Apparently, Cher can turn back time, because we’re now living in some moment before her Farewell tour.
She just announced a residency in Las Vegas in February and May, and additional shows will be scheduled later.
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In order to promote the upcoming extravaganza, she popped ’round to the TODAY show to touch upon subjects as varied as Donald Trump and growing older.
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Here is some of the wisdom she imparted:
On the possibility of a Trump presidency:
I feel like I’m yelling ‘fire,’ and no one is listening…I care about the country, and I know that the people that are following Trump, they care about the country, too. But I don’t think it’s the same country I care about.”
On why she’s backing Clinton:
She’s done some things that I’m sure she wishes she hadn’t done. And she’s done things — I can’t back every play. But I think that if she has the chance to be a great president, she will rise to that occasion.”
On turning 70:
I just don’t know how to accept it. I don’t want to either. But I don’t really know how to. I look in the mirror and I see this old lady looking back at me. I have no idea how she got there. If I put 70 candles on my cake I would blow my brains out…”
On touring:
The older you are the harder it is.”
Watch the interview below:
ErikO
Cher stick to singing in autotune.
joeyty
Sonny Bono said Cher was so dumb she thought Mount Rushmore was a natural formation.
dwes09
@joeyty: “Sonny Bono said Cher was so dumb she thought Mount Rushmore was a natural formation.”
And she was a sheltered naive 16 year old at the time. the people who follow Trump (your guy) typically believe the universe is only 10,000 years old, Noah’s ark actually existed, and that the sun orbits around the earth. They also cannot distinguish between science and fiction.They are a lot older than 16.
Evaluate her comments. You disparage her by bringing up comments she made whan she was essentially a child, and yet lick the ass of a man who lies constantly and as if he thinks his followers are to stupid to think for themselves. Just yesterday her said “voter fraud is a really, really, big problem” in this country. Actual facts show otherwise, it is insignificant except in the case of small local districts or elections. But you just eat up his lies, don’t you. And quiver in your shoes from fear when the right tells you to. Pretty clear who the dumb ones are here and now.
Not at all a Cher fan, she has been an autotune creation since that software was written, but her comments are correct.
dwes09
@dwes09: No reading glasses on and broad fingers! When not whan, too not to, he said not her said!
joeyty
@dwes09: “And she was a sheltered naive 16 year old at the time”. But she STILL believes that. And the people who follow Hillary (your female) think talking trees told them Jews are hiding behind them, the world is flat, pork is bad, and that it’s good for society to kill gays. Cher doesn’t have to worry about getting gunned down at a Pulse nightclub, so…..of course she doesn’t want Trump.
joeyty
@dwes09: No. The Right didn’t tell me about the Pulse massacre. Didn’t tell me about 9-11 either. I lived through that one. Also the Right didn’t tell me the color of the guys who tried to bash me on the subway. Methinks YOU’RE the one who’s quivering.
joeyty
@dwes09: And how do YOU stand licking the ass (through a pantsuit) of a woman who excuses that lecherous Arkansas hick of a husband and rasps, “Islam is NOT our enemy!” Maybe not yours, Hillary. They didn’t execute pantsuit chicks throughout Muslim theocracies last week.
dwes09
@joeyty: Islam is not our enemy. The pulse massecre was comitted by a citizen, there have been no acts of terror committed by Syrian refugees, the movement of mexican illegals is BACK to Mexico for the past year because there are better jobs there with benefits. You have no connection to reality at all.
And what makes you think i am quivering, except quivering with laughter at a xenophobic little man who cannot tell the difference between reality and his imagination, between anecdote and statistic. As for the world being flat, that was never believed by anybody but a very few Europeans. Islam was important in the advancement of early mathematics and astronomy (the word Algebra comes from Arabic), and improved on the accuracy of Earth’s diameter and the distance to the moon as first approximated by the greeks. You know very little beyond your myths and baseless beliefs.
As for Hillary standing by Bill after his adultery, women do it all the time, and in most cases you would have compassion for their choice, being I assume a “good Christian”, or at least coming from that culture.
All you have is the talking points you are fed by your shepherds (Breitbart, the Blaze, Glenn Beck and his ilk)! Critical thinking is anathema to you obviously.
