Avowed leftist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sean-penn">Sean Penn</a> has a strong position when it comes to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19-vaccine">unvaccinated</a> people and how they should behave. 
The 62-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">actor</a> recently made his feelings known while speaking with <a href="https://twitter.com/CatchUpNetwork/status/1604383058597097473">Extra</a>. When asked by the interviewer how he felt about “anti-vaccine rhetoric,” Penn replied, “It’s a cowardice of conviction. I think that it is an unwillingness to engage in a culture of common sense. That at this point, it seems criminal to me, actually.”
He continued: “I really feel that if someone chooses not to be vaccinated, that they should choose to stay home. Not go to work. Not have a job. As long as we’re all paying for these streets, we gotta ride safely on them. And so I’m just hopeful that the mindset will change.”
Penn said “leadership” seems to be on board but hopes to get “everyone on the same page” about COVID vaccines. 
His statements come on the heels of a report which found that the majority of individuals who contracted COVID and died were vaccinated. 
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-vaccinated-now-make-up-majority-of-covid-deaths">reported</a>, an analysis performed by The Washington Post’s Health 202 found that 58% of coronavirus fatalities in August occurred in instances where the person was vaccinated against COVID or had received a booster. This figure has more than doubled since September of last year.
“We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told the Post. 
It’s estimated that 80% of the U.S. population was vaccinated as of October. Of those, 68% are fully vaccinated, and 34% received boosters.
Meanwhile, Penn has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sean-penn-compares-mandatory-vaccines-to-drivers-licenses-james-woods-snaps-or-proof-of-citizenship-to-vote">advocated</a> for mandatory vaccinations in the past, likening the shot to getting a driver’s license.
“This is one of those things that should be mandatory,” the “I Am Sam” actor told Yahoo Entertainment last year.
Penn spoke about how vaccine hesitancy was frustrating for him.
“A resistance that’s just based on a certain kind of … lack of imagination and understanding of anything that’s helpful to the human race, I’ve become very frustrated by that. But I can only work within my own bounds and say that, for me, it should be mandatory,” he told the publication.

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Sean Penn Says Being Unvaccinated Is 'Criminal' And Those People Shouldn't Leave Their Homes

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Actor Sean Penn said he’s considering Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plea for foreigners to help the country defend themselves against an invasion. The 61-year-old star revealed in an <a href="https://hollywoodauthentic.com/sean-penn/">interview</a> that he’s been thinking about “taking up arms” against Russia.
&#8220;The only possible reason for me staying in Ukraine longer last time would’ve been for me to be holding a rifle, probably without body armor, because as a foreigner, you would want to give that body armor to one of the civilian fighters who doesn’t have it or to a fighter with more skills than I have, or to a younger man or woman who could fight for longer or whatever,&#8221; Penn told Hollywood Authentic. &#8220;So, where I am in life is short of doing that, but if you’ve been in Ukraine [fighting] has to cross your mind. And you kind of think what century is this? Because I was at the gas station in Brentwood the other day and I’m now thinking about taking up arms against Russia? What the f*** is going on?&#8221;
This wouldn’t be the first time Penn inserted himself into the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/actor-sean-penn-is-in-ukraine-filming-a-russian-invasion-documentary-as-it-unfolds/">reported</a> that the “Mystic River” actor was in Ukraine filming a documentary about the Russian invasion as it was happening. While there, he met with government officials including  Zelensky to see how he could assist.
Zelensky shared a video to social media of his meeting with Penn. The caption said, “The more people know about the war in Ukraine, the more chances there are to stop Russia.”
Penn had a lot of praise for Zelensky’s leadership during the conflict. 
&#8220;So, seeing Zelensky the day before invasion, I would say, it serves to reason that he would not have felt fully tested. And then seeing him the next day, it struck me that I was now looking at a guy who knew that he had to rise to the ultimate level of human courage and leadership. I think he found out that he was born to do that,&#8221; the activist actor said.
He continued, saying his &#8220;intention is to go back into Ukraine” but at the same time says he’s &#8220;not certain what I can offer.&#8221; 
&#8220;I don’t spend a lot of time texting the president or his staff while they’re under siege and their people are being murdered. I’d probably send one message through the chief of staff. ‘Here’s what I’m looking to do that I think would be of value. You only have to answer me in one of two ways: don’t come or come and do what you’re planning, or come, but here’s where you could be more helpful,'&#8221; Penn told Hollywood Authentic.
&#8220;People will argue this, and there’s a million debates that I understand, but long term, we don’t have any tangible evidence that documentaries really change anything. We just don’t. We only know they can give hope,&#8221; he said.
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Sean Penn Says He’s ‘Thinking About Taking Up Arms Against Russia’ To Help Ukraine

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Actor and director Sean Penn said Saturday that if the Academy Awards planners said no to a virtual appearance by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, people should consider boycotting the awards show altogether.
