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Matt Damon

No but in all seriousness, fake news circulated that MD had purchased property in Australia and was intending to leave the USA to live here in a huff over Trump being POTUS, naturally this pissed me the fuck off so I added him to 'the list' and promptly did my thing. Now, before I get into this, it should be noted, that after I cracked the shits rather publicly about it, his publicist promptly denounced the claims that he had purchased property in AUS despite his recent visits being truth.

That's greeeeat.

You're still on my list, Matt.

wiki: Matt Damon

Matthew Paige Damon (/ˈdeɪmən/; born October 8, 1970)[2] is an American actor, film producer, philanthropist and screenwriter. He is ranked among Forbes magazine's most bankable stars[3] and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.[4][nb 1] Damon has received various accolades, including an Academy Award from five nominations, two Golden Globe Awards from eight nominations, and has been nominated for three British Academy Film Awards and six Emmy Awards.

~~In addition to acting in films, Damon has performed voice-over work in both animated and documentary films and has established two production companies with Affleck. He has been involved in charitable work, including the ONE Campaign, H2O Africa Foundation, Feeding America, and Water.org.~~

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In the media

Political views

Damon appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews in December 2006, and while discussing the ongoing war in Iraq, expressed concern about inequities across socioeconomic classes with regard to who in the United States is tasked with the responsibility of fighting wars.[101] Damon is a supporter of the Democratic Party, and has made several critical statements against Republican Party figures, but has also expressed his disillusionment with the policies of President Barack Obama.[102][103] In 2012, Damon, Ben Affleck, and John Krasinski hosted a fundraiser for Democratic Senate nominee Elizabeth Warren.[104]

Damon has had a close relationship with the Obama administration, primarily due to his friendship with former Harvard roommate and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to President Obama, Jason Furman.[105] In 2010, Matt Damon narrated the documentary film Inside Job about the part played by financial deregulation in the late-2000s financial crisis.

Social views

In October and December 2017, Damon made headlines when he made a series of comments regarding a large movement of backlash against sexual harassment and misconduct. On October 10, Sharon Waxman, a former reporter for The New York Times, mentioned that Damon, along with Russell Crowe, made direct phone calls to her to vouch for the head of Miramax Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo. In her report, she suspected Lombardo of facilitating incidents of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct in Europe.[106][107][108] However, Damon clarified later that the calls were solely to reassure of her of Lombardo's professional qualifications in the film industry.[109] Waxman endorsed Damon’s statement on Twitter hours later.[110] Also during this time, Damon said that he had heard a story from Ben Affleck that Gwyneth Paltrow, a co-worker on a feature film of his, had been harassed by Weinstein in 1996, but thought "she had handled it" because they continued to work together, and Weinstein "treated her incredibly respectfully."[111][112]

In another series of interviews during December 2017, Damon advocated for a "spectrum of behavior" analysis[113][114][115][116] of sexual misconduct cases, noting that some are more serious than others.[117][115][116] The comment drew backlash from prominent members of the #MeToo movement[117][118] and the public for being tone-deaf in "understand[ing] what abuse is like".[118][117] On January 17, 2018, Damon apologized on The Today Show for his social commentary stating: "I should get in the back seat and close my mouth for a while."[119] On 13 March 2018, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck announced they will adopt the Inclusion rider agreement in all their future production deals through their Pearl Street Films.[120]

In March 2018, a false report stating that Damon and his family will be moving to Australia to leave a Trump Presidency was circulated on tabloids such as Page Six and the New York Post. Damon's publicist, Jennifer Allen, refuted these claims.[121]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/matt-damon-donald-trump-possibly-president-makes-nervous/story?id=40961422 | https://archive.is/xKvHe

Matt Damon on Donald Trump Possibly Being President: 'It Makes Me Nervous'

By MICHAEL ROTHMAN, ALEXA VALIENTE and ANGELA WILLIAMS

Jul 28, 2016, 2:02 PM ET

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"Jason Bourne" star Matt Damon has seen the global curiosity that Donald Trump's run for president of the United States has caused among everyday people.

"As an American and one who goes abroad ... every customs agent around the world, when they see your passport, they ask about Trump," Damon exclusively told "Popcorn with Peter Travers" on Thursday. "They go, 'Is that real?' They are kind of bewildered by the entire thing. I have to admit I am too."

 

Damon said he always saw Trump as "very entertaining," but he never saw him in a presidential light.

"I'm kind of amazed we've arrived at this point," he said of the businessman's nomination for president. "I'm concerned."

Damon added that it was Brexit -- England voting to leave the European Union -- that really woke him up to Trump's chances of possibly becoming commander-in-chief.

 

"Trump actually could win," he said. "I don't think he has the temperament. I have a lot of Republican friends and a lot of my Republican friends I wish were the Republican nominee."

Damon added that he believes the "rigging" of the election system led Trump to become the Republican nominee.

"Trump is almost like a protest vote," he added. "'I want to vote against all of you in Washington, D.C.' ... but to think about the actual practicality ... just this thing he did yesterday with, saying 'Russia release the emails,'" he added, referencing Trump's press conference on Wednesday in Doral, Florida, where he said that he hopes Russia finds Hillary Clinton's deleted emails.

 

"It makes me nervous," he said. "It's a binary choice.... There's no way we can let this guy be the [president]. To let that dude have the nuclear football, are you kidding me? That's dangerous. He's impulsive and rash, and doesn't seem to think deeply about too many things."

Suffice it to say, Damon says he is voting for Clinton.

The candid conversation wasn't all serious. Travers also told Damon that while sitting down with former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently for an interview, Sanders raved about his love for "Bourne," the amnesiac operative Damon has played onscreen for almost 15 years.

"That's the real deal!" Travers said.

Damon said hearing that was "fantastic" and that he would hop on the phone with his acclaimed director the second he left the building.

"Jason Bourne" opens in theaters tomorrow.

Why does it make you nervous, Matt? Hmm?

wiki: ONE Campaign

Emphasis added by me.

The ONE Campaign is an international, nonpartisan, non-profit, advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support policies and programs that are saving lives and improving futures.[2]

In 2015, ONE raised $50 million.[1]

ONE was founded in 2004 by a coalition of 11 non-profit humanitarian and advocacy organizations, including DATA, CARE, World Vision, Oxfam America, and Bread for the World, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2007, ONE announced that it would be merging with DATA.

It is a membership organization of nearly 9 million people worldwide.[3]

wiki: DATA

Emphasis added by me.

Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa (DATA) was a multinational non-government organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2's Bono along with Bobby Shriver and activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt campaign.

DATA was created for the purposes of obtaining equality and justice for Africa through debt relief, adjusting trade rules which burden Africa, eliminating the epidemic of AIDS in Africa, strengthening democracy, furthering accountability by the wealthiest nations and African leaders, and transparency towards the people. In 2007, in the United States, DATA and Bono were jointly awarded the National Constitution Center's 2007 Liberty Medal for their groundbreaking efforts to address the AIDS crisis and extreme poverty in Africa.

Start-up funds came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, financier George Soros, and technology entrepreneur Edward W. Scott.[1]

In 2007, DATA and the ONE Campaign decided to join forces, and, in January 2008, they formally merged under the name ONE.[2]

DATA received support from the Christian rock / alternative rock bands Switchfoot and Third Day.

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