Disney and Amazon Prime are both woke disasters — and it’s getting WORSE



As more classic shows receive woke makeovers, America’s once-favorite streaming services can’t seem to stop digging their own graves.

Batman is one of the latest to fall, after Amazon Prime’s new cartoon of the famous superhero features a gender-swapped version of the Penguin. The creator reportedly said the move was inspired by a drag queen and numerous musicals.

Ryan Kinel, host of “RK Outpost” on YouTube and a U.S. Navy veteran, is among those not pleased.

“Unfortunately they decided to put identity politics first and foremost,” he tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “They said, you know, ‘we were inspired by drag queens.’ It’s a penguin that’s grotesque, that’s fat, that’s ugly, but it’s a woman.”

“I don’t really understand what they thought was going to happen, but certainly they’ve been at the heavy end of some major criticism,” he adds, noting that the other female villain in the series, Harley Quinn, is no longer a white woman but a race-swapped lesbian.

“It just goes back to getting into these things that are beloved and pillaging them and bastardizing them for the sake of modern-day identity politics,” he says.

Disney has also come under fire recently for taking its woke agenda too far, with a highly criticized live-action remake of "Snow White" — as well as hiring drag queens to do children’s hair at theme parks.

“There’s still men dressed as women who are cutting little girls' and boys' hair at the park,” Peterson tells Savage and Kinel.

“Disney as a company for so long has really relied on this aspect of being family-friendly,” Kinel says. “Well, unfortunately, over the past couple years, it’s hard to say that this is a company that any family person, anyone with children, would describe as family-friendly.”


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Will new 'Agatha All Along' series reverse Marvel’s downward trend?



Marvel’s surrender to wokeness has all but ruined the franchise. Longtime comic book fans have fled for hills when their favorite MCU characters have been gender-bent, race-bent, or altered to be more socially acceptable.

However, Disney+ will soon debut a new series called “Agatha All Along,” which follows Agatha Harkness, the villain from Marvel Studios’ "WandaVision.”

Could “Agatha” reverse Marvel’s downward spiral?

Lauren Chen, Blaze Media’s cinema critic, discusses the upcoming series.

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Although the series won’t drop until September, the trailer alone has Lauren fearing that the show will be yet another money pit.

First, she doesn’t think the series will generate enough interest.

“It's not like this was a particularly popular character in the comics and even in ‘WandaVision,’ the show that introduced her,” she says.

Further, according to rumors Lauren is privy to, “the reason they're giving Agatha her own series is not just because she's potentially another girlboss character they can exploit, but also because they are hoping to resurrect Scarlet Witch in the MCU.”

Even the show's producers seem wary about the series, given that it was announced in 2021 but is premiering three years later.

“It definitely seems like the prolonged production period was due, at least in part, to uncertainty on behalf of the show's creators,” says Lauren, adding that the series “has had four different names at different points in time” – names that “had already been announced to the public,” further solidifying the theory that there’s an air of doubt surrounding the show.

MCU fans are also skeptical about the series appearing to be “more horror-centric” than other MCU shows, but Lauren would enjoy a darker series “if Disney could pull it off.”

As for the series’ wokeness meter, rumors have suggested that “they may make Agatha herself gay or at the very least bisexual,” says Lauren, referencing a Bounding into Comics article.

“I think we should expect this show to be completely lockstep in line with the M-She-U as of late,” she predicts. “I personally cannot wait to see how much of a flop [‘Agatha All Along’] ends up being.”

For all its faults, Lauren does see a couple of bright spots for the show.

“It doesn’t look cheap,” she says.

And Aubrey Plaza stars in it, but Lauren doubts that “she's going to be enough to save this series.”

To hear more about “Agatha All Along,” watch the clip above.

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Disney VP caught on hidden camera EXPOSING woke DEI by James O’Keefe



James O’Keefe has done it again.

The investigative journalist confirmed suspicions that Disney has “gone woke” in his latest undercover expose with his organization, the O’Keefe Media Group.

The group captured a Disney executive on camera admitting that Disney prioritizes skin color rather than merit when it comes to hiring employees.

