@LightTemple@GadSaad Says the lady sitting in her million dollar house at the end of a cul da sac , isolated by a forest. Easy to say when you are not in the middle of a city and having to deal with criminals on a daily basis.
@PolitiBunny Had this sort of interaction with many ex friends - we could not have a conversation without it ending up with me listening to them rattle on about Trump being a Russian asset, rapist, convicted felon, etc.
Obama made you buy health insurance; Biden temporarily subsidized premiums, with $24B yearly to insurers. Subsidies expire in 2025, hiking costs 200-300%, a deliberate bribe. Trump didn’t create this, Obama did. And Biden temporarily expand the subsidies in 2021, not to help you, it’s to buy votes in 2022 and 2024, now the election is over, your bill goes up, but their donors still getting paid. It's a cash pipeline to donors like UnitedHealthcare, Pfizer and Blue Cross; politicians gridlock elsewhere but not here. You're the hostage, they win, you lose.
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
To my future friends at the University of California at Berkeley, on behalf of Turning Point USA, I look forward to having our conversation. I look forward to ALL your questions. I don’t promise to have all the answers, but I promise to explore each and every one of your thoughtful questions WITH you in good faith.
And while we may not agree, hopefully we can find some common ground and with mutual respect and appreciation of how free speech and a peaceful dialogue of disagreement can help us question our certainties and our foundational belief systems, which in a healthy society,
will always leads to us to a better place.
God bless you all. I look forward to seeing you soon!
Rob Schneider
@JillianMichaels@Riley_Gaines_@PiersUncensored I commend you for being on the show and especially staying on the show while having to listen to some of the other commentators . Keep up the good work.
Nobody is asking people who did not like Charlie Kirk to cry about his death.
We are, however, asking you to shut the fuck up and not be a subhuman piece of shit.
Is that really so difficult?