governor romney i don't have to go into
how many times they've told called you a
flip-flopper in terms of issues and what
you believed as governor of
massachusetts
congressman paul respect you i don't
know that you've changed much except
your party
it's time we brought our troops home
from around the world
we need to come home from korea we need
to come home from japan
and we need to come home from europe we
need to spend all that money
here in this country we should bring our
troops home change our foreign policy
quit these
ridiculous wars we would be safer and
richer for it
you have a government that provides
national defense but you don't have
militarism and you police the world
maybe we could take care of some people
back here at home if we weren't spending
1.5 trillion dollars a year
on our militarism that money needs to be
spent back at home
and uh we would have more defense not
less defense
you know i served five years in the
military i've had a little experience
i've spent a little bit time over
in the pakistan afghanistan area as well
as iran
but i wouldn't wait for my generals i'm
the commander-in-chief
i make the decisions i tell the generals
what to do and i'd bring them home
as quickly as possible and i'd get them
out of iraq as well
and i wouldn't start a war in libya i
quit bombing yemen
and i quit bombing pakistan i'd start
taking care of people here at home
because we could save
hundreds of billions of dollars our
national security
is not enhanced by our presence over
there
we have no purpose there we should learn
the lessons of history
and the longer we're there the worst
things are
are and the more danger we're in as well
because our presence there is not making
friends
the other two parties uh no longer
stands for the constitution and liberty
and that there's no difference between
the two
i mean whether you have republicans or
democrats in office
government gets bigger taxes go up the
deficit gets worse
but when you look at it where the
democrats democrats are in charge of
republicans are in charge
personal liberties are intruded upon we
go about the world uh trying to
uh interfere in the internal affairs of
all nations and uh
where we have any eternal conflicts it's
unlike
what our founders intended unlike what
the constitution said
and unlike our american tradition of
minding our own business
and letting the people decide what is
best for themselves
and letting the market work herself we
really don't have a free enterprise
system here but we don't really have
democracy here
uh because you know if you're in a third
party if you're in a green party or
libertarian party
you don't get any credibility you can't
get on the base you can't get on the
ballots hardly at all
and it's very very difficult and if the
two parties are the same
you don't really have a democratic
choice here so
yes i think we have a long way to go to
set good standards here
this is my whole argument i think
there's a lot of goodness in america and
we should spread our goodness
but never through force we should be
talking about what we can do
here at home to set a good example have
a healthy
vibrant economy protect civil liberties
and have a foreign policy where we're
mining our own business
but have trade with people and talk with
people well you know i i did that one
time in a third party and uh we don't
have democracy in this country that it's
so biased if you're in a third party
you can't i can't get in debates as a
third party candidate
when i did as a third party i spent over
half my money just trying to get on the
ballots
so we don't have a good democratic
process what happens if you come to the
conclusion as millions of americans have
the parties aren't different they're all
the same the monetary policy stays the
same the welfare system stays the same
the foreign policy stays the same
they get pretty disgusted so there is
but one party
so people who want to participate you
know when they more or less have to get
into
one of the major parties there's one
documentary that's been put out recently
that has
generated a lot of interest called
freedom the fascism and we're moving in
that direction
we're not moving toward hitler type
fascism but we're moving toward a fat
softer fascism
loss of civil liberties corporations
running the show
big government in bed with big business
so you have the military
industrial complex you have the medical
industrial complex you have the
uh financial industry you have the
communications industry
they go to washington spend hundreds of
millions of dollars that's where the
control is
i call that a soft form of fascism
something that is very dangerous
we should be bound down by the by the
constitution
but the people in this country think we
live in an age of relative
ethics is what what they have come to
the conclusion of
sure profess to believe in the
constitution but
why have we gone to war since world war
ii without a declaration of war
why do we have a monetary system that is
not designed by the constitution
why do we have a welfare state running
out of control not designed by the
constitution you can't pay
lip service to the constitution without
obeying it
and we should have peace and prosperity
that should be our goal
we in foreign policy ought to have a
golden rule we ought to treat others
as we would want others to treat us and
we don't treat others so fairly we treat
them like we're the bully that we're the
policemen of the world
and we're going to tell them to behave
if we don't if they don't listen to us
we bomb them
if they listen to us we give them more
money and it's bankrupting this country
because we don't live up to our
principles the principles are embedded
in our constitution
property and free society should be
owned by the people and shouldn't be
regulated to death by the governments
whether it's washington dc or local
governments right now
we really don't own our land we just pay
rent on our land and we listen to all
these regulations
more people die from the lies government
tells they told lies
in the 60s and i served the military in
the 60s for five years how many people
died because they lied us in the war
how many people have died because of the
lies that were told to got us into iraq
and now in
afghanistan our government doesn't
always tell us the truth that's how we
go to war
and that's how we get in they tell you
they build up the fear
like uh just like after the crisis
you know the financial crisis the whole
world would end unless we bail out all
the rich people
and bail out wall street and bail out
all the bankers so
uh but people now in a very healthy way
are very skeptical of what the official
pronouncements are from the government
and i can consider that very good i'm
known as the taxpayer's best friend i've
never voted for a tax increase
and i voted for the least amount of
spending i am known for sticking to
principle and not flip-flopping
your solutions on stopping drug trade
is give up give them give up the world
drugs
