Actors' union director expresses fear that strike is preventing LGBT propagandists from advancing their 'worldview-changing' agenda
Every day that the actors' and writers' unions remain on strike marks another day that LGBT activists in Hollywood are not producing "worldview-changing" propaganda for popular consumption, according to the national director of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
This may come as good news to those Americans growing tired of the coordinated effort by various gatekeepers and cultural engineers in media to shoehorn unprecedented amounts of LGBT content into film and television for non-artistic reasons. However, for SAG-AFTRA director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the delays are unconscionable.
Crabtree-Ireland, a past co-president of the LGBTQ Bar Association of Los Angeles, spoke at a recent press conference announcing the LGBT activist outfit GLAAD's annual Studio Responsibility Index — an index that monitors how much non-straight content is being manufactured for film and television, always encouraging more.
The union executive noted that LGBT propaganda efforts might be set back in 2024 and beyond owing to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' alleged unwillingness to capitulate to strikers' demands.
"The studios' and streamers' insistence on keeping the industry shut down not only harms the economies of communities that rely on motion picture production, but it's also detrimental to the pipeline of future projects that feature LGBTQ+ representation," said Crabtree-Ireland. "Though some gains have been made in recent years, storytelling that reflects the full, true spectrum of the human experience is currently under attack."
According to GLAAD's latest index, 28.5% of the 350 films released by 10 major distributors — including A24, Amazon Studios, AppleTV+, Paramount Global, and the Walt Disney Company — contained a non-straight character, "the highest number and percentage recorded in the 11 years GLAAD has conducted this study."
Forty percent of the 292 non-straight characters across the 100 "LGBTQ-inclusive" films were nonwhites; 119 were women, and 10 were individuals who rejected their biological sex.
When judging studios on the basis of how much LGBT content they peddled in 2022, NBCUniversal and Disney both scored "good" ratings, Disney having made sure 41% of its output was "LGBTQ-inclusive."
These numbers may be hard to hit if the studios prove unable to generate any content this year.
Crabtree-Ireland suggested that AMPTP companies "are complicit in this regressive push if they continue preventing artists from getting back to work and making their worldview-changing stories."
"Everyone deserves to grow up seeing their identity authentically represented in film and media," continued Crabtree-Ireland. "The companies must come back to the negotiating table, make a fair deal, get writers and performers back to work, and help all of us use the profound power of the medium — along with empowering LGBTQ+ representation — to build a better, more welcoming future for generations to come."
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, the "anti-capitalist" multimillionaire who decades ago starred in the CBS sitcom, "The Nanny," similarly suggested that a failure to satisfy the actors' and writers' demands amounted to a setback to "inclusive representation."
"Right now, there's a very tiny but loud segment of our population that's hard at work spreading hate and fear while attempting to squash all storytelling that showcases the full, beautiful reality of the human experience," added the Democratic 65-year-old. "The longer the AMPTP companies keep the entertainment industry shut down by refusing to come back to the bargaining table, the more risk there is for disrupting the progress that's been made in terms of inclusive representation."
At the press conference, GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis joined her comrades in underscoring what is at stake for propagandists as it pertains to the strike: "LGBTQ stories told through film have a powerful and inextricable link to culture change. With more people than ever now empowered to live authentically and openly, the cost of lost progress in LGBTQ representation on screen means erasure."
Bounding Into Comics reported that Michele Mulroney, the vice president of the similarly striking Writers Guild of America, claimed, "The stalling of the AMPTP companies for the last 136 Days, and their refusal to engage in a basic negotiating process that gives writers a fair deal, threatens to impede the progress made by LGBTQ+ writers and deny our culture of powerful, authentic LGBTQ+ stories."
CNBC indicated that Hollywood studios and the WGA may be nearing an agreement to bring the strike to an end, with negotiations restarting Thursday.
If a deal is not reached, CNBC suggested that the WGA strike, which has already gone on for over 140 days, may continue through the end of the year. That would mean that production on properties at Netflix, Disney, and Paramount, may be delayed well into 2024.
Besides preventing recycled comic book properties from being produced and the LGBT agenda from being furthered to GLAAD's satisfaction, this strike is having a significant impact on production companies' bottom lines.
