I'm
sure you've seen the buzz about Meryl Streep and her 2017
Golden Globe speech in
which she rakes Donald Trump over the coals but won't speak his name
(she also berates MMA and football, but we won't go into that because
it may tend to make her look like a deranged screwball). I
still remember Streep's ridiculous demand a while back that everyone
buy a Prius to help save the environment, but because she's just
another pig-ignorant celebrity regurgitating bullshit, she obviously
isn't aware that (1) 67%
of electricity in the U.S. comes from coal, natural gas, and
petroleum, so
how does driving an electric or hybrid car really help the
environment, and (2) how on earth is everyone in the U.S. going to
buy a Prius when one
in two working Americans make less than $30,000 a year and
a Prius costs almost $25,000? Is Ms. Streep offering to buy
everyone their own Prius, or at least subsidize those who can’t
afford a brand new car?
I'd
take celebrities and other Liberals a little more seriously if they
would stand up for what is truly right rather than the "offense
du jour" by the Republicans or Conservatives. Where was
the outrage when NDAA was signed into order? Where was the outrage
when Operation Fast & Furious was exposed? The NSA spying
scandal? Benghazi? The Iran nuclear deal and ransom? The IRS
targeting of Conservative groups?
Please
don’t misunderstand – I did not vote for Trump, but I am sick and
tired of Liberals acting like everything they do and say is A-OK but
everything Conservatives do and say is barbaric and wrong.
Update: A
quote from an article
in the Huffington Post titled, "Meryl Streep's Golden Globes
Speech Belied An Inconvenient Truth About Hollywood:"
"Hollywood
is willing to touch on the issue of disability without actually
inviting any members of the community to partake in the conversation,
according to New York Times best-selling author and disability
activist Kody Keplinger.
“I
couldn’t help rolling my eyes,” Keplinger told The Huffington
Post. She’s a co-founder of Disability in KidLit, an online
resource regarding the depiction of disability in children’s and
young adult literature. “The applause in the room felt almost
self-congratulatory.”"
This
pretty much sums it up. It seems Hollywood is only willing to touch
on the issue of disability, women's rights, global warming/climate
change, endangered species, etc., when they can get mileage out of
it. Afterward, they all go back to their mansions and figure out how
they're going to spend all their money, and forget all about the
peasants until the next time they need someone to exploit.
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