Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 04:26:27 -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: <5iadnWm7MamfzI37nZ2dnZfqn_YAAAAA@giganews.com> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: <5iadnWm7MamfzI37nZ2dnZfqn_YAAAAA@giganews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 106 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!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 09:26:28 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 5738 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3a6b6f4d7b764$3383$1100308$44d50e60@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 6124 On 4/5/24 2:29 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > 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. > > Congress has nothing to do with the shitpiles California's cities have > become. > > One party (Democrats) has been in control of the state of California for > the last three decades and has overseen its slide into a garbage pit. And > it's not even just negligence. In most cases, the government has been an > active and enthusiastic participant in the destruction. While still being an idiot, you bring up a great point. We--you especially--are in need of a civics lessen. What things are done at the federal level, the state level, and the municipal level? Methinks keeping a city or township clean is done at the municipal level primarily. A state could have an initiative to have these things done throughout the state, but I find that this would be unlikely. Meanwhile your incessant whining and idiocy on the subject hasn't really made anything in the realm of facts at all forthcoming. Hope this helps. >> You get that the people in your party aren't interested in doing >> anything to better your life. > > Everything that comes out of the L.A. city council, the L.A. board of > supervisors, and the state assembly in Sacramento not only doesn't make my > life better, it's frequently specifically designed to make my life worse in > favor of illegals, criminals, and vagrants. > > That's Democrats in action.