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Le Gaucher

(1,547 posts)
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 03:58 PM Jan 2018

Which of your favourite musician/actor/celebrity is a Trump supporter?

For me personally - it breaks my heart that John Petrucci on Dream Theater is a Trump supporter .. while he isn't a rabid nutjob like Ted Mutant .. the fact that he follows Trump and Gop on Twitter and saying things like " I like him.. let's give me a chance " has soured me on his music.

I wish he the good sense to shut his mouth and not alienate fans like me.

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Which of your favourite musician/actor/celebrity is a Trump supporter? (Original Post) Le Gaucher Jan 2018 OP
I've always hated the fact that James Woods is a right-winger. Aristus Jan 2018 #1
I used to think he was good at playing smarmy assholes. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2018 #13
I'd hope they would see the light but I won't hate them for it Amishman Jan 2018 #2
NONE! MyOwnPeace Jan 2018 #3
I used to like Ted Nugent's music lagomorph777 Jan 2018 #4
Roseanne Barr, probably because I always thought she was a liberal. Willie Pep Jan 2018 #5
She has is doing a revival of her old "Roseanne" sitcom on March 27th. In_The_Wind Jan 2018 #10
I'm no longer a fan of any trump/repug supporter. I use to love Eastwood's westerns and... brush Jan 2018 #6
I hear ya.. same with those who Cha Jan 2018 #12
Yep, the Sergio Leone westerns are ruined ProudLib72 Jan 2018 #17
Conservative fans say the same thing about liberal artists. Act_of_Reparation Jan 2018 #7
Screw 'em for all I care. They won't get a dime from me for their music, movies or whatever. brush Jan 2018 #14
Conservative artists can say whatever they want - I just don't support them. Justice Jan 2018 #19
I don't care... quickesst Jan 2018 #8
I try to avoid the politicals of any artist LanternWaste Jan 2018 #9
I can do that to an extent .. I love watching frasier Le Gaucher Jan 2018 #11
I can acknowledge genius, for instance, Picasso was a legitimate genius but he treated women... brush Jan 2018 #15
None. Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #16
Goddamn it. JP likes trump? goodboy Jan 2018 #18

Aristus

(66,328 posts)
1. I've always hated the fact that James Woods is a right-winger.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:06 PM
Jan 2018

He sounds like a real asshole off-screen, but he's always had a twitchy, ingratiating likability on-screen.

I just can't really watch him anymore.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
13. I used to think he was good at playing smarmy assholes.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 06:25 PM
Jan 2018

Now I'm pretty much convinced he wasn't actually playing anything.

Amishman

(5,557 posts)
2. I'd hope they would see the light but I won't hate them for it
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:06 PM
Jan 2018

I have a lot of neighbors who are Trumpists, as are a lot of my in-laws. As long as politics isn't discussed, we get along fine. I hope they will wise up someday, but I won't let that disappointment ruin the relationship.

Life is too short to let politics rule my life. Plus I'd be a very lonely person if I shunned every Republican while living in rural PA.

brush

(53,776 posts)
6. I'm no longer a fan of any trump/repug supporter. I use to love Eastwood's westerns and...
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:11 PM
Jan 2018

"Dirty Harry" movies.

No more.

Soon as I hear a favorite is a trumper or repug, they're dead to me.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
7. Conservative fans say the same thing about liberal artists.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:19 PM
Jan 2018

From where I stand, Petrucci can say whatever he wants... I'll just be over here, listening to Opeth instead.

quickesst

(6,280 posts)
8. I don't care...
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:26 PM
Jan 2018

.... About an an entertainers politics. If I like the acting, and like the music, I enjoy it. Their politics have nothing to do with their talent in these fields. I have never understood why anyone would deprive themselves of something they enjoy simply because the entertainers politics do not mirror their own. I don't care for ketchup on french fries, but it doesn't mean I hate french fries. Logic and common sense are big things in my life.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
9. I try to avoid the politicals of any artist
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:28 PM
Jan 2018

I try to avoid the political bent of any artist (unless of course, politics is in fact, part and parcel of their body of work) to better prevent my own biases from bridging the divide between the art and the artist.

If that happens (i.e., I begin to conflate the art and the artist), my biases tend to get the best of me, and I'll begin judging their work on some stance wholly irrelevant to their work.

I don't want to dismiss an artist or author (or simply one of their ideas) simply because they hold a position too far to my right or left. If I did, I'd have to reduce the collective works of Aristotle or Euripides as invalid because they believed slavery was part of the natural order of things.

So I laugh in ignorant bliss at a Bob Hope Road movie or a Cary Grant slapstick. I watch with apt attention as David Lynch propels his narrative along via emotive reaction rather than dialog. And I blithely argue to myself that I really believe Patricia Heaton did a better job in her work on The Goodbye Girl than Marsha Mason (for the record, yes... I do)

If I didn't separate the art from the artist, I'd be a bored, myopic and more thoughtless than otherwise.

 

Le Gaucher

(1,547 posts)
11. I can do that to an extent .. I love watching frasier
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 05:01 PM
Jan 2018

But there is no way in hell I can watch any Tom Cruise movie ... He might be greatest actor for all I care ( and he is not) .. but I refuse to watch a single movie of his

brush

(53,776 posts)
15. I can acknowledge genius, for instance, Picasso was a legitimate genius but he treated women...
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 06:40 PM
Jan 2018

horribly.

Being an artist, I sometimes wonder if I could afford one of his works would I buy one, then I remember that some very small prints of his are actually affordable but the more famous ones I can't touch financially so I guess I'm still being principled.

Or am I?

But screw all of that navel gazing, I'm not spending a dime on the output of any these trumper/repug musicians of actors.

I know that for sure.

goodboy

(8,967 posts)
18. Goddamn it. JP likes trump?
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 06:54 PM
Jan 2018

I fuckin love DT but that really burns my Ass. I ecpecy no talent assholes like Nugent to support that fuckface but not someone who obviously has an intellect

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