The Absolute Balls: Disney Claims It Had an Absolutely-Unquestionable First Amendment Right to Fire Gina Carano (for Exercising Her Own First Amendment Rights)

I will mention again that this just isn't true -- in California. To protect filthy communists from being fired, California law prohibits the firing of employees due to politics.

There is an exception: Expressly-political operations -- partisan political pollsters, ideological think tanks, etc. -- have the right to reject applicants or fire employees based on, as a Disney SEC filing might put it, "misalignment" with the company's politics.

Is Disney ready to declare itself an expressly leftwing partisan operation?

We'll see!

Disney argued Tuesday that it had a First Amendment right to fire Gina Carano, the actor who played a bounty hunter on "The Mandalorian," after she allegedly trivialized the Holocaust in an Instagram post.
Carano sued in February, arguing that the company unlawfully retaliated against her for expressing her personal political views, which were at odds with Disney's preferred ideology.
Disney's lawyers filed a motion on Tuesday to throw out the lawsuit, arguing that it has "a constitutional right not to associate its artistic expression with Carano's speech."

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Carano was fired in February 2021, after she analogized the treatment of modern-day conservatives to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.

This was not the real reason she was fired.

She was fired because Disney's huge number of trans extremist employees demanded it, but Kathleen Kennedy wanted to hide their hand in Carano's firing.

So she did what evil people often do -- she blamed the Jews.

"Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews," she wrote. "How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?"
Carano had faced significant pushback for earlier social media posts, in which she strongly objected to COVID restrictions, questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election, and refused to show support for trans rights.

There you go. In a rain of disinformation, a single drop of truth hits the ground.

According to her lawsuit, Disney forced her to have a 90-minute Zoom meeting with GLAAD, the LGBTQ rights organization, after she posted that her pronouns are "boop/bop/beep."

But for Disney, the Nazi post was "the final straw," according to the company's motion. The company argued that the post trivialized the Holocaust by referred to "thousands" of Jews, not "millions," and by likening their experience to those of contemporary conservatives who face scorn on social media.
"Disney had enough," the motion states.
The company put out a statement the same day saying it had no plans to hire her in the future, and that her comments were "abhorrent and unacceptable."

They claimed she was disparaging Jews, which is defamatory.

Carano sued under a California law that prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for political activity.

Yup.

Disney doesn't want to declare itself a leftwing propaganda organization -- which would have the right to fire conservative employees -- so it's attempting to claim there's a general right of any company which engages in communications to act as if it were an expressly-political organization:

In its motion to dismiss, Disney argued that there is a broad exception for companies whose business is to engage in speech, such as newspapers and entertainment companies.

All companies engage in speech. This "exception" invented by Disney swallows the rule, as they say.

Relatedly, Film Threat published part 5 of its "D-Files" expose, this time documenting the disastrous path that led to the box-office bomb Wish.

The disaster began by elevating Jennifer Lee, the writer of Frozen but with little management or production experience, to be Pixar legend John Lassiter's replacement, because #MeToo exists to get men fired and replace them with unsuitable women.

It all began with Wish...for the D-Files, that is. After I attended an early press screening of the feature, it was clear to me that Disney's Wish was the worst animated feature in the 100 year history of the Walt Disney Company and, ironically, was the film meant to commemorate this incredible milestone. My early review opened a floodgate for current and former Disney artists and animators reaching out to Film Threat with their stories about what is happening behind the scenes at Disney and has been for the last decade. I was told that not only was Wish bad...but it was intentionally bad...or, more accurately, misguided from the start!
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Disney’s Animation’s Slow Descent to Obscurity
It all began with Wish…for the D-Files, that is. After I attended an early press screening of the feature, it was clear to me that Disney’s Wish was the worst animated feature in the 100 year history of the Walt Disney Company and, ironically, was the film meant to commemorate this incredible milestone. My early review opened a floodgate for current and former Disney artists and animators reaching out to Film Threat with their stories about what is happening behind the scenes at Disney and has been for the last decade. I was told that not only was Wish bad…but it was intentionally bad…or, more accurately, misguided from the start!
In the D-Files: Part 1, I recounted the events that led to this Wish disaster, beginning with John Lasseter’s firing and humiliation over alleged #MeToo accusations and the outcry to “get a woman to run this place.” That woman would be Jennifer Lee.
Ezoic
In Part 2 and Part 3, I showed that Jennifer Lee slowly and subversively ushered in her new vision for Disney Animation and its staff. In response to the #MeToo Lasseter ousting and with the help of the gender equity advocacy group Woman in Animation, Lee strove for 50/50 equity between male and female Disney artists. But we learned that leveling the playing field was never her intention. She replaced the “Old White Guy” veteran artists with inexperienced women from Tumblr. Sources told us that these new recruits were used to slowly and systematically remove the Old White Guys by fostering a hostile work environment where every move they made and every word they spoke was under constant scrutiny. After a steady flow of unwarranted complaints with HR, humiliating re-education sessions, and living under the constant fear of firing, the Old White Guys, who did not submit to Lee’s new vision, were finally gone.

Notice the lack of depth of field in this image? © 2023 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
“…ultimately, you were either “with Lee” or “against Lee” in her mind.”
Part 4 describes the new storytelling mandates put in place not only at Walt Disney Animation but also at Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel. Lee’s first feature film with her complete stamp of approval from start to finish was Strange World, which leaned heavily into producing an environmental allegory with a gay teen love story. Audiences stayed home for this one. Tanking at the box office, Lee responded, “This is a bummer, but the ‘message’ is important, and we will press on with it.” And press on they did, which brings us to Wish.
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The Queen of Passive Aggression

Disney's Animation's Slow Descent to Obscurity
It all began with Wish...for the D-Files, that is. After I attended an early press screening of the feature, it was clear to me that Disney's Wish was the worst animated feature in the 100 year history of the Walt Disney Company and, ironically, was the film meant to commemorate this incredible milestone. My early review opened a floodgate for current and former Disney artists and animators reaching out to Film Threat with their stories about what is happening behind the scenes at Disney and has been for the last decade. I was told that not only was Wish bad...but it was intentionally bad...or, more accurately, misguided from the start!
In the D-Files: Part 1, I recounted the events that led to this Wish disaster, beginning with John Lasseter's firing and humiliation over alleged #MeToo accusations and the outcry to "get a woman to run this place." That woman would be Jennifer Lee.
Ezoic
In Part 2 and Part 3, I showed that Jennifer Lee slowly and subversively ushered in her new vision for Disney Animation and its staff. In response to the #MeToo Lasseter ousting and with the help of the gender equity advocacy group Woman in Animation, Lee strove for 50/50 equity between male and female Disney artists. But we learned that leveling the playing field was never her intention. She replaced the "Old White Guy" veteran artists with inexperienced women from Tumblr. Sources told us that these new recruits were used to slowly and systematically remove the Old White Guys by fostering a hostile work environment where every move they made and every word they spoke was under constant scrutiny. After a steady flow of unwarranted complaints with HR, humiliating re-education sessions, and living under the constant fear of firing, the Old White Guys, who did not submit to Lee's new vision, were finally gone.

Notice the lack of depth of field in this image? © 2023 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
"...ultimately, you were either "with Lee" or "against Lee" in her mind."
Part 4 describes the new storytelling mandates put in place not only at Walt Disney Animation but also at Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel. Lee's first feature film with her complete stamp of approval from start to finish was Strange World, which leaned heavily into producing an environmental allegory with a gay teen love story. Audiences stayed home for this one. Tanking at the box office, Lee responded, "This is a bummer, but the 'message' is important, and we will press on with it." And press on they did, which brings us to Wish.

Ezoic
The Queen of Passive Aggression
With Wish, Lee's hand-selected animators, artists, writers, and musicians were now in place. No excuses for failure! When asked about Jennifer Lee, many former Disney artists spoke about Lee's management style, especially regarding how she formed her teams. Many felt that when she took over to replace John Lasseter, her goal was to clean house of Lasseter loyalists. They felt that, ultimately, you were either "with Lee" or "against Lee" in her mind.
When interacting with her, you knew right away if she liked you or not. If she liked you, she would listen to you and give you the best scenes to work on. Of course, her favorites mainly consisted of female artists and male Yes-persons. If you got on her bad side (or were male), you were given the crappy assignments, which rarely involved character animation and often consisted of environmental animation or quick scenelets slipped in between significant scenes. It didn't matter how many years you had been with the company or how many features you worked on in the past; it ultimately boiled down to whether Jennifer Lee liked you or not.
Sources describe Lee as very cunning in how she conducted herself with those on her s**t list. If you could get a conversation in with her, she would nod and acknowledge you, and then end the conversation quickly. Then, in a typically passive-aggressive move, she would have you taken off the project for being a "problem." This happened to many veteran talents who dared to express their opinion, particularly in matters of how things used to be.

The animation and especially the backgrounds in Wish look amateurishly "flat" -- no depth to them. The figures in foreground move against a background that is plainly two dimensional, like in old Bugs Bunny cartoons.

And sure, those are great, but this piece of crap is being generated with computers which are a stone's throw from being artificially intelligent.

Allen Ng called this the worst Disney animation in history, citing, among many other problems, the flatness of the thing. He thought that this was the result of a rushed job.

Nope -- Jennifer Lee actually wanted it this way.

It turns out that many insiders within the production said that the amateurish look of Wish came directly from the top...Jennifer Lee, and it was intentional! Facts that would be backed up in the "Making of" documentary coming on the Wish DVDs and Blu-rays. With decrees coming from the top, they told artists and animators that Wish was going to be a 2D animated feature created with 3D technology.

I guess it was her idea of a "tribute" to Disney glories of the past.

But it didn't work. And in the non-woke world, we grade on outcomes, not intentions. Even if you're a Wahmen.

He also reports that the only thing Jennifer Lee cared about was the insider references and Easter eggs to earlier, competent Disney films. When they'd show the film in test screenings, audiences would say they thought the characters and story were weak. But Jennifer Lee's crew running the screenings didn't care -- they just wanted to know how many references viewers had spotted.

Further harping on Easter Eggs, a significant section of the "Making of" documentary was devoted to the subject--again because we all love Easter Eggs. For example, Asha was supposed to be a young Fairy Godmother. Cinderella's Fairy Godmother used her magic to create a carriage from a pumpkin. Thus, pumpkin seeds were sewn into Asha's costume. She also wore a pumpkin seed anklet. How's that for an Easter Egg? Did you notice it? I sure didn't.

What a great bit of trivia to focus all of your efforts on. Story and characters -- that's #OldThinking. The kids just want their art filled with #hyperlinks to other things.

This is the mark of a talentless hack -- focusing on trivial "callbacks" and references to prior good works of art, instead of fighting to make this work a work of art itself.

I think Nietzsche wrote of periods of decadence that they produce no original art -- just infinite regurgitations of what has come before. He called this "epigonism:"

Noun. epigonism (usually uncountable, plural epigonisms) An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.

