Springsteen 2026: Burn Down the USA                    

Anyone who's heard Bruce Springsteen in recent years knows the corporate cash-box-in-denims no longer has the grit evident in 1984 hit "Born In the USA."

Once bannered a working class hero, he now postures as subversive squawkbox, one whose loyalties seem located anywhere but between Canada and Mexico.

Springsteen now trudges in the ranks of yesteryear's celebrities, who've thrown arms about evil in desperate hopes of rekindling flames from expiring embers.

(Of course, it is possible that Springsteen's present B. Arnold stance is as counterfeit as the earlier blue-collar one, and contrived from cold, dollar sign obsession. For all we regular folks know, Springsteen may change from a hoity toity Italian three-piece into proletariat drag of t-shirt, jeans, and work boots, before treading stage boards. You know - character costume.) 

Per Gateway Pundit, Springsteen told one recent audience:  "If you stand against heavily armed masked federal troops invading an American city, using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens…If you believe you don’t deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, then send a message to this president — and as the mayor of that city has said, ICE should get the f*** out of Minneapolis.”

Further emphasizing look-at-me positioning, he released the overly-long "Streets of Minneapolis," a call to graffitied riot barricades. Again, one is confronted by the ebbing of the man's creative abilities.

In a statement, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Trump concerns himself with establishing political cooperation to rid America of illegals, "not random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information.”

Erstwhile Jerseyite Springsteen grew massively wealthy by posturing as patriotic; now that his bank vault is jam-packed, he effectively blows snot on Old Glory. (A stomach-turning spectacle not seen by Hollywood's Tom Hanks, who is busy on his South-of-France yacht entertaining Barack Hussein Obama.)

The catalog of for-profit play-actors who hiss at America's Constitution while singing songs of Karl is unfortunately lengthy. It includes not only Springsteen and Forrest Gump, but a treason-hearted horde, whose Walk of Hollywood stars are daily trod over by actual, working taxpayers that truly love this Land of Lincoln.

Iowan DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot.  He counts among freelance credits Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, and American Thinker.  His political blog is American Scene Magazine.

Tom Hanks hates you          

It bears remembering that many show-business monkeys earn their status by catering to callow customers. Given that, braying whatever titillates that wet-eared market is probably judicious business reckoning, crucial to currying buyer favor. As goes the saw: The customer is always right.

Some publicly subversive limelighters may seize different levers in the voting-booth's cover.

But the above does not explain Tom Hanks. He hosts Barack Hussein Obama on his yacht in the south of France, and likely is sincere in his foulness.

In early 2016, Hanks said of then-candidate Donald Trump: "I think that man will become president of the United States right around the time that spaceships come down filled with dinosaurs in red capes."

President Trump is now in his second term.

Today's headlines tell of Hanks, on last week's Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary broadcast, mocking the tens of millions of Americans who buoyed Donald Trump to the Resolute Desk. 

Tiresomely, SNL writers and Hanks dragged out the threadbare stereotype of Trump supporters as drawling, white racist hayseeds of minimal intellect.

(An earlier iteration of this false and demeaning depiction was Obama's 2008 dismissal of working-class voters: "[T]hey cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them..." the then-president trumpeted.)

Unfortunately common are entertainment luminaries who evince tremendous talents at their crafts but who, regarding political and cultural matters, seem to have skulls jam-packed with yellowish diarrhea.

Addle-pated though they be, they have no less right to opine on substantive topics than does the present writer. Free speech is a crucial factor in individual liberty, nevermind that most outspoken celebrities tend toward imbecility.

As Vice-President Vance recently declared in Europe: "In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town, and under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree."

No one disputes Hollywood subversives' right to spew inanities. Still, one wishes they would heed Laura I.'s admonition: Shut up and sing.

As for Tom Hanks, he should have stayed on that island.