Ashley Judd’s Latest Batch Of Insults To Trump Supporters On Facebook Is Absolutely Ridiculous.

Y’all, the High Priestess of Nasty Women has written a Facebook tirade after a “hostile act” took place towards her at a Kentucky basketball game this past weekend.

BEHOLD:

Let’s unpack and untangle that, shall we?

“I’d like to share with you and experience I had today. It’s uncomfortable and scary for me and I have a hunch that some of you have had experiences like it. It may be attempting to put me in a different position as a so called public person, and the reminder is, like all of us, I’m just human and navigating this at times terrifyingly polarized post election climate.”

So the very person who stood up at the Women’s March and said absolutely despicable things about the POTUS, who said vile things about her bloody sheets, who invoked Hitler,  who insulted Ivanka Trump, and who basically lost her sh*t in front of DC and the world, is now fretting about how “polarized” the post election climate is.  FOR REAL.

You know what’s “uncomfortable and scary?”  Watching Ashley Judd’s Women’s March speech.

“An older man with white hair came up to me at my seat today at a basketball game. He said “May I take your picture? I said “Yes.” And before I could offer for him to be in the picture with me, 6 inches from my face, he took my picture with his phone. He said “I’m from Big Stone gap.” I said, “I love Big Stone Gap! What a beautiful town, I loved making the movie there.” I went on to say how good the cooking is, mentioning, of course, the pineapple upside down cake and pumpkin pie!

 

In my mind I was getting ready to ask him about the national parks and if he ever spends time in especially the Thomas Jefferson National Park – but something inside of me was already clenching and I concluded by simply saying “I like Big Stone Gap. ”

 

He said to me with open hostility as he was backing away, “We like Trump.”

 

Of course, it’s very clear now that as I was being friendly and talking, his affect was angry, and he certainly didn’t respond in anyway to my general enthusing about his little Appalachian town. And it’s also clear that his entire approach to me and aggressive sticking his phone 6 inches in front of my face to take my picture was a part of his plan to treat me with rudeness, aggression, and disrespect. Who knows, maybe he’s already done something undignified with the picture or maybe it was just a pretense so he could say something menacing to me.”

Ok.  So dude asks if he can take her photo, she says yes, he takes it, and because he says “We like Trump” somehow this entire incident was aggressive, rude, menacing, disrespectful, hostile, uncomfortable and scary?  REALLY?

I should point out that on more than one occasion, I’ve personally witnessed Ashley Judd being absolutely horrific to genuinely sweet people who approached her at the race track and asked politely if they could take her photograph.  In one such incident, which I’ll never forget, it was a young teenaged girl, who was nervous and clearly excited to see someone she looked up to, and Ashley told her in no uncertain terms that she should could NOT take her photo, and that she should “get back behind the fence where she belonged.”  It was awful.  And the way she said it, and the look on that girl’s face, will forever be seared into my memory.  Ashley was an absolute BEAST.  The difference?  That young girl likely didn’t and doesn’t have the same kind of platform Ashley Judd has to recount her experience and solicit sympathy from the masses.

“I feel very sad that this happened, and frankly scared. We absolutely need apolitical spaces in this country where we come together for something that is beyond who voted for whom and the platforms, beliefs, and agendas of respective candidates.

 

I could’ve easily retorted to this man, for example, with “Well, I know everything I need to know about you now, Sir, you voted with the KKK.”

 

Or perhaps another shot, such as “Well, I voted with the popular vote which you lost by the widest margin in American history.” And dragged in his charming town like he had – “sorry to discover Big Stone gap is full of misogynists like you.”

 

And his “we” in “we like trump-” he’s one guy and invoking the royal “we” is a tactic used to intimated. And I could have said, “We? Half the folks didn’t vote; and more than half who did voted the other way. Pull out the issues check list and show me who your threatening “we” is, person by person.

 

But I didn’t.”

No, instead you chose to write those things to a waaaaay bigger audience, so that MORE people could be insulted by you simultaneously.  Great job, Ashley.

“I also feel both for myself and everyone else who has both participated in and is on the receiving end of a hostile act like this which seeks to intimidate. It’s not nice. I’m so sorry that our public spaces can be like this. Just think about it – whoever would want to run for office with this kind of thinly veiled attack on each other? Good people have no incentive whatsoever to run for office in this country when things like this happen.”

Do you really feel for everyone else who’s been on the receiving end of a hostile act like this which seeks to intimidate?  Really?  Because I didn’t see you reaching out to the pro-life women who were excluded from attending the Women’s March.  I didn’t see you being inclusive of Trump supporting women at the Women’s March.  What an outrageous display of hypocrisy.

It’s absolutely LAUGHABLE that Ashley is whining about people being disincentivized to run for office when “things like this happen.”  You got your picture taken by a Trump supporter who told you he likes Trump, you over-reacting, hypocritical seahag. That’s all that happened to you. You didn’t get the fangirl treatment you were expecting and probably craving.

“I want to be very clear that I believe something like basketball is a neutral space – actually, it’s not neutral. It is unifying. It was a positive place – a time and space in which we come together for a common purpose and with a common love: college basketball and the chance to root for our team, and to be a part of the wacky, unpredictable culture of March Madness. Our memories go deep, the wild stories continue to amaze, and everyone’s hopes run so high. We root for the underdog, wait for the upsets, and believe our team can go all the way. I firmly believe college basketball is #NoPoliticsHere space and actually can be a bonding and healing space.”

I don’t disagree with Ashley that a basketball game should be devoid of politics.  The guy could’ve just as easily avoided her altogether.  I’m not excusing him completely, because his encounter with her was pointless.  All it did was give her fodder to whine.  He clearly wanted to be a jerk, and so he was one.  But her overreaction to this entire incident is ridiculous. If she insists on very publicly expressing her divisive views in the manner she did at the Women’s March, she shouldn’t be surprised that people will remember her words, always associate them with her, and feel free to share their own with her if presented with the opportunity, regardless of the circumstances.  That man likely doesn’t have the same platform or reach that Ashley does.  Her politics are shoved into his face if he watches the news, because she has the benefit of a very public platform.  He saw an opportunity to give back to her what she so readily dishes out on a wide scale to others,  he wanted her to know that he disagrees with her politics, and he told her so.

Daisy and I are public with our views, both here and on the radio.  We have the tiniest, itsiest bitsiest fraction of the reach that Ashley Judd does.  But it’s not uncommon for us to hear from people when we least expect it that they either agree or disagree with us.  It comes with the territory.  Is it right?  That’s up for debate.  It is what it is.

Ashley is essentially asking for the world to be her safe space while she simultaneously publicly broadcasts her political views. You can’t really have it both ways.  If you want the world to know what you think, you shouldn’t be surprised when the world reacts.