“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore
I’ll admit, I missed big by predicting something “delightfully sordid.” Instead, we got something unpleasantly sordid: The final nail in the coffin for the Netflix bid [for Warner Bros] was almost certainly board member Susan Rice’s ill-timed appearance on a podcast hosted by Preet Bharara on February 20, where she promised “accountability” for Trump administration wrongdoers once the Democrats took office. This was interpreted by MAGA’s most agitated online voices as a promise of lawfare against the administration — the irony of complaining about this is apparently completely lost upon them — and led to Laura Loomer loudly demanding the former national security adviser resign her position on the board of Netflix.
Since Loomer has Trump’s ear, that meant that Trump himself began to instantly parrot Loomer’s line, demanding Rice resign from Netflix or “pay the consequences.” That put Netflix in an impossible position — they were not going to earn the eternal wrath of progressives by caving to Trump and firing Rice, not for a bid they were going to have extreme difficulty getting Trump’s approval on anyway. So they have bowed to the inevitable and cut their losses.
“the irony of complaining about this is apparently completely lost upon them ” Why is someone so illiterate they don’t know the meaning of the word irony paid to write?
L – “History will record that Covid-19 killed the movie industry, as we know it.”
“….as we know it (now)”. Humans have an innate attraction to a classic narrative(archetypes) about being. A search for the moral law to guide them through the vicissitudes of life. The Classics embody that, which is why they qualify as Classics. The Cult. Marxist/Postmodernism is not a moral answer in accord with human nature; which is why it’s every iteration produces so much needless human suffering or evil.
It repeats, as in the parable that portrays everyone with a black wolf whispering in one ear “Do evil” and a white wolf whispering in the other ear “Do good”.
Which one wins? The one you feed!
That’s why the Department of Government Efficiency is so important. Follow the money.
Qui Bono ?
Concerts, live theatre and movie theatres also, serve a kind of ritual liturgical function. Be wary of the Black Mass.