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JOHN CUSACK: ‘WE HAVE 10 TO 12 YEARS’ TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM CLIMATE, CAPITALISM
Grabie News ^ | 18 Jan 2020 | Tom Eliot

Posted on 01/19/2020 10:17:01 AM PST by Rummyfan

Actor John Cusack introducing Bernie Sanders in Exeter, N.H. this afternoon:

CUSACK: "The billionaires are getting nervous and all the corporate media is — they hate us, they don’t hate us, they're confused. And it seems like every conceivable power structure on earth is trying to kill or derail our movement, but we’re still here.

“We know this form of capitalism takes and takes; it takes whatever, whenever, however it wants. It’ll take our lives, it’ll take our labor, our spirit, our air and water, even our earth.

“And Bernie respects us enough to tell the truth, the hard truth: We have a ten to twelve year window to radically transform our energy systems, or climate change, predatory capitalism, and endless war economies will rob us of the right to any future at all.

“And as we can see literally every day, the house is on fire. But as Bernie tells us, this is no time for despair, it's no time for anything but action. Because if we stand together, with him, the future is still indeed unwritten. And there’s nothing more powerful than a movement whose time has come. We have never had a movement candidate this close to power with a revolutionary movement he’s led and built, ready-to-go, all the way to change the country and help heal the world.

“With people of every race, creed, gender, everybody stands together in solidarity with all of us whose labor powers this economy, stop the profiteering and tell the billionaires and the corporate tyrannies that it's time to start treating all human beings with respect and dignity."


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To: Rummyfan

If he’s so rich, why ain’t he smart?


81 posted on 01/19/2020 11:34:07 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Leep

Wouldn’t a vaporization chamber put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.


82 posted on 01/19/2020 11:34:46 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Alex Baker

Danny Elfman wrote a song about guys like this:

Capitalism - Oingo Boingo

There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise
Don’t try to make me feel guilty
I’m so tired of hearing you cry

There’s nothing wrong with making some profit
If you ask me I’ll say it’s just fine
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to live nice

I’m so tired of hearing you whine
About the revolution
Bringin’ down the rich
When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby!

If it ain’t one thing
Then it’s the other
Any cause that crosses your path
Your heart bleeds for anyone’s brother
I’ve got to tell you you’re a pain in the ass

You criticize with plenty of vigor
You rationalize everything that you do
With catchy phrases and heavy quotations
And everybody is crazy but you

You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And you tell me that we’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses (whoever they are)

You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain . . .

There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism


83 posted on 01/19/2020 11:36:10 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: guyfromjrz
“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.” (Say Anything)

Like Sean Penn as Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, maybe that was his best and most true to himself role.

84 posted on 01/19/2020 11:38:43 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: DeplorablePaul
Cusack’s career is over. He made all the money he’s gonna make. Now he is free to be a commie.

Out of work actors resort to virtue signalling online in order to get back into the minds of producers and other Hollywood leftists with money. If you see a celebrity spewing leftist talking points, they are just looking for work.

85 posted on 01/19/2020 11:44:41 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Rummyfan

Poor John. We only care what your sister Joan thinks.


86 posted on 01/19/2020 11:44:58 AM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: Rummyfan

Glad to hear your point of view John. All enemies of liberty, freedom and capitalism are my enemies!


87 posted on 01/19/2020 11:53:56 AM PST by 2001convSVT (Medicare for All = Medical Care for None!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My calculation is 10.7178082 years from October 8, 2018 when the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the “Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 deg. C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways.”


88 posted on 01/19/2020 11:54:54 AM PST by calico_thompson (Vanity sarcasm)
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To: Vince Ferrer

....”If you see a celebrity spewing leftist talking points, they are just looking for work”....

Oh isn’t that the truth!


89 posted on 01/19/2020 11:55:17 AM PST by caww
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To: calico_thompson

I just pulled my estimate out of my Obamahole.


90 posted on 01/19/2020 12:09:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: stockpirate

I did say “good movies” in quotes...and by good i mean monetarily successful..not great..formula movies of the 80’s and 90’s aimed at teens and 20 something.


91 posted on 01/19/2020 12:16:46 PM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Bommer
As of January 2020, John Cusack has an estimated net worth of $55 million.......A guy worth that might not be the best messenger to spew this:

“The planet is faltering in face of relentless corporate plunder … And, sadly, violence, and fascism and poverty is spreading around the globe"..."“They fear us ... because we’re going to take on their greed and their corruption and we’re going to win.”

Hypocrisy at it's best!


92 posted on 01/19/2020 12:19:47 PM PST by caww
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To: Hardastarboard

“you could have substituted pretty much any actor for him.”

THis is true but in the spirit of capitalism..his movies did make money.
sort of like pop music is mostly lame but some of it is listenable if you are in the right mood.
BTW if he evaporated tomorrow i wouldn’t care.


93 posted on 01/19/2020 12:21:37 PM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Right Wing Assault; Dilbert San Diego
"destroy capitalism to fight global warming? What does one have to do with the other?"

Dilbert they don't want to ban oil to reduce CO2. Every major energy and major oil company (including Exxon) is in favor of the scam.

They don't even call themselves oil companies anymore. They're energy companies. Money and power is their goal.

The Clintons call it "the third way" which is a unification of corporations and government.

They're selling it as Eduard Bernstein version of Democratic socialism. Which in reality is the very earliest version of National socialism (Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany.)

94 posted on 01/19/2020 12:35:10 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Rummyfan
John - Show us that you're not a hypocrite and give all your money and future income to poor communists (anti-capitalists) in Cuba or China. Also, further prove your resolve by pledging to personally stop using cars, buses, planes and anything else that used fossil fuels. Also, live the rest of your life in a tee-pee or sod house with zero modern conveniences; this will contribute to minimizing your carbon footprint.

Thanks John !!

95 posted on 01/19/2020 12:37:41 PM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: Rummyfan

Where’s Ricky Gervais when you need him?


96 posted on 01/19/2020 12:41:34 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: JesusIsLord
Here's Cusack's beachfront mansion. I guess he's not too worried about "Climate Crisis">


97 posted on 01/19/2020 12:45:40 PM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: Rummyfan

We have to save the planet from the likes of aholes such as John Cusack.


98 posted on 01/19/2020 12:52:23 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (I'm triggered by liberals and other assorted moonbats.)
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To: Rummyfan

He had a starring role in a movie about the end of the world so he must know what he’s talking about, right?


99 posted on 01/19/2020 1:13:57 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s called the UN world migration initiative...they admit that climate change isn’t about climate at all but about bringing 3rd world people to industrialized west in order to destroy capitalism, hence everyone is equally miserable {equality}


100 posted on 01/19/2020 1:15:04 PM PST by faturism ( ep)
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