During an appearance with CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta, Penn — who is currently in Warsaw, Poland — said that if producers turned down the chance to have Zelensky appear, it would be &#8220;the most obscene moment in all of Hollywood history,&#8221; and he promised to &#8220;smelt&#8221; his own Oscars in public if that was what it took to drive the point home.
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Penn began by saying that he was not speaking to whether or not Zelensky wanted to make such an appearance, only that he had heard event planners and producers had already decided not to allow it.
&#8220;Now, it is my understanding that a decision has been made not to do it,&#8221; Penn told Acosta. &#8220;That is not me commenting on whether or not President Zelensky had wanted to.&#8221;
&#8220;If the Academy has elected not to do it, if presenters have elected not to pursue the leadership in Ukraine, who are taking bullets and bombs for us, along with the Ukrainian children that they&#8217;re trying to protect, then I think every single one of those people and every bit of that decision will have been the most obscene moment in all of Hollywood history, and I hope that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; Penn continued.
Penn went on to suggest that nominees should boycott the ceremony, arguing that what was happening in Ukraine superseded their &#8220;moment to shine&#8221; on the stage.
&#8220;If it turns out to be what&#8217;s happening, I would encourage everyone involved to know that though it may be their moment, and I understand that, to celebrate their films, it is so much more importantly their moment to shine and to protest and to boycott that Academy Awards,&#8221; Penn said.
&#8220;And I myself, if it comes back to it, I — when I return, I will smelt mine in public,&#8221; Penn added. &#8220;I pray that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happened. I pray that there have not been arrogant people who consider themselves representatives of the greater good in my industry that have not decided to check in with leadership in Ukraine.&#8221;
&#8220;So I&#8217;m just going to hope that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happened,&#8221; Penn concluded, &#8220;And I hope that everybody walks out if it is.&#8221;
Penn was not alone in his hope that the Oscars would give at least a virtual nod to Zelensky — cohost and comedian Amy Schumer told actress Drew Barrymore last week that she had actually pitched a call-in from the Ukrainian President during the awards show&#8217;s broadcast.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/oscars-co-host-amy-schumer-just-wants-one-guest-to-make-a-cameo/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>She then told Barrymore that she had already pitched the idea, but that the show’s producers had turned her down.
“I actually pitched, I wanted to find a way to have Zelensky like satellite in or make a tape or something just because so many eyes get on — there are so many eyes on the Oscars. I am not afraid to go there, but it’s not me producing the Oscars,” she said.
“That’s why I love you,” Barrymore replied.</blockquote>
Penn has been in Poland since fleeing Ukraine amid the Russian invasion, saying that at one point he and a colleague had <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sean-penn-abandoned-his-car-walking-miles-to-the-polish-border-to-escape-russian-invasion/">abandoned his car</a> and journeyed the last several miles to the Polish border on foot. He was in Kyiv <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/actor-sean-penn-is-in-ukraine-filming-a-russian-invasion-documentary-as-it-unfolds/">working on a documentary</a> about the Russian invasion when encroaching Russian occupation troops forced him to flee the country.

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Actor Sean Penn said he abandoned his car in Ukraine and then walked miles with two of his colleagues to the Polish border as he joined hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing amid the chaos and destruction of the ongoing Russian invasion.
&#8220;Myself &amp; two colleagues walked miles to the Polish border after abandoning our car on the side of the road. Almost all the cars in this photo carry women &amp; children only, most without any sign of luggage, and a car their only possession of value,&#8221; Penn said in a Monday tweet, sharing a photo of himself walking on the side of the road alongside a line of cars that stretched as far as the eye could see.
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Myself &amp; two colleagues walked miles to the Polish border after abandoning our car on the side of the road. Almost all the cars in this photo carry women &amp; children only, most without any sign of luggage, and a car their only possession of value. <a href="https://t.co/XSwCDgYVSH">pic.twitter.com/XSwCDgYVSH</a>
&mdash; Sean Penn (@SeanPenn) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1498390093375016965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Penn&#8217;s observation that most of the vehicles on the road only contained women and children was the result of a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ukrainian-males-ages-18-to-60-banned-from-leaving-the-country/">recently-adopted policy</a> forbidding males aged 18-60 — who could potentially take up arms against the Russian occupation forces — from leaving the country.
According to previous reports, Penn was in Ukraine to work on a documentary of the Russian invasion, meeting with a number of military officials and even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/actor-sean-penn-is-in-ukraine-filming-a-russian-invasion-documentary-as-it-unfolds/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Actor and director Sean Penn is reportedly on the ground in Ukraine, working on a documentary about the Russian invasion that is still in progress.
