Posted on 04/20/2024 10:54:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The single most sacred rule in MAGA world is to never go against “The King” so when Reacher star Alan Ritchson spit some hot facts about Cheeto Jesus, Trump’s cult 45 came right for him on social media.
Earlier this month the man who’s been campaigning to be cast as the next Batman in James Gunn’s rebooted DCU made his feelings known about the current Republican nominee for President of The United States in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter calling him a “rapist and a con man” and wondered aloud how people of the Christian faith follow such an obvious charlatan saying “Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe. It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do,” he explains. It also upsets him that some Christians have so closely aligned with former President Donald Trump. “Trump is a rapist and a con man, and yet the entire Christian church seems to be treat him like he’s their poster child and it’s unreal. I don’t understand it.”
He’s not wrong. The man who faithfully follows his Christian beliefs is asking what we’ve all been asking these past few years: How do y’all follow a man who’s the literal embodiment of the seven deadly sins?? Didn’t the Bible say something about the antichrist pretending to be a man of God and fooling everyone into following him and committing an insurrection, etc.?
While many in MAGA nation didn’t take notice of the swipe that Ritchson took at both Donald Trump and his “Christian” followers, Trump sycophant, Sebastian Gorka addressed the issue during an interview on his radio show, America First and put a big orange target on his back. According to the Huffpost, listeners spread the word about Ritchson’s criticism and took to social media to air him out and call on their fellow Trumpians to join in on the campaign of hate against the Hollywood star but at the same time others have come to show support for his views and he might’ve made a few new fans along the way.
Per Huffpost:
During his five-minute-plus rant, Gorka told Ritchson to “shut your pie hole” when it comes to “political views” and “keep doing your play acting.”
Many conservatives seemed incensed by Ritchson’s remarks and vowed to boycott “Reacher,” which follows a brawny vagabond ex-Army police officer with a taste for vigilantism.
While the backlash from the MAGA sect was loud, there were also plenty of people who applauded the star
Note to Mr. Richardson,
I am not voting for my savior of mankind. I am voting for an imperfect man.
I know you know what that is, as you portray an individual that has sex out of wedlock,and torture an kills people to avenge others, but ypu want to hold Trump to a higher standard
... the “original” content of the major streamers like amazon and netflix is low-budget, woke, unwatchable dreck written, directed and produced by ignorant children ...
And now there are commercials on Prime to boot.
Interestingly, I have no idea what Tom Cruise's politics are.
I'm sure he's a liberal, but he stays pretty quiet, which is very smart.
No sense in alienating half of your fanbase.
You know, the people who pay money to see you and make you rich and famous.
This anti-Trump rant came up in an article in which Ritchson said cops get away with murder all the time and he was wearing a ‘justice for Breonna Taylor’ t shirt or the like.
I, too, am done with his Reacher series. Season 2 was pretty stupid, anyway. The books have been boring for years.
Pale, shallow shadows of Travis Maghee.
“he has a movie coming out this weekend.”
Which this family will skip.
Gee Alan, who is that politician on the take for 45 years, a pedophile and a child molester?
Hint: He’s in the White House now.
“How to lose half of your customer base in one weird step”
The general public just thought of it as some kooky religion he was part of and that's his business. Many of his fellow actors were also Scientologists and received the equivalent of assertiveness self-help training from Scientology that helped them in their careers.
Unfortunately for Cruise, there's been a lot of bad press about Scientology of late. His last Mission Impossible movie didn't do so well, but that could have been because it was the first of a two-parter, and people are waiting for the second to binge both.
In any case, he no longer mentions Scientology much because he is smart enough to know that it will only hurt his box office and thus his ability to contribute to the financial health and public approval of Scientology.
This man who “faithfully follows his Christian beliefs” has no problems doing fully nude sex scenes with women who are not his wife - so pardon me if his opinion on the behavior of other Christians leave me unimpressed. A Scripture that comes to mind involves motes, planks and eyes…
Ritchson lived for years in his native Florida with his wife Catherine and their three sons. In 2023 the couple decided to sell their home and live on the road, to allow Ritchson to spend more time with his family. The family stays in Airbnbs and hotels; his wife, a financial analyst, homeschools their sons.[4]
Ritchson is a professing Christian, and frequently discusses the significance of his Christian faith.[41] He started the YouTube channel InstaChurch, in January 2022, where he discusses his Christian convictions.[42]
Here’s more.
Ritchson lived for years in his native Florida with his wife Catherine and their three sons. In 2023 the couple decided to sell their home and live on the road, to allow Ritchson to spend more time with his family. The family stays in Airbnbs and hotels; his wife, a financial analyst, homeschools their sons.[40]
Ritchson has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and has spoken openly about his struggles with the condition.[41]
Ritchson is a professing Christian, and frequently discusses the significance of his Christian faith.[41] He started the YouTube channel InstaChurch, in January 2022, where he discusses his Christian convictions.[42]
Sounds boring. But has made over 8 million for Friday.
What does he have to say about pedo Joe?
“What does he have to say about pedo Joe?”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Great question. But like any Hollywood actor, Mr. Ritchson is just reading from the script. Unfortunately, the dementia-addled, warmongering, misogynistic, pedophilic corruptocrat will never be in that script.
They had a “Cancel Campaign” against him when he ‘came out’ as a devout Christian.
He is trying to appease them by becoming a Trump hater.
It won’t work, Alan. ‘THEY’ will still despise you, and now you have lost a lot of fans from ‘our side’.
I really liked “Reacher” and thought Ritchson was truer to Lee Child’s vision than Tom Cruise was.....
But, I won’t be watching the next season, or anything else he does.
Should be called Reacheround
Heh, Good one!
The Reacher “second in series” looked like a Marvel comics show. I totally lost interest. That’s not Reacher, the creators and the new ‘star’ should read a Reacher book. Maybe they would understand why the third installment will be a flop. TV ruined Reacher.
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