The Biggest Takeaways from Sturgill Simpson’s Busking Set at the 2017 CMA Awards
As the CMA Awards were transpiring Wednesday (11-8) night inside the Bridgestone Arena, Sturgill Simpson decided to take his guitar, his Grammy for Album of the Year from 2016, and do a busking set in front of the arena as local journalist Adam Gold broadcast the whole thing via Facebook Live. The entire episode lasted about 45 minutes, with Sturgill Simpson taking questions, and playing a few songs.
Sturgill had made two small signs for the busking set, one that said “I don’t take requests but I take questions about anything you want to talk about . . . because fascism sucks,” and another that said, “Struggling country singer . . . anything helps (all donations go to the) ACLU God BLESS AMERICA.”
The event itself became a pretty significant sidebar to the CMAs themselves, with multiple media outlets breaking into their CMA coverage to cover Sturgill. We’ll cover some of the implications and results of Sturgill’s words and actions in due course. But since he laid out quite a bit of information, we’ll spell that out here first.
Also, though many have characterized it as a protest against the CMAs, that not really how Sturgill semed to view it. He said he hoped Jason Isbell would win, as well as Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lambert. He also mentioned that Keith Urban “was a really nice guy” and wrote him a kind email once. If he was protesting anything, it was the proposed, and then rescinded requests by the CMA for the media to not ask artists on the CMA red carpet political questions.
Here’s the biggest questions asked of Sturgill, and his answers.
What would your acceptance speech be if you won a CMA?
Nobody needs a machine gun, coming from a guy who owns a few guns. Gay people should have the right to be happy, and live their life any way they want to, and get married if they want to without fear of getting dragged down the road behind a pickup truck. Black people are probably tired of getting shot in the streets and enslaved by the industrial prison complex. And hegemony and fascism is alive and well in Nashville, TN. Thank you very much.
Will you be playing shows in 2018?
We’re doing some festivals this year (2018) just to keep the chops up while I’m working in between . . . I’m working on a bunch of really cool stuff. I’ve never had the downtime to make the record I think I’m about to make next, and it’s going to be pretty involved, and I’ll probably spend the better part of the next year working on it. But Richmond and the rest of the US in probably 2019.
About the Telecaster guitar he smashed on Saturday Night Live
It is fucking destroyed. I’ve been trying to kill that guitar for ten years. Maple is stronger than ash. The body completely broke all around the plate where the neck bolts on. So I glued it back together and it’s hanging on the wall at the house. So it’s a piece of art right now. And I might turn it into a table at some point, I don’t know.
On making a bluegrass record
I want to do a bluegrass record someday with all the guys from Kentucky that are still alive. JD Crowe, Bobby Osborne, Ricky Skaggs. That would be so fun.
Will Sunday Valley ever reunite?
Never going to happen.
Would you ever tour with Cody Jinks?
I’ve already toured with Cody. I’m moving in a different direction. Honestly, I love Cody and I love what he’s doing. I’m glad somebody came along and did what a lot of people probably wish I was still doing. But my head is just headed in a completely different direction artistically. But I’m super proud of what guys like him and Whitey Morgan, and Jason Boland and Jason Eady, and Tyler (Childers) and all them are doing. I kind of feel like my work is done in that realm. Someday I’ll wake up and feel like making a hard country record again, just that ain’t tomorrow. And that’s just me being honest.
On not being nominated for a CMA Award
I think that’s my fault. I think you have to submit to be nominated. And I’m not sure that we ever submitted, or if anybody submitted for me. I honestly don’t know. So that could have been my fault. I’m not going to say that I was snubbed, because I’m not sure that’s true. It’s really cool to see Jason (Isbell) get recognized on that platform though. I’m on a label now, and he’s a truly independent artist.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Sturgill Simpson actually has been nominated and considered for CMAs. He just has never made it to the final nomination ballot.)
On not meeting fans after shows
It is typical. I have to save my voice. I also suffer from extreme social anxiety, and I’m a highly introverted individual. I used to run the merch booth myself. And then we got to playing venues where that just wasn’t feasible. If I run into people, I will stand and talk to them all day. But I have to save my voice so it’s tough every night to stand and talk to literally hundreds of people. I stared this thing way too old and late in my life to take the fame thing seriously. But if people want to come up, I’ll stand there all fucking day.
