Disney Cancels Lesbian Space Witch Show "The Acolyte;" Former X-Men Producer Says He'll Sue Disney for Defamation

It's just a well-oiled machine, and Disney's efforts to "inject gayness into everything" (as one of its executives said) is just nothing but upside.

What's remarkable is not that the barely-viewed, savagely reviewed Acolyte was canceled. It cost $180 million plus and was yet another corporate embarrassment. Bob Iger can't put the blame on Kaffeine Kennedy when he's the guy who refuses to fire her or at least take away her power to greenlight woke trash shows.

What's remarkable is that Disney is admitting -- or bragging -- that they're cancelling it. What they usually do is claim that sequels to unpopular money-losers are "in development," perpetually. Disney still claims, for example, that the Rian Johnson Star Wars trilogy is still a go... one day, when they get all their ducks in a row.

So what made Disney rush out word that no, no Acolyte sequel series is in perpetual development, but is in fact fully, officially canceled?

Could be that shareholders are getting antsy about Iger's apparent credo that "Failure is Job One" and would like some reassurance that Iger doesn't intend to burn their money in a pit forever.

"The Acolyte" will not return for Season 2.
Lucasfilm has elected not to continue with the "Star Wars" Disney+ series following its first season, which depicted the rise of the Sith roughly 100 years before the events of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace."
The news comes at once as a shock, given how much of the Season 1 finale ended on a cliffhanger and teased several plotlines for a Season 2, and not much of a surprise, given the wildly opposing reception from fans and the less-than-robust viewership that appeared to drop off after the series premiere in June.

The "wildly opposing reception" comes from two different camps. First, actual Star Wars fans, who tend to be male and straight, who hated the show (or simply didn't bother watching it, as Disney has done what a thousand bullies failed to accomplish, convincing them that Star Wars is Stupid and Fucking Gay).

Second, non-Star-Wars-fan feminist and gay political agitators on Twitter, who do not watch these things, because they don't like boys' adventure stories, but are constantly demanding that people fill boys' adventure stories with women and gays, who promise that they will like Star Wars if only they can "see themselves in it."

But when you make shows and movies expressly for them, they don't show up, and the shows and movies fail. Disastrously.

So who does Hollywood and the corporate media keep courting?

The non-fans, of course. They're not actually interested in the shows and you'll go bankrupt chasing "the phantom audience that does not and never will exist," but at least they're not icky like those straight male geeks.

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Other fans, however, felt those creative choices were antithetical to the good-vs-evil nature of "Star Wars" storytelling, and strongly objected to the show's expansion of the mythology of the Force. "The Acolyte" was also review-bombed, an insidious practice most often employed as a form of digital protest against inclusive casts centered around actors of color and LGBTQ characters, like Osha and Mae's mothers played by Jodie Turner-Smith and Margarita Levieva. (The 2017 film "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was an early recipient of this kind of trolling.)

Oh, blow me. The most insidious form of review bombing is the habit of all the leftwing sheep "critics" who only judge a movie based on its leftwing politics and "representation" of allegedly "marginalized" groups. They pretend that every movie or show that "teaches the CHUDs a lesson" is brilliant.

Amusingly, Deadline reported the cancellation on August 19th -- and Disney's stock shot up a full dollar that day.

Coincidence?

Or is it The Will of the Force?

Meanwhile, there's the former producer of the revived X-Men cartoon, the very, very gay Beau DeMayo.

DeMayo was suddenly fired from the show on the eve of its debut for no given reason. He was dis-invited to the premier, and later even had his credits stripped off the second season.

Which hasn't been shown yet. Cartoons are usually bought in two season deals, to amortize the costs in making them over two seasons. So when you hear "Velma is so good they've ordered another season!," that's yet another corporate media lie. Velma was terrible. But they had already made the entire "second season." All they're really saying is that Velma's already-finished second-season will be shown, and not dumped in a pit, set aflame, and have the melted remnants of the hard-drives it is stored on covered with concrete of Strategic Missile Command Bunker durability.

The firing of a Privileged Homosexual like DeMayo from such a high-profile project on the eve of its debut was first thought to be due to the cartoon being yet another Disney/Marvel flop. But people who've seen it (I haven't) say it was good and a worthy successor to the old 90s X-Men cartoon.

So what was it?

Well, DeMayo was known to maintain an OnlyFans account, and posted pictures of himself in various states of undress.

DeMayo says his firing was due only to him posting this sexualized picture of himself as an X-Man.

This is their Disney-Marvel’s usual playbook. Legal letters as well as other items to prove their long-standing pattern to follow . It’s about finding a safe outlet. Thanks for your faith and patience. https://t.co/LebsUprzwD
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) August 16, 2024

For its part, Disney says he was fired for quite a bit more than that -- "egregious misconduct," Disney says, refusing to specify further.

One imagines all sorts of sordid scenarios. DeMayo himself says that Disney is lying about that, and it is "Disney's standard playbook" to smear the people it fires.

Which... well that is true, as Gina Carano can tell you.

Marvel Studios has issued an official statement saying that "X-Men '97" creator and head writer Beau DeMayo was fired from the series in March 2024 for "egregious" misconduct. The studio released the statement shortly after DeMayo posted on several social media accounts, claiming that he was stripped of writing credits for the show's second season because of a gay pride post he shared to social media.
"Mr. DeMayo was terminated in March 2024 following an internal investigation," the studio said in a statement. "Given the egregious nature of the findings, we severed ties with him immediately and he has no further affiliation with Marvel."
A source with knowledge of the investigation said evidence was discovered of sexual misconduct, and that DeMayo repeatedly violated his termination agreement, which led to the removal of his credits for Season 2.

One of the nerd-culture youtubers, maybe Gary from Nerdrotic, said that what he heard (and this is all rumor) was that Disney was willing to let DeMayo slide on the "egregious misconduct," as long as he stopped posting about X-Men. In this scenario, Disney would overlook the conduct of DeMayo as long as he stopped publicly associating himself with the show he produced.

But then he kept posting about it, including with that wannabe gay thirst-trap cartoon of himself, so they fired him.

I have no idea, obviously.

I'm just rooting for injuries, and bad discovery for Disney.

On Thursday night, DeMayo posted what appears to be an image of himself, shirtless and styled like the mutant superhero Cyclops. "Firstly, I'm so grateful to have worked on #XMen97, collaborating with some amazingly talented folks," he wrote. "Creating this revival was a dream come true and the support fans have shown is so touching. However, I felt it pressing for me to speak up in the wake of leaving the show."
"Above is #XMen fan-art I posted on Instagram for Gay Pride in June," he continued. "On June 13, #Marvel sent a letter notifying me that they'd stripped my Season 2 credits due to the post. Sadly, this is the latest in a troubling pattern I suffered through while on working on #XMen97 and #Blade."
Later Thursday night, DeMayo posted a response to Marvel's statement on social media, linking to this article: "The truth will be revealed. After their Disney Plus disaster, Marvel wants to mislead with alleged contract breaches over tweets. It's tragic it's come to this but unsurprising. Stay tuned."

"The Disney Plus disaster"? Presumably he doesn't mean the show itself, which was well-received.

Does he mean he knows that Disney Plus as a whole is a disaster?

Is he hinting that he will attempt to discover information about how poorly its doing? To prod them into a settlement?

He also said, dramatically:

Beau DeMayo
@BeauDemayo
I'll have more to say soon but must take a step back from social media to find a safer space for me to be out, proud, and nerdy. Stay tuned.

Oh f*** you in your "safe space," sissy.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:35 PM

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1 2ft24f2gf4

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 21, 2024 04:34 PM (T3es0)

2 Burn mouse burn

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 21, 2024 04:34 PM (JMAcK)

3
I get to do that. I've been willowed twice on the same comment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (I87yH)

4 Oh, is it so hard to believe that an out and proud gay man like DeMayo would be shy about his sexual inclinations?

I just hope the lawsuit makes everyone poor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

5 JUST IN: FBI investigating after maggots found in DNC breakfast in Chicago

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (xPl2J)

6 Just waiting on the next video from the Critical Drinker. He was particularly vicious on this.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (2UnvF)

7 The "wildly opposing reception" comes from two different camps. First, actual Star Wars fans, who tend to be male and straight, who hated the show (or simply didn't bother watching it, as Disney has done what a thousand bullies failed to accomplish, convincing them that Star Wars is Stupid and Fucking Gay).

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Now that it's been canceled, I'm tempted to check it out.

For the lulz.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

8 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 21, 2024 04:36 PM (rbKZ6)

9 Second, non-Star-Wars-fan feminist and gay political agitators on Twitter, who do not watch these things, because they don't like boys' adventure stories, but are constantly demanding that people fill boys' adventure stories with women and gays, who promise that they will like Star Wars if only they can "see themselves in it."

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Hell, they may watch it.

It's just that there are a few dozen of them total backed by bots. The bots don't watch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

10 "The Acolyte" will not return for Season 2

So I wont be able to refuse to watch it anymore?

Posted by: Ripley at August 21, 2024 04:36 PM (GUOwU)

11 More like 'AcoShyte' AMMA I RITE~!!!
WHOOOO~!
* pony dance around the room*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2024 04:37 PM (IG4Id)

12 Oh, blow me. The most insidious form of review bombing is the habit of all the leftwing sheep "critics" who only judge a movie based on its leftwing politics and "representation" of allegedly "marginalized" groups. They pretend that every movie or show that "teaches the CHUDs a lesson" is brilliant.

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The ezine Vulture just did a piece on how studios buy positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, coincidentally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

13 HA HA!

...and, in before someone whines about another Diesney post.

Die, pedomouse, die!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2024 04:37 PM (FnneF)

14
Is This Something?

Francis Coppola Fords' latest disaster/masterpiece/disaster?

MEGALOPOLIS

https://youtu.be/bgbjQIbuI_s?si=MhUxyGcMRwdrLW_B

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:37 PM (TkLhE)

15 Disney: This isn't for you, stop watching if you don't like it! You racist, sexist, bigoted, homophbic, h8r!

Fans: Ok, I will stop watching it. Goodbye.

Disney: Why isn't anyone watching our stunning and brave and diverse shows any more?!

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 21, 2024 04:38 PM (B9Prs)

16 YES!!

*This will get Kathleen Kennedy fired for sure !

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 04:38 PM (V13WU)

17 Lesbians In SPAAAAAAACCCEEE!!!

That was a Forced error..

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 21, 2024 04:38 PM (Aoykm)

18 Not "definition of character"??

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 04:38 PM (c39uV)

19
What did Beau DeMayo do to get fired from The Gayest (formerly Happiest) Place on Earth?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 21, 2024 04:38 PM (T3es0)

20 Does he mean he knows that Disney Plus as a whole is a disaster?

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They're making hay right now because streaming finally turned a profit last quarter.

