These are complex social issues where we absolutely, positively want to represent the needs and the expectations of our cast members, but we also realize that sometimes in such a divided world, there’s not alignment between what possibly large constituencies of our guest and consumer base are looking for in terms of the kind of content that they want to show their kids at this particular time.
"What we try to do is be everything to everybody. That tends to be very difficult because we’re the Walt Disney Company," he continued, suggesting that the "essence" of the brand was misused in the company’s battle against parental rights.
"When you’re a lightning rod for clicks and for political podium speeches, the essence of our brand can be misappropriated or misused to try to fit the needs of any one particular group’s agenda. We want to rise above that," the CEO said.
"We also realize that we want to represent a brighter tomorrow for families of all types, regardless of how they define themselves," he added, attempting to walk the line. Kamala Harris couldn't have mumbled it better.
An April poll from The Federalist/Susquehanna found that most likely voters support laws such as Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law. Perhaps what is more, another survey found that Democrat primary voters in the Sunshine State support the legislation as well.
DeSantis challenger Rep. Charlie Crist ...the politically androgynous former governor of Florida... (D-FL), however, evidently stands with Disney, as he described the bill’s final approval as a"grim day." Notably, he has earned an endorsement from the radical organization Equality Florida, which warned of the "chilling" effects of the legislation, highlighting the removal of rainbow safe space stickers from classroom windows.
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Fuck Disney. Zero sympathy. Walt Disney was a raging anti-Semite, and he's responsible for our copyright laws never ending. Mickey Mouse was created in 1930, if copyright moved, then Disney would lose its mascot. They have the money to hurt the rest of us to ensure their profits, and that's exactly what they've done.
#12
Playing both sides of the Woke agenda always ends in business failure. Both the pedos on the woke side and the Christians on the conservative side will boycott. I for one am done with anything Disney, which is sad as I have a lot of very fond memories there from when I was a child.
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I'll bet they'll ruin even that.
California managed to ruin the legal weed business. Do not misunderestimate their ability to make a mess of things.
Having alienated half the population via pervy stuff, Disney will now proceed to piss off the pervy folks with their walk back. Anger and outrage for all!
#14
They have done pretty bad stuff, but if the do a grommerized Apple Dumpling Gang reboot, the gloves are coming off.
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I can see it now: Groomer and Wallace.
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Here's a radical idea. Focus on entertaining people and avoid politics. Fire all of the "woke" managers and produce programs that people will want to watch.
The people pushing the woke agenda don't watch Disney which is why they want to ruin the product.
#17
I know Wallace and Gromit are a long ways from The Wrong Trousers, but I hope not GROQMER+ far away. Not that BBC is full of angels. Then again, how many tips and stories and leads were squished by BBC to protect the local sex slave child trade? "Local Story, not our trade" I'm sure.
#21
I always hear swine such as Liz Warren and most other Dems talking about people/entities paying their "fair share" of taxes, but I never heard any Dem complain about Disney's tax-free status in Florida. Funny how that happens.
#22
Lines and lines of coke,
go into making Whitey woke.
And Marketing, those shits!
They'd be selling tats for tits,
if it weren't for the occasional toke.
#25
What we try to do is be everything to everybody.
In other words, having long since abandoned old Walt's vision, Disney Corporation has no moral values of their own so they try to please Xi Jinping and the perverts as well as the traditional families...and then they wonder why everybody is pissed off at them.
Remember the words of Ricky Nelson when he had trouble transitioning from 1950's teen heart throb to late 1960's/early 1970's rock and roll...
Well, it's alright now
I've learned my lesson well
You know you can't please everyone
So you have to please yourself.
But I guess even that is difficult when the only thing that really pleases you is your stock price.
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If they really cared about their stock price, they would not be wading in the filthy pond they have chosen to enter.
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So your theory is that Xi Jinping uses Disney to promote sex change operations for American children in complete disregard for stock market consequences? I sometimes wonder about that myself.
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But then I have to put on my tin foil hat.
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^ Shiny side out, please. Otherwise, you are just concentrating the rays.
#30
My theory is all of Screwtape's cousins and uncles and nephews have been unleashed and according to their own hierarchy some get the cops, some the cabbies and some the CEOs.
Nobody gets the politicians of course. Professional courtesy.
[FoxNews] Asheville, North Carolina, the hub of Antifa in the area, has seen a 31% surge in violent crime within five years.
Multiple local law enforcement sources who spoke to Fox News Digital laid partial blame for the deteriorating condition of a North Carolina tourist town on the city's liberal political leadership and on left-wing activists who undermine police.
"I think what you're seeing in Asheville right now is a culmination of the last several years of pulling police back and not letting them do their jobs like they're able to do," former Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.
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#2
Asheholes deserve to get what they voted for. Good and hard.
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Asheholes deserve to get what they voted for.
