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Bette Midler, who comes from a group with the highest per-capita income in the US, decided recently to sound off on her hatred for West Virginia, one of the nation’s poorest states and that doesn’t vote the way Midler thinks they should.
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The walking nose job known as Bette Midler was born in Honolulu, the most expensive city in the United States. She comes from an ethnic group with the nation’s highest per-capita income. With an estimated net worth of around $250 million, she is probably among the top 10,000 richest Americans, meaning she is wealthier than 99.997% of the rest of us pissants.
As an avowed Leftist, Midler should be aware that her “side” makes a grandiloquently moralistic display of supporting the poor and downtrodden against the privileged and wealthy, yet on Monday, one of the world’s preeminent fag-hag yentas saw fit to squat down and take a shit on the poorest state in the country when she tweeted the following:
What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.
She was referring to West Virginia’s Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who voted “No” on Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill, breaking ranks with his party to provide the crucial 51st “nay” and send our anally incontinent President back to the drawing board for the time being.
The only thing I know for sure about Biden’s bill is the fact that, as with any government bill, taxpayers such as me will be forced to foot the bill for it. Depending on whom you trust, Build Back Better would cost taxpayers anywhere from $1.5 to $5 trillion — in other words, roughly what Bette Midler has spent on plastic surgery in her lifetime. I doubt that Biden, or even most members of Congress, have a solid grasp on exactly whether or not this bill would make anything better, but this didn’t stop politicians — except for Manchin — from voting for or against it along strict party lines, nor did it prevent vaginoplastic disasters such as Bette Midler from not only pretending to know what exactly is in the bill, she manifested a viciously hostile moral certitude about its innate righteousness and that anyone who would dare oppose it was basically someone who auditioned for the role of “hillbilly rapist” in Deliverance but didn’t make the cut because they were unable to read their lines. It was one of the most baldly smug and elitist statements I’ve seen from a Hollywood celeb in years.
The Ashkenazi songbird’s tweet sparked an immediate backlash from people across the political spectrum, and within about an hour, Midler issued one of those not-really-an-apologies:
I apologize to the good people of WVA for my last outburst. I’m just seeing red; #JoeManchin and his whole family are a criminal enterprise. Is he really the best WV has to offer its own citizens? Surely there’s someone there who has the state’s interests at heart, not his own!
In other words: “Even though I’ve probably never even been to West Virginia, it’s clear that I know what’s best for its benighted citizenry than the toothless yokels who keep voting this guy!”
Regarding whether West Virginia is “poor, illiterate, and strung out,” according to Wikipedia, the Mountain State has the nation’s lowest median household income and is second only to Mississippi in per-capita income. Whether it has the highest poverty level is a sticky subject, because that metric is often judged against the state’s cost of living, in which case either California or Mississippi would snag that dubious crown, depending on whose stats you trust.
But West Virginia ranks last in the US’s employment-to-population ratio and “either last or second-to-last in twenty categories, including cancer, child immunization, diabetes, disabilities, drug deaths, teeth loss, low birth weight, missed work days due to health, prescription drug overdose, preventable hospitalizations, and senior clinical care.” It also has the nation’s lowest life expectancy, whereas Hawaii, birthplace of queef-made-flesh Bette Midler, has the country’s highest. In 2012, West Virginia was the only state in the country where death rates exceeded birth rates. Some attribute this, at least in part, to the toll that living in coal country takes on a population’s hearts, lungs, and kidneys.
As far as adult literacy goes, progressive strongholds New York and California rank 49th and 50th. By comparison, West Virginia is a relatively erudite 35th. But it is the country’s least educated state.
Regarding being “strung out,” West Virginia has by far the US’s highest per-capita rate of opioid-involved overdoses. A 2009 study found that “19% of mothers used drugs or drank alcohol during pregnancy in WV.” People such as J. D. Vance would say this is because West Virginians are simply bad people.
