Aging establishment rocker and Democratic Party activist Bruce Springsteen agreed with former President Barack Obama’s characterization of Springsteen’s fans as racists who would have called iconic E Street Band saxophone player the late Clarence Clemons the “n-word” offstage even after cheering him onstage in concert.
Springsteen and Clemons in photo used for classic Born to Run album gatefold cover, released in 1975.
Springsteen and Obama made the comments attacking Springsteen fans in a taped interview with CBS Sunday Morning that aired last Sunday to promote their new book, Renegades: Born in the USA, which is based on a series of podcasts the two did together earlier this year.
Interviewer Anthony Mason: “You say in the podcast and the book that in many ways it was the most important story you ever told is you and Clarence on the stage together.”
Springsteen: “Well, It was not intellectual. It was emotional. It was the language of the heart. But it was incredibly visual, you know. And for a long period of time, you know, that was a story we told on stage, you know, which was, like I say, it was more valuable than the stories I wrote in my music, you know.”
Obama: “In an ideal world what Bruce and Clarence portrayed on stage was essentially a reconciliation, right? Redemption.”
Springsteen: “That’s right.”
Obama: “But most of your audiences were primarily white. And they can love Clarence when he’s onstage, but if they ran into him in a bar, suddenly…”
Springsteen: “Oh yeah.”
Obama: “… the n-word comes out.”
Springsteen, nodding in agreement: “Yeah.”
Obama: “And part of Bruce’s music and part of my politics has been, “no, no you gotta surface that stuff, you gotta talk about it.” Sunlight is the disinfectant. (BS: “Yeah.”) And if you talk about it then you can reconcile in a true way. Not in a phony way, but in a real way.”
Short clip posted by Newsmax’s Greg Kelly:
WOW. Barack Obama can’t Help Himself. He says BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FANS loved Clarence Clemmons but only “on-stage”–if the “primarily white audience” ran into Clarence at a bar, they’d call him THE N-WORD. Barack–you don’t have a damn CLUE about this country. pic.twitter.com/X4xwQU5ld8
Longer clip with context of Obama and Springsteen talking about the evolving racial make-up of his band over the years.
La tournée médias de Springsteen & Obama, pour le livre Renegades, commence aujourd’hui.
Dans cette intvw d’Anthony Mason – le meilleur pour les portraits d’artistes – des images inédites de Bruce + Clarence Clemons et un message qui tombe à point nommé: https://t.co/PmP2yoSEIipic.twitter.com/1E2JqSAd2S
While Springsteen throwing his fans under the bus as racists has not been widely reported yet, some fans who did see the interview were outraged.
“Hey @springsteen I’ve been a fan of yours for a long time. I can assure you that if I saw Clarence at a bar or anywhere else I would not call him the N word. Would it kill you to stand up for your fans who have lined your pockets for decades when Obama calls us all racists?”
Hey @springsteen I’ve been a fan of yours for a long time. I can assure you that if I saw Clarence at a bar or anywhere else I would not call him the N word. Would it kill you to stand up for your fans who have lined your pockets for decades when Obama calls us all racists? https://t.co/kWg1maafKQ
Obama said that Springsteen’s fans are all white & only liked Clarence Clemons when he was on stage but would have called him the N word in a bar & that Clemons was a token phony onstage. Springsteen just sat there agreeing. Really @springsteen?! Pathetic!! Racist @BarackObama
Saw Clarence at Big Mans West in NJ. Everyone in that bar respected and admired the Big Man. All White. It was a love fest. Bruce and Obama have a political agenda. Stir up racism to keep Democrat voters. It’s so obvious. Big Fail @springsteen Big Fail.
Saw Clarence play an impromptu set at a restaurant bar in north palm beach. No springsteen, no empty seats, no Obama a great time was had by all including Clarence. Great guy and great musician and show man. He came back a few time over the years for similar sets.
The Biden regime rolled out a new international air travel policy for foreign travelers to enter the United States effectively on November 8. The new rules require international travelers entering the US to be fully vaccinated for the coronavirus with very limited exceptions.
For foreign travelers entering the United States, they will be required to be fully vaccinated and to provide proof of vaccination status prior to boarding an airplane with only limited exceptions. They are also required to show documentation of a pre-departure negative viral test from a sample taken within 3 days of travel to the United States before boarding, which applies to all travelers.
The Biden administration is rolling out new vaccine requirements for international travelers coming into the United States.
Starting Nov. 8, three new orders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be put into place, according to a senior administration official.
The first requires non-U.S. citizens traveling into the country, who are not immigrants, to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination status prior to boarding their flight.
Officials say both digital and paper proof of vaccination will be accepted by international airlines.
