KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Relentless Efforts to Derail the Trump Train Are Failing Bigly. “Despite the unceasing efforts to wear him down and destroy him, Trump keeps showing up to work. His haters aren’t getting any of the results they want. In fact, Trump’s poll numbers are on steroids now.”
November 29, 2023
21ST CENTURY TECH MEETS 7TH CENTURY BARBARISM: Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI’s power to mislead.
QUESTION ASKED: When you Wish upon a star: is the Disney shine fading?
This isn’t so far from what Apple have done with Napoleon and Killers of the Flower Moon, namely using the theatrical release as a preview for what will eventually be a prestigious part of their Apple TV+ service. If the films go into profit at this point, great, but that’s hardly the sole intention. And, besides, Apple is the largest and most profitable corporation in the world. Disney, for all of its rapacious acquisition of other companies, has to make its money in a variety of ways, and people going to see their films in theaters — as well as streaming them on Disney+, or paying a fortune to go to their theme parks — is an essential part of their current business model.
Is it curtains for Disney and its increasingly embattled CEO Bob Iger, after the let-down of Wish and the utter failure of The Marvels? Probably not. There will be a can’t-miss Frozen sequel, or two, round the corner. And it’s more likely than not that fan-favorite characters like Iron Man and Black Widow will be returning in some multiverse jiggery-pokery to give the Marvel series a shot of familiarity amid the growing suspicion that audiences don’t especially care about Captain Marvel, Kang the Conqueror and the like. The Star Wars series, which has largely pivoted to streaming, will surely produce another big-budget film in the next few years, once it’s been decided who will be the guiding force behind it, and Pixar remains a force to be reckoned with, even if its glory days are behind it.
Perhaps there’s only one thing left to do with the House of the Mouse: Destroy Disney To Save It?
Reading between the lines, Disney doesn’t seem to care that their woke agenda is hurting their business. It’s our fault for wanting to protect the innocence of our children instead of exposing them to the harmful gender ideology. We don’t want kids watching Disney content if that means they’ll be asking about preferred pronouns and whether they’re really a boy or a girl. Disney may not care that its political agenda is hurting its business, but how long will Disney shareholders tolerate it?
If Disney was putting out movies audiences actually liked, they’d be in a much better position to at least attempt to wait out the storm. But they’re not. Therefore, we must keep the pressure on, not watch Disney’s woke films or go to the parks. Let’s see how Disney shareholders are willing to lose money.
And it seems to be working! At least according to America’s Newspaper of Record: Disney Awarded Defense Contract After Producing More Bombs Than Lockheed Martin.
METAPHOR ALERT: National Christmas Tree does best Biden impression by falling over ahead of president’s lighting ceremony, may not be salvageable.
🚨The National Christmas Tree set to be lit by Biden in 48 hours was just “toppled” by the wind, US Parks Service says tree may not be salvageable
Very fitting for the Biden White House.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 28, 2023
In a 2010 article headlined, “Obama’s Hell of a Ride,” John Podhoretz wrote:
Something weird happens when presidencies go wrong — presidents become incompetent at doing the things they were always able to do in their sleep, and their aides follow suit. I noted this when I wrote my first book, Hell of a Ride, about the decline and fall of the first President Bush, back in 1993. When Bush spoke, it rained, and his advancemen weren’t quick-thinking enough to move his events indoors. When he went to Japan on a state visit, he vomited. He was so intent on getting out his message of the day that he referred to it as “Message: I Care.”
For the past four years though (including his elegiac basement campaign), Biden’s variation on the above quote would be, “Message: Trunalimunumaprzure, Fat!”
WITH THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT: Conor McGregor on Irish Migrant Crisis: ‘We Are at War.’
HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Harvard University faces federal civil rights investigation for antisemitism amid Israel-Hamas war.
The U.S. Department of Education has added Harvard University to its list of schools that are under investigation for possible civil rights violations as students have reported antisemitic incidents amid the Israel-Hamas war.
The Cambridge campus is now under the federal microscope for potential discrimination following antisemitism complaints since Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Oct. 7.
One notable incident on campus involved pro-Palestinian protesters surrounding a Jewish student, which led to reports being filed with the FBI and Harvard Police.
