Posted on 11/17/2016 3:27:47 PM PST by drewh
Comedianne Sarah Silverman believes that for many Americans, the country under a Donald Trump presidency resembles the country as it was in the midst of the Great Depression, only worse. The progressive comedian took to Twitter on Wednesday to share her thoughts about Trump, whose candidacy she vehemently opposed during his campaign.
In follow-up tweets, Silverman wrote that those feelings are what much of the middle class has been experiencing in the country.
“Until we can try to understand that & approach w as much love as possible whilst w zero tolerance for hate&bigotry, change can’t happen Yo [sic],” she added.
While the America of today is certainly nowhere near the depths in which it found itself in the Great Depression (with a near 25 percent unemployment rate at its peak in 1933), the 45-year-old actress and comedian was likely disappointed by the results of last week’s election.
Silverman was one of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s earliest and most vocal celebrity supporters during the Democratic primary, and later shifted her support to eventual Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Silverman spoke in support of Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July, where she memorably told disaffected Sanders supporters to “stop being ridiculous” and get behind Clinton.
Silverman wrote to a follower on Wednesday to say that it was Bernie Sanders’s wife, Jane, who had asked her to speak in support of Clinton at the DNC.
Silverman also tweeted to Trump himself, urging him to listen to the people across the country who oppose his candidacy. Since the Republican businessman’s victory earlier this month, demonstrators have taken to the streets in New York City, Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, San Francisco and other cities in protest, sometimes violently.
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What a dreadful person she is. I hope she’s so upset by Trump’s victory that she leaves the country and is never heard from again. Perhaps she could try progressive, tolerant Syria.
One of the most irreverent people I’ve ever seen on tv.
We won. You lost. Deal with it.
Move to Canada, you horrible person.
She isn’t going to jump off a tall building is she?
Hmmm...maybe no one ever told her what the Great Depression was....
Even on The Aristocrats she was noticeably filthier than everyone else.
All their dreams of brutal oppression...
Interesting how mean and low she is, if you’ve seen her act. Pure evil.
She sounds like a H-8ter. Projection is what ‘rats do best.
She sounds like a H->8ter. Projection is what ‘rats do best.
Obama had the worst economic recovery in 67 years.
Now its time for a real recovery.
During the Depression my late father’s large family had only one potato to eat. Not one per person, ONE POTATO!
Okay, that’s it! I had it with these yentas!
GOOD! Then stay the eff out of our way while we fix the mess we are in and build our economy. Go hide in your safe space and keep your mouth shut.
Whatever.
“Snowflake hurl-o-rama” warning ... now, that there’s funny! LOL!!
Of course it’s the great depression. It’s the single worst economic recovery since the great depression. Obama achieved it using the same principles as FDR. Unemployment, if measured the same way it was in the 30’s has been worse than it was during the great depression. Hillary’s plan for ending it was starting a world war. It is exactly a second great depression. Is that what she was talking about?
Hey Sarah, in case you haven’t noticed; the last eight years have been “The Great Obama Depression” for 2/3rds of the country!
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