Disney stock price plunges 50 percent since October, and the new Lightyear movie meets with audience apathy. Meanwhile, the media giant’s new core mission, as the vanguard of the Woke agenda, goes to infinity and beyond.
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23 replies on “Walt Weeps: Disney Stock Dives as Woke Agenda Moves Media Giant Lightyears from Founder’s Dream”
It’s doubly sad for me as my Grandfather was close friends with Walt for years and passed away about the same time as Walt. What these freaks have done to Disney is criminal!
The major shareholders in Disney, and a few other major corporations, are woke pension fund aggregators with government and union pension funds under their control. People on the left advocated aggregating all these leftist controlled pension funds into a tool to buy wall Street two decades ago and its worked. The pensions are hemorrhaging money but that not what the funds managers care about they care about their political and cultural cause. Their backing euthanasia to so the pensioners are not a long term problem. A few Republican states have taken the pension funds off there activist corporation and after November the republicans have legislation already drafted to shut down the woke aggregators for breach of financial duty.
Gonna have to disagree guys, I thought Kenobi was really good. Were there a few kinda meh moments, sure. And it’s tied up, unlike Mandalorian, because you know that pretty much all the characters have mile thick plot armor. I liked the progression from “tired old hermit barely getting by” to getting his mojo back. I do agree the storyline was a little forced, but I still enjoyed it and had fun. The ending, well, there were only a couple options, and it was the most obvious possibility, though not the right one imo. Anyway. I kinda expected it’d be way more woke and it wasn’t too bad on that front.
If “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” could dial down the ❝𝐖𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐦❞, it would be pretty darn good.
The moral of the story…
GO ᗯOKE, GO ᗷᖇOKE!
I only watched the first episode of the Mandelorian and hated it. Boba Fett was a MUCH more compelling character when he was shadowy and mysterious. I don’t want to know his backstory, his motivations, and how he’s actually a nice guy. The Boba Fett character has been ruined for me.
I think they have become a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP.
This would explain why they aren’t allowed to push that woke crap in China, but are required to push it here… and meekly do what they are told.
If Walt had been alive when Disney World opened in Orlando way back when, they would not have allowed him to work there! They didn’t allow any facial hair and that genius of a man had a mustache! I don’t know if that policy has changed over time, but I doubt it!
The worse result is what I term the “Disneyfication” of the woke worldview that motivates and directs everything from the climate change agenda to social engineering. These are our children–the Millennials, the Gen Zs–who also grew up on Disneyland and Disney World. The problem is that they have determined that the entire country should be another Disney experience. They want to visit the outdoors, the physical and social landscapes, as if they were another “It’s a Small World” ride, or Main Street parade–ever unchanging, ever reliably comforting. This “Woke” revolution is not about changing anything, really, it’s about ensuring the perpetuity of the Disney-like safe place, the never-changing landscape, the familiar, static environment into which they were born. In truth, the thought of real change terrifies them.
My son and two grands came for a visit last week – we live a couple of states apart – me in red, they in blue. One of our outings was to see Buzz Lightyear. I wasn’t happy to patronize a Disney production, and actually, neither my 8 year old grandson nor my 11 year old granddaughter were particularly excited to see the move, but it was a very hot day and we’d already done the fun stuff, so we went to see it.
Of course there was absolutely no point to have a lesbian character, who marries another lesbian and then inexplicably have a baby as part of the plot line, but as that woke Disney employee claimed, she’s doing everything possible to insert the woke alphabet into every Disney production. She and her ilk have ruined what was once classic children and family entertainment and I hope they continue to pay for that right up to the point of their oblivion.
The only thing I will say is that the lesbian kiss was almost imperceptible and if my grands caught the woke references they made no mention of it. For all I know they are so immersed in this crap that it’s become common place. They don’t watch television, but they do have access to kids cartoons, which are inundated with this terrible messaging. My granddaughter likes to read and draw and my grandson loves to play video games that seem to me to be free of propaganda messaging. Neither of the kids appear to be blue-hearted, but they do attend public school so that is surely coming if it’s not already happened. If our culture doesn’t swing to the right (pun intended) they have a nightmare future awaiting them.
Fantasia blew my mind as a kid. (I enrolled in music when offered the chance in 4th grade in the hopes that I could play in that orchestra.) Nearly every Disney production in my early life brought a tear to my eye and was unashamedly pro-American and firmly based in Judeo-Christian ethics. It can still blow my mind – “Soul” has the best piano that I’ve heard in a while – so, in my heart I think it is still recoverable. This is a gigantic misdirection, though. It will take more than a 50% stock hit to change, unfortunately.
