Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 04:12:03 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 94 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!news.furie.org.uk!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 09:12:03 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 4635 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3a5eda3a1bc53$3380$1100308$44d50e60@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 5055 On 4/5/24 8:25 AM, FPP wrote: > On 4/4/24 9:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> In article , FPP >> wrote: >> >>> On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>> In article , >>>>    Ubiquitous wrote: >>>> >>>>> Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he's looking at America in a new >>>>> light >>>>> after a recent visit to Japan. >>>>> >>>>> The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the U.S. is >>>>> unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun. >>>>> >>>>> "After traveling to Japan, I realize that this place, this USA we're >>>>> always >>>>> chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country," he said during >>>>> his >>>>> monologue on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live." >>>> >>>> I agree with him. My trip to Tokyo was an eye-opener. I've never seen a >>>> city so clean and beautiful with pleasant, polite, happy people >>>> everywhere you go. Its only drawback was that-- of all the places I've >>>> been around the world-- it's one of the harder cities to get around and >>>> function in if you don't speak the language. I thought at the time that >>>> if I spoke and read Japanese, I'd consider living in Tokyo for good >>>> if I >>>> could. >>>> >>>> Coming back to the shit-pile Los Angeles has become in just the last 10 >>>> short years was very disheartening. >>>> >>>> It's no surprise it would be especially noticeable to Kimmel, whose >>>> show's home is in an old Masonic temple right across Hollywood Blvd >>>> from >>>> the Chinese Theater and the Hollywood-and-Highland Complex, where >>>> fentanyl addicts stagger around like WALKING DEAD extras, crime is out >>>> of control, vagrants tents and trash mountains abound, and dead bodies >>>> lying on the sidewalk are a routine occurrence. >>>> >>>> Coming back to that from Japan would be quite a contrast indeed. >>>> >>> Japan's taxes vs US are generally considered to be pretty high. >> >> At least the citizens of Japan get value in return for their taxes. >> >> I live in the highest tax state in the union and when we call the cops >> for things like a vagrant openly masturbating in a park while watching >> kids, the response is "there's nothing we can do". >> >> Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan. >> >> When businesses are run into the ground by repeated break-ins and the >> fact that customers can't even get into their front doors anymore >> because there's a tent and trash mountain and meth addict face-down in a >> puddle of his own vomit blocking them, if they get any response from the >> city council besides a bored shrug, they're told "there's nothing we can >> do". >> >> Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan. >> >> Over and over, crime after crime... "There's nothing we can do. Now shut >> up and give us more tax money." >> >>> So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home, right? >> >> Except I already pay higher taxes and the problems only get worse here. >> >> Over the last three years the people of L.A. County were taxed more than >> $3 billion "to fight homelessness". At the end of that three years, with >> three billion of our tax dollars gone, what was the result? >> >> Homelessness has increased by 32%. >> > > > Of course things get worse here.  One party has been in control of one > house of Congress, and hasn't addressed a single problem. > > You get that the people in your party aren't interested in doing > anything to better your life. > > Go ahead... tell us what big problems they've tackled?  Because they > sure promised they were going to do great things to lower costs and > control the border. > > So far, nothing. Republicans are a boat anchor to this country, preventing us from moving forward on any issue.