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Watch: Ted Cruz pandered to these Bronx Latinos and they weren’t having it.
new york don’t take no shit
Name a celebrity with the same birthday as you and what you have in common.
May 11th - BlacChyna - petty
June 15th - Ice Cube - once had a good day
December 20th - Jonah Hill - the stupid shit we do is apparently funny to people. oh and we’re both stoners 😎
october 27th - sylvia plath - clinical depression
Sep 29 anita ekberg- both beautiful
Sep 14 - Amy winehouse - eyeliner and Jewish
July 24- Jennifer Lopez- Mariah Carey still doesn’t know me…
March 27 - Mariah Carey - We still don’t know JLO
July 30 - Gina Rodriguez - We are both famous latinas lol
January 12th - Zayn Malik - Gay
Aug 15 - joe jonas - gay
June 5 - mark wahlberg -garbage human beings
october 21st, hari nef and kim k i think
January 7th - blue ivy - geniuses
september 8- pink- both mediocre
Fran Drescher–we’re both beautiful, perfect, and expensive
Sept 23. - Bruce Springsteen - sad about the decline of middle class America
February 12 - Gucci Mane - some poor life choices and at least one regrettable tattoo.
August 11 - Hulk Hogan - We’re both saw Rocky 3.
October 25 - James Carville - haggard, yelling
October 1 - Jimmy Carter, democrat, same county of residence
October 22 - Jeff Goldblum - habit of staring vacantly into outer space
September 4 - Beyonce - Flawless.
(too easy, way too easy.)
April 18 - Kourtney Kardashian - literally everything in common. Also, Suri Cruise - also, literally everything in common.
July 9 - Tom Hanks - national treasures.
(also July 9 - Courtney Love - unapologetic messy bitches.)
November 15-Georgia O'Keeffe.
We both like painting and think vulvas are pretty.
May 24th- Bob Dylan
we are both from the midwest and also sad about the decline of middle class america
December 31 - Paul Westerberg
We are both punks from the Upper Midwest who have a tendency to write really sad stuff.
September 5 - Werner Herzog (we’re both college dropouts)
alternatively September 5 - Bob Newhart (we’re both hilarious, raised Catholic, originally from Chicagoland)
June 18th Paul McCartney - Was great decades ago, coasting on reputation ever since.
“To my mind, it’s an attempt by people who cannot stand the progress our country has made in recognizing the human rights of all of our citizens to overturn that progress. Right now, there are many groups, businesses, and individuals in North Carolina working to oppose and overcome these negative developments. Taking all of this into account, I feel that this is a time for me and the band to show solidarity for those freedom fighters. As a result, and with deepest apologies to our dedicated fans in Greensboro, we have canceled our show scheduled for Sunday, April 10th. Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them. It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.“
I’ve been repeatedly and vocally dismayed at Springsteen’s complete detachment from politics on the current tour. I’d actually started a piece about it, wondering how on a tour that calls itself “The River 2016″–given how the first River tour was where he found his political voice onstage, both from what he said, and the covers he chose, and how he would sequence the show. You can crawl Brucebase and watch it unfold for yourself, but at one point it was DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN / INDEPENDENCE DAY / FACTORY / WHO’LL STOP THE RAIN / THE PROMISED LAND, which is a big giant wallop of STATEMENT in your face, if you were paying attention. If you weren’t, it was just a solid block of songs (okay, maybe not “Factory,” but that’s another piece). I have a long history with this man. I spend a lot of time studying this man’s work. I get paid to observe and watch and analyze and write about him. I just did not understand how he could watch the news and not say something about the madness.
And then he comes out today with this.
Why did he have to cancel the show? Because making some remarks from the stage that might or might not get covered on a Sunday night by local press is not the same as a decision with consequences. I don’t have access to the contracts but Springsteen absolutely took some kind of financial loss here to withdraw from the show for this reason. He’s not rescheduling. He’s cancelling and giving people their money back.
Also, right now this news has hit every news outlet across America, including classic rock stations, the New York Times, and local news outlets. Springsteen’s core audience in the US is overwhelmingly white CIS males of a certain age. I’m not saying that every older male Bruce fan in his 50′s is homophobic–I certainly know enough that are not–but there are probably more than a few that are on the fence or not quite sure what to think, in addition to the ones who would ask lots of careful questions about whether Terry in “Backstreets” was a boy or a girl. (Holler at you former r.m.a.s. denizens.)
Bruce used to introduce “Born To Run” with the sentence, “Remember, nobody wins unless everybody wins.” This is essence allyship. This is taking a stand. This is standing up for the less privileged. This is what Bruce Springsteen’s music has always stood for.
