Roseanne Barr

[Proud liberal 80]

Man this lady went from an extreme liberal affiliated with the Green Party and the Peace and Freedom Party (which is more liberal than the Green Party.

She was also so supportive of LGBT and minorities. She participated in Occupy Wallstreet marches. And she even posted George Zimmerman’s address on twitter after he was acquitted.

How does someone like that become a Trump Supporting Deplorable?

[GWC58]

1. Maybe this is the Real Barr

The other one was for show?

[IluvPitties]

2. Roseanne always looked like your typical conservative ignoramus to me.

[cwydro]

9. What look is that?

How do you spot one on looks alone?

[IluvPitties]

11. Her attitude in general.

[PJMcK]

3. She's always been a loud-mouthed fool

I've never found her funny or interesting.

And to demonstrate my street cred with comedy, "The Aristocrats" is one of my favorite films.

To me, Roseanne is crap.

[misanthrope]

8. Same here, I found her delivery underwhelming

and her material never really grabbed me.

[PJMcK]

13. I saw what you did there!

"grabbed"

(heh, heh!)

[BootinUp]

4. Have you ever heard that there is not that much difference

between extremists on both sides?

[still_one]

7. Extreme Hot or Extreme Cold you get burned either way

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Apparently she sustained brain damage in a car accident when she was seventeen.

That might partially account for how erratic her behavior is.

[GoCubsGo]

12. Yep. I think she has issues other than just being a jerk.

And, that brain injury may very well be at the root of it all. Which is why I can't muster up all the hatred for her than may here have. That's not to say I don't hate her views, however.

[MountCleaners]

23. I think she said she had past lives or something

I remember an interview with her a long time ago, when she was talking about her past lives or some such nonsense. She's always had mental problems. I loved the old show, her not so much.

[LeftInTX]

32. Oh....I remember that....

The 90s, when I didn't have internet, cable or Netflix. When celebrity news was "news".
Thank God, I can tune it out.

[misanthrope]

6. From a wealth of emotional and mental issues

It's more than just a radical political swing. She has indulged in some wildly irrational conspiracy mongering and xenophobic accusations bordering on bigotry.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Still a Idiot.

[RhodeIslandOne]

14. Some people have no core principles. n/m

[SharonClark]

30. I agree and people who flip from one extreme to another shouldn't be trusted.

[BigmanPigman]

15. The Fucking Moron changed his political affiliation 5 times in 15

years. Both are obviously full of shit...I just wish they would keep it in and stop spreading it around in public.

[Nevernose]

16. I think shes mentally ill

I half-watched the show yesterday (my wife was a huge fan back in the day).

Some of the jokes were good, some were bad. I basically tuned out, though, when I decided that the liberal/conservative stereotypes were, with a few exceptions, just kind of hackneyed.

I did appreciate that the character of Roseanne was more nuanced than I expected. She’d become a super conservative, but remained pro-choice and pro-GLBTQ rights. In real life, people are more complicated than we attribute them to be, and all but the most fanatic (usually right wingers, but sometimes lefties) have a range of views on a variety of subjects.

Except maybe for the need for families to live each other no matter what — pretty trite — the show missed a good opportunity to sink a deeper message into the audience. It’s still just a 90s sitcom, though. Guess I’m spoiled by the twenty years of TV-turned-art since then.

Oh, yeah, about Roseanne Barr. I’ve gone through a lot of phases in my opinion of her. Shock comic? Need for attention? Easily swayed by extremists? And dozens of other per theories.

I think she’s just mentally ill. Straight up sick.

[MountCleaners]

24. The III percenter I know...

...has a big picture on his Facebook page of him and his wife celebrating Obergefell v. Hodges.

Really schizoid thinking there.

[grantcart]

28. +1

[GoCubsGo]

37. That's probably the best summary I have on the subject here. n/t

[joshcryer]

17. $$$

Money. She always followed what was most profitable to her as a person. She doesn't care about shit in reality. All she cares about is money.

[LovingA2andMI]

18. She's Trash...

That's It, That's All.

[Blue_true]

19. Do you ask.

Look at Bernie Bros, some of those people avidly supported Trump. Generally, what I have seen with extremists is that they are only interested in a narrow spectrum of issues, get them outside that spectrum and they may in fact behave differently.

[Initech]

20. She was a very easy target for the Facebook propagandists.

[imanamerican63]

21. I am glad that I am not the only one who feels this way!

I said I would never watch her show and burnt at the stakes for saying that!

[LeftInTX]

22. Never liked her

Her and Sam Kinison showed up around the same time.

She's just loud and trashy.

For some reason my husband liked her at first because she was "different", but I never did. Wasn't she always chewing gum in her stand up routines?

[Jake Stern]

31. Sam Kinison had a few good jokes but his overpowering sleazy vibe made his shtick unwatchable to me

As for Roseanne, never did like her stand up routine but enjoyed the TV show.

[greyl]

25. When she liberalish, she was still way off to the side.

I wouldn't have called her an extreme liberal then. Just goes to show how complex people can be, maybe.

[NanceGreggs]

26. I think the more relevant question is ...

... who the fuck cares?

[tirebiter]

27. I watched the season openers

And what I saw was someone who claimed to be a Trump supporter/Hillary hater but who in the storyline was liberal enough to accept a bi or gay grandson and a black granddaughter. Details, details.

[Atman]

35. This.

I hadn’t seen the show before seeing the dozens of “I hate Rosanne!” threads on DU (and on FB). So I had to watch it. From all the fuss I really expected a half-hour Trump love fest. Instead I found a grandson dealing with gender identity, a black granddaughter, a pussy-hat wearing cop, and a few Trump/deplorable jokes. I thought the whole thing was rather tame, and a lot of it quite funny. Barr seemed to achieve exactly what she set out to; she got people talking, and dealing with the reality so many of us face in dealing with mixed families. Good on her for that.

[gulliver]

29. They aren't deplorable. They're stressed out.

Trump is more like a signal flare (or a stink bomb) than a policy statement.

[LeftInTX]

33. Did you know that family were closeted Jews who were outwardly LDS?

It wasn't a mixed marriage. They were literally Jews living in Utah, so they joined the LDS to be accepted. Yet they were also practicing Jews at the same time.

That is weird.

[jes06c]

34. Wasn't she always pretty over the top in her hatred of Hillary Clinton?

I've noticed quite a few liberals whose irrational hatred of Clinton led them down very dark paths.

[Funtatlaguy]

36. Comedian Dennis Miller also did a complete flip.

Not sure when. Maybe after 9/11.
He wasn’t funny as a liberal or now as a conservative.

[ooky]

38. I expect she started watching Fox News

and parked her TV there. Probably around the time we elected a black president. That's how a lot of them become deplorables.