Bruce said nothing as coal miners were regulated out of existence. He said nothing when textile and furniture plant workers in North Carolina watched their jobs shipped to China. He said nothing when the Big Three shifted production to Mexico. He says nothing when half a million truck drivers were replaced with cheap imports who can’t even read road sign English under Biden’s watch. “Working Class Hero” was the biggest marketing farce any record label ever perpetrated on the American public.
That's not true---Mr. Springstreet said a lot of things, all about how wonderful Obama and Biden were and the wondrous, glorious things they've done for America and how that Bad Man from Orange would take it all away. Phony, thy name is Bruce.
I hold the King responsible for stealing my favorite comedians death notice. Groucho Marx died three days after Elvis and no one heard about it. I was surprised that the country shut down when Elvis died as if the Covid plaque had hit.
OK gotta comment about Bruce Springsteen. Like millions of young northeast guys in the 1970s I was a big fan of his first albums, especially since I attended Rutgers University in New Jersey. Lot's of kids were proud he had an impact with lyrics when lyrics were falling out of fashion. He had some great epic somgs like Rosalita.
Then his music took a definite negative frame of mind, and reevaluation set in. I was finally disgusted when in The River he sang about abandoning his family like it was a moment of liberation. It was then I saw he was all about self absorbed Baby Boomers and turning his back on America.
It was all downhill from there. Sasha Stone's article nails it. Americans have now turned their back on Bruce Springsteen.
Former NJ resident and RU Class of '71 here and I approve this message. First album good (not excellent, but "good") then everything went downhill from there.
Fun story re. Springsteen. We lived in Europe for about 14 months in the mid eighties. The concepts about America among those we encountered were surprising to say the least. One group of Brit when seeing our car (NJ license plates, we had shipped it to Europe to use while there), asked if we knew Bruce Springsteen. LOL.
We Americans often discount the power of popular culture on other cultures. We encountered similar stories across Europe and the Middle East during this sojourn.
I wouldn't be inclined to defend Bruce for his music or his politics, but the "is your daddy home?" lyric from "I'm on Fire" is frequently singled out for being creepy. I'm 72 and my wife is 65. After nearly forty years of marriage she still calls me "Daddy" and at 5' 2" in fuzzy slippers, she's still my little girl. Sue me.
I don't think it was a record label thing. It was a Springsteen thing. He could pretend to be anything he wanted to be bc of his early success.
In his one-man Broadway show, he speaks openly about how it was always all an act after he "made it". He was actually "authentic" early on, when he wrote songs about his life as a teenager in NJ--all those coming-of-age songs and romantic songs about girls and cars etc. But then, once he hit the big time and was wealthy and famous, what to write songs about?
That's when he reinvented himself as working class hero, voice of the blue-collar man, etc. I think that got stale for him, just as any sort of play-acting would get to be, and then he got back to true authenticity: at heart, he's a none-too-bright elitist, a petty status-seeker, eager to rub elbows with other conceited poseur elitists such as Barack Obama.
He was a great songwriter, he still is a great performer, but he's a shitty and deeply dishonest human being.
Not that I have ever seen him in Concert, but to be close to the stage and yell out 'Play Muskrat Love Captain'.......too bad he doesn't play in the NYC Thanksgiving Day parade....probably too ashamed to participate in the celebration of the Founders subjugation commemoration - was so saaad to see Captain & Tenille have to play that every year..
Read a comment recently that I thought was interesting.
“When the automobile was invented only the rich drove them- regular people still rode horses. Now, regular people drive autos and the rich have horses.” (Not 100% accurate, but very close to reality.”)
Raining with sleet here in Denton. Great day to cuddle up and read Subs. Just hope the power grid holds up. About JD naming his son Jake.... It has panache.... My real name is Dennis. Not much panache in that moniker.
Re: Springsteen: I once spent a 6-hour drive with one of his fans. He played the XM Springsteen station the whole trip - All Bruce, all the time. Near as I can remember, there were three chords and two rythyms in 6 hours. I still wake up screaming...
I recall Bob Grant hollering on the radio (in reference to the DEM's insisting the the pedo's should not be incarcerated but "treated") , "you can't cure pedophilia!".
Yes you can. The injection method is 100% when done correctly. A 180 grain pill inserted directly into the heart at a rapid rate of 2,600-2,800 fps and they never even think about doing it again.
