The Reacher star called Trump a “bitch” and a “fucking rapist" in a recent podcast appearance

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[–] 99 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The response arrived a day after Ritchson’s interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast. The actor called the president a “bitch” and a “fucking rapist,” and criticized the government over the sluggish release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and the president’s alleged association with the convicted pedophile. “The Epstein files, the fucking Epstein files!” Ritchson said. “Goddamn it! Where are they? It’s a fucking law, bitch. Show it. You fucking pedophiles!” (Trump has repeatedly denied rape allegations against him.)

Launching into his tirade, Ritchson added, “This is my fucking politics, dude. I would fucking railroad these fuckers. I would get those Epstein files out in two seconds. Fucking move out of the way. I don’t care what room they’re in, bitch, move. Give me the fucking manila envelope. I will get you the Epstein files. Don’t you want to see what’s in there, so that we can hold people accountable? These fucking rapists! We’re just cool with it?”

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  • [–] 79 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Love that dude (Ritchson, obviously)

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

    Careful. I bet he's human and some flaw will pop out soon. I bet he tips too much or something.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Well I haven't seen him in a tan suit, so I think we're good

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  • [–] 79 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The President is getting pissy about private citizens talking shit and that's just so damn sad. We all deserve better than this nazi white trash bullshit.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    This could easily end in more than Trump getting pissy. Season 4 of Reacher is coming out, and it's owned by Amazon. So I'm wondering if Trump is going to try to fuck with it by calling Bezos .

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I never thought Thad would be so anti Trump. Ritchson is a badass.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    He was so good at playing Thad I pretty much assumed he'd be like Thad. But it seems to me more and more that this is not the case

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    He's pretty Thad-like from the interviews I've seen. Not in how he treats people or his views. But more how he speaks and his mannerisms. When he gets excited his voice pitches up and you can really hear Thad coming through.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Glad to hear this. Fuck Trump this guy a great actor.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    He's showing real balls here, too. Reacher is one of those dad shows that I'll bet skews into a very conservative audience. I could see there being meaningful blowback for this interview

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Reacher comes off a leftist to me, so hard for me to see conservatives into that show. I mean the character literally a homeless nomad that doesn't carry a suitcase or anything but clothes on his back. Not exactly something they approve of.

    Maybe the Tom Cruise version but not the one play by this actor.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    You're probably overthinking it, they don't really put a lot of critical thought into the things they like. These are people who literally worship a communist hippie, without an ounce of self-awareness.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    From what I've seen of it, it's a big tough guy doing cop shit and pushing people around with his big tough-guyness. Admittedly haven't seen much but parts of episodes here and there that was the impression I got. Looked very boomerish to me.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    I was a fan before, I'm a bigger fan now.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Trump should defend his honor by getting into the Thunderdome with Ritchson.

    Two men enter. One pedo doesn't leave.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Anybody got a timer set to measure how long till the DOJ finds some Trumped-up charge to hit this actor with?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Maybe they should sue. That totally won't blow up in their stupid ass faces when it comes to trying to prove that that child rapist isn't in fact a child rapist.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    The dude who played Brooklyn 99s Scully in flashbacks being awesome. No huge guy with tears talking to 'the president' this time, just someone telling how it is. Probably a bigger dude than Trump imagines for his stories too, dude is huge. Actually haven't watched Reacher but gf does, seems decent enough show from what I caught plus he looks like someone you don't want to be on the wrong end of.

    Unlike a dude who gets pissy if someone calls him out or can't forget mashed potatoes on his head as a kid.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I love that guy. Alan Ritchson is a fucking Chad.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Streisand effect right here. I had no idea who this guy was, but now I do

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    Was Donald in the Epstein files?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Yes, we've already been shown that his name is in there a crap ton. But the justice department is refusing to comply with an order to release them. Why would that be?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    One reason is Biden's failure to put Donald behind bars after the insurrection.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    i always knew all this was bidens fault. or at least obamas. man i hate what clinton did the 911 and the patriot act.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Genuinely, YES!

    WHY DIDNT OBAMA THROW BUSH IN JAIL?!?

    One war criminal protecting another.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    why didn't nixon got to jail. This be totally unrelistic attitude of lets just pretend and not have any effect and feel good about ourselves because we took inconsequential actions that are in your head somehow a better stance. Ill never get it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

    I’ll never get how shitlibs think voting for Diet Republicans™️ will do anything but slow the descent into fascism.

    Overton Window. Marches perpetually right. It’s happened multiple times. Figure it out.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    all of that comes from republicans winning. after one of their sessions new things become "normal". you are moving the overton window. my devil every time I think about the few votes it would have taken to have environmental friendly gore as president in the 2000's much less not having trump pulling us out of the paris accords. yeah you just tell yourselves your not responsible and its all the same..

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    which came about from what the voters were telling them they wanted with reagan. every time republicans win it tells them how they should do things. Its like any thing else. When you are in a competitive sport you look at the guy who won and try to emulate his winning strategy.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well, glad we’re on the same page. Democrats are simply what republicans were five years ago.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    not really. its a bit more complex but certainly obamacare is like the republican healthcare alternative in 1993. So more like 20 years. Even then it has aspects that are better and more left. Medicaid expansion and forcing insurance to pay a minimum of what they take in for patient care. Its similar but a whole lot better. Lots of folks like the republicans winning though so it can just move a bit farther every decade or so while they sit on their high horse and think they can do better by everyone experiencing worse.

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    [–] 52 points 3 months ago

    Don’t forget “pedophile.”

    And felon.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

    I never watched the show before. My parents do. But not me. I might need to start. More so called celebrities should start with this sort of behavior.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Alan Ritchson is pretty great. He's super funny and from everything I've seen an actual good person. His action movies and shows are good too, he's one of the "do your own stunts" types and he seems to put forward a lot of effort in his roles.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was a flawed movie that nevertheless showed him and Henry Cavil going to town on Nazis in WWII. Ritchson plays a meek, nice librarian-like fellow who is absolutely jacked and has no mercy for any German he catches while on mission. https://youtu.be/Fj5gIuBko-0?t=94

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    most of them either are right wing nutties: pratt and jon bernathal, or zionist defenders, or hidden pedos themselves. seems there a a very few that criticizes the regime. it will be interesting if he gets blacklisted by hollywood.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    its a good show and mostly do to his portrayal of the character. I liked the shows but now im going to be looking for things with him in it even more.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I think it's a good show with an excellent format, which makes it punch well above it's weight. It doesn't play games with cliff hangers, or episodic drivel. Each season is essentially four movies worth of contained story.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    He's a fan favorite for the next batman.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    You're the best, Thad.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Reacher Season 4 coming soon.

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