{"id":90277,"date":"2026-09-14T07:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90277"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:04:00","slug":"dont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90277","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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A person who used to be a female actress transitioned to being a male actor and is having trouble finding roles, blames straight people for not being more supportive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A comedy action film star hated the 1980s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A guy who directs comic book movies is against a studio merger because of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t care.  I don’t care what you think or why you think it. I’m perfectly capable of forming my own opinions. If I want your opinion I’ll ask; but until then, shut up and act or direct or sing or shoot baskets or perform whatever form of entertainment you’re trying to sell me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Doakes<\/p>\n

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On the one hand, it’s like Laura Ingram’s classic meme “shut up and sing”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the other – how well did that work, culturally speaking, over the long term?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: On the one hand, it’s like Laura Ingram’s classic meme “shut up and sing”.\u00a0 On the other – how well did that work, culturally speaking, over the long term?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90278,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90277\/revisions\/90278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}