Pedophiles suffer from a nutrition imbalance. A heavy metal deficiency to be exact. One heavy metal injection cures them permanently, but only when it is given intercardially or intercranially. Gotta get to the heart of the problem or clear their minds.
Billy (goat piss) beer was brewed in Louisville KY by Falls City Brewing.
A friend of mine was going through a divorce and lamenting his lack of companionship. I told him I'd make sure he had pussy by the weekend, then gave him a kitten.
The following Friday he got some Billy Beer, tried it, then set the can on the floor. The kitty started licking the can, so he dumped some in her bowl. Every watched a drunk cat? Hilarious! Ever dealt with a hung over cat? Ear plugs are a must.
Item 1. This is my reminder to you that Democrat hero, King Kamehameha I, a murderous tyrant that waged aggressive war against his neighbors (a Bronze Age culture) using Western weapons is in Statuary Hall holding a spear and has a state holiday in Hawaii. He invaded Maui, who does that?
Don, I was sure you'd write something about Davos and the Canadian Premier stepping on his schwantz. No Peace Board slot for him. It would be preferable to have a partner up north on our border but it looks like we've got Kim Jong Un in charge up there. Time for another demilitarized zone up there.
Canada has been ‘doing exercises w Chinese military too - wonder what that’s about. (OTOH…US defense companies have been training Chinese pilots too….).
Oh I like that! I was prepared to vote for “Ed” as I like strong boy names. Then read that there is already an Edward Vance, apparently an architect. Can’t have our J.D. and Usha’s newest son have anything other than an original namesake.
No!!!! Please no. I don’t know why but I dislike initials as names. I think it’s because a mean boy named EJ lived down the street from me when I was a kid.
So many good ones today, I won't comment on all I could. Let's go with "Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding arrested" for being a cocaine drug cartel leader. Interesting what fame does to some people. Dolly Parton built a fun place for the whole family and gave/gives millions to charity. Wedding became a kingpin drug dealer. Trump was a very successful businessman who didn't need to get involved in politics, but he understood that, without better leadership, we were floundering under the Democrats. He doesn't take a salary. "Chuck Schumer got a degree, ran for Congress, and kept on running." He is nothing but an old bag of hot air now, but ignorant, self-centered people keep electing him because he is an ignorant a***ole of a Democrat, now worth $60 MILLION DOLLARS. Loved the closing list. Spot on!
Witty as always, Mr Surber. FYI, the incumbent Democratic Senator Tina Smith chose to retire. The leading DFL candidate is the current lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan. Ms Flanagan's claim to fame is that she is American Indian and wears that identity on her sleeve. She epitomizes the woke, DEI brand of Minnesota politics and is insufferably smug about it. In addition, as the "partner" of disgraced Governor Tim Walz she will carry the baggage of the Somali funding scandals. Ms Tafoya would be an excellent contrast as a candidate. Remember, Pat Brown derided Ronald Reagan as an actor ("I can't act and he can't govern").
Minneapolis has been a festering boil on the ass of normal Minnesotans for decades. Bringing in the Somali's was the worst move they could have done. I think there's a couple dozen liberal colleges in Minneapolis/St Paul. They're not part of the solution.
Bruce said nothing as coal miners were regulated out of existence. He said nothing when textile and furniture plant workers in North Carolina watched their jobs shipped to China. He said nothing when the Big Three shifted production to Mexico. He says nothing when half a million truck drivers were replaced with cheap imports who can’t even read road sign English under Biden’s watch. “Working Class Hero” was the biggest marketing farce any record label ever perpetrated on the American public.
That's not true---Mr. Springstreet said a lot of things, all about how wonderful Obama and Biden were and the wondrous, glorious things they've done for America and how that Bad Man from Orange would take it all away. Phony, thy name is Bruce.
I never liked his music and I like most music. I'm even coming around on Rap music. The "Boss" ain't the Boss of anything. What a loser.
Me neither. & it just wasn’t the song - all the man does is scream- will never come around on rap though.
As someone once said, you can't spell crap without rap
Good one
I'll take the "King" any day over "bossy".
I hold the King responsible for stealing my favorite comedians death notice. Groucho Marx died three days after Elvis and no one heard about it. I was surprised that the country shut down when Elvis died as if the Covid plaque had hit.
I even like reggae but never will be able to tolerate rap.
OK gotta comment about Bruce Springsteen. Like millions of young northeast guys in the 1970s I was a big fan of his first albums, especially since I attended Rutgers University in New Jersey. Lot's of kids were proud he had an impact with lyrics when lyrics were falling out of fashion. He had some great epic somgs like Rosalita.
