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1. One Anonymous Bloke 1

   19 June 2015 at 8:38 am

   Surely the Centre Right has its own perfectly good songs.

   If you like Polkas.
   • vaughan little 1.1

     19 June 2015 at 10:59 am

     i always liked dennis leary.

     “two words: nuclear fuckin weapon.”
2. saveNZ 2

   19 June 2015 at 8:44 am

   +1 and good on Neil Young to make such a eloquent statement, in particular…

   Increasingly Democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests. The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well funded legislative decisions all favor corporate interests over the people’s.

   The Citizens United Supreme Court ruling is proof of this corruption as well as are the proposed trade deals which would further compromise our rights.

   These Corporations were originally created to serve us but if we don’t appropriately prioritize they will destroy us. Corporations don’t have children. They don’t have feelings or soul. They don’t depend on uncontaminated water, clean air or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing – the bottom line.

   I choose to speak Truth to this Economic Power. When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.
3. Sable 3

   19 June 2015 at 8:56 am

   I often wonder if Trumps hairpiece is alive? If so I wonder what he feeds it? Is it trained to fetch slippers and the newspaper. Snarl at lefties?
   • Capn Insano 3.1

     19 June 2015 at 9:06 am

     Aye and does he have any issues getting through bio-security?

     We shall overcomb!
     http://www.latinorebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/image.jpg
     • mickysavage 3.1.1

       19 June 2015 at 9:17 am

       Wonderful. Will store it away and use it …
4. Jones 4

   19 June 2015 at 9:14 am

   Trump is drunk on his own ego. His campaign launch speech was a meaningless parade of sound bites and cliches.
   • Lanthanide 4.1

     19 June 2015 at 9:22 am

     Trump isn’t going anywhere. So either he is completely and utterly deluded, or he’s just doing this for his ego: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/why-donald-trump-isnt-a-real-candidate-in-one-chart/
5. Lanthanide 5

   19 June 2015 at 9:19 am

   “Also last year the Government chose to through proxies attack Darren Watson for his Planet Key song”

   Do you have any evidence that the government interfered with the independent Electoral Commission?

   That is *quite* a claim to make, especially if you don’t actually have any evidence for it.
   • TheContrarian 5.1

     19 June 2015 at 12:11 pm

     Was thinking the same thing
   • Roflcopter 5.2

     19 June 2015 at 1:45 pm

     Almost as bad as this part….

     And last year National borrowed without permission a riff from Eminem. The breach of copyright case is ongoing. I hope Eminem succeeds because IMHO the case is as clear cut as you can imagine.

     Tui time.
   • mickysavage 5.3

     19 June 2015 at 9:39 pm

     Do you have any evidence that the government interfered with the independent Electoral Commission?

     No I said the attack was through proxies and did not detail who they were. But I am surprised and amazed at the decision of the EC to appeal the High Court ruling. I thought the ruling gave the EC all the guidance it needed and nothing else was required. A Court of Appeal hearing for both parties is really expensive and I do not see what benefit there is for the Government in taking this step.
   • Smilin 5.4

     20 June 2015 at 2:32 pm

     Of course thats the problem with Fascists the are the only ones who are allowed to have a say, it goes with there dogma ridden history run by people who hijack Democracy to create their own protected power block and they talk about Communist dictatorships being the ruin of the Free world
     What do you call Ronnie Rayguns and Gwanker Bush and our Very own” buy my self a country” President John Pillock Key
6. Liam 6

   19 June 2015 at 9:22 am

   Ummmm

   http://nypost.com/2015/05/29/bernie-sanders-wrote-an-essay-saying-that-women-fantasize-about-rape/
   • te reo putake 6.1

     19 June 2015 at 9:28 am

     Ummm, what, exactly? We usually have a better line in trolling from the righties here, Liam. Have a coffee and try again.
   • Stephanie Rodgers 6.2

     19 June 2015 at 9:38 am

     Thanks for linking to that article, Liam. I especially like the bit which says

     Sanders’ campaign is now trying to distance him from the article, calling it a “dumb attempt at dark satire in an alternative publication intended to attack gender stereotypes in the 1970s” that in “no way reflects his views or record on women.”

     And that’s how you make it clear that you know the silly things you did decades ago were wrong, and that although you’re a human being who’s made some mistakes, you’re able to admit your mistakes.
     • Lanthanide 6.2.1

       19 June 2015 at 10:15 am

       The completely out of context snips from the article make it impossible to tell whether it was really dark satire or not, as well. Which is of course how the republicans want it.
       • weka 6.2.1.1

         19 June 2015 at 10:51 am

         Part of the article is here (scroll down).

         http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/young-bernie-sanders-liberty-union-vermont
     • Liam 6.2.2

       19 June 2015 at 10:20 am

       Good on you for extending the benefit of the doubt to the man.
7. Paul Campbell 7

   19 June 2015 at 9:55 am

   Have you ever seen Trump’s hair and Boris Johnson’s at the same time, I think it’s two-timing
8. David H 8

   19 June 2015 at 10:38 am

   John Stewart is so happy at Trump for entering the President race.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTz0zuhGeE8
   • adam 8.1

     19 June 2015 at 12:49 pm

     Jessica Williams is so awesome, 30 seconds on film and all the best lines.
9. Charles 9

   19 June 2015 at 10:55 am

   Neil’s getting wordy in his old age. In the old days he might’ve said, “People who think I support Trump haven’t even heard my Greendale album – or any of my music”. And then sued.

   I’m not sure there is any popular Right-wing toned music. A quick search reveals that Spandau Ballet lead singer has right wing sympathies, and Eric Clapton got a bit xenophobic once when he was drunk. But generally it takes the classic right-wing “sensor” literal approach to interpreting art to label music “of the right”. For example, some of Bjork’s lyrics sound very right-wing-sloganish at face value, but when interviewed about it, she says it was about her talking to herself in stern mother voices owing to the fear and hopelessness of depressive episodes – that it wasn’t a promotion of social disregard at a political level. Of course, not many people bother to discover what songs really mean, and simply superimpose their own meanings as it suits.
   • te reo putake 9.1

     19 June 2015 at 11:05 am

     While most heavy metal music is inherently conservative, I believe Canadian prog rockers Rush are the only band dumb enough to write songs about Ayn Rand. They’re suitably embarrassed about it now, though drummer Neil Peart still calls himself a libertarian.
10. adam 10

    19 June 2015 at 12:51 pm

    Just for some more insight.

    http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/06/16/17488/9-things-know-about-donald-trump

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