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I have to say, “Tim Robbins turns ‘cooker’” wasn’t on my 2022 Bingo card.
When it comes to Hollywood loudmouth leftism, Robbins is royalty. One of the biggest kahunas. Robbins has jumped on every fashionable leftist bandwagon imaginable for years. Small wonder he was singled out to be lampooned as a F.A.G. in Team America: World Police.
So, to hear Robbins apologising – not begging for a mealy mouthed amnesty, but apologising – for the viciousness of the campaign against the Freedom movement during the Covid pandemic is startling. Even more than Dr Kerryn Phelps’ acknowledgement of Covid vaccine injuries, it possibly indicates a seismic groundshift in the Covid narrative.
If nothing else, it shows that, while Robbins may be as pompously misguided as any Hollywood elite, at least he’s (somewhat) honest.
In the Dec 18 episode of Russell Brand’s podcast, Robbins, an Academy Award-winning actor, explained his journey from strict compliance with government edicts early in the pandemic to one of doubt about the inerrancy of so-called health experts and the official narrative constructed around Covid-19, vaccination, lockdowns and masking.
Unlike so many on the left, Robbins at least opened his eyes to the lie of the Establishment narrative.
Despite having initially “bought into it” and “adhering to the requests” made of him, Robbins explained that his real-life encounters were ultimately at odds with what he had otherwise been told about the pandemic, anti-lockdown protesters and the unvaccinated. This generated a sense of cognitive dissonance, prompting him to doubt the official narrative.
Robbins didn’t blindly “Trust the Science™” – he believed his lyin’ eyes.
Although he saw thriving areas that were not strictly following statist health protocols when he drove across the US, it was not until he visited the United Kingdom that Robbins acknowledged the possibility that he may have been wrong to unquestioningly accept the official pandemic narrative […]
“When I saw that there wasn’t a huge death rate [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.”
Robbins also used his own eyes and refused to buy into the sort of lying narrative the media-political establishment peddled about the sort of protesters who gathered in Wellington.
“I saw the way that they were being described in the press, and it wasn’t true,” he said. “These were not, you know, National Front Nazis. These were liberals and lefties and people who believed in personal freedom.”
“These were liberals and lefties and people who believed in personal freedom.”
Robbins also saw the blind, tribal hatred from his own “side”.
Robbins admitted, “At first, if you were a Democrat, when Trump was president, well, you weren’t going to take that vaccine because it was Trump’s vaccine, and then that seemed to somehow change. It was kind of Orwellian. It was like we are no longer at war with East Asia.”
However, after the political winds shifted and Democrats assumed power during the pandemic, Robbins noted, “If you didn’t take the vaccine, you were a Republican.”
The end result, according to Robbins: “We turned into tribal, angry, vengeful people […]
It made me think about returning to a society where we care about each other. Your neighbor would be sick, and you’d bring over some soup. It didn’t matter what their politics were, you’re their f—ing neighbor,” said Robbins.
Unlike many others in the Left Establishment, Robbins isn’t just quietly taking off his brown shirt and trying act like nothing ever happened.
Robbins accepts that he too was swept up into the ranks of the socially destructive.
“You go from someone that is inclusive, altruistic, generous, empathetic, to a monster. Where you want to freeze people’s bank accounts because they disagree with you,” he said. “That’s a dangerous thing. That’s a dangerous world that we’ve created. And I say ‘we’, because I was part of that. I bought into that whole idea early on.”
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Credit where it’s due. If only more of the Hollywood elite were so self-reflective and willing to admit when they were wrong.