On Tuesday, Harvard was added to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights list of the higher education and K-12 institutions under investigation for alleged shared ancestry violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Title VI prohibits race, color, or national origin discrimination, including harassment based on a person’s shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics.
Good.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Chuck Schumer: GOP ‘Dangerously’ Trying to Tie Ukraine Aid to ‘Hard-Right Border Policy.’
So hard right that it was the policy of — checking notes — a crazed stalwart of the vast right wing conspiracy called Chuck Schumer in 2009:
Here's Chuck Schumer on "partisan border policy" in 2009. Do your homework for once, Manu: "People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the U.S. legally. The American people… https://t.co/noTOrlfnOi
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) November 28, 2023
IF YOU LIVE IN ARIZONA: I suspect some of your tax money will soon be going to the University of Arizona’s “Emancipatory Education” graduate minor at the College of Education. It sounds ghastly. Maybe you should complain.
DONALD TRUMP, PAY ATTENTION: Milei to Send ‘Shock’ Package to Argentina’s Congress on Day One.
“This is urgent,” he said in an interview broadcast Sunday by LN+ TV, adding that Argentina can’t wait for the usual start of congressional sessions in March. “Solving the central bank’s problems as soon as possible” and stopping money printing that causes inflation are among the urgent issues he intends to tackle with lawmakers, he said.
Once his government gets public finances and the central bank balance sheet in order, it will be able to start lifting capital controls and unifying the country’s diverse exchange rates, Milei said, repeating that he never promised to close the central bank on day one.
The positive market reaction to Milei’s win in the Nov. 19 runoff, evidenced by a rally of sovereign bonds and YPF’s debt, emboldened the libertarian economist to pursue his “shock therapy” agenda of fiscal adjustment.
“This has given us greater strength to redouble our bets in favor of fiscal order,” he said, adding the market read the signs his incoming government sent “to perfection.”
“If the financial markets accompany us and interest rates fall, this will be painful but a lot less painful,” he said of the impact of the spending cuts his government proposes — a key concern in a country where more than 40% of the population lives below the poverty line.
Maybe not for much longer, they won’t, if Milei gets his reforms pushed through.
ONE OF MANY: One Example of How Media Creates Racial Panic.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: The Left Wants to Force You Into Scarcity “You probably already know, or at least suspect, that the plan is to make us so poor (and if the low-population radicals get their way, so few) that we’ll be easier to control. Corral, even. But there’s an irony here so delicious that I want to bite into it like one of those soon-to-be-forbidden juicy ribeyes I’m so fond of grilling.”
THEY COULD STOP MAKING STUPID MOVIES, INSTEAD? Disney got Microsoft to change its AI image generator because people were making too many savage Pixar-style posters.
FEMINIST HYPOCRISY: Women’s Groups Silent As Rape Is Used As an Act of War.
PURE COINCIDENCE, IGNORE THE FEAR MONGERING EXTREMISTS AND GET YOUR JAB LIKE A GOOD CITIZEN: Young people dying of cancer at ‘explosive’ rates since UK jabs began.
IN THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY LOYALTY ONLY FLOWS UPHILL: From ‘You Are a Biden’ to He’s ‘an Inmate’ — Hunter Throws Devon Archer Under the Bus.
HOW COULD ISRAEL IGNORE OUR UNINTERUPTED SERIES OF VICTORIES AFTER WWII: Israel Is Prepared To Act Alone in Gaza, as a Rift Opens Between It and America, Which Seeks To Micromanage the War.
GEE, I THOUGHT THE BORDER PATROL WOULD NEVER SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON: ‘Wide-Open, Uncontrolled, Unmanned’: Cartels Seek To Divert Border Patrol From Frontline by Overwhelming Agents With Migrants.
WE ALL DANCE AROUND THE ELEPHANT: Father of Emily Hand, 9, Says She Can’t Stop Whispering or Crying: ‘She Didn’t Want Any Comfort’.
AS FLAWED AS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS; AS ANNOYING AS POPE COMMUNARD I IS, WHEN THE LEFT HATES YOU WITH THIS KIND OF HATE? YOU HAVE TO BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT: Trad Catholic Family Dragged Out of Home at Gunpoint, Locked in Van After FBI ‘Goaded’ Teen to Post Offensive Memes, Dad Says.
WHICH ARE ALL WE HAVE: Postwar in Gaza: some educated guesses.
