Rich Men North of Richmond

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s “scary” because he’s been brainwashed into thinking that taxes and government what’s hurting him. The LACK of government programs FOR HIM is what’s hurting him. The people who avoid taxes, such as industrial farm conglomerates aided and abetted by bought and paid for congressmen are what’s hurting him.

And the welfare dig sounds like a dog whistle to me.

You are part of the problem, frankly. He doesn't need nor does he want government programs. He wants to be left alone by the government. As do many of us.
He is complaining about the WAY our tax dollars are being spent. No accountability for welfare. Our youth are dying from fentanyl and little to no effort to stop the drugs from coming to our country. Our hard earned money going to foreign countries in the BILLIONS, if not TRILLIONS, and we have people here who have no homes and no food.

He's not been "brainwashed" at all. He has lived it. He has seen the waste of tax money. He speaks for millions.

Nice contradiction.

"He doesn't need or want government programs" -- yet he complains that tax dollars are being spent on foreign aid when "we have people here who have no homes and no food."

How can he simultaneously be complaining about people here who have no food and simultaneously complain about people here with grocery carts loaded up and being paid for with foodstamps? Schroedinger's shopping cart - simultaneously empty and full of food at the same time.

And as for "obesity" and "but that food stamp shopping cart is full of junk food" again you can blame the Republicans, who had a complete freakout and meltdown when Michele Obama suggested trying to get kids on to healthier foods and to get them off of junk foods that lead to obesity, including all of the right wing's ever-ubiquitous and typical self-destructive "stick it to the man" statements that followed like Sarah Palin defiantly raising a 64oz Big Gulp full of corn syrup juice.



Some of you on the right seem to be VERY FORGETFUL of this stuff. Some of you on the right seem to LACK THE GREY MATTER to connect the obvious dots on these things.

Because welfare isn't distributed homogenously throughout the US. Cities have more wealth and can offer more services to their citizens.

Foodstamps are not funded by local tax base. So who can you blame for it not being distributed homogenously? The liberal elite north of Richmond? Nope. Federal government? Nope. It's state and local government who make the determination of how to implement foodstamp programs. And guess what, it's the red states that reduce the benefits and let their citizens go hungry. If you wanna complain about people in rural America going hungry it's because the rural America MAGAs got exactly what they voted for.

[Anonymous]

If the guy is working two jobs and hardly making ends meet, he won’t be paying taxes. He would get the earned income credit and not pay. He would pay FICA. However, the rich men in Richmond would be paying taxes and funding SNAP… as it should be.

This song illustrates that Americans don’t understand our tax systems.

[Anonymous]

Well it's good that he didn't mention the "rich women" north of Richmond.

[Anonymous]

36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

They HAVE to prove to themselves that they are superior to this man. He’s a threat to everything they think they are. And *OMG* he mentioned GOD which PROVES he’s just a stupid country boy.

The arrogance of people on this forum is astounding. The evil even more so

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

They HAVE to prove to themselves that they are superior to this man. He’s a threat to everything they think they are. And *OMG* he mentioned GOD which PROVES he’s just a stupid country boy.

The arrogance of people on this forum is astounding. The evil even more so

Pretty sure the Biblical references in this thread about caring for the poor were actually rejected by his fanboys, so I’m not sure that his reference to God is a particular problem…

[Anonymous]

Viral singing sensation Oliver Anthony said he'd never had any interest in being famous, turned down seven-figure offers from stunned music industry reps and lamented the divided state of the internet in a Facebook posting on Thursday.

"I'm sitting in such a weird place in my life right now. I never wanted to be a full time musician, much less sit at the top of the iTunes charts. Draven from RadioWv and I filmed these tunes on my land with the hope that it may hit 300k views. I still don't quite believe what has went on since we uploaded that. It's just strange to me," he wrote.

"People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bulls--t. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place."

"I've spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated," he wrote. "There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last five years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away.

"That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

They HAVE to prove to themselves that they are superior to this man. He’s a threat to everything they think they are. And *OMG* he mentioned GOD which PROVES he’s just a stupid country boy.

The arrogance of people on this forum is astounding. The evil even more so

Pretty sure the Biblical references in this thread about caring for the poor were actually rejected by his fanboys, so I’m not sure that his reference to God is a particular problem…

You all are hateful cowards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Viral singing sensation Oliver Anthony said he'd never had any interest in being famous, turned down seven-figure offers from stunned music industry reps and lamented the divided state of the internet in a Facebook posting on Thursday.

"I'm sitting in such a weird place in my life right now. I never wanted to be a full time musician, much less sit at the top of the iTunes charts. Draven from RadioWv and I filmed these tunes on my land with the hope that it may hit 300k views. I still don't quite believe what has went on since we uploaded that. It's just strange to me," he wrote.

"People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bulls--t. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place."

"I've spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated," he wrote. "There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last five years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away.

"That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land."

Attacks will get worse now….of course he’s right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

Except Bruce Springsteen is a talented songwriter. This guy is just regurgitating talking points. There's no characters, no narrative. It's boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

Except Bruce Springsteen is a talented songwriter. This guy is just regurgitating talking points. There's no characters, no narrative. It's boring.

You must be looking for a novel, not a song.
Millions disagree with you. Millions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

Except Bruce Springsteen is a talented songwriter. This guy is just regurgitating talking points. There's no characters, no narrative. It's boring.

You must be looking for a novel, not a song.
Millions disagree with you. Millions.

If you don't think songs have characters and narrative you must not ever have listened to Springsteen that closely. But sure, bad music is popular, that's nothing new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

Except Bruce Springsteen is a talented songwriter. This guy is just regurgitating talking points. There's no characters, no narrative. It's boring.

You must be looking for a novel, not a song.
Millions disagree with you. Millions.

I’m a guitar player and singer/songwriter in my spare time. Excellent song, great hook, and very relatable.:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

Except Bruce Springsteen is a talented songwriter. This guy is just regurgitating talking points. There's no characters, no narrative. It's boring.

You must be looking for a novel, not a song.
Millions disagree with you. Millions.

I’m a guitar player and singer/songwriter in my spare time. Excellent song, great hook, and very relatable.:

Sorry, I can never post a good imbedded twitter link. LOL

https://x.com/delinthecity_/status/1692395689349685351?s=61&t=296Ozm3aV9AVHNsVUX_Hrw

And I love that reso. I have a reso uke in my collection. Gives a banjo-like twang.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:36 pages and going. It's fascinating to watch people overreact to this. Honestly, the sentiments expressed in this song aren't much different than some of Bruce Springsteen's work.

Except Bruce Springsteen is a talented songwriter. This guy is just regurgitating talking points. There's no characters, no narrative. It's boring.

You must be looking for a novel, not a song.
Millions disagree with you. Millions.

I’m a guitar player and singer/songwriter in my spare time. Excellent song, great hook, and very relatable.:

Yes. I posted this link earlier in the thread.
It is relatable. And, that's exactly why it has gone viral.