Roger Waters Says He's on Ukraine "Kill List"

[prodigitalson]

He also reiterated his belief, last expressed in August, that President Joe Biden is a war criminal while Russia and China are relative innocents. “Of course, we — when I say we, I’m now speaking as a taxpayer in the United States — are not. We are the most evil of all by a factor of at least 10 times,” he said. “We kill more people. We interfere in more people’s elections. We, the American empire, is doing all this shit.”

Interviewer James Ball pushed back. A member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the NSA wiretapping scandal, Ball brought up evidence of Russian war crimes: “mass graves, the use of rape as a weapon of war, targeting humanitarian convoys, and more.”

Waters retorted, “You’ve seen it on what I’ve just described to you as western propaganda. It’s exactly the obverse of saying, Russian propaganda, Russians interfered with our election, Russians did that. It’s all lies, lies, lies, lies.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roger-waters-says-ukraine-kill-154653786.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

[MLAA]

1. Asshole or suffering dementia. I guess it could be both.

[icymist]

21. I'll go with asshole.

Remember how he broke up Pink Floyd by saying that it was all about him? Then he sues the remaining members to stop using the name Pink Floyd. It was unsuccesful, but he really did try. This man is an asshole.

Roger Waters has said he regrets taking legal action against his former bandmates Pink Floyd in the 1980s.

The singer and bass guitarist sued David Gilmour and Nick Mason in 1986, in an attempt to prevent them from using the name, claiming the group was "a spent force creatively."

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-24157591

[MLAA]

22. I guess we can add narcissist to his list of attributes, I was t aware of his suing his band mates.

[Johonny]

24. Bob Ezrin was brought in to help with the Wall by Waters

His story is pretty telling. Waters hired him because he talked about how pushy, controlling, and impossible to work with Dave and Rick were to work with so he needed a buffer between him and the rest of the band. As Ezrin tells it, he pretty soon discovered the scenario was the other way around. He went on to work with Gilmour as a solo artist and in PF and never worked with Roger again. Waters being Waters, trashes Bob Ezrin in a lyric on Amused to Death because of course he did.

[kysrsoze]

2. Wow. I thought he started to redeem himself in his later year. Still a giant asshole.

Some people never change.

[prodigitalson]

7. he's one of my favorite songwriters, always knew he was a dick but he's really disgraced himself nt

[kysrsoze]

12. I agree - love his lyrics and what he, Gilmour, Mason and Wright did together was incredible.

In recent years, he acknowledged being such a prick to the rest of the band. He wouldn't say it, but I think he knew he'd be nowhere without them, and IMO, it shows in most of his solo work.

I like his most recent album, and have generally agreed with his political views, so I started appreciating him again. Now I feel he's one of those people who have gone so far to the left, they wind up on the right. The comment about being on a Ukraine kill list makes me think he's starting to lose his mind.

[Lovie777]

3. I have noticed that RWers are going the extra miles .......

being extremely paranoid. Musk and others.

Putin at this point in time is losing.

[Tetrachloride]

4. He needs Wheel of Fortune or other

low brain job.

[edhopper]

5. I wonder why Pink Floyd

kicked him out? Seems like a perfectly reasonable guy.

[Bayard]

6. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters?

Well, that's weird. Especially since he's British.

[fishwax]

15. he lives out in the Hamptons now

[Boomerproud]

16. In a mansion I presume.

[A HERETIC I AM]

30. With a net worth of over $300 million.....

I'm betting it's not a hovel.

[maxsolomon]

8. Left Libertarian.

He sounds like a Larouchie, buying into Putin's war rationales: "they made us do it".

His Egoism is out of control if he thinks he's important enough to be on a Ukraine kill list.

[niyad]

14. I am fairly certain that Ukraine has more important things to do at the

moment than wasting hit people other places.

[PurgedVoter]

25. At least LaRouche was anti-Nazi

So anti-Nazi he hated A-440. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch
I always considered LaRouche valuable as a metric. When he started to make more sense than other candidates it was time to really start looking to see what went wrong. Sadly, over half the Republicans currently make LaRouche seem quite sensible. Their paranoia is well up to the LaRouche level and their arguments don't even hold together for three sentences. At least LaRouche could seem to make sense for three or so paragraphs before becoming obviously lunatic.

[prodigitalson]

26. I totally forgot about LaRouche

his people used to hand out their screeds at the airport in the late 70s early 80s.

[Iggo]

29. The pitch?

As in “guitar tuned to A-440”?

[PurgedVoter]

32. Yep! read the link I put up

It was Joseph Goebbels who pushed for concert pitch to become the standard tuning. So of course playing music tuned to A440 makes everyone turn Nazi.

Considering how things are working out, maybe it is true, but my observation has been that the same folk that want us to leave A440 usually have other things going on that are cray cray.

That is where I generally stop listening. You know how it is, someone might make a few arguments that seem reasonable on the surface and then they suddenly go full out racist or loony in another way.

[Iggo]

35. Oh, my gawd!

LOL…and they put out a pamphlet on it.

[48656c6c6f20]

9. Revoke assholes green card

[SCantiGOP]

10. He's now on my list

Of self-important, out of touch musicians, along with Eric Clapton and Van Morrison. Still love their music, but it doesn’t sound quite the same with the pro-Putin and anti-vax added in.

[johnp3907]

11. The lunatic is in his head.

[kysrsoze]

13. Well done. Very well done.

[Zambero]

17. I gather Gilmour and the others have not missed him

[Behind the Aegis]

18. LOL! Suuuuuuuuuuuure!

"All in all, he's just another brick short of a wall!!"

[Initech]

19. OK, Roger, put down the bong and back away from the computer very slowly.

[Texasgal]

20. I just saw an ad

on local TV that tickets are for sale for his show here in Austin.

[Act_of_Reparation]

23. Waters has been in the AMERICABAD camp for a long time.

These are the people who while often correct in their criticisms of American foreign policy, will cozy up to whoever is in opposition to America because, well, AMERICABAD. Never mind that the people they cozy up to are qualitatively no better.

[Cha]

27. NO Stupid, Waters.. That's What

Russia does.. Ukraine wants to Exist.


Fucking Idiot.

[LiberalFighter]

28. Why doesn't he prove he is on their hit list?

He should jump out of a 20 story building window.

[niyad]

31. Who?

[MerryBlooms]

33. Hit list from 1980's? Maybe he's been listening to reruns of

America's Top Forty? That's the only "Hit List", he's on. 😄

[AZLD4Candidate]

34. To quote that harpie Laura Ingraham: "shut up and sing." Or is that only for the Dixie Chicks?

[Iggo]

36. Oh, honey. No.

If you were on anyone’s hit list, sweetie, you’d be dead.