Zoolander and Meet the Parents star Ben Stiller pledged $150,00 to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign during a fundraiser, telling viewers they should vote for Harris in part because she is “Indian” and “black,” and would be “the first woman president.” The actor then added, “I wish I was black.”
“She’s going to be the first woman president,” Stiller said. “She’s Indian, she’s black, she’s everything — I’m Jewish and Irish. I wish I was black. Every white Jewish guy wishes he was black.”
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Ben Stiller announces he is donating $150K to Kamala Harris because "I wish I was black—every white Jewish guy wishes he was black."pic.twitter.com/hNl7FEMjaQ
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Stiller, who was speaking on a “Comics for Kamala” Zoom call, also insisted to viewers that he’s not just “another funny guy” telling people to vote for Harris, reminding them that he is “an actor” who appeared in the 2001 film Zoolander, and the 2004 film Dodgeball.
“I know what you’re thinking,” he said. “Probably, ‘Another funny guy here to tell you why to vote for Kamala Harris,’ but I feel like I’m different, because I’m not a comic. I’m an actor. I played Derek Zoolander, I was in Dodgeball. I got my dick stuck in my zipper 25 years ago.”
“You can trust me,” the actor continued. “Seriously, I’m here, because I’m so genuinely excited about the potential to actually win this election — what’s happened in the last couple of weeks, just the turning of the tide.”
“I just want a decent person in the White House, you know, a person who cares about democracy,” added Stiller, whose suggestion that the vice president upholds the values of “democracy” would come off as an ironic remark for many, given that Harris has been running a shadow campaign in preparation for when President Joe Biden — who was democratically elected by voters — would be “forced” out of his reelection campaign.
In June, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson noted while speaking in Australia that “Democrat primary voters” had recently cast a ballot for Biden.
“He’s elected by his own Party, people actually went to the polls and cast a ballot for him, but all of a sudden because he might not win against [Trump], we need to take his job away from him by force and let the donors put someone in there who can beat [Trump], because that’s democracy,” Carlson quipped.
“And that made me start to think for the first time, maybe we’re defining the word ‘democracy’ a little differently,” Carlson added.
Stiller made no mention of these developments while speaking on the recent Zoom call, but instead went on to argue that Harris should also be president because she is pro-gun control and pro-abortion.
“I believe in everything that she’s standing up for,” the Tropic Thunder star said.
While Stiller fantasizes about Harris letting women kill their unborn children, the Japanese stock market panicked and suffered its worst single-day sell-off in history — losing even more points than it did on “Black Monday” in October 1987 — spooked, in part, by a looming recession under the policies of Biden and Harris in the United States.
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