Let it go, State Department. …Yes, I am a bad man for that.

Missed this when it came out: apparently a State Department guy (Admiral Robert Papp, the Special Envoy to the Arctic*) asked a chief minion over at Disney to go do some global warming agitprop.  The Mouth of Mouse’s response? “The Disney exec had a very “perplexed” reaction and apparently told Papp they’re in the business of “optimism and happy endings.””

Translation: …dude.  Do some demographic research**. We’re not going to tick off the people who are still committed to producing replacements of our target audience.  Notice how Disney largely*** stays out of this stuff? That’s precisely why. They like money. They don’t much like getting in grudge matches with the parents of said target audience.

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