i say zero tolerance we use the military
for
aid we stop it from getting into the
country we cut it off at the source
why why give up another fight
is a tyrannical approach to solving a
social medical problem
and we endorse the idea of voluntarism
and self-responsibility family friends
and churches to solve problems
rather than saying some monolithic
government is going to make you take
care of yourself and be a better person
it's a preposterous notion it never
works
the government can't make you a better
person it can't
so you shifted the burden and the reason
that the epa was created the reason the
clean air act was passed was to
deal with the very issue of liberty why
should you do so
should we have two sets of rules one
prior restraint on every economic matter
but i'm not allowed to have prior
restraint on your tv program
it's the same principle no no no no no
congressman look the first amendment is
different we all appreciate that
speech is something sacrificing we as
freedom lovers don't see the difference
we believe that
individuals property rights are the same
as speech rights you can't have
two kinds of rights this is what
happened but you endorse the status quo
of all the conservative liberal
arguments today because you think
there's economic rights over here
and there's political rights over here
anyway let's switch gears
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do you feel better
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anyone anyone that suggests that iran is
not a threat to this country is not a
threat to stability in the middle east
is obviously not seeing the world very
clearly
he sees it exactly the way that barack
obama sees it that he has to go we have
to go around and apologize for the fact
that
we've gone out and exerted our influence
to create freedom around the world
congressman paul 30 seconds you've heard
the war propaganda that is allowed to
lead us into the sixth war
and i worry about that position iran
is a threat because they have some
militants there
but believe me they're all around the
world and excuse me
they're they're all around the world and
they're not a whole lot different than
others
iran does not have an air force that can
come here
they don't have they can't even make
enough gasoline for themselves
and here we are you know building this
case out please please
uh they're building up this case like
just like we did in iraq built up the
war propaganda there was no al qaeda
in iraq and they had nuclear weapons and
we had to go in
i'm sure you supported that war as well
it's time we
quit this it's time it's trillions of
dollars we're spending on these wars
that's fairly normal but you're not out
there waving scientists
i believe in values but i do not believe
in using force to put those values
i don't believe in using force to make
you a better person for your own sake
but i don't believe in putting force on
you to make you
more responsible economically i apply
the rules equally to
social justice and economic justice i
don't understand this division
why you may defend uh social liberty
liberties where rather well but
as soon as it comes to me spending my
money assuming responsibility
i i see well why why are you applying
why are you working
and you're the only one that i know and
we don't change anything we
if we got in this trouble because we had
low interest rates
getting businessmen and savers to do the
wrong thing just doing more
of the wrong thing continuously i can't
see how
this is going to be helpful my question
to you mr chairman
is this um what will it take
for you to say to yourself um
could i be wrong you know what if i'm
mistaken
you know uh how long is this going to go
on 9 trillion
what if say in five years from now we're
in a deep deep slump
with your definition of inflation what
if we have high prices going and the
economy is very very weak and
unemployment is high
would you say to yourself then boy maybe
i really messed up maybe i was on the
wrong track maybe the free market
people were right maybe keynes was wrong
would you ever consider that or are you
absolutely locked in into your business
i'm always open to changing my mind when
the facts change absolutely
what would you do in other words saying
what you don't think should happen
has a value to a point but in reality
today
what do you think the american
politicians and bankers ought to be
doing
i wouldn't pretend that pouring kerosene
on you started with i would work i'm
sorry to interrupt you but i want you to
start it with i would
okay what i would do is allow the
liquidation of debt to occur
you want the people to spend more money
and buying up
assets you want these assets uh priced
in the marketplace so we know what their
values are
that's why that first package of the no
one in the market will do that
as you know there's no value there
that's a good information then there's
no value why should you dump that on the
american taxpayers that's a strong
message that if it's worthless
you don't dump it on agreement that's
why our slop is getting worse
how do you get this cut thank you
governor romney that raises the question
if you were president united states
would you need to go to congress
to get authorization to take military
action against iran's nuclear facilities
uh you sit down with your attorneys and
tell you what you have to do but
obviously the president united states
has to do what's in the best interest of
the united states did he need it
uh you know we're gonna let the lawyers
sort out what he needed to do and what
he didn't need to do
congressman paul do you believe the
president needs authorization of
congress to attack strategic targets in
iran
nuclear facilities absolutely this idea
of going and talking to attorneys
totally baffles me why don't we just
open up the constitution
and read it you're not allowed to go to
war without a declaration of war
now as far as fleeting enemies go yes if
there's an imminent
attack on us we've never had that happen
in 220 years
the thought that the iranians could pose
an imminent attack on the united states
is preposterous there's no way this is
just an attack
leading to this this is this is just war
propaganda continued war propaganda
preparing this nation to go to war and
spread this war
not only in iraq but into iran
unconstitutionally
it is a road to disaster for us as a
nation it's a road to our financial
disaster if we don't
read the constitution once around the
horn
that's called my way or the highway oh
come on but my way or the highway
so you're criticizing bernie sanders for
saying it's his way or the highway
no i'm talking about legislation well no
i mean you pass legislation because you
bring people together
i can't see how you can write it off so
casually
no it's you're saying no compromise so
it wasn't well well i blamed you my
magnum point do you think i should
compromise on the first amendment
on property rights on your property
right should i sell your house because a
