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Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese"
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On 2024-04-05 00:03:47 +0000, FPP said:

> On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> In article <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me>,
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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.
>> 
>>> Kimmel went on to describe how he used to believe that while the U.S. had
>>> "areas for improvement," it was mostly ahead in terms of cleanliness compared
>>> to most of the rest of the world.
>>> 
>>> "I go to Europe, and there are dirt holes where plumbing is supposed to be. I
>>> hold my breath, and I go, 'I'm glad I'm not one of these people,' and then I
>>> go back home," he continued. Kimmel went on to praise the cleanliness of the
>>> bathrooms in Japan.
>>> 
>>> "The bathrooms in Tokyo and Kyoto are cleaner than our operating rooms here.
>>> Everywhere you go the bathrooms are clean, they don't smell bad, they have
>>> those toilets that wash you from the inside out," he marveled. Kimmel also
>>> joked that even truck stop restrooms were "cleaner than Jennifer Garner's
>>> teeth -- the cleanest. Beautiful."
>>> 
>>> "And it's not just the bathrooms," the host added. "People carry their own
>>> trash. There are no garbage cans," Kimmel said, mentioning the 1995 terrorist
>>> incident when a man put poisonous sarin gas in trash cans.
>> 
>> Yes! I noticed that. I had to carry around an empty Coke can for several
>> hours because there was nowhere on the street to put it.
>> 
>>> This resulted in the country removing public trash receptacles and Japanese
>>> citizens adapting to dispose of their own garbage.
>>> 
>>> "They're like OK, no more trash cans, everybody clean up after yourselves.
>>> And guess what -- they clean up after themselves! They bring their garbage to
>>> their houses," he added.
>>> 
>>> "It's like the whole country is Disneyland, and we're living at Six Flags,"
>>> Kimmel said. "I've been home 36 hours, I have never felt dirtier. We are like
>>> hogs compared to the Japanese. I can't imagine what they must think of us.
>>> 'Oh, the garbage people. Yes, the Americans. Garbage.'"
>>> 
>>> [NYC was much cleaner before several Demcorats were running it, Jimmy-Boy.]
> 
> Japan's taxes vs US are generally considered to be pretty high. In part 
> this is because of the Japan tax brackets are quite different to what 
> we're used to here
> 
> To put this into context, the US top federal tax rate in 2021 is 37%, 
> compared to Japan's 45%.
> 
> So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home, right?
> Because that's how things work.

Tokyo has 14 million people, I doubt "everywhere you go" is so clean it 
would pass a Drill Sergeant's inspection (google "Tokyo slums" if you 
don't believe me).

Kimmel's rant fits in well with our homegrown rightwingers' racist dog 
whistle about "dirty Blue-run cities" though.