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[–] 59 points 2 months ago

Republicans brought back fascism. Don't let them claim otherwise once Trump croaks.

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  • [–] 139 points 2 months ago (43 children)

    I didn't recognize this person and people in the comments seem skeptical about this person:

    I looked her up, i believe this is Rosie O'Donnell, comedian turned tv show presenter.

    Relevant bits according to wiki on politics, ideology and Trump.

    O'Donnell came out as a lesbian in 2002. An outspoken advocate for lesbian rights and gay adoption issues, she is a foster and adoptivemother.

    From 2006 to 2007, O'Donnell endured a controversial run as the moderator on the daytime talk show The View, which included a public feud with future president Donald Trumpand on-air disputes regarding the Bush administration's policies with the Iraq War.

    In early 2025, shortly after Trump was inaugurated for a second presidential term, O'Donnell moved to Ireland and applied for Irish citizenship through descent.[2] In July 2025, Trump threatened to revoke her U.S. birthright citizenship.[3]

    After the Columbine shootings, O'Donnell became an outspoken supporter of gun control

    O'Donnell sometimes provoked debate, at one time stating "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam."[40] On the February 24, 2003, episode of Phil Donahue's talk show, O'Donnell referred to the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston resulting in $157 million awarded to 983 claimants,[41] stating "I hope the Catholic Church gets sued until the end of time. Maybe, you know, we can melt down some of the gold toilets in the Pope's Vatican and pay off some of the lawsuits because, the whole tenet of living a Christ-like life, has been lost in Catholicism."[42]

    In December 2006, O'Donnell criticized Donald Trump for holding a press conference to reinstate Miss USA Tara Conner, who had violated pageant guidelines, accusing him of using her scandal to "generate publicity for the Miss USA Pageant" (to which he owned the rights) by announcing he was giving her a second chance.[58][59] O'Donnell commented that due to Trump's multiple marital affairs and questionable business bankruptcies, he was not a moral authority for young people in America. She stated, "Left the first wife, had an affair. Left the second wife, had an affair – but he's the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America."[59]In response, Trump began a "vicious" mass media blitz in which he appeared on various television shows, either in person or by phone, threatening to sue O'Donnell (he never did).[60]He called her names, insulted her by saying he would "send one of my friends to pick up her girlfriend [Kelli] and I think it would be easy", and claimed that Barbara Walters regretted hiring her.[60][61][62][63]

    Over her career, O'Donnell has developed a reputation for raising funds and her own philanthropy to charitable causes. In May 1996, Warner Books advanced O'Donnell $3 million to write a memoir.[116] She used the money to seed her For All Kids Foundation to help institute national standards for day care across the country.[116]

    Since 1997, Rosie's For All Kids Foundation, overseen by Elizabeth Birch, has awarded more than $22 million in Early Childhood Care and Education program grants to over 900 nonprofit organizations.[128] On October 30, 2006, she was honored by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.[129] "It's our privilege to be honoring and hosting Rosie," said NYSPCC president David Stack in a statement.

    O'Donnell is a Democrat.[143] She has contributed funds to multiple political campaigns, including to the campaign to elect Senator Doug Jones of Alabama.[144][145]

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

    I didn't realize that I liked O'Donnell so much, or that Trump has been such a shithead in public for so long.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    He's been a public shit head since at least 1989 when he called for the death penalty for some innocent teens.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Colin Moore, one of the attorneys defending one of the Central Park defendants, said that the ad "proved that anything is possible in America", and that "even a fool can become a multi-millionaire."

    A fool can become so much more now...

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

    He's been a shit head for so long that 90's films called it out. I'm sure I can find SNL skits older than I am taking the piss out of him.

    ... yup. 1988.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    Yeah, she gets a little overboard at times, but it all comes from the right place in her heart. She kept a fairly low profile (comparatively speaking) over the past couple decades, but she's always been doing good things. I don't know that I'd want her in any position that required significant diplomacy and tact, but I'd definitely back her if she ever wanted to do anything political.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    I don't know that I'd want her in any position that required significant diplomacy and tact

    I find it genuinely concerning that Americans are more frequently looking towards entertainers for civic leadership.

    Allowing democracy to fully become a popularity contest is an overlooked, and IMO underweighted contributor to the problems they're facing.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I'm not looking for any particular background, but rather the type of person someone is. The fact celebrities are inevitably more well-known than obscure local politicians probably has much more to do with the effect you're probably conflating than anyone deliberately looking just for celebrities to lead.

