“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore
28 Replies to “Embrace Hollywood!”
all the lies that they can possibly produce. even their documentaries are works of fiction.
I love the article saying “if there is another economic downturn”. Just from my personal history, recessions occur every 8-10 years. It has been 10 years and counting since the last one in 2008. All of the Western world is in for a rude awakening – both personal and commercial as most of the world and its peoples are addicted to debt.
Of one thing you can be sure, the execs of these companies will all be getting big bonuses!
Because these exec’s. piled up massive debt (on “cheap” money) to buyback their own Corp. stock … and artificially inflate the “value” of their stock (their dominant form of compensation). So … these exec’s. are using their Corp’s. as a giant piggy bank which they are smashing to pieces, and stealing. I see ATT is … far and away THE WORST in piling up this artificial debt. No wonder my ATT bill is so ridiculously high … and yet the customer service is THE WORST in America. I would dump them and go back to Comcast … but they’re second on the list of “leveraged” media conglomerates.
This is a classic case of Wall Street crapping on Main Street. No wonder these Hollywooden Media conglomerates HATE … MY President. MY President made money the old fashioned way … he BUILT THINGS … creating VALUE. These Wall Street thieves make money by creating illusion … both on the screen … and on Wall Street. One of these pathways to wealth ADDS to our society … the other DESTROYS it.
“Hey I know! Let’s spend all that money on buying back stock! That keeps the stock price high – we’ve all got big portfolios of company stock, right?”
” – Yeah, and what’ll it all be worth if we don’t keep-up with the market and our stock price goes to ‘Zero’?”
Do nothing other than a share buy-back and your earnings per share goes up. Bonus time.
Joe:
…and will be sending mucho dinero negro (dirty money) to Democratic Party operatives.
Concentration of media ownership to control the message is going to come crashing down as people refuse to pay for what they are selling and their debt catches up with them.
I for one welcome Tinsletown’s coming bankruptcy.
Won’t happen but the thought is nice.
the entire world economy is a mega-ginormous PONZI scheme, the object of the scheme is DEBT.
assisted by the likes of ms wynnedfarm, TURDoo ‘tax and squander’, chavez, etc etc thousands of examples.
hi kenji. I got a hunch you have just learned or will soon some very good news.
just a hunch.
They could transition to the new business model, but they can’t do that without coming to terms with the fact that a small group of people now have the same technology at their disposal that the huge media conglomerates have at their disposal.
That cost difference cannot be ignored unless you never took basic math.
Sort of related….and another good reason folks are leaving the archaic models of Entertainment…an looking for other sources….
To hell with them all…..best thing I ever did was CUT that Cord.
$50/mo. for Telus 75 (pretty good Up/DL speeds.) $60/mo for Mobile with unlimited calls/txts etc + 4gb…who needs more.?
At home with an Android Box (Minix Neo 9H), install Kodi – a few good Add-ons & NHL.com for $200/yr, 2 months of TSN to watch the Juniors and surfin on the Daughters Netflix…
As a semi – retired guy, I am always lookin to cut my costs and still be able to enjoy WHAT I want to watch – when I want to watch it….with no commercials and the ability to Binge watch a new series or any movie that was EVER digitized. SCREW Hollyweird & that fat Champagne socialist Slob, Micheal Moore.
It’s what happens when ALL the above are monopolies and they take one to the cleaners on a monthly basis. As to coming recession – Buy Silver & Gold….with some good Cannabis stocks in yer portfolio and yer good to go..!!
Don’t see the problem here, just capitalism working as intended. Use borrowed money to snuff out 90% of the competition, then when you go into full profit mode and your product is complete shit, the consumer is none the wiser. It’s happening in almost every industry and it’s going to get worse.
Artificial manipulation of markets (due to Federal Reserve 0% $$$) has NOTHING to do with Capitalism and Free Markets. Same thing with targeted government regulations which are easily absorbed by market GIANTS … but are crushing to SMALL competitors. Using the government, thru targeted lobbying, to crush the competition is about the most VISIBLE HAND of dirty markets there is. The government (including the Fed.) should never undermine FREE Market competition.
Be intellectually honest … you have no love or interest for Free Market Capitalism. You just want your leftist-owned and operated behemoth corp’s. to monopolize the system.
Mostly I was just being facetious. I’m implying that there’s a glaring fault in capitalism at its core, in that it’s more efficient to fuck over your competition through whatever means necessary rather than it is to actually produce a better product than them. Interest rate manipulation definitely doesn’t help, but it’s just a tiny grain of sand in a desert of causes.
