# Get ready for a snowflake storm, Netflix has signed a deal with the Obamas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570 "2018-05-21T17:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/1 "2018-05-21T17:33:16Z")
And the tighty righties are throwing a fit and proclaiming they’re boycotting Netflix. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/2 "2018-05-21T17:39:55Z")
Seems like many rightees idea of boycotting is to buy the product and then shoot it. I wonder if that will continue here. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/3 "2018-05-21T17:43:37Z")
[New York Times article](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/us/politics/barack-obama-netflix-show.html) for details … I hope the Obamas make good money on this deal … ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/4 "2018-05-21T17:45:19Z")
If only conservatives had access to a means of producing content, sharing it publicly, and being compensated based on the number of people who accessed the content, then surely their high quality work would become so popular that inferior content would eventually disappear from the market. I would like to see some distribution method, perhaps leveraging “the World Wide Web” and “cloud computing”, along with easy and affordable access to decent quality audio video equipment, so that producing quality content would be within reach of many, many people. Then, we’d have an open marketplace of ideas that would reward producers of the most popular content. One day, perhaps there would be some kind of revenue sharing model, where businesses would offer to host this content, run ads, and share ad revenue with the producers. This level playing field would benefit everyone, and I’d be in favor of it, even if quality conservative content started to crowd out the liberal content I’d generally prefer. I guess we’ll have to wait for that day to come. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/5 "2018-05-21T18:39:44Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > And the tighty righties are throwing a fit and proclaiming they’re boycotting Netflix. :rolleyes: Must be a double secret boycott, since they are already boycotting Netflix over the appointment of Obama-era official Susan Rice to the Netflix board of directors. > **[Conservatives Are Boycotting Netflix Over Susan Rice](https://www.newsweek.com/netflix-boycott-boycottnetflix-susan-rice-board-directors-866291)** > > The Netflix boycott is the latest addition to a list of things some conservatives have abandoned.  ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/6 "2018-05-21T18:45:05Z")
I wonder if our resident ‘All boycotts are bad’ rightie will manage to denounce this. I’m not going to hold my breath. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/7 "2018-05-21T18:55:56Z")
But I’m already boycotting them for not renewing [Disjointed](https://www.netflix.com/title/80117694). ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/8 "2018-05-21T19:29:28Z")
> [@](#): > > **Get ready for a snowflake storm, Netflix has signed a deal with the Obamas** So, a documentary on Global Warming is first up? Obamanation - the story you have yeti to hear? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/9 "2018-05-21T19:45:47Z")
It’s only fair. I’ve watched at least two documentaries on Netflix about Donald Trump’s history of fucking people over and being an inveterate asshole his entire life. Why should he get all the publicity? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/10 "2018-05-21T19:56:05Z")
Remaster _Superfly_ with the lead actor rendered into a young Barry Obama by computer graphics! Sell it to millions as a joke, and millions as a documentary! ---
**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/11 "2018-05-21T20:06:21Z")
Meh, this righty doesn’t care. Netflix is a tremendous value and an innovative business. It does suck that they pulled x-files, family guy and american dad a few months ago but there is plenty of stuff to watch on it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/12 "2018-05-21T20:12:34Z")
How else to stay current with cutting edge developments in Serbo-Croatian cinema? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/13 "2018-05-21T21:27:32Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > Meh, this righty doesn’t care. Netflix is a tremendous value and an innovative business. It does suck that they pulled x-files, family guy and american dad a few months ago but there is plenty of stuff to watch on it. To be fair it is not Netflix pulling things from their line-up. It is whoever owns those shows pulling them back (usually to fill out their own streaming services). ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/14 "2018-05-21T21:37:05Z")
Maybe they could call it _Apprentice President_. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/15 "2018-05-21T21:39:44Z")
But wait, I thought we were the snowflakes. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/16 "2018-05-21T22:20:36Z")
'Pubs boycotting Netflix? Good. Lower rates for us. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/17 "2018-05-22T00:36:46Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It’s only fair. I’ve watched at least two documentaries on Netflix about Donald Trump’s history of fucking people over and being an inveterate asshole his entire life. Why should he get all the publicity? Those weren’t documentaries. It was a _Back to the Future_ double bill. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/18 "2018-05-22T02:24:36Z")
The comments on Breitbart are delicious. The wingnuts can’t decide whether Obama should be executed, jailed, or executed and then dug up and put in jail. Also, Michelle is really a man, and has a large behind. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/19 "2018-05-22T02:59:47Z")
Yeah, I’ve had a busy day recreationally blocking people on FB and Twitter for those kinds of comments. ---
**Author:** ![Ionizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ionizer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570/20 "2018-05-22T03:27:23Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Maybe they could call it _Apprentice President_. It’d be great if Mr Steadfast Mueller was the one who got to say “You’re fired!”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-a-snowflake-storm-netflix-has-signed-a-deal-with-the-obamas/814570.md?page=2)