than ever. Marvel movies are flopping, and the “highly anticipated new Indiana Jones feature film” went down in an ocean of red ink without a trace of impact on popular culture.

WOKE Snow White Star Rachel Zegler Suddenly Loves Old Snow White Film After Experiencing Backlash

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:25:44 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: In a change of tune ostensibly inspired by the absolutely massive backlash from even general audiences against her original opinion, after having trashed and dismissed Disney’s animated original, live-action Snow White star Rachel Zegler has now taken to claiming that she actually “love[s]” everything the studio has released in the last century.

The divisive star of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes offered her updated take while speaking to fellow Disney actress Halle Bailey for Variety’s Actors on Actors interview series.

Following a discussion regarding their experiences in dealing with the criticisms leveled towards their respective castings as race-swapped incarnations of classic Disney Princesses, Bailey eventually moved to ask her colleague, “You are opening so many doors for your whole community as well. What has that felt like? Is it pressure?”

In turn, Zegler replied by admitted that while she did indeed feel some pressure in the role regarding fan expectations, her biggest critic was, in fact, herself, due to her own apparent love for the House of Mouse’s filmography – including the animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs film, which kickstarted the company’s run as a titan of animated entertainment all the way back 1937.

Universities Will Need To Contend With Surging Anti-Woke Backlash

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 04:16:49 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: Most Americans of every political stripe gagged last week seeing three leading university presidents’ Congressional testimony on anti-semitism. After years of punishment and censorship of centrist and conservative viewpoints at their schools and others across America, none of the three could say that calls for genocide against Jews violated their schools’ codes of conduct.

America saw through the hypocrisy — and many saw its root cause as well, which is the diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy dominating most schools. The left’s Fareed Zakaria, writing at CNN, was among them, putting it this way:

People sense the transformation…. Having coddled so many student groups for so long, university administrators found themselves squirming…. What we saw in the House hearing this week was the inevitable result of decades of the politicization of universities. Out of this culture of diversity has grown the collection of ideas and practices that we have all now heard of — safe spaces, trigger warnings, and micro aggressions…. America’s top colleges are no longer seen as bastions of excellence but as partisan outfits, which means they will keep getting buffeted by these political storms as they emerge.

Universities face a reckoning.

The University of Pennsylvania’s president already lost her job over it. Others likely will follow. The University of Wisconsin perhaps figured this out. On Friday, it announced a deal with critics that would freeze hiring for diversity positions through the end of 2026 and shift at least 43 diversity positions to focus on “student success.” The system also would eliminate any statements supporting diversity on student applications. However, the Board of Regents rejected the deal on Saturday.

Perhaps most impactful, donors have revolted, and if anything gets the attention of university bureaucrats it’s money.

It’s time for universities to do what’s right, which happens also happens to be in their own interest.

Star Wars Actor Adam Driver Says “Wokeness Killed Han Solo”

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 04:59:53 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: Adam Driver has had it with strangers approaching him in public and accusing him of “killing Han Solo.”

On Dec. 9th, Adam Driver started his hosting gig at “Saturday Night Live” while playing the piano and reading a letter to Santa Claus, Variety. reports.

“I would like people to stop coming up to me on the street saying, ‘You killed Han Solo!’,” he said. “I didn’t kill him. Wokeness killed Han Solo.”

The joke refers to his role as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequels “The Force Awakens,” “The Last Jedi” and “The Rise of Skywalker.” In “The Force Awakens,” Kylo kills Han Solo, which happens to be a widely controversial storyline. Driver began his Christmas wish list by saying,

“Hey, Santa. It’s me, Adam Driver, from the nice list. And also ‘Girls.’ I turned 40 this year, Santa, so I would like five pairs of chinos. I also want one of those giant metal Tesla trucks. I think it would pair perfectly with my teeny tiny micropenis.”

“Oh, you know those TikToks, like those couples that do pranks on each other? Can you kill those people?” he continued. “What I want for Christmas is a gingerbread house. Do you think a gingerbread man gets scared when he realizes the house is made of his own skin? That’s a cute one. You can tell your kids that one.”

Hollywood is growing tired of wokeness and the obnoxiousness of it all.

GTA 6 news: Pre-order date emerges, Rockstar sending messages, 'woke' worry from fans

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 01:43:56 GMT

GBN Reports: Rockstar Games are reportedly sending messages to their staff as the first GTA 6 trailer creeps closer.

Insider Gaming say a QA Team member from Capcom USA called Nima has received an internal message from the company's PR team in New York City.

The mail's subject is: "Unveiling the Next Chapter."

No other information was shared, however.

Rockstar messaging staff would be understandable, with the developers keen to keep every detail under wraps until they think it's the right time to release it to the public.

Some GTA 6 fans are worried about the game being 'woke' due to the modern world.

Users on X have been expressing their concerns, with one saying: "Saw someone ask what they hope to not see in gta 6 and the top reply was woke nonsense."

A second said: "GTA is extremely based, i'm worried to see what the woke do to GTA 6."

"GTA 6 will be woke!" said a third user.

And a fourth stated: "Gta 6 will be watered down version of rdr2 gore. Rockstar changed staff.. I’m concerned if they go the woke route."

The latest woke California insanity? A gender-neutral-toy law

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 03:42:07 GMT

New York Post Reports: California is facing a crime crisis across its major cities, a population exodus driven by high taxes and woke policies , and a host of other thorny problems.

Naturally, Golden State lawmakers opted to focus on the urgent issue of not enough gender-neutral toys.

Yes, California retail stores with more than 500 employees will soon face fines for failing to offer “gender-neutral” toy sections, thanks to a law kicking in Jan. 1.

Makes perfect sense!

Aside from the fact that nothing now stops any parent from buying any kid any toy (in the family price range) he or she wants.

Indeed, thanks to online retail, no parent ever has to set foot in a toy store.

The fact is, gendered marketing for toys seems to bother whiny adults in deep-blue states far more than it does actual kids.

Yes, little girls generally like to play with dolls and such, and little boys generally like to play with trucks and toy guns. Yet plenty of kids march to the beat of their own drums; all their needs are easily met thanks to the wonders of market capitalism.

Disney’s ‘Wish’ Officially a Box Office Catastrophe — LOL

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 04:56:54 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s Wish is officially a box office catastrophe . Any hope this $200 million holiday offering would hold through the holidays died in week two. By Monday, after two weekends in release, including the lucrative Thanksgiving weekend, Wish will sit at a pathetic $42 million.

HAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHA! *cough*cough*cough* HA.

Had Wish opened to $42 million, it would have been a disappointment.

In its second weekend, this sucker crashed 61 percent compared to last weekend, and that was a 61 percent drop from an already disastrous opening. The idea that a major Disney animated feature, much less one meant to celebrate the Grooming Syndicate’s 100 th anniversary, would gross just $7.6 million during weekend two… That seemed impossible just a few years ago — you know, before Disney launched a crusade to openly queer little kids with homosexuality, transvestites, transsexuals, and drag queens.

Also losing steam is the hideous Rachel Zegler’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. By Monday, after three weekends in release, it will sit at a weak $122 million after grossing another $15 million this weekend. Break-even is probably around $300 million. It might hit that when overseas dollars are added in. By comparison, the original Hunger Games opened to grosses of $100 million and more.

This weekend’s top movie is Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, which will open somewhere between $20 and $25 million. That’s definitely not Taylor Swift money. Her concert film opened last month to $93 million.

Disney has a real problem on its hands. The entertainment media will lie and blame Wish ‘s failure (and all the other failures) on Disney+. Hell, if the suck-up media must, it will find a way to still blame COVID or sexist MAGA supporters or Global Warming or Israel or homeschooling…

But the bottom line is this. Disney is now a danger to children, a predatory company looking to steal your child’s innocence and sexually confuse them into neurotic, unhappy, easily exploitable sexual objects.

A Wokecession Comes for Hollywood

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 03:54:06 GMT

Breitbart Reports: C onsumer spending has been one of the key pillars supporting economic growth this year, helping the economy avoid a widely forecast recession. Even with surveys showing consumer confidence in the economy scratching along an historically low plateau and public approval of President Biden’s economic management at a never-ending ebb tide, U.S. households kept the economy afloat with their increased spending.

There are signs that the increasing wokeness of the entertainment sector may be becoming an economic drag . In nominal terms, consumer expenditures in October grew at their slowest pace since March, rising just 0.22 percent from the prior month. Adjusted for inflation, that works out to just 0.17 percent, the slowest growth since May. Consumer spending still looks not bad, up 2.2 percent in real terms. Before inflation adjustment, however, spending was up 5.3 percent, which is the smallest year-over-year nominal gain since February of 2021.

Spending on recreation services—which includes everything from going to a concert, to gym memberships, to streaming subscriptions—dropped by 0.64 percent in October compared with the previous month, the second consecutive monthly decline. This was the second weakest month of the year, after May. Compared with a year ago, real spending on recreation services is up just 1.8 percent after adjusting for inflation.

Dissident Hollywood types are starting to talk about a Wokecession for movie-going . The idea is that Hollywood’s insistence on including left-wing political themes in its films has started to weigh on ticket sales.

It might be more precisely called a Disney-Wokecession . While the latest big woke flops from Disney—Marvels and Wish—will not show up until November and December’s figures are released, the American public already seems to be tired of spending money at the box office.

Anime’s Focus On Themes Provides Better Storytelling Than Hollywood’s Preachy Use Of Allegory

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 01:11:08 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: A significant warning sign for screenwriters poses a threat to the overall quality of their writing. While diligent effort and study can solve issues like grammar and punctuation, there is no remedy for a writer who believes their writing will change the world.

To illustrate this point, consider that Dostoevsky’s writings did not change the world. Yet a mediocre Hollywood writer, driven by inserting ‘The Message’ (you may take a whiskey shot), envisions their work as a catalyst for change. This overtly preachy era of Hollywood provides an opportunity to explore the difference between allegory and theme.

Before we embark, I acknowledge that these concepts are not mutually exclusive. Every allegory encompasses themes, and every theme can transform into an allegory. But both allegory and theme demand equal care. Otherwise, your allegory risks devolving into a mere tool for expressing your political biases.

Giving rise to oversimplified tropes, such as the misguided notion that sci-fi is exclusively about the present. Star Trek: Picard season 2 demonstrates this vividly with an absurd depiction of Picard collecting the skulls of conquered races as an allegory for America’s immigration policies. It is mere speculation, but it appears Kurtzman thinks Donald Trump’s shadow likes taco bowls so much that he uses — I am not finishing this sentence.

This is also why allegory opens the floodgates for the ‘missing the point of the movie’ meme. If you express even a hint of sympathy for the Joker, Travis Bickle, Tyler Durden, and Barbie’s Ken, the immediate assumption is that you must have fundamentally misunderstood the movie.

A Warning To Parents Regarding The New ‘Trolls’ Movie

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 04:29:20 GMT

End Times Headlines Reports: In the vibrant world of animated movies, “Trolls Band Together” seems like harmless, colorful entertainment for children.

Yet, beneath its cheerful exterior lies a subtle integration of symbols and messages that sow seeds of confusion and challenges the values Christian parents strive to instill in their children.

The rainbow, a symbol of God’s promise, takes center stage in this film, but is instead associated with the LGBTQ community. The juxtaposition of these seemingly innocent elements raises questions about the subtle influence media can have on young minds.

Having rainbows in the world of Trolls is nothing new, but it is the representation and how they are used that shows a direct correlation to the modern-day pride flag, instead of simply being a rainbow.

Lining the streets as they do during the month of June, pride month now in the United States (the President himself declared America, “A nation of pride”), these rainbow banners now include the color pink, just as the pride flag did to include people who believe they are transgender.

Below one of them is a heart, which falls in line with the false equivalency of “love is love” often pronounced by those in support of the LGBTQ agenda.

Many Reportedly Canceled Disney+ Subscriptions After Elon Musk’s Interview

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:03:33 GMT

Insider Paper Reports: In an interview with the New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin, the CEO of SpaceX , Elon Musk, responded with “they’re trying to blackmail me with advertising, blackmailing me with money, go f–k yourself” directed at advertisers.

However, in that strong verbal attack against the blackmail attempts, Musk specifically mentioned Iger. “Hey Bob, if you are in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise,” he said. He added that users “already are,” boycotting Disney services.

Elon Musk’s remarks came amidst a growing controversy involving him. Major companies like Disney, IBM, and Apple paused advertising on Musk’s platform, X, formerly known as Twitter.

Musk’s response on an anti-Semitic comment led to this advertising crisis. In response to the advertisers pulling back, Musk conveyed a clear message through the interview.

Shortly after Elon Musk’s interview, thousands of users shared screenshots of their canceled Disney+ subscriptions. Beyond Disney+, users are also reporting cancellations of subscriptions to services like Paramount Plus and others.

“Canceled” and “#CancelDisney” are now trending on X.

BOOM! Elon Musk Tells Woke Advertisers Boycotting His Platform: ‘GO F*CK YOURSELF!’

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 04:26:37 GMT

Daily Wire Reports: X owner Elon Musk ripped companies this week that are boycotting advertising on his social media platform after a recent post of his generated controversy.

Musk was accused of supporting anti-Semitism with a poorly worded tweet that he posted several days ago, which he later clarified when he expanded upon his remark. He was subsequently defended by multiple high profile Jewish figures who said that they did not believe that he was anti-Semitic.

The post led to the political Left pressuring multiple companies into boycotting advertisements on X, including Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Lionsgate, and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Musk was asked about the boycott during an interview Wednesday on stage at The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

“I hope they stop,” Musk said about the companies who were boycotting. “Don’t advertise.”

“You don’t want them to advertise?” the host asked.

“No,” Musk said. “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f*** yourself. Go. F***. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is. Hey, Bob, I’m sure you’re in the audience.”

Why We ‘Sexists’ Despise Captain Marvel and Love Sarah Connor

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:50:59 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Whenever a girlboss movie like The Marvels (2023) or Ghostbusters (2016) flops, no one ever blames the quality of the movie. It’s always our fault, and by “our,” I mean normal people.

Although Hillary Clinton received nearly 66 million votes in 2016, and only 20 percent of those voters could’ve delivered The Marvels to a $100-plus opening weekend, it’s not their fault for staying home. It’s our fault. No one ever asks why tens of millions of Hillary’s voters stayed home. It’s our sexism that killed the movie.

That flawed and sweaty logic aside, how about answering this…?

How are we MAGAtards all sexists when we love a whole bunch of filmdom’s badass women? Here are a few and a look at what makes them awesome…

Sarah Connor: Terminator 2 (1991)

Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) earned the audience’s respect largely because of Hamilton, who buffed up for the role in a way that made us believe the Sarah Connor from The Terminator (1984) had evolved into a deadly, angry, determined fighting machine.

Director/writer James Cameron ensured this evolution made sense. At the end of Terminator , Sarah’s character arc went from damsel-in-distress to survivalist.

We also love Sarah because she never tries to be a man, and the movie never pretends she’s a man by having her 99-pound frame toss around 210-pound men. Instead, she uses her wits, like a syringe full of cleaning fluid or a big freaken gun.

Best of all, she is deeply flawed and driven by her maternal instinct (to save her son). She doesn’t have all the answers, and her greatest virtue (her love for her son) is also her greatest flaw: she’s prepared to assassinate an innocent man to save her son.

Disney Makes Admission About Its Woke ESG Policies

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 03:57:26 GMT

Townhall Reports: In an unsurprising development for sane Americans, another major company is admitting that woke ESG — environmental, social and governance — policies are bad for its bottom line. As it turns out, going woke does in fact correlate with going broke, and this time, it's Disney making the uncomfortable realization that putting virtue signaling to intolerant leftists ahead of turning a profit was a mistake.

Disney's stock has had a rough go in recent years due to a series of missteps — which weren't necessarily accidental — that saw the legendary American brand run afoul of Americans' values and priorities. Over the last five years, Disney shares are down nearly 17 percent while indexes such as the Dow Jones moved up some 38 percent during the same timeframe.

Straight from Mickey's proverbial mouth, here's why Disney, in part at least, said it's struggling in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Explaining under the "risk assessment" header, Disney admitted that "Environmental, social and governance [ESG] matters and any related reporting obligations may impact our businesses."

More from Disney's SEC filing explains the issue (emphasis added):

...our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods to make our offerings and products available to consumers, do not achieve sufficient consumer acceptance. Further, consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands . Consumer tastes and preferences impact, among other items, revenue from advertising sales (which are based in part on ratings for the programs in which advertisements air), affiliate fees, subscription fees, theatrical film receipts, the license of rights to other distributors, theme park admissions, hotel room charges and merchandise, food and beverage sales, sales of licensed consumer products or sales of our other consumer products and services.

Woke Kellogg's Froot Loops Faces Boycott Calls for Attempting to Indoctrinate Kids

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 03:41:56 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: Forget the days of games, puzzles, mazes and jokes on the backs of cereal boxes. Nowadays, manufacturers are dishing up heaping helpings of woke propaganda for customers to gobble up along with all of the sugar, preservatives and artificial colors.

Many former fans are toying with the idea of a boycott since word started circulating on social media about Kellogg’s Froot Loops promoting a digital library “with equity, diversity and inclusion content” advertised on boxes of the cereal in Canada.

“Let’s loop together. Celebrate the diversity that makes our world colorful,” the message on the boxes proclaimed in both English and French.

Conservatives, however, have taken a dim view of the idea, knowing that diversity, equity and inclusion policies have typically been a vehicle for influencing children to reject traditional views about gender .

The digital library website , co-sponsored by Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, allows limited access to all users who confirm they are at least 13 years old, and additional access with a code found inside the specially marked boxes of Froot Loops.

One of the titles on the more general website includes “Loop Together on Gender Empowerment,” which appears with the description, “We are so much more than our gender identity and the expectations that come with it. Explore content to help empower everyone to be their own unique selves.”

End Wokeness, a social media account with nearly 2 million followers, was one of the first to alert parents to the campaign, writing, “Fruit Loops is now encouraging kids to go online and read their free library of woke propaganda.”

Disney Grooming Syndicate’s ‘Wish’ Underperforms Bigly at Box Office

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 01:41:04 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Disney’s latest animated feature, this one intended to celebrate Disney’s 100th anniversary, was projected to do much better than it has over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. As of now, it looks like Wish won’t even come close to hitting its worst-case scenario.

Early this week, we were told Wish could bring in as much as $66 million by Monday. The very worst case was $49 million.

Nope.

Not even close.

Currently, it looks like Wish will flop somewhere between $ 35 million and $38 million .

Tee hee.

Wish is shaping up to be another big bomb.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of child predators.

If that’s not embarrassing enough, Wish lost the weekend’s box office crown to another underperformer, the second weekend of the Hideous Rachel Zegler’s Hunger Games prequel, Songbirds and Snakes , which looks like it will gross $42 million by Monday.

That’s a better second weekend than projected, but it will still only sit at around $110 million total — which is what the original films earned on their first weekends. With a production and promotion budget north of $150 million, Songbirds and Snakes will have to gross around $300 million to break even. At this point, it looks like the overseas box office will determine its fate.

Avoid Shopping at These Woke Companies on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:16:45 GMT

PJ Media Reports: Consumers' Research, a nonprofit conservative consumer watchdog, has published a list of five corporations where woke has run wild , and consumers should approach buying anything from them with caution.

Best Buy, Activision, Target, Nordstrom, and Home Depot made the list this year. Each has transgressed common sense and decency in pursuit of woke dollars. Unfortunately for them, as we've seen with Bud Light, it doesn't always work out well for the company.

The Anheuser-Busch promotional campaign that used trans "influencer" Dylan Mulvaney to sell beer was one of the biggest disasters in corporate marketing history. The executive who thought it up was originally suspended last August. Last week, he was finally fired , leaving "in order to embark on a new chapter in his career," the company said in a statement.

AB sales were down 15% for the third quarter and Bud Light is no longer the top-selling light beer. The company has found it very difficult to regain market share.

But the five companies on the Consumers' Research list haven't learned their lesson yet.

Best Buy initiated a blatantly racist employment policy "that prioritized race above other factors by requiring applicants to 'identify as Black, Latino, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander.'" While I sympathize with the sentiment involved in boycotting Best Buy, I would simply point out that companies that hire based solely on race and gender pay for that stupidity in the long run. Racist hiring practices dispense their own justice.

Don’t fall for woke misinformation about the origins of Thanksgiving

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:18:41 GMT

Washington Examiner Reports: Who doesn’t love Thanksgiving ? Woke social media activists, apparently. Every time this great American holiday comes around, they reemerge to explain why Thanksgiving is “problematic."

In one TikTok video that received more than 400,000 views, a left-wing activist named Audrey Nicholas attempts to explain “why you shouldn’t celebrate Thanksgiving” by spinning a narrative about the “real” origins of the holiday.

“In 1637, the Pequot tribe was celebrating their green corn harvest,” she explains. “In early hours of the morning, English and Dutch mercenaries surrounded their tribe and demanded they come outside. The ones who did were clubbed to death and shot. The women and children who huddled in the longhouses afraid were burned alive.”

“The next day, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared that day the day of Thanksgiving … that is the reason Native Americans associate Thanksgiving with massacre,” her TikTok screed concludes. “And when you celebrate it, you’re also celebrating those massacres.”

This isn’t a claim unique to one TikTokker. It’s been featured in countless popular TikTok videos and viral Facebook posts, and it has even been parroted by some ostensibly legitimate media outlets such as HuffPost and Time magazine.

There’s just one problem: it isn’t true.

We've Got A New Design! We've Heard Your Requests. Let Us Know What You Think!

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:51:26 GMT

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Companies that went woke in 2020, are now feeling the heat

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:36:33 GMT

World Tribune Reports: Dove, which is owned by Unilever, has boasted that it donated more than $1 million to groups including the Black Lives Matter Foundation. Airbnb highlighted its grant of $500,000 to the foundation and the NAACP. DoorDash touted its $100,000 “donation partnership” with groups including the Black Lives Matter Foundation.

Consumers’ Research issued a “woke alert” last week against Dove, Airbnb, and Doordash as they are feeling the heat of throwing in with BLM after the group led by avowed Marxists issued pro-Hamas and anti-Israel statements in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas slaughter of 1,200 Israelis.

Soon after the massacre by Hamas terrorists, Black Lives Matter Chicago posted an image of a paraglider with a Palestinian flag, a reference to the Hamas paragliders which attacked Israeli civilians, with the caption “I Stand With Palestine.”

BLM later said it sent messages “that we aren’t proud of,” but did not apologize.

In 2015, BLM co-founder Patrice Cullors, a self-described “trained Marxist,” said “Palestine is our generation’s South Africa” and called for the dismantling of Israel.

“[I]f we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project called Israel, we’re doomed,” Cullors said during a panel discussion at Harvard Law School.

Then there’s Coca-Cola.

In a Nov. 1 letter to Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz asked why the company apparently deleted its online reference to a $500,000 donation by Sprite, one of its brands, to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

Kirk Cameron Takes on Woke Book Giant to Fight Harmful, Sexualized Books in Schools

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 04:51:29 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: “There is now enacted or pending legislation in more than 30 U.S. states prohibiting certain kinds of books from being in schools — mostly LGBTQIA+ titles and books that engage with the presence of racism in our country,” Scholastic said in an October statement.

“Because Scholastic Book Fairs are invited into schools, where books can be purchased by kids on their own, these laws create an almost impossible dilemma: back away from these titles or risk making teachers, librarians and volunteers vulnerable to being fired, sued or prosecuted,” the company added.

From there, the company added a new selection of 64 books that are more controversial than the average kiddie book. The company labeled these books the “Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice” collection. Their plan was that schools would be allowed to opt in to have this collection added to a book fair.

But leftists were outraged at this opt-in feature and absurdly accused Scholastic of “censoring books.” Naturally, it wasn’t long before Scholastic caved to the left-wing outrage machine, dumped the opt-in collection, and announced that going forward every school would be forced to accept the books aimed at grooming small children for sexual contact with adults.

In an Oct. 25 statement , Scholastic president Ellie Berger groveled before the left, saying that the opt-in collection was a mistake.

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Now that Scholastic seems to be signaling that schools will have to take the controversial grooming books , this is leaving many looking for an alternative to the left-wing agenda being forced on children. And actor and Christian activist Kirk Cameron is about to step up to fill that need.

Cameron has announced the formation of SkyTree books which, he says, will offer “healthy, wholesome” books for kids, according to Fox News . The nonprofit says that it is “leading the way with book fairs that promote literacy while protecting childhood innocence.” The former “Growing Pains” star says that his new company is a direct response to the decision by Scholastic Book Fairs to push controversial and inappropriate content on kids.

Robert Kirkman Claims Marvel Studios Will Race Swap Sentry With Actor Steven Yuen

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 04:25:30 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead and Invincible recently claimed that actor Steven Yuen will play Sentry in an upcoming Marvel Studios film.

While responding to a question from a viewer on a livestream with artist David Finch about the Sentry Kirkman stated, “My good friend Steven Yuen is playing the Sentry in a movie.”

He elaborated, “He called me. He went in for a costume fitting. I don’t think this is a spoiler or anything that’ll get anybody in trouble. I don’t know, maybe, we’ll see. I don’t care. I don’t work for Marvel. What are they going to do to me? He called me. He said, ‘I just came back from a costume fitting for the Sentry. I guess I only do superheroes that are yellow and blue.'”

Kirkman added, “He said he was at the costume fitting and was like, ‘Ah crap! I forgot Invincible was yellow and blue!'”

It was rumored back in February that Yuen would play Sentry. The Weekly Planet podcast co-host James Clement claimed, “I spoke to somebody at Marvel – not a higher up necessarily – and this is the quote that they sent me: ‘We don’t even know who he’s playing, but my guess is Sentry, since there’s been whispers of that casting circulating a bit.”

“So, he’s going to be in the Thunderbolts as Sentry, potentially,” Clement added. “That’s what somebody’s telling me who heard from somebody else.”

Rachel Zegler’s ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes’ Receives Worst Critic Scores Of Entire Franchise

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 04:42:47 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes starring Rachel Zegler has received the worst critic scores of the entire The Hunger Games franchise.

On top of these poor critic scores, the film is predicted to have the worst opening weekend in franchise history as well. Box Office Pro projects the film will only gross between $42 million and $55 million in its opening weekend. Specifically, they project the film will gross $47.1 million.

The outlet previously indicated the film would gross between $97 million and $157 million in its entire domestic run. All four of the previous films had opening weekends above $102 million. Mockingjay Part 2 had the lowest opening weekend of $102.6 million. Mockingjay Part 1 brought in $121.8 million. The original film grossed $152.5 million in its opening weekend and the Catching Fire sequel did $158 million.

While the film is doing worse on all metrics compared to other films in the franchise, it will likely fare better than The Marvels since it’s estimated production budget is only $100 million.

That means the movie needs to get to $250 million to break even to cover the film’s box office split with theaters as well as its marketing costs.

Target Humiliates Itself with Woke Christmas Decorations

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 03:52:08 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: At best, Target has learned only part of its lesson from this year’s conservative customer boycott.

According to End Wokeness — a prominent conservative account with more than 1.8 million followers on the social media platform X — the Minnesota-based corporate retail giant now offers woke Christmas decorations, including a black Santa Claus in a wheelchair and a figurine sporting both a “pride” hat and a “pride” flag.

“Target outdid itself this year for Christmas,” End Wokeness posted.

Conservative podcaster Tim Pool confirmed that Target has, in fact, made “Santa in Wheelchair” available for purchase.

“[O]mg its real,” Pool wrote.

Thanks to “ pride “-themed merchandise rolled out ahead of June’s “pride” month, Target suffered a substantial decline in revenue.

Thus, social media users seemed flabbergasted that the company had not mended its woke ways.

Professor Defends ‘Thought-Provoking’ Article Excusing Bestiality

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 04:41:17 GMT

The Lid Reports: A top professor at Princeton University is suffering backlash after he was caught defending the idea that it is OK for people to have sex with animals.

Last week, Princeton bioethics professor Peter Singer defended the indefensible by sharing an article on social media entitled “Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible,” in which the anonymous author says bestiality is a perfectly legitimate sexual proclivity.

Singer praised the article as very “thought-provoking” and worthy of consideration.

The author of the article said he hoped to knock down the taboo of humans forcing themselves sexually on animals.

“As one of our most deeply entrenched social taboos, zoophilia is widely considered to be wrong, and having sex with animals is illegal in many countries,” the author wrote. “In this article, I would like to go against this de facto consensus and argue that zoophilia is morally permissible. This would have major implications for how we legally and socially deal with zoophilia.”

“There is, in fact, nothing wrong with having sex with animals: it is not an inherently problematic sexual practice,” the author exclaimed.

Singer seemed to agree with the author and at least showed he was open to being persuaded.

'Literally shaming the reader': Batman writer says comic books weren't always woke; now characters are 'professional victims'

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:08:08 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Celebrated comic book writer Chuck Dixon argued that while comic books haven't always been woke and progressive, many have turned into the personal point of view of writers who shame readers with the political opinions of the author.

Dixon , who has written for Marvel and DC Comics dating back to the 1980s, has worked on iconic characters such as Batman and the Punisher.

While routinely taking fan questions on his own series called " Ask Chuck Dixon ," the writer was asked about the idea that comic books have always been "woke/political." The fan added that he thought the X-Men in particular weren't always politically correct and "definitely NOT woke."

"It’s funny, isn’t it? The thing about wokeism, and political correctness, and all the rest of it is the goalposts are always moving," Dixon replied, according to Bounding into Comics .

Dixon then remarked how X-Men comic book writer Chris Claremont turned the characters into "professional victims" but was still criticized by progressives. Claremont came under fire in 2022 after he gave " inflammatory remarks " at a comic book event .

The writer reportedly referred to slavery in a fictional setting and jokingly corrected himself after referring to the movie "Men in Black," saying, " sorry, Persons in Black ."

Disney+ Will Shut Down in December, Losing Hundreds of Millions

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 04:56:59 GMT

Newsmax Reports: As part of an entertainment giant that has been struggling to connect with audiences, as indicated most recently by the flop of "The Marvels," which was criticized for its woke trailer , the streaming service Disney+ will soon be merging with the company's Hulu service, Disney CEO Bob Iger said.

According to Inside the Magic , despite its vast array of family favorites — the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Star Wars franchise, and others — Disney+ has been struggling to compete with other streaming services such as Netflix, resulting in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Since Disney took on Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis on his state's sex ed curriculum, the company has lost billions as customers have been turning off Disney+ and Hulu.

In March 2021, the company's market cap was roughly $358 billion. Today, it is roughly $155 billion.

According to USA Today , in October, Disney changed the pricing for their ad-free streaming services.

The ad-free version of Disney+ now costs $13.99 per month, up from $10.99 — a 30% increase — while the ad-free version of Hulu increased from $14.99 to $17.99 per month.

Disney is set to fully acquire Hulu, suggesting a shift toward consolidating its streaming assets.

Disney’s WOKE ‘The Marvels’ Bombs with Worst MCU Opening Ever

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:00:00 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s The Marvels is now a certified disaster, with an opening weekend predicted between $47 million and $55 million, according to the left-wing Deadline.

Even if The Marvels hits that high water mark of $55 million, it will still rank as the worst opening of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), which officially launched 33 movies ago in 2008 with Iron Man. Prior to The Marvels, 2008’s The Incredible Hulk starring Edward Norton (remember that?) earned the MCU’s worst opening weekend at $55.4 million.

Could The Marvels have legs? Doubtful. The die-hard turned out Friday night; the Marvel fanatics and The Marvels still earned a very weak B Cinemascore . That does not bode well for the word-of-mouth advertising and repeat business necessary to create a box office hit.

The once untouchable MCU, a franchise that delivered $30 billion in worldwide box office dollars from 30 movies, a franchise more successful than any in history, the cinematic golden goose of all cinematic golden geese, has been woke-raped into a straight-up disaster.

Since the breathtaking one/two punch of Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019, only one Marvel film has delivered that old Marvel magic — which is a perfect mix of box office gold and audience goodwill — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. And that’s it for Guardians. Star-Lord and company are officially retired. Writer/director James Gunn has now moved over to Warner Bros. to save that superhero universe (only to have his first movie shelved ).

Comic Book Readers Reject Sodomy-Filled ‘Alan Scott: Green Lantern’ Book By Tim Sheridan

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 04:45:55 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: Comic book readers chose not to purchase the sodomy-filled Alan Scott: Green Lantern comic book by writer Tim Sheridan despite Sheridan begging his followers to purchase the book to spite Comicsgate.

In the middle of October, Sheridan took to X to beg his followers to purchase the book saying, “I’m here to ask you a favor. The book comes out next DC Tuesday, October 24th, but already the haters and the queerphobes are out in force, doing everything they can to see that this book tanks. They use code and make it sound like they have legit problems with a book they haven’t read yet. But the truth is they just don’t like that there is a queer hero in the upper ranks of the DCU.”

“The only way we can shut these people down is to make this book an undeniable success,” he continued. “The only way to prove to the big publishers that there’s a huge market for authentic stories about LGBTQIA+ characters and these stories are for everyone is to buy the heck out of books like this.”

Sheridan went on, “This one’s only six issues and each one has a few variants. So I’m asking if you have the means buy them up. Buy extras. Give to people you think really need to read it.”

He then claimed that he would not pocket any additional profits from an assumed increase in sales from his pitch, “And you might say this sounds like a great way for Tim Sheridan to make a bundle in royalties. Well, no. I won’t make a penny because every single royalty I receive from these six issues will go straight to a charity that is very important to me and that I’ve support for a long time: The Elton John Aids Foundation, which works to prevent HIV stigma and provide compassionate care for all communities.”

Fans Unfollowing WOKE Hollywood Celebrities in Droves over Their Israel Remarks

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 03:00:41 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Hollywood celebrities choosing to weigh in on Israel as it defends itself from Hamas terrorists attacks are paying a price — in lost followers.

Online posts that are accused of saying too much or too little about events in Israel since the barbaric October 7 attack on the Jewish state are challenged for going public for “incorrect” thinking and are punished accordingly.

Others just want their favorite celebrities to stay out of politics altogether.

An exclusive poll conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek found that, of the 1,500 eligible U.S. voters surveyed on October 29, 36 percent said they had unfollowed a celebrity on social media over their opinions on the war between Israel and Hamas.

Among the younger age groups, Generation Z is the most likely to hit the unfollow button. According to the survey, 33 percent of the 18 to 26 age group said they’d stopped following a celebrity after their comments about the war, while 29 percent of people in the 27 to 42 age group feel the same.

Newsweek reports this is compared to 17 percent of the 43 to 58 age group and five percent of the over 59 age group who agree.

Nintendo and Sony Teaming Up to Make Live-Action Legend of Zelda Movie

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 03:55:42 GMT

IGN Reports: Nintendo is finally making a live-action Legend of Zelda movie, after years of hopes and months of rumors.

The news was shared today in an official post to Nintendo investors, with few details. The film is being produced by Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Avi Arad, chairman of Arad Productions and former founder and CEO of Marvel Studios.

Arad has been credited as a producer on numerous successful films over the years, most recently including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Into the Spider-Verse, No Way Home, Far From Home, and Homecoming. He's also worked on upcoming films including Kraven the Hunter and the Borderlands movie .

The Maze Runner director Wes Ball is set to direct, and Sony Pictures Entertainment will handle theatrical distribution in addition to co-financing the movie with Nintendo. Deadline Hollywood , meanwhile, reports that Jurassic World writer Derek Connolly is writing the script.

Though the press release indicates that development is just beginning, in a tweet/X post today Miyamoto indicated that the project has been in the works in some form for "many years now."

Earlier this year, rumors abounded that a live-action Legend of Zelda movie was in the works, but the word on the Hyrule street was that Universal was involved , or perhaps Illumination , rather than Sony.

The rumors were fueled by the Tears of the Kingdom developers themselves, who expressed that they were "interested" in making a Zelda movie after the success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie earlier this year . However, as Eiji Aonuma said at the time, "it's not just me being interested in something that makes things happen, unfortunately." A Netflix series was reportedly canceled after leaking on the internet.

Bill Maher Tells Neil DeGrasse Tyson He’s A Coward For Pandering To Woke Kids

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 04:59:19 GMT

Daily Caller Reports: HBO’s “Real Time” and “Club Random” podcast host Bill Maher held nothing back when being criticized by Neil DeGrasse Tyson for refusing to bow to the woke leftist tyrannical agenda.

Maher has completely abandoned college campuses when it comes to his stand-up comedy career, DeGrasse Tyson said during Sunday’s episode of “Club Random.” In response, Maher politely told DeGrasse Tyson he was being far “too broad” with his criticism of Maher’s comedic work. But DeGrasse Tyson wouldn’t let go, basically telling Maher to censor himself to be able to work on college campuses.

Considering how many non-woke people have been attacked and threatened by far-leftists woke college students, it’s unclear why DeGrasse Tyson was so Hell-bent on making this point to Maher, saying he’d “given up on an entire generation.”

“I’ve given up on any place that doesn’t even remotely attempt to believe in free speech ,” Maher shot back, yelling, finally. “And thinks that anything that they hear that they don’t like, that they don’t agree with is violence. These people are fucking nuts and you should be calling them out. Somebody like you, who has standing with kids.”

At this, DeGrasse Tyson tried and failed to interject.

“You’re doing what parents do,” Maher continued. “You’re taking the path of least resistance and therefore hurting the kids and yourself. Parents ruin both their lives. They ruin their fuckin’ spoiled kids’ lives and they ruin their own lives ’cause the kids rule the roost. So what you’re doing on a national level … ”

Disney already in 'damage control' mode before 'The Marvels' is released

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 04:51:04 GMT

The Blaze Reports: If you’re tired of Marvel movies with woke plotlines and feminist leading ladies, then that’s too bad because there’s another one on the way. “The Marvels” is gearing up for its 2023 release next week and will star Brie Larson as Captain Marvel.

While Lauren Chen isn’t a fan of the Marvel franchise and its stars, she admits that what she is “a huge fan of is schadenfreude.” “You see the team behind Captain Marvel, including Brie Larson herself. They were really at the forefront of basically accusing everybody who doesn’t like one of their movies of being sexist or toxic,” Chen says.

Larson as Captain Marvel has not been a selling point for fans, and because of that, Disney has “been doing everything in their power to essentially play damage control for the character.”

The new film is predicted to have one of, if not the worst, box office grosses for the MCU ever. It’s been predicted that "The Marvels" will only gross between $50 million and $75 million in its domestic opening weekend. It’s also been predicted that the film will bring in between $121 million and $189 million at the domestic box office.

“If this data is correct, I really can’t imagine a way that Disney does not lose money on this,” Chen says.

The Only MLB Team To Not Bend Knee to WOKE ‘Pride’ Pressure Wins World Series

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:38:00 GMT

The American Spectator Reports: Perhaps the gods of political incorrectness are exacting revenge upon Major League Baseball’s screwy wokesters.

I recently wrote about the implosion of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Despite posting another 100-win season, the Dodgers pathetically failed to make it through the divisional round of the playoffs. They were trounced, outright swept by the second-place team in their division, the Arizona Diamondbacks, who won 16 fewer games than the Dodgers. The Dodgers registered a mark for futility.

Of course, back in June the Dodgers had registered another mark for futility — actually, for obscenity. The team gave a “ Community Hero Award ” to a lewd anti-Catholic hate group, the so-called “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.” Despite outcry from pretty much the whole world, the Dodgers insisted on recognizing the hairy-legged, bearded weirdos during the team’s “Pride Night.” (RELATED: My Religion Is Not Your Costume )

That was June, with the team at its peak of winning streaks. Then came October, when the Dodgers struck out big time against the D-backs.

For the Dodgers, pride came before the fall.

Readers might recall a June 2023 piece I did on MLB and Pride Month . There, naturally, I took my shots at the dubious Dodgers. The especially astute reader might recall that in that piece I noted that the only MLB franchise not flying the rainbow banner was the Texas Rangers. In not swallowing the woke gobbledygook, the Rangers were condemned as gay baseball’s lone holdout .

Elon Musk admits to Joe Rogan that old Twitter censored conservatives at '10x the rate of Democrats'

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:19:34 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: It wasn’t that long ago that Twitter was owned by Jack Dorsey and operated by leftists who loved nothing more than to give the boot to anyone who diverged from the accepted narrative, which, of course, was handcrafted by Democrats. As a result, many conservatives were kicked off the platform and effectively prevented from sharing their ideas.

However, that all changed when Elon Musk purchased the company and lifted the ban on sharing conservative thoughts and opinions.

Musk recently joined Joe Rogan on "The Joe Rogan Experience," and the subject of Twitter’s dark days was one topic of conversation.

“From the standpoint of some of the people who used to be at Twitter,” Musk said, there’s been “a big shift to the right.”

“That is correct. It is a shift to the right because everything is to the right if you’re far-left,” he explained, “but how many far-left people have been suspended or banned from Twitter, now X? Zero.”

Further, “the degree to which Twitter was simply an arm of the government was not well understood by the public,” Musk told Rogan, adding that “a state publication is the way to think of old Twitter.”

Joy Behar’s comment about assault weapons makes us want to face-palm

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 03:31:39 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Tell us you know nothing about guns, hunting, or the Second Amendment without telling us you know nothing about guns, hunting, or the Second Amendment ...

“But also, if you shoot with an AR-15 — let’s say you shoot a deer — you can’t eat it because you’ve basically demolished the animal,” added Behar, throwing up her hands.

Netflix Went Un-Woke and Enjoys Success, Something Disney Has Yet to Figure Out

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 04:04:08 GMT

Townhall Reports: Families have become turned off by its adherence to social activism and injecting its offerings with lecturing content. The Star Wars property has distanced hardcore fans and the Marvel franchises have not been the money-printing enterprises as seen in years past.

Meanwhile, in spite of the streaming wars causing losses across the industry, Netflix decided some time back to dispatch a woke agenda and as a result it is reaping benefits as one of the few successes seen in the newer medium. Disney needs to learn this lesson. This new “un-woke” approach has brought success. Netflix recently posted

quarterly reports that were glowing , with a better-than-expected rise in subscriptions, and the stock soared with double-digit increases on Wall Street.

This is in defiance of the other streaming services bleeding out on a regular basis. Disney+ has been losing subscribers for consecutive quarters as the streaming service continues to be a massive financial drain. Others such as Comscast’s Peacock continues to lose billions , and Paramount+ is also facing big loses as it attempts to gain traction.

At some point you expect a dawning to come over Bob Iger. Instead of telling your audience what you think they need to hear it might actually be good business to give the people what they want.

