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Marvel Abandons Fan Base: Un-American ‘Captain America’ on 24/7 Anti-Trump Rant
Big Government (Breitbart) ^ | May 30, 2017 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Posted on 05/30/2017 7:33:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

From actor Chris Evans (Captain America) to director Joss Whedon, the Marvel Comics franchise is committing harikari in the most unbecoming of ways: through unapologetic, partisan bashing of a democratically elected president they can’t stand.

Evans has expressed deep contempt for what he considers to be in the ignorant masses of Americans that voted Donald Trump into the White House. These are, however, the very masses that make up the core viewership of Marvel’s superhero movies.

“People were just so desperate to hear someone say that someone is to blame,” Evans said in a recent interview with Esquire magazine. “They were just so happy to hear that someone was angry, hear someone say that Washington sucks.”

“I feel rage,” he said. “I feel fury. It’s unbelievable.”

“They just want something new without actually understanding,” he continued. “I mean, guys like Steve Bannon — Steve Bannon! — this man has no place in politics.”

Evans’ trolling of Trump on Twitter seems more an obsession than a pastime, and the actor seems to blame the President for all of the country’s woes.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antitrump; boycotthollywood; captainamerica; chrisevans; culturalrevolution; defundtheleft; disney; hollyweird; hollywood; hollywoodreds; josswhedon; leftoids; liberalmedia; markruffalo; marvel; moviereview; rapingmychildhood; scarlettjohansson; trump
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Steve Bannon served seven years in the Navy. How many years did this guy do in uniform?


41 posted on 05/30/2017 11:22:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: a fool in paradise

So in effect with this new Marvel twist of the comic tale....Captain America really should be Captain Germany? Or Captain Nazi?


42 posted on 05/31/2017 12:13:08 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Well, at least you recognized Disney’s involvement.


43 posted on 05/31/2017 12:20:26 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: JME_FAN

... and the “true” Captain America is right where he should be, thanks to the voters in the 2016 election!


44 posted on 05/31/2017 12:43:16 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Let’s all tweet pictures of Trump as Captain America over to our buddy Chris ... there are plenty available on the net, so take your pick and tweet away, I’m sure he’ll love seeing that in his Twitter feed.


45 posted on 05/31/2017 12:49:51 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: Kickass Conservative

Thank you for that information. I did not know that.


46 posted on 05/31/2017 3:19:50 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: a fool in paradise

While I agree with your overall sentiment, can you PLEASE not blame Disney for the title choice for Captain America: The First Avenger when releasing it to foreign markets? That movie was made before Disney purchased Marvel, so Disney had absolutely no involvement in the making of that film, let alone the naming of the film’s title. That blame falls squarely on Marvel.

You can blame Disney for any left wing politics it’s been promoting since the early 1990s up to the present day, but don’t blame them for The First Avenger’s foreign title, because they had no involvement. And this is speaking as someone who outright hates what Eisner, Iger, Lasseter, and Katzenberg did to Disney starting in 1991.


47 posted on 05/31/2017 4:17:59 AM PDT by otness_e
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To: brucedickinson
Chris got the part in about an hour

That's one long-ass blowjob.

48 posted on 05/31/2017 5:31:22 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgment comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgment.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Fortunately, a replacement keyboard is only $22.99 on Besoson.


49 posted on 05/31/2017 5:34:20 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Super Girl has gone to the Lessies. There will be a ‘wedding’ next season.


50 posted on 05/31/2017 6:11:51 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: GailA

I know. They REALLY ruined Alex Danvers there [I expected Maggie Sawyer to be a lesbian since, let’s face it, she was one in the comics, but them turning Alex into one of them was just... ugh... and having her and Maggie actually date and even get married just made things worse. And honestly, this is the SECOND time I ended up quitting a show due to their needlessly changing a character’s sexual orientation, the first time being Heroes when they decided to make Claire Bennet into a lesbian, or at the very least bisexual, in the Redemption arc.].

