Lucasfilm said Wednesday night that actress Gina Carano, whose Cara Dune character was a regular on its Star Wars series The Mandalorian, "is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future." Carano drew fire for sharing an Instragm post Tuesday night comparing violence against Jews in Nazi Germany to people with conservative political views in the current United States. "Her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable," Lucasfilm said.
Carano was also dropped by her talent agency, UTA, Variety reports.
The post about Jews and another one making fun of people for wearing face masks had been deleted from Carano's account by Wednesday afternoon. She has previously suggested that vote fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 election and mocked people who put their gender pronouns next to their name.
Lucasfilm has "been looking for a reason to fire her for two months, and today was the final straw," an unidentified source told The Hollywood Reporter, adding that Carano was originally supposed to be unveiled as the star of a new Disney+ series in December, until her November tweets derailed those plans. One show unveiled during the presentation, the Mandalorian spinoff Rangers of the New Republic, "seemed to suggest a path for her character Cara Dune, a former Rebel trooper who had become a Marshall for the New Republic on the show," Variety notes. "Lucasfilm has not yet announced a cast for the new show, however." Peter Weber
murderous_thumb on February 10th, 2021 at 22:50 UTC »
It wouldn't matter if he said it a thousand times. The inciting comes from the fact that he is saying insistingly, repetitively, and with zero room for doubt that the election was stolen. The actions of the mob to try to stop the process become logical if this were true.
How far should the actions of the mob go to stop this? Trump's claims were outrageous, and not the kind that you hold signs and stand outside.
His words, from the first moment that he cock surely affirmed months ago that the election was stolen having no credible evidence are an impeachable offense.
Putting the system in question is not something you do in a modern stable democracy.
The_Lonely_Satirist on February 10th, 2021 at 22:28 UTC »
Answer me this... Why is the emphasis for Republicans strictly on the rhetoric and the interpretation of Trump's speech on January 6th?
This isn't just about one speech.
It's about four years of hateful, divisive rhetoric, fearmongering propaganda, lies, misinformation and conspiracies from Donald J Trump At his rallies, speeches, press conferences, interviews on FOX news and on Twitter. But more importantly it's about the months leading up to the 2020 general election and the months that followed where Trump perpetuated a baseless lie and conspiracy theory surrounding a "rigged" election that convinced nearly every single one of his supporters that the election was stolen from them. Take these things out of the equation and you have no storming of the capitol. Those mindless halfwits were there for Trump, they brandished their flags for Trump, they carried their banners for Trump, they broke into the capitol for Trump. They Rallied for him and chanted "Hang Mike Pence" for him. They erected a gallows for him. They beat police with an American flag for him. They were going to kill for him. They all did it for him and directly because of his actions and rhetoric. PERIOD.
Remember Jim Jones? Remember when 900 people committed mass suicide via cyanide laced punch? Do you think those poor people would have done so if they had listened to Jim Jones for the first time that day? Heard just one speech? FUCK NO, it took countless speeches, endless proselytizing and preaching, and many many lies. It wasn't just one speech that created the circumstances for the storming of the capitol, it was months, nay YEARS of speeches, rallies, and twitter rants that fueled a movement of hate and vitriol, division, fearmongering, bigotry, misinformation and conspiracies.
Magnon on February 10th, 2021 at 22:07 UTC »
Republicans will ignore a thousand instances as long as he said peace once.
"Said peacefully once see, open and shut case Johnson."