Subj : Re: Chelsea
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Sun Sep 04 2022 15:35:26

On 04 Sep 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> >  MP> What kind of music do you like?
 MP> > I'm a jazz guy, but I grew up listening to rock & metal. I liked Bon Jov
 MP> > lo
 MP> > in the 80s (I was a kid) and I wanted to be just like him.... Not anymor
 MP> I also enjoy jazz, and even the big band music from before that era.

We're going to see Robert Plant and Alison Krauss tonight. Well, hear them,
anyway. We're still a little COVID-shy (we haven't been infected yet), so
we're going to be sitting on the lawn above the amphitheater where space is
plentiful.

 MP> > I don't want to boycott people for being Democrat supporters, but I want
 MP> > target the ones who abused their fame to cultivate Biden votes. It can't
 MP> > coincidence that this old cracker had endless celebrity endorsements, an
 MP> > he's wrecking the country; they KNEW he was gonna do some of this stuff!
 MP> > they should be punished for that.
 MP> I somewhat understand what you mean.  There are some celebs whose work I
 MP> like despite their political bent.  The ones that stomp their feet before
 MP> every election and threaten their fans with leaving the country or
 MP> retiring if (Republican) gets elected, and who never follow through on
 MP> such promises, they are in a different boat.  Thing is, I am not sure
 MP> that there have been many celebs that I liked beforehand who have turned
 MP> around and done that. Most of them are ones whose work I did not like to
 MP> begin with.  I actually cannot name one offhand that I did like.

And then there are politically outspoken conservative celebrities you may
remember, such as Roseanne Barr, Jon Voight, Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Phil and
Willie Robinson, Stephen Baldwin, 50 Cent, Jesse James, Mike Ditka, Scott
Baio, Kirstie Alley, James Woods, Dennis Quaid, Herschel Walker, Dr. Oz,
"Diamond and Silk," Trace Adkins, Isaiah Washington, Elizabeth Hasselbeck,
Jack Nicklaus, Lil Wayne, Brett Favre, and more.

 MP> Others liked them, though, and I am sure that some of them are small
 MP> minded enough that the threat was a concern to them.  However, I also
 MP> would find it easy to believe that most of those folks were not going to
 MP> vote for the Republican in question anyway.

The Republican party has no shortage of small-minded, bigoted, ignorant,
and/or uneducated voters. I don't think there's much room to throw stones
there.

 MP> While there are some celebs that are committed to their beliefs no matter
 MP> what anyone else thinks, most of them are bandwagoners who share their
 MP> "beliefs" publically to be part of what they think of as the "in crowd."

Perhaps, perhaps not. Do you think that any of the people in the list above
are just trying to be part of the "in" crowd?

Jeff.

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