{"id":1783992,"date":"2022-12-22T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783992"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:06:08","slug":"tim-robbins-blasts-left-for-demonizing-covid-vaccine-lockdown-skeptics-we-turned-into-tribal-angry-vengeful-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-robbins-blasts-left-for-demonizing-covid-vaccine-lockdown-skeptics-we-turned-into-tribal-angry-vengeful-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Robbins Blasts Left for Demonizing COVID Vaccine &#038; Lockdown Skeptics: \u201cWe Turned Into Tribal, Angry, Vengeful People\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftim-robbins-blasts-left-for-demonizing-covid-vaccine-lockdown-skeptics-we-turned-into-tribal-angry-vengeful-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783992&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/tim-robbins-russell-brand-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Actor Tim Robbins has blasted his fellow leftists for demonizing COVID vaccine and lockdown skeptics, saying he was wrong to have \u201cbought into\u201d the establishment narrative surrounding masking and other measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Meanwhile, his <em>Mystic River<\/em> co-star Sean Penn expressed the opposite view in an interview from last year that recently went viral again, saying he believes anti-mRNA vaccine rhetoric is \u201ccriminal,\u201d and anyone who is unvaccinated for this particular illness should not only stay at home but also be deprived of their livelihood.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The two Hollywood stars acted together in Clint Eastwood\u2019s 2003 <em>Mystic River<\/em>, for which they both won Oscars. They also worked together on the 1995 death-row movie\u00a0<em>Dead Man Walkin<\/em>g, which Robbins directed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Robbins spoke about COVID during an interview Sunday on Russell Brand\u2019s podcast. During the conversation, he said he unquestioningly complied with COVID measures in Los Angeles during the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI bought into it\u2026 I was masking everywhere. I was keeping my social distance. I was adhering to the requests made of me, and I felt angry at people that didn\u2019t do that,\u201d Robbins told Brand.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s the first part of my interview with \u2066\u2069. I hope you can give it a listen with an open heart.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Robbins (@TimRobbins1) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said the left ended up demonizing people on the right who didn\u2019t comply with government edicts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe turned into tribal, angry, vengeful people,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think that is something that is sustainable for the Earth, that we start demonizing people who don\u2019t agree with our particular health policies and turn them into monsters, turn them into pariahs, say they don\u2019t deserve a hospital bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cIt turned into \u2018you should fucking die\u2019 because you have not complied,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s incredibly dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is such a powerful commentary by actor Tim Robbins (in discussion with Russell Brand) on the horrendous demonisation of those who questioned the response to Covid.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Melville (@JamesMelville) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Robbins said his views began changing after visiting the U.K. in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In Britain, he \u201cnoticed a lot of people were not adhering, again, to these requests made by their government. I thought, well, they\u2019re going to have a hard day coming up, that there will be some serious death here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I saw that there wasn\u2019t a huge death rate here [in Britain], after I witnessed personally what was happening, I started to wonder more and more about what we were being told and whether it was true or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">His mind changed even more after observing an anti-lockdown protest in New York.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI saw the way they were being described in the press and it wasn\u2019t true. These were not National Front Nazis. These were liberals and lefties and people who believed in personal freedom. I began to educate myself and open my mind to what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sean Penn spoke out against vaccine skeptics in an interview with Extra last year.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how he felt about \u201canti-vaccine rhetoric,\u201d Penn replied: \u201cIt\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sean Penn says people who are unvaccinated are basically criminals who should should stay home and not have jobs. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catch Up (@CatchUpNetwork) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d he added. \u201cAs long as we\u2019re all paying for these streets, we gotta ride safely on them. And so I\u2019m just hopeful that the mindset will change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow David <\/em><em>Ng on Twitter\u00a0. Have a tip? Contact me at\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Tim Robbins has blasted his fellow leftists for demonizing COVID vaccine and lockdown skeptics, saying he was wrong to have \u201cbought into\u201d the establishment narrative surrounding masking and other measures. Meanwhile, his Mystic River co-star Sean Penn expressed the opposite view in an interview from last year that recently went viral again, saying he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1783995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[9369,6962,7218,5146,3675,5458,4127,11185,3682,3691,6290,4370,3819,10858,11061,8301,11184,4829,3954,11183],"class_list":["post-1783992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-for","tag-the","tag-we","tag-angry","tag-blasts","tag-bongino","tag-covid","tag-demonizing","tag-into","tag-left","tag-lockdown","tag-people","tag-report","tag-robbins","tag-skeptics","tag-tim","tag-tribal","tag-turned","tag-vaccine","tag-vengeful"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}