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gtconway.bsky.social • 3 days ago

C'est plutôt «Le Bras d'Honneur»!

New - Exclusive: Some ‘Les Mis’ cast members plan to boycott Trump’s attendance at Kennedy Center performance next month

www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/p...

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lesliesherman.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean….does anyone believe he can sit through Les Mis without falling asleep? I’ve seen it….its rather long and lots of singing….not ONE village people song was performed either. BORING!

lesliesherman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just in case…..I meant all the above in jest…..
Good for the cast!! When we stand up to the stupid motherfucker, we WIN! Never give in to fascism!!

lesliesherman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Except for the falling asleep part. Wasn’t being facetious about that. I’m willing to BET on it. We all saw him at Pope Francis’ funeral. Mouth agape, drooling

metaphysicalist.bsky.social•3 days ago

I guess the show will have less mises.

liberaltees.bsky.social•3 days ago

On Nov 5, Americans chose:
Lies over truth
Ignorance over knowledge
Malice over good will
Division over unity
Sleaze over character
The criminal over the law
Billionaires over ordinary people

Four years of this 💩
Time to wear these kinds of shirts in front of MAGAs 👇
https://libtees.dashery.com/t-shirts

klausbusse.de•3 days ago

I agree with everything you said here except the 4 years of this 💩.

You must stop autocracy NOW with all your might.

If you don’t get this done soon, probably THIS year, then the Turd Reich will last much longer than 4 years.

drosgood.bsky.social•3 days ago

Playing Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert tonight will be Kid Rock and Scott Baio.

tshenkman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Neither merits playing Jean Valjean

marand45.bsky.social•3 days ago

So true.

1mkk.bsky.social•3 days ago

Are people still attending this dear leader club? Are people still performing?
Whyyyyyyyyy??

metib75.bsky.social•3 days ago

Some? All members should boycott the dumpty.

catherine292862.bsky.social•3 days ago

They all should!

kirbydog.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fitting

mrcqk.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bravo! Just like the MET Gala!

teelee53.bsky.social•3 days ago

gimmeabreak.bsky.social•3 days ago

As if he has a clue about the message of the play - or even cares, for that matter!

andreaisareader.bsky.social•3 days ago

Does he even see the irony of planning to see Les Miz? No because understanding irony requires intelligence.

isthisfun.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ledbydonkeys.org/post/3loltwljm2k2t

mimolettebskysocia.bsky.social•3 days ago

Avec un soupçon de guillotine également…

chim-chim.bsky.social•2 days ago

Le Mis going to get DOGED.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Amazing how this bothers MAGA so much. Must be because it involves their dear leader. But I bet these same idiots would cheer if an entertainer chose not to perform for Obama or Biden.

janerabbit.bsky.social•2 days ago

never before have I wished I were a Broadway star 🙄

ilyakuriyaken.bsky.social•3 days ago

Why not all of them?

experimental22.bsky.social•3 days ago

Why is any artist performing at the MAGA Nazi Kennedy Center?

prosegardener.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m a producer who hires actors for a living and the Les Mis cast members sitting out the June 11 performance would be the first people I would want to give work to. Actors are not trained monkeys, you motherfuckers.

smartfonefan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Good!

alastrionatoo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, I sincerely hope that those who remain sing a loud and defiant "song of angry men."

tiny-dancer.bsky.social•2 days ago

That fat baboon has no idea what Les Mis is even about. A$$h0le doesn’t deserve the effort of these talented performers.

globug48.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think he loves the part about the man stealing bread because he's hungry and gets arrested. He loves when others suffer.

wolfsprings.bsky.social•2 days ago

Another win.

su35.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’d take a bet the fundraiser proceeds make their way into Trump’s pockets.Does that man do ANYTHING for ANYONE other than himself?

prosegardener.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nyet.

redriccardo.bsky.social•2 days ago

✅✅✅✅👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

deejmco.bsky.social•2 days ago

He won’t be awake for 99% of it anyway.