But this is what #MeToo demands. Move the men out, so that the activist, Marxist, talentless leftwing grievance-farmers can move in.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 Burn mouse burn

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 11, 2024 04:20 PM (zjgNU)

2 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 11, 2024 04:20 PM (rbKZ6)

3 Isn't she at The Daily Wire?

Posted by: Not really paying attention at April 11, 2024 04:22 PM (q4HH9)

4 I NOODed.

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 11, 2024 04:22 PM (rbKZ6)

5 Disney had 30 billion dollars profit 2023

Posted by: Paul banned at April 11, 2024 04:22 PM (sHEfG)

6 Afternoon.

Fuck Disney.

Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 04:22 PM (Z2yLo)

7 Is Disney ready to declare itself an expressly leftwing partisan operation?
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No, it will just behave as one but pick its protections and rights from a buffet of options while the state lets them do so and pretends that it's all legit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:23 PM (HnUIn)

8 We jaded her politics cause we let other actors claim similar. We have the right to just hire who we want .. wait, what do you mean CA Dems passed a law saying we can't fire people for political beliefs. Er, would you believe. First Amendment?

Still in charge Iger

Posted by: Bete at April 11, 2024 04:23 PM (LX4y3)

9 5 Disney had 30 billion dollars profit 2023.

Is that a lot?

Posted by: Clueless in Seattle at April 11, 2024 04:23 PM (q4HH9)

10 So, is "belittling the Holocaust" a now acceptable thing to fire people for?

Because if it is...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

11 The Mouse has become a rat

Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 11, 2024 04:23 PM (lAjBs)

12 bugs bunny cartoons = GOAT.

Posted by: rusty schaklefjord at April 11, 2024 04:23 PM (Gp/9/)

13 She was fired because Disney's huge number of trans extremist employees demanded it, but Kathleen Kennedy wanted to hide their hand in Carano's firing.
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Even the internal trans freakout at Disney was an excuse.

Carano engaged in wrongthink. That alone is more than enough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:23 PM (HnUIn)

14 She was fired because Disney's huge number of trans extremist employees demanded it, but Kathleen Kennedy wanted to hide their hand in Carano's firing.

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What if I told you the number was about 5?

Would you believe me?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

15 to fire Gina Carano, the ~~actor~~ actress

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 11, 2024 04:24 PM (YqDXo)

16 There you go. In a rain of disinformation, a single drop of truth hits the ground.
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But only because that was already exposed by real journalists and commentators.

If it hadn't been, that single drop of truth wouldn't be there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:24 PM (HnUIn)

17 Relatedly, Film Threat published part 5 of its "D-Files" expose, this time documenting the disastrous path that led to the box-office bomb Wish.

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But it got a lot of views on Disney+!

You know, views that don't actually count as money!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

18 I think Nietzsche wrote of periods of decadence that they produce no original art -- just infinite regurgitations of what has come before. He called this "epigonism:"

Noun. epigonism (usually uncountable, plural epigonisms) An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.

But this is what #MeToo demands. Move the men out, so that the activist, Marxist, talentless leftwing grievance-farmers can move in.

I suppose one could say the Renaissance had epigonistic elements, since so much of what they did, at least in sculpture, was a copy of classical Greek and Roman works.

The difference is that the artists of the Renaissance has actual talent, and it eventually shone through.

The grievance farmers have none. There is zero chance they'll get better.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 11, 2024 04:25 PM (CsUN+)

19 >>> 10 So, is "belittling the Holocaust" a now acceptable thing to fire people for?

Because if it is...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

I wonder how many Disney employees have participated in pro-Pali / "death to JOOOOS" protests.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 11, 2024 04:25 PM (llON8)

20 What does “Easter egg” mean in an entertainment sense? Is it like an inside joke?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:25 PM (9yWhg)

21 All companies engage in speech. This "exception" invented by Disney swallows the rule, as they say.
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And will probably be permitted because America (generally, because California specifically).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:25 PM (HnUIn)

22 In more sanguine days, we recognized that a company had the prerogative to choose who represents it.

They didn't allow men to wear dresses for example. And for a long time not in a public-facing position.

Intervention of the law on the one hand, has resulted in the law choosing to be one-sided or not. ("Well that case isn't like this one!")

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 04:25 PM (krQz2)

23 Die Mouse 🐁 Die 🔪

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2024 04:26 PM (fwDg9)

24 DEIsney just can't help themselves in burning shareholder equity. Hope they continue... as does Elon.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 11, 2024 04:26 PM (17s+e)

25 Posted by: Paul banned at April 11, 2024 04:22 PM (sHEfG)

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Does that make Wish a good and profitable movie?

Should Disney stop fighting Florida because most of its profit is from Disney World and cruises that leave from Florida ports?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

26 Disney doesn't want to declare itself a leftwing propaganda organization -- which would have the right to fire conservative employees -- so it's attempting to claim there's a general right of any company which engages in communications to act as if it were an expressly-political organization:
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Logically, their argument about "speech-based companies" or whatever also tells an inadvertent truth that the press are all the same as Disney and all are just propagandists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:26 PM (HnUIn)

27 She was a contractual employee, disney can fire her for anything they claim is a breach of contract. They can lawyer that to death and tie it up in court for years. Even if she wins it will be 20-25 years down the road.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2024 04:26 PM (QNSds)

28 Piss on the mouse house.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2024 04:27 PM (3t4sN)

29 You gotta be a dumbass, or gay, to fire Gina Carano.

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2024 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

30 The Chosen.

Posted by: Come and see at April 11, 2024 04:27 PM (q4HH9)

31 What does “Easter egg” mean in an entertainment sense? Is it like an inside joke?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:25 PM (9yWhg)
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Something hidden away, but also perhaps significant (depending on the audience).

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 04:27 PM (krQz2)

32 Also, Disney's profits weren't 30 billion.

Its gross profits were 30 billion.

Its net profits were...far less.

"Disney annual net income for 2023 was $2.354B, a 25.15% decline from 2022."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

33 If you got on her bad side (or were male), you were given the crappy assignments, which rarely involved character animation and often consisted of environmental animation or quick scenelets slipped in between significant scenes. It didn't matter how many years you had been with the company or how many features you worked on in the past; it ultimately boiled down to whether Jennifer Lee liked you or not.
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Not an "A" leader? Shocking!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:28 PM (HnUIn)

34 Sources describe Lee as very cunning in how she conducted herself with those on her s**t list. If you could get a conversation in with her, she would nod and acknowledge you, and then end the conversation quickly. Then, in a typically passive-aggressive move, she would have you taken off the project for being a "problem." This happened to many veteran talents who dared to express their opinion, particularly in matters of how things used to be.
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Better than being confrontation, right?!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:28 PM (HnUIn)

35 Not to sound sexist here, but this isn’t all that uncommon among female executives, particularly in entertainment. They’re often passive aggressive and paranoid, and surround themselves with sycophants who tell them their farts smell like vanilla scent candles.

Posted by: UGAdawg at April 11, 2024 04:28 PM (tRd71)

36 This is the mark of a talentless hack -- focusing on trivial "callbacks" and references to prior good works of art, instead of fighting to make this work a work of art itself.

Joe Dante has entered the chat.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 11, 2024 04:28 PM (CHHv1)

37
Colorado News
Skier dies trying to jump across Berthoud Pass

Guy tried to do an Evel Knievel across Highway 40 and came up juuhhhhhst a little short

People, don't toy with Colorado
it will kill you if given the chance

Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (oCjPU)

38 But it didn't work. And in the non-woke world, we grade on outcomes, not intentions. Even if you're a Wahmen.
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LOL. Not at all. Women are largely immune from professional accountability, and not just in Hollywood.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (HnUIn)

39 Ace, give your Cntrl-V button the day off. He looks overworked.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (IG4Id)

40 Just started episode 2 of Fallout.

A Dogmeat origin story (this one is named CX404), who is a companion to the nerdy guy in Person of Interest (Michael Emerson).

They are still getting the ambiance of the games down pat.
The soundtrack of 50s tunes is great.

We have already seen Raiders, stimpaks, and radroaches.
And the MK machine guns, vertibirds, and T-60 armor.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (ufFY8)

41 well i don't care what anyone says, i'd go for gina carano.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (B1FKF)

42 27 She was a contractual employee, disney can fire her for anything they claim is a breach of contract. They can lawyer that to death and tie it up in court for years. Even if she wins it will be 20-25 years down the road.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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California is not an at will state. The specific mention by Ace is the Unruh Civil Rights Act which specifically makes it actionable to sue your former employer if they fired you for political reasons. The exception of course is that you have to declare yourself a partisan organization which creates all kinds of problems for the dying Disney corporation.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (G0ieF)

43 He also reports that the only thing Jennifer Lee cared about was the insider references and Easter eggs to earlier, competent Disney films. When they'd show the film in test screenings, audiences would say they thought the characters and story were weak. But Jennifer Lee's crew running the screenings didn't care -- they just wanted to know how many references viewers had spotted.
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So it's fan-fic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:30 PM (HnUIn)

44 She was fired because Disney's huge number of trans extremist employees demanded it, but Kathleen Kennedy wanted to hide their hand in Carano's firing.
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Sounds like a really good work place harassment suit... in the hundreds of millions of dollars. That should help DIEsney's profits.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 11, 2024 04:30 PM (17s+e)

45 40 We have already seen Raiders, stimpaks, and radroaches.
And the MK machine guns, vertibirds, and T-60 armor.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (ufFY

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I was a fan of the blackly comedic tone of the attack on the vault, to be honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

46 Corporations with FU megabucks have chutzpah…

This is news???

Posted by: Adriane the Oy Vey Critic. . . at April 11, 2024 04:30 PM (4Winp)

47 LOL. Not at all. Women are largely immune from professional accountability, and not just in Hollywood.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Until suddenly that stops when rectification occurs.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:30 PM (G0ieF)

48 But this is what #MeToo demands. Move the men out, so that the activist, Marxist, talentless leftwing grievance-farmers can move in.
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And it's so very profitable!

Well, it will be. Once they forbid competition, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:31 PM (HnUIn)

49 Should Disney stop fighting Florida because most of its profit is from Disney World and cruises that leave from Florida ports?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

Ummm, yes.

But Iger, so...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 04:31 PM (ufFY8)

50 Tennessee passed bill outlawing marriage between first cousins.
Deplorables are saying unconstitutional will appeal

Posted by: Paul banned at April 11, 2024 04:31 PM (sHEfG)

51 Until suddenly that stops when rectification occurs.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:30 PM (G0ieF)
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Eventually, the money will run out. That will be a bad time all around.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:31 PM (HnUIn)

52 We all know you have to labotimize the consistency circuits in your brain to be a Democrat ...

But you could have some fun pointing out the First Amendment right Disney is claiming is the one affirmed in Citizens United.

As they stare blankly, carefully explain the courts will have to expand Citizens United in order to protect Disney.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 11, 2024 04:31 PM (yikga)

53 I'm reminded that in the Bible, the most common method of divine punishment is allowing you to face the full consequences of your actions: effectively, giving you what you want.

