Tell me again that common sense patriotic Americans are not in the majority… and growing.
There are numerous data-points, albeit some subtle, about the backlash to leftist industries writ large. Adding another data-point is this simple notation about viewership for the Hollywood Oscar awards: “drew an average of 9.8 million viewers for ABC on Sunday, according to early Nielsen numbers. That’s 58% below the ratings from last year’s show, the previous lowest-rated Oscars, which brought in in 23.6 million viewers.” (link)
Hollywood, Music, Entertainment, NASCAR, NBA, CNN et al and all those who push the ‘woke’ narrative are losing their audience in massive ways. The totalitarians have a strategy, and a big part of that strategy is to isolate us from assembling against their interests. This is why fellowship is so critical and all efforts to remain in communication must remain a primary focus.
We are in the majority; however, the problem is ‘they’ control the communication mechanisms that allow us to recognize the scale of our assembly. The deplatforming and censorship by Big Tech is just method of their control. Look at the obscure data-points and you will find the scale of our majority.
They can all kiss my scrawny american butt
Heaven forbid, they want to isolate and marginalize us and they are getting a dose of their own medicine. Existing in their own sphere of social likeness, they will continue not to notice and will continue to one up each other in messages of self destruction.
When the enemy is busy committing genocide, it is Darwinism at full employment.
People keep saying these propaganda events and media will “ go broke”
People need to understand that the oligarch class dOES NOT care if they lose money on propaganda
Rewriting history and falsifying reality means that oligarchs ultimately get more money and more power
They will be happy to lose some money along the way
They get taxpayer bailouts and writeoffs anyway
The Global Corporations that run Hollywood, are using their influence to bolster their bottom line. They have billions invested in the Chinese market and the PRC, invested in them, controls much of what they produce. It’s nuanced, but controlled.
What you see practically daily from Hollywood “Celebrities” is merely the acts of employees taking the corporate line to protect their jobs and incomes. Insider propaganda is the new “casting couch”.
Your correct, though. In the Cultural War with the CCP, Hollywood has fallen and is occupied territory.
Well said
I think you are too optimistic.
Common sense patriotic Americans are not in the majority.
Tuning out the Oscars is certainly somewhat due to regular Americans tuning them out.
Another sizable segment is the apolitical population who has retired their dish or cable systems and are now streaming everything and thus makes it inconvenient to watch the Oscars.
There are too many woke stupid people to ignore.
I have to agree with you to a point, but I choose to be optimistic too. Today I was in the grocery store without a mask (as usual) and a man with a “bandit scarf” mask, seeing me without a mask, immediately pulled down his and smiled. Little things like that make me hopeful. But as I have said many times, my area was 10 to 1 Trump signs and yet in the local grocery store almost all the people – and their kids! – are masked.
We don’t get it either. Our area is very conservative and the mask mandate was shot down by our SSC (WI) and it’s been almost a month, yet so many are still dawning the face diapers. Pathetic and frustrating. I personally have not put a face diaper on yet. I prefer to have unobstructed breathing. Some times I just want to scream at them all.
Sometimes I think it is this year’s fidget spinner. People love to pull their masks up and down as if they are Phyllis Diller on Hollywood Squares (look it up, Millenials).
@coastermomohio
Years ago, DC radio host Joe Madison once said that the Academy picks films no one has seen. He argued that less people want to see the Oscars as a result.
I wonder it this partly why this year’s Oscars has poor ratings. Even liberal Americans would shrug at watching a show whose Best Picture nominees are so obscure.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
This is correct. There are at least 60 million hard core communists, then there are the stupid and too lazy to vote city dwellers too numerous to count. Then there are a sizable amount of Republicans who would also vote for Pierre Delecto or Juan McCain or Nimrata Randhawa just as soon as the would vote for PDJT.
NO WAY….there are at most 20M “hardcore commies” (very liberal estimate) the rest are as Lenin termed them “useful idiots” Most conservatives and GOP are busy with mundane things like life and work so take the path of least resistance which has been termed the “lesser of two evils” for the last thirty years….under COVID restrictions not only are more conservatives having the scales shed from their eyes but independents and Dimms too
Anybody who voted for Hussein O or Xiden is a communist.
They didn’t lie to them. These voters knew what they were getting.
I would consider any Democrat voter a communist. They know what they are voting for.
