Sean Penn: Commit tea partyers, Ted Cruz ‘by executive order’

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**Dreadclaw69**

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/29/sean-penn-commit-tea-party-ted-cruz-executive-orde/

If it weren’t for the tea party, Congress would work well, Hollywood actor Sean Penn said during a recent appearance on CNN with host Piers Morgan. And he also said tea partyers should be forcibly committed for mental health treatment.
Really, the tea party is to blame for nearly all of the issues facing Congress, he said, as Politico reported.
“I think they have — there’s a mental health problem in Congress,” Mr. Penn said. “This would be solved by committing them by executive order, I think. Because these are our American brothers and sisters, we shouldn’t be criticizing them, attacking them. … This is a cry for help.
Mr. Morgan encouraged Mr. Penn to continue: “You literally commit what, people like Ted Cruz?”
And Mr. Penn’s reply, as Politico reported: “He is my American brother. I think we should take care of him, he is in trouble.”
Mr. Morgan then double-checked if Mr. Penn mean to say that he wanted to forcibly commit Mr. Cruz for mental-health treatment.
“Yeah, I think it’s a good idea,” Mr. Penn said with a laugh, Politico reported.

We shouldn't be criticizing them.....but we should be forcibly committing them

**cadbren**

The celebrity world is rife with substance abuse, I'm not surprised at anything they say.

**motyak**

But we know Sean Penn is super left, I mean isn't he part of the F.A.G. from Team America? So wouldn't you take him about as seriously as Bachman et al?

edited: Apparently I can't use a really common word for cigarette on dakka. That's good to know.

**d-usa**

motyak wrote:
But we know Sean Penn is super left, I mean isn't he part of the cigarette from Team America? So wouldn't you take him about as seriously as Bachman et al?

I take Sean Penn about as seriously as I take Cruz's father when he calls for people to ship Obama back to Kenya.

**Seaward**

Breaking: Faux-communist advocates internment of political dissidents. Dogs bark, sun is hot, water is wet.

**Ouze**

I was going to post something about how the Tea Party's only existed for a few years, and how our government didn't work super well at times previous to that, but ultimately we must consider that at some point, it becomes our fault for giving people like Sean Penn an audience for his outlandish political views.

**djones520**

Ouze wrote:
I was going to post something about how the Tea Party's only existed for a few years, and how our government didn't work super well at times previous to that, but ultimately we must consider that at some point, it becomes our fault for giving people like Sean Penn an audience for his outlandish political views.

Well... you did post something about that

**Ouze**

Well, I did include "me" in "us", sadly - my self control is not ideal.

**AlexHolker**

Sean Penn is a fascist, an idiot and an all-round donkey-cave. By saying this he proves himself far worse than anything the Tea Party might accuse him of. After all, "death panels" are merely a dysphemism for triage, a necessity if you're going to try to allocate a finite, public resource to combat an infinite problem, while he is advocating the use of the medical system as a weapon, to suppress free speech either by the threat of indefinite detention without trial or by its use.

**Ouze**

Good actor, though. Mystic River, Carlito's way? Awesome work.

**juraigamer**

He does have a point about the tea party being mentally derp.

**djones520**

juraigamer wrote:
He does have a point about the tea party being mentally derp.

No, he doesn't.

**Cheesecat**

AlexHolker wrote:
Sean Penn is a fascist, an idiot and an all-round donkey-cave. By saying this he proves himself far worse than anything the Tea Party might accuse him of. After all, "death panels" are merely a dysphemism for triage, a necessity if you're going to try to allocate a finite, public resource to combat an infinite problem, while he is advocating the use of the medical system as a weapon, to suppress free speech either by the threat of indefinite detention without trial or by its use.

I think fascist may be be a bit much it isn't the only ideology that tries to block out free speech nor am I sure that to be fascist you have to be authoritarian or totalitarian.

**Kovnik Obama**

djones520 wrote:
juraigamer wrote:
He does have a point about the tea party being mentally derp.

No, he doesn't.

This has the making of great saturday afternoon reading material. Dakkanauts, do not disappoint me!

**SBG**

I'm Canadian.

I have purposely avoided learning what exactly the Tea Party is, so that when I see or hear the term, all I think of is some horrifying American cosplay of Alice in Wonderland.

I think that this may be closer to the truth than it seems.

**Ouze**

Well, there are fanciful hats involved, anyway.

**MrMoustaffa**

djones520 wrote:
juraigamer wrote:
He does have a point about the tea party being mentally derp.

No, he doesn't.

*grabs popcorn*

Also, its Piers Morgan, I wasn't aware people took anything that appeared on his show seriously.

**dogma**

Ouze wrote:
Well, there are fanciful hats involved, anyway.

And disbelief in certain kinds of numbers.

**azazel the cat**

dogma wrote:
Ouze wrote:
Well, there are fanciful hats involved, anyway.

And disbelief in certain kinds of numbers.

*standing slow clap*

**Co'tor Shas**

djones520 wrote:
juraigamer wrote:
He does have a point about the tea party being mentally derp.

