Posted on 10/07/2017 12:45:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
Some stars sent their thoughts and prayers to the dead and wounded. Others said the stupidest things possible.
No one does hot takes worse than celebrities.
Name the hot button issue, and chances are a star will have something downright stupefying to share. Often it comes in ALL CAPS but not always.
Some stars sent their thoughts and prayers to the dead and wounded. Others said the stupidest things possible.
No one does “hot takes” worse than celebrities.
Name the hot button issue, and chances are a star will have something downright stupefying to share. Often it comes in ALL CAPS … but not always.
This happened again after Stephen Paddock, 64, shot into a crowded concert audience in Las Vegas Sunday night, killing 59 and wounding hundreds.
Awful. Tragic. Heartbreaking.
And the instinct to respond, to offer up some kind of solution to gun shootings, is understandable.
The following celebrity reactions hardly fit into that category. Instead, they’re just plain dumb, ugly or a toxic combination of the two.
On with more dumb reactions:
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah weighed in on the “time” to talk about gun violence:
“When is the time?” Noah asked. “And also, if you say after a mass shooting is ‘never the time’, you’ll never have the conversation in America, because there’s a mass shooting almost every single day. So when is the time?
“When a plane crashes, we talk about plane safety immediately. When a bridge collapses, we talk about infrastructure immediately,” Noah added. “We seem to do everything to avoid talking about guns.”
Does it even need to be said that American conversations on guns have been roiling for years? That we rigorously talk about guns across every possible platform and will continue to do so?
Finally, here’s the most disingenuous comment from Kimmel. It doesn’t necessarily fit into the “dumb” category, but it needs to be exposed all the same:
“I want this to be a comedy show,” he promised. “I hate talking about stuff like this. I just want to give you something to laugh about at night. But that has become increasingly difficult lately. And lately, it feels like someone opened a window into hell.”
Balderdash.
Kimmel is loving every ounce of his pundit transformation. He gets to pontificate on the news of the day, bash his ideological enemies and bask in press adulation.
UPDATE: The dumbest celebrity comment, by far, comes from Miss Sloane herself, Jessica Chastain:
How ‘bout we summarize all celeb posts as being dumb on pretty much any issue.
Yeah exactly.
Why hasn’t Fatboy Mikey Moore been indicted yet? He’s the world’s largest “ham sandwich”. Sorry Fatboy, Mueller and the Clintoon lawyer Gaystapo task force have been busting their asses looking for something to indict PRESIDENT Trump with but they can’t find anything.
I’m for it.
You just can't fix stupid.
So we can’t judge all mozlums by the act of a few, but we can condemn all gun-owners for vegas ay?
What do you expect?
For a living, they say things other people tell them to say.
Why would anyone expect them to be able to string together more than three or four rational, coherent words?
I don’t think they want people to watch their movies or tv shows anymore. It’s good to know who to avoid since they have such big, stupid mouths.
Most of the celebrity trash talk about gun owners and the NRA is narcissist celebs preening for their show biz friends to see who can be the most sanctimonious about the Second Amendment, the evils of the NRA and those scary guns they hate so much.
This drivel, even as the same multimillionaire ‘celebrities’ have armed bodyguards to protect them from the ‘little people’ that helped make them rich and famous.
Hypocrisy on stilts and eventually, for some, a career-killer - I hope.
Over 65 million plus innocent babies murdered/tortured/ripped out of the womb - no outrage from libs since the genocide was legalized.
When are they going to demand guns be taken out of movies?
And then she goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid
The 2nd Amendment is a civil right, the NRA is a civil rights organization.
Remind the next liberal you meet.
They are celebrities only in their minds. Lena Denham is just a bag who someone thought was funny. Half of those MFs dropped out of school and couldn’t spell cat if you gave them the letters C-A-T.
“The 2nd Amendment is a civil right, the NRA is a civil rights organization.”
Good one. Of course, it is also a *human* right.
It does so about every day
We'll have around one MILLION dead future Americans at the end of the year
How many elephants can fit into a room anyway?
Luke 22:38
So they said, Look, Lord, here are two swords.
That is enough, He answered.
I finally watched “Bowling for Columbine” a couple months ago. It seemed to me it made a great case as to why gun control does NOT work.
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