Concerm noted…your “belief” does not make it so
Likewise your anecdotal evidence of patriots being too busy therefore those that vote for Delecto and McCain are still intelligent beings does not make it so.
And if communists voters have concerns then they wouldn’t have voted for the communists when they had the chance. They watched their jobs and cities go up in flames for six months only to turn and vote for the communists. So spare me the “people are waking up” fairytales. I’ve heard that for thirty years, and the country’s march leftward continues unimpeded.
Also known as “Mencken’s Law.”
Depends on where in the country you are located IMHO. As far as I can tell NY, NJ , Massachusetts, Connecticut,New England are totally communist with the exception of Seneca the Elder. That’s more than 20 million people.
Pet Rock
That is more or less quoted from H. L. Mencken, famous cultural and political satirist from Baltimore. He had an acerbic wit with which his writings could cut right through the BS of the day.
Yes, but he hated the “fly over “Americans…or “rubes ” as he would say.
Disagree. The common sense patriotic Americans who are registered to vote and actually voted are in the majority. And they vastly outnumber those who were actually legally qualified to vote who voted for the dog and pony show that currently inhabits the White House. Choose your own adjective to describe the remaining who seem to wonder around aimlessly waiting for the next handout to drop.
Nope, it was prominently festured on Hulu and Roku, still is. I don’t watch regular tv, it was very available to me.
Movies coming out of Hollyweird are awful. The movie that won best picture was so depressing (didn’t nor won’t watch it either). I watch movies for entertainment….not to make me feel down. I think the left knows to keep their woke audience under their spell, they must make them feel depressed all the time.
Haven’t you met any of these lefties, they’re the most depressing people on the face of the earth.
They hate everything and themselves all at the same time.
True.
Sigh. Remember ‘Chariots of Fire’?? They could never make it today.
The most liberal actors in Hollywierd once upon a time made Blazing Saddles. They would all be shouted down today
Fantastic movie and unforgettable soundtrack
Too much violence, cursing, CGI, and dystopian sci-fi. Good movies by almost any mature standard are exceedingly rare. Plots are either weird or just dumb. Sound engineers have no clue what they’re doing. All the background noise, music and sound effects cover up much of the mumbled or practically-whispered dialogue and make it darn near impossible to hear clearly.
We see lots of “dramatic” actors; but darn few who know what’s truly funny, comedic timing, real panache, and anything other than dead eye serious glares and stares.
There isn’t a “comedy” (as classified by those who also write up the blurbs in the streaming apps) that has been produced in the past decade that’s has made me or my wife laugh or even chuckle one bit .
And that’s just the ones we dare to watch, most of which we get disgusted at and turn off before it ends or sometimes before we get 10 minutes into it.. We have to pass on most of them because the plots as described are inane or just gross, sophomoric and dumb.
Seems like the writers today are mostly aiming for pretty seriously uninformed and naive adolescents.
CGI is simply a tool. It’s no indication of a movie’s quality. The talent of the director determines if a film will be good or not.
As for dystopian sci-fi, Americans could have avoided a lot of grief if we took the genre more seriously.
Take the sci-fi hit Minority Report starring Tom Cruise. The film depicts a near future America in which people submit to constant surveillance by Big Tech, Big Business, and Big Government. It goes without saying civil liberties are practically extinct.
Back then, the idea this could happen seemed laughable.
Then COVID restrictions and lockdowns in 2020 happened. No one is laughing now.
What’s scary is how many conservatives submit to such tyranny.
From my perspective, CGI is used too often when script writers are not creative enough to write plots that entertain and convey a message without resorting to digital fakery.
It’s interesting that the excess of dystopian themed science fiction movies did not prevent the majority of the population from being fooled and unable to recognize the advance of the totalitarian despots as they gave us increasingly clear signs of their intentions.
But those movies along with software creators influenced by them did help create a discouraged, pessimistic generation who seek entertainment from video games that simulate war, death and destruction and who largely reject God.
@GB Bari
Apollo 13 and Forrest Gump used CGI. Were those bad films?
As for dystopia sci-fi, it’s not the fault of creators that Americans dismiss their warnings.
Finally, gamers were WAY ahead of the GOP in denouncing China cracking down on peaceful protests in Hong Kong. This is because, unlike many in the GOP, gamers are getting CCP bribes.
