Get Off My Lawn! - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
"This is the true story of a Gen X-er picked to do a podcast and give his personal views on Pop Culture, Politics, Sports, News and more, So find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. - ‘Get Of My Lawn’ As we grow into an ever changing world and new Generations are born, only one stays the same with their distain for all others - ‘Gen X’. We survived riding bikes without helmets, No cell phones, understanding you go home when the street lights go on. We lived through Hair Metal and watched the birth of Grunge. We witnessed ‘Two’ Bush’s become President (That’s what she said.) and the First African American take office. We watched in horror as the Towers fell and rejoiced at the Socialize Digital Age. (‘The Internet’ - Sorry Al you didn’t invent it.)But all in all, We lived our lives with the understanding that playing it safe is not the way to go through your existence. As the world is facing more turmoil than we have every seen before and as we witness a clear division of our Society a voice of ‘reason’ and ‘sanity’ needs to be heard. To bad that ain’t me … Hear me ramble daily about everything from Pop Culture, Politics, Sports, News and more and get the clear as ‘Mud’ perspective of this Rambling Gen X-er. Enjoy!
Get Off My Lawn! - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
Tesla Terrorists and The Death of a Disney Princess
The destructive intersection of politics and American business has reached new heights with the emergence of what can only be described as "Tesla terrorism." Across the country, vandals are targeting Tesla vehicles—keying them, damaging them, and in some cases even firebombing them—all because they disagree with Elon Musk's political viewpoints. The irony? These criminals are being caught red-handed by Tesla's own sophisticated camera systems, which activate whenever someone approaches the vehicle.
What's truly disturbing is how some progressives are actively cheering for Tesla's downfall, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Musk only owns about 13% of the company. When they celebrate Tesla's stock dropping, they're actually celebrating damage to countless Americans' retirement accounts and the potential loss of American manufacturing jobs. Meanwhile, Chinese EV manufacturer BYD is gaining market share globally, offering faster charging and competitive features. The contradiction is striking: those who typically champion American jobs are gleefully supporting a foreign competitor over an American company simply because they dislike the CEO's politics.
This same culture war mentality has infected Disney, where the Snow White remake starring Rachel Zegler has become a box office disaster. Zegler's pre-release comments about changing the fundamental story—declaring Snow White wouldn't be saved by the prince and wouldn't dream of true love—alienated the film's natural audience. Now Disney has paused all live-action remakes except for Lilo & Stitch as the film struggles to reach even a fraction of the $500 million needed to break even. The entertainment giant is learning a painful lesson about respecting beloved stories and understanding audience expectations before making dramatic changes to established characters and narratives.
Are we witnessing the death of common sense in corporate America? When political tribalism trumps business fundamentals, when vandalism becomes celebrated activism, and when classic stories are transformed beyond recognition to serve contemporary ideological purposes, perhaps it's time to step back and question whether we've lost our way. Listen in as we examine these troubling trends and what they mean for the future of American business and entertainment.
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Speaker 2:Do you understand the words that are coming out of?
Speaker 1:my mouth. You want answers. I think I'm entitled. You want answers. I want the truth.
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Speaker 2:The mad ramblings of a Gen Xer. Oh, we were on sabbatical, which is a fancy word, for I just didn't feel like working. We need to talk about the death of Disney and the death of a Disney princess. We also have to talk about the Tesla terrorists and the fact that the left is taking such glee in some of the issues that Tesla is now facing in the marketplace and it's almost like they are calling for the death of an American company and that's kind of disturbing. If you think about it, you see all the vandals that are striking Teslas, all the people, and I love the vandals with the Teslas. I really, I have to admit I really do love the vandals because I believe they're either 11 or 12 cameras sentry cameras basically on the Tesla that activate when anyone comes near the vehicle. So all these people that are doing these naughty things, keying the cars, blowing them up, all that fun stuff. They get recorded and smile stupid. You're on Tesla camera.
Speaker 2:And finally, we have an administration that's not afraid to go after domestic terrorists, because that's what they are they are domestic terrorists. When you go out and you singularly focus on a vehicle because of the fact that you do not like the political ideology of the person who runs the company, that's a little crazy, crazy, that that's a that's a little. That's a little, that's a little nutty. And then you call. Then you call elon, he, he's a nazi. Oh, even though he's an american citizen, he's a nazi because he's from south africa. Now, everyone knows, if you've ever seen the movie lethal weapon, everyone from south africa, according to martin riggs, is a Nazi and a white supremacist. Go watch I mean classic 80s movie, go watch Lethal Weapon, because you're going to find out that they're all Nazis.
