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Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:22pm
 
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Hollywood Hypocrite Jim Carrey Called Out For Promoting Socialism – By A Journalist From Venezuela


During a recent appearance on the
Bill Maher show
, Hollywood multi-millionaire Jim Carrey suggested that Americans should embrace socialism.  Cheesy Cheesy

Apparently, now that he’s a wealthy man, he wants everyone else to embrace poverty.


Surprisingly, Carrey got called out for his comments by a journalist from Venezuela,
a country so damaged by socialism that people are resorting to eating their family pets and zoo animals.


LifeZette reports:

Journalist Goes Nuclear on Jim Carrey — Furious He Said Socialism Was Good


Just one mere week after actor-turned-activist Jim Carrey suggested people should say “say yes to socialism,” a Venezuelan journalist is pushing back hard on that suggestion.

“We have to say yes to socialism — to the word and everything,” Carrey, who is among the richest celebrities in all of Hollywood, declared last week on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” show.

“We have to stop apologizing,” he also said.

He made that comment after host Bill Maher expressed outrage that Republicans are attacking Democrats who veer toward the extreme and express a love for socialism —
a model of government that has destroyed other countries.


Venezuelan columnist Laureano Márquez, in a piece published in the outlet Runrunes,
declared that socialism is the root cause of that country’s current economic crisis…


“I read that … you said: ‘We have to say yes to socialism, to the word [‘socialism’] and to everything.’ Perhaps for you, as for all humanity, the word ‘socialism’ sounds beautiful,” he went on.

The Venezuelan writer then explained that while many people define socialism as “the antithesis of selfishness, synonym of concern for others … support for the weakest and their needs, of seeking health and education for all,”
in reality socialism today has “deep threats,”
said the writer.

Here’s more from Breitbart:

“In Venezuela, we have grown to hate the word socialism, it represents oppression against the people, the destruction of a flourishing nation, and the desperation of its citizens,”
Márquez concludes.

Why do so many people in the entertainment industry fancy themselves policy experts?


They come off like college sophomores who have just discovered political activism for the first time
.

In Carrey’s case in particular, his embrace of far left progressivism has severely damaged the public’s good will.

His recent lack of success at the box office is a reflection of that.


Syphilis has driven Carrey made....

so insane he wants Socialism..  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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Reply #1 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:35pm
 
Is there any opinion you hold that is your own Mech?

Clearly, you don't watch Real Time, that's far too an intellectual and fact-based piece of media for you so you won't have watched the entire segment, so you're just taking the word of a known fake news site taking quotes of his out of context then twisting his intentions to make an argument?

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Reply #2 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:41pm
 
SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:35pm:
Is there any opinion you hold that is your own Mech?

Clearly, you don't watch Real Time, that's far too an intellectual and fact-based piece of media for you so you won't have watched the entire segment, so you're just taking the word of a known fake news site taking quotes of his out of context then twisting his intentions to make an argument?

Bravo.


what are you even talking about yo blithering retard... ??  Angry

Venezuela is in ruins because of Socialism you forkwit ...

the end...

it doesn't get any simpler than that...

your mummy should turn your computer off... special needs people don't understand the internet..  Cheesy Cheesy
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Reply #3 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:48pm
 
the horror that is Venezuela has been going on for just a few short years....for a country that is loaded with OIL...

it didnt take Hugo Chavez  long to destroy their economy...

The price of a cup of coffee, measured using Bloomberg’s Café Con Leche Index, is now more than 2,000,000 bolivars. That is up from 1,400,000 bolivars last week and 190,000 in April. The 3-month annualized inflation rate is over 1,200,000%. That is hyperinflation not seen in the world since Germany in the 1920s or Zimbabwe in 2008.


says it all doesnt it?....a member of my extended family has a sister over there....has lived there for more than 30 years   she had a husband and son both dead  and now she is in some kind of hospital with dementia  they lost everything that owned..the family not living there are doing their best to get her out.....but its not simple....her son died last year up until then he had gone to America  and bought them food and meds. back.. now hes gone no one has any idea what is happening to her....


maybe someone should pay Jim to go there   and see what he is thinking is a good place  to be.. Angry Angry

for someone who live in Hollywood.. I agree what the hell would he know about socialism..

hes probably only looked at how the elite  socialists live....
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Reply #4 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:51pm
 
SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:35pm:
Is there any opinion you hold that is your own Mech?

Clearly, you don't watch Real Time, that's far too an intellectual and fact-based piece of media for you so you won't have watched the entire segment, so you're just taking the word of a known fake news site taking quotes of his out of context then twisting his intentions to make an argument?

Bravo.



its not FAKE NEWS ABOUT VENEZUELA  I can assure you...

if you are supporting Jim!  perhaps you should read this..

https://www.forbes.com/sites/garthfriesen/2018/08/07/the-path-to-hyperinflation-...
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Reply #5 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:52pm
 
cods wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:48pm:
the horror that is Venezuela has been going on for just a few short years....for a country that is loaded with OIL...

it didnt take Hugo Chavez  long to destroy their economy...

