Frank Zappa warned us about the danger of the MAGA movement all the way back in the 1980s

[Ferrets are Cool]

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People thought he was crazy. He was not.

[doc03]

1. It all started with Raygun and his trickle down bullshit. The Citizens United

decision was the last straw. People thought Zappa was a left-wing nut, now they worship an insane
want to be dictator.

[gab13by13]

2. Zappa claimed to be a libertarian.

I loved the episode when he was on Crossfire.

[Joinfortmill]

4. That soft spoken charmer, Reagan, was evil, man.

[mzmolly]

3. Wow!

[underpants]

5. 👍

[KS Toronado]

6. Love to see that edited into a TV ad for us.

[90-percent]

7. I never thought he was crazy

He's been my hero and helped shape my values from the October 16, 1971 Stony Brook late show to the present. To eastern Europeans he represented everything that was great with America. He was proud to be an American "Constitutional Fundamentalist. He debated PMRC Members anywhere any time any place for any reason at all. It was remarkable who his friends were; Vaclev Havel, Al and Tipper, Linda Ellerbee, Daniel Schorr, Stan Lee, Don Vliet and many others. Even Rachel Maddow ("......the great Frank Zappa.&quot played a clip of his humiliation of Paula Hawkins at the PMRC Hearings. He testified live to the senate which were all gunning against him. He survived an "assassination attempt" where a deranged fan pushed him head first into an orchestra pit and he barely survived and was in a wheel chair for the next nine months. The week prior he was playing at MOntrose and was onstage where "some stupid with a flare gun burnt the place to the ground. He was on stage talking to the audience to prevent a stampede. (which has happened at other rock shows, 6? people died at a Who Concert in Cincinnati mid 70's?) He sued Warner Bros. and won. He was warned of an impending assassination attempt for his 88 tour Hartford shows, but played two shows, albeit backstage passes were canceled. He was doing feasibility studies about running for president but his prostate cancer shut that down. He was good at self promotion and sent out press releases constantly. He owned a recording studio in Cucamonga, purchased from electronics expert paul Buff. The original song "Wipe Out" was recorded there.

https://listenupradio.net/2012/06/28/who-freaked-the-freaks-the-whose-who-on-the-freak-out-list/

-90% jimmy

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. He was so far ahead of his time, musically and otherwise.

[John Shaft]

9. The era of Tipper Gore, Susan Baker and the PMRC

Funded in part by Joseph Coors.

[rubbersole]

10. Started before Reagan...

...with Nixon's Southern Strategy. Racists then evangelicals. Now throw in unlimited money and sophisticated disinformation (+AI) allowed by M$M - and the toxic mix either wins or takes a generation to put back under the rug. Climate change is not the only pile of shit we're leaving for our kids.

[Chi67]

11. I said...

...the same things back then as well. And yes, people called me crazy. I'm not happy to be right about this.

[malthaussen]

12. Yeah, and George Lincoln Rockwell did so in the 60's.

Well, not so much warned, as revelled in it. His Playboy interview is really quite prescient, though. He just had the timing off, and expected to be the Leader.

-- Mal

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