Yes, things are getting weirder by the day. It’s not your imagination. There are those of us belonging to the Coalition Of The Sane, as Charlie Sykes puts it, and then there are those who chose the Red Pill and they’re going to follow Donald Trump all the way down the rabbit hole to oligarchy, beauracracy, impoverishment, and beyond. Why have they made this choice? Because say what you will about Trump, (and no matter how bad it is, the truth is always worse) he is a master propagandist. He understands television. He understands media. He knows how to get in front of a story and redirect the narrative. The Democrats didn’t and don’t and that’s why we’re here, my friends, looking at Trump 2.0.
The latest conflagration to hit fire weary Southern California is the announcement of Trump’s “Ambassadors” who will “Make Hollywood Great Again.” Now Trump has hit the big time, his fondest wish come true. Initially Trump wanted to become a film producer. His father stonewalled that idea and demanded Donald enter the family business. But Donald found his way to show business, his first and best love, and created his persona on reality TV and now we live in a reality TV show. We have no leadership in D.C., we have a reality TV show about leadership. This is a bastardization of democracy that the Founding Fathers never foresaw but the writers of Idiocracy did.
Kevin Sorbo will be crying he was left out.
— Hoover (@Hoover5454) January 16, 2025
I would like to see some stats on Hollywood losing business to foreign countries over the past four years. Hollywood lost a lot back in the day when Grey Davis, then the governor, stupidly refused to pass a tax credit to filmmakers working in the Golden State. That was one reason, among many, that Californians gave him the boot in a recall election and Arnold Schwarzegger took the helm.
I wonder what the line, “I will get done what they suggest,” means? Anybody? Take a look at Voight. His own children don’t talk to him. As to Sylvester Stallone, he’s been sued by the hired help for abuse and it was bouncing around Hollywood for years that his *servants* could not turn their back on him. They had to back out of a room when they left his august presence.
And then there’s Mel Gibson. What a guy. Just listen to this viral YouTube tape that’s been out for years now. This is who the new Ambassador To Hollywood is.
Isn’t that charming? Are you warmed up to 180 proof misogyny right now? If you are, you’ll love this.
Man. Whew. This is straight, unfiltered misogyny. Haven’t had a whiff of that in a while, I forgot how overpowering and toxic it is. I’ve been fighting this my entire life, along with other women of intelligence. The fact that men like this are still out in the world openly saying things like this means that some strides have been made but not many.
Welcome to the White Male Supremacy show, boys and girls, children of all ages. Take a look at who are the members of Trump’s cabinet and who are his *ambassadors* to Hollywood and all the rest of them. And most of all, take a look at who shows up to the Inauguration.
But let’s pat ourselves on the back. Half the country wanted to go another way. Half the country was happy to elect a self-made Black woman to our highest office. That’s something to be proud of. And 12 more votes per precinct would have had us there. We didn’t grab the brass ring but damn, we came close.
But because close doesn’t count, this is the misfit show that we’re stuck with.
Gibson, Voight, and Stallone have all become vocal Trump supporters in recent years. In an interview with TMZ ahead of the election, Gibson—a onetime Hollywood pariah, thanks to his antisemitic and misogynistic comments, who bounced back with a best-director Oscar nomination for 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge—said that he believed Vice President Kamala Harris had “the IQ of a fence post” and “a miserable track record,” and implied that he would vote for Trump. Voight, who is also Angelina Jolie’s estranged father, has been beating the Trump drum since 2016; in October, he tweeted that “we’re now in a time of the darkest plague ever” and maintained that Trump was “the only one who will save our country.”
Stallone, meanwhile, hid his support for Trump until after the election, then introduced the president-elect at a gala—calling him the “second George Washington” and adding, “Nobody in the world could’ve pulled off what he pulled off.”
As of right now, nobody believes this particular klown kar of kakistocracy is going to go much of anyplace in Hollywood. This is Trump playing big shot with celebrities. He loves the adulation of celebrities. He’s as happy as a pig in mud right now.
Enjoy yourself, Donald. On Monday, shit gets real. And we’ve seen this show before so the “give him a chance” “let him learn on the job” routine isn’t going to fly this time.
And this asshole led Scotland to freedom? I don’t think so. Maybe getting rich play acting just allows little boys and girls to live in privileged bubbles, never requiring them to grow the phuck up. I just kept asking myself…why stay on the phone with this rageaholic? Money? Co-parenting? Fame?
Of course, this rich white man’s system,(and don’t ignore the word ‘rich’), damages us all. Just don’t fall into a trap of thinking women aren’t capable of despicable acts. I know from personal experience evil is not gender specific. That being said, as soon as he started screaming, she should have responded who is this? Sorry wrong number. Click. She tolerated way too much abuse. I don’t follow celebrities…I assume they split, hopefully in better shape than my old man…shot with his own gun wielded by the woman who loved him. Some rageaholics never learn. Hollywood has bigger problems now…the ultra rich found out the planet could care less about fame, fortune, etc. Neither does the grave. He’ll fit right in with the child murders we’ve given power so they can pick up right where they left off. Rage on Mel…you’re in the right click now…the nazis.
Braveheart was an entertaining movie. Quite the spectacle at times but historically way the hell off. But that’s Hollywood. Take what’s a good actual story and change everything because some director wants to tell the audience “how it SHOULD have happened”, or if adapting a work of fiction “What the writer of the original story REALLY meant” or some other such bullshit. When you see “Based on a true/actual story” on the screen at the beginning of a film take it GIGANTIC block of salt. Like one of those salt-lick blocks I’d put out for the horses on the farm up in WV.
Yeah…I seriously doubt the queen would have been seduced by this raging control freak. Of course the director reminded him to act sweet and noble. I guess they cut the scenes where he showed his true self. That’s why I read pulitzer winning books…movies are just make believe…except 78 million morons can’t tell the difference…until ACA is cut, medicaid is cut, retirement age is raised to 75, food stamps gone, SNAP gone, everything imported goes up, the floods, fires and catastrophes keep getting worse as he gives the green light to oil and gas, people are shot for protesting, etc., and like myself in an earlier life…people get railroaded into jail without justification. Good times all around. At least I’m trained for Hell. I wonder what everyone else will do? Movies don’t hold a candle compared to reality.
Maybe you missed it but the rageaholic threatened “to come over there,” if she dared to hang up on him. And apparently he had physically assaulted her before because she talked about him breaking her teeth and hitting her when she was holding a child. I imagine she was terrified of him.
I did miss that…growing up with a Dr Jekyll/ Mr. Hyde…who raged out of control when drunk, and put my mom in the hospital several times, and assaulted all of us, I cut out after a few minutes. I had decades of experiencing violence and screaming rages, so I understand. Later, I realized, after my old man, dead at 51 from complications from my mom having to shoot him in self defense, being a war veteran, PTSD may have been a factor. Doesn’t matter. Violence should never be tolerated unless it’s self defense. My Baptist mom called herself the merry widow after he died. She, unfortunately did love him, and when sober he was a different person. It seemed simple to me as a child for us to run, but, now grown old myself, I realize it’s complicated. As is everything.