The Rock and Oprah Winfrey face backlash for asking fans to donate to Maui fund instead of contribut

They pledged $10 million themselves and are awful trying to get others to donate? What?

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by Anonymousreply 43September 6, 2023 6:27 PM

Of course we need antier thread about this!

by Anonymousreply 1September 4, 2023 10:31 PM

Honey, Oprah is worth billions and she stands to make a lot of money in real estate from the tragedy in Maui, not to mention that she has hired a security company to keep the landless peasants who have lost everything, right off her compound. $5 million to her is nothing and the fund she has set up is part of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, which has pledged to pay ONLY $1,200 to each adult who lives in Lahaina or Kula... Meanwhile, the executives are earning millions per year that are directly taken from donations - which is to say, the people who should be receiving the donations, will get next to nothing.

The opportunist that is Dwayne Johnson is worth $800 million and has spent a fortune on real estate, so he could easily buy land or give money to build houses for those who have lost everything. Equally, $5 million is nothing to him. Moreover, both Oprah and he are going to use their donations to reduce their tax base, so we can hardly call them altruistic.

Instead of doing something USEFUL for the people who have been displaced and exposing how they are being robbed of their land, they are making a token gesture on social media and asking others who are struggling to cover their rent and bills, to donate to an NGO that pays millions in salaries to its executives and may very well give them a bonus for their efforts.

Oprah is a MAJOR cunt and Steroid Freak isn't any better.

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by Anonymousreply 2September 4, 2023 10:47 PM

I love how some of you just love spending other people's money.

by Anonymousreply 3September 4, 2023 10:48 PM

So is Maui turning into another New Orleans land grab?

by Anonymousreply 4September 4, 2023 10:52 PM

How's it working out for them?

by Anonymousreply 5September 4, 2023 10:58 PM

Everyone is tried of celebrities donating a small amount of money and then expecting a PR rimjob, r3. If Oprah wanted to donate $5 million then she should have done so privately.

by Anonymousreply 6September 4, 2023 11:02 PM

Jeff Bezos has donated (or pledged to donate) 100 million dollars, which is more like it.

by Anonymousreply 7September 4, 2023 11:13 PM

Then 100 million and one, Waldo!

by Anonymousreply 8September 4, 2023 11:28 PM

R3 you mean like how Oprah and the rock are “spending everyone else’s money” by telling them to donate?

by Anonymousreply 9September 5, 2023 12:12 AM

Bethenny Frankel’s charity is one of the only ones that gets everything direct to the people without waste. The other charities are tax writeoff grifts.

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by Anonymousreply 10September 5, 2023 12:13 AM

R6, celebrities bring in media which in turn gets public attention and involvement.

by Anonymousreply 11September 5, 2023 12:17 AM

R10 links to her own web site as legitimate proof. lmao

by Anonymousreply 12September 5, 2023 12:17 AM

Oprah doesn’t have Jeff Bezos money.

by Anonymousreply 14September 5, 2023 12:18 AM

Has DJT donated any paper towels yet?

by Anonymousreply 15September 5, 2023 12:27 AM

What r6 said

They haven’t kept up with (and they’re surrounded by bootlickers) that this shit don’t fly anymore.

Recently, it was that big titted model asking for donations for a friend (it was a $200k). The bimbo could have just gifted it to her friend without batting an eyelash

by Anonymousreply 16September 5, 2023 1:31 AM

How much money has MAGAt Roseanne (she lives in Hawaii) donated?

by Anonymousreply 17September 5, 2023 1:45 AM

R12 do some research on your own. Bethenny is doing some real good in the world. Her charity did more for Puerto Rico than the US Government did after the hurricane.

“100% of BStrong donations go directly to helping individuals in disaster affected areas with no administrative or overhead expenses withdrawn.”

by Anonymousreply 18September 5, 2023 1:50 AM

Are Oprah’s big titties gone with the wind?

by Anonymousreply 19September 5, 2023 1:51 AM

How much money has MAGAt Peter Thiel donated?

by Anonymousreply 20September 5, 2023 1:54 AM

Oprah HAS donated

You couldn't even link to a legit news source

by Anonymousreply 21September 5, 2023 1:54 AM

R19 Damn Ozy, what have you done- they had National Landmark status

by Anonymousreply 22September 5, 2023 1:56 AM

R12 B Strong/Global Empowerment Mission is disrupting the disaster non-profit arena. Some of their missions are considered to be the largest privately-run humanitarian efforts in history. In Puerto Rico alone, after Hurricane Maria, B Strong/Global Empowerment Mission helped marshal more than 10 million pounds of aid. Additionally, B Strong/Global Empowerment helped organize the chartering of more than 55 private planes to help deliver aid. They also raised roughly $1.25 million in cash cards and collected over $20 million worth of disaster relief to distribute.

