Bob Chipman / Robert Lewis Chipman / MovieBob / Game OverThinker - "Coastal Elite Thinker" who wants conservatives, Christians and manual workers eradicated. Universally ignorant; cannot tell reality from sci-fi. Sore loser with short fuse. Odious Disney shill. Tranny chaser and general creep. Fat and diabetic.

[MarineN*4235431]

There is an entire Youtube "Fandom Menace" channel that just basically made its bones on the concept, "The toys aren't selling." But the thing is, Bob's ability to handwave everything, including that Star Wars LARP hotel closing, should never be underestimated. The unfortunate thing is that when the rat truly loses it's cultural position to the point even shills like him realize it, he'll just jump to some other trendy thing like Nintendo or Mattel.

mario , his first religion will ever be there for him

 

[King Dead]

Bobby believes the opposite. Bobby believes (probably correctly) that bulk of The Rat's revenue comes from the parks and resorts, hence he can pretend not to care about their dismal box office figures, because the films are but advertisement to get people in the parks. Somehow he doesn't explain why people who don't care to see in movies Rey, Black Ariel, the things with no heads and two butts, or the lesbians in Lightyear, would somehow want to meet them in the parks.

This piece of news from A&N is instructive.

Also:

The logic truly doesn't make sense, which is par for the course for Bobby. He's compared Disney's business model to that of McDonald's (because he's a glutton that thinks only in terms of food and entertainment), but that really doesn't add up. Mickey D's owns the land that their restaurants are built on, then leases it to franchisees at a high cost. The franchisee then handles the distribution of product at their store and is responsible for all the day-to-day business, the goal being to make up for the high cost of the lease by selling a shitload of burgers. Generally that works because of how popular McDonald's is thanks to its consistency.

Disney, meanwhile, owns the land that their theme parks are on, but they're not making money off of it. All they're doing is roping consumers in to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a vacation, which means the only way they're profiting is if they can get enough attendees through the gates to fork over their money. Their entertainment properties might not be the highest share of their business, but it is the driver behind their revenue; without that content, they have nothing to use to create rides or T-shirts or what have you. And if the entertainment sucks, that's going to sour people on going to the parks or buying the merch. As that article showed, there are less people going to the parks this year, and although I believe financial matters are a major factor in this behavior (inflation eating away at disposable income plus Disney nickel-and-diming guests every step of the way), shitty movies are no doubt a part of it as well.

Jimmy Dore asks a rhetorical question: did you ever wonder why there were FBI guys dressed up as Trump supporters in the Capitol on 6 Jan? Bobby aggress that it was a bad entrapment tactic, presumably because AOC could have been raped and murdered in the chaos.

Bob is okay with entrapment as long as only people he hates are entrapped. Paragon of virtue.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is there really such a thing as "free" tickets? I assume that someone would have to fork over the money at some point in the chain. I don't really care if it's the filmmakers or the audience doing it, the money's still there. Yeah, it makes it harder to determine actual numbers, but it's making Bobby seethe so whatever.

At any rate, it's better than Disney laundering money by buying out whole theaters of Captain Resting Bitchface tickets to prop up a shitty movie. At least people are still going to see this movie.

Capeshit shit nobody cares about.

Yeah, "plot hole" isn't the best term for this, but it's still an issue and a clear indicator of how they're clearly not even trying to keep things consistent. There's a giant dead alien sticking out of the ocean and nobody ever mentions it again, almost like Eternals just went and did its thing without talking to anyone else. I would laugh if we saw Earth from space in one of the later movies and they just forgot to add in the dead alien, showing how little anyone cares.

This does add to Bob's stance that you don't need to watch everything to understand the MCU, but then why do they keep advertising it as such? And shouldn't you want a story with a bit of consistency to it instead of hand-waving and retconning? Why settle for mediocrity? Oh right, he's a consoomer, carry on.

New Star Wars shit. I lost count how many girlbosses are there in the trailer, especially they all talk in the same bored, emotionless monotone. But at least we know that even in a galaxy far far away, girls still care about hairstyles.

Kids are assholes, who cares? If someone's giving you shit for playing pretend a certain way and you cry about it, that's on you. "Representation" is being used to excuse poor writing by saying "b-but we have a [race]/[sex]/[sexuality]/[other minority]!" It doesn't matter if you don't "see" anyone like you in a property, use your fucking imagination.

