KISS My Ass – Washed Up Rocker Tells The Poor To Worship His Money

[DonViejo]

The San Diego Union-Tribune had an interview with veteran rocker Gene Simmons from the band Kiss recently which went off the rails very early, revealing that self-styled “marketing genius” is little more than another self-entitled freeloader who believes he owes nothing to his fan base for the lifestyle he now lives.

From the article:

When asked how it felt being part of the 1 percent, the “genius” behind “Kiss Meet The Phantom” had this to say.

It’s fantastic! The 1 percent pays 80 percent of all taxes. Fifty percent of the population of the U.S. pays no taxes. The 1 percent provides all the jobs for everybody else. If the 1 percent didn’t exist, there would be chaos and the American economy would drop dead. Try being nice to rich people. I don’t remember the last poor person who gave me a job.

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[hobbit709]

1. Since the 1% make 95% of the money they should pay 95% of the taxes.

And I never liked Kiss to start with.

[ck4829]

2. Plutocratic Theocracy, this is what they want

If the rich paid the poor more, wouldn't they pay more in taxes?

[redstatebluegirl]

3. My Ex husband, a big time Republican LOVED KISS, enough said.

[CBGLuthier]

4. I don’t remember the last poor person who gave me a job?

back in the 70's in a complete misunderstanding of the type of music I like some of my POOR Kentucky relatives bought me an album by this asshole. Of course, back then we did not know he was such an asshole, he was just a bad guitarist who wrote bad songs.

But my point is that my POOR relatives, by buying his shitty album, did indeed give that miserable motherfucker a "job."

So blow it out your ass Ted. At least that will make a noise worth hearing.

[theaocp]

23. Not ted.

Think more makeup and less pants-crapping.

[CBGLuthier]

27. I can't believe I did that

Nugent in the news lately is my only excuse. Oh well fuck Simmons too then.

[riqster]

5. He has shat on his audience before. Now he is a has-been with a "reality" show.

A fool.

[onehandle]

6. He's been this variety of ass for as long as I can remember. nt

[Zorra]

7. Their music always seemed so artificial.

I never liked them, they were bad plastic.

[procon]

8. Does he even realize that his success

is a direct result of those poor fans who make up the struggling 99% he disdains? Those people worked, saved and spent their hard earned money on all his concert tickets, albums, and Kiss memorabilia that made him very rich. He has a very poor memory if he's forgotten it was indeed the "poor people" who gave him that very lucrative job.

[muntrv]

9. Uh Gene, the poor people who buy your albums are the ones giving you a job!

[Lex]

12. Exactly.

[Johonny]

14. +1

Yip that is a winner right there.

[madokie]

10. Never cared for kiss anyway

of all the hundreds of albums I have not one is a Kiss album

[eShirl]

11. We already knew he was a pig.

I guess my opinion of him can't go any lower than rock-bottom.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

33. +1

[Duppers]

34. exactly. nt

[JaneyVee]

13. How many rich people buy his albums? go to shows?

Motherforker you got rich because of poor people.

[L0oniX]

15. Just another narcissist.

[MohRokTah]

16. This reminds me of how TSR (producers of D&D) was destroyed in the late 80s and 90s.

The company started by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye eventually ended up being owned primarily by Lorraine Williams. Ms. Williams was heiress to the Buck Rogers IP. Any way, she's running the biggest RPG company in the world and openly shows disdain for the gamers who are her customers. She DESPISED gamers and was rude to them at conventions.

She eventually drove ithe company into the ground and it was only saved by being bought out by Wizards of the Coast.

[lpbk2713]

17. I've always thought of him as an asshole.

So I'm not surprised.

[GeorgeGist]

18. The 1% dropping dead would be fantastic.

[lapislzi]

19. Are the mountains of KISS merchandise produced in the United States?

No? Didn't think so.

What a fucking tool.

[Roy Serohz]

20. I wanna see Gene Simmons' birth certificate

I don't think he came witz dat name to dis country.

[IronLionZion]

21. Who does he think buys his music?

Where exactly does he think his money came from?

Some of these assholes have a deeply diconnected perspective of the economy.

[LordGlenconner]

22. Feel free to leave, Gene

Never has so much been made over a rock group so completely devoid of any musical talent.

[HughBeaumont]

25. Well, hey Gene, as far as your bass playing goes . . . you're a really good businessman.

"Detroit Rock City" = most cringe inducing bass line ever.

So much fail in one statement. The 1 percent don't pay 80% of all taxes, and even if they did, it's kind of justified since they own 85% of all the wealth. The Heritage-concocted 50% (I thought it was 47%??) Lie that Romney kept parroting has been debunked so many damned times it's not even worth recycling. The one percent couldn't provide job ONE if no one demanded their product . . . or if no one was able to AFFORD their product (but I don't expect Mr. Witz to connect those dots).

If the one percent didn't exist, you'd have an economy that would be fairer, more balanced, possess a far stronger safety net with universal health care, less concerned about military shenanigans just "because", have FAR LESS chaos and would be able to recover from tough times faster (see: Germany, much of Scandanavia, Canada, etc).

Fuck being nice to rich people who can't see the big picture. If poor people didn't purchase your merchandise, you wouldn't BE rich, stupid. No one HAD to like you.

[CBGLuthier]

26. OMG, I saw washed up rocker and thought it was Nugent

I forgot there is more than one asshole RW washed-up rocker.

To quote Gilda Radner, per my posts in this thread

Never Mind.

[GOLGO 13]

28. He's the bass player, right?

Curious how the least talented somehow seem to have the biggest egos & mouth to match.

[KamaAina]

29. Wonder where he's been sticking that tongue of his lately.

[KamaAina]

30. Add him to the lineup for Derpapalooza.

Nuge is the headliner, of course. Any others? The last surviving Ramone just died, so I guess it's a tribute to them. I've heard Bob Seger is a winger, too.

edit: Charlie Daniels. Duh!

[Erose999]

35. Johnny was the only Ramone who was a RW asshole. Joey and Dee Dee (who wrote the songs) were liberal

[onethatcares]

31. it took a real genius

to write the words;

"I want to rock and roll all night"
"and party every day"


Must have stayed awake forever coming up with that.

Never did like that band, ever.

[LuvNewcastle]

32. Just another asshole one-percenter.

Sometimes I wonder if they're all like that. I guess they have to tell themselves all sorts of ridiculous stories to justify their disproportionate wealth. Some of them start thinking that the world needs them, that they deserve to have their asses kissed all the time and that they're necessary to keep the world turning around.

The people who scrape gum from under benches at the park are more necessary than they are. They serve no purpose at all. If they didn't exist, don't they realize that there are a ton of people who are better at what they do who would move up and take their place? Fools. They are so goddamn lucky.