Vice Studios, which is producing the project in conjunction with Vice World News and Endeavor Content, <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/sean-penn-ukraine-documentary-russia-invasion-1235189570/">confirmed Penn’s involvement</a> to Variety and that the Oscar-winning actor had been in attendance at a press briefing Thursday in Kyiv where several Ukrainian officials spoke about the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/read-it-ukrainian-president-calls-on-citizens-to-take-up-arms-in-defense-against-russian-invasion/">ongoing crisis</a>.</blockquote>
Zelensky shared a silent video of his meeting with Penn, adding the caption, &#8220;The more people know about the war in Ukraine, the more chances there are to stop Russia.&#8221;
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Президент Украины опубликовал видео без звука в Instagram со встречи с американским актером: «Чем больше людей знает про войну на Украине, тем больше шансов остановить Россию», &#8211; написано на видео. <a href="https://t.co/95fajTTgxd">pic.twitter.com/95fajTTgxd</a>
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As the Russian invasion began in earnest, Penn took to Twitter to express his feelings and to call on the United States to step up and offer assistance.
&#8220;Already a brutal mistake of lives taken and hearts broken, and if he doesn’t relent, I believe Mr. Putin will have made a most horrible mistake for all of humankind. President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people have risen as historic symbols of courage and principle,&#8221; Penn began, adding, &#8220;Ukraine is the tip of the spear for the democratic embrace of dreams. If we allow it to fight alone, our soul as America is lost.&#8221;
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Ukraine is the tip of the spear for the democratic embrace of dreams. If we allow it to fight alone, our soul as America is lost. (2/2)
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Penn also encouraged his followers who were interested in learning more to brush up on Ukraine&#8217;s more recent history, telling them to check out the documentary &#8220;Winter on Fire: Ukraine&#8217;s Fight for Freedom.&#8221;
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For those who are paying attention to Ukraine, but know little about it’s recent history or people, please see the documentary “Winter On Fire”. <a href="https://t.co/sYI1bYNZ6B">pic.twitter.com/sYI1bYNZ6B</a>
&mdash; Sean Penn (@SeanPenn) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1498158241863241736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4908644/">describes the film</a> as &#8220;a documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.&#8221;

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Sean Penn Abandoned His Car, Walking Miles To The Polish Border To Escape Russian Invasion

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Actor and director Sean Penn is reportedly on the ground in Ukraine, working on a documentary about the Russian invasion that is still in progress.
Vice Studios, which is producing the project in conjunction with Vice World News and Endeavor Content, <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/sean-penn-ukraine-documentary-russia-invasion-1235189570/">confirmed Penn&#8217;s involvement</a> to Variety and that the Oscar-winning actor had been in attendance at a press briefing Thursday in Kyiv where several Ukrainian officials spoke about the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/read-it-ukrainian-president-calls-on-citizens-to-take-up-arms-in-defense-against-russian-invasion/">ongoing crisis</a>.
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Sean Penn is on the ground in Ukraine filming a documentary about Russia’s invasion, Vice Studios confirmed. The filmmaker appeared at a press briefing Thursday in Kyiv listening to government officials speak about the crisis. <a href="https://t.co/k88WDgbtGw">https://t.co/k88WDgbtGw</a> <a href="https://t.co/mSJas55W2v">pic.twitter.com/mSJas55W2v</a>
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Sean Penn is on the ground in Ukraine during the invasion filming a documentary. <a href="https://t.co/RLrGTLTDD6">pic.twitter.com/RLrGTLTDD6</a>
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Penn also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/sean-penn-meets-with-ukrainian-president-zelensky-while-filming-documentary-on-russias-ongoing-invasion/">shared a silent video</a> of the meeting along with the caption, &#8220;The more people know about the war in Ukraine, the more chances there are to stop Russia.&#8221;
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Президент Украины опубликовал видео без звука в Instagram со встречи с американским актером: «Чем больше людей знает про войну на Украине, тем больше шансов остановить Россию», &#8211; написано на видео. <a href="https://t.co/95fajTTgxd">pic.twitter.com/95fajTTgxd</a>
&mdash; Аслан (@antiputler_news) <a href="https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1496912456769323016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Penn reportedly began laying the groundwork for the project with a visit to Ukraine in November of 2021, when he met with Ukrainian military officials and politicians.
Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/sean-penn-ukraine-film-documentary-russian-invasion-1682336">reported at the time</a>:
<blockquote>Sean Penn has arrived in Kyiv to &#8216;tell the world the truth about Russia&#8217;s invasion&#8217; of Ukraine.
The Office of the President of Ukraine announced on Thursday that the American actor-director had landed in the capital to document the conflict. Penn also visited the country in November 2021 to work on a documentary he is making about Russian aggression.
