Roy Batty
Daily Stormer
September 21, 2017
Bono is apparently still a thing.
Like all poz’d celebrities, he has been really butthurt about Trump. Bono cares about only two things in this world: his ego and saving AIDs-ridden, starving Africans so that they can demographically swamp the planet like locusts and ruin everything.
He gave an interview recently in the most well-read Boomer publication still in circulation, Rolling Stone, where he bloviated about Trump.
You’ve spent the past few months playing The Joshua Tree on tour as you put the finishing touches on the album. Has the tour impacted how you thought about Songs of Experience? How?
In truth, there’s a couple of reasons why we delayed Songs of Experience. One personal, one political. The world around us was certainly changing out of all recognition, we nearly lost the European Union, something that has helped keep the peace in our region for nearly 70 years. Globalization replaced with localization is somewhat understandable, but the return of hard right views is not to be tolerated. If Marie La Pen had been elected president of France, the whole idea of a European Union would have been vulnerable.
You’ve had the same sort of disaffection in the United States with the rise of a new kind of constituency, people on the both left and right who have lost faith in political process, the body politic, in political institutions. These sentiments are easily played and manipulated by the likes of Donald Trump. In a world where people feel bullied by their circumstance, sometimes people fall prey to a bully of their own. Lots of people around me, both conservative and liberal, feel that this is one of those defining moments in their life and in the storied life of their country. After the election, some people on the left were almost grieving I’d say and when I try to understand this, I realized there was a kind of mourning, a mourning for innocence that was lost.
For the first time in many years, maybe in our lifetime, the moral arc of the universe, as Dr. King used to call it, was not bending in the direction of fairness, equality and justice for all. The baseness of political debate, the jingoism, the atavistic fervor of Trump’s verbiage reminded us that we were dreaming if we thought evolution applied to consciousness. Democracy is a blip in history and it requires a lot of focus and concentration to keep it intact.
“The Blackout,” which started off its life about a more personal apocalypse, some events in my life that more than reminded me of my mortality but then segued into the political dystopia that we’re heading towards now. “Dinosaur, wonders why it still walks the earth. A meteor promises it’s not going to hurt” would have been a funny line about an aging rock star. It’s a little less funny if we’re talking about democracy and old certainties – like truth. The second verse “Statues fall, democracy is flat on its back, Jack. We had it all and what we had is not coming back, Zac. A big mouth says the people they don’t want to be free for free. The blackout, is this an extinction event we see?” goes straight to the bigger picture of what’s at stake in the world right now.
There’s a song called “Get Out of Your Own Way” where I’ve tried to use some biting irony to reflect the anger out on the streets “Fight back, don’t take it lying down you’ve got to bite back. The face of liberty is starting to crack, she had a plan until she got a smack in the mouth and it all went south like freedom. The slaves are looking for someone to lead ’em, the master’s looking for someone to need him. The promised land is there for those who need it most and Lincoln’s ghost says get out of your own way.”
What a wordsmith. But honestly, you can practically feel the fear dripping in every carefully-crafted sentence. His world is about to come crashing down, and he knows it.
As I mentioned earlier, only Boomers who get nostalgia boners for aging rock stars read Rolling Stone, so this is pretty in keeping with the Boomer stance on the rise of the Right in the White world.
Perhaps the song, “Get Out of Your Own Way” is a love ballad for the police, who have been standing down to allow Antifa- channeling the ghost of Abraham Lincoln of course- to start attacking random White people in the streets.
Personally, I’m constantly let down by the celebrity class because I too was once a normie. I have old memories of when I used to naively enjoy what they churned out.
I should have looked deeper and realized that the propaganda was still there at the time, only it was more low-key. Now I know, and I have nothing but contempt for the celebrity class.
Bono should be worried tbh. He and his ilk think they will be safe in their private mansions and island getaways. But they won’t be, I can assure you of that. And even if the Third World never reaches their gates, you can bet that the RWDS will.