Rich Men North of Richmond

[Anonymous]

This singer and the fans of his song are emblematic of multiple generations of white, uneducated people who cannot compete in the modern world.

These people are some of the most entitled people in the history of mankind. Despite having a 200 year head start, they are still moping about how everything is going to hell. Meanwhile, immigrants routinely come to this country from Asia and rocket their families into the upper income tier within a generation because they value education. This is just a sad song for lazy losers to drown in their misplaced victimhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This singer and the fans of his song are emblematic of multiple generations of white, uneducated people who cannot compete in the modern world.

These people are some of the most entitled people in the history of mankind. Despite having a 200 year head start, they are still moping about how everything is going to hell. Meanwhile, immigrants routinely come to this country from Asia and rocket their families into the upper income tier within a generation because they value education. This is just a sad song for lazy losers to drown in their misplaced victimhood.

Ouch!
True enough, but sad for the losers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This singer and the fans of his song are emblematic of multiple generations of white, uneducated people who cannot compete in the modern world.

These people are some of the most entitled people in the history of mankind. Despite having a 200 year head start, they are still moping about how everything is going to hell. Meanwhile, immigrants routinely come to this country from Asia and rocket their families into the upper income tier within a generation because they value education. This is just a sad song for lazy losers to drown in their misplaced victimhood.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love the song and love the singer, Oliver Anthony.

I don't know why you think this is "scary." He is expressing what many middle and lower class people are thinking and feeling.

Here are the lyrics:
I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away

It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is

Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare

Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground
'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down

Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is

Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay

If you feel this way, then why do you keep electing them? It’s seriously stupid. You think Glenn Youngkin and Donald Trump give a rat’s a$$ abt your poor ass? They really don’t. THey exploited you to get rich but you worship them anyway.

So beta.

Cause we love this little bitty land we call America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This singer and the fans of his song are emblematic of multiple generations of white, uneducated people who cannot compete in the modern world.

These people are some of the most entitled people in the history of mankind. Despite having a 200 year head start, they are still moping about how everything is going to hell. Meanwhile, immigrants routinely come to this country from Asia and rocket their families into the upper income tier within a generation because they value education. This is just a sad song for lazy losers to drown in their misplaced victimhood.

Nailed it. Welcome to the Trump base.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always laugh at these “uprisings”

People will vote republican to help lower taxes, etc.

Those tax decreases are not helping the avg person, they are helping the DCUM crowd, myself included. This song preaches about how hard life is for the middle class (which is true) but what is the solution? Lower taxes? That will further the income inequality.

Most blue collar workers should be voting democratic as they are actually trying to stick it to the “rich men”.

That's not true. And the "rich men" Oliver is referring to is the politicians.
Like Biden, for example. He's been a politician his whole life. His wife a teacher. And, yet, his net worth is around $9 million.

And Trump is not a rich man???

OP here- to be sure, there were more than a few Trump shirts in the crowd but most of these people- if you talk to them- hate him too. They are begging for another person to vote for. It just happens that Trump is as close to what they want and available. The main thing these people are tired of is being told they are the problem when for the most part they follow the rules and go to work every morning. They arent doing anything other than raising families, going to church and keeping their nose to the grindstone.

Please explain who, specifically, is telling "these people" that "they are the problem"?

Well, you could start with the majority of people on this forum.

All the black 14 year olds in SE carjacking and shooting people are the actual victims, right? It's systemic racism that made them do it. They have no role or agency in any of it. And Joe blow who voted for Trump is a vile fascist, right?

It seriously cracks me up when republicans try to point to Biden as a ‘rich man’. You realize he was the poorest person in the US senate for nearly his entire tenure there. I can guarantee you he is the poorest president in recent history. You are so uninformed, it’s pathetic.

Also, so FIng dumb to talk about shooting in SE DC. That’s not affecting you, you dumba$$. It’s really not. You know what is way more likely to affect you: (1) your own damn gun you own being used against you on purpose or accidentally and (2) a mass shooting at your kid’s school by some incel you or your friends raised.

Open your eyes…you really don’t get the actual risk to YOUR life.

It's not affecting me? I live here, you fool. I have been robbed at gunpoint. My wife was robbed and beaten unconscious on the green line by a pack of black teenage girls. Two of my coworkers have been robbed at gun point.

Go eff yourself. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This singer and the fans of his song are emblematic of multiple generations of white, uneducated people who cannot compete in the modern world.

These people are some of the most entitled people in the history of mankind. Despite having a 200 year head start, they are still moping about how everything is going to hell. Meanwhile, immigrants routinely come to this country from Asia and rocket their families into the upper income tier within a generation because they value education. This is just a sad song for lazy losers to drown in their misplaced victimhood.

Nailed it. Welcome to the Trump base.

And what does it tell us about the blacks that have been here for centuries longer?

