‘Occupy Hollywood’ – The Left Begins to Eat Itself
by Kurt SchlichterYou’re not a conservative if Kim Kardashian making millions for being a half-witted, no-talent reality TV star bothers you. In fact, if you feel “there oughta be a law” somehow regulating, limiting or otherwise controlling in any manner at all how much dough she rakes in from the drooling morons who choose to fling it at her, you are part of the problem.
This woman took very, very little in the way of ability and somehow provided a service – of a kind that frankly baffles me – that millions of people nevertheless want to spend their money on. Regardless, it’s none of your or my business, and it’s especially none of the government’s business.
But now, here comes “Occupy Hollywood,” a hilarious exercise in poetic justice in which the left proposes to chase its own tail by attacking the same cretinous celebrities who have been the first to parrot every commie slogan the bongo-playing degenerates of Occupy Wall Street have misspelled on their placards.
Jo Piazza, the author of some remainder bin perennial titled Celebrity, Inc.: How Famous People Make Money, is leading the bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you-athon with an article in The Huffington Post called “Occupy Hollywood: Why It’s Time To Call Out High-Earning Celebrities.”
For some reason, she thinks what movie stars make is some sort of problem:
Yet, the middle class continues to prop up the .01 percent: Hollywood celebrities who make millions just for being themselves. When it comes to making money, celebrities are abnormal. Their enormous salaries make them outliers in the American economy, on a pay grade above most CEOs, surgeons and lawyers — the professions that typically come to mind when we think of the wealthy.
Well, it sure is a problem, like global warming is a problem — that is, it isn’t. As Chet the Unicorn would say if he was here and not riding the magic rainbow to Happyland, that some people she envies are successful is apparently America’s greatest crisis; ergo, you should all be outraged! After all, to liberals, government’s primary function is catering to the worst impulses of jealous busybodies.
Piazza whines about Kardashian, Snooki, and Brangelina making money. For some reason, she is under the impression that what celebrities make is her business:
It is messed up! So what can we do about it?
Only a liberal sees other people being successful and finds it imperative to put a stop to it. Her solution?
So how about a movement to Occupy Hollywood?
Gimme a break. Here’s a better idea. How about you and the rest of the left-wing morons start a movement to shut the hell up?
We, as conservatives who love freedom – meaning of necessity that we love free enterprise and detest the idea of the kind of fascist nanny state these losers would impose in order to to make the world conform to their arbitrary and self-serving concepts of fairness – need to draw the battle line here, at the celebrities.
We need to defend the right of everyone – even stupid, useless, vapid nincompoops – to get rich.
Johnny Depp (by all accounts a good guy) made $50 million last year, Piazza complains. And we conservatives must say, “Awesome!”
Liberals see success as a problem – if people are able to live their own lives without the guidance of aspiring liberal fascists, the entire premise of liberalism is fatally undercut. So success is the target, and not a lot of people have been as successful as Johnny Depp has.
Yeah, he’s earned a lot of money. That’s great! The key word is “earned.” He has talent, he has skill, and he provides something that makes him worth $50 million a year to someone. That someone wants his services and considers it a good deal to fork over $50 mil, but Piazza, the liberal fascist, would prefer to substitute her arbitrary assessment of his value for the free choice of those who actually are paying him.
Hell no.
Depp’s time and talent belong to him — not to Piazza, not Michael Moore, not to any of those drumming idiots in Zuccotti Park.
It belongs to him, not her, and he owes no one – not me, not you, not Piazza, not Obama – any explanations, reasons or excuses. If he wishes to bathe nude in a swimming pool full of twenties, that’s his business and none of ours.
It’s his property. Taking it from him, as Piazza would love to do to satisfy her personal vision of justice, is theft.
It’s morally wrong.
And as a practical matter, it’s devastating. Piazza and the rest of her envious, thieving loser pals don’t really care about Depp’s millions. They care about our thousands. Hell, we all know how communism works; it’s the regular folks who get their property redistributed while the nomenklatura elite lives in luxury.