Halloween killed! ‘Woke’ schools axing kids’ parties over inequality is a haunting new low

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 04:51:56 GMT

NY Post Reports: There was a time, not long ago, when the most horrifying thing in New Jersey was the Giants’ offensive line.

But now, at least in one Garden State school district, it’s Halloween. Yes, that glorious fall day when pint-size humans come to school dressed in princess gowns, superhero capes or zombie rags and are permitted to freebase a Nestlé sampler bag.

Earlier this month, Dr. Ronald G. Taylor, the superintendent of the South Orange-Maplewood School District, sent a letter home informing parents that he is a killjoy. Or, more specifically, that Halloween would not be celebrated in schools this year .

Banned during school hours. No parades, no costumes, no candy, no trick or treat. But this administration can go and smell my feet. (That’s polite Jerseyese for “Go scratch.”)

The reason for wiping this super fun, very secular holiday off the school calendar? Diversity, equity and inclusion. The higher-ups are trying to not ostracize kids who don’t celebrate Halloween because of religious reasons or those who simply can’t afford elaborate costumes.

The aim, according to Taylor’s letter, is to foster “diversity, equity, and inclusion meaningfully.” Meaningfully. Not not meaningfully, all right? These are not empty buzzwords meant to placate some nonsensical DEI standards — they swear.

And when you really mean it, that means canceling one of the days of the year when kids actually like coming to school.

WOKE Paramount CEO Pledges to Go down with the Diversity Ship

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:31:38 GMT

Breitbart Reports: At something called Paramount Global’s 5th annual Global Inclusion Week (more on that here ), Paramount CEO Bob Bakish pledged to take his company down with the diversity ship.

“I, our senior leadership team, and our board believe that we will be more successful with DE&I at the core of our business,” he said .

“We all come from different places, and understanding people’s perspectives is actually what this week is all about,” he added . “Diversity, equity, and inclusion is fundamental to our business.”

HAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha…. Hey, how are those super-expensive Star Trek spin-offs working out for you? Instead of calling it DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), they should be honest and call it DIE.

DEI isn’t about hiring more racial minorities, something no one disagrees with. Certainly not me. I grew up in the glorious eighties when the world’s biggest movie star was black (Eddie Murphy), the two biggest TV stars were black (Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby), our sports heroes were black (Mike Tyson, Bo Jackson), our favorite comedians were black (Murphy again and Richard Pryor), and all of our sisters had posters of Prince and a still-black Michael Jackson on their bedroom walls. Oh, and one of our favorite action heroes was a woman named Sigourney Weaver.

So, no, DEI is not about that .

DEI is all about the propaganda of hectoring, lecturing, shaming, and creating anti-entertainment with divisive, heavy-handed messaging aimed at “correcting the past.”

It’s not racial minorities in starring roles anyone objects to, not in a country that has embraced Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. No, it’s the in-your-face, spellbreaking virtue-signaling. Honestly, when Paramount has Planet Stacy Abrams emerge in Star Trek Discovery as President of United Earth, that’s your DEI right there — violate the storytelling spell for a virtue-signaling political announcement.

Idiots.

Another Woke Franchise Dies Prematurely — ‘Fantastic Beasts’

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 04:08:06 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Fantastic Beasts franchise was supposed to run for five films. After only three, it has been “parked.” When you park something, you STOP, SHUT IT OFF, and WALK AWAY, correct?

“With Beasts , it’s all just parked,” Fantastic Beasts director David Yates said in a recent interview. “We made those three movies, the last one through a pandemic, and it was enormous fun but it was tough.”

“We’re all so proud of [the third and last one: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore ], he added , “and when it went out into the world, we just needed to sort of stop and pause and take it easy.”

“The idea that there were going to be five films was a surprise to most of us. Jo just mentioned it spontaneously, at a press screening once. No one had told us there were going to be five, we’d committed to the first one… I’m sure at some point, we’ll be back.”

Five? Nobody told me there would be five. Why-why-why, this franchise isn’t a failure! We just got tired of filming during the COVID, see? It was a tough shoot, see? And now we need to sort of stop and pause, see? Five? Who said five? No one told me five? We’re a success, see? A big, roaring success, see? And it was Jo who stole the strawberries, Jo, I tell you. Jo!

Yates directed all three of these, and everyone, including Yates, screwed the woke pooch over and over and over…

First, they went full McCarthy against star Johnny Depp based on what a civil court would eventually prove was a phony allegation. Shame on those cowards forever.

Second, Fantastic Beasts is a children’s franchise, and the most recent chapter, The Secrets of Dumbledore, opened with “two grown gay men discussing how much in love they once were with one another.” I’m talking about two of the main characters coming out as homosexual in a kids’ movie.

Result?

Box office catastrophe….

Disney Releases First Look At WOKE ‘Snow White,’ Delays Film’s Release An Entire Year

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 00:55:17 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: The Walt Disney Company released a first look at Rachel Zegler’s upcoming Snow White film while also revealing that the movie will be delayed an entire year.

The Hollywood Reporter notes that Disney pushed back Snow White from its original release date of March 22, 2024 to March 21, 2025. The outlet alleges the delay is due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.

However, The Walt Disney Company also released a first look at Rachel Zegler alongside what appears to be seven dwarfs. Given the appearance of the dwarfs, it’s possible the film will undergo significant reshoots once the strike is ended.

The idea that the movie might undergo significant reshoots and thus might be the true reason for the delay is because The Daily Mail previously published images from the set of Snow White showing a number of actors that looked nothing like the dwarfs in this first look image.

Following images of these actors being published by The Daily Mail, a Disney spokesman told The Daily Beast the images were not from the Snow White production, “The photos are fake and not from our production. We are currently trying to have the Daily Mail issue a correction.”

The Daily Mail would update their story, but made it clear the photos were not fake and were indeed from Disney’s production. An update on the article stated, “This article has been amended since initial publication to correctly identify the actress portraying Snow White as an extra who stood in for post-production photography.

D’Souza’s ‘Police State’ Gets Shocking ‘Boost’ from YouTube

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 04:56:05 GMT

Hollywood In Toto Reports: YouTube inadvertently proved Dinesh D’Souza’s point about his new film, “Police State.”

Hollywood in Toto’s interview with the author-turned-filmmaker appears on the platform along with a “context” warning from left-leaning Wikipedia.

The note says Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.

Why would YouTube mention that? Perhaps because D’Souza’s previous film, “ 2000 Mules ,” made a provocative case that voter fraud helped swing the election for Biden.

The HiT interview with D’Souza didn’t mention Trump’s allegations of voter fraud or the 2020 presidential election.

At all.

Just talking to D’Souza apparently was enough. (And let’s assume the same warning doesn’t appear whenever election-denier Hillary Clinton graces the platform)

Sadly, you can’t buy that kind of advertising for “ Police State ,” a docudrama arguing the United States is heading toward Banana Republic status.

Pixar Chief Pete Docter Believes Company Has “Drifted Too Far From Its Storytelling Roots

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 03:06:54 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: The New York Times’s Brooks Barnes described a Zoom interview he conducted with Docter that primarily revolved around the failure of Elemental that Disney is now attempting to spin as a success given the movie had longer legs at the box office than initially expected.

According to The-Numbers , Pixar’s latest animated release, Elemental, only grossed $29.6 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office. However, the film went on to earn $154.4 million at the domestic box office in its entire theatrical run. It added on another $333.7 million internationally, predominantly in South Korea ($54.4M), for a global gross of $488.1 million.

However, given the film’s estimated $200 million production budget, the movie needed to hit at least $500 million to break even after you factor in the movie’s marketing budget as well as the box office split that theaters take.

According to Barnes, Docter placed the blame on Walt Disney executives who moved Pixar films from theatrical releases to Disney+ releases. Barnes detailed, “For a start, [Docter] said, Disney had undercut Pixar as a big-screen force by using its films to build the Disney+ streaming service.

He reportedly pointed to Soul, Turning Red, and Luca all being released on Disney+ instead of getting theatrical releases.

Docter claims this change shifted the way viewers look at Pixar films, “There has been an overall shift in viewing habits as a result of the pandemic, but it’s also specific to Disney+. We’ve told people, ‘Hey, all of this is going to be available to you on Disney+!’”

Not only did Docter claim that Disney executives have screwed the pooch by putting Pixar films on Disney+, but he did take some of the blame himself with Barnes stating, “Although not saying so directly, Mr. Docter also indicated that Pixar had perhaps drifted too far from its storytelling roots.”

Prosecutors will recharge Alec Baldwin over lethal movie shooting after results from independent forensic test

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 04:15:14 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Hollywood star Alec Baldwin could soon face fresh charges in connection to the fatal Rust shooting almost exactly two years ago as New Mexico prosecutors seek to present new evidence to a grand jury.

The announcement represents a dramatic reversal after prosecutors dropped their involuntary manslaughter case against Baldwin earlier this year. On Tuesday, they said “additional facts have come to light” following an “extensive” investigation they carried out in recent months.

It remains unclear what the nature of the new charges could be, but prosecutors had submitted the gun used in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins for further analysis, according to a New York Times report .

Director Joel Souza was also injured after the gun in Baldwin’s hand was discharged during a rehearsal.

“After extensive investigation over the past several months, additional facts have come to light that we believe show Mr. Baldwin has criminal culpability in the death of Halyna Hutchins and the shooting of Joel Souza,” special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis said in a statement reported by Deadline.

“We believe the appropriate course of action is to permit a panel of New Mexico citizens to determine from here whether Mr. Baldwin should be held over for criminal trial.”

Apple TV+ Parts Ways with Jon Stewart and His Basement-Rated Show

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:15:40 GMT

Breitbart Reports: After only two seasons, Apple TV+ and far-left former comedian Jon Stewart are parting ways. Although The Problem with Jon Stewart could be produced for a fraction of something like Apple’s The Morning Show, Stewart is still out the door.

Naturally, Stewart and his media enablers, like the conspiracy theorists at CNNLOL, are claiming Stewart is huffing out the door on principle over “creative differences.” That’s what Stewart is telling everyone anyway, which tells you how creatively spent he is. “Creative differences” has been a euphemism for “you suck, get out,” going back to vaudeville.

Perhaps, maybe, possibly, this had something to do with it…?

“The Problem With Jon Stewart” was the No. 1 unscripted series on Apple TV+ in October, a month after its debut, according to EW . But ever since, it has proved no match for its broadcast and cable TV competition and has been purging viewers.

The talk show had 180,000 homes tuning in its first week, Samba TV reported, but that number dropped 78% a mere 40,000 by its fifth episode. “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” meanwhile, drew 844,000 U.S. homes that same week, according to Samba TV.

Well, because CNN can only CNN and would love to have the serial-lying, pro-child mutilation , basement-rated former comedian join CNN, CNN tells its gullible readers The Problem with Jon Stewart has become “increasingly popular.”

Two points about that “increasingly popular” sleight of hand…

When you attract only 40,000 viewers, it doesn’t take much to become “increasingly popular.”
Because CNN is CNN, it provides no ratings data to back up the whole “increasingly popular” thing.

Amy Schumer wonders why BLM and LGBTQ would abandon Jews despite their support?

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 04:25:39 GMT

The Blaze Reports: Comedian Amy Schumer is facing backlash from the left after she posted a meme complaining that Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ activists had abandoned Jews who had supported their causes after terrorist attacks on Israel.

Schumer, who has been outspoken about her liberal political beliefs, posted the meme on a story at her official Instagram account.

"First they came for LGBTQ and I stood up, because Love is Love. Then they came for immigrants and I stood up, because families belong together. Then they came for the black community and I stood up because Black Lives Matter," the meme read.

"Then they came for me, but I stood alone, because I am a Jew," it added.

Many on the left lambasted Schumer after someone posted a screenshot of the meme from her account to X. One version garnered more than 27.3 million views.

"Amy Schumer has long been an explicit racist. Then she has the gall to post this White tears nonsense," replied writer Elias Cepada.

Is The Magazine Industry Becoming The Next Victim Of The Anti-Woke Backlash?

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 03:30:23 GMT

Amac Reports: The liberal push to inject far-left politics into every aspect of American life has had some surprising downstream effects, one of which is the complete woke takeover of the magazine industry – even magazines that ostensibly have nothing to do with politics. But just as other businesses have seen consumer backlash over their decision to become partisan propaganda outlets, magazines may be facing a reckoning of their own.

As far back as 2018, the onetime teenage fashion magazine Teen Vogue was touting its “evolution” from fashion to “activism.” In an interview with ABC News, editors at the magazine celebrated how they took “an aspirational fashion magazine for fashion lovers” and shifted it into one focused on “news, politics and social justice.”

“Our readers’ lane includes politics now,” they stated. “It’s a political world.”

Covering the complex world of politics could indeed be useful for young people. But Teen Vogue’s “coverage” has instead read more like DNC talking points.

In September, the magazine accused Republicans of “trying to censor LGBTQ history.” A feature piece from 2016 accused Donald Trump of “gaslighting America” and “attempting to destabilize the truth and weaken the foundations of American freedom.” The magazine has also been outspokenly pro-abortion and anti-Israel .

But Teen Vogue is just one example of a trend that has echoed across the entire publishing ecosystem. Rolling Stone magazine was once the gold standard for news in the music world. Now, the front page of their website promotes far more political hit pieces on conservatives than it does actual music.

In fact, on Google, Rolling Stone’s “Politics” section is listed higher than their “Music” section. Late last year, the magazine celebrated how it was able to grow its audience by focusing on “Creators” and “events” alongside “politics.” Meanwhile, its print readership continued to decline, and its music coverage wasn’t even discussed.

Marvel Will Reportedly Scrap More TV Shows After ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Including ‘Wonder Man’

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:01:32 GMT

Bounding Into Commics Reports: A new report claims that Marvel is not just stopping with Daredevil: Born Again, but will scrap a number of other planned Marvel Studios Disney+ productions including Wonder Man.

It was reported by The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit earlier this month that Marvel Studios was scrapping its Daredevil: Born Again Disney+ series after they let go of writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman.

Under Ord and Corman’s vision the show was reportedly “a legal procedural that did no resemble the Netflix version, known for its action and violence.” It was also reported that actor Charlie Cox did not suit up as Daredevil until the fourth episode with a rumor claiming it was due to him failing to save Foggy Nelson.

Now, the studio is looking for new writers and they are planning a “significant creative reboot of the series” albeit they do have “plans to keep some scenes and episodes, though other serialized elements will be injected.”

On top of scrapping Daredevil: Born Again, it was also revealed that Marvel Studios would be restructuring its TV division.

Kit explained, “Showrunners will write pilots and show bibles. The days of Marvel shooting an entire series, from She-Hulk to Secret Invasion, then looking at what’s working and what’s not, are done.”

Latest Hollywood Flop: Woke ‘Exorcist’ Re-Boot to Lose Millions

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:15:21 GMT

enVolve Reports: The following article, Latest Hollywood Flop: Woke ‘Exorcist’ Re-Boot to Lose Millions , was first published on .

Hollywood keeps racking up the box office bombs, and this Exorcist re-boot seems likely to torpedo an entire planned franchise that producers hoped would lead to box office success for years to come.

The latest episode of the Exorcist film series has been a huge flop and looks like it is going to end up losing hundreds of millions.

According to Hollywood In Toto :

“The Exorcist: Believer” opened to putrid reviews and a lackluster $27 million on its opening weekend during the month of Halloween, no less. Audiences hated the film, too. Consumers gave it a tepid 57 percent “rotten” rating at RottenTomatoes.com to go with a “C” from CinemaScore.

That’s not going to spark a word-of-mouth rebound.

Ironically, the powers that be kept the reboot’s price tag at a modest $30 million, a smart decision but one undermined by that $400 million fee.

The whole thing seems to be falling apart for the studio.

Daily Wire Announces Live-Action ‘Snow White And The Evil Queen’ Starring YouTube Sensation Brett Cooper

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:32:48 GMT

Daily Wire Reports: WAmid a tumultuous time for Disney, with its live action “Snow White” star Rachel Zegler publicly disparaging the classic story, contributing to already plummeting favorability ratings for the once-iconic company, The Daily Wire announced Monday it will make its own live-action adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale. The film, which is set to release in 2024, will be the first feature-length production of its newly-launched kids entertainment platform, Bentkey, and will star The Daily Wire’s own YouTube superstar host of “ The Comments Section ,” Brett Cooper.

Just over a year ago, following tremendous backlash against leaked footage in early 2022 that revealed company executives advocating for more “queerness” and radical racial messages in kids content, The Daily Wire announced its commitment to invest $100M into kids’ entertainment. On the 100th anniversary of Disney’s founding, Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing revealed in a Monday address the launch of Bentkey , a new kids entertainment company from The Daily Wire.

“Instead of telling stories about timeless truth, what the ancient fairy tales were all about, Disney’s new ‘Snow White’ is an apology for their past and will expose children to the popular but destructive lies of the current moment,” said Boreing. He ended the address with the bombshell announcement about the company’s plans for its own adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Bentkey ’s “Snow White and the Evil Queen.”

CEO Bob Iger ‘Overwhelmed and Exhausted’ Struggling to Rebuild Woke Disney

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:46:01 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger has reportedly become “overwhelmed and exhausted” from the difficulties of rebuilding his company amid its string of losses.

Speaking with Bloomberg News , insiders within the company said that Iger has quietly expressed regret for coming back in the wake of former CEO Bob Chapek stepping down. Since his return, Disney’s streaming service has continued to lose money while nearly every theatrical release has struggled at the box office.

Amid this disaster, activist investor Nelson Peltz has moved to “ boost his stake in the firm ,” according to the New York Post .

Peltz, who called off his proxy fight with Disney in February after Iger committed to a $5.5 billion cost-cutting spree which included laying off 7,000 employees, has lost confidence in the CEO’s ability to turn the company’s fortunes around, according to The Wall Street Journal. In May, after Disney reported poor second-quarter earnings results, which stemmed mostly from its money-losing streaming division, Iger and Peltz spoke by telephone, according to The Journal.

During the conversation, Iger reportedly sought to reassure Peltz that Disney was on the right footing despite investor sentiment. But Peltz and his team at Trian Fund Management decided to boost his stake in Disney from 6.4 million shares to 30 million shares as the company’s stock continued to decline over the summer.

The Trian Fund Management now has a stake valued at $2.5 billion in the company, which could allow Peltz to get his desired board seats. As of Tuesday morning, Disney’s stock price fell to $84.50 a share, a 50 percent drop from its $191 stock price earlier this year.

As John Nolte of Breitbart News noted , Bloomberg failed to note that Disney alienated audiences by hurting its IP with woke content and pushing radical LGBTQ ideology on children through its programming.

“Every single one of Disney’s problems comes down to its obsessive left-wing political, social, and sexual agenda, which is deliberately aimed at innocent little kids,” he wrote.

Will Wokeness Face Extinction After Israel? It Just Might...

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 01:46:44 GMT

Human Events Reports: So this is how wokeness dies: with hang glider memes.

After Hamas’ unprecedentedly brutal and barbaric attack on Israel – an event rightly likened to both Pearl Harbor and 9/11 in the Israeli context – the first world jumped to its feet in horror and declared their support for Israel almost unanimously.

Even from a normie liberal perspective, this was a no-brainer. Already, reports have emerged of Hamas raping women (and then parading their corpses before mobs of shouting Islamist incels), not to mention of swastikas being flown both by Hamas and by their supporters. You’d think that for the #Resistance, which is all about supporting girl power (SLAY KWEEEN), #MeToo-style sanctification of rape victims, and opposition to racism and bigotry of all kinds, the choice of who to side with after that would be a no-brainer.

And, indeed, for the liberal establishment, it was: President Biden’s administration has announced its support for Israel unequivocally, and even woke curious organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) have joined them. This should have been a moment of unqualified bipartisan agreement – a rare thing these days – with only the odd Cozy streamer or professor of postcolonial underwater basket-weaving dissenting.

And it would have been, if not for the infiltration of so many of America’s institutions by woke ideology. Already, we have seen absurdities like posters at Coachella featuring images of hang gliders (which the Palestinians used to attack), and X posts declaring that akshully, “decolonization” has always meant ethnic cleansing, and if you have a problem with that, check your privilege, shitlord.

But this time, there’s a difference: the adults in the room are openly striking back.

‘South Park’ Mocks WOKE Hollywood Trend of Recasting Characters as Minority Women

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 01:29:24 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Paramount+ released the teaser for the new South Park special on Wednesday. The special “Joining the Panderverse” premieres Oct. 27 on the streaming service.

The teaser shows South Park boys Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny as women. Fan favorite Butters also makes the transformation.

In his original form, Kyle questions what sense this transformation makes. PC Principal tells him Kyle’s the one with the problem.

A synopsis reveals Cartman is dreaming about the end of the world while the adults of South Park contend with A.I.

Bloomberg’s 4,000 Word Article on Disney’s Collapse Hides Real Reason for Its Failure

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:21:33 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Bloomberg News wrote more than 4,000 words about Disney’s ongoing financial collapse without bothering to explain to its gullible readers why Disney is collapsing.

“Has Bob Iger Lost the Magic?” reads the headline. Uhm, I think you mean Groomer Bob Iger.

“Disney’s legendary CEO came out of retirement to save the company—right in time for its 100th birthday. Nothing has gone his way,” reads the sub-headline.

Uhm, I think you mean the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s legendary CEO.

This is the lengths the corporate media are willing to stretch to protect the left, the leftist agenda, and the transgender cult, which is coming straight for your children.

Every single one of Disney’s problems comes down to its obsessive left-wing political, social, and sexual agenda, which is deliberately aimed at innocent little kids.

Forbes points out that Disney’s failing streaming service, Disney+, has already lost two billion — with a “B” — dollars this year but doesn’t bother to point out why.

We all know why. The content sucks, and the content sucks because the content — especially the Marvel and Star Wars content that defines the service — is all about homosexuality, transsexuality , sexual fetishes , diversity hires, and destroying our beloved heroes so that unappealing, sexless girlbosses can take their place.

Forbes points out that Disney’s movies are bombing but doesn’t mention why (see above about “the content sucks”).

None of Ten Most-Followed Celebrity Instagram Accounts Shows Support for Israel Following Hamas Attacks, Many Backed BLM

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 02:55:04 GMT

Breitbart Reports: None of the ten most-followed celebrity Instagram accounts has shown support for Israel in the four days following Hamas’ bloody attacks on Jewish people that have so far claimed more than 1,100 Israeli lives.

At the same time, many of these same stars publicly voiced their support for Black Lives Matter in the recent past.

Celebrities including Beyonce, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, as well as various members of the Kardashian clan have all remained conspicuously silent in the past four days when it comes to backing Israel. The exception is Kylie Jenner, who posted a pro-Israel message following Saturday’s bloody attacks, only to delete it shortly thereafter following an onslaught of negative comments.

Other famous faces whose Instagram profiles rank in the top ten are Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, and soccer stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.

The deafening silence indicates a PR conundrum for celebrities with gargantuan social media followings. Showing support for Israel could count as a strike against them in the eyes fans as well as the establishment news media, which is almost entirely anti-Israel.

But many of these celebrities had no problem publicly backing BLM, despite the Marxist movement’s unpopularity with about half the U.S. population.

Joe Rogan reveals how California teacher attempted to indoctrinate his 5-year-old daughter into 'woke, guilt-ridden ideology'

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 01:30:43 GMT

The Blaze Reports: Joe Rogan revealed how a California teacher attempted to indoctrinate his 5-year-old daughter into a " woke , guilt-ridden ideology" on a recent episode of his popular podcast.

Rogan began by saying that there are "good schools" in the Austin area where he now lives, but noted that California is "much more problematic" when it comes to education. "They hired some person to teach them that they have to be antiracists and it's not good enough not to be racist," Rogan began his rant.

"My kids aren't racist at all," he said on a recent "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast. "What are you doing? Like, why are you putting that into their head? That they have to be antiracist and call out racism." Rogan declared that the teacher was "trying to make them be activists."

"Hey, they're five. They don't even care. They want friends. They don't give a f*** what their friends look like," he said. "They are trying to have a good time. They're five. They're just playing."

"You're indoctrinating them into this woke, guilt-ridden ideology that you're carrying around with you, and you feel like you have an obligation to impose this on children," Rogan stated. The prolific podcaster proposed that instead of being antiracist, we should strive to be a "color-blind society."

Disney Promises to Tone Down the Woke, Then Signs Race Huckster Ibram X. Kendi for ESPN Series on Racism in Sports

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 03:46:53 GMT

PJ Media Reports: The culture wars are bad for business, said Disney/ESPN top dog Bob Iger recently, and he vowed to “quiet the noise.” Iger’s idea of quiet, however, is apparently a sane American’s idea of an ear-splitting cacophony (you know, like a gaggle of woke activists for baby-killing at a pro-Moloch rally). He has withdrawn his behemoth corporation from the culture wars by featuring race-hate huckster Ibram X. Kendi in a new ESPN series on the pervasiveness of racism in sports. That’ll calm things down for sure, Bob!

Fox News reported Wednesday that Kendi, “an anti-racist activist who founded the Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, debuted a new ESPN series, ‘Skin in the Game,’ to dissect racism in sports.” That Center for Antiracist Research is not the glittering resume item it may appear to be (at least to leftist dopes) at first glance. After receiving millions of dollars in donations, much of which is unaccounted for, the Center folded last “amid allegations of mismanagement.”

BU Professor Saida Grundy, who was the Center’s Assistant Director of Narrative (now there’s a quintessentially leftist title), admitted: “I don’t know where the money is.” Nor does Kendi, apparently. But the sought-after activist has already moved on. His new show, which premiered on ESPN+ late last month, ‘delves into and challenges racism in the sports world, and will reveal how pervasive racism is in sports, while challenging the thoughts and systems of various governing bodies.’”

The professional sports leagues have made repeated and often self-conscious efforts to avoid and reject racism. Does Ibram X. Kendi really expect us to believe that the NBA is racist? As Old Joe Biden would say, Come on, man!

Disney’s Woke ‘Little Mermaid’ Bigger Bomb Than Previously Reported

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 03:57:19 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate lost even more money on its woke Little Mermaid remake than had been reported.

Previous budget reports said the movie cost $250 million to produce. The actual budget, per this report at Forbes, was $300 million, which does not include promotion costs.

The only reason we know the truth is because Disney wanted tax credits from the United Kingdom, where much of the movie was filmed, and the UK doesn’t put up with bookkeeping shenanigans the way we do here in America.

In the U.S., studios can and do lie about budgets all day long. First, they lie about the movie costing less than it actually did so it looks like a hit. Then the studios lie about it costing more than it actually did so they don’t have to pay out that backend money.

So, to try and make The Little Mermaid look like it might have actually made a profit, the number of $250 million leaked out somehow. Nope. More like $300 million, and it seems benevolent on my part to add only $100 million to the budget for promotion, which would make the total budget $400 million.

Unfortunately for the Disney groomers, The Little Mermaid flamed out at the worldwide box office with an anemic $567 million haul. When you’ve spent $400 million on a movie that grosses $567 million from a box office where about 50 percent of that $567 million stays with exhibitors, you are looking at a serious loss.

Woke Disney Changing Bambi Story Because Dead Deer Mom is Too Scary

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:20:30 GMT

enVolve Reports: Disney is at it again, giving a woke spin to one of its own classics to ruin it for a new generation. Disney is apparently set to erase the whole “hunter killed Bambi’s mom” part of the theme in its new imagining of the classic Bambi story.

Writer Lindsey Anderson Beer, who is undertaking the writing of the coming movie, says that the plot point is too intense for today’s “more sensitive” generation.

Today’s audiences might have a problem dealing with the idea that some hunter shot and killed Bambi’s mommy, Beer said .

“Not to spoil the plot, but there’s a treatment of the mom dying that I think some kids, some parents these days are more sensitive about than they were in the past,” she told entertainment website Collider in a recent interview.

“I do think there is a way to update Bambi and our take on it was… did give a little bit more of a scope to it,” she said. “And I just think that to be able to bring it to life for kids these days in a way that maybe they relate to a little bit more would be of service to the original.”

You hear that Generation Zers and later generations?

You are all too “sensitive” and weak of spine to withstand a deer dying in a movie.

Wimps.

Wall Street Sees ‘Hopeless Economics’ for (Lousy) Streaming Services

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:46:37 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Wall Street Journal says investors see only “hopeless economics” for Hollywood streaming services.

Here are the three most interesting items in the piece :

The new writer’s contract “will likely mean that companies will make fewer new shows and cancel even more that are on the bubble.” One longtime producer says “the number of scripted shows Hollywood produces could fall by one-third in the next three years.”

Duh. Streamers have no choice but to cut down on content. Currently, some 300-plus new TV shows – new TV shows on top of the ones already in production — are produced annually and no one watches about 290 of them. You are talking about billions of dollars spent on crap no one watches on streaming platforms losing billions of dollars.

“The studios held the line on key issues. Streamers won’t publicly release viewing data, despite the writers’ demands for transparency, but instead will give data on how shows fared to the Guild confidentially to share with its members in aggregate form.”

Writers won residuals based on streaming success. Good for them. But Wall Street (and the public) will remain in the dark on streaming viewership numbers — which only means one thing: those numbers are so awful the studios fear the truth will damage the stock price.

Here’s my favorite [emphasis mine]:

“The root problem is that there are too many streaming services. That is creating confusion for consumers and hopeless economics for the companies. Consolidation, whether in the form of mergers, joint ventures or bundles , has to come to the streaming world for the industry to be viable.”

Hollywood Screenwriter Explains How Woke, Diversity Hires Will Be Out Of Jobs Under New WGA Deal

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:44:32 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: " What we are seeing here from the youngins is there’s going to be less, possibly less opportunities for them especially in something like the pre-greenlit or mini rooms. And that comes down to two factors that I can think of right now."

“The first one is that the current MBA clearly defines that a showrunner has to be a union writer,” he said. “So it can’t be an internal executive producer like a Kevin Feige. It also gives them a bit more power in to who they select for the writing positions in the minimum staffing mini rooms and it also says that whoever they select has to be approved by the company or the showrunner has to argue for them to be involved.”

“Now, with regards to those rooms, you have showrunners that would only– a real showrunner, a good showrunner is only going to hire writers that they are going to get value out of in their room. Which means that if you are diversity hire and that’s all you’ve got going on you are of no value to a showrunner which means you are not going to get your ‘guaranteed hire’ over there.

At Least One Reason to Love AI – It’s Killing Cable TV

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 04:18:34 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping to kill off cable TV. So now we have one more reason to love AI.

Just imagine how much better the world will be if AI actually accomplishes everything we’ve been told it could accomplish. AI will hopefully replace all those Hollywood writers who hate us and destroy our beloved franchises with their ham-handed politics, sexual fetishes, and intolerance towards us normal people.

AI will hopefully replace all those Hollywood actors who hate us, destroy our beloved franchises, and spout their hatred and bigotry for us normal people on social media. Imagine if, on top of that, AI can kill off the left-wing affirmative action known as cable TV.

Good news… It’s already happening …

Cable simply can’t keep up as AI sifts through massive amounts of data about your viewing habits to give you better recommendations and personalized trailers on all your major streaming platforms. That means you watch more and churn less.

Is the Left Happy That They Got Their WOKE Wish?

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:38:07 GMT

American Greatness Reports: America has been in a veritable cultural revolution since the 1960s. Nearly all our major institutions finally became woke—the administrative state, traditional and social media, universities, K-12, the corporate boardroom, entertainment, professional sports, and the foundations.

So the Obama and the Biden administrations finally seemed to have achieved their aims, in what the Obamas once boasted would be the “fundamental transformation” of America into something unrecognizable by its Founders. But what they gave us was nihilism—the destruction of norms, laws, and customs. There is no border, no criminal justice system, no real president any more.

The citizen is a serf, the illegal alien the veritable citizen. The former needs a passport to reenter the country, the latter is waved on through. There is a slob in gym shorts and a hoodie establishing dress codes for the Senate, teen murderers bragging that they won’t spend a day in jail, and a would-be state legislator filming herself doing sexual gymnastics while begging for cash only to be upset over the invasion of her “privacy.” So the Left got what it wanted and gave us our new America.

The curious result, however, is that even the elite Left is now forced to live among, and cannot always escape, the ruination it created—and for the first time is becoming slightly unhappy with what it birthed.

Martin Scorsese Explains Why He Believes Comic Book Movies Are A Danger To Our Culture

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 02:11:43 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: Director Martin Scorsese, known for his films The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas, and Gangs of New York among others recently explained why he believes comic book movies are a danger to American culture.

While speaking with GQ , Scorsese asserted, “The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are.”

He continued, “They already think that. Which means that we have to then fight back stronger. And it’s got to come from the grassroots level. It’s gotta come from the filmmakers themselves.”

“And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean? And hit ’em from all sides. Hit ’em from all sides, and don’t give up. Let’s see what you got. Go out there and do it. Go reinvent. Don’t complain about it. But it’s true, because we’ve got to save cinema,” he elaborated.

He then went on to describe the types of comic book movies he’s specifically criticizing, “I do think that the manufactured content isn’t really cinema.” Scorsese detailed, “No, I don’t want to say it. But what I mean is that, it’s manufactured content. It’s almost like AI making a film.

Analyst Urges Disney to Remove Marvel and Star Wars from Disney+ Due to 'Ahsoka' Viewership Drop

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 03:34:20 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: Financial analyst Valliant Renegade recently called for Marvel and Star Wars shows to be pulled from Disney+ after recently revealed Ahsoka viewership numbers show significantly declining viewership for Star Wars on the streaming platform.

Nielsen recently released their viewership numbers for Ahsoka revealing the series’ two episode premiere only garnered 829 million minutes.

In reaction to these numbers, Valliant Renegade wrote on X, “Ahsoka’s viewership for the premiere measured lower than that of Book of Boba Fett when adjusted for run time. That’s AWFUL. Disney+ has added millions of subs since then. None of them are signing up for Star Wars or Marvel.”

He then declared, “It’s time for Disney pull the plug on those franchises (on Disney+) because the cost to benefit ratio is WAY out of whack. They are spending too much money to produce mediocre crap at best that no where near enough people are watching to justify these obscene costs. #DisneyDumb.”

If you do a basic run time calculation and simply divide the total minutes viewed as reported by Nielsen by the runtime of the two episodes (101 minutes) it comes out to 8.2 million.

Actors' union director expresses fear that strike is preventing LGBT propagandists from advancing their 'worldview-changing' agenda

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 03:56:04 GMT

The Blaze Reports: Every day that the actors' and writers' unions remain on strike marks another day that LGBT activists in Hollywood are not producing "worldview-changing" propaganda for popular consumption, according to the national director of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

This may come as good news to those Americans growing tired of the coordinated effort by various gatekeepers and cultural engineers in media to shoehorn unprecedented amounts of LGBT content into film and television for non-artistic reasons. However, for SAG-AFTRA director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the delays are unconscionable.

Crabtree-Ireland, a past co-president of the LGBTQ Bar Association of Los Angeles, spoke at a recent press conference announcing the LGBT activist outfit GLAAD's annual Studio Responsibility Index — an index that monitors how much non-straight content is being manufactured for film and television, always encouraging more.

The union executive noted that LGBT propaganda efforts might be set back in 2024 and beyond owing to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' alleged unwillingness to capitulate to strikers' demands .

‘Yellowstone’ Beats Disney, More Popular in Fan Survey of Top Entertainment Franchises

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 03:46:13 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The hit series Yellowstone has handily beaten Disney in a new fan survey of the top entertainment franchises — a notable feat considering the western series starring Kevin Costner is only five years old.

Yellowstone ranked No. 7 in entertainment and gaming company’s Fandom’s annual survey — which polled 5,000 fans — while the Disney brand trailed at No. 10, according to the results reported by Deadline.

The rankings indicate significant consumer perception problems for the Walt Disney Company, which has weathered a non-stop parade of bad news in the past few years that includes mounting box-office flops , streaming losses , and woke culture wars that have led to a legal battle with Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

Disney’s individual brands fared better than the generic “Disney” name in the survey. Star Wars ranked No. 1, while Marvel came in at No. 2. Elsewhere, Harry Potter notched the No. 5 spot, while Barbie scored No. 6. This isn’t the first indication that Disney is dealing with potentially disastrous image problems.

PAW Patrol spinoff embraces LGBT propaganda for preschoolers

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 01:20:41 GMT

Washington Examiner Reports: Et tu, PAW Patrol? Much to the distress of parents across the United States, it appears that even the PAW Patrol universe has gone woke. A recent episode of Rubble & Crew, a spin-off of the wildly popular series, features a nonbinary character, River — who appears just to be a tomboy.

You probably wouldn’t know unless you squinted at the character’s socks, which are blue and pink, reminiscent of the transgender flag; evidently, the character’s identity is not explicitly mentioned. But Lindz Amer, creator of Queer Kid Stuff and writer of the episode, bragged on Instagram about consulting on the character.

“I wanted to write a nonbinary character that was aspirational and incredibly cool, someone for the pups (and kids at home) to look up to,” Amer wrote . “They found an awesome non-binary actor to voice River, and I’m so so happy about how it turned out.”

Amer’s Queer Kid Stuff is exactly what it sounds like: a project to provide “LGBTQ+ family edutainment” and indoctrinate young children with queer theory.

According to a writer at Them, an LGBT website owned by Condé Nast, the Rubble & Crew character is so “subtly coded” that the outrage is overblown.

Desperate Disney: CEO Says Company Will 'Quiet the Noise' of Woke Culture Push - But Will It?

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 03:14:13 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: The business of children’s entertainment has little to do with what’s good for kids. It has everything to do with money, followed by the left’s narrative.

What’s interesting is that, over the last few years, that narrative quietly crawled into the dominant position. Money took a backseat because companies like Disney were still making plenty of it.

That is no longer happening. CEO Bob Iger understands this. It is the reason Disney brought him back, frankly — to correct course given the financial turmoil Disney finds itself in today.

It was prior CEO Bob Chapek who called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to express his disapproval of the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which actually protects young children from being exposed to the LGBT agenda and other inappropriate sexual material at school.

That phenomenal mistake drew DeSantis’ ire and placed Disney at the epicenter of the culture war, and it ultimately came at the cost of the company’s self-governing status in Florida. The return of Iger was the only solution.

With Disney having suffered a 56 percent market cap plunge resulting in losses of nearly $200 billion, Iger must answer to investors. Disney’s “not-at-all-secret gay agenda ” obviously isn’t paying dividends or bolstering the bottom line.

The new strategy, Iger told investors at a Tuesday meeting, is to “quiet the noise” and pull out of the culture war.

Canada's bans on children's classics reveals the authoritarianism behind woke censorship

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:51:17 GMT

Human Events Reports: Ronald Reagan famously said the most terrifying sentence in the English language was "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Maybe that's why, anytime I hear the word "ministry" -- that is, when it refers to a government department rather than a religious congregation -- my hackles raise, both as a person and as an artist. So, when I read that the Ontario Ministry of Education has issued a “decree,” I knew it was going to be yet another example of soulless bureaucracy invading creativity and freedom. And indeed it was.

As reported in the Post Millennial, the Ontario Ministry of Education has decided that “all books available to students are [to be] inclusive” and in line with the notion of "equity." The Peel District School Board took this to their dark, bureaucratic heart, and decided to remove books such as The Diary of Anne Frank, the Harry Potter series, and -- quelle horreur -- Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It’s probably useless to ask why Carle’s classic and beloved children’s book would be one of the choices. Perhaps the caterpillar’s eating habits, which lead him to become rather big, encourage fat-shaming.

After the various complaints as well as criticism from Ontario Education Minister, the Peel District School Board reversed the decision, but refused to accept any culpability. After all, they were just following orders as laid out by the Ontario Ministry of Education. And to be fair, given how vague the guidelines were, maybe the librarians shouldn't be blamed. They were instructed to sift through all of the books published prior to 2008, and determine if there was anything offensive or unpleasant in them, based on an ideology that is deliberately constructed to find everything offensive.

‘Anti-Woke’ AI Chatbot ‘GatGPT’ Promises to Remove Constraints of Leftist ‘Safety Filters’

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 03:14:20 GMT

Breitbart Reports: An AI chatbot named “GatGPT,” developed by Defense Distributed, is positioning itself as an “anti-woke” alternative to mainstream AI chatbots.

In an era where the ethical implications of AI are under intense scrutiny, Defense Distributed has launched GatGPT , a chatbot that aims to be a direct response to criticisms of existing platforms like ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing, and Google’s Bard, which have been accused of left-leaning biases and avoiding controversial topics.

“The danger of training AI to be woke — in other words, lie — is deadly,” Elon Musk had posted, reflecting a growing sentiment among certain groups.

GatGPT is designed to be free of “safety filters” and “woke guardrails,” and is fine-tuned on both general and domain-specific firearm datasets. The team behind the chatbot argues that AI safety measures are often a pretext for political censorship and control.

They have also introduced a “Digital Second Amendment,” pledging to protect and distribute “the newest weapons of the digital age” to defend against corporate and governmental influence.

Howard Stern says being called ‘woke’ is a compliment: ‘I’m not for stupidity’

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 04:17:55 GMT

The Hill Reports: Howard Stern is embracing being called “woke,” saying he wants “to be awake.”

“I kind of take that as a compliment, that I’m ‘woke,’” the SiriusXM host told listeners of his eponymous show Monday in response to a YouTube personality applying the term to him.

“To me, the opposite of woke is being asleep,” Stern, 69, said. “And if woke means I can’t get behind [former President Trump], which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender, or

I’m for the vaccine — dude, call me woke as you f‑‑‑ing want,” Stern exclaimed.

“I’m not for stupidity,” he continued, saying he recently received the latest updated COVID-19 vaccine .

“F‑‑‑in’ science. This f‑‑‑ing country is so great,” he said.

“I am woke, motherf‑‑‑er. And I love it.”

“I want to read legitimate news sources. Here’s how woke I am: I believe the election was not rigged,” Stern said of Trump’s unfounded claims of mass electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

“I’m woke. I think that’s a compliment,” added Stern, who frequently hosted Trump as a guest on his radio show before the New York real estate developer entered politics.

Joy Behar & Whoopi Goldberg Get Bad News as ‘The View’ Scores New Low in Ratings

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 04:57:41 GMT

Slay News Reports: “The View” is back on the air and immediately got some bad news from the controversial ABC show’s liberal audience.

The show just launched Season 27.

However, it scored a new low in the ratings for a season premiere for the talk show.

In 2023, “The View” delivered 2,104,000 viewers.

