Ageing and irrelevant, but still very progressive rock band R.E.M. is very upset that President Trump retweeted a fan's video of his State of the Union address which used one of their songs, "Every Butt is Hurt."
Trump's Tweet has left R.E.M. so acutely and unfairly butthurt and with so severely increased rapid eye movement, that they denounced Bad Orange Man to the Commissars of Butthurt Awareness on Twitter and had the video pulled.
While R.E.M. are zealous Bernie Sanders supporters, the way their hero appears prominently in the video is not how Michael Stipe would like him be remembered.
This is the tweet from REM that triggered the removal of the video. Notice the language: "Measures have been taken."
Sounds just like the Party apparatchiks used to talk in the USSR. Socialists always say they'll do it better this time, but they're forever doomed following the old route. There is no "better way."
2/17/2019, 6:56 pm
Comrade Stierlitz
(ON)
It's REM, who cares?
(OFF)
It's REM, who cares?
2/17/2019, 7:31 pm
Evil Smiley
2/17/2019, 7:36 pm
Evil Smiley
Wow, you can see that R.E.M. now feel so important and relevant...
2/17/2019, 9:54 pm
Margaret
They did do What's the Frequency, Kenneth?, but it escapes me why that title became infamous. I did like Green Grow the Rushes back in '80's.
I just looked at their Wikipedia entry. The first line reads:
Wikipedia wrote:R.E.M. was an American rock band who died when President Trump played their song from Athens, Georgia,
2/21/2019, 2:45 pm
Pamalinsky
Well, that's only fair. Duh! Every butt must hurt because fairness!