I would suggest it’s because they are the country’s most hopeless and forgotten people. I may be missing someone, but the last time I can recall a presidential candidate paying any attention to West Virginia’s plight was when JFK ran for the Democratic nomination in 1960 and expressed shock at the poverty he witnessed in coal country. In May 1960, Kennedy said this at a speech in Welch, West Virginia:
Washington, DC — the nation’s capital — is only a few hundred miles from McDowell County. But the Administration in Washington has less understanding of your problems, less concern over your distress, than it displays for peoples and lands on the other side of the globe. . . . Our President has traveled to Asia and Europe and South America — but never to McDowell County. He has seen the poor and hungry of foreign lands — but he has not seen the poor and hungry of McDowell County. . . . He would have seen a county where 40% of the people were being denied the chance to work and where 50% were forced to struggle for existence on a government surplus food diet of rice, flour, cornmeal, and — on special occasions — a little lard, dried eggs and milk.
You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here.
So it’s statistically true that West Virginia is “poor, illiterate, and strung out,” although I doubt it has anything to do with not voting for Democrats. As I already noted, Joe Manchin is a Democrat, and West Virginians voted him their Governor before they voted for him as a Senator. But West Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1996. Donald Trump won over two-thirds of the state’s votes in both 2016 and 2020, and in 2018 West Virginians gave him a higher approval rating than citizens in any other state.
Then again, West Virginia has been one of the nation’s most abjectly impoverished states since its inception during the Civil War, and up until the year 2000, it mostly voted Democratic, in large part due to a strong labor-union presence. I suspect that it switched to voting Republican around the turn of the millennium when its voters realized that Democrats would never refer to Mississippi (the country’s blackest state) or New Mexico (majority Hispanic and Native) as “poor, illiterate, and strung out.” And you’d never hear Bette Midler use the same adjectives to describe Detroit, no matter how accurate it would be.
When was the last time you heard a politician even use the term “poor whites”? From 1960 until now, what’s changed is that West Virginians have been branded with “white privilege” and are thus no longer accorded any sympathy. The state is 94.4% white, behind only Vermont and Maine. Now its residents enjoy the “privilege” of hearing multimillionaire Jewish women who get a pass for the “multimillionaire” part because of the “Jewish” and “women” parts punching down at them with sneering disdain as they face a grim future while everyone around them drops like flies.
West Virginia is a living testament to the lie of “white privilege.” If it’s “strung out” on anything, it’s hopelessness. Once the corporatists mined the state of most of its coal, there was nothing left of use to them.
I think the secret to West Virginia’s plight has nothing to do with demographics or politics, though. I think it’s topography. What dooms this beguilingly beautiful state is the fact that it’s entirely within the Appalachians — one of the world’s oldest mountain ranges. Despite the state’s proximity to major Northeastern and Midwestern cities, anyone who’s ever driven deep into West Virginia finds themselves lost in a deep maze of hill after holler after hill after holler, winding around crumbled and narrow roads with giant craterous potholes. West Virginia’s residents are cloistered from the rest of the country by one billion-year-old wall after the next. Although it’s one of the country’s smallest states, once you get off the interstate highways, it takes a day to get anywhere. Merely by natural design, it’s constructed like a penitentiary.
When you look at the fog lifting over the mountains in the morning, sure, it’s “almost heaven.” But when you focus your gaze back down on the ground and see the bare trees in winter with toilet paper and used underwear hanging from the branches as rusted-out appliances, discarded furniture, and used needles line the banks of a dried-up creek bed, you see something very close to hell.
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43 comments
Who is more vile Miss Divine or The Meathead?
Rob Reiner might be the most annoying liberal asshole in Hollwood.
Aside from him you have Midler, Kathy Griffin, Robert DeNiro, Spike Lee, Debra Messing, Chelsea Handler, Samuel L. Jackson, Alec Baldwin, George Takei, Diddy, Ava DuVernay, etc.
If I tried to list them all it would be the length of the Hong Kong phone book.
Archie Bunker was right about him.
Ms. Midler will get a very long look at Hell when her time being a smug sow is over, and then it will be too late.
Jews don’t go to hell.
I’ll bite. Where do they go?
West Virginia.
No idea. Jews don’t really have a clear concept of heaven or hell.
What I could never figure out…even before I was redpilled…was how on earth Midler was a … presumably…sought after actress. I mean, come on, the first thing that came/comes to mind is Miss Piggy. That chubby bloated face with protuberant chipmunk-like cheeks.
For me totally off putting. Simply could not relate…
Ashkenazi women generally are not attractive to Europeans. Coarse featured and often not doing well on the BMI index.