Then his music took a definite negative frame of mind, and reevaluation set in. I was finally disgusted when in The River he sang about abandoning his family like it was a moment of liberation. It was then I saw he was all about self absorbed Baby Boomers and turning his back on America.
It was all downhill from there. Sasha Stone's article nails it. Americans have now turned their back on Bruce Springsteen.
Former NJ resident and RU Class of '71 here and I approve this message. First album good (not excellent, but "good") then everything went downhill from there.
Fun story re. Springsteen. We lived in Europe for about 14 months in the mid eighties. The concepts about America among those we encountered were surprising to say the least. One group of Brit when seeing our car (NJ license plates, we had shipped it to Europe to use while there), asked if we knew Bruce Springsteen. LOL.
We Americans often discount the power of popular culture on other cultures. We encountered similar stories across Europe and the Middle East during this sojourn.
Most people get wiser as they age, not Bruce . Go figure ; at the risk of repeating myself talent and intelligence are not linked genetically .
I wouldn't be inclined to defend Bruce for his music or his politics, but the "is your daddy home?" lyric from "I'm on Fire" is frequently singled out for being creepy. I'm 72 and my wife is 65. After nearly forty years of marriage she still calls me "Daddy" and at 5' 2" in fuzzy slippers, she's still my little girl. Sue me.
After 54 years, I guarantee I know who "The Boss" is in my family. lol
Smart guy. 👍😂🙏🍷☕️☕️☕️
That is sweet but it's you two and your connection, nothing about the screamer really. Congratulations there, Daddy. She's a gem.
so funny.....
I don't think it was a record label thing. It was a Springsteen thing. He could pretend to be anything he wanted to be bc of his early success.
In his one-man Broadway show, he speaks openly about how it was always all an act after he "made it". He was actually "authentic" early on, when he wrote songs about his life as a teenager in NJ--all those coming-of-age songs and romantic songs about girls and cars etc. But then, once he hit the big time and was wealthy and famous, what to write songs about?
That's when he reinvented himself as working class hero, voice of the blue-collar man, etc. I think that got stale for him, just as any sort of play-acting would get to be, and then he got back to true authenticity: at heart, he's a none-too-bright elitist, a petty status-seeker, eager to rub elbows with other conceited poseur elitists such as Barack Obama.
He was a great songwriter, he still is a great performer, but he's a shitty and deeply dishonest human being.
Not that I have ever seen him in Concert, but to be close to the stage and yell out 'Play Muskrat Love Captain'.......too bad he doesn't play in the NYC Thanksgiving Day parade....probably too ashamed to participate in the celebration of the Founders subjugation commemoration - was so saaad to see Captain & Tenille have to play that every year..
Last I knew, a working class hero didn’t spend a million bucks on a horse for his teenaged daughter.
Working class hero also would not claim his property was a farm so he could reduce his taxes by over 80%. Bonjovi as well.
Pretty much. We did tents, and fishing and Converse tennis shoes. Not horses.
Read a comment recently that I thought was interesting.
“When the automobile was invented only the rich drove them- regular people still rode horses. Now, regular people drive autos and the rich have horses.” (Not 100% accurate, but very close to reality.”)
lolol pretty close
Never cared for him , was more into CDB ,J. Cash and Tom T. Hall music style.
"I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks
Slow movin' trains and rain
I love little country streams, sleep without dreams
Sunday school in May and hay"
Yep, and sneaking beer. (root beer too)
old dogs and children and watermelon wine at Clayton Delaneys funeral in a little county jail.
He can't compare to Johnny and June and Jackson...nothing about Bruce did I ever like, yuck.
There were a lot of music in that genre that was really really good.
Came across this yesterday late....
https://genius.com/Cooper-alan-suit-and-tie-sixteen-tons-lyrics
https://youtu.be/shEMZrM1XNo
👎 to Springsteen.
If only he said nothing when it came to his music.
Brucie cannot compare to David Allen Coe.
D .A. C. the working mans answer to The Hagg.
Bruce, the billionaire that just doesn't understand anything about the working man or woman!
👍
I look forward to Saturday morning just for the Highlights. Thank you Me. S.
Global warming here is -34 today with an anticipated high of -4.
A hit movie would be Allman Brothers. Springsprung sucks.
They have a tragic story that they overcame
Lynyrd Skynyrd as well
As did Marshal Tucker Band, who is still touring. The Caldwell brothers were very creative.