We can safely assume Piazza envisions herself a redistributer rather than a redistributee. It’s always like that with liberals; somehow we end up making the sacrifice while they sip champagne. Do you think Al Gore is going to take a seat on a biodiesel Greyhound bus or hop on a private jet to the next climate change scam confab?
Spreading hate for the successful, lying that their success is somehow illegitimate or “unearned” because it fails to meet some ever-shifting set of arbitrary standards, is simply a way to get their fascist footsies in the door to redistribute us.
Sure, it’s amusing to see a bunch of liberal Hollywood nitwits suddenly confronted by howling leftists who the stars thought they had been backing. As entertaining as poetic justice is, it’s still wrong to take people’s property just because they are stupid and embrace idiotic ideas – Alec Baldwin, I’m looking your way.
Sure, you have an elitist buffoon like Frank Rich figuratively – at least – sporting wood over the idea that this Occupy Wall Street nonsense will develop into a real class war. Limo leftists are always turned on by the thought of real live revolution – that’s why they don t-shirts silk-screened with the mug of that butcher Che Guevara (they forget how that coward died begging for his useless life before the CIA and Bolivian Army sent him on an eternal vacation to hell).
But dilettantes like Rich and the Hollywood left would soon find themselves against the bullet-pocked wall if a real revolution came. And they’d die wondering why, as so many other useful idiots have in the aftermath of previous leftist revolutions.
Of course, that won’t happen here, because there won’t be a leftist revolution, because too many of us will fight to the death before we ever let that happen. So there’s no real danger; the elite leftists from Hollywood to New York can keep on posing as the vanguard of the coming people’s struggle, kept safe and secure, as always, by the efforts of better men and women than themselves.
In the meantime, we can hold the line for freedom and free enterprise by defending the rights of clowns named Kardashian and malignant dwarfs named Snooki to sell whatever it is that people – for whatever unfathomable reason – choose to buy from them.
Maybe a few celebrities might learn a lesson from Occupy Hollywood. Maybe some might not be so quick to reflexively adopt the latest tidbit of lefty received wisdom next time. But it doesn’t matter. We don’t defend their freedom because we like them. We do so because it is the right thing to do, and because when we defend their freedom, we are defending our own.
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Phrase that will most often be heard at 'Occupy Hollywood,' or Occupy Anywhere for that matter: "Jesus, what is that ungodly stench?"
Well said. The schadenfreude in me loves the idea of a bunch of dirtbags encamped outside Susan Sarandon's residence but she and guys like Alec Baldwin get what the market bears….as hard as that is to believe sometimes. Piazza should also consider how many periphial, decidely unfamous, unrich people make a living from the mere existence of the Kim Kardashians of the world, maybe that would shut their traps…but I doubt it.
"It’s his property. Taking it from him, as Piazza would love to do to satisfy her personal vision of justice, is theft.
It’s morally wrong."
exactly. and we must keep explaining to hard-working, decent, but politically naive & misguided Dems, who would never dream of physically stealing so much as their wealthier neighbor's newspaper, that banding together with like-minded Dems and voting to have the govt steal their neighbor's property for them is JUST AS WRONG.
"The Left begins to eat itself." Mr. Schlichter, let us hope!
However on your comment that, "You’re not a conservative if Kim Kardashian making millions for being a half-witted, no-talent reality TV star bothers you." The Kardashians are an example of crony capitalism. Tell me how a bunch of no talent, high maintenance, petulant, pretentious, dumb bunch of high strutting skanks could make it on such a derth of talent? These bimbos make blondes look like Einstein! Somebody got bribed or they allowed the Kardashains to "get something" on them…in which case there's somebody out there a hell of a lot dumber than the Kradashians…and that's scary!
Note to Hollywood "influencers": You've hitched your wagons to a dead horse.
America has had her Marxist president – and her Marxist economics lesson – and she’s had enough.
It no longer matters what the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, MSNBC, CNN or even Clueless Comrade Barry himself has to say about anything.
