Look, I have nothing but the greatest admiration for Streep as an actress and activist...BUT...
….this sort of thing is just NOT HELPING.
Her speech was everything the conservatards and Trump himself could ever hope for. WASPY Meryl Streep, the very definition of the Bubblefied, Hollywood Elite, goes off on flyover America, attacking FOOTBALL of all things!!
UGH UGH UGH.
By now, I would think people would realize that Trump WANTS this! He craves it!! If he can't have love from celebrities anymore, then he'll gladly take your disgust, for he knows how it feeds into his whole bullshit spiel about how he's "for the little guy"
I just wrote a diary last week and one thing I mentioned is about how celebrities should not outright attack Trump at awards shows for this very reason. I mentioned that, if you want to attack someone, go after Pence. 1) He’s the more accurate and accessible target and 2) It will drive Trump crazy to NOT be the one getting the attention!!
It’s one thing for us here to throw words like, well, “moron”, around — but it’s another for a celeb at one of the big Hollywood balls to start in it. The more it seems as if they’re “against Murica” — and I’m not saying Streep is I’m saying SEEMS as if — the more grist it is for the Trumpkins and Fox News. *SIGH*
EDIT: Well, those were certainly some lively comments! I didn’t know so many people would be up this late!
Thanks for all the comments. There wasn’t even any name-calling this time!
Many of you think I was trying to say Streep and everyone else should just “shut up and sing.” No.
I want us who are anti-Trump to get SMARTER about this shit. Let me say this: INSULTING TRUMP DOES. NOT. WORK. If it did, we’d be hailing Hillary Clinton’s landslide victory. But there are numerous people who JUST DON’T GIVE A SHIT. His many financial crimes, the sexual assaults, the collusion with Russia — his base is ready to waive all that away. Yes, it’s patently unfair that president pussy-grabber gets a pass on all that. It wouldn’t have seemed possible just four years ago. But the impossible happened. And for the last three months, his supporters have waved their dicks in our faces about it.
So therefore, we need different tactics. The old ones, the usual ones, the logical ones, just aren’t working and won’t work, except to feed the beast. If we don’t then, as I say in the diary linked above, it’s going to be a long EIGHT years.