Speaker 2:And you, literally and I love it, because the terrorists, the domestic Tesla terrorists, are painting swastikas on the cars that they're terrorizing. Do we do we need to think about that? Do we do we? Do we think about that? I mean seriously, you are painting swastikas on cars and then calling these people terrorists. And I love it because people are going after Tesla. They all want Tesla to drop. We have so much good. When that stock of Tesla just falls, we are bankrupting Elon Musk. Elon only owns approximately 13% of Tesla's equity, so the dumbasses that are preying on Tesla, trying to drive down the prices of Tesla, are really just hurting their own 401k, because the majority of them probably has Tesla stock. So you think you're attacking. You think you're attacking Musk when he only owns about 13% of equity in Tesla and the other percentage is out in the marketplace. Tesla's worth about 161 billion as of February 2025, according to Forbes.
Speaker 2:I mean, and then there's this new. There's not a new, but there's another. There's another auto not auto, what do you call it? Electric car vehicle maker out there. Oh, they're over in China and, for the first time ever, this Chinese car maker has gotten the best of Tesla. They have sold more in Tesla's this just this last quarter. They have more innovations than Tesla has. They have charging stations that'll charge 250 miles in range in just five minutes, outpacing Tesla's superchargers, which takes 15 minutes for 200 miles. You fools.
Speaker 2:This is the new champion of the left, this EV company out of China, and it's called. What is it called? I don't know if it's the name, but it's it's, it's called byd and they just launched their most advanced driver assistance assistance system, rivaling tesla's full service driving feature at no extra cost in most of their cars. Now, of course, taking a Tesla to China, that's a little difficult, that's a little hard to do Because there's like 100% tariffs on passenger cars. So this Chinese EV maker, which they're saying is upending the global market for clean energy, which has been around since 1995, which is trading about half the share, half the price that Tesla trades at, they are just racking it up. Oh, they're the biggest. They're the biggest one across Europe, south America, southeast Asia and the Middle East. They're expanding their domain. Of course, all these other countries have extreme tariffs on all American imports, but we don't want to talk about this. But as the left, we want to be happy that Tesla is doing poorly and this Chinese company is up and coming.
Speaker 2:I always thought it was the fact that you wanted to have things made in America. I thought manufacturing production and everything you wanted to have in America, because it helped increase skilled laborers, it helped do jobs, it helped careers, it helped the union. But instead, when you have a company that you want to displace, your current top EV manufacturer, which is, which is an American company, which is American jobs. You're going against every principle in your fiber, in your being as an American, and the Democrats are happy about it. They're gleeful. The left is gleeful about it. This company's going to put us all out of business, tesla out of business, and we're going to lose all these American jobs in manufacturing, all these American jobs in manufacturing. We're going to show them. All you're doing is showing me how stupid you literally are.
Speaker 2:I'm the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out from under the boots of greed, traveling on our way of life. That, of course, is the wonderful AOC who is now traveling around the country with Bernie Sanders rallying the left oh, this is the brain trust AOC and Bernie Sanders the left. Oh, this is the brain trust AOC and Bernie Sanders. Aoc hasn't had an original thought in, I would say, her entire life. After what she did to her district with that Amazon deal. I still don't know why people keep voting for her. Evidently, the other part of her district is basically now the new red light hooker district. But this, this, this is the face of the democratic party. This is the person that says well, elon Musk. He's just not that smart. He's the dumbest billionaire I ever met.
Speaker 2:And then you have people like Jasmine Crockett. I love it because you know, you call you, you call the governor of Texas hot wheels, and the poor guy's been in a wheelchair since he was 14. And then you come out and say, well, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't mean it that way, I was just saying that he cause, he just motors around and does things. It's like we call her a hood rat. Is that a bad thing to call Jasmine Crockett? Because we don't. You know, we're not really being disparaging to hood rats and you know and and, but that that's. That's just my way of saying that she comes from the hood.
Speaker 2:No, but you can't say that about her, because then it would be racist. It would be derogatory, it would be true, but it would be racist. Anyone that voted for her in Texas, whatever that district is, should automatically have their voter privileges revoked, because all she does is attack people, all she does is use profanity, all she does. She never has a point, but it's when you say something that's so outrageous and bombastic. That's how she feels, like she's getting her point across, because she's going after that young Gen Z. Well, here's the problem Gen Z is probably the most conservative generation in the last 60 years. They want to have families, they want to have education, they want to have nice things, they want to work, which is crazy to me because of who their parents are.
