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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fuck Susan Sarandon: If she'd (Hillary) won, we'd be at war [View all]
Susan Sarandon at 71 is bright-eyed and airy, and perhaps shyer than she can publicly seem. When I walk into the room a private members club in downtown New York, where she sits with a small dog at her feet she doesnt say hello or make eye-contact, giving what I suspect is a false impression of rudeness. It may also be that she is uncertain of her reception. For a long time Sarandon was despised by the right, her protests against the Vietnam war and US aggression in Nicaragua and Iraq making her the kind of target that, for progressives, is an affirmation of sorts. Her latest unpopularity, by contrast, comes exclusively from the left and is much tougher on Sarandon. Im not attacked from the right at all, she will tell me. Instead, she is accused of not checking her white privilege, of throwing away her vote on a third-party candidate (the independent Jill Stein) during the US presidential election, and of recklessly espousing a political cause that let Trump in through the backdoor. Liberals in the US, it seems, can summon more hatred for Sarandon right now than they can for Paul Ryan.
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And then suddenly it became OK to say feminist, she says now. Thats been very recent. There was a period when that wasnt really happening. So now theres been an opportunity to include men as allies. And I have to say, I remember going to the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment] march where there were 100,000 women and we were going around talking to senators for this vote and I got on the elevator, and the women were like: Were going to show them what the fuck we want. And I kept saying: Calm down, thats not the way were going to get things done.
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Not exactly, but I dont mind that quote, she says. I did think she was very, very dangerous. We would still be fracking, we would be at war [if she was president]. It wouldnt be much smoother. Look what happened under Obama that we didnt notice.
It seems absurd to argue that healthcare, childcare, taxation for the non-rich wouldnt be better now under President Clinton, and thats before we get to the threat of deportation hanging over millions of immigrants. She wouldve done it the way Obama did it, says Sarandon, which was sneakily. He deported more people than have been deported now. How he got the Nobel peace prize I dont know. I think it was very important to have a black family in the White House and I think some of the stuff he did was good. He tried really hard about healthcare. But he didnt go all the way because of big pharma.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/26/susan-sarandon-i-thought-hillary-was-very-dangerous-if-shed-won-wed-be-at-war
Bashing Democrats, pulling for a third party. Did she have any supporters here?
Looks like Queen Bravenak was right:
https://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2017/09/28/susan-sarandon.html
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I hope she has seen this. I wish someone would make a life-size print of this and placed it
lunamagica
Nov 2017
#67
She is off her f**king rocker, and why the media still covers her political views is beyond me
still_one
Nov 2017
#10
Yep, she's been loosing it for a while. Let's not forget she backed fu_king Nader too.
brush
Nov 2017
#127
She's vested in her HRC opinion because if she is wrong about Hillary then she helped Red Don ...
uponit7771
Nov 2017
#12
I know some Bernie-or-Busters like that...and I was absolutely a Bernie guy...
Lucky Luciano
Nov 2017
#49
I follow her on Twitter. She retweets this site. I am surprised her strong voice
VermontKevin
Nov 2017
#18
Not really. Several people I follow on Twitter are pro-Hillary, exceedingly correct on
VermontKevin
Nov 2017
#23
Doesn't add up that Sarandon isn't out there talking about how environmental and ethics regulations
bettyellen
Nov 2017
#31
It's NOT running defense for Sarandon... why are some attacking the OP? Hate Dems much?
bettyellen
Nov 2017
#47
Awww, you're so scared to say what you think. Come to a Sarandon thread because she is irrelevant to
bettyellen
Nov 2017
#55
You call defending Dems "a game", so yeah I get it. That's why you can't expound upon it.
bettyellen
Nov 2017
#62
I do, and smearing members is against the rules. That's why you're playing possum.
bettyellen
Nov 2017
#102
What doesn't "seem to add up". This story is all over the place this morning. I didn't just
still_one
Nov 2017
#75
It is a valid story. No ones authenticity should be questioned because of a valid story. In fact,
still_one
Nov 2017
#112
Yeah, she's so brilliant and insightful that she was lecturing Dolores Huerta about
lunamagica
Nov 2017
#98
Wow, you really know how to twist things around. Who said she is despised for being rich?
lunamagica
Nov 2017
#120
I will apologize for going off about the being despised for being rich thing
LiberalLovinLug
Nov 2017
#121
And they want us to move on? Really? That vomit-inducing piece of garbage doesn't deserve a break
lunamagica
Nov 2017
#65
Obviously, "they" are those who are telling us to move on. "They" are those who won't own up
lunamagica
Nov 2017
#95
I agree she unworthy of attention, yet she appears in the Guardian pushing a false narrative.
VermontKevin
Nov 2017
#83
I agree it's frustrating...made worse by the fact her bullshit is rarely challenged in interviews.
JHan
Nov 2017
#85
It was a few days ago. I missed the new handle. She's a great asset to Twitter.
VermontKevin
Nov 2017
#90
i can't stand her .... don't consider her a democrat supporter like many other "celebrities" are
trueblue2007
Nov 2017
#97
Nader gave us the Iraq war, Citizens United and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act
Gothmog
Nov 2017
#118
another actor with another opinion people are pretending is weighted with influence.
LanternWaste
Nov 2017
#131