Yeah, everyone remembers the Flood and fire and brimstone, but that's not the most common way God works. "You want a King? Ok, HERE YOU GO." (King goes on to enact taxes and conscription and slavery etc...)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 11, 2024 04:32 PM (zjgNU)

54 Put me in, coach!!

Posted by: Ace's CTRL-V Button at April 11, 2024 04:32 PM (q4HH9)

55 Posted by: Paul banned at April 11, 2024 04:22 PM (sHEfG)

Does that make Wish a good and profitable movie?

Should Disney stop fighting Florida because most of its profit is from Disney World and cruises that leave from Florida ports?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

Also, Disney's profits weren't 30 billion.

Its gross profits were 30 billion.

Its net profits were...far less.

"Disney annual net income for 2023 was $2.354B, a 25.15% decline from 2022."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

He's a leftist. If he understood money he wouldn't be a leftist.

Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 04:33 PM (Z2yLo)

56 I was a fan of the blackly comedic tone of the attack on the vault, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

Yes. There is a bit of dark humor.
This is meant to be enjoyed for what it is, something not entirely serious.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 04:33 PM (ufFY8)

57 Put me in, coach!!
Posted by: Ace's CTRL-V Button at April 11, 2024 04:32 PM (q4HH9)
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LOL

Threadwinner.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:33 PM (HnUIn)

58 32 So is that why the stock didn't rocket back up after the Disney board vote? When did making money become more important than how.many transartists who identify as being able to draw and their stick men are masterpieces or transwriters whose Twitter rants are now scripts are on board. Wallstreet is so transphobic.

Posted by: Bete at April 11, 2024 04:33 PM (LX4y3)

59 55 He's a leftist. If he understood money he wouldn't be a leftist.
Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 04:33 PM (Z2yLo)

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I mostly wanted to get the net profits numbers out there to counter his $30 billion.

Disney is still profitable, but the profit margin is shrinking and largely held up by the cruise line. It's a cruise line business that makes movies on the side.

It really doesn't help that Disney+ is STILL losing hundreds of millions of dollars every quarter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

60 A number of Disney Employees: Trump is just like Hitler!

Posted by: polynikes at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (MNhXM)

61 Windy out thar

Posted by: JT at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (T4tVD)

62 35 Not to sound sexist here, but this isn’t all that uncommon among female executives, particularly in entertainment. They’re often passive aggressive and paranoid, and surround themselves with sycophants who tell them their farts smell like vanilla scent candles.
Posted by: UGAdawg

They are in a dying industry and the rancid product they produce is having a narrower and narrower clientele that simply cannot keep the lights on. Streaming is essentially killing the movie and cable industry and it removes the gatekeeping function from the bigs that they have had since the 30's.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (G0ieF)

63 well i don't care what anyone says, i'd go for gina carano.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (B1FKF)

Saw her do an interview with Not The Bee.
She was an idiot, doing some stupid stuff when she was young, then saw the light and became a Christian. Good interview. I like her even more now.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (ufFY8)

64 People, don't toy with Colorado
it will kill you if given the chance
Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (oCjPU)
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Pfff. Amateurs.

Posted by: Australia at April 11, 2024 04:35 PM (Be/+i)

65 I'm reminded that in the Bible, the most common method of divine punishment is allowing you to face the full consequences of your actions: effectively, giving you what you want.
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Also, you'll be judged by every careless word you've said.

The first person in the Bible to judge somebody seems to be Adam. He blamed Eve and he explained to Eliohim that you gave me her.

Up until that time, the Lord just asked "Why are you hiding?"

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 04:35 PM (krQz2)

66 "Disney annual net income for 2023 was $2.354B, a 25.15% decline from 2022."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

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Revenue does not equal profits which is a common idiocy among the economically illiterate.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:35 PM (G0ieF)

67 � � �

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2024 04:35 PM (v0R5T)

68 Hiya, JT. How are the birds doing?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (eY+TO)

69 It seems we have a troll from the Chinese Wish catalog

Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (lAjBs)

70 California is not an at will state. The specific mention by Ace is the Unruh Civil Rights Act which specifically makes it actionable to sue your former employer if they fired you for political reasons. The exception of course is that you have to declare yourself a partisan organization which creates all kinds of problems for the dying Disney corporation.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM

She signed a contract with disney and as I said, they can fire her for any reason they claim she violated that contract. Will she win in court? Probably but that is years down the road. disney has tons of lawyers and deep pockets to fight any lawsuit filed by her.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (QNSds)

71 Trips to win.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (eY+TO)

72 People, don't toy with Colorado
it will kill you if given the chance
Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (oCjPU)
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Yup. Never doubt it. Never forget it.

Posted by: Face-tattooed Aztec, chomping a blunt and menacing your daughter on the street at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (HnUIn)

73 66 Revenue does not equal profits which is a common idiocy among the economically illiterate.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:35 PM (G0ieF)

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Paul uses gross profits, which is a bullshit number because it cuts out all overhead costs which, for a company like Disney that has massive real estate holdings and even a fleet of cruise ships, is really important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

74 I fought Florida and Florida won.
I fought Florida and Florida won.

Posted by: Disney, Inc. at April 11, 2024 04:37 PM (krQz2)

75 Speaking of Frozen: I've had it with what my company has become. Just thaw me and toss me out.

Posted by: Walt's Frozen Head at April 11, 2024 04:37 PM (lZVy/)

76 >>> 55
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He's a leftist. If he understood money he wouldn't be a leftist.
Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 04:33 PM (Z2yLo)

LOL

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 11, 2024 04:37 PM (llON8)

77 We are getting rain soon

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (fwDg9)

78 Ace goes to Absolut balls?

I guess he graduated from Valu-Rite sock hops.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (9yWhg)

79 This is the mark of a talentless hack -- focusing on trivial "callbacks"
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[Marvel Studios, whistling nonchalantly as they back out of the room, hiding copies of "She-Hulk" under their coat.]

Say, when is season 2?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (yikga)

80 She signed a contract with disney and as I said, they can fire her for any reason they claim she violated that contract. Will she win in court? Probably but that is years down the road. disney has tons of lawyers and deep pockets to fight any lawsuit filed by her.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

Elon Musk has entered the lawsuit.... ah conversation.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (17s+e)

81 A number of Disney Employees: Trump is just like Hitler!

Posted by: polynikes at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (MNhXM)
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Rapist Hitler.

Posted by: Disney, Inc. at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (krQz2)

82 It really doesn't help that Disney+ is STILL losing hundreds of millions of dollars every quarter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

I've never subscribed to Disney+ but I'm guessing it's like Netflix or Hulu. There is nothing worth watching.

Posted by: dantesed at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (88xKn)

83 Streaming is essentially killing the movie and cable industry and it removes the gatekeeping function from the bigs that they have had since the 30's.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (G0ieF)

Streaming is losing money, hand over fist. There's no real path forward for traditional media in any form.

The kids are watching videos on their phones. The tickety tock and the Instantgram are where it's at, daddio.

Why pay anybody anything ever.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (dGCAG)

84 Hiya, JT. How are the birds doing?
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (eY+TO)

Okay; I just put some seed out.

Posted by: JT at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (T4tVD)

85 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (QNSds)

No they can’t just claim something that’s not in the contract and it won’t take years .

Posted by: polynikes at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (MNhXM)

86 Speaking of Frozen: I've had it with what my company has become. Just thaw me and toss me out.
Posted by: Walt's Frozen Head at April 11, 2024 04:37 PM (lZVy/)
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I understand.

We were close to having the ability to convert you into Mecha-Walt and you can go storm the offices yourself, but then we were all fired in the purges.

Posted by: Talented old-guard Imagineers at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (HnUIn)

87 83 Streaming is losing money, hand over fist. There's no real path forward for traditional media in any form.

The kids are watching videos on their phones. The tickety tock and the Instantgram are where it's at, daddio.

Why pay anybody anything ever.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (dGCAG)

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Netflix, if I remember correctly, still hasn't shown a profit. It's held up by investor money from its inflated stock price.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

88 Paul uses gross profits, which is a bullshit number because it cuts out all overhead costs which, for a company like Disney that has massive real estate holdings and even a fleet of cruise ships, is really important.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)
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Profits cause inflation! -- Dem drones.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (krQz2)

89 Well, The Kid ordered Chinese so I told her to just make the delivery worth it, so she spent USD$70! But it showed up and it's an entire grocery bag, the brown type, packed solid with food. That is actually not out of line for an entire bag of food at this point in inflation. And no it's not just rice it's a real variety.
Hm.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (9yXr+)

90 Okay; I just put some seed out.
Posted by: JT

Dude, TMI.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (9yWhg)

91 52 We all know you have to labotimize the consistency circuits in your brain to be a Democrat ...

But you could have some fun pointing out the First Amendment right Disney is claiming is the one affirmed in Citizens United.

As they stare blankly, carefully explain the courts will have to expand Citizens United in order to protect Disney.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Doesn't work that way. Carano's action is based on individual employment limits on contracts--Citizens United was regarding federal law that prevented CU from releasing an anti Hillary documentary. Not the same thing at all.

The leftists have pretty much shredded the idea of freedom of conscience but even there--the Hobby Lobby decision reserves that for privately owned companies--not publicly traded.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (G0ieF)

92 As seen on X

Rory McElroy is +1000 to win the Masters. That means if you bet $100 on Rory to win, you'll lose $100.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (2UnvF)

93 I've never subscribed to Disney+ but I'm guessing it's like Netflix or Hulu. There is nothing worth watching.
Posted by: dantesed at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (88xKn)

Hulu = Disney+ now.
Or will be very soon.
At this moment 66% of Hulu is DEIsney.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (ufFY8)

94 >>> 85 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (QNSds)

No they can't just claim something that's not in the contract and it won’t take years .
Posted by: polynikes at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (MNhXM)

Says you.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge #925 at April 11, 2024 04:40 PM (llON8)

95 Profits cause inflation! -- Dem drones.
Posted by: Axeman
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More like ignorance creates stupidity in the case of Pual.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:40 PM (G0ieF)

96 Okay; I just put some seed out.
Posted by: JT

Dude, TMI.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (9yWhg)
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Oh Nan!

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 04:40 PM (krQz2)

97 59 This is about us, isn't it?

Disney+, Lucasfilm, Marvel Comics

Posted by: Bete at April 11, 2024 04:40 PM (LX4y3)

98 People, don't toy with Colorado
it will kill you if given the chance
Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 04:29 PM (oCjPU)

But enough about my ex...

Posted by: BurtTC at April 11, 2024 04:40 PM (dGCAG)

99 Cable TV is great!

Posted by: People in their 90s at April 11, 2024 04:41 PM (q4HH9)

100 But this is what #MeToo demands. Move the men out, so that the activist, Marxist, talentless leftwing grievance-farmers can move in.

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM Comments

If that's moving up, then I'm....movin out!

