Seth ROGEN re dissent against DRUMPF. Doesn't take special ability to know he's a jerk. We're NORMAL

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[font size=5]Seth Rogen on Calling Out Trump: ‘It’s Very Important to Normalize Dissent’[/font]

How are you taking the Trump era? I see your tweets have gotten more political.

I mean, I’ll be fine. I guess. I got a whole other country I can go to. Those are jokes, obviously. I will not be leaving America. And I do just heavily acknowledge that, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]as a white dude, I’m not the one who’s in real trouble right now[/FONT]. But I don’t know. It’s interesting. It reminds me of when I first moved to America a little bit in 1999. It’s definitely a time now where there’s more outward conflict politically, but it’s hard to gauge. I find it comedically [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]uninspiring[/FONT] because [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]it takes no special ability to pinpoint the inherent absurdity or contradictory nature of (Trump)[/FONT]. So to me, there’s something about it that’s very [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]uninspiring. It doesn’t take a genius or a particularly creative mind to point out how blatantly idiotic and contradictory things are[/FONT].

But at the same time, I don’t want to look back in ten years and think, “I just didn’t say anything during that time,” because it seems like a time where it’s very important to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]normalize dissent[/FONT]; to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]not make it seem like a fringe countercultural position[/FONT] to not be thrilled with where the government is heading at this point. People like to paint it as that. So if anything, that’s something I’ve thought about. I don’t want to insult people. I’ve been very conscious not to insult people who voted for Donald Trump, but the way I think of it is just normalizing the idea that a lot of people do not think that he is a good president, and do not think that he is bringing the country in a good direction, and [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]not making it seem like some fringe, out-there thing that only really aggressive people who have whipped themselves into some sort of frenzy are expressing[/FONT].

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[JCanete]

1. Thoughtful contribution. The funny ones always have their finger on humanity. It's what makes them

funny. nt

[UTUSN]

3. Exactly. It's disgusting that journalists let them all get away with all. Billy KRISTOL,

who as a native New Yorker knows the "neighborhood" personalities and personally/intimately knows DRUMPF, looked shocked and stunned on a talk show after the election, saying he just couldn't process it. But then he said we had to slog through it.

Repeating, KRISTOL looked *stunned*.

[Achilleaze]

2. Normalize dissent

do not normalize republican-russian fascism, which is anti-American and thoroughly deplorable.

[UTUSN]

4. What *does* take rocket science & creativity is dissecting wingnuts twisting themselves for him

It's mindboggling how they swallow all the junk he says and does. As MAHER said, paraphrasing, You wingnuts TURN ON A DIME, contradict all the stuff you claim you stand for - the Constitution, morality, character (and on and on).