Exactly as well as it worked out for you. Some of us are just smart enough to realize it.
I don’t get why you’re here. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you make a single post that contributed to a discussion in any meaningful way. Do you think you’re being funny? Are you even trying to be funny? I’m genuinely baffled.
I’m constantly amazed that some people think that the civil rights, or sometimes even the basic humanity, of entire other groups of people is an “agree to disagree” thing that doesn’t at all reflect on the basic beliefs and values of the people holding those opinions - as if it’s exactly like the debate over term limits or gerrymandering.
News flash: it’s not. And if you do hold the “wrong” opinions, then yes, I’m going to draw certain conclusions about you.
You:
You didn’t say anywhere in your post that she had a right to say anything she wanted to say.
Because those are “real Americans” and the right has an inferiority complex over celebrities shaming them in public. If you listen to right wing radio this obsession with Hollywood culture is a reoccurring theme. They’ll say Hollywood celebrities are just entertainers, they don’t know anything. That doesn’t apply to radio hosts, of course. They’re knowledgeable and should be taken seriously.
This sauce isn’t for the gander. Tell one of these people, “you’re just a middle manager, nothing more,” they’d be pissed. That would be elitism. Satisfyingly capitalist, though.
This was Ann Coulter’s defense, that Trump was merely doing “a standard retard.”
Not yet. But thanks to that Blustering Sack of Shit Cheeto-Elect, it may come fucking close quite soon. And it would be just hilarious if it weren’t so fucking tragic.
I watched her speech a few times tonight. It was quite civil and moving. don didn’t appear in the remarks. (Maybe that’s why he was mad.) And it addressed his mocking of the disabled person only and not a lot else. How could a reasonable person find fault with this?
I’m not sure any reasonable people have, thus far.
They can’t.
Well, in the spirit of “what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander”, this sure has pissed a lot of conservatives off. Clearly, this means we are doing the right thing. Right? :rolleyes: Also, someone remind me, who were the thin-skinned pansies again?
“Play-actor”? Excuse you, she’s a movie actress!
No one reasonable can disagree with it.
The thing about Trump attacking the disabled journalist is that he stupidly made it about him attacking the guy for his disabilities rather than anything he was actually saying. Trump has a pathological need to go for the easy attack rather than discuss the substance, possibly because he lacks the intelligence to do so.
And so he chose to bring the discussion down to that level. If he doesn’t want to be criticised for attacking a disabled man for being disabled, maybe he shouldn’t have done just that.
But the most curious thing is that, according to some, Trump attacking a person for his disabilities while running for President at a political rally is apparently not worth commenting on, yet an actress criticising this behaviour on an awards show is highly inappropriate.
The OP is a reprehensible degenerate whose priorities are so fucked that I don’t know where to begin.
No one said that.
It’s by omission. Frankly, when the guy who is going to be President in just over a week can get elected despite repeatedly attacking others in the most crass and superficial way possible, talk of what’s appropriate has gone out the window.
I mean, let’s look at what led Streep to make that speech before we start worrying about the speech itself.
True story:
When I went to see The Imitation Game last year, a fire alarm was sounded because there was a fire in the cinema.
When I go to the movies, I don’t want to be bothered by loud, intrusive noises in the cinema–it ruins the experience. I guess I should have complained about the fire alarm.
Let’s be fair here - he said she was an excellent actress.
We certainly love Trump telling us how Hamilton and Meryl Streep are “overrated”. That one never gets old, for either us or Trump.
I often think that the Streep-hype is overblown…and then I watch her in one of her better roles (say, The Iron Lady rather than dreck like Death Becomes Her) and realize that nope, she really is that good .
Drunky’s drive-bys used to be amusing, but Trump’s election appears to have inspired him to move up from “snarky bystander” to “full-blown asshole”. Which, I believe, has earned him at least one moderator admonishment for threadshitting. I’m hoping he’ll eventually calm down again.
That’s not being fair-that’s believing his bullshit backtracking. In the OP he said she was a “PLAY-actress”, and there is no reasonable way to turn that phrase into a compliment.
What? He was clearly referring to how she was a Tony-nominated stage actress before she became an Oscar-winning movie actress; the alternative is simply unthinkable.
“Hey meryl streep, you are a play-actor, nothing more”
… And this fact was the very theme of Streep’s speech! It was Trump who tried to put “the Hollywood elite” onto some special (elite? un-American?) pedestal.
Yes. This very thread, especially OP itself, is a tribute to how thin-skinned the Kindergarten bully Trump is, as are many of the morons who support him.
At least poor intellects can be predictable:
[QUOTE=Columnist Ty Burr]
Minutes after Streep’s speech, I jokingly tweeted out, “Trump tomorrow: ‘Merrill Strep only good in Death Becomes Her, who remembers her other movies? Overrated!’ ”
[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DJT, a few hours later]
Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes
[/QUOTE]
And then …
Let me see if I have this straight. You think he was NOT mocking the physical disability? Is that obvious to you? What do you think most Trumpists thought?