We’re tracking the conservative culture clash with woke Hollywood hypocrites to keep you up to date on who’s winning and who we hate.
Here’s what happened today:
Make Porn
Woke pop star Demi Lovato encouraged her social media followers to “get naked,” when she reposted a message from Podcast host Vas Morgan on her now unavailable Instagram story.
The “Sorry Not Sorry” singer, who now identifies as non-bianary, told fans to “Be a slut. Show your body. Get naked. Have all the safe, different, consensual sex you want. Be Kinky. Masturbate. Make/watch porn. Make money.”
Out Of Fear
Angelina Jolie claims she was scared for her “whole family” while she was married to actor Brad Pitt, which led to their divorce.
“I’m not the kind of person who makes decisions like the decisions I had to make lightly,” she told the paper. “It took a lot for me to be in a position where I felt I had to separate from the father of my children.”
In 2016, she filed for divorce following an incident between Pitt and their oldest child Maddox on a flight from the United States to Europe. The FBI and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services investigated the “Fight Club” star, but he was later cleared of child abuse allegations.
Jolie said that the divorce and ensuing child custody battle has been “traumatic,” noting that “in some ways it’s been the last decade.”
“There’s a lot I can’t say… I think at the end of the day, even if you and a few people you love are the only people who know the truth of your life, what you fight for, or what you sacrifice, or what you’ve suffered, you come to be at peace with that, regardless of everything going on around you.”
Cancelled
Liberal comedian Patton Oswalt cancelled upcoming shows in Florida and Utah, because the venues he was scheduled to appear at would not require attendees to show proof of vaccination of a negative COVID test.
“This difficult decision was made due to the rising numbers of COVID cases and also because I have an ego, but my ego is not big enough to think that people should die to hear my stupid comedy,” Oswalt said in an Instagram announcement.
“So hopefully, hopefully, in the future we can rebook those when sanity holds sway again,” he went on. “But this sucks, I was really looking forward to Florida, to Salt Lake City.”
No Sympathy
Joe Exotic snarked that he was “not shocked” that “Tiger King” co-star Erik Cowie died at the age of 53 on Tuesday. “Erik Cowie got what he deserved,” Exotic said, before adding, “Never wish evil upon anyone else, God is watching.”
He detailed that Cowie was a chronic alcohol abuser who had been fired from a job Exotic set up for him after working drunk and failing to show up.
“So am I shocked he is gone? No, not a bit. I put him through rehab in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and still [gave] him a home and a job,” he continued. “The next time I saw him was at my trial when he was [sitting] up there lying his ass off because he needed to kiss Jeff’s ass to stay at my zoo and to be the big cat hero on Netflix.”
He also said that his criminal case would be strengthened by Cowie’s death. “I can prove Erik perjured himself … The government, Carole Baskin and a few others should be ashamed that they put this all in motion to fabricate this whole thing to steal my zoo and shut me up,” Exotic alleged. “The truth is coming. The world will hate the America[n] Department of Justice.”
Only White Girls
Despite the likes of Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Rihanna, and Ariana Grande topping Billboard charts for years, 18-year-old “Good 4 U” singer Olivia Rodrigo claimed that she grew up thinking that all pop stars were white.
“I sometimes get DMs from little girls being like, ‘I’ve never seen someone who looked like me in your position,” she said. “And I’m literally going to cry, like, just thinking about it. I feel like I grew up never seeing that. Also, it was always like, ‘Pop star,’ that’s a white girl.”
Reboot Outrage
1990s TV sensation, “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” is getting rebooted with a female lead and critics are complaining that the half-Asian American star isn’t representative enough.
“Doogie Kamealoha MD,” is set in Hawaii, and critics are pissed that the show cast Peyton Elizabeth Lee, who is half Chinese and half Irish/Italian, rather than a Hawiian actress.
“[D]isney couldn’t get an actual Native Hawaiian to play Doogie Kameāloha ? Huh??? This is why “AAPI” is a harmful label and perpetuates the idea that asian & PIs are interchangeable,” complained one Twitter user.
Some critics raged at CAPE, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, for promoting the show on social media.
“[R]eally hurts when you’re an organization that’s for asians AND pacific islanders yet not commenting on how this show is complicit in the erasure of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians),” read another tweet. “[W]e are highly underrepresented and misrepresented in media which is sick and no one seems to care.”
Sentenced
Nxivm’s co-founder Nancy Salzman was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for grooming young women as sex slaves for cult leader Keith Raniere.
Salzman claimed she was a victim of Raniere and should not go to jail for her crimes, but Judge Nicholas Garaufis was unsympathetic.
“You were Mr. Raniere’s second-in-command and shared his power,” Garaufis replied to her request. “You enabled and facilitated Mr. Raniere’s heinous crimes. In your 20 years at Nxivm, the door was always open but you never left.”
Victims shared their impact statements before the judge sentenced Salzman. “It was you, Nancy, you who let the monster out,” accused one woman.
“When Keith found you, he found his perfect match, his perfect evil partner. You knew early on of his attraction to young girls and with you by his side, look what he was able to do with so many of them.”
Raniere’s youngest victim, who was still a virgin when she was recruited and repeatedly raped by him, urged Garaufis to show no mercy.
“Nancy promoted all the twisted ideas her co-defendant [Raniere] used to groom and assault me, including the notion girls were capable of sex as soon as they were capable of conceiving,” she accused.
Theft
Kanye West has been accused of stealing the logo for his “Donda” album from a black-owned business.
The creative director of fashion brand Infinity G8ds, said that the rapper’s album merchandise features a design that he has printed on his line’s T-shirts and hoodies.
“It’s disappointing,” creative director Randy Dawkins commented. “We don’t have any bad vibes or bad feelings toward him, we actually like the dude. But how he handled business? Well, that’s another story.”
Dawkins said he spoke to West directly about the brand’s design, and even drove to the rapper’s Atlanta studio to meet with him.
“He started to sell us dreams about doing business with him,” Dawkins recalled. “He asked us to hang around for dinner, and we ate dinner with them. At the end of the meeting, he told us he was going to keep in contact with us but never did.”
He claimed that a week later, he saw the company’s logo design used on West’s t-shirts. “To see him move in this type of way was like a misjudgment of his character for me,” Dawkins remarked. “From one black artist to another black artist, he could have said, ‘I see what you got going on, let’s help you gain some exposure, some visibility.’ That’s all we ask.”
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— HYPEBEAST (@HYPEBEAST) August 5, 2021
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