Rob Reiner has puzzled me for a long, long time. He can’t be stupid; his father Carl was a brilliant writer and comic, quick on his feet, witty, and able to hold his own with Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and Neil Simon. Rob was once an excellent film director: “This Is Spinal Tap (1984), “The Sure Thing” (1985), “Stand by Me” (1986), “The Princess Bride” (1987), “When Harry Met Sally,” (1989), “Misery (1990), and “A Few Good Men” (1992). I’m also an excellent director, so maybe I’m inclined to assume that talent is linked to intelligence. But Reiner’s success in Hollywood has crashed as his partisan progressive fervor has slipped into fanaticism.
His Ethics Alarms dossier is frightening. In 2022, he actually tweeted this,
and didn’t expect to be laughed at. His Trump Derangement worsened, resulting in this tweet
and later, when he denied on Bill Maher’s HBO show that the press buried the Hunter Biden laptop story and then deflected to, “You know it’s not justified? Using armed violence to try to kill people in the Capital. That’s not justified!” I wrote at the time,” So many once intelligent people are like Reiner now. Isn’t that frightening? Don’t some Americans, the ones who aren’t too far gone, hear a celebrity talk like that and think, “Wait…I’m on the same side as that guy? Do I sound like that? What’s happened to me?”
Well, I guess it was inevitable that poor Rob would be one of the Trump-Deranged Hollywood hysterics to take Harris’s loss especially hard. Unlike Ellen Degeneris, he isn’t fleeing to Great Britain, but he did flee Twitter/X for the sage spaces of BlueSky, where opinions totalitarian-tipping leftists like Reiner find annoying are censored.
“Anyone continuing to post hate towards me here will be blocked. I escaped the other place for a more peaceful time,” he posted there a few days ago. Understand that “hate” equals “disagreement” to people like Reiner. “I’m finding it very hard to sleep these days. It is 3:15 am,” he posted later. “I am laying awake dreading January 20th 2025.”
A kind response would have been, “Ron. I say this with love. You need help. You have let the Axis drive you nuts!” But Ron would have blocked that as “hate.”
Then, two days ago, Ron went on a BlueSky binge…
1. Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social • November 19, 2024, 3:56 PM “All the abuse and hate from Twitter has now spewed over to here. There seems to be no point anymore.”
2. Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social • November 19, 2024, 8:13 PM “Donald Trump thinks he has gathered together what he claims are his superheroes. The only superheroes I see are the democrats who stand for democracy.”
3. Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social • November 20, 2024, 4:48 PM“The Democratic Party is a party of truth, honesty and respectability. Republicans are the party of hate, dishonesty and misinformation.”
4. Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social • November 20, 2024, 8:45 PM “Republicans have no idea what they have done. America has fallen. MAGA just do not understand the consequences of electing a fascist like Donald Trump.”
5. Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social • November 20, 2024, 10:57 PM“This platform is vile, racist and evil. It did not take long for MAGA scum to come spread their lies.”
6. Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social • November 20, 2024, 11:25 PM” Ellen DeGeneres whom I have known a long time and is a beautiful and caring woman had the right idea. She obviously does not want to be apart of a place that is filled with hate, evil and fascism. Much respect to her for standing up to madness.”
“Standing up” in Rob Reiner’s addled mind means,
And finally, today,
7. Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social • November 21, 2024, 12:23 AM “I have made the decision to take the next few days to check into a facility for peace and relaxation. No phones, social media , no trolls, just calmness to heal my pain.”
Poor Rob Reiner is a victim. As Matt Margolis writes, in part, “This is what happens when leftists convince themselves that Trump is a fascist dictator. Rob Reiner has gone so far as to check into a “facility for peace and relaxation” because he simply can’t handle the reality of Trump’s victory It’s already absurd that some celebrities are fleeing the country over Trump’s win, but checking into a mental health facility over an election? It shows just how unhinged the radical left has become.”
Bingo.
Ethics Alarms 
He actually has become a meathead.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XUxH0Uk6xBA?si=nPUSfQ9in-7XX4AY
I was just going to suggest his playing The Meathead as a young guy must have affected his psyche. Maybe he’s a method actor and he hasn’t been able to separate himself from The Meathead ever since “All in the Family” wound up. This is the second “All in the Family” character that’s been brought up by this election. Kamala Harris being likened to Edith Bunker (aka “The Dingbat”) by Mrs. OB was the first. That insufferable, smug Commie, Norman Lear, must be spinning in his grave. Maybe we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
You know, Rob could have saved himself a lot of money by just getting off social media and putting his phone down once in a while. He’s a grown man, for Pete’s sake! He spent the largest portion of his life without the benefit of social media or cell phones. He has the ability to go do something else besides doomscroll. He should know and understand this.
Why doesn’t he?
Because this really is some kind of emotional/mental illness, I’m afraid.
Caused by Trump or just pushed over the edge by it? I know that there are some really creative people out there who suffer from mental & emotional problems. Some of the most talented actors in history have been troubled in some form or another.
As for Ellen, who really believes it was Trump that pushed her out of the U.S.? One does not move to another country just like that anymore. I think this has been in the works for awhile now and she’s just using the election as an excuse. She lost a lot of her popularity here. Maybe she thinks the enlightened totalitarian-leaning Brits won’t mind a bullying comedienne who thinks like them?
This wasn’t caused by Trump, it was caused by a slavish, pathological devotion to the Leftmedia.
Friends don’t let friends watch MSNBC, CNN, CBS et. al. Rob Reiner is the poster child for why.