Put a sock in it, Richie.
Tell him to move to France..
Opie your pa needs to take you out to the woodshed.
Ron Howard is consumed with being the pre-eminent asshat and, you know, we need to export, you know, his effete ass.
Oh well, thats just for the little people. We here inside our safe gates in our mansions can sip French champagne and enjoy our new "progressivism".
“He proceeded to credit the insights he gained working on his movies with Europeans: “I’ve actually spent a lot more time in Europe and working with crew members and actors and understanding how they live and how they think.”
Well, I’m sure he got the whole story by hanging out with the European equivalent of Hollywood.
Ron Howard longs for the day when the pirates of the world are in charge.
Of course she does.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
Ron Howard is a world class moron.
I have lived in Europe for four years (military). Yes they have a much slower lifestyle and a laid back type attitude on work, but they do not get paid as much as we do at all! But they also do not have the personal debt we do either though. I think comparing Europe and America is like comparing apples and oranges. Europe has a great history that goes back forever. America is still young and only over 200 years.
Maybe Opie will also help solve our country’s disgraceful inequity of wealth by giving 90% of his money away to less fortunate prople.......and encourage his famous pals to do likewise......
That's what drove us to put men on the moon.
I know that Howard cherishes the space program and that time period, does he understand what created that moment in history?
It's not all bad being "the pre-eminent super-power", more often than not, we're the only ones spurred to action while the milque-toast Europeans are sipping tea at the UN.
A bald Opie is not a trustworthy Opie.
Aunt Bea should have whooped Opie’s ass a little more often than she did.
A good argument against such jackasses opposed to the exportation of the democratic revolution is straightforward.
Freedom and liberty, despite what most people think, are not the main reason for democracy. They are just beneficial side effects. The best and most potent selling point of democracy is that it is enormously more efficient than any other form of *organization*.
Note that I didn’t say “government.” Government is such a complex form of democracy, that its best form of organization is the republican-democracy, or “representational” democracy form of democracy.
Organization, however, happens whenever even a small group of people assemble to accomplish a task. Even an illiterate and uneducated peasant can tell that democracy will generally give a much better result to a project than everybody just obeying someone who orders them what to do.
So for somebody like Ron Howard to decry exporting democracy, is tantamount to him declaring that tyranny, brutality and inefficiency are normal and natural for people who live under such regimes. He despises them because they are inferior, and do not deserve better lives.
An interesting example of the power and spread of democracy is now emerging in China. For many hundreds of years, rural peasants just did what they were told by their supervisors, and this is unchanged in their current communist party doctrines.
However, when television reached into even the most isolated parts of China, it unintentionally introduced a new idea. A few popular game shows, of all things, demonstrated it. A radical idea called “voting”.
Typically, when a communist party flunky showed up at a farm, to tell the farmers what to do, they would just meekly obey, no matter how ignorant the flunky’s directions. But suddenly, one farmer would chime in, “Why not do it another way?”
The flunky would be taken aback, and respond, “No. Do what I say.”
And the farmer would reply, “Let’s vote on it!”, often with the hearty approval of the other farmers.
Now, some flunkies would stomp their feet and demand everybody do things their way. But some of them were smart enough to let the farmers, though illiterate and uneducated, do it the *better* way.
And low and behold, the farmers knew their jobs better than the flunky did, and so they got a LOT better results from their labors.
And nothing succeeds like success. So pretty soon, the wiser flunkies were getting promoted, for their inspired guidance of his farmers, resulting in better production.
For its part, when the Chinese government realized what was going on, it immediately ordered an end to the broadcast of the game shows. But the democratic seed has been planted.
And it didn’t take the US military. And it didn’t matter what Ron Howard thinks, or how much he despises the people in the rest of the world, that he would prefer lived in ignorance, poverty, and inefficiency.
His “contribution” to our society is not as much to me as my plumber, my electrician or my mechanic. Without any of those people my life would be a lot tougher.
Hollywood is not essential in a socialist system. Or any.
Goodbye Opie.
When he lost his hair he lost his mind! Opie is dopey!
By “militarism” Ron Howard (along with all liberals) means “self-defense”.