Holy shit, the projection here is fucking off the charts.

Bob, you literally just described your own ideology. Everything you like is "good," everything you hate is "evil." You are the most black-and-white person out there, and you don't even realize it.

Replace "South Park" with "Moviebob," replace "two guys" with "a Masshole," and replace "they/them" with "he/him." Way more accurate.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Clarence Thomas has a weird way of showing he's been bought by adhering completely to his idiosyncratic views and never changing for over thirty years.

What ruling does Bob think Jerry Jones bought with this Super Bowl ring for a championship over 25 years ago?

Now that you've had your fill of QAnon conspiracies, let's have this delicious palate-cleanser:

(More from this guy)

Jim Stevenson is a conspiracy theorist who has been accused of criminal harassment by multiple people, great ally Bob, lol

Capeshit cypher. Don't ask me.

Both of these show how ancient Bob's DC lore is. Parallax Hal is considered a huge embarrassment that Geoff Johns and everyone else has tried to address ever since, very few of Hal's "victims" haven't been brought back and basically nobody considers Hal guilty of anything anymore. Hawkgirl isn't a "legacy" character who inherited her mantle, she's literally a reincarnation of the god in every instance now. I can't even remember how long ago they fixed the Hawkmess by doing this to Carter and Kendra, it was probably before the New 52 even.

This is not to mention that the casting is apparently for the original Hawkgirl version not Kendra.

Holy shit, the projection here is fucking off the charts.

Bob, you literally just described your own ideology. Everything you like is "good," everything you hate is "evil." You are the most black-and-white person out there, and you don't even realize it.

Replace "South Park" with "Moviebob," replace "two guys" with "a Masshole," and replace "they/them" with "he/him." Way more accurate.

All these people are showing they don't even understand South Park, no matter how often the show hits them over the head with the message. South Park's message is anti-self-centered, anti-both-sides, anti-taking-things-seriously-is-cringe, etc. They are mistaking that the funniest characters (Cartman, Randy, etc.) represent the message of the show when Stan and Kyle blatantly tell you otherwise every single time and the angst of those characters is that they take the subjects not just seriously but truly morally seriously unlike everyone else in the town. How many hits would I get if I search these people's tweets complaining how nobody has "media literacy" anymore?

 

[Brother Wind]

Kids are assholes, who cares? If someone's giving you shit for playing pretend a certain way and you cry about it, that's on you. "Representation" is being used to excuse poor writing by saying "b-but we have a [race]/[sex]/[sexuality]/[other minority]!" It doesn't matter if you don't "see" anyone like you in a property

Like I never saw myself in Luke Skywalker, or Kyle Katarn or even if we are being real, my actual favorites as a child, Darth Vader and Darth Maul. As someone who is told he is entirely over represented in media, I have never really seen it that way. I'm not six foot four with a square jaw. But I sure as shit connect with Batman in that I could sure enjoy punching a clown. And really if all these people have to see *themselves* to feel represented, I want to just say I have no one. Well, maybe Guy Gardner...

Wokaine Bear

Lindsay "The Abortion" Ellis

Jesus Christ I just want you to know the way you guys use these titles and names always invokes Chris Chan and DSP in my head.

 

[WelperHelper99]

No, there are such warning labels because people todays are more litigious and, obviously, stupid.

People are legitimately sue happy, it's why you can't go 5 seconds without seeing a cancer in California sticker on every lawn mower and folding metal chair in the world.

 

[Positron]

In case you've just been dethawed from a block of ice, the FBI, in what is "arguably the most massive attack of free speech in US history", has been found colluding with and coercing social media companies to suppress American speech, in particular conservative speech.






RFK Jr. believes in anthropogenic climate change. He also believes that the usual suspects are using climate change as the pretext to enrich their coffers and further limit the freedom of people.

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Michael Knowles thinks a man should be ashamed of himself if he appears in public wearing pink hair and talking about chopping up little kids. Such a man should keep his sickness to himself and work to exorcise his demons.

