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Posted on 01/29/2026 7:33:12 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The last decade or so of American politics has inspired a lot of political statements from the people of Hollywood, who are pretty clearly as freaked out by what feel like ongoing and inexorable shifts toward both national and global authoritarianism as the rest of us. But few have been as blunt about it as Giancarlo Esposito was this week, stepping up on his soapbox at the Sundance Film Festival and declaring, “This is time for a revolution—and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting.”
Esposito, at the festival to promote his new Jon Turturro movie The Only Living Pickpocket In New York, did not mince words or suggest he was being metaphorical in his language, drawing direct parallels between regimes in Russia, Iran, and the United States in his words to Variety: “We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].”
Esposito was one of several stars wearing “ICE Out” pins at Sundance, referencing widespread discontent with both the nationwide emboldening of Immigration Customs and Enforcement in the second Trump administration, and the violence happening in Minneapolis over the last several weeks. “Some very rich old white men are exerting their power to suppress our own people,” Esposito added, “Thus creating a feeling of civil war in the streets, preparing the haters to hate, teaching them how to shoot. This is all a preparation for a very insidious problem that’s happening in our world. And for me, I have to speak out. We will not be ICE’d out. This is not going to happen.”
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Domestic ENEMY. Listen to HIS words.
Hopefully a visit from the FBI will set him straight.
“We will not be ICE’d out. This is not going to happen.”
Is he an illegal alien? This makes no sense otherwise.
Well, as if I would be inclined to actually go and see one of this person’s movies to begin with.
Who will be his/her huckleberry?
“They’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].”
Brave talk from Giancarlo. I don’t suppose he’d go first. Not to mention 30,000 Iranians just got killed by the mullahs and not a word about that.
Hey Gus — Just shut up and speak your lines.
Another privileged millionaire libtard, who uses “We”, when he really is referring to the brainwashed peons, because he ain’t about to put himself at risk.
Foreign born. Go live in Demark.
Once again, the communists accuse others of what they themselves are doing.
Piece of shit actor who played a roll in a hit TV series as a gangster. FBI should pay him a visit.
A “revolution” benefits the left.
“Revolution” is the very last thing the U.S. needs.
People who are allowed to break the law feel oppressed when they have to follow the law.
.... remind me again....why is Hollywood tanking?.....
Many years ago I read a book about a black radical group. The author was a member of the group. He was also an acquaintance of mine - long story there.
Anyway, the group was planning a violent takeover of the country. This was back during the Carter years. But they called it off. They weren’t afraid of Carter. They were afraid of members of the NRA.
Perhaps Mr. Esposito should consider that.
He is partially correct. We need to settle this now, to put down the radical left sooner rather than later.
“We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].”
Typical Communist Revolutionary: Send 500-million other people out to “die for the cause”.
But not YOU, eh? You’re too smart and important, right?
Don’t be a coward, Giancarlo!
Don’t send others out as cannon-fodder!
YOU go out and BE the cannon-fodder!
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