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Joined August 2022
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The Cinematic Cuck: How George Clooney Became Hollywood's Most Vain and Vacuous Parasite George Clooney is the perfect specimen of Hollywood's rotting soul, a second-rate actor who has spent three decades playing the role of concerned citizen while embodying everything contemptible about coastal elite arrogance. Look at this creature, this Nespresso salesman in a tuxedo, who has built an entire post-career identity on lecturing working Americans about their carbon footprints while his private jets crisscross the Atlantic like airborne hypocrisies. He admits his climate activism is undercut by his own travel, calls it a "personal weakness," and expects applause for the confession. This is not honesty; this is the calculated humility of a man who knows no consequence will follow. He will keep flying, keep emitting, keep collecting his millions from European luxury brands, and keep telling you to bike to work. The viciousness beneath the veneer emerged early and never stopped. In 2003, with Charlton Heston dying of Alzheimer's, Clooney joked about the diagnosis at an awards ceremony and when criticized, sneered that Heston "deserves whatever anyone says about him" because he headed the NRA. This is the true face: mocking a conservative icon's terminal illness because he disagreed with his politics. He later claimed it was a joke and offered a private apology, but the mask had slipped. He called George W. Bush "just dim," compared his administration to The Sopranos, and spent the Iraq War era posing as a foreign policy expert while his actual expertise began and ended with reading lines written by others. His 2005 film "Good Night, and Good Luck" was not art; it was a partisan hit job disguised as historical drama, McCarthyism analogized to Bush-era counterterrorism with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. His Darfur activism followed the same pattern: simplistic moralizing about complex conflicts, celebrity briefings at the UN that produced nothing but photo opportunities, and the reduction of African civil wars to good-versus-evil narratives that outsiders could solve with enough hashtags and satellite imagery. Conservatives initially dismissed it as Bush-bashing; some later praised his persistence, but the fundamental critique remained. Celebrity activism is not policy. It is ego masquerading as expertise, and Clooney has made it his second career. The financial hypocrisy is breathtaking. He raised fifteen million dollars for Obama in 2012, another fifteen million for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and called the sums "obscene" while pocketing the access and influence. He agreed with Bernie Sanders about money in politics even as he vacuumed it up. This is not principle; this is performance. He plays the conscience-stricken liberal for interviewers and the power-broker for politicians, collecting chits from both sides while delivering nothing to the causes he claims to champion. In June 2024, he co-hosted a fundraiser that raised twenty-eight to thirty million dollars for Joe Biden, then weeks later published a New York Times op-ed declaring that the Biden he saw was "not the same man" and that Democrats could not win with him. Trump called it turning on "Crooked Joe like the rats they both are," and the description fits. Clooney took the money, posed for the photos, then knifed the candidate when convenient, later admitting that replacing Biden with Harris was a "mistake" because she had to run against her own record. He engineered a loss and then distanced himself from it, the Hollywood equivalent of taking credit for the greenlight and blaming the director for the bomb. His Trump obsession has become clinical. He called Trump a "xenophobic fascist" in 2016, predicted Americans would reject him, and has spent every subsequent year proving himself wrong while doubling down. He called Trump a "Hollywood elitist" collecting a SAG pension, a projection so transparent it requires no analysis. In 2026, he called an Iran-related threat a potential war crime, prompting the White House to respond that Clooney commits "war crimes" with his movies. He told ABC and CBS they should have told Trump "go f*** yourself" instead of settling lawsuits, and accused Bari Weiss of dismantling CBS News. This is not political commentary; this is tantrum masquerading as insight, the ravings of a man who cannot accept that his predictions failed and his influence waned. The French citizenship is the final punchline. After years of criticizing America, after calling Trump a fascist and predicting national decline, Clooney and his family received French citizenship in late 2025, settling into their Provence estate with the ease of people who have never depended on the nations they lecture. Trump posted that it was "good news," calling them "two of the worst political prognosticators of all time," and Clooney responded by agreeing America should be made great again "starting in November." The exchange revealed everything: a wealthy critic of America seeking European refuge, a man who treats citizenship as a lifestyle accessory, a "progressive" who flees to a country with its own immigration and crime problems because the taxes are lower and the wine is better. A French official questioned the "double standard" given Clooney's limited French; the question answers itself. Clooney is not a civic-minded Democrat from Kentucky. He is a cosmopolitan parasite who treats politics as another Hollywood production, high-minded rhetoric and personal attacks with no accountability when outcomes disappoint. He is the perfect example of what has destroyed the left: unelected power wielded by people who have never built anything, never risked anything, never suffered the consequences of their prescriptions. He is smug, he is vicious, he is hypocritical, and he is ultimately irrelevant, a man whose cultural moment passed while he was still posing for the cameras. His career is a warning: fame is not wisdom, wealth is not virtue, and the most beautiful people can be the most rotten inside.
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Who believes the natural disasters are due to climate change? Who believes these are birth signs; in anticipation of Jesus Christ’s return, before He reclaims His Church? 🙏🏻@prophecyweekly @UNFCCC @endtimesrefocus @ClimateReality @ChristianStormP @weatherchannel @ProphecyDepot
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This will; eventually, be misused as the all-too-soon to arrive Beast System rises for the Anti-Christ’s temporary rule. Praying for Rapture prior to his rule. @DHSgov introduction will be dry-run. ICE agents to be equipped with $20M electric shock gloves nydailynews.com/2026/08/12/i…
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“Will you restrict central digital currency?(CBDCs)? Many have concern that govt’s/institutions will track household spend patterns.” Some states (Florida, Louisiana, others) passed laws restricting/blocking participation in a federal CBDC. @rapturenearing @MissinRoyko @CoinDesk
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Have you noticed that Democrats like this guy criticize Trump and his policies but never present any of their own for one good reason, the Democrats’ socialist policies all fail …… PLEASE go away …….
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Seems reasonable to me... How about you?
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That’s 1/2 block off of famed Michigan Avenue @ABC7Chicago You know, the street the @DNC was proud of touting during their last convention. This is the shit-show one gets in Dem-led cities.😱They love letting thugs🦹🏽‍♂️go free…you know, they need the votes.
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TRUTH!!
Replying to @DefiantLs
You know, I've always wondered where all those devout liberal Democrats are who were constantly screaming about the separation of church and state. Now Mamdani is making Islam THE state. Doesn't that bother you liberals out there just a bit? You were all hot about it when you thought (wrongly) that Republicans were doing it. Now nothing? Hypocritical bastards you are.
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Truly, what’s better than binging on the “Sharknado” series during a long, grey, rainy weekend with little to do? What movies will you binge? What’s your movie-binging “go-to” snack? @SharknadoSYFY @Movies @ATRightMovies @itsmovies
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Replying to @YossiBenYakar
Immigrants are brought in by the Globalists, Vanguard and Blackrock, to destroy the nation state, particularly those that have free societies. Their goal: a one world government, with a few billionaires at the top and the rest of us economic slaves. They don't care who these people injury, kill or rape in the quest for ultimate power. The greed and pyschopathy is sickening.
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Replying to @elonmusk @nypost
Black Lives Matter criminal justice reforms were a mistake. It was never racist to lock up violent criminals.
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Replying to @DuPageCountyGOP
@ChicagosMayor is a total fucking moron.
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It’s been long enough - IMO, he gets an “ok.” The world misses Saint John Paul ll.
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Replying to @gnuman1979
It’s Time!!
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Replying to @C_3C_3 @awaitekw14
Total scam. Bunch of retards.
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Replying to @C_3C_3 @SLusinskis
So true. Sadly, we are represented by a band of corrupt career politicians.
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