This order includes narrow medical exceptions, exemptions for children under 18, and people from countries with less than a 10 percent total vaccination rate due to lack of availability of vaccines.
But fake refugees entering the US across the US southern border do not need to be vaccinated and many are not tested for the coronavirus before they are shipped around the country.
That’s why Americans don’t trust their elitist overlords and the political operatives at the CDC.
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We all have learned that those unwilling to go along with the official narrative will be silenced and censored. Whether the information is “true” or not, the free flow of information will always be a cornerstone of basic human rights.
We should all be able to hear, read, or otherwise absorb any information we wish and decide for ourselves if it rings true to us or not. That’s discernment and it will take critical thinking. Since the political overlords want obedient slaves, they will silence those who promote the idea of thinking for themselves. That’s why president Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has been silenced.
Facebook confirmed that a video of Bolsonaro had been removed on Monday. The president of Brazil offered statistics and data showing that those who take the COVID-19 vaccines are ending up with what looks like AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) stating that “our policies don’t allow claims that COVID-19 vaccines kill or seriously harm people.” Alphabet’s YouTube took the same step later that day, claiming the video had violated “our medical disinformation policy.”
Bolsonaro merely shared concerns after reading the data provided by government officials in the United Kingdom:
What we do with that information and how we interpret the data is on us. This censorship is out of control, however, we need to know who Bolsonaro is as well. He’s a member of the ruling class. He is promoting the idea that COVID-19 does exist when there is far more evidence out there that they simply renamed the common cold so people would be scared into taking a shot. In 2020, Bolsonaro tested positive for Covid, praising hydroxychloroquine for helping to limit his mild symptoms, and, earlier this year, he vowed not to take any coronavirus vaccine, despite pledging to work to inoculate Brazilians, according to this report by RT.
What kind of a person vows to give the injection they think could be causing AIDS to others while promising they will never take it all while pushing the official narrative that the scamdemic does exist? This story makes little sense, almost like it was scripted to read this way as some kind of a psychological operation.
Stay alert and don’t trust any ruler. Never put anything past them. This guy vowed to vaccinate the entirety of Brazil. They are all working against us.
We all need our critical thinking now more than ever and exposure to information is what is going to help us see through these lies and this system of slavery they are constructing around us with gusto. We, as human beings, need to evolve beyond needing a master or ruler or politician to control our lives. We are sovereign and it’s time to start acting like it.
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority…There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. –Daniel Webster
There may be a need for endless Covid booster shots according to Moderna Chairman Noubar Afeyan.
“It may well need an annual booster, potentially varying on a year-to-year or every few years basis as the virus varies,” Afeyan told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.
“We just don’t know how this virus is going to travel from being a pandemic all the way to potentially an endemic virus we have to get used to living with,” he said.
“I think if we end up there, there will be a continuous need for boosting,” he added.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky last Friday said the US may change its definition of “fully vaccinated” as booster shots become available for everybody.
“Should people who are eligible for a booster now get one by a certain time frame to maintain their fully vaccinated status?” a reporter for the Associated Press asked Fauci and Walensky last week.
“We have not yet changed the definition of ‘fully vaccinated.’ We will continue to look at this. We may need to update our definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ in the future,” Walensky said.
Americans will be forced to get Covid booster shots every year in order to work and travel.
In a world of ever-growing uncertainty, both civilians and armed professionals alike are seeking low-cost, high-value options for both armor and load carriage. We recently had a chance to review the OTTE Gear LVZ OVT (Low Viz/Overt) plate carrier. This kit was designed from the outset for the needs of both consumer types, effectively bridging the gap between slick armor carriers and full-blown, direct-action-oriented plate carriers. (More on the differences between the two here.)
OTTE Gear is most well-known for their technical apparel but has made recent strides to flesh out their product line with a series of bags and are now making their first foray into nylon gear with the LVZ OVT. In an age where modularity is king among plate carriers, many manufacturers have gone to an a la carte method of purchase where plate bags, cummerbunds, shoulder straps and placards must all be bought separately. While this does offer a high degree of out-of-the-box modularity, it often drives the final price up and can overwhelm less-savvy buyers who may not know exactly what they need (or know they need a fully scalable setup with multiple components). We appreciate the value that OTTE brings to the consumer by selling the LVZ OVT as a complete kit – the base plate carrier, cummerbund, three-mag shingle and padded shoulder straps all come included for a base price of just $160. For that price, you get a complete carrier that allows you to load for bear. As it arrives, the LVZ OVT has space for a whopping 11 AR-style magazines: four on each arm of the cummerbund, plus three more on the included front panel. Those slots can, of course, be used to stow anything else that will fit in them such as medical supplies, E&E kits or personal radios. On the latter note, the included shoulder pads come with Velcro-adjustable loops for cable routing. There are also laser-cut slots in the front plate bag for attaching QASM buckles so that chest rigs or clip-on placards can be attached or detached quickly. The only thing this carrier lacks in terms of attachment is loops or laser cuts for MOLLE attachment, which precludes the use of a direct-attach assault pack or hydration carrier. But these things fall outside the carrier’s intent of being a low-visibility carrier intended for concealed use or short-duration emergency response (or other low-signature tasks like plainclothes surveillance). For these types of applications, hook-and-loop pouches for everything from ammo to handcuffs are now widely available and can be attached via the liberal amounts of loop-side pile tape sewn into the LVZ OVT.
