Star Wars star Daisy Ridley: 'Every sane person' has an 'issue with Trump'

Washington Examiner ^ | December 9, 2019 | Carlin Becker

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Star of the upcoming film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Daisy Ridley asserted that "everyone has an issue with Trump — every sane person anyway."

Speaking with The Guardian in an interview published over the weekend, the English actress took aim at both President Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. When asked if she finds it difficult to speak out about politics given that the Star Wars franchise is owned by family-friendly Disney, Ridley said, "No. I don’t feel I have to edit what I say — the things that make me angry are the things that make everyone angry."

"Everyone is annoyed with BoJo," she continued, referencing Johnson, leader of the nation's Conservative Party. "Everyone has an issue with Trump — every sane person anyway. It’s not that I don’t talk about this stuff, but other people are so much more articulate than me and say it better."

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Eh, I’d argue that philosophers are even more of a scourge of society than actors/clowns/entertainers combined. At least until recently, their role was just to entertain people, which is relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things, not to mention are generally powerless even today (Brooke Anne Smith, an aspiring actress, indicated that with the rare exception of an ad-lib, actors are required to follow the directions of the writer and director when I contacted her about one of her characters) while philosophers generally end up having and abusing a LOT of power. To name some examples off the top of my head, there’s Sartre, Foucault, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Sade, Nietzsche, Marx, Spinoza, Gramsci, and the like. They constantly do make believe for free, and specifically to CAUSE a riot, many times not actually believing their own claims and knowing they are false yet still push these claims anyway.

But yeah, what Rey said about Trump was indeed asinine.