Too bad The River didn't flush Bruce out to the sea.
Forget the snow...it will melt. Do not shovel...2 dangerous... buy an elecric hair dryer and a long extension cord...
I do enjoy your thought process. Cheers
Blow torch lol 😂
Raining with sleet here in Denton. Great day to cuddle up and read Subs. Just hope the power grid holds up. About JD naming his son Jake.... It has panache.... My real name is Dennis. Not much panache in that moniker.
Still snow on my side of town. Jake is way better than anything on that list. Donald is fine (was Dad's name) but it doesn't need the John afterward.
Baba is weird. Didn't realize Don was trans-positive. (is joke)
I like Donald John because they could call him D.J. His Dad is J.D.
Makes 4 dyslexic confusion
Mrs. Vance would probably never get it right. My mom ofter had say all three names before she got the child she was speaking to
If mom used my middle name it meant trouble ahead !
It's sleeting here in Rockwall... not bad, and the roads look (barely) passable. The grid's been great.
Not so much Spectrum Internet... it's out here eastward (and TV and phone and so on...) ;) Someone sneezes and Spectrum goes down it seems.
Meanwhile, I’m up in western Montana experiencing the winter that wasn’t.
-32 here this morning in the upper portion of WI
We haven't had anything above 0 since Thursday night
Not as bad as Homer or Junior (Junie) and some I've heard. Dennis Day if you are Irish.
Vinny is definitely out of the question. 👍😂🙏☕️🍷
Not that bad where I am at, but still where can I get some of that global warming?
Jeopardy!! Take category Joe Biden for $100.
Item 13
The Clinton’s now know they were just useful idiots all along.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving couple.
You’re on your own now Bubba. And your witch of a wife, too.
Yeah, found it interesting that there were a lot of Dems that voted for the subpoena.
The Trumpster will pardon him. Obama however, not...... BHO and Mike are on their own.
Dang straight ! They knew from the git go what kind of dogs they were laying with .
I hear she secretly makes a mean oatmeal raisin cookie. ....lol
Calling HRC a witch is an insult to the coven.
Reliable source from Arkansas told me that she and her evil crew have the blood of over 107 people on their hands.
Re: Springsteen: I once spent a 6-hour drive with one of his fans. He played the XM Springsteen station the whole trip - All Bruce, all the time. Near as I can remember, there were three chords and two rythyms in 6 hours. I still wake up screaming...
Item 1. What do you expect from Hawaii? It gave us Crazy Maizy.
🤪
And ozero ? asking for a friend .
He was actually from Indonesia.
Item 4. Is there a vax to prevent “experts” like Offitt from opening their mouths???
Yes, the same one that cures pedophiles.
I recall Bob Grant hollering on the radio (in reference to the DEM's insisting the the pedo's should not be incarcerated but "treated") , "you can't cure pedophilia!".
Yes you can. The injection method is 100% when done correctly. A 180 grain pill inserted directly into the heart at a rapid rate of 2,600-2,800 fps and they never even think about doing it again.
Chop chop 🪓
Pedophiles suffer from a nutrition imbalance. A heavy metal deficiency to be exact. One heavy metal injection cures them permanently, but only when it is given intercardially or intercranially. Gotta get to the heart of the problem or clear their minds.
Right on JR , nothing like quick , accurate diagnosis and treatment 😉👍 .
Who's there?
That's the only cure.
Yes, but we're not allowed to say it.
😂👍🙏
Yes... Very Aggrrssive X- examination
According to Simo Hayha, it also cures communism. He was Finland's resident expert in injection medicine in the 1940's.
Minnesota has long been famous for it's vegetables. When I was a kid,it was Green Giant and Leseur,now it's Walz and Frey supporters.
Don't forget "Billy Beer". That was some swill but it was affordable.
Billy (goat piss) beer was brewed in Louisville KY by Falls City Brewing.
A friend of mine was going through a divorce and lamenting his lack of companionship. I told him I'd make sure he had pussy by the weekend, then gave him a kitten.
The following Friday he got some Billy Beer, tried it, then set the can on the floor. The kitty started licking the can, so he dumped some in her bowl. Every watched a drunk cat? Hilarious! Ever dealt with a hung over cat? Ear plugs are a must.
you ain't rite.....lol
And I was expecting a comment like this regarding my cure for pedophiles.
no I'm with you. Lead is the Biblical answer.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Scotch Tape. 3M.. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
Famous, yes, but they ain't vegetables.