businessman wants it
and he can pay more taxes why don't you
want somebody to
stand on principle why
another question about electability
do you have any sir there's always the
question as to whether or not
you are in fact viable your differences
with the republicans on the
with the rest of the republicans on this
stage has raised questions about whether
or not you can actually win the general
the republican nomination sir
well we've only had two little primaries
so far so it's pretty premature to
decide
which one is going to be the candidate
but you know
when you think about it if you measured
everything i've ever said
every vote i've ever taken against the
constitution
you know i'm strict constitutionally so
are you suggesting the republicans
should write me off
because i'm a strict constitutionalist
i'm the most conservative member here i
have voted
you know against more spending in
wasting government than anybody else
so you're suggesting that i'm not
electable and the republicans don't want
me
because i'm a strict fiscal conservative
because i believe in civil liberties why
should
we not be be defending civil liberties
and why should we not be
talking about foreign policy that used
to be the part of the republican party
mr republican robert taft didn't even
want us to be in nato
and you're saying now that we have to
continue to borrow money from china
to finance this empire that we can't
afford
let me see if i get this right we we
need to borrow 10 billion dollars from
china
and then we give it to musharraf who's a
military dictator who overthrew an
elected government
and then we go to war we lose all these
lives
promoting democracy in iraq
i mean what's going on here
and you're saying and you're saying that
this isn't appealing to republicans
where did where did this come about i
think this is a republican message
i defend the platform they used to say
we gotta get rid of the department of
education
it doesn't say that now we as
republicans went and doubled the size of
the department of education so
where where have we gone i think we've
lost our way in the insinuation that i
am less republican because of that
congressman thank you very much
you have to have a gold coin standard
and anytime you
quiz or question the integrity of the
government you should be able to take
that certificate to the bank
and make sure they do have the gold sir
if you don't have a gold standard for
our money could this lead to
hyperinflation
no it not could it is it will if we had
the proper rule of government
believe me if we just you know basically
followed the constitution we wouldn't
even have to have an
income tax we would live within our
means and we wouldn't be able to print
money and we wouldn't be able to borrow
like we do
there are 38 million people today that
have no health care after the
government's been in health care for
45 years we spend a lot of money on
health care the government today
the price has gone up the quality has
gone down the distribution
has been eliminated there are more
people without health care now since the
government's been in the business okay
but how you what do you do to get better
health care it's sort of like asking how
do you deliver bread to poor people
how do they get bred they work and they
go out and get it
services and goods in a free society are
delivered
by the marketplace but not by government
so if you're really doesn't
have a responsibility to come and take
care of them personally we do yes but i
don't have the right to steal from you
because somebody on the street needs
your help
you have an obligation personally to
help them but i don't have the right to
interfere with your right
to take something from you and deliver
it to somebody on the street
and you have to remember there are more
people on the street today without homes
without medical care since we've been in
the business of welfare
so if we want to eliminate most of the
people who are in need
you have a free market system but the
question is still legitimate
because there'll still be some people
who will have need our answer to that is
it has to be taken care of through
voluntary means never through coercion
never through force
social security the people should know
the truth that it's bankrupt and that
young people won't get anything
and therefore we should start to
privatize it are you still in favor of
abolishing social security
yes but not oh not overnight matter of
fact my my program's the only one that
is going to be able to take care of the
elderly
i'd like to get the young people out out
of it just in the
generation because there's no money
there and they're going to have to pay
50 years and they're not going to get
anything there's no money there i'd take
care of all the elderly
all those who are who are who are
dependent
but i would save the money from this
wild spending overseas we can save
hundreds of billions of dollars
and still take care of the elderly i
don't want
taxes on the social security benefits
that they receive
i have a bill in that would secure the
trust fund where none of that money
could be spent
in the in the general revenues if you
became president you would transition
completely out of social security and
medicare you know if i can get the
people to agree and the congress degree
yeah that would be my program
is to transition out because this one
has failed
i would cut massively on this overseas
spending hundreds of billions of dollars
and work our way out of it if there's a
threat to our national security
you never act secretly through the cia
or doing anything militarily without the
consent of congress
70 of our military money is spent
overseas subsidizing rich allies it
should be spent on the defense of this
country
uh we'd get out of the persian gulf we'd
back off we'd bring all our troops home
we'd bring all our missiles home
we'd defend america and we wouldn't
anytime they threatened us we'd defend
ourselves we'd have
armed neutrality but uh we would reduce
the number of nuclear bombs maybe by 75
percent
we wouldn't get rid of them but we'd
drastically reduce them would do away
with
the confrontation but stand firm and uh
ensure of ourselves we wouldn't go in
half-heartedly into anything
such as we did in vietnam to lose sixty
thousand men
in a no-win undeclared war that is
complete nonsense
and the result of the republican
democratic foreign policy of 50 years
and it's going to continue it's going to
get worse well they know that the most
important thing for freedom and
peace is for me to obey the constitution
and where is it the authority has
constitution for us to police the world
i think when our national security is
threatened the american people have a
right to vote through their congressman
for a declaration of war
this is the kind of thing that leads to
vietnam
uh vietnam war type wars so you u.n
sanctions
this is the kind of thing that leads to
korea's vietnam
and useless wars this is why we did not
win the war
in the persian gulf sure why we're still
