Fun fact to all of my fellow pedes out there; Walt Disney testified before the House Committee or HUAC in 1947. I know this is a long post about Disney, which the modern version we all despise for their ideological adherence to ask things woke culture, but please give it a read; I think you might find it not only interesting, educational, but also inspirational.

To start, his testimony was in regards to the the strike years within the Walt Disney Studios at the time and his staff's involvement. A notorious union organizer named Herbert K. Sorrell famously forced many studios in Hollywood throughout its golden years to unionize their employees through coercion. Arguments could be made either way if the grievances of employees at the numerous studios in Hollywood at that time were justified, but no serious justification (outside of perks given to senior staff and to people who Walt himself favored) could be levied at the Walt Disney Studios in 1941.

You see, after the release of Snow White in 1937/38 was such a massive success, Walt poured nearly all of the profits from the film into a new state-of-the-art studio for his artists in Burbank, California which included private offices, early air-conditioning, a spa, underground tunnels for transferring artwork, the works. He even gave the entire studio a huge wrap party at the Norconian Resort, a now infamous event known as "Walt's Field Day" in which dozens of artists got piss drunk and damn-near destroyed the place blowing off the stress from such a crazy production (one can learn more here, although I warn you, as good as Defunctland is, he does come at it from a very leftist prospective which is relevant for the later parts of what I get into below).

Anywho, Walt understood, more than probably any studio head at the time, the value of keeping your employees happy and loyal to the company. Researching Walt for as much and as long as I have, I get the sense that he genuinely loved the people working for him, almost to a fault. He gave them everything they could have ever wanted, good well-paying jobs, almost luxurious accommodations especially by Hollywood circa late-1930's/1940's standards, all the tech his ambitious staff could ever ask for, and benefits that were unheard of for animators in the area. Now imagine some fucking commie coming in and turning a YUGE portion of your staff against you in the form of a strike. He was genuinely hurt, so much so that he made some pretty outrageous statements at the time, outrageous for the "kindly uncle Walt" facade that the company and the public have built-up and come to know over the years anyway. At a meeting with his entire staff (which ended up having the opposite intended effect and essentially further emboldened his employees. kicking off the strike) Walt told his staff:

My first recommendation to the lot of you is this; put your own house in order. You can't accomplish a damn thing by sitting around and waiting to be told everything. If you're not progressing as you should, instead of grumbling and growling, do something about it ... Don't forget this-it's the law of the universe that the strong shall survive and the weak must fall by the way, and I don't give a damn what idealistic plan is cooked up, nothing can change that.

Later, when one of his key animators (the guy who helped organize the union effort and led it within the ranks) barged into his office and demanded his assistant be paid more, Walt returned with:

Why don't you mind your own goddamned business?! If he was worth it, he would be getting it ... The trouble with you is that you and your communist friends live in a world so small you don't know what's going on around you.

Nevertheless, after the strike actually occurred and the picket line began to form (all while the studio was attempting to weather the effects of World War II since the European returns had dried up mind you), it got contentious very quickly and ended up becoming so toxic that Walt couldn't even be around the studio anymore without throwing more gas on the fire on account of the ungrateful cretins that he felt spat in his face. As a result, his brother Roy (longtime CFO-type guy for the studio and part owner/operator) shipped his ass south of the border for his famous South American tour with a few key animators that he knew he could trust while Roy smoothed things over back home, largely acquiescing to their demands. In the end, like I said, Walt was crushed from what he perceived as a huge betrayal and could find no other reason for his staff turning on him like that other than communism. I used to think his ire was misplaced, that the animators were just looking for a bit more fairness and negotiating power, that the relationship they had with the boss was nothing like it used to be at the old Hyperion studio where a much smaller staff existed. Now, after seeing all that I've seen these past few months, and what I know about the post-modernist communists now (who were largely inspired and built off the backs of their early comrades-in-arms), I'm beginning to believe more and more that Walt, who once stated:

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is glowing this red, white, and blue stripe.

