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an eco-hero'.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/12/jane-fonda-donald-trump-climate-change-interview
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The screen legend and activist Jane Fonda said shes prepared to do whatever I need to do to counter a Donald Trump administration, and called the president-elect a sexist boy in a bully pulpit who is missing an opportunity to be an eco-hero.
The actor let loose on Trumps choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, the global-warming skeptic Scott Pruitt, and called the pick her greatest fear about the incoming administration.
A self-confessed late bloomer as a feminist, Fonda also predicted that womens rights are going to come under incredible attack at the federal and state level in the aftermath of the Trump election victory.
But she chose the environment when asked to name her biggest worry about a Trump White House in an interview with the Guardian.
We are confronted by someone who is against the very existence of the agency hes being put in charge of. There are many dangers with Trump but the difference here is that we have no time. The tipping point for climate change is looming, Fonda said.
Me.
(35,454 posts)The opposition is gathering force
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)I absolutely applaud her for calling him out but on the other hand, I know there will be people ready to pounce on her because of her history in relationship to the Vietnam War.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Con Job will lash out at her,and she will take that sucker apart. We all know about Nam and the Right Wing crap she endured for Nixon's friends. There was a ton more about that story than what the press was spoon fed.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)I know she is smart and tough and definitely can not only dish it out but take what will come here way.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Understand she is one very astute business Lady also.
malaise
(268,949 posts)Sharp as a tack.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)malaise
(268,949 posts)and TV repeat and reinforce over and over.
The only way to beat a bully is to whip him - then watch him run and squeal.
malaise
(268,949 posts)She can handle it. Go Jane!
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)She has had plenty of experience with backlash.
treestar
(82,383 posts)so just say it was over 40 years ago!
malaise
(268,949 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Lots of the Reich wingers have closets stuffed with embarrassments, which we can talk about.
malaise
(268,949 posts)The day he called her Crooked Hillary, he would have become Don the Con at every rally - and all the cons would have been listed.
This is a man who recently settled a law suit for fraud with a university that didn't exist. He defrauded ordinary people. This is their fucking leader and hero.
I fucking pass
JHB
(37,158 posts)When all is said and done, Fonda is an actress. Anyone can brush her off with a "who cares what she thinks?"
The same people who have spent decades cultivating their loathing of "Hanoi Jane" for aiding and abetting a hostile government and putting Americans at risk have helped put the whole country at risk by putting Kremlin Don over the EC top.
When they yell "traitor", time to respond "Your's is bigger."
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)it's hard to pick just one as the biggest. But the environment is a good choice. Thank you, Jane!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)I don't know many who don't agree with that. Trump wants to put Scott Pruit a climate change denier in charge of the EPA? Folks we're going to choke to death.