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Hollywood Reacts to Prospect of Second Trump Presidency: “A Sign of Deep Nihilism”
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 11/6/24 | Abid Rahman

Posted on 11/06/2024 6:18:22 AM PST by DallasBiff

The likes of Adam McKay, Bette Midler, Sophia Bush, Stephen King, John Cusack, Christina Applegate reacted to Donald Trump inevitable win with a mixture of shock, anger, confusion and mainly sadness.

Let the Democrat dooming begin.

Hollywood went to bed on Tuesday night dreading the prospect of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election as the former president began racking up state after state. But there were perhaps still hopes of a 2020 style reversal on Wednesday morning, if the big swing states in the much-vaunted ‘Blue Wall’ came through. Alas, the hopes were dashed after Wisconsin was called for Trump, clinching him his 270 electoral votes.

Despite no official declaration of the presidential race being over, Trump wasted no time in declaring victory, hitting the stage at his victory party at Mar-a-Lago at 2:30 a.m. ET. In his typical meandering and blustering style, the former president claimed a “magnificent” victory. Harris did not speak as election night turned into Wednesday morning and supporters gathered for what was supposed to be a celebration at her alma mater, Howard University. Her campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told the crowd she will address the nation later Wednesday.

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: electionloss; hollywood; trump
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To: CatOwner

Bet mittler posited she’d drink Drano if he won. Cheers bet!


21 posted on 11/06/2024 6:40:10 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: RatRipper

Anyplace burning yet? When does “shopping” start? Our Sams club was pretty well stocked with flat screens yesterday. 😊👍


22 posted on 11/06/2024 6:42:17 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: DallasBiff

Let’s not get too giddy yet. The left has a lot of tools.in their belt to attempt to reverse the election results, starting with two cases in New York.


23 posted on 11/06/2024 6:43:12 AM PST by Daveinyork ( )
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To: CatOwner
"Does someone have a list of those who said they would leave the country if Harris lost?"

Air Canada would be wise to have a post election sale! 🍁

24 posted on 11/06/2024 6:43:30 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
This one MAGA voter offsets all the Hollyweird votes. 🙂



25 posted on 11/06/2024 6:44:22 AM PST by Bratch
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To: jdt1138

We had some black voters see the light in this election but unfortunately too many of them are still stuck on DemoRat stupid.


26 posted on 11/06/2024 6:50:27 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: DallasBiff

no one is keeping you here.


27 posted on 11/06/2024 6:51:53 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3:01 am.)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

“You have to care that someone has an opinion before you can care what that opinion is.”

I wish it was that easy. There are a number of ways to lose a majority while not losing on the issues. And the first Trump presidency is a good example.

Having a majority and using it are two different things. And the isues being still there and worse than they were are a troubling area. Trump did an outstanding job of attacking the issues and getting them closer to resolved but was never allowed to by his own party besides the liberals/socialists.

So until the party cleans up its theology on what they represent, the can goes down the road. And when the liberals can retake the command by not allowing the conservatives (?) to finish the problems Trump, apparently by himself, is trying to clear up, they won’t go away.

Do the opinions of liberal headline getters mean anything? When you consider that this election had little to do with the issues rather than being a popularity contest, then those opinions are foremost in the minds of the liberals. And the only reason Trump won was people finally got put upon enough to get a real possible change into office even though the next election will look just like 2020 with the same results afterwards. Can’t go part way and expect to be there.

wy69


28 posted on 11/06/2024 6:52:00 AM PST by whitney69
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To: DallasBiff
Maybe Hollywood is just a dying dinosaur....its product sure smells like it anyway...
29 posted on 11/06/2024 6:53:09 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: RatRipper

30 posted on 11/06/2024 6:53:49 AM PST by Vaquero (In Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: No name given
Trump winning the popular vote is huge. I'm still disgusted that there are so many idiots who were willing to vote for such a dumb ass like Kamala Harris. I guess they voted for brain dead Biden so I should have known they would vote for another dope.
31 posted on 11/06/2024 6:54:12 AM PST by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: DallasBiff

Bette Midler, who has been a vocal critic of Trump over the years, quoted journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken. She posted on X: “When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum… The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

So, Mencken is calling our whole society vacuous? We have just been saved from continuing the moronity in the White House. I am so glad we are not a democracy, especially “Our Democracy”.


32 posted on 11/06/2024 6:55:14 AM PST by gnickgnack2 (They’re pushing us because they want us to push back. Then comes martial law. They see it as a win-w)
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To: Bratch

Oh my!!!!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 11/06/2024 7:01:45 AM PST by bantam
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To: Bratch

Yowza! She gets both my votes.


34 posted on 11/06/2024 7:03:08 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: jdt1138
"NEVER FORGET"

District of Columbia voted 92.59% demonrat...

That's why every time you have any dealings with the federal government all you get is a rash..!!

35 posted on 11/06/2024 7:04:22 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: DallasBiff

Dear Ms Midler:
The Draino I promised to send in on the way.
Should be delivered by Amazon in a couple days.
Thanks,
Zathras and the other 8 Zathras.


36 posted on 11/06/2024 7:09:21 AM PST by Zathras
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To: unread

This is also why Rs cannot be tried fairly there. The jury pool is irretrievably tainted. This is something R’s should address by having “crimes” against FedGov heard in a randomly-assigned district, or having the jury made up of members from ALL federal districts.


37 posted on 11/06/2024 7:12:36 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: DallasBiff

I’ll buy the can of Drano for Bette Midler.


38 posted on 11/06/2024 7:17:24 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: DallasBiff

The left really banked on lawfare to take out Trump. The problem is that with all the legal/cop shows a lot people in America are amateur lawyers. We saw right through the flimsy cases based on made up laws. The real victims of lawfare are the J6 hostages languishing in the DC gulag. Trump needs to get them the hell out of there as fast as he can.


39 posted on 11/06/2024 7:19:43 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: DallasBiff

Love every minute of it.


40 posted on 11/06/2024 7:22:55 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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