Far Right Celebrities (1 Viewer)

[Optimus Prime]

Meant to post this when the Scott Adams/Dilbert story broke

Who are far right celebrities that you are aware of?

I think Jon Voight is probably the granddaddy of them all with James Woods not far behind

There's Ted Nugent for sure

Hercules' Kevin Sorbo and Lois & Clark's Dean Cain

Scott Baio had his moment at the RNC, I haven't heard anything from him since

I'd add Kanye West but he more seems to be just losing his mind

I'm pretty sure that Drew Carey, Tim Allen and Kelsey Grammer are conservative Republicans (which is fine) but as far as I know none of them went off the deep end

Roseanne Barr seemed to go full far right

Growing Pains Kirk Cameron is super religious, but I've never heard him comment on anything other than religion (it would just be an assumption that someone that religious is far right)

The pandemic opened the doors to some anti-vax, conspiracy minded celebs which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with politics

Those would include:

Person of Interest's Jim Caviezel
Black Panther Letitia Wright
Lost's Evangeline Lilly

Think of anyone else?

 

[LA - L.A.]

There’s a new shirt I’ve seen for sale about the Salem witch trials. It says “They didn’t burn witches, they burned women” on the front and the back is a long list of when women got the right to do various things. Some of them surprised me, I thought it was earlier for those milestones.

Like the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Suffrage movement happened way to recently than it should have. Women have only had the right to vote for only 41.94% of the existence of our country. Haven't even made it to the have way point yet.

104 years is about 4 generations within a family which means most of us knew women who were alive at a time they did not have the right to vote and didn't have other rights either.

 

[LA - L.A.]

I’m half surprised Jones isn’t selling a pill or cream guaranteed to prevent sleep demon attacks

Wait for it...

 

[Nebaghead]

There’s a new shirt I’ve seen for sale about the Salem witch trials. It says “They didn’t burn witches, they burned women” on the front and the back is a long list of when women got the right to do various things. Some of them surprised me, I thought it was earlier for those milestones.

They didn’t burn anyone at the Salem witch trials. They hung all of them but one guy who was crushed to death with stones on his front door placed on his chest. My wife and I were just in Salem. In Europe they burned women for witchcraft.
The whole history is tragic and comes from racism, misogyny and likely greed considering the father of one of the girls was a large landowner and conveniently some of the accusers had large parcels of land. If found guilty you lost all your property.

 

[SamAndreas]

I’m half surprised Jones isn’t selling a pill or cream guaranteed to prevent sleep demon attacks

I'm half convinced that Jones is the sleep demon who's been making those attacks.

 

[SamAndreas]

Like the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Suffrage movement happened way to recently than it should have. Women have only had the right to vote for only 41.94% of the existence of our country. Haven't even made it to the have way point yet.

104 years is about 4 generations within a family which means most of us knew women who were alive at a time they did not have the right to vote and didn't have other rights either.

Both of my grandmothers, most if not all of my great aunts.

I remember folks talking about it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

They didn’t burn anyone at the Salem witch trials. They hung all of them but one guy who was crushed to death with stones on his front door placed on his chest. My wife and I were just in Salem. In Europe they burned women for witchcraft.
The whole history is tragic and comes from racism, misogyny and likely greed considering the father of one of the girls was a large landowner and conveniently some of the accusers had large parcels of land. If found guilty you lost all your property.

I know history is full off stuff like that but if they didn’t burn anyone in Salem his did the whole “burn her at the stake” thing come about and become commonly accepted as fact?

It has to be something more than that’s what they did in Europe

 

[LA - L.A.]

They didn’t burn anyone at the Salem witch trials. They hung all of them but one guy who was crushed to death with stones on his front door placed on his chest.

Giles Corey is one of the most overlooked heroes. "More weight."

