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Source: Bruce Springsteen is embarrassed to be an American | Fox News

Seems like there’s an endless supply of stupid from the alt-left hate spigot. As no doubt everyone is aware, many in the shrill alt-left community are not amused by their candidate’s loss in the last election and more specifically, with the ascension of Donald Trump.

We’re almost 2 months into the aftermath of the election and the snowflakes are still holding their breath and pounding their fists. Self styled ‘celebrities’ have vociferously come out in protest over the result.  Like an infested boil, they feel the need to constantly scratch and poke at it and worst of all, are compelled to share this with others.

Nobody cares. They may be yelling into an echo chamber, but normal people look at these ‘brave’ culture warriors in a new light; as entitled deniers of a democratic process.  I can’t recall the last time my plumber needed to foist his views of immigration upon me.  Nor do I recall my mechanic lecturing me on Roe vs Wade while performing an oil change.  We seldom need to direct our waiter to bring us the bacon mushroom burger but hold the political sanctimony.  Because despite their possibly strongly held views, nobody else cares what they think. It’s always been unclear to me why people whom are fortunate enough to make a living off of some marketable talent, think that their expertise and wisdom extends past their guitar pick or stage deck.  It’s the height of arrogance.

In 2003, The Dixie Chicks chose to enter the political fray with their negative sentiments on George Bush during a concert in the U.K.  That seems to be the model for Springsteen’s recent declaration of embarrassment of being an American at a concert in Australia.  Way to be brave Bruce, go for the low hanging fruit.  It would be a tad more impressive if you were in Saudi Arabia or China criticizing human rights.

The fact is, he could have just as easily revealed that he collects furby porn or prefers to wear string underwear.  It’s irrelevant.  Artistes of all stripes should get involved politically if they don’t like things by doing what regular folk do.  Write articles, be an activist, run for office, but don’t invade the sensibilities of paying customers with vapid rants.  Take the advice of the aptly named Dixie Chicks concert tour years ago… Shut Up And Sing.

Source: The Doomsday Clock just advanced, ‘thanks to Trump’: It’s now just 2½ minutes to ‘midnight.’ – The Washington Post

You know what they say about a broken clock.  In that case, a broken clock would be more accurate than the ‘doomsday clock’ propagated by this cabal of atomic scientists for decades now.

The recent claim from this group is that because of Trump, the clock now figuratively points to a few minutes before kaboom day. Not North Korea’s version of Elmer Fudd playing with matches, not Iran enriching uranium for nuclear weapons, not Pakistan and India whom are already in possession of them and not Russia with their aggressive leader Putin.  Apparently, it’s the election of Donald Trump that pushes the minute hand on the death clock.

This of course is just one of the numerous swords of Damocles looming above the human race if you paid attention to the numerous chicken little industries that always seem to flourish.  The tin foil hat business should be booming.  When not paralyzed by the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation, people are also paying through confiscatory taxes to assuage the effects of hysterical global warming, also incidentally on the verge of irreversible damage.  Or at least, was a while ago.  They’ll have to push the date back a bit to get more money. But we get it; the end of the world isn’t always that easy to pinpoint.

No less than Stephen Hawking has raised the imminent possibility of alien takeover, not to mention the likelihood of a catastrophic asteroid strike. At various points in my lifetime, hysteria has been pushed on imminent human extinction events ranging from: starvation, disease, overpopulation, religious retribution, Y2K, global cooling, now of course, global warming, atomic war, asteroid crashes and alien takeover.  The one that will soon be in vogue will be robot takeover, so we may want to stock up on metal detectors.

Someone can certainly make a lot of money on this.  There’s no point being paralyzed like myotonic goats awaiting death. As mentioned earlier, fashionable tin foil hats can be offered for sale on Amazon.  What about worry beads? They’d have to be sustainable of course…though that shouldn’t really matter.  How about special lotion for all the hand wringing brought on by on-going angst? We hear of billionaires building bunkers in anticipation of the final kabing, so someone’s already taking advantage of the gullible.  Whatever the product, it may as well be shameless because there’s no downside.  If it all ends, well then you’ve done your bit.  If it doesn’t end, you at least get rich. Now that is a good ending.