Since his arrival, Penn has visited the Office of the President and spoken with deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk, as well as local journalists and members of the Ukrainian military.</blockquote>
The Ukrainian government thanked Penn for drawing attention to what was happening on the ground, saying in a statement sent by the Ukrainian Embassy to Newsweek, &#8220;The director specially came to Kyiv to record all the events that are currently happening in Ukraine and to tell the world the truth about Russia&#8217;s invasion of our country. Sean Penn is among those who support Ukraine in Ukraine today. Our country is grateful to him for such a show of courage and honesty.&#8221;
&#8220;Sean Penn is demonstrating bravery that many others have been lacking, in particular some Western politicians. The more people like that—true friends of Ukraine, who support the fight for freedom—the quicker we can stop this heinous invasion by Russia,&#8221; the statement continued.
Several criticized the move on Twitter, suggesting that Penn&#8217;s involvement amounted to a &#8220;stunt.&#8221;
&#8220;Few things i loathe more than celebrity stunt war journalism,&#8221; producer Danny Gold <a href="https://twitter.com/DGisSERIOUS/status/1496954492436336651">tweeted</a>.
Freelance reporter Sean Korsgaard agreed with Gold&#8217;s assessment of the situation, adding a photo of Penn — seated at a table with fellow actor Jack Nicholson and a much-younger Russian President Vladimir Putin — along with the following caption: &#8220;Especially given Penn&#8217;s the kind of shmuck who beats his wife, but has hugged it out woth[sic] multiple dictators&#8230; including that fellow on the right who has been making headlines recently.&#8221;
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Especially given Penn&#39;s the kind of shmuck who beats his wife, but has hugged it out woth multiple dictators&#8230; including that fellow on the right who has been making headlines recently. <a href="https://t.co/TXJKq4NfWP">https://t.co/TXJKq4NfWP</a> <a href="https://t.co/gDsYbaLWGd">pic.twitter.com/gDsYbaLWGd</a>
&mdash; Sean CW Korsgaard (@SCWKorsgaard) <a href="https://twitter.com/SCWKorsgaard/status/1496955462805340162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Actor Sean Penn Is In Ukraine, Filming A Russian Invasion Documentary As It Unfolds

Actor Sean Penn is no champion of the conservative movement and there’s a good chance he never will be. But he does appear to agree with many of his political opposites when it comes to traditional gender roles. 
The “Mystic River” alum is unhappy with men becoming more feminine and wishes the trend would reverse. “I am in the club that believes that men in American culture have become wildly feminized,” Penn told UK-based <a href="https://inews.co.uk/culture/sean-penn-flag-day-film-interview-men-american-culture-feminised-1398996">inews.co</a> while promoting his new movie, “Flag Day.”
“I don’t think that being a brute or having insensitivity or disrespect for women is anything to do with masculinity, or ever did,” he continued. “But I don’t think that [in order] to be fair to women, we should become them.”
That wasn’t the only time Penn spoke up about gender roles. The “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” actor also spoke with <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/sean-penn-masculinity-women-b2002647.html">The Independent</a> on the topic. “There are a lot of, I think, cowardly genes that lead to people surrendering their jeans and putting on a skirt,” Penn said.
“I have these very strong women in my life who do not take masculinity as a sign of oppression toward them,” he continued.
The publication noted how Penn’s 20-year-old daughter Dylan, whom he shares with actress Robin Wright, went “quiet” and “stared into space” while her father was speaking.
In the same interview, Penn made his pro-vaccination status clear. 
“Sometimes people take their privilege and freedom as a right to be anti-citizen, to be failed citizens,” he told The Independent. “Those who will search out the kind of bogus science that would give them legitimacy [when it comes to] not being vaccinated.”
In 2020, Penn compared COVID-19 to an “active shooter” and advocated treating it as such.
“I don’t think we need to attach a face, a personality, or what somebody was sending on their social media to be able to identify an active shooter,” the activist actor said during an appearance on “The View,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sean-penn-on-the-view-coronavirus-pandemic-is-an-active-shooter-situation">reported</a>. 
“An active shooter is anything that is continuing to kill people, and our brothers and sisters and fathers and daughters and sons,” he continued. “This is — this virus is the active shooter, and if we were — I think that if we could wrap our head around it in that way and understand that it’s principally putting in the radical people of color, elderly people, indigenous people, but randomly selecting all of us, that we need to huddle around and make very clear decisions on how to approach this thing.”
Penn is an enigma of opinions on all fronts. On one hand, he’s an unabashed fan of the late Venezuelan president and noted socialist Hugo Chávez. But the actor is also against cancel culture and the idea that only people of underrepresented groups can play themselves in film and TV.
The actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sean-penn-conan-obrien-denounce-cancel-culture-calling-it-soviet">told</a> Conan O’Brien how in today’s culture, he’d never be cast as a gay man like he was for the 2008 biographical film “Milk.”
“Today, almost certainly I would not be permitted to be cast in that role,” Penn said. “We’re living in a time when, if you’re playing a gay lead character, you’d have to be a gay man or a trans character. And there have been these casting issues.”