I agree that lobbying is a huge problem, but my understanding is that the vast majority of lobbying is done in order to remove regulations, not add them. Why would companies lobby for increased regulations when it’s much cheaper in the long run to just bully or buy out the competition instead?
Because there will be some regulations of some sort, they lobby for the regulations that favour them and constrain competition.
Andrew, lobbyists write the “laws” that the house passes or tanks. So regs. and laws are big corporate friendly, and the little guys have a hard time getting their foot in the door. Netflix was an exception because it was ignored as not being competitive to the big guys. “fixed” capitalism, as in manipulated, is not free market capitalism
I’m not sure how to feel about the fact that we both agree on something.
Remember how the MSM wants us to think that Trump’s plan to bring the national debt under control is to stiff the Chinese?
That is actually the plan of Hollywood executives. Borrow money from the Chinese, use it to buy back their own stock, and mail the keys to the studios to Beijing.
What will they do with that money? Probably finance Michael Moore’s next documentary WHO LOST HOLLYWOOD?
Where fiction imitates life.
Acquiring debt should always be within a temporary, defined timeline with a plan B to fall back on.
Buddy, finance a modest house, you have a home. Finance a palace, you got an anchor around your neck:-)))
Get woke; go broke.
Exactly, and that is why in our home we patronize very little of their ‘woke’ crap.
I am old enough to remember when AOL (America On Line) used its incredibly (over) inflated value to merge with Time Warner. Remember AOLTimeWarner? That was the smartest possible use of their money, to buy an actual company with actual assets.
That was just before the dot com bubble popped.
The good news (sarc) is that if the companies go bankrupt, the executives will not have to give back any of their salaries and bonuses for their outstanding corporate governance.
After all, who could blame them, just because they were in charge? It will be chalked up to bad luck and not the fault of these very smart elite people. Just ask Willard Romney or the executives running Starbucks and Dicks Sporting Goods. They are very smart elite people.
Hey. Hollywood owes money to just about everybody. From the mob in New Jersey to the sheiks in Saudi Arabia to the Chinese mass murderers. They can’t make or steal enough to pay them all back. This could get interesting. In fact, “that’s entertainment!”
all the lies that they can possibly produce. even their documentaries are works of fiction.
I love the article saying “if there is another economic downturn”. Just from my personal history, recessions occur every 8-10 years. It has been 10 years and counting since the last one in 2008. All of the Western world is in for a rude awakening – both personal and commercial as most of the world and its peoples are addicted to debt.
Of one thing you can be sure, the execs of these companies will all be getting big bonuses!
Because these exec’s. piled up massive debt (on “cheap” money) to buyback their own Corp. stock … and artificially inflate the “value” of their stock (their dominant form of compensation). So … these exec’s. are using their Corp’s. as a giant piggy bank which they are smashing to pieces, and stealing. I see ATT is … far and away THE WORST in piling up this artificial debt. No wonder my ATT bill is so ridiculously high … and yet the customer service is THE WORST in America. I would dump them and go back to Comcast … but they’re second on the list of “leveraged” media conglomerates.
This is a classic case of Wall Street crapping on Main Street. No wonder these Hollywooden Media conglomerates HATE … MY President. MY President made money the old fashioned way … he BUILT THINGS … creating VALUE. These Wall Street thieves make money by creating illusion … both on the screen … and on Wall Street. One of these pathways to wealth ADDS to our society … the other DESTROYS it.
“Hey I know! Let’s spend all that money on buying back stock! That keeps the stock price high – we’ve all got big portfolios of company stock, right?”
” – Yeah, and what’ll it all be worth if we don’t keep-up with the market and our stock price goes to ‘Zero’?”
Do nothing other than a share buy-back and your earnings per share goes up. Bonus time.
Joe:
…and will be sending mucho dinero negro (dirty money) to Democratic Party operatives.
Concentration of media ownership to control the message is going to come crashing down as people refuse to pay for what they are selling and their debt catches up with them.
I for one welcome Tinsletown’s coming bankruptcy.
Won’t happen but the thought is nice.
the entire world economy is a mega-ginormous PONZI scheme, the object of the scheme is DEBT.
assisted by the likes of ms wynnedfarm, TURDoo ‘tax and squander’, chavez, etc etc thousands of examples.
hi kenji. I got a hunch you have just learned or will soon some very good news.
just a hunch.
