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krispyweiss · 3 years

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Sound Opinion: Bruce Puts the Dick in Dickinson

- Iron Maiden frontman supported Brexit until it impacted him

If Bruce Dickinson was an American, he’d be a member of the GQP.

The Iron Maiden frontman was an unabashed Brexiteer, voting for the U.K. to leave the E.U. and saying he was “quite relaxed” about the impacts it might have on others.

But now that the divorce is final - and there are no Continent-wide work permits or visa-free travel mechanisms for musical touring parties such as his - Dick-inson is singing a very different tune.

“Don’t get me started on the government’s attitude to the entertainment industry,” the Iron Maiden vocalist said, as reported by NME. “We are probably one of the U.K.’s major exports. … And yet we’re sitting here, we can’t do anything.

“It’s very well known that I voted for Brexit. But, you know, the idea is after you’ve done it, you then go in and be sensible about the relationship you have with people.”

Dickinson’s void-of-empathy posturing - before Brexit, he decried “nonsense and scare stories” about the reckless move - is a microcosm of the ills inflicting the world at this moment in history.

It’s fuck your feelings and I got mine so I’m not worried about yours and it’s fair only if my guy (or woman) wins and back the blue while they kill black people but bludgeon them when they try to stop an insurrection all wrapped up in one selfish, heavy-metal snowflake.

Eddie wept.

6/29/21

#bruce dickinson #iron maiden #nme

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ldecristofaro · 3 years

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Woe Is I

I keep hearing the excuse from Trump supporters (for the act of treason committed on January 6) was that they were “confused and heartbroken that their candidate didn't win” per the FOX News Entertainment channel.

Really? Confused and heartbroken? I remember how confused and heartbroken I was when an accused serial molester and rapist, four plus bankruptcy claiming conman and grifter—who lost by over 3 million votes to the most qualified and accomplished candidate to ever run for the office of President—still managed to win because of the antiquated Electoral College system.

I was angry. I was concerned for the damage to our country, the direction Trump would take our country. I disagreed with everything he said he would do when elected—all of the same things that his supporters have said about the incoming administration. I accepted the horrible truth that he had won—even though he had lost the popular vote and I too had my doubts about the legitimacy of the election due to foreign disinformation and interference.

What I didn't do? I didn’t commit an Act of Insurrection and Sedition. I didn't organize a mob to attack my country. Granted, in Hillary I had a grown up as my candidate who did the right and patriotic thing and gracefully conceded. She didn't continue to lie about the outcome of the election. She didn't urge her supporters to use violent measures to overthrow the government.

All over the news, they keep saying 77 million people don't understand why they lost, that the election must have been stolen from them because the outgoing President said it was. A lie that has been perpetuated by Republican Senators and Representatives in Congress.

Well, I have some honesty to lay on Trump supporters now. The reason your guy lost is because 84 million people voted for the other guy. Period. There was no ballot box stuffing, vote stealing or equipment tampering by the ghost of Hugo Chavez. There were no irregularities or the nonsense that Cruz, Hawley or that QAnon crazy Greene woman and other members of the “GQP” are still peddling.

Like you all told those of us who voted for Hillary four years ago, “too bad Snowflake, [Biden’s] your President.”

In four years’ time, another Republican who embodies your radical racist, white supremacist, Fascist and Nazi views will be running for office and you can hitch all your horses to that person’s wagon.

I, and other’s like me, will continue to use our voices and votes to further the cause of Democracy, to promote a more perfect union and uphold the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America.

Until then, those who committed sedition on January 6 will be found, arrested, tried and, hopefully, convicted.

E Pluribus Unum.

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