“Avengers” director Joss Whedon has a Thanksgiving message for America: “We win worst country.”
Whedon, who was a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter during the campaign, wasn’t referring to the election when he sent the disparaging message. He was responding to a tweet from actor Mark Ruffalo regarding the reported tear-gassing of Native Americans protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Boy history is repeating itself all OVER this land. We win Worst Country. https://t.co/twPPZ8Bml1
— Joss Whedon (@joss) November 23, 2016
Whedon followed up the message by tweeting, “‘Your people are hungry? Here, this is corn. You pull off the husk & you shove it right up your ass’ -Native Americans, if only they’d known.”
The famed director recently shot a PSA encouraging people to vote and has been extremely vocal on Twitter over the recent presidential election, calling for a ballot audit and claiming that Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin rigged the election.
Here are some of the tweets Whedon has fired off in the last 24 hours:
The crafty move was forcing the Dems to debunk voter fraud, so when the Trump/Putin cabal ACTUALLY COMMITTED it, we'd sound hypocritical
— Joss Whedon (@joss) November 22, 2016
Demand an audit. Make the call. pic.twitter.com/3lGUH0te9e
— Joss Whedon (@joss) November 23, 2016
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Against ballot audit: hard to pull off, hard to trace.
FOR: entirely plausible, given Trump's ties, character, & last 30 yrs of GOP BS.— Joss Whedon (@joss) November 23, 2016
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FOR: we need FACTS, before they're a lost language
FOR: calling our reps is a skill we NEED 2 develop. Activism creates activists. CALL.— Joss Whedon (@joss) November 23, 2016
Whedon might have a point, as a group of prominent scientists and lawyers is urging Clinton to challenge the results of the 2016 election, saying they’ve found evidence of hacking or manipulation of the vote in three key states.
University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society Director J. Alex Halderman said in a Medium post that the election results were “probably not” the result of a cyber attack, but that he doesn’t see the harm in looking into it.
“The only way to know whether a cyberattack changed the result is to closely examine the available physical evidence — paper ballots and voting equipment in critical states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, nobody is ever going to examine that evidence unless candidates in those states act now, in the next several days, to petition for recounts,” Halderman wrote.