In the past week or so, Jimmy Kimmel extended his brand of hate to include anyone that has any history whatsoever of any blue-collar exposure in the past. Pretty sweeping. The occasion was Senator Markwayne Mullin being elevated to the office of DHS chief. You see, Markwayne Mullin used to be a plumber, as in, had a business that grew until it was a large enterprise, diversified even more, which then served as a platform for acquiring election to high offices. It’s an American dream story. I have a feel for that from first-hand experience because one day long ago, I dreamed something similar, I and perhaps millions of other practical small business owners; but also like millions of others, I didn’t attain all that I dreamed. But good on Markwayne Mullin for breaking through and landing in a spot in which I think he’ll do fine. Meanwhile back to Jimmy Kimmel. He publicly demonstrated a rare extraordinarily obtuse condescension that cuts new territory for the tribe he represents. So much for the proletariat that his people used to tout which is now a distant faded memory. As is too often the case, even though his remarks were widely criticized, I have yet to see any of those retorts truly express the depravity of what Jimmy Kimmel has become. This post here is an attempt to avenge not just Markwayne Mullin but more so, the blue-collar workers of America.
Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks were an impulse, a jerk, something like a Tourette’s episode except that it came out of notions that he’s felt and nurtured for a long time. It fits his pattern of contempt. Easy wealth gained by long time regime loyalty and activism will do that to you. In his imagination, he’s transcended the lowly trade muck. When he improves his home, he has staff to handle the construction manager. That man will manage the general contractor, the principles, the admins, who will in turn manage other sub-contractors, their principles, their admins, and among them, a principle of a company that understands pipes, and according to most state laws, must hold a master plumbing license. To get that license, he had to attain considerable education – but not college mind you! – and he had to also put his soft hands on dirty pipes and wrenches for at least a time, until the day he acquired enough hands-on knowledge to pass a masters plumbers license test. By that time, his hands were no longer white, but had been bruised, cut and calloused until they no longer felt every little nick that came along. At that point, he left his journeyman’s position working for someone else and set out on his own. He hired a helper first, then a couple journeymen and more helpers. Business was brisk and he soon had hundreds of workers and trucks and millions of dollars in inventory. Eventually, his weekly payroll was hundreds of thousands of dollars every single week whether he had the cash on hand or not so he learned to work with banks and manage business professionals that he hired to manage thousands of management details, all this on top of his technical plumbing knowledge. He rolled his money into expansion until one day he decided to diversify into other businesses. Eventually, he added elected offices to his resume, entailing running complex campaigns until at last, he found himself in the United States Senate, one of just a hundred other such office holders. But Jimmy Kimmel thinks Markwayne Mullin should still be a plumber because that’s what he later said.
So what qualifies Jimmy Kimmel to hover over Markwayne Mullin and pronounce the lowly boundaries he must maintain? Look him up on Wikipedia if you’re really interested in the details but I’ll spare you the agony and summarize it for you. He had an unremarkable upbringing. He went to Arizona State University but did not graduate. He got into radio, did comedy (we presume here because there’s little evidence that he can practice it now), and into a long string of entertainment gigs culminating in his present throne atop a poorly performing late night television show. But at least he has an undying hatred of Donald Trump so there is that. He’s won lots of awards that mean nothing to anyone outside the media entertainment world. They are the ice-cream cone that cannot lick itself ever enough. And never forget the egregious evil that Kimmel said about the Charlie Kirk assassination which got his show kicked off air for a while.
So, who exactly is qualified to judge whom here?
After Kimmel had his spasm over Markwayne Mullin, he tried to gloss over it by suggesting that what he really meant was not that he shouldn’t be DHS chief but that he should still be a plumber. Really Kimmel?! Do you really have any idea wtf you’re saying here? To further reinforce his cluelessness, he suggested that plumbers just maybe could be worthy statesmen, because AOC was a bartender! I suppose he said this without the least clue of irony. Let’s forget for a moment that AOC is a low IQ vapid high-profile stunt maker sitting in her easy office neglecting her constituency, but Jimmy Kimmel now thinks that bar tending and Mullin’s career outside of government are just … about … roughly equal.
Jimmy Kimmel is out of his league. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. In his line of work snide smart-assery is the currency that will take you anywhere, the more the higher you’ll go. He’s surrounded by people just as clueless as he is, just as mean-spirited, just as glib. One could be inclined to think Kimmel’s snobbery came from patrician family roots, distinguished prep and higher education institutions, or old money roots, but he has none of that. He landed in a place where hatred of conservatism, American and Christian values are money in the bank, literally.
Donald Trump, who btw does have patrician family roots, distinguished prep and higher education institutions on his resume, and old money roots, was once a friend of a who’s who of the people in Jimmy Kimmel’s crowd. Obviously, he even had his own popular TV show. He rubbed elbows with everyone all the way up the Democrat food chain, including famously, the Clintons. But after watching Obama work hard to destroy America and stick it to the little people in between the fringe coasts – blue collar types you know – Trump decided to get in the pitch and do something about it, and worst of all for the left and Jimmy Kimmel, he was wildly and historically successful, on track to be potentially the most consequential President of modern times. How does one go from being the darling of the martini and glitz crowd to being the most hated man ever by those same people? Because he gave up his identity with them to identify with the concerns of blue-collar America, for real, and not in the patronizing forever future tense way of the uni-party. To that, Kimmel hasn’t a clue.
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