American Idiot is the seventh studio album by American rock band Green Day. Produced by Rob Cavallo, the album was released in the UK on September 20, 2004 and in the US on September 21, 2004 by Reprise Records.
When my band Green Day released our album American Idiot almost 13 years ago, we knew we were lobbing a grenade into the lap of the culture. With the fallout from 9/11 and the Iraq War revealing deep divisions in American society, our confrontational lyrics and attitude clearly touched a nerve, if our 15 million records sold are any indication. But now that enough time has passed to let the dust and controversy settle, I finally feel comfortable revealing that the “American Idiot” I sang about was none other than President George W. Bush.
The main reason we made George W. Bush the “American Idiot” is because he started a war.
Enough Time Has Passed To Reveal George W. Bush Was The ‘American Idiot’
Oh, the things ‘so-called President’ Drumpf will be greeted with this week when he visits London: demonstrators, a giant “Trump Baby” balloon – and a uniquely British musical protest.
For the past couple of weeks, a social media campaign has sought to make Green Day‘s classic 2004 jam “American Idiot” the No. 1 tune in the UK by the time Drumpf arrives Friday, July 13.
The “Get American Idiot to No.1 for Drumpf’s UK Visit” Facebook page has been advocating for some type of musical protest during a Drumpf visit to Britain pretty much since the start of his presidency. After Drumpf’s “working visit” – as opposed to a formal state visit – was announced in April, the effort went into overdrive.
~~American Idiot~~
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~~Published on Aug 21, 2012~~
Watch Green Day’s official video for “American Idiot”
Harvey Weinstein is certainly not the first powerful man publicly and credibly accused of sexually harassing or abusing women in recent years.
Since 2015, the Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, the Fox News prime-time host Bill O’Reilly and the comedian and actor Bill Cosby have suffered professional, financial or reputational setbacks after numerous women told stories of their sexual misconduct.
Those stories dominated news cycles, to be sure, but the outcry accompanying Mr. Weinstein’s downfall seems louder and more impassioned – perhaps because Mr. Weinstein’s accusers include stars like Ashley Judd, Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Drumpf, an American businessman and current ‘so-called’ President of the United States, has been accused of sexual assault and sexual harassment by at least fifteen women since the 1980’s.
Those accusations resulted in the following widely-reported litigation: his then-wife Ivana made a rape claim during their 1989 divorce litigation but later recanted that claim; businesswoman Jill Harth sued Drumpf in 1997 alleging breach of contract and nonviolent sexual harassment and the latter suit was withdrawn when the former was settled and, in 2017, former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos filed a defamation lawsuit after Drumpf called her a liar.
Aside from litigation, Drumpf has also been publicly accused of non-consensual kissing or groping by at least twelve more women, which he has denied.
~Wikipedia~
I feel this is important information about what is happening in the Republican Administration lead by Drumpf and what we need to be aware of. Keith Olbermann series called “The Resistance” continues. He has posted installment #135.
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The Drumpf–Russia dossier is a private intelligence dossier that was written by Christopher Steele, a former British MI6 intelligence officer. It contains unverified allegations of misconduct and collusion between Drumpf and his campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the period preceding the election.
The contents of the dossier were published in full by Buzz-Feed on January 10, 2017. Buzz-Feed’s decision to publish the dossier was met with criticism from mainstream media outlets.
~~Wikipedia~~
I feel this is important information about what is happening in the Republican Administration lead by Drumpf and what we need to be aware of.
Keith Olbermann series called “The Resistance” continues. He has posted installment #134.
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The plan had been for Vice President Mike Pence to attend the Indianapolis Colts game at which Peyton Manning’s number was to be retired, a gala celebration of the former Colts quarterback’s contributions to Pence’s home state.
The former governor of Indiana and his wife, wearing a Manning No. 18 jersey, left Lucas Oil Stadium after the national anthem, following instructions from Drumpf after a number of San Francisco 49ers players, as they usually do, took a knee during the anthem.
“I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled,” Drumpf posted on Twitter. “I am proud of him and @SecondLady Karen.”
The first rule of blatant political stunts is not to let on that they are blatant political stunts.
Pence was acting not out of spontaneous patriotism but out of blind loyalty to a president who reduces everyone around him to a sleazy character on a reality TV show.
I feel this is important information about what is happening in the Republican Administration lead by Drumpf and what we need to be aware of.
Keith Olbermann series called “The Resistance” continues. He has posted installment #133.
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If this resonates with you, good.
