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Our resident sea-farer, Stuart Ballantyne has some pointed advice for the celebrity endorsement circuit.
What is it about movie celebrities, highly skilled in pretending to be other people in pretend situations, would willingly shoot themselves in the foot and lose 50-60% of their fan base, by pretending to be an authority in politics?
Stuck on a ship for 23 days repositioning to Australia, we watched this real life priceless entertainment with shooting stars in the absolutely fabulous Trump re-election.
The clueless George Clooney for instance, we suggest drops the 'C' from his surname, and sticks to watch adverts from his collection of 10 year old photographs.
The venomous Whoopi Goldberg, after Trump’s victory, exposed the angry and evil shrew that she is.
We strongly suggest should firstly remove comedienne from her profile and secondly leave her TV panel show The View, before they sack her due to tanking ratings of the American ABC, (averaging only 30% of Fox ratings).
Getting paid US$6 million a year surely should attract better and balanced commentators
Sharon Stone, another actress past her use-by date, still clinging to the 32 year old Basic Instinct fame, on Trump’s election has declared she is going to Italy.
Has she been to Italy lately ?
I have and I can advise her to buy an open return ticket with at least a six month validity, which she will certainly use.
And listen to me singers ! Pay attention.
Having a God given talent like a great singing voice is a unique gift.
Using the same voice to lose a significant part of your fan base is just stupidity.
Cher promised to leave the country if Trump was elected. A friend told me that she backtracked on this after finding out Hawaii was still in the US, but used another lame excuse about her toy boy commitments.
Sonny Bono, the Republican ex-husband of Cher and ex-singing partner, must be happy a tree took him out and avoided this embarrassment by his anti republican ex-wife.
Barbra Streisand, what a voice! Just beautiful, but leaving the US? Give me a break, this reeks of celebrity petulance.
We are now at the end of the cruise and have been enjoying Fox News and the blame games and squirming of the Democrats, pointing the finger at each other including Goldberg, Clooney et al.
My own favourite program in Australia, Sky News “ Outsiders”, had been predicting a strong Trump win since Donald started his run. Good on you Team!
The reason: the majority of people in the west being totally sick and tired of woke, left lunacy policies, gender bending, mass immigration of people who will not assimilate, swinging a wrecking ball through the economy, strangling small and medium businesses with avalanches of green and red tape and burgeoning their bumbling bureaucracies that are still mentally in Covid lock down and working from home as much as possible.
Trump offered an end to this rubbish.
Even arriving from another planet and having a modicum of common sense, you would quickly come to the conclusion that cities in the US were tanking rapidly, shops shut, ‘For Sale’ signs in abundance, homeless people everywhere, many people unable to speak the language, garbage overflowing, record number of small business failures spiralling rapidly.
You would also conclude that the people in charge, these left wing idiots, in the facing of overwhelming evidence, brazenly lie they have done a good job !
With the aid of left wing mainstream media, these same liars also convinced millions of Americans, too lazy or unable to go and fact check for themselves, to vote with them.
Australia, does this all sound familiar ?
Haha, you bet your life you have, repeatedly !
We should reflect on The Voice referendum and the dud celebrities that 90% of us used to really like, well until they opened their mouths to help convince stupid simpletons like us who couldn’t fathom the answer between yes and no, on this common sense issue
Cat Blanchett, Adam Briggs, Cathy Freeman, Kamahl, Nathan Cleary, comedian Tom Gleeson, TV host Hamish Blake and long-time First Nations supporter Paul Kelly. We applaud you no more ! (Johnny Farnham can be forgiven as he was unwell.)
Celebrities have this irresistible urge to have oral intercourse with every passing microphone, firm in the belief that the unscripted words tumbling out of their mouths is pure gold.
This same affliction can be noticed with ex politicians clinging to relevance. Keating springs to mind.
Kevin Rudd is another, already at the bottom of the bell curve, and gained nothing by verbally trashing Trump with colourful adjectives, not even tactically disguising them in Mandarin having shot both his feet with a double barrel mouth.
John Howard disappointedly should not have publicly berated Trump and is in the long queue of misguided people who didn’t believe Trump would reappear on the highest balcony.
Two-thirds of us, as we did in The Voice, as they did in the Trump victory, spoke out loud and clear.
Despite the celebrity endorsements, despite the incumbent Government out-spending the opposition with tax payers dollars, despite left wing tax payer media.
Two-thirds of us will throw out the pathetically useless left wing Albanese Government and their anti Australian agenda
Some advice for Albo and his team of duds – Wong, Bowen, Plibersek, Burke and Marles; start combing through the Situations Vacant columns in New Zealand or Gaza.
If you stay in Australia, for sure people will point wagging fingers at you for the rest of your miserable lives while shaking their heads in disappointment. You have been and still are, a disgrace to Australia.
One last piece of advice for actors and singers, stick to what you’re good at!
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
Henry Kissinger
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