Disney’s Star Wars movie and streaming series creator Tony Gilroy blasted the “fascists” for taking over America during his acceptance speech for his Peabody Award Sunday and compared President Donald Trump administration to the fictional evil empire.
When he came to the podium to make his remarks, the Star Wars: Andor creator said that little did he know that when he first began plotting his Disney streaming series six years ago that he’d actually be living in a country where “fascists” have taken over, according to Variety.
Gilroy shrilly told the Peabody audience that “we spent six years contemplating a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about what happens to ordinary beings when an authoritarian, insane, unchecked regime comes into the deal, and the show is really kind of what we learned.”
He went on to urge leftists to fight.
“If you’re not willing to fight for the things that you love, your family, community, your culture, your planet, your truth, freedom, there’s an asshole ready to come in and take it away,” he lectured.
“We learned that bravery and sacrifice and resistance comes in all shapes and sizes, and we learned that courage is contagious,” he said of the “lesson” he learned creating a TV show.
He went on to insist that “oppressors” create so many “atrocities” and “flood the zone” so that the people are too fatigued to rise up.
“There’s so much is happening, it’s a fire hose of crap that you just can’t get through,” Gilroy said, seemingly unaware that this has been the Democrat Party’s practice for decades. “And here we are. There isn’t a new cycle that goes by right now that doesn’t contain a variety of outrages that in any other time in our history in America wouldn’t be grounds for treason.”
He concluded by urging journalists to “kill” Trump’s “empire.”
“Please do not stop. Please do not turn out the lights until we can kill this nightmare,” he said addressing “journalists” that he thinks should be in the business of activism, not journalism “…and fuck the empire!”
(L-R) Andy Serkis, Tony Gilroy, Diego Luna, and Sanne Wohlenberg attend the Emmy FYC screening for Andor at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, California on April 30, 2023. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)
Gilroy’s attack on Trump, Republicans, and conservatives seems to adhere perfectly to communist insurgent Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” created in the 1970s to help radical leftists subvert the United States of America and usher in a communist state.
Of course, Gilroy’s political attacks on half the country come just as Disney is reeling from its latest Star Wars feature film Mandalorian and Grogu, which is on track to lose money at the box office mere weeks after debuting to the lowest opening ever for a Disney Star Wars movie.
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