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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts) Mon Jan 29, 2018, 01:47 AM Jan 2018

U2 at Grammys: "Blessed are the shithole countries..."

"...for they give us the American dream."

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The network bleeped it (that word is for presidential use only), but, based on the whiny Trumpies flooding their Facebook post, they got the message through just fine.

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U2 at Grammys: "Blessed are the shithole countries..." (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Jan 2018 OP

Astoundingly moving performance! dchill Jan 2018 #1

We need far more protest songs from Americans of all stripes... Moostache Jan 2018 #2

Yes. efhmc Jan 2018 #3

There is a lot of music out there which is not heard on mainstream stations JI7 Jan 2018 #6

I know ... the problem is the protest music was not always hidden deep underground, it mattered. Moostache Jan 2018 #7

Great performance. I did not watch last night. Thanks for the video riversedge Jan 2018 #4

Shithole countries pressbox69 Jan 2018 #5

dchill

(38,502 posts)

1. Astoundingly moving performance!

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 05:27 AM

Jan 2018

"Shithole" is A-OK because Trump has the best words!

Moostache

(9,895 posts)

2. We need far more protest songs from Americans of all stripes...

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 10:15 AM

Jan 2018

Outside of Hip Hop and Irish 50-year old rockers there is silence in the face of so much hatred and regressive action.

Resist...in thought and deed, in song and film, in all manners possible. There is no justice without struggle and the fight must be joined by all who care about the American experiment in self-governance...

efhmc

(14,726 posts)

3. Yes.

Reply to Moostache (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 10:51 AM

Jan 2018

Those songs inform and inspire people to action.

JI7

(89,252 posts)

6. There is a lot of music out there which is not heard on mainstream stations

Reply to Moostache (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 10:04 PM

Jan 2018

Moostache

(9,895 posts)

7. I know ... the problem is the protest music was not always hidden deep underground, it mattered.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 10:13 PM

Jan 2018

There is local music in every city and area that far surpasses the pop stuff or rock stuff or rap stuff on radio, but the reach of those isolated pockets is muted by that very lack of ubiquity. We need both quality and quantity and throw in frequency as well!!!

riversedge

(70,242 posts)

4. Great performance. I did not watch last night. Thanks for the video

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 07:41 PM

Jan 2018

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)

5. Shithole countries

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 09:59 PM

Jan 2018

like blotard's America.

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