Actor Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy) has spent the last year-and-a-half or so doing battle with Trump supporters on Twitter as he calls out the president and his policies. But the fight seems to have left him badly disheartened and jaded, as evidenced by the rant he went on this week before "taking a break", in his words:
I gotta tell ya, after 18 months ‘o this shit i’m pretty sick and tired. Sick and tired of people in high places taking a shit on law & order. Sick and tired of taking a shit on the memory of hundreds of thousands of American men and women who died stamping out Nazism.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 6, 2018
Sick and tired of shitting on the memory of men and women about their heads Bashed in on southern bridges, hoses and dogs turned on them, batons turned on them so that we begin begin to act civilly toward one another among all the races.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 6, 2018
Sick and tired of cronyism. Sick and tired of corruption. Sick and tired of Pius people not knowing the difference between decency and rape. Sick and tired of people who call themselves patriots not having the foggiest idea of how a democracy should function.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 6, 2018
But most of all, I am sick and tired of being a voice in the wilderness; abandoned by our so-called guardians of the constitution who sit by and watch it all burn. Who display cowardice in the face of assault, knowing that all that is sacred is being burned and still do nothing.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 6, 2018
I feel weak. I feel nauseous. I feel impotent. I feel betrayed. I feel alone. I feel terrible.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 6, 2018
For those who have followed me, you know I have left nothing in the locker room. I have even almost half heartedly but also almost full heartedly suggested I throw myself into the fray, digging as deeply as I could to summon hope and decency. But I didn’t know What I didn’t know.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 6, 2018
I didn’t know how desperate we are to all hold onto our tribalism. I didn’t know how easily we could be divided from one another. I didn’t know how much hatred truly existed in the nation I came to love and believe in.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 6, 2018
I’m taking a break. I’m going back to my little corner of the world where all I have is poured into family, friends, and the nobility of storytelling that celebrates our commonalities and not our differences. In the words ofJoni Mitchell, if you want me I’ll be in the bar...
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 6, 2018
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