This feature is part of what we really like about the OTTE carrier – because Velcro-style attachment of pouches and cummerbunds is so prolific in the marketplace, the LVZ OVT plays nice with components from other companies as well. So if you purchase the complete OTTE kit and find that the included components just don’t fit your needs quite right, the combination of Velcro and QASM compatibility means you can plug and play a host of other parts from other manufacturers. To test this capability, we made a point to integrate some other products onto our LVZ OVT setup. First, we wanted to maximize the plug-and-play capability of the hook-and-loop tape all throughout the system. We especially appreciate that the included triple-mag placard has hook on the rear and loop on the front. This means you can wrap the cummerbund over top the placard to lock it in place and keep the profile low, or you can fold the cummerbund behind the placard and use the loop-tape front for patches and pouches. We added a couple of patches as well as a Tactical Tailor low viz Pistol Mag Pouch.
We also wanted to see how the LVZ OVT did with “sandwich in” ancillary pouches. So we stacked on a Swift Clip MOLLE Panel and Multi-mount Tourniquet Pouch from jtactical solutions and a Nairobi Knife Dangler from Parashooter Gear. The Swift Clip MOLLE Panel is a single-column thermoplastic MOLLE rack attached to a hook-and-loop covered “wing” that lets you sandwich it behind a placard or chest rig to get one extra column worth of attachment for small items like a knife, single pistol mag or tourniquet. We chose the latter, which is where the Multi-mount Tourniquet Pouch comes it. It’s a closed-flap TQ pouch that can mount via MOLLE or belt loops.
Parashooter Gear is a small company specializing primarily in tactical nylon specific to those who run AK-pattern rifles, but their Nairobi Knife Dangler is a clever and low-footprint way to get a fixed-blade knife onto your kit without taking up space on the primary front panel. It too, consists of a hook-and-loop “wing” design with an elastic sleeve on the end that is also lined with loop tape. It can accommodate a variety of fixed-blade knives, so long as you can get hook-side tape around its sheath and fit it inside the sleeve. We filled it with a Half Face Blades Disaster Jr.
Adding all these pouches, while conveniently scalable, does start to add ever-thickening layers of fabric sandwiched upon fabric. While the LVZ OVT took it like a champ, without a significant increase in overall bulk, we also wanted to configure it separately using the quick-detach feature. So we added a set of female QASM buckles and hooked in a Redwire Gear Emergency Management Rack, a laser-cut micro panel capable of being used as a placard or a standalone chest rig. We fitted our EMR with two G-Code Softshell Scorpion mag pouches and an HSGI Bleeder/Blowout Pouch. This rack can be clipped on when overt load carriage is needed and removed just as quickly to return the LVZ OVT to its slick armor-only configuration. Likewise, the OTTE shoulder straps can be removed to minimize bulk and printing under cover garments if that outweighs the need for all-day comfort.
While the included cummerbund arms sit perfectly flat when not used, we really like ability to don/doff the carrier without tearing on a bunch of hook-and-loop. So we swapped the OEM cummerbund for the hybrid QD version from Defensive Mechanisms. These offer a combination of elastic and mesh MOLLE, as well as two fast-pull QD latches that and be locked and unlocked without any crunchy tearing.
The LVZ OVT is sized for “standard” 10×12-inch armor plates in an earnest attempt to create a one-size-fits-most solution, with the adjustability of cummerbund placement able to account for most of the variance in torso sizes. The plate bags are shaped somewhere in between the old SAPI cut and the newer “shooter’s cut” plate shapes. We used a set of lightweight Level III+ composite plates from Spartan Armor Systems which fit just fine, with no sliding or flopping inside the carrier. For reference, the Spartan Plates are 9.5×12.5 inches and 1.1 inches thick. The shoulder straps themselves, underneath the pads equipped with cable loops and MOLLE slits, are also adjustable for ride height.
