Posted on 02/18/2026 3:07:10 PM PST by dennisw
The band also included a pro-Palestinian song in the group of six new songs, titled “The Tears of Things,” ripping Israel for putting violent Hamas terrorists “into a cage” and hinting that the band thinks Palestinian “rage” is justified. “If you put a man into a cage and rattle it long enough,” Bono sings, “A man becomes the kind of rage that cannot be locked up.”
Irish rockers U2 have released a short album on Ash Wednesday titled Days of Ash, with a track celebrating radical anti-ICE activist Renee Good and ripping Trump supporters as “the people of the lie.”
The song, “American Obituary,” is dedicated to Good, who was shot in January by ICE agents after she tried to use her SUV to run one officer over on January 7 in Minneapolis.
The band begins the song claiming that Good was crushed “like a coffee cup” and goes on to exclaim that “Renee Good born to die free.”
“American mother of three,” Bono sings on, “Seventh day January / A bullet for each child, you see.”
He next memorializes Good, singing, “Three bullets blast, three babies kissed / Renee the domestic terrorist???”
Bono then claims that Donald Trump and those who support ICE are “the people of the lie.”
“What you can’t kill can’t die,” he sings, with ever-so-subtle imagery of a crucifix displayed at this point in the lyric video. “America will rise / Against the people of the lie,” he continues.
Bono told the U2 fanzine Propaganda that he was influenced by Bob Dylan with the anti-police song. “The rhythm of the lyric is a nod to one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs, ‘It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding),’
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I don’t think M. Scott Peck would have been good with this, were he alive today.
Screw Bono and FU2. U2 dodges Irish taxes by domiciling their corporations in Holland. Keith Richards spilled the beans on what is called “the Dutch double sandwich” trick.
Yeah, good call, we’re all people of the lie over here in the MAGA side of the house.
Meanwhile, tell me again about how that Russian collusion thing went for four years, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the narrative that Biden was mentally cogent for his presidency while we watched him stare off into the sun during his last G7 summit while everyone laughed
I don’t think there is one single group of people in existence that projects better than the left
Put them on the do not fly list.
U2s aren’t armed.
Bono and Springsteen are the world’s biggest hyocrites. Springsteen is a communist and a billionaire! That tells you what they are... paid lip-pieces for the monied class and corporate establishment. Corporate rockstars for the rocketting of thier bank accounts and holdings. It’s Kaboki theatre... and when you know they are going to lie to you because they think you’re stupid enough to believe them... just laugh, turn channel and say, “Too bad LOSERS! Keep talking to the stuid people. You’re right at home with the dumb crowd.”
#ScrewU2
Illegal aliens could just leave and there wouldn’t be any problems
So this is no surprise
The only good U2 was the plane. Silly little pathetic band members? Give me a break.
"Dear Oscar: we're out of cornflakes. F.U."
“Pretti Goode” optics but
They forgot somebody.
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Have no never cared for bow-noh or any of utwo political blather. If you know nothing, sing about it. Fidiots!
Communist Propaganda
The power of the people,
Is so much stronger,
Than the people in power.
Great line and true.
Has Bono paid his back taxes to the Netherlands and Malta yet?
The Irish supported the actual, original Nazis too.
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