Jane Fonda on If She Is ‘Proud of America Today’: ‘No!’

What are you? Nuts?

 

In case you’re already having buyer’s remorse about your Black Friday purchases, here’s some more fuel to the fire.
While you were shopping, Iain Armitage, star of CBS’ Young Sheldon and HBO’s Big Little Lies, was out protesting for climate change. The young actor joined Jane Fonda in her now weekly marches in Washington D.C. calling for Congress to act.
Fonda avoided being taken into custody for the fourth week in a row. Despite being told that the Attorney General’s office won’t prosecute her case (she’s already been arrested four times for acts of civil disobedience), Fonda has chosen not to get arrested again until Dec. 20 in order to avoid jail time that would prevent her from continuing to lead the demonstrations.

In October, Fonda, 81, announced that she’d moved to Washington, D.C., to lead weekly protests at the U.S. Capitol, inspired by the work of indigenous people and young climate activists. The star has gathered scientists, economists, and people from communities impacted by climate change, as well as celebrity friends and colleagues to speak out about environmental issues.

Armitage spoke at today’s event, following in the footsteps of The Good Place’s Manny Jacinto, who spoke at last week’s demonstration.

Fonda has committed to hosting Fire Drill Friday events into early 2020.

 

What are you? Nuts?

 

No more than you.

You make statements that are vague, I ask what you're talking about, and you ask if I'm nuts.

I can see this won't be going much further.

 

Don't bet on it.
I'm not being nuts here and I don't plan to be but it is time to cool it. OK?
You might not know what I mean so there
Or maybe just forget about it.

 

Let's get back on track and focus on Jane Fonda's problems. so there

 

OK OK I apologize for some of my remarks if you were offended but I'm just making points across. If you ask what points?, figure it out yourself

What does "Ahead of what" supposed to mean

 

Don't try to improve on something that is already accomplished, as in Those drapes we hung are even enough—let's quit while we're ahead. This idiom also implies that further action runs the risk of spoiling something. Also leave well enough alone.
Get it?

 

Read This:
Jane Fonda has unusual plans for her 82nd birthday: she wants to spend the night in jail.

The American actor and political activist – who has been protesting about inaction over the climate crisis at the US Capitol every Friday – has been arrested four times and kept overnight once. Her lawyers have helped her avoid serious charges. But she says the acts of civil disobedience have pulled her out of a depression she sunk into after Donald Trump took office.

“With his election came a need to deeply study things that I didn’t understand enough, including why did he get elected,” Fonda said. “The answers to why he got elected began way, much earlier. And so that realisation has helped guide where I put my focus as an activist,” Fonda said in an interview with the Guardian.

Fonda – a huge star in the 1960s, 70s and 80s who has recently seen TV success in the hit Netflix show Grace and Frankie – knew Trump socially before he entered politics.

When he won the Republican nomination, she said she was relieved because she thought he would never win. And even if he did, she didn’t expect him to be ideological.

“I didn’t realise that he was a crook,” she said. “I did not realise the depth of corruption that exists in our government, and that kind of shocks me. I don’t like to think that this country is like, you know, the Latin American dictatorships, you know, Eastern European dictatorships, Russian dictatorships.”

Trump has belittled Fonda’s cause at recent campaign rallies, reminding his supporters that she was arrested decades ago when she was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam war. He also brought up Fonda’s 1972 visit to North Vietnam, which earned her the nickname “Hanoi Jane” and still taints her reputation, especially on the right.