There is an old church building in Manhattan. The congregation can no longer afford its upkeep, so they agreed to sell it for $30 million, which they planned to use for feeding the homeless and other worthy charitable aims. But actor Mark Ruffalo, ‘comedian’ Amy Schumer, and other rich and powerful celebrities, ONCE REHEARSED THERE and so have blocked the sale of the property in court. These multimillionaires could have simply BOUGHT the property of course — problem solved! — but instead went to court and also started a crowdfunding campaign so that OTHER PEOPLE could pay to keep their cherished space intact. Ruffalo, so deeply moved by the issue, contributed an entire ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS while meanwhile, the court deprives the property owners of the right to sell and the homeless in New York City go hungrier.
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Amen to Bill! As with so many of the sewer rat Leftist’s antics, this is nothing about their nominal excuse for their despicable actions. It’s all about control.
Most in Hollywood are really the worst people in the world.
This sounds like an ant and grasshopper situation. If the actors are able to block the sale of the church, the current owners might decide not to put any more money they don’t have into its upkeep or taxes and just let the city take it. Then the city, which has no use for the building or the the money to make the now more extensive, and thus expensive, repairs eventually has to condemn it and tear it down.
The congregation could ask the developer (or require it as a condition of the sale) to devote a part of the new building for a performance space — which might also double as worship space for the small congregation. Mark Ruffalo? Sayonara!
After watching this video I had to do some checking. It appears that Mark Ruffalos net worth as of 2023 is around $40 million. Amy Schumer had a net worth of $45-$53 million dollars. Surely these caring people could find a bank or other institution to float them a loan for $31-$50 million dollars if they are serious about their intentions.
Therein lies the rub … they’re “actors,” which defines them as lacking any seriousness at all — yes, “stand up comic” qualifies as an “actor.”
To them, and most others like them, life is a fiction to be coerced into a plot with some potential for special effects.
Had a similar situation next door in Laconia. The Catholic church desired to sell one of their buildings in the parish and consolidate into the other. Big uproar in the area from people who grew up in that church and people who liked the building. Big push to get the city to preserve the old building as a historic site. No one apparently was willing to put their own cash where their letters to the editor was.
How does Mark get into his clothes in the morning, he is so full of $hit?
As with most Leftists, we should really do [blank]—with _your_ money.
Have you ever stepped on that shtuff? It can be very slippery when wet, and Ruffalo is all wet.
Bill, hollow wood doing anything in a ‘moral’ way??????? Come on, man, pay attention.
I am somewhat familiar with the Church as it less than a mile from where my late aunt lived so I have walked past it many times. It is about 140 years old and is not all that architecturally amazing.
It would make a nice venue as the altar is quite large. But for $50M in purchase and renovations, hard pass for me.
Every old building does not need to be kept around just because it is old.
Here locally several old churches whose congregations shrunk have become music venues.
Oh, and the behavior of Rufalo and Schumer could best be described as being bullies.
The problem is not Ruffalo and Schumer and their ilk. They’re a-holes and there are always and forever will be a-holes.
The problem is that we allow a-holes to run things. In this case to prevent the rightful owners of property to legally and properly do as they see fit with their own property.
That is an exercise in real, genuine power. There are very few forms of power potent enough to prevent an owner of property from doing as they wish with their property as long as they meet all legal requirements.
This is the danger of letting a-holes run things. For someone like that, unrestrained power will be used for self glorification and other detrimental pursuits. At the expense of the innocent owner(s) who now find out they don’t have enough power to do with their own property as they would like.
If you don’t have the power to do something you wish to do with your own property then you don’t really own that property, do you? So this is a form of theft.
That Ruffalo calls this thievery virtuous is just icing on the cake. No matter what he spends in lawyers, legal fees and crowdsourcing, it’s a bargain for him at any price.
Because he’s an a-hole and gets to take a dump on people with less power than he has.
What’s really tragic about that is there are people who think Ruffalo and Schumer are doing the right thing.
A court system that enables such injustices on a regular basis, that empowers the a-holes and deprives the deserving is the real problem here.
Lefties don’t care about what gets accomplished, only if whatever they do makes them feel good. If Ruffalo gave a damn he could easily drum up enough to buy the joint
Actors, plumbers, carpenters…..Stay in your lane and out of other people’s business. No judge should rule against the owners of this property.
Anyone else here thinkin’ of dropping this video on Mark and Amy’s Twitter feed? lol
I really should myself, because I was, and kind of still am, one of those people Mark “claims” to “speak for”. Yet his selfishness is hurting them even more. God have mercy on their souls.
If I were on Twitter I would do so. But I left that cesspool.
My former GM and I were talking about the T thing quite a few years ago and decided to both give it a go. We each followed 5 people and they had to be from various walks. Politics / sports / celebs and then we compared notes every week.
After a month, my feed had become so polluted with the vileness one now expects from invisible, basement, keyboard warriors. Two weeks later we both stopped the experiment.
Other than occasionally going to Twitchy or seeing tweets embedded in other articles, I am glad to say that I am clean of that particular filth.
Have you been on it since Musk bought it out?
I only joined in April of 22. To see if Musk’s influence would clean it up. Largely, it did. At least now, when a Liberal posts false information, they too get corrected. And many Liberals hate it now too.
I was just starting to like it, until he announced his pick for CEO. When she takes her seat, I’ll take my leave. Or at least, sandbag (old CB jargon for listen in but not interact), to do some of my own experimental observations.
BTW…If you read Marky’s pinned tweet, you’ll see, how much they hate Musk’s Twitter. Hence, why I may choose to sandbag.
I have not. There were not any people I felt the need to follow and wasn’t (still am not) looking for another reason to look at a screen. I get ample distractions during the day and don’t need another one. So I have chosen to stay out of that one.
I’ve gotta respect that. I’m still enjoying Leftists getting owned by facts, usually daily. They call ’em “Community Notes”. Apparently, they are crowdsourced fact checking. Even Biden gets his tweets fact checked…a lot…lol
But there are a lot of media sources that will do articles on the fun stuff that happens on the Twit. So not actually being there isn’t like you’d be missing much.
I’d follow the musings of Ron Swanson’s Alter Ego if it tweeted.
Flattery will get you somewhere. 😉 Would be interesting if I could sort of do it in “character”. I’ll give it some thought in all of that spare time I have.
Sandbag, AND, do not purchase anything in those many ads which fill up my screen. I joined for the same reason, and lurk, no tweeting. I want to learn what a few key people are saying, but that’s it.
I’ve been interacting a bit, but only until the new CEO takes her seat.
You guy’s mentioned Twitchy…is that the ‘affectionate’ name for Twitch, or another platform? I’ve heard others mention it.
Disregard my question about Twitchy. I just checked it out. Not bad so far. The first video that played was How Affirmative Action Fails Minorities…so good start…lol.
Twitchy is great. Plus, at the bottom of the twitchy page, you can switch around to see all the Townhall Media, including PJ media. Vodkapundit’s Florida Man Friday is great too, not as good as Hair of the Dog or The Week in Blogs, but we can’t have everything.
Don’t forget Insanity Wrap, Steve’s other weekly column that highlights the craziest stuff from the week. That’s a lot of fun, too.
Identical Perfection
You all are exactly the same as those you demean.
You demean them because who they are is not the same as who you are, and they would demean you for exactly the same reason.
You and those you demean are identical in that both of you are naturally perfect because you both are the total accumulation of all your life’s experiences and perceptions.
Because of being different you both view life with a different perspective and to demean another because of their natural difference exposes your immaturity.