Subj : Re: Chelsea
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Sun Sep 04 2022 23:09:57

On 04 Sep 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...
 AT>  MP> While there are some celebs that are committed to their beliefs no ma
 AT>  MP> what anyone else thinks, most of them are bandwagoners who share thei
 AT>  MP> "beliefs" publically to be part of what they think of as the "in crow
 AT> That's what I've suspected all this time also, that they were just
 AT> trying to suck up to that "in crowd" by making it loud and clear that
 AT> they are against Trump. But now I suspect that there's more to it than
 AT> that.

So close, and yet so far.

 AT> Did you ever see such a high volume of celebrities speaking out against a
 AT> political candidate before? I've seen them do it a little before, but
 AT> never at this frequency.

Perhaps your candidate is not nearly as popular as you think. Perhaps your
candidate is spectacularly *un*popular.

 AT> Maybe some money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act (cash grab part
 AT> 1) and/or from the Build Back Better Act (cash grab part 2) is trickling
 AT> down to the celebrities' pockets.

Do you have evidence of this, or are you just throwing out wild accusations?

 AT> They can't be doing all this for
 AT> nothing.

Doing something for nothing seems to be a totally foreign concept to you and
some others here. Pre-COVID, I played bass in a band that would perform for
free at local festivals and the like. We all had day jobs and had no
illusions of ever making it big; we just enjoyed playing music for people to
listen to. There are other community music and theatrical groups which do the
same. Not everyone is motivated by wealth or other quid-pro-quo arrangements.

 AT> Bon Jovi is rich, but he's not 100 billion dollars rich.

Bon Jovi has money, sure, but the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation also runs the
JBJ Soul Kitchen restaurants, which are community restaurants that operate on
donations only. Inability to pay does not keep anyone from dining with the
same dignity and respect as paying customers. Is there any real question as
to why Trump might rub Bon Jovi the wrong way?

Jeff.

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