"You’re not a conservative if Kim Kardashian making millions for being a half-witted, no-talent reality TV star bothers you. "
True enough, but I am not under any obligation to watch Ms. Kardashian's show in order to subsidize her celebrity. Hopefully, the marketplace will do its job, and winnow out her show in order to allow more worthwhile program like Bowling ofr Dollars – The Next Generation or My Mother the Car – The New Drives.
Kurt – you answered a long standing qustion for me. Why is Kim Kardashian famous?
Now if you can answer why her parents seemed to be obsessed with "K's"
I am hearing a "debate" yesterday – and if making an across the board 20% tax rate for everybody would help the country then why is it so bad in the eyes of some?
Because if would benefit "the rich".
Can't have that.
Was in NYC a couple of weeks ago and my husband said, "They weren't kidding about the stench." lol
My problem is that the outrageous salaries that these so called stars receive really has not much to do with the paying customer. It has much more to do with the people,usually liberals, controlling the purse-strings. The payee can give out whatever to whomever they like. The advertisers have so much money to waste and the idiots they give it to has little to do with the customer.
Kurt Schlichter, I might be in love with you. This article has made my week, and I may have to print out a copy to carry around with me. Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking in such a succinct and entertaining way!
Isn't crony capitalism the alignment of government to help large companies – like GM and Wall St? Kim's getting rich off no talent is no different from somebody hitting the Powerball lottery. Maybe we could call it the "Will Ferrell Effect".
And making money off her wedding – while crass and vulgar – as long as people are stupid enough to pay for it -
"I am not under any obligation to watch Ms. Kardashian's show in order to subsidize her celebrity."
-Who in the h3ll said you were…?
The establishments of both political parties — whether because of actual conviction or political calculation — are equally devoted to the National Security State, the Surveillance State, and the endless erosion of core liberties they entail. Partisan devotees of each party generally pretend to care about such liberties only when the other party is in power — because screaming about abuses of power confers political advantage and enables demonization of the President — but they quickly ignore or even justify the destruction of those liberties when their own party wields power.
Hence, Democratic loyalists spent years screeching that Bush was “shredding the Constitution” for supporting policies which Barack Obama now enthusiastically supports, while right-wing stalwarts — who spent years cheering on every Bush-led assault on basic Constitutional limits in the name of Terrorism — flamboyantly read from the Constitution during the Obama era as though they venerate that document as sacred.
The war on civil liberties in the U.S. is a fully bipartisan endeavor, and no effective opposition is possible through fealty to either of the two parties.
If you want to be unhappy and dissatisfied, focus on other people who you perceive to be better off than you. Then take it to the next level and try to do them harm. This is why the Left wil always be full of hateful people because this is what they do.
I can't even fathom what it must have smelled like. Fortunately, none of 'Occupy' crap–and I mean that figuratively and literally–is going on in my area.
I agree, Mr. Schlichter. I may not like some of these celebrities, but I don't begrudge them making millions of dollars. Admittedly a teeny bit jealous at times, but I don't want to take away their earnings just because they had an opportunity I didn't.
Irony is the OWS complaint is that the rich are paying no as in zero taxes. How can a 20% flat tax with no deductions possibly help those lying thieving no paying lice? Can't have it both ways libtards.
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-Bill Hicks
I agree with the concept that it is no one's business what anyone makes.I think we should point out the hypocrisy of Hollywood types bashing others who make money.We should also point out the biggest hypocrite of all,Obama,is tooling up his Hollywood useful idiots for the election propaganda machine.Obama wants the Hollywood rich to attack the business rich.This must be constantly reported on as this process moves forward while remembering it's more than okay to make money.
Residents of California should be beyond angry how their state government that rakes in all the celebrity/entertainment industry taxes can't afford their spending. CA government power is just one big boondoggle, can't be happier having fled a year and a half ago. (It took over a year to convince them we didn't owe them another red cent…of course there's another tax cycle to be concerned about)
and your point is? Myob envy is so evil!