judinthepines.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s still f’king hilarious that Trump has no idea what Les Mis is about. ✊ up to the cast members who boycott this performance!

globug48.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's starts out with a man being so hungry, he steals bread. He loves that scenario as that is what his policies are doing. Lack of goods, lack of gov't services mainly medical,, etc.

griffsy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can you hear the people sing?

mb77921.bsky.social•3 days ago

Les Missing

dunnowho.bsky.social•3 days ago

Those that are not boycotting should sing changed lyrics to suit the time.

mmdesoer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or they could encircle him while singing about the Revolution

hard-a-lee.bsky.social•2 days ago

Vive La Resistance!

cepaea.bsky.social•3 days ago

They should all boycott.

maverickgator.bsky.social•2 days ago

Should all wait until Trump is on his way and call in sick. Its an outside play that the KC is hosting.

macoop.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ils devraient monter des barricades à l’entrée, question de faire plus réaliste. 🙂
(They should mount barricades at the entrance, make it more realistic.)

urnevertooold.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yay. I wish all of them would.

tshenkman.bsky.social•3 days ago

They should all boycott the performance. 🎭

bluerthanusual.bsky.social•2 days ago

The fact that people who have been harmed by this administration and do not want to put on a dog & pony show for them are described as "isn't professional", "vapid", "intolerant", and "shouldn't be hired", shows why no one should put on a show for Trump.

denvervirginia.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wish they wouldn't announce it ahead of time. It would be perfect if no one showed up on that particular night. Oops!

mvonehr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes!

jtsundowning.bsky.social•2 days ago

Want to bet on how much of the funds raised benefits the center or how much DJT siphons off

uncircuitous.bsky.social•3 days ago

Those mad that actors of #LesMis boycotting a fascist nationalist forget that artists are, at heart, activists. Exercising their freedom to protest anti-internationalist capitalists, doesn’t make them enemies for blacklists, but patriotic rationalists. #KennedyCenter https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/arts/music/les-mis-boycott-trump-kennedy-center.html

hmabe.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s okay to use English George. The play is actually spoken in English.

marytorgersen.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oui, vraiment!

gbutzek.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's not just the play. It's for a major fundraiser. wtf
does he need to be raising funds for?

beihai.bsky.social•3 days ago

it is a fundraiser for the center itself.
personally I don't think any artist with an ounce of integrity should go nor anyone with any integrity donate to it.

rimagev.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah, like he's gonna sit there for more than five minutes.

lajolla2.bsky.social•3 days ago

Valjean:”Des hommes tels que vous ne changeront jamais.”✅

lajolla2.bsky.social•3 days ago

Valjean: “Des hommes tels que vous ne changeront jamais” ✅
@gtconway.bsky.social

thereallajones.bsky.social•3 days ago

He's got plenty of 'bad actors' around the cabinet table...BRING THEM! 😎

prosegardener.bsky.social•2 days ago

🤣

joshdsw.bsky.social•3 days ago

After what DT has done to USAID culture programs, NEH and the NEA recipients, arts org and artists, cutting off all of their grants and leaving them hanging, the cast of Les Mis and its producers should refuse to do performances for DT or any Cabinet members whether at the Ken Cen or elsewhere.

arinpg.bsky.social•3 days ago

They ought to perform a new song or tweak one too.

felinesareperfect.bsky.social•3 days ago

Every act of resistance is very important. We must never normalize dictators, anywhere, anytime.

conservativedem5.bsky.social•3 days ago

The whole audience should stand up at the same time turn their backs on him for several seconds and walk out in unison.

susanhypnoreiki.bsky.social•3 days ago

So how are we supposed to know if they didn’t go…? I mean I’m glad we’re being told but if somebody doesn’t show up for something??

beihai.bsky.social•3 days ago

how anyone with any integrity perform there now is beyond me, even if Trump isn't there.
let it be 4 years of Kid Rock and Chachi

cepaea.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is usually an insert indicating substitutions of the regular performers.

