Susan Sarandon in two Tweets, on the same day

[geek tragedy]

Tweet 1: Scolding Elizabeth Warren as insufficiently committed to the cause of equality and fighting the elites

Susan Sarandon Verified account
?@SusanSarandon

Susan Sarandon Retweeted Elizabeth Warren

Is this meant to be ironic after you just endorsed Clinton???

Susan Sarandon added,

Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren
Government should be accountable to the people, not Wall Street lobbyists, deep-pocketed donors, and secretive Super PACs.

Tweet 2: Italian cashmere!

Susan Sarandon Verified account
?@SusanSarandon

Beautiful cashmere collection, Italian-made @FalconeriTweet in Taormina. Thank you! So generous and fun.

Don't be a Susan Sarandon.

[onehandle]

1. Multi-millionaire Naderite Tweets something. nt

[msanthrope]

2. Revolution of the People! Oligarchy. .....Squirrel!!!! nt

[Scurrilous]

29. LOL

Squirrel!!1!

[Henhouse]

30. LOL....n/t

[Cha]

71. #Wall Street #Cashmere! LOL!

[Cooley Hurd]

3. She's a great actress and I'v enjoyed her work for years...

...and the Warren tweet WAS ironic.

[geek tragedy]

5. yes, Warren has shown to lack Purity Of Essence and is guilty

of living in the real world, unlike Naderite nitwit hypocrites like Susan Sarandon (who supported Iraq War Resolution co-sponsor, DLC darling, and hedge fund employee Papa John Edwards in 2008).

[ChairmanAgnostic]

56. Well put.

[riversedge]

4. Hopefully, she will just fade away SOON! but I doubt it.

[geek tragedy]

6. she will continue to be an overprivileged moron nt

[Surya Gayatri]

12. ^^^This!^^^

"overprivileged moron"

[Mike Nelson]

7. Stick to acting...

...Susan. You have a right to speak out and use your wealth and celebrity, granted. But you make progressives look loony.

[CorkySt.Clair]

70. Agreed.

[auntpurl]

8. Awful woman.

[DURHAM D]

10. She needs anger management therapy. nt

[baldguy]

11. Talk about clueless 1%ers with tone-deaf tweets....

[LenaBaby61]

13. So, I'm guessing...

That since Sen. Bernie Sanders is hinting that he'll be meeting with Hillary Clinton soon, she'll throw him under the bus as well, along with Elizabeth Warren and of course Hillary whose been under the bus.

As Mama said, if you don't have something good to say about someone, then just don't say anything.

Well, I guess I can't say anything about Susan's meteoric rise to becoming queen of nitwits then

(Special mention goes out to Roseanne Barr whose also in the running with Susan for nitwit queen).

[geek tragedy]

14. don't annoint Sarandon the queen of nitwits just yet

Rosario Dawson hasn't conceded, and of course Tim Robbins is the king, which could get awkward

[jzodda]

15. What a loser

Said trump was better than Clinton. Hope she moved to Mars. It's not far enough but I did hear shes from there.

[Florencenj2point0]

16. That video of her yelling in the face of Dolores Huerta

with such anger that she was practically spitting, getting those around her to gang up "get the video, get the video".... I will never forgive that stupid woman. With the exception of "Dead Man Walking" in which she was good, not great, she has traded on her beauty and sexuality for every roll she has done.
She is dead to me.

[CorkySt.Clair]

86. Yes, me too.

[cwydro]

17. This is pretty funny (in a way).

I hope this is making the rounds on social media.

[Joe the Revelator]

18. To be honest....

that is remarkably tone-deaf.

[Armstead]

19. Yeah I agree..........But the obsession with her is worse

[Maru Kitteh]

39. I find her Nader-loving, 1%er, elitist, parasite of privledge

blabbering pie-hole of hypocrisy to be pretty much worse than anyone who has the temerity to call her out on her crap. YMMV.

[azurnoir]

20. Nowhere near as tasteful as wearing a 12k desinger jacket while your speaking on income inequality

[workinclasszero]

24. How about taking a 600,000 dollar junket to Rome on your followers

social security food money?

FUCK THE OLIGARCHY!!!...or something.

[azurnoir]

25. On followers Social Security food money?

ya go with that

[Florencenj2point0]

28. if she got her clothes off the rack

the media and the men here would be calling her frumpy. Her clothes are none of your business. She pays for them herself.

[CorkySt.Clair]

34. So the rest of the 1 percent is off the hook?

Or just multi millionaire dead Enders like Susy?

[apcalc]

58. The jacket could have been a loaner.

Snopes calls the Hillary/jacket story " MOSTLY FALSE".

[azurnoir]

75. or a donation

[Hekate]

74. Rome

[nolabear]

21. Dammit, Janet!

[BobbyDrake]

22. Susan Sarandon is the poster-child for the phrase "Limousine liberal." nt

[workinclasszero]

23. Worst Bernie surrogate ever!

[CorkySt.Clair]

89. +1

[still_one]

26. Regardless who wins the GE Susan Sarandon will not go hungry, or lack healthcare

[Yavin4]

38. ^^This^^

She can afford to take a gamble on Bernie. African Americans and Latinos cannot.

