When the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade it wasn’t simply lefty reporters who turned apoplectic, the Hollywood elite have been enraged too. Actors instantly flew to Twitter to unleash their (in some instances) profanity-laced assaults on the conservative Justices.
After all, the late evening speak present hosts additionally lectured their viewers. Pop singers like Olivia Rodrigo and sports activities figures like Megan Rapinoe additionally bought into the act.
The next are simply a few of wildest and angriest outbursts and tweets from celebrities put up the Supreme Courtroom choice to throw the abortion concern again to the states:
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Anti-SCOTUS Lectures from Late Evening Libs
“Within the land of the American dream, the land of the free, a rustic which prides itself on the safety of a person’s liberties, we transfer immediately again to a darkish age the place a courtroom has imposed the minority political view on a rustic for many years to return. With a choice that endangers hundreds of thousands upon hundreds of thousands of ladies and their households….If solely the American leaders on the suitable would care and struggle as a lot for the rights of ladies as they do their weapons.”
— Host James Corden on CBS’s The Late Late Present, June 28.
“I’m your visitor host, Chelsea Handler. I will probably be right here all week lengthy or at the very least till Republicans make it unlawful for girls to speak….At this level I in all probability have extra rights if my vagina was an AR-15….[GOP House Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy, because you point out it, let’s speak about what it means to be pro-life. Common well being care. That’s pro-life. Limiting weapons, that’s additionally pro-life. Preventing local weather change. That’s additionally pro-life….Not forcing girls to provide start like livestock. Professional-life. However your social gathering opposes all of these issues. Calling Republicans pro-life is like calling O.J. Simpson pro-wife.”
— Substitute host comic Chelsea Handler on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, June 27.
“As a result of they [Supreme Court] struck down a New York regulation about carrying weapons, you already know, in your physique while you depart the home, so everybody now could be strapped always in public. Wow, welcome to right-wing America, the place if you wish to finish a younger life, it’s important to shoot them.”
— Host Invoice Maher on HBO’s Actual Time, June 24.
The Day by day Present ‘Meteorologist’ Desi Lydic: “Trevor let’s begin on this a part of the nation with these purple states. The place you possibly can count on an actual shitstorm, we’re taking a look at widespread energy outages as in your energy to make your individual choices. So women, you may wish to refill on these raincoats earlier than Justice Alito bans them too….Let’s check out the nation’s capital. Right here is the place you will see a robust downpour of unprecedented shitbaggery. We’re seeing three separate pure disasters converging to type what meteorologists wish to name a what-the-[bleep]-nado. Now first let’s speak about Congress which is experiencing a extreme drought of management, very, very dry circumstances. Now over on the White Home they’ve been experiencing some very excessive winds, simply fully blowing it. However the true climate occasion is going on over on the Supreme Courtroom. Now our storm facilities have been monitoring this for years so we knew this acid rain was coming however that doesn’t imply it nonetheless doesn’t burn the hell out of twats in order that’s the climate, again to you, Trevor.”…
Host Trevor Noah: “Thanks very a lot, Desi. However clearly that wasn’t concerning the climate.”
Lydic: “No, no, it wasn’t. [Bleep] Sam Alito and anybody else that tells a lady what to do with their very own physique.”
— Comedy Central’s The Day by day Present with Trevor Noah, June 27.
Whoopi Warns Clarence Thomas: They’ll “Come for You” Subsequent
“What’s subsequent? As Clarence Thomas is signaling, they wish to eliminate contraception. Do you perceive, sir? No, since you don’t have to make use of it….He higher hope — we weren’t within the Structure both. We weren’t even individuals within the Structure. Effectively, you higher hope that they don’t come for you, Clarence, and say you shouldn’t be married to your spouse who occurs to be white. As a result of they may transfer that, and also you higher hope that no person says, ‘, nicely, you’re not within the Structure. You’re again to being 1 / 4 of an individual,’ as a result of that’s not going to work both.”
— Co-host Whoopi Goldberg on ABC’s The View, June 27.
Weapons Have Extra Rights Than a Girl
“It’s about rattling time we speak about the truth that weapons have extra rights than a lady. It’s a tragic day in America.”
— Actress Taraji P. Henson on the BET Awards, June 26.
Don’t Go Away Offended Billie, Simply Go Away!
“Fuck America. I’m fucking renouncing my citizenship. I’m fucking coming right here. There’s simply an excessive amount of fucking silly on this planet to return to that depressing fucking excuse for a rustic.”
— Inexperienced Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong at a live performance in London, June 26.
Unhappy Singers Savage SCOTUS
Singer Olivia Rodrigo: “However I’m additionally equally as heartbroken over what occurred in America yesterday….The Supreme Courtroom determined to overturn Roe v. Wade. Which is a regulation that ensures a lady’s proper to a protected abortion and different primary human rights. I’m devastated and terrified that so many ladies and so many ladies are going to die due to this. And I needed to dedicate this subsequent tune to 5 members of the Supreme Courtroom who confirmed us that on the finish of the day they really don’t simply give a [bleep] about freedom….This tune goes out to the Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh! We hate you.”
Singer Lily Allen: “We hate you.”
— Reside from the stage of Glastonbury Competition in London, June 25.
“Now, y’all understand it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t take a second to name out these silly males. Texas actually embarrassing me proper now y’all. That’s my dwelling state. And I wish to have it on the report that the [bleep] and the recent boys don’t assist this bull [bleep]. My physique, my [bleep] alternative!”