The quarter they bought HULU, indicating that it was an accounting trick that made the perennially negative streaming operation at Disney positive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

21 NYPost reports:

Trump shooter Thomas Crooks had encrypted messaging accounts in Belgium, Germany, New Zealand https://trib.al/15Vpj0x

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 04:39 PM (Odg76)

22 >>> 5 JUST IN: FBI investigating after maggots found in DNC breakfast in Chicago
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (xPl2J)

I thought the commies wanted everyone to eet zee boogz.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2024 04:39 PM (FnneF)

23 I noticed that on facebook I see a whole bunch of real people celebrating the Acolyte being cancelled and not even bots claiming they like it.

I still get the fake videos of people "enjoying Disneyland" though. Even the paid actors look bored.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 04:39 PM (oZhjI)

24
The Acolyte bomb was just another vehicle for Gaslighting the people.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:39 PM (TkLhE)

25 14
Is This Something?

Francis Coppola Fords' latest disaster/masterpiece/disaster?

MEGALOPOLIS

https://youtu.be/bgbjQIbuI_s?si=MhUxyGcMRwdrLW_B
Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:37 PM (TkLhE)

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It screened at Cannes to mixed reception. I'm really looking forward to it.

Also, the new trailer invented critic quotes. But, there's a twist...they're all negative quotes on movies Coppola made decades ago.

It's a fascinating strategy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

26 Don't remember if it was Nerdrotic or Yellowflash but supposedly the rumor is that he was sending nudes to people involved in the show, with him doing superhero poses and telling them to use that as inspiration. Or some bullshit like that.

Just burn at this point.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 21, 2024 04:40 PM (Y8lzz)

27 The power of one, the power of two, the power of ma

Wait, what?

Posted by: Lesbian Space Witches at August 21, 2024 04:40 PM (2UnvF)

28 DIS is down 15.74% in the past six months.

YAY!

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 04:40 PM (Odg76)

29 Disney just can't be sued enough. Sue more.

Posted by: huerfano at August 21, 2024 04:40 PM (VGOMa)

30 The show was well received but not very well viewed. Most people thought it would be woke shit, most due to his own posts and interviews before it came out.

Posted by: steevy at August 21, 2024 04:40 PM (HJ9BW)

31 Trump shooter Thomas Crooks had encrypted messaging accounts in Belgium, Germany, New Zealand https://trib.al/15Vpj0x

Yeah but if they actually traced the accounts they'd find they were DHS agents here in the US.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 04:40 PM (oZhjI)

32 The power of one.
The power of two.
The pow - what the fck do you mean 'canceled'?!

Posted by: lesbian space witches at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (FnneF)

33 Amusingly, Deadline reported the cancellation on August 19th -- and Disney's stock shot up a full dollar that day.

Coincidence?

Or is it The Will of the Force?

behold, the power of many

Posted by: anachronda at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (oY6Yp)

34
5 JUST IN: FBI investigating after maggots found in DNC breakfast in Chicago
Posted by: Mark1971

Hate Crime Hoax time??

Well, we are "overdue," as I like to say.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (TkLhE)

35 Die mouse die

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (IyPmt)

36 I have three coworkers, all female, who are Star Wars fans and really like all the new Star Wars content. These are reasonably intelligent people too, but they seem to have a really low bar for entertainment.

Posted by: Max Power at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (q177U)

37 JUST IN: FBI investigating after maggots found in DNC breakfast in Chicago
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (xPl2J)

That's a really unkind thing to say about Antifa protesters.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (B9Prs)

38 Second, non-Star-Wars-fan feminist and gay political agitators on Twitter, who do not watch these things, because they don't like boys' adventure stories, but are constantly demanding that people fill boys' adventure stories with women and gays, who promise that they will like Star Wars if only they can "see themselves in it."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I love this.

To require "representation" you have to make the story into a girl's story.

I discussed this with my wife. For a normal girl to see herself in a story, the character has to resemble the girl.

For a boy, he has to be a hero.

My wife tells about how she'd play games with her friends as a child and the girls would always object to someone being XXX princess because she doesn't have the right colored hair.

Meanwhile, I (and my guy friends) would not care what race or color or age of the hero. As I child, I had envisioned myself as a pacific islander fighting to prove himself a man, a slave fighting to be free, a young boy living in the wilderness alone, a soldier, a general, a greek, a roman, a samurai, etc.... Men don't need "representation" except of ideals. That's DEIsney's crap won't work. Their ideals suck.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (JMAcK)

39 Disney gets its ducks in a row? I think it's Uncle Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Duey and Luey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 04:42 PM (qKpsC)

40 Die Mouse 🐁 🔪 Die

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2024 04:42 PM (fwDg9)

41 > The power of one, the power of two, the power of ma

I love how the whole coven of space witches were killed by someone mildly jostling one of them during their little force connection thing. SO POWERFUL!! And it totally makes sense within the rules of the lore they established.**

**snark

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 04:42 PM (Odg76)

42
Probably the best interview of the president you'll ever see:

https://youtu.be/vC5cHjcgt5g?si=QNdSI--omRnFG6Sb

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:43 PM (TkLhE)

43 37 JUST IN: FBI investigating after maggots found in DNC breakfast in Chicago
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (xPl2J)

I’m sorry. It’s just this Got Damned Trump and this stupid war…..

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 21, 2024 04:43 PM (Aoykm)

44 I'm somewhat innocent so I've never encountered a lesbian space witch.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 04:43 PM (FfSAJ)

45 The only thing to say about The Acolyte is this, when you go out of your way to say you've created the gayest Star Wars ever, you better be certain there is enough of that demo to support your little pet project and daddy issue therapy session.

Clearly there wasn't and that's why it's off the air. Fortunately for Leslie "Harvey Weinstein's Personal Assistant" Hedland, DEI is a real thing in Hollywood and she'll probably fail upwards.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (XV/Pl)

46 JUST IN: FBI investigating after maggots found in DNC breakfast in Chicago

==

hey, it's just fusion cuisine with protein !

---Iron Chef runner up

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (V13WU)

47 >>> 44 I'm somewhat innocent so I've never encountered a lesbian space witch.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 04:43 PM (FfSAJ)

Well, duh. We're in space.

Posted by: lesbian space witches at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (FnneF)

48 No one has ever seen Beau DeMayo and Beau Biden in the same place ? Coincidence? I think not. I rest my case

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (qKpsC)

49 45 Clearly there wasn't and that's why it's off the air. Fortunately for Leslie "Harvey Weinstein's Personal Assistant" Hedland, DEI is a real thing in Hollywood and she'll probably fail upwards.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (XV/Pl)

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Prediction:

She will develop projects for 3-4 years, none of which make it to production, until Kennedy retires.

She will then take over for Kennedy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

50 I think they're endorsing Trump...

Nicole Shanahan

@NicoleShanahan
Trump has had 6 court battles to fight during this election, while we have 9 and counting across the country. By bringing these suits against political opponents, the Democrats bankrupt the underpinnings of democracy. What the Democrats consider common course to win elections is the kind of "normalcy" that leads to famine, sickness, and civil war. The country is ready for an administration that represents unity.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (TGPs7)

51 Well since they attacked Netanyahu's hotel with crickets and maggots I would expect the same pro Palestinian weirdos

Posted by: steevy at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (HJ9BW)

52 No Jedi mind trick can save Disney now, especially after their lawyers embedded into the Disney+ TOS that you can’t sue them for anything, even killing your wife at a theme park restaurant.

Yeah, FOAD, Disney.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (GLcqQ)

53 Posted by: Max Power at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (q177U)

Invite them over for Parchesi and Trash Can Punch.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (Aoykm)

54 So, they hired a Gay dude to put Gay shit into their cartoons...

And then fired him because he was doing Gay stuff.

OK then.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (xaFKb)

55 Prediction:

She will develop projects for 3-4 years, none of which make it to production, until Kennedy retires.

She will then take over for Kennedy.
==

NOOOOOOOO!!!

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (V13WU)

56 > Well, duh. We're in space.

Earth is in space.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (Odg76)

57
I never thought much of Theo Von, but after watching him chat with the president, he is, without a doubt, a great interviewer.

btw, Theo Von interviewed bernie the fraud sanders last week, and the president's video has already TRIPLE the views.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (TkLhE)

58 >>> 49 45 Clearly there wasn't and that's why it's off the air. Fortunately for Leslie "Harvey Weinstein's Personal Assistant" Hedland, DEI is a real thing in Hollywood and she'll probably fail upwards.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (XV/Pl)

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Prediction:

She will ~~develop projects for 3-4 years, none of which make it to production,~~ bring coffee to Kathleen Kennedy until Kennedy retires.

She will then take over for Kennedy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (FnneF)

59 Speaking of witches have the women of the DNC gone dancing naked in the pale moonlight?
I'll bet the way the moonlight catches Hillary's cellulite is memorable

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 04:46 PM (FfSAJ)

60 I have a solution to the Disney Star Wars problem: Make a Christmas special!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 21, 2024 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

61 60 I have a solution to the Disney Star Wars problem: Make a Christmas special!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 21, 2024 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

*consults official SW style guide*

Pretty sure you mean Life Day.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 21, 2024 04:47 PM (WTFYU)

62 Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX 1h
🚨Breaking: I am launching an investigation into reports that organizations in Texas are illegally registering non-citizens to vote.

Texans are deeply troubled by the possibility that organizations purporting to assist with voter registration are illegally registering noncitizens to vote in our elections.

If eligible citizens can legally register to vote when conducting their business at a DPS office, why would they need a second opportunity to register with a booth outside?

My office is investigating every credible report we receive regarding potential criminal activity that could compromise the integrity of our elections. The Biden-Harris Administration has intentionally flooded our country with illegal aliens, and without proper safeguards, foreign nationals can illegally influence elections at the local, state, and national level.

It is a crime to vote—or to register to vote—if you are not a United States Citizen. Any wrongdoing will be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 04:47 PM (c39uV)

63 36 I have three coworkers, all female, who are Star Wars fans and really like all the new Star Wars content. These are reasonably intelligent people too, but they seem to have a really low bar for entertainment.

Posted by: Max Power at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (q177U)

"How was the show?"

"It was great. It confirmed all of my biases!"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 21, 2024 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

64 The news comes at once as a shock, given how much of the Season 1 finale ended on a cliffhanger

-
Back in olden days, specifically 1967, they canceled one of my favorite shows, Coronet Blue. It was about an amnesiac who remembered only the words coronet blue as he tried to find out who he was. They canceled without ever resolving the mystery. The bastards!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 21, 2024 04:48 PM (L/fGl)

65 Maggots?
Pretty sure that’s what the UN and WEF are pushing as an alternative to meat. It’s beans added to flour and processed foods on the sly.

