Subj : Re: Chelsea
To   : JEFF THIELE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Sep 05 2022 10:22:00

>  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.

Did any of them threaten to leave the country, or retire from performing,
if Obama or Biden got elected, and also not follow through?  I was specific
about that above.  Out of the ones I have heard of on your list, and
actuallly like, I don't remember any of them doing that.  The others I have
either never heard of or don't follow enough to know (or care) if they did
or not.

>  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.

Again, on the topic of celebs who just about every election threaten to
leave the country or retire, and people who follow them, I think there is
plenty of room to do so.

>  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?

Of the ones I recognize, they all would fall into the first half of that
statement.


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