Are you still only making five albums?
Yes. I’m only making five albums. And they all do serve a cohesive narrative of a life journey of a human soul from a traditional Western perspective. So High Top Mountain was a seminal album or a past life, you can’t go home. Metamodern (Sounds in Country Music) was ethereal, literally like the soul’s journey through space. A Sailor’s Guide (To Earth) represents birth, and life lessons learning them. The next one is going to be about life and sin. We’re literally going to go to hell. And the fifth one will be returning to the light. Absolution.
Would you ever do an album with Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton, Highwaymen style?
Absolutely, after I get my shit out of the way. I think it would be cool once we all get to the point where . . . like I’m only in competition with myself. So when I feel like I can’t outdo myself anymore, I think it would be cool if Jason, and Chris, and Margo (Price), and a bunch of people like that, if we just all went on the road together forever. I think that’s what the fans want.
Why don’t you play encores?
Encores are the new mosh pit. We come out and try to give our all 100%, whether it’s 90 minutes, two hours, or whatever. But I’ve got a very low bullshit threshold. Walking off stage, and pretending like we’re not coming back, and everybody in the crowd acting like we’re not coming back, let’s just skip that, and just keep rocking the fuck out until we’re done.
On The Grammy Awards
The first time I went to Merle Haggard’s house, he had one Grammy I think in his career. He was using it as a doorstopper to hold the front door open. So that immediately put a lot of things in perspective. People say (Grammys) don’t mean anything anymore, but that’s the one that to me actually means the most because it’s voted on my other songwriters, and engineers, and producers. Your actual peers that are saying that your work deserves to be recognized. So that’s something I don’t take lightly at all. I was very humbled and appreciative. And my grandpa lived long enough to see that, so that was probably the best part.
On Trump
He’s a fascist fucking pig, and I’m not afraid to say that because at this point anybody who’s still supporting that guy can’t be anything in my mind but an ignorant fucking bigot. So there it is. Anybody that’s surprised to hear me say that is going to unfollow me or stop listening to my record was probably not listening that close anyway.
November 10, 2017 @ 6:38 am
Glad you’re covering Sturgill. Glad to see a country music artist put a finger on the prison industrial complex and stand up for us queers (we also live in the South and grew up with country music.) Glad he’s making badass songs. Can’t wait for what he’ll produce next.
November 12, 2017 @ 9:59 am
Fork u
November 13, 2017 @ 1:26 pm
So sad. I’ve done much work inside the prison industrial complex, both as a freelance writer and as a volunteer. What few bring up is that a sizable percentage of those in prisons here are people who broke laws to come here, refusing to adhere to current immigration/entry laws.
But above all, the disenfranchisement is not contained to a single race. What many nonviolent inmates have in common is lack of money to hire a sharp lawyer. And often, if a case becomes political, as one recently did here in Florida regarding the 4th Amendment, it is even harder to get justice done regardless of your attorney.
Simpson is a talented musician. He is not a politician, and he might want to avoid alienating the millions in 30 US states who voted for Trump by attacking them over not voting for Mrs. Clinton. Just a suggestion.
November 10, 2017 @ 6:39 am
Disappointing.
November 10, 2017 @ 4:12 pm
How so?
November 10, 2017 @ 6:02 pm
Disappointing that Sturgill is being talked about for his bizzare street performance and negative comments about his (former) base audience instead of the incredible music he is capable of making.
November 10, 2017 @ 8:04 pm
Fair enough. I don’t think he should have had a go at Trump’s supporters quite as harshly as he did but, and I mean no offence, a lot of people reckon your president’s a profoundly dodgy piece of work, and if Simpson feels that strongly about it I think he’s well within his rights to speak his mind. I still reckon he should have limited his condemnation to Trump and his apologists, as I’m sure many Republican voters are a million miles away from being “ignorant bigots,” but he doesn’t seem to mince his words which is kinda refreshing.
It might alienate some of his fans, it might win him some new ones, but I get the distinct impression he’s not really that bothered either way. He’s doesn’t seem to be one for trafficking in bullshit, though I suppose you could also view this whole thing as a cynical promotional ploy in order to garner favourable coverage from the evil liberal mainstream media or whatever.