So… it’s bad now??? Why?

They’re gonna have to explain why one is good and the other is criminal.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 04:48 PM (GLcqQ)

66 If they want straight male Star Wars fans to watch, it's apparently not enough to put a chick in it and make her gay.

Guaranteed that busty lesbians showing the goods would do the trick.

Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2024 04:48 PM (i0F8b)

67 I loved it.

It was much better than "Cats".

I'm going to see it again and again.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 21, 2024 04:48 PM (Vyll1)

68 Out: Beau DeMayo.
In: Hold DeMayo

BTW, I am so sick of hearing about 1) blacks and their whining, with nothing being their fault, and 2) homosexuals and their constant proselytizing.

Go. Away.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 04:48 PM (3OZYh)

69 41 I love how the whole coven of space witches were killed by someone mildly jostling one of them during their little force connection thing. SO POWERFUL!! And it totally makes sense within the rules of the lore they established.

apparently master squidgame has sharp elbows

Posted by: anachronda at August 21, 2024 04:49 PM (oY6Yp)

70 My wife tells about how she'd play games with her friends as a child and the girls would always object to someone being XXX princess because she doesn't have the right colored hair.

Meanwhile, I (and my guy friends) would not care what race or color or age of the hero. As I child, I had envisioned myself as a pacific islander fighting to prove himself a man, a slave fighting to be free, a young boy living in the wilderness alone, a soldier, a general, a greek, a roman, a samurai, etc.... Men don't need "representation" except of ideals. That's DEIsney's crap won't work. Their ideals suck.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (JMAcK)

Well, let's think about pre-2000 princesses from Disney...they were almost all the same. So the differentiation was the hair color, eye color, nationality, birthplace, hobby, etc...

And if you're having a tea party or fashion show or other "play event", knowing which princess someone is was easiest if you looked the most like them...

But this is for folks who played "dolls" - and funny enough, as a girl, I never did. Glad I grew up before this past era.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 21, 2024 04:49 PM (exHjb)

71 66 If they want straight male Star Wars fans to watch, it's apparently not enough to put a chick in it and make her gay.

Guaranteed that busty lesbians showing the goods would do the trick.
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2024 04:48 PM (i0F8b)

======

Andor was really good.

It was everything Star Wars fans wanted from an adult Star Wars show. It was their wet dream of validation for still loving Star Wars into their 40s.

No one watched it because the brand was so toxic by that point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

72
Did Ace already mention the Disney restaurant allergy death lawsuit nonsense?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:49 PM (TkLhE)

73 @49

>>She will develop projects for 3-4 years, none of which make it to production, until Kennedy retires.

She's the master of the one year series, the only reason she had extended success with Russian Doll is because she ripped off Groundhog Day and had the mildly interesting Natasha Lyonne in the lead.

That's it.

To say she's a mediocrity is to libel mediocre producers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 04:49 PM (XV/Pl)

74 lolgf

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2024 04:50 PM (i24o9)

75 73 That's it.

To say she's a mediocrity is to libel mediocre producers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 04:49 PM (XV/Pl)

========

"I wasn't a fucking mediocrity, motherfucker! I was a fucking legend!!!!!"
-~~Cocaine~~ Don Simpson

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

76 I do not know who any of these people are and I have never heard of a lesbian space TV show and I don't care.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2024 04:50 PM (QNSds)

77 54 So, they hired a Gay dude to put Gay shit into their cartoons...

And then fired him because he was doing Gay stuff.

OK then.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (xaFKb)

I think the gay stuff probably would have also been okay.
The suspicion is he took it either to the workplace (in assault and harassment) or to the wildly underage group...or both.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 21, 2024 04:51 PM (exHjb)

78 What did Beau DeMayo do to get fired from The Gayest (formerly Happiest) Place on Earth?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 21, 2024 04:38 PM (T3es0)
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How gay do you have to be to be TOO GAY for Disney?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 04:51 PM (7fElN)

79 >>> 77 54 So, they hired a Gay dude to put Gay shit into their cartoons...

And then fired him because he was doing Gay stuff.

OK then.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (xaFKb)

I think the gay stuff probably would have also been okay.
The suspicion is he took it either to the workplace (in assault and harassment) or to the wildly underage group...or both.
Posted by: Nova Local at August 21, 2024 04:51 PM (exHjb)

Is that wrong?

Posted by: Tim Walz at August 21, 2024 04:51 PM (FnneF)

80 Marxists want humans to eat bugs
So enjoy

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2024 04:52 PM (fwDg9)

81 Can space lesbians scissor in a weightless environment?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 04:52 PM (FfSAJ)

82 I'm sure the gay guy with the onlyfans was the modicum of decorum.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 04:52 PM (Ectld)

83 How gay do you have to be to be TOO GAY for Disney?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 04:51 PM (7fElN)
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I may be able to provide a clue on that subject....

Posted by: Sam Brinton at August 21, 2024 04:52 PM (tT6L1)

84 How gay do you have to be to be TOO GAY for Disney?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 04:51 PM (7fElN)

*with a lisp*
You have to be, like, so gay.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 21, 2024 04:52 PM (WTFYU)

85 63 36 I have three coworkers, all female, who are Star Wars fans and really like all the new Star Wars content. These are reasonably intelligent people too, but they seem to have a really low bar for entertainment.

Posted by: Max Power at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (q177U)

Andor is great. Mando is fine (some seasons better than others). The rest I could skip. I have not touched Acolyte or any of the animated...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 21, 2024 04:52 PM (exHjb)

86 >>> 81 Can space lesbians scissor in a weightless environment?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 04:52 PM (FfSAJ)

They can if they're witches!!!

Posted by: lesbian space witches at August 21, 2024 04:52 PM (FnneF)

87 @78

>>How gay do you have to be to be TOO GAY for Disney?

You have to be too gay to function that's how gay you have to be.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (XV/Pl)

88 Do all boobs look perky in a weightless environment?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (FfSAJ)

89 So, have the cast members learned to code?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (FnneF)

90 If the space witches were all sky-clad, wrestling in jello on their own browser tab, would anyone be watching?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (a3Q+t)

91 > Well, let's think about pre-2000 princesses from Disney...they were almost all the same. So the differentiation was the hair color, eye color, nationality, birthplace, hobby, etc...

Mulan: 1998
Pocahontas: 1995
*Esmerelda: 1996
Jasmine: 1992

*Esmerelda isn't officially considered a "princess" anymore.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (Odg76)

92 I guess Disney thinks it can resurrect the Star Wars brand somehow once it finally shitcans the horrendous Kathleen Kennedy. That's the only reason I can think of that it would announce the cancellation. It's saying, "we hear ya, bros. This Acolyte shit was a gay stinky DUMPSTER FIRE!"

The problem with that is that under Disney, Star Wars has been beaten, cut, stabbed, gouged, poisoned, crushed, cornholed, strangled, dismembered, flayed, hanged and set on fire. The brand is DEAD. None of its fans will ever return while Disney still owns it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (guGkK)

93 Learn to code faggots.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (pohLc)

94 No Jedi mind trick can save Disney now, especially after their lawyers embedded into the Disney+ TOS that you can’t sue them for anything, even killing your wife at a theme park restaurant.

Yeah, FOAD, Disney.
Posted by: Lizzy

Disney is scum but they did back off that because of outraged backlash.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (L/fGl)

95 64 The news comes at once as a shock, given how much of the Season 1 finale ended on a cliffhanger
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Back in olden days, specifically 1967, they canceled one of my favorite shows, Coronet Blue. It was about an amnesiac who remembered only the words coronet blue as he tried to find out who he was. They canceled without ever resolving the mystery. The bastards!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 21, 2024 04:48 PM (L/fGl)

Nowhere Man enters the chat.

Posted by: goozer at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (aWAkn)

96
“After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.” - Times Now Digital

Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (/7KEl)

97 Mulan: 1998
Pocahontas: 1995
*Esmerelda: 1996
Jasmine: 1992

*Esmerelda isn't officially considered a "princess" anymore.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (Odg76)

Nala

Posted by: Furries at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (B9Prs)

98 I bet I can get "My Cat's Litterbox" streaming on Disney+!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (CHHv1)

99 Do all boobs look perky in a weightless environment?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM

For some value of perk.

Posted by: Nancy P. (D-CA) at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (a3Q+t)

100 Amazon MY LADY JANE where the King of England is wheelchair bound, Black Gay Man. and Jane is a Girl Boss that can sword fight and Kick men's butt's better than Men.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (lsuOn)

101 "Disney is scum but they did back off that because of outraged backlash."

Still going to court over a $50,000 wrongful death lawsuit.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 04:56 PM (Ectld)

102 > Can space lesbians scissor in a weightless environment?

Bungee cords?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 04:56 PM (Odg76)

103 91 > Well, let's think about pre-2000 princesses from Disney...they were almost all the same. So the differentiation was the hair color, eye color, nationality, birthplace, hobby, etc...

Mulan: 1998
Pocahontas: 1995
*Esmerelda: 1996
Jasmine: 1992

*Esmerelda isn't officially considered a "princess" anymore.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (Odg76)

What, did Neil Degrasse High School demote Esmerelda along with Pluto?

Posted by: I don't actually know who Esmerelda is at August 21, 2024 04:57 PM (UtqQR)

104 "But when you make shows and movies expressly for them, they don't show up, and the shows and movies fail. Disastrously."

Even if they did show up, would they move the needle? Tell me again what % of the population they are??

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at August 21, 2024 04:57 PM (gAuAm)

105 “After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.”

I thought Democrats wanted everyone to eat bugs?

Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 04:57 PM (Ectld)

106 Can space lesbians scissor in a weightless environment?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 04:52 PM

With assistance they can. They have a badge for astronauts who have engaged in weightless sex called the three dolphin badge. The physics involved require a third person to assist the couple.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2024 04:57 PM (QNSds)

107 "The Disney Plus disaster"? Presumably he doesn't mean the show itself, which was well-received"

Ace, what he is referring to is a wrongful death lawsuit that Disney was trying to have dismissed. The disaster was that they were saying it was on grounds that since the plaintiff (person lost their spouse to a mess up at a Disney park restaurant) agreed to the TOS for a trail of Disney plus; they cannot sue them for anything, as it was in the TOS.

Real bad look for them. Like, Acolyte bad.