— Rapper Megan Thee Stallion dwell from the stage of Glastonbury Competition in London, June 26.
“The tune we’re about to do is, I believe, one of many favorites that we’ve written and it’s concerning the idea of energy and the way we have to at all times bear in mind how to not abuse it. At present is a extremely, actually darkish day for girls within the U.S. and I’m simply gonna say that as a result of I can’t bear to consider it any longer at this second.”
— Singer Billie Eilish dwell from the stage of Glastonbury Competition in London, June 24.
“You wanna know a secret, ladies? Your our bodies have been destined to be managed and objectified since earlier than you have been born. That horror is your birthright. Fuck the Supreme Courtroom!”
— Singer Lorde dwell from the stage of Glastonbury Competition in London, June 26.
Offended Tweets
“At present’s Supreme Courtroom ruling overturning #RoeVsWade can have lethal penalties, with the hurt falling hardest on individuals of shade who already face disproportionate discrimination in our nation and grapple with a extreme maternal mortality disaster. If abortion is banned nationwide, pregnancy-related deaths might enhance 21 % nationwide, and 33 % amongst Black girls. Banning abortion will disproportionately affect individuals of shade, LGBTQ+ communities, individuals struggling to make ends meet, younger individuals, and people dwelling in rural areas. Banning abortion is about controlling girls and trans males. It’s about white supremacy, the patriarchy and misogyny. It’s a tragic day for America.”
— June 24 tweet thread by actress Alyssa Milano.
“fuck you roberts.
fuck you thomas.
fuck you alito.
fuck you kavanaugh.
fuck you gorsuch.
fuck you coney barrett.”
— June 24 tweet by anti-bullying activist Monica Lewinsky.
“GET YOUR FICTIONAL HATEFUL BIBLE STORIES AND YOUR FAKE FICTIONAL RELIGIOUS BULLSHIT OUT OF OUR FUCKING LIVES. FUCK YOU.”
— June 24 tweet by actor Billy Eichner.
“Girls don’t have any proper to make their very own reproductive well being choices. Separation of Church and State is being obliterated. Everybody has a proper to hold a hid firearm. We’re being tyrannized by an Autocratic minority.”
— June 24 tweet by movie director Rob Reiner.
“Not too way back, this could have been dystopian sci-fi. However the legacy of the 2016 election and the indelible mark of the GOP is printed right here in black and white. How a lot farther this may go as soon as once more depends upon American voters. Blame extremism or apathy, however that is America.”
— June 24 tweet by Household Man creator/actor Seth McFarlane.
“What a tragic day in America. It’s getting tougher and tougher to really feel like we aren’t transferring backwards. Hid carry yesterday…demand carry right now. What’s subsequent?”
— June 24 tweet by longtime radio character and BET’s Video Soul host Donnie Simpson.
“AMERICA :: IF you will have NEVER VOTED :::: NOVEMBER is YOUR alternative.”
— June 24 tweet by actor Henry Winkler.
“Some bitch on TV saying, ‘have your child after which give it up for adoption; adoption is a stupendous and noble factor to do.’ She’s delusional. Many infants are by no means adopted however are shunted from foster dwelling to foster dwelling the place they’re abused & used as slaves till they age out. That is so short-sighted and egocentric of the suitable wing. 1) it’s none of your goddamned enterprise what I do with my physique! 2) the nation will quickly be suffering from orphans that nobody desires; are they going to boost each undesirable baby to maturity? No fucking approach! They gained’t even pay for academics and respectable colleges! They gained’t pay for baby care! They need extra white individuals and don’t care how they get them or what form they’re in when they’re grown.”
— From June 24 tweet thread by actress/singer Bette Midler.
“How’s Uncle Clarence feeling about Overturning Loving v Virginia??!!”
— June 25 tweet by actor Samuel L. Jackson.
“I believe all of our nerves are collectively fried from so a few years of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and many others. +pandemics, mass shootings, wars and the overall lunacy, hypocrisy, ignorance of the GOP-it’s all a bit a lot. However we’ll stick collectively. Good will prevail over evil.”
— June 26 tweet by pop singer Pink.
“One of many worst American days of my lifetime.”
— June 24 tweet by former ESPN author and creator of The Ringer Invoice Simmons.
Rapinoe Raps “Merciless” Courtroom for Imposing “White Supremacist, Patriarchal Christianity”
“I simply can’t understate how unhappy and the way merciless that is. I believe the cruelty is the purpose….To have the whole lot of the U.S. authorities say to individuals’s faces — to girls’s faces: ‘We don’t care. We’re going to power our perception system, which is deeply rooted in a white supremacist, patriarchal Christianity. We’re going to power that upon you.’ To start with, your faith is a alternative, and it’s a perception that you’ve. It isn’t my perception, and it isn’t many individuals’s beliefs, and it definitely is just not the regulation of the land. And it definitely within the context of Roe v. Wade is just not the need of the nation. And that has been express for thus lengthy. The make-up of the Courtroom is ill-equipped to deal with this sort of choice; frankly, a majority-male courtroom making choices about my physique or some other girl’s physique is totally misguided and wildly out of contact with the wishes of the nation, the need of the nation, and the need of the individuals.”
— US Girls’s Nationwide Workforce soccer participant Megan Rapinoe at a press conference, June 24.
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