Matthew was paid to write this.
Ah, yes. A song from a recovering addict who lives on a backwater farm in poor Appalachia is "punching down" when he [checks notes] writes a song criticizing the multi-trillion-dollar regime in Washington, DC - the most powerful and extensive bureaucracy in human history - for crushing the working man.
What do you expect from a guy with pronouns in his bio?
...things start to feel a little less empathetic when Anthony starts complaining about "the obese milking welfare", reasoning that "if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds".
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The supposed welfare abuse sounds like a rightwing talking point, and Anthony doesn't appear to have considered that the nefarious fudge rounds might be feeding the very people he mentioned with nothing to eat.
Yeah, you bigot. There's no problem with lazy people getting paid to sit around and eat Oreos on taxpayers' dimes. You can't point to a single area, say, in any of America's cities, where this is an issue.
And you definitely won't find an overlap in, say, areas where welfare is widespread and crime is rampant. There's definitely no correlation there!
Yep, just a "rightwing talking point!"
...a reference to politicians "looking out for minors on an island somewhere" - apparently a reference to Jeffrey Epstein's ties to elite figures - has also prompted speculation that Anthony could be nodding to QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory positing that Democrats and Hollywood stars are drinking the blood of children. In the car video, Anthony claims child trafficking has become "normalized", though what he's referring to isn't clear.
Yes, we all know Jeffrey Epstein was a saint who definitely never, even once, blackmailed elites by getting them to carouse with trafficked girls. Bill Clinton was on all those flights because of charity!
But, like the Guardian told us about "Sound of Freedom," sex trafficking isn't even a problem anyway.
The rightwing commentator Matt Walsh, meanwhile, claims the "song is raw and authentic … Everything around us is fake. A guy in the woods pouring his heart over his guitar is real." Wait till Walsh hears about Bon Iver in 2007, or Ed Sheeran busking in a train station, or pretty much anyone at a New York open mic on a Wednesday night.
Do you think everything is woke, fake, and gay?
The joke's on you! How dare you think a country man taking aim at the most powerful regime ever, especially during a time when people are struggling to afford food, is more authentic than Ed Sheeran?
Matthew at The Guardian knows what the people want, comrades!
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