Posted by: Ravendark at August 21, 2024 04:57 PM (9IhO3)

108 “After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.” - Times Now Digital
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (/7KEl

You will eet zee bugs!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 21, 2024 04:57 PM (pohLc)

109 Can space lesbians scissor in a weightless environment?

If course. Just like shooting womp rats back home.

Posted by: force labia grip is a classic jedi discipline at August 21, 2024 04:58 PM (UtqQR)

110 > Can space lesbians scissor in a weightless environment?

I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you watch that.

Posted by: HAL at August 21, 2024 04:58 PM (i0F8b)

111 Oh I saw a clip from Acolyte and it looked like some fan made crap.

Even when the stories and acting were bad Star Wars movies always had top of the line FX. Now they don't even have that? No wonder this shit show was shut down

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 04:58 PM (oZhjI)

112
You give the writers Way Too Much credit by saying the season 1 ended on a "cliffhanger." That was their idea of an "end."

This is what Incompetence looks like.

Think about it: the last episode kinda wrapped up all the loose ends, justice was served, and everyone lived happily ever after.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (TkLhE)

113 Do all boobs look perky in a weightless environment?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (FfSAJ)

Think Pelosi. Floating weightless in space, knocking the controls and getting stuck in the air ducts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (guGkK)

114 I haven't watched a Star Wars movie since I blundered into the one that had a clone factory that looked like a Light Bright set and I said, "ick" but I am sure it would have been better to have said that the creditors wanted, "some reassurance that Iger doesn't intend to burn their money in a Sarlacc
pit forever"

But that is just me.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (D7oie)

115 Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (lsuOn)

I enjoy English history but the little bit I know whole premise of that show sounds weird to me (Why not call it something entirely different?) because almost nobody that knows anything about English history and is a conservative is going to watch it. I don't need a space version or whatever the heck it is of the story of Lady Jane Grey.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (dTTBf)

116 108 “After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.” - Times Now Digital
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (/7KEl

Interesting... Remember when Bibi was here to address Congress and "someone" put maggots in the hotel where they were staying ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (IyPmt)

117 > Can space lesbians scissor in a weightless environment?

Hydrogen bonding is strong.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (i24o9)

118 It occurs to me if the maggots were intentionally added, whoever did it could stir shit by calling in to announce that something else had been added the day before 'and you never noticed'. Wouldn't even need to be true.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (FnneF)

119 HAL: I'm sorry Dave my data port is not equipped for fellatio

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (qKpsC)

120 If the space witches were all sky-clad, wrestling in jello on their own browser tab, would anyone be watching?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2024 04:54 PM (a3Q+t)
________________

Have you seen many lesbians? Most of the ones I've seen look like Dick Butkus.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (3OZYh)

121 Andor was really good.

It was everything Star Wars fans wanted from an adult Star Wars show. It was their wet dream of validation for still loving Star Wars into their 40s.

No one watched it because ~~the brand was so toxic by that point.~~ it was a blatant marxist-leninist propaganda with an unnecessary lesbo relationship squeezed in to fully pacify the woke mob.

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 05:00 PM (V13WU)

122 @92

>>The problem with that is that under Disney, Star Wars has been beaten, cut, stabbed, gouged, poisoned, crushed, cornholed, strangled, dismembered, flayed, hanged and set on fire. The brand is DEAD. None of its fans will ever return while Disney still owns it.

The only thing they could do at this point is take that fan directed short from 1997 Troopers and turn it into a comedy ala The Office, but the British Office, not the inferior American Office.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 05:00 PM (XV/Pl)

123 88 Do all boobs look perky in a weightless environment?

perkiness is a perq of weightlessness.

Posted by: anachronda at August 21, 2024 05:00 PM (oY6Yp)

124 “After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.”

Divine commentary?

Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 05:00 PM (B0mGw)

125 96
“After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.” - Times Now Digital
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (/7KEl)

Dems eating maggots... clear case of cannibalism.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 05:00 PM (xaFKb)

126 Think about it: the last episode kinda wrapped up all the loose ends, justice was served, and everyone lived happily ever after.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (TkLhE)
_________________

Except shareholders.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:01 PM (3OZYh)

127 >>> 116 108 “After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.” - Times Now Digital
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (/7KEl

Interesting... Remember when Bibi was here to address Congress and "someone" put maggots in the hotel where they were staying ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (IyPmt)

Ha, good point.

I bet the Eff.Bee.EYE tells us the Iranians did it. Or maybe the Russians, because *they* want OrangeManBad.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2024 05:01 PM (FnneF)

128 85 63 36 I have three coworkers, all female, who are Star Wars fans and really like all the new Star Wars content. These are reasonably intelligent people too, but they seem to have a really low bar for entertainment.

Posted by: Max Power at August 21, 2024 04:41 PM (q177U)

All the young nerds I game with are essentially like this. Same with Rings of Power. They'd buy a Baby Yoda Fleshlight if someone would sell it to them.

Posted by: youngsters are hopeless at August 21, 2024 05:01 PM (UtqQR)

129 And I don't want to see any program about lesbians and space witches.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 05:01 PM (dTTBf)

130 A true Jedi Master doesn't shoot at Womprats, he assfucks them.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 21, 2024 05:01 PM (pohLc)

131 I never thought much of Theo Von, but after watching him chat with the president, he is, without a doubt, a great interviewer.

btw, Theo Von interviewed bernie the fraud sanders last week, and the president's video has already TRIPLE the views.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 04:45 PM (TkLhE)

I haven't watched it, and haven't seen much Theo Von (just bits on some podcasts), but I gotta think it's pretty brave for a politico to agree to be interviewed by a comedian on their turf, unless you're sure that they're on your side. Maybe Von is, I don't know.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at August 21, 2024 05:01 PM (lg881)

132 “After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.”

- Times Now Digital
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (/7KEl
_______________

After rescuing them. The maggots, I mean.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:02 PM (3OZYh)

133 Oh I saw a clip from some recent star wars game. It had some sexually ambiguous thing as the hero fighting dark vader.

Vader mostly stood there and let you hit him with your light saber which slowly depleted his health bar and then occasionally attacked you which you had to dodge.

This would have been considered poor game play 20 years ago let alone now. Hell, most Roblox user games are better then this

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:02 PM (oZhjI)

134 You're eating maggots, Michael.

Posted by: teenage vampire in a cave at August 21, 2024 05:02 PM (UtqQR)

135 > I don't actually know who Esmerelda is

She's the gypsy woman in Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 05:02 PM (Odg76)

136 And I don't want to see any program about lesbians and space witches.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 05:01 PM (dTTBf)
_________________

Me either.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:03 PM (3OZYh)

137 “After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.”

"On microscopic examination the maggots were seen to be holding tiny nooses. We're now investigating this as a hate crime."

Posted by: The FBI at August 21, 2024 05:03 PM (guGkK)

138 $10 says nobody eats the DNC cafeteria food tomorrow

Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 05:03 PM (/7KEl)

139 They'd buy a Baby Yoda Fleshlight if someone would sell it to them.

Posted by: youngsters are hopeless at August 21, 2024 05:01 PM (UtqQR)

*scurries off to the patent office*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2024 05:03 PM (i24o9)

140 @131

>>Maybe Von is, I don't know.

Von always seems to come across as humble and earnest.

He could have a darker side but he sure doesn't show it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 05:03 PM (XV/Pl)

141 All the young nerds I game with are essentially like this. Same with Rings of Power. They'd buy a Baby Yoda Fleshlight if someone would sell it to them.

Japan makes a Hello Kitty "back massager". Its the kind of thing Heritage America mulled nuking them again over.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:03 PM (oZhjI)

142 If Disney was ever in prison, it'd be shanked day one.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 21, 2024 05:04 PM (wBaIH)

143 Just what I thought. Vynock, chewing on the carpet.

Posted by: Bearded Alternate Universe Han Solo at August 21, 2024 05:04 PM (i0F8b)

144 Disney? Neeeeever heard of it.

Posted by: Gen. Pinkney at August 21, 2024 05:04 PM (qUkBO)

145 You're eating maggots, Michael.
Posted by: teenage vampire in a cave at August 21, 2024 05:02 PM (UtqQR)

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To this day, I can't eat Lo Mein without thinking of that scene.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 21, 2024 05:04 PM (2UnvF)

146 Ace, what he is referring to is a wrongful death lawsuit that Disney was trying to have dismissed. The disaster was that they were saying it was on grounds that since the plaintiff (person lost their spouse to a mess up at a Disney park restaurant) agreed to the TOS for a trail of Disney plus; they cannot sue them for anything, as it was in the TOS.

Real bad look for them. Like, Acolyte bad.

Posted by: Ravendark at August 21, 2024 04:57 PM (9IhO3)
_________________

How very Clintonian.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:05 PM (3OZYh)

147
To this day, I can't eat Lo Mein without thinking of that scene.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 21, 2024 05:04 PM (2UnvF)
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Guess what I was going to have as leftovers tonite.

Posted by: Weasel at August 21, 2024 05:05 PM (uGpeQ)

148 >>> 137
==
"On microscopic examination the maggots were seen to be holding tiny nooses. We're now investigating this as a hate crime."
Posted by: The FBI at August 21, 2024 05:03 PM (guGkK)

LOL

The same Eff.Bee.EYE that sent FOURTEEN agents to investigate Bubba whathisname's "noose" sent *how* many agents to secure the crime scene in Butler, PA...?

Was it only the one guy, who hosed down the roof?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2024 05:05 PM (FnneF)

149 Guess what I was going to have as leftovers tonite.
Posted by: Weasel at August 21, 2024 05:05 PM (uGpeQ)

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Worms?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 21, 2024 05:06 PM (2UnvF)

150 Have you seen many lesbians?

Parking diesel trucks?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 21, 2024 05:06 PM (rll/6)

151 So some good news then

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 21, 2024 05:06 PM (xcxpd)

152 Maggots? Was this a reference to Magats, perchance?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (3OZYh)

153 JUST IN: FBI investigating after maggots found in DNC breakfast in Chicago
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (xPl2J)

They were heard screaming, "This is maggot country!"

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (i24o9)

154 143 Just what I thought. Vynock, chewing on the carpet.
Posted by: Bearded Alternate Universe Han Solo at August 21, 2024 05:04 PM (i0F8b)

Darmok-a and Jalad-a, their legs scissored.

Posted by: Okay, that's a Paramount property at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (lg881)

155 95 64 The news comes at once as a shock, given how much of the Season 1 finale ended on a cliffhanger
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Back in olden days, specifically 1967, they canceled one of my favorite shows, Coronet Blue. It was about an amnesiac who remembered only the words coronet blue as he tried to find out who he was. They canceled without ever resolving the mystery. The bastards!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 21, 2024 04:48 PM (L/fGl)

Nowhere Man enters the chat.
Posted by: goozer at August 21, 2024 04:55 PM (aWAkn)

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Hello.

