.That says more than you ever want to know.
Posted on 08/19/2017 3:03:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Steve Earle speaks out about President Trump in a no-holds-barred new interview, calling him a “fascist” and saying he doubts he will finish his first term.
“I don’t see how he does it,” the outspoken singer-songwriter tells Rolling Stone Country. “Although it’s hard to predict what this guy’s gonna do. We’ve never had an orangutan in the White House before. There’s a lot of ‘What does this button do?’ going on. It’s scary. He really is a fascist. Whether he intended to be or not, he’s a real live fascist.”
Trump has been one of the most controversial presidents in modern American history since taking office in January of 2017, repeatedly clashing with the media, the court system and even Republican lawmakers over a wide range of issues that includes a proposed Muslim travel ban, building a wall between the United States and Mexico, a transgender ban in the military that he abruptly announced via Twitter and more. His approval ratings stand at historical lows after a week that included what many have characterized as a tepid response to neo-Nazis and white supremacists rallying in Charlottesville, Va., where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when a man ran his car into a crowd of counter-protesters.
Trump received widespread condemnation after a press conference in which he appeared to assign equal blame to the white supremacists and the counter-protesters, including pushback from fellow Republicans. He also drew a parallel between removing Confederate monuments and taking down statues to honor George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
But the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter says the real danger is that Republicans “are OK with him being there. While we’re paying attention to all the stupid s–t he’s doing, they’re methodically seeing to their agenda and they’re getting a lot of s–t done under the radar.” He points to stacking the Supreme Court and overturning Roe v. Wade as two items on the Republican agenda.
“They don’t really care about Roe v. Wade, they care about getting elected,” Earle asserts, adding, “the Republican Party is about the wealthiest people paying as few taxes as possible and letting go of as little of their wealth as possible and making an environment for them to be able to make more. We’ve gotten to the point where we’re almost unapologetic about it.”
Earle believes Trump’s election speaks to a more fundamental problem in “the way we value talent and undervalue education … I hope it becomes obvious to people that reality television has a cost. You have to think that Fox News and reality television is real for Donald Trump to be possible. Neither thing is true.”
And while he thinks it’s unlikely Trump will remain in office, Earles doesn’t feel Vice President Pence is that much better an alternative.
“I think it’s going to be the same one way or the other, with either one of those guys in office,” he muses. “Trump’s scary because he has the button. My guess is that there’s been something built around him to get between him and the button. There was when Nixon was in office. They gave him fake codes. He was starting to lose it and walk around talking to pictures and drinking. That’s all he did the last two years he was in office. He walked around, talked to the portraits and had a glass of f–king whiskey in his hand all the time.”
Earle recently released a new album titled So You Wannabe an Outlaw.
Had some good songs in the 80s, get heavy into drugs, now tries a comeback every few years.
Never heard of him.
I guess he's the Token Country Music Leftie the media interviews when the Dixie Chicks are busy servicing Jay-Z and Beyonce.
Just looked him up...One look at his pictures tells me all I need to know...
Total hippie, pinko, drug induced fag....
Earle. Should have left him in the trunk.
“We’ve never had an orangutan in the White House before. There’s a lot of ‘What does this button do?”
Hehehe, do I need to go there?
Earle began learning the guitar at the age of 11 and was placed in a talent contest at his school at age 13.[4] He is reported to have run away from home at age 14 to follow his idol, singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, around Texas.[8] Earle was “rebellious” as a youngster and dropped out of school at the age of 16. He moved to Houston with his 19-year-old uncle, who was also a musician, where he married and worked odd jobs. While in Houston Earle met Van Zandt, who became his hero and role model.[4][7] Earle’s sister, Stacey, is also a musician and songwriter.
Wikipedia
Not well educated or intelligent.
Whenever I hear Trump called that, I always wonder just what it is that makes him a fascist. I know the definition, and he doesn’t fit it. Unless it means “anyone who disagrees with me.” In which case, I can see how libs would consider him one.
I have a couple Steve Earle CDs I need to get rid of. Shut up and......just shut up.
I can’t stand this turd. His career was minor.
Who is Steve Earl?
The jokes write themselves.
Time to break to pieces the one Steve Earle .45 record (from 1988) I own.
Steve Earle, the felon who was a heroin/cocaine addict and has been married seven times? That one?
After his prison stint most of his “popularity” was due to his PC politics, IMO. The music press is always pushing lib musicians.
.That says more than you ever want to know.
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Not to worry..he’ll be worm feed before long...
Looks like a criminal who liked to think he could sing.
Excerpt:
“Earle has been married seven times, including twice to the same woman.[33] He married Sandra “Sandy” Henderson in Houston at the age of 18, but left her to move to Nashville a year later[7] where he met and married his second wife, Cynthia Dunn. Earle married his third wife, Carol-Ann Hunter, who gave birth to his son, singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle.[7]
Next, he married Lou-Anne Gill (with whom he had a second son) and then his fifth wife, Teresa Ensenat, who was an A&R executive for Geffen Records at the time.[8] Earle then married Lou-Anne Gill a second time, and finally, in 2005, married singer-songwriter Allison Moorer with whom he had a son, John Henry Earle, in April 2010.[34] John Henry was diagnosed with autism before turning 2. In March 2014, Earle announced that he and Moorer had separated.[35]
In 1993 Earle was arrested for possession of heroin and in 1994, for cocaine and “weapons possession”.[4][36][37]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Earle
Vastly overrated musician. Seemed to have a bit of a following among the stoner crowd, but never made it big. Will probably manage enough gigs to get maintain his habit, an will likely suffer an early demise.
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