Johnny Depp: when was the last time an actor assassinated the President?

[Darrell KSR]

What the he'll is wrong with people?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/entert...ury/index.html

[badrose]

I'm guessing he needs some attention since Hollywood seems bereft of good ideas for movies anymore. So many actors are behaving like spoiled children since the election.

[badrose]

There's a bunch of them out there.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/30-gop-...ned-since-may/

[jazyd]

It's what the DNC, Hollywood! Liberal media, and Democrats have basically told them to do subconsciously.
Remember the actress the day Trump was sworn in...I want to bomb the WhiteHouse
DeNiro..I want to punch him out
On and on it goes
The media with their words....trump us a thug, a liar, admits assaulting wome..he never did admit it as he said they meaning women allow you and want you to go after them, asshole that one cones from Curry and several prominent NBA coaches, being with Trump is like lying in bed with Hitler

The late nite so called comedian Colbert

All these things affects weak minded people. Did we see anything close to this by conservatives in the last 8 years. Even when we knew Obama, Rice, Lynch, Clinton, pelosi, Schumer, Harry were lying straight to our face and the liberal media never ever called them on it and rather became part of the lies.

Notice the difference here. Each of us that are pretty conservative in many ways consistently criticize republicans where we disagree with them or when we disagree with each other on various subjects. You don't see that from liberal democrats locally or nationally. They all knew Hillary was lying thru her teeth but they never would admit it. They all knew the whole administration was lying about Benghazi but defended the whole bunch

This is why we have the current situation, they meaning democrats are brainwashed and refuse to research anything on their own and just accept what they are told

[UKHistory]

Threatening the president is a criminal act right? There is no place for that. It is and wrong and counterproductive. I have great concerns about the president.

Threatening him and violence in general is not the answer.

[Catonahottinroof]

It is a class E felony I believe, and he could end up on a no fly list or with a revoked passport too.

Threatening the president is a criminal act right? There is no place for that. It is and wrong and counterproductive. I have great concerns about the president.

Threatening him and violence in general is not the answer.

[PedroDaGr8]

I'm guessing he needs some attention since Hollywood seems bereft of good ideas for movies anymore. So many actors are behaving like spoiled children since the election.

It's because Hollywood no longer makes movies for the domestic market. They make movies for world distribution, so they need to dumb things down as much as possible to the most universal common denominator. Most moves make way more internationally than they do in the USA. Hell, we don't even get the movies first anymore. SE Asia gets most movies around a month before we do.

As for Depp, **** him. I am far from a Trump fan, as most know, but there is absolutely zero call for this crap. He SHOULD be arrested and given felony charges, that being said it would give him what he wants, which is more fame.

[CitizenBBN]

This has gone beyond all point of reason.

We've spent decades not arguing against the opposition but doing the far easier demonizing of them as evil. It effectively de-humanizes the opponent, and once that person "over there" isn't a human being, it's a lot easier to get nastier and nastier with them.

Both sides have done this for a long while, but it keeps getting worse and worse. I remember some very harsh attacks on Reagan and Reagan supporters, likewise Clinton was a socialist when he ran (which was nonsense).

But what we are seeing now is far beyond the pale. I've never seen anything like the vitriol directed at Trump. It's not strategic propaganda for purposes of churning up the base, this is real hatred. Is it b/c he's an ass? Sure that's part of it. Is it b/c he may actually turn back a Leftist movement they thought would continue 8 more years at least? maybe, but Reagan did the same thing and while I saw a lot of attacks on him it wasn't this visceral, gut level hatred, esp. in the media.

It seems to me the media decided that Trump was simply evil or incompetent or dangerous enough they didn't have to live by their own code of ethics or their responsibility as the Fourth Estate, and that set a tone that Hollywood and others gleefully embraced. Hollywood would still say stupid things, there are a lot of over the top, ridiculous people there, but when the nightly news are saying things they are saying it's all the easier.

And I doubt there is an answer. The truth is the reason politics are so much more divisive is that there is simply a bigger divide. There is no way to reconcile the Leftist views with those of conservatives, and both sides see the other as the enemy of the nation and the People.

But this kind of call to real violence cannot be tolerated. Depp needs to be investigated, but more important he needs to be fired by employers like Disney.

Let some of these Hollywood pompous dips lose their big paychecks and lets see what they do. They talk about their compassion for the poor a lot, let's see how they do as one of them.

If this were just some Joe Average and he drew that kind of negative pub to his business that's what would happen. Let them live with the real world consequences others experience.

[Doc]

I agree with him. He isn't an actor.

[CitizenBBN]

I do hope anyone thinking he may dispense sound advice realizes he's managed to destroy his career and somehow blow through over $600 million dollars in about a decade. Maybe he's not the one to look to for thoughts on economic policy or anything else.