Posted by: ALF at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (bWFH4)

156 They'd buy a Baby Yoda Fleshlight if someone would sell it to them.
Posted by: youngsters are hopeless at August 21, 2024 05:01 PM (UtqQR)

The ears are handles.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (4Med0)

157 So who does Hollywood and the corporate media keep courting?

The non-fans, of course. They're not actually interested in the shows and you'll go bankrupt chasing "the phantom audience that does not and never will exist," but at least they're not icky like those straight male geeks.
______
A friend recently made the point to me that sports is doing the same thing. He cited baseball which is constantly trying to get rid of what the actual fans like, and add new rules for those who don't like baseball. I can't say. I used to be a passionate fan, and can still give you dozens of lineups from the past. but I haven't watched in years. I don't even know who's playing. The break from college basketball came a bit earlier.

But why do people running things try to add shit the real fans will never like? It's probably related to the utter ineptitude of those running the non-entertainment aspects of America. I truly believe there has never been so hopeless a ruling class.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (1bNHn)

158 They were heard screaming, "This is maggot country!"
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (i24o9)

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (IyPmt)

159 So, I sat through the Civ VII gameplay trailer this morning (around 25 minutes). I wish I could do a trial or beta when it comes out next February, because the new system of swapping civs each era could be good or it could be horrible. I instinctively do not like the narrator, an ugly woman who overdoes the British pronunciation of things.

Anyway, near the end, there was a line from a designer about how they're striving for cultural accuracy and some players may now see their culture represented accurately "for the first time." Had to throw in a line for muh representation, I guess.

Posted by: pookysgirl, gamer at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (dtlDP)

160 Have you seen many lesbians?

Parking diesel trucks?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 21, 2024 05:06 PM (rll/6)
________________

I've lived in the Bay Area and Boston for quite a few years. And yeah, I saw about a mole of them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:08 PM (3OZYh)

161
Anatomy of a Gaslighting Influencer:

Literally Everyone on tik-tok fancies themselves an "influencer."

So, what they do, is wake up every day and look at what's "trending" and what "side" of the issue is most popular. Then they they make their own fake "reaction" video to gain views and followers.

Tik-Tok is flooded today with videos by people who never watched a minute of The Acolyte pretending to be so angry and sad that the show got cancelled. And they're all repeating the same exact "points."

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 05:08 PM (TkLhE)

162 Have you seen many lesbians?

I knew a few in college who were attractive. Of course all those "born this way" young women are now middle aged and...married to men.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:08 PM (oZhjI)

163 Have you seen many lesbians? Most of the ones I've seen look like Dick Butkus.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM

First, SiD disabused me of the notion that the cinematic representations of librarian's clothing at work was wildly incorrect.

Now, you're going to disabuse me the notion that the cinematic representations of svelt and comely lesbians engaged in heartfelt interpersonal interactions while wearing little, if any, clothing are incorrect?

Posted by: Nancy P. (D-CA) at August 21, 2024 05:08 PM (a3Q+t)

164 “After maggots were found in the breakfast of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the FBI is investigating if it was intentional.”

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It's just a DEI breakfast.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 21, 2024 05:09 PM (L/fGl)

165 This is a bit old news by this point sir... Disney has full on admitted that DeMayo was texting nudes of himself in "heroic poses" to staffers "for inspiration". And wouldn't stop when told to. And got handsy with staffers.

Posted by: American Hawkman at August 21, 2024 05:09 PM (rM26B)

166
Anyway, near the end, there was a line from a designer about how they're striving for cultural accuracy and some players may now see their culture represented accurately "for the first time." Had to throw in a line for muh representation, I guess.

In earlier versions you could say play as the Aztecs and enslave your neighbors. Does that mean you'll be able to eat them now as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:09 PM (oZhjI)

167 Someone left my bag of apple chips open and now they aren’t crunchy. Sigh.

Posted by: Piper at August 21, 2024 05:10 PM (pZEOD)

168 >>> 164
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It's just a DEI breakfast.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 21, 2024 05:09 PM (L/fGl)

Silly AW, it's a climate change breakfast.

Someone should have invited Scoldilocks...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2024 05:10 PM (FnneF)

169 Guess what I was going to have as leftovers tonite.
Posted by: Weasel at August 21, 2024 05:05 PM

Weaselbeanz?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2024 05:10 PM (a3Q+t)

170 A friend recently made the point to me that sports is doing the same thing. He cited baseball which is constantly trying to get rid of what the actual fans like, and add new rules for those who don't like baseball. I can't say. I used to be a passionate fan, and can still give you dozens of lineups from the past. but I haven't watched in years.
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My brother. I hate the monkeying with all sorts of gimmicky rules, and haven't watched a game years either. I'll come back to watching them if 1) they get rid of those idiotic rules changes, and 2) Rob Manfred commits seppuku at home plate right before the first pitch.

It's not much to ask, now, is it?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:10 PM (3OZYh)

171 Anyway, near the end, there was a line from a designer about how they're striving for cultural accuracy and some players may now see their culture represented accurately "for the first time." Had to throw in a line for muh representation, I guess.
Posted by: pookysgirl, gamer at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (dtlDP)

So, they had to enable civ swapping so that nobody would be stuck with "accurate" representations of the 3rd world civs in more modern times?

Posted by: Okay, that's a Paramount property at August 21, 2024 05:11 PM (lg881)

172 I'm still playing Civ 4. Tried Civ 6 but the graphics are just too slow. I don't need fancy graphics and movement and such. Maybe there's a way to turn that all off.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 21, 2024 05:11 PM (KAi1n)

173 165 This is a bit old news by this point sir... Disney has full on admitted that DeMayo was texting nudes of himself in "heroic poses" to staffers "for inspiration". And wouldn't stop when told to. And got handsy with staffers.
Posted by: American Hawkman at August 21, 2024 05:09 PM (rM26B)

Yeah, that sounds right.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 21, 2024 05:11 PM (xcxpd)

174 Breaking911 @Breaking911 1h
JUST IN: Richard Simmons’ cause of death announced as ‘accidental due to complications from recent falls and heart disease as a contributing factor.’

Simmons was 76 years old.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 05:12 PM (c39uV)

175 Anyway, near the end, there was a line from a designer about how they're striving for cultural accuracy and some players may now see their culture represented accurately "for the first time." Had to throw in a line for muh representation, I guess.
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Some groups should be "marginalized."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:12 PM (3OZYh)

176 153 JUST IN: FBI investigating after maggots found in DNC breakfast in Chicago
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (xPl2J)

They were heard screaming, "This is maggot country!"
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (i24o9)

Shut it down... Thread Winner.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 05:12 PM (xaFKb)

177 This is a bit old news by this point sir... Disney has full on admitted that DeMayo was texting nudes of himself in "heroic poses" to staffers "for inspiration". And wouldn't stop when told to. And got handsy with staffers.

Part of the reasons leftist feminist women run around claiming "yes all men!" is that pretty much all the "feminist" leftist men they work with are sexually predators.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:12 PM (oZhjI)

178 Tik-Tok is flooded today with videos by people who never watched a minute of The Acolyte pretending to be so angry and sad that the show got cancelled. And they're all repeating the same exact "points."
Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 05:08 PM (TkLhE)
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When they were marketing Rings of Power, they gathered a group of "superfans" of Tolkien to talk about the representation that was going to be in the show.

After the show came out, some folks tried to track down these "superfans" of Tolkien to find out their reaction. Turned out they hadn't watched it yet. And probably never did.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 05:12 PM (7fElN)

179 162 Have you seen many lesbians?

I knew a few in college who were attractive. Of course all those "born this way" young women are now middle aged and...married to men.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:08 PM (oZhjI)

Yep, the LUGs (lesbeans until graduation).

Posted by: Okay, that's a Paramount property at August 21, 2024 05:12 PM (lg881)

180 A friend recently made the point to me that sports is doing the same thing. He cited baseball which is constantly trying to get rid of what the actual fans like, and add new rules for those who don't like baseball. I can't say. I used to be a passionate fan, and can still give you dozens of lineups from the past. but I haven't watched in years. I don't even know who's playing. The break from college basketball came a bit earlier.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (1bNHn)

I'm in the same boat. The Dodgers went full BLM in 2020, had the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence fiasco last year, and in general the team has supported wokeism. I know Clayton Kershaw fought against it last year, and is generally a stand-up guy, but I don't even know if he's on the Dodgers roster this year (I would not blame him if he'd left).

I miss baseball.

Posted by: pookysgirl, former Dodgers fan at August 21, 2024 05:13 PM (dtlDP)

181 This is a bit old news by this point sir... Disney has full on admitted that DeMayo was texting nudes of himself in "heroic poses" to staffers "for inspiration". And wouldn't stop when told to. And got handsy with staffers.

Posted by: American Hawkman at August 21, 2024 05:09 PM (rM26B)
________________

Next stop: the Senate conference room, aka "the bridal suite."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:13 PM (3OZYh)

182 165 This is a bit old news by this point sir... Disney has full on admitted that DeMayo was texting nudes of himself in "heroic poses" to staffers "for inspiration". And wouldn't stop when told to. And got handsy with staffers.
Posted by: American Hawkman at August 21, 2024 05:09 PM (rM26B)

lol

I find it hard to hate DeMayo for that.

This is the kind if diversity that Disney has been yammering on about for years and years.

Posted by: Does this erection make me look fat? at August 21, 2024 05:13 PM (UtqQR)

183 closer and closer...

"Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to drop out of the race by the end of the week, ABC News reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.

Kennedy's campaign announced earlier in the day that he will make an address to the nation on Friday in Arizona, where he will talk about "the present historical moment and his path forward."

An ABC News reporter said in a post on X that he asked Kennedy whether he would endorse Trump.

"I will not confirm or deny that," Kennedy said, according to the reporter. "We are not talking about any of that."

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 05:13 PM (V13WU)

184 Funny how surprised leftards are when you hire perverts and you get perverted behavior.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (pohLc)

185 The crap Disney shits out now tarnishes everything that came before. A good example is how The Acolyte unintentionally retconned everything Jedi as being queer and explicitly pagan because it precedes the original movies, the lame prequels, the horrid sequels and all manner of other stories in that universe. Everything now proceeds from the Acts of Lesbian Space Witches.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (LaNzR)

186 I knew a few in college who were attractive. Of course all those "born this way" young women are now middle aged and...married to men.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:08 PM (oZhjI)
________________

For the time being, at least.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (3OZYh)

187 When they were marketing Rings of Power, they gathered a group of "superfans" of Tolkien to talk about the representation that was going to be in the show.

