Michael Shannon: There's a big red dildo running through middle of the country

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Can you make sense of any of that for me—how Trump was elected?

Yeah, I’ll tell you how to make sense of it: This country’s filled with ignorant jackasses. The big red dildo running through the middle of our country needs to be annexed to be its own country of moronic assholes. You can call it the United States of Moronic fricking Assholes.

Do you think those assholes started off that way, or that people are inherently good and lost?

I don’t know how people got so goddamn stupid. But it’s really weird, because it’s like the last eight years, now it feels like a lie. Like, this has been festering underneath the whole time. Racists, sexists. And a lot of these people, they don’t know why the frick they’re alive. They know it. They’re doing drugs, fricking killing themselves. Because they’re like, 'Why the frick am I alive? I can’t get a job, I don’t know anything about anything, I have no curiosity for life or the world.' So this Trump thing is like getting a box of firecrackers, or something. It’s like, 'Well, this will be fun for a little while, this’ll kill some time.' Because, y’know, the jackass will be amusing on television, stay stupid shite. Make everybody clap. Hillary would have been too boring, I suppose. It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened. It’s the worst. This guy is going to destroy civilization as we know it, and the earth, and all because of these people who don’t have any idea why they’re alive.

Do you think this idea of purpose comes down to education, or finding a job that they like?

I don’t know! I mean, yeah, to a certain extent I agree with Trump. Yeah, NAFTA was fricked up and people need to have jobs. People need to have a way of supporting themselves, they need a way of having self-respect, pride and dignity. You take that away from them, this is what you get.

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