And really now, please provide something other than your frequent delusions that indicate Cher still believes the Mount Rushmore carvings are natural, not man made. A statement like that only makes you a laughingstock among the sane.
joeyty
@dwes09: Islam might not be YOUR enemy, but it sure is mine. Muslim sets off bomb in Uncle Charlie’s in NYC, luckily doesn’t kill anyone. Muslim sets Neighbors Nightclub in Seattle on fire on NY’s Eve, attempting to burn to death a thousand gays and lesbians. Is stopped by gay military guys. Pulse massacre. Muslim who was inspired by listening to two imams preaching death to gays. FINALLY, this time, the attack is successful. Homosexuality punished by imprisonment or capital punishment in almost every Muslim-majority country. 52 percent of British Muslims now say homosexuality should be illegal. American imam who preaches that gays should be beheaded welcomed with open arms in London where scores of young Muslims flock to see him. Syrian refugees committing gaybashings throughout Europe. So…you go ahead and vote for the pantsuit who’ll throw you to the Muslim sharks in two seconds if it means more votes for her. I’m just not so self-hating.
joeyty
@dwes09: And don’t try to educate me about the history of Islam and the math and all that baloney. I know all about the golden age of Baghdad and the Persian poets who espoused male-male love and all of it. The whirling dervishes and the Sufis and Babar and the fall of Baghdad and the Ottoman Empire. It still doesn’t mean they won’t slowly saw dwes09’s head off today.
joeyty
@dwes09: Me a Christian ????? Ha ha ha!! I think all religion is stupidity. (Though Islam is the worst). rump knows it’s stupidity too. (Unlike that lecherous molesting Arkansas hick and his hateful wife).
joeyty
@dwes09: I don’t know what you have against Mexicans, but it probably has something to do with them not buying your pro-Islamist baloney.
joeyty
https://www.queerty.com/islamic-preacher-lecturing-london-seen-outlining-ways-kill-gay-people-20161007 Just a reminder. THIS is the imam who dwes types, Cher, the Clintons, not only excuse but actually support. Is the younger generation, hopefully, not so self-hating that they’ll say, “Screw so-called diversity! I’m dropkicking this primitive Muslim fool right out of a ten story window!”?
dwes09
@joeyty: ” I’m dropkicking this primitive Muslim fool right out of a ten story window!”?”
Says the man with the clearly primitive mind. I added the statistic about Mexicans because your type believes all the lies of the right, and the one regarding illegals is one of the biggest. Why, except for the inability to actually see beyond your own assumptions, would you project a dislike for Mexicans on me? That is truly bizarre, almost more so than your old characterization of me as a “self-hating Jew”.
The younger generation is a lot more embracing of diversity and multi-cultural society. that is the direction of social progress regardless of the desired of the regressives like you to go back to the 1950’s.
“I’m just not so self-hating.” Because obviously voting for a man who intends to appoint anti-gay justices, Who choses a proudly homophobic running mate, who associates with white supremacists and gay-hating evangelicals, who has said he is against marriage equality RECENTLY (as opposed to many years ago and evolving to a more understanding position) is an indication of a gay man who loves himself.
Any gay man who supports Trump does so out of swallowing lies intended to induce fear, and out of the self-hatred that allows them to support a politician who will undermine their freedoms. You need to learn to think. What you are doing instead is clearly not working.
joeyty
@dwes09: You support an imam who wants to saw YOUR head off. Check yourself into a hospital.
joeyty
@dwes09: “embracing of diversity and multi-cultural society” Which means…homophobic. Young gay guys are NOT going to go along with your sham of excusing Muslim homophobia because of your self-hatred and your excuse that we have to appreciate “multiculturalism and diversity.”
o.codone
OMG. It’s been clear for a while already that dwes09 is a liberal freak. joeyty, don’t waste your time talking to this giancarlo re-incarnate. I just wanted to say how CHER has morphed into Lily Tomlin. And Cher is a mental freak too. She can’t even speak b/c of too much plastic surgery. Thank you very much.
Alistair Wiseman
@o.codone: @joeyty:
Could one of you please explain to @dwes09: the definitions of brevity and pithy when formulating a written response on the Queerty boards? 🙂
And sanity too.
Tobi
@Alistair Wiseman: If only everyone would pop a valium before posting, huh?
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
That’s how I feel too, Cher. That’s it’s smartest to not vote for any candidate this election and vote only proposals. Unless, you don’t have a guilty conscience like I do – that’s why I can’t vote.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@joeyty: Oh my god – that is crazy. Thanks for posting. Not many are hearing you but some of us are. Don’t get scared off – keep posting and reminding.