C’mon. You couldn’t figure out why she was sought after?? For the exact same reasons Barbara Streisand, Sandra Bernhardt, Debra Messing, Roseanne Barr and an endless list of others get jobs in show business. How many unfunny comedians make the list. Did David Brenner or Alan King ever so much as made anyone crack a smile??
Streisand used to be cast as the sex symbol in the 60s-70s (A Star Is Born, Funny Girl, Hello Dolly)!
As obnoxious as Midler is, her hatred of Appalachian Whites is not as strong as the average White liberal’s hate.
I live in northern Virginia and will likely move to West Virginia when my kids are out of school. I’d rather contribute my tax money to working class whites than the non-whites and CRT-loving whites who increasingly inhabit my neighborhood and town.
VDARE has encamped to West Virginia as have several dissident right writers/activists. It may well become a dissident right sanctuary.
West Virginia seems to have this sort of implicit whiteness to it. I think being so mountainous has something to do with it.
The poor are icky. I mean so long as they’re white! So long as they’re white!
Bette Midler started out singing in “gay bathhouses.” What the hell does that mean? Bathhouses are humid, by definition, so they probably weren’t wired and speakered for amplification. So she must have depended on the tiles and her own lungs. But how did the gays listen? Were they lined on stands like at a high school football field? Or sitting in rows like on the floor of an arena? I can’t picture her or anyone singing to a crowd of gays in a “bathhouse” at all.
They booked her into gay bathhouses because they wouldn’t care how unhot she is.
Thanks for the essay Jim.
One can just imagine what this elitist cunt says about poor Whites in private. She is a piece of shit.
I appreciate the candor to be honest. The more they’re open about their contempt, the easier it is to make the case for separation.
Curiously she didn’t mention anything about violent crime in her condescending tweet. I wonder why that is?
Personally I’d take a single-wide in the sticks of West Virginia over a condo in Honolulu or New York City any day of the week.
You would be safer if your car broke down in rural West Virginia, than many neighborhoods in NYC.
Pretty much. Appalachia has many problems but random violence isn’t one of them.
Imagine for a moment the luvvies in London condemning the 1984 era miner strikers as “poor illiterate drunkards…with bad teeth”. Everyone knows that Manchin is the Senator from MBNA along with Aetna’s Biden. Midler is a pig. Biden cynically messed up several progressive bills in his younger days. It’s why he’s the Boss today.
” #JoeManchin and his whole family are a criminal enterprise.”
What a weird phrase. And why bring his family into it? Is she channeling Sen. Geary from The Godfather II? ” I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. You and your whole fucking family. ”
It’s ironic, since Geary, though admittedly a corrupt hypocrite, is bluntly making the case for keeping out those dirty Ellis Island criminal types; read the right way, the whole movie makes that case, from Vito’s arrival onward. Based!
And just whose family really is a criminal enterprise? The best way to look at the Jews is not as a religion or an ethnicity but as an international crime family (e.g. the Sacklers or Maxwells). As always, the Jew sings while she hits you.
The best way to look at the Jews is not as a religion or an ethnicity but as an international crime family.
https://www.unz.com/wwebb/meet-ghislaine-daddys-girl/
What lovely people.
And that’s merely the beginning:
https://verumetinventa.wordpress.com/2021/12/07/amazing-polly-ghislaine-maxwells-deep-state-family/
Thank you for the links.
West Virginia seems one of those states that time forgot, like Delaware, and only reenters public awareness once the Big 12 regular season begins. How’d midler hold back on the Manischewitz tweets during hanukkah? This yentress’ chutzpah’s not quite leona helmsley-ish but apposite for a contemning bitch of a witch, more unpleasant than a not-bad Sarah Jessica Parker circa 1993 and the portly one from Sister Act. From Honolulu to an eight-figure Upper East Side triplex after a sojourn in Montecito. That’s these people’s worlds. Nothing else outside is an abyss for the slumming unwashed peons and their gross drudgery. The 1.8 million strong in the Mountain State (population just over Manhattan, not Brooklyn) should, since corporate amerika stole the coal, ask Santa for Aaron Donald and not George Costanza to tackle C.C. Bloom on her tuches.