[Lance Bass esquire]

27. She's a bonehead.

N/t

[Cheese Sandwich]

31. susan sarandon

[enid602]

32. she's 3 for 3

First Nader, then Edwards and now Bern. Her endorsement is the kiss of death.

[CorkySt.Clair]

33. She supported Edwards in 2004 and 2008

So tone deaf tweets arent the only thing she's really shitty at.

BTW, Elizabeth Warren isn't someone you want to get into a war of words with, Susy. Take a seat.

[TSIAS]

35. I love her

I'll take her over that liar America Ferrera any day of the week. Sarandon was right, and Ferrera was wrong in Nevada.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

36. lol

[johnsonmilla]

37. cool

how nice of her

[Ash_F]

40. If they support a $15 minimum wage, I don't care what they wear.

Clinton wears $12,000 outfits and does not support $15/hr.

I am not sure how that is better.

[geek tragedy]

42. Clinton isn't scolding Elizabeth Warren

Loony limousine liberal Susan Sarandon fawns over people like Papa John Edwards but scolds Elizabeth Warren and likes Trump better than Clinton.

[Ash_F]

44. I am concerned with policy, not personality.

I am not a fan of the dogpile on Warren, though I think she made a mistake by not running.

She probably thought she could not win, but look how close Sanders got. We now know she would have won.

Biggest mistake of her life.

[geek tragedy]

45. Maybe she did not want to run for President. nt

[Ash_F]

46. Obviously not, since she didn't. She knew what the Clinton wing would do to her.

That does not mean she was not considering it until very late.

I think it took so long for Sanders to jump in because they were in communication about it.

[geek tragedy]

49. She repeatedly said she had no interest in running.

She signed a letter encouraging Clinton to run.

[Ash_F]

68. Call it a gut feeling.

[msanthrope]

82. Okay...a female Senator signs a public letter encouraging

another female to run.....but your "gut" knows better? I don't think it's your gut.

[Ash_F]

84. Politics is complicated.

[msanthrope]

85. I'm so glad you are here to explain women to us. nt

[Fumesucker]

47. Maybe she didn't want to be treated like Sanders has been

Anyone running against Hillary was guaranteed to have a Niagara of crap dumped on them.

[geek tragedy]

48. Oh please. Sanders barely had a glove laid on him nt

[Eric J in MN]

50. Blue Nation Review portrays Sanders as sexist.

It's owned by David Brock, who runs Hillary Clinton's coordinated Super PAC, Correct the Record.

[geek tragedy]

52. How many people read Blue Nation Review during the primary, 10?

and let's not forget the nastiness that came directly from the Sanders campaign, such as Sanders himself calling Clinton unqualified or Jeff Weaver (who is a sexist asshole) scolding her for being too uppity.

[Eric J in MN]

57. Sanders called HRC unqualified after she implied he was

...and the WaPo ran a headline that she called him unqualified.

I don't know if Blue Nation Review has a lot of readers but some who read it post links at DU and Twitter.

I don't think Weaver was being sexist:

A top aide to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders warned late Tuesday that rival Hillary Clinton is running a divisive campaign that is hurting party unity.

"Don't destroy the Democratic Party to satisfy the secretary's ambitions to become president of the United States," Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told CNN.

"We want to have a party at the end of this that we can unify," he added.

[geek tragedy]

60. yes, Sanders called her unqualified because he didn't bother reading past

the headline of a Washington Post article. There's irony there if you look for it.

This wasn't Weaver's only offense (he also mansplained to Barbara Boxer how she had no right to feel afraid of an angry mob), but it was his most shining example:

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/6/11378306/hillary-clinton-lol-ambition-attack

fter Sanders won the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night, CNN's Jake Tapper asked Weaver whether the Sanders campaign is prepared for a tougher, possibly more negative campaign. Weaver countered, however, that the Clinton camp needs to stop going on the attack.

"This is what I would say to them, which is, you know, don't destroy the Democratic Party to satisfy the secretary's ambitions to become president of the United States," Weaver said. "We want to have a party at the end of this we can unify. Let's have a tough debate. Let's talk about the issues — there's a sharp contrast between the two of them. But let's not denigrate other people's supporters and tear the party apart."

How audacious of Clinton (who remains the party's frontrunner) to want to win her race! It's not like she's been called "one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history," or spent time in the White House, or organized one of the most powerful fundraising operations in the election. Seems like someone sprinkled a bit too much presidential ambition in her oatmeal this morning, amiright?

When asked by CNN's Chris Cuomo to comment on Sanders's assertion that her ambitions are "destroying the Democratic Party," she simply took a moment for a hearty laugh. After catching her breath, she called the idea that she's too ambitious "ludicrous" and went on to tout her work defending and fundraising for the party for the past 40 years.


Of course criticism about Clinton is expected from her opponent's campaign manager. And while some male candidates are called "too ambitious," women's ambitions are often conflated with selfishness.

Weaver's comments don't exist in a vacuum. They reflect the classic gendered critiques made of powerful women. While leadership and likability go hand in hand for men, the opposite is true for women. Study after study shows that women are often punished for seeking positions of power and are less likely to be promoted for those roles despite having equal or better skills than their male counterparts.

