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Jim Carrey’s Socialist Insane Ramblings

Question of the day: do you think that Jim Carrey is clinically insane?  If
he is, what does that say about the Hollywood elites surrounding him who agree
with his every word, as seen on Bill Maher?  When it comes to socialism and how
Americans are living under Trump right now, I always wonder when I see Jim
Carrey saying these things, are they just all that out of touch?  Or is it a
touch of mental illness perhaps?  

Here’s some context for those who didn’t see it on Bill Maher last week.  Jim
Carrey claims that it’s time to stop apologizing for being a socialist and it’s
time to really push it.  Here’s what interesting to me.  The
socialism comments went viral on Twitter, but Maher actually cut them – they cut them
from the show as far as I understand, or from Youtube.  You don’t see all of these
quotes everywhere on all of the platforms.  But we want to give you context of
the rest of the interview so you could actually look at Jim Carrey’s claims, and
take them for what they are.  So again, the left wants less context, we want more. 

Let’s go
on to the claims. 

Bill Maher: “So, you know that the Republicans are running with the word
‘socialism’.  They’re trying to say…” 

Jim Carrey: “They’re trying to scare people.  ‘It’s communism.’ 

Maher: “’It’s Venezuela,’ Trump says, that we’re going to be living in Venezuela.”

No, we only put in Venezuela because it’s the best
example we’ll probably have to true socialism, but mainly because
you – you pointed us to Venezuela.  You said, “Everyone look to Venezuela!”  You praised
it all along.  So, it’s not the Republican scaring people with comparisons to Venezuela.  The left have made these comparisons for a long time.  Until Chavez’s experiment
went completely sour, the country headed for a one million percent hyperinflation, people started starving to death – with citizens eating rats, dogs, and zoo animals to
survive.  This is what happened.  You pointed at Venezuela, you championed its cause, and then it turned around on you so you move on to the next socialist country. 

Carrey: “I
grew up in Canada, okay, we have socialized medicine.  And I am here to tell
you that this bullshit line that you get on all of the political shows from people
is that it’s a failure, the system is a failure in Canada.  It is not a failure in
Canada.  I never waited for anything in my life.  I chose my own doctors, and
my mother never paid for a prescription.  It was fantastic.” 

Untrue.  Anecdotal, anecdotal, anecdotal!  By the way, what wormhole did I fall into where Jim Carrey gets to act as
though he has the moral high ground in combating a biased media?  Everyone has heard this.  They
use Canada as the model and said it was how the United States should model its healthcare program.  Jim, you’re just one in a
long line of celebrities and politicians who’ve been selling this life – specifically Canada – for years.  

By the way, this is a lie. Canadian healthcare is objectively worse than the United States.  We’ve done some videos on this, so you can go back and search
in this channel ‘Socialized Healthcare Canada;’ but to specifically to use his examples – which are anecdotal.  They have the worst ER referral wait times in 11 developed countries,  56% of Canadians actually wait longer than
four weeks for treatment.  Compared to the US, it’s about 24%.  The
average wait to see a specialist in Canada is 21 weeks.   

He said, “I didn’t have to pay for prescriptions.”  Well, actually Canadians have to pay for about 70% of prescriptions
that they want.  By the way, they don’t have the same kind of generics that you
have in the United States.  But if none of that
convinces you, if you’re still convinced by Jim Carrey’s anecdotal evidence to
which he received thunderous applause, here’s something for you: the wait times
were so bad in Canada it was ruled a human rights violation by the Canadian
Supreme Court in Chaoulli v. Quebec  to force somebody into the socialized
healthcare system and by not allowing them to pay for privatized care.  

I’ve
talked about this many times.  Now in Canada they have these things called “super hospitals” – or as we know them in United States: hospitals.  Not to mention, terminal illness survival
rates, medical innovation – I mean, the list just goes on and on and on.  

Carrey: “There are people who are sick. You shouldn’t have to lose your home and as your mother got sick.” 

Only
that’s not true.  This is what they do.  They try to appeal to emotion.  

Obamacare is one of the greatest
taxes on the middle class that we’ve seen in our lifetime.  Who was left footing
the bill?  Not the people who
qualify for the subsidies paid for by the rest of America, and not the super
wealthy who could afford the skyrocketing premiums and deductibles – but the
middle-class Americans who do the subsidizing.  Should you have to lose your
house because you actually had the right amount of money saved for money down, or because you actually got a fair loan, or because you didn’t go into the health care exchange because you’re “middle class” and because you’re working?  Should people only get screwed that way?  We only care about the non-contributing zeroes
amongst us?  Why do they get to dictate how the rest of society lives?  

Maher: “There’s nothing more
socialistic than some of the Pentagon programs that are just jobs programs.  The
Pentagon says we don’t want these tanks, and they build them anyway.  If that’s not socialism, I don’t know what is.” 

Sure enough, where do socialists always go to?  The military, war, police.  There’s a difference between a commodity and a public good.  This
is really really easy.  Police, national defense – they’re public goods.  Healthcare, college, Nestle tea are commodities.  Let me explain what this means, and
then I’ll give you an analogy. Public goods are non-rival risk, non-excludable.  Non-rival risk, let’s start with that.  More people can use them without any
significant additional cost.  Non-excludable means you can’t keep the extra
people from using that good.  So, even free enterprise conservatives all agree
the government should provide military defense, for example, or a police force.  Things like free healthcare and free college aren’t really public goods
because it costs a lot more for each additional patient or person you add to
the list, and you can easily keep them from using it.  

