Posted on 11/30/2016 4:17:26 AM PST by drewh
Musician David Crosby gave a concert in Tampa, Fla., on Sunday, but the interview that was posted on the Tampa Bay Times’ website on Wednesday and published in the Sunday print edition focused not as much on music but the election of Donald J. Trump as the next president of the United States.
“Ask David Crosby how he's feeling in the wake of the Election That Changed Everything, and you'd better settle in deep for his answer,” the reporter wrote to open his interview with the man who founded The Byrds and Crosby, Stills and Nash and who is still recording albums and giving concerts at 75.
Crosby clearly did not vote for Trump, and in fact, said his election “maybe worse” than the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by radical Islamic terrorists in Washington, D.C., New York City and Pennsylvania that killed almost 3,000 innocent people.
"Now, okay, it isn't Pearl Harbor," Crosby said. "It's about as bad as 9/11, or maybe worse, because the consequences are much longer-reaching.
“So it's really devastatingly bad,” he said.
Crosby also said that everybody but “fat, white guys” would suffer under a Trump presidency.
"I feel very badly for our country,” he said. “I feel very badly for the women in our country, who just got kicked in the gut, or some other part of the anatomy.
“I feel really badly for, let's see, just about everybody but fat, white males,” Crosby said. “I certainly wouldn't want to be a Muslim in America right now.
“I think all of the blacks and Latinos are thinking, Holy s---, they pulled the rug out from underneath us again!" Crosby said, who then weighed in on climate change and foreign policy.
"You live in Florida? Tampa?” Crosby asked the reporter. “Well, the prediction is you're going to go underwater, and this guy doesn't believe that."
"[Trump] is so stupid that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin can play him like a piano, and will,” Crosby said.
Crosby said he considers himself an “activist” and said that America is racist, comparing it to a festering wound “and Trump tore the scab off.”
Crosby, however, differs from most of his left-wing musical colleagues by opposing gun control laws.
“Here's the thing: No matter what your moral stance is about guns, you have to understand, if you back off and disconnect from the emotions connected to it, it's just a piece of metal with some expanding gas throwing another piece of metal,” he said.
“It doesn't have any goodness or badness to it. It's the person holding the gun. And you can't give me enough background checks or restraints on selling guns. That's totally fine with me. What we have to do is somehow work on saning up the people that have got them, and that's a matter of education. And the people in charge have been dumbing down the education as much as they can to make people more controllable. And it works,” Crosby said.
The reporter finally gets around to asking Crosby about his new album “Lighthouse,” although not many details emerge.
Crosby also weighed in on the possibility of a 50-year anniversary Woodstock concert in 2019.
“Not going to happen, buddy,” Crosby said.
Eight miles high (and still hasn’t touched down)
Really, stories about siring babies for lesbians seems more interesting than this has beens political commentaries.
Almost cut my boobs,
Happened just the other day
It's gettin' kind of big
I could've said it was in my way
But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my trans flag fly
And I feel like I owe it, to someone, yeah
Fat white racist fool
Nothing more than a session drummer in my book.
I’ll bet this old fool loved Castro too.
Poor thing.
Without having looked at his photo, I wouldn’t have been able to pick him out from a lineup of fat, filthy, old, gray-haired, pot-bellied hippies. He’s nothing special, except in his own delusional mind.
It’s getting to the point where I’m no fun anymore
I am sorry
Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud
I am lonely
Crosby needs to get out of town and head for the islands.
No shit. I was sure he died in the past 2-3 years.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, Reeves, Young, Taylor, Larry, Moe,
Curly......somebody assumed room temperature fairly
recently.
Stay away from the brown acid.
We quit shopping in malls when liberal elites pushed offensive political positions on us with their cheap Chinese merchandise.
And yeah, we're not buying their damn political ‘music’ either.
Are they so stupid they can't figure out giving the finger to half the American people's a bad marketing plan. Hello Hollywood...
I honestly thought he was dead.
Have another drink David.
One scene showed the side of a bus and had the NRA logo with a red line through it. Another scene where a well endowed woman wearing a "Freedom of Choice" t-shirt fills the frame.
They are positively shameless.
I see David hasn’t burned through that second liver yet.
“fat, white guys” - anyone else see the irony here. David looks a bit light skinned and chubby to me.
From a self centered, leftist perspective, the only bad thing about 9/11 was that conservative voices held sway for a while thereafter. So in that sense, this election is “worse”.
Yes - entertainers are such incredible sources of wisdom and knowledge......we should look to them for all guidance and truth....
NOT!!!!!
Sounds like it’s
“Increasing his paranoia,
Like looking into the mirror
And seeing a po-lease car”
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