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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: flowers on July 04, 2013, 04:39:25 pm

Title: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: flowers on July 04, 2013, 04:39:25 pm
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Many celebrities are celebrating the Fourth of July by wishing their country a very happy birthday. It's a day where partisanship is pushed aside for good ol' fashioned patriotism.

Bette Midler is taking a different approach.

The Parental Guidance star imagines a world in which the U.S. lost the war for its independence, but it's not like that's a bad thing. After all, she argues, that would mean we'd finally have socialized medicine.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/07/04/midler-fourth-health-care-brits

I didn't really know what area to post this in. Heck this site doesn't have a Pure Insanity board area!  :patriot:
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: famousdayandyear on July 04, 2013, 05:05:28 pm
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/07/04/midler-fourth-health-care-brits

I didn't really know what area to post this in. Heck this site doesn't have a Pure Insanity board area!  :patriot:

mmmm   Maybe the mod can start one.  It's past time.    :howlin:
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: Lipstick on a Hillary on July 04, 2013, 05:10:14 pm
Right.  Like Bette Midler would confine herself or her family to the horrors of socialized medicine.
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: Rapunzel on July 04, 2013, 08:01:12 pm
I wish she, Cher and many others would follow Laura Ingrham's advice.  Shut Up and Sing.
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: Cincinnatus on July 04, 2013, 08:11:39 pm
"I wish she, Cher and many others would follow Laura Ingrham's my advice.  Shut Up and Sing."
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: Oceander on July 04, 2013, 08:36:53 pm
I think the stupidity meters in the Alpha Centauri star system are still going off scale.
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: Lipstick on a Hillary on July 04, 2013, 08:38:10 pm
"I wish she, Cher and many others would follow Laura Ingrham's my advice.  Shut Up and Sing."

Agreed.  I never appreciated the "and Sing" part of her title. 
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: Oceander on July 04, 2013, 08:47:04 pm
Well, since Bette wants to play with counterfactuals (always a tricky business and something that most sensible people avoid), let's play that scenario through:

In Bette's case, the answer would in fact be no, she would not have universal health care.  In fact, Bette would never have existed, and her parents would have been consigned to the ovens, if not at Auschwitz, then elsewhere.

Why?  Because Bette is jewish - as the wiki article on her (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Midler#Early_life_and_family) says - and in her alternate universe the United States doesn't exist - the French and the Spanish owned most of North America, with the British having a small slice on the East coast - and therefore the Nazi juggernaut in the West was never stopped in Bette's preferred alternate reality - no United States, with the massive material resources the US brought to the fight against the Nazis, means no effective resistance to the Nazis (or to the Japanese).  As such, the UK, and the North American colonies of the British and the French, all became part of the Nazi Third Reich, and therefore subject to the Nazi "final solution."

In other words, in Bette Midler's preferred alternate reality, she doesn't get universal health care, she gets a universal "final solution."

Amazing how anti-semitic Jews can be.
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: flowers on July 04, 2013, 08:52:47 pm
Well, since Bette wants to play with counterfactuals (always a tricky business and something that most sensible people avoid), let's play that scenario through:

In Bette's case, the answer would in fact be no, she would not have universal health care.  In fact, Bette would never have existed, and her parents would have been consigned to the ovens, if not at Auschwitz, then elsewhere.

Why?  Because Bette is jewish - as the wiki article on her (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Midler#Early_life_and_family) says - and in her alternate universe the United States doesn't exist - the French and the Spanish owned most of North America, with the British having a small slice on the East coast - and therefore the Nazi juggernaut in the West was never stopped in Bette's preferred alternate reality - no United States, with the massive material resources the US brought to the fight against the Nazis, means no effective resistance to the Nazis (or to the Japanese).  As such, the UK, and the North American colonies of the British and the French, all became part of the Nazi Third Reich, and therefore subject to the Nazi "final solution."

In other words, in Bette Midler's preferred alternate reality, she doesn't get universal health care, she gets a universal "final solution."

Amazing how anti-semitic Jews can be.
:beer:
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: Rapunzel on July 05, 2013, 06:10:50 am
Well, since Bette wants to play with counterfactuals (always a tricky business and something that most sensible people avoid), let's play that scenario through:
 
In other words, in Bette Midler's preferred alternate reality, she doesn't get universal health care, she gets a universal "final solution."

Amazing how anti-semitic Jews can be.

Excellent post, OC...... one of your best.
Title: Re: Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War, We'd Have Universal Health Care
Post by: mountaineer on July 05, 2013, 11:38:32 am
Yes, bravo, O!