Posted on 09/12/2018 10:35:46 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
11 Sep 20188,697 Irish rock star Bono gave a Nazi salute during a show in Paris, while mocking the success of the Swedish populist party, Sweden Democrats, in Sunday’s general election. Performing as his dark “alter-ego” Mr. MacPhisto in Paris on Sunday, the 58-year-old rocker gave the Nazi salute twice before shouting “Åkesson!” a reference to the Sweden Democrats charismatic leader Jimmie Åkesson. “He’s done so well in the election today… It appears the Swedes are beginning to discover their Aryan potential,” Bono said. “I love elections. I love balloons. I love… parties that get out of hand.” Bono made the comments following the success of the Sweden Democrats in Sunday’s general election, where the populist nationalist party won 18 percent of the vote, which resulted in none of the traditional parties won an overall majority. The Sweden Democrat’s press secretary, Henrik Gustafsson, said he was not surprised by the attack. “When Swedish celebrities obviously do not have a reality-based view of us and our party, it’s no wonder to me that the situation is even worse for a person like Bono,” he said in a statement. It is not the first time that Bono has expressed his political views publicly, having recently become a prominent critic of President Donald Trump and advocate for Britain remaining in the European Union against the country’s democratic wishes. Last December Bono called President Trump a “post-truth president leading a post-trust country.” “We are actually going back to the way we used to be,” he said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “The new normal is the old normal. That is terrifying. The demonizing of ‘the other’ has returned.”
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Wanting to stay alive is now called “nazi”? How about the people who want to exterminate the Swedes being called nazi?
Bono is a shill who has now become an aged barnacle. The only thing this crustacean knows about is wearing shades to the disco. Who knew such profundity abounds in Paris!
What a jerk. These people live in their out of touch with society world and because he has a band and fame we’re supposed to listen to his political opinions.
nazis and islamists always got along well together.
bono be a nazi.
He isn’t Swedish. What business is it of his how the Swedes decide to vote in their own elections?
True that.
But, Breitbart reaches. Selling a NAZI salute is a real stretch. Bonofudd is washed up with the rest of the debris. Breitbart in this case would do better to pick on someone who matters.
I give them their due for “The Joshua Tree,” a great album.
Bono lives behind gates surrounded by guns.
But wasn't it always the evil Brits who thought there were just too bloody many Irish? What IS wrong with his head?
You and everyone else can feel good about U2.
U2 is actually owned by Larry Mullen, the drummer. Adam Clayton is mostly responsible for the writing and Bono and “The Edge” are there to support it.
I’m sure that Bono and Edge have some financial interest in it, but it’s Larry’s band.
So Bono got his voice back?
“You and everyone else can feel good about U2.”
That makes me feel a bit better :-).
I love those three albums I mentioned (Achtung, Zoo, Pop) ... I wish they had gone in the Pop direction heading into 2000, but that album seemed to be a massive disappointment to the band’s paying fans.
I never bought the pathetic attempt by pandering Christians to claim him as one of their own.
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