By "science is mostly fake", Knowles is launching a higher-level philosophical argument. He is criticizing the Enlightenment worldview that "reality is fundamentally physical", but I guess people like Bobby and Jason S. Campbell are only interested in twitter hits, and for that purpose a pithy clickbait beats metaphysics analysis.

The ((())) make a camp for children in which horny boys are allowed to sleep with girls. A&N thread.






DARVO intensified.





Thank you Sean.


Why can't corporation learn something so simple? You are worse than Hitler already regardless of whether you apologize or not, so don't.


Speaking of prostitutes:

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The "fallen friend" will be resurrected. And soon.

Cutesy Venom -- and cutesy female Ghostrider.



What a volcanic burn. That teacher needs a suicide hotline number.

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Bob Iger will continue to be Head Rat. Bobby rejoices.

But...but I thought 2016 was HER TURN!!!!!!!

"The Force is Female".

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The media-literate Elites educate their media-illiterate Youtube peers.


His harrowing experience with the Abortion still torturing his soul, Bobby suffers a second gaslighting.






Remember Girlboss vs Predator?

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Something somebody might care.

Okay.






What
The
Flying
Fuck.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Christianity has been around a lot longer than the US Blob, speaking thru this Jonny idiot. While I think Uganda is a bit extreme, it's their country, and guess what? The gays can leave. Just as you want the Christians to pack up on handcarts and go Bobby, as you rain down cluster bombs on them. Ted Cruz should have said "not our country, not our problem", in the old isolationist mindset.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

In case you've just been dethawed from a block of ice, the FBI, in what is "arguably the most massive attack of free speech in US history", has been found colluding with and coercing social media companies to suppress American speech, in particular conservative speech.

Meanwhile how much violence is happening where the perps were known by the authorities? I guess they're to busy sitting in discords and trying to honeypot people to do anything more than just have mass shooters on their radar.

Speaking of prostitutes:

Written in pretty nice English too. Really makes you think.

What a volcanic burn. That teacher needs a suicide hotline number.

This was a short game of Does It Troon. Alix is a woman. She's a leaf. She's super into lesbianism. Her superhero writings are for 2 video games

Imagine how fucking wet, swollen, and smooth your brain has to be to think that writing capeshit is something to dunk on someone else with. Now imagine how much more it has to be to flex on them because you wrote shit for capeshit video games made by WB Montreal, one which hasn't even been released yet.

You may have noticed that she has one show where she was the executive producer and writer for 10 episodes and hey! She's got it highlighted on her twitter!

https://twitter.com/markwoman

Let's just take a looksee...

https://twitter.com/AstridLillyShow

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,The gif at the bottom concludes with the fat chick one the left trying to swallow the other chicks tongue.

You couldn't have the two fat asses go down on each other now. That's icky. That's why she gets the pretty girl. Though maybe they do. I don't know. I tried to look up more information on this show just to see how bad it was but it has less information about it than that show that really lit my fire made by the kombucha stealing faggot. Every description I find for it looks like it was taken from whatever God forsaken leaf streaming service that spawned it. It would be not like me if I didn't point out that in her own Goddamned tweet she fully states that the characters are too young to get married but loves how they make out with each other. It makes sense that the super into lesbians Alix would be would be a creepy sex pest not just because of the obvious fetishism but because they got the seal of approval from the Writers Guild.

"tee hee we're giving the tween and teens award to the people who made the show about fat dykes"

Fuck these people.

What
The
Flying
Fuck.

Mac Tonight? Please do something as retarded as bring back Mac Tonight. If they think the viral stuff that happened with the Grimace shake, which was pretty fun, was something...boy howdy they ain't seen nothing yet!

https://archive.org/details/moonmans-greatest-hits-and-remixes/NotoriousKKK.mp3

DINNAH!

 

[A Watchful Ghost]

This checks, the studios have nothing to lose right now by letting the strike drag on and on. Scripted entertainment is a shrinking industry, when times were good, they could afford to hire every trust fund 20-something who's Dad was calling in favours to write. Now, not so much, the money has dried up. I would not be shocked if the studios just start having their own stables of writers on contract, something along the lines of Sheriden and Paramount. Rather than the freelance/gig writing that goes on today.

Never strike in times of economic uncertainty and industry upheaval. Because you give management the opportunity to get rid of you, and reorganize the company.

