Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 23:01:56 -0400 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: <20240404213809.0000331f@example.com> Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: <20240404213809.0000331f@example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 88 Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 03:01:58 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 4436 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3432719809c85$51970$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 4832 On 4/4/2024 9:38 PM, Rhino wrote: > On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:22:48 -0700 > 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%. > > You just *know* the "progressive" response to that will be: "Just think > how much worse it would have been if we hadn't spent that $3 billion on > the problem!" You may *dream* it. You don't *know* it. In fact, though it's an obvious riposte, I think I've never heard it...