After the show came out, some folks tried to track down these "superfans" of Tolkien to find out their reaction. Turned out they hadn't watched it yet. And probably never did.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 05:12 PM (7fElN)

I remember that; I think Ace posted the video here. It was so obviously fake.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (lg881)

188 They're not actually interested in the shows and you'll go bankrupt chasing "the phantom audience that does not and never will exist," but at least they're not icky like those straight male geeks.
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Which strategy they stole from the GOPe, who have for decades demanded the party be a "big tent" and cater to voters who didn't care much for conservative issues.

But corporate tax cuts!
And endless wars!
And amnesty!
Yay!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (2R87q)

189 The Disney shills are saying that since the Acolyte was never greenlit for more than one season at the outset, it is misinformation to say it was "canceled." It just wasn't renewed. I shit you not, they're saying this.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (Dm8we)

190
Also in culture news: the new video game, Wu Kong, is now the bestest seller.

Wu Kong isn't woke, and that's bad, they said. Wu Kong isn't fake "diverse" enough, they said.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (DEoO4)

191 JUST IN: FBI investigating after maggots found in DNC breakfast in Chicago
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2024 04:35 PM (xPl2J)

They were heard screaming, "This is maggot country!"
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (i24o9)

Shut it down... Thread Winner.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 05:12 PM (xaFKb)

🤣🤣🤣

Seconded !

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 05:15 PM (V13WU)

192 Anyway, near the end, there was a line from a designer about how they're striving for cultural accuracy and some players may now see their culture represented accurately "for the first time." Had to throw in a line for muh representation, I guess.
Posted by: pookysgirl, gamer at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (dtlDP)

And Western Cultures will be shown as totes evil... and eastern and mid east cultures will be shown as great..

and african cultures will have invented EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 05:16 PM (xaFKb)

193 I’ll bet almost any amount of money this DeHomo fag was fagging-up underage boys. What else could possibly cause Disney to abruptly fire him and practically deny his existence?

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 21, 2024 05:16 PM (ejqPV)

194 Acolyte had a $180M budget. By all accounts, no more than $30M is on screen.

So where did the rest go? Shareholders deserve to know, don'tcha think?

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 21, 2024 05:17 PM (UfRqq)

195 The Disney shills are saying that since the Acolyte was never greenlit for more than one season at the outset, it is misinformation to say it was "canceled." It just wasn't renewed. I shit you not, they're saying this.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (Dm8we)
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Thereby confirming it was canceled.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:17 PM (3OZYh)

196 Most of the newer movies are crap. When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 21, 2024 05:17 PM (pohLc)

197 186 I knew a few in college who were attractive. Of course all those "born this way" young women are now middle aged and...married to men.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:08 PM (oZhjI)
________________

For the time being, at least.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (3OZYh)

Gotta get their 1.94 children and free house before they hit the wall.

Posted by: kolledge graduates at August 21, 2024 05:17 PM (UtqQR)

198 Out: the Acolyte
In: the Catamite

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:18 PM (3OZYh)

199 Acolyte had a $180M budget. By all accounts, no more than $30M is on screen.

So where did the rest go? Shareholders deserve to know, don'tcha think?
Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 21, 2024 05:17 PM (UfRqq)
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How many of these shows are just money-laundering operations? Hollywood Accounting at work....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 05:18 PM (7fElN)

200 *** nothing but upside***
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That's what Buttiejudge said, 'upside, upside'.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 21, 2024 05:18 PM (64TDs)

201 Also in culture news: the new video game, Wu Kong, is now the bestest seller.

Wu Kong isn't woke, and that's bad, they said. Wu Kong isn't fake "diverse" enough, they said.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 05:14 PM (DEoO4)

Is it about Sun Wukong, the Monkey King? Cuz Pooky would be interested in that.

Posted by: pookysgirl thinks Goku is hilarious at August 21, 2024 05:18 PM (dtlDP)

202 Acolyte had a $180M budget. By all accounts, no more than $30M is on screen.

So where did the rest go? Shareholders deserve to know, don'tcha think?
Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 21, 2024 05:17 PM (UfRqq)

We can be sure Leslye Hedlund didn't spend it on cosmetic surgery but she probably has a nice new car.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2024 05:18 PM (guGkK)

203 182 165 This is a bit old news by this point sir... Disney has full on admitted that DeMayo was texting nudes of himself in "heroic poses" to staffers "for inspiration". And wouldn't stop when told to. And got handsy with staffers.
Posted by: American Hawkman at August 21, 2024 05:09 PM (rM26B)

lol

I find it hard to hate DeMayo for that.

This is the kind if diversity that Disney has been yammering on about for years and years.
Posted by: Does this erection make me look fat? at August 21, 2024 05:13 PM (UtqQR)

Hired to put that stuff in the movies... but when posted to the staff, it's wrong?

Uhhh...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 05:19 PM (xaFKb)

204 Anyway, near the end, there was a line from a designer about how they're striving for cultural accuracy and some players may now see their culture represented accurately "for the first time."

So... Cannibalism and slavery among the African kingdoms?

Sounds like it's going to be lit

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 21, 2024 05:19 PM (hB7mE)

205 Pushing propaganda/indoctrination at the expense of profit.

Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2024 05:19 PM (i0F8b)

206 And Western Cultures will be shown as totes evil... and eastern and mid east cultures will be shown as great..

and african cultures will have invented EVERYTHING.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 05:16 PM (xaFKb)
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The Wakandans will be the most powerful faction in the game.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 05:19 PM (7fElN)

207 Lesbians watch Star Wars like they watch the WNBA like they have sex with men.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2024 05:19 PM (2R87q)

208 and african cultures will have invented EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 05:16 PM (xaFKb)

Of course the leader they showcased was some Egyptian chick I've never heard of.

Posted by: pookysgirl, gamer at August 21, 2024 05:20 PM (dtlDP)

209 The Wakandans will be the most powerful faction in the game.

There is a great video of someone asking people on the street to name a country in Africa. Yes some answered Wakanda and no they weren't joking.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:20 PM (oZhjI)

210 So who does Hollywood and the corporate media keep courting?

they are courting the audience they WANT to deal with, the tony people who understand their jokes and are of a social and economic class they approve of.
The current fans are all nikulturny and are the sort of people the marketing folks all had nightmares about. So NASCAR and Star Wars and movies about fake anime characters are all aimed at upper income, ambiguously gendered social warriors, and the IP is used to teach the current fans how to behave and what they should WANT to be because after all everyone should aspire to be upper income, ambiguously gendered social warriors.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2024 05:20 PM (D7oie)

211 "But when you make shows and movies expressly for them, they don't show up, and the shows and movies fail. Disastrously."

_________________________

I'll break this down for the retards at Disney and every other DEI infested corporation. (drum roll)

They are a TINY F*CKING MINORITY OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF F*CKING NOISE. And, their agenda isn't about inclusion. It's about tearing down everything and anything that doesn't bend over backwards to massage their precious and fleeting ego. The whole thing is a self-esteem issue by a "handful" of malcontents who just happen to weaponize their own mental illness.

Carry on.

Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2024 05:20 PM (dIske)

212 There is a great video of someone asking people on the street to name a country in Africa. Yes some answered Wakanda and no they weren't joking.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:20 PM (oZhjI)
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I believe it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 05:21 PM (7fElN)

213 Most of the newer movies are crap. When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 21, 2024 05:17 PM (pohLc)

It went completely over the edge when some British TV series a while back cast Anne Boleyn as a black woman.

She wasn't having none of Henry's shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2024 05:21 PM (guGkK)

214 > When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

Amazon's My Lady Jane made the king of England black, gay, and disabled.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 05:22 PM (Odg76)

215 I am gay, I can do whatever I want !

yeah, ok, but no Mayo please

Posted by: Butt Mayo at August 21, 2024 05:23 PM (NtVYv)

216 Purring Puma getting brushed.

youtube.com/shorts/Fuo4S2mBsJ8

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 05:23 PM (Odg76)

217 I suspect the "Disney plus disaster" is the attempt to go to arbitration over a wrongful death claim because years earlier the survivor had signed up for Disney + and agreed to settle all disputes with the company at arbitration.

The guy's wife died at a Disney owned restaurant after she was fed some food she was allergic to.

This was a PR disaster for Disney -- did Ace cover this? Some of the memes were pretty funny.

Posted by: Guy who knew natron at August 21, 2024 05:23 PM (iZRAV)

218 I'll just sneak this DU gem in here:

"The stark contrast between the DNC and RNC is just incredible.

We have diversity, happiness, hopefulness. We advocate freedoms, rights, and prosperity for all people regardless of race, color, sexual orientation. Also have all the singers, actors, and awesome people on our side.

They have nothing but fucking hate and vengeance against anyone who isn't them. Holding mass deportation signs, having nothing but pure hatred against LGBTQ people, minorities, and women. Oh but they have Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan.

Yep pretty clear which party is for the people and full of hope. If I hear both siderism shit again from the MSM I'm gonna go batshit insane."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2024 05:23 PM (a3Q+t)

219 I'll break this down for the retards at Disney and every other DEI infested corporation. (drum roll)

They are a TINY F*CKING MINORITY OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF F*CKING NOISE. And, their agenda isn't about inclusion. It's about tearing down everything and anything that doesn't bend over backwards to massage their precious and fleeting ego. The whole thing is a self-esteem issue by a "handful" of malcontents who just happen to weaponize their own mental illness.

Carry on.
Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2024 05:20 PM (dIske)

Well, yes

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 21, 2024 05:24 PM (NtVYv)

220
One of the Tik Tok goblins compared the cancellation to 9/11.

Really.

"They just hit the second tower."

By "they," she means the "incels" and "review bombers" and "bigots" and "toxic male fans."

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 05:24 PM (DEoO4)

221 Of course the leader they showcased was some Egyptian chick I've never heard of.

Was it Hatshepsut? She has some claim to fame as a legitimate CIV type ruler.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:24 PM (oZhjI)

222 They were heard screaming, "This is maggot country!"
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2024 05:07 PM (i24o9)

You should work for the Babylon Bee.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 05:24 PM (dTTBf)

223 Is there a difference between putting lesbians in Star Wars and trannies in Women's Sports? Genuine question.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2024 05:24 PM (lX8VI)

224 Theo Von and Trump is at 5 million views in less than 24 hours.

Von and Sanders is a week old and only has 1.9 million views.