Disney bought ESPN and ruined watching sports, too. Really ruined it. Really. But E-30 episodes are sometimes evocative of the same ‘tear-to-my-eye’, heart-warming, life-affirming, maybe-things-will-work-out that the old Disney stuff used to do. ESPN may be less recoverable than Disney as a whole, mainly because they are so powerful and so woke in such a pervasive way that sports programming alternatives are shut out and shut down. Here’s hoping ESPN blows up first.
ESPN? You mean that political network that also shows some sports games?
Discounting the drop due to closures (out of their control) one could almost draw a line from April 2019 to April 2021 of general growth.
The cratering since then is all on the CEO and Board. Current level absent the bottom at the onset of the pandemic is a 60 month low (300+ weeks). Siri – define blue chip stock – Not Disney!
Really the poster child of Get Woke, Go Broke.
Check any social media feed or comments section and any Leftist genuinely believes that Disney is just a by product of the bear market. Same with Netflix – ignore all of the subscriber loss, bad press, bad shows/movies getting trashed by fans. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt
Reality doesn’t care about your delusions. Walking into a wall with yours eyes shut hurts.
They will see soon enough.
They have killed everything they have touched.
The other night, my wife had to stay with her folks (they are getting pretty old) and I rewatched the original Iron Man. (while sipping a Lag 16) It was fun. In a Top Gun: Maverick kind of way.
I think it is safe to say they wish they could memory hole that cinematic universe. They are settling for just killing it.
I’m old enough to remember when Disneyland opened in 1955 and like all men my age I was in love with Annette Funicello, I’ve been to Disneyworld several times with children and grandchildren. I simply loved the place. I sold my stock the day the ‘not so secret agenda ‘ video came out but this isn’t like selling IBM or Apple, this is pure heartbreak. I think I speak for millions when I say , they simply broke our hearts. It wouldn’t be enough to just fire a few employees this requires a total clean out of everyone that hired them and everyone they hired, followed by an abject sincere apology to the public.
I feel exactly the same way. I lived in So.Cal for 15 years and had a season pass to Disneyland for most of that time. Until they got too expensive with ever increasing blackout days and it just wasn’t worth the price anymore.
It was a “safe” place everyone in my family could go. No gangs, no violence, no crime (unlike all the other amusement parks in the Los Angeles basin) with good security and never, ever anything to worry about for kids or adults.
My sister’s husband proposed to her at the Wishing Well. My dad loved Disneyland and we covertly scattered a teaspoon of his ashes in the Rivers of America. (I know, not supposed to do that, yuck, I get it. Too bad, that’s all about my Dad and I don’t care.)
My sister has every single movie that Disney ever made up until the woke psychosis set in and a ton of Disney memorabilia.
“Heartbroken” is an understatement.
Steve, as bad as Disney is, the rest of the “kid friendly” entertainment out there isn’t much better. Nickelodeon had the garbage LGBQWERTY show Steven Universe targeting little kids for years. And I’m glad I was in the room while Little Bob was watching the episode of Danger Force (the garbage woke sequel show to the excellent Henry Danger series) that included a trans kid. Whenever the boy is watching TV I make it a point ot at least be in earshot if I can’t be in the room with him
From the same company that made shows my daughter liked and I could stomach watching. Kim Possible was a Disney product. I remember it being fun and also that Kim would get knocked on her butt pretty often.
The Star Wars Prequels might not have been good, but even the awful Phantom Menace is still fun to watch. The Sequel Trilogy is just tedious and boring. I can’t even count how many times I’ve watched the first six episodes. I loved Rogue One too. Solo was OK, but left a lot of potential on the floor. The sequel trilogy, though? I’ve watched each one exactly once.
Episode 7 makes Episode 1 look like Episode 4. Or, as I believe Bill said in a TSL, “Rose Tico makes Jar Jar look like Boba Fett”
As a Gen-Xer who grew up on these things, it does hurt that I can’t share Disney or Star Wars with Little Bob. He doesn’t dislike either; it’s just that neither interests him.
The Toy Story series was good through three movies. TS4 was Star Wars Episode 7 – Woody became second fiddle to Bo Peep, who became Rey.
… plus that absurd, cheap, tawdry, disgusting, idiotic spork character lecturing us on “tolerance”.
Ugh. I’d forgotten about that stupid spork. Which reminds me, I wrote briefly about this garbage movie and a few other franchises the Leftoids ruined two years ago