Hollywood Stars Melt Down Over Kavanaugh Vote - 'LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS'
If there’s anyone I look to for even-keeled, thoughtful musings when the country is in turmoil, it’s the Twitter accounts of major Hollywood stars. Social media is nothing if not a platform for civilized discourse, after all, and there are few people who understand the political milieu in a contemplative manner better than the actors and actresses who populate my flatscreen.
That’s why, because of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, I know that the correct, well-reasoned response to the allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez is to “LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS.”
Bette Midler, who once starred in “Beaches,” “Down and Out and Beverly Hills” and “The First Wives Club” and now stars in … well, I’m sure something, tweeted that out one day after Kavanaugh’s testimony.
LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) September 28, 2018
She was a big fan of the caps lock on Friday.
UNFIT TO SERVE.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) September 28, 2018
And, when Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake decided to delay the vote to get Kavanaugh out of committee, this was Midler’s response:
#JEFFFLAKE CAME THROUGH!!! THE CALVARY RIDES AGAIN!!!
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) September 28, 2018
Andy Richter of the Conan O’Brien show, meanwhile, thinks our entire government is an abuser because of the Kavanaugh nomination (and probably the fact his preferred candidate isn’t in the White House).
Women deserve to be angry all of the time
This country’s government is an abuser
We live in the most shameful of times— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) September 28, 2018
If he could only make that rhyme, you have an Ani DiFranco song right there.
And then there was Sarah Silverman. Oh boy, was there ever Sarah Silverman. In addition to several conspiracy theories over the term “boofing” — all of which invoked UrbanDictionary.com — here were a few of her musings on the hearing.
There are 3 defs of “Devil’s triangle” in the urban dictionary. 2 are sex acts, 1 is another name for the Bermuda Triangle https://t.co/kPljLSu8za #KavanaghHearing
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) September 28, 2018
Why am I being forced to watch Grassley casually eat nuts while Klobuchar is making the speech of a lifetime?
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) September 28, 2018
Can we ask why, in a country whose govt is meant to reflect the citizens it represents, ANOTHER WHITE MALE is the nominee at all?
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) September 28, 2018
Meanwhile, Amy Schumer’s feed was given over to activism.
https://twitter.com/amyschumer/status/1045655843591647236
https://twitter.com/amyschumer/status/1044636668853137408
Chelsea Handler, meanwhile, has mostly given up on comedy to become a full-time activist, so I’m not even sure she belongs on this list. Here she is anyway, doing what she does best: reductionism.
We have a judge who testified that an FBI investigation into an allegation of sexual assault isn’t necessary. A judge who Republicans nominated to be on the Supreme Court. If you are a woman, or you have a child, or you have a mother, a sister, call your senator today.
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) September 28, 2018
Republican Party = white male party. They don’t care about women and they don’t care about the future. They care about the past where all white men are in power. Rape is fine. Keep minorities and women down. All white men, oh, and Ben Carson.
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) September 28, 2018
Note to activists, specifically of the Hollywood variety: Casual racism from very economically privileged people aside, it doesn’t help your argument against a white male Supreme Court nominee if you openly state, when you’re arguing against their nomination, that you hate white men. Back in the 1960s, one didn’t particularly need to ask George Wallace or the White Citizens’ Councils what they thought of the Thurgood Marshall nomination; not only could you have guessed their reaction, the fact that they were openly contemptuous of anyone who wasn’t white pretty much disqualified them from any serious consideration in the matter.
No, tweeting how much you disdain white men doesn’t make Sarah Silverman or Chelsea Handler anywhere near as pernicious as either of those entities, but why would anyone listen to them? In the entertainment industry, I suppose, this is the party line. Fair enough. Who else, pray tell, do these individuals think they’re moving by open hatred?
They may have convinced themselves these tweets matter. For the rest of us, this collective meltdown is a sign that Kavanaugh Derangement Syndrome is not only here but in full pandemic mode.
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