Posted by: Billy at April 11, 2024 04:41 PM (FCbAQ)

101 Reporter: Do you plan on marrying again, Mr. Simpson?

OJ: Sure, I'll take another stab at it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:41 PM (9yWhg)

102 And yes I made a crack about Fen with that KosherCasual but really, it looks like they buttonholed a few girls on the Coney Island D Train and told them, 'Here, put on this unflattering dress and try not to look awkward."

Posted by: LenNeal at April 11, 2024 04:42 PM (9yXr+)

103 >>>Elon Musk has entered the lawsuit.... ah conversation.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger
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A new Musk baby on the horizon?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 04:42 PM (eY+TO)

104 Noun. epigonism (usually uncountable, plural epigonisms) An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.

Doesn't that apply to just about everything coming out of Hollywood now? What was the last thing that was genuinely new and creative and not a sequel or "reboot?"

Posted by: Oddbob at April 11, 2024 04:43 PM (/y8xj)

105 66 Revenue does not equal profits which is a common idiocy among the economically illiterate.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:35 PM (G0ieF)

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Paul uses gross profits, which is a bullshit number because it cuts out all overhead costs which, for a company like Disney that has massive real estate holdings and even a fleet of cruise ships, is really important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)
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One of my favorites concerning super woke proggie entertainment crapanies is the media view of what box office $ means.

Media says movie DIE-DEI did $200 million so with their $250 million production budget they have almost broke even forgetting:

1. No marketing budget included.
2. That the movie house gets 50% of the box office $.

Meaning that a $250 million production budget POS movie needs to have a $600 million to break even.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 11, 2024 04:43 PM (17s+e)

106
Why pay anybody anything ever.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Part of it is that if you don't pay for it--you are what is being sold. Conservative Media has a long shabby history of that particular issue where the scum sucking GOPe billionaires use places like the Weakly Standard, etc. to promote all sorts of noxious ideas to the GOP and their staff in DC and elsewhere.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:43 PM (G0ieF)

107 The leftists have pretty much shredded the idea of freedom of conscience but even there--the Hobby Lobby decision reserves that for privately owned companies--not publicly traded.
Posted by: whig

It is rather bitterly ironic that the corporate oligarchs, to maintain their grip on the people and the government (or is it vice versa, I can't tell) will do almost anything to shred the Constitution, compartmentalize "inalienable right", and qualify everything that we thought were those "inalienable rights".
And frankly, the Supreme Court sometimes plays right along.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 11, 2024 04:44 PM (vcOmj)

108 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2024 04:36 PM (QNSds)

No they can't just claim something that's not in the contract and it won’t take years .
Posted by: polynikes at April 11, 2024 04:38 PM (MNhXM)

Says you.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge #925 at April 11, 2024 04:40 PM

Really? Ask Trump about those 34 felony counts against him in New York when he has a signed notarized letter from the stripper saying that nothing ever happened and he never paid her any hush money.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2024 04:44 PM (QNSds)

109
Disney was trading under $80 last Oct, and has put on almost 40 points since then in spite of a steady diet of disaster.

Wall Street, not Main Street.

Posted by: Auspex at April 11, 2024 04:45 PM (j4U/Z)

110 My Mom buys bird food at the feed store in 40 lb bags.
Buncha fat little birds everywhere.

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2024 04:45 PM (v0R5T)

111 Yes yes, the government *made* Germans “hate” the Jews, and they were successful for no obvious reason whatsoever

Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at April 11, 2024 04:45 PM (YZhRl)

112 DVRs, streaming movies on demand in your vehicle or at your airplane seat, 8K resolution, a 108" screen.

You're welcome.

Posted by: The Patriarchy at April 11, 2024 04:45 PM (q4HH9)

113 Meaning that a $250 million production budget POS movie needs to have a $600 million to break even.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

Yes, but they make it up in volume!

Wait, what? And...in foreign box office. Huh?
And with creative book keeping.
Getting warmer.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 11, 2024 04:45 PM (vcOmj)

114 The Absolute Balls

Where? Count me in!

Posted by: David French at April 11, 2024 04:46 PM (yOPBE)

115 92 As seen on X

Rory McElroy is +1000 to win the Masters. That means if you bet $100 on Rory to win, you'll lose $100.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM

They ALWAYS think Rory’s going to win the Masters. Still waiting…

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 11, 2024 04:47 PM (rbKZ6)

116 Noun. epigonism (usually uncountable, plural epigonisms) An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.

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Fast and Furious XXII has entered the chat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2024 04:47 PM (RIvkX)

117 >>Paul uses gross profits, which is a bullshit number because it cuts out all overhead costs which, for a company like Disney that has massive real estate holdings and even a fleet of cruise ships, is really important.
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You're both misusing "gross profits," I think. Profit is the difference between gross revenue and expenses. There is no such thing as "gross profit."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 11, 2024 04:47 PM (bNf8H)

118 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Coney Island girls on the D Train trying not to look awkward at April 11, 2024 04:48 PM (q4HH9)

119 “Gross Profit” = any profit made from nude pics of Lizzo

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (9yWhg)

120 The animation and especially the backgrounds in Wish look amateurishly "flat" -- no depth to them. The figures in foreground move against a background that is plainly two dimensional, like in old Bugs Bunny cartoons.

And sure, those are great, but this piece of crap is being generated with computers which are a stone's throw from being artificially intelligent.
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http://disq.us/p/2yeb229

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (vtyCZ)

121 There is no such thing as "gross profit."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 11, 2024 04:47 PM (bNf8H)
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Yeth there ith.

Posted by: Teenage Girl Socialist at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (krQz2)

122 "The figures in foreground move against a background that is plainly two dimensional, like in old Bugs Bunny cartoons."

Yet Team Bugs Bunny turned out fantastic, memorable, classic material that still makes me smile. Somehow the new-and-improved talent and technique has yet to reach the entertainment value of content produced in the 1940's.

I guess, technically, that's a talent. Sucking that badly takes real effort.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (aXxgO)

123 The twin hammer blows of metoo followed by George Floyd(with an assist from TDS) swept competent white men out of pretty much everything.

Posted by: steevy at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (FQmDC)

124 It has begun to rain here.

Posted by: JT at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (T4tVD)

125 You're both misusing "gross profits," I think. Profit is the difference between gross revenue and expenses. There is no such thing as "gross profit."
Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 11, 2024 04:47 PM (bNf8H)
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Probably refers to non-GAAP or "ex-(bad) items" fantasy reports.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (HnUIn)

126 Disney is still profitable, but the profit margin is shrinking and largely held up by the cruise line. It's a cruise line business that makes movies on the side.

It really doesn't help that Disney+ is STILL losing hundreds of millions of dollars every quarter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

Hey, 20 bucks is 20 bucks

Posted by: Harley Davidson, the worlds largest T-Shirt seller at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (FCbAQ)

127 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2024 04:44 PM (QNSds)

Apples and oranges. The only point you have and one I agree with is the courts can ignore the law .

Posted by: polynikes at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (GvesS)

128 It is rather bitterly ironic that the corporate oligarchs, to maintain their grip on the people and the government (or is it vice versa, I can't tell) will do almost anything to shred the Constitution, compartmentalize "inalienable right", and qualify everything that we thought were those "inalienable rights".
And frankly, the Supreme Court sometimes plays right along.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.
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They can't save themselves essentially---bad things will happen and the end result is fewer oligarchs/aristos because as what happened in the Middle Ages, the desperate regular folks gave their support to divine right of kings to simply rid them of the parasite aristos.

Easier to serve one SOB than a bunch of voracious ones.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:50 PM (G0ieF)

129 The twin hammer blows of metoo followed by George Floyd(with an assist from TDS) swept competent white men out of pretty much everything.
Posted by: steevy at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM (FQmDC)
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The twin hammer in an impact wrench is wildly superior to the twin hammers of PoundMeToo and BLM.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:50 PM (HnUIn)

130 Disney might still be profitable, but it really needs to take a look at Planet Fitness to see its future.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 04:50 PM (krQz2)

131 That section on Wish reminded me of a story in a 3rd World newspaper that apparently repeated sections to fill more news space. I remember thinking that I must have lost my train of thought only to finally realize that some portions of the story were repeated 3X.

Posted by: SMOD at April 11, 2024 04:50 PM (RHGPo)

132 Netflix, if I remember correctly, still hasn't shown a profit. It's held up by investor money from its inflated stock price.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

Incorrect.
Their 10-k shows $33b in revenue, $5b net income.

Cash flow is in the $5b range, long term debt is $14b, and they bought back $6b of their stock last year.

Seems to be in good shape. Assets are like $30b.

As long as they have subscribers.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 04:50 PM (ufFY8)

133 If it was about what Gina said, why did they keep ratfaced shit Pedro Pascal, who kept narcing on her like a little bitch, on the same show, despite him trivializing the holocaust even more by saying everyone who disagreed with him, but didn't you know... didn't commit genocide, was a nazi and worse than hitler?

Any argument they make, outside of "she was fired for being a conservative" can easily be torn to shreds.

The big problem though is that the case being held in CA means they'll win even if they admit they fired her for being a Republican.

Posted by: Rbastid at April 11, 2024 04:51 PM (olbpz)

134 Looney Tunes worked because the writers knew how to entertain both kids and adults.

Early Pixar was the same.

The current set of idiots at Pixar and Disney can't even entertain their very narrow audience of mentally ill misfits.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 11, 2024 04:52 PM (tT6L1)

135 Hey, 20 bucks is 20 bucks
Posted by: Harley Davidson

Even in town?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:52 PM (9yWhg)

136 My Mom buys bird food at the feed store in 40 lb bags.
Buncha fat little birds everywhere.
Posted by: wth at April 11, 2024 04:45 PM (v0R5T)

I can only get 20 Lb bags which I keep in a small metal trash can.

Lest mice chew into the bags.

Posted by: JT at April 11, 2024 04:52 PM (T4tVD)

137 Gross Revenue

Posted by: polynikes at April 11, 2024 04:52 PM (GvesS)

138 124 It has begun to rain here.
Posted by: JT at April 11, 2024 04:49 PM

Howdy JT! Crazy windy here! The birds are hanging on to the feeders for dear life!

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 11, 2024 04:52 PM (rbKZ6)

139 You're both misusing "gross profits," I think. Profit is the difference between gross revenue and expenses. There is no such thing as "gross profit."

IANAA, but is "gross profits" the same thing as what is called "EBITDA" -- earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 11, 2024 04:53 PM (/y8xj)

140 Mice get hungry, too, ya know.

Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 04:53 PM (Z2yLo)

141 I have the entire Loony Tunes catalog on DVD, even the "problematic" ones. Aside from a few stupid advisories of racism, etc, it's all there.

HASSAN CHOP!!!

Posted by: Charles Brown, Esq. at April 11, 2024 04:53 PM (MvA9C)

142 Back when Disney knew how to animate: "The Story of Menstruation" (1946) (ten minutes.)
youtube.com/watch?v=vG9o9m0LsbI

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at April 11, 2024 04:53 PM (MvF+J)

143 Cash flow is in the $5b range, long term debt is $14b, and they bought back $6b of their stock last year.

Seems to be in good shape. Assets are like $30b.