[Anonymous]

How afraid do you have to be to go after a singer-songwriter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This singer and the fans of his song are emblematic of multiple generations of white, uneducated people who cannot compete in the modern world.

These people are some of the most entitled people in the history of mankind. Despite having a 200 year head start, they are still moping about how everything is going to hell. Meanwhile, immigrants routinely come to this country from Asia and rocket their families into the upper income tier within a generation because they value education. This is just a sad song for lazy losers to drown in their misplaced victimhood.

Nailed it. Welcome to the Trump base.

And what does it tell us about the blacks that have been here for centuries longer?

You mean the ones that were kept as slaves? Second class citizens in the south till the '60s?
Those blacks?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This singer and the fans of his song are emblematic of multiple generations of white, uneducated people who cannot compete in the modern world.

These people are some of the most entitled people in the history of mankind. Despite having a 200 year head start, they are still moping about how everything is going to hell. Meanwhile, immigrants routinely come to this country from Asia and rocket their families into the upper income tier within a generation because they value education. This is just a sad song for lazy losers to drown in their misplaced victimhood.

Nailed it. Welcome to the Trump base.

And what does it tell us about the blacks that have been here for centuries longer?

Let me tell you about a little birdie named “Racism” and it’s good friend “systemic racism.” It’s apparently news to you, but it involved denying Black people democracy, education, housing, medical care and things like access to pools…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always laugh at these “uprisings”

People will vote republican to help lower taxes, etc.

Those tax decreases are not helping the avg person, they are helping the DCUM crowd, myself included. This song preaches about how hard life is for the middle class (which is true) but what is the solution? Lower taxes? That will further the income inequality.

Most blue collar workers should be voting democratic as they are actually trying to stick it to the “rich men”.

That's not true. And the "rich men" Oliver is referring to is the politicians.
Like Biden, for example. He's been a politician his whole life. His wife a teacher. And, yet, his net worth is around $9 million.

And Trump is not a rich man???

OP here- to be sure, there were more than a few Trump shirts in the crowd but most of these people- if you talk to them- hate him too. They are begging for another person to vote for. It just happens that Trump is as close to what they want and available. The main thing these people are tired of is being told they are the problem when for the most part they follow the rules and go to work every morning. They arent doing anything other than raising families, going to church and keeping their nose to the grindstone.

Please explain who, specifically, is telling "these people" that "they are the problem"?

Well, you could start with the majority of people on this forum.

All the black 14 year olds in SE carjacking and shooting people are the actual victims, right? It's systemic racism that made them do it. They have no role or agency in any of it. And Joe blow who voted for Trump is a vile fascist, right?

It seriously cracks me up when republicans try to point to Biden as a ‘rich man’. You realize he was the poorest person in the US senate for nearly his entire tenure there. I can guarantee you he is the poorest president in recent history. You are so uninformed, it’s pathetic.

Also, so FIng dumb to talk about shooting in SE DC. That’s not affecting you, you dumba$$. It’s really not. You know what is way more likely to affect you: (1) your own damn gun you own being used against you on purpose or accidentally and (2) a mass shooting at your kid’s school by some incel you or your friends raised.

Open your eyes…you really don’t get the actual risk to YOUR life.

It's not affecting me? I live here, you fool. I have been robbed at gunpoint. My wife was robbed and beaten unconscious on the green line by a pack of black teenage girls. Two of my coworkers have been robbed at gun point.

Go eff yourself. Seriously.

you have the worlds worst luck, or you are lying

now you know how black people have felt for most of their lives. Beaten down for no good reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This singer and the fans of his song are emblematic of multiple generations of white, uneducated people who cannot compete in the modern world.

These people are some of the most entitled people in the history of mankind. Despite having a 200 year head start, they are still moping about how everything is going to hell. Meanwhile, immigrants routinely come to this country from Asia and rocket their families into the upper income tier within a generation because they value education. This is just a sad song for lazy losers to drown in their misplaced victimhood.

They all want want want but don't contribute to the tax base.

They are takers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How afraid do you have to be to go after a singer-songwriter?

+1

[Anonymous]

NOVA subsidizes the regrettable lifestyles of ROVA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This singer and the fans of his song are emblematic of multiple generations of white, uneducated people who cannot compete in the modern world.

These people are some of the most entitled people in the history of mankind. Despite having a 200 year head start, they are still moping about how everything is going to hell. Meanwhile, immigrants routinely come to this country from Asia and rocket their families into the upper income tier within a generation because they value education. This is just a sad song for lazy losers to drown in their misplaced victimhood.

Nailed it. Welcome to the Trump base.

And what does it tell us about the blacks that have been here for centuries longer?

Let me tell you about a little birdie named “Racism” and it’s good friend “systemic racism.” It’s apparently news to you, but it involved denying Black people democracy, education, housing, medical care and things like access to pools…

So they have had a 60 year head start on the Asians and Hispanics but can't make headway. Why?