This is literally what Antifa wants. Their whole thing is the destruction of capitalist society. You're letting them win. Without even fighting. Good job there.
#4
...Asheville is an unusually good example of political schizophrenia - the business community there has been fighting the homeless/activist problem there for years....BUT THEY KEEP VOTING THESE LUNATICS BACK IN.
It's a shame - Asheville was a pretty nice place, but it's based on tourism. That goes away, so do all the goodies.
And I've said this before and I'll say it again - most people think that NC is RDU, Charlotte, and Asheville...and it ain't. Outside of those city limits, it's as red a state as you can find.
#5
the business community there has been fighting the homeless/activist problem
Isn't NC the hub of illegal immigration on the east coast? Why so many arrest reports of immigrants child rape originate from NC. The business community is the attractor and source of sustenance for illegal immigration.
#6
Now see, we have issues like this in Houston, but what the lamestream press doesn't like to say is even in deep blue houston, criminals get shot by citizens on a weekly basis and they don't prosecute the citizens because they KNOW what will happen.
During the stupidity riots in '20, the city of Houston police stomped on the protests hard because if they had left the center of town, it'd of been a blood bath. They were desperately afraid of them going out into places with normal citizens who in Texas WILL defend their homes, businesses etc with immediate and overwhelming violence.
#10
The Biltmore was stunning, the town in 2012 was nice, felt like a college town, but the bifurcation wasn't town and gown, but rather bike lanes and Stella Artois vs F-150's and Bud.
#8
It says more bad things about the voters than it does about him.
I'm stunned and disgusted that Democrats can run literal mental vegetables for high office and have just enough real voters on their side to get within the margin of fraud and 'win' those elections. It's just another example that they don't give a flying fuck about anything except power.
#9
It's just another example that they don't give a flying fuck about anything except power.
It's also an example of how dem voters will vote for anyone (or anything), no matter how bad in any way, or multiple ways, as long as they / it say "free stuff" and other code words voters on the left are Pavlovian conditioned to respond to.
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#1
Biden was able to threaten to cancel loan guarantees to Ukraine if they didn't stop the corruption investigation because he knew if the Ukrainians called his bluff and called Obama that Obama would back him up. Because Obama was part of the whole thing.
I'm pretty sure The Big Guy gave a bit of his cut to Obama.
#5
^ In the founders' era, nobody could conceive of the idea of wanting to be a full-time public servant, let alone a politician. Even postmasters in the early years of the Republic were men of substance who took on the task as a sideline.
Franklin actually said public service should not pay at all: At the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin stated his belief that public servants should not be paid a salary, for in paying the civil service, our government would not be made of "the wise and the moderate ... the men fittest for the trust" but instead by "the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions ... in their selfish pursuits."
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Howie Carr (king of New England talk radio) said something a few years ago that made perfect sense - Washington started going to shit right around the time modern air travel came to the fore. Makes it easier to hold national office, get some great stock tips and a pension to boot, doesn't it?
#10
@#4 & #5 - For sure. Those guys in the late 1700's had real jobs and had to travel a long way to get to and from DC. The president part makes sense as they didn't want a "king", but these old bags and geezers now in DC, it's just in-your-face pathetic.
[Independent] Mike Lindell, the pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorist, said Tuesday that the FBI has seized his cell phone.
Mr Lindell, the Minnesota-born CEO of My Pillow and a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump who has spent years trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, said that his cell phone was seized in Minnesota.
Earlier, the chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee wants the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) to determine whether any more records that should have been given to the archives at the end of former president Donald Trump’s term remain missing.
In a letter to Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Wall, Representative Carolyn Maloney raised the possibility that Mr Trump is continuing to harbour stolen government records at properties other than the Florida beach club where he maintains his private residence.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has subpoenaed dozens of current and former Trump aides as part of its investigation into the storming of the Capitol, with some even having their phones seized.
The department has also said it is willing to accept one of the Trump team’s candidates to serve as a "special master" who will review the records seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.
Federal prosecutors submitted a legal filing on Monday evening signing off on the suggestion of Raymond Dearie, a 78-year-old former US District Court judge appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986.
#2
How exactly do you try to 'overturn the result of an election'? I'm pretty sure tweeting a little or ranting from a rattan chair about the state of affairs is not enough.
The moslems inspiring jihad from mosques and 'islamic centers' do much more than that.
#5
If they're "stolen", when will we see action against Obama for the literal millions of pages of documents he took that should be in the National Archives?
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[FrontPahe] On August 8, for the first time in U.S. history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the residence of a former president, Donald J. Trump. That home invasion invites another first for America: a sudden and thorough search of FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... headquarters, with bureau bosses and their lawyers barred from the premises and from contact with anyone inside.
