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Sting: 'We're in a very dangerous political climate'
France24 ^ | November 15, 2021

Posted on 11/15/2021 7:32:25 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Paris (AFP) – British singer Sting is back at the age of 70 with a hopeful new album, though he admits he sees a lot to worry him in the world right now.

"I think we're in a very dangerous political climate at the moment where the working class have felt abandoned by what they call the elite," he told AFP on a recent trip to Paris.

"It has left them vulnerable to demagogues, to right-wing nonsense, fakes, snake oil salesmen."

For the famously mild-mannered rock star, real name Gordon Sumner, the attacks on his liberal way of life have been piling up in recent years -- especially in Britain.

"For me, Brexit is a personal tragedy. I'm sad for my country. We knew it was going to be a disaster and we have to accept this, but I'm not happy," he said.

"Young British people have been robbed of the opportunity to experience Europe. It's insane."

He is also baffled by vaccine scepticism -- putting him at odds with some other veteran rockers like Van Morrison and Eric Clapton who have opposed vaccine mandates at their concerts.

Sting puts it politely: "I don't really understand the, uh, the science of the objection.

"I had no hesitation in taking the vaccine. I'm old enough to remember kids in my street with polio who were crippled, and that disease was eradicated overnight with the vaccine," he continued.

"I would like people to come to my shows to be vaccinated. I'm not going to enforce it, but that's my desire."

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: gordonsumner; hollywood; oldputz; putz; sting; stingtheelitefossil; stingthefossil; wanker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Let me translate Sting: "Red Alert! The rubes don't believe our line of bull$hit any more!"
21 posted on 11/15/2021 7:47:54 PM PST by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who’s got the balls to tell their friends to call him Sting ? Cause at one point in his life, he had to remind them :

- Excuse me, from now on would you mind calling me ‘Sting’?
- F___ you! Yeah, my name is ‘Bite’ and this is my friend ‘Scratch’. Now get me a beer, Gordy!

Dana Carvey


22 posted on 11/15/2021 7:48:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a mental midget.


23 posted on 11/15/2021 7:51:07 PM PST by mn-bush-man
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Never listen to a Harkonen:
24 posted on 11/15/2021 7:51:15 PM PST by mkmensinger
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He’s right - it is a very dangerous political climate - but not for the reasons he thinks.


25 posted on 11/15/2021 7:51:36 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: SoConPubbie
Gordon got a degree in Teaching Studies, so he KNOWS science, by golly!

Thank you, science! Let's go, Sting!

What an idiot - a rich idiot, but an idiot nonetheless.

26 posted on 11/15/2021 7:51:47 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: max americana

Sting wrote and performed a lot of good pieces, some with Police, some after that. I don’t like everything he did though. I recall getting one of the first Police albums as a cassette. It may have been Reggatta de Blanc, not sure. Sting was still experimenting with mixtures of Reggae and Rock.

There was one particular song on that album that was so atonal, so uneven and unpleasant to keep hearing, that I threw the cassette in the trash before hearing the rest of the album. Lots of yelling not singing on that one cut.


27 posted on 11/15/2021 7:52:36 PM PST by lee martell
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To: mkmensinger
Or A Bell Boy....


28 posted on 11/15/2021 7:53:39 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thanks, Sting. Now go away.


29 posted on 11/15/2021 7:54:04 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (“There are no rules here – we're trying to accomplish something.” -Thomas A. Edison )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I had no hesitation in taking the vaccine. I'm old enough to remember kids in my street with polio who were crippled, and that disease was eradicated overnight with the vaccine,"

Notice any difference between "eradicated overnight" and the current shots? These are not vaccines.

30 posted on 11/15/2021 7:55:20 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gordon joined the Democrats
He always was a little brat
He took his “vax” in the atz with all the other rats
Rehumanize yourself...


31 posted on 11/15/2021 7:55:25 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You reap what you sow Gordon.


32 posted on 11/15/2021 7:57:44 PM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Police were an OK band until Sting decided to become a Holiday Inn lounge singer and bore people to death

Did Sting release another boring solo album?

33 posted on 11/15/2021 7:57:51 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Covid isn't Polio, Sting. I respect your musical ability greatly but as my dear Mother used to say, “better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open it and remove all doubt”.
34 posted on 11/15/2021 7:58:00 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: carriage_hill
I liked some of his songs about prostitutes and stalking.
Roxanne
Every Breath You Take
35 posted on 11/15/2021 7:58:04 PM PST by Do_Tar (It took all my interest just to post this.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I think we’re in a very dangerous political climate at the moment where the working class have felt abandoned by what they call the elite,” he told AFP on a recent trip to Paris.

“It has left them vulnerable to demagogues, to right-wing nonsense, fakes, snake oil salesmen.”

.... he sniveled, as he looked down his nose, sideways.


36 posted on 11/15/2021 7:59:11 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"I think we're in a very dangerous political climate at the moment where the working class have felt abandoned by what they call the elite,"

He is right about that, but is wrong about why that is a problem. If only the leftist, globalist overlords could once again win the trust of the proles.

The rest is just mindless rambling. "Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool..."

37 posted on 11/15/2021 8:00:02 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: BradyLS

I remembered listening to an interview with Stewart Copeland, and he basically exposed Sting as a faux-intellectual who just likes to spout things out that make him seem smart, but he really isn’t in real life.


38 posted on 11/15/2021 8:01:27 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: tina07
"...I'm old enough to remember kids in my street with polio who were crippled, and that disease was eradicated overnight with the vaccine," he continued.

I'm calling bullshite on Gordon.

If Sting is 70, he was born in 1951.

According to the BBC, in 1961 there were 707 acute cases and 79 deaths in the UK.

The population in England in 1961 was 52.7MM.

So Gordo had a 1.34 in 100,000 chance of having crippled kid with an acute case of polio on his street, at the age of ten.


39 posted on 11/15/2021 8:03:31 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Let's Go Brandon and Sting!
40 posted on 11/15/2021 8:07:10 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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