The price of a cup of coffee, measured using Bloomberg’s Café Con Leche Index, is now more than 2,000,000 bolivars. That is up from 1,400,000 bolivars last week and 190,000 in April. The 3-month annualized inflation rate is over 1,200,000%. That is hyperinflation not seen in the world since Germany in the 1920s or Zimbabwe in 2008.


says it all doesnt it?....a member of my extended family has a sister over there....has lived there for more than 30 years   she had a husband and son both dead  and now she is in some kind of hospital with dementia  they lost everything that owned..the family not living there are doing their best to get her out.....but its not simple....her son died last year up until then he had gone to America  and bought them food and meds. back.. now hes gone no one has any idea what is happening to her....


maybe someone should pay Jim to go there   and see what he is thinking is a good place  to be.. Angry Angry

for someone who live in Hollywood.. I agree what the hell would he know about socialism..

hes probably only looked at how the elite  socialists live....


Nailed it cods...

real life situations ... people so desperate for the basic necessities ... food and basic medical care..

not too much to ask for ?? surely!!!  Angry
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Reply #6 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:18pm
 
President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:41pm:
SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:35pm:
Is there any opinion you hold that is your own Mech?

Clearly, you don't watch Real Time, that's far too an intellectual and fact-based piece of media for you so you won't have watched the entire segment, so you're just taking the word of a known fake news site taking quotes of his out of context then twisting his intentions to make an argument?

Bravo.


what are you even talking about yo blithering retard... ??  Angry

Venezuela is in ruins because of Socialism you forkwit ...

the end...


it doesn't get any simpler than that...

your mummy should turn your computer off... special needs people don't understand the internet..  Cheesy Cheesy


Firstly, clearly, I hit a nerve to elicit such an insulting reply.  Yes, I'm a retard and I need my mummy to turn off my computer because I'm unable to use or understand the Internet.

But no matter how special I am, I can still research the facts and form my own opinions.

For you, who is told how to think (if you can call it thinking) by the like of TGP clearly isn't capable of individual thought or critical thinking, if I'm a "forkwit" and a "retard", what does that make you?

Secondly, your claims about Venezuela don't tell the full story, as usual.  But this time, I'm not sure if it's because you're being deliberately misleading to try and prove a point of if you're just too lazy or ignorant to research anything you're fed from the likes of TGP to get the full story.

There are so many mistakes in your claims that I'll only focus on the most glaring ones.

The progressives who you're claiming (well not "you're claiming" we've established the "opinions" you post aren't your own and you're simply "on script") are socialists are not actually advocating for true socialism.  That will never work in the US. 

But Socialist style policy to help level the playing field and have equality of opportunity for all Americans, everyone should want that.

Everyone.

Yes they support spending tax dollars people pay on services that will benefit others in the community not just the taxpayers via things like Universal Healthcare and in some of the more extreme (but some would argue future proofing given the changes in the jobs sector due to better AI and automation) a universal basic income, what forgetting is this is the entire point of the tax system.

Roads, Schools, looking after Veterans etc etc, these are all forms of Socialism going by your loose definition.

But more importantly, you hold Venezuela as the inevitable outcome of Socialism.

But what about Bolivia?

Since 2006, Bolivia has been run by socialists every bit as militant as Venezuela’s. But as economists have argued, the country has experienced a spectacular run of economic growth and poverty reduction with no hint of the chaos that has plagued Venezuela.

While inflation spirals toward the thousand-per cent mark in Venezuela, in Bolivia it runs below 4 per cent a year.

Shortages of basic consumption goods - rampant in Caracas - are unheard of in La Paz. And extreme poverty - now growing fast in Venezuela - affects just 17 per cent of Bolivians now, down from 38 per cent before the socialists took over 10 years ago, even as inequality shrinks dramatically.

In the meantime, Bolivia was running budget surpluses every year between 2006 and 2014. This allowed it to draw down the public sector’s debt, which fell from 83 per cent of GDP in 2003 to just 26 per cent in 2014, even as Bolivia built up its international reserves dramatically, from $1.7 billion in 2005 to $15.1 billion at the end of the boom in 2014.

Turns out the difference between Bolivia and Venezuela has nothing to do with abstract ideological labels, and everything to do with fiscal prudence. 

It also doesn't help that Venezuela is a dictatorship.

Socialism isn't the big bad evil you're claiming it to be.  It's not a death sentence for a country, quite the contrary.

The reason you have all these bad things to say about Socialism is because that's the official attack line against the Dems for the Midterms.

You clearly don't even understand the issue, hence your petty personal attacks.

Again, you're not thinking for yourself and just repeating the lines you've been fed.  You've demonstrated a glaring inability to comprehend the facts if you are even trying.

We might as well just replace you were with an auto-posting RSS bot just posting TGP blogs.