The executive, senior vice president and team lead over at 20th Television Michael Giordano told one of OMG’s investigators that there have certainly “been times where, you know, there’s no way we’re hiring a white male for this.”

“Just kind of unspoken?” the undercover journalist says to Giordano.

“There are times when it’s spoken,” Giordano confirms, before explaining the way it’s been phrased is, “There’s no way we’re hiring a white male for this role.”

Giordano had also told the undercover journalist that a promotion was likely not in the cards for him because he is seen as a white male.

“As far as Disney is concerned I’m a white male. That’s not who they’re looking to promote at the moment,” he said.

Once the report was released, Giordano was let go from his position.

Lauren Chen is not shocked that Disney has been caught.

“For a long time, people like me have looked at Disney and wondered, okay, if they care about diversity and woke so much, why don’t they still have diverse characters but at least have a well-written, you know, well-made show?” Chen says.

“I think it’s pretty clear here that the reason why they don’t have that at least quality with the wokeness is because they’re also prioritizing skin color when it comes to the people who are making their shows, writing their films, managing their company,” she adds.

While there are obviously talented writers of color, population-wise there are not enough to hire only those of color.

“They’re having to boost up people who probably aren’t as good at their jobs as they should be, simply because they like the way they look,” Chen comments.


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Christian family paid for a meet and greet with Disney's Evil Queen but wound up with 'a man dressed in drag'



A conservative Christian family hazarded a visit to the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, earlier this month, likely hoping to create some good memories. The parents shelled out hundreds of dollars for a dinner at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and a meet and greet with the Evil Queen — also known as Queen Grimhilde — from the 1937 classic film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

When time came for their close encounter at the lodge's Artist Point, the family discovered that the actor playing the queen was neither the fairest of them all nor one among the fairer sex, reported That Park Place's Jonas Campbell.

The father told That Park Place, "We've had other meet-and-greets with other Villains, and they are truly the best character experiences that we've ever had. So we had high hopes for the Evil Queen leading up."

"So we all walked over towards the Evil Queen area, and while my kids and wife were interacting with the character, I was doing some video and took a few pictures from about 10 feet away, then handed my iPhone over to the cast member to take some pics for me so I could get in the picture," continued the father. "It was kind of loud inside, so I couldn't really hear what the character was saying until I got face to face [typical conversation distance of a few feet], and then it hit me that the Evil Queen, without a doubt, had a man's voice."

According to the father, extra to speaking in a male-presenting voice disparate in kind and tone from that of the filmic feminine antagonist, the drag queen towered above his family without the need of any sort of platform.

That Park Place highlighted various videos online wherein the same actor can be seen reprising the role of the Evil Queen.

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The costly encounter with an actor ostensibly playing two roles proved too much for the father, who complained.

"I told my waiter that I had a problem with something. He then asked what was the issue, and I simply stated I have a problem with Evil Queen being a man dressed in drag. The waiter immediately said he was going to get a manager, and he looked panicked," the father told That Park Place. "At first, I said I wanted to formally complain about the Evil Queen being a man and that I felt very disrespected by Disney because this is not the sort of thing my family values and they didn’t give us any type of notice that this sort of thing was even a possibility."

The irate father who had just blown roughly $60 per meal apparently made clear to the manager the trip had altogether costed him $8,000, not to mention his previous expenditures on Disney-branded adventures.

"At one point, the manager stated, 'I can assure you that she is a woman,'" continued the father. "She went even further, trying to shame me, informing me that 'she' was so excited to get the part as the Evil Queen. For a brief moment, I thought, 'Oh ... maybe I’m wrong,' but then I realized that I was just being gaslighted."

When the father asked whether the queen was a man, the manager allegedly responded, "I'm sorry, sir, I cannot answer that."

Campbell told Blaze News that "if it weren't in a context where there were children present and it were something that was reasonably to be expected by guests of the Walt Disney Company — [a company] that has been so tied to traditional values for so long — then I think that there is a world in which that is acceptable in commerce."

The investigative reporter also noted that it is important to consider context and the type of costume when considering transvestism, as in the case of the hulking queen.