facing with this problem
so for us to unleash bombs on iraq
at this particular time to kill more
innocent people
for narrow political reasons no there is
absolutely no need
to cause more bombing because of a very
overall flawed foreign policy how are
you going to vote on impeachment
i'll vote for impeachment for all four
articles yes uh
unenthusiastically because i think the
charges are way too mild but i wish the
congress would address the
unconstitutionality of presidents waging
war
that to me is a lot more serious than
monica lewinsky
matter of fact our national security is
more jeopardized
by permitting this to happen because
we're liable to start a war we're liable
to have
our military men killed we're liable to
have
more attacks on us by terrorists
our foolish policy in iraq invites
terrorist attacks against u.s territory
and incites the islamic fundamentalists
against us and he wants to know if you
agree with senator mccain's statement
that the united states might need to
have
u.s troops in iraq for as long as even
100 years
i don't even think they should have gone
so keeping them for 100 years where's
the money going to come from
you know the country's in bankruptcy and
when i listen to this argument i mean i
find it rather silly
because they're arguing technicalities
of a policy they both agree with they
agreed to going in agreed for staying
agreed for staying how many years and
these are technicalities
we should be debating foreign policy
whether we should have interventionism
or non-interventionism
whether we should be defending this
country or whether we should be the
policemen of the world
whether we should be you know running
our empire or not and how are we going
to have guns and butter
you know the 70s were horrible because
we paid for the guns and butters of the
60s now we're doing the same thing
and nobody even seems to care the dollar
is crashing and you're talking about
these
technicalities about who said what when
i mean in in 19 in 19
in 1952 we republicans were elected to
stop the war in korea
1968 we were elected to stop the war
in vietnam and tragically we didn't stop
it very fast 30
000 more men die so when i talk about
these long-term stays
i think how many men are you willing to
let die for this
for something it has nothing to do with
our national security
there were no al-qaeda there had nothing
to do with 911
and there was no threat to our national
security they never committed aggression
it's unconstitutional it's an undeclared
war and we have these silly arguments
going on about who said what when
i think it's time to debate foreign
policy and why we don't follow the
constitution
and only go to war with a declaration of
war governor huckabee the idea of 100
year involvement of the u.s the idea of
100 years
they don't want our troops on the
arabian peninsula
we have no need for our national
security to have troops on the arabian
peninsula
and going into iraq and afghanistan and
threatening iran
is the worst thing we can do for our
national security i am less safe the
american people are less safe for this
it's the policy that is wrong tactical
movements and shifting troops around and
taking in 30 more and reducing by five
totally
irrelevant we need a new foreign policy
that said we ought to mind our own
business
bring our troops home defend this
country defend our borders
so if
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so congressman paul and i'd like you to
take 30 seconds to answer this
you're basically saying that we should
take our marching orders from al qaeda
if they want us off the arabian
peninsula
i'm saying i'm saying we should take our
marching orders from our constitution
we should not go to war
we should not go to war without a
declaration we should not go to war when
it's an aggressive war this is
aggressive
invasion we've committed the invasion of
this war
and it's illegal under international law
that's where i take my marching orders
not from any enemy
we don't have to have more courts and
more prisons we need to repeal
the whole war on drugs it isn't working
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as more and more begin to know the
status quo has got to go
they're bound to say yes to a man named
a man who makes the establishment panic
grassroots are growing way too wild too
organic
with no donations from goldman sachs
they're still having trouble trying to
hold them back but it's not
about a man am i clear it's about a man
who will carry on an idea
the script you've been given doesn't fit
is the given dr paul
has been robbed in every state he has
been in it's a sin when the teleprompt
the readers keep spinning having the
people believing dr paul
isn't winning the smear campaign is
wearing off fast
exponentially we are tearing off masks
the mass media ain't making it fair once
we kill the central bank we can take it
from there
he's a statesman so why do they hate him
he was delivering babies back in 1963
and he just
helped give birth to
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back in 1984 telling you how central
banks were profiting from
but lo and behold the drug that
inevitates most of the members of
congress
has not been touched because they're of
their drinking
he was alcohol babies back in 1963 and
he just helped give birth to the baby of
liberty
he's a statesman so why do they hate him
he was delivering speeches back in 1984
telling you how central banks were
profiting from war
you don't know the man from mechanic to
call ron paul a racist to call me a
saint
there's not a candidate that you can
trust more
his face should be on rushmore
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because at one time it did have real
value
history shows that people have chosen
gold first
and probably silver second i'd rather
have cigarettes than pieces of paper
no you can't you can't have a government
like this without an income tax but we
don't want a government like this this
is not the kind of government that was
designed by our
founders of the country it's not what
was written in the constitution we've
only had an income tax since 1913
if you want a welfare state and if you
want to police the world and pay for the
defense of japan and germany
send foreign aid to the soviet union you
not only need the income tax you need
the federal reserve to print up the
money when the deficit
is accumulated so we think the
government should be much smaller if
government is small
then you don't need an income tax on
occasion i've taken the position
uh quite frankly i don't believe we need
the income tax and we don't need the
internal revenue service
if you were president would you work to
phase out the irs
what we do on the floor no we're dug a
hole for ourselves and we've dug a hole
for our party
we're losing elections and we're going
down next year if we don't change it and
it has all to do with foreign policy and
we have to wake up to this fact even if
we lose elections we should not lose our
