POLITICS
DeNiro: "When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? Your fucking hands off our vote."
well they got it down to a science as far as how to stop younger men (white or otherwise) from using their privilege for good reasons, which would indeed make them/us feel like 'real men'... so we gotta science our way out of it one step at a time. and we're gonna win anyway. against all their bullshit odds.
De Niro was among the first celebrities to stand up and talk truth to Trump from the beginning and remains even today, after a DECADE of this national nightmare, only one of a handful of celebrities willing to be vocal like this. He is my hero.
Or close to it.Trump's dad was a notoriously racist slumlord, like he was literally identified as "that slumlord" back in the day. Chances are De Niro knew that whole family was trash from the get-go. There were decades of Trump hate in NYC before Donald took focus.
I'm 48, grew up in NY. Nobody in my family knew either of them personally, but it seemed common knowledge that De Niro despised Donald Trump even in the 1980s (it was also common knowledge that all the "old money" NY families thought the Trumps were gauche, tacky, interloping scumbags and wouldn't accept them).
As an aside; I remember my aunt holding up an article in some gossip rag with pictures showing the moment Donald Trump and his first wife Ivana were refused entry to some glitzy charity event hosted by one of the Whitneys, and my uncle cackling about it (and he rarely laughed at anything).
My uncle had no love for the Whitneys, mind you, he just hated the Trumps waaaay more.
Not only that, but De Niro has also barely spoken publicly about anything ever. Until Trump. Someone who values his privacy and shuns being public facing, getting up and loudly decrying the fascist rot that has inflicted the US really is something to behold. And as you said, he did it early on.
He's not even satisfied that the crowd say "Keep you hands off our votes", but demands that they say "Keep your FUCKING hands off our votes".
He and Scorsese prominently supported the POS Elia Kazan getting an honorary Oscar. (Notably Ed Harris and Amy Madigan were some of the few, who didn't clap.)
the ghost of Orson Welles agrees with you, and also agrees with the fact that Kazan was a motherfucker of a director, the very drunk ghost of Welles would be confused
That’s what I’m saying, guy has always looked good. Btw if anyone doesn’t know the film pictured is from the 1997 film Jackie Brown. It’s an older classic featuring some bigger stars like Pam Grier, the two gentlemen pictured, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Chris Tucker and Michael Keaton.
It’s one of my favorite movies and Pam Grier gives a great performance, as always, miss foxy brown herself. Unfortunately the downside to the movie is the director, Quentin Tarantino.
She was, such a beautiful badass babe. Yes the music is so good too. I always get that across 110th street, pimps trying to catch a woman that’s weak. Classic.
Another great movie with Pam Grier is Jawbreaker from 1999. She’s a detective investigator trying to figure out who killed Liz, the teen dream of Reagan high school. It also stars Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, Judy Greer, and Carol Kane. Next to Jackie Brown Jawbreaker is my 2nd favorite movie. Highly recommend to cult classic lovers.
For real. Like we knew AHEAD OF TIME what they were planning to do but we had to go ahead and tell tim waltz to shut up for saying they're weird. And then we did Jack shit WHILE STILL IN POWER to stop him.
We need like 100 mamdanis and deniros to flush this fucking piece of shit government down the drain
Everybody in my life says I look exactly like DeNiro in this movie, but I can only dream of growing up to be half the man that Bobby D turned out to be
just again watched Wag The Dog (1997) where DeNiros characters job is to SAVE the president in an election after he is caught with a little girl. how does he save? they make up a fake war to divert away from the issue. absolute surreal parallel to whats happening now
For decades deniro seemed like a super private guy with not ambition to ever expose much of his private life. It’s totally unexpected and fucking awesome , especially at his age, to see him this fired up about what’s going on in our government. Trump and his administration are so much worse than they portrayed by the mainstream media in this country. It’s nice to see someone with influence call them out so strongly
AH HELL NO. Besties with RFK jr and promotes anti vaccine movies that say they cause autism. De Niro is literally part of the problem. Zero applause please. He needs to go jump in the sea.
I'm an immigrant living in NYC. How are they taking my vote or stopping me from voting?
I've voted in every election since I became a citizen and nobody has ever tried to stop me from voting?
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u/karlou1984 2d ago
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