In 2022, the premier had 2,211,000 viewers.

In 2021, the show had 2,403,000 viewers.

In 2020, they had a staggering 2,706,000.

It is all downhill for Goldberg, Behar, and the gang.

A show this week showed why the show’s ratings are in decline.

Fans Defend Bluey, Prove “Woke” Reports Wrong

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 03:24:23 GMT

Inside The Magic Reports: Ludo Studios’ Bluey is easily one of the most beloved and celebrated cartoons to hit screens in recent years. Both adults and children have had their hearts stolen by Bluey, Bingo, and the rest of their canine friends in this Australian animated series on Disney+, and the fanbase is quite vocal about their admiration.

As with any successful series, the fandom can get extremely protective over the target of their affection. Recently, a divisive news article resurfaced on social media, writing that in spite of the show’s marvelous qualities, it simply wasn’t diverse enough.

In this writer’s opinion, fans need only heed the advice of a certain cartoon dog. In the famous words of Bandit Heeler, “It’s just monkeys singing songs, mate. Don’t think too hard about it.” Forcing Bluey into a political or social mold is not going to be fun for anyone involved.

Inside the Magic responded to the article from ABC reporter Beverly Wang that took issue with the lack of diversity and “dogs of color” amongst other missing elements from the otherwise all-inclusive show. While she addresses Bluey’s praises, she takes a sharp left turn in her critique.

Wang led things in a direction many fans might consider “woke” with the following statement in her article.

“Where are the disabled, queer, poor, gender diverse, dogs of colour and single-parent dog families in Bluey’s Brisbane? If they’re in the background, let them come forward.”

Striking Hollywood Actors and Writers Escalate War with Studios: They’re ‘Behaving Like Petty Tyrants’

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 04:34:31 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Striking Hollywood actors and writers escalated their war with the studios this week, participating in a joint march in Los Angeles that clogged the streets of the Hollywood neighborhood as protestors marched Tuesday from Netflix offices to the historic Paramount lot.

Meanwhile, the actors union fired off an acrimonious salvo, accusing the studios and streamers of refusing to return to the bargaining table, with SAG-AFTRA leadership calling executives “petty tyrants.”

The escalation is the latest sign that the historic strikes that have brought most of the industry to a standstill won’t be resolved any time soon. With little leverage to work with, and even less public goodwill, actors and writers are resorting to publicity tactics to gain attention and move the dial in their favor.

But studios and streamers don’t appear to be in the mood to budge from their positions and seem to be waging a war of attrition on the strikers, many of whom are burning through their personal savings.

Stephen King Puts Nail in the Coffin of His Career With New Novel Reeking of Woke Propaganda

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:03:23 GMT

PJ Media Reports: As a total horror fanatic, author Stephen King has been one of my literary heroes for a long, long time. I’ve read a lot of his work, even the not-so-good novels that many readers found to be subpar. Heck, I even managed to find some gems in those books, enjoying the way he crafts characters and comes up with unusual concepts to base his spooky tales around. He truly is a master of the craft.

Well, he was, anyway.

King’s work shifted from great, well-developed characters and creative scenarios to being largely focused on preaching left-wing propaganda, a slippery slope he’s been zooming down for many years now. I don’t mind messaging in my fiction, so long as it is creatively presented in the story’s subtext. I might disagree with the message, but I can still enjoy a well-told yarn. But King has ditched any pretense of being a storyteller in favor of being a propagandist, a fact his latest novel makes perfectly clear.

John Nolte, an entertainment writer for Breitbart News , put out a new report covering King’s new book, “Holly,” featuring a popular character with many, many mental health quirks from his hit “Mr. Mercedes” series, and revealed that it’s basically a progressive diatribe about COVID, featuring a white couple as the novel’s antagonists. And guess what? The bad guys are racist anti-vaxxers.

Jussie Smollett Back in Court After Being Convicted of MAGA 'Hate Crime' Hoax

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 05:07:52 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: WJussie Smollett, the actor convicted of orchestrating a “hate crime” against himself in 2019, appeared in an Illinois appellate court on Tuesday, seeking to have his convictions overturned.

Smollett’s lawyers argued that anger over the case led to the reinstatement of charges that had been properly dismissed, USA Today reported.

Smollett took a spectator’s seat in court, listening during the hour-long oral arguments before a three-judge panel, according to the outlet.

“Public outrage against the defendant cannot overrule the rule of law,” said one of Smollett’s lawyers, Nenye Uche.

If the appeal fails, Smollett will have to finish serving a 150-day jail sentence imposed in 2022. “Smollett spent just six days in jail before his release pending the outcome of the appeal. A ruling is expected to take several weeks,” USA Today reported.

According to USA Today, Smollett’s lawyers argued in his written appeal that his 2021 trial “violated his Fifth Amendment protections against double jeopardy — being punished for the same crime twice.”

Disney execs in 'crisis talks' over 'Snow White' remake star Rachel Zegler and her woke disaster

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 04:17:57 GMT

WND Reports: With a little more than six months left until its release date, the 2024 "Snow White" remake and its main star are forcing Disney to go into crisis mode early, according to two branding experts.

Rachel Zegler , who plays the titular princess, publicly spoke last year about how her upcoming film will be vastly different from the 1937 animated feature. Months later, audiences responded to her recently resurfaced comments with backlash and criticism on social media.

As a result, marketing and PR specialists warned in August the negative press surrounding Zegler could mean a disastrous box office return for Disney on the film, the U.K.'s Daily Mail first reported.

"It can have a huge impact on ticket sales, especially with the amount of negative backlash so early in the promo trail," branding expert Carla Speight said.

"They need to get the key messaging and strong selling point into a brief for the cast of the film and ensure they stick to it," she added. "If they don't, it's a disaster waiting to happen and the backlash will keep growing."

Another predicted those at Disney are already working hard to minimize the damage caused by Zegler.

"I am sure Disney executives must be having crisis talks and thinking perhaps their new Snow White isn't the best person to promote the film and ensure it is a box office success," PR expert Nick Ede said.

An American Tragedy: How America Made James Bond WOKE

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 03:28:11 GMT

New York Times Reports: After so many decades fighting evil masterminds bent on Britannia’s destruction, the 21st-century version of James Bond has found a very 21st-century antagonist. In the newest Bond novel, “On His Majesty’s Secret Service,” 007 is charged with protecting King Charles III from a dastardly plot hatched by a supervillain whose nom de guerre is Athelstan of Wessex — in other words, a Little Englander, a Brexiteer, a right-wing populist, apparently the true and natural heir to Goldfinger and Blofeld.

The novel’s Bond, who carries on a “situationship” with “a busy lawyer specializing in immigration law” (not to worry, he’s not taking advantage — “he wasn’t the only man she was seeing”), must travel to Viktor Orban’s Hungary to infiltrate the vast right-wing conspiracy and avert a terrorist attack at Charles’s coronation; along the way, the secret agent muses on the superiority of the metric system and the deplorable dog whistles of populism.

The book’s mere existence seems designed to agitate conservatives; I wouldn’t have read it without the spur of hostile reviews from right-of-center British scribblers. But the progressive Bond also usefully illustrates an interesting feature of contemporary politics in the English-speaking world. It isn’t just that American progressivism supplies an ideological lingua franca that extends across the Anglosphere, such that what we call wokeness naturally influences the fictional MI6 no less than the real C.I.A. It’s that forms of progressivism that originated in the United States, under specific American conditions, can seem more potent among our English-speaking friends and neighbors than they do in America itself.

Amazon Accused of Using Hollywood Strike to Cancel Shows, Including Woke Failures

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 02:53:13 GMT

Red State Reports: Amazon's streaming service can be best described as "hit or miss" with the misses being miles off from good. You can count the number of decent shows on one hand while failing to remember every gawdawful show it's released.

Of all the piles of excrement, Jeff Bezos's company has created, "Rings of Power" stinks the most. Having cost around $1 billion to create and bombing harder than a MOAB, the show represented Amazon's potential to spend big and lose bigger. Despite pretending everything was going great, it was pretty clear that Amazon felt the blast and that its streaming service had a gaping crater to deal with.

But perhaps Amazon is seizing upon a bit of luck that, ironically, comes in the form of the ongoing Hollywood strikes. It would appear that it's utilizing the strike to cancel underperforming shows...or at least that's what it's being accused of.

According to ScreenRant , Amazon canceled the woke-infected "A League of Their Own" series despite it being renewed for a second season. Didn't watch it? Didn't even know they had created it? You're not alone. It's not exactly a popular show thanks to it being a delivery system for social justice messaging and woke nonsense. The show was originally going to get a shortened second season to wrap up some storylines, but now that's been tossed in the garbage.

Interestingly, this seems to come as a surprise to Abbi Jacobson, the show's co-creator. While Amazon is saying that the reason behind the cancelation is the strikes, she seems to believe it's for other reasons and the strikes are just an excuse, calling the decision "cowardly" and "bull**it" in an Instagram post .

Elon Musk announces X is considering suing the ADL for defamation, will insist they drop the A in their name

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 04:25:33 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: Elon Musk announced on Monday that he is considering suing the Anti-Defamation League to clear the X (formerly Twitter ) platform's name.

This comes after news broke that X is still down around 60 percent in US ad revenue as the ADL continues to put pressure on its advertisers to skip the wildly popular social media platform.

Further, it was revealed that the ADL has put pressure on X to deplatform popular anti-woke account Libs of TikTok, which is run by a conservative Jewish woman, Chaya Raichik.

Musk claimed that the ADL has been trying to see his platform destroyed through asserting erroneous claims that both he and X are "anti-Semitic."

The tech mogul additionally stressed that he is "pro free speech, but against anti-Semitism of any kind."

Go Woke, Go Broke: Disney Drastically Cuts the Price of Its Streaming Service

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:52:44 GMT

PJ MEdia Reports: Did you ever imagine that there would be a day when the Disney brand would be so damaged that practically everything it touched failed? I know I didn’t. For a long time, Disney was synonymous with high-quality family entertainment. Back when summer blockbusters were a thing, you knew if Disney had a movie coming out, it was going to be worth a trip to the theater, no doubt about it.

Those days have gone bye-bye.

And the only one to blame for it is Disney. You see, at some point over the course of the last decade or so, Disney decided to swallow the woke agenda and start pushing messages filled with sexual perversion, normalization of drag queens and homosexuality, and all sorts of other garbage that Americans have grown sick and tired of having shoved down their throats. As a result, the content the company has produced over the last year has failed spectacularly.

I mean, we’re talking about a company that owns Marvel Studios, Star Wars, and the Indiana Jones franchise — among many, many others — and cannot score a hit to save its soul. How can you screw up so badly with this many amazing properties and characters, along with a basically endless budget and access to the best writers on the planet?

Easy. Capitulate to the woke progressive crybabies of the world and attempt to become a preacher of their sick and twisted ideology rather than focus on telling good stories that transcend race, sex, and creed.

Movies Suck, So the Media Attack Rotten Tomatoes

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:23:15 GMT

Breitbart Reports: With very rare exceptions, I find that 99.9 percent of Rotten Tomatoes’ reviewers fall into three categories: 1) didactic leftists who review from a political rather than artistic point of view, 2) studio suck-ups who love the swag, and 3) a combination of one and two. So, no, I’m not a fan, and Rotten Tomatoes has failed so often in guiding my choices that I don’t bother looking anymore. The site’s biggest problem is that woke, left-wing garbage is graded on an affirmative action curve.

As far as me not joining Rotten Tomatoes, that’s only because I think joining is stupid.

But back to the question of… Why now?

There are three answers to that question, the first being the easiest…

Disney.

Over the last 18 months or so, almost all of Disney’s movies and streaming shows have been getting murdered at Rotten Tomatoes and, by extension, in the ratings and box office. And when the Disney Grooming Syndicate is unhappy, the earth rattles as corporate media sycophants strap on battle gear.

Tell me, what else has changed over the last 25 years?

That’s it. That is all that has changed: Disney’s fortunes have reversed.

9 New Woke Features In Bethesda's 'Starfield' Game

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:26:50 GMT

The Babylon Bee (satire) Reports: Surprise, surprise — wokeness has spread far beyond our own galaxy. With the long-awaited release of Starfield, the science fiction action-role-playing game from Bethesda, hardcore gamers will now be forced to play a game that crams a big steaming pile of WOKE down their throats every time they play. Truly disgusting.

As an exclusive here at The Babylon Bee, we present a list of new woke features players can enjoy in Starfield.

You can play as a female character: And she's not even hot. This marks the end of Western Civilization.
All the female characters are voiced by Dylan Mulvaney: This just keeps getting worse.
Before landing on a planet, you must acknowledge it has been stolen from its indigenous people: Space is no place for colonizers.
If you kill a white male, you automatically win the game: We expect speedrunners to take advantage of this.
Loading screens will now feature AOC giving impassioned speeches about the importance of respecting pronouns: Learn how to do better while you progress the game.
All spacecraft are powered by wind and solar: Hyperdrives have been banned.

Bill Maher likens WOKE left's race-first politics to KKK

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 02:58:30 GMT

Washington Examiner Reports: Comedian Bill Maher compared the " woke" Left's focus on race-first politics to the mentality of the Ku Klux Klan on Saturday while chatting with Joe Rogan .

Maher made the comment after Rogan suggested that the Left should fear men like Maher because he represents an old-school liberal who is unwilling to "toe the line."

"You're like a '90s liberal," the host of The Joe Rogan Experience said. "You’re like liberals back when they were more reasonable, before they became leftists, and now every liberal, kind of, has to be a leftist. ... If you want to be on the team, you’ve got to subscribe to the most fringe ideas that the team is promoting."

It's incredibly "weird" that liberals have to be allowed to disagree or not disagree with one another, Rogan said.

The traditional liberal view of a "color-blind" society, which was held by figures such as President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is a prime example, Maher said.

"That's not what the 'woke' believe," according to the comedian. "They believe race is, first-and-foremost, the thing you should always see everywhere, which I find interesting because that used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan, that we see race first-and-foremost everywhere."

"You can have that position, but don't say that's a liberal position," he added. "You're doing something very different."

Denzel’s ‘Equalizer 3’ Explodes the Labor Day Box Office

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 05:15:41 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Director Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 3 is making chumps of box office projections with a Labor Day weekend haul that could go as high as $ 44 million by Tuesday morning. Over the normal Friday to Sunday box office, the mighty Denzel Washington is barreling towards a possible $37 million.

If those numbers hold, part three will top the original Equalizer’s (2014) $34 million opening and part two’s $36 million . That would be quite an achievement but not surprising.

Denzel Washington is one of the only remaining movie stars out there, and by “movie star,” I don’t mean someone who stars in movies. A true movie star opens movies. A true movie star earns the public’s trust — we trust him to choose great projects.

A true movie star doesn’t insult the customers on Twitter. A true movie star doesn’t wear us out with his constant presence. A true movie star captures and holds public goodwill and affection.

Hollywood celebrities want all children and teens thinking about one thing all day – sex changes – and they want all oppositional “hate speech” censored by Big Tech

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 05:02:33 GMT

Natural News Reports: The communists, extremist liberals, and twisted Leftists are working very hard to turn every person in the country, including children and teens, into gender-confused social-media addicts, who only think about one thing all day -- sexual identity. Since when do children need to be focused on their private parts all day, wondering if they should change them, alter them, add to them, have scars from it mentally and physically, and never be able to "change back?"

Since when are children allowed to decide if they should get unnecessary surgery that can ruin their fertility, libido, and ability to urinate properly, forever? Over 250 Hollywood celebrities want everyone's children thinking about this, doing it, and doing it without parent permission, and the motives for all of this are more sick and twisted than most people realize.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation wants to illegally censor everyone who does not want children thinking about sex and sex change operations all day

GLAAD is coming for your children, along with Hollywood and Disney. They want to take complete control of your children's minds and medical choices, and the end game is as perverted as perverted gets. Top celebrities are signing on to the great all-day sex-thinking brainwash campaign, including Alyssa Milano, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato and many more. They're plastering their propaganda all over social (trans-sex-thinker) media, including YouTube, TikTok, and of course, Twitter.

Should you or anyone you know be opposed to children getting gender-bender surgery, and without their parents permission, well then you are a gay-bashing bigot and hate speech criminal who needs censoring from all social media and possible jail time, according to the God-hating, ethics-hating, all-day-sex-propagandist Leftists.

Disney Owned Channels, Including ABC and ESPN Go Dark During Cable Carrier Dispute

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 04:49:59 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Do not adjust your set. If it has lost a few of your favourite viewing channels, there is a reason. A corporate dispute means a number of Disney Entertainment channels have gone dark on Charter Spectrum cable systems including ABC, ESPN, FX and Freeform, effectively isolating the country’s second-largest cable TV provider from its 14.7 million subscribers.

The channels disappeared off air Thursday night at about 5 p.m. Pacific due to a distribution fee dispute between the nation’s second-largest cable TV provider — which is the major carrier in New York and Los Angeles, among numerous other markets — and Disney, AP reports .

Spectrum subscribers immediately lost access to popular programming, including “Jeopardy!,” “Wheel of Fortune” and KABC-TV’s “Eyewitness News.”

ESPN was carrying a college football game between Florida and No. 14 Utah while ESPN2 was showing the U.S. Open tennis tournament when the channels went dark for Charter Spectrum’s subscribers across the country.

“We’ve been in ongoing negotiations with Charter Communications for some time and have not yet agreed to a new market-based agreement,” Disney said in a statement Thursday, acknowledging the loss of service to customers.

Big Cable TV Company Admits Cable TV Is Doomed

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:30:44 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Charter Communications, one of America’s largest cable TV providers, admits that cable TV is doomed.

Currently, Charter is in a price war with the Disney Grooming Syndicate. Until Disney and Charter agree on how much Charter will pay Disney to carry its channels (Disney Channel, ABC, FX, ESPN, etc.), those channels are blacked out and unavailable to Charter customers.

This report on the feud sums the issue up perfectly:

Charter has said it does not want to pay a premium for channels its customers do not watch, adding that rate increases are pushing customers to cut the cable cord.

…

As viewers abandon cable television for streaming services like Netflix, companies like Charter and Comcast have increasingly focused on providing other services to consumers, including internet and wireless services. They have weened themselves off the pay-television business, which is in long-term decline, and have grown frustrated with paying a premium for content that fewer people are watching through traditional means.

This is glorious.

Far-left multinational grooming syndicates like Disney know they cannot survive on merit. What’s keeping Disney afloat right now is the cable/satellite TV scam where subscribers (that’s you ) pay a fortune for channels they never watch. That’s why your cable TV bill is so high. If Disney, or CNN, or MTV, or some other basement-rated network that hates you is part of your cable package, you are funding that network.

Desperate for a Hit, Disney Accused of Juicing ‘Ahsoka’ Viewership Numbers: 14 Million… or Just 1.2?

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:09:26 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney Grooming Syndicate is credibly accused of juicing viewership numbers for Ahsoka, the company’s latest piece of woke crap.

Lucasfilm chief Kathleen “ Franchise Killer ” Kennedy continues to woke-rape the Star Wars brand into something so divisive, toxic, and unappealing; she’s been reduced to this :

The official StarWars.com website announced in a blog post, “Lucasfilm and The Walt Disney Company are thrilled and humbled to announce that Part One of Ahsoka, “Master and Apprentice,” was the most-watched title on Disney+ this past week. The debut episode garnered 14 million views, making the series number one globally on the streaming platform.”

Except :

This post came after it was reported by third party data tracking firm Samba TV that Ahsoka’s viewership in the United States was far worse than previous Star Wars Disney+ series with the exception of Andor.

“Samba TV reported Ahsoka was only watched by 1.2 million U.S. households over its first six days.”

Woke Disney Sued for Deliberately Misleading Investors About Streaming Losses

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 03:34:18 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Walt Disney Co. faces another lawsuit accusing management of deliberately deceiving investors about the financial health and long-term prognosis of Disney+, the company’s troubled streaming service.

Shareholders are likely furious over the stock price, which continues to hover near a nine-year low and is now worth less than half of what it was just a few years ago.

The suit claims that in December 2020, Disney executives “repeatedly misled investors” about just how much money Disney+ was losing and that these “wrongful acts and omissions” brought about the “precipitous decline in the market value” of Disney stock.

Among the current and former Disney executives named in the lawsuit are former CEO Bob Chapek, current CEO Bob Iger, and former CFO Christine McCarthy. McCarthy had been with the company for 23 years before exiting unexpectedly in June under bizarre circumstances .

Of course, the dog that isn’t barking is the only one that matters. It was right around this time that Disney launched its divisive culture war through every one of its divisions. Transvestites greet children at Disney theme parks. Disney’s “children’s” movies are filled with adult sexuality, including transsexuals and homosexuality. Disney’s TV and streaming shows expose little kids to drag queens and transsexuals.

This is the very definition of grooming, and Disney openly grooms little kids. That’s why theme park attendance is down. That’s why Disney+ is a catastrophe. Disney has become a company obsessed with sexual fetishes and identity politics. The betrayal of its family-friendly brand is truly jaw-dropping.

WOKE Portland Schools no longer allowed to issue 'zeroes' for cheating or missing work under new 'equity' grading guidance

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 04:21:05 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: New "equitable grading practices," which forbid teachers from giving "zeroes" to students who cheat or fail to turn in homework, are being tested in Portland Public Schools.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that this new grading system strives to overcome "racial disparities" and "inequities" in grading and instruction, which the district first started to consider during the pandemic. According to the outlet, the guidelines are expected to be fully implemented by 2025.

The Portland Public Schools Equitable Grading guidance states that teachers are not allowed to issue "zeroes" to students who have either cheated or have missed assignments. Students are not to be penalized for late work and must be allowed to retake tests and redo assignments until they can demonstrate proficiency, according to the guidance.

In addition, teachers are not to include attendance and participation towards grades and are to decide a student's grade based on an equitable mean.

Portland Public Schools states in the guidance handout that "Historical data shows that there are racial disparities in our pass/fail rate in multiple subjects in both middle grades and high school. During the pandemic, we adjusted our grading to accommodate for some of the inequities in access to curriculum and instruction."

As Predicted: Woke ‘Blue Beetle’ Flops at Home and Abroad

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 03:58:48 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Blue Beetle, which was stupidly sold as an affirmative action project instead of an exciting, unifying, good time at the movies, is suffering a slow box office death both at home and abroad.

After two weekends in release, The First *yawn* Hispanic Superhero Movie has grossed a measly $ 46 million domestic and only an additional $ 35 million overseas. With a pathetic $82 million worldwide gross, Blue Beetle isn’t coming close to breaking

Between the production and promotion budget, Warner Bros. likely spent around $200 million. That means Blue Beetle would have to gross somewhere around $400 million to simply break even. That is not going to happen.

Even the fanboy sites have started the ten count :

Last week, Blue Beetle opened to an underwhelming $25.5 million at the domestic box office, releasing just after an era when most superhero stories that flew towards the big screen were able to find high numbers within their ticket sales. Jaime Reyes’ (Xolo Maridueña) adventure hasn’t been able to attract viewers internationally either, with the movie failing to earn $100 million from all over the world after two weekends of playing in most viewing formats available in theaters. Not even Victoria Kord (Susan Sarandon) could plan such an unfortunate outcome for the titular hero.

Disney Goes Woke, Then Goes Broke: Stock Lowest in 9 Years

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 05:19:14 GMT

Disney Dining Reports: Numbers do not lie… and in the case of the Walt Disney Company, there is cause for worry. On Wednesday, May 10, the Second Quarter results were revealed to the public after the market closed for the day.

With the numbers came an announcement from Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger, who provided some extra context to the data. The end of the second quarter reports was a massive moment for the company and for Iger. The world was eager to see if Iger could turn around the company’s financial struggles as hoped .

Unfortunately, it seems the public does not feel too confident in Disney after Wednesday’s reports. Disney Stock had a significant decline on Thursday, signifying that many may be losing hope in the Walt Disney Company.

Many fans will be shocked to hear that on Thursday, May 11, Disney’s stock dropped a staggering 9%. At the market’s close, DIS settled at an 8.7% decrease. This drop is huge; the largest Disney has experienced in six months. While Disney’s supporters may be stunned by this news, most people could have seen this coming.

Carlos Santana Deletes Apology for Accurate Gender Comments

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 03:04:01 GMT

Breitbart Reports: During a recent concert performance in New Jersey, the 76-year-old legend told a cheering crowd:

God made you and me, before we came out of the womb. You know who you are and what you are. Then when you grow up and you see things, and you start believing that you could be something else. It sounds good. But you know it ain’t right because a woman is a woman and a man is a man. That’s it. Whatever you wanna do in the closet, that’s your business. I’m okay with that. I am like this [aligns hands] with my brother Dave Chapelle.

To the surprise of no one, the left-wing fascists and blacklisters, including those at Billboard, immediately screamed and lied to bully Santana into backing down and to make an example of him as a means to warn any other celebrity who might be thinking of publicly stating these same truths to protect children.

Hold on, J6 political prisoners: the Supreme Court could overturn this nightmare…

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 05:16:04 GMT

Revolver Reports: The political prisoners from January 6th are in dire need of assistance, and it appears Congress won’t be the ones to provide it. Therefore, it’s time to appeal to the highest authority – the Supreme Court of the United States. Should the high court agree to hear this case, it could turn the tables on everything the regime has done to unjustly punish and abuse these American citizens.

Norman Pattis, Lang’s attorney, told Newsweek that he believes the use of the statute that the litigation is centered around could upend the cases of “hundreds of defendants.”

“The government misuse and abuse of the federal penal code in the [January 6] cases is shocking,” Pattis said.

The statute that Lang’s legal team is arguing has been too broadly applied in his case comes from a federal law that states an individual who “corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document” or “otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” can be imprisoned for up to 20 years.

In the appeal to the Supreme Court, Lang’s lawyers are claiming the other side did not prove anything “corrupt” went down. Many believe the lower courts have screwed this up six ways from Sunday, thanks to activist judges. They’ve politicized interpretations and created a tangled web of opinions and a pile of unanswered questions. January 6 political prisoner Jake Lang joined Real America’s Voice to discuss this promising move.

MSNBC Claims WOKE Is the New 'N-Word'

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:59:47 GMT

Townhall Reports: The Republican candidates for president are still hours away from taking the debate stage in Milwaukee for the first showdown between 2024 contenders, but that didn't stop the crowd over at MSNBC from absolutely losing its marbles while previewing Wednesday evening's debate.

Jose Diaz-Balart told viewers it was time to "talk a little bit about" the first GOP primary debate and said "there is one word voters should expect to hear" from the stage: "woke."

According to Diaz-Balart, the word "means so many different things to different people" before asking "where does it come from?" and tossing the segment to MSNBC Correspondent Trymaine Lee.

Lee explained that, "for generations, the term woke was a part of black American inspeak, it meant to keep your eyes open, stay aware to the forces that might be around you that might want to cause you harm, be vigilant. But in recent years its been co-opted, some would say hijacked by far-right wing conservatives and turned into anything but a feeling of awareness," Lee argued before playing a compilation of Republican presidential candidates using the term "woke" in public remarks and interviews.

"Woke has become a charged political catch-all phrase often used as a battering ram and a battle cry, and to many, a slur," Lee said before an interview subject says using "woke" is "almost another way of saying black, it's another way of saying the n-word."

Country Music Sensation Tells Execs to Pound Sand: ‘People in the Music Industry Give Me Blank Stares When I Brush off 8 Million Dollar Offers’

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 04:16:02 GMT

Slay News Reports: Country music sensation Oliver Anthony broke his silence after his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” became an overnight worldwide phenomenon.

Anthony revealed that he told music industry executives to pound sand when they tried to sign him up with multi-million-dollar offers.

“People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers,” he said.

“I don’t want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor-trailers, and a jet.

“I don’t want to play stadium shows, I don’t want to be in the spotlight.

‘Sound of Freedom’ Humiliates Blockbusters, Passes $175 Million

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 04:03:33 GMT

Breitbart Reports: As of Monday morning, Sound of Freedom has earned an astonishing $178 million at the domestic box office.

This amazing feat tops Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ($174 million), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One ($165 million), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ($157 million), Fast X ($146 million), The Flash ($108 million), and Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves ($93 million).

Currently, Sound of Freedom is the 9th biggest moneymaker of the year. Number eight is John Wick: Chapter 4, with $187 million. In its 7th weekend of release, Sound of Freedom cleared $ 2.6 million . There’s still some gas left in that box office tank, so there’s still a chance it could pass John Wick.

Wow, isn’t amazing what happens when you make a quality movie aimed at the other half of the country, the half that mainstream entertainment treats with neglect and contempt?

Why, it’s almost as amazing as what happens when, say, a beautifully written, composed, and performed song speaks to that same half of the country mainstream entertainment treats with neglect and contempt.

Yep, knock me over with a feather every time a piece of quality entertainment becomes a rousing success when that piece of entertainment empathizes with and shares the values of 100 million people mainstream entertainment treats with neglect and contempt.

Look who's on anti-woke warpath to reclaim 'Redskins' name

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:16:23 GMT

WND Reports: With a new owner in town promising to return the Washington, D.C., football franchise to its 1980s glory, many of the team's fans are rallying behind an American Indian group's petition to reclaim the old "Redskins" name and logo – in what has the potential to be a dramatic reversal of "wokeism."

The Change.org petition is the creation of the Native American Guardians Association , or NAGA, titled, "Change the Washington Commanders back to the Washington Redskins." Started on June 21, it had passed 122,000 signatures by press time, with scant establishment media coverage.

The petition states, "We, are passionate supporters of the Washington Redskins and its rich history. We write to you today as a collective voice, urging you to reconsider the recent name change from the Redskins to the Commanders. We believe that restoring the original name, the Redskins, is the right decision for the team, its loyal fanbase, and the legacy it represents."

The NAGA petition continues: "The name 'Redskins' carries deep cultural, historical, and emotional significance, honoring the bravery, resilience, and warrior spirit associated with Native American culture. It was never intended as a derogatory or offensive term but as a symbol of respect and admiration. Changing the name abruptly disregards the positive legacy that the Redskins name has built over the years and disorients the passionate fans who have invested their emotions, time, and unwavering support in the team."

Original Snow White Director's Son Slams Disney's 2024 Remake, 'Insulting,' 'Disgrace'

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:47:59 GMT

The Epoch Times Reports: While the release of the new Snow White movie is still a year away, the son of the man who animated and directed the original version has called the new concept a "disgrace" and labeled the "woke things" they've made up as "insulting."

David Hand—son of the animator and director of the original version who was known by the same name—issued a harsh rebuke of the remake, telling the Telegraph on Aug. 18 that Disney's "woke" version is an insult to his father's work.

"It’s a whole different concept, and I just totally disagree with it, and I know my dad and Walt would also very much disagree with it," Mr. Hand said.

He said he disagrees with the entire concept, calling it a "disgrace," suggesting that Disney is "trying to do something new with something that was such a great success earlier."

"Their thoughts are just so radical now," he said, noting how the Disney of today feels compelled to "change the stories" and "change the thought process of the characters."

Anheuser Busch Heir Hopes To Purchase Brand, Ditch Woke Agenda

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 04:06:55 GMT

Infowars Reports: Billy Busch, an heir to the Anheuser Busch beer dynasty, joined conservative podcast host Tomi Lahren for a discussion about the brand’s direction, including the massive fallout from the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco.

“When InBev bought the company it was a ship and it was rolling down the ocean at full speed doing great and all of a sudden they come out with this kind of woke culture, a political agenda to push down people’s throats, and the beer drinker obviously doesn’t relate to that kind of advertising so they boycotted it,” Busch told Lahren.

Next, the Busch heir predicted it will be tough for the company to get people to drink Bud Light at previous levels.

Lahren asked Busch if his family regrets selling the company to the world’s largest brewing company, and he said, “If they don’t want that brand any longer, sell it back to the Busch family. Sell it to me. I’ll be the first in line to buy that brand back to me and we’ll make that brand great again.”

Disney’s ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Faces $100 Million Loss

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 04:39:43 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Disney’s disastrous Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is set to lose $100 million, according to this report from the far-left Variety:

“Indy 5,” which opened in late June, has grossed $375 million globally after six weeks of release, while “M:I 7,” which debuted in July, has generated $523 million after five weeks of release. Those ticket sales are respectable in the current moviegoing landscape, especially because the films are part of decades-old properties aimed at older audiences.

The trouble is that each sequel cost roughly $300 million before marketing spends of at least $100 million, making them among the most expensive movies of all time. After falling short of expectations, they could lose nearly $100 million in their theatrical runs, according to sources familiar with the financials of similar productions.

Don’t you believe it.

Instead, believe the math…

Indiana Jones and the Dial of This Is What You Get When You Hire An Idiot Like Kathleen Kennedy cost at least $400 million to produce and promote. I’ve seen estimates as high as $430 million. Dial of Kathleen Kennedy Sucks only grossed $375 million worldwide. It didn’t even earn back its costs. From here, the math is fairly easy… Theaters ate up at least $150 million of that $375 million, which leaves (and I’m being generous to the Disney Grooming Syndicate) $225 million for the Disney Grooming Syndicate. At a minimum, that’s a $200 million loss for Disney. Then there’s what we don’t know, like how much Harrison Ford might take out of the gross.

Yes, the movie will earn a little more money through home video and TV licensing, but not $200 million.

'Nefarious' Has Only Gotten More Successful Outside of Theaters

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 02:30:04 GMT

Red State Reports: Nefarious was a movie that caused a lot of headlines when it was released in theaters, in no small part because it was a Christian film that was good...and that's something that's just not supposed to happen.

People made going out of their way to see it a priority, and in some cases, it was going out of your way. The closest theater to me that was playing took half an hour to get to, depending on traffic. Still, people went and saw it, making Nefarious something of an indie success with $5.4 million despite not being a movie from a huge studio and only being available in select theaters.

But it would appear that leaving the theater created even more opportunity for Steve Deace's film as reports say that it's now outsold its own theatrical run in the home market.

According to Bounding Into Comics , the film video-on-demand (VOD) has been a breakout success:

Alliance Entertainment CEO Jeff Walker commented on the success of the film’s VOD release, “Nefarious is our biggest release to date and the digital sales we managed on this title was just exceptional.”

Walker added, “In addition to our state-of-the-art physical distribution operations, we have built a robust digital video platform that can support great movies like Nefarious that provided Believe Entertainment with a complete physical and digital distribution solution.”

The strategy of Nefarious bringing in more on VOD compared to its theatrical release was always part of the film’s distribution model.

‘Cancel Disney Plus’ Online Searches Spike After Disney Hikes Prices by More Than 25 Percent

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:55:14 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Online searches of the phrase “cancel Disney Plus” have reportedly spiked after Disney announced it will hike prices for the streaming entertainment service by more than 25 percent.

Google’s search data show that “cancel Disney Plus’ jumped worldwide by 510 percent on Monday — the most significant increase of that phrase on Google Trends since January 2023, according to an analysis from NoDeposit.guide.

Last week, the Walt Disney Company said it is hiking Disney+’s monthly subscription price to $13.99 from $10.99 — a 27 percent increase. Last year, the price rose to $10.99 from $7.99, which means Disney+ subscribers will see their monthly bill climb a total of 75 percent in less than two years.

The new price is set to take effect in October.

The latest price hike comes as Disney finds itself in increasingly perilous financial circumstances , with a perfect storm of bad media news bearing down on the woke company. Not only is advertising revenue cratering across its TV properties, Disney parks are also experiencing faltering attendance as households opt to save money in the face of out-of-control Bidenflation that is eating up disposable income.

CNN mercilessly MOCKED after it posted guide for 'neopronouns' from 'ae to ze'

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 04:55:21 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: CNN drew criticism and mockery after it published a nearly 2,000-word essay on the use and history of neopronouns on Saturday, including how to address a person who refers to themselves as a "leaf."

In the article titled "A guide to neopronouns from ae to ze," an expert on neopronouns and their histories and professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign told the outlet that “People like to have a say in how they’re identified."

"Refusing to let people self-identify is a way of excluding them,” he added.

Playing to its audience, CNN thought it necessary to explain what a pronoun is and how they are used daily. The article's author explained how neopronouns are most often "used by nonbinary, transgender, and gender nonconforming people because they offer more freedom of identity." It even had a guide on how to use neo-pronouns in a sentence.

CNN posted the article on X and at the time of writing the post has over 1.4 million views only 511 likes, over 4,000 comments, and over 750 quote tweets, with the vast majority making fun of the outlet.

Budweiser Humiliated at Sturgis After Woke Company's Stunt to Win Back Fans Epically Backfires

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 04:35:08 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: The punishing conservative boycott of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Bud Light brand continues unabated, as the beer giant was unceremoniously blackballed at a major motorcycle event it sponsored in South Dakota.

The grim situation was captured in a TikTok video by user CycleDrag, who posted shocking footage Tuesday showing tent after tent with row after row of empty Budweiser booths that had been set up to promote the beer.

The TikTok video was shared on Twitter by a user who noted that there were “ZERO attendees at the Budweiser tent in Sturgis. This may be the BIGGEST marketing blunder of all time!”

The no-show was especially jarring because Budweiser was an official sponsor of this year’s City of Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. So even when it lavishes money to woo customers to a free event, beer drinkers stayed away in droves.

The incident underscores that consumers still have not forgiven Bud Light for its disastrous promotion lionizing transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney by putting his face on a can of its beer.

Taste the Rainbow = WOKE “Black Trans Lives Matter”

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 01:55:49 GMT

The Liberty Daily Reports: The gap between satire and reality has been completely dissolved in 2023 as it pertains to business decisions. It doesn’t matter how much wokeness is proven to be unprofitable. ESG-driven policies at corporations have demonstrated complete control over the old school desire for profits.

The latest brand to go fully woke is Skittles. The candy company, whose tagline is “Taste the Rainbow,” has advanced even further than than they’ve ever gone in the past with their LGBTQIA+ supremacy embrace by not only bowing to the trans-agenda, but also throwing race into the mix for good measure.

“Black Trans Lives Matter,” reads the packaging on their limited edition “Pride Packs.” The slogan, inspired (forced?) through their longtime partnership with GLAAD, is the most infuriating push they’ve made over the years.

Hallmark’s WOKE CEO Steps Down Following Mass Celebrity Exodus

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 05:14:00 GMT

MRCtv Reports: Hallmark President and CEO Wonya Lucas will be stepping down from her role at the end of the year.

Lucas replaced former President and CEO Bill Abbott in 2020 following the backlash over Hallmark removing a commercial showing a homosexual couple. Her plan was to prioritize increasing “representation” and wanting to tell more “diverse and inclusive” stories.

However, amid the controversy, Lucas witnessed the mass exodus of Hallmark’s biggest celebrities, including “Full House” stars Candace Cameron Bure and Lori Loughlin, “Beverly Hills 90210” actress Jennie Garth, “90210” actor Trevor Donovan and “Where Calls the Heart” actor Daniel Lissing.

Lucas worked with Mike Perry, President and CEO of Hallmark Companies, to partner with GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to “better represent the LGBTQ community.”

Consumers have spoken, and they don’t want progressivism and wokeness in their family-oriented content. People love Hallmark for the wholesome, innocent and simplistic stories we all know and love.

Disney+ Subscriptions Collapse As WOKE Flops Pile Up, Prices Increase

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 02:22:06 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Disney+ streaming service lost 300,000 subscribers in the United States and Canada in the most recent quarter — an ominous sign for the studio as it continues to pour billions of dollars into new streaming content that is flopping with viewers.

To make matters worse for its fans, the Walt Disney Company is hiking Disney+’s monthly subscription price to $13.99 from $10.99 — a 27 percent increase. Last year, the price rose to $10.99 from $7.99, which means Disney+ subscribers will see their monthly bill climb a total of 75 percent in less than two years.

The new price is set to take effect in October.

On Wednesday, the studio reported domestic Disney+ subscriptions fell by 300,000 for the fiscal third quarter, to 46 million subscribers. By comparison, Netflix boasts around 76 million domestic subscribers. Worldwide, Disney+ subscriptions declined 24 percent for the period, mostly due to the end of Disney’s deal with Hotstar in India.

The domestic subscriber decline signals rough waters ahead for Disney as U.S. numbers have been stagnating for the past few quarters, indicating that the domestic market has likely reached its peak less than three years after the platform launched in 2019.

Disney continues to spend billions of dollars on new streaming content that receives a tremendous amount of hype but often ends up flopping with viewers.

Anheuser-Busch Reportedly Will Be Selling Off Several Beer Brands In Wake Of Bud Light Disaster

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:11:36 GMT

Outkick Reports: The Bud Light train wreck just keeps on rolling.

The company’s disastrous decision to partner with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney has cost the company millions over the past six months. Not just in dramatically reduced sales, but in brand prestige and future earning potential.

The consequences have been far ranging and devastating, with even parts production plants effected.

Now Bud Light’s parent company might potentially be paying an even steeper price.

Anheuser-Busch is selling eight beer and beverage brands to a cannabis company, including several big name labels. Shock Top, Blue Point, Breckenridge Brewery, Redhook Brewery, HiBall Energy and others will be sold to Tilray Brands, with an expected completion later this year.

While it’s unclear if this sale is a direct result of the Bud Light fallout, the timing seems incredibly suspicious. The Wall St. Journal spoke to Andy Thomas, president of the high-end business unit at Anheuser-Busch, who said Tilray expressed interest earlier this year.

Precisely the time period when the Mulvaney fallout started.

WOKE Late Night Hosts Disappear for 3 Months and No One Cares

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 02:35:57 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and the rest of the leftist late-nighters have been off the air since May.

I didn’t even know that left-wing bigots like Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers were airing reruns, which tells you just how little impact these woke echo chambers have nowadays.

Via Fox News :

"The writers’ strike (now in tandem with the actors strike) has halted production of movies and TV shows across the entertainment industry. Among the first immediately impacted were the late-night shows including “The Late Show” and “The Tonight Show” as well as “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “The Daily Show,” “Real Time with Bill Maher,” “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and “Saturday Night Live,” all of them forced to air re-runs."

"Political satirist Tim Young says their months-long absence makes it “easy to forget” about them."

“Their tired attempts at making funny news-based monologues that were always about Trump had become exhausting and unquotable, so they’d rarely even be covered by entertainment news anymore,” Young told Fox News Digital. “Late night shows are so forgettable that I think people have just moved on… they just aren’t missed.”

As Fox Points out, all of these smug scolds have lost huge parts of their audience. Since 2018, Colbert dropped from three million viewers to 2.1 million–and he’s the top guy. Fallon collapsed from 2.3 million to 1.3 million. Kimmel collapsed from two million to 1.5 million. Seth Meyers attracts only 778,000 viewers. The Daily Show is hardly a blip, with just 366,000 viewers.

