“Been to Disney World, one too many times, have we, Captain Ron?” – Captain Ron
What’s the difference between an iPhone™ 14 and half an ounce of gold? Half an ounce of gold will still be worth $1000 next year.
Once upon a time, there was a small business. It was run by a man who wanted to make cartoons and money. The cartoons were, mainly, for children, but he branched out. He made wholesome entertainment for families for decades, had multiple television shows, and eventually made a theme park. He was an avowed Christian, and was an ardent anti-communist.
He was moral. He hated pornography. And then he died and was frozen into suspended animation so his reanimated body could conquer the Universe from beyond the grave.
After he was put to “rest”, Walt’s Company was acquired and began to put out R-rated movies, as well as taking very, very un-Christian stances on, well, almost everything.
I’m talking, of course, about Walt Disney. Were Walt unfrozen alive today, I think he’d be shocked at what his company had become. I’ve had a beef with Disney® (the company, not the frozen founder) since before 2000 when they pushed hard to own all of their intellectual property until the heat-death of the Universe.
I have a problem with that, since I think that’s essentially stealing from the public domain, but I won’t go into that right now. Beyond that, there’s the steering of the company into entertainment that Walt would certainly never have greenlit.
In space, no one can hear Walt scream.
Case in point, the latest film from Disney©, Strange World. It’s being hailed as an “alt-family eco-drama featuring an openly gay teen”. I’m out of the “raising pups” stage, but hearing that I knew it was going to be a flop. Why? About a million gays would go see it for the feelz, and the hardest of the hard-core Left who had forgotten to abort their babies. That provides a stunningly small audience.
It is going to lose, by some estimates, up to $150,000,000. The earlier Adventures of the Incredibly Gay Buzz Lightyear probably lost a similar amount.
$300,000,000 in losses between them. I know people that work a whole month and don’t make that kinda cash. So, the guy who was running the company got fired. And then they re-hired the person that initially green-lit the bombs in question, Bob Iger, who had only left the company a little over 11 months previously.
Iger gets rehired, and in the first town hall with employees, says that he’s going to stay the course and continue the LGBT programming that has cost Disney™ $50 million a month for the last six months. And it’s not like there’s no movie audience – Top Gun: Maverick made $1.5 BILLION while Disney© was losing piles of shareholder cash. Disney’s© market value in 2022 is pretty close to what it was 8 years ago – and that’s after billions in profits from Marvel™ flicks.
Hmmm. Why is Disney© so committed to making “entertainment” that people don’t want at a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars because Disney© doesn’t share the values of the parents of the kids the movies were made for? It’s like going to Drag Queen Story hour and asking, “Why do men in lingerie want to spend hours in close contact with children under the age of six?”
Well, certainly Apple© is different, right? I mean they have all the cool iPhones© and iPads® and iPods™ and no real new ideas since Steve Jobs died. Certainly, they’re focusing on making money?
It turns out, they are. Apple® is making a 30% cut off of everything bought through apps from their App Store©. That’s loan-shark level cash. But as soon as Elon Musk took over Twitter©? Well, I’ll let Elon describe it:
And not only that:
Either advertising on Twitter™ makes Apple© money and they’re voluntarily dumping a revenue source because of feelz, or advertising on Twitter® never made them money and they’re removing a woke subsidy.
I wonder which. And speaking of wondering, why the heck is Elon still using an iPhone©, as noted on his Tweet©?
Stonetoss has a comment on the whole situation:
I guess losing Steve Jobs and turning the company over to a committed Leftist like Tim Cook would make Apple® less than a fan of any thoughts other than Leftist thoughts. And Tim Cook is not at all afraid of Elon Musk – Apple is worth $2.3 trillion dollars, which is more than Elon has, even if he looks under the couch cushions.
Who is Tim Cook afraid of? I think the Bee® nails it:
If Xi turns off the iPhone© flow, Apple’s™ cash flow will fail – it’s that simple. I wonder if this would impact the way Apple™ deals with security on their phones? Nah. But Apple is still raking in the cash.
For now.
We’ve discussed Disney® and Apple™. But certainly a fashion company wants attractive people in their ads?
Well, Calvin Klein® has changed a lot in 30 years.
There are some people I don’t want to see in their Calvins®. No! Don’t take them off!
In the final analysis, some businesses make money just to make money. Others make money just to fund their own ideologies, and I’m certain that’s the case with corporation after corporation. I could go on, but will stop here so the post doesn’t get 2,000 pages long.
