Billy Corgan has no love for Bernie Sanders: “It’s just crazy to me”

Billy Corgan has no love for Bernie Sanders: “It’s just crazy to me”
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman also chimes in on social justice warriors and protestors at Donald Trump rallies

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Billy Corgan ranks high on the list of music’s most vexing personalities, but The Smashing Pumpkins frontman seems to have finally found his match in conspiracy theorist and noted crazy person Alex Jones. When Corgan appeared on Jones’ Infowars talk show last month, he achieved an almost transcendental level of ignorance by comparing “social justice warriors” to the KKK. But, whoo boy, it looks like he was just warming up.

As Stereogum points out, another segment of that interview has been posted online in an Infowars video that introduces Corgan as a “musical icon and great patriot.” Corgan certainly expresses a lot of, ahem, patriotic ideas in the interview, expounding on how he feels about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Let’s just say Corgan isn’t feeling the Bern:

“I can’t believe that we’re even having this discussion, if you can understand when I say that to you humbly. To be talking in America in 2016 about Mao is a good idea, and a socialist is running for president and that’s OK, and we’re going to go back to these crazy tax rates where we’re going to completely disempower the innovators in our country because the new technocratic class wants to keep their position and they want to keep anybody else from coming in the game… I mean, it’s just crazy to me.”

Corgan seems to have Sanders’ message of social empowerment mixed up with somebody else’s, but why stop him while he’s on a roll? After making the broad generalization that “people in the entertainment industry do not care about facts,” he delivered a hard-hitting take on the people who protest outside of Donald Trump rallies:

“When I watch some of the clips that you guys have been been putting up at some of these protests, I have no respect for what these people are doing. They’re shutting down free speech… If they have that level of vitriol for let’s say Donald Trump as a candidate, because they feel it’s antithetical to what they believe in, where is the five times greater condemnation for those societies that are treating their people far worse than just words and ideas? It’s always interesting to me how people kind of pick their spots.”

I agree with him. FUCK the Trump protesters. They have to be legitimately mentally handicapped. Trump sucks too, but the people going to his rallies and causing riots are much worse.

>he achieved an almost transcendental level of ignorance
Please tell me the website you got this from so I can avoid it

did a teenage girl write this article

This tbhfam
Also, even as liberal as I am and as much as I think Alex Jones is a nutter, this article reads like a Tumblr post going "golly gee, look at this wacky conservative, us lefties sure are better than him" rather than a presumably respectable music media publication.

No, but a teenage boy made this post.

Consequence of Sound apparently. Whatever that is...

Yeah, I actually agree with the article's stance, but that is some shit tier journalism

>people say social justice warrior in real life
What is this world coming to?

How can one person be so BASED?!

This

And the fact that it seems like the majority of "liberal" society seems to support that kind of behavior -- or marginalize anyone who speaks out against it -- is essentially proving that it SHOULD be a major concern, regarding freedom of expression.

I really fucking hate Donald Trump, but I loathe the SJW fascists almost equally.

as long as they exist in real life people will say it in real life

and unfortunately, they do exist. at least in my neck of the woods seattle

Jesus, this SJW shit is really starting to get out of hand.

damn...

He gave up on trying to make good music and has fully become his Simpsons cameo

>what is this world coming to?
A world where people would rather indulge in moral posturing than have an open dialogue.

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But protesting is free speech lol

Yes, but blocking highways isn't

>transcendental level of ignorance

My goodness, what kind of pretentious asshole wrote that?

He's right. Fuck SJWs and fuck off if you sympathize with them.

>says it on info wars
billy corgan is just as crazy as alex jones

Not closing down highways, breaking into places you're probably not allowed to and, most of all, beating people up though.

If you want to stand outside a rally and shout about that "Trump's a fascist" or whatever, then you're legally allowed to do it, just don't beat people up, or owt like that.

Billy is a bit of an asshole, but yeah he is a pretty big redpilled Christfag. Him and Dave Mustaine.

Someone who doesn't know the meaning of the word "transcendental" lol

Uh, not every protester caused a riot and calling out idiot hate speech via protesting is not shutting down free speech.
A M E R I C U C K S

>2016
>not being an egoist

SJWs dont exist

Why would I care about his opinion though?

I want to hear Merzbow's opinion of illegal horse race betting in the Las Vegas area.

I was talking about the sentence as a whole, not that word itself.

>just as crazy as Alex Jones
Whoa there... let's not get carried away.

BASED
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Obviously but that isn't protesting is it? That's like being a criminal. 99% of protesters don't do that kind of shit

Yeah, I figured. Just sayin "transcendental ignorance" doesn't make any sense

How is this bad journalism? Or is it a matter of Sup Forums on full damage control?

>99% of protesters don't do that kind of shit
Yeah? And I think it's safe to assume he's not referring to those 99%

Ooops you seemed to have missed a word. English isn't your first language is it?

>alex jones
>crazy
>not redpilled as fuck

Liberal cuck detected

Bald Billy is an illuminati plant sent to destroy rock music, the voice of the people. After MCIS was such a big success the real Billy Corgan was 'taken out' and Bald Billy was instated. The last time real Corgan was videotaped was the video for Bullet for Butterfly Wings.