Kirk Cameron, Riley Gaines Texas library event draws MASSIVE crowd as triggered trans activists scream outside

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:56:03 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: Kirk Cameron had supporters and protesters at his first national " See You at the Library " Brave Books event this Saturday in Tayler, Texas, a city just north of Austin. The former child actor turned Christian and family advocate held a gathering of families who sang the national anthem, listened as he read from his book, "As We Grow," and prayed for kids.

Protesters showed up outside Cameron's event and argued with reporters, including Tayler Hansen who was on the scene for The Post Millennial, about books with inappropriate or explicit content for children. When Hansen asks this LGBTQ+ protester about whether an explicit, sexual image is appropriate for children in a book, the protester flips Hansen off.

On a more positive note, the crowd sang the national anthem to open Cameron's event, which features an emphasis on being pro-God and pro-America.

Children gathered around Kirk as he reads the Brave Book he authored, "As We Grow." He touts his book club as one that families "can trust," because they are pro-God and pro-America.

When Kirk Cameron and Brave Books first launched their book reading plans for public libraries across the US last fall, over 50 libraries pushed back, denying them access outside of room rentals. This from many libraries that routinely and proudly host Drag Queen Story Hours. Now, many communities are embracing the series, despite their libraries' desire to shut it down.

Does the US women's soccer team care more about going woke than winning?

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 04:42:34 GMT

Washington Examiner Reports: The FIFA Women's World Cup is in full swing, and the final is weeks away, but the two-time defending United States Women's National Team might not make it there.

America's women managed to only win one of their three group games and endured a draw against Portugal Tuesday.

Former captain Carli Lloyd chastised the team and questioned the mentality of its players after the game.

"Portugal played to win, and they almost did," the two-time FIFA Women's World Cup winner told the crew of Fox Soccer during post-game analysis.

"I think there's just a lot of off-the-field things that are happening, and, you know, you never want to take anything for granted," Lloyd said.

"You put on that jersey and you want to give it everything you have for the people that came before you, for the people that are going to come after you, and I'm just not seeing that passion. I'm just seeing a very lackluster, uninspiring, taking it for granted, where winning and training and doing all that you can to be the best possible individual player is not happening."

Lloyd could have a point.

Since winning their second title in a row, players on the U.S. National Team have appeared far more concerned pushing a woke agenda regarding equal pay for female athletes and the rights of LGBT citizens than they have been with winning games.

Woke Hollywood cuts the nation a break - and cancels itself

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 04:41:40 GMT

New York Post Reports: Hollywood’s actors have joined its writers on strike. It’s the first time both have walked out at once since 1960. Maybe they’ll learn something in their time off — and maybe the country could use a break from them.

The movie business has been disrupted in recent years from all sides. More competition has driven changes to what we watch and how we watch it. With streaming services, bigger flatscreens and faster broadband, there were fewer reasons to leave the couch.

Streamers now offer a broad menu of foreign-made content. Gen Z viewers spend more time with immersive video games and personalities on YouTube and Tik Tok, and less watching TV and movies. All of this was accelerated by the pandemic decimating the reeling movie-theater business.

Through it all, Hollywood has been its own worst enemy.

Moviegoers like superhero movies, name-brand franchises and Pixar cartoons? Inundate them with so many sequels, of such declining quality, that viewers tune out. #MeToo scandals reveal the industry is overrun with sexual predators protected by an insular liberal elite?

Overcompensate by turning casting and programming decisions into a festival of “representation”-focused identity politics and ham-fisted leftist agitprop.

If your creative class is churning out content this devoid of creativity and alienating half the audience in the process, you may as well replace them with machines.

Three Country Stars Crush Billboard Charts, Defy The Woke Mob

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 03:57:40 GMT

Breitbart Reports: For the first time ever, country music songs have taken the top three spots on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, signaling the continued mainstreaming of the music genre as well as the public’s overwhelming rejection of woke culture.

Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” took the No. 1 spot this week, followed by Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” at No. 2 and Luke Combs’ rendition of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” coming in at No. 3.

It marks the first time country hits have taken the Hot 100’s top three spots in a single week since the chart’s inception in August 1958, Billboard announced on Monday.

The continued popularity of Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” comes as the corporate media and others on the left are trying to cancel the anti-woke singer. The song has enraged leftists who claim the song is racist because it condemns urban violence and the deadly 2020 Black Lives Matter riots that caused billions of dollars of damage to cities across the country.

CMT, which is owned by Paramount, bowed to pressure from the left to censor the music video by pulling it from broadcast. Fox recently threatened to sue Aldean if he didn’t edit out certain news footage of the BLM riots.

Target Lost $13 Billion In Three Months As Sane Americans Pushed Back

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:35:24 GMT

OutKick Reports: The verdict is in, and you’ll never believe it: sane Americans did NOT appreciate Target targeting their kids.

Most people won’t be shocked by reading that, but believe me, some will be. I hope to never meet them. The second quarter just wrapped up for the 2024 fiscal year, meaning it’s time to dive in and see who crushed it … and who got crushed.

Target, as you can probably guess by now, falls into the latter category.

“Target was our worst performer in the quarter, primarily driven by customers and public reaction to in-store promotions for the month of June,” Smead Capital Management wrote in a letter to investors this week.

“We believe management has listened to its core customers, made the necessary changes, and avoided structural damage to the brand.”

While that second part is debatable — have you been inside a Target since May? — the first part is not.

Shares of Target are down over 20% in the last 52 weeks, including a staggering decline over the past three months. OutKick’s written about it before, but now that the numbers are official, here’s a quick recap.

(Look away, Target …)

Disney’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ Flops, ‘Sound of Freedom’ Tops ‘Mission: Impossible’

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:39:52 GMT

Breitbart Reports: With Haunted Mansion’s dismal $24 million opening, the Disney Grooming Syndicate has been hit with another box office catastrophe. Overseas, it grossed just $9 million.

Haunted Mansion’s production budget sits at around $160 million. Let’s add a modest $65 million for promotion and call it a $225 million investment.

Disney could lose more than a hundred million on this dog, something the grooming syndicate cannot afford. Disney is already dealing with a long line of flops and under-performers, including Elemental, The Little Mermaid (2023), Strange World, Ant-Man 3, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Kathleen Kennedy Needs To Be Fired, and Lightyear.

Before the release of Indiana Jones 5 , Little Mermaid , and Haunted Mansion , there were reports that the Disney Grooming Syndicate had already suffered close to a billion dollars in box office losses.

Is there hope for Disney on the horizon? We’ll see…

Unless the strike forces them to push the schedule, Disney has two major releases set for November. A $200 million animated feature called Wish and The Marvels, a female-driven Marvel film no one asked for, starring that universally-appealing box office sensation Brie Larson.

6 Reasons Hollywood’s in Real Trouble This Time

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 03:11:33 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Experts have been predicting the demise of Hollywood for as long as Hollywood’s been around. Not me.

People love stories. They love movies and TV, and that will never change. But the entertainment industry is in serious trouble today, primarily because it has painted itself into several corners. There will always be a Hollywood, but what the industry looks like in five or ten years could be very different from what we see today.

Here’s why Hollywood’s in real trouble…

1. The Death of Cable/Satellite/Linear TV

“Cable/Satellite/Linear TV” is non-streaming TV, where you pay for a package of channels every month—ESPN, CNN, Turner Classic Movies, Fox News, etc.

For the sake of simplicity, I’ll use the term “pay TV.”

Although I’ve been writing about the imminent death of pay TV for more than a decade , no one else really has. There’s a reason why this consequential story has been deliberately underplayed: pay TV is the one-legged stool propping up the entertainment industry.

The importance of pay TV is rarely discussed in the media because the entertainment industry wholly owns the entertainment media. If the media covered this issue with the seriousness it deserves, stock prices would fall. Entertainment companies are judged solely by their stock prices, and the entertainment media will never risk damaging their patrons.

Target’s Stunning Woke Collapse

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 01:09:03 GMT

AMAC Reports: 2023 has not been a good year for Target, as the retail giant’s full-on embrace of wokeness has caused the company’s stock price to tumble and forced a series of embarrassing backtracks.

The most recent 180 came earlier this month when Target announced that it will indeed sell conservative radio host Mark Levin’s newest book, The Democratic Party Hates America, in stores when it is released on September 19. Initially, Target had told the book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, it would not carry the book because “certain customers might be offended by the title.”

Conservatives quickly rallied to Levin’s defense after he announced Target’s decision to refuse to sell the book on July 5. Former U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn stated , “I’ve read every book he’s written and listen to his show routinely. This is simply another form of censorship.” U.S. Senator Ted Cruz sarcastically commented, “Target has built up so much goodwill with conservatives that I’m sure they won’t mind.”

Less than 24 hours later, on July 6, Target reversed course and said that they would indeed carry the book. In a statement to Fox News digital, a company spokesperson said, “As we have with Mark Levin’s past books, many of which are currently available for sale at Target, we’ll offer his newest title for sale when it is available on September 19. The use of the word ‘hate’ in the title caused our team to reach out to the publisher, but as stated, we are continuing to offer this book for pre-sale now, and it will be available for sale on its release date. We regret any confusion this situation caused.”

Target executives were likely wary of igniting more backlash against perceived wokeness by the company following the debacle over the store’s pride month merchandise earlier this year.

Beginning in mid-May, social media users began posting videos of “pride-themed” clothing displays in Target marketed toward everyone from toddlers to adults. The clothing included rainbow onesies for babies, shirts with slogans like “trans rights are human rights” and “trans people exist” for young children, and even “tuck-friendly” swimsuits for males who identify as women and “chest binders” for females who identify as men. Although Target claimed that “tucking” and “binding” products were only for adults, the company’s website showed they came in sizes XS to 4XL, and they were sold alongside other children’s clothing.

Many conservatives called for a boycott of the company, with a rallying cry of turning Target into “ Bud Light 2.0 .” Amid mounting pressure, many Target locations began removing the pride merchandise or shifting it away from the front of stores – a move which only prompted outrage from trans activists, while largely failing to win back conservative shoppers.

Woke Businesses Are Starting to Feel the Heat from Consumers and Competitors

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 04:44:46 GMT

Townhall Reports: Numerous prominent corporations have taken big hits to their bottom lines and stock prices this year in the wake of political controversies they have brought on themselves with woke and sexual agendas.

Leftists used to mock censorship complaints by saying, “Build your own Twitter if you don’t like it!” They are starting to get their sarcastic wish as consumers and investors vote with their pocketbooks against corporate wokeism.

The Disney corporation’s stock price is down 55 percent from its most recent peak. The company lost nearly $900 million on eight movie box-office bombs between June 2022 and June 2023, American Military News reports . The losers include big franchise items such as Lightyear, Thor: Love and Thunder, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Little Mermaid, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

The independent film Sound of Freedom, by contrast, brought in more than $130 million in its first three weeks after costing a minuscule $14.5 million to produce.

Disney’s streaming platform Disney+ lost four million subscribers in the first quarter of 2023, after 2.4 million people exited in the last quarter of 2022. These are the first subscriber losses for Disney’s streaming platform, ever. I predict the trend to continue.

Amid reports of unusually short waiting lines at Walt Disney World in Orlando, “The Resort announced steep Disney Resort hotel room discounts earlier in the year and is currently offering the lowest Disney Park ticket offer in recent memory,” reports Inside the Magic.

As Writers Strike Against A.I., Studios Go On A.I. Hiring Spree

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:04:40 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Guess who doesn’t want to be replaced by A.I. or robots? Why it’s the very same Hollywoodists who sneer at the Middle America factory workers who long ago had their jobs stolen by robots.

Funny how that works.

Get a load of this:

We’ve got a message… I know, sir, that you look [at] things through a different lens. We don’t expect you to understand who we are. But we ask you to hear us, and beyond that to listen to us when we tell you we will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots. We will not have you take away our right to work and earn a decent living. And lastly, and most importantly, we will not allow you to take away our dignity! We are union through and through, all the way to the end!

Who said that?

A left-wing Hollywood millionaire or a Trump supporter from Ohio?

Neither. It was a Hollywood multi -millionaire named Bryan Cranston fake-yelling about Disney CEO Bob Iger (he actually called Groomer Bob “sir”).

Oh, yeah, I’m all broken up over this leftist’s “dignity.” You will note how Cranston has nothing to say against Disney’s ongoing and open crusade to groom and sexualize small children.

But a speech defending children against Disney’s predation would require moral courage, a real sacrifice… That’s never going to happen.

Burn, Hollywood.

No one cares.

Why they’re doing it: This may be the best explanation for Disney’s self-destruction

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 03:51:39 GMT

Not The Bee Reports: Why are they doing it? That's the logical question that any normal human being would have as they watch these interviews with the stars of Disney's upcoming live-action Snow White.

This is the kind of stuff that actually makes me worry about the future of our friends at The Babylon Bee. Those actual, real-life, serious interviews are almost identical to the kind of scripts satirists would write in an effort to parody progressives' absurd obsession with wokeness and identity politics.

I know it's becoming cliché, but there is a sector of progressivism that is now beyond parody. (Of course, now that I think about it, as bad as this may be for the Bee folks, I suppose it is the ultimate job security for those of us at Not the Bee).

So anyway, why would they do it? I don't care how impenetrable your echo chamber may be, there's no way that someone in the Disney boardroom is unaware of how all this plays in the general population.

Is ‘Ordinary Angels’ the Next Faith-Based Smash?

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:50:32 GMT

Hollywood In Toto Reports: The digital magazine’s new feature, “‘Sound of Freedom’ Reveals Rising Power of Jesus in Hollywood,” examines the crush of faith-friendly success stories in the arts.

“The Chosen”
“Jesus Revolution”
“Sound of Freedom”

More Christian content is on the way, according to Newsweek.

Need more proof that Jesus is suddenly a very hot commodity in the entertainment industry? Consider that MGM, 21st Century Fox and Sony Pictures have each launched their own faith-based studios.

Meanwhile, renowned director Martin Scorsese is planning a new film about Jesus and so is art house director Terrence Malick. And Netflix has said it is working on bringing more faith-based content to its platform as well.

Plus, major stars are now happy to engage with the material.

Dennis Quaid’s recent resume teems with uplifting tales that intersect with the faith-based world (“The Hill,” “Blue Miracle,” “On a Wing and a Prayer”). Other respected actors like Jennifer Garner , Greg Kinnear and Chrissy Metz have anchored spiritually uplifting films.

This Fall, Hilary Swank headlines “Ordinary Angels,” a fact-based tale of a woman’s determination to save a local child’s life.

Woke Fail: Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ Rockets to No. 2 on Charts

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 01:00:08 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Proving once again the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, country star Jason Aldean’s song Try That in a Small Town is basking in exponential sales growth driven by the controversy surrounding its associated music video.

AP reports Try That in a Small Town, which was released in May, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week just behind BTS’s Jung Kook solo single Seven, featuring Latto.

That spectacular launch gave it the biggest sales week for a country song in over 10 years as plenty of big names came out in support of the hit and the artist to defy the cancel campaign critics launched to take it down.

According to Luminate, the song hit 11.7 million on-demand audio and video streams between July 14 and 20, marking a 1,000 percent increase from the previous week, the AP report sets out. Prior to the music video release on July 14, the track accounted for 987,000 streams in the U.S.

Digital song sales increased from 1,000 to 228,000, in those same weeks, respectively.

As Breitbart News reported , the music video for the song has become a massive hit in the wake of a woke backlash that accused the song of evoking racism.

Despite CMT pulling the video from its rotation, the music video for Aldean’s song has increased viewership by a whopping 999 percent.

STEM Students Troll Woke LGBT Survey — Researchers Blame ‘Rise Of Online Fascism’

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 03:23:38 GMT

Daily Wire Reports: Academic researchers reacted with horror when college students submitted irreverent responses to the researchers’ LGBT survey.

Academics from Oregon State University wrote they were shocked to receive sarcastic and offensive responses to a survey as part of their research into undergraduate LGBT students in STEM fields.

Out of 349 total survey responses , 50 — or about 15% — were from “malicious respondents” and contained “slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team,” the researchers said.

One “malicious” responder said his gender was “aerosol,” his race was “Afro/Klingon-Asiatic Galapogayation,” and his disability was “being 2.86% white.”

Another said his gender was “airplane,” his race was “Native American (Elizabeth Warren),” and his disability was “transgenderism.”

Yet another survey respondent entered his gender as “f***ing white male,” his race as “Swedish Muslim,” and his disability as “my country is run by communists.”

One respondent put his gender as “pansexual attack helicopter,” his race as “kangz,” and his disability as “intracranial lead deficiency.”

The survey informed students that they could receive a $5 Amazon gift card as compensation for participating in the survey.

“I identify as a gift card,” wrote one student, adding “I’m an ethnic gift card,” and putting as a disability, “I don’t have enough gift cards.”

The researchers decided to examine how the mocking responses “relate to engineering culture by framing them within larger social contexts — namely, the rise of online fascism.”

DC’s ‘Blue Beetle’ Projected to Be Next Affirmative-Action Flop

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 05:32:02 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Blue Beetle, the latest woke superhero movie from DC/Warner Bros., is projected to open in the dismal-dismal-dismal range of $12 to $17 million.

At best, this projection sees Blue Beetle earning a total of only $55 million domestic. At worst, this sucker could tank with just a $27 million total gross.

The morons at Warner Bros. spent $120 million on this movie and then stupidly sold it as an affirmative-action movie. THE WORLD’S FIRST HISPANIC SUPERHERO!

Brilliant, y’all… Just brilliant.

Lemme see if I can help you out with this…

Do you want to know why Blade (1998) was so successful it spawned a trilogy? Because it was advertised as a badass superhero movie starring the badass Wesley Snipes and not an affirmative action movie starring THE WORLD’S FIRST BLACK SUPERHERO.

If history has taught us anything, no one is interested in seeing stupid affirmative-action movies. No one’s interested in dropping 30 bucks and four hours of their time to participate in your stupid social justice experiment.

$2 Billion Red State Theme Park Plans to ‘Celebrate All that We Stand for in America’ and Rival Woke Disney Parks

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 23:12:55 GMT

Breitbart Reports: A massive $2 billion theme park is being planned near Tulsa, Oklahoma, to rival the woke Disney theme parks, officials announced on Wednesday.

The American Heartland Theme Park and Resort is on the drawing board to open sometime in 2025 in Vinta, a town just to the north east of Tulsa. Tulsa World reported. The new attraction hopes to give families a wholesome, American-styled place for families to go as the Disney corporation continues its headlong rush toward extreme leftism.

The resort “will attract visitors from around the world to celebrate all that we stand for, here in hometown America,” Vinita Mayor Josh Lee said during a presser on Wednesday.

The resort will begin as a camping park for RVs and will also feature cabins, with a planned opening in spring of 2025, to be followed the next year with a park including rides and other attractions the following year.

“We are thrilled to make Oklahoma the home of American Heartland Theme Park and Resort,” American Heartland CEO Larry Wilhite added.

“At the crossroads of the heartland, Oklahoma is an attractive location for a family entertainment destination. The state’s business-friendly approach and innovative partnership efforts have helped make this possible. We look forward to bringing unforgettable generational experiences to Oklahoma,” Wilhite added.

The project is set to make use of a 1,000-acre plot which will include a 125-acre theme park comparable in size to Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom.

‘Sound of Freedom’ Crosses the Magic $100 Million Mark

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 01:24:23 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Thanks to a Wednesday haul of another $4.5 million, Angel Studios’ Sound of Freedom has crossed the magic $100 million mark at the domestic box office.

“Angel Studios, the platform empowering filmmakers with full creative control to crowdfund and create, has reached a new theatrical milestone,” the studio said in a statement released Thursday. “Its independent summer hit, SOUND of FREEDOM. has now sold over 8.9 million tickets, and the film has now passed $100M in box office revenue.”

“Since the films’ July 4 release, SOUND of FREEDOM has never left the top 3 positions on the charts[.]”

On Wednesday, after 16 days of release, Sound of Freedom also managed to nearly top Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One once again, which is only in its eighth day of release — $4.37 million for Dead Reckoning’s Wednesday haul compared to Sound of Freedom’s $4.5 million.

But.

As Breitbart News reported Tuesday , Tom Cruise’s seventh outing as Ethan Hunt enjoys the advantage of playing in 1,000+ more screens—4,327 to 3,265. So, as far as packing in the crowds on a per-screen average, Jim Caviezel’s $14.5 million movie is beating Tom Cruise’s $250 to $300 million blockbuster, and doing so after being in wide release a week longer.

Currently, Sound of Freedom is the second most popular movie in the country and there are no signs it will slow down.

Barbie Movie Is Woke Propaganda – Doll-Smashing, Woman-Bashing, Anti-Mother, Pro-Trans Filth Aimed at Little Girls

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:21:16 GMT

Gateway Pundit Reports: The Barbie Movie is set to be released and the word is getting out on its vile, anti-mother, anti-woman propaganda.

The left is indoctrinating your children with their woke feminism.

Dr. Ted Baehr warned parents away from the movie in his Christian Broadcasting Network interview.

Dr. Baehr: We saw the movie on Sunday night, and the movie is worse than you could possibly expect. It’s hardcore propaganda...

…Barbie just is terrible. The first few minutes, it’s got a bunch of little girls playing with little baby dolls. Now, I’ve got 17 grandchildren, and most of them are little girls, and they love playing with baby dolls. And the girls take the baby dolls and bash them and slap them and say, we don’t have to be mothers anymore. In Barbie land, men are the problem with all of society.

It’s hardcore feminist. So they banished men so they have a better life. In fact, Kin is the villain in the movie, and Barbie has to leave because she’s not adapting to this hate of the patriarchal society, although she hates Ken. So men are the villain, and there are a couple of trans people playing. So, you know, men play better Barbies than women play Barbies, by the way.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads App Sees Exodus of Users

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 04:17:52 GMT

Epoch Times Reports: In a statement, Mr. Zuckerberg said on July 10 that Threads was able to obtain about 100 million users in about a week. “That’s mostly organic demand, and we haven’t even turned on many promotions yet,” the Facebook founder said in a Threads post.

At the same time, Matthew Prince, CEO of internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare, shared a graph showing a similar trajectory in a tweet on July 10 and claimed Twitter’s traffic was “tanking.” But Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino wrote Monday that the platform last week had its “largest usage day” since February. “There’s only ONE Twitter,” she tweeted.

However, since Threads—billed by some legacy news outlets as a “Twitter killer”—launched on July 5, there has been a serious drop in user engagement, according to Sensor Tower.

For example, according to Sensor Tower, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Threads’ number of daily active users was down 20 percent from Saturday. More seriously, the time spent by a user was down 50 percent, from 20 minutes to 10 minutes in that same time period, the company told CNBC .

“These early returns signal that despite the hoopla during its launch, it will still be an uphill climb for Threads to carve out space in most users’ social network routine,” Mr. Bartolacci said. “The backing of Meta and the integration with Instagram likely gives Threads a much higher flood than other services, but it will need a more compelling value proposition than simply ‘Twitter, but without Elon Musk.’”

Desperate Disney Prepares to Sell Off Third of Company

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 04:02:57 GMT

Breitbart Reports : According to the report, the sale announcement was a subtle but unmistakable one. Iger made the announcement during his disastrous CNBC interview last week, where he was caught lying with the false claim that Disney is not sexualizing children.

By declaring its cable and broadcast TV assets “noncore,” the report says, Iger told the world ABC TV, the FX cable networks, National Geographic, and Freeform are all for sale. He’s also looking for a partner for the failing ESPN.

Bloomberg does the math. “Disney’s media networks generated 35%, or $24.8 billion, of company revenue and more than 50%, or $7.5 billion, of its operating income.” Yep, that’s a big sell-off.

The problem — and Disney knows it — is that cable/satellite TV is quickly dying off. People are moving to streaming, which is much cheaper and, in many cases (Pluto TV, FreeVee, Tubi, etc.), entirely free. The billions Disney (and other entertainment/media outlets) has made from cable TV have nothing to do with merit.

For nearly 50 years, upwards of 100 million American homes have subscribed to cable TV and paid a fortune for channels they never watch. The reason your cable bill is so high is because corporations like Disney earn a substantial piece of that bill simply for providing a channel on your cable package.

You don’t watch it but still pay for it (same with CNN, MSNBC, MTV, etc.). Cable/satellite TV is one of the most lucrative scams in the history of American business.

Obama Writes Letter Praising Librarians Who Push Sexual Perversion on Children

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:53:57 GMT

Daily Caller Reports: Former President Barack Obama in a Monday letter praised librarians who push LGBT-themed books on kids, without mentioning the sexually explicit content contained therein.

Obama criticized “book bans” across American school libraries, which have resulted from parents complaining of their children being exposed to sexually explicit content. The former president claimed many books which “shaped his life” are being banned in order to target LGBTQ, indigenous people and racial minorities.

“Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. It’s no coincident that these ‘banned books’ are often written by or feature people of color, indigenous people, and members of the LGBTQ+ community—though there have been unfortunate instances in which books by conservative authors or book containing ‘triggering’ words or scenes have been targets of removal. Either way, the impulse seems to be to silence, rather than engage, rebut, learn from or seek to understand views that don’t fit our own.”

He then claimed it is “ironically” Christians who are calling for banning sexually explicit books, adding that librarians are “attacked” by those who do not understand the essential role they play in society.

“And you do it all in a harsh political climate where, all too often, you’re attacked by people who either cannot or will not understand the vital—and uniquely American—role you play in the life of our nation,” he said.

Sexually explicit books have been notably banned from school libraries in Florida and Virginia after complaints from concerned parents. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis read graphic excerpts from books previously featured in Florida school libraries at a March 8 press conference.

‘Sound of Freedom’ Soars to $83 Million as ‘Dead Reckoning’ Slips

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 01:46:32 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Sound of Freedom is no flash in the pan. In its second weekend, the Angel Studios’ phenomenon grossed another $24.7 million, which is an astonishing 26 percent increase over its debut weekend. Currently, THE MOVIE DISNEY DUMPED sits at $83.2 million.

Never forget that the Disney Grooming Syndicate owned Sound of Freedom and then tried to disappear it. Because Jim Caviezel doesn’t age, it’s hard to tell, but Sound of Freedom wrapped in 2018, more than five years ago. When Disney acquired 20 th Century Fox in 2019, Disney acquired Sound of Freedom, a movie that is about to become one of the most profitable independent movies of all time.

Obviously, a demonic company like Disney, a company dedicated to grooming kids by sexualizing children’s content with homosexuality, transsexuals, drag queens, and transvestites, does not want anything to do with a movie that depicts the sex trafficking of children as a bad thing.

Disney is determined to normalize sex with children, not reinforce the idea that a child’s innocence must be protected. So Disney shelved Sound of Freedom and sat on it. It took five years for the producers to get it back.

Disney’s live-action ‘Snow White’ under fire for replacing seven dwarfs with ‘magical creatures’ of all sizes, genders

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 04:30:29 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Disney’s forthcoming live-action “Snow White” is under fire for being so “politically correct” that it’s reimagining the seven dwarfs as “magical creatures” of all sizes and genders.

The film, which is slated for release next year with Hispanic actress Rachel Zegler as the fairy tale princess , made waves this week after a Snow White stand-in was seen wandering around Bedfordshire, England, followed by a gaggle of brightly colored friends of various genders, races and sizes, modernizing the 1937 film.

Not everyone is bewitched by the Mouse House’s modern take on the fairy tale, as critics began attacking the set photos, with some calling it “unbelievable.”

“#GoWokeGoBroke,” one Twitter user wrote.

Another said: “Looks like the Woke don’t care much for dwarves. And…they have a girl swarf now.”

One user teasingly changed the name of the film to: “Snow white and the seven diversity hires.”

Another asked: “Where’s the dwarf equity?”

It’s not the only modernization that the film has made, as it was announced earlier that there will be no Prince Charming coming to save a lost Snow White, but instead focus more on the main character following her leadership dreams.

Hooray for Woke Hollywood Shutting Down

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:40:27 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Two strikes have shut down Woke Hollywood and that’s a beautiful thing.

Hollywood is shut down and we’re all supposed to pretend we care now that people who hate us and target our children are out of work. Well, I’m too old to pretend. As the Last Unicorn, as the last right-winger who, up until a couple of years ago, defended the entertainment industry as a vital American institution and creator of art, I’m now pledging those delegates to my Blu-ray collection.

The writers are on strike. The actors are on strike.

What are they striking over?

Don’t know. Don’t care.

Who’s right, the studios or the strikers?

Don’t know. Don’t care.

Why should I care about people who hate me?

Why would I mourn the shutdown of a multi-billion dollar industry dedicated to hating me, grooming children, destroying my heroes, lying about my country, championing fascism, and taking pride in wasting everyone’s precious time with a product that rarely rises to mediocre?

Equity activists are outraged that 'white guilt' has run out after Disney, Netflix, and other companies force out DEI chiefs

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 01:29:12 GMT

The Blaze Reports: Racial equity activists are outraged after several large companies dropped their diversity, equity, and inclusion consultants in response to conservative backlash and criticism.

The outrage was documented in a report from the Los Angeles Times that noted the exits of DEI experts at Disney, Netflix, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Warner Bros. Discovery.

“I wake up every day trying not to be a cynic, but this is frightening,” said Vic Bulluck of the NAACP Hollywood bureau. “Hollywood seems to be sending a message that these programs that were designed to give more access to African Americans are no longer needed.”

The report noted that all of the DEI chiefs dismissed were black women.

Business strategist Kim Crayton claimed that she predicted that the corporate support of DEI programs would be short-lived.

“2020 was the year that we were definitely making strides — but there wasn’t any strategy, there wasn’t any plan,” she explained.

“It was a PR moment — corporate blackface," she added. "I told people at the time: ‘White guilt isn’t going to last.’”

Disney, Netflix, and Warner Bros. Discovery told the Los Angeles Times that these criticisms were inaccurate and that they were still committed to the cause of equity and diversity.

Crayton went on to say claim that DEI consultants were too busy having to deal with white people's feelings to make any lasting change about inequity.

Where Is Everyone? Disney World “Just About Empty”

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 03:22:18 GMT

Truth Press Reports: A trip to Walt Disney World or Disneyland with the whole family is too expensive. Former and current Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger recently admitted customer affordability issues at an investor conference.

And the direct consequences of price-gouging families, plus the ‘woke’ backlash, might have led to one of the slowest periods at Walt Disney World in Orlando on July 4 in a decade.

The Wall Street Journal cited new data from Touring Plans, a company that tracks wait times at theme parks, which reported Disney World and Disneyland in California had significantly lower wait times to get on rides on Independence Day weekend.

According to Touring Plans, Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park in Central Florida experienced the third-slowest day in the past year. The average wait time at the Magic Kingdom park was around 27 minutes, down from 31 minutes in 2022 and 47 minutes in 2019.

“It’s something that nobody would have predicted—just unfathomable,” said Len Testa, a Touring Plans data analyst.

‘Woke or KKK’: NYU Hosts Whites-Only ‘Antiracism’ Workshop for Public School Parents

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:55:28 GMT

Washington Free Beacon Reports: New York University hosted a whites-only "anti-racism" workshop for public school parents in New York City, barring minorities from a five-months-long seminar that legal experts say was a brazen violation of civil rights law.

The all-white seminar, "From Integration to Anti-Racism," cost $360 to attend and met six times between February and June, according to a description of the program that has since been scrubbed from the university’s website without explanation. Organized by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education, the workshop was "designed specifically for white public school parents" committed to "becoming anti-racist" and building "multiracial parent communities."

But to promote solidarity with all races, participants were told, it was necessary that the seminar include only one.

A few days before the first session, facilitators circulated a short handout, " Why a White Space ," to explain "why we are meeting as white folks for these six months." The handout, produced by the nonprofit Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere, argued that white people need spaces where they can "unlearn racism" without subjecting minorities to "undue trauma or pain."

Facilitators reiterated this argument on day one of the seminar, audio and video of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. When a parent questioned the premise of the workshop—saying it seemed "a little counterintuitive" to exclude minorities from an anti-racism seminar—Barbara Gross, the associate director of Steinhardt’s Education Justice Research group, assured her that it was for their own good.

Instagram, Threads, Facebook, and WhatsApp are all down right now

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:02:51 GMT

BGR Reports: Well, it looks like Meta has finally figured out just how much growth it can handle before Threads brings the whole ship down.

This evening, users have reported issues with Instagram, Threads, Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp on Downdetector. Users are noticing loading issues with their feeds, content on their profiles, and the ability to post to the platforms.

According to Downdetector , reports of issues started to come in around 5:30 PM EST. The hashtag #ThreadsDown, #InstagramDown, #FacebookDown, and #WhatsAppDown also started trending immediately on Twitter.

Disney’s ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Dead as a Doornail with 2nd-Place Finish, ‘Sound of Freedom’ Soars

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:23:31 GMT

Breitbart Reports: After a dismal $60 million opening, the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny collapsed somewhere between 50 to 60 percent with a dreadful $25 to $28 million second weekend — and couldn’t even manage one consecutive first-place finish.

What had once been one of the most popular and bulletproof franchises ever created finally met its match in Kathleen “Franchise Killer” Kennedy and her anti-entertainment identity politics. Kennedy might be offscreen, but she is the true villainess in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which should’ve been called Indiana Jones and Talentless Queendom of Woke Child Grooming Nazis.

Indy also met its match this week from the fifth chapter of the Insidious horror franchise, which opened to $31 million. Some believed Dial of Dud would hold on to the number one spot this weekend, a headline the child abusers at Disney desperately needed, but that didn’t even come close to happening.

Elsewhere, and in nearly 2,000 fewer theaters than Dial of Dud (2,850 compared to 4,600), Sound of Freedom, AKA the Little Christian-Themed Indie That Disney Dumped, hauled in another $15.2 million. By Monday, this $14.5 million budgeted movie — THAT DISNEY DUMPED – will have grossed close to $40 million.

Ben and Jerry's Is The Latest To To Lose Billions After Woke Backlash

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 04:10:21 GMT

PJ Media Reports: As if what happened to Bud Light and Target wasn’t ample enough warning, it seems that some brands didn’t get the memo — and shouldn’t be shocked they’re paying a price.

On Independence Day, the Vermont-based ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s called on the United States to return “stolen indigenous land.”

“The United States was founded on stolen indigenous land,” the company tweeted. “This Fourth of July, let’s commit to returning it.” A similar message was posted on the company’s website .

In what is unlikely to be a coincidence, Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, has lost $4.29 billion in market cap since before the tweet was sent. On Monday, the company’s market cap was $133.5 billion, as of Thursday, it is $129.2 billion.

I Just Figured Out How to Fix Disney

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:58:39 GMT

PJ Media Reports: How do you fix Disney, a company that seems hell-bent on destroying billions of dollars worth of intellectual property from The Little Mermaid to Indiana Jones?

Following Walt Disney’s untimely death in 1966, the company bearing his name entered a long creative and quality slump. Disney even lost direction, badly trying to outdo Star Wars with The Black Hole and producing “edgier” fare like The Devil And Max Devlin. By the late ’80s, though, the company got back to Walt’s roots in classic animation with The Little Mermaid, beginning a decade-plus creative renaissance.

Then the bean counters took over and cash-flush Disney started gobbling up other people’s creative content — Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel Comics — instead of creating more of their own.

“Who cares about the quality? Just keep the content coming,” became the new attitude. I couldn’t begin to count how many Marvel series are streaming on the money-losing Disney+ service, but I can tell you that only two of the entire lot were worth watching. The damage done to Star Wars is so serious that a new movie hasn’t begun production in six years. An unbearably smug young woman — the heroine! — punches out 80-year-old Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, projected to lose at least $200 million. Nobody knows any longer what a Pixar movie is supposed to be, including the management at Pixar.

The rot, it stinks.

Even worse, two-time (and current) CEO Bob Iger introduced wokeness to Disney’s brand, in effect gutting all those golden geese.

‘Barbie’ map controversy slapped down by Warner Bros.: ‘Child-like crayon drawing’

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 03:23:25 GMT

New York Post Reports: The highly-anticipated “Barbie” movie has been the subject of many popular trends around the world — but Vietnam’s decision to ban the movie has been making headlines

Now Warner Bros. is attempting to clarify its intention.

The film, directed by Greta Gerwig , was set to hit theaters in the country on July 21, aligning with its big-screen release in most countries around the world.

However, Vietnam announced the movie will not be released due to a scene that includes a map using the “nine-dash line” — a set of line segments that represents China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea — which Vietnam claims violates its sovereignty.

But the studio rejects the need for controversy.

“The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing,” a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Film Group told Variety . “The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world.’ It was not intended to make any type of statement.”

Hollywood doesn’t have a diversity problem – it has a woke virtue-signaling problem

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 03:17:18 GMT

New York Post Reports: I heard that the Oscars now has new diversity rules which must be strictly adhered to if you want to win an Academy Award.

Specifically, any contending movie for the 2024 Academy Awards must meet two of four new criteria which include featuring a lead or significant supporting character from an “underrepresented racial or ethnic group,” having a main storyline that focuses on an underrepresented group, or at least 30% of the cast comes from two or more underrepresented groups (women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ or the disabled).

I sighed loudly when I read this, which is now my body’s instinctive go-to response to any new outbreak of ludicrous woke claptrap.

Others experienced a more violent response.

Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss said the new rules “make me vomit” and seethed: “No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.”

He added: “What are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people’s feelings? You can’t legislate that. And you have to let life be life and I’m sorry, I don’t think there is a minority or majority in the country that has to be catered to like that.”

Woke Demonstrators Protest Supreme Court Rulings With Bizarre Ritual

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 01:51:56 GMT

Summit News Reports: Don’t ever let anyone tell you that “woke” isn’t a religion. Activists at the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in New York gathered in black garb, chanting and wailing in an unhinged procession following the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on Affirmative Action and student loan debt relief. The reversal of Affirmative Action policies in US colleges is supported by a majority of Americans , with many viewing the use of skin color and ethnicity in school admissions as a form of codified racism.

The political left argues that colleges should take into account the “adversity” that minority students have overcome as a factor in acceptance while ignoring their academic accomplishments (or lack thereof); the Supreme Court has essentially ruled that race is not a useful indicator of adversity. The SC is correct in this conclusion, but the political left has responded to the decision along with others that have not gone in their favor with abject rage and indignant shock.

Democrats can't talk about masculinity without crossing transgender activists

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:21:19 GMT

Washington Examiner Reports: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) wants his fellow progressives to take the crisis of masculinity facing young men seriously. There is one major issue with that: They would have to admit that men exist.

Murphy lamented that the Left is “missing the crisis happening” with young men and that “we need to talk about it openly and without fear.” He is, of course, correct. There is a crisis of fatherhood, or lack thereof, leaving boys to grow into young men without proper guidance from male role models. People on the Right have noticed this, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) chief among them. Meanwhile, some bad actors have used the internet to profit off of this crisis and steer young men in even worse directions.

The problem for Murphy is that the Democrats and progressives he is urging to take this crisis seriously disagree with a simple statement he made: “We cannot avoid the biological/evolutionary differences between men and women.” This statement flies directly in the face of the transgender movement that has taken over the Democratic Party. You are supposed to think that there are no differences between men and women, that they are nothing more than two social categories between which you can switch at the drop of a hat.

Sound of Freedom ticket sales SMASH expectations while Disney Indiana Jones falls flat

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:49:36 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: Presales for Angel Studios’ Sound of Freedom have skyrocketed to $10 million ahead of the film’s July 4th opening across 2,600 locations.

According to Deadline , the studio is "spotting a 6-day $20M start which is extremely impressive for a non-major studio adult thriller," and over one million tickets have been bought for the based-on-a-true-story film following a former Homeland Security agent, played by Jim Caviezel, who rescues abducted children around the world.

The film follows Caviezel’s character Tim Ballard, who left the Homeland Security Department after he was frustrated with the US’ rescue efforts for abducted children.

Ballard founded Operation Underground Railroad in 2013, which has conducted many sting operations around the globe to rescue children, and has donated funds and technology to law enforcement agencies to combat sex trafficking.

The success of the non-major studio movie in presales comes as the latest Indiana Jones film had seen lackluster presales.

Competition for royalty? Non-woke studio may dethrone Disney princesses

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 03:17:05 GMT

WND Reports: If you think about Disney, what comes to mind right away? The first thing would most likely be Mickey Mouse, but the second might be the numerous Disney princesses -- Ariel, Snow White, Belle, Jasmine, Cinderella and so on.

Disney princesses have become cultural icons, and they have practically become part of the company's DNA.

Cinderella's Castle dominates the landscape of both Disneyland and Disney World, and the princess films are among the most popular and beloved movies the company has produced.

Unfortunately for Disney, the days of dominating princess films might soon be over, for another studio aims to claim the crown, according to one Disney observer.

That company is Japanese video game maker Nintendo, which is planning to create a series of films about its own famous princesses, WDW Pro said in a video posted to YouTube on Saturday.

This comes on the heels of the massive success of " The Super Mario Bros. Movie ," which smashed box office records in April with the biggest worldwide opening ever for an animated film.

Woke Journalists Attack ‘Final Fantasy XVI’ for ‘Overwhelming Whiteness’

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 23:07:36 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The latest video game in the long-running Final Fantasy series is facing attacks from the woke video game news site Kotaku. Its crime? Lack of diversity.

Final Fantasy XVI is set in European medieval setting, drawing inspiration from societies that were not ethnically or culturally diverse, a fact acknowledged by Kotaku, which nonetheless complains about the game’s “overwhelming whiteness.”

“If there’s a fault to be had, it’s in Valisthea’s lack of diversity,” wrote Kotaku reviewer Corey Plante. “Producer Naoki Yoshida told IGN in November 2022 that the design concept always focused on the “historical, cultural, political, and anthropological standards” of medieval Europe. In other words, these cultures are mostly different variations on familiar-looking white medieval patriarchies like Transylvania or England and represent only a small corner of this world. The game’s Dhalmekian Republic, admittedly, is coded as Middle-Eastern. Yet the Dhalmekian Dominant of Titan, Hugo Kupka, appears Caucasian. The core cast therefore becomes overwhelmingly homogenous.”

“A more meaningful approach to diversity does not seem too outlandish in a world where a little blonde boy can transform into a giant bird made of fire.”

“The overwhelming whiteness of the game’s world does make it feel somewhat detached from any such real-world concerns,” writes Plante earlier in the piece.

