Kirstie Alley gets into Twitter feud with Democratic adviser over billionaires, socialism
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“Cheers” actress Kirstie Alley got into a heated political exchange about wealth in America with a former Democratic adviser on Twitter.
Alley, 68, responded to Peter Daou, who has worked with top Democrats including Hillary Clinton John Kerry, and most recently, Bernie Sanders, after he posted a tweet questioning why any one person should ever have $1 billion in personal wealth.
“Because they created something so f---ing marvelous that the whole world wanted it!” Alley fired back.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Daou eventually responded to the celebrity by mocking her point of view and arguing that billionaires rarely come into wealth due to hard work.
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“So all the world's billionaires just made wonderful things, they didn't gain any advantage from a system geared to squeeze the last drop of blood out of working people, they weren't helped with obscene tax breaks,” he wrote. “it was just their wonderful gift?”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Undeterred, Alley sent a second tweet clapping back at Daou and accusing him of posing a rhetorical question just to make himself seem smart.
“You asked for ONE good reason a single person should have a billion dollars,” she responded. “I gave you ONE. There are several more. You didn’t ask for a debate or a thesis. Your request must have been rhetorical so you could demonstrate your brightness.”
She followed up her response with a third and final tweet admonishing the growing tide of democratic socialism that’s growing in America.
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“PS all you Socialists can ‘school’ me till your heads fall off.. I will never NEVER be agreeable to a Socialist government ..and your renaming it ‘democratic socialist’ is as a dumb as ‘gentle nazi’...so save your ink and move along,” she wrote.
Daou’s initial tweet about billionaires was part of a larger thread that bashed “rightwingers” that will defend the wealthy in America.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“Welcome to all the rightwingers defending billionaires because you think they care about you,” he said. “Hint: They don't.”
In a third tweet, he added: “THE RIGHTWING VIEW:
"‘Redistributing wealth down to working people is an assault on liberty, entrepreneurship, and hard work.’
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"‘Redistributing wealth up to billionaires is FREEDOM!!’
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In other words: Rightwingers are fine with working people paying for billionaires' tax cuts.”
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