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Bruce Springsteen, the so called “working-class hero” of American rock, has completed his journey to become a virtue-signalling caricature with his latest stunt: a rushed protest song and a surprise appearance in Minneapolis yesterday.
The billionaire 76-year-old jetted in by private jet as a guest at Tom Morello’s risible “Concert of Solidarity & Resistance,” debuting “Streets of Minneapolis” This ham-fisted, hastily scribbled track hails Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two violent extreme left activists killed during federal immigration enforcement operations.
Springsteens song, written and recorded in mere days, reeks of opportunism. In it he brands ICE agents as “King Trump’s private army” and “federal thugs,” spews lines about “state terror” and “Miller and Noem’s dirty lies,” and reduces law enforcement actions to simplistic chants of “ICE out of Minneapolis!”
If you can bear to listen, here it is!
What an embarrassment.
I can remember when Springsteen released “Streets of Philadelphia” back in 1994 and it was actually quite a decent if morose song. But this new one is a street too far!
Plus he looks like a zombie.
Of course this isn’t Springsteen’s first foray into politicised grandstanding. He’s long weaponised his platform against conservatives. But here, he simply exploits tragedy for relevance, turning up at a daytime benefit show to perform an acoustic debut of his polemic, then joining Morello for “The Ghost of Tom Joad” and a Lennon sing-along. So right on, bro.
In truth this is performative activism at its most self-serving! He is a fabulously wealthy celebrity parachuting into a tense situation to lecture on “solidarity” while ignoring the hard realities of law enforcement challenges. He doesn’t need to worry about illegal migrants moving in next door to him!
The White House has dismissed the event as “random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information”! Springsteen’s antics are divisive and do little beyond boosting his fading cultural status amongst fellow aging leftists.
The so-called Boss can’t see it be he has become the very establishment figure he once railed against—preachy, out-of-touch, and increasingly ridiculous!