Under these conditions, a crack team of independent Sherlocks, deploying the latest forensic and high-tech tools, could be turned loose on all FBI files and records. The first thing this team might uncover is recent FBI action in a high-profile whistleblower case. Back on February 21, 2020, Philip Haney, author of See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad was "found deceased" in Amador County, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, killed by a gunshot to the chest. Despite rumors, Haney’s death was not a suicide.
The Amador sheriff, "reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist in analyzing documents, phone records, numerous thumb drives and a lap top that were recovered from the scene and Mr. Haney’s RV. Those items and numerous other pieces of evidence, were turned over to the FBI. The FBI has performed a forensic examination of these items. We expect to receive these reports within the next few weeks." More than two years later, there is no news on Haney’s thumb drives, documents and laptop in FBI custody.
With the evasive Christopher Wray removed from the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, independent Sherlocks could retrieve this material and possibly develop leads in the Haney homicide case. Somebody had motive, means, and opportunity. As Rod Steiger said in In the Heat of the Night, "we have the body, which is dead." If Sherlocks establish that the FBI destroyed or altered evidence, that would make for an obstruction of justice case against those responsible, and any FBI bosses who signed off on it.
#7
The contract the FBI paid Jack Ruby to silence Oswald before he spilled the beans. Also Janet Reno’s sight photos of the. Burned corpses at Waco, a receipt for the bonus paid to Lon Horiuchi, a backup copy of Hillary’s email server in case they need it, and the secret agreement between Wray and Soros to turn a blind eye to BLM.
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And Martin's unprocessed rape kits! [not a nazi, just clownin']
[IsraelTimes] Darren Bailey addresses the Paleostinian American Club in Bridgeview with a map of Paleostine and a Paleostinian flag hanging behind him
The Republican candidate for governor in Illinois met recently with representatives of a local Paleostinian community and indicated that he opposes legislation passed in the state that targets those who engage in boycotts of Israel.
Darren Bailey was hosted at the Paleostinian American Club in Bridgeview, Illinois, and spoke in an auditorium where a map of Paleostine and a Paleostinian flag hung behind him.
The US-based antisemitism monitoring organization Stop Antisemitism noted in a tweet that the map appearing behind Bailey "erased Israel, depicted the entire region as ’Paleostine’ & restored Golan Heights to Syria," adding that "Bailey also compared the Holocaust to child sacrifice abortion."
In a short recording obtained by The Times of Israel, Bailey was asked for his opinion on the controversial legislation, which has been passed in dozens of states across the US. He appeared to be unfamiliar with it and avoided providing an answer.
Supporters of anti-BDS legislation say it targets those who unfairly single out Israel for boycott while opponents argue that it stifles Americans’ right to free speech.
Pressed again for his opinion on the matter during a subsequent interview with Paleostine TV, Bailey said, "I’ll always stand [for] the Constitution and it sounds like some of those values are being stepped on right now.
"That’s what’s taking place in every aspect of government with this governor of ours," he continued, referring to Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker. "He doesn’t follow the law, he doesn’t follow the Constitution... The Moslem community, the Arab community will always have a seat with me as we learn together, work together and live together."
Pritzker does not appear to have taken a public stance on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment clarifying his position on the matter.
In this July 29, 2018, photo, Illinois Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker talks with supporters in Geneva, Ill. New Illinois campaign reports show that Pritzker has pumped $146.5 million of his own money into his bid to unseat Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford) However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... recent decisions relating to the BDS movement in Illinois have leaned in Israel’s favor.
In June, multibillion-dollar investment research firm Morningstar said it was backing down from selling a human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... research product developed by one of its subsidiaries that the Illinois Investment Policy Board (IIPB) found to be biased against Israel. The IIPB had notified Morningstar of its intentions to place it on its blacklist if it went through with the deal, which would have barred state-run pension systems from investing in the company.
Morningstar eventually terminated the potential sale, saying an internal review had found "exhibited bias" against Israel and conceded that the company had been "overly dismissive" of concerns raised by IIPB and Jewish groups on the matter.
In December, Illinois authorities voted to divest state pension funds from Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, which announced earlier in 2021 that it would cease selling its products in the West Bank.
[Townhall] It may seem like ages ago, but only ten days have passed since President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan... decided to use Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to declare war on half the country. Mr. Unity is dead—never having any chance to bring together a nation with an agenda that only favors the ’woke,’ educated, and wealthy. In other words, people who live on the coasts and in cities. The other side is that he could never articulate his intentions since he’s dementia ridden. When Biden can enunciate with the help of drugs, it consistently demonizes people who didn’t vote for him. That reached a boiling point with this September 3 address. I thought it had a throwback feeling to a Nuremberg rally c. 1938. Former Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi said it reminded him of a Rammstein concert.