November 10, 2017 @ 8:25 pm
What? Grandpa! I thought you were dead! Now you’re a liberal? How do you feel about gun laws? Did you get rid of them? This is weird stuff man, ghosts are out there communicating through the internet!
November 10, 2017 @ 8:51 pm
Agreed. Fair analysis. Still disappointing that we are not debating sound quality or lyrical content or wether pedal steel would’ve sounded better than slide guitar on his newest album. I’m sick of politics man.
November 10, 2017 @ 9:11 pm
Gotta admit I agree, politics is a bunch of shite, these days more than ever. You’ve got dickheads in power, we’ve (the UK) got dickheads in power, and the opposition are not particularly great either, and some might say they’re even worse. I like Simpson’s music and I sort of admire his stance, even though I felt he went a bit far.
In any case, I hope he goes back to being a bit more country in the future, though it doesn’t seem likely from what he was saying. Ah well, I enjoyed the last album anyway, though I liked his earlier stuff more.
@Hugh – I’ve no idea if I’m your grandpa, that would be some significant Back to the Future temporal weirdness somewhere, but if I am, hope you’re getting the most out of life and eating properly and all that. Yeah I’m a bit liberal these days, maybe I swerve conservative in later life, don’t have any problem with guns, it;s the people who shoot other people with them I’d happily kill…yeah, irony and hypocrisy intended 😉
November 10, 2017 @ 10:49 pm
And why do you people always misspell the word “football”? The correct spelling is “soccer.”
November 11, 2017 @ 8:17 am
Heheh. I think you’ll find the correct spelling is “diveball,” actually. And why do you guys always misspell the word too? Surely the correct spelling is “armoured rugby,” or “naughty unpatriotic black man kneely ball.”
November 10, 2017 @ 8:02 am
First time he’s played a venue smaller than when he played my 2011 show in Nashville, and, believe me, he didn’t talk as much.
November 10, 2017 @ 9:15 am
Loved every minute of it and calling Trump what he is!
November 10, 2017 @ 10:55 am
Wow, a lefty musician – how rebellious and free-spirited and unique!
November 10, 2017 @ 11:09 am
You know, a true Outlaw does and says what he believes, regardless – or sometimes in spite of – what his fans expect. All the greats have done just that from time to time.
If you’re not standing for what you believe, how are you any better than the Chase Rices and Sam Hunts of the world?
Kudos, Sturgill. Keep up the good fight.
November 10, 2017 @ 11:31 am
I feel like those you very upset with Sturgill because of this have never heard the song “Folded Flag” form the Sunday Valley Days:
“They’re gonna say that I’m a Communist,
Unpatriotic, dope-smoking, degenerate hippie.
Fuck them redneck, nepotistic, white trash motherfuckin’
Home watching CMT.”
Sturgill is gonna be Sturgill.
November 10, 2017 @ 12:44 pm
Just seems like an opportunistic attention-seeking marketing ploy. Portray yourself to be anti-Trump & you are sure to be beloved by a certain segment of the media (& he is being praised today by the left wing media)—with the hope that people who feel the same way will support/buy your music. Does’t sound very “artistic”, “outlaw” or “outsider” to me.
May 20, 2024 @ 9:49 am
Nobody asked
November 10, 2017 @ 1:59 pm
B76 Simpson has never come across as someone who gives a shit about getting attention. Podcasts, interviews, and his music make me feel that’s he’s being pretty genuine. You just don’t agree with him and that’s fine.
November 10, 2017 @ 4:47 pm
This whole episode doesn’t make me think that he doesn’t care about getting attention–it looks like the exact opposite to me. The comments he made were going to be praised all over by the left wing media & he knew it. Which to me, proves my opinion in my original post.
November 10, 2017 @ 7:40 pm
@Zach He cares more about attention than he would like anyone to realize. The constant leaving and returning to social media. Comments about one day being the “biggest country star” in the world. The whole self righteous schtick. The team of people behind his media success. Posts about his being an underdog when really he’s had the world handed to him for the past two years. Classic narcissist (definitely manic) who deep down thinks he’s better than everyone and cries when he doesn’t get enough attention. He wanted fame bad.
