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So sad to see this former actor suffering from Dementia (Original Post) tomhagen Sep 2019 OP
I agree. Newest Reality Sep 2019 #1
Hey, all I want safeinOhio Sep 2019 #2
double talk The Wizard Sep 2019 #3
Soulless also. riversedge Sep 2019 #4
He's been messed up since they held "Jon Voight Day" at Yankee Stadium and he was... Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2019 #5
Sneaky. SergeStorms Sep 2019 #28
No matter how one feels about Angelina, how the hell does she let her kids be around THAT? hlthe2b Sep 2019 #6
She doesn't!! Laffy Kat Sep 2019 #22
This is from The Wizard Sep 2019 #7
I went to the Youtube site and it's from THe Daily Caller and the comments OMFG they are CurtEastPoint Sep 2019 #10
One of them opined The Wizard Sep 2019 #36
I could only get partway through it.... alittlelark Sep 2019 #8
I lasted 15 seconds before I closed the tab. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Sep 2019 #33
27 seconds... elias7 Sep 2019 #38
30% of America agrees Cartoonist Sep 2019 #9
Makes me wonder... Roy Rolling Sep 2019 #20
What do you even say to madness like that.... FM123 Sep 2019 #11
I say this spike jones Sep 2019 #34
Effin perfect! FM123 Sep 2019 #44
Brainwashed zombie.... Fascist pig. magicarpet Sep 2019 #12
I will never click on anything from the Daily Caller bronxiteforever Sep 2019 #13
He has been like that for years stop giving excuses He won a golden globe in 2013 for best lunasun Sep 2019 #14
Zactly. JV has been a crazy winger most of his life. Duppers Sep 2019 #24
This is what happens when you watch Fox, Newsmax, listen to hate talk radio, and read Brietbart Botany Sep 2019 #15
Its also what happens when you're racist, bigoted, and a pig. KPN Sep 2019 #29
If its dementia, it started about thirty years ago. He's just a nasty mean RWer. marble falls Sep 2019 #16
Never liked him as an actor. Sure don't respect him now. The term deluded seems to fit. usaf-vet Sep 2019 #17
Sadly, I thought much of his acting was quite good. Duppers Sep 2019 #27
Ditto. No question he was a good actor, unlike Ronnie. KPN Sep 2019 #30
Not after Midnite Cowboy and Catch-22. marble falls Sep 2019 #41
Runaway Train was pretty good. KPN Sep 2019 #43
Not enought plot. marble falls Sep 2019 #45
Got into a staring contest with this guy... B Stieg Sep 2019 #18
Interesting story. I can see that. KPN Sep 2019 #32
I think I had just read about "The Friends of Abe" B Stieg Sep 2019 #35
Twelve seconds... that's all I could take. NurseJackie Sep 2019 #19
He needs a new category on his IMDB credits page: projectionist nuxvomica Sep 2019 #21
LOL! Quixote1818 Sep 2019 #23
Not dementia so much as delusional packman Sep 2019 #25
Without clicking on the video, he thinks its just fine and dandy to commit Treason turbinetree Sep 2019 #26
He's still acting on showtime's Ray Donovan Kablooie Sep 2019 #31
It is really sad to see. I think he is/was excellent in several movies: Midnight Cowboy, japple Sep 2019 #37
I don't know exactly what made him think that way, but... Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2019 #39
Jon Voight, James Woods, Kelsey Grammer rpannier Sep 2019 #40
The talent is questionable. smirkymonkey Sep 2019 #42

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. I agree.
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 09:06 AM
Sep 2019

He is living in some kind of hermetically sealed bubble there.

When you start a talk by declaring war on your fellow Americans, just how much credence would you expect your message to have in the first place? Just how patriotic is that?

He drank the Kool-Aid. Sad! He wasn't a bad actor, really. Maybe he thinks he is playing one of his roles now?

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,824 posts)
5. He's been messed up since they held "Jon Voight Day" at Yankee Stadium and he was...
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 09:20 AM
Sep 2019

...hit in the head with a snow tire.

hlthe2b

(102,141 posts)
6. No matter how one feels about Angelina, how the hell does she let her kids be around THAT?
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 09:20 AM
Sep 2019

She at least appears to give a damn about people, the world, the future.

