Trump’s campaign also tried to use Beyonce’s “Freedom,” but stopped when she threatened to sue
Oh hey, are we returning to a time where we can all agree that Nazis are bad?
Was there ever a time where we all agreed on that?
When John Belushi said “I hate Illinois nazis” and drove them all into the river in The Blues Brothers, there wasn’t anybody around who didn’t think that was funny.
I’ll bet the Illinois Nazis didn’t find it too funny
Won’t someone please think of the Nazis?
The song is “Rockin’ in the Free World”. Hopefully Young asked Walz, “are you sure you want to use that one?”
There’s colors on the street
Red, white, and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
There’s a warning sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can[Chorus]
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
There’s an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she put the kid away and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid that’ll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool[Chorus]
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
We’ve got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive[Chorus]
It actually makes sense as a campaigning song to me as long as your platform is about trying to address the social problems the song is highlighting.
I guarantee Walz knows what it’s about, and he chose it for that reason.
Hes one smaht cookie, kid.
He does.
Just a reminder that Ann Coulter and Tucker fucking Carlson are “deadheads” too. Walz is great and I think he gets it, but the evidence of that is what he’s done not the band merch he wears.
This thread is about whether or not Walz was aware of the lyrics of a Neil Young song. Being a fan of The Grateful Dead added to the discussion.
Walz seems like a respectable person. We will see how that plays out. Charles Manson and Mark Chapman were obsessed with Beatles, but I don’t associate them to everyone else who enjoys their music. So I’m not really clear on the point being made here.