Campbell noted, for instance, that the Fantasmic fireworks show involves the Maleficent character pulling off some physical feats that might justify the use of a male performer. There's also the various masked characters, where the sex of the actor is immaterial — with the exception of the smaller, shorter characters, where size contra gender may be the determining factor in casting.

In the case of the Evil Queen at the Wilderness Lodge resort, the actor appears in videos to be bare-faced and playing a female role that Campbell suggested likely "has a lot of competition."

According to Campbell, it's uncommon and perhaps even a first to have a transvestite assuming an open-faced role in the Orlando parks, whereas in Disney's California parks, there have been multiple sightings of cross-dressing cast members.

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Campbell suggested that there is a meaningful difference between woke content on Disney+ and woke content or performances in the parks. If a parent accidentally turns on Disney's drag queen special or is watching "Muppet Babies" with a child and takes issue when the cross-dressing Gonzo begins to regurgitate social constructivist agitprop, then all the parent needs to do is shut off the TV or change the program.

When visiting Walt Disney World, on the other hand — which Campbell stressed was "an international location where many cultures are coming together to this specific resort, many of them are not paying attention to what is on TV, what is on Disney+ in the same way" — it is easier to get blindsided and emotionally trapped.

"All of a sudden you're in an intimate setting where your children are very excited to experience this thing, they get to meet their favorite character," said Campbell. "[Various sources told That Park Place] the children are unsettled when finding out that these things are not quite how you would expect them to be."

Campbell suggested that the conservative Christian father and others like him are oftentimes placed in a difficult situation where, in order to "stand up for their own religious beliefs or their own beliefs about what truth is in front of their kids," they end up having to "take something that is bright and shiny and desirable" away from their children.

John F. Trent, the editor in chief of That Park Place, told Blaze News that this "appears to be a continued pattern from the Walt Disney Company and its 'not-at-all-secret gay agenda' as the company's Latoya Raveneau confirmed in March 2022."

"It is clearly trying to target small children, their families, and even adults in an attempt to warp their minds into believing this objective evil is normal or even good," added Trent.

Blaze News reached out to Disney for comment but did not receive a response by deadline.

When asked what families considering a trip to Disney World might want to consider in light of the apparent threat of complicity in Disney's war on normalcy, Campbell told Blaze News, "First of all, prices at Walt Disney World are higher than they've ever been and are offering less and less value than they have for years. ... I'd recommend waiting a summer or finding something a little bit more welcome like these regional parks that are doing quite a good job."

"Dollywood, for instance, is a lovely park full of natural beauty. It's also welcoming to all guests even though they are very open to the fact that they do talk about God in the park," he said. "There are other options in the area. Universal, for instance, has been really stepping up their game, and I think a little competition for Disney with things like this is a good thing."

In the way of local alternatives, Blaze News previously reported that soon the Gospel Gardens at the 2,000-seat Basilica of Our Lady, Queen of the Universe nearby Walt Disney World will have a series of life-sized bronze sculptures of the Stations of the Cross — 14 representations of Christ's journey from his condemnation to his death and burial.

Further afield, there is the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky — a full-size Noah's ark and creation museum — or the American Journey Experience in Irving, Texas — a museum containing more than 160,000 artifacts focusing on American history.

"I think that there are other options and of course, anything that has a family interacting together, spending time together, trying to do things that they enjoy together is a good thing," said Campbell.

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Check out what the man-hating director of new 'Star Wars' film said 8 years ago



"Star Wars" used to be about epic space battles, galactic creatures, fearless jedi warriors, and good conquering evil, but like many Disney franchises, "Star Wars" is now heading down the path of wokeness.

Pakistani activist and director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who the liberal-run media is celebrating as the first woman and person of color to direct a "Star Wars" film, has made it crystal clear that she intends to make the next film radically feminist and anti-male.

The backlash from critics and fans has been anything but subtle.

However, Obaid-Chinoy’s intentions shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering Disney’s insistence on shoving a progressive agenda down our throats and the fact that Obaid-Chinoy has long had a radical feminist agenda.