Maybe DHS should put him on the no fly list as a possible threat and let him stay in England a while.

[CitizenBBN]

It's also not just actors and dips out out touch. They just removed the DNC IT guy in Iowa for saying he's glad Scalise was shot, b/c in his view Scalise's job was get the GOP to "kick people off health care".

In his view it's not a difference of opinion or policy. Anyone who doesn't want massive subsidized government health care is just evil and therefore not human or deserving of any kind of consideration.

We see it IMO the worst of all with Betsy DeVoss, who is portrayed as evil and requires near 24/7 security and all she has done is propose school choice and privatization of education. Even though proponents like myself think it is the best way to HELP poor kids get a better education, and not a penny of money going to those kids will be cut, only put in their parents hands so they can choose their own school, it's still seen as so evil it warrants death threats.

If you disagree, you're not wrong, you're evil, and it's not even hard to justify violence against evil.

[CitizenBBN]

Last thought, I'm sorry for Depp's decline. he's from Kentucky, I always pull for Kentuckians, but he's just embraced the train wreck.

I also heard a great line on him, that he's engaging the cultural appropriation of Keith Richards.

[CitizenBBN]

I guess you guys have noticed that the silence on this issue since the Scalise shooting is deafening.

Obama has had time to comment on several things this past week, but had no time to condemn the violence.

Senator Pocahontas Warren has said the GOP is intentionally killing people to give more money to the rich. Does she get this kind of extremist rhetoric is the problem?

When you get to this level of groupthink, where only your group has a corner on the truth, you quickly get to this world where "those guys" are demonized, and that's the basis for violence in these situations.

Violence erupts when people feel there are no other options. You can't negotiate with Hitler, you have to go to war to stop him. When the Left is basically saying from the outset there is no grounds for working with Trump, nothing but "resist" and this incredibly inflamed rhetoric and demonizing, it's not just not surprising there is violence, it's a natural and inevitable outcome throughout human history.

Both sides have fueled this, but nothing at the level we are seeing with Trump and the current progressive movement. Well we did see some of this before, in the late 60s and early 70s, and again it was the leftist "progressive" (that's such a misnomer it's sad) movement. In the 80s we had a movement in the right to militias and such, and had the Oklahoma City bombing as its culmination, but those groups are readily identified and aren't broadly based. On the left the movements tend to be more broad and grassroots.

In the 60s we had probably more overall violence to this point but we're only 5 months into the Trump administration. Obviously the Oklahoma City bombing was much more massive than anything thus far.

But the big difference now is the leaders aren't condemning these actions, and after an attempted assassination they are still not pulling back on their rhetoric. I just have never seen the level of broad vitriol within the mainstream, much different than the cells of anger we have seen in the past in riots and such. The media and political leaders aren't condemning these things, they're all but applauding them.

[CitizenBBN]

Nice article on the subject and how the language politicians use is just absurd, and is IMO absolutely a big factor in the recent assassination attempt.

Here's a good excerpt:

Case in point: A few weeks before the Alexandria shooting, Hillary Clinton gave a commencement speech at Wellesley College where she declared that Trump’s budget is “an attack of unimaginable cruelty on the most vulnerable among us, the youngest, the oldest, the poorest” (emphasis added). No, it is not. Using nerve agent on the innocent is “an attack of unimaginable cruelty.” Putting a hapless college student into a coma is an “attack of unimaginable cruelty.” Reducing the growth of government spending is not.

As American Enterprise Institute President Arthur C. Brooks points out, a marriage can recover from anger. But when couples become contemptuous of each other, they will almost certainly end up in divorce court. That is where our country is headed today. Liberals need to understand: When they show contempt for Trump, they are expressing contempt for the millions of Americans who voted for him — including millions who twice voted for Obama.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/...rce-court.html

Thought that was a good way of looking at it. It's OK to say you think the GOP plan for X or Y will harm this group or that. that' an opinion and is a basis for debate. Saying the GOP is INTENTIONALLY trying to KILL people is simply unacceptable in a civilized society, and that includes a lot of things Trump has said as well.

Of course the difference between Trump and the Left in this case is he gets called out on every one of his absurd comments, whereas the media all but cheers when those on the Left do the same. And here's the full circle to Depp: he just suggested it was time to assassinate a sitting President, and he apparently still has a job, and Obama nor Pelosi nor anyone else of note has come out to condemn him in the strongest possible terms.
IMO the problem isn't so much Depp, wackos make some crazy comments, the problem is that it is being communicated that this behavior and speech and this kind of thinking is OK through the deafening silence of the media, the Hollywood people who write his checks, the politicians he supports, etc. And yes those on the Right should call out such things said by the wackos on that side too.