These people really don't care about this Idea, do you know some of them are paid 650.00 per week to protest for acorn,and others media matters and such. Soros and others have their hands all over these useful idiots!
The other reasons why Kim Kardashian is famous is because she has a delicious bootay and a glorious rack.
Its not like Kimmy and the rest were going to get rich on new cures for cancer or anything like that…
The media made them for the masses…Christians are easily came by, but lions are EXPENSIVE…
Watch the OWS crowd, and you'll see the target audience…our lovely next-gen academics, with their misspelled signs and clueless rhetoric…
I just got up Roseanne Barr's nose yesterday on twitter by telling her that she should take time to learn the history of the French Revolution and and Barr's pithy comeback was to call me a bank whore!! ROFLMAO!!! I spent the next ten hours swatting off her equally dumb as a box of rocks minions, one of whom had the most scathing directive to "leave her alone!!!! You dont have a right to talk to her like that!" I reminded her of a quaint little Texas saying. It was ALL hilarious.
And you know why that all went down? Because poor widdle ms Barr got PO'd that a website callled Celebrity Net Worth had the TEMERITY to point out to people that this INTELLECTUAL GIANT of a celebrity made nearly as much money as the people she claimed should be attacked by the OWS dumb as a box of rocks idiots. Just so happened there were some lovely articles posted yesterday about the real reasons behind the French Revolution and how that and the Nazi rise began…(not to mention some articles about how Nazis endorse the OWS). I told Barr she should think about getting some knitting needles if she had any hope of escaping the coming attention of those really do think the rich should die.
I would bet she is still clueless as to the literary reference.
It was HILARIOUS yesterday…
Great read Kurt! It’s the American way. We all have the right to pursue happiness. If this means you choose to work hard and smart, you too can become a success in America. If your bliss leads you to be a bum, beating a drum in Zuccotti Park, have at it. But know, free America is wide awake again, and you will be left holding…well you know what in your hand. I personally love OWS. There has not been a better object study of the sheer stupidity of our leftist since the ‘60s and early ‘70s. So I say, keep up the good work OWS, real America is pointing and laughing.
I stayed at a hotel back in July two blocks from Zucotti Park. I can't imagine what the stench would have been back then, if the OWSers had been jamming the area with temperatures in the 90s.
"Thy shalt not covet thy neighbors goods"
Hum, now where have I heard that before?
It was porn, plain and simple. The Kardashians provided porn. Seems to me a lot of men pay a hell of a lot just to get that.
Not that Im defending the Kardashians. Your description of them is perfect. If there were any justice in the world, they'd have been used tissue in someones bathroom by now. But porn pays nowadays it seems…
"…we all know how communism works; it’s the regular folks who get their property redistributed while the nomenklatura elite lives in luxury."
Spot on. Having emigrated from a commie sh*thole, it was quite an eye opener to hear so many of my American born friends desire and advocate for the socialist/communist policies of eastern Europe. Of course, when pressed to back up all the childish idiotic yammering about equality & "free" stuff, it becomes very apparent that 1) they have not really thought it through, and 2) those that have though it through a bit take themselves out of the equation; socialism for thee, not for me. They get to keep their money…and everybody else's.
Millions of people, my family included, risked their lives to get away from this crap, not to step right in it again.
And the rest of the world is laughing, which makes the rest of us look stupid in their eyes because of a few feral children. We should however, use these vids as a case against the DOE and our overrated Universities.
We don’t defend their freedom because we like them. We do so because it is the right thing to do, and because when we defend their freedom, we are defending our own.
It's really a shame that conservatives' efforts to fight the left's tyranny, Un-Americanism, radicalism and perverted Utopian ideals will also benefit the leftists themselves. Because they frankly DESERVE to live in the type of society they are constantly agitating for — North Korea, Cuba, Iran.
Piazza's anger is that a lot of the "tabloid" celebs who are creations of the entertainment media are essentially non-political. While their behavior and talent levels dumb down the culture, those earning their money via reality shows for the most part are smart enough (of their handlers are smart enough) to make sure they stay non-political, and don't alienate 50 percent or more of their audience. Alec Baldwin may have more talent, but how many people this past summer vowed never to get a Capital One card, because you couldn't get away from this partisan, conservative-hating idiot on their TV commercials?
