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Friday, May 08, 2020

Hollywood Has $9 Billion Reasons to Not Blame China for the Coronavirus Pandemic

Trump-bashing Hollywood figures, from film stars to studio executives, have been conspicuously silent when it comes to China as evidence mounts that Chinese dictators sought to hide the true gravity of the coronavirus outbreak and silence doctors who tried to speak out.

Take Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista. He’s attacked President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. As one of Hollywood’s most prominent anti-Trump voices, Bautista has fired off tweets insulting the commander in chief’s daily press briefings and recently called quarantine protestors “morons” for seeking to re-open state economies.

But the actor has been conspicuously silent when it comes to China — and he along with the rest of the entertainment industry have billions of reasons to stay quiet as more evidence points to actions that China’s dictators sought to hide the true gravity of the coronavirus outbreak and silencing doctors who tried to speak out.

Movie stars looking to find work in Hollywood need only glance at the figures to know that staying quiet about China is good for their careers and their coffers. The Chinese box office has skyrocketed in the past ten years. Officials claim that Chinese cinemas brought in $9.2 billion last year, compared to just $910 million a decade ago.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's all About MONEY

Anonymous said...

Get a clue:

Hollywood IS intelligence.
It runs programs on the Tell-a-Vision

Wake up, Check out

Anonymous said...

Hollywood can shrivel up an die for the good of the world!

Anonymous said...

Why even bother with this bull$hit? Apple reopens stores worldwide to sell Chinese manufactured goods and WE can't even open a fu$$$Ing Barbershop and putting hairdressers that do open in jail!!

Something is wrong with this picture.

anonymous said...

you think Google DOESN'T have an agenda:
Perform a Google Images search using any of these strings (without quote marks). You’ll be SHOCKED at the results.
“happy american mother”
“white man in love”
“white woman in love”
“white man white woman”
“european people history”
“african people history”
“black people history”
“white american inventor”
“black american inventor”
“portraits of european people”
“portraits of african people”
This is for another one of your intellectual inferior lies.

-Girdletree

High Desert Dawg said...

Well, yer probably sick of hearing it, but the ONLY language Hollywood & the music industry know is MONEY, and as long as we continue to support those that use their "celebrity" to spout untruths, and label US racists, nazi's, transphobes, add nauseum, then NOTHING WILL CHANGE! WE rant about it on social media, then grab your popcorn and watch Netflix, or HBO, go to movie theaters, etc., etc, etc. Everytime we do, it puts more money in their pockets, and makes them more popular! I used to love Robert DeNero flicks, etc but NO MORE. I won't watch any of that bullcrap that hollywood produces. NONE! Its a sacrifice, but its healthy, it gives us time to read, study, watch documentaries, SPEND TIME WITH LOVED ONES doing healthy alternatives like talking, playing games, hiking, etc. Hollywood, Facebook, etc have been a tool to separate our family units. Families, arent eating together, spending time together, etc. Now we come home, go to desperate rooms, you watch tv, wife gets on facebook, the kids are on videos, or GOD KNOWS WHAT, and that's just what they want!!! WE are the problem, and only WE can fix it! Kinda sucks to hear it, but its the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts!