News: Billy Corgan (SmashingPump.) drags Sanders, defends Trumps!

MaRy

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As Stereogum points out, another segment of that interview has been posted online in an Infowars video that introduces Corgan as a “musical icon and great patriot.” Corgan certainly expresses a lot of, ahem, patriotic ideas in the interview, expounding on how he feels about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Let’s just say Corgan isn’t feeling the Bern:

“I can’t believe that we’re even having this discussion, if you can understand when I say that to you humbly. To be talking in America in 2016 about Mao is a good idea, and a socialist is running for president and that’s OK, and we’re going to go back to these crazy tax rates where we’re going to completely disempower the innovators in our country because the new technocratic class wants to keep their position and they want to keep anybody else from coming in the game… I mean, it’s just crazy to me.”

Corgan seems to have Sanders’ message of social empowerment mixed up with somebody else’s, but why stop him while he’s on a roll? After making the broad generalization that “people in the entertainment industry do not care about facts,” he delivered a hard-hitting take on the people who protest outside of Donald Trump rallies:

“When I watch some of the clips that you guys have been been putting up at some of these protests, I have no respect for what these people are doing. They’re shutting down free speech… If they have that level of vitriol for let’s say Donald Trump as a candidate, because they feel it’s antithetical to what they believe in, where is the five times greater condemnation for those societies that are treating their people far worse than just words and ideas? It’s always interesting to me how people kind of pick their spots.”

King of rock has spoken

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/0...t-crazy-to-me/

Mike91

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“When I watch some of the clips that you guys have been been putting up at some of these protests, I have no respect for what these people are doing. They’re shutting down free speech… If they have that level of vitriol for let’s say Donald Trump as a candidate, because they feel it’s antithetical to what they believe in, where is the five times greater condemnation for those societies that are treating their people far worse than just words and ideas? It’s always interesting to me how people kind of pick their spots.”

This logic. Free speech =/= hate speech, dumbass.

And maybe people come after someone like Trump because this isn't Saudi Arabia and we might just expect a little more out of the people and leaders in our country.

Can we just give these mother****ers Texas already and let them all live there?

Reverie

Disappointing

Venus Temple

How disappointing. I have almost every single one of their albums.

I try hard not to let the artist's attitude and opinions affect my listening of their music (Kanye), but this kind of stuff really taints my enjoyment quite a bit..