You can be sure if Kim Kardashian was out there "reforming" her image by making pet liberal causes a major part of her reality show, she'd be off of Piazza's protest list (or, Lindsey Lohan would suddenly be getting new respect from Jo, if shewas to take her recent experiences with the California criminal court system and suddenly become a major backer of expanded rights for inmates). Piazza's anger is towards people getting money through the entertainment industry who aren't giving back to The Cause, the way your standard liberal Hollywood or New York celeb does.
We need to defend their right to make the money no matter who they are but we also need to attack their lies and hypocrisy when they claim to be against the rich when they are the worst kind of rich.
For the record, Ive never cared what some hollywood starlet or major muscle actor made for being an actor…I figure 'gee, lucky them, theyve been able to make a career out of something that I like to do as a hobby' – they worked hard and made the hurdles that one has to in order to get where they are. Good for them. Would I like to make the money they do? Sure I would, but not in acting. Would love the chance to make it in a field that I feel passionate about, like archaeology. I figured out that little boat wont get me far though, so Ive had to come up with my own ways of doing it.
I think what upsets me the most about these Hollywood jerks who scream and rant that we shouldnt get rich is: I have enough good will for them to applaud their success in something that is wonderful about culture and fine arts, but they dont have any good will for me or my husband or anyone else I know who actually do a hard-core service to the community. They wish people like me and my husband and friends and neighbors and community BAD things…like not making as much money as WE possibly can. When that becomes obvious in the things they say and support, I no longer have the good will to cheer them on. I just have schadenfreude when they are hoisted on their own petard.
Yo, Lefty celebrities, I hope OWS comes to visit you soon!
The question not asked here is " what do these celebrities have to do to earn this money?" We only see the actors that are successful, not the thousands that try and fail. Regardless of their talent. As for people like the kardashians, they are lottery winners that think they deserve admiration and adulation. But, what did they actually do to get their "break"? I know Kim did sex videos, what else did they do? And, how many of us would do what they do?
True. Forbes magazine has published that the top 10 "celebrities" earned an average of $100 million last year and the top 10 CEO's of corporations earned an average of a bit over $40 million. Yet, WHO is it that the OWS bunch are "protesting?" Certainly not Oprah!
You're right Kurt, I'll defend celebrities' right to keep what they've earned. But not just yet. I want to see them squirm a little. I want to see the looks on their faces when the patchouli-drenched mob flops on their property and disrupts their lives. I want them to get a nice long look at what they've been supporting.
Then I want them to ASK for help defending their right to keep what's theirs. I want them to see who comes to their defense. Then I want a big fat apology and an admission they were wrong.
People that are so out of touch with reality need a kick in the a$$ every now and then to give them some perspective. A couple hundred whining losers in their yard clamoring for their money will do the trick.
This woman took very, very little in the way of ability and somehow provided a service – of a kind that frankly baffles me – that millions of people nevertheless want to spend their money on.
easy, figure out what she did, and do it for yourself!
Amen brother. OWS should be used by the RNC at every turn, perfect example of the modern democrat party.
With all due respect, I DO care that no-talent buffoons like the aforementioned Snooki and the Kardashian clan make what they do. Now don't get me wrong, I'm NOT saying that they shouldn't. In a perfect capitalist world (please DEAR GOD!!! let me live in one before I die) you have the right to make as much as you can through voluntary trade for mutual benefit. What chaps my ass is that the standards of what we call entertainment have fallen so far. Who the hell watches this stuff? Who the hell COULD watch this stuff? Of course, it's nothing new; I just watched an interview with Harlan Ellison from about 1977 or '78. (Available on YouTube.) He was railing against "Charlie's Angels" and other crap shows from that era. You can't have filet mignon every meal, and it's not better to have a steady diet of Big Macs. Balance is the key, but the crap-peddlers seem to be be slinging fewer steaks and more burgers.