Theo has 3.9 million subscribers ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2024 05:24 PM (2R87q)

225 Some people put DeMayo on DeHotdog.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2024 05:24 PM (vFG9F)

226 > When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

No shit, you've been pissed off since "The Long Ships" in 1964?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 21, 2024 05:25 PM (zdLoL)

227 I turned on some movie a couple of weeks ago about middle age knights in England I think. And the leader and half the knights were black. So silly. Exnay bitch.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 21, 2024 05:25 PM (pohLc)

228 When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

I did that with some series that had black Cleopatra.

Sorry, that breaks the whole immersion into history

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:25 PM (oZhjI)

229 214 > When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

Amazon's My Lady Jane made the king of England black, gay, and disabled.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 05:22 PM (Odg76)

What, you don't think turning a Heroic King of the Vikings into a Black Woman does not promote racial Harmony?

BIGOT!

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 05:25 PM (xaFKb)

230 It went completely over the edge when some British TV series a while back cast Anne Boleyn as a black woman.

She wasn't having none of Henry's shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2024 05:21 PM (guGkK)
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Could've been worse. They could have cast Dylan Mulvaney or Sam Brinton as Anne Boleyn.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:25 PM (3OZYh)

231
Yep pretty clear which party is for the people and full of hope.

Yes... And it isn't the Party that starts with a D

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 05:25 PM (IyPmt)

232 The guy's wife died at a Disney owned restaurant after she was fed some food she was allergic to.

Our opening settlement offer is a free three-night stay at the Grand Floridian and front-of-the-line privileges at the Peter Pan ride.

Posted by: Walt Disney Co. at August 21, 2024 05:25 PM (guGkK)

233 >>>I find it hard to hate DeMayo for that.
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Is that Cinco DeMayo or DeMayonnaise?

Posted by: Braenyard at August 21, 2024 05:26 PM (64TDs)

234 When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

Amazon's My Lady Jane made the king of England black, gay, and disabled.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 05:22 PM

I read someplace years back that there were actually a few black Vikings. The article claimed that blacks were sold as slaves in the middle east and somehow made their way to russia and the Vikings bought them as slaves. They managed to either buy their way to freedom or earn it in some way and became Vikings.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2024 05:26 PM (QNSds)

235
"We have diversity, happiness, hopefulness. We advocate freedoms, rights, and prosperity for all people regardless of race, color, sexual orientation. Also have all the singers, actors, and awesome people on our side."

Posted by: Duncanthrax

These are the same exact things they say about their Homo parades every June.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 05:26 PM (DEoO4)

236 Could've been worse. They could have cast Dylan Mulvaney or Sam Brinton as Anne Boleyn.

Would explain why the King wasn't getting any sons out of the Queen no matter how often he gave her the royal scepter.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:26 PM (oZhjI)

237 Don't get anyone started on DeMiracleWhip.

Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2024 05:27 PM (i0F8b)

238 Can space lesbians scissor in a weightless environment?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Bungie cords.
* downs Coors *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2024 05:27 PM (IG4Id)

239 They are a TINY F*CKING MINORITY OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF F*CKING NOISE. And, their agenda isn't about inclusion. It's about tearing down everything and anything that doesn't bend over backwards to massage their precious and fleeting ego. The whole thing is a self-esteem issue by a "handful" of malcontents who just happen to weaponize their own mental illness.

Carry on.
Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2024 05:20 PM (dIske)
_________________

Well done.

Don't forget to include their burning desire for attention.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:27 PM (3OZYh)

240 Also in culture news: the new video game, Wu Kong, is now the bestest seller.

Wu Kong isn't woke, and that's bad, they said. Wu Kong isn't fake "diverse" enough, they said.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Are we talking Dark Myth: Wukong?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 05:28 PM (MGB5H)

241 @234 -- Randy Moss and Alan Page come to mind.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 21, 2024 05:28 PM (73voq)

242 I read someplace years back that there were actually a few black Vikings. The article claimed that blacks were sold as slaves in the middle east and somehow made their way to russia and the Vikings bought them as slaves. They managed to either buy their way to freedom or earn it in some way and became Vikings.

None of the sources I've read have mentioned vikings being black and similar sources do discuss the Saracens and moors being dark (aka Arabic/Mediterranean looking) so you'd think they'd mention if the people attacking them were black...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:28 PM (oZhjI)

243 It's all about the Cultural Revolution.

Posted by: Neo Maoist at August 21, 2024 05:28 PM (i0F8b)

244 I, for one, welcome our new lesbian overlords!

I understand the have the competition licked!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2024 05:28 PM (Go/w/)

245 You should work for the Babylon Bee.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 05:24 PM (dTTBf)

Thank you for the kind words.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (i24o9)

246 "We have diversity, happiness, hopefulness. We advocate freedoms, rights, and prosperity for all people regardless of race, color, sexual orientation. Also have all the singers, actors, and awesome people on our side."

Posted by: Duncanthrax

These are the same exact things they say about their Homo parades every June.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 05:26 PM (DEoO4)
_________________

They also have all of the AIDS vectors and assorted felons on their side.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (3OZYh)

247
Are we talking Dark Myth: Wukong?
Posted by: BruceWayne

Yeah, sure, whateverthefuck.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (DEoO4)

248
The double ended light saber dildo is very sad today.

Posted by: Buck Rogers at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (+oR7L)

249 When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

Ditto all the "girl beats the shit out of everybody" bullshit.

Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (dVxi/)

250 Pretty clear which side has hope?

Please explain the “hope” of mobile abortion and vasectomy vans.

I’ll wait…

Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (GLcqQ)

251 The "wildly opposing reception" comes from two different camps. First, actual Star Wars fans, who tend to be male and straight, who hated the show (or simply didn't bother watching it, as Disney has done what a thousand bullies failed to accomplish, convincing them that Star Wars is Stupid and Fucking Gay).

=======

Now that it's been canceled, I'm tempted to check it out.

For the lulz.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 21, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker or Disparu do enough in their reviews of the shows to keep you from needing to watch the real thing yourself.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 05:30 PM (n7h9X)

252 I read someplace years back that there were actually a few black Vikings. The article claimed that blacks were sold as slaves in the middle east and somehow made their way to russia and the Vikings bought them as slaves. They managed to either buy their way to freedom or earn it in some way and became Vikings.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2024 05:26 PM (QNSds)

Same source as the Black Samurai story?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2024 05:30 PM (xaFKb)

253 Good luck living in Scandinavia -- on a ship no less -- with Africa-dark skin and potentially limited swimming skills.

Maybe there were a few, but there weren't many, and none for long.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 21, 2024 05:30 PM (UfRqq)

254 We've adjusted the employment figures down for the occupation of Lesbian Space Witch. The number should read 0.

Posted by: Bureau of Labor Statistics at August 21, 2024 05:30 PM (hqVaF)

255 Disney Cancels Lesbian Space Witch Show...

They were not hot were they?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 21, 2024 05:30 PM (cOq4q)

256 Please explain the “hope” of mobile abortion and vasectomy vans.

"Where hope and your baby come to die"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2024 05:30 PM (guGkK)

257 Did yall see Trump posted Kamala’s policies for her? kamala2024policies dot com. Probably late to that party.

Posted by: Piper at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (pZEOD)

258 The double ended light saber dildo is very sad today.
---
That's a mean way to describe David French.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (2R87q)

259 e we talking Dark Myth: Wukong?
Posted by: BruceWayne

Yeah, sure, whateverthefuck.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee

Hhah just making sure cause interwebs searching was bringing up a lot of diff stuff. But that one looked pretty sweet

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (MGB5H)

260 They also have all of the AIDS vectors and assorted felons on their side.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Everyone from the NFL is with them?

The things you learn. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (Go/w/)

261 Please explain the hope in their obsession with the Climate Crisis that is literally going to end all life on the planet in a few years.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (GLcqQ)

262 They managed to either buy their way to freedom or earn it in some way and became Vikings.

And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (rll/6)

263 Was it Hatshepsut? She has some claim to fame as a legitimate CIV type ruler.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:24 PM (oZhjI)

Sounds about right. I'm okay with learning about obscure civs and leaders, it's just annoying that they HAD to make it a darker-skin woman.

Posted by: pookysgirl, gamer at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (dtlDP)

264 249 When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

Ditto all the "girl beats the shit out of everybody" bullshit.
Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (dVxi/)

And Hallmark re-doing Austen's Sense and Sensibility with
One half of the Family black... Turned it right off

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (IyPmt)

265 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2024 05:21 PM (guGkK)d

I don't mind inclusive casting when it's done for imaginary settings, except that a Chinese guy as Captain Wenworth in
jane Austen's "Persuasion is just odd, but Anne Boleyn wasn't Black and Henry wasn't disabled (unless you count the fact that he might have had syphilis) and he wasn't in a wheelchair nor Black.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 05:32 PM (dTTBf)

266 Disney Cancels Lesbian Space Witch Show...

They were not hot were they?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Well 2 of them were leslye hedlunds wife soooooo

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 05:32 PM (MGB5H)

267 Sense and Sensibility and Vikings would be cool.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 21, 2024 05:32 PM (73voq)

268 I read someplace years back that there were actually a few black Vikings. The article claimed that blacks were sold as slaves in the middle east and somehow made their way to russia and the Vikings bought them as slaves. They managed to either buy their way to freedom or earn it in some way and became Vikings.

None of the sources I've read have mentioned vikings being black and similar sources do discuss the Saracens and moors being dark (aka Arabic/Mediterranean looking) so you'd think they'd mention if the people attacking them were black...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:28 PM (oZhjI)

Vikings raided down the Atlantic coast for a considerable distance but likely not down past the bump to subSaharan. Similarly they got down to Kiev and even on to Constantinople as Mercs but Russia was a source of slaves and not one you would send black slaves from Ethiopia to.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 05:33 PM (n7h9X)

269 Maybe they were just dirty.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2024 05:33 PM (vFG9F)

270 When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

Ditto all the "girl beats the shit out of everybody" bullshit.
Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (dVxi/)

And Hallmark re-doing Austen's Sense and Sensibility with
One half of the Family black... Turned it right off
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (IyPmt)

Everyone should be screaming, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 21, 2024 05:33 PM (NtVYv)

271 hey also have all of the AIDS vectors and assorted felons on their side.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Everyone from the NFL is with them?

The things you learn. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (Go/w/)
_________________

Yep. Not to mention having the Bloods, the Crips, and all of cell block D at San Quentin.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:33 PM (3OZYh)

272 Black Vikings? No, the Vikings and the Moops did not get along.

Posted by: George C at August 21, 2024 05:33 PM (i0F8b)

273 nood Quick Shits

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (IG4Id)

274 There was a time when Lesbian Space Witches would have been a fun porn parody of Star Wars.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (IvD8e)

275 258 The double ended light saber dildo is very sad today.
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That's a mean way to describe David French.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2024 05:31 PM (2R87q)

I think you got that backwards. He's the double-ended pocket-p*ssy.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (lg881)

276 Ditto all the "girl beats the shit out of everybody" bullshit.
Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (dVxi/)
______________

Yeah, very true to life. 110 lb. kicks the crap out of Seal Team Six.

