The Hollywood actor is a prominent donor to the Democratic Party in the United States. In recent years, that has regularly led to criticism from President Trump, who has called him a “second-rate movie star,” among other things. According to Clooney, it didn’t bother him much. “It’s not my job to keep the President of the United States happy.”
Don’t you mean French actor Le George Clooney?
Lemmy in a fucking nutshell: Fuck these rich people!
Also lemmy, missed the entire fucking point.
Fuck these rich people and fuck America.
That better for ya?
A rich man and wife feel safer in France than in the US. I don’t necessarily care how safe the ultra-wealthy feel in any country
If a rich man and his wife feel safer outside the United States, that’s saying something. And you completely missed the whole theme under discussion.
What exactly is it saying? I understand his wife is a lebanese, but how are they materially any less safe in the US than they are in France? This really just sounds like wealthy liberals changing country clubs. I’ve only ever been to France as a tourist but they didn’t seem any less prejudice there.
I lived in France for two years and he’s absolutely right.
ITT: people not realizing his wife was born in Lebanon. Are they safer than your average non-pure-white family? Absolutely. But they have legitimate reasons to be scared.
Also apparently she’s a human rights lawyer so she’s bound to have pissed off republicans one way or another already.
She was a key part of the team prosecuting the war crimes case against Israel
Yeah I get hating rich people, because fuck inequality, that’s true, but the Clooneys seem like pretty decent people to me as far as rich celebrities are concerned.
He for sure has too much money(Google said $500 mill) but he’s small time compared to the richest and the corporations that are doing the most damage to the future. I doubt more than a few folks interested in eating the rich are champing at the bit to get at Clooney.
Having more money than you could spend in your lifetime buys you options not available to most people, news at 11.
Must be nice.
And they still let him in after that Louvre heist?!
Ocean’s 14 is about to be authentic as fuck
This is the best comment.
Where were you when they were shooting “The Night Of” ?
Cuz you’re rich, dummy.
So glad to hear that his unimaginably privileged kids will be better off in France. I think they would probably do pretty damn well just about anywhere. Hell, I’d move to France too if I could do so in a financially sustainable way (spoiler, I don’t think I could).
I think that’s the point. They could be anywhere and they choose not USA.
Do you think getting a job in France and living like French people do not to be a financially viable option?
Considering most Americans couldn’t even afford to buy a one-way ticket to France with cash-on-hand, the costs and logistics of actually moving to another country are a moot point. Not to mention the additional costs of securing residency and eventually citizenship.
Most Americans can’t even bear the thought of moving a couple states away for fear of losing all of their social safety nets in existing friends/family.
I guess it’s different if you’re a childless, perpetually single loner tho.
People living in places considerably poorer than the US do travel to other countries, they do secure residency and get jobs. While I have met several people in America complaining about the hardships of life, which I do reckon definitely exist in the US, I have also seen them not recognising the great amount of riches they had. I did move several times and I lived in different continents.
While being able to afford a plane ticket is a much better way to move somewhere, it is not something necessary. I went to work in China as a factory worker and asking nicely to the company over there they agreed to pay my ticket.
Indeed, travelling with no children is definitely easier.
My point here is not much about the fact that everyone should move all the time or that you should do so to enjoy your life; the point is that if you want to go to France just go there and don’t complain about the financial viability of the thing.
Ok, but how is this World news?
France?
It vaguely involves a non US country
Vaguely? Specifically.
Vaguely international barely news article in WorldNews. Quick, upfart it.
They’re rich. His children will be fine wherever they are.
Says something when even rich people are better off elsewhere.
The American dream is now to escape America.
It’s harder than you think to renounce American citizenship.
It really isn’t. https://www.usa.gov/renounce-lose-citizenship
You don’t have to and it’s not clear whether or not Clooney did.
If you’re brown, they’ll do it for you
It always has been.
I heard you were dead
I got better
Must be nice to have “Buy Myself French Citizenship” kind of money.
