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Subject: Re: "Handmaid's Tale" Actor Demands That Jeff Bezos "Speak The Fuck Up" Against Trump
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 19:17:59 -0000 (UTC)
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On Apr 9, 2025 at 1:30:47 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

> Actor Bradley Whitford, known in part for his role in THE HANDMAID'S TALE, 
> has issued a public plea for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to speak out against 
> President Donald Trump.
> 
> The 65-year-old actor spoke with Variety about his turmoil, including his 
> opinion that the United States is turning into the fictional world of Gilead 
> under the Trump administration.

God these leftists need to find another show to watch. *Any* show.

If they're not labeling everything they don't like "fascist", they're
screeching that unless we revert back to hard-left policies on everything,
"we're becoming Gilead".

Anyone who has actually watched the show or read the book knows that's
absolute nonsense.

>  "It's interesting," he told the outlet in an 
> interview published Tuesday. "Especially when you look at all the people who 
> I've worked for over the years lined up at the Trump inauguration, staying 
> silent while their daughters' rights are being torn away."
> 
> "A year ago, there were 65,000 pregnant rape victims without access to 
> abortion care," Whitford claimed. "Now it's way up from that. This is not a 
> drill. It's not a story. This is happening."

Turns out you haven't even paid attention to the show on which you work,
Bradley.

Since most women are sterile in the show's universe, babies are the most
precious commodity imaginable and none of the characters are fighting for the
right to kill them in the womb or lamenting the fact that they've lost the
right to do so.

> "Zero peoples' daughters' rights are being torn away," another agreed. 
> "Unless you count the people whose daughters are being excluded from female 
> sports because they've let cross-dressing men take their place. But I have a 
> hunch he's not concerned about that issue."

No shit. It's all "Women's rights! Women's rights!" until women complain about
some dude in a skirt waving his willy at them in the locker room, then it's
"Women shut up! Women shut up!"

> "The only reason people like Whitford talk about abortion is because they 
> believe abortion is the *only* right women should be allowed," another person
> 
> noted. "Women should have no other sex-based standing in sport, law, policy, 
> medicine, or language because it might make a dude in a dress sad."

+1000