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Posted on 10/21/2024 1:01:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
The rapper doesn't appear to see a downside in America more closely resembling its neediest city. Lizzo elicited criticism over the weekend for embracing President Donald Trump's warning that Kamala Harris would leave the whole country looking like Detroit — and suggesting that such an outcome would be optimal.
The rapper, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, informed her supporters prior to taking a private jet to stump for the Green New Deal advocate, "This is how a bad b**** saves democracy."
Jefferson, who now lives nearly 2,000 miles away in a $15 million California mansion, later told a crowd of Democrats in Detroit, where the median listing price for a home is $95,000, "I'm so proud to be from this city. You know, they say if Kamala wins, then the whole country will be like Detroit. OK."
The Democratic crowd cheered at the prospect that Harris might transform the rest of the country to resemble a crime-ridden city that filed for bankruptcy in 2013.
Detroit, a city that has seen its population shrink from over 1.8 million in the 1950s to just over 633,000 last year, scores a 1 on Neighborhood Scout's crime index, where 100 is safest. The chances of falling prey to a violent crime in the city are 1 in 49. The chances of becoming a victim of a property crime are 1 in 22.
According to official city figures, there were 252 homicides, 804 nonfatal shootings, 10,427 aggravated assaults, 669 rapes, 167 carjackings, 9,421 reported motor vehicle thefts, 4,821 burglaries, 15,681 larceny offenses, and 1,392 robberies in the city last year.
WalletHub once again ranked Detroit — where the unemployment rate is over twice the national average at 8.8% — as the neediest of 182 cities in the country. The median household income in the city last year was less than half of the national figure of $80,610.
Jefferson continued, saying, "Proud like Detroit. Resilient like Detroit. We're talking about the same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry. So put some respect on Detroit's name, okay?"
Jefferson was referring to President Donald Trump's Oct. 10 speech at the Detroit Economic Club, where he said, "Our whole country will end up like Detroit if she's your president. You're going to have a mess on your hands. She destroyed San Francisco. She destroyed, along with Newscum, California, and we're not going to let her do that to this country. We're not going to let it happen."
The Harris campaign and liberal media were keen at the time to ignore the context of Trump's remarks, namely that he was criticizing the hollowing out of America's manufacturing base.
Trump went onto say, "I am telling you right now, standing here in the center of this once-great city, that by the end of my term, the entire world will be talking about the Michigan miracle and the stunning rebirth of Detroit."
Victoria LaCivita, Trump's Michigan communications director, clarified in a statement obtained by CNN that Trump was highlighting how the city has "suffered from globalist policies championed by Kamala Harris that have shipped manufacturing overseas."
"As President Trump emphasized in his speech, his policies will usher in a new era of economic success and stability for Detroit, helping the city reach its fullest potential," added LaCivita.
Critics seized upon Jefferson's remarks, sharing images of abandoned houses in Detroit, staggering statistics about the city's crime, and damning figures regarding the education system.
BlazeTV's Pat Gray said, "Are you serious? What a stupid thing to say. I mean, even if you're proud of your town, you know the rest of the country thinks it's a hellhole, right?"
Conservative commentor Trish Regan noted, "#Lizzo says US 'becoming Detroit' is a good thing. *30% of Detroit lives BELOW poverty line. *Detroit=DOUBLE DIGIT unemployment. *Detroit=one of the highest crime rates in the country. America cannot be #Detroit. USA wants more than @lizzo & Kamala can ever imagine."
David Scott, the musician known as the Kiffness, responded, "I'm from South Africa, (one of the highest crime rates in the world) & I've never been robbed on tour. I was in Detroit last year & our tour van was robbed TWICE in one night."
Comedian David Angelo shared the video with the caption, "My theory has been that Democrats know everything is about to collapse and they actually want Trump to win."
Sometimes luck is on our side.
Not even a 75” TV would fit her in a picture or video.
We have Elon, RFK Jr., and Tulsi.
They have a Lizzo.
We win!
Facts are stubborn things.
Uninformed stupid people are too.
If only Lizzo’s brain was as big as her ass, she would be the next Einstein.
So they can blame it on him.
I've heard this many times before.
A $15 million house?
This is not a snark at Lizzo personally. I just don’t understand the huge amounts of money being earned by people who, at least to me, seem highly unlikely prospects for catching the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow. A few years back, Lizzo caught the fat-chic boom and probably cashed in there, but I can’t grok the economics of that either. Who pays for this kind of stuff?
Back in the day, I could understand that the Beatles sold a lot of records. I could understand authors who sold a lot of books (count ‘em on the fingers on one hand). I could understand movie stars whose films packed theaters and generated lucrative residuals for years, for the few who were big enough stars to command lucrative contracts. (Most working actors, then and now, don’t make big bucks.) Like ‘em or hate ‘em, they made a tangible product and if they sold enough of it, they could make money.
Today, I just don’t understand where all the money is coming from. It used to be that actual paying customers ultimately determined who made money. Now huge amounts of money seem to be coming from advertisers with endorsement and branding deals.
Customers are being marginalized. One result is that the chaff to wheat ratio across entertainment media is steadily increasing. I’d like to know how much of their money the streamers make from data mining and the sale of our profiles to advertisers.
Stupid people, ask the Kardashians.
I’ve thought for years that the democrats have long accepted bankruptcy and have been planning to win the bankruptcy reorganization. They want to expand dependency as much as possible to balloon the constituency for socialism when the house of cards collapses and “only the government can save us.” Never mind that government will have caused to collapse.
To the democrats, the annihilation of small business and a financially secure middle class are features, not bugs. The democrats want a patron-client society with a permanent, entrenched one-party state deciding winners and losers.
The Kardashians are a good example. What are the economics of that freakshow? Because of my relatively new retirement hobby with the movies (an endless snipe hunt to find the scattering of worthy, conservative friendly films in the wasteland), I lurk at a variety of sites that definitely lean left on culture war issues.
My mole’s eye view is that the Kardashians are held in almost universal contempt, by liberals as well as conservatives. The only apparent difference is that liberals will lean over backwards to be non-judgmental, while conservatives will openly mock them. But do they really have a fan base apart from teenage girls who are attracted to celebrity for its own sake and follow them on social media?
How does that get monetized? The teenage girls don’t have much money to spend. They click and gawk. That generates hits on a website, but I don’t imagine there’s much consumer spending power backing that up.
Or all the other blue cities.
She .Just have lost weight, she used to fly on a cargo jet.
she used to fly on a cargo jet.
How did the plane manage to take off?
Google earth says she won’t fit in my block either. wondering if USPS has a separate zip code for her.
I would imagine that most of her fans are as fat and gross as she is. There is a huge collection of obese woman who will pretend being fat is beautiful and healthy and will pay good money to get validation from the profane and disgusting.
Better than Kamala Harris leaving the country looking like Detroit is if she will just leave the country.
Wow…I’ve not seen her before…she’s ummm…large
Not a fan of them, but 2 of them are worth over $1 billion dollars, and the others for hundreds of millions. I don’t get it either.
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