Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/19

[SVPete]

Some Celebrities Are Finally Getting That We Don't Care What They Think

https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/11/18/some-celebrities-are-finally-getting-that-we-dont-care-what-they-think-n4946086

Dem politicians love to cavort with celebrities. It's easier than campaigning or having coherent policy ideas, after all. As the 2016 presidential campaign wound down to its final few days, Donald Trump was tirelessly traversing the swing states. He wrapped it all up in Michigan at around three in the morning on election day. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, attended a Beyoncé concert in Philadelphia that was being thrown in her honor. Granny Maojackets then rested up for a couple of days for what she was sure was going to be a historic, landslide victory for her.

At this point it should be noted that Hillary would have carried the metropolitan Philadelphia area even without Queen B's help.

Bless their dark, secular hearts, Dems and celebs have been sticking with this playbook despite the diminishing returns since the Obama years. We all remember the Kamala fever that actors, actresses, and musicians had — or at least pretended to have — last year. It turned out that getting Robert DeNiro to yell at clouds and repeatedly call Trump a fascist was, once again, not a winning formula.
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We are now seeing some cracks in the Dem/Celeb Wall of Ego-Driven Pomposity when it comes to political opinions. Some likeable and talented actors are in "Yeah, maybe let's not," mode now. This is from a column that Sarah wrote earlier in the month:

... Thornton was on ManningCast last week — that's Peyton and Eli's "Monday Night Football" show — and I was impressed with how down-to-earth he was. He didn't act inauthentic or like he just wanted to promote himself or gain attention. He just sounded like a regular guy talking about football. 

That endeared him to me, but something he said while appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast recently made me like him even more. He told Hollywood to stop preaching their political messages at awards shows. Like the rest of us, he's over it.

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Jennifer Lawrence, on the other hand, has never had any filter when it comes to holding forth with opinions, political or otherwise. Here's something from a recent article in The Free Press:

“During the first Trump administration, I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off,” Lawrence said. “But as we’ve learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. ...

Dear celebs, shut up and tell stories.

[DLR Pyro]

Dear celebs, shut up and tell stories.

Ricky Gervais said it best:

So if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world

[SVPete]

Here’s the Epstein Email Hakeem Jeffries REALLY Doesn’t Want You to See

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/11/19/heres-the-epstein-email-hakeem-jeffries-doesnt-want-you-to-see-n4946169

The Democrat Party’s house of cards just took a fresh round of demolition, courtesy of the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations. Last week, Democrats released a few select and doctored Epstein emails, hoping to destroy Trump. Then the GOP released over 20,000, and suddenly, one Democrat after another found themselves wrapped up in the Epstein fallout.

This list so far includes Larry Summers, Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary and director of Obama’s National Economic Council; Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett; and Kathryn Ruemmler, White House counsel under Obama. Now, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has found himself in the middle.

This week, House Oversight Chairman James Comer dropped a bombshell that Jeffries probably hoped would never see daylight.

Emails show Epstein was not simply on the fringes of the party; he was on the radar of the Democrat establishment, even after his 2008 conviction. In 2013, a Democratic consulting firm reached out to Epstein, hoping to secure his attendance at a Jeffries campaign fundraiser. The same batch of emails reveals it was more than a blanket invitation. Reaching out to secure Epstein's presence at a Democratic fundraising event to power their “House majority” push stands in stark contrast to their high-minded rhetoric.

“Another email shows Democrat fundraisers invited Epstein to an event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to win a majority,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said on the House floor Tuesday. “So Hakeem Jeffries’ campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein. That’s what we found in the last document batch.”

My emphasis. The release of the 20K emails looks to have been FAFO 1.0, and FAFO 2.0 is in progress.