Nobody should be surprised by this. Tom Cruise has shown himself to be your typical American ‘fair weather friend’ type, living by the narcist’s creed for decades — I got me and mine, so fuck you and yours.

And who, exactly, is going to plant a trillion trees? How many, how fast? Where are they going to be planted? Who is going to monitor and take care of them to ensure they actually grow as opposed to the natural attrition rate trees grown in the wild? And, since it’s their popular ‘rebuttal’ to any climate program, who…

I see you’ve made the typical ignorance mistake — correlation does not equate to causation. There is no evidence, and there has never been any evidence to support, even in the slightest, the accusations of government collusion or preferential ‘moderation.’ But go on. Keep on believing your spurious correlations.…

“Stop making us hit you!”

Your understanding of the situation suggests you’re confused, so I’ll help clear up your confusion.

The problem is that he’s either very stupid *OR* very unserious. He’s either making this demand disingenuously — aka political theater — to pander to his base (ie, not stupid, just evil and corrupt). Or he’s making this demand seriously because he’s just really ****ing stupid. This issue is the dead horse beaten into…

“Under anti-strike laws in the UK, striking actors could be sued by Warner Bros. or Legendary Television to be forced back on set.”

Inequality is one hell of a drug, isn’t it? What would the average politician know about renting anything, let alone the home they most often own.

1) Yes, he did. Federal employees, which he is, are subject to VERY strict laws regarding accepting gifts and disclosing them. He broke *BOTH* of those laws.

The political ideology that started a war over the ‘right’ to own other people calling themselves the ‘freedom caucus’ is definitely a fine example of irony. And it’s the same political ideology that overthrew legitimately elected governments multiple times — even brutally murdering those officials who dared defy…

What you’re missing is the fact that by and large, the FTC has been deliberately remiss in their anti-trust duties for decades. Part of that is regulatory capture. The other part of that is how multiple anti-trust rulings from conservative judges have greatly hampered the FTC’s ability to actually enforce or even act…

Once upon a time, before a conservative judge nuked the FTC’s ability to perform its anti-trust duties, businesses had to prove that mergers would serve the public *GOOD* before they were permitted -- which was a very high bar and would have prevented many of the nebulously evil corporate monoliths of today from…

What you’re missing, is the fact that one rogue conservative judge (which the SCOTUS declined to challenge) made FTC’s job nearly impossible — they had to demonstrate clear harm. Monopolies, and the corporate mergers that produce them, cause harm by their very existence, but it’s subtle and extremely difficult to…

That’s why studios want to put those terms into background actor contracts. They want to force background actors to surrender their likenesses in perpetuity in order to work in the film industry. Either they’re thinking long term -- once the ‘big names’ have faded away, they’ll have a stable of countless likenesses…

[Something that benefits me] for me, not for thee is emblematic of Conservatives and conservatism Which is perfectly in line with *corporate* unions being perfectly fine to them, while *employee* unions are ‘terrorists’ and ‘unamerican.’ And yes, Conservatives have literally called unions terrorist organizations.…

Except, of course, that the entire industry *CAN* replace studios — the studios don’t have any real connection to or involvement in anything. The industry just has to, you know, decide collectively to be done with studios. Like right now, with the 1/2 to 2/3rds of the industry now on or moving to strike. And what…

What you’re talking about is a nation-wide, multi-industry union. Which would require that the federal government hard-pivot to a 100% pro-union backing. And given the state of the corporate-captured government, you can guess how likely that kind of change in policy would be. Hell, even at the height of America’s…

I’m honestly confused by this whole situation. Because lots of parts don’t make any damned sense. I mean, let’s break down the situation here with a single, simple question: what exactly are studios providing anymore? What is their role?

When someone entrusted with power or authority abuses that power or authority, the penalties for that abuse must be escalated in scope and severity equivalent to that power or authority. For the same reason that we escalate the severity of penalties relative to the severity of a crime — to punitively discourage the…

Amy Comey Barret is a literal cult member. That speaks volumes about her character and her agenda and her ability to be, above all else, impartial. She should never even have been nominated on those grounds alone.