He’s not a fan of this move toward “representation.”
“When you have a period of evolution that certainly has an opportunity for people who have had less opportunities to move forward,” the actor said. “That has to be supported, and yet in this pendulum swing society that we’re in, you wonder at some point if only Danish Princes can play Hamlet. It is, I believe, too restrictive. People are looking for gotcha moments and to criticize.”

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‘Cowardly Genes’ Responsible For Men In Skirts, Sean Penn Says While Defending Masculinity

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On Wednesday, after actor Sean Penn, most famous politically for his fawning adoration over the late Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez, had called for mandatory vaccinations for Americans, implying it was “no different” from getting a driver’s license, fellow actor James Woods, knowing Penn’s leftist proclivities, snapped, “Or proof of citizenship to vote?”
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&#8220;This is one of those things that should be mandatory,&#8221; Penn had told <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/why-sean-penn-covid-vaccines-mandatory-161752654.html">Yahoo Entertainment,</a> which added, “The actor and filmmaker also likens vaccine mandates to driver&#8217;s licenses, calling them ‘no different than having everybody being able to drive 100 miles an hour in a car.’&#8221;
Penn stated that the resistance to vaccines was derived from a “lack of imagination and understanding of anything that&#8217;s helpful to the human race,” claiming, &#8220;There&#8217;s different kinds of hesitancies, and so I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s much excuse to not know the informational available anymore. That&#8217;s part of why I think it should be mandatory. A resistance that&#8217;s just based on a certain kind of&#8230; lack of imagination and understanding of anything that&#8217;s helpful to the human race, I&#8217;ve become very frustrated by that. But I can only work within my own bounds and say that, for me, it should be mandatory.&#8221;
In 2012, Penn lauded Chavez, saying, “He is one of the most important forces we’ve had on this planet and I will wish him nothing but that great strength that he has shown over and over again. I do it in love and I do it in gratitude. So that I just want to say that from my very American point of view of my friend President Chavez, it is only possible to be as inspiring as he is as a two-way street. And he would say that his inspiration is the people.”
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In July, Penn <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/07/sean-penn-series-boycott-gaslit-mandatory-covid-vaccinations-cast-crew-watergate-1234798488/">demanded</a> all of the cast and crew of the Starz series “Gaslit,” co-starring Julia Roberts, get vaccinated or he would not return to the set.
In September 2016, Penn called voting for Donald Trump like “masturbating our way into hell” on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/sean-penn-twitter-donald-trump-colbert-933346/">saying</a>, “There are two options: Either you can decide to divorce yourself from loving your children and piss on a tree and show that you have the power to piss on a tree. Or you can go out and vote in a very big way for someone like Hillary Clinton — who then you can challenge and support which is the only way that any kind of president can have any success — and you stick it out for four years, or we can just masturbate our way into hell with a guy who looks like the only blonde magician.”
In March 2016, Penn, speaking at the RSA computer security conference in San Francisco, <a href="https://deadline.com/2016/03/sean-penn-louis-ck-bill-maher-donald-trump-1201715202/">stated,</a> “I think Bernie Sanders is an exceptional American, and I’m going to vote for Hillary Clinton.”

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It seems even Hollywood’s most notorious left-wing activists are waking up to the dangers of cancel culture.
In the July 5 episode of the podcast, “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” the recently retired host of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” asked veteran actor Sean Penn about the trend of destroying careers for past political incorrectness.
“Empathy is a very important word and also forgiveness,” said O’Brien. “We found that someone did something in 1979 that is now not appropriate. They’re dead to us.” O’Brien went on to describe cancel culture as “very Soviet,” saying, “People can also be forgiven. If they even need forgiving. What happened to that?”
Penn agreed with O’Brien, calling the practice “ludicrous.”
In illustration, Penn brought up Alexi McCammond, editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue who was fired after only a few weeks on the job for anti-Asian comments she tweeted as a teenager. “When we’re destroying careers like that, what are we really achieving? What are we doing?” the Oscar-winning star of films like “I Am Sam” and “Mystic River” wondered.
The two men then turned to how the trend is impacting their particular genres of show business with Penn pointing out that he would no longer be considered for a part like groundbreaking gay activist Harvey Milk because he’s straight.
