Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Steevy Maximus]

Just another thing to prove to me that our country is doomed:
I have a coworker that works in the ER. He randomly brought up politics with a stupid racial joke: “Trump said he’s going to deport all the Mexicans, Juan by Juan”.
This guy is a self professed Republican and…he’s OF Mexican descent. Even speaks Spanish! He further goes on about how bad he thinks Trump is as a person…but still, SOMEHOW, thinks Trump wants what’s best for the country. He just doesn’t agree with how haphazardly he’s doing it. His remark on voting was “I didn’t vote for Trump, I voted for Kamala’s opponent”. Jeezus ******* Christ, it took EVERY OUNCE of my will not to tear into him: He voted for Trump, period. He shoulders some amount of blame for what’s going on and will happen in the coming months and years. Just because he couldn’t bring himself to vote for a Democrat, a woman, or both.

While not a devout Christian by ANY stretch, I was raised with very Christian tenets under the Lutheran flavor. The dark, evil, UNchristian part of my brain immediately wants him (and many of my coworkers, many who are or are married to Mexican or Mexican descendants) to have an ICE raid set upon them. Because I firmly believe most of these people don’t get, or don’t WANT to get, what’s actually going on here Until it happens to them.
Even then…I feel the “Republican conditioning” is too strong to really make a difference for generations, if ever.

Lord knows if it weren’t for my medical needs and the jive-pay I get, I probably would have left Oklahoma years ago.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Oh lord, he’s going after the animes!

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-announces-100-tariff-movies-produced-outside-us-2025-05-04/

tl;dr:
Hollywood is “dying” (despite steady recovery since the pandemic and over $30 BILLION in revenue last year), and to save it, Trump has slapped tariffs on “foreign made movies”. Now, does that count streaming? Does it include international filming by American Studios? Will the tariffs be on production costs or revenues?
Who the hug knows, but dammit he’s making a deal of…something. As usual, industry experts, fearing reprisals from international partners, are citing these tariffs as potentially devastating to the very industry the tariffs are supposedly to help.

 

[Anonymous X]

FFS, then nothing from Japan (and Korea and so on) will get English language international releases, because those are no longer going to be viable without the US market.

 

[Axaday]

Hollywood is “dying” (despite steady recovery since the pandemic and over $30 BILLION in revenue last year), and to save it, Trump has slapped tariffs on “foreign made movies”.

I thought it was dying because of woke?

 

[KidTDragon]

He ended woke, but Hollywood is still dying, so the real cause must be something that tariffs can fix. Because tariffs can fix anything.

 

[Axaday]

Ok, that makes sense.

 

[KidTDragon]

It does? Then explain it to me, because all I hear is nutty bananas koo-koo babble!

 

[Dekafox]

FFS, then nothing from Japan (and Korea and so on) will get English language international releases, because those are no longer going to be viable without the US market.

Nah, there'll be English versions for some of them, just not available(without sailing the high seas) in the US. The SouthEast Asian market has English as a major language - the English versions of the more recent Super Robot Wars releases up until SRW 30 was targeted at that region. For example, I imported the English SRW T Switch version at release, and had to buy the DLC for it from the Hong Kong Switch store due to that. Another example is the current Wataru anime, as that is getting English subs and as far as I know that's SEA targeted as well.

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.

www.404media.co

Also apparently the Trump Admin was using a third party Signal client(for the archiving capability) and it apparently was compromised, and everything in it leaked as it was captured via MitM(Man in the Middle). I suppose that's one way to make sure all the messages are preserved; follow the Linus Torvalds method of backup and have the rest of the world mirror it.

*Late edit*
Also, like I suspected, the authority Trump has been using for tariffs so far excludes movies, like it does books:

dm (@[email protected])

Amidst the reports of Trump claiming to impose a tariff on movies, I haven't seen an answer, under what authority? Far as I can tell, the IEEPA, which Trump used to bypass Congress on existing tariffs, expressly excludes films. Don't assume the President can do things just 'cause he says he...

infosec.exchange

50 U.S. Code § 1702 - Presidential authorities

www.law.cornell.edu

 

[Ironbite4]

Best part of this? If he does put tariffs on movies right? That means places like China won't buy our movies. So what does that mean for box offices that rely on China to put their totals in the billion dollar amounts?

Ironbite-this man is the worst.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Nice. Kill one of the few things we actually do export.

 

[Pocket]

I've been saying for years that the rest of the world should stop watching our shitty movies and shows, because cultural imperialism is cancer. Good to see Trump doing his part.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

But how will the world survive without Army Dude 37: Shoot All The Things, or Marvel Movie 423, or Fast and Furious Again?

 

[Axaday]

Fast and Furious Again?

Never seen any of those. What are they so mad about?

 

[wonko the sane?]

Price of gas, I think.

 

[Axaday]

Maybe they should get electric.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Don't need electric when you got family.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Don't need electric when you got family.

Yes you do, whose name is on the bill?

 

[Dekafox]

GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked

Hackers say they have obtained what they say are passenger lists for GlobalX flights from January to this month. The data appears to include people who have been deported.

www.404media.co

 

[KidTDragon]

Mondo's gonna do what Amazon was too chicken to.

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[abates]

Did an Alcatraz movie play on Fox on Saturday night?

Oh, it was a different station.

Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS

The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand that the prison be reopened

www.independent.co.uk