honor and that
is more important than the republican
party
we have lost
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we have lost over 5 000 americans killed
in afghan
we've lost over 5 000 americans over
there in afghanistan
in iraq and and plus the civilians
killed how many more
you want to lose how long are you going
to be there how long what do we have to
pay to save face
that's all we're doing is saving face
it's time we came home
gentlemen thank you wendell
congressman paul you your answer is to
cut both taxes and spending you say that
you would eliminate the irs
the cia the federal reserve
the department of homeland security
medicare
uh i know that you used to want to end
the fbi i'm not sure whether you still
support that idea sir
perhaps you can tell us but if you get
rid of the cia let alone the fbi
how would president paul have any idea
any intelligence of what our enemies
foreign and domestic are up to well
you might ask the better question uh
before 9 11 we were spending
40 billion dollars a year and the fbi
was producing
numerous information about people being
trained on airplanes to fly them but not
land them
and they totally ignored them so let's
go to you speaker gingrich
recently uh dr paul referred to you as a
chicken hawk
because you didn't serve would you would
you use that phrase again
yeah i i think people who don't serve
when they could and they get uh
three or four or even five deferments uh
aren't they they have no right to send
our kids off to war
and and not be even against the wars
that we have
i'm trying to stop the wars but at least
you know i went when they called me up
but you know the the veterans the
veterans problem is a big one we have
hundreds of thousands coming back from
these wars
that were undeclared they were
unnecessary they haven't been won
they're unwinnable
we have hundreds of thousands looking
for care and we have this
epidemic of suicide coming back and so
many have
i mean if you add up all the contractors
and all the wars going on afghanistan
and iraq we've lost 8 500 americans and
severe injuries over 40
000 and these are undeclared wars so
rick keeps saying we you don't want this
libertarian stuff but what i'm talking
about
i don't bring up the word you do but i
talk about the constitution
constitution has rules and i don't like
it when we send our kids
off to fight these wars and when those
individuals didn't go themselves
and then come up and when they're asked
they said oh i don't think i could one
person could have made a difference
i have a pet peeve that annoys me to a
great deal
because when i see these young men
coming back
my heart weeps for them

there has been an awakening
have you felt it
you don't know a thing about me
where i'm from what i've seen
you don't know the first order like i do
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after months of hinting john boyega
couldn't wait any longer and came out
and discussed his disappointment with
his role in the disney star wars films
and he's done
it within a year of its release very
impressive jon it usually takes a lot
longer than that to get the truth out
and boy has that put some social justice
warrior shills in an awkward position
up to now their go-to for anyone who had
a problem with finn's
character was to call them a racist but
what do you do if the actor that played
the character
has the same opinion as these so-called
racist british gq recently did an
interview with john
and of course the subject of star wars
came up and he had some very interesting
things to say
john said what i would say to disney is
don't bring out a black character
market them to be much more important in
the franchise than they are and then
have them push to the side it's not good
i'll say it straight up like you guys
knew what to do with daisy ridley you
guys knew what to do with adam driver
you knew what to do with these other
people
but when it came to kelly mary tran when
it came to john boyega
you knew [ __ ] all so what do you want me
to say what they want you to say is i
enjoyed being part of it it was a great
experience
i'll take that deal when it's a great
experience they gave all the nuanced
adam driver
all the new ones to daisy ridley let's
be honest daisy knows this
adam knows this everybody knows i'm not
exposing anything
jon also talks about naomi aki and kelly
mary tran and even oscar isaac suffering
the same treatment
and jon's description of black
characters and blockbusters couldn't be
more spot-on they're always scared
they're always friggin sweating
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and to make sure it's very clear he's
talking about his character's poor
treatment
starting with the last jedi he also adds
about jj's return
he wasn't even supposed to come back and
try and save your [ __ ]
you're a selfish traitor now jon's
frustrations are fully understandable
the first new piece of star wars footage
after so many years
was that a finn was this gonna be a
stormtrooper defecting
if so [ __ ] great idea is it someone
in disguise
it suggested so many exciting
opportunities and then
oh dear now i am a fan of films using
relatively unknown actors
which john was but i did recognise him
from attack the block now jon was very
good and attacked the block and trust me
he had a lot more character than he
ended up within star wars but we were
naive back then when that teaser came
out
we didn't know what was to come and
sadly neither did john then the movie
poster came out
not only did john's character finn look
like he was going to be pretty important
now he was carrying a lightsaber and it
was a blue one
now i'm starting to get very interested
i had lived through jar jar binks so
trust me i was still cautious
but my excitement was definitely growing
the possibility of a stormtrooper
becoming a jedi
seemed not only exciting but also
original and then we got this
chewy we're home
and [ __ ] yeah i'm now fully in
sell me tickets now [ __ ] now that was
my level of excitement i can only
imagine how excited john must have felt
starring in a star wars movie [ __ ]
childhood dream come true
i'm going to be in star wars one day
more like a loser on youtube [ __ ]
what's a youtube now unlike a lot of
other people who correctly predicted
where this franchise was heading
i enjoyed the force awakens a lot yes
we'd seen a lot of it before but i
thought jj abrams had big plans
we'll get back to that some other time
andy's first film is just a soft reboot
to ease people into the new series of
films
a lot of us left the cinema that day
quite relaxed as we hadn't been raped by
another jar jar binks
little did we know that by the end of
the new trilogy we'd look back at jar
jar with great fondness wishing we could
go back to simpler times when even the
worst characters could not destroy my
love for the franchise
and jon made it through the force
awakens looking pretty good he even got
to do some things
that were brave we'll use the charges to
blow that blast door
