All the Hollywood celebrities are out and showing their absolute rage — but not at the Iranian government mowing people down in the streets.
As cataclysmic events take place in Iran, with apparently hundreds or thousands of protesters being shot to death, a number that has even been estimated to be 10,000, it’s good to know the folks in Hollywood have their priorities straight. 
The Golden Globes were held on Sunday night, providing an opportunity for members of the Hollywood contingent — who prize their pseudo-morality over everyone else&#8217;s — to make a stand.
After all, they&#8217;ve made stands on issues as far back as Tibet in the 1990s (which they conveniently have now forgotten all about).
Remember when last year, a bunch of Hollywood celebrities pranced around like fools, claiming that a genocide that was not happening was, in fact, happening, and criticized the State of Israel for defending its own existence. 
This year, they have a different cause because, hey, new day, new cause. Now, what could that cause be?
The cause of the Iranian people who are out in the streets risking their own deaths to defy the mullahs? The people of Iran, many of whom are secular and westernized in their attitudes toward the state? Are those the people toward whom Hollywood directs all of its sympathies? Are they sparing a moment for those people? 
Of course not. 
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Hollywood put on a show at the Golden Globes, and everything was about ICE and LGBTQ and Bari Weiss taking over CBS, because, you see, these are the real threats. 
According to people in Hollywood, you should have your eyes focused like a laser beam on the predations of ICEt enforcing the law with regard to illegal immigration and deporting people for welfare fraud.
You should have your eyes focused like a laser beam on Bari Weiss taking over CBS News and preventing it from its long history of inaccurately reporting the news. 
You should be focused like a laser beam on the terrible predations that affect LGBTQ+- people all over the United States.
It is an act of bravery to stand up at the Golden Globes and virtue signal on behalf of the LGBTQ+- community.
So last night, a bunch of celebs showed up and decided — as our Moral Guideposts, the lodestars of our civilization — that the chief things you need to worry about as an American are ICE, LGBTQ+-, and Bari Weiss.
Hostess Nikki Glaser began the evening by going after the most deserving target, who deserved her absolute rage: Bari Weiss and CBS News.
Mark Ruffalo showed up and said it was hard to pretend anymore that we don&#8217;t live in a “dictatorship.”
Thus saith the man who wears a tux at the Golden Globes and gets paid millions of dollars to play the same character that he has played in every other miniseries and movie for the last two decades.
“We have a woman, Renee Good, was murdered in our streets of America today, and we got literally stormtroopers running around terrorizing. And as much as I love all this, I can&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t know if I can pretend like this crazy stuff isn&#8217;t happening. It&#8217;s so hard to pretend anymore,” he complained.
It&#8217;s hard for him to pretend? He’s an actor.
This is a person who spent the last two years basically standing on behalf of terrorist groups in the Middle East. But it&#8217;s very hard for him to pretend that there aren&#8217;t “stormtroopers” wandering the streets.
You know what&#8217;s cool about being able to say that sort of thing? There aren&#8217;t stormtroopers wandering the streets — because throughout history, when there were stormtroopers wandering the streets, celebrities didn&#8217;t get to go on camera and talk about how there were stormtroopers wandering the streets.
In fact, there are many places on Earth where the stormtroopers do wander the streets. For example, Iran, where there are stormtroopers shooting people in the head for protesting.
Did Ruffalo have a word for them?
Nope. He had a little pin that read, “Be Good,” referencing Renee Good.
Hollywood always seems to pick the side that opposes law enforcement or opposes the West.
“The guy’s a convicted felon or convicted rapist. He&#8217;s a pedophile,” Ruffalo said of President Trump. “He&#8217;s the worst human being. If we&#8217;re relying on this guy&#8217;s morality for the most powerful country in the world, then we&#8217;re all in a lot of trouble. So this is for her. This is for the people in the United States who are terrorized and scared today. I know I&#8217;m one of them. I love this country. And what I&#8217;m seeing here happening is not America.”
He slandered the president of the United States as a pedophile, called him the worst person in the world, for, among other things, extraditing Nicolás Maduro — a Marxist dictator responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands and probably hundreds of thousands of people and the exile of literally millions of people. That, to Mark Ruffalo, is a big moral problem.
Not a word to spare for the millions marching in the streets in Iran right now, thousands of whom are getting mowed down by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Ariana Grande also showed up wearing her ICE Out pin, the new hot thing in Hollywood.
Frankly, any amount of weight added to her garment puts her at risk of falling over.
Wanda Sykes showed up to talk about LGBTQ+-, saying, “You know, there&#8217;s some people pissed off that a queer black woman is up here doing the job of two mediocre white guys.”
This is where Hollywood puts its priorities. There are people on earth literally putting their lives at risk, their bodies on the line for their own freedom.
And Hollywood has nothing to say to them. Nothing.
Are you seeing protests on campuses in favor of the Iranian people right now? Have you seen a single protest?
You have not.
Have you seen a single mass protest by all of these international-law-loving, human rights-adoring left-wingers, the Zohran Mamdani wing of the Democratic Party, in favor of the protesters in Iran, who simply want their horrifying theocratic regime gone?
You have not.
Have you seen a single comment from Democrats, beyond a kind of “thoughts and prayers?”
You have not.
Have you seen protests in the streets?
You have not.
Have you seen calls for material aid?
You have not.
It’s sad-sack nonsense, because there are people in the world who are doing something courageous and incredible right now.
And Hollywood and the Left are gladly looking the other way.

