Summary
Musician Yasmin Williams posted a viral email exchange with John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts interim director Richard Grenell, who lashed out when she questioned DEI rollbacks and canceled shows under Trump’s leadership.
Grenell accused artists of boycotting Republicans and told Williams, “Don’t be gullible,” and “I’m too busy to confront your vapidness.”
He defended axing DEI, calling it “bullshit” and blaming “woke” programming for financial woes: “Zero in the bank and zero in reserves.”
The Kennedy Center has since canceled 20+ shows, fueling industry outrage.
These MAGA Republicans are all the same: they spend their time going around being the biggest assholes and making everyone’s life a misery in whichever way they can, yet if anyone comes back with even the mildest question they freak out and lash out because they are extremely fragile and insecure. They treat everyone like shit but are always on a hair trigger to cry that people are being mean to them. The whole movement seems to be built on various personality disorders.
I have been sayiing it for a long time - being MAGA is a sign of a serious character flaw, even mental illness. I will not be friends with a MAGA, they are untrustworthy to the core. These are the people like the Germans, who got along great with their neighbors, and when the Nazis came along, they sold out those same friendly neighbors.
If you have a MAGA “friend,” they will betray you eventually.
A friend going MAGA is literally like a death. Dont put so much blame on mourning people. A whole slew of people I grew up with fell to that shit. Suddenly my friends for life were somebody else. Thats hard on people.
Yes. it’s truly shocking to me how many people I know, even family, that I thought were good people, they were good people in fact, but now I wouldn’t tell them where I was hiding Anne Frank.
If you became a maga without a traumatic brain injury, you were never a good person.
Don’t think for a second think you can’t be twisted with hate. Something like this could happen to you, too. Nobody is immune. For all of us that grew up with Star Wars none of you learned that Anakin’s tale is a cautionary one, hate is easy for anyone to fall to. Even a Jedi.
But my hate is a pure, well-reasoned hate. An all-consuming hate that doesn’t care about race or gender or socioeconomic background. It is a hate directed at assholes.
How do you expect me to stop hating MAGAs when I can’t even stop hating myself?
I know that I can’t be twisted with hate. There’s absolutely zero chance I’d end up like a maga.
Star Wars is fiction. The only thing I hate is people who willingly support harming other people who aren’t harming anyone themselves.
They’re stuck in a feedback loop of indidcriminate rage – self-affirming, hateful propaganda – cognitive dissonance – sneaking self-doubt – indidcriminate rage…
I guess that’s par for the course these days, on both sides of the political aisle.
Typical. Arguing with an unreasonable republican zealot, but she has to throw in some both-sides nonsense because she thinks it makes her sound reasonable.
Only way to keep them somewhat unreasonable. Too ego driven and reactive to not use the shit sandwich approach with these fragile snowflakes.
From a purely political perspective both Republicans and Democrats are why we’re in the situation we’re in today.
Sure the Republican Party is objectively worse but it’s like having one pile of shit the size of a house and one the size of a car. Just because one is a bigger pile doesn’t change the fact that they’re both shit.
The question and answer pairs are probably enough to diagnose a serious persecution complex or other mental disorder. He literally isn’t even responding to the question, but like five layers deep of imagined subtext.
Yeah he’s absolutely deranged. It’s worth just reading the emails rather than the article, since it shows how much of a nut job this guy really is.
