In the real world this is an example of looting. This is not about well considered business or financial decisions, it's about stealing wealth and taking it away. The way you describe the California AG makes your embrace of corrupt practice undeniable (although I know you will never admit it).

The enterprise of the film community has thrived in California for such a long time because it is liberal environment. There is room for individualism and inclusiveness, and this was true before DEI was ever a thing. Both Southern California and the SF Bay area, where much of this is located, have been open to all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds from all over the world.

It's an ecology, and if you rip it up and put it in an overtly hostile environment it will wither and die. How can you imagine that international talent wants to relocate to the MAGA confederate south? How can such a backwards place appeal to in international audience? Tennessee is ranked 42nd in this wellness rating, just above Alabama. California rates 6th.

As far as I can tell the only innovation our of Tennessee in the 21st century is Nashville Hot Chicken. Oak Ridge National Lab doesn't count because it is 100% the creation of the US government.

There are multiple sites in the ocean off Southern California including dumped munitions, low level radioactive waste, sulfuric acid, and toxic petrochemicals chemicals.

There is a Superfund site at he former location of the Montrose Chemical Corporation in Torrance where much of the DDT related waste was illegally dumped off Palos Verdes.

The full extent of the problem is still unknown. “The more we look, the more we find, and every new bit of information seems to be scarier than the last... This has shown just how egregious and harmful the dumping has been off our nation’s coasts, and that we have no idea how big of an issue and how big of a problem this is nationally."

Kimmel would love giving equal air time to a Green Party candidate. He'd make it entertaining and enlightening. Great television. He'd take his show down to Texas to accommodate Paxton for an interview, but it might be hard to pry Paxton out from whatever rock he's hiding under.

As far as allowing Democratic Socialists airtime, the FCC doesn't consider them to be any different than any other Democrats so it's a no go.

Trump has already called Democrats "godless communists", so that is the official party line. FCC clearly thinks that commies have no free speech rights at all, so no Talarico over the airwaves for you.

Grow up.

Where's my $2000 from DOGE savings? Does no one remember the last time? How fucking brain dead do you have to be to not remember?

Also his offer is completely illegal and no one seems to be talking about that little detail.

Trump and the Republicans think that voters are whores and will sell their rights for an empty promise. I'm afraid they might be right.

This just in! The TV Show South Park is rebranding to South America.

It makes perfect sense because they're under the umbrella of the Trump controlled state media organization Skydance/Paramount and they're following the lead of Google and Apple in groveling to the current regime. Trey and Matt are Patriotic Americans who obviously support the flag and all it stands for and would never produce anything that would challenge our Orange Cheeto Fearless Leader.

The Gulf of America and Lake America.

Coming soon: the Trump Straights and the State of New America.

When will he change the calendar to suit his whims?

When Lucas started funding the USC film school one of his conditions was that they get rid of all their film projection equipment. The art history department kept theirs, so if someone wanted to show a physical flat strip of media with square hole sprockets they had to go to another part of campus.

That's an object example of how bloated his ego is. He consciously eliminated the physical media history of motion pictures because he thought digital was superior.

I look forward to your suffering explosive diarrhea during the upcoming toilet paper shortage followed by hospitalization due to complications from consuming tainted mystery from an undisclosed location.

This is a general problem with mass market capitalism not limited to the medical sector. Walk into any large supermarket and it's stuffed with ultra-processed food that is not good for anybody. Relatively young adults are increasingly getting diseases of the old and bad diet is a big cause.

The reason that vaccines are real science is that outcomes can be reliably predicted. For prescription medicine the cost effectiveness and possible negative results are closely monitored and very well understood. That's science.

For AI no one can predict the cost./benefit, or even the actual cost. The social and environmental impact is deliberately being ignored. How big is the impact on infrastructure? Everyone knows the cost of water and power is being passed on to the general population while it is equally clear the the monetary benefits are primarily going to a select group of insiders and economic elites.

I'm very familiar with right wing tactics on Slashdot and you fit the bill. It's the pretend rational objection of casting doubt on established norms with a dash of conspiracy theory thrown in to spice things up.

You are a stealth anti-vax propagandist who pretends to be a rational voice. You may or may not use vaccines yourself since your side is ripe with hypocrisy. Do you think anyone in the high level Trump camp in vaccine free? (Maybe RFK Jr, but he has diagnosed holes in his brain due to parasitic worms.)

I look forward to your explosive diarrhea during the upcoming toilet paper shortage and likely hospital admission due to the consumption of tainted mystery meat from an undisclosed foreign location.

One is pure hype and the other is pure science.

We're screwed.

Dell wins a $9.7 billion Pentagon software deal after donating to Trump accounts.

I very much look forward to your explosive diarrhea, with additional hospitalization caused by tainted mystery meat from undisclosed foreign locations.

And I still haven't received my $2000 refund from DOGE government savings. Please send me a cashiers check for that amount and I'll pay you back without interest when the money arrives in the mail. Assuming that there is any public mail service left.

Unfettered far right politics blended with racist Christian nationalism have exploited long standing governance loopholes to hijack the political process.

Note: no Trump supporter can read the previous explanation and understand it, which demonstrates that willful ignorance and gross stupidity that has become normalized.

I hope that helps.

You are a real blue pill type, aren't you? What fetid social media cesspool did you pull "Vice President Kardashian" from?

Trump the Duck-man has slotted in an appalling cast of ignorant media figures into positions of power, including a realty star trucker as Transportation Secretary and the wife of a dead wrestling promoter as the Education Secretary. Sec-Trans has decided that taking his family on a summer road trip is his most important duty and Sec-Ed wants to end student loans for things like nurse training. There as pig ignorant as you are, which explains a lot.