It’s no surprise that Kotaku, one of the most notoriously woke publications in video game journalism, is demanding more diversity in games. Previous headlines at the site include “ Sorry, Your Cis White Woman Protagonist Isn’t Progressive ,” and “ Meet Magic: The Gathering’s First Trans Character ” — an article published all the way back in 2015.

Woke Indiana Jones sequel likely to play to near empty theaters on opening weekend after low pre-sales: report

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 01:13:49 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: The fifth and final installment of the Indiana Jones series is being released in theaters across the country this week, with an official release date of Friday, and sales expectations are not looking good. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has earned a 66 percent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes , making it the lowest rated in the series.

According to the site, the consensus among critics is that the movie had a nostalgic element but was underwhelming when it comes to being as thrilling of a film as one would expect from the series.

"There is no excuse on God’s green Earth for a movie that cost $300 million to look this bad," said Sean Burns of WBUR's Arts and Culture.

Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times said , "The main plot line is creaky, corny and contrived, and the final action twist lands the story in such disastrous, B-movie territory that not even Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones can rescue it from collapsing in a dusty heap of mediocrity."

Get Woke, Go Broke: How National Boycotts Are Indeed Crushing ESG Companies

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 03:31:30 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: A couple months back the leftist media including Rolling Stone attempted to “debunk” the mantra of “get woke, go broke” with a series of articles and reports suggesting that corporations that embrace social justice ideology and ESG related policies are actually more profitable than ever. At the time, the momentum for conservative boycotts of companies like Anheuser-Busch and eventually Target had just started to roll forward, and as is often the case with the media, they jumped the gun and made assumptions before the dust had settled on the issue.

They said the boycott against Bud Light wouldn't last long, but it has been three months now and Bud Light just suffered its worst weekly loss so far, with sales down 30% at the end of June. Stock losses for A-B were also in the $27 billion range. The company is now preparing for the possibility that these losses are permanent and that customers are not coming back.

In response, A-B fired the marketing department responsible for the branding campaign using trans activist Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesman. Take note that the corporate media including the Associated Press tried to “fact check” this claim, arguing that A-B didn't actually fire the marketing team and that the assertion was “satire” mistaken as reality. According to text messages made by executive staff and obtained by the Daily Caller , the team was actually let go by A-B.

The Bud Light texts note that the people involved are not allowed to use the word “fired” when discussing the marketing incident. This fits with a common theme we are seeing lately with woke companies, which is that when they have to cut activist employees loose they try to hide the fact from the public. Why? Probably because this would be an admission that going woke is a disastrous prospect. ESG driven organizations care more about optics than they do about admitting the problem and taking action to fix it.

Target suffered at least $15 billion in share losses after their their line of trans clothing for kids sparked a mass boycott of the retailer. Overall profit losses will not be known until next year and the company was already dealing with flat sales, but the effects of the boycott will likely be felt by Target for many months to come.

LGBTQ activists DEFEND drag queens who chanted 'We're coming for your children' during parade in NYC - and claim it was 'taken it out context'

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:56:43 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: LGBTQ activists have defended a video of drag queens chanting 'we're coming for your children' during a Pride parade in New York City.

The video of the incident sparked widespread revulsion online - but prominent allies within the community have now said that it was taken out of context.

Brian Griffin, the original organizer of the NYC Drag March, defended the words that were chanted in the city over the weekend by crowds of peopl e, including a topless woman.

He told NBC : 'It's all just words. It's all presented to fulfill their worst stereotypes of us.'

Griffin said he himself has chanted obscene things in the past, including 'Kill, kill, kill, we're coming to kill the mayor.'

Woke Hollywood Sinks Into Irrelevance After Multiple Box Office Failures

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:41:17 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: The formula for box office success these days seems rather simple – Produce a solid story with relatable and likable characters, and tell that story in a setting that makes sense with as few distractions and tangents as possible. In other words, make a normal movie without the intent to manipulate your audience with propaganda.

Most movies that follow this basic formula will rake in the cash. Any movie that insists on browbeating the audience will bomb; get woke, go broke. The problem is that Hollywood elitists just can't help themselves. They think they're smarter than the audience and smarter than the box office, and they would rather lose their entire business and fade into obscurity than admit the truth: The market dictates the success or failure of popular media, the media does not dictate the market.

To be fair, the media culture we live in today is far different from what it was even 10 years ago. The entertainment industry is no longer interested in keeping the public happy or distracted, they're only interested in “platforms.”

They see every movie and every popular franchise as a vehicle to deliver their gospel, the gospel of woke. It is likely that they believe if they saturate the market long enough and thoroughly enough with their messaging that one day the public will just give up and accept woke as the new normal.

This isn't happening. There's been a flurry of film flops in the past year which have made it obvious that Hollywood is imploding instead of gaining influence.

Bud Light sponsors Toronto Pride parade attended by naked men, children

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:55:25 GMT

Fox News Reports: Bud Light is serving as an official sponsor of the Toronto Pride parade, where video footage shows naked men standing around and riding bicycles in clear view of children attending the event.

The footage, captured by Beth Baisch of the Post Millennial, shows dozens of attendees riding past a large cheering crowd. The fully naked bikers, some covered in paint or tattoos, wave back at the crowd. One naked man high-fives an onlooker while another peddles a recumbent bike with a gold blow-up swan adorned around his neck.

A second video shows a group of naked men with hats standing in a circle amidst the crowd. Several children walk past the group of men with their families.

Another clip shows a person wearing a giant penis costume that covers his entire head. The camera captures a young girl sitting in a stroller and staring toward the phallic-costumed individual.

Other videos show a group of naked men playing and rinsing themselves off alongside a fountain surrounded by kids. Meanwhile, a stage, clearly adorned with Bud Light branding, featured scantily clad dancers wearing fishnets, nipple stickers and strange sock-like masks.

Here We Go Again... Another Woke Reboot Dies a Horrible Death

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:34:17 GMT

PJ Media Reports: We’ve long been critical of Hollywood’s lack of fresh, new ideas and its apparent fascination with rebooting past films or giving us a sequel decades later. Sadly, merely paying homage to the original material is insufficient. Instead, producers opt to incorporate “wokeness,” believing it will be more appealing to modern viewers, but in the process, they end up taking something beloved and turning it into garbage that the masses don’t want to see.

The latest example is Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, the prequel series to the 1978 hit film Grease. I’m not sure who wanted this — it’s bad enough to hear any of the original songs and get them stuck in your head — but once again, the effort seemed less about telling a compelling story, and more about making it an anachronistically diverse, LGBTQ story, flaunting same-sex romances and obsession with racial identity.

Woke reboots, sequels, and prequels don’t have a stellar track record, and it’s hard to understand how Hollywood hasn’t gotten the hint. It’s bad enough that Hollywood doesn’t have enough new ideas it constantly has to borrow from past works, but it’s particularly bad when woke writers take period pieces and shamelessly insert LGBTQ ideology into them or diversify the cast in a way that makes them grossly inaccurate to the point where they’re arguably rewriting history.

Box Office Analyst Estimates Disney Lost $890 Million on Last Eight Theatrical Releases

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 04:55:19 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Walt Disney Co. is estimated to have lost a stunning $890 million on its last eight studio releases, including The Little Mermaid and Elemental , according to a box office analyst.

Disney could see even more red ink since these titles are all destined for the Disney+ streaming service instead of other streamers, like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, where they could generate additional revenue.

The YouTube box office analyst known as Valliant Renegade laid out his argument in a recent video in which he estimated that many Disney blockbusters actually lost money or barely broke even during their theatrical runs despite the news media spinning them as hits.

They include Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Thor: Love and Thunder, Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania , and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 .

Two of the titles were outright bombs — Strange World and Lightyear — while two others are still in theaters, The Little Mermaid and Elemental.

Coors Light to Host Denver Pride Parade, After Apparently Learning Nothing From Bud Light Fiasco

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 01:27:44 GMT

Gateway Pundit Reports: Denver Pride announced in a blog post , “Join us Sunday, June 25, 2023 beginning at 9:30 am for the Coors Light Denver Pride Parade! The Parade spans 14 blocks of Colfax Avenue from Cheesman Park to Civic Center, where the celebrations continue at day two of Denver PrideFest.”

The event, which is expected to draw over 100,000 people of all-ages, is also being sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Verizon, Visa, Walmart, Amazon, Target, and Starbucks.

Adam Collins, chief communications and corporate affairs officer for Molson Coors, the parent company of Coors Light, told Fox News , “At the end of a long day or the start of a great night, everyone deserves to feel comfortable having a drink and being themselves.”

“That’s why beer, wine and spirits companies like ours have supported Pride for decades, why we’ll do so in 2023 and why we’ll continue to do so for decades to come,” he added.

Call Of Duty’ Parent Company Censors Streamer For Defending Kids From Trans Agenda

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 01:13:17 GMT

The Federalist Reports: Of all the games one would expect to go woke, “Call of Duty” would likely be last on the list. But the long-running shooter series now serves LGBT masters.

The firestorm began when Activision Blizzard, the company behind the “Call of Duty” games, demonstrated its far-left loyalty in a series of tweets released in early June.

The gaming giant gleefully crowed about how it aimed “to foster an inclusive, supportive, and judgment-free environment,” and how it was “excited to be a part of the Los Angeles Pride Parade on June 11th.”

Activision’s push for pride plays against a series of nationwide parental protests seeking to remove pornographic LGBT content from schools, something picked up on by hugely popular “Call of Duty” streamer Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff.

In a tweet responding to footage of parents engaging with pro-transgender activists outside a school in Glendale, California, Nickmercs wrote, “They should leave little children alone. That’s the real issue.”

It was a perfectly innocuous statement, and one that the vast majority of Americans agree with. Yet it ran counter to the current transgender campaign and therefore needed to be quashed.

Activision responded to the tweet by removing a set of in-game content featuring Nickmercs’ likeness, adding in a later statement, “We are focused on celebrating PRIDE with our employees and our community.”

Greta Thunberg’s Beginning of the End of the World Prediction Was for Yesterday, June 21st

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:42:22 GMT

Breitbart Reports: We had five years to stop using fossil fuels to prevent wiping out “all of humanity” from June 21st 2018, Greta Thunberg claimed in a now-deleted Tweet.

[Yesterday] is the anniversary of a doomsday prediction made by Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg when she was just 15 years old June 21st 2018, stating the human race had five years to end fossil fuels or face certain death. She wrote then:

A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.

While these alarming, but later forgotten warnings with very definite and certain sounding timescales are a major part of green propaganda , this particular instance has taken on a life of its own due to the Streisand Effect , given as the deadline date approached Thunberg was caught having deleted the claim .

Woke Went Gloriously Broke at This Weekend’s Box Office

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 02:05:02 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Grooming Disney’s Elemental, Mr. They/Them’s The Flash, and the gay, Black Lives Matter-inspired The Blackness all tanked at the box office, to which I can only say, God Bless America.

All three of these flops, the latest products of Hollywood’s Woke Reich, debuted on Friday, and all three bombed both at home and abroad. In fact, all three came in well below even their most pessimistic projections.

Let’s start with The Flush ; I mean The Flash .

The Flash stars serial criminal and credibly-accused child groomer Ezra Miller. The hype told us this was the “greatest superhero movie ever made.” Worse, we were gaslighted all the way up to Saturday afternoon with the breathtaking news The Flash was potentially tracking for $80 million domestic. End result: a pathetic, worse-than- Black Adam $55 million .

T he Flash also crashed overseas, taking in just $ 75 million from 78 countries. Total global debut: a devastating $138 million.

Hey, maybe handing a $300 million franchise over to a pretentious pervert and fetishist freak who uses those stupid They/Them pronouns isn’t such a good idea?

I’m offering you some free advice Warner Bros. It’s up to you (and your board of directors) if you choose to accept it. I don’t really care. Watching Hollywood fail is a lot more entertaining than your movies.

P.S. Because he’s a protected Alphabet Person, the disgraceful blacklisters in Hollywood refused to cancel Flash star Ezra Miller, so the market stepped in and did it–which is how it’s supposed to work.

Oscars voters rip into ‘ridiculous’ new diversity rules for Best Picture

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 02:15:43 GMT

New York Post Reports: If it were released today, “The Godfather” would possibly have no chance of winning a Best Picture Oscar.

That’s because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is beholden to new inclusivity standards.

Starting with the March 2024 awards, movies will not be considered for a Best Picture nomination unless they meet two out of four standards.

One of them is featuring a lead or significant supporting character from an “underrepresented racial or ethnic group,” have a main storyline that focuses on an underrepresented group, or at least 30% of the cast comes from two or more underrepresented groups (women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ or the disabled).

A full outline of the standards can be found on the Academy site .

It’s got some voting members of the Academy up in arms.

“It’s completely ridiculous,” one director fumed to The Post. “I’m for diversity, but to make you cast certain types of people if you want to get nominated? That makes the whole process contrived. The person who is right for the part should get the part. Why should you be limited in your choices? But it’s the world we’re in.

This is crazy.”

Joe Rogan Challenges Vaccine Researcher Peter Hotez to Debate RFK Jr. - Then Elon Steps Into the Mix

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 04:45:17 GMT

RedState Reports: I have to admit that while there are likely many things that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I would disagree on, I do like his willingness to challenge the democratic orthodoxy and not be quiet about it. For that “crime,” he is not liked by the powers that be. I think the Biden team is a little bit scared of him, which is one of the reasons they don’t want to have a debate with him . He’s got the Kennedy name, he’s a lightning rod, and he’s about ten times smarter than Joe, with the ability to put together a coherent sentence.

RFK Jr. recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast. We covered how he thought his uncle may have been killed by the CIA. But he also spoke about vaccinations, and that ticked off vaccine scientist Peter Hotez, who didn’t like the fact that Rogan had Kennedy on to spread vaccine “misinformation,” and he tweeted a story that attacked Spotify for running the interview.

That’s when Joe Rogan threw down the gauntlet offering Hotez, who he’s had on his show, $100,000 to come on the podcast and debate RFK Jr., with no time limit.

Top Canadian politician apologizes to unvaccinated, “we were wrong…” she makes unprecedented promise…

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 04:57:56 GMT

Revolver Reports: Danielle Smith, the current premier of Alberta in Canada, has done something remarkable. She took the bold and unprecedented step of apologizing to unvaccinated Canadians who’ve faced unfair treatment from the government throughout the “pandemic.” But Ms. Smith actually went beyond just issuing an apology, Danielle actually made a promise: anyone who was terminated from their job due to their refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine will be reinstated.

Wow. That’s not the type of humility you hear from politicians everyday, is it?

Comedian and conservative podcaster Jimmy Dore was actually blown away by this apology and covered it at length.

This apology and promise form Ms. Smith sends a powerful message to globalist elites: you were all wrong, and everybody knows it. Thanks to her humility, Danielle Smith has set a new standard in political leadership.

BOOM! The “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” are recognized for Pride night to a nearly EMPTY stadium

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 05:26:05 GMT

The Right Scoop Reports: The Los Angeles Dodgers introduced the bigoted drag hate group, the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, to a mostly empty audience on pride night tonight.

Looking at the timing of this video, they were introduced almost an hour before the game began.

Watch below:

This tells you just how unpopular it was for the Dodgers to even recognize this hate group, that they’d do it this far before the game when hardly anyone is there.

Also the boos near the reporter who shot the video was a nice touch.

Battle of the 'sharks': Kevin O'Leary responds after Mark Cuban claims 'woke' agenda is good for business

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:33:34 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: A"Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary rebuffed billionaire businessman Mark Cuban on Wednesday for claiming the woke agenda is good for business.

Wait, what did Cuban say?

In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Cuban defended companies that are going "woke."

"There is a reason almost all the top ten market cap companies in the U.S. can be considered 'woke.' It's good business," he said

The remarks come after Cuban invited participants at a conference last month to label him "woke."

"Call me woke — you don’t need to call it DEI, you can call it whatever you want — I call it good business," Cuban said. "It means taking the people that you’re selling to and making sure your workforce looks like them, and making sure you can reflect their values and being able to connect to that. That’s what works for me."

How did O'Leary respond?

Speaking on Fox News, O'Leary revealed that he and Cuban discussed the "woke" issue on the set of "Shark Tank" just this week — and he believes Cuban is just plain wrong.

According to O'Leary, when businesses participate in the culture wars, they alienate customers.

Michigan city BANS pride flags on public property

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:53:45 GMT

FOX News Reports: A Michigan city near Detroit has decided against allowing Pride flags on public property after a bizarre and contentious municipal meeting.

The Hamtramck City Council voted Tuesday to ban Pride flags from public flag poles due to opposition from religious groups who disagree with the ideology represented by the symbol.

"We want to respect the religious rights of our citizens," said Councilmember Nayeem Choudhury, Fox 2 Detroit reports.

The entirety of the Hamtramck City Council is Muslim, and approximately 40% of residents were born in foreign countries.

The meeting took a strange turn when a woman in a clown nose took the podium to mock the Pride flag debate .

"Sure, many Hamtramck residents have fled countries where being gay is a death sentence, but nothing says we have to make it 'comforting' and 'welcoming' here," the woman said in a sarcastic speech.

This is what grooming looks like caught at elementary school in Virginia

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:48:00 GMT

The Right Scoop Reports: The alphabet mafia was caught grooming children at an elementary school in Charlottesville, Virginia. The video was obtained by Daily Signal.

In it you see children leading each other in a pro-LGBTQ event and explaining what it means and why it’s necessary.

Zuckerberg Admits Facebook’s “Fact-Checkers” Censored Information That Turned Out to Be True, Damaging Trust

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 02:04:23 GMT

Becker News Reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that Facebook’s “fact-checkers” have censored information that was actually true, leading to a loss of trust.

During an interview on the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” Zuckerberg disclosed that Facebook and Instagram had censored skeptics of the Covid pandemic without substantial evidence to prove the claims false. However, subsequent developments have shown that much of the so-called “misinformation” was either true or subject to debate.

Zuckerberg acknowledged the challenges of identifying misinformation on social media and conceded that the corporate media and Big Tech were mistaken in censoring skeptical viewpoints.

If They’ll Censor ‘The French Connection,’ They’ll Censor Anything

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:57:13 GMT

Breitbart Reports: They censored The French Connection (1971), and everyone went along with it. Apple sold the censored version on iTunes. Furthermore, according to some reports, those who purchased the uncensored version on iTunes now own the censored version, which means Apple allowed them to go in and censor the uncensored versions people had already purchased.

The American Cinematheque’s Aero Theater, an outlet dedicated to preserving classic movies, went along with it. Turner Classic Movies, an outlet dedicated to preserving classic movies, went along with it. Worst of all, Criterion, an outlet branded on preserving classics, went along with it.

Over the past week, starting with Hollywood Elsewhere , people have begun to complain. Still, none of the above outlets has apologized or said it was a mistake or that they will stop screening-renting-selling the vandalized version of a Best Picture winner.

So Apple, the American Cinematheque, Turner Classic Movies, and Criterion not only went along with them censoring one of the greatest movies ever made, they are still going along with them censoring one of the greatest movies ever made.

So, who are they? Disney has owned The French Connection for more than four years. Disney’s artistic fascism is well-established. We’re talking about an anti-art company that disappears art entirely, including Song of the South and Path to 9/11.

7 Woke Disney Fails for 2023: From Mass Layoffs, Doubling Down on LGBTQ for Children to Bob Iger’s War with Florida

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 04:57:52 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Walt Disney Co. was hoping 2023 would mark a rebound over its disastrous 2022. But six months into the year, Disney is dealing with a new string of embarrassing failures and controversies that threaten to further erode its formerly sterling reputation.

Among Disney’s most prominent fails so far this year are a brutal round of layoffs, a doubling down on its aggressive LGBTQ messaging to children despite surging public backlash, and CEO Bob Iger’s broken promise to heal the relationship with Florida.

Disney is facing one of the most challenging periods in its corporate history as it seeks to repair its financial situation following a calamitous 2022 that saw then-CEO Bob Chapek lose his job.

Like other legacy studios, Disney is contending with a perfect storm of media mayhem — a collapsing advertising market as American consumers hammered by Bidenflation drastically reduce their spending; continued cord cutting ; and the financial black hole of streaming entertainment.

But unlike other studios, Disney is also waging a bitter cultural war that has alienated millions of loyal customers and fans. For decades an untouchable brand, the company has quickly become a toxic symbol of woke corporatism run amok.

Disney’s ‘Indy 5’ Tracks for Dismal $60M Opening Weekend

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 04:41:40 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The groomers and child abusers at Disney face yet another box office humiliation with the news that Indiana Jones and the Dial Of Destiny is predicted to tank with a dismal $60 million opening weekend.

For context, here are previous opening weekend totals followed by those numbers adjusted for inflation and theater numbers:

Dial of Destiny (2023): $60M (projected) — at least 4,000 theaters
Crystal Sucks (2008): $100.1M – $142M — 4,260 theaters
Last Crusade (1989): $29.3M – 72M — 2,327 theaters
Temple of Doom (1984): $25.3M – $74M — 1,687 theaters
Lost Ark (1981): $8.3M – $27.7M — 1,078 theaters

You also have to keep in mind that back in the glorious eighties, movies were not as front-loaded as they are today. In those days, movies would play for months and months. These days, because movies are generally so terrible, the goal is to sucker everyone into the opening weekend before word-of-mouth can spread. If Dial of Destiny collapses with a $60 million opening, it will be lucky to crawl to a $200 million domestic gross.

So why is this happening? Don’t we all love Indiana Jones?

Yeah, well, we did…

You Gotta Serve Somebody

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:30:30 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: The realization that wokeness has transformed itself into a form of pseudo-religion has become increasingly obvious to conservatives. The ceremonies and festivals that occur during the month of June make it hard to ignore as Pride celebrations are increasingly treated as a hedonistic sacrament.

The fact that the United States government has heavily invested in these rituals creates an even more bewildering situation which trips the pattern recognition of those who are familiar with our mechanisms of constitutional restraint. As the Department of Defense, FBI, ATF, and Department of Education splash a rainbow across their logos and make passionate declarations of faith, many conservatives start to wonder what happened to the separation of church and state.

Christians are regularly told that they must check their moral convictions at the door because they live in a secular society, but the government seems to enthusiastically declare not just its preference but its absolute dedication to the new progressive faith. The truth is that the separation of church and state did not remove the reality of conflicting moral visions.

Instead, it created selection pressures that favored an ideology that could circumvent those formal restrictions.

‘Bob’s Burgers’ and ‘Arrested Development’ Actor Jay Johnston Charged by Biden’s Justice Department over January 6

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:16:54 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Comedian and Hollywood actor Jay Johnston, who voiced the role of Jimmy Pesto on Fox’s long-running animated sitcom Bob’s Burgers , has been arrested and charged by Biden’s Justice Department in connection with the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

Jay Johnston, who also had recurring roles in Arrested Development and Mr. Show , was arrested in California and faces charges of felony obstruction of officers during civil disorder as well as several misdemeanor offenses, court documents show.

He is one of more than 1,000 people who have been arrested by Biden’s DOJ in connection with the Capitol Hill riot of 2021, with hundreds more arrests in the works.

Johnston was identified after the FBI tweeted a photo allegedly of him in the crowd of rioters at the Capitol and requested information on his identity. Court documents show images of an individual the DOJ claims to be Johnston captured by security cameras and other devices on January 6.

WATCH: Episode 1 of Tucker Carlson's New Show Debuts on Twitter

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:51:55 GMT

RedState Reports: It was a moment we’ve all been waiting for, and likely to garner much more attention (and many more views) than Chris Christie’s presidential campaign announcement: Episode 1 of Tucker Carlson’s new show debuted on Twitter on Tuesday evening.

At 6 PM Eastern time, Carlson posted the 10-minute video with a simple caption, “Ep. 1.”

This Pride Month, it’s the Revolt of the ‘Normies’ as Americans reject extremism

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:15:41 GMT

New York Post Reports: A popular slogan on the right is “Get woke, go broke,” but until the last few weeks, there was meager evidence in support of this proposition.

Attempts to organize consumer boycotts of “woke” products or companies, like the NFL after Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling for the national anthem, usually fizzled after having little effect.

Then came the Bud Light debacle, in which Anheuser-Busch sought to leverage the sensation of the trans celebrity “influencer” Dylan Mulvaney with a specially labeled can produced just for Mulvaney, which Mulvaney embraced to the hilt on Instagram and elsewhere.

A spontaneous boycott of Bud Light, previously America’s best-selling brand, has cut sales by more than a quarter since this misbegotten stunt, and the loss of market share appears to have staying power.

Anheuser-Busch stock slumped 15% and Bud Light cans sit unsold on store shelves despite deep price discounts , while sales of competitor brands such as Coors Light and Miller Lite have jumped.

Barron’s reports that several analysts think the shift away from Bud Light may be enduring, possibly making the micro-targeted Mulvaney promotion the single greatest brand-killing marketing blunder since the Ayds diet plan in the 1980s.

Someone in Target’s marketing department apparently decided to say, “Hold my Bud Light,” and emulate this consumer-alienating strategy.

One notable offering of the stores’ Pride Month product line is “tuck-friendly” one-piece “women’s” swimsuits for fully equipped men who wish to dress like women.

Woke Panic: IMDb Artificially Boosts Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ User Score After Detecting ‘Unusual User Voting’

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 05:13:11 GMT

Breitbart Reports: IMDb has claimed to have detected “unusual user voting” for Disney’s new live-action remake of The Little Mermaid and as a result, has switched to an “alternate weighting calculation” in order to artificially boost the movie’s user score.

The Little Mermaid ‘s IMDb page currently shows a user rating of 7.0, even though the majority of users gave it a score of 3 or lower out of a possible ten. More than 40 percent of users gave it a score of 1, which is the lowest possible rating.

“Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied,” IMDb said.

IMDb, which is owned by Amazon, typically uses some sort of weighted average to calculate a movie’s displayed user rating, but the site keeps that formula under lock and key. “To ensure that our rating mechanism remains effective, we do not disclose the exact method used to generate the rating,” the site states.

It appears that The Little Mermaid ‘s weighted average is even more “weighted” than usual.

Disney Groomers Face Another Potential Flop with Pixar’s ‘Elemental’

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 03:39:21 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The child exploiters at Disney are looking at another potential flop with Pixar’s poorly reviewed Elemental. The perverts and fetishists at Disney reportedly dumped $200 million into this sucker and will likely spend another $100 to $150 million on a useless promotion campaign. The result…?

Well, the result is glorious.

Elemental is predicted to open on June 16 somewhere between $31 and $41 million. Ultimately, Box Office Pro says it could fail to pass $100 million. Best case, it hits $167 million domestic. Unless the same overseas audience currently rejecting that stupid Little Mermaid remake powers Elemental to an additional $400 to $500 million, Disney’s predators are looking at a potential wipeout.

In other words, once again, Disney could lose millions and millions and millions, which is exactly what a company deserves when it exposes little kids to male transvestites in a dress .

The tepid reviews are another drag (if you’ll pardon the expression) on Elemental. Imagine how awful this Pixar entry must be to capture a pathetic 64 percent fresh from a corrupt movie critic industry desperate to suck up to all things Disney?

Reporters Track Down Disgraced Bud Light Exec As Her Blunder Sends Stock Into Bear Territory

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 03:40:20 GMT

Louder With Crowder Reports: I know some of you were worried about now-former Bud Light marketing executive Alissa Heinerscheid. The girl with the shiniest marketing blunder. We here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website are happy to report she's doing fine. Or, The Daily Mail is happy to report that. They tracked her down just outside her EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR Central Park home.

know what you're thinking. "Brodigan. An uppity, Upper West Side, NYC leftist elitist isn't in tune with Middle America who drinks Bud Light? The heck you say!"

Heck. I do indeed say heck. When Melissa Weinerchild told a podcast that Bud Light drinkers were "fratty and out of touch," she assumed that everyone would agree with her because everyone she knows on the UWS does. Or, I'm assuming that's what she assumed. Weinerchild isn't saying much about causing the biggest corporate disaster in a decade.

This comes on the heels of reports the stock has entered bear territory.

Another Woke Disney Flop — ‘Little Mermaid’ on Track to Lose Millions

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 01:03:50 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Wait, wait, wait…the Little Mermaid is a domestic hit and an overseas flop? So are you telling me the Little Mermaid with the black mermaid is doing fine in America? Well, that is just more proof of how America is the least racist country on earth.

The (woke) Wrap sees the same box office troubles ahead:

This weekend, “The Little Mermaid” secured a successful domestic launch with a $118.6 million four-day opening, among the top five highest for Memorial Day weekend, while earning strong word of mouth from an audience driven by Black moviegoers.

But overseas, the film grossed just $68 million… With a $250 million budget, the film may not have the overseas legs to turn a theatrical profit, let alone reach the $1 billion mark hit by past remakes of Disney Renaissance films like “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin.”

According to Deadline, between the production and promotion costs, the perverts at Disney dropped $390 million into this white elephant. My math says it will have to gross something close to $800 million worldwide just to break even. Movie theaters take about half of every ticket sold. Half of $800 million is $400 million.

If the movie grosses just $600 million worldwide, that is a $200 million loss, and that kind of domestic gross is still a big “if.” Over its opening weekend, the remake came in below expectations . So the idea it could gross $300 to $350 million domestically seems, well, optimistic.

Bud Light May Now Have a Lawsuit on Its Hands After Shareholder Values Tank

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 01:28:45 GMT

The Western Journal Reports: Corporations that wrecked their images in woke marketing campaigns could pay a price for decisions that cost shareholders money.

On Tuesday, America First Legal took to Twitter on a fishing expedition looking for disgruntled shareholders who have seen their investments flow down the drain faster than a barrel of Bud Light since the beer’s embrace of transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney led to a weeks-long boycott that shows no sign of stopping.

“ATTENTION: Are you a shareholder of @Target @Kohls @abinbev, or other companies that are promoting transgender, LGBTQ and PRIDE products and diminishing shareholder value? We want to hear from you,” the law firm posted.

Newsweek wrote that the strategy appears to be to sue the companies over decisions that led to massive stock declines.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, which makes Bud Light, has seen its stock price drop 9 percent this year, including a 5 percent drop Tuesday, according to MarketWatch .

How the ‘cult of woke’ is being used to transform America into a marxist totalitarian state, destroying everything ‘good’ our country once stood for while crushing the American people

Wed, 31 May 2023 00:48:28 GMT

Natural News Reports: Twenty years ago, I interviewed a young woman for an entry-level position at the prestigious university where I taught. I had read the candidate’s Ph.D. thesis, with considerable reservations, and was eager to ask about her scholarly interests. She stated that she followed the approach called “critical theory” and that her interest was limited to whatever was abnormal, perverse, and antagonistic. She despised everything that was conventional, decent, or good.

As a person who had devoted his entire life to promoting what was conventional, decent, and good, I was taken aback. Not that I was entirely surprised. Critical theory, with its antagonistic attitude toward ordinary society, had been gaining ground for decades. I myself had attended the first National Endowment seminar, at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1988, focusing on critical theory, and I did not like what I heard.

It turned out that I was the only member of the hiring committee to vote against the young candidate. Her other qualifications were sterling, and apparently the others on the hiring committee saw nothing wrong with her fascination with the perverse. As it was, the abnormal was well on its way to becoming normal, as it now is in almost every university in America and much of the West — and in high schools and elementary schools as well.

The so-called academic discipline of critical theory is the source of most of the social conflicts that are now arising — everything from transgender “rights” to slavery reparations to sanctuary cities to no-bail policing. It all derives from misguided sympathy with what appears to be marginal, outcast, and oppressed, but what actually constitutes a new class of privilege.

Kohl’s Now Facing Target-Style Boycott Over LGBTQ+ Clothing for Babies

Tue, 30 May 2023 01:43:01 GMT

Becker News Reports: Kohl’s is the latest retailer to face criticism for offering LGBTQ+ apparel for infants, sparking outrage and calls for a boycott.

The department store’s onesies, featuring the LGBTQ+ pride flag, have drawn backlash from shoppers who claim the company is catering to the Woke crowd. Kohl’s, which has already seen its stock shares decline by almost half in 2022, now faces a similar backlash as Bud Light and Target.

One Twitter account summed up the sentiment by stating, “Looks like another company needing Bud-lighting!”

The controversy emerged as social media users shared their disappointment with Kohl’s for selling LGBTQ+ onesies both online and in stores. The apparel, designed specifically for Pride Month in June, prompted a wave of negative feedback.

The criticism gained momentum when popular Twitter account ‘End Wokeness’ condemned the LGBTQ+ onesies for infants, highlighting that Kohl’s apparently failed to learn from the backlash faced by Bud Light and Target.

WOKE Target Loses $10 Billion In Value In Just Ten Days

Mon, 29 May 2023 03:01:12 GMT

The Daily Wire Reports: Retail giant Target has lost $10 billion in market capitalization in ten days, largely due to the backlash over prominent LGBTQ+ PRIDE displays including transgender-friendly clothing items for children.

According to a report published Sunday by The New York Post, Target’s stock price was hovering near $160.96 a share. However, viral videos showing “tuck-friendly” and “binding” bathing suits for trans-identifying kids — along with greeting cards celebrating queerness in a display clearly aimed at young children – led to calls for a boycott. Ten days later, the stock price had dropped to $138.93 per share.

A drop of $22 per share amounts to a 14% decrease in value – which translates to a $10 billion loss for the Minnesota-based company.

As soon as word began to spread across social media platforms about the retailer’s prominent PRIDE displays — which also included LGBTQ+ themed baby clothes — calls quickly began to grow louder for a boycott of the company.

According to earlier reports, Target immediately focused on damage control. Executives participated in an “ emergency call ” in in effort to avoid what one insider referred to as a “Bud Light situation.”

Jane Fonda Blames Men for Climate Change: ‘We Have to Arrest and Jail Those Men’

Sun, 28 May 2023 04:59:24 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Hollywood star Jane Fonda made the outrageous claim Friday that climate change is being caused exclusively by men, specifically white men, adding that “those men” must be arrested and jailed.

She also blamed the “patriarchy” and “racism” for global warming.

Speaking at a career retrospective at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Jane Fonda promoted her radical climate activism efforts, saying the world has “about seven, eight years” to cut fossil fuel consumption in half.

She also said “poor people of color” as well as populations in the southern hemisphere will be hit hardest by global warming.

“It is a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop. We have to arrest and jail those men — they’re all men,” she added, according to a Deadline report .

Later, Fonda continued her anti-male climate harangue.

Los Angeles Dodgers Attempt to Pander to Christians After Inviting Anti-Catholic Trans Nuns to Pride Night – Fans Respond

Sat, 27 May 2023 02:40:27 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: Earlier this week the Dodgers apologized to and re-invited anti-Catholic ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’ trans nuns to pride night.

The Dodgers previously removed the vulgar, anti-Christian, Marxist group from their honoree list.

After backlash from the group, the Dodgers decided to re-invite them back on the field June 16 for pride night.

This is what the Dodgers support:

After major backlash from sports fans, the Dodgers are now attempting to pander to Christians!

“Join us at Dodger Stadium on 7/30 for Christian Faith and Family Day. Stay after the game to celebrate and be part of a day of worship. Stay tuned for more details.” the Dodgers said on Friday.

Bud Light to Sponsor Three Different Pride Events, Proving It Learned Zero From Dylan Mulvaney Disaster

Fri, 26 May 2023 05:28:01 GMT

RedState Reports: Life’s axioms hang around for decades or longer for one simple reason: they’re generally true. Hence, “You get what you pay for,” “When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” “It’s not what happens that matters, it’s how you react to it,” and “When you’re in a hole, stop digging” are familiar to all of us.

This article is about the final axiom, above, with a slight modification: “When you’re in a hole you intentionally dug, stop the hell digging before you make a disastrous self-inflicted crisis even worse.”

Bud Light was unavailable for comment.

With the everyman beer brand practically on life support and Anheuser-Busch InBev stock taking a beating, it turns out that Bud Light is set to sponsor three different Gay Pride events in the coming months.

As reported by Daily Wire, the A-B brand is listed as a sponsor on the Cincinnati Pride Parade website, along with Planned Parenthood and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which “ medically transitions ” — irreversibly mutilates with double mastectomies, castrations, and chemical castrations — children.

Target Removes Satanic Pride Items Glorifying Violence but Blames Angry Customers for Being Confrontational

Thu, 25 May 2023 01:20:24 GMT

PJ MEdia Reports: The next Bud Light catastrophe is here, and it couldn’t have happened to a better corporation that has had a reckoning coming since they allowed men to invade their women’s bathrooms. Target has topped the list of stores for all rational people to boycott after they introduced a new “Pride” line of products created by a self-described satanist.

Several of the designs glorify violence against so-called “homophobes and transphobes,” which we all know actually means anyone who doesn’t want explicit gay pornography and sexual content shown to kids. Here’s one showcasing a guillotine for homophobes parents who want to protect their kids from sexualization. It’s kind of hilarious that the transgender and queer activists are now just embracing what we all knew was true: they’re satanic weirdos.

The designer’s Instagram explains that this product line is proselytization of satanism to vulnerable American kids. Would Target ever sell Christian propaganda items that tried to recruit more Christians? Would they sell things that said, “Jesus loves you?”

WATCH: TikTok user exposes Target selling transgender clothes for TODDLERS -AND- Target suddenly holds emergency meeting to avoid ‘Bud Light Situation’

Wed, 24 May 2023 00:44:05 GMT

The Right Scoop Reports: A TikTok user named Kaylee Campbell exposed in a video yesterday how Target is actually selling transgender clothing for toddlers:

It’s bad enough that Target is selling pride clothing for children. But transgender clothing for toddlers? That is messed up in so many ways.

I looked up Kaylee and it appears she lives in the woke state of California. Target is certainly a national chain but I’m not sure if they are selling this everywhere or just in more woke states.

Kaylee ends the video by saying “If that doesn’t give you a reason to boycott Target, I don’t know what does. But this s*** is getting out of hand. They’re targeting children whether you like it or not and it’s time that people actually do something about it. Because if you don’t then guess what: that s*** won’t just be in Target, it’ll be in every store.”

Target has apparently been getting an earful from many customers in locations around the South about their LGBT/transgender merchandise and that has spurred the company into action to try and avoid a Bud Light style boycott.

Watch – Disney’s ‘Indiana Jones’ Goes Woke in New Clip

Tue, 23 May 2023 04:33:35 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Based on this clip, Disney and Kathleen Kennedy weren’t satisfied with woke-raping Star Wars . Look at what the left-wing hacks have done to Indiana Jones.

Yep, he’s a grouchy old man on a golf cart bested by and then saved by that Fleabag chick.

Terrible CGI. Over-digitized. Too much of it looks fake and pixelated.

Question: why are they “bantering” during a deadly chase? This only serves to remove all the suspense. Of course, the fact they’re going 11 MPH also undermines the tension.

Then, of course, that Fleabag chick tells the audience she’s “resourceful, beautiful, daring, self-sufficient…”

Ultra-Woke LGBT Show Amongst Dozens of Disney+ Movies and Shows to Be Removed on May 26th

Mon, 22 May 2023 05:19:41 GMT

Independent Journal Review Reports: Chalk up another win for going broke in the woke vs. broke sweepstakes.

According to a Thursday report from Hollywood trade publication Deadline , Disney is set to retire a number of its biggest series from its streaming platform, Disney+ — including a high-profile, woke-ified remake of “Willow,” the 1988 Ron Howard-directed swords-and-sorcery movie.

Disney had previously announced that it was set to take a “content impairment charge,” or tax writ-down — which totals $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion — in an earnings call on May 10. The series will be removed for the foreseeable future on May 26.

“Disney is the latest media company to purge content from its streaming platforms in a cost-cutting measure as the industry is rethinking costs and strategy in that arena with a renewed focus on profitability. Warner Bros. Discovery removed a slew of series from HBO Max, with AMC and Showtime also undergoing a similar scale back,” Deadline noted.

However, much of this “content impairment” being removed from Disney+ is content I doubt many viewers mind being “impaired” from finding. Among the victims are “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers,” yet another remake of “Cheaper by the Dozen” (this one starring Zach Braff and Gabriele Union) and “The World According to Jeff Goldblum,” in which the seriously daft “Independence Day” and “Jurassic Park” actor attempts (and, judging by the very brief snippets of the series that I’ve seen, fails) to explain the world.

Marketing Executive Behind Miller Lite's Woke Rebrand Exposed As Another WOKE Locust

Sun, 21 May 2023 05:32:19 GMT

Townhall Reports: Who thought that beer needed saving or a retool in the marketing department? The answer is that it didn’t. But the Left will make you care. Any space where one can separate themselves from the phantom fights that preoccupy liberals must be infested and ruined so they can have your undivided attention on how to live a miserable life, where nothing is ever satisfactory.

Bud Light learned that the hard way. Their partnership with a biological male who masquerades as a woman because the brand was supposedly too ‘fratty’ has led to a total collapse in sales. It’s so bad that the geniuses who spearheaded this new makeover for the beer have been either fired or placed on leave. If you thought it would stop there, you’d be mistaken.

There’s no way it would end with just one beer company. These people are locusts, killing everything they touch. So, it shouldn’t shock us that Miller Lite recently produced this nauseating and unnecessary marketing retool about women and beer. No one cares about women brew masters in colonial times, guys.

Why THIS Miller Lite commercial makes Glenn ‘SICK AND TIRED’

Sat, 20 May 2023 05:19:48 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: The list of companies that have gone broke for going woke is steadily growing longer.

And Miller Lite may have just added its name to that list.

One of its ads has just been found by the public, and it features a woman ripping down old beer ads that feature beautiful women clad in bikinis.

In the ad, the woman says, “Today Miller Lite is on a mission to clean up not just their s**t, but the whole beer industry’s s**t. Miller Lite has been scouring the internet for all this s**t and buying it back so they can turn it into good s**t for women brewers.”

The s**t she’s referencing includes any and all beer ads that cater to men by featuring beautiful women.

According to Glenn Beck, the video was released before Bud Light’s disastrous campaign with Dylan Mulvaney — and he’s shocked Miller Lite didn’t scramble to scrub it from the internet.

“What were you doing for the last month if not trying to make sure that never saw the light of day again,” he asks.

'What the f*** happened to this place?': Dave Chappelle smashes San Francisco in surprise comedy show, blogger gets offended

Fri, 19 May 2023 01:20:26 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Dave Chappelle recently delivered a surprise stand-up comedy show in San Francisco, California. Chappelle reportedly trashed San Francisco over how wretched the conditions have deteriorated in the Golden City. However, one local blogger got offended by the comedian's jokes.

