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2019-11-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by lord garth 2019-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Woody was fun, the rest... Meh. Maybe Kamala

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-25 12:11|| 2019-11-25 12:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Woody has been surprising me as an actor lately. Dramatically in the 1st season of True Detective and comedically in A Scanner Darkly, to name two.

The interesting data point here is that SNL is making fun of Democrats.

Posted by SteveS 2019-11-25 12:19|| 2019-11-25 12:19|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ The SNL hipsters have come to the conclusion that the Dem candidates are all liars, whores and poltroons. The Dems are losing the SNL writer crowd.

How did they get there? Prob'y a combination of the spectacularly repulsive, indefensible Shitshow that is Hoover Burisma Biden, and the equally repulsive Shitshow that is Schoff's Star Chamber-- which was, to an SNL writer, unforgivable for being not just a waste but mind-numbingky BORING.

The next phase is Acceptance, of Trump's impending re-election.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 13:03|| 2019-11-25 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 I have noticed the SNL are getting a bit more my taste recently. Here's a Jussie Smolette one.

Network Meeting

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-25 13:06|| 2019-11-25 13:06|| Front Page Top

#5 A satirist cannot long put up with virtue-signaling assholes, no matter how much his personal political views may align with those of the virtue vultures. They're BORING. That's professional suicide for a satirist.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 13:11|| 2019-11-25 13:11|| Front Page Top

#6 The other weird thing about recent Democratic presidential candidates is how ludicrously self-important they are.

They truly believe they've been called forth to Save the Republic -- even though not one of them has ever accomplished anything meaningful in their 200+ collective years of public life. The oldest of them, Bernie Trotsky, has literally achieved NOTHING in over 50 years of public office.

Their humorlessness increases in direct proportion to their fecklessness. The only q is how the SNL writers ever thought these clowns were not worthy of scorn.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 13:18|| 2019-11-25 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Not just self-important but self-perfect. Which comes across as false/inhuman/uncanny/immodest.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-25 13:28|| 2019-11-25 13:28|| Front Page Top

#8 The only q is how the SNL writers ever thought these clowns were not worthy of scorn

My guess is, a big part of the performance arts, sports, entertainment industry is hostage to some virtue signalling producers who are wolves in tuxedos, friends of the Clintons. Also, most heads of creative depts must be hippie marxists. And faux-altruistic poseurs seeking the next Golden Lion for their saga of quiet rebellion by black women against slave owners in a bygone era.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-25 13:47|| 2019-11-25 13:47|| Front Page Top

#9 True. Most of the entertainment industry, like the finance industry and the tech sector and so many others now, is essentially a small oligopoly consisting of mammoth corporations: Disney, Comcast, AT&T, "National Amusements."

Think about the parent companies' executive leadership: these are TV salesmen, cable entrepreneurs, financial engineers, or even (in AT&T's case) network engineers.

Does any of these money-grubbing ROI hawks know anything about drama or comedy? About anything remotely creative?

No wonder our media & entertainment culture produces so much conformist, unfunny, boring, trite, redundant and derivative shite.

It's an industry seeking to optimize production and revenue, no less than the specialty chemicals or industrial lubricants industries.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 14:34|| 2019-11-25 14:34|| Front Page Top

#10 (possible exception to the above: Disney's leadership isn't devoid of creative knowledge. The little girls seem to greatly enjoy the 'Frozen' money-spinner franchise.)

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 14:37|| 2019-11-25 14:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe most actors themselves hate the liberal creed, but to keep getting roles and invitations they have to play along. And this might be a factor in their battles with depression, rage, dysphoria, addictions...

I could never fathom healthy, male, white leads making way for ugly, rancid, 'diverse' trannies of their own sweet will. Or dissing Trump, whining about gun control and professing love for muslims and illegal mexicans. It's all because they want to stay employed by the studio bosses. Who knows who funds all these woke movies ? We know the Obamas have a stake in ni netflix now. How much of cartel money went into the making of the latest Terminator pie-fight, 50 percent of which is in spanish and shows ICE officers being mean to saviors of humanity.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-25 15:01|| 2019-11-25 15:01|| Front Page Top

#12 We know the Obamas have a stake in netflix now

= Repayment of a debt incurred by that company when their friends in Washington protected NFLX's rickety business model via the "net neutrality" scam. At $68 million for Zero's cut, that represents a bargain for the company.

Hedge fund managers describe investing in that profitless company as akin to "believing in Jesus."

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 15:59|| 2019-11-25 15:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Nothing against our Lord and Savior, mind you, but not exactly an investing tactic out of Dodd and Graham.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 16:00|| 2019-11-25 16:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Netflix is being seen as an effective tool by the left. It's reach and quick adaptation strategies to directives inserted periodically by the left must make it pretty valuable to some people. But once again, the downside of nurturing sycophancy by implied coercion, like Kim Jong is that you will see graphs pointing upwards even when you're tanking ! Good.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-25 16:08|| 2019-11-25 16:08|| Front Page Top

#15 investing tactic out of Dodd and Graham

Ahem. I musht mosht shtrenuoshly protesht thish inshinuation of Shenatorial impropriety!

Posted by Ghost of John McCain 2019-11-25 16:22|| 2019-11-25 16:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Were any of the Dems not attacked? Or mildy attacked? This could be liberal writers suggesting some folks should drop out to let others stand out.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-11-25 17:44|| 2019-11-25 17:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Buttfug. He seems to be emerging as the entertainment industry & tech oligarchs' favorite.

I have no idea what the hell they're smoking.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 18:08|| 2019-11-25 18:08|| Front Page Top

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