As long as they have subscribers.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 04:50 PM (ufFY

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So they borrowed money to buy back their shares, which they then probably issued to insiders as stock-based compensation.

Which is, in my opinion, at or over the line of "fraud," even though the law disagrees. Spending money you don't have to buy back your shares so you can issue them to insiders in lieu of cash and without further share dilution (or stuff them in the treasury to use for M&A) is essentially money laundering, and doing that instead of either reinvesting in the business or paying a dividend is incredibly corrupt and extremely common, especially in high tech.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:53 PM (HnUIn)

144 I can only get 20 Lb bags which I keep in a small metal trash can.

Lest mice chew into the bags.
Posted by: JT

My wife stopped putting out birdfeed because it was attracting rats.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:54 PM (9yWhg)

145 Disney was trading under $80 last Oct, and has put on almost 40 points since then in spite of a steady diet of disaster.

Wall Street, not Main Street.
Posted by: Auspex at April 11, 2024 04:45 PM (j4U/Z)

Peltz's proxy fight was a factor in the stock rise.
Started going back down when he lost two weeks ago.
This year will suck for DIS, because they have less shitty movies coming out, and no new shit on D+.
Plus, Universal's Epic Universe will open up soon, making it bigger than D-World.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 04:54 PM (ufFY8)

146 From an earlier thread, fans of Aubrey Plaza may find enjoyment in a youtube video of her reading aloud "thirsty" tweets sent to her. She was also funny on the Hot Ones episode featuring her.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at April 11, 2024 04:54 PM (lg881)

147 The only thing i want to know about Disney is how many more bombs they can put out before bankruptcy?

Posted by: Outside of Life at April 11, 2024 04:54 PM (89Sog)

148 *Doffs badly constructed ghost costume*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 11, 2024 04:54 PM (MvA9C)

149 My wife stopped putting out birdfeed because it was attracting rats.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:54 PM (9yWhg)

2 Legged or 4 legged ?

Posted by: JT at April 11, 2024 04:55 PM (T4tVD)

150 I've watched various vids on YouTube about Disney and Hollywood's dysfunction. There will be fewer productions of movies and the number of episodes of TV shows will be decreased. How'd those strikes work out for ya, actors and writers.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 11, 2024 04:55 PM (ixVYR)

151 I have the entire Loony Tunes catalog on DVD, even the "problematic" ones. Aside from a few stupid advisories of racism, etc, it's all there.

HASSAN CHOP!!!
Posted by: Charles Brown, Esq. at April 11, 2024 04:53 PM (MvA9C)

I went apeshit last year and bought nearly all the available Looney Tunes on divvy-dee and blu. The only ones I need are a Porky Pig set and the volume three of the Collector's Choice series.

Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 04:55 PM (Z2yLo)

152 I can only get 20 Lb bags which I keep in a small metal trash can.

Lest mice chew into the bags.
Posted by: JT at April 11, 2024 04:52 PM (T4tVD)
......

That's a good idea. We use plastic 5 gallon buckets with lids and I bet the rats can get into them.

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2024 04:55 PM (v0R5T)

153 __

You're both misusing "gross profits," I think. Profit is the difference between gross revenue and expenses. There is no such thing as "gross profit."

Posted by: Frasier Crane
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Frasier Crane, always prissy.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 04:55 PM (eY+TO)

154 My wife stopped putting out birdfeed because it was attracting rats.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:54 PM (9yWhg)

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Oh, eww.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 11, 2024 04:55 PM (DRSnL)

155 My wife stopped putting out birdfeed because it was attracting rats.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:54 PM (9yWhg)

2 Legged or 4 legged ?
Posted by: JT

4.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 04:55 PM (9yWhg)

156 The only thing i want to know about Disney is how many more bombs they can put out before bankruptcy?
Posted by: Outside of Life at April 11, 2024 04:54 PM (89Sog)
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"Experiences" - cruises and parks - are still holding up. Those will come under pressure, but it isn't too bad yet. They also do a fair amount of farmed-out production work, which brings some money in.

Don't expect any serious talk of Disney bankruptcy for at least five or ten years, even if things continue exactly as they are.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:56 PM (HnUIn)

157 ooney Tunes worked because the writers knew how to entertain both kids and adults.

Early Pixar was the same.

The current set of idiots at Pixar and Disney can't even entertain their very narrow audience of mentally ill misfits.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 11, 2024 04:52 PM (tT6L1)
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I read Chuck Amuck and I learned some things about Pixar under Lassiter.

The guys in Looney Tunes wrote to amuse themselves.

It's also funny because the entire character of Pepe Le'Pew is a poke at Mike Maltese, who's name you can see as writer on almost any LT classic.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 04:56 PM (krQz2)

158
Gross profit vs net profit:
https://tinyurl.com/27t3pkpr

"In short, gross profit is your revenue without subtracting your manufacturing or production expenses, while net profit is your gross profit minus the cost of all business operations and non-operations."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 11, 2024 04:56 PM (w6EFb)

159 There will be fewer productions of movies and the number of episodes of TV shows will be decreased. How'd those strikes work out for ya, actors and writers.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 11, 2024 04:55 PM (ixVYR)

"Any" is too many.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2024 04:56 PM (tkR6S)

160 The big problem though is that the case being held in CA means they'll win even if they admit they fired her for being a Republican.
Posted by: Rbastid
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Google already had to settle for big bucks for firing an engineer due to badthink due to the Unruh Civil Rights Act. California law, curiously enough, is not as bad as somewhere like NY State have become.

Fatalism is not a virtue and despair is a sin.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:57 PM (G0ieF)

161 ooney Tunes worked because the writers knew how to entertain both kids and adults.

Early Pixar was the same. ...
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 11, 2024 04:52 PM (tT6L1)
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John Lassiter understands story, and that "children's movie" and "family movie" are not the same thing, and how to appeal to both children and adults.

He's the one who said that the worlds you create in story should be believable but not realistic, and he was spot-on (at least when it comes to family films).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:57 PM (HnUIn)

162 Whoopsie~!

@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Former President Trump’s support among black men has doubled in battleground states since the 2020 election, according to a poll from the WSJ.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 11, 2024 04:58 PM (IG4Id)

163 John Lassiter understands story, and that "children's movie" and "family movie" are not the same thing, and how to appeal to both children and adults.

He's the one who said that the worlds you create in story should be believable but not realistic, and he was spot-on (at least when it comes to family films).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 04:57 PM (HnUIn)
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Pixar's motto was "Story first."

And they followed through on that for a good run.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 04:58 PM (krQz2)

164 ... because #MeToo exists to get men fired and replace them with unsuitable women.

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"You mean, like, unable to fit in a man's suit?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 11, 2024 04:59 PM (4nwyS)

165 My wife stopped putting out birdfeed because it was attracting rats.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
.......

I'm getting squirrels and gopher mounds under the feeders. And crows. It's out of control I tell ya!

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2024 05:00 PM (v0R5T)

166 profit /prŏf′ĭt/
noun

An advantageous gain or return; benefit. Financial gain from a transaction or from a period of investment or business activity, usually calculated as income in excess of costs or as the final value of an asset in excess of its initial value.

The American Heritage® Dictionary

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 05:00 PM (eY+TO)

167 "In short, gross profit is your revenue without subtracting your manufacturing or production expenses, while net profit is your gross profit minus the cost of all business operations and non-operations."
Posted by: publius
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This is simply ordinary revenue and misnamed gross profit by people that were never trained as accountants nor doing books in a corporation. Essentially it is a meaningless term.

In a way, it is a misapplication of personal accounting stds to business aka gross income versus net income.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 05:00 PM (G0ieF)

168 I like to hide my hand, in Carano's bosom

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 11, 2024 05:00 PM (NtVYv)

169 Just paid over.$5 a gal.for.gas here in WA state. Discretionary cash is disappearing. FY Disney, Democrats, and GOP rat bastards.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 11, 2024 05:00 PM (W/lyH)

170 Speaking of regurgitations, that making a new Beetlejuice movies. Because we were just clamoring for that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2024 05:00 PM (JTwsP)

171
Gross profit is the revenue from sales of whatever you're selling, minus the costs of those goods sold.

Net profit then subtracts everything else like marketing expense, administrative costs, and all that crap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (w6EFb)

172 Just paid over.$5 a gal.for.gas here in WA state. Discretionary cash is disappearing. FY Disney, Democrats, and GOP rat bastards.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 11, 2024 05:00 PM (W/lyH)

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Yikes! We're still at about $4.18 over here on the east side.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (DRSnL)

173 Crows are birds too .

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (JTwsP)

174 I hope she wins millions

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (NtVYv)

175 @LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Former President Trump’s support among black men has doubled in battleground states since the 2020 election, according to a poll from the WSJ.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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I was assured earlier today by one of our poll whores that Trump has already lost the 2024 race and will be beheaded before then by New York State and Fani Willis.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (G0ieF)

176 Whoopsie~!

@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Former President Trump’s support among black men has doubled in battleground states since the 2020 election, according to a poll from the WSJ.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

They not black!

Posted by: Droolin' Joe at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (FVME7)

177 My wife stopped putting out birdfeed because it was attracting rats.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
.......

I'm getting squirrels and gopher mounds under the feeders. And crows. It's out of control I tell ya!
Posted by: wth at April 11, 2024 05:00 PM (v0R5T)
***

Nurse's woodpeckers still bit my gutters at 0 dark 30 each morning.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 11, 2024 05:02 PM (W/lyH)

178 Yikes! We're still at about $4.18 over here on the east side.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (DRSnL)
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Still under $4.00 here in crazy town.

For now.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 11, 2024 05:02 PM (tT6L1)

179 So they borrowed money to buy back their shares, which they then probably issued to insiders as stock-based compensation.

Some of it, probably.
I didn't look at the equity statement too closely, but it would show how many shares were given out as compensation, and the dilutive effect.

The $6b buyback struck me, because I think there was no buyback the previous year. Buying back stock for the Treasury is another way to boost shareholder value, instead of handing out cash to shareholders as dividends. Growth companies usually have no dividend, because they figure they can use the cash more effectively.

Anyway, after I watched a DIS earnings report, I saw a NFLX earnings call, and those Netflix fuckers had their act together. They struck me as raging capitalists focused on making money, politics not relevant. The gave specific examples, showed knowledge of their markets and gave no blue sky bullshit.

That caused me to buy like 10 shares. I rarely dip into stocks like that. So far, so good.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 05:03 PM (ufFY8)

180 Gross profit vs net profit:
https://tinyurl.com/27t3pkpr

"In short, gross profit is your revenue without subtracting your manufacturing or production expenses, while net profit is your gross profit minus the cost of all business operations and non-operations."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 11, 2024 04:56 PM (w6EFb)

That reads like it were "written" by a particularly fuck-witted
AI.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2024 05:03 PM (tkR6S)

181 Bulgaroctonus: "My wife stopped putting out birdfeed because it was attracting rats."

Try:

J T Eaton 902 Plastic Top Loader Tamper Resistant Bait Station with Side Eyelets (and get the JT Eaton peanut-flavored bait for it).

