Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalists @aaronjmate and @kthalps
ROGER WATERS RETURNS TO USEFUL IDIOTS
“Is the revolution around the corner? I effing hope so!”
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters returns to Useful Idiots as bold and funny as ever, with takes on the UK’s new “self-serving Nazi” Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the meaninglessness of the Trump assassination attempt, the real devastation happening everyday in Gaza, Julian Assange, and so much more.
Roger laments that our leaders are “Joe Biden, who thinks he rules the world” and “Keir Starmer, who’s a self-serving, career Nazi. They would do anything, tell any lie, adopt any position that can give them power and influence.”
Waters asks what would have happened if the assassination attempt on Trump had been successful: “Nothing. There’d be another puppet there instead. It doesn’t make any difference.”
Which is why Roger believes working hard to get these people, Trump and Biden, out of office is so important. “You have an opportunity now to take part in the existential battle for the human soul that Aaron and Katie and I and millions, billions of people all over the world are engaged in. Because we care about right and wrong and we care about human rights and we care about our brothers and sisters.”
And if we don’t? “We are heading towards World War Three very, very fast.”
Last week, Aaron appeared on Piers Morgan in a debate with two very angry Zionists. The week before, Roger debated Piers himself. The two trade stories of the frustrating environment and how blatant lies (beheaded babies, evidence-less sexual assault of Israeli women), and propaganda (the covering up of Israel’s mass violence of its own people on October 7th) are being shoved down our throats.
“People on this issue just repeat again and again claims that have been debunked. They’ve been doing it since Joseph Goebbels and Herman Goering suggested it in the late 1930s. The bigger the lie you tell, the better it is. You just have to keep repeating it.”
Subscribe to hear the full interview with Roger Waters where he shares stories of his meeting with Julian Assange, a song from his upcoming album, the fascist uniform he wears for his live shows, and what he does every day to make a difference in the world.
“It’s not easy. We all of us wake up in the morning and burst into tears, and then think ‘All right pull yourself together you big lunk. There’s work to be done.’ And we think what can I do today to to make a difference? However tiny it is, what can I do today that is not standing by, silent and indifferent? What can I do?”