The plot of every '80s family movie is some asshole with an expensive haircut is going to tear down the community center where cool stuff happens and everybody bands together to run him out of town, and I wish we had done a better job of internalizing that
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some douche nozzle that looks like the most inbred piece of shit his race has ever produced successfully getting libraries closed and it’s not even some 80’s style profit motive, it’s just because the guy is an ignorant fuckwit and we all seem helpless to stop it
#Billionaire Hobbies
And boy do those kids band together.
(Great soundtrack too)
https://chloehumbert.substack.com/p/christmas-movie-propaganda
Rewatching gives me so many complicated feelings https://youtu.be/qCTaDgXrKQA?si=Df_5BFNadMb2sIRw
Trump is, LITERALLY, Biff Tanner from Back to the Future.
DeSantis is the EPA guy from GhostBusters (also Lord Farquaad.)
Stephen Miller is the Illinois Nazi from the Blues Brothers.
etc
Being against the EPA was very Reagan 80s (and how little has changed).
If nothing else, the owner of the Zuul building probably sued the EPA and made a mint off it.
Expressed as moral ambiguity rather than a sweet religious vibe, and therefore many times better.
Then it just became some kind of evolutionary Ayn Rand vibe and all “fap fap rich genius!”.