The Hollywood elite's been making goo goo-eyes and overtures(Michael Moore's plaintive cry on Piers Morgan's show I'm not rich")so as not to be confused with the 'greedy' rich people when heads start to roll.
I don't begrudge ANYONE the money they earn. What I DO object to is these people earning millions for pretending to be someone they are not and then bitching and complaining about some CEO in Kansas City or Dallas making half as much for running a multi-billion-dollar corporation.
Agreed. Pack them up and send them to those liberal utopias you mention. Let's not forget Zimbawe and Venezuela.
I have an idea. Let's start with Jo Piazza. Then we'll stop.
Also I'm not totally averse to her idea of boycotting celebrities' products. I no longer go to films that feature people like, oh, say, Steven Weber.
You’re not a conservative if Kim Kardashian making millions for being a half-witted, no-talent reality TV star bothers you. In fact, if you feel “there oughta be a law” somehow regulating, limiting or otherwise controlling in any manner at all how much dough she rakes in from the drooling morons who choose to fling it at her, you are part of the problem.
The second thought ("there oughta be a law") does not follow from the first sentence.
There are many things that may "bother" people, probably with good reason, but that doesn't translate into wanting legislation prohibiting that which "bothers" us.
irony has never been the left's strong suit…
i believe there is no better, more eloquent, argument against the Left than their own true words & actions- especially when they really feel free to let it rip. rage on, you morons!
one of my closest friends and her family escaped Vietnam in '74. her sentiments are much the same as yours.
"Alec Baldwin may have more talent, but how many people this past summer vowed never to get a Capital One card, because you couldn't get away from this partisan, conservative-hating idiot on their TV commercials? "
or eat at Bonefish Grill…
The most frightening thing about present day America is that envy seems to have replaced the desire to join life's winners in many hearts.
You're right – people like Rosanne Barr have no clue. In the French Revolution, after all the aristocrats and clerics were either killed or driven out of the country, Robespierre and his Jacobins went after their erstwhile supporters who had issues with Jacobin policies. After the Bolsheviks consolidated their power, killing or imprisoning the kulaks, capitalists, and anyone else that wasn't a Bolshevik, Stalin turned on Lenin's old revolutionary comrades (like Trotsky). The Iranian Islamic fundamentalists turned on the Tudeh – the Iranian Communist Party – once the Shah and his supporters were removed. Adolf Hitler had his "Blood Purge" in June, 1934, to remove those in the party who had questionable loyalties (like Ernst Rohm and Gregor Strasser). People like Barr don't realize that, once leftists gain political power, they will crush anyone whom they regard as a potential threat, no matter what their declared fealty.
You can laugh at the Kardashians – please, I do!!!
Sometimes it is best not to respond to the obvious.
Do I think it's nuts for the Kardashians can become multi-millionaires for simply having the last name "Kardashian"? Hell yes.
But do I think that it's great that we live in a country where someone has the ability to make an obscene amount of money for reasons that might perplex me? Hell yes.
Eh, if you don't like it; don't watch it. I haven't tuned in yet and don't feel that I'm missing anything.
I was at my hair stylist a few weeks ago and she was lamenting that will all the out of work people in this country how could Kim K and her new husband have such an over the top wedding (all said and done something in the neighborhood of 15 million). I countered with, but look at all the people who had work BECAUSE of her wedding. There are florists, dress makers, bakers, caterers, parking guys and assorted other people involved in the wedding itself. Then, there are all the hotels and restaurants in the area that had to accommodate the guests that were invited! I am reminding a hair stylist, you know, one of the service people who would be getting paid for something like this!
I saw my nail lady a few days later and asked her opinion on Kim Ks wedding. She said it was great, all those people getting work. I loved her quote, "It is the job of rich people to spend money. THAT is how wealth is redistributed."
i used to wonder the same thing about Paris Hilton and Anna NIchole SMith. both are famous for being famous.