Sadly, too many conservatives let stereotypes about gamers prevent an alliance between the two groups.
fred I don’t know about “stereotypes”, but I personally know of two separate incidents where children who were and still are heavy sci-fi video gamers; both turned into adult basement dwellers in their 30s who are still sponging off their parent (in one case) or parents (in the second) unable or unwilling to function and support themselves in the real world. Through those three parents I learned indirectly about dozens of other similar cases which I won’t detail here.
I imagine that unless one is directly exposed to multiple such situations, one may tend to brush off other’s accounts as merely “stereotyping”.
@GB Bari
2A activist and talk show host Dana Loesch is an avid gamer. She looks pretty mature and self reliant to me.
I figure if people have to be paid $100 to take the injection, then to watch the “Oscars” ought to be worth at least $200.
“Equity” demands that Hollyweird PAY ME reparations for exposure to their filth and lies
They still televise the Oscar Awards? Who knew?
Remember when Hollywood made movies that didn’t contain political messages? And some demonstrated love of country and patriotism? Seems long ago.
@EZgoer
Patriotic movies are political by nature. The issue is for movies to tell good stories which will then cause audiences to consider the deeper political themes.
What can you say? Al Gore won o e of those things.
It’s all about racism and diversity now. Creativity is ruined when you’re forced to check boxes instead of cast people who would fit the story line and role.
**Disney’s “Star Wars”**
Some of the worst
Casting FAIL
@TreeClimber
Star Wars in the Disney Era is mixed.
On the big screen, the Sequel Trilogy does put checking boxes ahead of good direction and screenwriting. What’s sad is the actors in these films have talent as shown by their work outside of Star Wars.
By contrast, Star Wars on the small screen demonstrates that quality storytelling and a diverse cast aren’t mutually exclusive. The massive success of The Mandalorian is a great example of this approach. Not surprisingly, that show is spawning several spin off series.
At present, Lucasfilm seems to be leaning to the Mando approach to Star Wars. We’ll see how its pans out.
^^^^100% ^^^^
Imagine that!? An ASIAN Director WON “Best Picture” among other awards … hmmmmm … the perfect “antidote” to the divisive DNC narrative of “Stop The Asian Hate” (started by the Bad Orange Man). Hollyweird is so predictably narrative-driven
@Kenji
Asian filmmakers winning Best Director isn’t new.
From a news article on 2021 Oscar night:
“At the 2021 Oscars on Sunday night, Nomadland director Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color and the first woman of Asian descent to be nominated and to win Best Director.
Her win comes as anti-Asian hate crimes are spiking in cities across the country. Backstage, she told ABC Audio that she hopes that her win not only inspires filmmakers of Asian descent, but that movies can help bring all people together. “
Never cared enough to watch it before they went bonkers. Still don’t.
Yeah now just a place where a once respected 74 year old actress now twerks live.
Good grief ?♀️
Scarier than flicking a lamp on and off. ?
100% Agreed. They are scare.
Don’t forget if you travel this summer: no Delta airlines, no Coca-Cola, no MLB.
There is no greater punishment for these prima Donna’s than to be ignored entirely.
Actually, there is….when they tout their lunacy….you LAUGH at them…they go ballistic and cannot handle it
100% agree. Laughter is the best response.
In Alinsky’s RULES FOR RADICALS, he advises, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
Everyone needs to read this Democrat playbook! He was Hillary’s mentor, and she dedicated her thesis to this evil man (Saul Alinsky).
@Texas Rancher
And Obama also used Alinsky tactics against his critics.
Some on the Right have read Alinsky and now use his tactics against the Left, who naturally melt down. Two great examples are Trump and pro-life activist Lila Rose.
remember: the opposite of love is not hate. it is indifference
Call me Amish … I’ve shunned many of the proudly woke corps.
No movies. We used to go to the movies once or twice a week. The year before Covid we went maybe once every two months and then it stopped.
Not missing it.
How long before the hollywooders realize they are non-essential
Yep, good old CGI
Fully agree, Sundance. However, 9.8 million idiots are still out there.
They are Gonna need a BIGGER fence!
LOL!
That number of 9.8 million viewers is pathetic and they deserve it. Go woke, go broke!!
They gave out Oscars? Really? Don’t you have to make movies for that to happen … movies that people watch … in theaters?
Guess you can’t stop those self-absorbed little twits from telling each other how wonderful they all are and how important they are … not.