Warner Bros. Discovery, among the media giants impacted, noted in a recent securities filing that it expects the company's earnings before interest and taxes to suffer a $300-$500 million hit owing to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
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Biden wants to use YOUR tax dollars to fund THIS California cause
If you haven’t noticed, California is kind of a mess.
The state is already struggling to pay its unemployment insurance and has been taking out federal loans, aka American tax dollars, to pay unemployed residents.
Now, California’s legislature has passed a bill that would give striking writers, actors, and other union members unemployment insurance. All it needs is Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature.
Glenn Beck sees where this is headed, and it’s not good.
“If you’re paying people to strike from the union and also get unemployment insurance, you can strike forever,” Glenn says.
“Why are we bailing out the union workers? Why are we bailing out California who now cannot make its own payments on insurance for everybody else? Unemployment insurance, can’t do it. They’re in the hole. Now they want to add unions to that, and what happens when it happens in California?” he adds.
Over $2 billion have gone into Joe Biden’s campaign from the labor unions, so Glenn believes that despite how ridiculous it all seems, it makes perfect sense that they would receive federal funding to bail them out.
“That’s my red line,” he says. “My red line has always been I am not bailing out California. I’m not bailing it out.”
Despite having wanted to live in California in the past for its beautiful shorelines and weather, Glenn never did for this very reason.
“I’ve always wanted to live in California. You know why I didn’t? Because it was insane. I knew it wouldn’t work. I didn’t want to spend all of my money paying for taxes for things that I knew would only make society worse.”
“And yet,” he continues, “now I have to pay for their mistakes.”
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Drew Barrymore's now-deleted, crying apology video is just more virtue signaling
Hollywood sweetheart Drew Barrymore has joined the ranks of the canceled.
Despite the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, which began in May, the actress and talk show host was planning to return to screening her show, “The Drew Barrymore Show.”
While she initially claimed her show complied with strike rules, she was met with huge backlash from social media users who suggested she was not standing in solidarity with the cause.
Now, Barrymore has issued a tearful, selfie apology.
“This is bigger than me, and there are other people’s jobs on the line,” Barrymore told the camera through tears. “I deeply apologize to writers. I deeply apologize to unions. I deeply apologize.”
“I wanted to own a decision so that it wasn’t a PR protected situation and I would just take full responsibility for my actions,” she said. “I know there’s just nothing I can do that will make this okay for those it is not okay with.”
Dave Rubin thinks it’s completely ridiculous.
“Do you see how insane this is? She did what she thought was right, right? She did what she thought was right for herself or the other people on her shows,” Rubin says.
“It’s all these other people who want to go back to work, but then, ‘I have to deeply apologize.’ It’s one thing to say, 'I deeply apologize to the writers,' right?” he continues, noting that her apology to the unions sounds like something a sellout would say.
“All right, lady, they’re gonna hate you no matter what you do,” he adds.
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New artificial intelligence will allow REGULAR PEOPLE to star in movies — Hollywood actors are TERRIFIED
Artificial intelligence has long been a polarizing concept, with some finding it exciting and innovative, while others remain leery of the technology’s potential to make humans obsolete.
As time moves on, it seems more and more people are joining the latter group.
Ironically, Hollywood — a paradigm of progressivism — seems to be growing increasingly fearful of what AI could mean for the actors and writers in the industry.
Glenn Beck notes that one of the things that makes "Mission Impossible" special is that “[Tom Cruise] was really in … the helicopter,” and he really rode an actual motorcycle off an actual cliff.
“That adds something” that can’t be replicated by AI, he says.
Stu Burguiere references a tweet from Justine Bateman, actor, writer, producer, and sister of famous actor Jason Bateman, in which she warned against the use of “AI-written scripts” and “digitally scanned actors — image and/or voice.”
“Some talent agencies,” Bateman says, “are already recruiting actors to be scanned.”
Not only does this degrade the actors’ talents and abilities, but it also opens a Pandora’s box of possibilities.
With this new technology, viewers can request a film starring “Billy Murray” that’s “about a panda and a unicorn who saved the world in a rocket ship,” Bateman writes.
But it doesn’t stop there.
According to Bateman’s statement, viewers can also request to have themselves scanned and inserted into movies so that “their face [is] on Luke Skywalker’s body and their ex-wife’s face [is] on Darth Vader’s body.”
“This is going to be a really weird world,” Stu says.
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