i'll go in and draw fire but i'm gonna
need cover sure you're up for this
hell no i'll go in and try to find ray
the troopers will be
on our tail and his relationship with
ray even looked interesting what if they
did start a relationship and then both
became jedi so couldn't be together that
would have been pretty cool
sadly for jon the development of his
character stopped at the end of force
awakens he actually went
backwards you don't know the first order
like i do they'll slaughter us
we all need to run instead of a highly
trained stormtrooper
child slave darkseid defecting hero
with force abilities we got goofball
clown sidekick the first guy we were
introduced to
who started off this story isn't even
important in the end he doesn't even get
the girl
well no one does oh hello someone got
the girl
let the scissoring begin finn's journey
backwards
started with the last jedi ryan's
desperate attempt to be on the cool kids
table and prove he was one of the girls
had him go out of his way to belittle
every male character and i think one of
the worst to watch was finn
nothing like having your character who
escaped slavery in the horrors of war
acting like a buffoon and then getting
slavery in the horrors of war
explained to him by two new characters
that don't even know him or what he's
been through
you don't know a thing about me where
i'm from what i've seen
you don't know the first order like i do
a young black actor has to sit quietly
while the stereotypical asian tech nude
and the middle-aged white dude talk now
at the time of last jedi
mine and many many other people's huge
sin
was to point out how badly these
characters were written the social
justice warrior shills came out of the
woodwork to declare
we were all racists and misogynists and
that's all it could be
these characters were amazing apparently
just give it to me one more time
simpler and this is where we see the
difference between social justice
warriors and normal people
now a normal person usually finds it
easy to feel if they like a character or
not
little things just click in their heads
that make them enjoy certain
characteristics
some are personal while a lot are shared
human qualities that's why some
characters
are loved by all it could be any number
of things they think they're cool
tough maybe lethal funny charismatic
unbelievably skilled
or what my mother would always say about
apollo creed sexy and
god made him i do remember the horror of
waking late at night in my little robot
bed to the sound of the rocky vhs
getting another workout
maybe tomorrow i'll have a new daddy
it's time to take me to the moon bing
bong
when a normal person finds themselves
like a character he usually comes from a
subconscious level
yes the interest might be a conscious
decision as in i like star wars or i
like kung fu
or strong women these reasons may have
you going into the film wanting to like
that character
but connecting or enjoying a character
should be at the time of watching
just naturally happening and if it's not
happening no matter how much you want it
to
like me watching finn in last jedi if
it's not happening
it's usually very obvious why and in
finn's case
it was the terrible writing and the fact
finn who had started as one of the leads
was now just a supporting character an
ex-soldier
had been turned into an idiot now a
social justice warrior doesn't have
any of these types of issues when they
open up the little list in their head
that contains their own personal likes
and interests it's pretty
empty because they are only interested
in the superficial not what makes us
human
it's all about their junk skin color and
who they want to rub against
things normal people usually don't think
about when enjoying a character
look i'm sure like the rest of us ripley
may have had a big old crush on private
vasquez for all we know yes of course
they'd make a lovely couple but we don't
care we only care if she lives and she
saves that little girl can't wait to see
that little girl in aliens three i don't
remember getting the old vhs out of
beverly hills cop when i was a boy
and thinking man eddie is cool smart
charismatic and funny as [ __ ] but i'm
not interested because he's not like me
a robot no social justice warriors lists
only contain shallow things
okay this is why social justice warriors
support any garbage that is ticking the
boxes they think are important
no matter how the actors feel or what
crap role they've been given this is
also why they get so excited when it is
announced that a classic film is going
to be remade
but they're going to swap the genders or
race because that's the only
criteria they care about the power of
patty compels you
craft talent care for a good story means
nothing to the social justice warrior
they just think finn's great because
finn's there who cares if they made him
a joke who cares if jon is completely
disappointed he's ticked the list
he's good this attitude leads to
professionals like jon being
disappointed in receiving
second class roles and gives the
approval to hollywood to just keep doing
what they're doing
but worse than your average woke twitter
clown
who's calling people racist for not
enjoying this
is the shill media who stand and applaud
any crap to guarantee
their next free ticket and the chance to
interview jj or ryan they're selling out
people like john and kelly by applauding
horrible token film roles
roles with bad dialogue and little
impact on the story and don't talk about
the stupid [ __ ] beacon thing that
finn got to do how do you know
a feeling even if that scene wasn't
ridiculous it didn't make up for his two
films of complete simping
for ray god get this beacon far away
from here then she'll find me and be
safe
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but what is the shield to do after jon
confirmed that he agreed with the people
that said his role ended up being badly
written
and that his character had been pushed
to the background how is a shill to
respond when jon talks about how the
reordered character hierarchy of the
last jedi was particularly hard to take
well if you like one of our favorite
shills brian
i have no gag reflex for ryan johnson
young
you first do the obliged heartbreaking
comment and wish things were better and
then you just dismiss what jon says
and remind everyone that the last jedi
deepened his character
and that it was the rise of skywalker
that just didn't didn't just
didn't quite pay it off you have jon
discussing how his character being
pushed aside in the last jedi was hard
to take
and uses the words of jj coming back
after last jedi as
saving your [ __ ] and brian decides to
point out
that he is wrong that's some [ __ ]
balls brian and they're rinds
and they're in your mouth but it's not
just the small potatoes like brian who
like to ignore or twist what some actors
say
angela watercutter senior editor of
wired
recent article could have her up for a
special mention
at the modern writers woke awards later
