We’re tracking the conservative culture clash with woke Hollywood hypocrites to keep you up to date on who’s winning and who we hate.
Here’s what happened today:
Sleeping
Elong Musk’s SpaceX completed a historic accomplishment on Saturday, when a four-person crew led the first ever civilian mission into outer space, orbiting Earth in the company’s Dragon spaceship for three days before splashing down off the coast of Florida.
A day later, Musk was asked why President Biden had not acknowledged the mission, which served the dual purpose of studying the human body in space and raising $200 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Musk had a simple reply for why Biden remained silent… “He’s still sleeping,” the Tesla CEO tweeted.
Crew of @Inspiration4x – first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit – returns to Earth pic.twitter.com/pnjkDjnkAw
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 18, 2021
Tyranny
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine slammed the government for imposing COVID restrictions on the public during a New Jersey concert on September 15th.
“Look around you, guys. Look to your right, look to your left, and look how wonderful this is. We’re all here together,” Mustaine told the crowd. “We’re not in f–king bags. We’re not freaking out, and we’re not yelling at people, ‘Wear your f–king mask.’”
Concertgoers cheered on the 60-year-old singer with chants of “USA USA” and “F–k Joe Biden,” before he continued.
“See the thing right now, what’s going on is tyranny,” Mustaine went on. “This is called tyranny. Look it up when you get home. And tyranny isn’t only in government. Tyranny right now is in the schools and tyranny is in the medical business.”
“We have the power, especially us heavy … metal fans, we have the power to change things,” he concluded. “If you look what happened in the Middle East right now … I said it a long time ago with this next song, ‘Holy Wars.’”
His remarks begin at the 8:30 mark in the video below.
Flip Flopping?
Guitarist Eric Clapton vowed never to perform at venues that required fans to prove they have had a COVID-19 vaccination for entry, but he held a 14-song show in New Orleans that required patrons to show proof at least one dose of the vaccine, or a negative coronavirus test taken no more than 72 hours prior to get in the door.
Clapton has been a vocal critic of the jab after claiming he suffered debilitating side effects after receiving the AstraZeneca shot in February. He went as far as recording an anti-lockdown song he wrote with Van Morrision called “Stand and Deliver.”
“Unless there is provision made for all people to attend, I reserve the right to cancel the show,” Clapton said in July, but according to a review of his show, the testing loophole allowed Clapton to perform at the venue in “good conscience.”
Fund-less
Country music star Morgan Wallen has reportedly not made good on his promise to make half-a-million dollars in donations to black led charities, despite a vow to do so following his N-word scandal in February.
“Me and my team noticed that whenever this whole incident happened, that there was a spike in my sales,” Wallen said in a July interview. “So we tried to calculate … how much it had spiked from this incident. We got to a number somewhere around $500,000, and we decided to donate that money to some organizations, BMAC [the Black Music Action Coalition] being the first one.”
BMAC received a $165,000 donation from the singer in April, but no other funds have materialized. Wallen has been busily involved in charity concerts benefiting the Brett Boyer Foundation and victims of the Tennessee Flood, and launched his More Than My Hometown Foundation to help provide children with loving homes in July.
The “7 Summers” crooner did not promise the funds to charity by a certain date, and his career has suffered in the fallout from the scandal, as he was dropped by his management company and disqualified from annual country music awards shows this year.
Rules For Thee, Not For Me
After the 73rd Emmy Awards were criticized for allowing unmasked celebrities to gather at the show, despite Los Angeles’ indoor mask requirement for the rest of their citizens, the local Department of Public Health issued a statement explaining.
Though the department acknowledged that the face covering order applies to everyone regardless of vaccination status, they make exceptions for “controlled interactions” at an awards show with more than 500 guests in Hollywood.
“The Emmy Award Show is a television production, and persons appearing on the show are considered performers,” the statement explained.
“All persons appearing on or in the audience of the Emmy Award Show were fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Also, Public Health was informed that each of these persons had a verified negative PCR test 48 hours prior to the show.”
Outrageous
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg realized that the “rich” people democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to tax aren’t billionaires, or even multi-millionaires, they’re people that make just north of $400,000 a year.
“You know what freaked me out about this? I’ve been trying to figure out — because they say the 1% — you know how much the top 1% is considered? People who make about $421,000 a year make you part of the 1%!” Goldberg remarked on the show’s Monday episode.
“For me this is outrageous,” she continued. “You know because, listen, in America you’re supposed to be able to come and turn yourself into everything, you know? Able to come and turn yourself into everything, you know?”
Co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin praised AOC for her “courageous” outfit choice at last week’s Met Gala, where she wore a white dress that read “Tax the Rich” in red lettering, but Goldberg refused to support the socialist lawmaker’s agenda.
“Just know if you’re earning over $523,000, this could be a problem. And they don’t know how much you do for your family. They don’t know if you’re raising your grandkids, or I’m just saying, I know we got a second. I know it’s tight but this is real,” she said.
“The problem for me with all this is people don’t know what you’re putting in if you’re making $500,000. If you’re raising grandkids or taking care of parents and all kind of stuff, then you want to take more money,” Goldberg concluded.
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