Posted on 09/07/2016 12:57:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While he finds Donald Trumps popularity unbelievable, Brad Pitt is trying to understand why people are supporting the Republican presidential candidate.
I cant bring myself to think that Trump will be in charge. In the simplest terms, what brings us together is good, and what separates us is bad, the 52-year-old actor tells The New York Times T Magazine.
Pitt quotes the Oscar-winning film The Big Short and says, When things are going wrong and we cant find the reason for it, we just start creating enemies.
You gotta understand, he tells the magazine, that its also in our DNA. Most Americans dont have time to watch CNN and Fox and Al Jazeera. Theyre trying to make the rent, get the kids fed, theyre tired when they get home and they want to forget about everything. And so suddenly when this voice comes in and it doesnt have to be a voice of substance saying hes fed up with all of this, thats the part that hooks into the DNA.
But Pitt remains hopeful about the future.
What Im most hopeful about is that were a global neighborhood now, and we start to understand each other more and more and yet, you see this reactionary push for isolation and separation again, he says of Trumps exclusionary ideas.
A Trump supporter is fighting against just about everything, he says. What does he even mean, take our country back? Would someone please explain that to me? Whered it go?, he concludes.
Oh gawd...I wish I were half as intelligent, enlightened and benevolent as the worthy Mr. Brad Pitt! if only.
You, Clooney, and Oprah wouldn’t understand first grade math.
“Jennifer Aniston God love her”
As do the rest of us.
The more the celebtards whine and vow to expat out, the more Trump wins.
“In the simplest terms, what brings us together is good, and what separates us is bad.”
“Knowledge is good”
Emil Faber
Brad, some sage advice.
Shut up and sing!
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Brilliant!!
I’d put money on that too.
I have better advice. Brad just shut up and go take a crap, because you are full of it.
Mr. Pitt probably does not understand the following about Trump versus Clinton.
Mr. Trump will probably be willing to hear patriots’ grievances concerning the federal government blatantly ignoring its constitutionally limited powers, particularly with respect to unconstitutional federal taxes, while Hillary would probably respond to such grievances by cackling.
I hope you're taking notes, Brad. Here goes. The statement is not literal, the country is here still physically. However it has been co-opted by a small group of politicians, judges, and lobbyists who refuse to follow the will of the people, choosing instead to enrich themselves while eroding our freedoms. They make themselves unaccountable and collude across party lines to block all efforts we might make to restore some semblance of representative government. In short, there was a bloodless coup that the press refused to cover. The two parties merged without saying it out loud and the little guy, the man in the street, has lost any semblance of feeling like the government is for him, by him, or of him.
Taking it back means stopping the corruption and the lying. It means restoring a responsive and representative government that no long puts special interests ahead of the will of the people. It means putting in place leadership that no longer sees the constitution as a barrier to be overcome but rather cherish and honor it. When those things all happen, we the people will have our country back.
There ya go.
They are coming from out of town, sparky.
I suspect many actors have fairly empty minds—they can’t have too many thoughts up there or they won’t have a place to store their movie script lines ;)
No, you pompous jackass. YOU may be in Nice,but we are STILL in America AND "American."
The insular Brad Pitt: What does he even mean, take our country back? Would someone please explain that to me? Whered it go?
The guy really is totally oblivious. Where'd it go, Brad? To Hell in a handbasket, dipwad. Not that you would know, you condescending Hillary piehole-kissing twit.
All of his work is done in a fantasy world. He responds to
“cut” and then redoes his scene again. After a few years, the limp minded find it difficult to transition from fantasy to reality. Making it worse is that with such little talent, he has bucket loads full of money that he’s guilty of having. He has brief moments where he knows he’s a fantasy man but then he merrily does what he’s told....”cut”! There is no chance that he would ever understand ANY politician because the subject matter is real and Brad is too immature and shallow to fathom reality in any form. “Cut”.
Brad, we don’t care what you think. You are a NOBODY. Stick to something you know about.... acting. Leave running the country to TRUMP! When he wins in a landslide.
This idiot is a disgrace.
Go back home and play with your blocks Pajama Boy.
In his commentary, "Guns,Guns,Guns" Daniel Greenfield points out that if you reject the Genesis account and instead embrace evolutionary thinking, then evil is a chicken and egg question and man is its' helpless victim:
"... Violence had no beginning, except perhaps in the Big Bang, it was always here, coded into the DNA. If people are just grown-up animals, more articulate versions of the creatures who eat each other's young, and sometimes their own young, there is as much use in wondering about the nature of evil as there is in trying to understand why a killer whale kills." (sultan knish, 2012,guns-guns-guns)
In this light hate crime laws, speech control efforts, gun control laws, zero tolerance policies and hysterical fear and hate of Trump are frantic, futile, superstitious attempts to control outbreaks of evil. Daniel Greenfield comments:
"After every shooting there are more zero tolerance policies in schools that crack down on everything from eight-year olds making POW POW gestures with their fingers to honor students bringing Tylenol and pocket knives to school. And then another shooting happens and then another one and they wouldn't happen if we just had more zero tolerance policies for everyone and everything."
Ideas have consequences. They are more powerful than bombs. We can neither understand nor effectively counter Progressive Liberal ideas and the superstition and attendant madness ensuing therefrom until we understand what they believe about evil, the human condition and moral agency.
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