The land of ten million potholes has a lot of good people. Walz Frey and Omar ain't among them.
Item 1. This is my reminder to you that Democrat hero, King Kamehameha I, a murderous tyrant that waged aggressive war against his neighbors (a Bronze Age culture) using Western weapons is in Statuary Hall holding a spear and has a state holiday in Hawaii. He invaded Maui, who does that?
But…but… they gave us poo poo platters!
And defective Hula hoops!
Item 3. Mr. Omar leared quickly how to play the system.
Don, I was sure you'd write something about Davos and the Canadian Premier stepping on his schwantz. No Peace Board slot for him. It would be preferable to have a partner up north on our border but it looks like we've got Kim Jong Un in charge up there. Time for another demilitarized zone up there.
I did a whole post on it and forgot to include it
Oops
Who is this Carney guy ??A circus worker ?
Trump has him jumping through hoops, so, yes...
Apparently
No soup for you.
Canada has been ‘doing exercises w Chinese military too - wonder what that’s about. (OTOH…US defense companies have been training Chinese pilots too….).
I am not surprised. Didn't we train the 9-11 terrorist how to fly the 727s?
Yes, but remember - they did really care about how to LAND the planes...
exactly
I’d support a deal where we got Alberta, and BC goes to Washington State.
No. Let’s trade Washington state for Alberta. That’s a twofer.
Is that the same Learing center that Omar sends her nephew eh I mean son?
Item 9. The Boss should stick to collecting his NJ subsidies for passing his property off as protected farmland. 🎶🎵Old Bruce Springsteen has a farm…🎶
And he hires a gardener to plant some tomatoes - so that it would qualify as a farm
He's nothing but a hypocrite. And include Jon Bonjovi in there, too. He keeps honey bees and claims he is also a farmer.
You mean he keeps a lot of honeys around. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Donald John Vance, call him Jack. Jack Vance—-it has a ring to it! It’s snowing in Memphis🥶 ❄️
Like "Bond, James Bond" 😎
Gosh, maybe he'll become an author?
Never heard of him but looked him up!
Probably dating myself with that comment. He was popular once.
Oh I like that! I was prepared to vote for “Ed” as I like strong boy names. Then read that there is already an Edward Vance, apparently an architect. Can’t have our J.D. and Usha’s newest son have anything other than an original namesake.
They'd probably call him D.J.
No!!!! Please no. I don’t know why but I dislike initials as names. I think it’s because a mean boy named EJ lived down the street from me when I was a kid.
You need to hear Jerry Clower tell about his friend J.only B.only !
I can’t spell EJ. 😂😂
Item 26. Lmao. I fell off my lounge chair. This column is dangerous. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That’s why wagon trains leaving St Louis called out……”Westward Ho”
So many good ones today, I won't comment on all I could. Let's go with "Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding arrested" for being a cocaine drug cartel leader. Interesting what fame does to some people. Dolly Parton built a fun place for the whole family and gave/gives millions to charity. Wedding became a kingpin drug dealer. Trump was a very successful businessman who didn't need to get involved in politics, but he understood that, without better leadership, we were floundering under the Democrats. He doesn't take a salary. "Chuck Schumer got a degree, ran for Congress, and kept on running." He is nothing but an old bag of hot air now, but ignorant, self-centered people keep electing him because he is an ignorant a***ole of a Democrat, now worth $60 MILLION DOLLARS. Loved the closing list. Spot on!
Chuck went in to politics b/c McDonalds fired him in High School…
Ha ha, I wouldn't want that prick working for me.
Witty as always, Mr Surber. FYI, the incumbent Democratic Senator Tina Smith chose to retire. The leading DFL candidate is the current lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan. Ms Flanagan's claim to fame is that she is American Indian and wears that identity on her sleeve. She epitomizes the woke, DEI brand of Minnesota politics and is insufferably smug about it. In addition, as the "partner" of disgraced Governor Tim Walz she will carry the baggage of the Somali funding scandals. Ms Tafoya would be an excellent contrast as a candidate. Remember, Pat Brown derided Ronald Reagan as an actor ("I can't act and he can't govern").
You reminded me of a bumper sticker from the 1980 election…
Why not an actor? We’ve had a clown for the last 4 years.
Minneapolis has been a festering boil on the ass of normal Minnesotans for decades. Bringing in the Somali's was the worst move they could have done. I think there's a couple dozen liberal colleges in Minneapolis/St Paul. They're not part of the solution.