Rich Men North of Richmond

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy wrote a good song for many people who like it and live in his world. And yes, there are fat people on welfare of all races - so I agree that if you are morbidly obese maybe welfare is working too well for many using it.

The bolded reflects so many levels of misunderstanding that it must have taken significant effort to achieve it.

How about just not allowing government subsidies to pay for junk food?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t expect 95% of people on DCUM to understand the song or the movement it is now garnering from all walks of life in the middle and lower class.

I'm fat and would never support someone who thinks my weight makes me less of a person.

I’m fat too, and I didn’t take offense to his comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy wrote a good song for many people who like it and live in his world. And yes, there are fat people on welfare of all races - so I agree that if you are morbidly obese maybe welfare is working too well for many using it.

The bolded reflects so many levels of misunderstanding that it must have taken significant effort to achieve it.

How about just not allowing government subsidies to pay for junk food?

"You'll have to pry my high-fructose-corn-syrup laden junk food from my cold, dead hands!!!!"

[Anonymous]

Oliver, grab those bootstraps!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:None of these dopes can follow the money. Wherever he lives in NC is almost certainly receiving more from the government than they pay in, and it isn’t going mostly to poor people. A lot of it is going to military bases and defense contractors, a lot is Social Security and Medicare, plus military retirement and Tricare since NC has a lot of military retirees. And the benefits that do go to poor people pay almost all the money directly to local businesses and institutions (hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, nursing homes, schools, grocery stores, and their vendors and employees), providing a lot of good jobs in the community. It’s just ridiculous how all these guys think that military contracts are private sector money but payments to hospitals are government waste. When I worked in Congress, the biggest complainers about government spending were retired military working for defense contractors and listening to Rush Limbaugh on the job.

He lives in Farmville, VA

Beautiful country

“With a crime rate of 33 per one thousand residents, Farmville has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 30.”
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/va/farmville/crime.amp

Opiates? Meth? Living off of Northern viriginians taxes isn't enough, apparently ?

From the narrative in his song, I guess we're supposed to understand that it's rich liberal elites from DC putting on disguises, going down to Farmville and committing all those crimes against his neighbors.

The song is addressed to politicians, not just residents of locations north of Richmond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy wrote a good song for many people who like it and live in his world. And yes, there are fat people on welfare of all races - so I agree that if you are morbidly obese maybe welfare is working too well for many using it.

The bolded reflects so many levels of misunderstanding that it must have taken significant effort to achieve it.

How about just not allowing government subsidies to pay for junk food?

"You'll have to pry my high-fructose-corn-syrup laden junk food from my cold, dead hands!!!!"

Do you understand the difference between government PAYING for junk food and government dictating the size of a big gulp you can buy?

[Anonymous]

The "elevator talk" version to explain this song......

Government is not going to save you. Don't look to the government to solve your problems.

[Anonymous]

Liberals do not like the song because conservatives do.

It is a song written and performed by a guy who did not graduate high school and lives in a trailer in rural Virginia.

I do not believe he has any agenda for any any political party.
He is entitled to his opinion and his creative talents obviously have resonated with millions of people around the world.

I find the song moving. And a glimpse into his world that I know very little about. So I say job well done to the artist.
Everyone else should get off his back - it is not like he made a video singing the song with crosses burning in the background. Just some dogs and a tree stand in the woods - seems pretty harmless to me.

[Anonymous]

I’m from Richmond and here is the word from down there. He’s from Dinwiddie, not Farmville , which is a completely different area (Dinwiddie is south of Petersburg) and his parents still live there. He has one kid and a baby on the way with a partner (not sure if they’re married but they might be). He owns about 100 acres in Dinwiddie and really lives there.

He’s not from the Appalachian area of Virginia nor is he poor and neither are his parents. That area starts in Henry County and then west of there (not Dinwiddie, not Farmville). His grandfather was from Washington County, Virginia which is in Appalachian and his grandfather grew up dirt poor and apparently this story had a profound effect on him which is why he uses his grandfather’s name as his stage name and seems to adopt the persona and cause of someone who is poor from Appalachia.