They could transition to the new business model, but they can’t do that without coming to terms with the fact that a small group of people now have the same technology at their disposal that the huge media conglomerates have at their disposal.
That cost difference cannot be ignored unless you never took basic math.
Sort of related….and another good reason folks are leaving the archaic models of Entertainment…an looking for other sources….
To hell with them all…..best thing I ever did was CUT that Cord.
$50/mo. for Telus 75 (pretty good Up/DL speeds.) $60/mo for Mobile with unlimited calls/txts etc + 4gb…who needs more.?
At home with an Android Box (Minix Neo 9H), install Kodi – a few good Add-ons & NHL.com for $200/yr, 2 months of TSN to watch the Juniors and surfin on the Daughters Netflix…
As a semi – retired guy, I am always lookin to cut my costs and still be able to enjoy WHAT I want to watch – when I want to watch it….with no commercials and the ability to Binge watch a new series or any movie that was EVER digitized. SCREW Hollyweird & that fat Champagne socialist Slob, Micheal Moore.
It’s what happens when ALL the above are monopolies and they take one to the cleaners on a monthly basis. As to coming recession – Buy Silver & Gold….with some good Cannabis stocks in yer portfolio and yer good to go..!!
Don’t see the problem here, just capitalism working as intended. Use borrowed money to snuff out 90% of the competition, then when you go into full profit mode and your product is complete shit, the consumer is none the wiser. It’s happening in almost every industry and it’s going to get worse.
Artificial manipulation of markets (due to Federal Reserve 0% $$$) has NOTHING to do with Capitalism and Free Markets. Same thing with targeted government regulations which are easily absorbed by market GIANTS … but are crushing to SMALL competitors. Using the government, thru targeted lobbying, to crush the competition is about the most VISIBLE HAND of dirty markets there is. The government (including the Fed.) should never undermine FREE Market competition.
Be intellectually honest … you have no love or interest for Free Market Capitalism. You just want your leftist-owned and operated behemoth corp’s. to monopolize the system.
Mostly I was just being facetious. I’m implying that there’s a glaring fault in capitalism at its core, in that it’s more efficient to fuck over your competition through whatever means necessary rather than it is to actually produce a better product than them. Interest rate manipulation definitely doesn’t help, but it’s just a tiny grain of sand in a desert of causes.
I agree that lobbying is a huge problem, but my understanding is that the vast majority of lobbying is done in order to remove regulations, not add them. Why would companies lobby for increased regulations when it’s much cheaper in the long run to just bully or buy out the competition instead?
Because there will be some regulations of some sort, they lobby for the regulations that favour them and constrain competition.
Andrew, lobbyists write the “laws” that the house passes or tanks. So regs. and laws are big corporate friendly, and the little guys have a hard time getting their foot in the door. Netflix was an exception because it was ignored as not being competitive to the big guys. “fixed” capitalism, as in manipulated, is not free market capitalism
I’m not sure how to feel about the fact that we both agree on something.
Remember how the MSM wants us to think that Trump’s plan to bring the national debt under control is to stiff the Chinese?
That is actually the plan of Hollywood executives. Borrow money from the Chinese, use it to buy back their own stock, and mail the keys to the studios to Beijing.
What will they do with that money? Probably finance Michael Moore’s next documentary WHO LOST HOLLYWOOD?
Where fiction imitates life.
Acquiring debt should always be within a temporary, defined timeline with a plan B to fall back on.
Buddy, finance a modest house, you have a home. Finance a palace, you got an anchor around your neck:-)))
Get woke; go broke.
Exactly, and that is why in our home we patronize very little of their ‘woke’ crap.
I am old enough to remember when AOL (America On Line) used its incredibly (over) inflated value to merge with Time Warner. Remember AOLTimeWarner? That was the smartest possible use of their money, to buy an actual company with actual assets.
That was just before the dot com bubble popped.
The good news (sarc) is that if the companies go bankrupt, the executives will not have to give back any of their salaries and bonuses for their outstanding corporate governance.
After all, who could blame them, just because they were in charge? It will be chalked up to bad luck and not the fault of these very smart elite people. Just ask Willard Romney or the executives running Starbucks and Dicks Sporting Goods. They are very smart elite people.
Hey. Hollywood owes money to just about everybody. From the mob in New Jersey to the sheiks in Saudi Arabia to the Chinese mass murderers. They can’t make or steal enough to pay them all back. This could get interesting. In fact, “that’s entertainment!”