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Just in case it offers anything extra, here is Variety's article:

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/trump-sylvester-stallone-mel-gibson-jon-voight-ambassadors-hollywood-1236276088/

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Of course, the media feels compelled to ridicule it.

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isn't Mel one of those that complained about actors being involved in politics. And now he's basically a lobbyist for MAGA within the film industry.

In the 1950s, dumbfuck conservative movie stars blamed falling attendances and studio profits on supposedly unAmerican attitudes in Hollywood, instead of the rise of television and families spending their money on consumer goods for the home and other leisure activities that weren't available before, or the fact that the supreme court abolished the studio's ability to monopolise production and exhibition. The HUAC hearings achieved the square root of a dried shit stain in improving the movie business by "proper American attitudes" i.e.fearmongering, scapegoating and harassing if not blacklisting anyone vaguely un-conservative.

And now that streaming has decimated movie ticket sales, and younger audiences just don't have time or patience for features, we've got dumbfuck politicians and conservative dumbfuck movie stars doing the same bullshit that was a ridiculous waste of time and effort before.

How about if government doesn't meddle in art and entertainment? Isn't that what America is about?

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Spot on Martoto
Mel sold his soul years ago.
He worships money and himself.
Just like his idol.

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Great news, hopefully Mel will now get to direct his Vikings epic that got canned post 2006.

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I’m confident Mel can direct any film he chooses. I think he let that project go once DiCaprio left the production.

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shouldnt mel be mega rich? he funded the passion himself and he should've profitted 100s of millions from it. so he can probably make any movie he wants.

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Now Mel can make a movie were Trump is King of New Roman Empire.

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If anyone could save Hollywood it would be Mel.

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Riggs and Rambo, together!

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He looks like one of those fence-hoppers Trump is trying to deport

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https://www.datalounge.com/thread/35217872-mel-gibson-i%E2%80%99m-glad-trump-is-here.-it%E2%80%99s-like-daddy-arrived-and-he%E2%80%99s-taking-his-belt-off

Mel Gibson: I’m glad Trump is here. It’s like daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1882985412765057279?s=46

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14324499/mel-gibson-sean-hannity-donald-trump-la.html

Mel Gibson shocked viewers by comparing President Donald Trump's arrival in California to a father coming home to discipline his children by 'taking his belt off'.

The Hacksaw Ridge actor, whose Malibu mansion burned down in the wildfires raging across Southern California, joined Friday's edition of Hannity on Fox News shortly after Trump had an intense sit-down with California officials.

During the heated meeting, the president repeatedly clashed with Democratic politicians, blaming them for 'not doing enough' to contain the devastating fires.

Gibson, 69, boldly replied to the tense exchange, which was aired live, likening Trump's arrival to a father coming home to beat his children.

'It's like daddy arrived and he's taking his belt off,' he said.

Hannity questioned the Braveheart actor on his 'frustrating' experience 'living through' the deadly blazes that have leveled over 50,000 acres in the Golden State, according to CalFire.

'How bad has it been?' Hannity, 63, asked Gibson on Friday.

'You've been living through these wildfires. You read about hydrants that don't have water.

'You read about cutting firefighters' budgets, you read about reservoirs that are empty. I mean, it's gotta be frustrating,' the talk radio show host continued.

'Well, it is,' Gibson agreed, addressing his continued frustration with the 'poor handling' of the still-burning fires.


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