Every time I read one of your comments on here, I’m left scratching my head and trying to decide if it was genius or gibberish. Reminds me of the one time I read Naked Lunch.(not to taken as an insult, by the way)
Thank you, no insult taken. And my name is not joe biden so I’ll settle for the former though I’m many miles beneath a H.L Mencken/F.P Yockey.
I propose a new term for these types: “let-them-eat-cake leftists”.
Hopefully they will meet the same fate.
I think you are on to something Jim. Just like the Geography plays a crucial role in the development of the country, (we knew that from the earliest of civilizations) location and accessibility play just an important part in prosperity of the region within the nation.
…geography provides an interrelated knowledge of nature, population, economy and the relationships between them, both of the country as a whole and of its individual regions, necessary for wider development problems in any country.”
“(PDF) Re-Emphasising ‘Geography Role’ in Socio-Economic Solutions- A Pedagogical Approach Using (Poverty Elimination) as a Context” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346487159_Re-Emphasising_'Geography_Role'_in_Socio-Economic_Solutions-_A_Pedagogical_Approach_Using_Poverty_Elimination_as_a_Context
She was referring to West Virginia’s Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who voted “No” on Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill,
Statements like this concern me. Joe Biden is the president, which is the executive branch which executes the functions of our government. Proposing a bill is the function of the legislative branch which as we know is both houses of congress. Not quite sure when this reversal of roles occurred, I am guessing during the reign of Franklin Roosevelt, maybe before. The fact of the matter is, that we pissants have let this go on far too long without keeping these tyrants in check, and the powers of the executive branch have gotten stronger and stronger while we all argue over which dictator we want to rule us for the next 4, maybe 8 years.
The only “agenda” any president should have is to enforce and execute the laws and policies set forth by the congress. On this current bill, it appears that it was written by the presidents advisors and cabinet. Members of congress don’t even know what is in the 2,000 page recipe for disaster that they were supposed to have written, voted on and presented to the president to sign off on or not.
Not trying to single Jim out for writing this, as I have yet to hear anybody call this out. I just wanted to take this opportunity to shed a little light on this issue, possibly spark a conversation on something which is probably more of a threat to our “democracy” than anything.
The liberals and the conservatives have been shitting on the U.S.Constitution for decades, even centuries. Although the Liberals have hijacked it in the last 100 years (or how they are called positvists). However, it appears it is in neither party’s interest to go back to “originalism”, especially the Left since it’s the only thing that stands in the way of their machinations. It’s a great catch, Matt.
That point about geography is a big deal. South America suffers from the same fate. In fact a hilly, mountainous geography probably selects for low intelligence and small stature, like the Pygmy , since agriculture is practically impossible.
Davidcito: I strongly disagree that mountainous geography “selects for low intelligence and small stature.” What a sweeping statement to make about Scotts highlanders, Italian hill villagers, and people anywhere who did not choose to settle in the lowlands. While agriculture is not practical in the highlands the same way it is in the lowlands, the men who crossed and settled in the Appalachians and the Ozarks were tough, hardy, independent-minded European men. They were willing to live a life of greater hardship so long as that life was on their own terms.
Those mountainous areas – whether one prefers the north west areas in Idaho and Colorado or the central south encompassing parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Carolina, parts of Tennessee, and eastward to western Pennsylvania, and of course West Viriginia – are the areas where primarily White people still live. How about New Hampshire – do you consider those residents all ignorant and short? Geography definitely has an impact on society and culture, but if anything I’d argue it makes for a stubborn, enduring people. West Virginia has, indeed, suffered from all sorts of neglect and a plethora of evil attention from people like the Sacklers, but its people endure and remain some of the warmest and most generous you will ever meet.
Can confirm. I live in Ohio, which borders WV and absorbs many of her exiles. West Virginians are great people. Full stop.
Terraces with dikes in mountainous areas for agriculture are pretty common and widespread. That’s a sign of intelligence.
Bette Midler the fatty comes from a bad family. A Harvey Weinstein in drag.
For just plain purty, West Virginia is a knockout.
WARNING:
TRESPASSERS WILL BE HOGTIED AND TOLD THEY HAVE A PURTY MOUTH
Okay. That’s the one down side.
There’s no amount of government spending that can “build back better” that old Jewaiian hag’s face.
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