No, he doesn't.

They are not insane, they are just a reactionary group formed by people have no experience in government, and the people they elected are doing exactly what what their largely poor and uneducated constituents (I'm not generalizing or being demeaning, It's a fact) are telling them to do, i.e. stop anything the democrats try to do and uphold "American values" (whatever those are).

p.s So you don't attack me for as being a democrat or republican (because I write from a neutral standpoint people tend to assume I am from one party or other), I am a moderate independent who thinks both parties are just largely faffing around, attacking each other, blocking each others legislation, and doing nothing of actual importance.

**H.B.M.C.**

Seaward wrote:
Breaking: Faux-communist advocates internment of political dissidents. Dogs bark, sun is hot, water is wet.

Pretty much this.

**Jihadin**

Wait?! I'm suppose to take Sean Penn serious? Really? Didn't he like lose all points for being abusive in his relationships? Like Anger Management issues? Like he doesn't like female singers or something....

**azazel the cat**

Jihadin wrote:Wait?! I'm suppose to take Sean Penn serious? Really? Didn't he like lose all points for being abusive in his relationships? Like Anger Management issues? Like he doesn't like female singers or something....

Not to make light of domestic assault, but I don't blame him for wanting to punch Madonna in the mouth.

**Seaward**

Co'tor Shas wrote:
They are not insane, they are just a reactionary group formed by people have no experience in government, and the people they elected are doing exactly what what their largely poor and uneducated constituents (I'm not generalizing or being demeaning, It's a fact) are telling them to do, i.e. stop anything the democrats try to do and uphold "American values" (whatever those are).

"Several polls have been conducted on the demographics of the movement. Though the various polls sometimes turn up slightly different results, they tend to show that Tea Party supporters tend more likely than Americans overall to be white, male, married, older than 45, regularly attending religious services, conservative, and to be more wealthy and have more education."

- The New York Times, Politico, Quinnipiac University

**Relapse**

Jihadin wrote:
Wait?! I'm suppose to take Sean Penn serious? Really? Didn't he like lose all points for being abusive in his relationships? Like Anger Management issues? Like he doesn't like female singers or something....

His brother Chris was pretty cool, though, according to friends of mine that worked with him.

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Co'tor Shas wrote:
djones520 wrote:
juraigamer wrote:
He does have a point about the tea party being mentally derp.

No, he doesn't.

They are not insane, they are just a reactionary group formed by people have no experience in government, and the people they elected are doing exactly what what their largely poor and uneducated constituents (I'm not generalizing or being demeaning, It's a fact) are telling them to do, i.e. stop anything the democrats try to do and uphold "American values" (whatever those are).

p.s So you don't attack me for as being a democrat or republican (because I write from a neutral standpoint people tend to assume I am from one party or other), I am a moderate independent who thinks both parties are just largely faffing around, attacking each other, blocking each others legislation, and doing nothing of actual importance.

Just wow.

**daedalus**

Relapse wrote:

Just wow.

I had a response to this, but I thought we could all benefit more from a good nights sleep and reading a nice book of our choice afterward.

**sebster**

It's just weird that we pick out people who are good at their jobs and think they will have any insight or knowledge of things outside of their job. We do this because celebrity, but just imagine if we did this with anyone who was good at their job. Here's Steve, who's just been recognised as the world's finest beer brewer, let's ask what he thinks about the case for intervention in Syria.

It's ridiculous, so why is it any different when the person happens to be a good actor or singer or whatever. The only response to Sean Penn's political comments that makes any sense at all is to say 'Sean, you're an actor and quite a good one, but why one Earth would anyone give half a gak about what you think about national politics?"

**whembly**

sebster wrote:
It's just weird that we pick out people who are good at their jobs and think they will have any insight or knowledge of things outside of their job. We do this because celebrity, but just imagine if we did this with anyone who was good at their job. Here's Steve, who's just been recognised as the world's finest beer brewer, let's ask what he thinks about the case for intervention in Syria.

It's ridiculous, so why is it any different when the person happens to be a good actor or singer or whatever. The only response to Sean Penn's political comments that makes any sense at all is to say 'Sean, you're an actor and quite a good one, but why one Earth would anyone give half a gak about what you think about national politics?"

I agree with you Seb...

Frankly, I think he's hysterical (and great Actor). He does do quite a bit of volunteering/charity around the world, so... eh.

This simply need to be looked at that reasonable folks can appreciate talent and not get that mixed up with that talent's belief.

For instance.. I fething love Audioslave's music. But, they're a leftist, communist love'n, pinko bastich.

**d-usa**

Well, we all love the sounds of our own voice and love to tell people what we think.

We have the fancy OT on DakkaDakka, and we say what we think because we have a platform here and people will listen to what we have to say.

Celebrities are no different, they just have a different platform than us.

**hotsauceman1**

I say we do commit people who go to tea parties, my mom hosts a few of those and you must be crazy to want to go