Posted on 09/15/2018 12:36:39 PM PDT by SleeperCatcher
Reality Check: In a recent appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” actor/comedian and, most recently, POTUS Trump-hating activist Jim Carrey, professed his love for socialism and claimed that Americans should embrace it fully as well.
After stating that we have to “say yes to socialism, to the word and everything,” Venezuelan columnist Laureano Márquez published a scathing column on Wednesday for the Venezuelan media outlet Runrunes, schooling Carrey over his economic worldview.
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Yes, but how many Hollywood movies has Mr. Márquez been in? That’s what truly matters in leftworld.
“After comedian Jim Carrey goes ‘all in for socialism,’ a Venezuelan journalist schools him”
I’d like to see some Venezuelan refugees get their hands on him.
The socialists’ answer to Venezuela is always, “Well, they just have the wrong people running it. It’s not the system, it’s the peeeeplllllle.”
Dear Jim:
I admire you a lot, but sometimes it seems that the inability of Hollywood stars to understand politics is directly proportional to their stage talent. Reagan was always an actor with very little talent, thank God. I read that you were invited to HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” program where you said: “We have to say yes to socialism, to the word and everything”. Perhaps for you, as for all humanity, the word “socialism” is a word that sounds beautiful. Everyone wants to define himself as a socialist, even those on the right: Rajoy is labeled as a “social democrat” and surely he is.
Socialism is understood in everyday terms as antithesis of selfishness, synonym of concern for others, of equitable distribution of wealth, of support for the weakest and their needs, of seeking health and education for all, etc. And that’s good, that’s what the First World right wants. It seems that this traditional division between right and left in ideological terms has been mutating, and what most disturbs people is that their governments are efficient, honest, that comply with their constitutional obligations and almost all constitutions contemplate a deep social content.
So, at least in developed countries, there are socialisms, with shades of left or right. One supposes that is what you meant when you say: “we have to say yes to socialism” and you set an example to that magnificent nation that is Canada. In that sense, I will not have to fall on you as if you had recorded a wedge for the Saime.
However, it is necessary to tell you that under the name of “socialism” deep threats are hidden today, curiously, against what is usually considered socialism, hiding a pure and hard intolerant authoritarianism, if not an open dictatorship. It is not by chance, Jim, that neofascism is flourishing right in the Germany that was socialist.
If we evaluate the closest case we have, that of Venezuela, what we find is just that: our regime is not - God forbid - the antithesis of selfishness. On the contrary, there is nothing more selfish than appropriating what belongs to everyone, from power, to public money, in that form of government that we suffer and that, since the great comet Haley passed, has come to be called “Kleptocracy”.
In Venezuela, dear Jim, - from what I have just told you - there is no equitable distribution of wealth, this has been concentrated, as rarely in our history in very few hands.
The weakest in Venezuela are in the good of God, fleeing the country as they can, without health, without medication and without food, a tragedy that is compounded by the denial of a regime that claims that the population had never been so good and that even the Colombian government should be charged for the welfare enjoyed by its citizens here.
That is. In Venezuela, dear Jim, the children are not going to school, either because they have to find ways to survive and help their families or because they do not have the strength to go to school because of lack of food. In Venezuela, Jim, we have seized the word socialism, it represents oppression against a people, the destruction of a flourishing nation and the desperation of its citizens.
Phew..when I first glanced at the heading I thought it said “shoots him”
How many capitalists had to flee Venezuela for fear of being killed?
If he’s all in for socialism then how do I get his money?
I want to live in a room in his mansion...rent free while he pays me to go to college.
Yes Jim boy, put your money where your mouth is and start handing out your money freely. Ah, but that is not what you really want. What you really want is to give an impression. An impression that is disingenuous & contradictory of what you really want. Merely to feel good by making hollow claims you really don’t believe in.
Yes, but how many of these Venezuelans have knowingly infected their “significant others” with myriad std’s? Isn’t that the very definition of socialism: spreading misery far and wide?
If the US were socialist, I would have an equal share of his income. And he, mine.
I’ll take that trade every day.
He is an idiot.
As a very lonely conservative Connecticut high school senior back in 1971, I would ask my socialist “peace, love and rock and roll” friends to go establish their Utopia, make it work for a year or so then call me. To this day, have never got the call but I sure do get lectured everyday on my evil conservative lifestyle from their spawn. I have no regrets but I often wonder about “them”.
Wasn’t he an actor once?
Canadian Carrey is full of crap.
Carrey needs to talk with Will Smith. On a French TV program, Smith was schooled on the 75% tax rate on high earners in France, which actually pushed him to say ‘well, God bless America’.
Anybody who thinks socialism is a good idea needs to take the 20’th century over again.
it seems that the inability of Hollywood stars to understand politics is directly proportional to their talent
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Nah. The no-talent ones are just as stupid.
I’ll ask people who believe like Carrey does, if they would be
willing to give up at least half of everything
they own in support of socialism.They look at me as if,
what would I need to do that for.
Marko
Maybe this Carrey guy is on to something, we should test it out,we just need an initiative and I think it will Sell:
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