Well, that didn't take long.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has his first crisis since acquiring the social media platform, and, despite his own stated preference for championing free speech, the South African native has put rapper-fashion mogul Ye (Kanye West) back on the suspended list after Ye posted an image merging a Nazi swastika with the Jewish Star of David.
He needs to get back to his meds.
Ye, who has acknowledged he has bi-polar disorder, didn't exactly help his cause by appearing on Alex Jones' InfoWimps show the other day alongside Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, who apparently is Ye's new best friend, since the two showed up at Mar-a-Lame-o a few nights earlier and broke bread with Donald Trump, who has since turned on Ye.
To be fair, Trump is also taking heat for not denouncing the anti-semitic rants of Ye & Fuentes, but, then again, what did you expect? Ye appeared on InfoWimps with a ski cap pulled completely over his face like a mask. Like, was he ashamed of showing his face on Jones' channel?
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DC Comics fans are not going to like this next item. Maybe.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has decided to move all DC animated content off HBO Max and struck a deal with Amazon Prime to move the programming there. It's all part of WBD's grand plan to use HBO Max and the CW network to air cheaply produced "reality" programming that also runs on the Discovery family of networks.
In addition, HLN (formerly CNN Headline News) is discontinuing live programming in favor of being an outlet for Discovery network programming as a cost-saving measure. CNN's morning news program will now be simulcast on HLN.
In Zaslav's case, it still is more about profit margins than reading his audience, which ye scribe believes he doesn't care about at all.
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The Cochise County Board of Supervisors finally certified the elections in Arizona that took place November 8. Still, Kari "Empty" Lake, defeated in her bid for governor, is planning to file a lawsuit next week challenging the results.
Waste. Of. Time. Lake is using the Trump playbook, ignorant of the fact that these tactics haven't worked at all since the 2020 presidential election. Too much mascara has seeped into her tiny brain to realize she's fighting a battle she can't win at all.
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Closer to home, Troy's Victorian Stroll returns to its traditional one day format on Sunday after two "seasons", in which the events were spread out over a 3 week period. The event begins at 11 am, and runs until 5 pm. A list of events can be found on the Stroll website, and were published in the local papers earlier this week.
As an animation fan, what I do depends on what stays and what goes, and which shows go where. I don't watch a ton of superhero shows despite my many geeky leanings, so the loss of new DC animations from HBO Max doesn't affect me that much; like you say, I have access to Prime Video, though I haven't activated my account with it yet, and I'm definitely not going to pay for both Prime and HBO Max, especially if the latter's going to be mostly Discovery stuff at an inflated price. Wherever the bulk of the Cartoon Network/Warner Bros cartoons go, that'll be where my money goes.
ReplyDeleteAs for Coonye, someone needs to inform him (while he's on his way to getting his head examined) that if his guy Hitler were still around, he wouldn't love him back. I'm dying to see Elon, Faux Noise and the MAGAts try to defend their new hero Ye's words. I'm dying to see them flopping around like fish out of water over this latest travesty.
Musk suspended Ye's Twitter account, in the midst of his own issues. The GOPers are trying to distance themselves from Kan'tye as much as possible. Until he goes back on his meds, West is going to continue to be a problem.
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