Best. Rodenticide. Ever.

I have lots of feeders and platforms. These traps are fantastic for keeping down mouse/rat populations without endangering the desirable wildlife. The only downside is that if you have lots of predatory birds that feast on those rodents, there's a small chance of poisoning the bird (as is the case with any rodenticide).

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (aXxgO)

182 I like to hide my hand, in Carano's bosom
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

I've never seen her on screen, but the image searches I do for Carano never return anything terribly impressive. She's just a large-boned woman with an OK face.

I don't get the "Gina is hawt" thing.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (9yWhg)

183 Crows are birds too .
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (JTwsP)

Smart birds that can also raise the dead in order to seek vengeance.

Um...no, wait, that was the movie from back when.

Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (Z2yLo)

184 My Grandpa LOVED Loony Tunes. He also had a huge color TV, so that made withing the grandparents even better.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (MvA9C)

185 Yikes! We're still at about $4.18 over here on the east side.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (DRSnL)

And this was at Costco. Some extra BS taxing by Pierce county Im sure.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (W/lyH)

186 >> This is simply ordinary revenue and misnamed gross profit

It is revenue from sales of whatever you're making, less the direct costs of those goods sold.

That does not include marketing/advertising, sales junkets at all that.

If you sell a widgit for a buck, and it costs you 60 cents to make, then you've got a 40 cent gross profit on the widget.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (w6EFb)

187 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (9yWhg)

Have you seen her when she was in fighting shape?

Get back to me.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (MeWNy)

188 >BREAKING: Former President Trump’s support among black men has doubled in battleground states since the 2020 election, according to a poll from the WSJ.

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yeah right

Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (oCjPU)

189 1) horde
2) Disney
3) ???
4) profit!

Posted by: underpants gnomes at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (vtyCZ)

190 I don't get the "Gina is hawt" thing.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (9yWhg)

she used to be a lot more fit

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (NtVYv)

191 new-and-improved talent and technique has yet to reach the entertainment value of content produced in the 1940's

Yes, and Eyefurwon would not mind seeing a little more of this so-called "Epigonism." If we could learn to pronounce it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 11, 2024 05:05 PM (zdLoL)

192 BREAKING: Former President Trump’s support among black men has doubled in battleground states since the 2020 election, according to a poll from the WSJ.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

They not black!
Posted by: Droolin' Joe at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (FVME7)
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I'll wait until I see it. I don't understand why blacks voted overwhelmingly for Joe after the "You ain't black" thing.

I mean really, I'm Irish and Joe is whiter than me. And that guy revoking ethnicity?!

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 05:05 PM (krQz2)

193 Um...no, wait, that was the movie from back when.
Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (Z2yLo)

I think they are remaking it too.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2024 05:05 PM (JTwsP)

194 Foghorns are sounding and the wind turned cold which means fog, wind, and mist in 1 hour.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2024 05:05 PM (RIvkX)

195 Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna

The problem wasn't the seed in the feeders, it was the bird seed that spilled on the ground.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:05 PM (9yWhg)

196 Y’all see Bidens stenographer wrote a book calling to impeach and imprison the him?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:05 PM (MeWNy)

197 The hell. "withing?" That should be "visiting."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (MvA9C)

198 sted by: whig at April 11, 2024 05:01 PM (G0ieF)

Does he have a final ride in the tumbril too? 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (30Vy5)

199 Gross profit is what they make on a Lizzo concert.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (FVME7)

200 Problem with that is I think the votes of a lot of black men are delivered by other people.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (JTwsP)

201 The $6b buyback struck me, because I think there was no buyback the previous year. Buying back stock for the Treasury is another way to boost shareholder value, instead of handing out cash to shareholders as dividends. Growth companies usually have no dividend, because they figure they can use the cash more effectively. ...
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 05:03 PM (ufFY

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It's a weak argument. Buybacks are rarely big enough to move the needle on share value, and the shareholders - that is the *owners* of the damn company - can't monetize any increase as a result of buybacks without surrendering their ownership position. Beyond that, Netflix is not a growth company anymore, even if the "we'd rather stuff the treasury for M&A rather than disgorge cash as a dividend" is a valid position (why not just have the cash, in that case - that is, if you actually *have* the cash and didn't just borrow it?).

There is reason to trade a non-dividend-paying stock. There is no reason to own one. You have no benefit as an owner of the company if you don't get a piece of the profit on a regular basis.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (HnUIn)

202 Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 05:05 PM (krQz2)

Black men didn’t. Black women did. The media hid that remark.

Plus the election was stolen.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (MeWNy)

203 I don't get the "Gina is hawt" thing.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (9yWhg)

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She's not ugly. And in some pictures, I would say "stunning".

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (krQz2)

204 I think they are remaking it too.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2024 05:05 PM (JTwsP)

It's coming out in a few months.

There's a trailer.

Hint: It fucking sucks.

Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (Z2yLo)

205 Have you seen her when she was in fighting shape?
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One

What video evidence would you recommend?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:07 PM (9yWhg)

206 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (MvA9C)

I like "withing". It has a sort of old fashioned ring to it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 11, 2024 05:07 PM (30Vy5)

207 Gross profit is the revenue from sales of whatever you're selling, minus the costs of those goods sold.
Net profit then subtracts everything else like marketing expense, administrative costs, and all that crap.
Posted by: publius'

I recall this kind of thing over Wolfus? I think, being castigated for repairing an unrusted car that he liked, because he was spending more in repairs than the car was 'worth'. That a vehicle is a depreciating asset not a sunk cost. For me in the Rust Belt a vehicle is absolutely a totally sunk cost. There is no argument. If you drive it at all it loses value. If it sits in your garage it loses value. One can pretend it is an asset but once the rot sets into things like gas tank straps, brake lines, and suspension mounts, it has no value. Nobody will buy it. It is a sunk cost. Cars in my environment are a total loss. That is not theory it is the practical reality.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 11, 2024 05:07 PM (9yXr+)

208 "All companies engage in speech."

Dude, we're right here.

Posted by: Trapping Monks at April 11, 2024 05:07 PM (ND9E8)

209 I don't get the "Gina is hawt" thing.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (9yWhg)

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She's not ugly. And in some pictures, I would say "stunning".
Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (krQz2)
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I like her smile. Seems genuine. Also, she could put me in a rear naked choke any time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 11, 2024 05:08 PM (MvA9C)

210 I have lots of feeders and platforms. These traps are fantastic for keeping down mouse/rat populations without endangering the desirable wildlife. The only downside is that if you have lots of predatory birds that feast on those rodents, there's a small chance of poisoning the bird (as is the case with any rodenticide).
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (aXxgO)

The old revolving soda can on a wire across a 5-gallon pail with a couple of inches of antifreeze in the bottom is a never-fail mouse trap.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2024 05:09 PM (tkR6S)

211 Every thread is a movie thread.

Unless it's a movie thread in which case it becomes an accounting thread.

Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 05:09 PM (Z2yLo)

212 205 "Haywire."

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at April 11, 2024 05:09 PM (MvF+J)

213 Every thread is a movie thread.

Unless it's a movie thread in which case it becomes an accounting thread.
Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 05:09 PM (Z2yLo)
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The Horde's ways are odd.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 11, 2024 05:09 PM (HnUIn)

214 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:07 PM (9yWhg)

Just do a search of Gina Carano MMA

Plenty of images.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:09 PM (MeWNy)

215 Problem with that is I think the votes of a lot of black men are delivered by other people.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2024 05:06 PM (JTwsP)
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Then they need to grab the wheel on this.

For my part, I've seen a lot of black people who--having finally caught on to the Democratic Party--have a "solution" just to not vote in 2024.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2024 05:10 PM (krQz2)

216 I never considered Gina hot. But, she definitely was eye catching, due to being very physically fit.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 11, 2024 05:10 PM (tT6L1)

217 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 11, 2024 05:08 PM (MvA9C)

Emphasis on the naked part.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:10 PM (MeWNy)

218 @192

>>I'll wait until I see it. I don't understand why blacks voted overwhelmingly for Joe after the "You ain't black" thing.

The dirty little secret is that by and large, black people don't actually vote, their "votes" are tabulated as needed.

Or alternatively...

The same group of people who can barely muster 5pct turnout in local elections somehow comes out to the tune of 125-130pct in Presidential and Statewide elections.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 11, 2024 05:10 PM (XV/Pl)

219 Bulgaroctonus: "The problem wasn't the seed in the feeders, it was the bird seed that spilled on the ground."

The rodents prefer the bait over the seed. That was my experience. The traps are designed to hide their feeding so they feel safe rather than out in the open which they avoid, generally. Also, I think they really like the bait whether it's the flavor or the texture.

My "platforms" actually are the ground. I was unclear about that. I use concrete stepping stones as platforms. The rodents preferred the waxy, flavored baits in the bait stations.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 11, 2024 05:11 PM (aXxgO)

220 TRAPPIST Monks, who hate Autocorrect

Posted by: Trappist Monks at April 11, 2024 05:11 PM (ND9E8)

221 *Imagines the Horde is short sleeve white shirts with pocket protectors pounds away at their calculators and putting on a fresh paper roll*

Posted by: Robert at April 11, 2024 05:11 PM (Z2yLo)

222
"Not hawt anymore" Is grounds for dismissal, in spite of what the angry ladies from HR and DEI scream.

Posted by: Auspex at April 11, 2024 05:11 PM (j4U/Z)

223 It is revenue from sales of whatever you're making, less the direct costs of those goods sold.

That does not include marketing/advertising, sales junkets at all that.

If you sell a widgit for a buck, and it costs you 60 cents to make, then you've got a 40 cent gross profit on the widget.

Posted by: publius
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What you are discussing is operating margin but in general companies other than Hollyweird don't work that way.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 05:12 PM (G0ieF)

224 Profit is what you put in your pocket when everything is said and done; free and clear.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 05:12 PM (eY+TO)

225 I was in a hotel last weekend where I occasionally check out what trash is being pushed on TV viewers., Disney had some teen princess movie, not bad but apparently their advertisement, which are supposed to reflect their viewers (at least in the old days) would indicate at least 80% of them are black. Almost all of rest are gay and/or Asian.

I stopped giving them my money long ago bus this sealed the deal. If they don't want people like me watching then screw them.

Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2024 05:12 PM (JojsZ)

226 I think Nietzsche wrote of periods of decadence that they produce no original art -- just infinite regurgitations of what has come before. He called this "epigonism:"

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* Most of my comments here have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 11, 2024 05:12 PM (4nwyS)

227 The only value any vehicle has in the Rust Belt unless one keeps it in a climate-controlled garage and never drives it in winter, is its practical value as transport. Any vehicle where I live has no asset value other than that. No vehicle in the Rust Belt has any more value than a bus ticket.
You might be able to off it to a sucker for some part of its value, that depreciating asset, but it is on its way into a sandbox of rust and everyone knows it. The only thing anyone buys here is the actual transport value. The vehicle itself once the rot sets in, is worthless. It is not even an asset it is a liability.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 11, 2024 05:13 PM (9yXr+)

228 Joe Mannix: "The Horde's ways are odd."

The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Discussion.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 11, 2024 05:13 PM (aXxgO)

229 So some dance team got booted from.some Seattle dance event because.their outfits replicated the flag. Apparently some.attendeing were offended.
I wonder if I were there and complained about the fag flag, how long before I was arrested?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 11, 2024 05:13 PM (W/lyH)

230 Just do a search of Gina Carano MMA

Plenty of images.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One

Still not impressed. I just don't like chicks with boxing gloves and biceps.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:13 PM (9yWhg)

231 170 Speaking of regurgitations, that making a new Beetlejuice movies. Because we were just clamoring for that.

And a new "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead". All black cast except the babysitter.

Posted by: if you don't like it, you're racist at April 11, 2024 05:13 PM (hSwza)

232 Allowing license with our language has a lot to do with our problems today.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 05:14 PM (eY+TO)

233 Daily Wire News
@DailyWireNews
‘Barbie’ Star Margot Robbie Will Produce New Movie Based On Monopoly Board Game

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Go straight to Margot's bedroom. Do not pass go. Do pay $200.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 11, 2024 05:14 PM (FVME7)

234 I can't imagine any reasons why most black men except Democrat marxists like Carl Heastie or the guy in Congress who pulled the fire alarm would have reasons to actually want to vote for Biden. I'm sure there will be fraudulent votes but some Black men I know who religiously voted Democrat think Biden and his administration are a mess.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 11, 2024 05:14 PM (GsgGz)

235 TRAPPIST Monks, who hate Autocorrect
Posted by: Trappist Monks at April 11, 2024 05:11 PM (ND9E

So "Trans" nuns are Traps?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2024 05:14 PM (tkR6S)

236 And a new "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead".
Posted by: if you don't like it, you're racist

That was a fun movie. Before Christina Applegate had her assets chopped off due to breast cancer.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:15 PM (9yWhg)

237
Remember the actress life cycle:

Pretty young thing willing to get naked for screen time.

Best friend supporting role willing to get a little frisky.

Leading role.

Character part designed to win an Oscar and respect.

Posted by: Auspex at April 11, 2024 05:15 PM (j4U/Z)

238 ok, something off topic but could be ground for a libel suit:
salon:

In the financial statements he used to overstate his wealth and obtain more attractive terms from the banks he defrauded, former President Donald Trump asserted that his Manhattan penthouse measured at no fewer than 30,000 square feet of prime real estate. The reality, first revealed by Forbes, is that the dwelling was actually just a third of its stated size.

trump defrauded the banks? really? was that even shown to be the case?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 11, 2024 05:15 PM (B1FKF)

239 "Not hawt anymore" Is grounds for dismissal, in spite of what the angry ladies from HR and DEI scream.

AKA the "never-wuzzers."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 11, 2024 05:16 PM (YqDXo)

240 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:13 PM (9yWhg)

She’s super in shape but I wouldn’t call those biceps. I’ll see if I can find a picture of her without her gear on.

Trust me when I say, there’s a whole different category when it comes to biceps and women.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:16 PM (MeWNy)

241 >‘Barbie’ Star Margot Robbie Will Produce New Movie Based On Monopoly Board Game

why

Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 05:17 PM (oCjPU)

242 Still not impressed. I just don't like chicks with boxing gloves and biceps.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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He's not asking you to put your hand down her bosom. He expressed a desire to do so and that's totally OK. You are welcome to your fantasies.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 05:17 PM (eY+TO)

243 220 TRAPPIST Monks, who hate Autocorrect

We're big on seclusion from worldly desires, don't get us wrong, but 40.66 light-years away is a bit extreme.

Posted by: Mount Athos at April 11, 2024 05:17 PM (hSwza)

244 In the financial statements he used to overstate his wealth and obtain more attractive terms from the banks he defrauded, former President Donald Trump asserted that his Manhattan penthouse measured at no fewer than 30,000 square feet of prime real estate. The reality, first revealed by Forbes, is that the dwelling was actually just a third of its stated size.
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Those poor bankers. Everybody takes advantage of them. They're just too trusting.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 11, 2024 05:17 PM (YqDXo)

245 >>> Carano was fired in February 2021, after she analogized the treatment of modern-day conservatives to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.

It's just an opinion and she's not wrong.
We just haven't gotten to the full-blown deathcamp stage yet.
Disney fired her for it and proved her right. And keep proving her right.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 11, 2024 05:17 PM (cOq4q)

246 >>> the shareholders - that is the *owners* of the damn company - can't monetize any increase as a result of buybacks without surrendering their ownership position.

Yep.

>>Beyond that, Netflix is not a growth company anymore,
Yep. They are not really growing like crazy anymore, at least not where it counts.

Regarding holding a non-dividend stock, it depends on timeline and financial situation. An under 29 might want to buy and hold. Over 29s probably have more of a need for the dividends.

I think NFLX will start paying dividends when they are more "mature". Unless they do the Berkshire Hathaway thing. (BTW, is that stupid stock still a shitload of $$$/share?)

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2024 05:18 PM (ufFY8)

247 There is reason to trade a non-dividend-paying stock. There is no reason to own one. You have no benefit as an owner of the company if you don't get a piece of the profit on a regular basis.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Modern distortion created by the deductibility of interest. The double taxation of dividends is made worse by favorable individual treatment of capital gains via stock price gains versus dividend income.

Essentially in response, our companies lard themselves up with debt and acquire companies to boost stock prices but not necessarily profitability.

A better way would be preferred stock versus debt and that would decrease the magnitude of periodic macroeconomic crises caused by excess corporate debt.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 05:18 PM (G0ieF)

248 Just do a search of Gina Carano MMA

Plenty of images.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One

Still not impressed. I just don't like chicks with boxing gloves and biceps.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:13 PM (9yWhg)
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Ahhhh, but think of the thighs...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 11, 2024 05:18 PM (W/lyH)

249 ‘Barbie’ Star Margot Robbie Will Produce New Movie Based On Monopoly Board Game
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Sheila Jackson Lee will produce a new movie based on Tic-Tac-Toe.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 11, 2024 05:19 PM (YqDXo)

250 https://tinyurl.com/2666xnfk

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:19 PM (MeWNy)

251 re 245: didn't hillary say that people like us need to be deprogrammed? ain't going to be voluntary.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 11, 2024 05:19 PM (B1FKF)

252
Before Christina Applegate had her assets chopped off due to breast cancer.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

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She got new "assets" once cosmetic surgery for breast cancer victims improved. But now her MS has advanced, so she's gained weight and she uses a cane, so she's still not hot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at April 11, 2024 05:19 PM (I87yH)

253 Ms. Carano does seem to have an impressive rack, though, so I'll give her that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:20 PM (9yWhg)

254 woke Monopoly movie

multiple game pieces indicating teeny tiny homeless people on your property squares

Water Works is now a Superfund site
Electric Company has gone green and costs you money every turn

Reading Railroad is in receivership after latest derailment disaster

Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 05:20 PM (oCjPU)

255 I think DIEseny and the rest of the woke know they've got a free pass so they're going to let that freak flag fly.

Nobody, not government, not the impotent right, not the religious harpies are going to stem this shit.

There are some things that just cannot be rectified with words.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 11, 2024 05:20 PM (Q4IgG)

256 234 I can't imagine any reasons why most black men except ... would have reasons to actually want to vote for Biden. ...
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It's in the Bible. People are sheep and will follow their shepherd. They will follow that shepherd until another takes his place. The Republicans have made little effort to take that responsibility.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 05:20 PM (eY+TO)

257 Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 11, 2024 05:19 PM (B1FKF)

So did the weather underground

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:20 PM (MeWNy)

258 Here you go, thathalfrican. Don't say I never did nothin' for you. https://is.gd/Xf9ZYG

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 11, 2024 05:21 PM (DRSnL)

259 multiple game pieces indicating teeny tiny homeless people on your property squares

Water Works is now a Superfund site
Electric Company has gone green and costs you money every turn

Reading Railroad is in receivership after latest derailment disaster
Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 05:20 PM (oCjPU)

Marvins Gardens is a pot farm.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 11, 2024 05:21 PM (R4t5M)

260 Before Christina Applegate had her assets chopped off due to breast cancer.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

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She got new "assets" once cosmetic surgery for breast cancer victims improved. But now her MS has advanced, so she's gained weight and she uses a cane, so she's still not hot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at April 11, 2024 05:19 PM (I87yH)
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I feel so sorry for her. She really can't catch a break.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 11, 2024 05:22 PM (YqDXo)

261 Ahhhh, but think of the thighs...
Posted by: Diogenes at April 11, 2024 05:18 PM (W/lyH)

Gal Gadot thighs >>> Gina Carano thighs.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 11, 2024 05:22 PM (ufFY8)

262 Marvins Gardens is a pot farm.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 11, 2024 05:21 PM (R4t5M)

Donald Trump owns both Boardwalk and Park Place.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (tkR6S)

263 The figures in foreground move against a background that is plainly two dimensional, like in old Bugs Bunny cartoons.
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Yes, they were great. But a lot of that is the writing. Hell, Rocky and Bullwinkle's animation was primitive. It's greatness was ALL in the writing.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (1bNHn)

264 re 248: Ahhhh, but think of the thighs...

said a young bill clinton his friends

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (B1FKF)

265 Still not impressed. I just don't like chicks with boxing gloves and biceps.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:13 PM (9yWhg)

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Didn't you say "hubba hubba" over Jeff Bezos' girlfriend? I don't understand men.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (DRSnL)

266 https://tinyurl.com/2666xnfk
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One

Eh, better than some of her pics I've seen. But she still doesn't really do it for me. Maybe I'd have a different opinion if I saw her perform on screen.

Still, she seems like good people.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (9yWhg)

267 Posted by: Jordan61 at April 11, 2024 05:21 PM (DRSnL

An absolute smoke show. Sheesh.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (MeWNy)

268 Since someone mentioned autocorrect fails, here are some funny ones. Some of the horde might appreciate the guy who complemented a woman who went out with a guy on a first date and sent a text which ended up saying something like "cute dimples " and it came out as "cute nipples."

https://tinyurl.com/277upuy5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (GsgGz)

269 Itinerant Alley Butcher: "Carano was fired in February 2021, after she analogized the treatment of modern-day conservatives to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany."

It's just an opinion and she's not wrong. We just haven't gotten to the full-blown deathcamp stage yet.

