The only shows my husband and and I will watch are all from Paramount because they are the Taylor Sheridan shows. We don’t watch woke shit. If the shows were on another streaming platform then we would go there. People don’t want to be fed garbage.
The ironic part is that - if the Trump Admin were fascist/totalitarian - all the dissenters would have disappeared already, rounded up in the middle of the night & never to be heard from again. That’s how totalitarian regimes operate & have throughout history. There would be no CNN, no MSNow, no ideological enemy. This country would resemble North Korea. All this so-called “outrage” & activist flagellation is dollar store theatrics.
Am reminded of Pink Floyd’s hit “Another Brick in the Wall”; if you listen to the lyrics & watch the video you see the exact world the left seeks: nameless, faceless ideological conformity for all marching in lockstep. There is no/shall not be any individualism. War is peace. Totalitarianism is freedom. Realize Pink Floyd’s intent was to damn the Right for this but they inadvertently damned themselves; the left took over education nearly 50yrs ago, how do they treat those deviate from the pre-approved script?
Was all layed out here in the “45 Stated Goals of Communism” published in the late 1950’s. Go down the list & you’ll be amazed at how many they’ve already achieved; from “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen.
“CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[“] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court”
“Ellison scares the shit out of me says one A list director”. I find that a made up quote by the Variety writer. Why wouldn’t this “A list” director put his name to it?
He or she thinks they might get blacklisted? I highly doubt it.
If they are being quoted by Variety they are in the club and part of the Hollywood woketopia.
The hilarious part? They've been pretending none of this is happening. The right is just crazy, right? They are admitting they have been shutting us all out on purpose, keeping anything Americans might like shut down. I read some NYT comments and dear lort. They have quit CBS. Now, they are all just going to read! 😤🤣
It's not only movies that are really bad; contemporary fiction is unreadable. And I don't mean the novels that are in the romance or science fiction genres. I'm talking about the novels that hope to pass for serious fiction. In part, I attribute it to nearly every publisher of fiction first being read and approved by "sensitivity readers" whose purpose is to adherence to Woke.
Netflix my wife has a show she likes. I’ve wanted to cancel my subscription. Mickey Haller is ok. Of course you have to have a lesbian relationship in it still waiting to see how that fits the season. The recent Schrawzenegger spy series was an embarrassment. So you can see the woke influence. Kinda sucks.
Every single Netflix series we thought we would like (including White Collar," "The Good Doctor," "Lincoln Lawyer," and Black List") has a similar cast: a gay couple, at least one member of every race, a woman who is in charge of something. I'm so tired of being told what I'm supposed to think.
Great essay! My only concern about Paramount is what extreme measures they have taken to destroy the Star Trek franchise. It ought to be a documentary… the way they killed off all of the fan-sourced films and instead of issued unwatchable programming under the Star Trek brand.
Imagine the great movies that could be made in these wild times, not to mention plays, if the arts had not gone down the drain. “Movies are not as good as they used to be.” Is a kind way to put it.
The paucity of creative movies that don't just rehash tired themes or sequence content, is a symptom or consequence of indoctrination in the entire education system, combined with ostracizing those who think differently. It's difficult to think outside the box when the box is either celebrated or not even recognized.
Standard lunatic left playbook. Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. would be similar to the Demoncats being back in power. They're running scared at CNN now. Another one bites the dust. This was almost as important as Elon buying Twitter/X. Netflix is tight with the Obummers and pretty much puts out Woke garbage.
Funny how the Variety article suggests we have free speech now. When are words mutilated with asterisks so as not to trigger: rap**t" or reconstituted like some childish game of pig latin as in: "unalive" there is no free speech.
I go and look at the great old movies and I now can plainly see narrative. In fact movies and shows of old have now become what they always were, a lecture on how to live and what we’ve done. Even the old cowboy movies pushed gun control. My eyes have been wide shut. Damn
1st Welfare Theorem of Economics works so well that people like Trump and Ellison persist in finding ways around it.
The problems in the movie industry go back to the '50s, when Jewish anarchists in Hollywood tried to assist in brainwashing the Christian public so that Jews could reign supreme. They were blacklisted under McCarthyism, and they should have been. McCarthy was extremely effective of ridding the USA of communists, but the Jews painted him evil because he was correct about these Zionists that weren't content to live and work in the USA, but wanted to rule the country.
Now, the radical Left are worried they can't brainwash the American Christians (no one cares about 2%-3% of the population), and worried Ellison will seek to undermine the 1st Amendment (Ellison and Trump will do just that). However, so did Obama and Biden.
The only shows my husband and and I will watch are all from Paramount because they are the Taylor Sheridan shows. We don’t watch woke shit. If the shows were on another streaming platform then we would go there. People don’t want to be fed garbage.
