What do you say to shrub supporters who like "lefty" pop culture/bands?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

For instance a shrub voter who is a big fan of Public Enemy, or System of a Down?

Do you ask them if they have any awareness of the political views of the artist, or even the song lyrics? The irony?

Or do you just ignore them and scratch your head?

I have to admit it kinda pisses me off. It's like, "I want to be a big greedy pighead and benefit financially from shrubco, but I'm COOL too, I'm 'down' with the best of lefty culture too! I'm like a shrubco Renaissance man! Really I am!"

[RPM]

1. those who fake the funk stand out like a sore thumb

they are frauds and they know it - what could be a worse fate?

[BillZBubb]

2. I know some young conservatives who like Green Day.

I just laugh. Talk about clueless.

[deadparrot]

4. Yeah, I think laughter is the best policy.

Just smile and nod.

[mvd]

8. I bet they don't even get "American Idiot"

Green Day is talking about them. :rofl:

[BillZBubb]

15. Exactly!

I start humming that one on occasion.

[Left Is Write]

11. It makes no sense.

That would be like me embracing Ted Nugent.

[Initech]

3. Can we say "poser", kids?

I mean come on, you cant expect to like Rage Against The Machine and be Republican. Wouldnt that be against the message of the band?

[ZombieNixon]

5. Republican Punk Rockers

The cognitive dissonance is just amazing.

"Ya know was kicks ass? The President. The White House. The system. That fucking rocks. Oh, yeah, authoritarianism. We like that too."

There was a Daily Show segment on Repub punks. It was hilarious, but yeah, it pisses me off. It's like they don't listen to themselves talk.

[Initech]

6. YES! I remember that Daily Show segment

That was fucking hilarious.

Steven Colbert: So you're raging against the machine for the machine?
Republican punk: Yeah, raging for the Bush machine!

:rofl:

[tigereye]

10. yeah, Rep. punk... all of one guy!

[Left Is Write]

14. "Rebuplican Punk Rockers" is an oxymoron.

[Ariana Celeste]

7. Most of them

probably don't even understand what the lyrics are about.

Like the people who think System of a Down's song b.y.o.b. stands for bring your own beer. It's about having a good time, don't ya know.

[redqueen]

9. Are these lyrics mocking them?

"Everybody’s going to the party have a real good time"

[Ariana Celeste]

16. Probably mocking them.

It's a great song, though, and considering the fact the backup singer screams "Why do they always send the poor?" You'd think most kids would figure out it's not about a beer party.

b.y.o.b.

Why do they always send the poor


Barbarisms by Barbaras
With pointed heels
Victorious victories kneel
For brand new spankin' deals

Marching forward hypocritic and
Hypnotic computers
You depend on our protection
Yet you feed us lies from the tablecloth

Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine

Kneeling roses disappearing into
Moses' dry mouth
Breaking into Fort Knox stealing
Our intentions

Hangers sitting dripped in oil
Crying freedom
Handed to obsoletion
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth

Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine

Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine

Blast off
It's party time
And we don't live in a fascist nation

Blast off
It's party time
And where the fuck are you?

Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?

Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?

Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?

Kneeling roses disappearing into
Moses' dry mouth
Breaking into Fort Knox stealing
Our intentions

Hangers sitting dripped in oil
Crying freedom
Handed to obsoletion,
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth

Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine

Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sun

Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?

Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?

Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
They always send the poor
They always send the poor

[tigereye]

12. hmmm

remember the Midnight Oil song, Beds are Burning? Many of the clueless thought the song was about sex....

[redqueen]

17. JESUS but some people are dumb...

:banghead:

[Taverner]

13. And of course Annthrax Coulter is a deadhead

true story...