That's going to be a short term solution for them, even more so with the bad PR that already is presenting to them. And Said Bad PR already fucked over the rat thrice this year, further grinding the audience's good will away is simply not a good option when most of their earnings come from said people they are pissing off.

I find it quite unsurprising how he don't mention the Rat in all of this as if he doesn't want to shit on his precious senpais for brownie points.

Something somebody might care.

Something Something, fence sitting motherfucker. Something Something, Self interested fat idiot.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Mac Tonight? Please do something as retarded as bring back Mac Tonight. If they think the viral stuff that happened with the Grimace shake, which was pretty fun, was something...boy howdy they ain't seen nothing yet!

https://archive.org/details/moonmans-greatest-hits-and-remixes/NotoriousKKK.mp3 DINNAH!

I would love McDonald's to get cocky and take on the internet to reclaim moon man lol. Bob, in his nostalgic haze, clearly hasn't visited 4chan in the last 10 years. But he would cheer it on like the clapping seal he is because McDonalds makes his tummy happy. I too have good memories of the yellow arches. As a kid. Going into one now, you're lucky to get a chair that's even comfortable.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Speaking of prostitutes:

Sex work and landlording are real work. Specifically, you utilize a commodity to make a living. The only difference is the commodity you utilize.

$250 million or more seems like a lot, but this is Disney we're talking about. The Rat should be pulling in a lot more than that.

Okay.

Drama like this is why I support indie productions. Unless you're making something geared towards the SJW crowd (like Vivsiepop's Helluva Boss), you don't really see drama like this.

What
The
Flying
Fuck.

It's a marketing analysis of the Grimace shake challenge that's been sweeping the internet. It's also proof that social media has been a mistake.

Also, McDonalds food tastes like packing tape.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Sex work and landlording are real work. Specifically, you utilize a commodity to make a living. The only difference is the commodity you utilize.

A landlord actually owns something. Putting your pussy out takes zero effort

$250 million or more seems like a lot, but this is Disney we're talking about. The Rat should be pulling in a lot more than that.

That barely recoups cost of the movie itself. It's a flop in the highest order

Drama like this is why I support indie productions. Unless you're making something geared towards the SJW crowd (like Vivsiepop's Helluva Boss), you don't really see drama like this.

Yelling and screaming and pissing definitely is gonna make the union bosses reconsider your shitty scripts. People that actually have to fight for their money buckle down.

It's a marketing analysis of the Grimace shake challenge that's been sweeping the internet. It's also proof that social media has been a mistake.

Also, McDonalds food tastes like packing tape.

Nostalgia unfortunately still goes a long way even for cardboard food. The apple pies are good tho.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

RFK Jr. believes in anthropogenic climate change. He also believes that the usual suspects are using climate change as the pretext to enrich their coffers and further limit the freedom of people.

Bob takes two stabs at science-based statements and completely whiffs on them both. (Shooting any shuttle into the sun would not alter climate on the Earth; recycling uses more energy than it produces.)

Bob has absolutely no idea what 52 is about. It's not going to be adapted for this, especially after Black Adam already adapted part of it and Bob didn't even notice.

It's amazing that other Bob seriously seems to believe that our Bob has "a good knowledge of the source material and an impressive track record with predictions" because Bob's predictions and source material statements are more accurate than this is.

Lastly, Bob leads off this tweet with "at this point it feels like a given that Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman is going to end up being one of the likely reference points" which is simply a remarkable prediction. I'm completely flabbergasted. Just how does Bob do it?

 

[Flexo]

It wasn't bob but a personal lolcow freaking out over this that I literally did a dive and uncover on it yesterday.

So that tweet by Moms For Liberty? See that name at the end? That means it's a quote. A quote by...


And the article in question?

https://www.jns.org/us-news/moms-for-liberty/23/7/7/300972/

Yes, so they are accusing the group of being Hitler for quoting an article on a jewish website written by a jewish man.

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE...

Everybody thought they had a gotcha because the paragraph in the article reads...


ah ha! That must PROVE those MOL are secretly Hitler because they changed "including" to "and" right?