I know! I’m tempted not bathe for a week and get down there with a drum to keep the fools parade marching right into the 2012 elections, and maybe rekindle the maggot gaggle for 2014, 16, 18…and gone.
It was the last in a list of ten commandments created by – wait for it – the JOOOOOS! (/sarc) The OWS'ers wouldn't understand this particular document because, as WaPo writer, Ezra Klein would say, it was written hundreds of years ago.
It's much, much easier to envy and hate than it is to work.
I checked out #Occupy Seattle last night and the stench is real. They're trying to mask it with incense and patchoili, but that's like spraying Febreze on a turd.
who says the standards have fallen? while i think it is great somebody with no visible talent can make it, such as kim k, snooki, and obama, it does not mean i like, or even follow them. the real scarry thing is if one of them reach a position of power, we are all doomed. what, obama is the president, i need to run for my bomb shelter, can we talk later??
"…Frank Rich figuratively – at least – sporting wood over the idea that this Occupy Wall Street nonsense will develop into a real class war."
You know, I think this would be one of the cases where the oft-misused "literally" would have been fitting.
Patrick Ewing was once asked why basketball players needed to make so much money. He replied, "Well we make a lot of money but we spend a lot too." Hilarious. I could likewise come up with my own list of hundreds of professions that make a lot of money and yet seem to be a great waste of time and resources. But guess what? It really is none of my business. In fact, all human endeavor, in toto, working in a dynamic and complicated ballet, is what makes the world go 'round. Confusing? Inexplicable? Yes, but that is precisely why it works, and why leftwing statist powermongers and their policies do not. Leave people alone to pursue their own levels of "social justice".
Priceless.
Perry's plan will never make it out of the campaign stage. He's just trying to match Cain.
This Jo Piazza is being a dog in a manger — a very unattractive quality.
… and defecating on their expensive lawns.
Meh. They're really not all that good compared to some of the high quality product out there.
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Agreed. It's political theater designed to divert the voter's attention while the ruling elites rob the system blind.
Show me a federal politician in the last 40 years who didn't leave a millionaire, or became one shortly there after as a lobbyist.
Besides Ron Paul, that is.
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal around two years ago about how businesses in Manhattan – restaurants, beauty salons, high-end clothing shops, jewelers, realtors – were hurting in the wake of the market crash. A lot of highly-paid people in the financial sector either lost their jobs or took deep salary cuts and, as a result, had to cut way back on their discretionary spending. As a result, a lot of the businesses they supported suffered.
If you really want to have some fun (I'm against higher taxes, this is just an off the cuff) California take every star making over say $20 million a year and give them an IQ test.
Then tax them as a ration of idiocy to beauty.
And throwing rocks at their Bentleys and harassing the maids. Let the OWS nonsense touch their lives for a couple weeks and let's see how fast Susan Sarandon or Danny Glover calls the cops to get rid of them.
What would REALLY be funny is if one of those celebrities decides he or she is going to show everyone how down they are with OWS and starts inviting them into their home. I'll give that about 20 minutes before some a-hole steals something….
"Hell, we all know how communism works; it’s the regular folks who get their property redistributed while the nomenklatura elite lives in luxury."
If only the millions and millions of loons would ever grasp this simple truth. That is asking way too much.
I like Sofia Vergara better… but at least that Kardashian gal doesn't look rail thin.
Well said. A taste of their own medicine is exactly what they need.
As I understand it, the the Roman emperor decided the peasants were revolting (and not in a OWS way), so he declared an official Roman holiday festival. The full nine yards, wine, food, orgies.
Only catch was Rome refused to pay for it, and stuck the regional governors with the bills.
Turns out a world class gladiator (think more WWF than Russel Crowe movie) costs a lot of money. On the other hand, Christians were easily available, and basically free. Just round them up.
Nor cleanliness….
Certainly not in DC.
The best Vietnamese restaurant in the county was run by a family that escaped the communists, he built a boat by hand and smuggled his family out. The father worked multiple jobs, attended night school, learned english and engineering. Saved up his money, sent his kids to private schools and opened his dream restaurant.