“Today, almost certainly I would not be permitted to be cast in that role,” Penn said. “We’re living in a time when, if you’re playing a gay lead character, you’d have to be a gay man or a trans character. And there have been these casting issues.&#8221;
He then warned that the Left has pushed the cause of “representation&#8221; too far. “When you have a period of evolution that certainly has an opportunity for people who have had less opportunities to move forward. That has to be supported, and yet in this pendulum swing society that we’re in, you wonder at some point if only Danish Princes can play Hamlet. It is, I believe, too restrictive. People are looking for gotcha moments and to criticize.&#8221;
O’Brien likened Penn’s experience to the current tendency among late-night talk show hosts to make comedy political—a trend he has pointedly resisted because, he said, it can lead to “losing your way” when it comes to being funny:
“I know people in comedy, people who do the job that I do that feel like there’s so much that’s happening that doesn’t feel funny that they feel like it’s their job to speak out about those things,” he said, adding. “And I think, yes that’s great but it’s easy for that to just turn into anger and outrage, and then you’re not, you feel like you’re losing your way as a comedian. And I think that’s what gets so tricky right now.”
O’Brien continued, “The job is ‘how can I reflect some of what’s happening around me, but also for me, I just know that I serve at the altar of silliness and comedy and that is what I need to try and get back to. That’s what I need to — that’s where my strength comes and that means, I have to be honest with you, there are times when the news is such that I feel like my comedy can’t have anything to do with it. And some people might say, ‘Well, that’s a cop-out. You should make your comedy about what is happening right now.’ And I just think, frankly, I don’t have that ability. There are times when it’s embarrassing to be in show business.”

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Actor Sean Penn seems confused about which branch of Christianity the Vatican governs. In a tweet last Friday, the notable left-wing activist rebuked Evangelical Trump supporters and called upon the Pope to &#8220;impeach&#8221; them; Penn also misspelled the word Satan, writing Satin – a weave of fabric – instead.
“Evangelical leaders should themselves be impeached by the Vatican if they themselves don’t follow Nikki Haley’s lead &amp; clearly state they should not have followed Satin [sic] into the bowels of hell. But, perhaps they are too busy at sex parties,” Penn stated.
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Evangelical leaders should themselves be impeached by the Vatican if they themselves don’t follow Nikki Haley’s lead &amp; clearly state they should not have followed Satin into the bowels of hell. But, perhaps they are too busy at sex parties.
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Since Evangelicals are Protestant Christians of varying denominations, the Vatican has absolutely no authority to &#8220;impeach&#8221; them, with &#8220;excommunication&#8221; being the proper terminology. Even some of Penn&#8217;s most ardent fans were left scratching their heads over his poor phrasing.
&#8220;Respect, Sean, but evangelicals do not work under the Pope, they are kind of on their own. They are not even Catholic,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/demmock/status/1360397640484216833?s=20">said one</a> user.
&#8220;How does one make it to adulthood with this level of religious ignorance,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/LukeBaileyMC/status/1361013307331792896?s=20">said another user</a>.
&#8220;1. What&#8217;s wrong with Satin, besides its lack of breathability? 2. You are aware Rome/Vatican isn&#8217;t the same thing as Evangelical, right? Celebrities and their wisdom. Oy,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Aspree_Berean/status/1361017680363458562?s=20">said another</a>.
Regarding Haley, Penn was referring to comments she made to Politico last week wherein she denounced President Donald Trump&#8217;s treatment of former Vice President Mike Pence.
&#8220;I’m watching the television the morning of the 6th and I see Don Junior get up there,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-rips-trump-over-jan-6-im-disgusted-by-treatment-of-pence-trump-let-us-down">she said</a>. “And then I hear the president get up there and go off on Pence. I literally was so triggered, I had to turn it off. I mean, Jon [Lerner] texted me something and I said, ‘I can’t. I can’t watch it. I can’t watch it,’ because I felt the same thing. Somebody is going to hear that, and bad things will happen.”
“When I tell you I’m angry, it’s an understatement,” Haley added. “Mike has been nothing but loyal to that man. He’s been nothing but a good friend of that man. … I am so disappointed in the fact that [despite] the loyalty and friendship he had with Mike Pence, that he would do that to him. Like, I’m disgusted by it.”
Penn made headlines earlier this month when the Los Angeles Times released an angry email he wrote to staffers who complained about poor working conditions at a mass vaccination center at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium supported by Penn’s CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) nonprofit.
“Those comments, which claimed to be revealing of inaccuracies about our vaccine effort at Dodger Stadium in a news report, were in themselves not only a propagation of deeper inaccuracies but also indulged the personal opinions of those alleged CORE staffers in a way that violates everything that keeps us whole,” Penn wrote.
“It’s called quitting. Quit for CORE. Quit for your colleagues who won’t quit. Quit for your fellow human beings who deeply recognize that this is a moment in time. A moment of service that we must all embody sometimes to the point of collapse. That’s my job. And that’s your job,” Penn added.

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Actor Sean Penn has no patience for COVID-19 vaccination site staffers complaining about working conditions.
