Springsteen’s song also contains the line: “King Trump’s private army from the DHS, guns belted to their coats, came to Minneapolis to enforce the law, or so their story goes.“ Though this is slightly undone for me — and surely only me — by the fact that I always confuse DHS (the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) with DFS (a British discount sofa retailer that’s had a sale on for decades).
Trump’s no fan, of course, and has previously called Springsteen a “dried-out prune of a rocker.”
Meanwhile, Neil Young gave everyone in Greenland free access to his music and documentary archive to “ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government.”
Young also reiterated his objection to Amazon due to CEO Jeff Bezos’s support for Trump. In October, the musician had announced he would be removing his catalog from the streaming platform Amazon Music. Young has form here, having similarly called for his music to be removed from Spotify in 2022 because the streaming giant hosts podcasts by Joe Rogan, who has come under fire for spreading medical misinformation.
After that news, I had tweeted that Young’s most famous backing band is Crazy Horse and Rogan has taken the drug ivermectin, a horse dewormer, which resulted in a mass pile-on by the American right — and this was before the platform became X and a burning dumpster fire being pushed off a cliff by Elon Musk.
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