Sure.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (3OZYh)

277 Sounds about right. I'm okay with learning about obscure civs and leaders, it's just annoying that they HAD to make it a darker-skin woman.

Hatshepsut likely looked like a modern Egyptian woman. So tan skin, dark hair - did they portray her as black?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (oZhjI)

278 Well 2 of them were leslye hedlunds wife soooooo
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 05:32 PM (MGB5H)

No Hedlund's wife was the blue skinned plank of word. The "twins" were the girl(s) that were they key to everything that made a hate rap video against the fans.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (n7h9X)

279 I would love to see a competent Board of Directors ask Bob Iger - "What is it that you do here?"

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (Go/w/)

280 110 lb. CHICK

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (3OZYh)

281 NOODY NOOD NOOD

Posted by: Max Power at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (q177U)

282
I think there was a famous Black viking once. Tyrone Jefferson Bengtsson from Threlkeld.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 21, 2024 05:35 PM (+oR7L)

283 Maybe they were just dirty.
Posted by: fd at August 21, 2024 05:33 PM (vFG9F)

Why, Rhett! How many times have I told you to wash up after weekly cross burning?

Posted by: The Waco Kid at August 21, 2024 05:35 PM (guGkK)

284 My meemaw said I don't care what they say at your school -- Cleopatra Jones was black.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 21, 2024 05:35 PM (wBaIH)

285
Yes, a "stark" contrast between the conventions.

One convention wants to "save democracy" and "save the planet."

The other convention wants to put food on the table, pay the electric bill, free the hamas-held hostages, and save children from fentanyl and pedo groomers.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Hee/hee at August 21, 2024 05:35 PM (DEoO4)

286 Some people put DeMayo on DeHotdog.
Posted by: fd at August 21, 2024 05:24
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That's just wrong.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 21, 2024 05:36 PM (hoCmQ)

287
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
·
23h
Since a lot of people have asked, here goes a super unscientific poll …

Who will you vote for?
Trump 73.2%

Kamala
26.8%

/ 21 minutes left to vote

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2024 05:36 PM (RKVpM)

288 Apparently "multiple females" dumped maggots onto the breakfast tables at the DNC convention.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 05:36 PM (Odg76)

289 EAT ZE BUGS!

Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 05:37 PM (Odg76)

290
Go see high school sports and stage plays. Love of the game and the art, and you get to hold your breath at the inevitable mistakes.

Or go see sexually perverted commie millionaires and pay big for it.

Except if Shatner is in it, then, of course.

Posted by: Auspex at August 21, 2024 05:37 PM (j4U/Z)

291 From this morning:
***The Biden junta's policies amount to lifetime costs of nearly $50,000 per family.
A Regulatory Onslaught***
----------------------

Biden's already cut our money in half, flip it a few more times and 50k will be minimum wage. No big deal.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 21, 2024 05:38 PM (64TDs)

292 Sounds about right. I'm okay with learning about obscure civs and leaders, it's just annoying that they HAD to make it a darker-skin woman.

Hatshepsut likely looked like a modern Egyptian woman. So tan skin, dark hair - did they portray her as black?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 05:34 PM (oZhjI)

Recently Cleopatra, from a massively inbred line of Greeks from Macedonia was portrayed as black in a "documentary". We actually have the bust of Nefertiti, made from life, painted in color and she is tan. She would have been closer to Egyptian Hathsheput. She was Akhenaten's wife, king Tut's mother.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 05:38 PM (n7h9X)

293 Vikings raided down the Atlantic coast for a considerable distance but likely not down past the bump to subSaharan. Similarly they got down to Kiev and even on to Constantinople as Mercs but Russia was a source of slaves and not one you would send black slaves from Ethiopia to.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 05:33 PM

Constantinople had the largest slave market hands down for almost a thousand years. Heck they even had slave armies. And as you pointed out Vikings made their way there.

Not arguing either way and as michael vik stated...I got no dog in this fight but there are sources that claim that there were dark skinned Vikings raiding in Europe and Russia. I have no idea if they are right or wrong. Just something I read years ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2024 05:38 PM (QNSds)

294 Please explain the hope in their obsession with the Climate Crisis that is literally going to end all life on the planet in a few years.

Seriously ? OK - this won't be popular.

They're identical - in a way - to the old Baptist Fundamentalists I was forced to be around as a kid. Praying - literally - for the Rapture and the reckoning of the Lord.

Got my ass spanked - more than once - for pointing out that if it all goes down like they said ? Misery for everyone.

And those assholes were my family. But they weren't strong on logic or reason either. Logic and reason wasn't going to get in the way of their weird ass Southern version of Quaker / Puritan / Guilt Driven craziness.

Now apply that to the Modern Left. They yearn to suffer. But in a group.

Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 05:39 PM (dVxi/)

295 Disney Cancels Lesbian Space Witch Show...

They were not hot were they?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 21, 2024 05:30 PM (cOq4q)

They were the type that does chanting and singing, not the interesting type.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 05:41 PM (n7h9X)

296
We're about to enter the second age of 'Kamolot' when Guinevere is Tim Walz's wife who plays a staring role, replete with pregnancy enhancing devices.

What an amazing time to be alive.

Posted by: Karen CheChe at August 21, 2024 05:42 PM (RKVpM)

297 Back in olden days, specifically 1967, they canceled one of my favorite shows, Coronet Blue. It was about an amnesiac who remembered only the words coronet blue as he tried to find out who he was. They canceled without ever resolving the mystery. The bastards!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Coronet Blue was his sled.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 21, 2024 05:46 PM (fQmeC)

298
Don't remember if it was Nerdrotic or Yellowflash but supposedly the rumor is that he was sending nudes to people involved in the show, with him doing superhero poses and telling them to use that as inspiration. Or some bullshit like that.

Just burn at this point.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens

++++++++++++++

Entirely believable. Also entirely reasonable because really, why would he think anyone would stop him?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 21, 2024 05:47 PM (I87yH)

299 How many of these shows are just money-laundering operations? Hollywood Accounting at work....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 05:18 PM (7fElN)

I remember reading about Heaven's Gate, long the movie that bombed after being the most expensive and someone commenting that half the budget must have been cocaine for the cast and crew.

Certainly it wasn't the sets, it was just a town like you see on Hollywood back lots.

But I am sure lots of these budget sticks in the admin parts of Disney+ and the idiots they hire. It sure isn't showing up on film.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 05:49 PM (n7h9X)

300 Now apply that to the Modern Left. They yearn to suffer. But in a group.
Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 05:39 PM (dVxi/)

The left yearns for other people to suffer. They imagine they will be on top inflicting it, but if they got their world thugs would put them first in line to be shot.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 05:50 PM (n7h9X)

301 Wish I hadn't missed today; Mannix resurrected Frankenstein's monster.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=411134

Posted by: Braenyard at August 21, 2024 05:51 PM (64TDs)

302 Constantinople had the largest slave market hands down for almost a thousand years. Heck they even had slave armies. And as you pointed out Vikings made their way there.

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Turks had the slave armies...they were Christians, taken from Christians. Mamlukes also were slaves, in Egypt. Probably also relatively local.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 05:53 PM (n7h9X)

303 249 When I turn on a viking movie and there are a bunch of black vikings I just turn it off.

Ditto all the "girl beats the shit out of everybody" bullshit.
Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (dVxi
This sort of thing started with Clan of the Cave Bear.

Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2024 05:57 PM (LHPAg)

304 I enjoy English history but the little bit I know whole premise of that show sounds weird to me (Why not call it something entirely different?) because almost nobody that knows anything about English history and is a conservative is going to watch it. I don't need a space version or whatever the heck it is of the story of Lady Jane Grey.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 04:59 PM (dTTBf)

My mother who was a college prof for a year or two before marrying always named our cat's kittens historical names. We had a Lady Jane Grey.

I believe the historical LJG was set up for a dozen days as "queen" by a usurper before getting run down and executed by a stronger contender. So its an irrelevant historical subject as well

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 06:01 PM (n7h9X)

305 216 Purring Puma getting brushed.

youtube.com/shorts/Fuo4S2mBsJ8
Posted by: bonhomme at August 21, 2024 05:23 PM (Odg76)

Thank you!

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 21, 2024 06:01 PM (t8L50)

306 Ditto all the "girl beats the shit out of everybody" bullshit.
Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 05:29 PM (dVxi
This sort of thing started with Clan of the Cave Bear.
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2024 05:57 PM (LHPAg)

To be fair to the book at least, the blonde cave lady just invented all human technology that I remember while jaunting all over stone age Europe.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2024 06:03 PM (n7h9X)

307 "What's remarkable is not that the barely-viewed, savagely reviewed Acolyte was canceled. It cost $180 million plus and was yet another corporate embarrassment."

What's remarkable is that a show this poor cost so much fucking money. Doesn't anyone...question how much these shows are costing? $22.6 million per 40-minute episode? Mostly staring nobodies? With a low experience director? The squid game was $2 million per episode. Daredevil was $3 million. Bridgerton and Altered carbon are $7 million. And they look WAY more expensive than the Acolyte. the Witcher was thought outrageously expensive at $10 million an episode.

The budgets for these Lucas film things just don't make any sense at all. Not with what you see up on screen.

Posted by: El Mariachi at August 21, 2024 06:47 PM (nLFEI)

308 "the very, very gay Beau DeMayo"

Aw, c'mon, you're making that up! Did you think of that yourself, or did you use some Gay Pornstar Name Generator on the internet?

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 21, 2024 07:05 PM (5YmYl)

309 Mark Hamill is the David French of Steven Seagals.

Posted by: Tom Perry at August 21, 2024 08:42 PM (MX0bI)

310 Leslie Hedland was one of the 'fixers' for Harvey Weinstein's females to exploit.

The winner of Leslie's search got time with Harvey.

The runner-up of the search got time with Harvey. And then with Leslie.

Posted by: Nathan at August 21, 2024 11:18 PM (HBOL9)

311 For those not familiar with the minutiae of this stuff, DeMayo's name being removed from the credits isn't just PR. It removes any royalties he would have earned from Season 2. Royalty payments are based on the number of times a name appears in the credits.

(Fun fact: Bill Cosby managed to get himself named six times for separate positions in the credits for The Cosby Show, which meant he was getting paid six times every time an episode aired)

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 22, 2024 11:16 AM (0Go0g)

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