bethesdaist.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's a three hour show with intermission. Who wants to start a betting pool on when he gets bored/twitchy and leaves? I've got 45 minutes, or 5 if he gets booed!

catcmdr1.bsky.social•3 days ago

Could we play the Les Mis Anthem on a continuous loop and put it in the White House, Mar-a-Lago, and any golf course he plays pretend golf at????????

leenie16.bsky.social•3 days ago

Excellent. Let’s make “some” into “all”.

jeffreyhf.bsky.social•3 days ago

The ostentatious plutocrats have muscled into the Kennedy Center, but they cannot buy the artistic heart.

southpawxtn.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mr. Conway, I have no idea if you're a fan of heavy music, but I feel we Americans can take inspiration from the French. Gojira performed their arrangement of Ça ira! at the Olympics (complete with beheaded Marie Antoinettes in the windows of the Conciergerie).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hTMYk7orHw

southpawxtn.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just a giant middle finger to tyrants and dictators.

myshkin11.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump will clap when the attempted revolution fails and tell them that they should have been satisfied with 3 dolls instead of 30.

gimmeabreak.bsky.social•3 days ago

Such a vile, clueless em effer!

ravenna321.bsky.social•3 days ago

Is that French for 'You reap what you sow'?

damdae.bsky.social•3 days ago

That would be "Qui sème le vent récolte le tempête": He who sows the wind harvests the storm.

violetbunnikins.bsky.social•3 days ago

George not all of us understand French...

cagefreeeggs123.bsky.social•3 days ago

They should all wear Obama T-Shirts😂

kisatchiebigfoot.bsky.social•3 days ago

National Obama Day T-shirts for us to wear on National Obama Day!

https://kisatchiebigfoot.com/collections/protest-wear

#Obama

partiallyconvinced.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's going to sleep through it with or without the full cast.

globug48.bsky.social•2 days ago

He'll probably be hooked into some golf game.
Just appearances. Perhaps he will dig out the tux he wore when he dined with the queen. '

gtconway.bsky.social•3 days ago

(In other words, the night’s performance will be of «Le Middle Finger» in lieu of the previously scheduled show.)

newtoncus.bsky.social•2 days ago

tres bien

secretcabdrivre.bsky.social•2 days ago

lyntser.bsky.social•2 days ago

Le Middle Finger…😂😂😂

casey-dee.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yep, but then Trump will probably fire the performers because he’s a pussy.

fanew.bsky.social•2 days ago

He can’t. They’re part of a traveling cast. All the Kennedy Center can do is book them.

casey-dee.bsky.social•2 days ago

That doesn’t mean he won’t try. He’s such a baby.

fanew.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope he gets booed when he enters. That would be tres droll!

katywho50.bsky.social•2 days ago

Richard Grinnell's comments are just ridiculous -people who boycott performances and don't show up are practicing politics. Uh... what do you think Trump did when he took over the Kennedy Center?

lakernurse.bsky.social•2 days ago

C’est bon!

reggiewallinsky.bsky.social•2 days ago

They could borrow Mrs. Alito’s upside down US flag to wave instead of that red thing.

deejmco.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sounds like an entire cast of understudies, “swings,” and cut roles. “Mini Miz”

johnadamsghost.bsky.social•2 days ago

In related news, college football fans are boycotting “Les Miles”

lakernurse.bsky.social•2 days ago

🤭

griffsy.bsky.social•2 days ago

😆😆

the-joe-friday.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good one, George!

earringirl.bsky.social•2 days ago

😂😂😂

terraincognita1968.bsky.social•3 days ago

Le doigt d'honneur :-)

independent56.bsky.social•2 days ago

Does it top this?

jeremybuchman.bsky.social•2 days ago

For all of its wonderful features, available at no cost, the French Duolingo module does not include lessons on what to shout when someone cuts you off in traffic, or how to properly salute your country's authoritarian leader.

gtconway.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s why God gave us fingers, for us to communicate effectively in any land.

lillian7.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wish they’d stand outside and sing.
“Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again”