I for one am glad to see Dodd Harris still kicking. He’s absolutely correct here.
Disney spent $370 million dollars between actually remaking Snow White and promoting it.
The numbers from Disney’s point of view are not encouraging. As it stands right now, they’re not even going to clear $200 million. Since theaters generally take about half of the gross, the movie is going to have to gross a little over $700 million just to break even. And again, they’re not going to clear $200 million.
It’s entirely plausible that Disney won’t survive this.
The reasons for this failure are abundantly clear…
* Mark Cuban is living walking proof that to be a billionaire doesn’t require much intelligence. Certainly, to be a good one, intelligence helps, but this guy proves every day that it’s not a requirement.
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* Did you know that the top one percent in this country overwhelmingly voted for Democrats? Interesting that the left has been screaming about taxing the living snot out of the rich. But when you see the rich overwhelmingly supporting the left, what does that tell you?
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* Have you ever noticed that you never see Jessica Tarloff and Geraldo Rivera in the same room?
Interesting data points coming from the pollsters today:
Nearly two-thirds of voters back President Donald Trump’s effort to deport members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and about half want to impeach the federal judge who ordered a halt to the deportations.
More At Rasmussen Reports:
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If we assume that the split between the Democrats and everybody else is exactly on the 50% line, (which is as close as no matter I believe) then we are forced to conclude that there are a large number of Democrats approving of Trump’s actions, here.
Apparently Trump derangement syndrome doesn’t extend quite so far once the implications of Democrat party policy (open borders, for one thing) become clear.
These numbers are nothing short of Earth shaking as regards the election possibilities for the Democrats, for the foreseeable future.
The concerning feature of these numbers is the other one third, where, obviously, Trump derangement syndrome has leverage over the safety of American citizens. I must assume that group has not been exposed to the danger posed by these gangs. That their loved ones haven’t been coming down with ailments (measles etc) being paraded across the border for the last 4 years.
I am forced to wonder what would convince that one third?
The Dept of Education spent $268 Billion last year.
Only 25% ($68B) of it went to public school students. $79B went to discretionary spending for office parties, team lunches, etc.
Imagine if 100% of it went straight to schools without the bloated bureaucracy. That’s why Trump destroyed it.
And what is one of the things that the federal department of education has been pushing? They’ve been working hard at eliminating School choice.
Well the full text of the conversation on signal has been released. There was no classified material. Have a look for yourself… it’s available here.
So along comes Tampon Tim Walz, at what the Democrats were calling a congressional Town Hall the other day. This is the guy that was trying to pass himself off as a man’s man. But guess who he had in tow? Peter Buttigieg.
Yeah if I want to protect myself as being a man’s man, having him along for the ride would probably not be at the top of my list.
And in the midst of all of this he comes up with this:
“We got ourselves into this mess because we did NOT embrace immigrants, wokeness, and DEI”
If there is a more tone deaf and reality disconnected line associated with any of this, I would be hard-pressed to find it.
Walz also suggested that Democrat party policies benefit the working people… And that the biggest problem they faced was getting that message across. This business is so tragic, it’s laughable.
I suggest that the Democrats biggest problem right now is definitely not messaging, it’s policy. The American people, the American voters, were able to figure out for themselves that none of what the Democrats offer help the American middle class. None of it.
And you know, there’s a lot of Democrat rank and file that went over the line and voted Republican, specifically because they’d had enough of weakness, wokeness DEI, and the government “helping”us. That’s how bad it’s gotten.
But seriously, who else have they got to run? Hillary
Clinton? You do know she’s trying to make a comeback, still. Gruesome Gavin newsom? New York Governor Kathy Hokel? Or maybe this guy?
These are probably the only ones that could make it through a primary process for the Democrats assuming that they actually have one. (You may recall they skipped that process the last time.)
Now, of course, they may very well be able to fabricate somebody in the next 3 years but I have my doubts.