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  • [+] -28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The fact that you obviously didn't read, or at least failed to comprehend, the point they were trying to make really concerns me...

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  • [+] -22 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Thanks, that helps a lot. I think what's going on is that people (including me, until I read your comment) had her confused with Roseanne Barr.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I just realized I’ve been conflating O’Donnell and Barr as the same person my whole life. Every time I heard something shitty about Barr I thought “But wasn’t she kinda cool?”

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It’s funny that Rosanne Barr ever got to be a darling of the right after the Barr-Mangled Banner

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  • [+] -13 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    You're missing all the parts where she's obnoxious as hell and emits this loud shrieking noise that makes you want to ram a screwdriver into your ears to make stop.

    Also... what the fuck is with all the links and broken source links? That might be the laziest copy/paste I've ever seen.

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

    No, that's Fran Drescher. Wrong sitcom. (also apparently another decent person IRL. Though she has more controversies being the lead of SAG-AFTRA).

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

    Nah, I'm old. I definitely saw too much of Rosie shrieking.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I cant add what I didnt find on wikipedia

    It was time consuming enough to read through it and i really didn’t have the time then so no i did not spend another 30 minuts pain stakingly removing wikipedias formatting on a phone.

    Lazyness would have been to not bother making a comment at all.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    She's not my favorite, but she really got taken for a ride back then. They smeared the hell out of her for speaking out.

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

    Didn't she compare black people to apes, and then claim it wasn't racist, just political?

    Edit: Nevermind, that was Roseanne Barr. Rosie O'Donnell is the good Rosie.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    "I love gay men. Without them, us fat chicks would have nobody to dance with." -Roseanne Barr

    Her descent into right-wingity was really tragic. Roseanne was one of the few series to genuinely show what life for working-class people is really like.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    TIL that nobody here knows the difference between Rosie O'Donnell and Roseanne Barr.

    Jesus Christ people

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago*

    and to think kathy griffins career got cancelled just by showing a faux severed head of trump.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    Solid joke, Rosie's still got it

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Only just realizing Rosanne Barr and Rosie O'Donnell are different people....

    I'm not much a fan of either, but I really despise the one of them (Rosanne)

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    She has to call him both "pedophile" and "rapist" before I board.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    These two should’ve duked it out on the lawn for the UFC event. I would’ve watched that.

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

    Pretty sure anti vaxxers brought back measles but I’m not against blaming trump for everything

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

    him putting a quack into the highest medical office surely counts for something at least

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

    Anti vaxxers have been doing this crap for a while they don’t care whose in charge of highest medical office

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    i never liked her. rosie o'donnell became the white oprah in the late 90s. she was the antidote to all the trashy daytime talk shows that saturated the airwaves at the time. she was pure and whole some. but there was a darkness underneath her everywoman, standup comedian charm.

    she spoke the language of fearful, boring, white suburban moms; these were the type of moms who cut off their children if they were gay or smoked a doobie. she was never really funny or charming unless you spent a lot of time at the applebee's happy hours and giggled when your male co-worker referenced the macarena in a lame joke that was 3 or 4 years out of fashion, but she could fool you.

    her rise to fame and fortune is uniquely american in a very bad way. she doesn't deserve celebration, only ridicule. lots of people dislike trump, at least 80% of the internet does.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Did she merge with Bannon?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I became aware of Rosie in the 2000's from the legendary rap battle video, between Eli Porter and Envy - " yo i'ma let you know who da best by the hour, you're like Rosie O'Donnell in a bisexual bridal shower ". - bars

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (16 children)

    Wasn't she waxing him just a little bit ago?

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  • [–] 73 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Aren't you thinking of Rosanne Bar? I thought Rosie was always anti trump

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  • [+] -19 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Yeah they had a falling out and she continues to wiffle waffle to stay relevant.

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

    This is Rosie O'Donnell, you're thinking of Roseanne Barr.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Wouldn’t ya know it I think they were the same person in my brain until you corrected me. Thank you!

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

    I did that with Mel Gibson and Mel Brooks for years, don't feel too bad. It happens.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Lol. I bet you think Geoffrey Baratheon and Geoffrey the Giraffe are the same person too.

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