That’s also why I don’t plan to watch next season at all, or at most just catching the tail opening just to find out who that Kryptonian in the teaser for next season is supposed to be. That, and the countless anti-Trump digs, with the absolute worst of them being in the penultimate episode of the season where they had Cat Grant actually paraphrase Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan and attribute it to the Daxamite invaders when giving her rousing speech to the people of Central City, essentially implying that Queen Rhea and the Daxamites are President Trump, despite the fact that Rhea and the Daxamites’ overall methods for taking over the planet and their motives for doing so were in fact a lot closer to the illegal immigrants that Trump is trying to have deported than to Trump himself.

Even ignoring the whole heavy-handed politics and needless social elements being preached in this season, however, the whole thing was a complete mess in terms of writing. We never got any follow ups on General Lane and Maxwell Lord’s business deal involving the Omegahedron that they showed in the finale for the first season (in fact, the only bit they DID follow up on was the bit with Mon-El’s pod arriving on the planet), not to mention that, even in the second season, they really screwed up with handling President Marsden being an alien, as we got literally no leads to Marsden being an alien since they first teased it in her debut appearance until the season was nearly over. Compare that to the first season with Martian Manhunter, where when they first hinted that he wasn’t human, they actually built up to the reveal to the midway of the season. Oh, and their also having Winn relocated to the DEO from CatCo for absolutely no reason and actually revealing a completely separate DEO building that, as Supergirl and Alex pointed out, hadn’t even been alluded to in the previous season. They should never have moved Supergirl to the CW, which was so left-wing it makes CBS look like FOX News by comparison, I’m not kidding. Such a shame, as that show truly had potential.


51 posted on 05/31/2017 6:45:56 AM PDT by otness_e
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To: a fool in paradise

Wow. I didn’t know of the confluence of comics and trading cards. Early 90s saw the desimation of the card collector hobby. It’s just cardboard now.


52 posted on 05/31/2017 9:53:19 AM PDT by subterfuge (Build the damn wall...)
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To: GailA

Meaning lesbians or lesbos?


53 posted on 05/31/2017 11:02:30 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Don’t those two terms mean the same thing? In either case, both.


54 posted on 05/31/2017 11:04:04 AM PDT by otness_e
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Chris Evans seems to think he is something other than an easy replacable dimbulb pretty boy who got a job because he looked enough like a comic book character. I predict in about 10 years (less if he loses the Marvel gig) he’ll be lucky to be working in a CBS procedural.


55 posted on 05/31/2017 2:59:17 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: MarkL; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy

I remember seeing this chick in an ad for Captain Morgan’s rum years ago. She was pretty enough that I googled to find out her name, wasn’t surprised she was Israeli. Years later she’s suddenly a movie star. I don’t know if she can actually act but damn.


56 posted on 05/31/2017 9:13:32 PM PDT by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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To: Impy

WB,


57 posted on 06/01/2017 5:05:28 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Is there any difference? Gross either way seeing either 2 men or 2 women acting like heterosexuals. And as they are less than 2% of the population, I don’t appreciate them or their demands. Stay in your closet.


58 posted on 06/01/2017 5:37:43 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: GailA

A bit of an addition: What’s even more sad (and ironic in the most unfortunate way) about this whole thing is that Alex Danvers’ actress, Chyler Leigh, is married to Nathan West and a mother of three, and is devoted enough to the Christian religion that she said it gives her and her husband meaning in life (meaning she and West probably would not support that kind of lifestyle if they take the religion as seriously as their comments imply). Seems like Leigh and West are going to have some difficult discussions with their kids about Alex’s... joining another team, to put it simply. I realize that when put into an acting role, the actors/actresses rarely have any real choice in how they’re supposed to act (I know an actress, Brooke Anne Smith, who indicated such was the case, and she loves acting), but even still...


59 posted on 07/07/2017 7:30:22 PM PDT by otness_e
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