Wednesday, June 17, 2020

YOWZA!

Bruce Springsteen has been hosting a weekly show on the E Street Radio Sirius station from his house during the quarantine. This week he was going to play songs that celebrate summer, but chose not because of the still-staggering number of deaths that have occurred:
Bruce Springsteen originally planned on devoting his biweekly SiriusXM show From My Home to Yours to songs that celebrated summer this week. But the mounting death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic caused him to switch gears and record an episode offering prayers to everyone impacted by the ongoing tragedy.
“With 100,000 plus Americans dying over the last few months and the empty, shamed response from our leaders, I’ve been simply pissed off,” he said at the top of the show. “Those lives deserve better than being simply inconvenient statistics for our president’s reelection efforts. It’s a national disgrace.”
And he saved the best for you-know-who:
He then turned his attention to President Trump. “With all respect, sir, show some consideration and care for your countrymen and your country,” he said. “Put on a fucking mask. This is Bob Dylan with ‘Disease of Conceit.'”
Ouch! 😬

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