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British comedian Ricky Gervais, who is well known for his iconic no-hold-barred, celebrity roasting monologue at the 2020 Golden Globes ceremony, won a coveted statuette Sunday night for Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television for his Netflix special, “Morality.”
The 64-year-old Gervais was not in the audience to accept his award, but later posted about it on X, writing, “I f***ing won. Again.”
The moment of Gervais’ triumph was hijacked by Golden Globes presenter Wanda Sykes, who used Gervais’ absence to mock him.
“There’s some people pissed off that a queer black woman is up here doing the job of two mediocre white guys,” Sykes said while presenting the award, “But first I want to give them some love.”
She referenced one of the nominees, Bill Maher, by saying, “You give us so much. But I would love a little less. Just try less.” The camera panned to Maher, who appeared perplexed and was not smiling.
“Ricky Gervais, I love you for not being here,” she said while still listing nominees. “No, I love you. But if you win, I get to accept the award on your behalf, and you are going to thank God and the trans community. Oooh, Ricky!”
After Sykes announced Gervais, an atheist, had won the award, she followed through on her promise.
“He would like to thank God and the trans community,” the comedian said from the podium. “Ricky Gervais could not be here, so we’ll accept this on his behalf.”
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Sykes was in a huff over jokes Gervais made in his 2022 Netflix stand-up special “SuperNature.” These included quips about “old-fashioned women… the ones with wombs.”
He also imagined a conversation with a woman who doesn’t want to share a bathroom with a “trans woman.” 
“They are ladies, look at their pronouns. What about this person isn&#8217;t a lady?” Gervais said before providing the response, “Well, his penis.”
Gervais said during an <a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/focus/ricky-gervais-comedy-walk-of-fame-star-1236408958/">interview</a> with Variety in May that he “likes that people feel slightly uneasy” when he makes a joke. “I can justify anything. I’m never that brutal. It just seems like it.”
Sykes was one of several Golden Globes attendees wearing anti-ICE pins in protest of President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws. The comedian appeared at the awards show wearing a “Be Good” pin following the shooting death of anti-ICE activist Renee Good during a confrontation with ICE agents.

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Comedian Wanda Sykes is being dragged for saying the quiet part out loud and admitting she will choose job candidates based on their race and gender.
The 61-year-old celebrity proudly made the admission last week at Variety’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles.
“My joy is when I’m able to hire somebody. And you know who I like to hire? Women. … I’ll be upfront with you. When it comes to a position and I look on the paper — she might be right here, and he’s up there,” Sykes said, indicating with her hands that the man was in a slightly elevated position compared to the woman. 
She went on, “I’m hiring the woman. That’s just how I operate. And I’ll be honest with you, if she’s a black woman — oh, pssh. Girl, you got the job.”
The crowd gave her a big round of applause for acknowledging her bias.
“When women thrive, the community thrives,” Sykes added, before throwing in a punch line. “We make everyone around us better. When you get women, when we win, everybody wins. When men win, sometimes they get a younger wife.”
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“What I plan on doing is to continue to create projects — and even in my stand-up — to speak and represent more of what powerful women can do. We’re at a moment in time where, with everything that’s going on in the government, we need to create projects where life imitates art,” she continued. 
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“Looking at what’s happening with cutting SNAP benefits; that’s going to affect single mothers. I want to do things that speak to them and uplift them. … Use your power to uplift women. If we did that, and if that’s the way we moved, we would have two female presidents by now.”
Social media commenters blasted Sykes for bragging about discriminating in her hiring practices.
“Haha cool this is totally illegal,” conservative commentator Megyn Kelly <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1984372349215658407?s=43">replied</a>. 
“Why do people think it’s OK to be so blatantly racist and sexist?” another account <a href="https://x.com/OneHegemony/status/1984372640170271192">posted</a>.
“Where&#8217;s the outrage from the left who cry ‘racism’ at the drop of the hat?” echoed a third.

Wanda Sykes Brags About Her Hiring Bias: ‘If She’s A Black Woman, Girl You Got The Job’