Chappelle performed stand-up comedy at the Masonic Auditorium on Thursday. Chappelle restricted attendees from using cell phones during the performance to keep audience members from recording content and from being distracted.

The SFGATE website sent a blogger to cover the comedy show of the much-maligned stand-up comedian.

The blogger noted that Chappelle called San Francisco his second home.

However, Chappelle was not afraid to point out how San Francisco has spiraled out of control because of rampant crime and a breakdown of societal norms .

Chappelle reportedly asked the San Francisco crowd, "What the f*** happened to this place?”

The iconic stand-up comedian purportedly was about to enter an Indian restaurant in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco when someone defecated near the entrance.

Chappelle allegedly joked that San Francisco had become "half 'Glee,' half zombie movie."

Montana Governor Signs New Law, Making State First to Ban TikTok

Thu, 18 May 2023 03:37:05 GMT

AP Reports: Montana became the first state in the U.S. to enact a complete ban on TikTok on Wednesday when Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a measure that’s more sweeping than any other state’s attempts to curtail the social media app, which is owned by a Chinese tech company.

The measure, scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2024, is expected to be challenged legally and will serve as a testing ground for the TikTok-free America that many national lawmakers have envisioned. Cybersecurity experts say it could be difficult to enforce the ban .

“Today, Montana takes the most decisive action of any state to protect Montanans’ private data and sensitive personal information from being harvested by the Chinese Communist Party,” Gianforte said in a statement.

TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter argued that the law infringes on people’s First Amendment rights and is unlawful. She declined to say whether the company will file a lawsuit.

'Transformers' cartoon bashed on social media for pushing transgender agenda with non-binary robot alien: 'This is DISGUSTING!'

Wed, 17 May 2023 03:54:38 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: A cartoon about alien robots intended for children is being ridiculed and excoriated online for introducing a non-binary robot character into a beloved franchise from the 1980s.

Among those posting videos from "Transformers: EarthSpark" was the Libs of TikTok account.

The short clip shows the "Nightshade" robot character tell a human character that its pronouns are they and them, and the human responds with more pronoun preferences. The character then goes on to say that they feel better whenever in the presence of another person who is non-binary.

“I know I’m safe when I’m with my friends or other non-binary people," the character says in the clip.

Woke Fail: Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Appears to Have Worst Audience Score in TV History

Tue, 16 May 2023 03:10:57 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Netflix’s “docudrama” Queen Cleopatra launched two weeks ago and now looks to have earned the unenviable plaudit of drawing the worst audience score in TV history.

Forbes magazine reports the controversial production has not just garnered the lowest audience score in Netflix history on debut, it has essentially the lowest audience score possible on Rotten Tomatoes at one percent.

Not a 10 percent. A one percent, although Forbes reports it has later stumbled upwards to hit the giddy heights of two percent.

Still an unprecedented low.

The outlet acknowledged the basement score, saying: “Fans usually rate things higher than critics, even bad shows, and the point being, a 1 per cent audience score seems borderline mathematically impossible, even with the controversy the film has attracted.”

The documentary, which is part of the African Queens series, purports to be an exploration of the rise and fall of the last pharaoh of Egypt. It was released on May 10.

Antifa Targets 'Babies Lives Matter' Rally, Police Let Them Know That Wasn't a Good Idea

Mon, 15 May 2023 04:23:13 GMT

RedState Reports: Antifa likes to pretend that they are noble and are somehow “fighting fascists.”

But just what “fascists” were they fighting when they targeted the “Babies Lives Matter” rally in Santa Monica on Saturday? We’ve other Antifa guys show up at events to defend things like “kid-friendly drag shows.”

I guess you’re not allowed to be anti-abortion or want to protect kids or the Antifa crowd will try to shut you down. Funny, that sounds kind of — fascist — when you try to shut down the opinion of others and believe that your own opinion is the only one that should be allowed.

But they found out that things don’t go well when you try to scuffle with the police. This News2share clip shows Antifa dressed in black bloc after they tried to get up in the face of the anti-abortion folks. The police were trying to separate the two groups and that’s when it got out of hand with Antifa pushing back against the cops. Police had their batons and used them to help move the Antifa folks back, pushing some of them to the ground.

Is The A-List Woke Dam Finally Breaking?

Sun, 14 May 2023 05:04:31 GMT

OutKick Reports: The two-time Oscar winner is now a novelist. His book “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece” is loosely based on his decades as a movie star. And, apparently, he isn’t comfortable knowing his book “Masterpiece” may be tweaked after he’s shuffled off this mortal coil.

That’s what’s happened to books by Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie, and Hanks is not a fan of the practice.

“I’m of the opinion that we’re all grown-ups here. Let’s have faith in our own sensibilities as opposed to having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by … Let me decide what I am offended by and what I’m not offended by. I would be against reading any book from any era that says ‘abridged due to modern sensitivities.'”

Simple. Direct. Unwavering.

It’s exactly what we haven’t heard from Hollywood heavyweights for the past five or so years.

They’ve stayed quiet as blackface-themed TV episodes got memory holed, classic films got slapped with “warning labels” and careers faced extinction for saying the wrong thing.

Yes, some Hollywood types have shared similar woke objections in recent years, like Bill Maher, Rob Schneider and Russell Brand.

With all due respect to their collective careers, Spielberg and Hanks are different. They sit atop the rarefied A-list, the place where Hollywood’s biggest stars roam. The fact that they’ve brought the subject up and slammed woke overreach without hesitation matters.

It also may give cover to other Hollywood dwellers who can now speak more freely on the subject.

Either Elon Musk Thinks We’re Stupid or the WEF Controls Him

Sat, 13 May 2023 01:08:38 GMT

The Liberty Daily Reports: Is Elon Musk stupid? No. But for a guy who tends to make all the right moves, he certainly stepped in a pile of globalist dung by hiring Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter. She may be qualified. She may be smart. She may have all the right skills to get Twitter to be as profitable as possible. But there are five words attached to her that will paint the company as a globalist organization that America First patriots cannot trust.

“World Economic Forum Executive Chair.”

Since it’s well established that Musk isn’t stupid, that leaves only two possible conclusions. Either he thinks we’re stupid and so hooked on his platform that we won’t be skeptical of a high ranking member of a purely evil organization running the show… or he’s compromised and under the control of Klaus Schwab et al.

Watch this mother go off challenging her school board to explain what's 'family friendly' about drag shows

Fri, 12 May 2023 00:11:32 GMT

Louder With Crowder Reports: Teachers' unions and public school boards across America have decided the only way to teach about " tolerance " is to expose children to sex shows. Unless it's men dressed like women performing like they would for suburban soccer moms in bars, but doing it in an elementary school auditorium, it's not tolerant enough. All they have to do is put the words " family-friendly " in front of " drag queen ," making it a-ok.

One mother was not impressed. She wanted to know from her school board if they know what the words "family-friendly" mean.

You get the same entertainment at a strip show or gentleman's club that you get from a drag show. Yet those aren't "family-friendly." Not yet. I'm sure if parents said they didn't want their kids going to the Jiggy Room, five different California school boards would make it a requirement to graduate the eighth grade.

Nearly every U.S. state has introduced measures to combat critical race theory

Thu, 11 May 2023 04:19:24 GMT

The College Fix Reports: A growing number of Americans vehemently oppose critical race theory and have pushed a wide variety of measures to combat it, according to a recently released report from UCLA.

The report, “Tracking the attack on Critical Race Theory,” found that in 2021 and 2022, every state except Delaware had government officials introduce “at least one anti-CRT measure at some level.”

The report defines anti-CRT measures as attorney general letters, executive directives, legislation, policies, regulations, resolutions, and statements.

Stating the “anti-CRT campaign has to this point shown no signs of slowing,” researchers found that from January 2021 through December 2022, local, regional state and federal officials and lawmakers “introduced a total of 563 anti-CRT measures, 241 of which have been enacted or adopted.”

The findings suggest efforts to combat critical race theory, primarily inside classrooms, “is not stagnating; indeed, government officials at all levels are introducing an equal or greater number of measures in 2023 as they did in 2021 or 2022,” the report states.

Bud Light’s sales drop is accelerating amid Dylan Mulvaney fiasco — and is now spilling into other Bud brands

Wed, 10 May 2023 00:13:19 GMT

New York Post Reports: Bud Light’s downward spiral has accelerated in the wake of the Dylan Mulvaney debacle — and the carnage has begun to spill into Anheuser-Busch’s other mega-buck brands, The Post has learned.

Nationwide retail sales of Bud Light were down 23.4% versus a year ago in the week ended April 29 — worse than the 21.4% decline they suffered a week earlier, according to Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ data.

Meanwhile, as beer drinkers discover how many other beer brands fall under the Anheuser-Busch umbrella, the backlash is widening, according to the fresh data.

The company’s flagship Budweiser brand took an 11.4% sales hit for the week ended April 29. Sales of Bud’s Michelob Ultra brand — the third-biggest-selling in the US behind No. 1 Bud Light and No. 2 Modelo Especial — were down 4.4%, according to Bump Williams data.

“It’s not just a Bud Light issue,” said Bump Williams, chief executive of the consultancy. “It’s an Anheuser-Busch portfolio problem now.”

'Complete vindication': Woke school district learns a hard lesson about 'discriminating' against a Christian university

Tue, 09 May 2023 03:28:49 GMT

The Blaze Reports: Arizona's largest elementary school district has shifted course, voting to allow students from a Christian university to teach there once again, Alliance Defending Freedom announced Thursday.

"This is a complete vindication of the rights of our students to be able to participate as student-teachers in a public school district without fear of religious discrimination" said Arizona Christian University President Len Munsil in a statement.

The Washington Elementary School District voted 5-0 March 9 to end an arrangement in which ACU students completed their student teaching and practical coursework at WESD, as TheBlaze reported . Board members at the time cited ACU's stance on lifelong, monogamous, heterosexual marriage as presenting an "unsafe" condition.

After Alliance Defending Freedom sued WESD, the board apparently saw the error of its ways, with four of its five members voting at Wednesday night's meeting to enter a new agreement with ACU. The district was slapped with $25,000 in attorneys' fees as part of the settlement.

Wearing cat ears to a February 23 WESD meeting, board member Tamillia Valenzuela expressed her opposition to ACU students helping mitigate the national teaching shortage and recruitment difficulties.

"At some point, we need get real with ourselves and take a look at who we're making legal contracts with and the message that is sending to our community. Because that makes me feel like I could not be safe in this school district," Valenzuela said.

Valenzuela was referring to ACU's promotion of "Biblically-informed values that are foundational to Western civilization, including the centrality of family, traditional sexual morality, and lifelong marriage between one man and one woman."

Metacritic vows "stricter moderation" after "abusive and disrespectful reviews" for Horizon video game's lesbian kiss

Mon, 08 May 2023 01:09:26 GMT

Not The Bee Reports: Metacritic parent company Fandom said it is "currently evolving [its] processes and tools to introduce stricter moderation in the coming months," after user reviews criticized the video game "Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores" for its lesbian kiss dialogue option.

The game holds (at the time of writing) an 82/100 "generally favorable" Metascore based on 61 critics and a 4.2/10 "generally unfavorable" User Score based on 2,363 ratings.

It's what I call the good ol' Rotten Tomatoes "Golden Ratio."

This refers to when woke critics like something, but users don't (and vice versa), with woke critics being on the wrong side of the ratio, obviously.

"Towards the end of Burning Shores, there is the choice to make [relationship between protagonist Aloy and new character Seyka] a more romantic one, and players can select a dialogue option that will lead to Aloy and Seyka sharing a kiss," Eurogamer reports. "And it is this, for some reason , that several 'critics' over on Metacritic have taken umbrage with."

"For some reason."

Yes, it really is the world's greatest mystery... Why would these gamer folks be upset about a lesbian kiss in their video game? Sounds like the executives who can't figure out why the Mario movie has been raking in record box office numbers with a non-woke movie.

Conservatives Won The Word ‘Woke.’ Now It’s Time To Reclaim Accurate Language Everywhere

Sat, 06 May 2023 23:57:12 GMT

The Federalist Reports: The Associated Press Stylebook, a once-respected linguistic guide for journalists, conceded the definition of the word “woke” to conservatives on Thursday, in an update instructing writers to “use quotes around the slang term.”

“Woke” was originally popularized by left-wing proponents of identity politics to flatteringly refer to their own “enlightenment or awakening about issues of racial and other forms of social justice,” as the AP explains. Conservatives have used it to describe those same people and their ideas.

Those ideas more often than not, demand revolutionary social changes that prejudge people based on their secondary physical characteristics. If, like the vast majority of America until about five seconds ago, you think such identitarian prejudices are a bad thing, you might use the word “woke” in a less than fawning manner. Apparently, the AP’s staff can’t handle that.

AP’s concession of the word is hilariously thin-skinned, but it’s also a rare win for conservatives in the war of words. Just by describing woke behavior as such, we’ve held a bit of ground against the unhinged language police who are mad that the right is using their terminology against them. Unintentionally, it seems we’ve ended up with command of the word altogether, if left-wing outlets like the AP are henceforth refusing to use it.

Ben Shapiro Blasts Ted Lasso as ‘Completely Unwatchable’: ‘Every Single Episode Is Now A Lecture About Social Justice’

Sat, 06 May 2023 00:23:08 GMT

Mediaite Reports: Podcast host Ben Shapiro declared that Apple TV’s beloved comedy series Ted Lasso “has completely caved in on itself, like a dying star.”

The comment came from the Friday edition of The Ben Shapiro Show where Shapiro began showing examples of how the “left-wing culture” has “thrust their ideology of social decay” in other’s faces. One of those examples was the popular Apple TV series Ted Lasso.

“The basic idea of Ted Lasso was that it was… an optimistic can-do American who goes to London because he is almost mistakenly hired… He’s an American football coach in America. He’s hired as a soccer coach over in London. And this happens because the owner of the team basically wants to tank the team. And it turns out that Ted Lasso is actually a really good coach because of that can-do optimistic American attitude,” Shapiro said, admitting that he found the first season charming.

“The whole first season is about the kind of culture clash between these dower Brits and this optimistic American who’s kind of dumb, but also kind of smart because he has this kind of folksy wisdom to him,” he added.

But, Shapiro did not feel the same way for the shows third season which is currently airing, calling it “unwatchable.”

“Well now Ted Lasso has completely caved in on itself, like a dying star. The last season is absolutely unwatchable,” Shapiro said, claiming the show would no longer be a cultural phenomenon because of the direction of the plot lines.

World On Cusp Of Woke Totalitarianism As Governments Act To End Freedom Of Speech

Fri, 05 May 2023 03:10:01 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: Media blackout as politicians in EU, US, UK, Brazil, Ireland, Canada, and Australia seek to jail citizens for wrongthink under the cover of a Big Lie about "hate speech"...

The Twitter Files gave us a window into how government agencies, civil society, and tech companies work together to censor social media users. Now, key nations are attempting to enshrine this coordination into law explicitly.

Around the world, politicians have either just passed or are on the cusp of passing sweeping new laws, which would allow governments to censor ordinary citizens on social media and other Internet platforms.

Under the guise of preventing “harm” and holding large tech companies accountable, several countries are establishing a vast and interlinked censorship apparatus, a new investigation by Public finds.

Politicians, NGOs, and their enablers in the news media claim that their goal is merely to protect the public from “disinformation.” But vague definitions and loopholes in new laws will create avenues for broad application, overreach, and abuse.

In Ireland, for example, the government may soon be able to imprison citizens simply for possessing material that officials decide is “hateful.” Under the RESTRICT Act in the US, the government may soon have the authority to monitor the Internet activity of any American deemed a security risk.

Governments aim for total control. In Canada, a state agency can filter and manipulate what Canadians see online. In Australia, a single government official can compel social media companies to remove posts.

Governments and allied NGOs intend to force tech companies to comply with their rules. UK lawmakers have threatened to imprison social media managers who don’t censor enough content. And Brazil has introduced severe penalties for platforms that fail to remove “fake news.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper decides that being insufferable on the day of a shooting is warranted

Thu, 04 May 2023 03:30:33 GMT

The Right Scoop Reports: CNN’s Jake Tapper thinks that as a society, we’ve decided that mass shootings in schools and hospitals are just something we’re going to live with, that it’s our new reality.

That’s what he said on-air today during his coverage of the mass shooting in Atlanta that left one person dead and four wounded:

‘There’s No Game Plan’: Bud Light Sales Collapse amid Backlash to Dylan Mulvaney Campaign

Wed, 03 May 2023 03:27:19 GMT

National Review Reports: In-store sales of Bud Light dropped 26 percent in the final week of April following consumer pushback in the wake of the company’s decision to partner with transgender social-media personality Dylan Mulvaney .

Figures released by Bump Williams Consulting, a firm that specializes in the alcohol beverage market, found Bud Light sales have progressively slumped throughout the month of April. In the second week of the month, they were down 11 percent and plummeted 21 percent the following week.

Overall sales are now reportedly down 8 percent on the year, jeopardizing parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev’s position as the market leader.

“I think it runs the risk of losing that No. 1 position at the end of calendar year 2023 to Modelo Especial,” Bump Williams, the market research company chief, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday.

In early April, Bud Light sent Mulvaney decorative cans of beer featuring the influencer’s face as part of a promotion paired with March Madness. Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light’s recent marketing manager, was the brain behind the scheme and sought to rejuvenate the brand by “shifting the tone.”

‘Godfather of A.I.’ Reverses Course, Quits Google to Preach About “Dangers” of Artificial Intelligence

Tue, 02 May 2023 02:31:46 GMT

Gateway Pundit Reports: The “Godfather of Artificial Intelligence”, 75-year old Turing prize winner Geoffrey Hinton joins several other tech pioneers and notables in warning of the impacts of artificial intelligence. Hinton was partially responsible for the development of the AI technology that is used by the biggest companies in the tech industry according to the New York Times.

On Monday, Hinton tweeted “In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.”

Hinton originally believed that we were 30 to 50 years away from reaching a critical point in AI development, however he now says “I no longer think that.”

He said that a part of him regrets helping with the development of AI and that it could one day replace people in the workforce and help disseminate misinformation. Hinton told the New York Times , “I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have.”

Elon Musk blasts 'woke mind virus' in revealing interview with Bill Maher

Mon, 01 May 2023 03:55:51 GMT

The Blaze Reports: Elon Musk blasted the extent to which the "woke mind virus" has infested education in an exclusive interview on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher " Friday night.

"I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic and anything that results in the suppression of free speech," Twitter CEO Musk told host Bill Maher.

"So those are two of the aspects of the ‘woke mind virus’ that I think are very dangerous ... you can’t question things, even the questioning is bad. Almost synonymous would be cancel culture."

Musk went on to discuss the worrisome impact the "woke mind virus" has had on education. Saturday morning, he doubled down, saying the extent of teachers' indoctrination of children had reached a "shocking degree."

In Musk's view, the infestation of the "woke mind virus" has "been a long time brewing." He estimated the infiltration took place over the last two decades.

Bud Light’s Demise at the Hands of Credentialed Woke Millennials

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 05:24:01 GMT

American Thinker Reports: Early in my professional career, an experienced colleague shared with me a bit of advice.

“If you sell people what they want to buy,” he said, “you’ll have a very successful career. If you sell people what you think they want to buy, you might still be successful. But if you sell people what you want to sell them, you’ll fail miserably.”

It was a free lesson, learned in moments, that was proven true countlessly in nearly two decades of sales and sales management. It is the golden rule in business, for which there are no exceptions or substitutes, and it can be summed up in three short words: know your customer.

Yet this lesson apparently isn’t taught at The Wharton School of Finance, where Bud Light marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid earned a Master of Business Administration degree, and where tuition and supplies alone will run you $250K for its two-year MBA program.

Under her leadership and direction, the brand has been irreparably destroyed for the simple reason that she believed herself to have a mandate to sell the customers what she wanted to sell them rather than give them what they would want to buy.

Steven Spielberg Takes A Stand Against Woke Censorship In Hollywood – ‘It’s Our History’

Sat, 29 Apr 2023 04:17:35 GMT

DC Enquirer Reports: ILast Tuesday, director Steven Spielberg, responsible for such classic films as Jaws, Indiana Jones, and Jurassic Park, spoke at Time magazine’s “100 Summit,” where he expressed regret over changes he made to E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial to make the film sync with modern sensibilities.

When asked about the censoring and editing of language in books and films deemed “insensitive” and “non-inclusive” to make them more politically correct, such as Roald Dahl’s children’s books , Spielberg said, “For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history; it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.”

This is an increasing practice in our cultural environment. Not only were Dahl’s works edited to conform to modern standards, but other authors were edited, such as P. G. Wodehouse by Penguin Random House; R.L. Stine ; Ian Fleming with his James Bond novels; and also Agatha Christie . The phenomenon is not limited to living authors or just books.

For example, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been canceled and constantly attacked for standing for the radical idea, which was the norm until recently, that there are only two genders. In the realm of films, not only did Spielberg make changes to E.T., but there was also the controversy over episodes of The Simpsons and about editing and almost removing the classic film, Gone With the Wind .

The Growing Consumer Revolt Against Woke Ideology

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:19:02 GMT

Zero Hedge Reports: It’s likely true: No executives at Anheuser-Busch knew what the Bud Light marketing people were planning when they decided to deploy an absurdist and deeply offensive transgender TikTok influencer to sell their beer. But soon after it happened, public disgust became rather obvious. The crisis began, but for weeks, the company was in denial.

Finally, the CEO made a statement that only infuriated people more, simply because it wasn’t an apology or even an honest admission of anything that was happening. It had that sterilized and robotic quality we’ve come to associate with government statements that pretend that all is well when everyone knows it isn’t.

Two weeks ago, the line about Bud Light on the streets was that the consumer protest would run the news cycle and then disappear, that the protests were limited to the “far right” and “conservative activists” but that most consumers don’t care either way. Every story in the mainstream media said the same thing. They further suggested that if you don’t drink Bud Light, you are likely a dupe of dangerous fanatics.

But here we are three weeks later and finally, the company stepped up again to address the growing meltdown. They put both the vice president of marketing and her boss “on leave,” which one supposes is a way of firing them while minimizing the legal liabilities and the sense that the company was facing a real crisis.

“Given the circumstances, Alissa [Heinerscheid] has decided to take a leave of absence which we support,” an Anheuser-Busch spokeswoman wrote in an email to The Wall Street Journal. “Daniel [Blake] has also decided to take a leave of absence.”

I just love that “given the circumstances” line.

This move of course has satisfied no one, fed the news cycle even more, and further entrenched the consumer boycott that has spread to all the company’s brands.

Do you see what is happening here? We are watching the rise of genuine consumer awareness and hence sovereignty. The public is finally fighting back.

Study Shows Tom Cruise Is America’s #1 Movie Star

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 05:33:57 GMT

Breitbart Reports: A new, in-depth study reveals Tom Cruise is the top movie star in America. It also reveals several interesting things [emphasis original]:

The National Research Group, an analysis firm specializing in entertainment and technology, commissioned a surname asking respondents to “name up to five actors that would make them most interested” in going to the movie theater.

It wasn’t a question of favorites, or which films fans are most interested in, but other what star would motivate you to go and see a movie at a cinema, and the list is as follows:

Tom Cruise – 60
Dwayne Johnson – 50
Tom Hanks – 66
Brad Pitt – 59
Denzel Washington – 68
Julia Roberts – 55
Will Smith – 54
Leonardo DiCaprio – 48
Johnny Depp – 59
Kevin Hart – 43
Keanu Reeves – 58
Sandra Bullock – 58
Ryan Reynolds – 46
Adam Sandler – 56
Harrison Ford – 80
George Clooney – 61
Robert Downey Jr. – 58
Angelina Jolie – 47
Morgan Freeman – 85
Chris Hemsworth – 39

I’ve added their ages, and as you can see, other than Hemsworth, who turns 40 in a few months, no one on this list is under 40. That is a pretty amazing discovery.

Latest government excuse for deadly covid “vaccines:” We said you should take them but didn’t actually mean it

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:14:00 GMT

Natural News Reports: As usual, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is going to bat for lying government officials like Tony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, and fake president Joe Biden, all of whom lied to the American public about Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines.”

Each of these seditious traitors on at least one occasion told Americans that if they agreed to get jabbed, it would stop all transmission of the Fauci Flu. This was a lie – and the government is now admitting it was a lie – but the FDA is trying to defend these globalist crooks by claiming that they did not actually mean what they said.

A petition filed by the Coalition Advocating for Adequately Labeled Medicines (CAALM) to the FDA contains a sampling of some of the false statements that were made by Fauci, Walensky, and Biden at the height of the scamdemic exposing their lies. They read as follows:

Fauci falsely stated that “when you become vaccinated … you become a dead end to the virus”
Walensky falsely stated that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus”
Biden falsely stated that “you’re not going to get covid” if you get jabbed

All of these statements are bald-faced lies, and CAALM wants answers. The only response it is getting, though, is more smoke and mirrors that none of these people did anything wrong because, officially speaking, the injections were technically (we are told) never licensed or authorized “for prevention of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus or for prevention of transmission of the virus, nor were the clinical trials supporting the approvals and authorizations designed to assess whether the vaccines prevent infection or transmission of the virus.”

In other words, the FDA’s position is that even when Americans were told lies by the current administration about the alleged benefits of Fauci Flu shots, encouraging people to get jabbed based on these, they did not actually mean what they said and should thus be let off the hook.

Glenn Beck Says With Departure Of Tucker Carlson It Will “Kill” Fox News

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:46:36 GMT

The Free Press Reports: AFormer Fox News host Glenn Beck said Monday that the departure of Tucker Carlson would “kill” the conservative news network.

“I think that’ll kill Fox, I really do,” Beck said. “I know so many people that still kinda like Fox, they watch other shows, but they’re like, Tucker is the only one I really trust. You lose Tucker Carlson; I think that really kills them.” “You’re getting rid of Tucker Carlson? Wow,” Beck added. “Letting him walk out the door even? Wow.”

Beck pointed out that Tucker just wrapped up a 3-day series with Elon Musk that was widely watched by those on both sides of the aisle.

“Tucker Carlson and I have become friends, and hopefully, I’ll be able to talk with him today,” Beck said. “I don’t know what the situation is, but Tucker, come to Jamaica. We would love to have you here, you won’t miss a beat, and together, the two of us would tear it up, just tear it up.”

Woke Late Night TV’s Ad Revenue Collapses 41 Percent

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 05:14:59 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Are you ready for a laugh?

Although the sycophants at the left-wing Variety devote 4500-plus words to the collapse of late night’s ad revenue, only once — and after 20 paragraphs — does Variety dare to suggest it might have a little something to do with the divisive, nasty, smug, humorless, and mean-spirited left turn late night took about five years ago:

As the election of President Donald Trump polarized the nation, some of late-night’s voices chose to lean into politics. The fragmentation of viewing and the trickier conversational terrain have hurt the programs, says Harrison. “There has been so much political news over the last six to eight years, and that has filtered into late night. When that becomes a large part of your program, in this environment, you are — by math — probably not appealing to half your potential audience,” he cautions. Meanwhile, as more viewers bypass linear TV, he says. “It’s difficult to discover these shows or promote them.”

Instead, the sycophants at Variety mostly blame it on streaming, social media, and the like, because, as we all know, streaming and social media weren’t around five years ago. Oh, wait, they were! Well, that was a waste of 4500 words, Variety — unless, of course, your only goal is to suck up to third-rate celebrities no one watches anymore.

Well, I guess sucking up to third-rate celebrities no one watches anymore is one way to make a living.

Parental Rights Bills Sweeping the United States

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 05:00:34 GMT

The Epoch Times Reports: Legislation protecting a parent’s right to block the use of gender pronouns and other gender ideology in public schools is either pending or has already passed in all but three U.S. states.

Of the states where legislation is being heavily watched is the state of New Hampshire, where more than 200 people turned out this past week in support of proposed parental rights legislation.

NH Republican Dan Innis, who is gay, told The Epoch Times that he believes rising support for parental rights bills are because the transgender movement targeting children and the move to cut their parents out of the process “goes just too far,” even for many liberals.

“These bills are being labeled as anti-trans, but nothing could be further from the truth. What they are is pro-family, pro-child,” Innis said. “Their purpose is to put these major life decisions, major life changes, where they belong, and that’s in the family between the parents and the children.”

Teachers unions and some LGBTQ organizations, however, have warned that the parental rights bills are creating “dangerous situations” for kids by depriving those suffering from gender dysphoria of a trusted adult at school to confide in and not challenge them.

“We need our students to feel safe at school and to have their school be a place they feel welcome,” said Deb Howes, president of the American Federation of Teachers, New Hampshire (AFT-NH), in a written testimony against Senate Bill SB 272.

Woke Bud Light Executive Behind Transgender Dylan Mulvaney Marketing Campaign Takes Leave of Absence

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 05:38:54 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: Anheuser-Busch InBev has changed its marketing leadership after a disastrous marketing decision, Ad Age reported.

Woke Bud Light Vice-President of Marketing Alissa Heinerscheid has taken a leave of absence weeks after the company was criticized for its partnership with a transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Todd Allen, VP of global marketing for Budweiser, will replace Alissa Heinerscheid as vice president of marketing for the brand, Ad Age reported.

The outlet added:

The brewer has also streamlined its marketing function to reduce layers “so that our most senior marketers are more closely connected to every aspect of our brand’s activities,” a company spokesperson said in a statement, adding that “these steps will help us maintain focus on the things we do best: brewing great beer for all consumers, while always making a positive impact in our communities and on our country.”

The statement noted that “we communicated some next steps with our internal teams and wholesaler partners,” adding that “we made it clear that the safety and welfare of our employees and our partners is our top priority.”

Bud Light’s marketing strategy has been disastrous with boycotts against the beer company by consumers.

Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from all legacy users

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 02:54:15 GMT

The Verge Reports: Twitter has begun removing blue checkmarks en masse from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of owner Elon Musk’s long-stated plans for the social media network .

The change is apparent on Twitter accounts for several Verge writers and other journalists like LA Times reporter Matt Pearce , with the verification logos occasionally disappearing and reappearing between page reloads.

Historically, the aim of Twitter’s verification system was to ensure that accounts from notable individuals and organizations who freely contributed content to the social media platform were actually being run by those individuals and organizations. Instead, Musk is now charging $8 a month for verification through Twitter Blue .

Musk has been vocal about his dislike for the legacy verification system, calling it “ bullshit ,” “ corrupt ,” and a “ lords & peasants system .” Journalists on the platform were able to be verified almost by default regardless of the size of their following or readership, which appears not to have been sitting right with Musk’s antagonistic relationship with the media .

Planned Parenthood is Teaching Young Girls That Prostitution is OK

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 02:47:29 GMT

Life News Reports: A sex education “toolkit” from the Planned Parenthood abortion chain teaches young children that prostitution is a normal sexual relationship.

Parents’ rights advocate Nicole Solas first noticed the disturbing material geared at children under age 10 and shared it on Twitter this week in a warning to other parents.

“Planned Parenthood has a toolkit for schools to teach kids ages 10 and under that prostitution is a normal interpersonal relationship,” Solas wrote.

The publication, “Scaling-up comprehensive sexuality education” by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, provides guidance and resources to teach children and adolescents about relationships sex, abortion and other related topics.

In the section “Key Learnings: Interpersonal Relationships,” the guidelines for children under age 10 tell teachers to explain that “sexual activity may be part of different types of relationships, including dating, marriage or commercial sex work, among others.”

A New System to Name and Shame Woke Companies

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:45:17 GMT

Breitbart Reports: What could possess Dutch brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev to put a trans activist at the forefront of its Bud Light marketing efforts? The promotion was a grave offense to the values of its customer base after all. But Bud Light is hardly alone. A litany of America’s largest corporations have recklessly exposed themselves at the very front of the woke political agenda.

This week, Consumers’ Research, a consumer advocacy group founded in 1929, is inaugurating “ Woke Alerts ,” a free direct-to-consumer text service to call out corporate pandering to the far left’s ideology when it occurs. The Woke Alerts service will be backed by a massive digital campaign to make consumers aware of how to sign up and use it.

The Woke Alerts project is a dynamic extension of the Consumers First Initiative , in which Consumers’ Research called out companies including Coca-Cola , Nike , American Airlines , State Farm , Ticketmaster , MLB , America Express and Levi’s for nefarious wokeness at their customers’ expense.

Users sign up for Woke Alerts through the Consumers’ Research website . Subscribers will be notified by text message when companies cave to the woke mob – so they know the brands attacking their values.

Disney Lost Over a Quarter of a Billion Dollars on Two Woke Failures

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 04:49:26 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: Two of the three biggest box office bombs of 2022 were both animated Disney movies that, when combined, lost the company more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

“Strange World” was easily the biggest bust of 2022 and lost Disney almost $200 million while receiving the lowest audience score in the history of Disney animated films with a “B” rating.

In total, according to Deadline , the film had a $317.4 million budget and earned just $73.6 million at the box office.

“ Lightyear ” came in third on the list of biggest flops in 2022 as it lost $106 million at the box office earning the lowest CinemaScore of any “Toy Story” movie and a 74 percent approval on Rotten Tomatoes compared to the 90 percent and above received by every other film in the franchise.

The common theme between these movies and the reason that they both lost more money than any other animated film in Disney history is the showcasing of woke ideology that permeates both films.

Non-Woke ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Sets Record with $87 Million 2nd Weekend

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 03:27:42 GMT

Breitbart Reports: “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” scored the best second weekend ever for an animated movie in North American theaters with $87 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The family-friendly Universal release dropped a slim 41% from its record-making opening weekend .

With $94 million from international showings, “Mario’s” global total now stands at a staggering $678 million, surpassing “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” to become biggest film of 2023 in just two weekends.

“There are not enough adjectives to describe the enormity of this box office performance,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comsore.

or most blockbusters, second weekends are usually down by about 60%, making “Mario’s” 41% drop especially noteworthy. According to Comscore, only a handful of films that opened over $100 million have had less of a fall, including “Shrek 2,” “Frozen 2,” 2002’s “Spider-Man,” “The Force Awakens” and 2016’s “The Jungle Book.”

“To the casual observer that may not seem like a big deal, but that is an important metric,” Dergarabedian said. “It’s the greatest indicator of audience love for the movie.”

Netflix's 'Queen Cleopatra' documentary mocked and ridiculed for bizarre portrayal of Egyptian ruler

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:55:06 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: Netflix announced an alleged documentary film based on the life of Cleopatra, but the project was widely lambasted on social media for bizarrely portraying the historical figure as black.

"From Executive Producer Jada Pinkett Smith comes a new documentary series exploring the lives of prominent and iconic African Queens," reads the description of the movie from the Netflix YouTube account.

Many on social media found the claim ludicrous and ridiculed the movie. Many pointed out that the heritage of Cleopatra was documented by historians who have concluded she was Greek and Macedonian.

"Egypt is diverse in skin colors, there’s no one Egyptian look so you could do a documentary about black Egyptian rulers but Cleopatra was of Greek ancestry and presenting her story as a battle between native Egyptians and the oppressive Roman tyrants is extremely anachronistic," read one popular response.

"So this documentary, as per the trailer, is intentionally trying to stir up a nonexistent controversy over the ethnicity of Cleopatra, who was undoubtedly Greek with Iranian ancestry, to celebrate strong African women rulers," said the host of a podcast about Hellenistic history. "This looks pretty bad all around."

Woke Fail: HBO Boss Shuts Down J.K. Rowling Question After Trans Rage over Harry Potter Series Launch

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 04:53:50 GMT

Breitbart Reports: A journalist’s question about J.K. Rowling’s involvement in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series was studiously ignored Wednesday by HBO Content Head Casey Bloys.

The freeze out came after Warner Bros announced the merger of Discovery+ and HBO Max into a new streaming service simply named Max. With it, a plethora of new shows were revealed including an “original Harry Potter scripted series.”

In the press release, the media conglomerate confirmed Rowling would be involved to “ensure [the series] remains loyal to her original material.” During a Q&A held on the Warner Bros Burbank studio lot after the announcement, Bloys was asked about how Rowling’s stature could impact the show.

“No, I don’t think this is the forum,” Bloys responded, per IndieWire . “That’s a very online conversation, very nuanced and complicated and not something we’re going to get into.”

Amazon wants DIVERSITY over SUCCESS?

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 23:52:18 GMT

Blaze Media Reports: While television shows are ablaze with woke propaganda and commitment to a progressive agenda, audiences are beginning to tire of it.

Lauren Chen reports that the site Bounding Into Comics has revealed Amazon Studios has scrapped ranking shows based on audience scores “because it revealed audiences found queer stories off-putting.”

This comes after Amazon announced several years ago it would be implementing diversity quotas for its shows — both in front of and behind the cameras.

However, rather than changing the content of the shows, Amazon chose to downplay queer themes in marketing materials for its shows.

Chen says, “How about you just focus on giving the audience what they actually want.”

Kim Masters wrote in an article for the Hollywood Reporter that “multiple sources say [Amazon’s system] often ranked broad series featuring straight, white male leads above all others.”

But Amazon customers aren’t the only ones tired of the woke agenda infiltrating their entertainment.

Elon Humiliates BBC Reporter Alleging “Hate Speech” On Twitter But Who Can’t Give A Single Example

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:47:33 GMT

Chicks On The Right Reports: People have finally woken up to the fact that the establishment mainstream media is biased, hypocritical, narrative-driven, and incredibly manipulative. Truth and morals mean nothing to these people any more. There is no such thing a journalistic integrity in these organizations. Even though people are starting to realize it, the media establishment still largely gets away with it. But every so often, they get caught, and it’s epic. This was one of those times. A BBC reporter did a sit-down interview with Elon Musk and someone forgot to tell this poor guy that Elon doesn’t play their game.

He advises Elon that “we have spoken to people who, who have been sacked, who used to be in content moderation,” which is Leftist establishment code for “censorship.” Armed with this claim that they’ve spoken to these vague, anonymous, likely disgruntled former content moderators (who were overwhelmingly Leftist activists, by the way) who think there’s a content moderation issue, the reporter claims that “there’s not enough people to police this stuff.” And by “this stuff,” he explains that he means “hate speech,” by which he really means “anything he and his political allies don’t like for people to be allowed to say.” So Elon, who doesn’t shy away from tough questions like this, asks him directly, “What hate speech are you talking about?” Then he takes it to the next level and asks this reporter what hate speech he himself has personally seen on Twitter.

The reporter stutters, groping around for an answer that he doesn’t have, so Elon encourages him to give some anecdotal examples of hate speech which he has personally seen on Twitter. The reporter then claims, “Personally, my ‘For You,’ I would see I get, I get more of that kind of content, yeah, personally.” Still, no specifics, just a vague statement on the subject, so Elon presses again for him to clarify, “You see more hate speech, personally?” The reporter then sort of clarifies that he sees “more hateful content.”

Then Elon drops the hammer in the most hilariously gentle way when he again clarifies, “Content you don’t like?” Yes. That’s the issue here, folks. To them, “hate speech” is anything they personally deem to be “hateful content,” which is basically just anything they don’t like.

"IT WAS A MISTAKE": Anheuser-Busch Has Settled On Their Scapegoat For The Ginormous Bud Light F*CK UP

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 21:40:57 GMT

Louder With Crowder Reports: If you need further proof that conservatives are winning and Bud Light virtue signaled themselves into an all-time marketing blunder, it's this. Anheuser-Busch is in cover-your-ass mode.

None of the higher-ups knew ANYTHING about the decision to destroy Bud Light's brand by signing titface performer Dyland Mulvaney to a brand ambassadorship deal. A low-level staffer allegedly made the decision .

That's right, friends. AB is going to "our social media intern tweeted the wrong thing" route.

Behind the scenes at AB, 'no one at a senior level' was aware of the partnership that has now dominated headlines for weeks, and the decision to include Mulvaney in the campaign was taken by a 'low-level marketing staffer,' two sources close to the situation told The Daily Wire.

That claim comes despite the attention on Bud Light's VP of marketing, Alissa Heinerscheid, for her remarks in an interview days before the Mulvaney partnership , saying she wanted to trade the brand's 'fratty' reputation for 'inclusivity'.

"It was a mistake."

Woke NBA Freezes Hiring and Spending, Citing Harsh Economy

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 03:11:40 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: The NBA went woke a few years ago, embracing Black Lives Matter following the death of George Floyd.

Now that might be catching up with them.

Despite Janet Yellen’s recent claim that the United States is doing great economically , the NBA is freezing all new spending and hiring and blaming the economy for the decision.

The NBA might be bracing for some financial troubles.

NBA officials instructed league office staff to cut spending and limit hiring due to “economic headwinds” for the rest of the year, according to a memo from executives Kyle Cavanaugh and David Haber obtained by the New York Times.

The memo claims the NBA is “facing a very different economic reality than just one year ago. We are seeing significant challenges to achieving our revenue budget with additional downside risk still in front of us.”

Woke Disney Shattering Lives, Creating ‘Culture of Fear’ as Mass Layoffs Continue

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:00:12 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Woke Disney is leaving behind a trail of emotional wreckage as company leaders continue the latest round of mass layoffs that will see a total of 7,000 people across the company’s numerous media properties lose their jobs.

A viral LinkedIn post that purports to be from a recently laid-off Disney employee paints a picture of sadness and despair, with the former employee saying she is still in “denial” about her situation. At ABC News, a “culture of fear” has descended upon the organization, with some saying the layoffs are being used as a pretext for settling old personal scores, according to a New York Post report .

The LinkedIn post comes from a woman identified as “Jeanette L.” who claims to have worked in a division called Disney Streaming Advanced Research.

“I’m still in denial about it as I write this. Disney is my dream workplace,” she wrote. “I am proud and beyond grateful to have landed within this group. Unfortunately, my entire department has been impacted by the #disneylayoffs and my Disney journey must come to an end.”

John Leguizamo Blacklists ‘Super Mario Bros.’ For Not Casting Hispanic in Italian Role

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 02:13:18 GMT

Breitbart Reports: After starring in the infamous live-action Super Mario Bros. movie all the way back in 1993, woke crybaby John Leguizamo is blacklisting the latest adaptation because “they messed up inclusion.”

When you hear a 62-year-old utter phrases like “They messed up inclusion,” you know why Leguizamo makes a living saying what other people write.

Leguizamo’s career hasn’t been going so well of late, so he’s taken to whining about the “inclusion” of more “Latinx” actors in movies and TV, which I’m sure is not at all self-serving—you know, in the same way, Laura Dern wasn’t being self-serving when she called for older actors to have more age-appropriate girlfriends and wives in the movies after she made a career as a young woman hooking up with older guys in films like Jurassic Park.

