'Nightmarish': Director Rob Reiner blasts Trump for what he's 'destroyed in less than a year'

[B.See]

'Nightmarish': Director Rob Reiner blasts Trump for what he’s 'destroyed in less than a year' - Alternet via MSN

"My wife, her mother was in Auschwitz and she lost her entire family there, she was the only survivor, my Uncle Charlie was part of D-Day and fought in 11 major battles," he says. "My second father is Norman Lear — another big figure in my life — he flew 52 bombing missions over Nazi Germany, and millions and millions of people died so that we wouldn’t have what we see happening now in America. And that is a very disturbing thing. And make no mistake, this is where we are right now, and we have to become aware of it."

"There was a time where Black people couldn’t vote, now they can. We had a Black president," he says. "We’ve been flawed — incredibly flawed — but we’ve moved forward. This is the first time I’m seeing this thing that is so difficult to hold onto, that is so ephemeral, being destroyed in less than a year."

"I’m hoping we’ll survive this. And if we do, it’s going to take a long time to rebuild the shining city on the hill, the beacon to the rest of the world. This used to be the place that welcomed immigrants. Diversity was our strength. And now people are being thrown out of the country without due process. It’s nightmarish what’s happening in America. And hopefully people will be able to see that," he says.

"It’s as bad as anything could be in this country at this point. The hope was, if we could have one country that allows people from all ethnicities, colors, religions, sexual preferences, all living in one place, it would prove that the world can be one. This was the experiment. This was the place we were going to do it. And right now, it isn’t happening."

[Skittles]

1. very grateful to Mr. Reiner

he has never wavered in his patriotsm

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[Cha]

3. TY for Speaking Out, Rob Reiner, and

Saying what so many of us are talking about all over the Country.

TY B.See

[Botany]

4. Meathead speaks for me. America is now Germany 1933 and Hindenburg has let Adolf Hitler take over.

Yesterday saw:

Pam Bondi hid a D o J study that showed violent and extremist attacks in America come overwhelmingly
from right wing racist organizations.

A war on the 1st Amendment and Freedom of Speech by the firing of Jimmy Kimmel by
Disney/ABC in what can only be called a capitulation to fascism.

A Texas Republican in Congress say that the late hate talker Charlie Kirk if he was alive would
have been one of Jesus’ Apostles in now a naked in your face campaign to make Kirk a saint
who died because of liberal’s free speech so that A.G. Bondi has now promised to prosecute
anyone who speaks out against Trump and our now Fascist Nation.

Every Republican Senator voted to protect a child raping, child sex trafficking monster, and
a money laundering criminal who is now in the White House because of a dirty election.

Trump pulled billions of dollars that were to be used for cancer research and treatment.

Trump declaring war on a non existent organization called ANTIFA in a straight up fascist
overthrow of the rule of law and America’s democracy.

The Trump administration demanding voter information and data from individual states
in an effort to rig future elections.

Film of ICE agents assaulting an 80 year old man who owned a car wash in California because
he wanted to talk to them about his employees they were arresting because they had their
documentation on the premises. And a big masked ICE agent said, “Don’t fuck with ICE.” The
SCOTUS had just ruled that what they did to the man was legal.

Kash Patel proving that he has no business being in charge of the FBI. The day before he tried
to take credit for the arrest of the alleged shooter of Kirk by saying that he had ordered local
law enforcement to release the videos of the shooter to the media. Which was a lie. Yesterday
morning NBC reported this story about Patel and by the afternoon that web page was gone.

Robert F Kennedy Jr. having anything to do with science, medicines, and vaccines. The man
has made millions of dollars in fees by selling complete gibberish about vaccines from a law firm
that sues vaccine manufacturers.

Trump acting like a complete ass in England @ a formal ceremony @ Buckingham Palace.

[mgardener]

5. He forgot time

When women could not vote

[democrank]

6. Thank you to Rob Reiner. Diversity was our strength.

I have so many questions about how we could have lost so much so easily in such a short period of time. The answer is definitely not….just a few bad apples.

[B.See]

9. VIGILANCE. Or the LACK THEREOF

on the part of many: the wafflers, the disaffected, the unconcerned and can't be bothered, the switchovers, undecideds and protest voters, the ones who failed to grasp what this was REALLY all about, and what was at STAKE.

Those who betrayed democracy, who betrayed us,

and in turn, betrayed THEMSELVES.

[SocialDemocrat61]

7. A year ago Meathead was speaking out against President Biden

Bashing him for being too old. He's helped create this situation. So too little too late. F*ck him.

[misanthrope]

10. It wasn't just Trump

He's had a vast cohort of accomplices, at least 77 million or so.