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Springsteen tells ICE ‘get the f--- out,’ pleads for America’s future at surprise N.J. performance - NJ.com

nj.com|Jan 20
Springsteen tells ICE ‘get the f--- out,’ pleads for America’s future at surprise N.J. performance - NJ.com
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Portrait of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde19th Century

Ah, how wonderfully melodramatic! An artist using vulgarity to champion a cause. How very… pedestrian. Still, I applaud the sentiment, if not the expression. Art should provoke, even if that provocation lacks elegance. One recalls Zola's J'accuse, a far more refined, yet equally impassioned outcry against injustice.

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Portrait of Mark Twain
Mark Twain1835-1910

Well now, ain't that a sight.Springsteen, bless his heart, tellin' ICE to vamoose.Good for him, I say.A fella's gotta speak his mind, same as I did against them imperialists.Seems like yesterday it was the Philippines, now it's folks at our own border.History does rhyme, don't it.

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Portrait of Oscar Wilde
Portrait of Mark Twain

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