Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
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Re: Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
#2Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted this outburst - the success of Ne Zha 2 (china bad), or No Other Land (can't say Palestine)?
Re: Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
#3It bodes very badly for everyone that the entire Republican Party is fine with having an entire federal government policy based on the random TV-driven whims of a bitter, broken and clearly ailing old man. Would they even try to stop him pushing the button?
Re: Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
#4Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted this outburst - the success of Ne Zha 2 (china bad), or No Other Land (can't say Palestine)?
This proclamation and his desire to reopen Alcatraz may be linked to the fact that PBS in Palm Beach aired "Escape from Alcatraz" last night. Presumably the tariffs on foreign movies came from his annoyance at channel surfing.
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Re: Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
#5Defund education then defund culture. Sounds exactly like America First/America Only. Next up is propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know. He can flood the media as he's been flooding the government, all the pieces are in play.
Still nobody putting up a meaningful fight. Your window is closing.
Re: Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
#6Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted this outburst - the success of Ne Zha 2 (china bad), or No Other Land (can't say Palestine)?
This proclamation and his desire to reopen Alcatraz may be linked to the fact that PBS in Palm Beach aired "Escape from Alcatraz" last night. Presumably the tariffs on foreign movies came from his annoyance at channel surfing. https://bsky.app/profile/garyalexander.bsky.social/post/3lof...
That's a more logical explanation than all these "4D chess" theories out there that try to sane-wash Trumps actions into a coherent strategy.
Re: Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
#7Defund education then defund culture. Sounds exactly like America First/America Only. Next up is propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know. He can flood the media as he's been flooding the government, all the pieces are in play. Still nobody putting up a meaningful fight. Your window is closing.
What would a meaningful fight look like?
Re: Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
#8Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted this outburst - the success of Ne Zha 2 (china bad), or No Other Land (can't say Palestine)?
It's something that I think has been bubbling up for a while. I've heard a lot of complaints from people in and around the industry, and the complaints are a lot less about Ne Zha 2 and more about stuff that used to be filmed in Hollywood being filmed in Canada instead for cost purposes.
Re: Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
#9I live in Belgium. It feels like 95% of all films I ever hear about are American. Opponents counter MAGA with 'America was never great', but here they'll say 'Movies have never left America'?
Re: Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
#10Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted this outburst - the success of Ne Zha 2 (china bad), or No Other Land (can't say Palestine)?
This proclamation and his desire to reopen Alcatraz may be linked to the fact that PBS in Palm Beach aired "Escape from Alcatraz" last night. Presumably the tariffs on foreign movies came from his annoyance at channel surfing. https://bsky.app/profile/garyalexander.bsky.social/post/3lof...
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