There are rumors that a social media consultant was helping him or had convinced him to let that consultant push his Rich Man in Richmond song online and that without Anthony’s full awareness connected his song with conservative media and now he’s pi$$ed. But no one in Farmville ever heard of him or his family until the song went viral on YouTube and everyone knows everybody there. Maybe more will be uncovered soon or maybe the 15 mins are over and people go on to something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Richmond and here is the word from down there. He’s from Dinwiddie, not Farmville , which is a completely different area (Dinwiddie is south of Petersburg) and his parents still live there. He has one kid and a baby on the way with a partner (not sure if they’re married but they might be). He owns about 100 acres in Dinwiddie and really lives there.

He’s not from the Appalachian area of Virginia nor is he poor and neither are his parents. That area starts in Henry County and then west of there (not Dinwiddie, not Farmville). His grandfather was from Washington County, Virginia which is in Appalachian and his grandfather grew up dirt poor and apparently this story had a profound effect on him which is why he uses his grandfather’s name as his stage name and seems to adopt the persona and cause of someone who is poor from Appalachia.

There are rumors that a social media consultant was helping him or had convinced him to let that consultant push his Rich Man in Richmond song online and that without Anthony’s full awareness connected his song with conservative media and now he’s pi$$ed. But no one in Farmville ever heard of him or his family until the song went viral on YouTube and everyone knows everybody there. Maybe more will be uncovered soon or maybe the 15 mins are over and people go on to something else.

LoL.
Dinwiddle I could buy 100 acres today for under 200k. It is not like he has 5 acres in N Arlington that are worth probably 20m. Keep the rumors pumping….

[Anonymous]

LOL. My mother used to call it "Dim Wittie."

Has the news caught up here that he now says he wrote that song about Republicans?

“It’s aggravating seeing people on conservative news trying to identify with me like I’m one of them,” the singer said on a YouTube video posted Friday. “It’s aggravating to see certain musicians and politicians act like we’re buddies, like we’re fighting the same struggle here.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-oliver-anthony-slams-use-of-his-song-by-republican-politicians/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL. My mother used to call it "Dim Wittie."

Has the news caught up here that he now says he wrote that song about Republicans?

“It’s aggravating seeing people on conservative news trying to identify with me like I’m one of them,” the singer said on a YouTube video posted Friday. “It’s aggravating to see certain musicians and politicians act like we’re buddies, like we’re fighting the same struggle here.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-oliver-anthony-slams-use-of-his-song-by-republican-politicians/

He has made it clear that it is about POLITICIANS in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy wrote a good song for many people who like it and live in his world. And yes, there are fat people on welfare of all races - so I agree that if you are morbidly obese maybe welfare is working too well for many using it.

The bolded reflects so many levels of misunderstanding that it must have taken significant effort to achieve it.

How about just not allowing government subsidies to pay for junk food?

"You'll have to pry my high-fructose-corn-syrup laden junk food from my cold, dead hands!!!!"

Do you understand the difference between government PAYING for junk food and government dictating the size of a big gulp you can buy?

The government subsidizes the corn used to produce HFCS, so that the government can subsidize food with HFCS.

[Anonymous]

Everyone here has special needs. Mind your own, worry about your own. Pretty simple

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL. My mother used to call it "Dim Wittie."

Has the news caught up here that he now says he wrote that song about Republicans?

“It’s aggravating seeing people on conservative news trying to identify with me like I’m one of them,” the singer said on a YouTube video posted Friday. “It’s aggravating to see certain musicians and politicians act like we’re buddies, like we’re fighting the same struggle here.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-oliver-anthony-slams-use-of-his-song-by-republican-politicians/

He has made it clear that it is about POLITICIANS in general.

Sounds like a commie.