An Open Letter to Tara Strong.
Dear Tara,
As a fan of yours and as someone who supports the Democrats like you do I am not writing this letter out of anger but because I care about the United States of America. My native country. Grey DeLisle’s native country. EG Daily’s native country. Your sons’ native country. And AFAIK Willie Morris’ native country. I have not liked your silence (except for a few posts in your IG stories) regarding the 2024 Presidential election. That is why I am writing to you.
Maybe your silence is your feeling that President Biden is too old and not able to handle the campaign trail. Donald Trump is not much younger and certainly not any more sound of mind and body than Pres. Biden is. Well on July 21,2024 Pres. Biden withdrew from the Presidential race and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris. A woman. Of color. And 18 years younger than Donald Trump. And of course Trump is bitching about the situation like the crybaby that he is.
Maybe it’s the rise in antisemitism you have seen on college campuses and the like. My opinion is that it’s astroturf from the right. But let’s take a look at the anti semites from both ends of the political spectrum. First the ones on the left aka the “Genocide Joe” crowd. They weren’t voting for Biden anyways (probably wasting it on a third party like Putin stooge Jill Stein) and I don’t think they are voting for the Vice President either. And there are the anti semites on the right. The “Jews will not replace us” crown and the Nick Fuentes1 followers the “incel2” Groyper people who have been running wild on Twitter/X since Elon Musk took over the joint. And for every anti semite on the left there are at least ten (probably closer to 50) on the right. So don’t expect a strong antiSemite vote for the Democrat in 2024. That leaves you with one option. Vice President Harris.
As for the events of last October 7th, I have shown sympathies to the Palestinian and Gazan people but what Hamas did on that awful day was and is indefensible. But in your heart of hearts Tara did you think on that day the conflict would be going on nine and a half months later. If your answer was No I am willing to bet at least 70% of Israelis agree with you. To me ANY ceasefire agreement depends on the repatriation of ALL hostages. I hope that Pres. Biden , who is now free of the burden of campaigning can negotiate a ceasefire/hostage release. A reminder: any female hostages pregnant by nonconsensual sex3 can if they so choose terminate their pregnancy in Israel. But not in several states of these United States and nowhere in the US if Project 2025 goes into effect.
On Twitter/X I made the following deal that I will now repeat to you: Make a minimum $25 contribution to the Harris campaign and show proof of said contribution on X, Instagram or Threads by 9 PM PDT 10 days from when you read this and I will not only contribute $25 to the same campaign AND I will stop bothering you about your silence on this race AND stop commenting on your IG story when you talk about the Israel situation. I only have two obsessions. The first and far greater and more important is to stop the re-election of Donald Trump. Look I don’t really want to engage you on this. I would rather talk about Fairly OddParents, Teen Titans, Danny Phantom and how you got jobbed of an Emmy nomination for Miss Minutes in Loki (against admittedly VERY tough competition). And also my other obsession. And as I am writing this you and Willie are marking your second anniversary. Congratulations. If it had been me I would have proposed by now (I know: tell me you’ve never been married without telling me you’ve never been married). Part of me is resentful because I have been waiting for something like this to happen to me my entire adult life. But part of me considers Willie to be my spirit animal that I can make someone famous my girlfriend (OK so Willie is richer and much better looking than me). And if you DO decide to tie the knot I will need to find someone to take me as their Plus One. And it looks like Grey may be out.4
Anyhow that is all I have to say right now. I hope you don’t take offense. I just want to make sure that you are on board with me and Grey DeLisle and Sari Beth Rosenberg and Mark Hamill and Carlos Alazraqui and Maddie Taylor and…I could go on. Do it for Hunter Daily and Tyson Salomon and Posie Griffin and Maya Nucci and Alice Oswalt and Chaplin Brown5
Sincerely and with affection,
Nick Carlson
Who had thanksgiving dinner with Donald Trump
A misnomer
I don’t want to use the r-word.
We would go as friends.
Ever Carradine’s almost 14 year old daughter