How influential was Susan Sarandon in the 2016 election?

[BigmanPigman]

Do you think her badmouthing Hillary was negative? Would Hillary have had a better outcome if Susan kept her personal opinions to herself instead of using her celerity platform to promote her own issues?

[msongs]

1. insignificant but some people made themselves feel better by dumping on her nt

[Cha]

8. That is absolutely not true. Sarandon

spewed all over the place that "Hillary is worse than trump" , Hillary would start a war", and "trump would bring the revolurion"

How did that fucking work out?

Not a good look to stick up for Sarandon.

[sheshe2]

13. Welp, she sure didn't help.

She voted for Jill Stein.



Oh, and Michael Flynn is at the table as well.

https://abcnews.com/US/doj-pay-trump-adviser-michael-flynn-1m-settle/story?id=131411111

[George McGovern]

2. According to a 2017 article in The Guardian, I'd say Sarandon was pretty anti-Hillary.

From the article:
"Did she really say that Hillary was more dangerous than Trump?"

'“Not exactly, but I don’t mind that quote,” (Sarandon) says. “I did think she was very, very dangerous. We would still be fracking, we would be at war [if she was president]. It wouldn’t be much smoother. Look what happened under Obama that we didn’t notice.'”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/26/susan-sarandon-i-thought-hillary-was-very-dangerous-if-shed-won-wed-be-at-war

Who can tell the influence of her opinions. Sarandon is known to be outspoken.
I'm sure she didn't do Hillary any good. And her ambiguous statement about President Obama is downright insulting to these Democratic ears.

Thanks for your post BigmanPigman. Food for thought.

[lostincalifornia]

3. She helped, as did Nina Turner, David Sirota, Briana Joy Gray, Cornell West, etc

Who not only refused to vote for Hillary. But encouraged others to do likewise.

and don’t forget Jill Stein comey, and the sexist anti-Hilary MSM.


In every critical swing state Hillary lost by less than 1% while Jill Stein received 1% of the vote in those critical swing states.

It didn’t take much.

[bottomofthehill]

4. Sarandon is a dipshit

And her attacks on Hillary clearly did not help. I wonder how that whole Jill Stein thing is working out for her.

[Cha]

9. Thank You for knowing that!

[sheshe2]

5. Susan Sarandon: If 'Dangerous' Hillary Would've Won, 'We Would Be at War'

During the 2016 presidential election, Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon was a fervent Bernie Sanders supporter. And she really, really, REALLY disliked Hillary Clinton. Before Sanders lost the Democratic nomination to Clinton, Sarandon told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that she didn’t think she could vote for Hillary in a two-person race with Donald Trump. She also told Hayes that “some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in.”

Following the election — Sarandon eventually supported and voted for Green candidate Jill Stein — the actress has taken quite a bit of heat from the center-left over her refusal to support Clinton and her insistence that a Trump presidency wouldn’t have been much worse than Hillary’s. In another interview with Hayes in February, she said Trump’selection made people more “awake” and involved. Meanwhile, in an April appearance on The Late Show, she echoed those sentiments, stating that people are more “energized” with him in office.

Well, a recent interview with The Guardian is sure to further raise the ire of moderates, Democrats and Clinton supporters. Why? Oh, just because Sarandon said that Clinton is extremely “dangerous” and would have led the country into war.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/susan-sarandon-if-dangerous-hillary-clinton-wouldve-won-we-would-be-at-war/

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She is an asshole, why are we even talking about a woman that trashed our Democratic candidate and in the end voted for a Russian asset by the name of Jill Stein.

Here she is dining with Putin.

[Cha]

11. Thanks, she! It's been documented that Stein

was a Spoiler in the Swing states by Dav Wasserman. And she parrotted Sarandon.

[sheshe2]

12. Yes, correct, Cha.

Oh, and remember this?

Nevada Caucus Susan Sarandon gets in the face of Dolores Huerta President of the United Farm Workers. Sarandon is an outspoken supporter of Bernie Sanders. Dolores Huerta supports Hillary Clinton. She really wanted to drive the Monsanto GMO message thru but was it effective and the right way to do it?

I respect peoples passion for their candidates but there is a line between being a supporter and a fanatic. It is truly a frustrating en-devour sometimes to try and inform someone when you think you're right and the other person isn't. I think we have all felt that way at one point or another Even if you disagree with someones vote, you can't force your point of view/information on them. You can inform them of what you know or think you know and then they will have to decide if they want to process the information you provided. You may want to do a counterpoint to a response but to actively harass someone is crossing the line.

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What is she even doing in Nevada? Why is she at their caucus she doesn't live there!

[Cha]

14. Yes, Sarandon was nasty to Delores Huerta

Mahalo for knowing what actually happened.

[Sympthsical]

6. Almost none at all

But she gave a famous face and focus for people who really wanted to yell about the Bernie Bros. She just made for a convenient locus for the ire.

I think she rubbed some Boomers the wrong way. She's kind of more their thing. And of course, being a woman, she gets that extra target on her back. Just like how Gillibrand single-handedly brought down Al Franken and no man within 1,000 miles of Washington had any kind of opinions on that.

