If their social media posts are any indication, some celebs about five minutes away from joining Iran in chanting “Death to America.”
Killing a terrorist with the blood of thousands of innocents on his hands has sure set off the celebrities that are suddenly foreign policy experts.
Of course, they’re not fans of the killing of the revered poetry-reciting General Qasem Soleimani — just look at the crowd at his funeral, that shows how much he was loved, right? (Never mind the fact that it’s dangerous to oppose an authoritarian regime.)
A bunch of leftist celebrities were opining on social media that they weren’t keen on the President’s decision to take out a known terrorist when he was in the crosshairs while he planned imminent attacks on U.S. assets in Iraq.
We’ve already covered Rose McGowan’s bizarre apologetic tweets to Iran about being held hostage by a terrorist regime, but she wasn’t alone in the sudden escalation of her Trump Derangement Syndrome.™
I am old enough to remember when we all came together against terrorism. Not anymore. Because Orange Man Bad — just like America Bad.
I presume at least some of them are afraid to be called racist if they criticize Iran. After all, to an intersectional leftist, Iran is filled with “brown people” and therefore must be better than America. At the very least, if you’re a leftist, you don’t dare criticize Iran for funding, arming, and giving safe haven to terrorists.
Actually, that will happen in Nov 2020 by way of our election. https://t.co/nHxwZuyCSk
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 3, 2020
he's got to go … https://t.co/hmcrQJeyIt
— Don "but not forgotten" Cheadle (@DonCheadle) January 3, 2020
It didn’t take long to get Putin’s name tossed into the mix.
This is what putin wants! Chaos in the world! Trump is his puppet but this helps forget about his impeachment!! https://t.co/JNCb6FbIrZ
— John Leguizamo (@JohnLeguizamo) January 3, 2020
It’s a war about politics. Shameful and dangerous. https://t.co/zQkR3nw904
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 3, 2020
Trump overturned the Iran nuclear deal which had stopped their weapons program. His policies are only to overturn Obama’s progress. We will not be safer from Trump’s hasty action in Iraq.
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) January 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/PattyArquette/status/1213497928355995648?s=20
Trump in full fascist 101 mode-,steal and lie – untill there’s nothing left and start a war –
He’s so idiotic he doesn’t know he just attacked Iran
And that’s not like anywhere else— John Cusack (@johncusack) January 3, 2020
Meathead gonna Meathead:
Don’t know about you but I feel very secure in the knowledge that, as things heat up with Iran, we have a stable genius at the helm.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) January 3, 2020
Actually, I agree with this. I wrote an entire article about it here:
3 Reasons Trump’s Actions Towards Iran Is PURE Stable Genius
What a horrible sinking feeling. Having a Commander-In-Chief who you know is a Pathological Liar trying to justify striking the heart of Iran’s military.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) January 3, 2020
In my lifetime I’ve seen our government lie us into the Vietnam War & the Iraq War. And here we are again. But this time we are being led by a Pathological Liar with a Cult following. American lives are at risk. Republicans, Stand The Fuck Up!
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) January 4, 2020
And there are also the “how did they become famous” celebrities:
If you want to find out what Trump’s going to do next, just look at his old tweets. https://t.co/9CZGcIBPVl
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) January 3, 2020
Michael Moore mourns the death of a known terrorist.
Hello fellow Americans. Do you know this man? Did you know he was your enemy? What? Never heard of him? By the end of today you will be trained to hate him. You will be glad Trump had him assassinated. You will do as you are told. Get ready to send your sons &daughters off 2 war pic.twitter.com/8CprNDMgTf
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 3, 2020
But that’s not enough. He decided to violate the Logan Act to promote his podcast. Classy.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B67TpRLHgVL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
That’s pretty bad, but what’s worse than that was Kathy Griffin, she of the Trump beheading video fame, attempting to “educate” her followers.
Wake up, tell everyone you know to get up. We need to talk about #Iran Be very judicious and cautious about where you get your information. Do you find this statement believable? That’s correct, it’s probably bullshit. We are going to take a course on Iran now. pic.twitter.com/BgEs7BKvBl
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 3, 2020
Wrong. Solemani was a political figure, murderous and barbaric general, second ONLY to the supreme leader. More akin to our Vice President, not bin laden. This is NOT “trumps bin laden moment”. https://t.co/RTGOBRXRzC
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 3, 2020
Ok, Think of Iran as a place where the clerical side (supreme leader) shares power with, but defers to be the parliamentary half. Solemani was a head of state. Get that? NOT a country less roaming terrorist, like bin laden or KSM. https://t.co/DbCvC0A3Ml
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 3, 2020
Ummm… no. He was a General that reported directly to Ayatollah Khamenei.
Besides both the parliamentarians and the Mullahs aren’t fans of America.
Here’s the Iranian parliament chanting their favorite phrase next to “Allahu Akbar”:
Members of Iran's parliament chants "Death to America" pic.twitter.com/xub1mnfOTo
— Jason K. Morrell (@JasonKMorrell) January 5, 2020
In the next tweet, Griffin says that Iran is a sovereign nation, but doesn’t mention that they’re not a democratic nation and they’re under a theocracy that suppresses human rights. Iran has laws that jail women for not wearing a headscarf, and the penalty for homosexuality is either forced gender reassignment surgery, banishment, or death, not to mention the killing of dissidents.
Technically they are a sovereign nation. Solemani, who is the lead commander of the entire Iranian military force, which obviously includes cyber warfare. https://t.co/hZCwhE5Sf4
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 3, 2020
Donald Trump has put every American, all over the world, in grave danger by this incredibly ignorant and thoughtless act of war. Solemani deserved to die. That doesn’t mean we can violate the Geneva Convention. Do you really think he was an immediate threat?
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 3, 2020
While POTUS, the department of justice the department of defense etc. are very possibly lying to the American public and of course the world, who do you think the supreme leader and Solemani’s deputies will retaliate against the most?
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 3, 2020
Correct. Why do you think no other president, and they have all been capable, have ever decided to actually take out Qasem Solemani????? BECAUSE THEY WILL RETALIATE AGAINST US, here and all over the world. https://t.co/i40eokXO4Q
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 3, 2020
Solemani was killed at the airport in Iraq, but he was IRANIAN. Big difference. He will be seen by millions around the world, primarily in the Middle East, but indoctrination can happen anywhere, as a martyr. Trump has coalesced more of our enemies against us b/c of this action.
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 3, 2020
Ok, that was pretty asinine, but nothing and I mean nothing compares to Colin Kaepernick’s take.
He literally blamed the killing of Soleimani on racism and American imperialism.
No really.
There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism.
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) January 4, 2020
America has always sanctioned and besieged Black and Brown bodies both at home and abroad. America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism, to enforce its policing and plundering of the non white world.
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) January 4, 2020
“As a Black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.”–Angela Davis
— L E F T, PhD ⚫️ (@LeftSentThis) January 4, 2020
When you only see the world in the framework of the struggle between every oppressed person of color against the big, bad white people, you might overlook some details. Just little things like Soleimani, because he was a terrorist mastermind, may have been the biggest killer of brown people in the world. Spoiler Alert for Colin: brown people can also be bad.
Carl Benjamin, (aka: Sargon of Akkad,) posted a video collection of some of the worst offenders and it’s pretty hilarious.
https://youtu.be/Rp5rCgGHBSk
I swear, these comments by celebrities are beyond parody. They also deserve every single “Libs owned” response that they get. It’s completely preventable. They wouldn’t be mocked if they didn’t side with terrorists.
