Jane Fonda was handed a helmet. She had visited a number of North Vietnamese propaganda photo-ops with one of the last being an anti-aircraft battery. Communist propagandists were delighted when she happily took the headgear and gladly sat down and peered through the gun’s iron sights. Click, click click went the cameras. Fonda was yucking it up with her handlers. She smiled throughout her visit. One of the photos was her with her fingers in her ears and her shoulders arched up. Oh, loud noises. Americans dying. All good fun. Click click continued the cameras. That last photo framed her tone-deaf visit. Hanoi Jane was born.

Six months after she propagandized for communists, Operation Linebacker started. North Vietnam was bombed back to the negotiation table. Forty-three American Airmen would die with 49 more taken prisoner during the 12 days of December 1972. Hanoi Jane’s AA battery might well have killed Americans. Whether her efforts gave oxygen to North Vietnam abandoning negotiations in the summer and fall of 1972 is debatable, but it is indisputable that it didn’t aid America’s efforts in negotiating an end to the war. Although Fonda has since claimed she was duped into posing for political propaganda, most Vietnam vets hate her with the heat of a thousand suns.

Fifty-one years later Jane Fonda remains a deeply polarizing, fundamentally absurd personality. Fittingly, she was a guest on the most absurd show on TV, “The View,” and suggested that those who believe in life should lose their lives. In March Fonda said that pro-lifers should be murdered. Fonda, whose face is more plastic than Nancy Pelosi’s, offered a solution in line with a “final solution”: executing the opposition. Fonda is opposed to the death penalty, but would gladly take out those who think killing a baby is bad.

Kira Davis framed it thusly:

Host Sonny Hostin laughed, saying that was “the activist” in Fonda coming out. Veteran host Joy Behar agreed and then asked the “Grace and Frankie” star what could be done about it besides marching and protesting.

“Well, I’ve thought of murder,” Fonda replied through animated cross-talk between the women on the panel. When Tomlin asked her to repeat her statement, Fonda confirmed.

“Murder.”

While the panel of “The View” laughed, Behar stepped in to reassure the audience Fonda was just kidding, suggesting that right-wing watchdogs might pick up the comment and “run away with it.”

If you thought the octogenarian was finished with vomiting leftist bromides, she wasn’t. Fonda was interviewed at the Cannes Film Festival last Friday and said that men — specifically white men — are to blame for climate change.

Fonda method-channeled Greta Thunberg and AOC all at once and claimed the world was on the brink. She said Earth has “about seven, eight years” to cut fossil fuel consumption in half.  AOC said the world will end in 12 years, four years ago, so she and Fonda are on the same page.

Sporting a blue-tinted grandma hairdo, Fonda lamented for “poor people of color” and claimed:

“It’s good for us all to realize, there would be no climate crisis if there was no racism. There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy,” she reportedly said. “A mindset that sees things in a hierarchical way. White men are the things that matter and then everything else [is] at the bottom.”

“So when I say that I’m fighting the climate crisis, I also feel that I’m fighting patriarchy and racism. It’s important because we have to get out of the silos — feminists over here, environmentalists over here. That’s what I learned when I started being an activist around the Vietnam War. The more you go down any issue, whatever it is, you realize that it’s all connected. And if we solve the climate crisis and we haven’t solved those other things, we’re gonna be in trouble.”

Weird, considering that the biggest polluter on planet Earth is Vietnam’s next-door neighbor, China. Not a lot of white dudes running the communists in the People’s Republic.

Fifty-one years ago, Hanoi Jane was simping for commies in North Vietnam. Now she simping for communists in China. Smile for the cameras, Jane. Communist China loves you, Jane! Smile! It’s Memorial Day Weekend.

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