November 12, 2017 @ 7:15 pm
Sounds more like the current president of the United States.
November 12, 2017 @ 8:31 pm
So it’s even more interesting that the one criticizing him can’t see it within himself…
November 12, 2017 @ 9:07 pm
Maybe.
It’s a lot more sad when we have that kind of person leading our country than it is when it’s a semi-anonymous musician, though.
November 12, 2017 @ 9:37 pm
I don’t think the personality traits (or disorders depending on how you look at it) mean that either can’t be good at what they do. My problem with what happened in this instance is the lack of self awareness when his whole premise thus far has been based on a kind of philosophical posturing. “Woke up today and decided to kill my ego”? What happened to that?
All I know is that alienating and personally attacking at least half of the fan base that got you where you are because you’ve decided to deal with your internal anger by taking it all out on a political figure. It’s extremely passive aggressive and unfair. And I’m not even one of the ones he criticized…
November 10, 2017 @ 4:09 pm
As he said he would be, Sturgill is the biggest country dtar in the world right now
November 10, 2017 @ 4:11 pm
Star
November 10, 2017 @ 4:10 pm
Looking forward to his bluegrass record, that could be fucking brilliant. Nice to see him give shout outs to artists who deserve the exposure like Eady, Childers and the like – I doubt they’ll be selling any more units because of it but I always like when artists give appreciation to others they think deserve it. I’d love for him, Stapleton, Isbell et al. to do some kind of supergroup record or tour at some stage, that has the potential to be great.
On the politics front – daaaamn, he went hard there. Even were I American I could never vote for Trump, the man’s a truly terrible human being who really plumbed the depths of peoples’ prejudices to get elected and in his ignorance, narcissism and instability he’s almost comically unsuited to a position of power, but still… To call out all Trump voters as fascists and bigots seems a bit much to me.
I mean, yeah, there will be an element of that in his base for sure, but I think a lot of people just voted for him because they couldn’t stomach voting for a Democrat, especially one as uninspiring as Clinton. I’m pretty liberal myself, but I’m not so blinkered as to believe that all conservatives are windowlicking racists and I think both sides would do well to avoid such blanket generalisations. The Donald may well be an “ignorant fucking bigot,” but that doesn’t mean that everyone who votes Republican is.
November 10, 2017 @ 8:46 pm
Some people here in America actually vote Republican for fiscal reasons. They say if you’re not a liberal when you’re 18 you don’t have a heart…. if you’re not a Republican by the time you’re 21 you don’t have a mind.
November 10, 2017 @ 9:28 pm
If you’re really concerned about fiscal responsibility, vote Libertarian. Republicans do nothing but pay lip service to fiscal responsibility.
November 10, 2017 @ 9:37 pm
Are you flirting with me. Because baby, you know exactly how to talk to a man. Can I take you dinner?
November 10, 2017 @ 9:34 pm
That’s why I sort of understand voting Republican, even if it meant voting for a joke like Trump – financially, it makes sense…sort of. It definitely makes sense if you’re already rich, though I think history has shown that Republican presidencies often lead to recessions, and don’t actually tend to do much for those on the poorer end of the scale, no matter what Hannity and Gingrich might pretend. I also think it’s hilarious that some people fell for Trump’s “voice of the people” schtick, when up until the age of 69 odd he’d shown literally no interest in helping anybody other than himself. But hey, it might all work out for the best, and Trump’s great for comedy value if nothing else.
But anyway, I don’t mean to derail these comments with more political bullshit, so apologies for that. I’m on a night shift and it’s mindcrushingly dull so my thoughts tend to wander. Sturgill’s ace, he pulled a publicity stunt and spoke his mind, and got some attention. Guess it worked out well for him really, unless loads of Trump’s base get all snowflakey and decide to boycott his shows and albums and to be honest, I doubt he’ll care that much.
November 11, 2017 @ 8:57 am
When “they” say it, they are patting themselves on the back at the same time.
November 11, 2017 @ 10:34 am
Rich people vote Republican for fiscal reasons, because they know that they are the only people the Republican party cares for. Well, them and the unborn, and Republicans stop caring about them once they become born. At least until a time when they become rich, and then they start caring about them again.
November 11, 2017 @ 9:43 pm
Severely mentally disabled liberals are gun owners too. You might say, Republicans only care about are Americans. They don’t really care about International people trying to get in. And nobody cares about the unborn. Parents probably should be caring about their kids once they are born. You want the government to start managing your love relationships too? Government wouldn’t make the greatest parents, unless you dream of becoming a genetically modified fighting machine. Some of our rights are considered highly offensive, (evil and stupid even), everywhere else in the world, not so many liberal soldiers in other militaries that would take pity on anyone here.
November 12, 2017 @ 12:17 pm
Republicans already tried “managing your love relationships” for years by denying the right to marry to same sex couples.
November 12, 2017 @ 12:37 pm
I was trying to say without saying it: Do you want government telling you who you are allowed to create babies with?” Thus the “unless you want to be a genetically modified killing machine.” Since men can’t have babies with men and ladies can’t have babies with ladies, go for it. Get married, combine your assets. What’s his is yours and what’s yours, protect your family, stay together and be happy in America. Zombies having sex with other zombies leads to more zombies being born. I love them. Don’t put them down. Don’t moan and don’t sneer. Leave them alone.
Being born gay is not a requirement for men marrying men. They told everyone on Donahue that they were born that way, some were just afraid to admit it. I wonder what they are afraid to admit right now that they are closeted in. All people should have the right to marry. I’ve always been attracted to zombies for instance. I lure them to me. I can’t consider marrying them unless they are completely dead. I have a family of dead bodies set up in my house. I love them dearly. I am filled with inner shame because of people like you, and it’s just not fair.
November 11, 2017 @ 9:21 am
To call out all Trump voters as fascists and bigots seems a bit much to me.
But Joe, he didn’t do that, really. He called out the people who still support him basically a year into his presidency. There is a difference. For example, I’m sure Senator Bob Corker voted for him, but it’s clear that he no longer supports him.
November 11, 2017 @ 10:54 am
Fair enough, man. I’d suggest that Trump’s support still numbers in the tens of millions and I refuse to believe there are that many Americans who should be described as “ignorant bigots,” though I’ll admit that anyone who believes Trump’s doing a great job at this point is probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
November 11, 2017 @ 9:55 pm
Who should we support as our president then? Bernie? Trump is all American. If anyone learned to benefit from what it offers he did. If anyone thinks it’s already great and worth protecting he does. And anyone who thrived in Atlantic City, knows exactly what it’s problems are and how to improve it. We could probably use him longer than 8 years.
November 11, 2017 @ 11:01 pm
I’m assuming you’re referring to Trump profiting from his casinos going bankrupt, where he “learned to benefit” from asset stripping and normal people losing their jobs, and are hence taking the piss in brilliant fashion. Exquisitely done, sir.
Unless you were actually being serious and actually want longer than two terms of this shameless con artist, in which case….well, I wouldn’t know what to say.
November 12, 2017 @ 2:40 pm
You mean when his zombie, rat trap casinos went bankrupt? What kind of good businesses failed when he “wasn’t able” to pay them the money he owed them? Who didn’t learn their lessons? Over and over again, rolling over each other, flooding in to do “big” business with the boss. Attracted to the lights and the smell of money, like zombies to the smell of blood. Moths to the fire. Win win for everyone. Send them to the desert or the ocean, everyone has a good time.
November 12, 2017 @ 2:48 pm
Doesn’t matter how many times you say it, or demonstrate it with building blocks, if you can’t comprehend it, you just plain can’t comprehend it. At least they got you doing something, means you’re not doing something someplace else to someone else. Hamsters in an aquarium without walls complaining they’re not free.
November 10, 2017 @ 11:58 pm
Holy moly, 524 comments. I thought I’d better add another one. Sturgill is awesome, I so admire him. P.S. Dump Trump, this sexually assaulting/bigoted/senile/kill net neutrality asshole.
November 11, 2017 @ 12:16 pm
is there a reason u hate america?
November 11, 2017 @ 6:43 pm
I don’t hate America. Quite the opposite. I would like to see the first Amendment protected.
November 11, 2017 @ 4:54 am
Love this man.
His music, his ideals…his vision.Everything.
Sunday Valley album is a masterpiece.
I just listened to Sailor last night…it’s painfully obvious that he is not really a country artist anymore, nor does he want to be.
I don’t feel he will ever truly abandon his roots, but the music he is creating is mindblowing.
Truly gifted.
November 11, 2017 @ 9:32 am
If Trump is a facist as was and as he has been compared to Hitler and Mussolini than why would people want gun control. Why would I want to give up my guns to a facist. Wouldn’t I want to be able to protect myself from the evils of Trump. Should Liberals be begging for more guns? Btw anybody know the over under of shootings in Chicago this weekend? If only they had gun control.
November 11, 2017 @ 10:26 am
Nothing sadder than an ignorant righty who doesn’t realize the difference between “gun control” and “no guns at all.”
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Your idiocy doesn’t even warrant a response.
November 11, 2017 @ 10:42 am
And yet an idiot responded.
November 11, 2017 @ 9:01 pm
It takes a big man to admit he doesn’t understand things. I have to congratulate you on that.
November 11, 2017 @ 11:00 pm
You think conservatives don’t want to make sure psychological deranged people don’t get their hands on guns? Should it be like a the DMV of psychological testing in order to carry guns? Don’t be a severely mental disabled liberal, say what you mean by gun control. We have gun control, it’s already against the law. Do you really think you’re going to get shot at church or a concert? Do you think the plane is going to go down every time you fly? Maybe you just have a fear of church and concerts, like a lot of people. Anti-anxiety meds might help. It’s American.
November 11, 2017 @ 10:45 am
He’s not a fascist, he’s just a dick who believes his position should afford him far more power than that granted to him under the Constitution, if we go by his statements on the judiciary and the media. Thankfully your Constitution should keep him mostly in check, and he’ll hopefully continue to be merely a comedic irrelevance as opposed to a genuine threat to your great nation’s freedoms. He can probably do far more damage on the world stage, but hopefully China and Russia will help rein him in.
He’s not the Messiah, nor is he Hitler, he’s just a whiny narcissist with a ridiculous toupee. Thank Christ your country’s so much better than your politicians.
November 11, 2017 @ 11:15 pm
Far more power granted him under the constitution… according to the other Americans, they want him to profile citizens in ways that are incomprehensible in order to determine whether they are the appropriate material to carry a gun. They want military walking the street to monitoring every person to make sure you’re not capable of opening fire in the supermarket. One person flips out and the entire country has to take off their shoes and be body scanned before they get on a plane. Move body scanners and friskers into the movie theaters. Set the problems up so you can solve them and be relevant.
November 11, 2017 @ 11:20 pm
Give the power to personality disordered people, you can’t take care of yourselves, you’re idiots?
November 11, 2017 @ 11:22 pm
You’re just drunk most of the time.
November 11, 2017 @ 10:43 am
How’s that gun control working in Chicago? Or maybe not the right shade for Liberals to care.
November 11, 2017 @ 1:10 pm
Trigger what is the record for number of replies on a post?
November 11, 2017 @ 6:44 pm
This has gotta be close.
November 11, 2017 @ 11:28 pm
Wow. He reminds me of one of those liberals who think “If you are conservative, you are automatically a bigot.” Those are the worst kinds of liberals. He doesn’t seem very “tolerant” or “open-minded” to me.
November 12, 2017 @ 9:43 am
Simpson’s plan is working masterfully!
November 12, 2017 @ 10:34 am
Challenge…name a talented creative artist who is a conservative and would back Trump currently
November 12, 2017 @ 4:15 pm
I’m sure there are a bunch of closeted Trump supporters. You don’t really see that many country singers bashing Trump either…
November 12, 2017 @ 4:33 pm
i bet there is not…name one, that maybe you think even leans that way
November 12, 2017 @ 7:04 pm
Loretta Lynn’s out and proud, and why not? She’s got nothing to prove and she doesn’t seem to be one to let political correctness get in the way of her views. Charlie Daniels, I think? I imagine there’s a fair few, but that’s only a guess.