Howdy Sasha—could you please place this on Free Thinking…
Wow—You are flat out in a league of your own 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thanks for all your work
Of course you already made it happen
Got to go over to X to line up your new handle
The ironic part is that - if the Trump Admin were fascist/totalitarian - all the dissenters would have disappeared already, rounded up in the middle of the night & never to be heard from again. That’s how totalitarian regimes operate & have throughout history. There would be no CNN, no MSNow, no ideological enemy. This country would resemble North Korea. All this so-called “outrage” & activist flagellation is dollar store theatrics.
Am reminded of Pink Floyd’s hit “Another Brick in the Wall”; if you listen to the lyrics & watch the video you see the exact world the left seeks: nameless, faceless ideological conformity for all marching in lockstep. There is no/shall not be any individualism. War is peace. Totalitarianism is freedom. Realize Pink Floyd’s intent was to damn the Right for this but they inadvertently damned themselves; the left took over education nearly 50yrs ago, how do they treat those deviate from the pre-approved script?
Video here: https://youtu.be/EZEHm8eEb9E?si=Stq8WtKhf1Wcvmqi
Like talking to Democrats. They don't care for change. Don't even see a need for change. Fight, fight, fight! Like talking to a wall.
Was all layed out here in the “45 Stated Goals of Communism” published in the late 1950’s. Go down the list & you’ll be amazed at how many they’ve already achieved; from “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen.
“CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[“] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court”
Link: https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html
That was good. Hadnt read it in a while. Thanks
Sasha, you nailed it again. Always a pleasue to hear you unload on the left and their nonsense. You are the best!
“Ellison scares the shit out of me says one A list director”. I find that a made up quote by the Variety writer. Why wouldn’t this “A list” director put his name to it?
He or she thinks they might get blacklisted? I highly doubt it.
If they are being quoted by Variety they are in the club and part of the Hollywood woketopia.
The hilarious part? They've been pretending none of this is happening. The right is just crazy, right? They are admitting they have been shutting us all out on purpose, keeping anything Americans might like shut down. I read some NYT comments and dear lort. They have quit CBS. Now, they are all just going to read! 😤🤣
It's not only movies that are really bad; contemporary fiction is unreadable. And I don't mean the novels that are in the romance or science fiction genres. I'm talking about the novels that hope to pass for serious fiction. In part, I attribute it to nearly every publisher of fiction first being read and approved by "sensitivity readers" whose purpose is to adherence to Woke.
Netflix my wife has a show she likes. I’ve wanted to cancel my subscription. Mickey Haller is ok. Of course you have to have a lesbian relationship in it still waiting to see how that fits the season. The recent Schrawzenegger spy series was an embarrassment. So you can see the woke influence. Kinda sucks.
Every single Netflix series we thought we would like (including White Collar," "The Good Doctor," "Lincoln Lawyer," and Black List") has a similar cast: a gay couple, at least one member of every race, a woman who is in charge of something. I'm so tired of being told what I'm supposed to think.
Great essay! My only concern about Paramount is what extreme measures they have taken to destroy the Star Trek franchise. It ought to be a documentary… the way they killed off all of the fan-sourced films and instead of issued unwatchable programming under the Star Trek brand.
Sasha… you seen this?
https://youtu.be/2n6EWsVGroU?si=wTCKvCzfbr7uNgpd
Imagine the great movies that could be made in these wild times, not to mention plays, if the arts had not gone down the drain. “Movies are not as good as they used to be.” Is a kind way to put it.
The paucity of creative movies that don't just rehash tired themes or sequence content, is a symptom or consequence of indoctrination in the entire education system, combined with ostracizing those who think differently. It's difficult to think outside the box when the box is either celebrated or not even recognized.
100% projection.
Yes, Hollywood and the left are full of projection.
Standard lunatic left playbook. Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. would be similar to the Demoncats being back in power. They're running scared at CNN now. Another one bites the dust. This was almost as important as Elon buying Twitter/X. Netflix is tight with the Obummers and pretty much puts out Woke garbage.
Funny how the Variety article suggests we have free speech now. When are words mutilated with asterisks so as not to trigger: rap**t" or reconstituted like some childish game of pig latin as in: "unalive" there is no free speech.
I go and look at the great old movies and I now can plainly see narrative. In fact movies and shows of old have now become what they always were, a lecture on how to live and what we’ve done. Even the old cowboy movies pushed gun control. My eyes have been wide shut. Damn
Yes.
1st Welfare Theorem of Economics works so well that people like Trump and Ellison persist in finding ways around it.
The problems in the movie industry go back to the '50s, when Jewish anarchists in Hollywood tried to assist in brainwashing the Christian public so that Jews could reign supreme. They were blacklisted under McCarthyism, and they should have been. McCarthy was extremely effective of ridding the USA of communists, but the Jews painted him evil because he was correct about these Zionists that weren't content to live and work in the USA, but wanted to rule the country.
Now, the radical Left are worried they can't brainwash the American Christians (no one cares about 2%-3% of the population), and worried Ellison will seek to undermine the 1st Amendment (Ellison and Trump will do just that). However, so did Obama and Biden.