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Trump's Return: A Survival Guide for Hollywood
The Ankler ^ | Jan 21, 2025 | Richard Rushfield

Posted on 01/22/2025 12:38:49 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

Well, here we are. The day we swore would never come, which we couldn’t survive, which we’d leave the country if it ever came to that. Now it’s here and so still are we.

For those here in Hollywood in the Democracy coalition, as bleak as it is, the path forward is murky. Is it time for total resistance, laying down in the streets in the path of every statement and edict? Or is our moment just to shut up and sing?

As the smoke from the fires faded, I found myself lost in a new haze, as did many others, of how one should behave in what may be unusual — even dangerous — times. A big part of that “unusual” environment involves the behavior of those who run our very own industry and what principles they are willing to defend.

… So looking it in the eye, here’s a few basics we have to swallow:

Minority Status. We are not part of the ruling coalition here. We do not speak from a place of dictating to America how things are going to be or demanding they follow our lead — or else!

Fringe of the Fringe. In particular, no one is looking to hear more from Hollywood. The idea that Hollywood star power can sweep anyone to victory in a “vibes election” is probably one of the more harmful delusions the Democratic Party swallowed last year.

(Excerpt) Read more at theankler.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: entertainment; hollywood; maga; trump; vibes

1 posted on 01/22/2025 12:38:49 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
...Capitalist avarice...


2 posted on 01/22/2025 1:10:03 AM PST by ComputerGuy (C)
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To: ComputerGuy

Greed chasing profit.


3 posted on 01/22/2025 1:18:35 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Poor babies, they think they matter. Hollywood should be nothing more than entertainment value, stick to acting, singing, dancing.


4 posted on 01/22/2025 1:25:52 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

In some ways I will look forward to the day when AI writes scripts and digital code replaces actors so a lot of these fools are left to get normal jobs and lead normal lives like everybody else.....IOW, when technology cancels them and their jobs.


5 posted on 01/22/2025 1:27:16 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Time for them to catch up on their hamburger flipping skills that is if a robot doesn’t beat them to it


6 posted on 01/22/2025 1:43:59 AM PST by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Pay wall. As if I was going to throw money at these commies.


7 posted on 01/22/2025 2:16:51 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: ComputerGuy

You might think that Trump getting elected and their neighborhoods burning to the ground might be considered hints suggesting that it is really time to move. It’s like God whacked them twice with a 2x4 and their just dumber than a mule and can’t get the hint. Move out of the US.


8 posted on 01/22/2025 2:21:20 AM PST by Waverunner
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
"...no one is looking to hear more from Hollywood."

I don't follow "Hollywood", it's industry or culture. I observe it from the perspective of a harsh critic. Americans are such suckers for depictions of life in movies and on TV. Even local news channels seem to offer some kind of lifestyle for their viewers to consume...or be consumed by. It's getting so that nobody even wants to have a mind of their own or to be their own minor grass roots movement towards individuality. But wait!...MAGA is here, so get on with your life and not so much with your "selfies".
9 posted on 01/22/2025 2:58:24 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

What action of Trump do they specifically want to resist? Dems are just whiners.


10 posted on 01/22/2025 3:02:05 AM PST by Mustangman
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To: Waverunner

A mule can be useful,these people not so much.


11 posted on 01/22/2025 3:53:31 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Very bad form, his people have lost everything in the wildfires and he’s kvetching about Trump winning.


12 posted on 01/22/2025 4:04:17 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Buttons12

The answer is easy a super charged transparent rebuilding daily rebuilding NCoperation for NC.If CA wants to be the bratty stepchild treat them as such.


13 posted on 01/22/2025 5:00:35 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

So Hollywood just now got woke. They are paid to entertain us like the monkey on an organ grinders leash. If they no longer entertain us they better learn to code.


14 posted on 01/22/2025 5:11:56 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Buttons12
his people have lost everything in the wildfires and he’s kvetching about Trump winning.

His people may have lost everything in the wildfires but they are still kvetching about Trump winning.

"This would not have happened if Trump had not won the election and caused all these fires! The haters are in power! I should leave the country!"

15 posted on 01/22/2025 5:53:27 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( Fascist, deplorable and proud of it.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

And AI and CGI are doing so much. With more on the way.

Hopefully gone from Georgia forever


16 posted on 01/22/2025 6:07:31 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
I can remember whe John Wayne won the Best Male Actor Oscar and the Golden Globe Award for True Grit. John Wayne, conservative. Now Hollywood is full of narcissists who think that the world revolves around them. Sure, there are a few decent people out there, but they have to keep their mouths shut if they want any success. It’s too bad.
17 posted on 01/22/2025 6:38:38 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Hollywood has one job. Entertain me.

Hollywood is the abode of liberals. I get it. It has been for coming up on 60 years now. Yet throughout most of this time, Hollywood still managed to entertain me. Hollywood liberals gave us Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and many more great, ENTERTAINING movies and TV series.

And then something happened around 2017. Hollywood decided that their job was no longer to entertain me but to scold, lecture, and "educate" me. And this is when everything went to crap. Movies and TV shows became unwatchable struggle sessions.

Let's return to the "entertain me" platform of the entertainment industry. I don't care if you all are liberals or not.

18 posted on 01/22/2025 6:44:00 AM PST by Drew68
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

If I remember my history of Hollywood, the film industry chose the Hollywood area in case Thomas Edison sued them for infringement on his movie patents. Being close to Mexico gave them a head start on “getting out of Dodge” ahead of the law.


19 posted on 01/22/2025 7:05:57 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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