9 WAYS THE KARDASHIANS ARE DESTROYING AMERICA

If you’re buying something that even a cartoon millionaire would find ridiculous, you’ve gone too far. Spending $750k on a quartet of gold-plated crappers, and over a million dollars on a Swarovski-bedecked fridge, the Kardashians are emblematic of American excess and selfishness. Everyone is entitled to spend what they’ve earned on whatever they want, but maybe they could have downgraded to a silver toilet and fed a starving country for a year instead. When you can literally go to the bathroom on your money and it won’t make a difference to you, you are a problem.

While most of the Kardashian women survive on their looks, Kris Jenner just doesn’t have that particular skillset, so she clings to her daughters like the fleshy life preservers they are. Kris used Kim’s baby as a ratings-booster for her own failing show, and a NY Post TV critic published an article claiming that Kris had attempted to bribe her for a more positive review. She even made an attempt to reclaim her maiden name after her separation from Bruce, as it had more media clout, but one of her own daughters shamed her out of that decision. Apparently at least one of them has a shred of soul left after the family’s pact with Satan.

Once upon a time, the American dream was all about working hard to obtain a fair wage and a reasonable standard of living, but the Kardashians set a completely different example: do nothing, be nothing, get lucky, and get rich. While everyone has their own path to success, their presence lacks the necessary disclaimer that they are a glitch in the system. They are not a realistic representation of American life or something to which anyone should aspire. So kids, you should really get your butt off of Instagram and get a summer job. You’re in for some really hard lessons.

Kim released a 448-page book of selfies called Selfish. While she was able to avoid any Lauren Conrad-like delusions that being famous automatically means you can write a book, Kim was unable to resist the siren song of publishing game anyhow. Whether Kim is aware of this meta-display of how utterly cancerous she is to humanity, or if she’s just genuinely embracing her monolithic arrogance, at least the proliferation of one-star Amazon reviews is hilarious. It’s hard to tell if Kim is Instagramming pictures of her butt or her soul, because her soul is probably just another butt.

The Kardashians, for all that they have above and beyond everyone else in the world, have made some relatively minimal donations to charity—probably for tax purposes. Khloe, ever the entrepreneur, auctioned off her sweaty, old workout clothes, donating a portion of the proceeds. Kim’s own eBay store has donated only 10 percent (after fees) to her charity of choice, but the minimal efforts by these millionaires are pathetic. Is there any hope? The Kardashians are so distanced from reality that they don’t seem to know that suffering exists, and that they have real power to stop some of it using just a fraction of their resources. And that attitude is what’s truly destroying America.