Desperately Blaming Susan

Susan Sarandon is the reason women are about to lose the right to an abortion.

Really.  She's responsible for all of those reactionary judges in the federal judiciary and those three Trump appointees to the Supreme Court.

How is that so?  Because she said during the 2016 presidential campaign that Hillary Clinton was more dangerous than Donald Trump and urged people to vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

Utterly ridiculous, but that's what clueless progressives are saying on Twitter.  They cite a quote from Sue about who was more of a threat - the Donald or the Hillary.  "I believe in a way she’s more dangerous, she said, "except they're both talking to Henry Kissinger apparently lately."  They also cited a quote from Sarandon about how Hillary was talking up the Supreme Court as a scare tactic to discourage disheartened Bernie Sanders supporters from voting for Dr. Stein or staying home on Election Day.

Hillbots will never listen to reason, so this post is not for them.  (Attention Hillary Clinton supporters: Scroll down and avert your eyes for a few paragraphs.)  Now, look.  Sarandon's quote about Hillary being more dangerous than Trump was a reference to foreign policy, not all policies, and though Trump did pull us out of a climate change accord and end American participation in the Iran nuclear deal, Hillary would likely have escalated the war in Afghanistan more than Trump did and would have likely killed more innocent people with drone strikes meant for terrorists - and when Sarandon said that she's be worse than Trump on foreign policy, she certainly didn't mean to say that Trump would be better.  Also, Hillary did use the Supreme Court as a scare tactic to get people to vote for her - but it didn't work because she probably would have pushed forward with the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court despite progressives finding him too centrist.  And finally, does anyone really think a Hollywood actress have so much control over the American people that she can determine the course of a presidential election?  I mean, apart from Nancy Reagan? 

Maybe Hillbots should consider the fundamental flaws of their own candidate and remember that Hillary was an uninspiring nominee who played the gender card to get the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination rather than offer bold new policies that would excite the Democratic base - something like, say, Joe Biden's Build Back Better program.  They might also recall that Hillary's opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination could and did come up with better ideas (Martin O'Malley) and more excitement (Bernie Sanders), as well as offer a friendly warning for Democrats to pay more attention to working-class voters (Jim Webb).  And, of course, they might recall that the Democratic establishment was all to happy to get behind Hillary because she was a Washington insider and a former President's wife and all . . . and that her nomination had nothing to so with her ability to inspire voters or win a national election.  Oh, right, they still blame a girl named Sue.

Katie Halper, wherever you are, thank you.

I'm not mad at Susan Sarandon for urging people to vote for Dr. Stein in the 2016 presidential election.  Heck, I did so myself, and I already made the case that if everyone who voted for Dr. Stein in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania (I live in New Jersey) had voted for Hillary, she still would have lost to Trump because she would have only won the first two states and lost Pennsylvania when she needed all three to get an electoral majority. If I'm mad at Sarandon, a Catholic University of America graduate (Class of 1968), at all, it's because she didn't endorse her fellow CUA alum Martin O'Malley (Class of 1985) for President in 2016.  And one last thing:  Hillary Clinton may have used abortion and the Supreme Court as a scare tactic, but if the 111th Congress of 2009 and 2010, which had a Democratic House and a Democratic supermajority in the Senate, had codified the Roe v. Wade ruling into law, Hillbots wouldn't be having a hissy fit right now. And if they still want to blame a woman other than Hillary for Hillary's loss to Trump, why not blame her biggest enabler? 

(Okay, Hillary supporters, you can look now.)

I am troubled, though by one thing Sarandon said in 2016 that turned out to be very prophetic.  The onetime Bernie Sanders supporter said that the revolution she had been hoping for might finally happen should Trump win the White House.  "You know, some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately," she said. "If he gets in, then things will really explode."

Well, she was right about that.  But if she was hoping for a progressive revolution, it would appear that the wrong people showed up. 😮

Sue Digs Jill!

Life ain't easy for a girl named Sue.

  

Especially if the "Sue" in question is actress Susan Sarandon, who has not drunk the Kool-Aid and gone over to Hillary, like other past supporters of Green Party presidential candidates have - Michael Moore, how could you? - and has received nothing but scorn and ridicule for refusing to go along with the rest of the Hollywood "liberal elite."  Sarandon has made it official - she's endorsing Jill Stein for President.  No compromising positions here.

So here's the deal.  Sarandon, a one-time Bernie Sanders supporter, had seriously been considering a move like this for a long time, and for good reason.  Hillary is not a progressive, but she plays one on TV.  But Sarandon knows better than to be fooled by Hillary's rhetoric and by her commitment to a liberal Democartic Party platform that Madame H will forget exists as of November 9.  After all, Sarandon has long espoused liberal causes such as the $15 minimum wage, GMO labeling, and breaking up the big banks.  Hillary supports none of those things.  And while Sarandon opposes hydraulic fracturing in oil exploration, offshore drilling, and military aid to Israel with no strings attached, Hillary supports . . . all of those things.

It's Madame H's foreign policy proposals - and Donald Trump's as well - that really gets Sue's knickers in a knot.  She's afraid that either one of them will get us into World War III.  And, again, for good reason.  Hillary supports a no-fly zone over Syria, as previously noted, which could get us in a military conflict with Russia - as previously noted.  Donald would likely appease a Russian takeover of Estonia.  And either one of them could start a war with Iran.  

"They’re both talking to Henry Kissinger," Sarandon says of the two major-party candidates.  "[Hillary] did not learn from Iraq, and she is an interventionist, and she has done horrible things - and very callously. I don’t know if she is overcompensating or what her trip is. That scares me. I think we’ll be in Iran in two seconds."

And here's what Sarandon said of Dr. Stein: 

"I'm therefore very happy to endorse Jill Stein for the Presidency because she does stand for everything I believe in. It's clear a third party is necessary and viable at this time. And this is the first step in accomplishing this end. Fear of Donald Trump is not enough for me to support Clinton, with her record of corruption. Now that Trump is self-destructing, I feel even those in swing states have the opportunity to vote their conscience."

So there you have it - Dr. Jill Stein's first major celebrity endorsement, and it's a prestigious one, coming from one of America's finest and most learned actresses.  Meanwhile, Hillary has a basket of deplorable pop stars and reality-show stars backing her, everyone from Kimye, Katy Perry, and Mr. Shawn Carter (Beyoncé's husband) to the spectacularly insufferable Madonna, who has been trying to get votes for Hillary by offering oral sex to undecided voters.  Meanwhile, Oprah Winfrey has come out for Hillary, and she's even come up with a catchy slogan for Madame H - "You don't have to like her."

No, but it would sure help. 

The Green Party likely won't win the Presidency, and it has an uphill battle to get the five percent support at the polls that it needs to qualify for federal matching funds for future elections - especially when media rhymes-with-glass-poles like Chuck Todd push the narrative that support for all minor-party candidates is dwindling.  And Susan Sarandon must know, like I do, that, because of that fact, we Green backers could be riding off a cliff much like Louise Sawyer, Sarandon's character in the 1991 classic movie Thelma and Louise.  But it's a joyride I'm happy to take.  I'm sure Susan Sarandon herself would agree.