Whoever they come up with is going to have to count out to the the ever-increasingly far left of the party. A look at the treatment that Chuckles the Clown Schumer has been dealing with for the last couple of weeks from his own party suggests that anybody who isn’t bowing down to the woke left isn’t going to make it anywhere in the Democrat party for the foreseeable future.
On the other hand, anybody that survives the guideposts that the extreme left puts up, isn’t going to make it past the general election for the foreseeable future, either. The American people are far too smart for that.
Day before yesterday, I posted a comment about how long the Francis Scott key bridge has been sitting with no progress being made due to government red tape. In response a reader sent this to me, I’ll pass it along to you…
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Jon Stewart screams ‘OMFG’ and is rendered speechless after hearing all 14 steps to apply for ‘Build Back Better’ funding:
Ezra Klein: “We have to issue the notice funding opportunity within 180 days that’s step one.
Step Two: States who want to participate must submit a letter of intent. After they do that, they can submit a request for up to $5 million in planning grants.
Then the NTIA Step Four has to review and approve an award again. States who want to participate must submit that letter of intent.
Step three: “They can request up to $5 million in planning grants. Just planning, just planning.
Step four : “The requests are reviewed, approved and awarded by the NTIA.” States must submit a five year action plan. All 56 had passed through at least step 5, it took more than 3 years.
[Step 6] Then the FCC, must publish the broadband data maps before NTIA allocates funds. So having done the no vote. So the letters of intent, the the the request for planning grants, then the review approval and awarding of the planning grants, then the five year action plans in between that the federal government has to put forward a map saying where it thinks we need rural broadband subsidies. And then, of course, the states need an opportunity to challenge the map for accuracy.
step seven So then the NTIAhas to use the FCC maps to make allocation decisions. It’s hard even to talk about this, man.
Step eight is states must submit an initial proposal to the NTIA.”
Jon Stewart: “But then what was the five year plan and what the f–k did they apply for?”
Ezra Klein: “Step nine NTIA must review and approve each state’s again initial proposal. By my read, we have had at least two initial proposals here, but that’s a different issue.
Step ten. States must publish their own map and allow internal challenges to their own map.
Step 11 the NTIA must review and improve the challenge results and the final map. So the NCAA has put forward a map.
Step 12 states must run a competitive sub granting process.”
Jon Stewart: “Oh, my God. At step 12. After all this has been done!?”
Ezra Klein: “Step 13 States must submit a final proposal. This all all the proposals weren’t enough to NTIA. Now that goes to three of 56.
Step 14 the NTIA must review and approve the state’s final proposal. And that is three of the 56 jurisdictions. And states are there.”
Jon Stewart: “I’m speechless.”
Jon just learned why “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help'”
And here you go
Getting some good comments on some of these so here’s some more…
* Only Donald Trump could make the environment job left hate electric vehicles.* Have you noticed that the ones that are coming out against “drill, baby, drill” are the ones that are burning Teslas?
* Ever notice that the ones fire bombing Teslas are also the ones with “coexist” stickers on their cars?
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* Since the only people that were buying electric vehicles were liberal Democrats, who is it that these criminals figure that they’re hurting? Obviously they didn’t think this one through.
It was a year ago today that the Francis Scott Key bridge was struck by a cargo ship and essentially destroyed.
We can certainly argue about the cause of the accident, (was it in fact an accident?) responsibility for set accident, etc etc. But that’s not my point.
They haven’t started on the new bridge, in fact they haven’t even bothered tearing down what’s left of the old one. It’s been bottled up and red tape, as I predicted a year ago.
Instead of rebuilding the bridge, we’re worried about environmental impact statements, making sure that the racial makeup of the workers rebuilding the bridge are within government guidelines, that they’re all unionised, and so on…
As far as I’m concerned this is emblematic of just about anything the government tries to do. The old saying about the camel being a horse constructed by committee, applies very well indeed.
This is one of the major reasons why our country’s founders concentrated their efforts on limiting government.