In fact, Weaver's description of Clinton fits so neatly into the stale sexist stereotype about powerful women that there's an actual Onion article from 2006 called "Hillary Clinton Is Too Ambitious to Be President." Ten years later, it seems like instead of progressing on female leadership, we're even farther away from reckoning with it.

Clinton knew smashing the glass ceiling of presidential politics would be arduous, but she probably didn't know it would include seeing a decade-old Onion headline become reality.

Weaver's comments were a sexist dog whistle. We can all look forward to his absence from the national conversation going forward.

[Eric J in MN]

62. There is a book titled

..."Presidential Ambition: Gaining Power At Any Cost."

It was published in 2000. It was written about men.

[geek tragedy]

64. so what?

Sanders campaign did a 1-2 punch of calling her "unqualified" and then said she was destroying the party because of her selfish ambition.

In other words, they were telling her to know her place and get back under the glass ceiling, and to not screw things up for the men. Despite the fact she was more qualified and had spent decades building the party Sanders had joined only in order to further his own presidential ambitions, and which he had sued and accused of committing felonious violations of federal banking law.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/opinion-blog/articles/2016-04-15/sanders-self-righteousness-allows-sexist-overtones-in-attacks-on-clinton

I repeat, Jeff Weaver is a sexist asshole and he will not be missed when he goes back to his comic book store.

And after that sexist 1-2 punch they tried to land (but whiffed on badly) please spare us the idea that they were the victims of an ugly smear campaign.

[Eric J in MN]

67. They aren't sexist.

Sanders called Clinton unqualified because of the WaPo headline that HRC called him unqualified.

Weaver referred to Clinton's presidential ambition because "ambition" is a word applied to both men and women and run for president.

[geek tragedy]

69. why did Weaver feel compelled to criticize someone seeking

to be the first woman president in our history for being ambitious?

And, on a related note, how does such an attack make sense given that Bernie Sanders was running for the same job?

Sanders's dumb comments about Clinton being unqualified maybe can be described as an impulsive, uninformed, rash blunder.

Weaver's comments played on a very well-known trope, on the other hand, that women deserve special criticism for trying to break into the boys' club.

[lapucelle]

83. Take it easy on Mr. Weaver. He's not the only one to note Clinton's troubling ambition.

http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/hillary-clinton-is-too-ambitious-to-be-the-first-f-11229

[msanthrope]

81. Indeed. Kindly produce a quote of Weaver attacking a man for their ambition. nt

[AgingAmerican]

41. Gasp! The evil Susan Sarandon!

I will never understand Hillary supporters obsession with this woman. Reminds me of the right wing practice called, scapegoating.

[ozone_man]

66. They don't like to hear the truth.

It is incongruous that someone who has built a reputation for taking on Wall Street is supporting someone who thinks Wall Street is just fine, and is on their payroll.

[SouthernDemLinda]

77. Thelma & Louise

If you can't talk about the real issues, you talk about Susan Sarandon.

I liked Thelma & Louise. I watched it on the movie station not long ago.

[runaway hero]

43. I guess their both hypocrites

Sarandon for not be excited for the first woman nominee and Warren for letting bernie die on the vine


So it cancels out. Have a great weekend.

[Eric J in MN]

51. It's a contradiction that

...Susan Sarandon doesn't trust HRC to regulate Wall St, and Sarandon likes free clothes?

If so, I have the same contradiction.

[geek tragedy]

54. No, it's her smug, superior tone she takes to public servants like Elizabeth Warren nt

[grossproffit]

59. She's a hypocrite. She has no problem with quid pro quo as long as she's the benefactor.

[Skwmom]

87. So Sarandon is in charge of deciding government policy now? If not, who gives a damn.

[B Calm]

53. Thanks for posting. I love Susan Sarandon!

[merrily]

61. +1 She made a TV commercial with her own money, asking why we were going to war in Iraq.

Something, "Before we go to war in Iraq, I would like to know what Iraq did to us, wouldn't you?"

I wish someone had answered her question before the invasion wrought so much death, destruction and havoc.

The bit about cashmere is nonsense, typical of the obvious desperation to post negative things.

[grossproffit]

55. Nice poncho. That's all I got.

[bigwillq]

63. I love Susan.

Great actress, and she Seems like a pretty decent human being.

[CorkySt.Clair]

65. Kick

[Cha]

72. Oh BooHoo, sarandan.. my heart bleeds for your vapidity. i bet Elizabeth was really impressed..

Thanks, geek.. this is perfect.

[eastwestdem]

73. Never liked her. Now there's another reason. nt

[Scootaloo]

76. Is that like being a privileged white person supporting a privileged white person

Who likes to condemn all the white privilege everyone else has?

[arely staircase]

78. The.total lack of self awareness that comes with privilige. nt

[TeamPooka]

79. Susan needs to release the transcripts of her boutique visit/endorsement. nt

[ucrdem]

80. Classic. And you know what's really funny?

Those clothes are hideous, like something Virginia Woolf would wear to scrub the WC.

[CorkySt.Clair]

88. kick