Well let's check an earlier version of the article...

https://archive.li/k80Rh

Yes, it was, in fact, a direct quote from the article at time of tweet publication - and then the article was changed later. You can really dive into some primo insanity looking at the retweets with comments on that one:

https://twitter.com/Moms4Liberty/status/1678712991347351552/retweets/with_comments

Also the author that was quoted had a followup tweet:

Mac Tonight? Please do something as retarded as bring back Mac Tonight. If they think the viral stuff that happened with the Grimace shake, which was pretty fun, was something...boy howdy they ain't seen nothing yet!

EMP Lemon already broke down the history of this. Including MacDonald's trying to get it back which @WelperHelper99 mentioned but didn't realize was already ancient history.

 

[WelperHelper99]

EMP Lemon already broke down the history of this. Including MacDonald's trying to get it back which @WhelperHelper99 mentioned but didn't realize was already ancient history.

Actually saw that already lol. 4chan, combined with the Nick the Knife charecter Mac is based on, plus stealing a song, basically has banished him to the annals of history at this point

 

[King Dead]

In case you've just been dethawed from a block of ice, the FBI, in what is "arguably the most massive attack of free speech in US history", has been found colluding with and coercing social media companies to suppress American speech, in particular conservative speech.

The FBI does not protect you from criminals, Bobby. They run interference for the feds and nothing more (see: all the entrapment bullshit surrounding "muh insurrection"). You should be concerned that they're directly assaulting the First Amendment, not just because you won't be able to say nigger but because it sets a scary precedent that you won't be able to say anything, especially if it's critical of the government. But that would require you to think more than two steps ahead, which is clearly something you're incapable of.

And speaking of Bob's smoothbrain, it's fascinating that he sees someone disagreeing with the notion that billions of people should just be eradicated and reply "oh so you like animal abusers then???" No, fatass, pretty much everyone but psychopaths hate animal abuse, but A, there aren't billions of animal abusers or people of that ilk around, and B, committing mass murder is a gross overreaction. I love animals myself, but that's some psycho shit to say, and it's right for you to be called out for it.

The "fallen friend" will be resurrected. And soon.

"Comic book character is going to be resurrected" is a truism of life, like "water is wet." This isn't some deep knowledge that proves you're a capeshit fan, it's one of the most basic aspects of the medium. The old saying went "no one stays dead except Bucky, Jason Todd, and Uncle Ben," and even that isn't true anymore since the first two were brought back eventually.

"She knows." Fucking duh, literally everyone knows.

What a volcanic burn. That teacher needs a suicide hotline number.

I can see why Bob retweeted this, it's someone else with a longstanding resentment against someone from high school. I'll bet everyone clapped when she (he?) dropped that epic burn.

"The Force is Female".

"I don't like this because it's obviously going to be lazy female pandering" does not equal "I hate women."

This really is sad and not the win for the Rat that Bob wants. I get that the coof fucked with the box office for the past couple years, but Disney hasn't had a hit in a long time, and Elemental still isn't.

For shits and gigs, here's a list of every movie from Disney/Pixar since 2016 (so we can get a better idea of pre-coof box office):

Spoiler: the Rat's numbers

• Zootopia: March 2016, $150 million budget, $1.025 billion box office
• Finding Dory: June 2016, $200 million budget, $1.029 billion box office
• Moana: November 2016, $150-175 million budget, $682.6 million box office
• Cars 3: June 2017, $175 million budget, $383.9 million box office
• Coco: November 2017, $175-225 million budget, $814.3 million box office
• Incredibles 2: June 2018, $200 million budget, $1.243 billion box office
• Ralph Breaks the Internet: November 2018, $175 million budget, $529.3 million box office
• Toy Story 4: June 2019, $200 million budget, $1.073 billion box office
• Frozen 2: November 2019, $150 million budget, $1.453 billion box office
• Onward: March 2020, $175-200 million budget, $142 million box office (only released for two weeks, coof begins)
• Soul: December 2020, $150 million budget, $121 million box office (only foreign, straight to D+ domestic)
• Raya and the Last Dragon: March 2021, $116 million budget, $130.4 million box office (simul release on D+)
• Luca: June 2021, (estimated) $150 million budget, $49.8 million box office (only foreign, straight to D+ domestic)
• Encanto: November 2021, $120-150 million budget, $256.8 million box office (one month run then released on D+)
• Turning Red: March 2022, $175 million budget, $20.1 million box office (only foreign, straight to D+ domestic)
• Lightyear: June 2022, $200 million budget, $226.4 million box office
• Strange World: November 2022, $135-180 million budget, $73.6 million box office
• Elemental: June 2023, $200 million budget, $257.5 million box office (thus far, after one month's release)