You only need savings of about 1.5x the SMIC (minimum wage) - currently 1801.80€ monthly for 12 months and you can get a year visa. If you have enough the following year, you can renew. Do that four times and you can ask for a more or less permanent multi-year residency if you speak french by that time. So as you can see, you could probably sell a house in the US for a decent profit and invest time enough to gain French residency without needing George Clooney money.
In the process of moving to Fr myself (diginomad). As I understand it you don’t even need 1.5x SMIC in savings just prove you earn 1.5x monthly x12. I could be wrong, still trying to work the plans out if you have any resources you can recommend would love to learn more!
The other big aspect to getting your temp long stay (1yr) visa, if you’re not being sponsored by a company, is to prove your income is solely from non-EU companies. Since I’m WFH American business, I basically just need to pay rent+insurance.
Yes, there seems to be some confusion in the french interpretation of non lucrative visa categories. The benefit of this is that some remote work may be tacitly allowed. The complexity comes really from French taxation and social charges. Nobody can really say whether you will be chased for 9% of your income, 17% of your income, or 47%.
The problem is nobody can actually give you a clear and definitive answer, so if you do things like stay past six months, get a permanent apartment, get rid of your home elsewhere, there is a risk you could be asked to pay even several years later. It makes for a complicated situation, and for this reason I think another country with a clearly specified digital nomad program and tax regime is a much safer bet.
I can get more detailed outside of a public forum.
Add I understand it, permanent residency also requires a language exam and doesn’t guarantee employment rights (because French voters don’t want people “stealing jobs”). So it’s more complicated than that.
The multi-year residency requires B2 proficiency as of this year, and also allows working in France. It is of course up to french authorities as to whether it is granted, taking into account your time in the country and your level of integration.
I’m pretty sure France has all the retail workers they need.
Now if you are a medical doctor or a reasonably famous scientist, famous actor, or just rich, they will also be happy to take you in. But plebes generally need not apply for citizenship in almost any nation on this planet.
I am speaking of highly specific regulations in France which I have direct personal experience of. If you decide to work in retail after receiving your multi year residency, the French government has no objections to this as long as you have sufficiently integrated.
He could do it for under $500K. He probably started the talent investor visa process during the 45 administration, as they take about 4 years to get approved.
Super easy for him to spin up some production company that makes 2 art movies a year, hire 3 French people he knows on 5-year contracts, and he’s basically at the minimum requirements. If he’s bought and invested more than a certain amount in a home as well, that also counts towards citizenship.
He could do it for under $500K.
Oh, is that all? Let me check my couch for loose change.
If he’s bought and invested more than a certain amount in a home as well, that also counts towards citizenship.
I’m sure he has a home in the South of France. Probably walking distance from the Cannes movie festival
Home bought 2021, according to reports. Not long enough for the normal 5 year residency requirement, plus he’s probably away lots. Looks fishy. Nice to be rich.
Probably cheaper than a “Trump Card”
If you’re NOT on a government watch list by now, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Considering Clooney’s involvement with the Satellite Sentinel Project, he’s probably on every list.
If you’re posting history of the last 6 years doesn’t get you on a list, I don’t want to be your friend.
If I check to see if I’m on any lists, does that put me on a list?
Just this comment makes you eligible for being on a list. Not The List though, you gotta do something special for that one.
Only one way to find out 🤷
They removed me from it: They lost too many agents due to boredom.
i was going to go with the Terry Davis method but i’m just not comfortable screaming racist things into every microphone.
Whereas Crudbump had an even more ingenious plan to get the NSA off his tail, pun intended.
But also if you’re on one with your real name, don’t even op-sec?
Lmao 🤣
It’s funny you say that, because even just finding out whether you’re on a list is nearly impossible.
There are certain magical household chemicals that makes them appear if you stockpile enough of them.
I have so many Magic Erasers, how big does my stockpile have to be to them to appear?
“What‽ What‽ Is it wrong to want a clean house‽ It’s illegal to collect styrofoam coolers now‽”
