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Pictured above: Donald Trump.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/roger-waters-on-donald-trump-he-is-pig-ignorant-20150915
With a GOP debate scheduled for Wednesday, Roger Waters won't be throwing his support behind Donald Trump. The outspoken former Pink Floyd member and architect behind The Wall tells Rolling Stone during a soon-to-be-published, in-depth interview about his upcoming concert film, Roger Waters The Wall, that the businessman and Republican presidential candidate is "the epitome of anything that might be considered bad" and "entrepreneurship gone wrong."
Waters admits he has been amused by Trump's ideas, but only to a point. "I have laughed except it's not funny that he's as popular as he is," Waters says. "His ideas are not outlandish at all. It's American exceptionalism gone crazy and delivered under the umbrella of absolute ignorance. He is pig-ignorant and he always was and he always will be. He lives in the illusion that he's admirable in some way. And obviously for somebody like me, he stands for everything that is not admirable in American society."
Trump has been campaigning across the country with the slogan "Let's Make America Great Again," an idea Waters takes exception to. "'It's the worst possible slogan anybody could ever come up with," he says. "It's silly and disgusting as well, unless they wanted to hark back to the potential. If the Founding Fathers hadn't been so up their own asses, they might have come up with a system that fell somewhere between republican democracy that was going to work and that had proper checks and balances to prevent it disintegrating into what it has become, which is a country for sale to the highest bidder with the Supreme Court at the top of it, who's appointed by the highest bidder eventually."
Waters cited the businessman's media exposure as the reason Trump is so popular. "The mainstream media in this country tend only to report a very limited section of ideas and views," he adds. "So it's perfectly understandable why people would believe Donald Trump's nonsense, because it's important to the 1 percent to propagate and disseminate these theories and these system beliefs in order to retain control. It's organized theft on a giant level, a huge scale, and is extremely efficient and well-organized."
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)Good luck to him on his new film.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)"Waiting for the Worms" as his campaign song.
think
(11,641 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)- Pink Floyd
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
bvf
(6,604 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)thanking him for caring
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)is nauseating. And they make him appear when one is eating. Waste more damn food around here. He goes on ad infinitum about bullshit. Nothing substantive.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Big man, pig man, ha ha, charade you are, oh
You well heeled big wheel, ha ha, charade you are
And when your hand is on your heart
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost a joker
With your head down in the pig bin
Saying "Keep on diggin'"
Pig stain on your fat chin
What do you hope to find?
There in the pig mine
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry
Bus stop rat bag, ha ha, charade you are
You fucked up old hag, ha ha, charade you are
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost worth a quick grin
You like the feel of steel
You're hot stuff with a hat pin
And good fun with a hand gun
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry
Hey you Whitehouse, ha ha, charade you are
You house proud town mouse, ha ha, charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street
You're nearly a real treat
All tight lips and cold feet
I know you feel abused
You gotta stem the evil tide
And keep it all on the inside
Mary you're nearly a treat
Mary you're nearly a treat
But you're really a cry