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Trump an 'embarrassment' Springsteen tells Norway
TheLocal.no ^ | 24 Sep 2016 09:41 GMT+02:00 | AFP

Posted on 09/24/2016 9:33:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has described Donald Trump as an embarrassment to the United States, saying the Republican presidential candidate is a demagogue with simple solutions.

Springsteen, who has dramatized the plight of working-class Americans in his music, said he understands how Trump could seem “compelling” to people who are economically insecure. “The absurdity is beyond cartoon-like. But he's gotten close enough (to the White House) so it can make you nervous,” he told Skavlan, a talk show in Norway and Sweden, during an interview released Friday. […]

“We have certain problems in the United States — tremendous inequality of wealth distribution — that makes for ripe ground for demagoguery,” Springsteen said. “He has a very simple answer to all these very, very complex problems.” …

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2016election; brucespringsteen; norway; trump
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To: Olog-hai

After leading a life of mostly meaningless accomplishment these entertainers are desperate to be accepted as meaningful. The problem is that they have spent life living without any understandind of world affairs and are just hollow reeds blowing in the winds of popularity. I am embarrassed for them when speak publicly on serious subjects in such a juvenile authority, showing their lack of substance and demonstrating their immature development in their practically elderly bodies. It’s a sad freak show really.


41 posted on 09/25/2016 2:44:10 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Olog-hai

Coming from the guy who just admitted he struggles with depression. Hey Bruce, if your house isn’t in order you might want to be a little more humble and learn you don’t know everything. In reality you’re the embarrassment.


42 posted on 09/25/2016 2:45:30 AM PDT by Vision (Best Radio Station Ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: lee martell

Springsteen puts on a workman’s shirt but he’s STILL a one percenter liberal elite...

Springsteen should give his lame spiel to his butler... or Michael Moore’s butler - their servants are as close to ‘working class’ people as he or Moore ever get.


43 posted on 09/25/2016 3:01:08 AM PDT by GOPJ ("..unbridled ambition, greedy..with a husband still dicking bimbos at home"- Colin Powell on Clinton)
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To: Olog-hai
"I don’t see Bruce redistributing his own wealth."

He owns multiple homes including a horse farm. His net worth is ~$300,000,000 and he earns $30-60 million a year from touring and music sales. He is certainly a, "1%er".

44 posted on 09/25/2016 4:44:14 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Olog-hai

Prepare for eight years of this.


45 posted on 09/25/2016 5:48:35 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Olog-hai

Springsteen is having his own special Dixie Chicks moment.


46 posted on 09/25/2016 6:00:09 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Olog-hai

Does Brucey himself, believe he, a multimillionaire, represents the working class?
Or does he realize he is a complete phony?


47 posted on 09/25/2016 6:12:34 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: Olog-hai

I dare Springstein to go back there in 2 years, when they’re in the middle of a civil war.


48 posted on 09/25/2016 6:27:53 AM PDT by BobL (If Hillary wins, there WILL NOT be another contested election, for decades - think AMNESTY)
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To: Olog-hai

Bruce Springsteen poser at google.
Click on images and you will see him posing. All an act.
Man cheats on his wife and his other wife and lives in a huge mansion yet is a blue collar stiff....


49 posted on 09/25/2016 6:34:33 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Olog-hai

Yet he receives WELFARE in the US, proudly taking the food right out of the mouths of Poorer Americans.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061591/Springsteen-Bon-Jovi-Ted-Turner-30bn-tax-subsidies-EVERY-YEAR.html

Over $30bn in tax dollars given to stars like Springsteen, Bon Jovi and Ted Turner in subsidies EVERY YEAR


50 posted on 09/25/2016 6:42:54 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: Olog-hai

Has Springsteen passed that stone yet? He’s been trying for forty years.


51 posted on 09/25/2016 6:59:05 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, that settle is, then!

Using the term ‘redistribution of wealth’, supporting the Communist backstabber ‘John Kerry, who served in Vietnam’ and who also headed the Communist backed ‘Veterans for Peace’, and insulting a PRIVATE CITIZEN IN FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS, proves that Springsteen is a Communist, himself!!!


52 posted on 09/25/2016 7:03:48 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith
In his socialist utopia, the hotrods and luxury cars he mentioned in various songs of his would never have been built. He would have been lucky to have had a two-stroke two-cylinder Trabi.
53 posted on 09/25/2016 7:10:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has described Donald Trump as an embarrassment to the United States,

Doesn't help credibility when your first four words are a lie.

54 posted on 09/25/2016 7:12:27 AM PDT by Lazamataz (MSM ignoring Hillary's health until forced, shows us they are the MPM: Ministry of Propaganda Media)
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To: Lazamataz

He’s not a Bruce Springsteen?


55 posted on 09/25/2016 7:13:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

You know what I mean!


56 posted on 09/25/2016 7:13:40 AM PDT by Lazamataz (MSM ignoring Hillary's health until forced, shows us they are the MPM: Ministry of Propaganda Media)
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To: Lazamataz

Well, I wouldn’t call him “Springsteen”. Perhaps something that starts with “S” and ends in “stain”, though . . .


57 posted on 09/25/2016 7:15:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Never liked the guys music. Never like the guy as a person. He is a gnat on the planets concerns.


58 posted on 09/25/2016 7:30:45 AM PDT by Pilated (.)
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To: Olog-hai

SPRINGSTEEN is a ASS.


59 posted on 09/25/2016 7:32:05 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Olog-hai

The embarrassment is Bruce Springsteen’s IQ score.


60 posted on 09/25/2016 7:33:46 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (I'm deplorable)
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