It's just people needing a villain, and women make for better villains.

No one under 50 was hanging on Susan Sarandon's political opinions. People can't accept that in 2016, people didn't really live with Hillary Clinton the same way anymore. They didn't come up with her. They didn't watch her in the 90s. They only really knew her as probably the most privileged white woman in the world at a time when progressives involved with intersectionality were really interrogating that privilege. She was a big meh for a lot of people. But the people who have been invested in her for decades and strongly identified with her biography just could not - and still cannot - perceive that she was no longer viewed in that same deferential way by younger generations.

There was a generational divide on the hagiography that came to the fore in 2016.

Which is why Sarandon being the villain is really funny. There are so many reasons that election went pear-shaped, and I don't think I'd put an elderly former actress in the top 100 there. Like there was an army of twentysomething men roaming around, "Susan Sarandon said what?! Shit, that's all you had to say!"

[canetoad]

7. Non-issue nt

[ColoringFool]

15. What is your point? Famous people by definition have influence to some degree.....

It is, however, impossible to measure ....

But you know this. So to reiterate: What's your point?

[BigmanPigman]

16. I was reading a current article about her

and she was put on a level as a profoundly enlightened woman at the age of 78 and she was praised as if she walked on water. I chose to differ.

[sheshe2]

17. Oh Snap.

[Cha]

18. Bradly Whitford call her out on her LIES

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about Hillary..

Bradley Whitford to Susan Sarandon: 'Are you incapable of admitting you were wrong' about Hillary Clinton?

I don't think she's very popular in Hollywood. I recall her whining about it once.

[SocialDemocrat61]

19. She didn't help

[Cha]

23. And, that shows how Brainwashed &

thoughtless, Sarandon is.

And, narcissistic.. she won't admit she was wrong.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. Sarandon helped trump

Link to tweet

[betsuni]

20. "Always Bet on the Wrong Horse, My Life as an Activist Against Progress and Democracy," a memoir by Susan Sarandon.

[Cha]

24. That's it in a Nutshell.

[betsuni]

30. People try to brush it off as just something a celebrity said once, but it's a movement against the Democratic Party.

Nader in 2000, picked up steam during the Obama years with anti-America pro-Russia Snowden Occupy Wall Street and then The Revolution and ten years of constant attacks.

[ms liberty]

21. She was not at all influential outside her own sphere of fame and activism

There are a lot of commenters replaying everything she said and did in that time period, but as far as her so-called "influence on voters" is concerned, the real question becomes, who was really listening to what she said and did? How many people were following her, and forming their opinions based on her? How many voters did she sway?

I would contend that it was very few, excepting perhaps those directly in her real world interactions. IRL for me at least, no one was talking about her or her opinion. She was just another celebrity, being a celebrity with a political candidate. "Oh yea, wasn't she in Bull Durham?"

[Autumn]

22. That has happened every election in my life. Some celebrity says something about some candidate.

The candidate wins or they lose. But that loss or win has nothing to do with a celebrity saying something about them. It's their campaign. They get the votes or they don't.

[betsuni]

25. Sarandon and Tulsi Gabbard spread the attack-from-the-left that Democrats are dangerous warmongers.

President Obama was going to start WWIII and empire build, killed innocent children with drone weapons, had a kill list. Hillary was a dangerous Warhawk who'd start WWIII two seconds after inauguration, Tulsi called her the Queen of the Warmongers personifying the rot of the Democratic Party and Sarandon that Hillary was more dangerous than Trump. Genocide Joe and Killer Kamala.

Not just about Sarandon, Tulsi, it's popular propaganda used to decrease support for Democrats. It works and we see Israel used to bash Democrats all the time. Next election will be AIPAC AIPAC genocide genocide genocide. Republicans don't have to lift a finger.

[FascismIsDeath]

26. She was an emblematic example of a problem we had, have and will continue to have on the fringes of the "tHe leFt".

[JBTaurus83]

27. She was an enemy to progressives

And helped to defeat the best chance at a female president we have had.

I see her type of trolling and mindset all of the time. If you don’t agree with me 100% I just won’t vote. The system will burn down…until it doesn’t and just gets worse.

Fuck her and anyone who supports that mindset.

[Mike Niendorff]

28. I literally don't know one person who was even aware of anything she was saying, let alone influenced by it.

This is a dead horse. The right-wing attack machine is deep and real -- let's talk about Facebook, Fox, Q-Anon, insane right-wing echo-chamber groups, the whole billionaire network, even the tabloid smears Trump's friend David Pecker had placed next to every supermarket checkout line in America. If you want to find how they did it, those are your culprits. Look there.


MDN

[H2O Man]

29. Please

[Raine]

31. Sarandon's has no influence whatsoever, she's nothing more than gnat

except in her own mind.

[Orrex]

32. Dammit, Janet!

[MustLoveBeagles]

36. Lol 😅

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. Sarandon helped bush win in 2000

We have can thank Sarandon for the Iraq War, John Roberts and Alito

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. Sarandon helped trump in 2016

Link to tweet