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March LC Thread: Survivor White House Edition

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of March?

Rod Rosenstein

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Mike Pompeo

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders

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Kjrstyn Njielessen

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Mick Mulvaney

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Kellyanne Conway

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5 13.51%

Jared Kushner

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Donald Trump Jr*

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03-01-2019 , 02:44 PM

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Namath12

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I didn't put it together at first but TIL that the place where the GLORY HOLE is located was also the site of one of the Zodiac killings

03-01-2019 , 02:45 PM

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Namath12

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Interesting redo from the present. The song itself begins at around 2:00.

It's possible that Eric Clapton is immortal imo

03-01-2019 , 03:15 PM

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gregorio

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God is immortal afaik

03-01-2019 , 03:19 PM

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Paul D

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Clapton is a POS though

03-01-2019 , 03:22 PM

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SenorKeeed

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I heard he is deplorable, or at least deplorable-adjacent

03-01-2019 , 03:25 PM

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“I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country,” Clapton declared. “Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. ****ing wogs, man. ****ing Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and ****ing Jamaicans and ****ing … don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want ****ing wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country. What is happening to us, for ****’s sake?”

- Clapton

Granted he apologized for that, but he has other history like profiting off his son's death, writing love songs about other dude's wives (Harrison). Just a jackass imo.

03-01-2019 , 03:33 PM

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Namath12

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JFC

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Interesting take for someone who's career was founded on appropriating music from black people. Also

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He married Pattie Boyd in 1979, but their marriage was marred by his infidelities and domestic violence. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Clapton admitted he was abusive to Boyd when he was a "full-blown" alcoholic.

03-01-2019 , 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by yeSpiff

When truth is of no consequence
Learning's trumped by sheer pretense
When greed, deceit and vanity meets
Watch your back and count your teeth

03-01-2019 , 03:37 PM

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Interesting take for someone who's career was founded on appropriating music from black people.

Was about to post something like this

03-01-2019 , 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by gregorio

Interesting take for someone who's career was founded on appropriating music from black people. Also

This is the second time I've heard something like this, the first time being about Elvis. First, what exactly does this mean and second, how exactly can we know this?

03-01-2019 , 03:57 PM

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Know what? That the blues can be traced to black musicians, or that Clapton learned to play the blues by copying black blues musicians? This is from Clapton's autobiography. I believe all the musicians he mentions are black.

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We hadn't bought an amplifier, so I could only play it acoustically and fantasize about what it would sound like, but it didn't matter. I was teaching myself new stuff all the time. Most of the time I was trying to play like Chuck Berry or Jimmy Reed, electric stuff, then I sort of worked backward into country blues. This was instigated by Clive, when out of the blue he gave me an album to listen to call King of the Delta Blues Singers, a collection of seventeen songs recorded by bluesman Robert Johnson in the 1930s. I read in the sleeve notes that when Johnson was auditioning for the sessions in a hotel room in San Antonio, he played facing the corner of the room because he was so shy. Having been paralyzed with shyness as a kid, I immediately identified with this.

At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life work. I was totally spellbound by the beauty and eloquence of songs like "Kindhearted Woman," while the raw pain expressed in "Hellhound on My Trail" seemed to echo things I had always felt.

I tried to copy Johnson, but his style of simultaneously playing a disjointed bass line on the low strings, rhythm on the middle strings, and lead on the treble strings while singing at the same time was impossible to even imagine. I put his album to one side for a while and began listening again to other players, trying to form a style. I knew I could never reach the standards of the original guys, but I thought that if I kept trying, something would evolve. It was just a question of time and faith. I began to play things I had heard on the record, but to add my own touches. I would take the bits that I could copy from a combination of the electric blues players I liked, like John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Chuck Berry, and the acoustic players like Big Bill Broonzy, and amalgamate them into one, trying to find a phraseology that would encompass all these different artists. It was an extremely ambitious undertaking, but I was in no hurry and was convinced I was on the right track, and that eventually it would come.

03-01-2019 , 04:11 PM

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Elvis kind of gets a bad rap in this regard, but wow at that Clapton tirade. If you’re going to approproate black music, don’t go full UKIP.

03-01-2019 , 04:12 PM

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https://twitter.com/politico/status/1101282169547239424

No comment

03-01-2019 , 04:14 PM

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Yeah but why are people being derisive about the same process almost all musicians use?

03-01-2019 , 04:20 PM

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Pretty much all the British Invaders were inspired by Motown sound by their own admission

03-01-2019 , 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by markksman

Yeah but why are people being derisive about the same process almost all musicians use?

If you are going to learn how to play like someone, you can honor and recognize them for it, such as by paying royalties. The Rolling Stones had Howlin Wolf open for them a few times iirc. That is way better than just taking their sounds and ranting about how you want them out of your country.

03-01-2019 , 04:24 PM

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At the first Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, Keith Richards inducted Chuck Berry and quipped: "I lifted every lick he ever has played"

03-01-2019 , 05:09 PM

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Has the forum discussed how Rep. Ilhan Omar marrying her brother to get him a visa is the best conspiracy theory ever?

It manages to be both unbelievable, racist, and as a bonus the benefit of this (a visa) was already available through family based immigration so it is completely pointless.

03-01-2019 , 05:21 PM

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ScreaminAsian

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wow sounds pretty stupid

03-01-2019 , 05:24 PM

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- Clapton

Granted he apologized for that, but he has other history like profiting off his son's death, writing love songs about other dude's wives (Harrison). Just a jackass imo.

Tears in Heaven is a beautiful, gut-wrenching song, especially given his circumstances.

Are you saying he shouldn't have written it, he shouldn't have performed it, or he should've donated all of the royalties to charity?

03-01-2019 , 05:24 PM

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Yeah but why are people being derisive about the same process almost all musicians use?

Because not all musicians want to kick black people out of their country.

03-01-2019 , 05:25 PM

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I also thought that was a weird take.

03-01-2019 , 05:28 PM

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Yeah but why are people being derisive about the same process almost all musicians use?

It's kinda bad when you admittedly stand on the shoulders of black artists and art to become successful yourself and then say that you want black people kept out of your country. Like, it's always ignorant as **** to act like minorities are a negative on western society and culture, but when you literally used their contribution in about the most blatant way possible it is mind-boggling.

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