CurtEastPoint

(18,622 posts)
10. I went to the Youtube site and it's from THe Daily Caller and the comments OMFG they are
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 09:29 AM
Sep 2019

just mentally deficient.

The Wizard

(12,536 posts)
36. One of them opined
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 03:44 PM
Sep 2019

that Trump had 70% of the people behind him. Math is science, and they don't do science.

33. I lasted 15 seconds before I closed the tab.
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 01:01 PM
Sep 2019

I'm already sick with a bad cold, so that just gave me another reason to worship the porcelain god.

Cartoonist

(7,311 posts)
9. 30% of America agrees
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 09:28 AM
Sep 2019

I read some responses and was equally disgusted. They were all "Thank you for your wisdom"

Roy Rolling

(6,908 posts)
20. Makes me wonder...
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 10:04 AM
Sep 2019

How many of those people watched the whole video? I couldn’t finish it, it simply wasn’t interesting or entertaining.

These people want to be babysat first, educated second. I now believe they just go from headline-to-headline, never any deeper.

Thanks for the insight!

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
14. He has been like that for years stop giving excuses He won a golden globe in 2013 for best
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 09:45 AM
Sep 2019

supporting actor and that was many years after he first started trashing Obama 100 different ways

Now tell me about how trump only made calls to the Ukraine because he is confused and suffering from dementia
and it is sad he is so ill

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
24. Zactly. JV has been a crazy winger most of his life.
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 11:47 AM
Sep 2019

That's one reason his daughter, Angelina Jolie, hated him.

Botany

(70,449 posts)
15. This is what happens when you watch Fox, Newsmax, listen to hate talk radio, and read Brietbart
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 09:46 AM
Sep 2019

Trump will go down as the biggest traitor in America's history and yet Mr. Voight blathers on and on
about "stuff" that just isn't real.

BTW I didn't make it halfway through the video.

KPN

(15,638 posts)
29. Its also what happens when you're racist, bigoted, and a pig.
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 12:42 PM
Sep 2019

I didn't make it halfway through halfway!

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
18. Got into a staring contest with this guy...
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 09:54 AM
Sep 2019

about ten years ago at the BreadBar in Century City. I had very long hair back then, which Wingnut Voight clearly disapproved of.

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
35. I think I had just read about "The Friends of Abe"
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 03:43 PM
Sep 2019

a club for Hollywood Conservatives which Voight helped found.

nuxvomica

(12,411 posts)
21. He needs a new category on his IMDB credits page: projectionist
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 10:05 AM
Sep 2019

When he was saying something like "Their anger has been building for a long time" it reminded me of arguments I've had with RWers, where they project so much hatred and corruption on the left and it's really some sort of weird reverse confession.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
25. Not dementia so much as delusional
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 11:52 AM
Sep 2019

Guy has no sense or grasp on what is happening in the world and is living in his fantasy world he's created. The man is basically insecure and needs an authoritarian figure in his sad, sad life.

turbinetree

(24,685 posts)
26. Without clicking on the video, he thinks its just fine and dandy to commit Treason
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 11:57 AM
Sep 2019

and let a foreign power just fuck over voters in this country.............

Kablooie

(18,613 posts)
31. He's still acting on showtime's Ray Donovan
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 12:43 PM
Sep 2019

Filming the 7th season right now.

His politics have always been like this. That’s why his daughter, Angelina Jolie, is estranged from him.

japple

(9,809 posts)
37. It is really sad to see. I think he is/was excellent in several movies: Midnight Cowboy,
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 05:00 PM
Sep 2019

Coming Home and Holes. Now, it has become almost verboten to watch anything else he ever does again.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)
39. I don't know exactly what made him think that way, but...
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 05:44 PM
Sep 2019

... I feel confident that it boils down to some desire by him to believe what he WANTS to believe, regardless of evidence to the contrary.

That's my generalization of right-wingers that seems to be the most consistent -- whether it's based on religion, blindly supporting "the greatest country on Earth" regardless of what it does, belief that a particular skin color is superior to others, etc.

Those kinds of people often don't care about facts unless they support their desired beliefs, and they'll accept lies about as easily for the same reason.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
42. The talent is questionable.
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 10:11 PM
Sep 2019

They have extreme personalities, but I am not so sure I consider that talent.

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