I’ve said it elsewhere, I’ll say it again here - I do wonder what Disney would do with this if RDJ came forward with a statement to the press along the lines of “I made a lot of mistakes in my past. I did cocaine and heroin, I had problems with addiction, I got into violent incidents with the cops and did time in…

Oh, I’m not counting on them waking up and admitting they were played. Hell, if they’ve bought it this far, then I’m pretty convinced Christ himself could show them they were wrong and they’d nail him to the cross all over again.
This is some deep cult programming shit at work (which is part of why I could buy this all…

Even if they understand (in theory) some will still ignore in practice.

There’s almost a sick, sad punchline to seeing Jones’s supporters decrying this as fascist.

They pick some genuinely odd concept to add mash-up. I use YouTube to check out The Majority Report at work, and have found it odd how many times they decide to attach ads for the NRA or Prager U to this decidedly pretty Goddamn left wing political talk show.
Like, are they hoping on that million to one chance they can…

I really don’t see how people are seeing this as setting a dangerous precedent.
Jones was instigating some genuinely hateful, antagonistic shit. These companies decided they weren’t comfortable with him doing it on their dime. He’s been warned several times about this before and continued to do it with total abandon.

If…

See, given how much of this reality seems to be running on logic that any writer worth their salt would look at and go ‘...this feels a little too convenient’, I’ve been waiting for the inevitable reveal that QAnon was actually another branch of Russia’s ‘weaponized trolling’ PsyOps projects.

Because with all the…

I think the context is the thing here.
Trump hasn’t (consciously) suggested a mancrush on Putin as much as the jokes recast them in that line, suggesting the gay is a slam on Trump.

The punchline is, knowing what we know of Trump, it should be the other way around - demanding Arpaio blow him as a sign of his submission/loyalty.

See, I think the takeaway here is more ‘For some strange reason, these Republicans all admire this preening joke of an aristocrat to such a degree they would admit to engaging in things they claim to deplore purely to please him.’

That said, the more common reading for this isn’t gonna be great, but it’s not gonna be…

I still keep mentally jockeying back and forth which is worse here - Roseanne who, for all intents and purposes, sincerely believes this and will be far less likely to ease up in the face of the suffering of the victim’s family as a result, or Hannity and Jones, who I’m honestly convinced couldn’t really give two…

Their solution to that is just keep it locked up in the vaults and pretend like it never happened, while sitting atop the rights to it like a dragon with plunder.

Sort of like when their subsidiary company released a movie directed by an actual pedophile, although you can still find the old DVD for that fairly cheap at…

‘Those tweets were about f***ing boys among other really vile and twisted things...and now everyone knows about it.’ — James Woods has been called out over a year ago now for the fact he has a penchant for hitting on underage girls.

Disney still lets him stay on voicing Hades for their various related projects (and…

See - the theatrical cut of Blade Runner. The reason that Harrison Ford’s ‘I really don’t want to be in this recording booth right now’ narration is cut from later versions isn’t because the studio didn’t like it. It’s cause Scott and Ford never wanted it in there in the first place, so when the studio demanded it,…

Oh, just watch - next time an alt-right luminary makes some crass racist joke, they’ll still rally for his free speech. Bring up Gunn and they’ll shrug and go ‘Not my problem!’

That last one really bothers me here.
The MCU as it is owes its success to the fact they looked at a man with a very checkered past including drug addiction and violent behavior and decided ‘He’s a changed man now, let’s give him a chance.’
That casting was considered by a lot of people to be among the things that…

An odd thought that occurred to me in light of all of this, and I don’t doubt this has been pointed out elsewhere, so I apologize if I’m let to the party on this one.

It’s really odd to see the MCU taking such a hard line (to borrow a line from another franchise) the mistakes of one’s youth to this degree, when one…

Even moreso after how the GOP George McFlyed up on Roy Moore running on their ticket.

“Roy, could you just lea—look, the party doesn’t think this is—oh, all right..”

Flashforward to now when they aren’t even pretending to be upset at several Neo-Nazis and one outspoken pro-pedo candidate under their banner...

If you think those tweets are disgusting, wait till you see some of the stuff the guy who dug them up has to say.
And unlike Gunn, he’s still at them, and not joking.

Shouldn’t it be

Unfortunately, this is a bad PR move for them either way. Enough media outlets have latched on the wit and wisdom of ‘Weird Mike’ by now that it’s either Disney rehires a man who said some questionable things in the past or Disney maintains a decision made based on a campaign by an alt right luminary with a penchant…