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David Rubin served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2022. In 2020, under his leadership, the Academy launched the “Representation and Inclusion Standards” for Best Picture eligibility. These rules, still in effect, require films to meet at least 2 of 4 diversity criteria involving race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or disability in on-screen roles, creative leadership, or crew. Rubin publicly backed the changes and helped appoint the task force co-led by producer DeVon Franklin. He shifted the Oscars from “best movie wins” to race/gender engineering. A film can now be ineligible for the top prize purely for failing demographic quotas, regardless of quality or audience impact. Instead of focusing purely on talent and storytelling, the Academy under Rubin institutionalized identity preferences. Oscars prestige and viewership have tanked. Many see it as performative politics over art. Classics with non-diverse casts would be disqualified. He helped install the DEI machinery that turned awards into checkboxes and accelerated Hollywood’s quality decline.

🚨 SHOCKING STATEMENT: "I wouldn't advise my children to live in the United States" was just said by Germany's Chancellor, and is an bold thing to say as an American ally, especially one who freeloads off the United States.

U.S. Marine Corps Private First Class Harry Daniel Sarakov was killed in action on May 15, 1969 in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam. Harry was 19 years old and from Chico, California. G Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines. Remember Harry today. He is an American Hero.🇺🇸

This is peak celebrity nonsense: Jennifer Lopez literally waiting for the crowd to clear before doing a 20 foot walk to her car, just to stage her paparazzi exit. I'm so over celebrity culture