They did a good job with the "bald billy", but listen to the album Adore and everything he's done that came after that. Musical chops of Billy Corgan without the human soul.

Don't trust this man

They didn't acknowledge Sanders was literally Mao and talk about Cultural Marxist conspiracies. Of course the Trump kiddies think this is "bad journalism." Also notice how the Trump kiddies are acting like people who are against Trump are literal criminals. They need to pull these mental gymnastics to convince themselves that Trump is amazing.

>After MCIS was such a big success the real Billy Corgan was 'taken out' and Bald Billy was instated
MCIS was a success *after* Bald Billy appeared you dummy.

How is it that Dave Mustaine was more likable when he was a drug addict, what happens to people, is this what I'm going to become?

... my point still stands

WTF I hate billy corgan now!!

>Billy Corgan

Loool, who cares about that Kevin Shields wannabe.

>Sanders was literally Mao and talk about Cultural Marxist conspiracies
[citation needed]
Not really. Once you put the word "level" in there, it makes sense.

Trump supporters don't go to Bernie rallies or Hillary rallies if those actually exist and attack people or throw bricks at them or wave foreign flags because they don't agree with them.

but it was recorded by hair billy

>calls people dummy
>doesnt know what the fuck hes talking about

Did you ever look at that MCIS booklet, kid? Of course not, you don't even own it.

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Good goy

You're not a teenage boy, you're 12.

also, BWBW was first single and the real Billy is in the video. Every other MCIS era video is Bald Billy

What a handsome man.

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That's what Corgan said dipshit.

>if those actually exist
kek

what about the trump supporters that beat the shit out of the woman who made the naked trump painting? give me a break. either you're in full on propaganda mode or you're a retard

Ugh...

alex jones addressed this issue recently:

youtube.com/watch?v=972ddrk0pQE

Transcendental: of or relating to a spiritual or nonphysical realm.
Saying that someone is ignorant on a level that relates to the spiritual or nonphysical realm makes sense to you? OK, flake.

Any Astrology books you'd recommend?

12 is a teenager, genius.

Holy fuck Trump kiddies are morons.

>Not wanting to break the conditioning

Yeah man, Kurt the feminist is totally spinning in his grave. He would have been le Trump man.

Wow 2 murders siding, what a surprise.

That was almost a sentence mate. Keep at it.

Kurt would've been 100% behind Hillary.

based corgan

ranting about the opinions of others isn't "journalism"

Damn....

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>Sup Forums - I mean Sup Forums pretends to like billy corgan now that he's been red pilled

you can't make this shit up. you faggots hated this guy a few months ago

Doubt it, Krist isn't behind her and they generally agreed on politics with each-other.

>what about the trump supporters that beat the shit out of the woman who made the naked trump painting?
You mean the thing that never happened?

What is "journalism?"

Nah he would've been Bernie for sure

I'll keep at your mom.

Dropping some rare corgans

Backpedaling
I don't think you even know when MCIS became a hit
More backpedaling
Reminder that Trump supports literally kill people
Yep. You are not good at reading comprehension, huh?

Who is Krist backing? cause last year he was criticizing Bernie

>Sup Forums getting triggered hard

Is that Lex Luthor?

>when my side does it, it didn't happen!!!

thicc

Misusing the fedora meme as usual.

>I don't think you even know when MCIS became a hit
Considering I bought the album in early 96, yeah, I think I do know when it became big. I doubt you were even born then.

>Reminder that Trump supports literally kill people
Agreed.

So Billy is the opposite of Kurt?

Goddamn... anyways I always think that 90's Smashing Pumpkins were greater than Nirvana and even think that critics should rank them higher than Kurt's band. But after seeing this thread, my level of respect for Billy has rose through the roof.

brb going to marathon Smashing Pumpkin's 90's discography

The spiritual nature of your rebuttals is concerning me, user. I believe that you posess metaphysical levels of retardation.

But it didn't happen. The things that actually happened was those two guys in boston beating up a mexican and the blm guy getting slugged in the face on his way out of the rally.

Johnson

>it didn't happen because I said so
ok

literally who. he's gonna be voting for Hilary later in the year anyway

is it the same guy reposing that image as if we didn't already know kurt was left leaning?

99% of musicians are. you trumpites would get so triggered if you met your favourite musicians

Kurt was an SJW, but it was during a time when SJWism was kinda needed. If he were around today he most likely would've changed some of his opinions that he held back then.

Your lack of a valid retort has reached a transcendental level
>Considering I bought the album in early 96,
I bought it the day it was released. You seem late to the trend.

His first appearance as Bald Billy was on SNL. He only performed one sole concert with hair, and that was the "lights out" Riviera show. While the album was big, it didn't get REALLY big until 1979 and Tonight Tonight were released as singles. He was bald by then.

You wouldn't know any of this because you were probably 8 at the time, right?

>it happened because I said so

Gary Johnson you fucking idiot. Libertarian candidate who'll get at least 10 percent of the vote. You're a fucking moron who hasn't been paying attention and not worth discussing politics with any further. Please don't vote.

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Dude, tell me what image I'm referring to in the booklet. Describe it to me, since you own the album.

>but it was during a time when SJWism was kinda needed
But it's always needed. Especially now.