Discussion: R.E.M. Gets Trump SOTU Video Featuring 'Everybody Hurts' Taken Down

I just can’t wrap my head around the intersection of a Trump supporter and who is also a REM fan. I think I’m loosing my religion.

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These Russians just don’t have any respect for our intellectual property laws!

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Hooray we’re all free now?

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He can keep using the video of Ted Nugent ratfucking the chicken. And he should…it fits!

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I just wish R.E.M. had made it clear they wanted it taken down because it was incredibly stupid and the copyright infringement was a means to that end. They kind of imply that but there’s really no such thing as being too clear.

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(((Snicker)))

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I liked the “president asshole” part

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That was clear, actually

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The importance of Mike Mills’s contributions to the band’s output is criminally underappreciated.

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I keep looking for gangs of swarthy people flooding the streets of my city (tucson) but I sure haven’t seen any.
trump said I was supposed to be horribly afraid of swarthy folk cuz they’re supposed to be doing a D-Day level invasion of us.
Why is it that trump says zip about the Canadian border? No wall, no invasion. Could it be that he thinks all Canadians are white folk?

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Wait, what? They’re not?! Now you tell me. I always thought that’s what The Great White North was referring to. Well, that and the chance to go skiing in July.

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Republicans love to steal things, including music.

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like using “Born in the USA” without really listening to the lyrics - St. reagan’s campaign was so long ago. back when we only had medium-grade lying and vote suppression was actually being reversed…

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Whaaat??
Now here I thought the “white” in the slogan “Great White North” referred to snow. Just shows ya what I know…

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Donald’s goal isn’t to lead the world. He gropes in public.

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I think the person who posted the song as background, was not doing it in fandom of REM so much as he/she/they were doing it as a womp womp trolling of liberal snowflakes. Something like the Mike Myers parody of the MTV video of this very same song.

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Well, well, well, tRump.

You can’t always get what you want.

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As he furiously riffs to himself…

*I can’t get no satisfaction

Anyway R.E.M. and Jack can continue the purge and remove him from Twitter?

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To be fair to Ronald Wilson, most of the people who were watching that song video on MTV, or playing it from their boom boxes on the Jersey Shore beaches that Summer, never listened to the lyrics either.

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