Wanda Sykes Brags About Her Hiring Bias: 'If She's A Black Woman, Girl You Got The Job'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wanda-sykes">Wanda Sykes</a> isn’t happy with her longtime friend and colleague <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dave-chappelle">Dave Chappelle</a> making jokes about transgender people.
Chappelle came under fire when his Netflix special “The Closer” came out in 2021. In it, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy">comedian</a> claimed to be “Team TERF,” an acronym for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">trans-exclusionary</a> radical feminist. He also defended “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, who has been criticized for stating that biological sex is a fact and that men cannot be women.
His statements caused a national uproar and demands for Chappelle to be canceled. Employees at Netflix staged a walkout in protest. 
During a recent interview with <a href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/wanda-sykes-netflix-special-dave-chappelle-will-smith-trans-rights-1235622270/">Variety</a>, Sykes discussed jokes she made about “inclusive” bathroom policies which allow people to enter whichever bathroom they want depending on the gender they identify with.
“I knew that it’s such a delicate issue to talk about. I’m not trans, but they have my support, 100%,” Sykes told the publication.  
“I wanted to find something where I can shine some light on what they’re going through, to show how just stupid and hateful really it is. I was in a woman’s bathroom one time, and I was like, ‘Who would want to come in here anyway? It was like, I kind of want to go check out the men’s room. Sometimes, it’s even cleaner.’ And that’s how that whole bit started. I’ve always just been grossed out by bathrooms.”
When asked if her bit “balances out” what Chappelle said about transgender-related topics, Sykes claimed the comedian did damage to transgender people.
“Um, I don’t know about balancing it out, because I think what he said was so hurtful and damaging to the trans community. So yeah, the scale is still tipped, I will say, in their favor. But I know I wanted to say something, because so much has been said on that platform,” she said, adding that she’s hoping to fall “on the other side of it.”
When asked if she talked to Chappelle since the drama with “The Closer,” Sykes said she still “loves” him but hasn’t seen him since the show was released. 
“I haven’t had a chance to talk to him. If our paths did cross, I totally would say something,” she told Variety. 
Sykes also said she takes it as a “compliment” when people call her a “woke” comedian.
“It’s pretty funny. If you want to give me the label of a ‘woke comic,’ that’s fine. That’s great. What makes me laugh is that they say that like it’s an insult: ‘Oh, they’re woke.’ Thank you!” she said.

Wanda Sykes Criticizes Dave Chappelle For ‘Hurtful And Damaging’ Trans Jokes

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Comedian Wanda Sykes, famed for, among other things, chanting like a defiant four-year-old, “Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay” at the Oscars, weighed in with her typically erudite take on the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, attacking conservatives in the middle of the country.
The Supreme Court issued its ruling on Friday; Sykes made her comments on Late Night with Stephen Colbert Monday night.
“The problem is that middle stuff. It is those states in the middle, that red stuff,” Sykes pronounced.
Sykes was prompted by Clobert, who asked solicitously, “How ya’ doin? How ya’ doin?”
“I’m a black gay woman and I have a daughter so I’m not doing so well right now. I’m a little salty,” Sykes declared.
“You’re a little salty?” Colbert repeated.
“I’m a little salty right now,” Sykes reiterated.
“Sprinkle a little salt, let’s put some flavor on here,” Colbert pressed.
“It just sucks, man. It really does,” Sykes said articulately. “The country, it’s no longer a democracy, right? It’s no longer majority rule.”
Expert constitutionalist Colbert agreed: “No. Certainly not in the Senate; certainly not in the Supreme Court.”
“It’s no longer majority rule,” Sykes repeated. “I mean, it’s like, these judges, they basically lied during their confirmation hearings, right?”
“Especially Kavanaugh,” Colbert suggested.
“So how can you be a Supreme Court Justice and you’re just lyin’? They had their fingers crossed or somethin’ or what? It’s just a bunch of horse****. It really is,” Sykes ranted.
Then she mounted her attack on conservatives in middle America: “To me it’s like, the problem is that middle stuff. It is those states in the middle, that red stuff. Why do they get to tell us what to do, when the majority of us live out, New York, California, and we are paying for all this crap, really? We’re footing the bill.”
Colbert, again ignoring the constitutional function of the Supreme Court: “That’s the union. It’s supposed to be a representative democracy but it turns out to be minority rule right now.”
“Right, right,” Skykes agreed, then added, “But if we footing the bill, and like, California, if it were a country, it’d be like the fifth largest, fourth, fifth largest economy. So if I’m footing the bill, know your position. Know what I’m saying? Look, if I say let’s go out to dinner you don’t get to pick the restaurant. Just shut up and eat.”
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She really is just a stupid person. This decision is the opposite of red states telling blue states what to do. It’s red states being unable to tell blue states what to do and vice versa. <a href="https://t.co/67tLaQYunG">https://t.co/67tLaQYunG</a>
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These people are the perfect combination of elitist and ignorant. The decision puts the power back to the states, so she can live with her genderless, woke, narcissistic friends in CA and NY. Though they’ll get hungry real quick when they realize where food comes from… <a href="https://t.co/SHvaEBoqxO">https://t.co/SHvaEBoqxO</a>
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At the Oscars earlier this year, Sykes decided she would alienate plenty of people in Florida by attacking them over the state’s Parental Rights in Education legislation, sniping, “Well, we’re going to have a great night tonight. And for you people in Florida, we’re going to have a gay night.”
Then she joined two other supposed comediennes Regina Hall and Amy Schumer to chant like defiant four-year-olds, “Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay.”
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They’re laughing at you, Florida, not with you.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DontSayGay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DontSayGay</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Oscars</a> <a href="https://t.co/GGoQEISU30">pic.twitter.com/GGoQEISU30</a>
&mdash; Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeterSchorschFL/status/1508236040716402688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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