Over the past few years, Disney has found itself in a magical world of trouble after deciding to enter a cultural war with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and fully commit to diversity, equity, and inclusion as part of its core programming at the expense of its loyal customers, traditional American families. Bob Iger and the board are under pressure, according to recent reports, particularly because of their pricey Marvel and Star Wars material.

Disney’s financial results suffered in 2023 and 2024 as a result of a number of poor film releases, the most notable of which was “The Marvels,” which debuted as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s worst-performing box office picture. Within Pixar, they also had failures; their most recent film, “Elemental,” did not do well at the box office.

All of Disney+’s series have seen declining ratings. “Ahsoka,” a live-action parody of the children’s show “Rebels,” was a commercial failure for the Star Wars franchise. It was a complete failure, receiving the lowest ratings on the streaming service since Season 1 of “The Mandalorian.” Marvel’s “Echo,” which is officially the least watched MCU program since Ms. Marvel made her debut, did not do much better.

Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, issued a warning in March about impending changes. He added, “In this company, you have to destroy things you no longer believe in. It is not easy because you have some sunk costs, you have to start over, or it is a relationship with your staff or the creative community.”

Additionally, he said, “We have lowered output, especially at Marvel. In movies, there are three things you do when you resolve or remedy these problems. You become combative in your pursuit of making the movies you’re producing even better. You may occasionally abandon projects that you do not support. Naturally, you also put new initiatives in motion that you firmly believe in and are considerably more confident in, and we are handling all of that.”

The Hollywood Reporter has verified that layoffs have taken place at Marvel Studios and Marvel Entertainment subsequent to those declarations. Marvel let go of fifteen employees, suggesting that Disney is experimenting with personnel reductions at these high-end enterprises, akin to what David Zaslav accomplished with Warner Bros. the previous year.

Disney is also concerned about a recent Forbes exposé on the Star Wars franchise, which revealed the company lost over $2.8 billion when it bought the rights from Lucasfilm in 2012. Star Wars has not worked out for the mouse after more than ten years of content creation, despite the fact that it appeared they would easily recoup the $4 billion purchase price due to high production costs, a run of bad box office and Disney+ releases, and other factors.

Fans and families are tired of hearing lectures about diversity and feeling pressured to watch children’s and teen programming that supports LGBTQ issues. Disney has consistently reminded fans of Marvel and Star Wars that they are not welcome if they disagree with the direction that their favorite properties are taking, and this is beginning to cause damage in the culture war.

At last, the fans are paying attention and refusing to purchase movie tickets or memberships to Disney’s streaming services. It will be fascinating to see if Bob Iger reverses direction and scales down the woke programming in light of this most recent round of cuts, or if Disney will keep making further losses.

Author: Scott Dowdy

As the city continues to drown in a sea of illegal aliens and the costs wash over Mile High City like a tidal wave, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston suggests defunding the city’s police and fire departments in order to allocate more money for housing and care for illegals.

The city is spending more on employment counseling, language training, and other job training tools for immigrants in addition to boosting its expenditures on free food, clothing, medical care, and housing, among other things.

As per Mayor Johnston’s statement, OANN News reported on Friday that the program encompasses work-based learning opportunities, industry-recognized certificate training, career pathway explorations, and language education.

Johnston has suggested spending $89.9 million on migrant assistance, which includes the latest set of training initiatives for undocumented immigrants.

However, the Denver Fire and Police Departments claim that their budgets will contribute to some of the additional expenditures Johnston wishes to engage in.

For example, the Denver Police Department acknowledged that it is running budget short by $8.4 million.

Additionally, the city’s fire department has had a $2.5 million budget deficit eliminated.

Denver’s KSUA-TV reports that Johnston also plans to alter the way the city pays its public service operators, reducing the compensation of the 9-1-1 operators.

Johnston, like other left-wingers, has been manipulating the English language to make illegal immigrants seem more like “newcomers” rather than criminals.

Johnston stated, “Denver has a sustainable plan for treating our newcomers with respect while avoiding the harshest cuts to city services after more than a year of addressing this problem together.” We heard the argument that it was impossible to be both fiscally responsible and empathetic at the same time. Today is evidence that we can still overcome our greatest obstacles, and that we can do so as a team.

“Upon arrival in Denver after April 10, individuals will receive assistance in securing subsequent transport to another destination, in addition to a brief stay at a congregate site.” The news statement continued, “Newcomers who want to stay in Denver can take advantage of the local and community support that is available.”

Johnston has also suggested slashing roughly $45.9 million from other city services. The municipal council, which will start considering the idea on April 16, must approve it.

The incisions do not happen quickly. Johnston has been threatening to reduce city services for months due to the ongoing expenses brought on by Joe Biden’s continuous influx of illegal immigrants.

He was adamant in December that he would have to make greater budget cuts for the city than they had during the recession.

Johnston stated in an interview with ABC News that the sanctuary city will have to reduce its overall budget by roughly 10%, which would be a larger cut than the reductions made during the recession in the late 2000s and early 2010s, if the federal government does not assist it in managing the financial effects of the migrant influx in the city.