So very true. Indoctrination is subtle, usually. Especially in populations where tyranny isn't yet the current religion. Jews were not immediately thrown into ovens by the government. It was a very thoughtful, yet expedited process that was carefully, meticulously messaged. Slippery-slopeism is real.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (aXxgO)

270 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (9yWhg)

That’s fair. Gave it my best shot.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 11, 2024 05:24 PM (MeWNy)

271 Nood

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 11, 2024 05:24 PM (IG4Id)

272 'Barbie’ Star Margot Robbie Will Produce New Movie Based On Monopoly Board Game

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Go straight to Margot's bedroom. Do not pass go. Do pay $200.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
.......

Community Chest

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2024 05:25 PM (v0R5T)

273 The double taxation of dividends is made worse by favorable individual treatment of capital gains via stock price gains versus dividend income.

Yes, I forgot about that aspect.
Another reason to buy and hold, if the gubmint is intent on taking large chunks of your income. One can control the amount of taxable income generated.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 11, 2024 05:25 PM (ufFY8)

274
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Didn't you say "hubba hubba" over Jeff Bezos' girlfriend? I don't understand men.

Posted by: Jordan61
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She looks like a whore. I wouldn't want to be seen in public with her.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 05:26 PM (eY+TO)

275 multiple game pieces indicating teeny tiny homeless people on your property squares

Water Works is now a Superfund site
Electric Company has gone green and costs you money every turn

Reading Railroad is in receivership after latest derailment disaster
Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 05:20 PM (oCjPU)

Marvins Gardens is a pot farm.
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Elon Musk is Mr. Moneybags

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at April 11, 2024 05:26 PM (lg881)

276
Christina Applegate had the trampy blonde dumb bimbo perfected in "Married With Children."

Posted by: Auspex at April 11, 2024 05:26 PM (j4U/Z)

277 @209 I like her smile. Seems genuine.

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Carano's acting in The Mandalorian was a bit flat. She's not the greatest actress. But she always looked like she was having a lot of fun playing her character, and it may have rubbed off on the viewer (or, at least, this former viewer).

Posted by: junior at April 11, 2024 05:26 PM (TFfnE)

278 multiple game pieces indicating teeny tiny homeless people on your property squares

Water Works is now a Superfund site
Electric Company has gone green and costs you money every turn

Reading Railroad is in receivership after latest derailment disaster
Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 05:20 PM (oCjPU)

Marvins Gardens is a pot farm.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 11, 2024 05:21 PM (R4t5M)
_________________

Out: Do not pass "go," do not collect $200
In: Stepped in shit, tracking it everywhere.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 11, 2024 05:26 PM (YqDXo)

279 Didn't you say "hubba hubba" over Jeff Bezos' girlfriend? I don't understand men.
Posted by: Jordan61

With actresses, etc., that I haven't seen on screen, it's all based on internet image searches. Some of those return better results than others.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 11, 2024 05:26 PM (9yWhg)

280 Point of order!

Jennifer Lee was absolutely qualified to run Pixar. She knew people and was “networked”. Those are the only qualifications that matter in America.

Concepts like “merit” and a “proven track record” are VILE in America. If America goes bankrupt from hiring practices as such, Americans say “So be it”.

Americans ACHE for a corrupt, rotting society where people get ahead on the basis of who they know.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 11, 2024 05:27 PM (9isyS)

281 Didn't you say "hubba hubba" over Jeff Bezos' girlfriend? I don't understand men.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 11, 2024 05:23 PM (DRSnL)

At one time, Lauren Sanchez was hot.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 11, 2024 05:28 PM (9isyS)

282 @215 For my part, I've seen a lot of black people who--having finally caught on to the Democratic Party--have a "solution" just to not vote in 2024.

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Unfortunately, that's what legalized "ballot harvesting" is for. One way or another, those people will "vote".

Posted by: junior at April 11, 2024 05:28 PM (TFfnE)

283 The disaster began by elevating Jennifer Lee, the writer of Frozen... The woman essentially wrote a fairy tale about & her sister at the right time, in the right place. Period. (And that's simply not enough to stay on top of the business.) There's little winning in the workplace against those of that ilk because they have no opinion other than exactly what the winning team team expresses.

Disney appears to operate exactly like the federal government when it comes to employment. First there may be a stern warning followed by memo placed in the offender's hands. Next, in some cases, a charge of insubordination which will not be defended by a union rep, followed by being found insubordinate & a more public 'notification' being formally issued and left in place for a number of years, therefore ensuring a dent (or worse) in the offender's career.

If the offender will not be humbled, perhaps suspension, removal next - all in a very public manner.

File a lawsuit under civil rights & the story of the offense will change repeatedly for years until something - usually alleged threatening behavior - guarantees the offender is viewed as at fault by the law.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you too at April 11, 2024 05:29 PM (NFX2v)

284 about herself and her sister...

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you too at April 11, 2024 05:30 PM (NFX2v)

285 134 Looney Tunes worked because the writers knew how to entertain both kids and adults.

Early Pixar was the same.

The current set of idiots at Pixar and Disney can't even entertain their very narrow audience of mentally ill misfits.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 11, 2024 04:52 PM (tT6L1)

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You guys remember Dudley Do-Right? There was one episode called "Stokey the Bear" that was shut down by the US Forest Service because Stokey started forest fires instead of "Smokey" stopping them. I still find that hilarious. Snidley Whiplash hypnotized Stokey...but still...50 years later and I still remember that episode right down to the dialogue. That was entertainment.

Posted by: Orson at April 11, 2024 05:30 PM (dIske)

286 188 >BREAKING: Former President Trump’s support among black men has doubled in battleground states since the 2020 election, according to a poll from the WSJ.

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yeah right
Posted by: Don Black at April 11, 2024 05:04 PM (oCjPU)

Let’s go ahead and hold the election anyway just to double check.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 11, 2024 05:31 PM (9isyS)

287 She was a contractual employee, disney can fire her for anything they claim is a breach of contract. They can lawyer that to death and tie it up in court for years. Even if she wins it will be 20-25 years down the road.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2024 04:26 PM (QNSds)

Gina Carano also contends that Disney defamed her publicly in the process of firing with the accusations of Jew hatred / racism. So they may still be in trouble about what they did around the firing.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 11, 2024 05:31 PM (eoQWY)

288 They are in a dying industry and the rancid product they produce is having a narrower and narrower clientele that simply cannot keep the lights on. Streaming is essentially killing the movie and cable industry and it removes the gatekeeping function from the bigs that they have had since the 30's.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2024 04:34 PM (G0ieF)

Streaming was supposed to do that, but problem is that streaming has shown itself unable to act as a cash cow for their bloated content creation divisions and the moguls burning money there. So streaming kills movies but doesn't produce any income.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 11, 2024 05:37 PM (eoQWY)

289 Pictures do show. I wouldn't want to piss her off

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2024 05:39 PM (fwDg9)

290 Well, The Kid ordered Chinese so I told her to just make the delivery worth it, so she spent USD$70! But it showed up and it's an entire grocery bag, the brown type, packed solid with food. That is actually not out of line for an entire bag of food at this point in inflation. And no it's not just rice it's a real variety.
Hm.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 11, 2024 04:39 PM (9yXr+)

Haven't done it for a while but what I always liked about Chinese is that the order is pricey but was a bunch of meals for just one. You can put some rice and the toppings you ordered in a small tupperware and freeze it and it defrosts fine in the microwave.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 11, 2024 05:42 PM (eoQWY)

291 She looks like a whore. I wouldn't want to be seen in public with her.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2024 05:26 PM (eY+TO)

hubba hubba isn't for the girls you wanna take to Sunday dinner with your mama. Its for the ones you DON'T

Posted by: Oldcat at April 11, 2024 05:44 PM (eoQWY)

292 Well, I got into a huge problem, like longtime friend problem losing this guy, over what I thought was common knowledge, that a major trigger for the American Revolution was the monopoly on tea handed to the East India Company by the British Crown, and its parliament, elites, many of whom were investors. The Americans took one look at that, recognized it as the threat it was, and grabbed their guns against a hip-joined multi-national corporation with the most powerful government on Earth. It was not solely about 'taxes' it was more about what, 'Monarcho-Fascism' which we are all seeing right now.
They weren't going to stop at tea.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 11, 2024 05:47 PM (9yXr+)

293 In the financial statements he used to overstate his wealth and obtain more attractive terms from the banks he defrauded, former President Donald Trump asserted that his Manhattan penthouse measured at no fewer than 30,000 square feet of prime real estate. The reality, first revealed by Forbes, is that the dwelling was actually just a third of its stated size.
___________________

Those poor bankers. Everybody takes advantage of them. They're just too trusting.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 11, 2024 05:17 PM (YqDXo)

Finally government does something for the disadvantaged.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 11, 2024 05:48 PM (eoQWY)

294 I'm no lawyer (don't want to use the IANAL...). How close to SLAPP does this come?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2024 05:50 PM (ynpvh)

295 John Adams has a hilarious quote about the Revolution, in 1775, something about how he thought yeah there would be a split but it would be two-three generations in the future and probably maybe there would be a minor war, etc. and then the EIC got involved and the 13 Colonies recognized there was no time.
I don't know what to call the attempted Crown+EIC thing, we're seeing it now. At the time, Monarcho-Fascism?
But The Revolution was as much against Corporate Globalism as it was against Taxation.
The merchants and Good People like George Washington and whatnot realized they simply had no time. They had no time. They had to do something, and had to do it Right Now.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 11, 2024 05:54 PM (9yXr+)

296 5:48 then 5:50 means we are willowed

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2024 05:55 PM (fwDg9)

297 Well, I got into a huge problem, like longtime friend problem losing this guy, over what I thought was common knowledge, that a major trigger for the American Revolution was the monopoly on tea handed to the East India Company by the British Crown, and its parliament, elites, many of whom were investors.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 11, 2024 05:47 PM (9yXr+)

They also had a precedent. In the French and Indian War the army, being practical, managed supplies and troop raising payments through the colonial governments directly, by discussing what was needed for the year's campaign and let the legislature figure out how. It worked well and funded the campaigns that severed Canada from France.

When the Brit Parliament came to having to pay down the war debt, they did no such thing and I am not sure they even considered what the Colonists had already done themselves. But they wanted that step where they could negotiate with the Parliament and decide how decided money should be raised. The tea was still bypassing them, and cutting out any income for carrying tea about on government business from Colonials.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 11, 2024 05:57 PM (eoQWY)

298 John Adams has a hilarious quote about the Revolution, in 1775, something about how he thought yeah there would be a split but it would be two-three generations in the future and probably maybe there would be a minor war, etc. and then the EIC got involved and the 13 Colonies recognized there was no time.
I don't know what to call the attempted Crown+EIC thing, we're seeing it now. At the time, Monarcho-Fascism?

Posted by: LenNeal at April 11, 2024 05:54 PM (9yXr+)

I think for quite a while before it was regularized EIC was basically a government of its own for India and teh area. The ships were almost warships, well armed, and of course they had troops of their own.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 11, 2024 06:00 PM (eoQWY)

299 Right now it sounds like Wordpress is the top blogging platform available right now.
(from what I've read) Is that what you are using on your blog?

Posted by: suck a bag of dicks at April 16, 2024 04:21 PM (e39st)

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