Pre-coof, every Disney/Pixar movie released made at least twice its budget back, and over half of the movies released from 2016 to 2019 made over a billion dollars. During the coof, Disney very likely ate a lot of losses by dropping all their movies onto D+, and it's unlikely that subscription fees really made up for the loss of theatrical releases. Post-coof, they've released nothing but box office bombs. To put the state of the modern Disney box office in perspective, the worst-performing movie listed above, Cars 3, made just under $400 million, which is still considerably more than any movie they've released since 2019.

Let's not forget that there aren't a lot of kids' movies in theaters at the moment, either. Besides Elemental, the only other animated movie released recently is Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (which is bombing even harder). Spider-Verse 2 is still in theaters, but that's a bit less suitable for little kids. In a couple weeks, the TMNT movie will be out, which will probably be a lot of families' go-to for a kids' movie, and I'd bet that'll be the tail of Elemental's box office run.

Bob's desperately looking for a win for his beloved Rat, but he's not getting one.

Bob's stopped clock moment for the day (maybe week, month even; Lord knows he doesn't have these often). Piracy is the only thing keeping many games alive, and I believe there should be better ways for consumers to have access to these titles without fear of corporations sending legal threats. It's a sad state of affairs that there's plenty of media that's getting harder and harder to get your hands on, and that pile is increasing all the time.

 

[Flexo]

And speaking of Bob's smoothbrain, it's fascinating that he sees someone disagreeing with the notion that billions of people should just be eradicated and reply "oh so you like animal abusers then???" No, fatass, pretty much everyone but psychopaths hate animal abuse, but A, there aren't billions of animal abusers or people of that ilk around, and B, committing mass murder is a gross overreaction. I love animals myself, but that's some psycho shit to say, and it's right for you to be called out for it.

You'll see that Bob and his ilk have some inclination of this because they accuse the Right of doing it all the time but it's a basic witch-hunting tactic also perfected by Stalin and Mao.

1) Pick a target nobody can really defend.
2) Go after whoever you don't like.
3) Justify it by calling that person the target in step 1.
4) If anybody objects or tries to defend the person in question, go back to step 1.

Never mind that the entire logic is circular, the point is that any target you go after is immediately isolated because nobody wants to be seen as defending "nazis."

 

[Mr Processor]

Here's a video of what happened, no one was killed as far as I can tell:
https://twitter.com/Dino_VII/status/1679476326913261569?s=20
And I'm not convinced the truck driver was aware the paid activist got back and sat down in front of his truck.

I call them paid activists because I believe they are being paid by this delicate flower:

Normally, people causing a traffic hazard like that should be removed by the police, if they were doing their jobs. This event was in Germany, incidentally.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

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Here's a video of what happened, no one was killed as far as I can tell:
https://twitter.com/Dino_VII/status/1679476326913261569?s=20
And I'm not convinced the truck driver was aware the paid activist got back and sat down in front of his truck.

I call them paid activists because I believe they are being paid by this delicate flower:
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Normally, people causing a traffic hazard like that should be removed by the police, if they were doing their jobs. This event was in Germany, incidentally.

Because we all know that Bob is such a paragon of intelligence.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

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Here's a video of what happened, no one was killed as far as I can tell:
https://twitter.com/Dino_VII/status/1679476326913261569?s=20
And I'm not convinced the truck driver was aware the paid activist got back and sat down in front of his truck.

"Protesters don't like that they have to do this either. But they are desperate because nothing really worked the past 40 years."

Spoiler Alert: a few dudes briefly blocking traffic in random locations won't work to overturn the Agricultural Revolution either.

Amusing that Bob sides with maskless Believers who look pretty white and male trying to block the SUPERIOR FUTURE rather the guy (potentially of a lower ethnic status?) who might be delivering essential Disney products to Thinkers sheltering at home from COVID.