Dave Rubin plays a clip of her at the Women in the World conference eight years ago telling Jon Stewart how she directs her films.

“I enjoy making men uncomfortable,” she said. “I am working to bring something that makes you uncomfortable, and it should make you uncomfortable because you need to change your attitude, and it's only when you're uncomfortable, when you're shifty, when you have to have difficult conversations that you will perhaps look at yourself in the mirror and not like the reflection.”

“I remember when I was 5 years old, the first time I saw ‘Star Wars,’ and I went into the bathroom after, and I stared in the mirror for like an hour, and I said, ‘you're a horrible person, Dave,”’ mocks Dave.

“She's been handed this legacy of this film franchise that has taken decades and decades to build [and] has millions of fans around the world,” adds Andy Ngo. “People should be concerned that somebody who has this history of saying these things — of having a political [and] philosophical agenda in her work — has now been handed this huge franchise ... it's really hugely disrespectful to the fans.”

Dave agrees, adding that alienating its original fans has really been Disney’s aim all along.

“Disney announced a few years ago when they got both ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Marvel’ that they were going to push ‘Star Wars’ to be more for young girls and the Marvel Universe to be more for young boys, so this is a type of social engineering, isn't it?” he asks.

“Absolutely,” says Colin Wright. “This is all part of a bigger pattern that you see happening in so many different institutions where they take an institution that has this legacy, this history, this earned prestige, and then the activists just at the eleventh hour hop in the driver's seat [and] commandeer the whole thing just to use as a megaphone to spout their own ideologies and ... undermine the entire legacy.”


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New woke ‘Star Wars’ movie announcement is the final nail in the coffin for fans



Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy may have just made a fatal error.

Kennedy is doubling down on making "Star Wars" more woke by hiring Pakistani activist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct the new Rey movie, starring Daisy Ridley.

The liberal-run media is ecstatic to announce that Obaid-Chinoy is the first woman and the first person of color to direct a “Star Wars” film.

Obaid-Chinoy is as well, telling CNN that because “we’re in 2024 now,” she thinks “it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story in a galaxy far, far away.”

Others are not so excited.

“‘Star Wars’ has handed its $67 billion empire, whatever is left of its empire, to a feminist,” Dave Rubin laughs, noting that Kathleen Kennedy herself, who has been running “Star Wars” for the past 10 years, “has basically completely destroyed it.”

Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright is in total agreement.

“They’re just injecting the activism directly into the films,” he tells Rubin, adding that the problem with “woke ideologues” is that “they can’t just make movies that embody their vision. They have to make the movie overtly about the activism itself.”

“If you want to challenge norms, just write your strong female characters. This has been done in ways that doesn’t center activism,” Wright continues, citing Jennifer Lawrence in “The Hunger Games” as an example.

“The last thing that 'Star Wars' needs is to continue down this activist path. Just write the good characters and the good stories,” he adds.


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Watch: Elon Musk slams Disney, evokes the spirit of Walt himself



It’s no secret that Elon Musk isn’t a fan of Disney (the new progressive Disney, that is). He and Disney CEO Bob Iger have been at each other’s throats since Disney pulled its advertising from X over disagreements with Musk regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict. Tesla responded by eliminating Disney+ from some of its vehicles, which has only added fuel to the fire.

However, the conflict between the two mega-companies underwent a plot development over the weekend when Musk warned Europe to “not import” what he calls “the woke mind virus,” which he also said has been the reason for Disney’s downfall.

“If we’re going to fight the woke mind virus, then the woke mind virus will fight back, and unfortunately, Disney is deeply infected with the woke mind virus,” Musk said. “In fact, if you ask AI what is the most woke company on Earth, it’s Disney.”

“I think they should be asking themselves, ‘What would Walt Disney think of Disney today?’ I think he’s turning in his grave. I think he’s not happy, [and] if the namesake of the company is not happy, that’s probably a bad sign.”

“Walt Disney – what did he care about? He cared about bringing joy to people’s lives, making wonderful things that children and families could enjoy, and creating some of the coolest art in the world … stuff that even 100 years after it's created, we still remember,” Musk continued.