Johnston said, “We are having that hard talk with our departments and our city right now,” adding that he was unsure of where he would make cuts. We want to stay away from that issue. We believe that the $14 billion in President Biden’s proposed supplementary budget, should the federal government act upon it, might assist in meeting this demand.

Therefore, we want the federal government to act in order to prevent having to make those difficult trade-offs. There might be $160 million in damage if they don’t. That represents 10% of our total spending. Therefore, if you were to assume a 10% reduction in all city departments, it would signify historic cuts, surpassing those that transpired even during the economic downturns of 2009 and 2010.

The extent of pandemic aid fraud will never be known. To obtain any sort of reliable accounting, there were just so many trillions of dollars and way too many projects managed by inept morons.

The COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program and the Paycheck Protection Program are the only two programs for which the inspector general of the Small Business Administration assessed $200 billion in fraud.

The best estimate of fraud, according to the Associated Press, is $280 billion, with an additional $123 billion in squandered or improperly spent funds. This is the reason it is inadvertently humorous to hear about the Justice Department recovering stolen COVID aid. All you can do is laugh heartily and throw up your hands at the DOJ’s $1.4 billion recovery and 3,500 arrests of criminals.

Given that the entire amount of COVID aid stolen is likely in excess of $500 billion, or 10% of all help authorized by Congress, one must ask themselves who has been dismissed for this heinous mismanagement. Where is the responsibility?

Finding the thieves who took the money is one thing. A few of them were simple to capture. While incarcerated, prisoners from California stole $1 billion in unemployment benefits. However, foreigners who took advantage of the criminally lenient monitoring and fled with riches were mostly responsible for the scam. Most likely, they will get away with it.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters on Tuesday, “We will continue to investigate and legally prosecute pandemic relief fraud and to collect the assets that have been taken from American taxpayers.”

USA Today:

“Federal authorities charged 47 individuals in September 2022 with embezzling $250 million from a coronavirus pandemic assistance program, which aimed to feed children, through “a brazen fraud of breathtaking dimensions.” Charges against 21 persons suspected of stealing $149 million from government programs and making fraudulent claims of billing stemmed from a sweep of suspects that included physicians, marketers, and producers of phony vaccination cards in April 2022. According to a USA TODAY investigation, fifteen of the biggest and most severely affected states gave hundreds of millions of dollars in sole-sourced noncompetitive contracts to suppliers of masks and other products suspected to have defrauded taxpayers.”

A measure to extend the statute of limitations is one of the most significant ideas now before Congress, since it is obvious that investigations will carry on long after the statutory deadlines have passed.

We are thinking about adding more provisions.

“Tripling the budget to $300 million so that prosecution teams may work together to investigate pandemic fraud. increasing the maximum fine in civil fraud cases from $150,000 to $1 million. The inspectors general of the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration will receive $250 million to assist them in identifying and recovering fraudulent activities.

Plagiarism estimates differ because, very frankly, Democrats are averse to knowing the full extent of fraud losses.

Furthermore, Democrats are averse to learning who is accountable for the wrongdoing. The heads of cabinet secretaries ought to roll at the very least, but that will not happen either. Both the half trillion dollars in fraud and the oversight of the alleged “Biggest Scam in American History” have already disappeared.

Author: Blake Ambrose

“I agree with Americans’ legitimate frustrations” over immigration and economic possibilities, stated Jamie Dimon, the billionaire chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the world.

In his annual shareholder letter for 2024, For failing to defend the American ideal, economic dynamism, and economic possibilities for regular Americans, Dimon denounced the country’s establishment:

I believe that our highly charged political domestic issues primarily stem from two factors: 1) immigration and the lack of border security; and 2) the eroding American dream, particularly for low-income people and rural Americans who feel left behind in the face of others’ increasing wealth and prosperity.

“Many impacted Americans, in my opinion, do not harbor animosity against law-abiding, industrious immigrants, and, on the contrary, recognize the vital role that immigrants have played and continue to play in the development of our amazing nation. Instead, they are upset because America has failed to enact appropriate immigration and border control laws. Despite the fact that many members of Congress are aware of the necessary actions, party politics impede their ability to pass legislation. Congress has in a few instances gone quite near, and I hope they continue to try.”

However, Dimon does not support the widely supported limits and reductions in immigration that would encourage policymakers and investors to increase wages in the United States, foster innovation in the country, increase worker productivity, and increase corporate trade. Rather, Dimon mumbles something about nebulous “immigration… changes,” adding that immigrants are “vital in developing this magnificent country.”

Certain purported changes, like the establishment’s 2024 border bill, aim to exacerbate the influx of wage-cutting migrants that the government is bringing into American politics, businesses, and neighborhoods.

President Biden’s maximum-migration policy flushes away the wage gains, trade opportunities, innovation, productivity, and prosperity needed by blue and white collar Americans and their children, but it also forces more foreign workers, consumers, and renters into the economy, making it incredibly profitable in the short run for Dimon and his Wall Street colleagues.

“I am quite certain that hundreds of millions of people would want to come to America if you opened up our borders to the rest of the globe,” Dimon remarked.