“Are we the baddies?”

I’m sure y’all know the meme, even if you have no idea where it originates from (BTW, guilty): two guys in the snow, clad in what look to be N*zi uniforms. One of them asks his colleague, ostensibly after reviewing their recent actions, “Are we the baddies?”.

Checking the front page of the website of the company that I’m working out of (I work for another company. I don’t work for these guys. I wanna make that sparklingly clear.), the answer - in a roundabout way - is yes.

In case you’ve been living under a rock these last few weeks, you’ve heard that Warner Bros. - despite an incredible year of box office success - is being sold. The two monoliths vying for its legacy are Netflix (whose CEO basically had to be strong-armed into agreeing not to fuck with the theatrical experience that the studio’s movies have experienced lo these many, many years) and Paramount (currently run by a Mongoloid nepo baby whose father is good buddies with a certain country-destroying monster).

The company I work out of is advising the latter.

Maybe I’m overreacting, maybe I’m not (smart money’s on not), but given the deplorable shit that these people have done - if not condoned - these last few years, I have absolutely no reason not to suspect that one of the first things a new Paramount would produce with Warner’s library is a remake of Casablanca that ends with Rick, Ilsa and Laszlo - and, let’s be honest, Sam and Renault would definitely be thrown against the wall, as well - get machine gunned by the Axis, which ties nicely into the meme that I referenced originally.

But even if Captain Netflix goes back on his word about theatrical windows like the trifling reneger he is, I’d much rather have Netflix owning Warner Bros. than current Paramount. Week-long theatrical windows or godless propaganda? That is a tough call.

(And, as I’m certain many soundtrack fans have considered, I wouldn’t be crass enough to want Paramount owning Warner Bros. even if it meant the releases of scores from Warner Bros. movies. In the long run, it just wouldn’t be worth it and who knows how long music would even be allowed in this new regime?)

In a weird way, it’s quite fortunate that the contract that the company I work for had with the parent company is expiring and, come 2026, I’ll be unemployed. I’m not rich enough to be able to make the choice between my job and my integrity. Bills need to be paid.

Well, my chestnut about January 6th and laxatives and Republican Congresspeople got me bumped up to a seven-day ban from Reddit, so as I see it, one of two things needs to happen:

a) I need to learn to be less sensitive about the stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid things being done by our current government.

-or-

b) Somebody needs to do a clean sweep of these corrupt assholes, cause that first one ain’t ever fucking happening.

No light at the end of this tunnel.

So, that just happened. In case you were wondering, no, I don’t have it in me to give up on my life, not with so many responsibilities I have to deal with. A permanent, self-inflicted solution like that would come at a great personal cost. However, giving up on the concept of a merciful God? 100% free.

I don’t know if I can ever be as optimistic as I was in the before time, but I could always hope for a meteor or a flood or some sort of super Covid. Anything like that to take care of D.C.’s pest control problem would put my mind at ease.

And to all those who voted for him, all those who supported him, all those who installed him, all those who enabled him and overlooked his obvious mental deterioration for your own gain (and, for shits and giggles, the people - he said, sarcastically - who didn’t even bother to vote), here’s a news flash: he will not have your back forever and, deep down, I know you are all keenly aware of that fact. When he decides the time is right to rid this country of any quote-unquote ‘undesirables’, I sincerely hope that you fuckers are the first ones lined up against the wall.

So, let’s see if I have this straight: this guy signs a bill into law in the hopes of ensnaring one of his enemies, only for the very same law to get him in a bucket of trouble? 

For real, that is some straight-up Wile E. Coyote shit. Anyone seriously still supporting this guy needs to kill themselves out of shame.

Hell, I would if I were so gullible.

Well, it's official.

 

I just had to be 100% sure. It may take some time to, if you'll forgive me, make America great once more, but Rome wasn't built in a day.

"Governments should be afraid of their people."

Well. God must've been looking out for us because, as soon as a swing state with six or more votes is fully counted, this House is clean.

Fascinating coincidence that November 5th should come in the wake of Election Day.

BTW, this is not the last piece of music I will be posting in anticipation of this (sure to be) wonderful news.

This shit is why I fucking hate politics.

Best case scenario, we get a "Designated Survivor"/King Ralph-type of situation going, at some point.

On a planet of six billion, I know I'm not the only one to have entertained this theory.

Late to the party.

As an African-American, I can't help but feel a little proud. What more can be said, but 'Congratulations, President(-elect) Obama and here's to change'?