Bette Midler, Tweet: I'll pay a little more for gas for her...

[mysteryowl]

Link to tweet

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(If someone knows how to post the actual photo, please do. The little girl is adorable.)

[brer cat]

1. I will pay double for her.

[mysteryowl]

2. It really does speak volumnes

This kind of post humanizes what this is about.

[sheshe2]

29. Love her.

Saw her many times on stage.

The wind beneath her wings. An angel.

[mysteryowl]

34. So beautiful

[leftstreet]

3. Ugh. Another millionaire celebrity virtue signalling

People living paycheck to paycheck are trying their best for their own little girls

[mysteryowl]

4. I don't see that as the spirit of the post.

[Mariana]

7. What is the spirit of the post, then?

Bette Midler's net worth is about $250,000,000. She won't have to make the slightest change in her lifestyle in order to pay more for gas, so of course she's happy to do it.

[littlemissmartypants]

21. Me neither. ❤

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16449607

🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻
Slava Ukraini!

[brush]

5. Zing! Right over your head.

[jcgoldie]

6. thats what you got from that?

[leftstreet]

9. Yes

If she wanted to post that privately to her fellow millionaire friends, that would be fine and none of our business.

But the arrogance of publicly showing her virtue and commitment not to complain about gas prices is just astounding.

Apparently these people aren't being taxed enough on their wealth

[jcgoldie]

10. bullshit

Comparing the price of gas to children's lives in a war zone has nothing to do with millionaires "virtue signaling." It has to do with what is right.

[leftstreet]

12. So it's "right" to take from your own kids

People living paycheck to paycheck, juggling tough budgetary decisions about rent, credit card debt, medical deductibles, astronomical grocery prices...should deprive their own kids because a millionaire celebrity says it's the right thing to do. Okay then

[jcgoldie]

14. budgetary decisions vs your home and school is in rubble

Hospitals are destroyed and tanks are rolling through the streets. And democracy is hanging by a thread. Yes its right.

[Mariana]

27. It's real sacrifice vs. zero sacrifice.

The family living paycheck to paycheck has to deprive themselves of something, possibly necessities, in order to pay more for gas. Someone with a net worth of $250,000,000 has to change exactly nothing. Of course she's happy to do something that has no effect on her life.

[jcgoldie]

31. Bette Midler is not the reason anyone has to sacrifice

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She happens to be a strong Democrat. Blaming her because people live paycheck to paycheck in America because she advocates for the President’s sanctions to end Russian aggression against children in Ukraine by calling attention to the human cost is completely disingenuous and pretty dumb.

[summer_in_TX]

15. Bette Midler has always been a very vocal advocate.

From her poorest days. Her mom was a seamstress and housewife, her dad was a painter on a naval base and also a house painter.

She was voted "Most Talkative" in the 1961 school Hoss Election, and "Most Dramatic" in her senior year (class of 1963).

Is it really such a huge horrible deal to have one's heart touched at the sight of a cute little girl and say so? Just because she is now a millionaire she's supposed to no longer have feelings or say them out loud?

The Divine Miss M doesn't have a quiet mousy bone in her body. You're wanting what she is completely incapable of doing and being. So you might as well ignore it since you can't change it.

[electric_blue68]

16. Amen. And she's done all kinds of good works. Plus she earned ...

her money through Talent, not grift. 👍

[DURHAM D]

19. Anyone who trashes her does not know the first damn thing about her.

Amazing and shocking that it has been posted on DU.

[electric_blue68]

25. I agree

[secondwind]

20. Bingo!

[NBachers]

13. Oh no, not the dreaded "Virtue Signaling!!1!"

[Lucky Luciano]

22. Agreed. It's tone deaf for her to say that. A middle class person sure, but not her.

[Warpy]

23. Bless your heart.

[Demobrat]

28. My gut reaction also.

Easy for her to say.

[kcr]

32. So

Attacking Dems over the price of gas and losing to Republicans would be so helpful to all the little girls out there.

Come on.

[Emrys]

8. Here's the photo as a standalone .jpg

[Maraya1969]

11. OMG Look she has little angel wings! So adorable! And way worth the extra cash for gas.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. ❤

🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻
Slava Ukraini!

[littlemissmartypants]

18. How to post a full graphic from Twitter...

Here are the steps...

Open the image in a background file aka a new tab.

Open the drop down menu for the new tab.

Select share.

Copy website address, aka the url.

Paste (share) the url to the new location.

Edit the url up to and including the question mark.

Add a period and "jpg" (.jpg) to the end of the edited url and...voila, you have a new postable graphic. Ta Da !!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

24. We're not paying more for gas "for her" unless she's a war profiteer.

[Cozmo]

26. Let's face it. We are paying for the greed of the oil and gas industry.

[Raine]

30. Totally agree nt

[Emile]

33. Why do we need to enrich big oil when all they have to do is

drop their price?