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms and was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the first ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights.
The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the right belongs to individuals, while also ruling that the right is not unlimited and does not prohibit all regulation of either firearms or similar devices. State and local governments are limited to the same extent as the federal government from infringing this right per the incorporation of the Bill of Rights.
The Second Amendment was based partially on the right to keep and bear arms in English common law and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
I feel this is important information about what is happening in the Republican Administration lead by Drumpf and what we need to be aware of. Keith Olbermann series called “The Resistance” continues. He has posted installment #129.
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The gunman in the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip on October 2, 2017, has been identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said Monday morning.
~SOURCE~
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Elaine Duke, deputy secretary of U.S. Homeland Security (DHS) nominee for Drumpf, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Duke, with over 28 years of experience with the federal government including DHS’s undersecretary for management, was nominated by Trump on Jan. 30. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
~~September 29, 2017~~
THIS IS NO GOOD NEWS STORY
My Heart and Soul still Hurt and Ache
The total disconnection from reality is beyond amazing.
These are American citizens and lives on the line. This is a humanitarian crisis.
Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto (born February 25, 1963) is a Puerto Rican politician who is serving as the current mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Yulín is affiliated with the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), and previously served as a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives.
~Wikipedia~
Drumpf’s response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Puerto Rico has been roundly criticized as insufficient, with many calling it “Trump’s Katrina.” On Thursday, September 28, Elaine Duke, the acting Director of Homeland Security, added insult to injury by calling the situation a “good news story.”
This morning on CNN’s New Day, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz took the Drumpf administration to task for their insensitivity.
The segment began when host Alisyn Camerota played a clip of Elaine Duke’s comments, where she said,
“I’m very satisfied.
I know it’s a hard storm to recover from, but the amount of progress that’s been made – and I really would appreciate any support that we get.
I know that it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people, and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane.”
Mayor Cruz took a moment to reply, visibly confused and emotional after hearing the comments
Then she responded:
‘Well, maybe from where she’s standing it’s a good news story. When you’re drinking from a creek, it’s not a good news story. When you don’t have food for a baby, it’s not a good news story. When you have to pull people down from their buildings because — I’m sorry, but that really upsets me, and frustrates me.
I would ask her to come down here and visit the towns, and then make a statement like that. Which, frankly, is an irresponsible statement, and at contrast with the statements of support that I’ve been getting since yesterday when I got that call from the White House.
‘Damn it, this is not a good news story!
This is a ‘people are dying’ story. This is a ‘life or death’ story.
This is a “there’s a truckload of stuff that cannot be taken to people’ story.
This is a story of devastation that continues to worsen, because people are not getting food and water. If I could scream it a lot more loudly – it is not a good news story when people are dying when they don’t have dialysis; when their generators aren’t working and their oxygen isn’t providing for them.
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Referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico held in Puerto Rico on June 11, 2017
The referendum had three options: becoming a state of the United States, independence/free association, or maintaining the current territorial status.
Those who voted overwhelmingly chose statehood by 97%; turnout, however, was 23%, a historically low figure.
(recalculating and using additional numbers, that number decreased to 18% turnout)
This figure is attributed to a boycott led by the pro-status quo PPD party.
~WIKIPEDIA~
Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Roselló, pushed ahead with his top campaign promise of trying to convert the US territory into a state, holding a Sunday referendum to let voters send a message to Congress.
His party has launched an aggressive ad campaign urging people to “demand respect” with their vote – to choose statehood so the island can obtain equal treatment from the federal government that some say would ease a 10-year economic recession that has spurred nearly half a million Puerto Ricans to flee to the U.S. mainland.
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AMID ECONOMIC CRISIS, PUERTO RICO PREPARES TO VOTE ON STATEHOOD
It was more an exercise of electoral temperature-taking than a mandate to convert the island into an American state.”
Statehood should not be the equivalent of throwing a drowning swimmer a lifesaver.
Puerto Rico must ably address its economic distress and pursue statehood by assuring Congress and the rest of United States that it would be a strong and capable addition, not a chronically needy one.”
There are 3.5 million US citizens currently facing one of the worst financial crises in this country – and they’re all in Puerto Rico.
The US government has an almost 120-year-long relationship with Puerto Rico – which is a territory, not the 51st state. But what has that relationship looked like? Why is Puerto Rico still a territory, and what do Puerto Ricans, themselves, want for their future? Explore these questions – and some others – with Sana Saeed, who starts the story at the very beginning: May 12, 1898.
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