November 26, 2017 @ 2:04 am
Justin Moore is an outspoken voter for Trump.
November 12, 2017 @ 4:38 pm
Billy Corgan is a Trump supporter.
The reason you don’t see many artists coming out for Trump is because it has become socially unacceptable. The reason you see so many attacking Trump is because it’s socially popular. As the election proved, that has no bearing on how people actually vote. That is the reason all of the polls were wrong. People didn’t want to be thought of as being racist by saying they were Trump supporters.
November 12, 2017 @ 7:23 pm
It’s socially unacceptable because he’s an idiot. It’s socially acceptable to be Republican, though Trump is hurting that, unfortunately. But to support Trump as an individual is not popular because you’d kind of have to be a selfish asshole to do it, and fortunately we have reached a point where it’s okay to say that out loud.
November 12, 2017 @ 7:23 pm
Think you’ve hit the nail on the head there man, with the idea that if you voted Trump you’re immediately lumped in with racism and other forms of bigotry. It’s ridiculous – 60 million people voted for him, there’s no way there’s that many Americans are somewhere on the white supremacist scale, surely? Backing these people into a corner and tarring them all with the racist brush really doesn’t help the liberal cause or the country as a whole either, it just widens the partisan divisions that already appear pretty damn pronounced.
It’s the same in the UK with Brexit. I voted to stay in the EU, but I know a couple of people who are not in any way racist who voted to leave, and they get some nasty stick from some left wingers who really should know better. Granted, everyone I know who’s got some racist leanings (and there’s a few, unfortunately) voted to Leave, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who wanted out is an irredeemable bigot, there are many paths to all sorts of political persuasions.
I think Billy Bragg put it best when he said something like “not all Brexit voters are racist, but all racists voted Brexit.” Even then I reckon that’s making the situation more black and white than it really is, but I think it holds mostly true and I’d guess the same is roughly true in the US with Trump. I personally believe that thinking a walking cartoon like the current president is the answer to your country’s woes is a bit odd (no offence to those of you who like the guy), but that certainly doesn’t mean I think all his voters are KKK sympathisers.
Anyways, sorry again for rambling on about this shite.
November 12, 2017 @ 11:31 am
No place in country music for this mental illness called liberalism. Sturgill is a joke. His music is boring and the production quality of his music is terrible. Another leftist posing as an authentic country artist.
November 12, 2017 @ 8:12 pm
You know the politicians of the right don’t give a shit about you other than lip service to get elected, right? You don’t? Oh. Well, you’ll figure it out someday.
September 4, 2020 @ 9:01 pm
I already wasn’t impressed with his music. Now I have less reason to pay attention to him knowing he has an idiotic view of the world.
November 12, 2017 @ 5:20 pm
I wonder if rich Democrats (Clinton’s, Obama’s, Schumer’s, Pelosi’s, Reid’s, Jesse Jackson”, Al Sharpton, et al) voted for Trump?
November 13, 2017 @ 9:17 am
-The national anthem is racists.
-Hating the: 1. white 2. male 3. heterosexual
-Cultural Appropriation
-It’s how I feel – feelings
-Safe Spaces
When you retards started fighting over insane issues you set the stage for some major blow back or unintended consequences. President Trump is the natural push back against psychotic closet communist or “liberals” that have taken control of pop culture.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
October 9, 2018 @ 7:51 am
Anyone who wants to see or cared about Trumps tax returns are contradicting themselves, nobody likes to pay uncle Sam an any smart middle class person would keep from or try their best to get least amount..duh. so in that fact, I’d hate to think we had a dumbass president that would give all his money to uncle Sam. Trump doesn’t get a check an gives it to charity he’s not even going to collect his social security that he got rich from, so all you haters keep supporting the irs what good will it do for your social security !
15.2 0f what I made owning my own business an my employees I had 7.6, state unemployment social security then 1 percent of everything made et.I think that’s way more than enough!
November 14, 2020 @ 7:26 pm
Fun comment section.
SS sure was tolerant to different opinions. /s
Then again, those who claim to be the most tolerant never are.
May 2, 2023 @ 2:18 pm
So did he lie about only five albums or not?
He certainly lied about the themes.
What a pretentious sellout.