"Giles Corey (bapt.Tooltip baptized 16 August 1611 – 19 September 1692) was an English-born farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. After being arrested, Corey refused to enter a guilty or not guilty plea. He was subjected to torture in the form of crushing in an effort to force him to plead, dying after three days of being crushed. Because Corey refused to enter a plea, his estate passed on to his sons instead of being seized by the Massachusetts colonial government."​

Giles Corey - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The whole history is tragic and comes from racism, misogyny and likely greed considering the father of one of the girls was a large landowner and conveniently some of the accusers had large parcels of land. If found guilty you lost all your property.

It's such a horrible rinse and repeat throughout history. Some greedy dudes want something other people have, so they prey on people's fears, which is where bigotry comes from, to run a grift that involves whipping people into a frenzy to kill the evil/dangerous/subhuman "others," so they can steal there stuff after they are dead. This is the dynamic that's driven almost every human rights violation throughout the entirety of human history.

 

[SamAndreas]

This is a something else thread. A thread that seems like a camping trip where we all tell scary stories at night around a sagebrush fire, with spooky sounds coming from the mouth of the arroyo.

 

[LA - L.A.]

This is a something else thread. A thread that seems like a camping trip where we all tell scary stories at night around a sagebrush fire, with spooky sounds coming from the mouth of the arroyo.

The southwest LA version is sitting around a hardwood fire telling scary stories while watching the menacing moving shadows made by the Spanish Moss swaying from trees in the darkness.

 

[Nebaghead]

I know history is full off stuff like that but if they didn’t burn anyone in Salem his did the whole “burn her at the stake” thing come about and become commonly accepted as fact?

It has to be something more than that’s what they did in Europe

I think it was in Europe where they did that.

 

[Nebaghead]

Giles Corey is one of the most overlooked heroes. "More weight."

"Giles Corey (bapt.Tooltip baptized 16 August 1611 – 19 September 1692) was an English-born farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. After being arrested, Corey refused to enter a guilty or not guilty plea. He was subjected to torture in the form of crushing in an effort to force him to plead, dying after three days of being crushed. Because Corey refused to enter a plea, his estate passed on to his sons instead of being seized by the Massachusetts colonial government."​

Giles Corey - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It's such a horrible rinse and repeat throughout history. Some greedy dudes want something other people have, so they prey on people's fears, which is where bigotry comes from, to run a grift that involves whipping people into a frenzy to kill the evil/dangerous/subhuman "others," so they can steal there stuff after they are dead. This is the dynamic that's driven almost every human rights violation throughout the entirety of human history.

What brought the trials to the end was when they accused a reverend of witchcraft because he was calling it out as a charade. When they were about to hang him, he started citing the Lord’s Prayer. Witches supposedly couldn’t quote the Bible and the crowd was stunned. The magistrates said he was possessed and that’s why he could do it and they still hung him. The incident made it to the higher ups for the judiciary in Massachusetts and he questioned the local magistrates and said it was going to far. The local magistrates replied they suspected his wife might be a witch and they need to question her and that’s when it was ordered to stop.

 

[MT15]

What brought the trials to the end was when they accused a reverend of witchcraft because he was calling it out as a charade. When they were about to hang him, he started citing the Lord’s Prayer. Witches supposedly couldn’t quote the Bible and the crowd was stunned. The magistrates said he was possessed and that’s why he could do it and they still hung him. The incident made it to the higher ups for the judiciary in Massachusetts and he questioned the local magistrates and said it was going to far. The local magistrates replied they suspected his wife might be a witch and they need to question her and that’s when it was ordered to stop.

Fascinating to note that when it started to affect a couple of men, they started looking at it. I wonder if they had stuck to targeting “uppity” women how long it would have gone on?

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

Oh, well, if AlexJones believes it….

all i can thik of is the scene with Johna Hill from the movie 'This Is The End"....

 

[RobF]

"Demons that Tucker Carlson claimed attacked him as he slept were also responsible for the invention of nuclear technology, the conservative former Fox News host said on Monday in another bizarre contention."

Tucker Carlson credits demons for the invention of nuclear technology

Ex-Fox News host makes bizarre claim on Steve Bannon’s podcast, days after saying a demon attacked him in his sleep

www.theguardian.com

There must be a word for the spiralling into increasing insanity people seem to do when they go off into chasing right wing clicks and subscribers.