this year you see
back in late 2017 angela reviewed the
last jedi
and let me just say angela's review is a
real
feast for the brain she ticks off all
the modern journalism classics digs at
the old guard
misogynists racists you know it wouldn't
be a movie review without them
every entitled troll another classic and
toxic masculinity look there's too many
to list
but trust me angela's got them all every
observation is flavored by her wokeness
waxing lyrical about canto bite and it's
longer arc that tackles real issues
because remember kids is bad yes i know
canto bite if only angela had the
foresight to see the kanto bite would
come to be seen as the worst
and most pointless segment of any star
wars film
slightly awkward for her but happily and
fitting for a senior editor at wide she
pulls out one of my
favorite lines the star wars fan upset
that the franchise heroes now include
wait for it clutches pearls women and
people of color
preacher sister yes straight out lies to
pump up her wonderful review
angela as you can see is such a champion
of women and people of color and film
that she'll deny their total existence
to fit her agenda
and i'm guessing make her job a lot
easier we don't need any of your help
angela and she's not alone here also
talks as if star wars nerds don't watch
anything else in between star wars
movies getting released does she
actually think the longtime star wars
fans
aren't also fans of terminator alien
star trek tarantino the matrix mad max
lucy lou game of thrones superheroes
every 80s action film
lucy lou martial arts films wait have i
done this somewhere before
most sci-fi comedy lucy lou and three
[ __ ] decades of will smith movies
just to name a few
somehow in angela's mind these
problems star wars fans have avoided
enjoying all of these movies
and that's why the sight of jon is such
a shock to them
sorry lando who would you get going your
pirate the wake shields that write these
type of
exploitative articles also like to
conveniently forget that rogue one with
its female lead
and truly diverse cast was highly
successful and is probably the most
evenly liked if not loved disney release
across the fan base
while solo with its male
white lead completely bombed on release
it does seem to me odd that angela uses
the term
clutches pearls as a put down to
supposed misogynists
seeing as clutch's pearls refers to
acting like an
overdramatic woman angela seems to be
pushing the stereotype of women a bit
too far
it seems a bit what would you say
misogynistic
in case i'm wrong let's just check you
might also hear it used to describe a
man
though it tends to carry sexist
overtones then it makes it imply that
he's
weak oversensitive or anything else
stereotypically
seen as negative female traits oh again
angela a little bit awkward there
but the absolute pinnacle of
self-delusion and lack of self-awareness
is angela's most recent star wars
article
john boyega is right about star wars
obvious to those who watched the trilogy
obvious to angela but not worthy of
mentioning
in any of angela's previous articles
regarding star wars
so brave angela so so brave
you are great i suspect angela actually
didn't find it so obvious to see
through her woke lenses which is lucky
for her because if she had said
anything about the pathetic characters
john and calamari tran were given to
play
she would have been called a racist and
a misogynist just like the rest of us
were
again angela so brave you are great
and you would think that after jon has
opened up about his experience you would
think that angela
being a uh um journalist would want to
focus on jj abrams and ryan johnson
who both wrote and directed these films
to investigate why and how this happened
to john and kelly you could imagine that
angela would discuss why kathleen
kennedy didn't step in and insist on
john and kelly's roles being made more
important to the story
angela could have written an amazing
article on how disney and lucasfilm
should do better but no there is no
chance we're getting that from angela
because to her it's still all about the
toxic fans
and that's all she wants to talk about
you see even though angela now states
that it was obvious to those who watch
the trilogy
she also states that most people talking
about it at the time
you know doing what angela would have
done if angela had a spine
or could see past her own wokeness is
the people talking about at the time
were actually fans decrying inclusion
i'm not sure how angela would defend
that opinion to the people of colour who
were upset about the dumbing down of
finn in the last jedi coming to her own
conclusion that much of the talk was
anti-inclusion makes it seem as if
angela doesn't even consider their
opinion
which if true is frightening for a
senior editor with a large platform
maybe angela should not assume that as
john said black characters always being
scared and always freaking sweating is
good enough
she also states that there was far less
talk about what happened with those
characters
once their stories unfolded on screen
angela's implying that the people
discussing jon at the time
stopped talking about it because they
were satisfied that john was pushed
aside by the end of the story
jesse right angela just can't comprehend
the people
are talking about jon's situation less
now
because they have been talking about the
treatment of john's character for two
years
while you were too busy making sure you
were getting your next disney press pass
angela's article is so self-serving and
delusional that she is more worried
about being right
than supporting the actors of color and
discussing disney and lucasfilm's
treatment of them
it is ironic that angela's lovely
headline that just celebrates diversity
the last jedi will bother some people
good is above a photo of two actors who
were probably the most bothered about
how their characters were betrayed i
wonder if that's all so good
the price of reason called angel or out
on this via twitter
angela's response was a lovely piece of
denial not contradictory
oh my god okay let's make this as easy
as possible for angela here
in this article john is very clearly
talking about the dumbing down of his
character
in the last jedi he even talks about jj
coming back
to quote fix your [ __ ] angela not only
states that she agrees with john
but also states that it was obvious here
in the former article
angela praises the character of finn
calling finns and rose's trip to canto
bite one of the top level examples of
the film
bringing real issues to the fore to
drive it home
angela also quotes genomato from the los
angeles times
films like these leave their mark on an
entire generation
representation matters which and i'm
sure john would agree be a nice quote if
it wasn't about this film
amazingly and i'm sure it's with a
straight face angela says
praising the characters of finn and
rhodes in the last jedi and calling them
top level examples in this article
and then agreeing with john about the