Speaker 2:But I just laugh about it because this is the audience the Democrats think they're reaching out by using profanity, using personal attacks, rallying for the death of Tesla and having glee that a Chinese company is overtaking Tesla in the marketplace, which is all it's doing is putting American manufacturing jobs at risk, and they're calling these people that attack Tesla's heroes. They're heroes. Did you see that guy that fire, bomb those Tesla's? Yeah, he's probably going to go away for 20 years and he's probably going to go away as a domestic terrorist. And if you want to send him to prison in El Salvador, I wouldn't have a problem with that. I wouldn't have a problem that whatsoever. So poor Disney, no, poor disney. That that that fiasco of a movie also known as snow white, which was pushed back almost two years after the, after their, their, their wonderful lead I'm a narcissist.
Speaker 3:Original cartoon came out in 1937 and very evidently so. There is a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her Weird, weird. And then it became like I will elbow everyone out of the way to play that part. People will assume it's a love story just because, like we cast a guy in the movie, andrew Burnap, all of Andrew's scenes could get cut. Who knows, it's Hollywood baby, I say.
Speaker 1:If I'm going to stand there 18 hours in a dress of an iconic Disney princess. I deserve to be paid for every hour that it is streamed online.
Speaker 3:And we absolutely wrote a Snow White that is saved by the prince. She's not going to be saved by the prince. And she's not going to be dreaming about true love. She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be.
Speaker 2:Now, of course, that is the venerable Rachel Zeigler who basically single-handedly killed the Disney franchise, ripped it out from underneath any type of success that it may have. And those are just some of her strange comments. And this woman is pretty much a loon. She is literally, I hate to say it. This woman is pretty much a loon, she is literally she. I hate to say it, but she is literally a loon. And you know what disturbs me about her. I was thinking about it.
Speaker 2:Does anyone watch her talk, watch her mouth? She over enunciates everything. I mean, if you want weird, weird, if you will just watch the way she does it. It's like this over enunciation and this over dramatic emphasis on moving her mouth. It's strange, it's a little bizarre. Not a little bizarre, it's a lot bizarre. But she's single handedly tanked, I personally believe. Well, not single handedly.
Speaker 2:Disney had a big part in it, because they also went woke once again by not having Prince Charming, making Prince Charming a thief. They do the cgi thing with the dwarves. She is referred to as snow white not because she has the fairest skin in the land, just like the original story in the original movie. It's because of the fact that she was born in a snowstorm. Oh, no wait, there's no rim shot for that. That's actually. That's actually the reason she is. She is one of these actresses, these modern actresses that are coming up now that just don't get it. Sometimes you just need to keep your mouth shut. And if you literally take a look at her career, we're going to get back to Disney for a moment.
Speaker 2:Her other, her big claim to fame was Disney's, of course, the West Side Story, that romantic, not Disney, but it was Steven Spielberg. I'm so proud that Steven Spielberg, 20th Century Fox, west Side Story oh, the remake of that musical, and this was she basically went to an open casting call and got this so good for her, and I love it, because this is, of course, if you know, the story of West Side Story. It's about the sharks and the jets. You know, it's that gang of Puerto Rican youths, even though she's Colombian. She's not white either, but she's Colombian. Well, I guess she is white, I think her dad's Polish or something, but you know, we don't want to talk about racial appropriation at all whatsoever.
Speaker 2:Well, this was going to be the linchpin to her career. This was going to launch her into the stratosphere and, of course and she didn't say anything. This time she didn't speak out about this movie. And of course the movie needed an estimated $300 million, after a budget of $100 million, to break even, cause you also have to remember that you have uh, you have post-production costs. You don't just have the cost of the film, you also have distribution costs, you also have advertising. So they were going to need at least 300 million to target to the break Even. That film raked in a wonderful 76 million.
Speaker 2:So this actress, who got to rave reviews for her portrayal of Rita Moreno's character, basically caused her first movie to bomb, to bomb to the tune of not even making 33% back what it was going to cost for this film. So of course, then she hit Shazam, the Fury of the Gods, which most say is the worst Shazam movie out there. Another movie that again was a box office failure budget about 125, box office of 134, not counting the hundred plus million on everything else. So it didn't even make half its money back. So you would think after you're watching, and this was the Fox Village, this was, I believe, put out by Fox, no, warner Brothers, warner Brothers, because it's DC, that's right. So again you would think, okay, well, you know what you know. This is probably not the actress we want to hook her cart to, because the last two big blockbusters she has been a part of they bombed. But Blast Busters she has been a part of They've bombed. But of course, the Hunger Games, the Ballad of the Songbirds and the Snakes came out, which made some money.