This is a referee analogy for the
legitimate role of government like a hockey referee. It’s to keep the players (the citizens) safe from both internal and external forces.  If it’s incidental to the play, you keep your whistle in your pocket.  The role of government is to keep us safe.  Okay, so what
falls into legitimate purview of government?  Of course a military, of course
things like borders, of course things like enforcing laws to make sure that
other people aren’t hurt by law-breaking citizens.  We’re not saying there’s no role
of government, we just don’t think that everything is a human right.  

Let’s go back to the first point.  Should people apologize for socialism?  Yeah, you should.  Socialism, and it’s cousin – who’s aged slightly less
gracefully –communism.  They try to separate those two.  You really
can’t if you look at them historically.  They have led to insanely brutal regimes under
the USSR, Mao, Castro, Chavez.  And all of those regimes were initially praised by the same leftist elites and academics of America, just like celebrities with Venezuela.  You can go back and find the same elites
praising Castro and Soviet Russia and Mao.  When it comes to long-term endorsement, the left has a monopoly
on batting a 100 for sucking.  By the way, communism has led to a 100 million dead over the last hundred
years.  

Maher: “The Democrats need to get a plan to fight this slander of
socialism – that you’re going to be living in Venezuela.  I don’t see it yet.”

Carrey: “We have to say ‘yes’ to
socialism, for the word and everything.  We have to stop apologizing.” 

You
want to know how I know that Jim Carrey loves capitalism?  He has a $150 million net worth.  Bill Maher at $100 million.  And if that weren’t enough, here’s another little tidbit just from that
very segment on Bill Maher:

Carrey: “I went out today and bought me some Nikes!  Some freedom-friendly Nikes!  That’s a salute to Colin Kaepernick, to Nike.  Congratulations on a fantastic choice.” 

Colin Kaepernick won’t salute the flag, but we’ll salute

Colin Kaepernick.  Nike of all
companies.  The same Nike famous for exploiting sweatshop labor conditions in
other countries, that we don’t allow in our capitalist system the United States  This just shows you how incoherent Jim Carrey’s worldview is.  It’s worse than Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.  I know you all try to act like you really know what’s
really going on there – no, you don’t.  Most of you don’t.  That’s why there are so many fan theories with it and with Donnie Darko.  Shut up, stop trying to act like you have a handle on it, you don’t.  

I don’t know if
he’s crazy or that he’s just completely out of touch.  Right now, of all times, to push for
socialism.  Did you hear when they were talking about Donald Trump?  They said he
would rate his job performance as very good, and Jim
Carrey goes, “As what?  A demolition man?”  And everyone claps.  

Our economy is not only the best in the world, it’s doing insanely well right
now by our own metrics.  The jobless rate: lowest point in half a century.  That
since the moon landing!  Black unemployment rate is pretty low – try all-time low…ever!  By the way, remember when everyone said that Donald Trump was delusional for suggesting that he could even achieve +3% growth?  Guess what.  Economic growth is up to +4.2%!  He was delusional and mentally unstable for promising +3%.  It’s +4.2%.  Do you’ve any idea how significant that is in the realm of economics?  It’s
just bizarre to me that they pick right now to bitch about free enterprise and
try to push socialism.  

And here’s what I think.  The left is petrified
of another Baby-boomer generation.  Why?  Free enterprise capitalism is
working really well, as we’ve just pointed out.  We have an entire generation of
people – somewhat Millennials, but Generation Z – who had never actually seen
capitalist markets doing as well as they have now.  For years, the left told them that capitalism was a failure and that socialism was the answer.  Up until now, these generations
hadn’t really seen a free market.  They had George Bush, Bill
Clinton, George W. Bush and none of whom were really Republican or really all that conservative economically, followed by eight years
of Obama.  But now, with Trump following Obama the left is terrified of Carter
being followed by Reagan 2.0.  When people were young, they thought
they wanted Carter – the hippies, free-love, and Carter seemed like a nice guy – in the White House.  So, they thought they wanted Carter, but then Reagan happened.  And they suddenly realized they had more money in their pocket and they
didn’t have to wait in a gas line.  So, the Baby-boom generation grew up from pot-smoking hippies into the conservative yuppie stereotype that you see today.  Suddenly, generations who are sold on socialism are now seeing the positive and personal
effects of free enterprise in their lifetime – more importantly in their
own lives. 

How do I mean?  Greater job opportunities for themselves, keeping more of their own money for themselves.  The left knows this and is terrified, especially because they appeal purely to selfish motives disguised as
compassion.  They are terrified of Generation Z after Millennials.  They have footed Generation Z with a massive bill.   And like
the Baby-boom generation, Generation Z – are going to be even more
conservative once they get older, because now they’ve seen the contrast between
a crappy economy under Obama and a flourishing economy under Trump.  

Up until
this Trump boom, the media was able to sell an entire generation on the contrast
of “terrible unsuccessful capitalism” and “compassionate democratic socialism.”  But now, the generation is living it – they’re living the
contrast of one of the worst job economies ever for people under 30.  Now it’s being contrasted with more money left in
their paychecks, more jobs available, more free-market options available than
ever before, more
choices than ever before under President Trump.  The media doesn’t get to tell
Generation Z what socialism and capitalism is anymore, because these kids are living it.  And
that petrifies the left and it should.