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  • Gives Trump the Middle Finger

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 18 14:40:02 2025
    Bruce Springsteen Gives Trump the Middle Finger with Another Defiant
    Concert

    The Boss seems unfazed by the president's threats

    Despite a threat from Donald Trump to shut his mouth -- or else, Bruce Springsteen stood his ground, unleashing another blistering critique
    of the president and his administration during a concert in
    Manchester, England, on Saturday night.

    The New Jersey rocker echoed many of the same sentiments delivered
    during the kick-off of The E Street Band's "Land of Hope and Dreams
    Tour" earlier this week. "In my home, the America I love, the America
    I've written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250
    years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and
    treasonous administration," Springsteen proclaimed. "Tonight, we ask
    all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience
    to rise with us, raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and
    let freedom ring!"

    https://consequence.net/2025/05/springsteen-trump-middle-finger-concert/

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun May 18 22:11:33 2025
    On Sun, 18 May 2025 14:40:02 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Bruce Springsteen Gives Trump the Middle Finger with Another Defiant
    Concert

    Bruce Springsteen seems to be the last remaining American with a pair
    of balls and the willingness to fight. I can't think of a single other
    example of someone prominent willing to say the emperor has no clothes
    in the past months.

    Bravo Bruce. And because of his admiration by working class America, it
    means something.

    Meanwhile, the Dems are bewildered, floundering, useless, rudderless,
    and totally inept.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Mon May 19 07:11:07 2025
    On Sun, 18 May 2025 22:11:33 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Bruce Springsteen seems to be the last remaining American with a pair
    of balls and the willingness to fight.

    The Chicks were silenced over politics. 20 years later, those lessons
    shaped country music's new generation.

    Margo Price, Lindsay Ell and Harper Grae spoke to The 19th about the ramifications of being 'too popular, too opinionated, too loud.'

    It began with 11 words: "We're ashamed the president of the United
    States is from Texas."

    Natalie Maines, lead singer of The Chicks, couldn't have known how
    that sentence about George W. Bush and the burgeoning Iraq War would
    change everything for her and her bandmates, Emily Strayer and Martie
    Maguire. Those words, proclaimed to a London audience on March 10,
    2003, would echo through the rest of The Chicks' career

    https://19thnews.org/2023/03/the-chicks-silenced-politics-20-years-influence-country-music/

    Bruce

    A much older person....and most likely, his generation knows the
    T-Borg is not good.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon May 19 20:44:31 2025
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 07:11:07 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    On Sun, 18 May 2025 22:11:33 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Bruce Springsteen seems to be the last remaining American with a pair
    of balls and the willingness to fight.

    Right on time, Cheeto-boy is blustering about an investigation. Makes
    him look like a chump and a loser, actually. Go Bruce, Go.

    Hoping the rest of America grows a pair of stones and starts standing
    up to bullshit. Not hopeful though. We're all out shopping.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Tue May 20 07:23:01 2025
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:44:31 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Cheeto-boy is blustering about an investigation.

    Stomping on the resistance is the game plan.

    Hopefully, Walmart, et.al. businesses pass on the tariff tax to their customers. I don't think vehicle OEMs can eat the increased costs.
    Consumers without real disposal income may vote for Ds, and affect his
    current toehold.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue May 20 20:56:25 2025
    On Tue, 20 May 2025 07:23:01 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:44:31 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Cheeto-boy is blustering about an investigation.

    Stomping on the resistance is the game plan.

    Hopefully, Walmart, et.al. businesses pass on the tariff tax to their customers. I don't think vehicle OEMs can eat the increased costs.
    Consumers without real disposal income may vote for Ds, and affect his current toehold.

    Totally agree.

    It would be relatively easy work for a couple of nerds to build a
    website that shows you pre- and post-tariff prices and lets you, for
    example, calculate the impact on your basket of groceries or your car
    or a month's living expenses, etc. Would be a damned SHAME if someone
    built one of those right around now!!!

    Weakest link in a democracy is the morons who vote.

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