# I'd like a list of people Karma seems to have missed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004 "2014-06-30T14:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/1 "2014-06-30T14:01:53Z")
I’ve always sort of believed in Karma, but have lately begun to believe it’s just another bogeyman. To cement the deal for me, I’d like a list of people that appear to have never been touched by Karma. And likely never will be. I’m going to start with two obvious ones for me and that’s George W Bush and Dick Cheney. Both of these people live what I would call somewhat envious lives. They have tons of money, live in beautiful homes, never have to worry about access to the best health care money can buy. They have people that love them, that are deferent to them, pay them to speak even. Or paint silly pictures. They don’t appear to suffer any pangs of guilt or regret for the things they’ve done. Who else should I put on my list? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/2 "2014-06-30T16:21:05Z")
The two greatest mass murderers of all time, Mao Tse-tung and Joseph Stalin, lived long lives and died in their beds. Fidel Castro seems sure to do the same. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/3 "2014-06-30T16:27:59Z")
Oh, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/4 "2014-06-30T16:29:17Z")
Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/5 "2014-06-30T16:40:50Z")
Sam Walton’s spawn. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/6 "2014-06-30T18:35:15Z")
Michelle Bachman and, to a lesser degree, Sarah Palin. ---
**Author:** ![Deegeea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Deegeea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deegeea)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/7 "2014-06-30T18:42:44Z")
Isn’t Karma supposed to rebound on the person in the next life, not in the same one? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/8 "2014-06-30T18:44:46Z")
yeah next one is slime time. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/9 "2014-06-30T19:04:10Z")
Wow, it took three responses before this thread degenerated into a predictable “Trash politicians whose positions I disgree with” morass. That’s two more than I was expecting. How about William Randolph Hearst? A media magnate who quite literally started a war just to increase newspaper sales. I don’t believe in karma, but I do believe he’s currently roasting in a particularly unpleasant level of hell right now. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/10 "2014-06-30T19:06:05Z")
Roman Polanski ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/11 "2014-06-30T20:53:35Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Wow, it took three responses before this thread degenerated into a predictable “Trash politicians whose positions I disgree with” morass. That’s two more than I was expecting. Whadda’ you talkin’ about? What do the think the OP was? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/12 "2014-06-30T21:48:02Z")
Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore Robespierre tried to blow his own brains out but only took off half his jaw. The next day the bandage cloth, the only medical care he’d received, was torn from where the blood had glued it to his face; and he was guillotined without a blindfold, on his back so he could watch the falling blade. Since he could only experience all this once and only once, it could be argued that he escaped karma. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/13 "2014-06-30T22:40:22Z")
King Leopold the 2nd. IMHO, the e[villest European in history,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State) lived a prosperous and healthy life well into his late seventies. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/14 "2014-06-30T23:54:09Z")
Sanford B. Dole ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/15 "2014-07-01T00:25:52Z")
> [@Deegeea](#): > > Isn’t Karma supposed to rebound on the person in the next life, not in the same one? Yes, but that’s not how it’s used when people claim Karma, cause how would we know? Right? I hear it all the time when something bad happens to someone who has done something bad in this life. People laugh and say Karma’s a bitch, or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-list-of-people-karma-seems-to-have-missed/692004/16 "2014-07-01T10:12:59Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > How about William Randolph Hearst? A media magnate who quite literally started a war just to increase newspaper sales. I don’t believe in karma, but I do believe he’s currently roasting in a particularly unpleasant level of hell right now. He threw big orgies at his mountaintop estate in San Simeon, but forbid any “improper” activities with iron-handed Victorian prudery – so the popular legends about him proclaim. Except for the scandalous shenanigans between him and his doll, actress Marion Davies. He got [this karma](http://fuckyeahdotparker.tumblr.com/) upon him: > [@](#): > > Though William Randolph Hearst frequently invited prominent Hollywood personalities to visit his spectacular castle (San Simeon), he always insisted upon the observation of certain rules. Despite his own scandalous relationship with Marion Davies, among the rules was a ban on sex between unmarried couples. > > When Dorothy Parker visited and broke the rule, she received a note from her host asking her to leave. She did so, but not before leaving a note in the castle’s guest book: > > Upon my honor, I saw a Madonna > Standing in a niche, > Above the door > Of the famous whore > Of a prominent son of a bitch. The same story is also told (the words vary slightly) in an exhibit at the visitor center at Hearst Castle, so it must have some credibility.