poor treatment of finn and rose's
characters in the last jedi why smugly
adding it was obvious
in this article is somehow wait for it
not a contradiction
everybody knows you never go full
retired no hunter s thompson christ
angela you'd have him turning in his
grave if johnny depp hadn't spent three
million dollars to shoot him out of a
cannon everyone needs a friend like
johnny you shoot yourself in the head
and then your friend shoots you out of a
cannon just to make sure everyone got
the point
jon also talks about the difficulties of
trying to operate within what can feel
like a permanently rigged system
a system called hollywood that can
easily deflect any criticism we saw it
in the past with kelly marie tran kelly
released an interesting open letter
regarding her youth and working in
hollywood in it she's clearly talking
about society as a whole and the
hollywood system how did the media
handle this and not upset the hollywood
overlords well they changed it into an
article about online hate and if you
don't believe me
just refer to the original article oh
and even though this looks like a quote
it's not this doesn't appear anywhere in
kelly's letter oh and that also goes
from the note from the editor that is
also not taken from kelly's letter so
you have to understand that the editor
didn't believe that kelly's words would
speak for themselves
because what kelly was saying was
pointing to people like the editor and
their employers
you see if you put online harassment in
large font
again not mentioned by kelly above a
part quote from kelly people just
automatically put the two and two
together and assume that's what she's
talking about tricky little [ __ ]
editor but if you take the time to read
the open letter the open letter that
doesn't mention online harassment once
you see that kelly points the finger at
the media hollywood
and companies that profited from her
insecurities that the companies
perpetrated in the first place [ __ ]
ouch kelly no mention
of star wars fans and to think after
posting this jj
reduced her role in the final film do we
believe this
now after the new york times posted the
original article how did all the other
media outlets report on this open letter
what a surprise they just repeated the
same headlines the new york times editor
had added into kelly's letter and now
idiots say her harassment is well
documented even though
all the other news outlets went with
using the lines from the new york times
that the editor put in
they weren't part of kelly's open letter
and just like magic hollywood and the
media are no longer the focus of kelly's
letter it's back to the toxic fans that
she didn't mention
now i'm no fool oh i can feel the people
getting angry with me saying that one
i'm sure like everyone online actors
receive their fair share of morons
including [ __ ] racist i quite often
get abused for being australian
nobody talks about mick like that
kangaroo shagger
idiot doesn't he know how hard they are
to catch
jon talks about idiots saying he can't
be a stormtrooper because he is black
which is [ __ ] horrible and ridiculous
but to claim
everyone who points out how badly
written a character is that happens to
be a person of color or female
as a racist or a misogynist gives
hollywood a free pass
these shills applauding their token
efforts just encourages them to keep the
charade up that they actually care
quinn all they care about's the money
jon was shrunk down to the point that
he's virtually disappears in the chinese
version of the force awakens poster
was that a toxic fan call removed by
disney to bow down to real racism
just for more [ __ ] money was it the
so-called toxic fans that asked for that
no
callie calls it out and so does jon but
somehow these shills ignore that and
keep blaming the toxic fans
and if the mulan film has taught us
anything it's that they don't care and
they don't plan on changing
if disney can go as far as thanking the
public security bureau of tapan
where several re-education camps are
located the same camps that detain
thousands of innocent people because of
their culture and beliefs
if you're publicly thanking those people
on what is meant to be the biggest film
of the year you don't have any plans of
changing any time soon now if
hollywood's really concerned
about representation and opportunity for
minorities they wouldn't be doing crap
like having to get certain quotas for
your chance to win an oscar
finn's character ticks that box do you
think that makes john any happier no
instead of giving token roles like paul
finn that has to run around screaming
for the white people
companies like disney could i don't know
for every 100 million they spend on
complete trash
give 10 million to some young
disadvantaged filmmaker who can then
populate the film however he wants
this would bring in far more diverse
people into the industry than giving out
token positions like
janitor or nerd girl the last jedi alone
cost around
317 million dollars and that's without
advertising
now imagine what our 10 percent new
talent fund could get us
that one film alone would get us another
six get out movies
or another three and a half train to
basans or if i could talk everyone into
it
300 more are ghost stories christ that
pie-heading scene would [ __ ] go on
forever this would give us lots of new
faces in lead roles
and with disney just removing jon from
the poster in china and everyone
applauding their tokenism if they can
get away with it
why not other companies just recently
jon had to step down as joe malone
brand's international ambassador
after they removed him from the chinese
advertising yes they did a disney and
not just any ad an ad that jon created
and directed
and celebrated his personal story
showcasing his hometown
including his friends and family these
companies just don't give a [ __ ] sadly
for the joe malone brand they don't have
thousands of shills that will do their
bidding
and blame their own customers for john
being mistreated joe malone have come
out and apologized to jon
as they should and now we're just
waiting on kathleen kennedy's ryan
johnson's
and jj abrams apology so next time one
of you
shill clowns or disney defenders want to
call someone a racist
maybe look at the company and people you
are defending because i'm telling you
pointing out when minorities and women
are given terrible roles does more to
help them get
better roles in the future than clapping
at any crap some studio feeds you but to
do that you're gonna have to risk those
free [ __ ] movie tickets and on that
cheery note
let's hope john and kelly get to be in a
good film soon looks like
oscar's gonna be doing okay
and if you don't agree with anything i
say and if you don't agree with john's
assessment of finn
rose and poe and you can just ignore how
the actors feel
then go watch the amazing star wars
series and enjoy it
because john kelly and oscar don't
there's been an awakening
have you felt it
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