Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Says He Won’t Endorse Biden Again for President

“The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,” he told Will Cain on Fox News in an interview posted online Friday. “I thought, ‘I’m in this position where I have some influence and I felt it was my job then to exercise my influence [and] share: This is who I’m going to endorse.’ I’m not going to do that. I was then, the most followed man in the world, and am today, and I appreciate that … but what that caused was something that tears me up in my guts — which is division. That got me. I didn’t realize that then, I just felt like there was a lot of unrest and I’d like things to calm down.”

Translation: I don't want to piss off the MAGA meatheads in my fanbase.

Well, thanks to Dwanye for becoming an arrogant coward at the exact time people need voices like his to help build up Democracy ideals.

His take is avoidance because he arrogantly thinks his previous endorsement of Biden caused division in America. That's wild.

The Audacity of This Bitch.

wow, the hits just keep on coming. Has anyone heard from the Shamwow guy or maybe Rob Schneider? Their opinions are crucial.

Well, Schneider is making content for daily wire now.. so his opinion should be obvious.
- I saw part of his comedy special... conservative comedy is just awful
"Can somebody please find Ja Rule, get a hold of this motherfucker so I can make sense of all this? Where is Ja?"

Well now he's dead to me. I thought he was a logical thinking human being. What an absolute moron. Not voting for Biden is a vote for the bad guys and fascism/monarchy

He probably will still vote for Biden but he doesn't want to endorse him because he wants that sweet sweet Maga bucks. I liked him too, fuck this greedy coward now.
Pretty sure only a vote for bad guys is a vote for bad guys. I don't think the election officials tally up non votes or votes for other people.
- The problem with your reply is that you're focusing on a single tree and missing the entire forest around it.
  
  If you just take the words only at face value, then yes, I suppose you're right. However, apathy ABSOLUTELY loses people elections, which is what the spirit of my statement for all intents and purposes actually says. That's why we got suck with Trump in the first place - people were lukewarm on Hilary and mad that Bernie wasn't the candidate. They decided NOT to vote, and the crazy kook republicans always vote, so we got stuck with trump.
  
  My comment stands and is accurate.

I've just smelled what the Rock is cooking.

It smells like rancid asshole.

More importantly, has anyone asked Ja Rule who he's endorsing?

Who the fuck cares? Fuck what the rock thinks.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE ROCK THINKS!

So he's a piece of shit coward more interested in making money than helping his country, got it.

IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT THE ROCK THINKS!

IT ONLY MATTERS WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING!

It sure would be nice if the political opinions of an actor wasn't important enough to report on.

He is complaining about wokeness. Gee, I wonder who he is voting for?

I am just shocked that he isn't running for president.

I'm saving mine for Dwayne...
Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho.
- He has my vote any and every day! Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

If you ever cared what that absolue cunt is rhinking i feel bad for you.

He's no different than millions of us that see another geriatric corporate owned genocide enabling POS

“The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,” he told Will Cain on Fox News in an interview posted online Friday. “I thought, ‘I’m in this position where I have some influence and I felt it was my job then to exercise my influence [and] share: This is who I’m going to endorse.’ I’m not going to do that. I was then, the most followed man in the world, and am today, and I appreciate that … but what that caused was something that tears me up in my guts — which is division. That got me. I didn’t realize that then, I just felt like there was a lot of unrest and I’d like things to calm down.”

He's saying he won't endorse Biden because he knows it's a divisive topic, not because he's a right-wing asshole like the others. Also, I think it's a good example of being self-aware enough to realize he has this massive following and a lot of power, and being responsible enough to consider that merely his opinions can sway a lot of people at once. It's an uplifting perspective from a celebrity, imho.

“Democracy is under attack but I’ve got a lot of influence so I should just stay quiet and use it to sell energy drinks instead.”

Cool take.
- And he makes all his money on young impressionable males who care A LOT about their physique. I wonder which political demographic that affects...
It’s an uplifting perspective from a celebrity, imho.

Goddamn that bar must be underground... but no, this is Dwayne Johnson showing he cares more about being a business entity than a man. There's nothing admirable about it from a business perspective, it's just business, but from a human perspective it's kind of cowardly.
Not taking a stance because that stance would be divisive is not a good argument.
- People keep saying this, but I think you're all impossible to please. There are three general positions he could take
  
  Endorse Biden
  
  Don't endorse anybody (The Rock's current position)
  
  Endorse Trump (Rob Schneider is here)
  
  Somehow, for so many armchair political scientists on Lemmy, the 2nd and 3rd positions are indistinguishable from each other. And then the 1st position is an endorsement of genocide Joe. Democracy matters and genocide is bad therefore Biden is a bad candidate. And if you're not for Biden, then you're for Trump. But if you're not explicitly for Biden, then you're for also Trump. But if really cared about democracy and civility then must be for Biden, and openly, because Trump is just worse. But fuck Biden because genocide is bad.
  
  This is nonsensical and impossible. What the hell is an acceptable stance on these issues?
  
  Actually, I couldn't care less. Go square that circle with someone else. The Rock is as right as he's going to be by not explicitly supporting Biden or Trump because he doesn't want to cause division.

Hell yeah, fuck genocide Joe.. 🖕🖕

As opposed to well known anti-genocide Trump.

Genocide support is an American problem, not the acts of one President. If you think not voting for Biden will lead to less genocides/wars, you might want to double check that.

This is just the beginning -- a LOT of celebrities aren't going to want to associate their brand with Genocide Joe. You can say they don't matter, since they shouldn't, but the election is going to be decided by a set of like 300k low information dum dums in swing states who vote despite having no real information and decide at the last minute, potentially based on who a celebrity endorsed, because they're idiots.

I notice the peanut gallery constantly throwing out the "GJ" nickname never say "Genocide Bibi".

Or place the blame where it belongs.

Or have any understanding of the Israel-United States military relationship and how we have at least one important military base there

Or acknowledge that the US also gets weapons from Israel

Or realize that there are a lot of pro-Israel folks in the US that will get pissed off if he was more "take a side" which would ultimately benefit Trump (who has vowed to "finish the job").

Or realize there's any nuance to the situation at all. Nope, totally a black and white situation.

Or that he's been calling for cease fire for months

Or realize that it's not just flicking a switch to "off"

Funny how all that doesn't fit your narrative. It's also suspiciously convenient that the entire plight can be blamed on one person (cough not the person doing the bad stuff cough), in an election season, with a childish nickname likely cooked up by a right-wing think tank and/or foreign troll farm (insert "they're [mostly] the same picture" meme here). Nope, not suspicious at all.
- I'll gladly call Netanyahu a genocidal maniac. I'd gladly see him executed Nuremberg-style (hope to see that eventually). But Biden is the president of my country and he is more loyal to Netanyahu than America. They have murdered OUR citizens and he does nothing. Israel is a mooch nation that entirely is fed off of our teat monetarily, militarily, and in terms of international legal cover. He could readily make them stop by ACTUALLY making threats. He chooses not to and then lies to us saying "really, we're saying mean things to them in meetings" when clearly they are not. Biden is lying to you and you are buying it.
As opposed to you, an intellectual.