“But Disney, at least for now, is deeply infected with the woke mind virus, and I think that will change over time.”

“What he’s saying,” Dave Rubin explains, “is America is struggling right now, and of course it’s not just the political side of things. … Our cultural institutions – Disney, which was just supposed to make great things, fun things, capture the imagination, have kids looking at that star in the distance going ‘I could do that’ ... has collapsed.”

“That is a problem because if we don’t have anything that will capture our imagination, to give us the good stories of humanity, then we don’t have much of a future.”

To see Musk’s latest condemnation of Disney, watch the clip below.


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Watch actress Rachel Zegler REPEATEDLY contradict herself on ‘Snow White’ adaptation



“Rachel Zegler is someone who in her relatively short career has managed to stir up a surprising amount of controversy,” says Lauren Chen.

Much of Zegler’s pot-stirring has to do with her playing Snow White in Disney’s upcoming live-action adaption of the classic film.

You’d think someone playing Disney’s very first princess would be more appreciative of the film that gave her the opportunity to star in such a beloved role, but no.

When Variety initially interviewed Zegler about the remake, she took the opportunity to bash the original movie.

“It’s no longer 1937,” Zegler said. “She’s not going to be saved by the prince, and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love; she’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be.”

“There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird!” she continued.

In another interview, she said, “I was scared of the original cartoon. I think I watched it once and then I never picked it up again.”

The backlash for these remarks was instant and heated.

“Turns out disrespecting a movie while also simultaneously trying to capitalize on the existing fans of that movie is not really a winning marketing strategy,” says Lauren.

While the release of “Snow white” has been delayed due to financial concerns, many speculate that the postponing is actually due, at least in part, to the backlash from Zegler’s comments.

Further, it seems Zegler is using the hiatus to do some damage control, which only adds strength to the theory.

In a recent interview with Halle Bailey, who played Princess Ariel in “The Little Mermaid” remake, Zegler had a much different tune about the 1937 classic she previously bashed.

“The cartoon is so beloved; it's like a monumental moment in film history ... It won honorary Oscars and all of these amazing things that happened for that film are the reason that you and I really get to sit here today because it made Disney what it is,” Zegler told Bailey.

“There's just a very dedicated group of people who love Disney cartoons. I'm one of them ... I love everything that the Disney company has put out in the past ...100 years,” she continued.

Wait. We thought she said the movie was creepy and scary and not worth revisiting? And that the love story was unnecessary?

“Kind of seems like a memo went out that perhaps the best way to promote a new ‘Snow White’ movie isn't by denigrating the original ‘Snow White’ movie,” sighs Lauren.


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Netflix Cartoon Pushes Cartoon Trans Propaganda

Netflix Cartoon Pushes Cartoon Trans Propaganda

Netflix goes WAY too far with trans propaganda cartoon



The show “Big Mouth,” an animated coming-of-age Netflix sitcom, centers around students as they suffer through the not-so-pleasant forces of puberty.

Sounds pretty funny, right?

And perhaps it is; however, before you go gallivanting off to watch it, be warned that the series is also ridden with trans propaganda.

Dave Rubin plays a short clip from an episode of “Big Mouth,” and let’s just say, it doesn’t even pretend to be subtle.

“I just know I hate you and what you're doing to my body,” a male character yells at a personified Puberty before telling his friends that he was “vibrating at this weird frequency all the time.”

And of course, the solution to combating the inevitable confusing and frustrating process of puberty is — you guessed it — transition.

“But then I found this forum for trans kids and it was like, ‘That’s who I am.”’

“Guys look, anyone can make whatever art they want,” sighs Dave Rubin, but it’s important to understand that the company clearly has an agenda — a woke one.

“It's not just making your kids think that they're racist and you feeling guilty about your whiteness and oppressiveness ... they are also trying to chop your children's genitals off,” he says.

Although “Big Mouth” is geared toward adults, many children might mistakenly watch the cartoon, thinking it’s for kids. Plus, teenagers are likely to be drawn to the show for its crude humor and the fact that it centers around characters their age. Parents should be leery.


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