In a fiery letter obtained by the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-03/sean-penn-letter-covid-vaccine-site-staff">Los Angeles Times</a>, the Oscar-winning actor blasted staffers who complained about poor working conditions at a mass vaccination center at L.A.&#8217;s Dodger Stadium supported by Penn&#8217;s CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) nonprofit. The employee complaints appeared in the comments section of a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/us/los-angeles-vaccinations-garcetti.html">New York Times article</a> highlighting the site last week; Penn responded in an angry email to his staffers, telling them to quit if they don&#8217;t like it.
&#8220;One of the employees anonymously claimed staff were overworked after <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/la-mayor-garcetti-caught-between-local-troubles-possible-biden-cabinet-position" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti</a> switched the center from a COVID-19 testing site to a vaccination center,&#8221; reported <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sean-penn-coronavirus-vaccine-staffers-letter-complaints-long-hours-poor-food">Fox News</a>.
A staffer reportedly complained about working &#8220;18 hour days, six days per week&#8221; with few breaks in between while accusing Mayor Eric Garcetti of violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules. Another employee disputed the NYT&#8217;s claim that staff were being served Krispy Kreme breakfasts and Subway lunches, arguing that they &#8220;usually DON&#8217;T get breakfast, just coffee&#8221; and that the sandwiches were simple lettuce wraps sans Subway. Penn granted no quarter to the complaints, arguing they violate &#8220;everything that keeps us whole.&#8221;
&#8220;Those comments, which claimed to be revealing of inaccuracies about our vaccine effort at Dodger Stadium in a news report, were in themselves not only a propagation of deeper inaccuracies but also indulged the personal opinions of those alleged CORE staffers in a way that violates everything that keeps us whole,&#8221; Penn wrote.
Penn said unhappy staffers should just quit.
&#8220;It&#8217;s called quitting. Quit for CORE. Quit for your colleagues who won&#8217;t quit. Quit for your fellow human beings who deeply recognize that this is a moment in time. A moment of service that we must all embody sometimes to the point of collapse. That&#8217;s my job. And that&#8217;s your job,&#8221; Penn wrote.
Penn lamented that the many partnerships enjoyed by CORE were put at risk by the two staffers who indulged their &#8220;whim of dissent in the low-hanging fruit of cyberspace.&#8221;
&#8220;So, when two from within our ranks make unilateral decisions to indulge their own whim of dissent in the low-hanging fruit of cyberspace, and to, in this situation, register such obscene critiques of valued partners, or CORE itself, the only thing they will have contributed to is a lessening of CORE’s impact in the fight against COVID-19,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A fissure that could collapse a life-saving enterprise. And to whoever authored these, understand that in every cell of my body is a vitriol for the way your actions reflect so harmfully upon your brothers and sisters in arms.&#8221;
Penn concluded the email by praising his workers and offered his apology to those he overlooked.
&#8220;I do not feel that I have served you well enough in this mission in making sure that I communicate regularly to all of you just how extraordinary you are. I hope that for me too, this is the beginning of a better day, and that I will be able to offer you your deserved acknowledgment from my end,&#8221; Penn wrote. “To those I have overlooked, take this as my sincerest apology. I will try to look harder through the sea of masked faces to see the people behind them. No excuses. Only improvement. Let’s all summon every bit of strength to be a sum that is as great as the parts you all so individually represent.&#8221;

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Actor Sean Penn, who neither been a friend of President Trump nor Republicans in general, suggested that the president take cyanide pills to cope with the 2020 election results.
&#8220;Mr. President. How about this &#8216;recalculation:&#8217; Have you considered cyanide salts from an ampoule? May well be a road worth your exploration. A mercy for man &amp; country that would make your &#8216;boys&#8217; proud,&#8221; he tweeted on Tuesday.
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Mr. President. How about this “recalculation:” Have you considered cyanide salts from an ampoule? May well be a road worth your exploration. A mercy for man &amp; country that would make your “boys” proud.
&mdash; Sean Penn (@SeanPenn) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1346536558837465093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Sean Penn&#8217;s words immediately follow a Twitter post from &#8220;Arrested Development&#8221; star David Cross last week, who rejected Joe Biden&#8217;s call for unity by suggesting he wants &#8220;blood.&#8221;
“After a year of pain and loss, it’s time to unite, heal, and rebuild,” Biden tweeted.
“F*** that. I want blood,” Cross responded.
Earlier in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic and America&#8217;s response kicked into overdrive, Sean Penn described the moment as an &#8220;active shooter&#8221; situation.
“I don’t think we need to attach a face, a personality, or what somebody was sending on their social media to be able to identify an active shooter,” Penn <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/sean-penn-coronavirus-active-shooter">said during an appearance</a> on “The View.”
“An active shooter is anything that is continuing to kill people, and our brothers and sisters and fathers and daughters and sons,” he continued. “This is — this virus is the active shooter, and if we were — I think that if we could wrap our head around it in that way and understand that it’s principally putting in the radical people of color, elderly people, indigenous people, but randomly selecting all of us, that we need to huddle around and make very clear decisions on how to approach this thing.”