Speaker 2:So they turn around and say you know what? Disney and its Infinite Wisdom, we are going to portray her as Snow White, even though there's nothing Snow White about her, and all the issues that she has in regards to promoting the film, all the issues that she has, even with her fellow lead, all the issues she had in reference to basically alienating all Trump supporters, all the issues that she had by supporting Palestine, and then, of course, all of her weird fucking interviews that led up to this film, caused another Disney disaster. This movie is currently sitting at about 94 million and it evidently needs to cross the half a billion mark 500 million to break even. They're saying that sales from the first week to the second weekend is going to drop at least 50% and of course, I love it because Rachel Ziegler is out there in the movie. She's filmed herself in an empty theater laughing and smiling as her name comes up on the screen. As she's watching Snow White, you're watching it in an empty theater. I think I would be more concerned with the fact that I'm watching a movie that I'm in and there's no one in the theater to watch it besides myself, and I was in the movie.
Speaker 2:So, all these controversies aside, disney has been basically just trying to put this under wraps. This whole film. They canceled multiple interviews with Rachel. They didn't want to go out anywhere and talk to anyone because they knew if they did that it would just be another fucking disaster and probably make the movie tank even harder, if that was even possible.
Speaker 2:Some say well, some say it isn't. But I mean, but literally. And, of course, the fact that when you take a beloved story, even if it is what you like to refer to as dated I didn't know Finding your True Love was dated I never thought about that. I don't care if the film was made in the 30s. The only thing about that film in the 30s that freaked me out was because of the fact that it was just fucking weird, because it was that animation that was kind of human but kind of cartoony. So you weren't sure if they were going to come off the screen and murder you. But it's one of those things that you watch it and you're kind of just like, hmm, I don't know about this, but it is what it is.
Speaker 2:Disney hooked themselves up. Disney has now paused all live animation remakes outside of Lilo and Stitch, which is coming out in a few days. They have paused all live animation remakes outside of Lilo and Stitch, which is coming out in a few days. They have paused all of them because of the fact that you are literally this is this, this, this, these movies. This box office is literally killing Disney entertainment, disney films. It's, it is, it's destroying them.
Speaker 2:And you would have figured out after the Buzz Lightyear fiasco that when you go so woke and go so over the edge a different way, that you're just sitting there, you're not playing to your audience. What's wrong with a little girl wanting to be a princess and not having to be a princess that is going to save everyone? What's wrong with that? What's wrong with just being a princess? What's wrong with just putting on the gown, putting on the tiara and just going around? And I also laugh because, like you said, you talk about things that you can do and you can't do in reference to racism. You know, jasmine Crockett can make fun of people and call for violence. Again, elon Musk can call a handicapped person hot wheels and then lie about what she meant.
Speaker 2:But you casted a Latina actress in in in as the snow white character we're not going to get into. They casted a black actress actress, excuse me as Ariel in little mermaid Cause. I don't really think that matters, but you literally can't. This woman is known for having the fairest skin of them all and you decided I know what we're going to do. We're going to open this up to all ethnic groups and we're going to make Snow White Latin. Oye como va. Because of the fact that, and a lot of reasons why Disney did this is because of the fact that Snow White is very popular in Spanish speaking countries and they were saying that Latinas do not have that Latin princess. Do they still have it? Because her name is Snow White, and it's the same thing.
Speaker 2:Just imagine if you took a, a predominant, what's perceived to be a predominantly black, chinese, um, you know, hispanic role, and cast it a white, a white actress there. There would be such an uproar there. There would literally be riots in the democratic cities, they would have to burn. They would have to burn down their own neighborhoods because we don't want them burned down in our neighborhoods anymore, cause Pam Bond, he's going to come and get you. Burn down their own neighborhoods because we don't want them burned down in our neighborhoods anymore, because, pam Bond, he's going to come and get you. But just imagine the backlash for that. Just another day, guys. Just another day. Oh, and as always, the truth shall always set you free. This is Tim. This is going to find a lot of the mad rallies of a Gen Xer and I'm out of here. You.