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Review: Roger Waters blasts Donald Trump during eye-popping concert at Tampa's Amalie Arena
Tampa Bay Times ^ | Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:30pm | Jay Cridlin

Posted on 07/12/2017 7:40:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Camera flashes popped as the bus-sized pig floated over the Amalie Arena crowd, splashed with Donald Trump’s yowling mug and phrases like “Welcome to the Machine — I Won” and “Piggy Bank of War.”

Subtle political commentary, this was not. Then again, subtle was never Roger Waters’ style. The Pink Floyd mastermind’s worldview may be as grim and dystopian as ever, judging from his spectacular, effects-laden concert Tuesday night in Tampa. But if America truly is going to hell in a handbasket, as Waters seems to believe, at least he’s giving it a proper, stadium-style send-off. […]

Waters and his band roared through Dogs, play-acting a farcical classist nightmare by donning pig masks and sipping champagne. Then came Pigs (Three Different Ones), which brought the anti-Trump pig blimp and a flood of savage graphics on the screen: Trump’s head on a pig’s body, a teeny Trump hoisted by Vladimir Putin, more than a dozen ire-inducing quotes attributed to the president (“The beauty of me is that I’m very rich,” for example; or “Even if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I won’t lose a penny”). The video ended with four words: TRUMP IS A PIG. A few fans lobbed boos and catcalls in the silence that followed, but many more howled in applause. Then, on Money, more footage: Trump and Putin and Jeff Sessions, sports cars and beauty pageants and gold, Trump’s casinos alongside the Kremlin. Waters was drawing a line in the sand on one of Pink Floyd’s biggest hits: Pout and boo all you want, but this is where I stand. If you stand with me, sing along.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: antisemite; rogerwaters; trump; waters
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Looks like he’s going to do this kind of nonsense during the whole tour.
1 posted on 07/12/2017 7:40:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Who is Roger Waters?


2 posted on 07/12/2017 7:41:21 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Olog-hai

How ordinary.


3 posted on 07/12/2017 7:41:24 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Olog-hai

WHO?


4 posted on 07/12/2017 7:43:02 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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Looks like he’s going to do this kind of nonsense during the whole tour.

A buddy of mine saw him in Denver last month. Says it's an incredible show once you get past all the Trump-bashing (which should be expected from Waters).

5 posted on 07/12/2017 7:43:18 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, gee. A gimmicky English performer who doesn’t like our president. How relevant! And how novel!

Yawwwwwwnnnnn ...


6 posted on 07/12/2017 7:44:08 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Olog-hai

Who?
(moving on — no response cared for)


7 posted on 07/12/2017 7:44:28 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Olog-hai

No doubt he’ll keep up his drumbeat for boycotting Israel too.


8 posted on 07/12/2017 7:46:20 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Olog-hai

So, he took time out from his Israel hating to hate on Trump? How refreshing.


9 posted on 07/12/2017 7:47:21 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Olog-hai

Who cares what he thinks? And every other show business types for that matter. He’s not changing minds, only getting through to die hard liberals who already hate DJT.


10 posted on 07/12/2017 7:47:35 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Olog-hai

Since Roger is “blasting Donald Trump” during his “eye-popping concert,” I guess they won’t be talking about Roger’s long-standing and blatant anti-Semitism.


11 posted on 07/12/2017 7:48:52 AM PDT by free-in-nyc (Freeping from the heart of the occupation)
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Hey Woger Water's:  Please progressively amuse yourself to death - or just ESAD/FOAD, because, per the Naturally Selective order of things...

XX + XX = FAIL

XY + XY = FAIL

XX + XY = Human


...if you do - you WILL!

12 posted on 07/12/2017 7:48:58 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Olog-hai

Vile anti-Semite.


13 posted on 07/12/2017 7:49:47 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hint to aging used-to-be-real-popular musicians: if you have to include political and cultural content in your performances, your music sucks.


14 posted on 07/12/2017 7:50:05 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Olog-hai

I have been a Pink Floyd fan for 40+ years.

But, Waters is a tool.


15 posted on 07/12/2017 7:50:24 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Olog-hai

Who? So?


16 posted on 07/12/2017 7:51:31 AM PDT by madison10
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To: goodnesswins

No, that was a different band. ;-)


17 posted on 07/12/2017 7:52:01 AM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: Olog-hai

He hates the system, Trump is going against the system, he hates Trump. There’s your Hegelian dystopia.


18 posted on 07/12/2017 7:52:28 AM PDT by Vic S
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So, basically, he’s gotten over the death of his father and found a new source of inspiration?


19 posted on 07/12/2017 7:56:10 AM PDT by RansomOttawa
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Well, he hasn’t written The Wall: Part II, so I can’t tell for sure.
20 posted on 07/12/2017 7:57:09 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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