This is one of my favorite responses to the whole celebrities-shouldn’t-talk-about-politics thing:

What right-wingers are upset by is that they can’t get any A-listers on their side. It drives them up the wall because they’re into celebs as much as everyone else and it just kills them that they’re always stuck with the likes of Scott Baio.

Trump supporters also believe in Santa Claus, pearly white Jesus, and have the amazing ability to directly vote against their own best interest, while simultaneously being giant hypocrites about their own immigration heritage, supporting the same kind of fascism their parents fought against, while sucking each others…

My favorite thing about conservatives who get upset about celebrities “getting political” is how they trot their own token conservative celebrities out the first chance they get:

The Clintons have money, now, like just about every President and Senator (all but one Senator, Bernie Sanders, is at least a millionaire, IIR). But Bill Clinton started life dirt poor. Obama grew up middle class in a single-parent home. Trump? Inherited several hundred millions (not exactly self-made). G.H.W. Bush …

This administration will stop at nothing until the United States is essentially a third world nation run by a few dozen, disgustingly rich families.

You have to be white for that to work.

Ex cop here.

These are kids, for crying out loud. KIDS. He, as a fucking police officer who has had significant training for these types of situations, should know how to handle it without having to pull out his gun and shoot it. It was not the child’s responsibility to de-escalate shit.

For the same reason George Z. They want to fight but don’t want to lose the fight and they will prevent it by any means necessary.

Or if the kids had been white. We’ve been working hard to change our social norms and now is the time to raise hell about our desired norms being broken. They need to be told a thousand times over that this shit is UNACCEPTABLE.

Why do you have a fucking gun out to confront a 13-year-old about crossing your lawn in the first goddamn place?

I don’t believe for one second this would have turned out the same way if the guy weren’t an off-duty cop.

Cops have control issues - which is why they always have to control their surroundings.

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What the entire fuck did I just watch???? That is a child he is manhandling over nothing!! And then he pulls his gun put because people are rightfully trying to get him off the kid?? And shoots it?????? I’m fucking livid! Administrative leave my ass he should be in jail!

The important thing is that white people in Idaho feel safe from Mexicans.

I just don’t understand all of the legislating of these types of things. So some of the population is against abortion. OK. Then those people can keep on living their life not having one if they become pregnant without planning for that and those that are ok with abortion can have an abortion. Why take shit away from…

And as Aimée points out, completely irrelevant to the topic here.

It bears repeating.