The Strangest Campaign Promise

John Kasich: I’ll reunite Pink Floyd as president:

“And if I’m president, I am going to once and for all try to reunite Pink Floyd to come together and play a couple of songs,” he told CNN host Alisyn Camerota on Tuesday night. “And since we have so much trouble in America with our finances, I’m going to (ask the band to) start with a little song they created called ‘Money.’”

Hey Kasich, don't give me that do goody good bullshit.

But wait, there's more:

Earlier, Kasich called Floyd co-founder Roger Waters a “remarkable artist” and said he didn’t have to think for a second when Camerota asked him to name his favorite concert.

“I saw ‘The Wall’ in Pittsburgh and it was absolutely incredible,” he said.

All of this is very strange. Kasich is a Republican and Waters is a socialist. Without going into details let's just say that the pro-war Kasich is quite different than the anti-war Waters.

It's easy to imagine what Roger Waters might say to John Kasich:

Roger Waters on 'The Wall,' Socialism and His Next Concept Album:

So when someone like Howard Stern... 

Ha!

When he says you want the Jews sent back to concentration camps, how do you feel?

You know, I wouldn't waste a single one of my precious breaths on that asshole, and I just did. That was a waste of breath. Let's move on.

With all that in mind, I'm sure its annoying that everyone asks you about a Pink Floyd reunion that will obviously never happen.
I would refer you to my Howard Stern answer.

Do you mind summarizing that just a bit?
[Screaming] No, I’m not going to! Why don’t you just ask me my favorite fucking color? You know, this can’t get any more dumb than that. Everybody knows the answer. And everybody asks the question again and again! It’s just so dumb. I'm sorry to get testy.

But wait, there's still more:

Let’s talk about Donald Trump. Are you horrified he’s doing so well in the polls?
Yes, its horrifying, of course. It's entirely horrifying. But then, you cannot look at any of those Republican candidates and not be horrified. They are so charged up with wanting to murder everybody in the world. I know I should get into hot water for saying this, but their attitudes are so fascist, all of them, that it's very hard to listen to any of them. Trump is particularly obnoxious. He thinks he’s clever because he made a few bucks and has a crappy TV show. And obviously he's not. He doesn't have a smart bone in his body.

Let's repeat this bit, while remembering that Kasich is one of the Republican candidates: "You cannot look at any of those Republican candidates and not be horrified. They are so charged up with wanting to murder everybody in the world. I know I should get into hot water for saying this, but their attitudes are so fascist, all of them, that it's very hard to listen to any of them." Kasich's campaign promise doesn't look very promising.

But wait, there is also this bit about socialism:

I just think the term "socialist" freaks a lot of people out.
Socialism is a good thing! What is wrong with socialism? You are the only country that I've ever heard of that buses its kids to school in the morning. What is that if not socialist? I am serious! I know nowhere else in the world. Then you go, "What the hell is that about?" "Well, we don't want our kids to walk through dangerous neighborhoods to get to school, so we send a bus to pick them up at their front door and take them home afterwards." And you go, "Wow, great." That is pure socialism, and it is correct.

I know why I like Pink Floyd, "The Wall" and Roger Waters, but I can't for the life of me figure out why John Kasich does.

You can stop waiting now.

I lied:

That should do it, Roger. Thanks for doing this.
You know what you need, don't you?  

What?
Socialism!

Feel the Bern...

Mama GOP Won't Let Anyone Dirty Get Through

I always thought that the United States right-wingers were all alone when it came to immigrants, borders and walls. Apparently that isn't the case. A third of the world's countries have completed or are building barriers – compared to 16 at the fall of the Berlin Wall.

From Wikipedia:

Famous examples include the Great Wall of China, a series of walls separating the Empire of China from nomadic powers to the north and the Mexico–United States barrier.

I used to think there was the Berlin Wall(since torn down), The Great Wall of China(a tourist attraction, as well as a place for Justin Beiber bodyguards to beat people up) and the Mexico-United States barrier. Silly me. Walls are everywhere and their numbers are growing.

"What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where we used to talk
How shall I fill the final places
How should I complete the wall" - Roger Waters

"But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall" - Roger Waters

"Are there any queers in the theatre tonight
Get 'em up against the wall
There's one in the spotlight
He don't look right to me
Get him up against the wall
That one looks Jewish
And that one's a coon
Who let all this riffraff into the room
There's one smoking a joint and
Another with spots
If I had my way
I'd have all of you shot" - Roger Waters

"Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms, worms to come
In perfect isolation here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms, worms to come
Waiting, to cut out the deadwood
Waiting to clean up the city
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to put on a black shirt
Waiting to weed out the weaklings
Waiting to smash in their windows
And kick in their doors
Waiting for the final solution
To strengthen the strain
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to turn on the showers
And fire the ovens
Waiting for the queens and the coons
And the reds and the jews
Waiting to follow the worms
Would you like to see Britannia
Rule again my friend
All you have to do is follow the worms
Would you like to send our coloured cousins
Home again my friend
All you need to do is follow the worms" - Roger Waters

"The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall
After all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall" - Roger Waters

The New Colossus by Emma Lazurus:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" 

 

Quote Of Note - Roger Waters

Who is the strongest
Who is the best
Who holds the aces
The East
Or the West
This is the crap our children are learning -  Roger Waters