DC: Several Hollywood actors have called for a boycott of Georgia’s film industry after Republican Brian Kemp officially won the state’s gubernatorial contest.
The hashtag #boycottgeorgia began to trend after Stacey Abrams, a former Democratic state representative and romance novelist, announced Friday that she would no longer challenge the Georgia Secretary of State’s election results. While Abrams acknowledged Kemp would be the winner of the election, she refused to call her speech a “concession” because a “concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true, or proper.”
Before Kemp was certified as the official victor, actors were already threatening to boycott working in Georgia, a state with a large film industry that’s been dubbed the Hollywood of the South.
The reaction from Hollywood comes after Abrams has continued to argue, without evidence, that Kemp purposely suppressed black voters while he led the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. Abrams mounted several lawsuits over the election results and repeatedly declared she wouldn’t admit defeat until every vote was counted.
Abrams has since responded to the calls for a boycott, saying that while she appreciates Hollywood’s calls for action, she does not want them to hurt people who make a living in the state’s film industry. Instead, the Democratic politician wants them to get involved in a new voting rights organization she is launching called “Fair Fight Georgia.” MORE
I pray for the day I meet Ron Pearlman on the street. He’ll dig the hell out of it. Pretty sure he’s the weak sister that got me permanently band from twitter on my old id. I would like the God Given opportunity to tell him face to face why exactly he’s a piece of shit. And hopefully during that explanation he musters up enough balls to take a swing at me. I hate that fucker.
Tyler Perry will no doubt take advantage of this.
Ron Pearlnecklace?
Boycott Georgia. Who cares?
Boycott Wyoming while you’re at it too.
The bottom line is that actors don’t amount to a hill of pig shit, and never have. They are fake people who live fake lives and believe their own fake crap. They are the ultimate culmination of deception and deceptive fakery. If the devil is the father of all lies, the actors by and large are his children.
Mind you, I understand that not all of them are bad…..just the ones that haven’t been blacklisted by the deep Hollywood ‘elite’.
Hollyweird actors are owned by the studios and corporations that bank roll studios. Actors have no power to affect Georgia’s film market – Just another grandstanding stunt by Hollyweird props called “actors”.
I haven’t been to a movie theater since “Saving Private Ryan.”
Cost me $10.00. That’s the last ten bucks hollywood ever got from me.
I mean, fuck it, who needs to go to a movie theater anymore?
Put the fuckers out of business.
Can we get the rappers and the hip-hoppers to boycott GA, too? That’d be nice.
I’m now convinced that “Ride The High Country “ is the sadest movie ever. What happened to our Patriotic movie stars?
As long as Sterling Archer doesn’t boycott Georgia, I’m good.
Make the Lefties boycott everything from Georgia. Here is the list:
No Pecan Pie at Thanksgiving
No Peach Cobbler either
No more CNN (can’t use NYC office as a scapegoat)
No more Turner Broadcasting System (donate those royalties)
No more Weather Channel (carry an umbrella at all times)
No more Coca-Cola products (RC is gonna have to do)
No more ATT Mobility or Cricket (time for T-Mobile in Progressive Seattle)
No more Delta Airlines (Have fun with United)
No more Arby’s
No more Buffalo Wild Wings(same parent company as Arby’s HQed in ATL)
No more Wing Zone
No more Hooters (#MeToo might not have been enough, but now your wing options have just been severely reduced)
No more Rubbermaid products (plastic wrap time)
No more Chick-a-filet (not a real stretch here)
No more NASCAR (Talladega Nights 2 now on hold)
No more UPS (that’s gonna hurt at the holidays)
No more Aflac (don’t get sick or injured)
No more The Home Depot (tell Pedro and the other lawn guys it’s Lowe’s for now)
No more Genuine Parts Company (hope you live by an AutoZone)
No more Waffle House (just in case you’re filming in a Red State, it’s IHOP or Denny’s for you)
How can Oregon sign up for Hollywood boycott?
@ judgeroybean
Have Trump issue an Executive Order using Eminent Domain to change Harvey Milk Street to Mike Pence Street.
Look on the bright side Georgia, you won’t have to put up with the west coast witless wonderboys spreading their hate in your lovely state.
Maybe Steve Harvey will want Family Feud to move out of Atlanta, where it’s taped. No loss, Atlanta, Steve is a very nasty person.
I know a few people who live in GA. They will be thrilled.
MEANWHILE…in KARMALAND…
“Stacey Abrams Asks Hollywood Not to Boycott Georgia in Light of Election Defeat”
https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/stacey-abrams-says-not-to-boycott-georgia-1203031869/
A double win for the good people of Georgia
Why does Hollywood seem to think we normal people care whether they work or not?
I watch so little of television now days that I’m clueless as to who most of these 3rd rate actors are that made the list.
Boycotts work both ways! Yet Hollywood still hasn’t figured it out… YET!
Assholes can’t think for themselves. Whole career as been scripted. Most couldn’t pass a sixth grade test. All are overpaid under talented court jesters only there to amuse us. And they sure are amusing when they mimic others attempt to prove something without having a clue. One big c circle jerk of ineptitude.
That said…. IFC is running 24 hours of peewees playhouse this Thanksgiving.
LOL
The irony is that today’s elist snob leftist Hollywood actors are the people responsible for churning out the worst crap to ever be filmed. They are making awful movies that are totally disposeable while smugly preaching to us as if they had just made Citizen Kane.
Texans defeated Beto. How come we can’t get this deal?
@Irony: and I hated Citizen Kane.
And they call their re-hashed celluloid crap “franchises.” Where did the assholes pull that word from, out of their assholes? That’s why they foist Star Wars XXV on us and Star Trek Klingons Fight Back XV…more $$$ from lowbrow shit-for-brains.
I thought “franchises” were the local McDonalds or Dairy Queen.
Bad_Brad November 18, 2018 at 11:07 pm
Nobody could play a Beast that lives in a sewer better than Perlman.
There is no doubt he is a red diaper baby born in NYC to Marxist parents. He doesn’t have the brainpower to move beyond that. Some Jewish people recognize the evil and get out…too many don’t.
All the good people have been kicked off Twitter. It’s a badge of honor. I bet the Twitter Overlords are busy trying to figure out a way to kick Trump off. Eff Twitter.
Part of Hollywood’s problem is that they are plain running out of good, fresh story ideas. That’s like a butcher running out of meat or a gasoline station running out of gas. No meat, no gas, no customers.