On the issue of the economy, Penn said that the conversation about economic woes will lead to a disrespect of those dying and the hospital workers fighting the pandemic.
“The attitude is without caution or without respect of those dead, dying, the hospital workers, and the science of this,” Penn said of those in favor reopening the economy. “This is a continuing problem, and it seems there’s just too much distraction.”
Penn also believed that everyone should be tested for COVID-19, calling it a “weapon that can get into any neighborhood.”
“I think the problem is that people are speaking without any knowledge of what they’re speaking of. This testing should be thought of, again, in a very, very basic way, in this kind of active shooter way of looking at it,” he said. “This is a weapon that can get into any neighborhood, it get into any school, get into any, as we know, any retirement home, elderly care home, and out the street and in the market. So of course, we have to test if the idea is that human life cares — matters, and those kinds of comments I think are, they’ll normalize a disconnect between who we are, and who we want to be as a country and as a people.”
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On Sunday, actor Sean Penn, erstwhile buddy of the late socialist dictator Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, took the opportunity to mock President Trump contracting COVID-19, tweeting, “I like presidents who don&#8217;t get COVID-19.&#8221;
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I like presidents who don’t get Covid-19.
&mdash; Sean Penn (@SeanPenn) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1312807062905126913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Actor James Woods, a staunch Trump supporter, responded bluntly to Penn&#8217;s snarky tweet: “I like presidents with brass ba**s.”
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I like presidents with brass balls. <a href="https://t.co/KcOld8ni2C">https://t.co/KcOld8ni2C</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1313155978917892096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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After Chavez&#8217;s death in 2013, Penn told <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hugo-chavez-dead-sean-penn-426205">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, &#8220;Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion &#8230; Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of vice president [Nicolas] Maduro.&#8221;
Penn has made no bones about his hatred for President Trump. In March 2018, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sean-penn-novel-trumps-america-nation-need-paul-bois">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Sean Penn&#8217;s debut novel characterizes a Trump-like America as &#8220;a nation in need of an assassin,&#8221; according to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5495735/Sean-Penns-novel-calls-assassination-president.html">the Daily Mail</a>. Penn&#8217;s 176-page fiction novel, titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bob-Honey-Who-Just-Stuff/dp/1501189042/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=da02b-20&amp;linkId=f7f0e35f628d915c6da35efb9f7ed587">Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff</a>, tells the story of a &#8220;modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin.&#8221;
“Actor Sean Penn&#8217;s debut novel&#8217;s main character calls for the assassination of the president and dares the commander-in-chief to ‘Tweet me, b****,’ DailyMail.com revealed.” …
At the book&#8217;s end, Bob Honey admits himself to a hospital where he pens a note to the President of the United States — a Trump doppelganger who goes by the name &#8220;Mr. Landlord.&#8221; In the note, Penn has his character Bob Honey call for an assassination of the president.</blockquote>
Penn’s intense dislike of President Trump aside, in early May, the <a href="https://www.bakersfield.com/news/actor-sean-penn-leticia-perez-unveil-free-covid-19-testing-site-in-east-bakersfield/article_e1f100b0-8e51-11ea-b38a-eb272047fdfe.html">Bakersfield Californian</a> reported that Penn and his non-profit organization worked to start a free COVID-19 testing center:
<blockquote>Kern County Board of Supervisors chair Leticia Perez welcomed the soft-opening of Kern County’s first free COVID-19 testing center Monday morning with the help of actor-director Sean Penn and his emergency relief organization. The center, located at the Richard Prado Senior Center in east Bakersfield, aims to test all symptomatic residents, local first responders and healthcare workers for COVID-19 regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances.</blockquote>
In May, Penn appeared on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/sean-penn-coronavirus-active-shooter">The View</a> and discussed the coronavirus, which he compared to an “active shooter.” He stated:
<blockquote>I don’t think we need to attach a face, a personality, or what somebody was sending on their social media to be able to identify an active shooter. … An active shooter is anything that is continuing to kill people, and our brothers and sisters and fathers and daughters and sons. This is — this virus is the active shooter, and if we were — I think that if we could wrap our head around it in that way and understand that it’s principally putting in the radical people of color, elderly people, indigenous people, but randomly selecting all of us, that we need to huddle around and make very clear decisions on how to approach this thing.</blockquote>
“I think the problem is that people are speaking without any knowledge of what they’re speaking of,” he continued. “This testing should be thought of, again, in a very, very basic way, in this kind of active shooter way of looking at it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is a weapon that can get into any neighborhood, it get into any school, get into any, as we know, any retirement home, elderly care home, and out the street and in the market. So of course, we have to test if the idea is that human life cares — matters, and those kinds of comments I think are, they&#8217;ll normalize a disconnect between who we are, and who we want to be as a country and as a people.&#8221;

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