A big “tell” on the need to control our communication mechanisms started years ago when mainstream television, radio and newspapers began disabling the Comments section on their websites. More and more are disappearing every day.
The Oscar is a white supremacist, heterosexual, male.
I wonder if Cher has “thought” of that. Assuming, of course, that she “thinks” at all in a way we can relate.
I believe Oscar is anatomically ambiguous … hence the Perfect role model for our multi-gender-inventive
– Cultural depravity
failure Obama in everywhere.
I would never watched Hollywood Because bunch of lib socialism that hate MAGA,
And all your movies suck, too.
Not good enough; we need to drive them out of business………….decentralize our entertainment………..keep up the good work America.
Support your local (city) teams/leagues…………….don’t support the MLB/NBA/NHL/PGA/NFL……….support your local arts………..boycott the national media entertainment and cultural conglomerates.
Think small and think local…………………..
Whole heartedly agree with
“Support your local arts”.
Unfortunately, Covid wrecked quite a bit of that.
Pre Covid?
My late wife had a close friend who played in the
Dekalb Symphony. We went numerous times and thoroughly
enjoyed all the guest artists. They even did “Pictures at an
Exhibition” on date. YTG’s fave from wayyyy back.
Our church had a really good theater program for years.
Saw performances of “Crimes of the heart” , “Godspell”,
“The Fantastiks”, and many others. Well put together,
held your attention well.
Look for high school, college performances , recitals.
Attend the ones in areas where the colleges, high schools
haven’t gone covid crazy.
And…… finding musicians you loved back when who
now perform in smaller venues is the best way to get
a real dose of musicianship. I have never enjoyed stadium
concerts. Give me the smaller place with someone that
actually is sincere in their music. And, drag your kids along
with you on these occasions. Guaranteed they’ll be the ones
that they talk about for years afterwards.
“Pictures at an Exhibition” has long been in my 33 1/3 collection! Also, in smaller venues, it is easier to ascertain whether the creativity and talent actually exists or is simply cleverly manipulated.
#pedos
do they even care who watched? they just do a bunch of back slapping and congratulate each other for coming up with the wittiest political comments or woke comments! its all about them..they dont care if the commoners see or not.
They have nothing that we want
It doesn’t help that the movies produced suck at the same percentage rate as covid survivability.
I think two factors are working together in the continuing irrelevance of awards shows. Scores of millions of over 35 adults don’t want woke garbage shoved at them by vacuous foppish actors and hollyweirdos. And secondly the 18 to 35 demo just doesn’t care about award shows having grown up with participation trophies. But as others have said what these idiots hate the most is being ignored.
Hollywood shut down production along with most other industries, and the theaters were closed for most of the year. So why were they having an award show when they didn’t make any product and there wasn’t any box office? People understood that an award show under these circumstances was complete nonsense, and no one watched it.
That may be a small number but it doesn’t explain the Mt Everest level plunge in ratings they’ve seen year after year.
The Hollywood Elite still have a strong need to be “seen” by one another.
I quit watching NASCAR,I guess, that makes me a former “racist”…
Or maybe you’re just a noose guy.
Bubba wallace,the greatest “Race card driver ,ever”..
I prefer watching a genuinely talented black driver – Lewis Hamilton in F1. Screw the pretend drivers who check a box.
I didn’t even know the Oscar were on. That’s the truth.
As far as I’m concerned, every last one of those hateful, arrogant, marxist, Hollywood scum bags could die and go straight to hell tomorrow and it would only make America a better place.
The free exchange of information is killing them. They cannot stop it.
Someone help me out here. When did ZERO get an oscar (last night?) and for what category?
Best impersonation of an authentic black.
Someone, somewhere actually watched the Oscars? Who knew there were that many masochists in the U.S.?
Even my complete libtard acquaintances avoided Oscars this year and are openly mocking it. So, I don’t think it’s that clear cut, as in “Us vs. Them”, in this case.
They gave the Best Actor to old white man Anthony Hopkins (The Father) rather than posthumously to the black actor Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) so I guess the Academy is still racist. Given all the oppression they’ve experienced shouldn’t blacks — excuse me, Blacks — win all the major awards now?
All we have is arrogant Democommunists everywhere we look. Entertainers who want to virtue signal and not entertain. Teachers that want to lecture us but not lecture about English, math, etc., on and on.