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by Anonymousreply 23September 5, 2023 1:59 AM

You Poors always want MORE MORE MORE!

by Anonymousreply 24September 5, 2023 2:53 AM

They made a generous donation and should have just kept quiet and actually done some work rather than this high level GoFundMe.

by Anonymousreply 25September 5, 2023 3:02 AM

Don’t know what to make of this. Oprah disappoints.

by Anonymousreply 27September 5, 2023 2:31 PM

I guess the problem with Oprah now is that she rose to power when the world wasn't so cynical or connected through the internet. The time period in which her show was on, the internet was still seen as merely a useful tool to help improve your life, get things done faster and not the actual lifeblood through which we interact with each other on the hourly. She was deified in that world, but her same tricks are not working now that people can easily connect the dots through the power of the internet and see straight through her calculated benevolence. A generous 10 million dollar check would have been greeted with tears and praise on her show and a cover of People magazine 10 years ago. Now a 10 million dollar check only makes people question how much more than that she has to gain.

by Anonymousreply 28September 5, 2023 5:05 PM

Oprah is giving the same amount even tho she has 3-5 times what he has in the net wroth department?

What a cheapskate & tightwad!

by Anonymousreply 29September 5, 2023 5:11 PM

Forbes says the Rock is only worth $270 million. Not 800.

by Anonymousreply 32September 5, 2023 5:43 PM

R32 That's even worse for Oprah's big $10 million check.

by Anonymousreply 33September 5, 2023 5:46 PM

Oprah should be donating 100 million as well. Cheap cunt.

by Anonymousreply 34September 5, 2023 5:56 PM

[quote]Oprah should be donating 100 million as well. Cheap cunt.

Wrong.

While she is a cheap cunt, it is the rightful role of government to assist in these types of crises - it's fundamentally the point of government to aggregate the resources of its citizens and use them for the benefit of society as a whole. It's the responsibility of government to address protection, national security, prisons, law enforcement, and to aid during disasters.

It is an abject failure of government that it needs to depend on people to feed homeless people and rely on charities to do that which they are too inept or corrupt to do themselves. Charities, relief organizations, and individual donors should be helping on the fringes, not be the primary driver behind these types of relief effort.

by Anonymousreply 35September 5, 2023 6:11 PM

R36, I agree with you, but this is Hawaii which is quite different than most other states, mostly in very good ways, but the Hawaiian culture is very strong, and this is an unprecedented disaster for this small community. The Hawaiian (informal) leadership is passionate, but much more informal than the government you speak of, and the actual government is likely less experienced than other places with disasters. The reason no alarms went off is because they had only been used previously for tsunamis and officials were worried that people would run from the beach towards the fire.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned, when they talk about 1000 people still unaccounted for, is that Hawaii has a lot of home owners who live on the mainland and are only in Hawaii part of the year (I am one of them as I have a house on the Big Island but live in San Francisco). I think that most neighbors whose houses were destroyed would know which of their neighbors were around and might have been killed in the fire, or those who are only there part time.

To bring it back to Oprah, there is a lot of resentment towards huge land owners (Facebook Zuckerberg is another one of the worst) from people who are native Hawaiians. Most Hawaiians have intermarried with whites or Asians, but Hawaiian family pride is huge.

by Anonymousreply 36September 5, 2023 8:38 PM

^^^yes, but it's still part of the United States.

Every few years, the federal government sends billions to Florida, Texas, and other states that regularly get hit by hurricanes. It sends billions to states that get hit by tornadoes.

If the federal government cannot assist Hawaii during a singular event like this, it is utterly ridiculous and means it spends way too much money helping people where people ought not to live in the first place because, you know, HURRICANES.

by Anonymousreply 37September 5, 2023 9:44 PM

Why didn't O and Dwayne donate more, when they surely could afford to? That's a pittance in their world.

by Anonymousreply 38September 5, 2023 10:47 PM

Hawaii is one of my least favorite places to visit. So tacky and expensive at the same time. All of the really beautiful and isolated parts are prohibitively expensive. And true Hawaiian culture has been all but destroyed.

by Anonymousreply 39September 5, 2023 10:50 PM

Larry Ellison owns 98% of the island of Lanai - he paid a paltry $300 million for it in 2012.

Can you imagine owning one of the major islands of Hawaii.

by Anonymousreply 40September 5, 2023 11:00 PM

R40, no I can’t as I can’t even afford a lanai with a small “l” .

by Anonymousreply 41September 6, 2023 2:22 AM

Celebs (and all rich folks) my give, but never to where it hurts. Never.

by Anonymousreply 42September 6, 2023 2:26 AM

The Rock is only worth $270 million according to Forbes so $10 million is a sizable donation by him. I wouldn't expect him to give more.

by Anonymousreply 43September 6, 2023 6:27 PM

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