Was actually right. That they were indeed communists and that the shit that a few key individuals pulled was an attempt to fuck with Walt in order to spread their communist ideals and messages throughout the studio. A little over 5 years after the strike, at his testimony before the House Committee hearing, Walt recalled:

Herbert K. Sorrell, was trying to take them over ... I told Mr. Sorrell that there is only one way for me to go and that was an election and that is what the law had set up, the National Labor Relations Board was for that purpose. He laughed at me and he said that he would use the Labor Board as it suited his purposes ... He said he would strike, that that was his weapon. He said, "I have all of the tools of the trade sharpened," that I couldn't stand the ridicule or the smear of a strike. I told him that it was a matter of principle with me ... he laughed at me and told me I was naive and foolish. He said, you can't stand this strike, I will smear you, and I will make a dust bowl out of your plant ... I believed at that time that Mr. Sorrell was a Communist because of all the things that I had heard and having seen his name appearing on a number of Commie front things. When he pulled the strike, the first people to smear me and put me on the unfair list were all of the Commie front organizations. I can't remember them all, they change so often, but one that is clear in my mind is the League of Women Shoppers, The People's World, The Daily Worker, and the PM magazine in New York. They smeared me. Nobody came near to find out what the true facts of the thing were. And I even went through the same smear in South America, through some Commie periodicals in South America, and generally throughout the world all of the Commie groups began smear campaigns against me and my pictures ... they distorted everything, they lied; there was no way you could ever counteract anything that they did; they formed picket lines in front of the theaters, and, well, they called my plant a sweatshop, and that is not true, and anybody in Hollywood would prove it otherwise. They claimed things that were not true at all and there was no way you could fight it back. It was not a labor problem at all because-I mean, I have never had labor trouble, and I think that would be backed up by anybody in Hollywood.

His full testimony can be read here and can be partially viewed here

Before his testimony in 1947 though, Walt (along with such notable celebrities as John Wayne and Ronald Reagan among many others) would form the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. These true American patriots (and our ancestral pedes) formed the group in Hollywood that sought to root out and attempt to fight back these commie scumbags wherever they were. Check out the first two lines of their charter:

We believe in, and like, the American way of life: the liberty and freedom which generations before us have fought to create and preserve; the freedom to speak, to think, to live, to worship, to work, and to govern ourselves as individuals, as free men; the right to succeed or fail as free men, according to the measure of our ability and our strength. Believing in these things, we find ourselves in sharp revolt against a rising tide of communism, fascism, and kindred beliefs, that seek by subversive means to undermine and change this way of life; groups that have forfeited their right to exist in this country of ours, because they seek to achieve their change by means other than the vested procedure of the ballot and to deny the right of the majority opinion of the people to rule.

More info on this group can be viewed here

I will say, after the strike, Walt became disillusioned with not only the segment of his staff that joined the picket line but also the industry of animation in general. Afterwards, he later fired everyone or minimized their role to the point where they were forced to quit. I don't know if it was strictly legal, but he purged those commie bastards from his company (I'm sure he's "turning in his grave" though from seeing his company now). This all forced him to find his new love, model train building, which gave him the inspiration, the courage, and the fortitude, to go after a larger dream... Disneyland. Why do I bring this up? Why did I type this time that probably no one read? Because it was at Disneyland that I experienced my red-pill moment. Walt was so in love with the USA, its tremendous history and ideals, that he created Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln for the 1964-65 World's Fair and brought it back to Disneyland where I experienced it many years later, this love song to one of the greatest Republicans the world has ever seen, as a boy and first fell in love with my country.

In a way, Walt red-pilled generations of kids and young men in response to an attempted overthrow by fucking commies. I say this with the hope that it encourages people on here, comforting them knowing that for every commie, radical, crazed progressive leftist, and anarchist out there, there's a red-pill delivered, as subtle as it might appear, to the people in their vicinity who understand that they are fundamentally wrong and actual scum. I'll leave you with Disneyland's dedication speech that Walt himself delivered almost 65 years ago on the park's opening day to wrap it up. Thank you for reading and let's MAGA.

To all who come to this happy place; welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past…and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created America…with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.