AOC Says She Won’t Listen to Ed Sheeran ... But Understands

Hey, if Ed Sheeran comes on the radio while you're driving along, are you changing the channels? I am. You are? Yeah, I am. Why is that? I think that what we've seen, especially, it's not just what has happened with the act and not just in removing Macklemore from the lineup, but when you see what Robert Kraft did to line up all of the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way, it's become clear that this is not just about one music artist or two music artists, but this is about how just a handful of stadium owners and the elite can prevent an entire massive issue, in this case, the genocide in Gaza. But it doesn't stop there. It could be speaking out about AI. It could be speaking out about any issue that you can now just get a handful of stadium owners to ensure that an entire person's career can be jeopardized if they speak out about any issue. The supporting acts have dropped out, but Ed Sheeran, I think, will still continue with the tour. What do you think his responsibility is in all of this? I don't know, but I think that because you never see these contracts and I have no idea what the financial entanglements of all that is, but I do think that the right thing to do is to speak out about it. I think the right thing to do is, at the very least, to speak out about this abuse of power. Because if they're saying that to him, then they can say it to anybody. And at what point does it stop? I have a huge amount of empathy for the situation because I think people want the focus here to be about Ed Sheeran, and he, of course, plays a role, but they're not putting the focus on Robert Kraft and, you know, the actual people who are kind of twisting things here. So, and again, everyone has responsibility in the situation, everyone plays a role, but we need to be very clear about how dangerous the precedent this is. Thank you.