Taibbi focused on a critical portion of the address, where Biden spoke about how MAGA Republicans threaten the republic and what he plans to do. Will there be consequences for merely voting differently than the Democratic Party because it sure seems that way with a second reading of the address? Taibbi used this speech to blame both parties for going off the rails regarding threat assessment. Some it is well-founded, while other aspects you might find disagreeable. The former Rolling Stone writer said that Trump’s 2016 speech was pervasively negative and "a pure horror movie" when the then-Republican nominee spoke of lawlessness and disorder in America. Fast-forward to the summer of 2020, and Trump was right—thanks to Democrats’ penchant for soft-on-crime policies.
Yet, Taibbi decided the blame was a bipartisan issue. Biden’s speech, in Taibbi’s opinion, is a continuation of a failed American foreign policy effort that the Delaware liberal stupidly turned into a domestic action item. The liberal writer refers to George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address, where he outlined the global war on terror, aptly known as the ’long war’ at the Pentagon, and divided the world into two camps, pro-freedom and pro-terrorist. This speech was also the unveiling of America’s crusade against the "axis of evil," which became the fuel from which the fire of endless wars could be started. Evil must be rooted out everywhere, and American troops will do the heavy lifting while exporting liberal democratic principles into these regions to ensure no such pernicious forces can thrive again.
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Bush's comments make more sense when you realize the real goal was globalism. He was dividing the world into "under the control of globalists/banks" and "not under our control - yet".
Taibbi is based, but jeez you can't count on every commentator for everything. Just take what he says was good and disregard the rest. Even Jordan Peterson has some really dumb takes. That doesn't invalidate his message of hope and discipline to young men.
[HotAir] Earlier this year, both Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were trumpeting their victory in getting the Democrats’ massive climate and tax hike bill passed into law. They were desperate for some sort of "win" to point to heading into the midterms and the opportunity to stop the collapse of Joe Biden’s approval numbers. But that deal came with a price tag. They had to agree to approve Joe Manchin’s bill allowing more oil and gas drilling permits as well as approval of a pipeline he wants, running from West Virginia to Virginia. That is supposed to happen as part of the "must-pass" stopgap spending bill scheduled for a vote this month. But now a revolt has broken out in the House, with an Arizona Democrat submitting a letter saying that Manchin’s bill needs to be dropped. And he’s gotten more than 70 House Democrats to sign onto his plan. This is going to leave both Pelosi and Schumer in a very precarious position. He screwed up. He trusted them.
The deeper implication of such a turn of events will likely be the total inability of any deals to be struck in the future. The Democrats got their climate and tax bill, but only with the understanding that Manchin’s bill would go through. If they renege on that promise now, why would anyone in the GOP ever believe either Schumer or Pelosi again in the future? Their promises won’t be worth the paper they’re not printed on. Why would anyone trust Schumer or Pelosi ever?
Perhaps the biggest loser in all of this will be Joe Manchin himself. He was being humorously referred to as "President Manchin" for quite a while, holding the position of deal-maker or breaker in the upper chamber. He gained the support of many of his Republican colleagues for putting the brakes on many of the Democrats’ worst impulses. At the same time, Democrats were afraid to offend him for fear of losing his vote on the next divisive issue to come down the pike.
But the aftermath of this debacle may leave Joe Manchin as a man without a country in Washington. The GOP is angry at him for caving and allowing the climate bill to pass. And now his own party is in open revolt against him both for siding with the Republicans and pushing a bill that they see as damaging to their climate agenda. The icing on the cake would be if Manchin has to drag himself back to West Virginia without the pipeline he promised his constituents and nothing to show for the huge gift he gave to the liberals. Joe Manchin is looking awfully lonely on his island at the moment, and if it leads to a government shutdown, many will be pointing the finger at him over that as well. Manchin's credibility is gone. Schumer and Pelosi have finally neutralized him. Now they have to find a way to nuetralize Senema.
Sure, but their ability to deliver on promises is shown to be hollow as well, so who would bother to negotiate with them going forward?
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Schumer and Pelosi are operating as if they will be powerless come this November. If they do stay in power in November then it is a win/win for them. And by the way I would not be surprised if McConnell gave Schumer the idea of screwing America while f’ing Manchin.
#2
Is it more likely that Manchin has principles and got hoodwinked by Schumer, or that he has no principles and hoodwinked his constituents?
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Unless Manchin wants to play Samson at the Temple to bring it down on the Delilahs’ heads, he is of no consequence any longer in DC. It would be funny to see him declare that he will no longer caucus with the Dems and pop goes the Biden Bubble
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This is the predictable theater following the deal. These are politicians, keeping your promise and honoring your word are alien concepts, means as tools to manipulate the useful idiots and low-information undecided in their constituency. Deeds, not words, matter. Manchin will bluster and obfuscate, even cross party lines on unimportant things. But he showed his profession when he made himself essential to what Schumer/Pelosi/Bidet wanted.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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It may seem like ages ago, but only ten days have passed since President 