I think Walt had an ideology, back in the day, but it was one I agree with. I do hope that Walt is eventually unfrozen in a thousand years and comes back with a vengeance and finishes that last cartoon he was working on.
I guess that would be the world’s longest suspended animation.
Disney can keep making propaganda virtue signaling films that bomb because the same people that rail against those films will dutifully show up to pay for movies like the incredibly mediocre Top Gun: Maverick or whatever new superhero movie comes out. Lots of people that hate what Disney has become are subsidizing Disney getting worse.
And the same investors keep putting money into them . . . odds on Apple buys ’em.
In other “woke/broke” news, luxury fashion icon Vera Bradley’s company is another one losing money due to LGBTQ+ action. Instead of purchasing a VB suitcase like any true believer in capitalism would do, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the Department of Energy Sam Brinton (aka, and I am not making this up, Sister Ray Dee O’Active in a group of drag queen nuns) STOLE a VB suitcase off of an airport luggage carousel. He’s, er, they’re facing 5 years in $10K in fines on felony theft.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11479159/DOE-spent-fuel-chief-Sam-Brinton-charged-felony-theft-Minnesota.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11481793/Bidens-non-binary-nuclear-waste-guru-claims-accidentally-picked-2-325-bag-airport.html
Oh wait, silly me, who am I kidding. Sam won’t serve a single day.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html
When “they” say “they” want to be called “they”, I am struck with the question, just how many demons are in “them”?
Because he looks too fabulous! Or did I misgender him?
BRAVO..WATCH NOT WANT NOT
The consensus on the Right is Go Woke, Go Broke, which is to misunderstand the enemy.
Market forces are not going to save you. The people that funded Woke and Feminism the past seventy years are the people who own the financial institutions and decide Fed economic policy. You are not going to stress the bank by starving it one beest at a time; they are the bank, have been since they operated under cover of Templarism and the East India Company — where checking and modern banking was invented.
The networks and film companies are primarily propaganda-outlets, and only secondarily entertainment entities, and that has been the case almost since inception. It has long been accepted that the CIA (and to lesser extent, other federal agencies) have directed the networks and Hollywood all along. Military intel also plays a role.
Which is to say, Disney or some other major player failing financially is a psychological, but not material, victory. Disney flounders? It just re-hires the same gelded Woke Warrior they shelved a while ago, i.e., mockery in our faces. Not to mention the company teems with women (so, feminists) and homos.
What matters most to the devil is conditioning minds to his will, manufacturing ‘valid consent’ — not making money. That attitude filters down from the top.
Very, very well said, Ray. Can’t add anything to it.
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Poor old Walt. From the House That Mickey Built to The Groomiest Place On Earth in just a couple of generations. How soon before they come for the old man himself?
“Sure, everyone knows that Walt was secretly gay and lusted after ten year old boys in mouse ears. Big Brother says so.”
Since the victors write the history, it is quite clear who holds the upper hand at present. But that could change. One way or another, change it will.
True enough – any strong character in history, the Left is saying . . . “oh, yeah, he was secretly gay.”
Disney has been shite for a long time. I have been unwilling to give away
any older DVDs I had stored because subliminal messages make them
unsuitable. May the nasty perps rot in hell.
Agreed. I think they lost the plot in the 1970s. Devil mouse? I think so.
Two thoughts…
1. Epstein or “someone” (CIA? FBI?) has film or photos on the C-suite “woke”, hence their cultish submission to pedofaggia.
2. And Tim Cook? Can explain that in two words. Auburn Grad. No, three words. Gay Auburn Grad.
Tim Cook, G.A.G.
Yeah, that.
Have you seen the list of people who were Epstein’s visitors? A lot of big names there . . . .
Last time I went to anything Disney was 1968. Didn’t really impress me, I was riding dirt bikes by then. As for the Calvin Swine ad I’ll toss this in. I was going out with a young lady who was on the husky side. She took it well when she claim she couldn’t wear Vanderbilt jeans. She claims she wore Gloria Peterbilts.
Ha! That’s a great line! Yup, I imagine most readers aren’t impressed . . .
“I guess losing Steve Jobs and turning the company over to a committed gay Leftist like Tim Cook. fifty
“In the final analysis, some businesses make money just to make money. Others make money just to fund their own ideologies, and I’m certain that’s the case with corporation after corporation. I could go on, but will stop here so …” that I don’t have to mention the biggest corporation of them all … the USG.
FTFY. YW.
Well said.