We’ll continue to test the OTTE Gear LVZ OVT plate carrier in both training and daily “grab-and-go” use as able but, overall, we think this carrier offers a whole lot of bang-for-buck value, especially if you’re in the market for a first-time buy or want to pare your collection of carriers down to a single, modular setup that fills both concealed and overt needs. Stay tuned here and at OTTE Gear as they continue to expand their in-house line of plug-and-play accessories for the LVT OVT line.
OTTE Gear LVZ OVT Plate Carrier
Colors: Coyote, Tactical Grey, Ranger Green, Multicam, Multicam Black, Poppies of War
Fits: Medium SAPI, ESAPI, Swimmer Cut, 10″x12″ up to 10”x12.25“x1”
MSRP: $160 (Solids), $200 (Camo)
URL: www.ottegear.com
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Thanksgiving 2021 is shaping up to be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday thanks to Joe Biden’s incompetence and corruption.
Biden’s supply chain crisis, reckless spending, endless government benefits and Covid vaccine mandates are all contributing to rising prices.
“So Thanksgiving is now less than a month away and it’s shaping up to be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday,” said MNSBC host Mika Brzezinski on Tuesday.
“The grocery store right now, I mean everything is up…this is different than even a few months ago,” Brzezinski said.
At least Joe Biden saved us 16 cents on our 4th of July cookouts!
VIDEO:
MSNBC reports that Thanksgiving 2021 “is shaping up to be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday.”
“The grocery store right now, I mean everything is up…this is different than even a few months ago.” – MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski. pic.twitter.com/uNhYpJeoMD
Nearly every component of the traditional American Thanksgiving dinner, from the disposable aluminum turkey roasting pan to the coffee and pie, will cost more this year, according to agricultural economists, farmers and grocery executives. Major food companies like Nestlé and Procter & Gamble have already warned consumers to brace for more price increases.
Weeks before the holiday feast, home cooks have started shopping, hoping to get ahead of shortages and price creep. “I picture a perfect storm of increased demand and lack of supply,” said Matt Lardie, a food writer in Durham, North Carolina, who has already laid out his Thanksgiving game plan and expects to have some components in the freezer by next week.
For many cooks, the biggest expense will be the turkey. By the end of the year, market analysts say, prices per pound will likely surpass the record Department of Agriculture benchmark price for turkeys — $1.36, set in 2015.
Turkey is more expensive largely because the price of corn, which most commercial turkeys feed on, more than doubled in some parts of the country from July 2020 to July 2021. Whole frozen birds between 8 and 16 pounds already cost 25 cents a pound more than they did a year ago, according to the weekly Department of Agriculture turkey report released Friday.
Who is really running the White House now? Some communist America haters for sure.
Two days after asking Joe Biden to label concerned American parents as ‘domestic terrorists’, the president of the National School Boards Association (NSBA), Viola Garcia, to a federal board overseeing student progress.
Breitbart reports:
Viola Garcia was appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) earlier this month by Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. The NAGB has oversight over the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which “is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing.”
Garcia signed the controversial letter that asked Biden for federal assistance in reviewing threats against schools and administrators to determine if they violated the Patriot Act and other hate crime laws. The NSBA’s letter followed clashes between educators and upset parents over coronavirus policies and critical race theory being taught on campuses.
As Breitbart reported, “Citing threats to school officials and local school board members that have been received in the mail and via social media, NSBA ‘asks that a joint collaboration among federal law enforcement agencies, state and local law enforcement, and with public school officials be undertaken to focus on these threats.’”
According to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the NSBA was in talks with Biden administration officials in the weeks leading up to sending their letter.
This morning we reported that the states of Missouri and Ohio terminated their relationships with the NSBA because of Garcia’s letter. Forty-eight more states should do the same.
Virginia – Loudoun County Public School students at multiple schools walked out on Tuesday to show their support for the recent sexual assault victims in the district.
“Loudoun County protects rapists!” the students shouted.
VIDEO:
Listen to Broad Run High students start chanting “Loudon County protects rapists” & shouting other messages. Clarification: The suspect in both sex assaults at 2 different high schools in Loudoun County was not charged or convicted of rape. @7NewsDC#7NewsITeampic.twitter.com/VnoPAvl8jO
On May 28, a male ‘transgender’ student wore a skirt when he raped a 15-year-old girl in the girl’s bathroom at Stone Bridge High School. The school district’s policy allows male students to use the girl’s bathroom and vice versa.
According to reports, the same transgender student committed a SECOND sexual assault at another Loudoun County school after he was transferred out.
Not only did the school officials cover up the incidents to ‘prevent controversy over their transgender policy,’ but they also arrested and prosecuted the girl’s father after he tried to sound the alarm at a school board meeting.
Ariel view:
HAPPENING NOW —
Walkouts at Loudoun County High School, Briar Woods High School following sexual assault reports.