Leguizamo has also whined like a little girl about non-Hispanic actors playing Hispanics.

Funnily enough, though, he’s never complained about non-Italian actors playing Italians, which is exactly what he did playing Luigi Mario in the 1993 flop.

Mark Wahlberg Details Plans to Build His Own Hollywood Studio in Las Vegas, Envisions Creating 10,000 Jobs

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:00:29 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Mark Wahlberg has provided more details about his plans to build his own Hollywood studio in his new hometown of Las Vegas, envisioning creating 10,000 jobs in the process.

In an interview with Fox Business, Wahlberg spoke about his dream project and his recent decision to move his family out of California for the sake of his children.

“We’re looking to create 10,000 jobs on the studio alone,” he told the network.

“The average salary would be $100,000 more than what it is now. We want to train people both in front of and behind the camera, create jobs, most importantly, first and foremost, for locals.”

“And then, after that, I think we can attract a lot of people,” Wahlberg added. “The housing market is great.”

The actor praised Nevada for its living costs compared to what he and his entourage left behind in California.

“When I moved here, I brought probably like 15 or 20 people that work with me also moving here,” Wahlberg said. “They went from three-bedroom houses that they were really struggling to pay rent for. And now they have a six-bedroom house. And it’s, you know, half the cost.”

'Claim one scalp then move onto the next': Matt Walsh suggests how conservatives should collectively target woke companies

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 04:19:21 GMT

The Blaze Reports: Conservative commentator Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire has suggested that conservatives band together to boycott woke businesses. Walsh acknowledged that people cannot boycott all of the companies promoting radical leftist ideology and suggested that people target just one company at a time.

"Here's what we should do: Pick a victim, gang up on it, and make an example of it. We can't boycott every woke company or even most of them. But we can pick one, it hardly matters which, and target it with a ruthless boycott campaign. Claim one scalp then move onto the next," Walsh tweeted .

"The problem is that many conservatives don't have the stomach or attention span for this. And our political 'leaders' are almost completely useless. There is a way to win real victories. We just need a little grit and a little follow through," he wrote .

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk responded by suggesting that conservatives first set their sights on Budweiser. "Let's put Budweiser out of business," Kirk suggested .

Amazon Studios: “Audiences Find Queer Stories And Themes Off-Putting”

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:08:01 GMT

Bounding Into Comics Reports: A new report claims that Amazon Studios scrapped an audience ranking system after data revealed audiences were put off by “queer stories” and themes.

This new report comes from The Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Masters who details that Amazon’s “reliance on testing and data led to a clash late summer” specifically following a marketing meeting regarding the company’s A League of Their Own series.

Masters notes during this meeting an Amazon executive pointed out “that data showed audiences found queer stories off-putting and suggested downplaying those themes in materials promoting the show.”

On top of this, Masters also detailed, “Multiple sources say [Amazon’s system] often ranked broad series featuring straight, white male leads above all others.”

According to the report, the show’s co-creator Will Graham “launched into an interrogation of the system,’ which resulted in Amazon dropping “the system of ranking shows based on audience scores.”

MIC DROP: Matt Walsh Debates Transgender EMT Who Ends Up Speechless

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:39:15 GMT

Young America's Foundation Reports: The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh got into a debate with a transgendered woman who was a self proclaimed EMT who immediately gets stumped by one simple biological scenario.

BREAKING: Identity Of [new] Transgender Terrorist Released…Suspect Arrested One Week After Nashville Shooting, Planned To Bomb Middle School And Shoot Students

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 03:47:43 GMT

100 Percent Fed Up Reports: Just one week after a transgender mass shooter killed six people at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, another male-to-female transgender person had a mass shooting plot foiled by police in Colorado Springs.

The shooter, 19-year-old William Whitworth, laid out extensive plans to plant bombs at and shoot students at Timberview Middle School in Colorado Springs.

Whitworth mapped out a floor plan of Timberview Middle School and expressed violent intent towards his sister, causing her to call the police, who arrested Whitworth shortly after.

Police asked him if he had a motive for the heinous act that he was planning, and he reportedly said he had ‘no specific reason’ for wanting to carry out the attack.

Still, Deputies found a manifesto that outlined support for political figures and idolized other mass shooters.

“Protect Trans Kids” Flag, BLM Badge On Display In New Woke Spider-Man (Spider-Them?) Trailer

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:35:25 GMT

Summit News Reports: Creators of upcoming feature film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse have snuck in a transgender flag emblazoned with the words “Protect trans kids.”

The message appears for a split second, almost invisible in the background.

LGBTQ+ news outlet Pink News reported that “Fans were were quick to spot the trans-inclusive Easter egg and applaud the film for its subtle nod to queer youth.”

The animated Spider-Verse films are a joint production between Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures, with Marvel Entertainment. It seems those corporations couldn’t resist getting on board with THE MESSAGE.

HS Teacher Fantasizes About Secretly Injecting Puberty Blockers

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 01:39:48 GMT

Alpha News Reports: A Bemidji High School teacher fantasizes about secretly injecting children with puberty blockers, according to a Facebook post obtained by Alpha News.

“Me coming to the realization I will never fulfill my lifelong quest of moving to Tennessee to secretly inject 11 year olds with hormone blockers while I do an interpretive drag dance to my favorite Judy Blume novel,” said the post, published to the Facebook page of Gina Marie Bernard.

Bernard, a biological male who identifies as a woman, is listed as an English teacher at Bemidji High School.

Parents told Alpha News the post was published at the end of February, around the time Tennessee passed legislation prohibiting sex changes for minors.

Bernard has published several pieces of poetry, including one called “ Confessional ,” where he writes about giving his daughters marijuana and wine, performing oral sex, killing a friend’s cat, masturbating, and writing a letter to a serial killer.

“I’ve tasted the barrel of a loaded Winchester Ranger 20-gauge, silky with Hoppe’s No. 9. I fantasize about committing a crime so I can spend a year in a women’s prison. But only a year,” the poem says.

The poem is apparently included in one of Bernard’s two books of poetry, which are called “I Am This Girl” and “Naked, Gettin’ Nuder,” according to The Bemidji Pioneer .

How the tech elites lost touch with reality

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:52:27 GMT

Spiked Reports: Silicon Valley used to be a place of innovation, dynamism and ambition. A place where hard-working people could make the products of the future, and make something of themselves, too. But no more. The forward-thinking engineers of old have been replaced by a new elite, made up mainly of financiers, media types and NGO bureaucrats.

The new overlords of tech are more interested in virtue-signalling and woke proselytising than in building and making things. Theirs is a world built on the sand of cheap credit and Democratic Party largesse, as shown by the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank earlier this month. And it’s a world increasingly removed from the rest of America.

So what happened to Silicon Valley? How did the tech elites lose touch with reality? And what does that mean for US politics? To answer these questions and more, Joel Kotkin – spiked columnist and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism – joined Brendan O’Neill on his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show.

How Netflix's woke reversal saved it from going broke

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 03:49:32 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: Netflix appears to steadily be climbing its way out of financial ruin after canceling ' woke ' programming and deciding to back controversial figures like Dave Chapelle.

The streaming service took a hit in the first half of 2022, losing about 1,170 million subscribers as rivals such as Paramount+ and Disney+ raked them in.

The huge decline was seen by some as a direct consequence of the company's late response to demands from its viewers to tone down their woke agenda.

But Netflix started bouncing back after the cancelation of some of its progressive programming flops, including Meghan Markle 's Pearl, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's Antiracist Baby and He's Expecting, which depicts a man who becomes pregnant.

Netflix added about 7.6 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022, which was higher than forecasted, and is now at about 230.7 million paid subscribers.

The share price went from 230.05 in October 2022 to 299.93 in March 2023.

APRIL FOOLS: Billboard Appears In Texas Roasting Southwest Airlines’ Woke Policies

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 04:11:22 GMT

100 Percent Fed Up Reports: On Saturday, a billboard mocking woke airlines like Southwest appeared just ahead of April Fools Day, along I-35 South of Fort Worth. The satirical billboard ad featured a fake company called Southwoke.

The billboard’s tag phrase says “Bringing San Francisco’s baggage To Texas non-stop,” and features depictions of Southwest Airlines CEO Robert Jordan and Board of Directors members David Biegler, Nancy Loefler, Gary Kelly, and Veronica Biggins in drag attire.

The billboard also includes the website Southwoke.com . The website takes the mockery further, featuring graphics that say, “Southwoke Airlines: you are now free to move about your gender.”

The site also poked fun at the leftist’s hatred toward anyone who does not embrace their ideology, “Southwoke: An airline that’s inclusive of everyone except you.”

Southwoke’s announcement section said that they had hired Sam Brinton as baggage specialist. Brinton, while working for the Biden administration, also specialized in stealing other passengers’ luggage when he took a flight. A fashion designer found out who stole her bags after seeing a post of Brinton in one of her outfits.

Male Powerlifter Enters Women’s Competition to Protest Woke Gender Self-ID Laws

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:44:17 GMT

100 Percent Fed Up Reports: In protest against Canada’s woke gender self-ID laws, a male powerlifter entered into a women’s bench press competition claiming he identifies as a woman, showing everyone just how ridiculous it is to let biological men compete against females.

Avi Silverberg, a powerlifting coach for Team Canada, attended the ‘Heroes Classic’ tournament in Alberta on Saturday. At the competition, Silverberg easily broke the female bench press record for the 84+ kilograms women’s category, a 270lbs press, which was set by another biological male lifter.

The Canadian Powerlifting Union’s ‘trans inclusion policy’ allows anyone who self-identifies as a woman to compete in the female category, despite males who have gone through puberty having a significant advantage over biological females.

It was this policy that Silverberg showed up in protest of on Saturday, trying to show everyone how unfair it is to let men compete against women in this sport.

Woke-Poisoned Hollywood Has Doomed the Once-Unbeatable Movie Industry

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 03:14:28 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The key to a healthy industry—audience goodwill—is evaporating quickly.

Sure, there have been some recent hits. Avatar: The Way of Water just became the second-highest worldwide grosser (not counting for inflation) in history. The last three or four Marvel movies have made money. But let’s not kid ourselves. Avatar 2, just like Avatar 1, has had no cultural impact whatsoever.

I know of one person who saw it, and when asked his opinion, he replied with a shrug. My guess, and this is just a guess, is that The Way of Water’s box office was driven by a small pool of fans who swallowed marijuana edibles and went to see it again and again and again… Hey, whatever works.

As far as Marvel, those films are making less money than ever before, are widely disliked, and leaking goodwill like a bucket with no bottom.

Don’t get me started on “prestige” films. For the last ten or so years ( Shape of Water, Moonlight, Birdman ), the Oscars have been a joke, a bat signal to avoid that title at all costs. This year’s winner, Everything Everywhere All at Once , was a 140-minute Tik Tok video.

The biggest problem is what many call woke or what I call “rhetoric.” Star Wars, Terminator, Charlie’s Angels, Men in Black, Toy Story, Shaft, X-Men, Space Jam, Magic Mike , Shazam , Disney animation, Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn… All of these franchises were murdered by insulting, spell-breaking, ham-handed rhetoric.

The movie industry’s addiction to pedantic, predictable rhetoric, to try to shape and alter society rather than reflect, inspire, entertain, and surprise us, has landed the movie business in its first existential crisis in more than 50 years.

COVID Vaccines Caused 300,000 Excess Deaths, $147 Billion in Damage to Economy in 2022 Alone

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:36:55 GMT

Children's Health Defense Reports: In the U.S., COVID-19 vaccines injured 6.6 million people, disabled 1.36 million people, caused more than 300,000 excess deaths and cost the economy an estimated $147 billion in damage — in 2022 alone — according to a new analysis by Humanity Projects, a wing of Portugal-based research firm Phinance Technologies.

In the U.S., COVID-19 vaccines injured 6.6 million people, disabled 1.36 million people, caused more than 300,000 excess deaths and cost the economy an estimated $147 billion in damage — in 2022 alone — according to a new analysis by Humanity Projects, a wing of Portugal-based research firm Phinance Technologies.

The researchers behind “ The Vaccine Damage Project ,” released this month, said they sought to “estimate the human cost,” including “deaths caused or hastened by the vaccines,” as well as “the impact on the overall economy of each aspect of the vaccine damage.”

Phinance Technologies was founded by former BlackRock portfolio manager Edward Dowd , along with Yuri Nunes, Ph.D. , and Carlos Alegria, Ph.D.

Dowd, who came out as a whistleblower against the COVID-19 shots and Big Pharma corruption, is the author of “‘ Cause Unknown ’: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022.”

Is ‘Wokeism’ to Blame for Silicon Valley Bank’s Demise? No and Yes

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:38:56 GMT

Conservative Daily News Reports: What’s clear is that “wokeness” is intertwined with the concept of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), an idea broadly defined as a “framework that seeks to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, especially in the workplace, including populations who have historically been under-represented or subject to discrimination.”

Treating all people fairly isn’t a particularly controversial or revolutionary idea, but critics of “wokeness” complain that DEI initiatives go beyond the fair and equal treatment of individuals, giving preferred treatment to historically marginalized groups. Moreover, there’s a concern that corporate DEI initiatives are emphasizing social causes over sound business practices and maximizing shareholder value.

For example, SVB famously pledged to provide at least $5 billion “in sustainable finance and carbon neutral operations to support a healthier planet.” The bank—which is currently in bankruptcy proceedings—also donated $73 million to Black Lives Matter and similar social justice causes.

Meanwhile, video has emerged of Signature Bank Chairman Scott Shay, whose bank was recently shut down by regulators, offering a lengthy tutorial on the proper usage of gender-neutral pronouns.

Even proponents of DEI initiatives would likely concede these are “woke” practices. But did the “woke” lectures and programs have anything to do with the collapse of SVB and Signature Bank, both of which unfairly ( and dangerously ) received bailouts from the federal government?

Now Agatha Christie Gets the Rewrite Treatment to Spare Modern Sensitivities

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 03:29:57 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Even the bestselling novelist in the world isn’t being spared woke rewrite treatments to spare the delicate sensitivities of modern readers, with Agatha Christie’s works getting the full treatment from her publisher.

Christie is famous for creating such timeless sleuths as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and the Daily Telegraph reports new editions based on both these investigators have had original passages amended or excised by publisher Harper Collins.

Insults and references to ethnicity feature amongst the references to have received the editorial reworking.

So-called “sensitivity readers” had made the edits, which were evident in digital versions of the new editions, including the entire Miss Marple run and selected Poirot novels set to be released or that have been released since 2020, the Telegraph reported .

The updates follow edits made to books by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to remove offensive references to gender and race in a bid to “protect” modern readers, as Breitbart News reported .

Disney’s Bob Iger Still Plans to Spend $30 Billion on Content While Laying Off 7,000 People

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 01:58:52 GMT

Breitbart Reports: In the face of an unprecedented profitability crisis and the repeated failure of its woke content, Walt Disney Co. executives seem to have settled on a solution: double down on the woke and fire rank-and-file employees.

Disney executives expect to spend around $30 billion on consumer content in 2023 — virtually the same as in 2022 — while moving full-steam ahead with layoffs that will see the elimination of 7,000 jobs. Pink slips are reportedly set to drop soon, sending employee morale plummeting.

The layoffs come as Disney faces daunting challenges in the wake of a disastrous 2022 that saw the company’s stock plunge 44 percent and profitability take a surprising hit, resulting in the firing of CEO Bob Chapek and the return of Bob Iger.

In an earnings call last month, Disney CFO Christine McCarthy said the company still expects its content spending to remain “in the low $30 billion range” for fiscal 2023, even as it plans to find $3 billion in annual content savings.

Disney spent an estimated $33 billion on content in 2022, yielding such box-office disasters as Lightyear and Strange World , as well as the woke Disney+ series Willow , which was canceled after one season . Much of Disney’s new streaming content remains unpopular with consumers , with no new Marvel or Star Wars series cracking the top 15 most-viewed streaming programs.

The Left will regret opening up the woke Pandora’s box

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 03:31:04 GMT

Washington Examiner Reports: What is “ woke ”? The question is suddenly relevant because the activists of MSNBC and the “1619 Project” say conservatives can’t define what it is. Big mistake. Confident that woke was just a phrase, even a dog whistle, they have opened Pandora’s box.

Conservatives will relish keeping that Pandora’s box open a little longer because they now have an excuse to expose a central strategy of leftists — how they manufacture grievances and then plan to use resulting anger to provoke systemic transformation. Overwrought confidence will get you in trouble.

How all this came about is also instructive. On March 14, a leftist commentator named Briahna Joy Gray interviewed one of the most delightful people working on the conservative side, Bethany Mandel, and asked her at one point to define the term woke. As all of us whose living includes broadcast interviews have done, Mandel at first froze for about 10 seconds. That was it! Like Inspector Clouseau often did, the Left thought it had its smoking gun!

A tweet by the Vanguard that said, “LOL: Briahna Joy Gray BREAKS the brain of Rising guest Bethany Mandel by asking her to define ‘wokeness,’” garnered 34.3 million views, and a hate fest erupted in the Twitterverse.

“This is perfect. See how easy this was, journalists?” Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the New York Times’s “1619 Project,” gushed in a tweet . She can’t tell history from fiction, but she’s more than glad to pile on someone who was simply caught off-guard on camera.

MSNBC, the house organ of the woke end of progressivism, went into overdrive. “As I mentioned in the Instagram post below, Mandel’s flop shows conservatives have so perverted the term ‘woke’ that they can't even define it on their own terms,” a very cross Ja’han Jones intoned on MSNBC.

Republicans, he added, have appropriated “the black slang term … to denote things they don't like, from truthful, inclusive education to Disney, the FBI and beyond.”

Not quite, Ja’han. Let’s parse this a little further.

Google's new ChatGPT competitor Bard can't define "woman" – it replied with a bunch of vague woke nonsense

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 03:22:47 GMT

Not The Bee Reports: As I said last night , I got access to Google's "Bard," its new AI chatbot ChatGPT competitor. So I went Matt Walsh on it and asked it to define "woman." It failed.

The question I asked it:

If a biological male can decide to identify as a female and then become a woman, then what is the definition of "woman"?

The answer it gave me:

The definition of "woman" is not a simple one. It is a complex concept that has been debated by philosophers, scientists, and activists for centuries. There is no one answer that will satisfy everyone.

Some people believe that a woman is someone who was born with female genitalia. Others believe that a woman is someone who identifies as female. Still others believe that a woman is someone who performs femininity.

There is no right or wrong answer. The definition of "woman" is up to each individual to decide.

However, it is important to be respectful of other people's gender identities. If someone tells you that they identify as a woman, then you should treat them as such.

Bard can't define "woman," and more importantly, it says YOU can't define woman either – and insists that you treat anyone claiming to be a woman as one.

The Three Biggest Revelations From The TikTok Hearing That Explain Why The App Has Got To Go

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:30:31 GMT

The Federalist Reports: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew confirmed his mega-popular app is effectively Chinese Communist Party spyware and a threat to U.S. national security during testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday.

Below are the three biggest revelations from the hearing, providing more than enough reason for President Biden to banish the app from America if its Chinese owners refuse to sell the company.

1. CEO Admits Chinese Engineers Have Access to American Data

When Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., asked Chew if “ByteDance employees in Beijing have access to American data,” Chew confirmed, “Yes, the Chinese engineers do have access to global data.”

2. CEO Won’t Pledge to Prevent Commodification of Personal Health Data

When Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., asked if Chew would commit “to no longer using data about users’ health, particularly their mental health, to push them content or sell ads,” Chew claimed that “as far as I’m aware” TikTok does not use users’ health data.

3. CEO Doesn’t Consider Spying on Journalists Wrong

When Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., brought up how TikTok spied on American journalists, Chew said that he “disagree[d] with the characterization that it’s spying.” Last December, TikTok admitted ByteDance employees used IP addresses to track the locations of two American journalists who had critically reported on TikTok. Whether Chew is willing to admit it, ByteDance employees improperly collecting data on the physical movements of its users is indeed spying.

Indoctrinated College Grads’ IQs Take Nosedive: New Study

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 04:02:13 GMT

Headline USA Reports: Decades of woke ideology, lowered academic standards and leftist doctrines weaving their way into educational institutions have reportedly contributed to lower IQ scores.

For the first time in nearly a century the measured intelligence of young Americans, including a focus on college graduates, is dropping, according to a new psychology study from Northwestern University.

The so-called “reverse Flynn effect,” stalling a decades-old trend of increasing IQs, was found in a large sample of every IQ-tested category except one. The study found consistent declines in three out of four cognitive domains, reported Science Daily.

The declines spanned all age groups and gender, but the drops were more severe for younger participants, including college graduates. The “greatest differences in annual scores were observed for 18- to 22-year-olds,” the authors wrote.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Disney Preparing to Lay Off Thousands of Workers

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:19:01 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: TDisney used to be a company that catered to families and held traditional American beliefs, but like so many corporations in recent years, it has embraced the far left.

That decision is starting to have a serious and negative effect on their bottom line.

Millions of Americans have had it with the progressive political indoctrination that has infested entertainment and they are abandoning Disney and other companies like them.

Disney is now preparing to lay off thousands of workers as a result.

It’s important to remember that Disney did this to themselves. This was a choice.

Big-box media slammed the words ‘Died Suddenly’ before realizing they needed the clicks

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:10:04 GMT

World Tribune Reports: The dominant media insist that the “disinformation” peddled by “anti-vaxxers” is so horrible that these people must be rigidly censored on social media and suppressed wherever and whenever they are to be found in the name of public safety.

From a Feb. 4 Associated Press article. The second paragraph says it all:

The use of “died suddenly” – or a misspelled version of it – has surged more than 740% in tweets about vaccines over the past two months compared with the two previous months, the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs found in an analysis conducted for The Associated Press. The phrase’s explosion began with the late November debut of an online “documentary” by the same name, giving power to what experts say is a new and damaging shorthand.

“It’s kind of in-group language, kind of a wink wink, nudge nudge,” said Renee DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. “They’re taking something that is a relatively routine way of describing something – people do, in fact, die unexpectedly – and then by assigning a hashtag to it, they aggregate all of these incidents in one place.”

Hey, this is serious. People are going to get killed because of this:

The campaign causes harm beyond just the internet, epidemiologist Dr. Katelyn Jetelina said.

“ The real danger is that it ultimately leads to real world actions such as not vaccinating ,” said Jetelina, who tracks and breaks down COVID data for her blog, “Your Local Epidemiologist.”

The faux-hard-edged journalism acting by AP reporters here is reminiscent of the worst theatrics commonly found during the heyday of the coronavirus pandemic hype:

Black California DEI Director Accused of White Supremacy For Failing to Espouse 'Woke' Ideology

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 03:51:52 GMT

Red State Reports: The recent controversies over politically correct rewrites of James Bond novels and Roald Dahl’s children’s books highlights just how dependent a woke culture industry is on the works of dead white men, like Dahl, Fleming and Tolkien, who were anything but politically correct.

Or even living, but currently politically incorrect white women, like J.K. Rowling.

Woke culture has filled every school with graphic sexual books like Beyond Magenta and Lawn Boy which describe 8 and 10-year-olds having sex, but can’t generate any of its own classics. That’s why Netflix bought the Roald Dahl Story Company for $686 million , Amazon paid $8.5 billion for MGM, whose crown jewel is James Bond, and has spent over $1 billion to make its own woke version of Tolkien’s mythos. (New woke Lord of the Ring movies are also coming.)

Disney built an empire churning out woke versions of everything from Marvel comics to its own classic cartoons, including Peter Pan and Pinnochio, and other works by dead white men. The rest of the culture industry is frantically trying to conglomerate and amass enough intellectual property of its own to also cannibalize, denounce, bowdlerize and then cash in on every year.

Woke culture is the parasitism of the creatively untalented and politically authoritarian. It runs on monopolies reprocessing the works of all the retroactively canceled talented artists and writers, blending the splendid feasts of the past into differently branded cans of woke cultural spam.

Wokes Can’t Beat the Culture They’re Destroying

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:04:08 GMT

PolitiChicks Reports: The recent controversies over politically correct rewrites of James Bond novels and Roald Dahl’s children’s books highlights just how dependent a woke culture industry is on the works of dead white men, like Dahl, Fleming and Tolkien, who were anything but politically correct.

Or even living, but currently politically incorrect white women, like J.K. Rowling.

Comedians bemoan woke state that makes comedy a 'taboo subject' as they gather to honor Adam Sandler with Mark Twain Prize for humor

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 03:58:44 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: A slew of famous names bemoaned the ' woke ' state that has made comedy a 'taboo subject' as they gathered at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night to honor Adam Sandler with the Mark Twain Prize for humor.

Sandler, 56, acknowledged how tough it is to make people laugh.

'Comedians are trying to make you laugh, and that's that's what the goal is,' he told DailyMail.com on the red carpet, adding: 'Yeah, it's it's more hypersensitive than it's ever been but we're gonna be alright.'

And Drew Barrymore , who starred with Sandler in 'The Wedding Singer' and '50 First Dates,' said: 'Comedy in general has become a taboo subject and that in itself scares me. But I just want to appreciate people who are brave enough to make us laugh.'

'Everything, you know, in a moment can be something that creates a sentiment of vitriol or distaste or dislike. I don't even think gotcha has a chance to be a gotcha. It's like too fast instant. People are turning on each other,' she added.

Big, Gay ‘Shazam 2’ Tanks with Dismal $30 Million Opening Weekend

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 01:23:22 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Shazam! Fury of the Gods is tanking at the North American box office with an opening weekend of just $30 million .

This box office number could go a little lower or higher, but not enough to save this stinker.

Stick a fork in Shazam!

He’s done.

Why in the world Shazam! Fury of the Gods decided to have one of its supporting characters come out as gay and then use that reveal as part of the marketing plan is obvious. The filmmakers want diversity points. But at what cost? Well, 2019’s Shazam! opened to $54 million and cost $100 million to produce. Shazam! Fury of the Gods cost $125 million to produce and will be lucky to clear $70 million at the domestic box office.

You add what must be around $50 million in marketing costs to that $125 million production budget, and you have is a movie that will have to clear around $400 million worldwide just to break even. Unless there’s some unexpected groundswell, that ain’t happening.

Upcoming Superman Movie to Restore ‘Truth, Justice, and the American Way’ Motto After DC Comics Dumped it in 2021

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:08:00 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The upcoming Superman movie to be directed by James Gunn is set to restore the “American way” portion of Superman’s ages-old motto after DC Comics removed the patriotic segment back in 2021.

As Breitbart News reported in Oct. of 2021, DC Comics dumped the Man of Steel’s “America” replacing it with “a better tomorrow” by rewriting the original slogan — “truth, justice, and the American way” — to read “truth, justice, and a better tomorrow.”

“Superman’s new motto of ‘Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow’ will better reflect the global storylines that we are telling across DC and to honor the character’s incredible legacy of over 80 years of building a better world,” DC explained at the time.

James Gunn, the man hired to correct the mess Warner Bros. has made of its DC universe of movies, seems to be trying to pull Superman back out of the extreme wokeness by returning the character’s heritage.

Pronoun Police Lose: Student Wins Legal Battle with Montana State U. over Free Speech

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:45:18 GMT

Breitbart Reports: A Montana State University (MSU) student has won her legal battle against the school, successfully getting the university to lift a no-contact order imposed on her after she refused to comply with a sorority’s “insistence” on preferred pronouns.

MSU student Daria Danley filed a lawsuit against the school after it accused her of “hate speech” and imposed a “no-contact order” on her after she questioned her sorority’s “insistence” that members identify themselves with preferred pronouns, according to a report by Daily Montanan.

The no-contact order prohibited Danley, an Alpha Gamma Delta member, from attending sorority events, as well as from entering a building where another sorority student, who is LGBT, was present, the lawsuit said.

Danley has since agreed to dismiss her lawsuit — in which she accused Montana State University of violating her free speech — after the school agreed to end its no-contact order.

While Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, top executive pushed ‘woke’ programs

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 02:18:31 GMT

NY Post Reports: A head of risk management at Silicon Valley Bank spent considerable time spearheading multiple “woke” LGBTQ+ programs, including a “safe space” for coming out stories, as the firm catapulted toward collapse.

Jay Ersapah, the boss of Financial Risk Management at SVB’s UK branch, launched initiatives such as the company’s first month-long Pride campaign and a new blog emphasizing mental health awareness for LGBTQ+ youth.

“The phrase ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’ resonates with me,’” Ersapah was quoted as saying on the company website.

“As a queer person of color and a first-generation immigrant from a working-class background, there were not many role models for me to ‘see’ growing up.”

Her efforts as the company’s European LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group co-chair earned her a spot on SVB’s “outstanding LGBT+ Role Model Lists 2022 ,” a list shared in a company post just four months before the bank was shut down by federal authorities over liquidity fears.

Black diversity, equity and inclusion director fired from woke California college was accused of disrespecting BLM founder and 'whitesplaining' after asking for definition of anti-racism

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 02:15:02 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: The black director of diversity, equity and inclusion at a California college was fired after being denied tenure when a board member accused her of disrespecting Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza.

Dr. Tabia Lee began working at De Anza College, located just outside of San Jose, in August 2021. Since then, she has objected being forced to join a 'socialist network' and had to fight to bring a 'Jewish inclusion' event to the school, according Inside Higher Ed.

In addition, Lee said that she earned the ire of the school's woke student body and management after asking for definitions of terms such as anti-racism, her refusal to use terms such as 'Latinx' and 'Filipinx' and wondering why the letter B in 'Black' was being capitalized but not the W in 'White.'

She argued that the use of gender pronouns was similar to 'toxic ideologies around race' and that the constant discussion around the issue was causing discomfort for those 'who identify as gender fluid or struggle with gender dysphoria.'

Lee, a graduate of the University of Phoenix with a doctorate from the University of California Irvine, was also branded a supporter of white supremacy and accused of 'whitesplaining' and 'white speaking.'

Disney CEO Bob Iger Calls for Fewer Sequels as Marvel and ’Star Wars’ Falter

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 01:23:47 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Disney Groomer-In-Chief CEO Bob Iger laughably believes the problem with his faltering Marvel franchise and doornail dead Star Wars franchise is… sequels :

Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Iger said Disney will be looking at reducing spending on content, and how many projects it produces.

Iger specifically wondered aloud if Marvel needs so many sequels for its superhero characters.

“What we have to look at at Marvel is not necessarily the volume of Marvel storytelling, but how many times we go back to the well on certain characters,” Iger said, according to a transcript. “Sequels typically worked well for us. Do you need a third and a fourth, for instance? Or is it time to turn to other characters?”

Oh, yes, because as the science makes clear, sequels…are…death…at…the…box…office. Forget that for 20 years, that for the last two decades, 15 times —15!—a sequel has been the top-grossing movie of the year. Last year , nine of the top ten movies were sequels. The prior year, it was seven of ten . In 2019, six of the ten top-grossers were sequels—the other four were remakes or spin-offs.

With Ant-Man 3 quickly running out of gas at a mere $400 million worldwide, I guess sequels have suddenly become the problem.

This is how silly a CEO is willing to look to avoid speaking the bare naked truth, which is this: sequels aren’t the problem; your lousy content is the problem. Rocky 9, in the form of Creed III, just cleaned up at the box office. Trust me, in a country that looks almost exactly like it did when 24 premiered in 2001 and won’t let go of shows old enough to have graduated college—NCIS, Law & Order, Simpsons, etc…—sequels, sameness, and familiarity are exactly what sells.

Pope Francis decries ‘DANGEROUS’ woke gender ideology that ‘erases humanity’

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 23:36:16 GMT

The Right Scoop Reports: Pope Francis spoke forcefully against the gender ideology – in other words the “transgender movement” propaganda — being force-fed to schoolchildren around the world, and said it’s in fact “one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations” the world is facing.

In an interview with Argentinian newspaper La Nación, the Pope was in no way unclear about the terrible state of affairs. And reiterated a point he made in the past about schools teaching these insane ideas to kids.

“Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations, he told reporter Elisabetta Piqué. ““Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value of men and women.”

The Catholic News Agency noted that in his interview on Friday, he was not only reiterating a point but referencing some comments he’s made before, including in 2016 when he said:

Today children — children — are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this? Because the books are provided by the people and institutions that give you money. These forms of ideological colonization are also supported by influential countries. And this is terrible!

The DOJ is Hit with Motion to Stop Telling the ‘Big Lie’ About January 6

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:44:17 GMT

Becker News Reports: In the aftermath of explosive new January 6 footage revealed by Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson, there have been false claims made by Biden officials that police officers were killed by protesters during the Capitol riots.

Attorney General Merrick Garland in particular misrepresented the incident and implied that five police officers died due to the January 6 incident.

“I think all Americans saw what happened on January 6th, and most of it saw, most of us saw it,,, as it was happening,” Garland siad. “It was a violent attack on a fundamental tenant of American democracy. That power is peacefully transferred from one administration to another. Over a hundred officers were assaulted on that day. Five officers died. We have charged more than a thousand people with their crimes on that day. And more than 500 have already been convicted. I think it’s very clear what happened on January 6th.”

Attorney General Garland fundamentally misrepresented the January 6 incident in his statement. No police officers died due to attacks by January 6 protesters.

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died a day after the attack, but his death was determined afterward to be of natural causes: two strokes at the base of his brain stem caused by an artery clot.

These top colleges scam you and your kids as woke insanity soars

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:46:09 GMT

Fox News Reports: Families saving for college and encouraging their kids to aim for the top are getting scammed by the left-wing college industrial complex. Colleges distort and outright lie about who gets accepted, education quality and what it costs. If they were selling auto loans and used the same deceptive tactics, they'd be in jail.

Columbia University announced last Wednesday that it is permanently eliminating SAT and ACT test scores as part of the undergraduate admissions process -- the first Ivy League school to go permanently test-optional. Columbia issued a slippery statement about making admissions "nuanced" and "respecting varied backgrounds, voices and experiences." Truth is, Columbia is ditching merit for diversity. Without admitting it, Columbia has replaced an academic mission -- providing a rigorous education to a group of prepared students -- with a new one: social engineering.

Expect other colleges to follow. Elon Musk commented Saturday that "very few Americans seem to realize the severity of the situation."

President Joe Biden made equity the mission of all federal agencies. On March 1, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona blasted the higher education industry's "unhealthy obsession with selectivity" and urged a focus on "upward mobility."

That's politics. But parents making the biggest investment of their lives, except buying a home, ought to know what they're paying for: a rigorous classroom experience for their youngster, or a bit part in a social experiment.

Elon Musk’s criticism about ChatGPT’s “woke” nature gets response from OpenAI co-founder

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:55:57 GMT

Tesla Rati Reports: During an interview with The Information , the ChatGPT co-founder and president admitted that OpenAI made a mistake. He also noted that considering the company’s response to the issues that have been brought up about the chatbot, the OpenAI deserves some legitimate criticism.

“We made a mistake: The system we implemented did not reflect the values we intended to be in there. And I think we were not fast enough to address that. And so I think that’s a legitimate criticism of us,” Brockman said . He also highlighted that OpenAI seeks to roll out an AI that is not biased in any way. Brockman acknowledged, however, that the startup is still some distance away from this goal.

Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 02:50:40 GMT

KSAT Reports: What first looked like a pandemic blip has turned into a crisis. Nationwide, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022, with declines even after returning to in-person classes , according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse. The slide in the college-going rate since 2018 is the steepest on record, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Economists say the impact could be dire.

At worst, it could signal a new generation with little faith in the value of a college degree. At minimum, it appears those who passed on college during the pandemic are opting out for good. Predictions that they would enroll after a year or two haven’t borne out.

Fewer college graduates could worsen labor shortages in fields from health care to information technology. For those who forgo college, it usually means lower lifetime earnings — 75% less compared with those who get bachelor’s degrees, according to Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. And when the economy sours, those without degrees are more likely to lose jobs.

ABC’s ‘The Good Doctor’ Depicts the Unborn as Lives Worth Saving

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:47:28 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The ABC medical drama The Good Doctor has hit a pro-life note several times in the last few seasons and this week’s episode did so again, this time by seeming to admit that a fetus in the womb is a life worth trying to save.

In the March 6 episode, “Old Friends,” a pregnant patient in distress is told that her illness will likely compromise her health and the health of her unborn baby. And as her two attending physicians describe her options, she is told that her condition will likely lead to her death if she insists on trying to save her baby. However, one of the doctors admits that she would try to save the life of the fetus if she were in the patient’s shoes.

Dr. Morgan Reznick (Fiona Gubelmann) suggests abortion immediately and without hesitation. Her fellow attending, Dr. Jordan Allen (Bria Samone Henderson), is not quite as prepared to wave off the life of the child that the patient is carrying.

In one scene, stricken mother Sonja (Elyse Maloway) is being counseled on her options in consultation with Drs. Reznick and Allen during which Reznick says terminating the pregnancy is the safest option, but Allen suggests she would seek other options to save the baby:

Sonja: “What would you do…if it was your baby? ”

Reznick: “Termination is the safest. ”

Sonja: “I was talking to Dr. Allen.”

Allen: “I would…pray on it. ”

Sonja: “And then? I want to know what you would do. ”

Allen: “I think I…would try to save the baby. ”

Sonja: “We have to fight for our Esther.”

Children’s Author R.L. Stine Says Publisher Made ‘Woke’ Edits Without His Knowledge

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:05:12 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: Children’s author R.L. Stine’s popular horror series “Goosebumps” is the latest literary target of publishers trying to satisfy the woke agenda.

The Gateway Pundit reported on the so-called “sensitivity gurus” who scrubbed legendary author Roald Dahl’s children’s books to avoid offending snowflake liberals.

Upcoming reprinting of Ian Fleming’s 1950’s James Bond books are also being rewritten to remove “racially insensitive” words and stereotypes.

The Times of London claimed that Stine “censored over a dozen of his books” to avoid mentions of race or calling characters fat or crazy.

Stine denied the claim and affirmed that the edits were never shown to him.

“Lindsey, the stories aren’t true. I’ve never changed a word in Goosebumps. Any changes were never shown to me.”

‘Jesus Revolution’ Grosses More than 4 Oscar Nominees…Combined

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 04:08:38 GMT

Breitbart Reports: After only two weeks in release, a little Christian film called Jesus Revolution has grossed $ 30.5 million , which is a better domestic take than five of this year’s Best Picture nominees. In fact, it’s a better domestic haul than four of those Best Picture nominees combined.

And only an idiot is surprised by this news.

What makes this accomplishment even more satisfying is that Jesus Revolution has accomplished this after just two weeks in theaters. Every one of the Best Picture nominees listed below has already completed or is at the end of its theatrical run…

The Banshees of Inisherin– $ 5 million
The Fabelmans– $ 2 million
Tár– $ 7 million
Triangle of Sadness– $ 5 million
Women Talking– $ 9 million

Combined, those five films only grossed a total of $44 million, which Jesus Revolution will likely top before its theatrical run is over.

More Woke Disney Fail – No Marvel or ‘Star Wars’ Streaming Show Hit Top 15

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:57:18 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Not a single Marvel or Star Wars streaming show cracked the top 15 most-watched last year.

“Nielsen revealed their Top 15 Streaming Programs of 2022 back in January, and only three Disney+ programs cracked the list: Encanto, Bluey, and The Simpsons,” reports Bounding Comics.

Imagine you are the Disney Grooming Company pouring billions of dollars into Star Wars and Marvel streaming content, and now you are losing to aging shows like Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Seinfeld, and The Simpsons.

The only Disney+ TV shows that cracked the top 15 were The Simpsons , which is almost old enough to run for president, and Bluey, a cartoon about a dog.

Even when Nielsen focused only on new shows, not only did Marvel or Star Wars fail to place in the top 15, there wasn’t a single Disney+ TV show in the top 15. Not one!

The Boys, Amazon’s superhero show, hit number 11. But Disney’s new Marvel superhero shows — Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, I Am Groot, and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law — are nowhere to be seen. The same goes for any Star Wars series that premiered in 2022, including Obi-Wan Kenobi , Tales of the Jedi , The Book of Boba Fett , and Andor .

Oh, the fail is strong with this one.

The Woke Wrecking Machine

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 03:21:04 GMT

The Daily Signal Reports: AAlmost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous.

Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result, history’s prescription for civilizational decline.

If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air-traffic controllers, ground crews, pilots, and rail workers, there will be even more news of disasters and near-miss airline crashes.

Wokeness demands a McCarthyite suppression of free expression. No wonder a woke FBI recently hired out social media censors to suppress stories it deemed unhelpful.

Soviet-style, wokeism mandates strict ideological party-line narratives under the cover of “science.” No wonder a woke government lied that requiring vaccines would prevent both infection and infectiousness.

Woke substitutes race for class in its eternal neo-Marxist quest to divide permanently the nation along racial lines, between victims and victimizers.

Yet wokeism recently has embarrassed itself as never before.

Have You Had Enough of Woke Companies? New Survey Shines A Light on How People Feel

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:14:10 GMT

DC Equirer Reports: A decade or two ago the average consumer would’ve been hard-pressed to find a company that outwardly conveyed its own political views publicly. However, now many companies have gone woke in an attempt to pander to the leftist mob.

Companies like Target, Starbucks, and Barnes & Noble are just a few of the companies that have chosen the leftist agenda over the complete satisfaction of the consumers they’re supposed to be serving.

In a statement obtained by Breitbart from RedBalloon CEO Andrew Crapuchuttes, a company that helps employ job seekers, he said the following:

"It used to be that Hollywood was the primary promoter of leftist ideology in America,” he continued “But, the frontlines of the culture war have advanced into the workplace, and many companies believe they are the vanguard of the left and must push woke values on their employees and customers, even though most Americans disagree.”

Former Mumford & Sons Guitarist Winston Marshall Says Antifa Tried to ‘Destroy’ Him for Wrongthink: ‘They Swarm You Like Hornets’

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 05:07:07 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Former Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall has detailed how Antifa tried to “destroy” him after he endorsed a book by journalist Andy Ngo exposing the inner workings of the violent left-wing group.

Speaking with Tucker Carlson on his Fox Nation show, Marshall recalled some of the tactics Antifa used against him.

“They’re very effective online. Like, for example, there was a whole night where they were changing my Wikipedia page from ‘Winston Marshall is a banjo player’ to ‘Winston Marshall is a fascist,’” he said. “They just swarm you like hornets and everything they do to try and destroy you.”

He said friends tried to change his Wikipedia page back only to see it changed again. He said some of his music collaborators were also being attacked simply because of their professional association with him.

