I think there’s another issue at play here, which you’re getting at. And I think Disney and the major studios arent the only causes. I think major studios AND the arthouse studios/distributors largely abandoned the middle ground.

Or release it as a TV series.  Stuff like The OA and Legion would never have gotten made in the ‘80s or ‘90s.

As someone who grew up during the ‘80s and saw a lot of movies in the theater from the late ‘80s through the late ‘90s: I have a hell of a lot of tickets stubs for garbage movies that should never have been made.

I haven’t really liked going to the theater since I grew out of my teenage years. These days I only go to see new Marvel movies(and not to a theater with $15 tickets and recliners that you have to reserve online either) or to go to the drive-in, which is a far better experience than the theater ever was.

The decision was that there was no constitutional right to abortion, which threw it back to the states, since there’s no federal law on abortion. The case had nothing to do with whether the federal government could regulate abortions.

It was a scare tactic to let her know who was in charge.  Look at the state in which this occurred.

Yes, you’re missing something. The SCOTUS decision in Dobbs is that the Court in Roe was wrong to read a right to privacy in the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment because this right to privacy, or anything to do with sex for that matter, wasn’t a consideration when the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, and,…

Joe Biden spent the first 75+ years of his life believing abortion was wrong, mainly because of his deeply held religious beliefs. When he changed course ahead of the 2020 primaries, it wasn’t because he suddenly changed a deeply held moral belief. It is because he recognized there isn’t much room in a Democratic…

Totally fair point. Again, I just think that the OEMs have more pull with the government than all the companies that have their small cost items already made in China. I can also see the EU banding together and sanctioning China just for the optics alone if they don’t get their act together (but who am I kidding,…

Price will win out. People seem to have no moral or other qualms about buying CCP products from Walmart, Amazon, etc. as long as the price is cheap enough...

And corporations. Don't forget them. 

I was really jolted by the news as well.

OK.

Gotta say, if only Republicans had this sort of “Well, it might be hard because the other side might not just LET us do it, so we shouldn’t even try,” we wouldn’t be in this mess right now.

Thank you, honestly, for reporting on even the small wins right now.

Because what’s the plan if we don’t flip enough seats? We have never in my life had enough votes for the Democrats to codify reproductive rights, so I would really like to have some sort of plan other than just “finally have enough votes for once”. Republicans have had a plan that they’ve been marching forward…

Snoozer, fat, bloated, and anonymous - but luxurious and expensive is exactly what these buyers want. They’re fancy busses with nice interiors, great AC, and three rows for families to cart their four kids around in. Rich mom minivans. It’s a GMC Yukon for people that like to say “Jeep.”

According to the roads and parking lots around the energy corridor in Houston, this is a hit. Although now I have no idea if I’ve been seeing the Wagoneer or Grand Wagoneer all this time. 

ha! i laughed at your first remark.

But by doing it in private, he doesn’t get to make a spectacle of his righteousness and piety.