{"id":10124,"date":"2024-11-22T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T23:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/?p=10124"},"modified":"2024-11-22T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T23:55:10","slug":"schadenfreudelicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/schadenfreudelicious\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreudelicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks and a bit more after election day, and the meltdown, panic, and dismay among the progs, the establishment media, and the entertainment world continues. I\u2019m taking an unworthy pleasure in reading reports of panic and back-biting among partisans of the Harris\/Walz camp and the noisy laments of their cis-gender or bi significant others. I\u2019m also taking a savage pleasure in reading about or viewing evidence of the dismayed realization among the managerial class in certain industries dependent economically on the choices of the general public \u2013 that conservatives and Trump voters buy shoes, too. Aso movie tickets, newspaper and magazine subscriptions and other consumer goods.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019d think that anyone paying attention might have realized this some months, or even years ago, but apparently our managerial class of the liberal persuasion need to be smacked with the obvious \u2013 along the lines of a mushroom cloud over a Japanese city, a dinosaur-killing asteroid, an earthquake along the New Madrid seismic zone,\u00a0(which made the Mississippi River briefly flow backwards)<\/em>\u00a0or the Trump landslide. If, as Andrew Breitbart observed once, that politics is downstream from culture \u2013 are we seeing that current reversed, and culture is flowing downstream from MAGA?<\/p>\n

More than two weeks have gone by, and Trump\u2019s success is still all too much for some of them to take. A good few are reacting in an embarrassingly theatrical manner. Abandoning Twitter\/X and flouncing off to the echo chamber of Bluesky. Rob Reiner is signing himself into some kind of rehab center, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are flouncing off and going to Britian to live \u2026 well, at least one celebrity couple are making good to leave the US on account of Trump\u2019s election. My only question is \u2013 can\u2019t they take Oprah Winfrey with them? I\u2019ve never paid any heed to celeb endorsements, by the way \u2013 and the gruesome crew who came out for Harris-Walz is enough to put one off going to going to their movies ever again.\u00a0(Good thing that Harrison Ford is pretty much aged out of anything but character parts. He\u2019s now in my \u2018not unless dragged by wild horses\u2019 category, right alongside Jane Fonda and every single one of those participants in that horrifyingly embarrassing \u2018zoom call-avengers assemble!\u2019 video promotion.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The more sensible corporations and companies \u2013 or those who have been paying attention to the bottom line, and who desire their companies to continue making a handsome (or even a moderately attractive) profit seem to have made a rational decision. Indeed, the owner of the L.A. Times\u00a0(which once used to be substantial and respected newspaper)<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0international book publisher Hachette<\/a>\u00a0apparently do want to rein in the hysterical progressives among their respective employees and appeal to that niche market of the majority of American consumers. Even if their employees are having screaming meltdowns. Yes, there\u2019s a large audience out there \u2013 probably more for books, than for newspaper subscriptions. How many other companies have decided, in the wake of Trump\u2019s election that they had rather make a fat bottom line, and never mind the howling from their in-house woke element? Discuss as you wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks and a bit more after election day, and the meltdown, panic, and dismay among the progs, the establishment media, and the entertainment world continues. I\u2019m taking an unworthy pleasure in reading reports of panic and back-biting among partisans of the Harris\/Walz camp and the noisy laments of their cis-gender or bi significant others. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aint-that-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10125,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions\/10125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}