Tampa Strip Club Owner Insults Rich People and Republicans

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• looneylarry

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  13 years ago

  Funny how the real spending power of the middle and lower classes has been eroded over the last 30 years, yet the true victims are the rich. I would think that wallowing in mounds of cash would give these people thicker skin, but I guess not. Foolish offhand comments made by a strip club owner now constitutes class warfare Warfare, really? I hate to break it to you moneybags out there, but you are lucky that the working class is so dispirited and dejected that they haven't gotten together and started rampaging through the country clubs. I don't think that people are too pleased right now with the moneyed class. The rich in this country are lucky that they are not getting pulled out of their limos and getting their asses kicked right there at the stoplight. When you are getting your house foreclosed, you can't find any job, your car is falling apart, you are carrying a pile of debt, and you are told that you have to go back to school to learn more computer skills (no, dammit, that's not me), you don't have a lot of patience for pampered whining. Ooops, I guess I just about pushed the nuclear detonator on class warfare again. So sorry.
• Stiletto25

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  13 years ago

  Oh Fuck, now I have to lock my limo door.
• thesamurai

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  13 years ago

  Seriously? I feel stoopidur having read OP. Troll.
• rrbill

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  13 years ago

  Start by building a guillotine on the corner of Broad & Wall Streets in NYC
• Bill1

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  13 years ago

  Based on what the owner of MV has said - I am definatly going to support his business. Looney you're right - true class warfare is just a shot away. Seems the rethug rich are just a bunch of thin skinned babies.
• rrbill

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  13 years ago

  Hey, I can sit here and admire the view and not be bothered by Republicans.
• rh48hr

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  13 years ago

  He has every right to say what he wants and you have every right to boycott his establishment. People say things that insult people everyday. Everyone has a right to interpret them in their own way. Some people will be insulted, others might not. Regardless, most people on both sides of the aisle don't care when they have tits in their face and their dick is being serviced.
• rh48hr

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  13 years ago

  oh and Stiletto -- lol.
• mooneater

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  13 years ago

  I don't like the idea of being insulted while I am spending money with someone either, so I can empathize. (I keep thinking back to a dancer that had the gall to ask what kind of loser wouldn't want to spend the money on VIP. I see that girl often in one of my favorite clubs, but I will never buy another dance from her, the b*tch.) I think if I heard the owner of one of my phoenix clubs speaking ill of me, I would probably find another place to spend my money regardless of the level of service. But, as RH48R said, people will interpret that article in their own way, (by the way, author, you could have linked it) but any business owner plays a dangerous game laying out a line like that. I don't think its very smart to get quoted the way he did disparaging a large group, in any case.
• pabloantonio

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  13 years ago

  It's funny how the rich got their money. They fucked poor people out of it. I am glad we have rich people. They pay me enough salary so that I can give most of my money to dancers. The remaining 10% I waste on other things.
• pacer317

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  13 years ago

  Link to the article in question: [view link] And for the record, I agree with Redner on this one. I've got no problem with people making money as long as they're not doing it by defrauding or gouging their customers. That being said, more often than not it is Republicans and their 'family values' that seek to pass laws against the very establishments we on this site frequently visit or work at and that Redner owns. Funny thing is, they're as likely as anyone to get caught with their pants down at one of these establishments. Their flaming hypocrisy in these matters... passing laws against these clubs while seemingly getting caught in them themselves - their "Do as I say, not as I do" attitude - is among the many reasons I mostly always vote the other way.
• Cheo_D

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  13 years ago

  I'm with pacer317 in that those very people at the convention are going to be filling their yaps with talk about what champions of family values they are and how MV should not even exist. Then why should he bother pretending he thinks highly of them (that's the stripper's job!). Oh, and some people in America like to use the words "class warfare" while having no idea what it actually means or looks like. Wonder what they think about some dude who once compared rich people to camels trying to go through the eye of a needle...
• wm2slc

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  13 years ago

  @Stiletto25... if you need someone to ride in that limo and protect you, let me know... haha
• Stiletto25

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  13 years ago

  A personal bodyguard..that's hot
• looneylarry

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  13 years ago

  A blonde Sandra Bullock? Now that's hot.
• farmerart

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  13 years ago

  I like the way that stiletto has hijacked this thread. You are smooooooooth, girl! Gotta hook up with you in a club to see if your chops match your words. Who is Sandra Bullock?
• how

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  13 years ago

  I don't hate the rich; I aspire to earn more myself... Also, how would one steal money from another who is without? The problem is too-large central government, wherein congresspersons can steal from makers and use that money to bribe the takers. Anything that engenders greater dependence of individuals on the central government is evil and must be stopped.
• VoodooMan

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  13 years ago

  Couldn't give a damn LESS about the owner's politics. I'm not there to discuss politics or to see the owner. I'm there for the girls. It's like how some fans decided not to listen to the Dixie Chicks or Springsteen anymore because of their political stance. It's still the same music. Well in this case, it's still the same tits. I can't believe that anyone would stop going to a top rated club such as Mons because of the OWNER'S political beliefs. I think life is being taken WAY too seriously in this case. Let's all settle down and enjoy some nudity!
• MisterGuy

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  13 years ago

  LOL...class warfare...yea, "boo hoo" for the rich & their buddies in the GOP...they've been winning their class war on the poor & middle class for the better part of at least the last 30 years! The gap between the super-rich & everyone else has only grown wider & wider during that time...sheesh...
• georgmicrodong

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  13 years ago

  Then there's the rich and *their* buddies in the democratic party. From where I sit, it doesn't really look like anybody on *either* side of the aisle *really* cares about anything but power and money. They *talk* a good game, but when push comes to shove, none (OK, very few) of them give a shit about anybody who isn't filling their pockets.
• motorhead

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  13 years ago

  A couple of times when I've been at the Mons in the afternoon, Joe has stopped in. He seems like a fairly unpretentious guy. I consider myself a right-wing conservative, but I think I can let his remarks slide.
• Player11

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  13 years ago

  Its only a matter of time before working people unionize in a sort of National Union of Workers. The rich have the Republican party to represent them. Working people can take this country back if they excercise their power in numbers. They have let the Rich erode unions and workers rights the last 30 years.
• sanitago

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  13 years ago

  why is it when some says something about rich Republicans, it's "class warfare", but when Republicans talk about things like making Social Security a "privately financed" program by putting people into 401K's (yeah, like those have done real well of recent!), it's just them looking out for the "good of America"? I also agree with the statements that it's almost exclusively "family values" Republicans who are pushing harsher laws on strip clubs and other "adult" enterprises. it's like they're okay with the idea of companies raping their workers on things like retirement benefits and medical insurance coverage, but one little strip club in town is The End Of The World As We Know It! bunch a fuckin' frauds, imho.........
• Rlionheart

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  13 years ago

  An infamous orator once said "I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker". Since we are not all blessed with such impressive advisors, why can we not differ without anger? A great commentator on effective administration, Michael Corrleone, said: "Never hate your enemies, it clouds your judgement". So on the one hand, conservatives think government is misdirected and too big while liberals see government as being misdirected as opposed to overgrown. I think they are both part right and part wrong and the sad part is that the solution is held by both but they must work together to put it in motion. Two people in modern times who understood that democracy requires compromise were Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil, Conserative Avatar and Machine Democrat, respectively. Their common failing was that they bred no such progeny in their parties. Perhaps we should exercise our responsibilities in the voting booths by rewarding those legislators (from either side of the aisle) who craft legislation that addresses real problems rather than those who make incendiary speeches and draw lines in the sand. Qui Bono