The grand old gentleman passed away last year, but his legacy was large.
I agree with the sentiment almost entirely. One exception: lawyuhs. There SHOULD be a law restricting their income because it is NOT a fair nor free market. It's completely run by…. thasright, LAWYUHS and so it's a RIGGED GAME.
So there.
To be fair, Kim Kardashian is one of the most beautiful women in the world. Secondly, she's a Republican.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg1vaC8fdtg
I still watch Wings, because it's a good show. I'll also watch Single White Female, where Mr. Weber gets offed by a chick (liberal sissy). How funny is that? But I'm there with you. I don't care if a celebrity is Democrat or Republican, but when they get on their high (GED level) horse and start with their condescending attitudes, I throw away their DVD's. I don't want to contribute to their new pool or mansion.
Agreed. Read like a change of the train of thought half way through that paragraph.
Agreed.
I'm hardly rich, some times going from pay check to pay check. But I've created more jobs renovating my house (roof, new porch, paint) than Obama has in 3 years.
Agreed.
I'm hardly rich, some times going from pay check to pay check. But I've created more jobs renovating my house (roof, new porch, paint) than Obama has in 3 years.
Folks like yourself will be part of the reason we will be successful at turning back the lefty hoard. Thanks for your post. God bless.
I love it, a filthy terrorist that tried to murder cops calls the cops to protect him.
Yeah, I might've been in the head when that call came if I were a cop…..
I imagine they're starting to smell like the inside of Michael Moore's shoes after a day in the all-you-can-eat, buffet at Golden Coral.
Same here Ed. My kitchen remodeling job is feeding 2 families.
She's not ugly, but the second part of your statement is horsesh!t my friend.
http://kimkardashian.celebuzz.com/2008/03/14/chec...
Sure. For those of us who are conservatives or libertarians "bother" doesn't translate to "their oughta be a law". But for many Americans it does. And I was one of them until I used my brain and figured out where that led. That's why I'm now a conservatarian.
You can still be a conservative and be bothered by nincompoops like the Kardashians making piles of money for doing nothing.
It's only if you want to DO something about it that you are not a conservative.
Probably more like the inside of Michael Moore's shorts after an evening of gorging on chili.
Honestly, I'm just happy that at least someone on that side is finally saying this out loud. I'm in the movie blogosphere and (virtually) surrounded by people who want CEOs and bankers collective heads on a stick, but turn a blind eye to James Cameron pocketing $300MM for Avatar or the other examples you give above.
It's not Kardashian's money per se that bothers me: it's that Americans, living in this country, have made an immoral — if pretty — pig wealthy for letting a camera follow her on her shallow escapades. That our society has sunk so low that MTV and E!, with their vile reality offerings, are not only still on the air but flourishing and influencing our culture, is what bothers me. It isn't a question of capitalism, but a question of why our citizenry would reward bald-faced vanity, immorality, and destructive behavior. That too is conservatism, Kurt. Conservatism isn't "to each his own" in a vacuum. Conservatism isn't the equivalent of unrestrained capitalism. Conservatives aren't for legalized prostitution or legalizing drugs, etc. That's libertarianism. Don't confuse the two.
Growing up I never imagined we would become Rome.
I think we all have Occupy Wall Street fatigue, but the Limo Lefties should get some of their own medicine, the Hollywood occupiers ought to march up Laurel Canyon, and Benedict Caynon and Bang the Drum All Day!
Amazing how stoooopid these Enviro Stinko Pinkos are, they mess and poop and pee, and cry we are for the Enviroment. Hate the rich and Capitalism as they use their I-Phones and computers, made by succesful corporations, hyporcite much?
I believe some celebrities are good for society, some are bad. I personally don't throw money at famous for nothings but i agree, in our system, they are entitled to succeed any legal way they can.
That being said, the outrageous money some celebs make and the adoration they enjoy says more about us than it does about them. I believe celebrity culture has replaced religion for many people, and that idol worship is alive and well in the world.
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