I won't bother insulting you as you've done me, the truth about you is far more shameful and insulting than any lame name calling.
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Reply #7 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:28pm
 
cods wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:51pm:
SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 6:35pm:
Is there any opinion you hold that is your own Mech?

Clearly, you don't watch Real Time, that's far too an intellectual and fact-based piece of media for you so you won't have watched the entire segment, so you're just taking the word of a known fake news site taking quotes of his out of context then twisting his intentions to make an argument?

Bravo.



its not FAKE NEWS ABOUT VENEZUELA  I can assure you...

if you are supporting Jim!  perhaps you should read this..

https://www.forbes.com/sites/garthfriesen/2018/08/07/the-path-to-hyperinflation-...


Their economic situation is a sad reality, but is it is because of socialism?

That's the question.

The answer isn't a definitive Yes.
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Reply #8 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:29pm
 
Would you like to offer your own opinion rather than copying and pasting kangaroo?

Did you know that Bolivia's GDP is about US$3000 per person? You have to be pretty desperate to try to spin that as an example of good economic management, don't you think?
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Reply #9 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:33pm
 
freediver wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:29pm:
Would you like to offer your own opinion rather than copying and pasting kangaroo?

Did you know that Bolivia's GDP is about US$3000 per person? You have to be pretty desperate to try to spin that as an example of good economic management, don't you think?


It's certainly not perfect by any means, but the idea that Socialism in general always leads to failure isn't 100% accurate.

And claiming that the Democrats are all about Socialism because they support Universal Healthcare is yet more disingenuous behaviour.

And when people are asked what sort of things they'd support they unknowingly, Republican or Democrat, support what is being called socialism.

Remember all the people that said that Obamacare had to go and Trump should replace it with the affordable health care act?

This hyper-partisanship will be the downfall of the US.
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Reply #10 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:34pm
 
Jim Carrey is also an anti-vaxxer who believes in homeopathic vaccines.

So now there's two things he believes in that doesn't work.
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Reply #11 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:44pm
 
Gordon wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:34pm:
Jim Carrey is also an anti-vaxxer who believes in homeopathic vaccines.

So now there's two things he believes in that doesn't work.


Yeah, that's pretty unforgivable.  I can't say I blame him given that his stepson is autistic and his mother, Jenny McCarthy wanted someone to blame for the afflictions.

But it's no excuse.  The danger that anti-vaxxers cause is unforgivable.
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Reply #12 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:50pm
 
SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:44pm:
Gordon wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:34pm:
Jim Carrey is also an anti-vaxxer who believes in homeopathic vaccines.

So now there's two things he believes in that doesn't work.


Yeah, that's pretty unforgivable.  I can't say I blame him given that his stepson is autistic and his mother, Jenny McCarthy wanted someone to blame for the afflictions.

But it's no excuse.  The danger that anti-vaxxers cause is unforgivable.


My point is, Jimmy Carrey is good at making silly faces and making people laugh but please leave it at that.


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Reply #13 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:53pm
 
Gordon wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:50pm:
SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:44pm:
Gordon wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:34pm:
Jim Carrey is also an anti-vaxxer who believes in homeopathic vaccines.

So now there's two things he believes in that doesn't work.


Yeah, that's pretty unforgivable.  I can't say I blame him given that his stepson is autistic and his mother, Jenny McCarthy wanted someone to blame for the afflictions.

But it's no excuse.  The danger that anti-vaxxers cause is unforgivable.


My point is, Jimmy Carrey is good at making silly faces and making people laugh but please leave it at that.




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Reply #14 - Sep 16th, 2018 at 10:03pm
 
SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:33pm:
freediver wrote on Sep 16th, 2018 at 9:29pm:
Would you like to offer your own opinion rather than copying and pasting kangaroo?

Did you know that Bolivia's GDP is about US$3000 per person? You have to be pretty desperate to try to spin that as an example of good economic management, don't you think?


It's certainly not perfect by any means, but the idea that Socialism in general always leads to failure isn't 100% accurate.

And claiming that the Democrats are all about Socialism because they support Universal Healthcare is yet more disingenuous behaviour.

And when people are asked what sort of things they'd support they unknowingly, Republican or Democrat, support what is being called socialism.

Remember all the people that said that Obamacare had to go and Trump should replace it with the affordable health care act?

This hyper-partisanship will be the downfall of the US.


The Nazis name was derived from National Socialists - they were socialists who also called themselves "progressives". The left wing groups running around now most notably the Anti-fa radicals behave similarly.

The left wing has always been the most dangerous. Witness Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin. And now Zambia and South Africa. Socialism is a means of centralizing power dressed as fairness and compassion.

A system that increasingly steals peoples income by legalized taxation at gunpoint. Is doomed ultimately to fail because with increasing taxes eventually starts rebellion. Thus the need for increasing controls and in combination with high taxes kills peoples creativity and the will to strive. All progress depends on the individual.

Have you ever seen a socialist country reduce its taxes?


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