Time to add another number to the growing list of Hollywood heavyweights threatening to pack their designer bags and leave America. This time, it's “Sitcom King” Chuck Lorre, the infamous creator of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, who’s apparently had enough of the left’s second favorite supervillain Elon Musk and his evil crusade to slash government waste via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
And where does Lorre plan to escape to? The far-off, picturesque land of New Zealand. Because nothing screams "taking a stand against government efficiency" like moving to a country with a small, efficiently run government.
In Lorre’s most recent vanity card, which aired after his newest CBS sitcom Georgie and Mandy’s First Wedding on Thursday night, the writer known for turning family values into punchlines poked fun at Musk’s request to government workers for a list of five performance items from their previous work week.
A masterpiece of melodrama, the card listed everything Lorre himself has worked on (even though no one asked or cares), ending with, “An application for citizenship in New Zealand.” Maybe Lorre should be renamed the “Overdramatic Snowflake King”?
I can just see the multi-millionaire sitcom producer sitting in his plush office, surrounded by Emmys and yes-men, scribbling this vanity card while the rest of us are busy doing our taxes and working hard so we can afford to put gas in our tanks. He’s fretting over rehearsals and writing a book about himself while the average citizen worries about feeding their kids.
So, let's break this down, shall we? Elon Musk, the billionaire genius responsible for such marvelous tech innovations as self-driving cars and reusable, self-landing space rockets, cares enough about how the average citizen’s tax dollars are being spent that he’s laser-focused on reducing government waste and inefficiency. And this somehow makes Lorre want to abandon ship and flee to a country with a smaller, more efficiently run government with much lower debt than most other developed countries? #MakeItMakeSense
Well, good luck, Chuck. Enjoy the sheep and hobbits, and stick to sitcoms and vanity card flexes. To the rest of us left behind, let's keep pushing for a leaner, more efficient government. Because, at the end of the day, reducing waste makes America work better for everyone. Even vain sitcom writers who don’t appreciate it and whose worldview is so skewed by their leftist politics that they mistake a good thing for a threat.
