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Sherri Priestman's avatar

Every Hulu or Disney ad on TikTok is full of comments right now saying the poster has canceled. Here’s the thing: I have no idea if there are enough of us to make a difference, but we’re not taking our marching orders from Dem leadership. Nobody thinks Schumer or Jeffries has the juice. For me I’m looking to the strong governors and the up and comers, but not to national leadership. I don’t know if I ever will again.

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Joshua Scholar's avatar

I saw one claim, half a day ago that there were already a million cancellations.

But to me it's a sign of our fucked up culture that no one is talking about firing the Disney CEO even though that would erase the destruction of the brand, and that destruction isn't going to go away otherwise.

Disney has millions of less customers around the world now.

As is the problem with what Trump is doing to America, the privilege of one spoiled sociopath is more important than EVERYONE ELSE.

It is also the culture of The Bulwark. What possessed Lauran Egan to write this story that self destructed instantly?

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Sherri Priestman's avatar

I’m going to take the little victories, and Kimmel’s been reinstated.

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MamaBi's avatar

As long as those two are the leaders, the national Dems are doomed. I wouldn’t look to anyone but the governors to lead.

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Kotzsu's avatar

same, heard plenty of folks talk about cancelling Disney+...... I didn't even think to check to see if Jeffries or Shumer said anything, haha. My expectation is that they'll do nothing until they've had at least two weeks of polling data that tells them how they feel about this

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Sherri Priestman's avatar

Exactly the wrong message to send, but they keep getting voted in. I wouldn’t bet on that lasting much longer.

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