 

[SamAndreas]

"Demons that Tucker Carlson claimed attacked him as he slept were also responsible for the invention of nuclear technology, the conservative former Fox News host said on Monday in another bizarre contention."

Tucker Carlson credits demons for the invention of nuclear technology

Ex-Fox News host makes bizarre claim on Steve Bannon’s podcast, days after saying a demon attacked him in his sleep

www.theguardian.com

There must be a word for the spiralling into increasing insanity people seem to do when they go off into chasing right wing clicks and subscribers.

Maybe he's facing criminal prosecution for something we don't know about yet, and he's laying the groundwork for an insanity plea to avoid hard time in prison.

The thing to ask yourself is he more or less insane than Maxwell Klinger was on MASH.

Max wasn't insane enough.

 

[MT15]

"Demons that Tucker Carlson claimed attacked him as he slept were also responsible for the invention of nuclear technology, the conservative former Fox News host said on Monday in another bizarre contention."

Tucker Carlson credits demons for the invention of nuclear technology

Ex-Fox News host makes bizarre claim on Steve Bannon’s podcast, days after saying a demon attacked him in his sleep

www.theguardian.com

There must be a word for the spiralling into increasing insanity people seem to do when they go off into chasing right wing clicks and subscribers.

Here’s another one. Is he on drugs I wonder?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Sylvester Stallone has described Donald Trump as the “second George Washington” in a warm-up speech for the President-elect at Mar-a-Lago.

The Hollywood heavyweight attended a black tie gala on Thursday held to celebrate Trump’s election victory that was attended by many of his controversial cabinet picks, including RFK Jr and Matt Gaetz.

“When I made Rocky, if you remember the first image was a picture of Jesus and it said ‘Resurrection, AC Club’,” Stallone told the audience ahead of Trump’s arrival on stage. “I found a church that had been converted into a boxing ring. So the image pans down from Jesus on to Rocky being hit and that moment he was the chosen person, and that’s how I began the journey.

“Something was going to happen, this man was going to go through a metamorphosis and change lives. Just like President Trump.

“We’re in the presence of a really mythical character,” Stallone continued. “I love mythology. This individual does not exist on this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off what he pulled off, so I’m in awe.”

“And I’ll just say this, and I mean it,” Stallone went on. “When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was going to change the world. Cause without him, you could imagine what the world would look like. Guess what? We got the second George Washington. Congratulations.”…………

Sylvester Stallone calls Trump ‘the second George Washington’ in Mar-a-Lago speech

Stallone was full of praise for the President-elect at Mar-a-Lago event to celebrate Trump’s win, and compared him to “chosen person” Rocky

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MT15]

Sylvester Stallone has described Donald Trump as the “second George Washington” in a warm-up speech for the President-elect at Mar-a-Lago.

The Hollywood heavyweight attended a black tie gala on Thursday held to celebrate Trump’s election victory that was attended by many of his controversial cabinet picks, including RFK Jr and Matt Gaetz.

“When I made Rocky, if you remember the first image was a picture of Jesus and it said ‘Resurrection, AC Club’,” Stallone told the audience ahead of Trump’s arrival on stage. “I found a church that had been converted into a boxing ring. So the image pans down from Jesus on to Rocky being hit and that moment he was the chosen person, and that’s how I began the journey.

“Something was going to happen, this man was going to go through a metamorphosis and change lives. Just like President Trump.

“We’re in the presence of a really mythical character,” Stallone continued. “I love mythology. This individual does not exist on this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off what he pulled off, so I’m in awe.”

“And I’ll just say this, and I mean it,” Stallone went on. “When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was going to change the world. Cause without him, you could imagine what the world would look like. Guess what? We got the second George Washington. Congratulations.”…………

Sylvester Stallone calls Trump ‘the second George Washington’ in Mar-a-Lago speech

Stallone was full of praise for the President-elect at Mar-a-Lago event to celebrate Trump’s win, and compared him to “chosen person” Rocky

www.independent.co.uk

All these meatheads supporting Trump - maybe the steroid abuse causes brain damage?