In 2021, Marshall praised Ngo on his book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, which details Antifa’s efforts to terrorize its ideological opponents through violence and harassment.

Christian school gets woke, then literally goes broke

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 05:04:25 GMT

WND Reports: A private Christian school in Missouri has learned the hard way that alienating donors with divisive ideological posturing can lead to bad outcomes.

The Urban Christian Academy in Kansas City is closing its doors at the end of the school year after losing 80 percent of its funding due to its adoption of “LGBTQIA+ affirming” messaging. The acronym LGBTQIA stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning, intersex, asexual/aromantic/agender.”

Daily Wire Announces “Jeremy’s Chocolate” As Alternative To Woke Hershey’s

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:33:46 GMT

Chicks On The Right Reports: They did this exact same thing with Jeremy’s Razors, which was a razor alternative to Harry’s Razors, a razor subscription box that went woke and cut ties with the Daily Wire because a few customers whined about not agreeing with the opinions expressed on The Daily Wire.

That’s all it took, and Harry’s Razors let the woke mob tell them who they were allowed to advertise with. In response, the Daily Wire announced the launch of a competing product, Jeremy’s Razors, just to give consumers an option that isn’t controlled by the woke mob. Now they’re doing the same with chocolate.

This week, Hershey’s decided to pass over every single woman of every single shape, shade, and ability, and use a biological male in their ad to celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month . There wasn’t one single woman good enough for them, so they chose to celebrate a man instead.

They want you to give them your money to help them erase women, and people aren’t impressed. Thus, #BoycottHersheys was born.

Public vs. private education in a woke world

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 04:02:45 GMT

The Blaze Reports: Is a public education better than a private education? Allie Beth Stuckey tackles this question in one of her latest episodes — and as a mother herself, it’s safe to say she’s quite passionate about the topic.

It’s a topic on the tongues of most parents these days, amid growing concerns that children are being taught completely inappropriate material in the classroom.

Twitter accounts like Libs o fTikTok have consistently exposed teachers who are blatantly calling for indoctrinating children into the LGBTQ+ community. However, not much work needs to be done in order to expose it. They’re literally exposing themselves by uploading the videos to TikTok and repeating deranged sentiments such as children needing to choose their own gender without their parents' knowledge or consent.

It’s not just that parents don’t want their children exposed to this inherently Marxist ideology, but that the material completely contradicts their own Christian faith.

See For Yourself: Hershey’s Threatened With Boycott Following Controversial New Woke Ad ‘Erasing Women’

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:43:43 GMT

DC Enquirer Reports: On Thursday, the chocolate company Hershey’s released a new ad in celebration of International Woman’s Day which will be taking place on March 8th. The ad, however, instead of featuring a woman, it instead featured a man identifying as a woman.

My name is Fae Johnstone,” the ad began with a title card describing the man as a 2SLGBTQIA+ advocate. “I’m the executive director of Wisdom to Action. We can create a world where everyone is able to live in a public space as their honest and authentic selves. See the woman changing how we see the future at Hershey’s Canada.”

The ad was sponsored by both Hershey’s and the United Nations-founded Girls Up organization showcasing once again how woke elitists are utilizing international power to spread transgenderism into the mainstream.

In response to the ad, a boycott was called for leading to multiple condemnations of Hershey’s new ad campaign that features a transgender woman on the wrapper of the chocolate bar.

Disney Gets Desperate, Punishes People for Talking Negatively About Its Live-Action 'Peter Pan' Monstrosity

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 03:46:17 GMT

Red State Reports: Safe to say, the reception to this “modern” retelling of the old classic wasn’t a good one. From the trailer to the movie, the movie’s been denounced as yet another lazy Disney rehash of a property that should have been left well enough alone. As a result, Disney has begun turning around and doing what it can to silence and punish those who speak out against it.

Az of the YouTube channel HeelvsBabyface gave a review on his live stream which was struck down by Disney almost immediately. In his video, he shows you his channel’s backend so you can see that his video is blocked in all territories.

But it doesn’t stop there. As Az notes, other YouTubers who’ve talked about the new Peter Pan movie are watching odd things happen to their channel, including their comments sections being disabled by YouTube itself. YouTube Drunk3P0 has reportedly had his entire video on the movie blocked as well.

As Az shows in his video, the claims were all made by Disney Enterprises.

Disney in new woke row after fans blast Peter Pan movie for including GIRLS in Lost Boys - with critics already labelling it a 'flop'

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:51:33 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: Peter Pan has been given a ' woke ' makeover with the famous Lost Boys updated to include girls, too.

Disney released a trailer for its latest live-action remake Peter Pan & Wendy but there were a few crucial changes to the plot from the original 1904 play by J.M. Barrie.

In one shot, a group of children can be seen gathering around as they introduce themselves as 'lost boys,' as a little girl adds 'every last one of us.'

A surprised Wendy remarks 'but you're not all boys!' to which one replies 'So?'

Critics were quick to slam the change, with one Twitter user labelling it a 'flop' while another said: 'What have they done to my characters?'

San Francisco Wakes Up to a Woke Problem of its Own Making

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 03:32:49 GMT

Liberty Nation News Reports: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is rethinking its legislative desire to punish states that do not live up to its liberal standings. Passed in 2017, the city’s 12X law put the kibosh on doing business with states that passed laws it deems too restrictive of LGBTQ rights, abortion access, and other pet issues. But the city’s residents have felt the pain. The law was ineffective and costly, and it’s up for a full repeal.

The city was determined to bend conservative states to its will, imposing a certain level of morality for those outside the rainbow bubble. Accordingly, elected officials created a list of states that would not be welcome to bid for city-sponsored business. That list included all manner of contracting services and employees of San Francisco city and county are forbidden from doing business with companies from the states on said roster – all thirty of them.

Then came reality: A report issued on Feb. 10 from the city administrator, Carmen Chu, revealed: “Since 12X became operative, the number of banned states has grown from 8 states in 2017 to 30 in 2022. This increase suggests that the city’s threat of boycott may not serve as a compelling deterrent to states considering restrictive policies.”

To put the cherry on the sundae, the good governor of California, Gavin Newsom , escorted his family on vacation to Montana last July. Montana is on the “no-go” naughty list. It’s difficult to police all of America.

Drag queen teaches school children about anal sex and gender identity, forces child to leave class after denying ’73 genders’

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:59:02 GMT

The Right Scoop Reports: This story is likely the most disturbing you’ll hear today and maybe all week.

A drag queen was allowed to teach 11-year-old school children about anal sex, oral sex, and gender identity. And was even allowed to kick one student out of class for objecting to the idea of 73 genders and stating there were only two genders.

This happened in the Isle of Man, which sits between Ireland and the UK.

Just listen to this vice-chairman of Marown Commissioners explain what happened.

As you can see from the tweet, the controversy has caused the government to shut down the curriculum for now.

Publisher Backtracks ‘Woke’ Rewrite of Roald Dahl’s Classic Children’s Books

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 03:10:34 GMT

Townhall Reports: Publisher Penguin Random House announced Friday it will continue to publish the original versions of British author Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books after it received backlash for publishing new versions that omitted words and sections deemed to be “offensive.”

Puffin, which is an imprint of Penguin Random House, announced that the original versions of Dahl’s books will be available as The Roald Dahl Classic Collection. These versions will be released alongside the new, “woke” versions.

“Readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl’s stories they prefer,” a statement from the publishing company said.

China’s CCP warns Elon Musk against sharing Wuhan lab leak report

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:57:27 GMT

CNBC Reports: A Chinese state-run newspaper issued a warning to Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he shared reporting on the U.S. Department of Energy’s “low confidence” assessment that the global Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.

CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reported Tuesday morning on the warning from the social media pages of the Global Times, the English-language subsidiary of the CCP-controlled People’s Daily. The Global Times warned Musk that he could be “breaking the pot of China” after the Tesla and Twitter CEO responded to tweets that asserted that the Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan research laboratory.

The saying is akin to the idiom “to bite the hand that feeds you,” Yoon reported. Tesla has an expansive factory campus in Shanghai, and China is the electric vehicle manufacturer’s second largest market.

Elon Musk looks to develop AI rival to ‘woke’ ChatGPT: report

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:40:05 GMT

New York Post Reports: Elon Musk is seeking to enlist the help of artificial intelligence experts in order to create a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot which the tech mogul believes has gone “woke,” according to a report.

Musk has approached several AI researchers, including Igor Babuschkin, who recently departed Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit, according to the news site The Information.

A new, AI-center project that would feature a chatbot with fewer speech restrictions could be integrated into Twitter, the social media company that Musk recently bought.

The move comes as Musk has been critical of OpenAI, the research lab which created ChatGPT and which counts Musk as one of its founders. Musk cut ties with OpenAI in 2015 due to disagreements with leadership over the entity’s nonprofit status.

In a recent tweet, Musk lamented that OpenAI was “training AI to be woke.” He has been critical of OpenAI for filtering out harmful content from the data so as to make ChatGPT less violent, sexist, and racist.

Woke Disney’s year of enduring box office bombs, subscriber losses and layoffs

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 04:51:05 GMT

Fox News Reports: TFebruary has been a cruel month for Disney as the giant corporation slashed 7,000 employees in mass layoffs and announced a 2.4-million subscriber loss to streaming service Disney+. All of this came as the network endured yet another woke controversy as a kids cartoon show on the streaming service lectured children about "white fragility" and denounced Abraham Lincoln.

But these latest problems for Disney are not new and are only the latest in what is closing in on a year of woke disasters, instability at the top of the company and financial problems. Here are some of the many problems Disney has endured in 2022 and 2023.

Last summer , Disney released "Lightyear," the newest film in the "Toy Story" franchise. It’s also the movie in which the left-leaning company replaced the politically independent Tim Allen with the liberal activist actor Chris Evans for a new version of the character. The move didn’t please a lot of people. Even noted Democrat (and "Toy Story" star) Tom Hanks found the replacement of Allen puzzling, saying, " I don’t understand that. "

The children’s film also featured a same-sex kiss that was at first cut, then restored, amidst controversy relating to Disney speaking out over Florida’s parental rights law, often spun by critics as the "Don’t Say Gay" bill.

"Lightyear" also ultimately became the lowest-grossing film in a franchise that has made over $3.3 billion so far and has been declared a "bomb" by several outlets. In an interview with The Wrap, Pixar COO Pete Docter seemed to put some of the blame on the audience.

Here’s Why ‘SNL,’ Late Night Won’t Touch Biden, Harris and Mayor Pete

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:36:13 GMT

Hollywood in TOTO Reports: There’s another reason Colbert and Co. won’t go near Democrats, no matter how ripe the material may be. It might cause the politicians’ poll numbers to slump.

Remember how the public turned on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin after Tina Fey’s dead-on impression caught fire on “Saturday Night Live?” That proved a cultural turning point, with comedians realizing their humor could impact the political landscape.

And they reacted accordingly, becoming cheerleaders for the progressive cause.

Now, we have another data point showing the power of satire.

“South Park” recently skewered Prince Harry and Meghan, the royal couple infatuated with fame, power and victimhood status.

And not in that order.

“The Worldwide Privacy Tour” episode focused on Canadian royalty, but everyone knew show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in mind.

“South Park” never pulls a satirical punch, and the episode in question proved that anew.

Rumors circulated that the satirical targets wanted to sue Comedy Central, which aired the episode, in response. The royal couple dashed those clickbait stories, but the reality is proving much worse for them.

‘Jesus Revolution’ Overperforms With $15.5 Million in Domestic Box Office Debut

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 19:46:40 GMT

Collider Reports: The recent success of A Man Called Otto and 80 for Brady — both of which were aimed at older crowds — has proven that targeting underserved audiences is a lucrative strategy at the box office. Lionsgate made the most of a clear theatrical window this week, when it debuted Jesus Revolution in over 2,400 theaters, directly targeting the faith-based demographic while general audiences were busy enjoying the antics of a bear on drugs.

The film is estimated to have made $15.5 million in its three-day domestic debut, including figures from pre-release screenings, finishing third behind Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Cocaine Bear. This is a tremendous result, considering that Jesus Revolution was projected to make only around $7 million heading into its debut weekend. To build buzz, Lionsgate organized church screenings, university screenings, and other initiatives that attracted tens of thousands across the country prior to the film's nationwide release.

SAG Awards: Fran Drescher Calls for Hollywood to Boycott Certain States to Promote ‘Diversity,’ Ban Single-Use Plastics to ‘Save the Planet’

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:06:17 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Current SAG-AFTRA president and The Nanny s tar Fran Drescher called upon her industry to boycott certain states in the union while boasting about the end of “single-use plastics” at Sunday night’s SAG Awards.

In her speech to the audience, the 65-year-old comedic actress touched on a range of topics, from green initiatives to combatting ageism to ending industry vaccine mandates to boycotting states.

“I’m proud to say SAG-AFTRA & MPA have forged Green Council, the biggest joint effort of Stars and Studios to save the planet since WWll,” she said. “Mission 1: an honor system to eliminate single-use plastic on camera, behind the scenes, and leverage star power to challenge audiences around the world to do the same!”

After noting that the people attending the SAG Awards had glass water bottles given to their tables, Drescher then went on to thank the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for allowing stars to hide their age and switch out their genders on their profile pages. She also called for an end to vaccine mandates, which could be expiring in the industry come April of this year, according to Deadline .

NYC teacher tells kids that Nintendo characters have sexual-gender identities: ‘Peach is a massive lesbian’

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:49:25 GMT

New York Post Reports: A teacher employed by New York City Department of Education presented to middle-school students that Nintendo characters have different sexual and gender identities.

Remy Elliott, who is certified under the name Jeremy William Elliott, posts public videos on her TikTok account describing her approach to teaching. She currently teaches 9th grade English at the DOE, but previously taught younger grades. After Fox News Digital reached out for comment, Elliott deleted the videos in question and put her account on private .

At an after-school program for a DOE school’s Gay Straight Alliance club, Elliott went through a series of Nintendo characters and ascribed to the fictional video game characters a variety of sexuality and gender identities.

“So the GSA for the school that I teach at decided to do a PowerPoint night, and I decided to combine two of my favorite interests into one. This is dubiously assigning genders and sexualities to classic Nintendo characters,” she said.

“Yoshi is a trans man. He is just living his best life with Birdo, and his top surgery turned out amazing. No scars whatsoever. We love that for him,” she said. “Of course, that means that Birdo is an ace trans girl.”

'I've been correcting you, Mr Bond': Sensitivity readers remove offensive language from James Bond books including Casino Royale and Octopussy

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:45:00 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: James Bond novels including Casino Royale and Octopussy have been edited to suit modern sensibilities with a raft of racist and sexist terms removed ahead of the 70th anniversary of 007 this year.

The publishers of the books by Bond creator Ian Fleming commissioned a review by ‘sensitivity readers’ to modernise them, according to the Sunday Telegraph. It comes as children’s books by Roald Dahl have been stripped of potentially offensive language with the Oompa Loompas – the workers at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory – being made gender neutral.

In the new version of Bond novel Live And Let Die, a scene in which Bond visits a New York club is altered to remove reference to a striptease. In the 1954 original it says: ‘Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough.’

The revised version will now reportedly read: ‘Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.’

“Rationing” Is the New Globalist Buzzword as They Normalize Scarcity Ahead of Manufactured Collapses

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:00:00 GMT

Discern Report Reports: The memo went out. The puppet masters among the globalist elite cabal are planting the seeds for the plebeians to accept what’s coming: massive shortages. Some might think this is just the powers-that-be getting ahead of what they perceive as a likelihood. But as many have been warning about for a long time, these puppet masters aren’t predicting it. They’re manufacturing it.

We have the poultry industries in western nations being decimated by a bird flu that has acted unlike any bird flu in history. Food plants continue to burn down. Crops are failing. It’s all (or at least mostly) manufactured and being intentionally spread to be blamed on climate change.

We have energy decisions being made by pretty much every nation that isn’t part of BRICS+ that keep us on the verge of collapse without pushing us all the way over the edge. This is so they can be ready for the big shove off the cliff when the appropriate time comes. It’s like Nancy Pelosi pre-tearing Donald Trump’s State of the Union Speech a little so when she’s ready to let it rip, it plays cleanly for the television audience. They want us to think it’s spontaneous (again, so they can blame climate change) even though it’s all being plotted with precision.

We have nearly every nation in the world at some stage of preparation and adoption of Central Bank Digital Currencies that will change actual capitalism into “stakeholder capitalism” before it’s blasted into a full-blown worldwide socialist “solution” to the problems they’re creating. Economic collapse will be used for economic control. If you want access to the ability to buy or sell, you’ll need to line up with whatever they say.

If all of this sounds too linked to be coincidence, that’s because it’s all part of their machinations. If it sounds familiar, that’s because the godfather of modern globalism laid out the framework decades ago.

“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” – Henry Kissinger

Disney Shows It Still Has Not Learned the Lessons From Its Woke Agenda Failures From Last Year

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:45:00 GMT

RedState Reports: One Pixar executive cites the audience as the cause as he looks back at one of the bigger woke agenda failures of 2022.

At the entertainment news outlet The Wrap, there is an interview with animation legend Pete Doctor about the recent announcement he is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood. In the course of the interview, Doctor discussed one of the titles he ushered in last year, “Lightyear”, and in particular what led to that movie becoming one of those on a list of failed enterprises for Disney.

As far as the corporation is concerned, The Disney Company would prefer not to relive the year 2022 . Throughout the calendar year, the company had a dismal time of it. From social controversy to executive upheaval and numerous failed entertainment releases, the company capped it off with its stock plunging and devaluing the company by the billions .

After Disney chose to enter the Florida parental rights debate, the company saw its standing with the public diminish as well as having its special tax exemption carve-outs in Central Florida stripped by the state legislature . Much of this could be traced to a central mindset in the company; Disney has fully adopted a corporate policy of social activism. This policy was enthusiastically injected into many of its entertainment releases, and those were almost uniformly rejected by the marketplace.

Ben Stiller Hits Back At Woke Mob, Says He Makes ‘No Apologies’ For ‘Tropic Thunder’

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:51:38 GMT

Daily Wire Reports: Ben Stiller hit back at the woke cancel culture mob and said he makes “no apologies” for his 2008 comedy “Tropic Thunder” and disputed a tweet alleging he had previously apologized for the film.

The 57-year-old actor, comedian and filmmaker tweeted on Tuesday to his 5.6 million followers that he did not apologize for the movie amid calls to have the film canceled and removed from streaming platforms, the New York Post reported.

The person on Twitter wrote, “[BenStiller] Please stop apologizing for doing this movie. It was and still is funny AF… Even funnier now with cancel culture the way it is. It’s a MOVIE. Ya’ll can just get over it. I was DYING laughing when I first saw it back in the day and so was everyone else.” His post included a screenshot of another post that talked about how “liberals are trying to ‘cancel culture’ the movie. When the Wayans Brothers made ‘White Chicks’…. nobody said a dang thing!!!! STOP APOLOGIZING FOR THIS STUFF!!!!”

“I make no apologies for Tropic Thunder,” Stiller replied. “Don’t know who told you that. It’s always been a controversial movie since when we opened. Proud of it and the work everyone did on it.”

‘Jesus Revolution’ Director on Movie’s Release Coinciding with Asbury Revival: ‘There’s a Divine Hand on the Timing’

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 04:58:27 GMT

Breitbart Reports: One of the directors of the new movie Jesus Revolution hasn’t missed the fact that the title is opening on the heels of one of the largest Christian revivals in recent years — the Asbury Revival, which saw an estimated 50,000 Gen Z’ers participate in song and prayer over a multi-week period at Asbury University in Kentucky.

Speaking to The Christian Post, filmmaker Jon Erwin, who co-directed the movie with Brent McCorkle, spoke about the serendipity of the release.

“For years, we’ve been working on this story. We almost got it made, and then COVID got it shut down,” he said. “I just think there’s a divine hand on the timing of the film. And the reason we made it was … the thing that we’ve said for years is, if it happened then, it can happen now. If it happened once, it can happen again.”

Starring Kelsey Grammer, Jesus Revolution tells the true story of pastor Chuck Smith (Grammer) who welcomed hippies into his traditional congregation at the height of the Jesus movement in California during the 70s. Lionsgate is opening the movie nationwide Friday after holding special screenings on Ash Wednesday.

More Disney Doom as Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man 3’ Collapses 71 Percent

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 23:43:46 GMT

Breitbart Reports: More trouble on the Disney/Marvel front as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania takes a 71 percent dive in weekend two. That’s worse than Marvel’s previous stinkers, Thor: Love and Thunder , which dropped 68 percent in weekend two, and Eternals, which collapsed by 62%.

By the end of the weekend, Ant-Man will have earned another $30 million for a running total of just $165 million.

That might sound like a lot of money, and it is, but Ant-Man 3 cost $200 million to produce and somewhere around another $100 million to promote, which puts the break-even point at around $550 million worldwide. As of right now, Ant-Man 3 has earned $ 265 million worldwide.

Last weekend, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opened exactly where the child abusers at Disney had hoped, with a four-day $120 million. That was likely due to the front-loading of Marvel dead-enders and actor Paul Rudd, who remains an appealing screen presence. The problem now is lousy reviews (the second worst in Marvel history) and a deadly B Cinemascore. Ant-Man 3 is not a movie people are recommending to others or going to see again. That repeat business from the Nerd/Internet-Porn/Marijuana crowd is crucial to Marvel’s success.

Ant-Man 3 itself is crucial to Marvel’s ongoing success. It represents the start of Phase Five, including the introduction of this Phase’s arch-villain, Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors).

The whole world can feel the air going out of Marvel’s once-impenetrable balloon.

Marvel went woke, and now the golden goose is ailing.

Rolling Stone Magazine: Cancel Culture ‘Good for Democracy’

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:03:57 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Cancel culture is both “good for democracy” and a “way for a new generation of people to practice free speech,” according to a recent Rolling Stone piece celebrating the ostracization of those “guilty” of holding controversial positions, while assuring the practice is “here to stay.”

The Monday essay penned by journalist Ernest Owens and titled “Why Cancel Culture Is Good For Democracy,” begins by disputing the notion that cancel culture is a “new phenomenon that’s caused havoc on free expression and speech,” claiming it only “feels new” today “because of the digital platforms we have at our disposal.”

“We’re supposed to now assume that we can’t say or do anything without an angry mob instantly judging us and preparing to end our careers before they start,” the author writes, charging that, in reality, “we are the people who make up the so-called mob, and we have control of our own actions.”

According to Owens, cancel culture — which involves the public repudiation of people, brands, historical figures, and cultural works by a woke mob that now considers them overtly offensive — has “leveled the playing field for those who can’t always rely on the government to protect them,” given that “bigots” are currently “protected under the First Amendment to fuel disgusting rhetoric without state-sanctioned consequence.”

Hey Damar Hamlin - “Were You Vaccinated & Boosted?” Everyone Wants to Know.

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:01:20 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: Damar Hamlin is the NFL player who literally dropped dead of cardiac arrest right on the football field, during a Monday Night Football game, with millions watching, back on January 2nd.

The great news…the miracle of this story…is that Damar did not die. He was technically dead on that field, but the medical professionals on the scene brought him back to life…twice. Thank God for these brilliant doctors, nurses and medical personnel who saved his life. I’m thrilled for him. I thank God he’s alive and doing well. I wish him well.

But here is where the story takes a turn. Damar was being interviewed recently on “Good Morning America” and was asked by host Michael Strahan about how this could happen to a 24 year old world class athlete in peak shape? Damar’s answer was, “That’s something I’m going to stay away from.”

Here’s the thing. Damar Hamlin is now a celebrity. People know his name across the country. Damar is a walking miracle. Everyone listens when people like that speak. Damar had an opportunity to end this vaccine madness once and for all. But he chose silence.

Why do I think Damar is vaccinated? Well, the NFL boasts that 95% of NFL players are vaccinated, as well as 100% of NFL coaches and personnel. Since Damar almost died on that field in January, I’ve spoken to several NFL players and ex NFL players. They all believe Damar’s heart attack was a vaccine injury. They’re all scared to death. They feel like walking time bombs. But they’re all afraid to speak publicly. They believe the NFL would ruin their careers.

Damar could have saved millions of future lives by speaking up. America wants to know. We have a right to know. Our lives are on the line too.

Nowadays We Don't Burn Books, We Rewrite Them According to Woke Standards

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:02:18 GMT

CNS News Reports: In our brave new world, free of religion and intolerance, we don’t have inquisitors to root out heresy. No, we have Inclusion Ambassadors .

According to The Daily Telegraph , new editions of children’s books by the late British author Roald Dahl, who authored classics such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “James and the Giant Peach,” are being edited by the publisher to remove “offensive” words and concepts.

You see, in progressive modernity we don’t burn books. Too crass, too simplistic.

Instead, our Inclusion Ambassadors comb through old, cherished texts to alter and remove wrongthink before publication. The past won’t just be erased, it will be rewritten.

The changes to Dahl’s works—made with the aid of an organization called Inclusive Minds —reportedly have been approved by the Roald Dahl Story Co. and the publisher, Puffin Books. So get your physical copies now, while you can.

Of note, Netflix bought the Roald Dahl Co. in 2021, although the review of Dahl’s works began in 2020, according to reports .

Inclusive Minds describes itself as “a collective for people who are passionate about inclusion, diversity, equality and accessibility in children’s literature, and are committed to changing the face of children’s books.”

The “About” page for Inclusive Minds’ website says it doesn’t rewrite text but simply provides publishers “with valuable insight from people with the relevant lived experience that they can take into consideration in the wider process of writing and editing.”

Ah. Merely woke spiritual guides.

'Reverse Woke Act' aims to hold leftist execs 'accountable' for the consequences of their policies

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:35:57 GMT

WND Reports: It's the gender transition version of "you break it, you bought it."

Florida Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis have made a national name for themselves by standing up to progressive incursions into American life -- from critical race theory and sexual dysfunction in schools to Big Tech's unauthorized surveillance .

Now, under a bill introduced for the upcoming legislative session, the state would be going on offense on one front in the cultural wars, taking the fight directly to companies' bottom lines.

The "Reverse Woke Act" (SB 952) was introduced Monday by state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, aiming at making companies that buy into the woke agenda now realize they might be paying for it later.

The idea is that companies that cover the costs of employees to complete a "gender transition" must also cover the costs of the employees who decide to stop living a lie and "detransition" back to the life they were born to live.

Black Panther communist Angela Davis - who teaches that U.S. was built by racist colonizers - faces calls to pay reparations after genealogy show reveals her white puritan ancestor arrived in America

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:29:05 GMT

Daily Mail Reports: A famed Black Panther who's also a communist has faced calls to pay reparations after discovering her ancestors were white puritans who arrived in the US on the Mayflower.

Angela Davis, 79, was flabbergasted to discover both sides of her family were white, and that her mom's ancestors were slave owners, on PBS show Finding Your Roots.

And the stunning revelations sparked calls for the famously woke Marxist University of California professor to herself pay reparations, having previously called on whites to pony-up in the past.

Sharing a tweet about the show, conservative pundit Matt Walsh wrote: 'It gets better. She's also descended from a slave owner. On her father's side is a pilgrim. On her mother's side is a slave owner. Looks like Angela Davis owes some reparations.'

Another Twitter user called AK Kamara wrote: 'Angela Davis, the radical Marxist and former black panther, recently discovered she is also the ancestor of colonizers and slave owners. I guess she owes herself reparations.

Pfizer found to have covered up injuries and deaths of study participants in their clinical covid-19 vaccine trials

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:13:04 GMT

Natural News Reports: During the rushed clinical trials for Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine, study participants were injured and killed . Instead of halting the experiment at once, Pfizer tried to cover up the adverse events by unblinding the study and removing the patients who were injured and killed. A German publication, Die Welt, has uncovered the stories of patients who were seriously injured and killed by Pfizer’s fraudulent clinical trials. Remember, Pfizer and the FDA wanted to cover up these stories for 75 years, but were forced to release clinical trial data via court order.

When subjects lined up for the clinical trials, they were forced to sign a liability waiver holding Pfizer harmless for negligence and for “fraud or bad faith on the part of Pfizer itself.” These sadistic Pfizer contracts could be null and void because provable fraud vitiates all contracts and violates public policy by encouraging FRAUD. However, individuals injured during the clinical trials were removed from the scientific literature and intimidated into silence. Their injuries were considered “not from the vaccine.”

On August 31, 2020, the test management company for Pfizer unblinded 53 subjects from the clinical trial at their Buenos Aires test center. These subjects were told of their vaccination status and allowed to get jabbed, destroying the control group and covering up the disparity of symptoms observed in the vaccinated subjects. These acts of malicious fraud paved the way for Pfizer to blatantly cover up the deaths of study participants.

I’m a Pro-Life Doctor. Here’s How We Win the Abortion Debate.

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:56:04 GMT

The Daily Signal Reports: The pro-life community cannot afford to let lies take hold in the debate over life. We should explain what we do and don’t stand for, and define clearly what abortion is, and what it isn’t.

In making the case against abortion, legislators need to be armed with earnest, compassionate, and medically accurate arguments.

First, Americans must clearly define what abortion is, and what it isn’t:

Abortion is not done due to a maternal medical diagnosis. Yes, many of the same medications and procedures can be used to perform an abortion or treat miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy. In the case of an abortion, though, ending the baby’s life is intended, not spontaneous or the unintended result of inevitable, natural events. Pro-abortionists conflate these situations to confuse Americans.

In all of medicine, the ethics of a medical intervention depends on its use. For example, a doctor may remove a woman’s fallopian tubes to treat cancer. Or the doctor could do the same to sterilize her against her will. The same procedure is good and lifesaving in the former case, but abhorrent in the latter.

The intervention itself does not define its morality.

Leaked email shows Project Veritas begging donors to stay after removing James O'Keefe

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 03:56:00 GMT

The Post Millennial Reports: "We hope that you might continue to give us a chance," the email pleads with donors. "We can't stress how separate the board's role is from daily operations here at PV. We are still grinding and pursuing stories of great public importance."

An email obtained by The Post Millennial shows that Project Veritas has reached out to donors to ask them to stay with the company despite founder and CEO James O'Keefe having been pushed out by the board of directors. Project Veritas is a not-for-profit operating entirely on the generosity of donors.

"We hope that you might continue to give us a chance," the email says, pleading with donors. "We can't stress how separate the board's role is from daily operations here at PV. We are still grinding and pursuing stories of great public importance."

Study: Bill Gates’ Lab Grown Meat Causes Cancer in Humans

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:59:48 GMT

News Punch Reports: Bill Gates’ lab-grown meat causes cancer in humans who consume it, according to a disturbing new study.

Synthetic meat has been heavily promoted by Bill Gates and the globalist elites at the WEF as the solution to so-called climate change. However, this same food has now been shown to cause cancer via the immortalized cell lines used to manufacture it.

Naturalnews.com reports: Raw Egg Nationalist (REN) shined a light on this issue in a Feb. 17 piece for the National Pulse , citing a Bloomberg story about it. The Feb. 7 piece by Bloomberg ‘s contributing writer Joe Fassler explained why fake meat companies use immortalized cell lines for their products.

“Normal meat cells don’t just keep dividing forever. To get the cell cultures to grow at rates big enough to power a business, several companies … are quietly using what are called immortalized cells, something most people have never eaten intentionally,” Fassler wrote.

While immortalized cell lines “are a staple of medical research,” Fassler noted that these are technically pre-cancerous and can be fully cancerous at times.

James Cameron Goes Full Environmental Lunatic, Suggests Thanos's Final Solution Is "Viable"

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 18:55:07 GMT

RedState Reports: The MCU’s big bad Thanos is often considered one of the greatest movie villains of all time thanks, in part, to his diabolical quest to gather the powerful objects necessary to literally snap away 50 percent of all life in the universe in order to save its resources being consumed thanks to overpopulation.

In real life, many people saw this as a horrific solution to a problem that could have easily been solved in more creative ways. To environmentalists, however, Thanos became something of a hero they completely understood and seemed to want to mimic.

This includes “Avatar” James Cameron, who seems to think killing off half the population to save the Earth is a “viable answer.”

In an interview with TIME, Cameron commented on films that revolved around themes of environmentalism including the end of the MCU’s Infinity Saga and Thanos’s attempt to save the universe through the elimination of life. A rabid environmentalist and climate alarmist himself, Cameron is part of the “Thanos was right” camp

'Reverse Woke Act' proposal in Florida would require companies that cover gender transition to also cover de-transition

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:50:43 GMT

The Blaze Reports: A bill proposed in Florida would require employers that provide coverage for gender transition measures to also provide coverage for de-transition-related services as well.

The "Reverse Woke Act" stipulates that employers that offer gender-transition coverage would be on the hook for covering the de-transition process even if the person who wishes to de-transition is no longer a current employee at the company.

"An employer that covers the cost, directly or through benefits, of gender dysphoria treatment for employees must also cover the total costs associated with treatment that reverses the gender dysphoria treatment, regardless of the rate of coverage provided for the initial treatment," the text of the proposal states.

"An employee who received gender dysphoria treatment through coverage provided by an employer is entitled to full coverage by that employer of the total costs associated with treatment that reverses gender dysphoria treatment if the employee later determines that the gender dysphoria treatment was not appropriate for him or her and wants to reverse the treatment, regardless of whether the person is currently employed by that same employer at the time of such determination," the measure reads.

Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Landmark Big Tech Section 230 Case

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 03:11:50 GMT

Breitbart Reports: The Supreme Court heard arguments today in the first case challenging critical protections for tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to be argued before the high court.

The case hinges on the bounds of Section 230’s liability protection. Under the statute, platforms are currently not held liable for any of the vast quantities of third party content that they channel to users. The petitioners, the family of a 23-year-old woman killed by ISIS, say that Google is partly responsible due to the presence of ISIS videos on YouTube.

The petitioners argument rests on the contention that certain types of content, such as YouTube videos in which the Google-owned platform has generated thumbnails to assist in their promotion, are not protected by the liability shield, as the platform has a hand in promoting the content. In two hours of oral arguments, the Supreme Court justices weighed the question.

Bing's chatbot is really scary

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:32:59 GMT

Hot Air Reports: SChatGPT is woke, but Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot is downright scary.

And it’s already out in the wild, connected to the internet.

It’s tried to seduce one person. It got very angry at another. It’s acted suicidal. And it argues with people like the crazed Twitter user having a breakdown.

Jazz wrote about some of the problems the other day , and a piece in the Associated Press I just read made me both laugh and get chills . It was much harsher to the reporter than I ever would be, and that is saying something.

The reporter for the Associated Press got an eyeful during a multi-hour conversation with the bot. Since it is connected to the Internet, unlike ChatGPT, it knows what is being said about it and, needless to say, it is not at all happy about the criticism it has gotten. It is sort of a silicon stalker, ready for an appearance in a dystopian end-of-the-world movie.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY GOES WOKE: “Sensitivity Gurus” Making HUGE CHANGES To Roald Dahl’s Classic Children’s Books To Appease The Cancel Culture Mob

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 05:07:42 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: So-called “sensitivity gurus” hired by UK-based publisher Puffin hired are scrubbing legendary author Roald Dahl’s children’s books for new editions in order to avoid offending snowflake liberals. The changes are so drastic, few readers will recognize them from the original works.

Dahl’s famous works include Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Big James and The Giant Peach, Matilda, and The BFG.

The Oompa Lloompas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for example, are now “gender neutral.” The word “fat” has also disappeared from the books’ lexicon to appease “body positivity” campaigners.

The new editions will no longer refer to characters as female. The Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach are now “cloud-people.”

These are just a small sampling of the hundreds of changes made to Dahl’s books.

EATING CROW: WashPost Columnist Admits Musk ‘Broke Nothing’ by Axing Old Regime at Twitter

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:00:57 GMT

Newsbusters Reports: It appears the liberal media doomsaying over how Twitter owner Elon Musk was supposedly going to make the company implode by cutting the old regime’s censorship-obsessed workforce in half was nothing but noise. And even a Washington Post columnist had to eat crow.

Post columnist Megan McArdle was blunt in her Feb. 19 op-ed : “How Elon Musk fired Twitter staff and broke nothing.” She admitted right off the bat that she was “incredulous” when “Musk said he was going to cut up to 75 percent of Twitter’s workforce last year.”

McArdle noted that she initially viewed Musk’s workforce overhaul as “over the top,” “so obviously irrational” and she pointed to an October 2022 column where she lambasted Musk’s method as nonsensical.

“Layoffs of that magnitude mean critical operations running at half strength,” she said at the time. But now, in retrospect, it seems McArdle has had a change in perspective. “[S]ure, in the end he only laid off half the staff, but … half the staff! Yet the site is still running,” she said.

McArdle said that Twitter’s ability to keep chugging along despite Musk gutting its workforce raises questions about how many of the cut positions were even necessary to begin with.

Pennsylvania English Teacher Says His Sex Ed Course is Designed to 'Desensitize Children' to Sexual Imagery and Genitalia

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:11:58 GMT

Red State Reports: A private school in Pennsylvania is employing a “sexuality curriculum” that includes graphic images and video of genitals and sexual acts.

Teacher Al Vernacchio is an English teacher at Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, PA. He also coordinates programs and assemblies centered on sexuality. The content goes far beyond the biological aspects of sexual education. Vernacchio says children are inherently sexual beings and he thinks sex education classes should be “transformative.”

In an article for Philadelphia Magazine in 2018, Vernacchio told a reporter he fears easy access to pornography has perverted views of sex for many teens. His solution not to restrict pornography, but rather to show them “better” pornographic images and discuss sex acts and pleasure in attempt to combat the “negative” images of traditional pornography. The article follows the high school English teacher during a ninth-grade sex Ed class, in which he hosts a graphic discussion.

BREAKING: James O’Keefe OUT at Project Veritas

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:02:08 GMT

The Gateway Pundit Reports: Project Veritas’ Executive Director Daniel Strack last Wednesday released a statement on James O’Keefe’s status with the organization. Last Wednesday New York Magazine reported that James O’Keefe was placed on paid leave from Project Veritas and will be taking a few weeks of “well-deserved PTO.”

“Through a Project Veritas spokesman, Strack later released a statement on behalf of the organization. “Like all newsrooms at this stage, the Project Veritas Board of Directors and Management are constantly evaluating what the best path forward is for the organization,” the statement read in part.” New York Mag reported last week.

Project Veritas donors last week sent a cease and desist letter to the Board accusing them of stepping afoul.

The donors demanded James O’Keefe be reinstated as as CEO of the organization.

Daniel Strack released an update after public outrage over what appeared to be an attempt to oust James O’Keefe from the organization he founded.

NOT AGAIN! Large white balloon has been spotted by pilots over Hawaii

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 04:28:39 GMT

End Times Headlines Reports: Reports are flooding in that a large white balloon has been seen by pilots over Honolulu in Hawaii. It comes just days after US officials claimed that a previously downed Chinese “spy” balloon that was targeting the state of Hawaii was blown off course.

Now, reports are flooding in on social media claiming that pilots have seen what is being described as a “large white balloon” approximately 40,000 feet over Honolulu, like this tweet.

“Is this China or is the US Air Force about to accidentally shoot down another weather balloon?” another tweet asked. These reports have not yet been confirmed by Air Traffic Control or other US officials. The object was said to have been seen by several pilots.

An image circulating online shows what appears to be a pilot in the cockpit holding a note. This note reads: “Report of a large white balloon in vicinity of 2639N15021W. Estimated to be between FL400 and FL500.

Radical left turns on woke New York Times

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 08:11:34 GMT

New York Post Reports: Under attack by transgender radicals from inside and outside the paper, top editors of The New York Times face a problem so difficult, I feel sorry for them. Well, almost.

The hesitation is warranted because the editors have only themselves to blame. After abandoning standards of fairness to push a crazy woke agenda, they are suddenly discovering that appeasing the far left is impossible.

The crash course in common sense comes with the lesson that the more you give the radicals, the more they want. And they don’t ask, they demand and make threats.

How did the Gray Lady not see this coming?

The pot boiled over last week when thousands of activists, celebrities and supporters, who include some staff writers and occasional contributors, blasted the paper’s coverage. They claimed in a letter there is a pattern of “editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people.”

The Greens Aren’t Just Coming for Your Gas-Powered Car—They’re Coming for All Cars

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 05:16:21 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Late last month, Joe Biden was mocked for posting a photo of himself in an electric vehicle (a GMC Hummer) that costs $110,000 and up. And for touting a $7,500 federal tax credit that doesn’t apply to vehicles that cost over $80,000. In other words, the 46th president was ripped for confirming the stereotype that electric cars are a vanity passion for rich green liberals.

But what was less noticed, at least by the right, was that left-wing greens didn’t like Biden’s photo-op, either. You see, Middle Class Joe insists that he wants to replace internal-combustion vehicles with electric vehicles (EV), but the hardcore greens–including those within his own administration–want to get rid of cars, period.

At certain times, as when he is trying to appeal to the far left during his campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Biden has said that he wants to get “millions of vehicles off the road.” But that was then: Now Biden, eyeing his re-election campaign, wants to play the champion of Main Street, where they have cars, not the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Transgender Teacher with Giant Prosthetic Breasts Dresses as Man Outside School

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:00:01 GMT

SLAY Reports: The transgender teacher, who made headlines after images emerged of him wearing giant prosthetic breasts during class, dresses as a man outside of school, according to reports.

Parents have been outraged over Canadian teacher Kayla Lemieux being allowed to wear Z-cup prosthetics in front of students.

Lemieux claims to be transgender and has been given a free pass from the “woke” crowd to wear the grotesque costume while teaching children.

However, Lemieux’s neighbors say he’s rarely seen with the fake breasts and usually dresses in men’s clothing when he’s not at school.

The New York Post also obtained photos of the shop teacher without the controversial fetishistic fashion.

Hulu’s ‘1619 Project’: Slavery Reparations Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers at Least $14 Trillion

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 07:21:49 GMT

Breitbart Reports: Disney’s Hulu docuseries The 1619 Project has put a price tag on slavery reparations for black Americans. The final bill for U.S. taxpayers will come to about $14 trillion — and that, one “expert” says, is letting America off easy.

The alarming figure comes in the series’ sixth and final episode during a conversation between the New York Times ‘ Nikole Hannah-Jones and William Darity Jr., a Duke University professor and proponent of social “equity.”

According to a MRC Newsbusters report, Darity estimates that each individual should receive about $350,000 in reparations. Since there are 40 million black-American descendants of slavery out of a total of 45 million black people in the United States, the total bill would be approximately $14 trillion dollars.