Hollywood Can't Save itself, Let Alone Joe Biden

Substack-Sasha Stone ^ | 6/21/24 | Sasha Stone

[CFW]

When Barack Obama gently took Joe Biden’s hand and led him offstage at a $30 million fundraiser in Los Angeles, it was hard not to see the whole thing as over. Like over over. Like the Fonz jumping the shark over.

Fonzie wasn’t the guy who jumped sharks. He was the King of Cool. There was nothing cool about jumping sharks, just as there was nothing cool about being on a stage with Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Jack Black, and Jimmy Kimmel.

It was all so yesterday. Oh sure, no one in the bubble of the Left would ever admit just how over it all was, but take it from me, someone who has been covering Hollywood for over 25 years. These celebrities can barely get people to watch their films because they no longer fill the necessary role of entertainers. They have elevated themselves to high positions of power and still think they can use their celebrity to influence voters. Maybe a long time ago, that was true. It isn’t true anymore.

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To make matters worse, they were yet again upstaged by Trump, who was “the man in the arena,” this time in deep blue Detroit at a Black church.

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It’s become more obvious than ever that Hollywood, like the legacy press, has become yet another propaganda delivery device for the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton was at the Tonys getting a standing ovation, as though anyone outside that tiny bubble actually cared.

[CFW]

Sasha is right. Hollywood is done, over, kaput. The days of Hollywood glitter and fame is over. No one watches.. no one cares. Those at Biden's fundraiser are influential stars only in their own minds.

[NWFree]

Hollyweird is the epitome of corruption

[dfwgator]

Only gay people care about Hollywood these days.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Robert Heinlein:

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously—after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and sub-literate every time he opens his mouth.”

[CFW]

Sasha was firmly on the progressive left just a few years ago. She has definitely taken the red pill. For instance, this from her article:

“Things probably would have worked out fine for the Left if we’d simply shrugged and moved on when Trump won in 2016. It would have helped if the Obama coalition was ready to step aside and allow Trump to serve as the duly elected president. But they weren’t and we weren’t. We had all this power now. What were we going to do, give it up?

We slipped into the delusion that Trump’s rise had to do with race, and we shared our country with racists. How could we survive that? Trump became an easy way to deflect blame for our own failings, our unwatchable films, our toxic policies, our cult-like new language.

Dump it all on Trump, and that means we could write ourselves as the better people, the better choice. But we didn’t get it then, and we haven’t gotten it now. Instead, we have to watch the public breakdowns of the upper crust, still aghast that “democracy” happened to them.”

[Vaduz]

Hollywood does what China orders it’s not like they have a option anymore.

[SMARTY]

Ever DID!