Club for Hollywood Republicans locked in dispute caused in part by Trump

[sandensea]

Source: The Guardian

Hollywood conservatives used to cherish the Friends of Abe as a secretive club where they could meet and vent rightwing views safe from liberal backlash.

It boasted Clint Eastwood, Jon Voight and Kelsey Grammer as members, and hosted top Republicans, including Donald Trump, at events in Los Angeles. Last year it announced its dissolution amid fractures caused in part by Trump’s run for the White House.

Now there are two rival Friends of Abe clubs. One is accused of being a usurper and the other is allegedly wilting, fuelling confusion and recrimination.

The dispute appears linked in part to internal conservative divisions over Trump – one of the challenges facing the so-called “resistance to the resistance” in deep-blue California.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/13/hollywood-republicans-friends-of-abe-club-trump

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[rurallib]

1. so sorry to hear of their troubles

[orleans]

26. thanks for the chuckle n/t

[HAB911]

27. +++++++++++

[mikeysnot]

2. Trump needs to stay in office until his term is up.

If only the democratic party would play offense with all the material and bad policy he is giving them.

[sandensea]

4. Hear, hear.

The last thing we need is having that Armageddon freak Mr. Fetus Funeral as president, and our dumb-as-a-duck mainstream media pretending that "normalcy has returned to the White House."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Good point. When Republican Pres Trump goes, WHEN not if, then Republican Pence is not "normal". .nt

[sandensea]

20. Exactly.

Besides which, Pence was in on Russiagate too, and if anything should be jailed right alongside Cheeto, Kushner, et. al.

[Yavin4]

3. I guess the name, "Overrated Hollywood Has-Beens Club" was taken n/t

[sandensea]

5. Yes - but the CHAIR's spot is still empty.

[mr_lebowski]

24. Clint is hardly a Hollywood Has-Been ... he's directed one acclaimed film after another since

he cut way back on his acting roles (though of course he still does act in some of the movies he directs like Million Dollar Baby and El Camino). He's actually yet to direct a film I didn't think was at minimum very good, and most have been excellent. And I'd not call him 'over-rated' either.

Kelsey ain't exactly hurting for work either last I checked. He was pretty great in that one show a while back where he played the corrupt (Democratic, of course ... I'm sure he relished it) Mayor of Chicago ... it was called Chief or something. He was great in it, and he's an excellent actor, still.

I mean, screw those dudes politics but they're talented men and really not 'has-beens' even after all these years.

[sandensea]

25. I know, I know.

But you must admit that spectacle of him, arguing with a chair like that, is a gift that keeps on giving.

[MGKrebs]

6. Who's Abe?

Shouldn't they be named after Ronald Reagan or Charlton Heston?

[JHB]

11. They're still trying to wrap themselves in Lincoln's ghost..,

...even as they turned themselves into the party of Jefferson Davis.

[MGKrebs]

18. Seriously? That's actually funny/sad.

[Liberalagogo]

7. What a bunch of pathetic snowflakes

n/t

[Harry Manch]

8. Satan's Advocate.

All Republicans needs to resign. That is all. Then move out of the United States to Fukushima, Japan, and live their remaining lives there.

Abe would be a Democrat today. They are not friends of Abe.

[Marcuse]

9. Not Fukushima. Chernobyl is a better fit.

[dawn frenzy adams]

15. YES!

YES!

[tenderfoot]

10. I'm sick of the lie that Hollywood is exclusively liberal, when in reality, it isn't at all.

The talent may be predominantly liberal. But the suits that call the shots certainly aren't. Do you think there would be so many pointless "reality" tv shows like 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' if it were truly run by lefties? TMZ? Fucking Honey Boo Boo, etc.?

Spare me with that bullshit.

[sandensea]

13. Not to mention that witless steroid freak, Dwayne Johnson.

No wonder his shoulders are that big, what with the chip that's always on it.

[dawn frenzy adams]

16. Indeed.

There is nothing liberal about those who run Hollywood. If you look at the propaganda of most Hollywood movies, they reinforce the status quo...which is racist and sexist. As a matter of fact, for most of its history, Hollywood has glorified and propagated false narratives about the Confederate South. Gone With The Win...is just one of many. America's view of other cultures is usually shaped from negative Hollywood stereotypes. Our notion of invincibility and exceptionalism can also be attributed to Hollywood.

[Initech]

17. Just like the big lie of the liberal media.

It doesn't exist. Never has or never will. If we had a true liberal media, the orange gasbag would have been laughed out of the primaries. As would most of his enablers in Congress.

[TexasBushwhacker]

28. What was once "middle of the road" is now

LIBERAL COMMIES to them.

[47of74]

12. I'm ready

[Dawson Leery]

19. Snowflakes.

The worst a Trump supporter gets in Cali is a mean stare.
In the boondocks, you are attacked if you are a Democrat.

If Hollywood is so liberal, then why does Jerry Bruckheimer have no much success?

[sandensea]

21. Exactly. And there are so many like him.

Bruckheimer is an overrated shlockster.

Take away his special effects team, and his stuff (what little of it there'd be) would be straight-to-DVD.

[Dawson Leery]

22. Certainly.

He and Bay make garbage. Simple plot lines with absurd amounts of special effects.

[Sunlei]

23. the pathetic of 'hollywood'. Even trump didn't invite them to 'entertain' at his inauguration in dc.

Never invited or HIRED at rotten trump or Republican parties at resorts, hotels, golf clubs or to entertain at the white house either.