We are in the majority; however, the problem is ‘they’ control the communication mechanisms that allow us to recognize the scale of our assembly. The deplatforming and censorship by Big Tech is just method of their control. Look at the obscure data-points and you will find the scale of our majority.
They know we are in the majority (this is why they are fearful and won’t shut up), we know we are in the majority……might get ….
Like I said earlier!!
NOW THIS IS FUNNY!!
Karma is a B………………….
It can go lower.
No one is watching this nonsense……I’m not putting any stock in the words of anyone who spends their life trying to be someone else, and then someone else and then someone else……….it’s not even good work any more……..destroying classics in endless remakes…………..other movies full of gore and violence and sex and drugs…pushing agendas…….even animated ones hit some of these low points. There is nothing out there or has been out there for quite some time worth spending money on……..Until they all start living up to the sermons they regularly dish on the American public, open their checkbooks wide…and I mean wide, and invest in this country…and all the causes they are haranguing us over (education..social programs……..college educations) …they can all go pound sand………..I have 4 toilets in my house that I always clean during these glorified self serving praise fests………..
yesterday morning on here or some other social media someone posted something about the Oscars.
I’m like did they still have the Oscars, all the movie houses were closed most of last year.
But…Sleepy Joe and the Ho got 81 million votes!
I saw the “Best Picture” … Nomadland. My wife only saw about half of it before she got bored and went to bed. I made it through to the end … but only because I woke up after dozing off.
It was boring, cringeworthy, and utterly depressing.
And most importantly … it contains NO human truths (other than mental illness) … it is simply awful.
And Hollywoodie actually calls this Film School tripe … “Best”. Wow. Talk about losing the plot!
I suspect the supercilious social justice lectures from self aggrandizing celebrity nitwits are the most significant factor in the plummeting Oscar ratings in the last few years but changing technology is also part of the reason:
“The most watched Oscars telecast, 1998, had 55 million viewers (runner-up, 1983 with 50 million), but in 1998, 76 million watched the (monumentally disappointing) “Seinfeld” finale… In the new TV landscape, no top show breaks 20 million; “Mad Men” changed the world and never hit four.”
Unlike the dreaded Oscars; shows like Mad Men succeed with DVD sales, reruns etc to a much wider audience over time.
“…The Oscar nominees, and winners, make a statement, about film, yes, but also who we are now and who we want to become, and that statement is now what we talk about, ratings be damned.”
What the LA Times’ “Culture Columnist and Critic” Mary McNamara was actually saying in 2019 in her comment, “ratings be damned” is that the viewers or the inferior masses be damned and our feel good, uninformed detached personal opinions on social issues (and esp. P Trump) are more important than you viewers. Many Oscar viewers received that message years ago and each year more get people get it. This ratings be damned attitude ensures a continued decline.
I stopped watching ABC when they cancelled Roseanne.
Besides, I am not interested in Hollow-wood, what it thinks or feels.
Loved Roseanne’s interactions with Dan and here sister Jackie. ABC shot themselves in the foot when they cancelled.
Now apparently the spinoff is waiting word on renewal. Who cares.
And, Miss Barr told Jimmy Fallon, she didn’t give a f**k if some people were unhappy she voted for Trump !
Wait until they see Delusional Joe’s numbers this week… 🙂 🙂 🙂
Maybe next year they can change the fake Oscar award to the Obama SJW, virtue signaling award as BLM/Antifa state Oscar was a “white supremacist” anyway. Choke on woke, then go broke Pedowood.
80,000,000+ are MAGA Americans
Unknown additional millions will follow when we lead
These morons are so busy reading somebody else’s words, and congratulating themselves, they have absolutly NO self awareness, or the ability to hold a substantive conversation. Arrogant narcissists, going the way of the dinosaurs. What a pathetic rabid mob…….. Who in their right mind, would take the time to watch this cabal ? Many have given up the cost of a ticket, to what used to be “entertainment,” to be lectured and berated by ignorant skin & genitalia obsessed radicals, so their strutting and referring to their “work” is as meaningless, as they have become.
57 million viewers in 1998, 9 million viewers in 2021. An 84% decline. Lesson: if you go woke, you go broke!
My response to “Are you watching the Oscars?”. “Is Bob Hope hosting it?”
God Bless the USA ♥️????