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Teenage Phenom Jake Kohn Announces Debut Album, Releases Latest Single “When You Say You Love Me”
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Teenage Phenom Jake Kohn Announces Debut Album, Releases Latest Single “When You Say You Love Me”

Jake Kohn has done it again, folks. He may just be finishing up his senior year of high school, but the talented young artists has already released several impressive originals, had a viral moment on YouTube, made his Grand Ole Opry debut, and opened shows for huge acts like Sierra Ferrell, The Red Clay Strays, 49 Winchester, and many more. And now he’s got a debut record on the way. A spectacular showcase of Kohn’s wise-beyond-his-years songwriting prowess and uniquely deep and raspy vocals, the debut record Where Do We Go From Here? features 11 tracks, 7 of which have already been released as singles, and is set to be released in its entirety on June 27. Released via Atlantic Records and produced by Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Sierra Ferrell, Colby Acuff and more), Kohn released the album’s lead single “Frostbite” back in November 2023. Periodically releasing singles ever since, the most high profile of which being his track “Before I Do” which was written and recorded with Wyatt Flores for the Twisters movie, Kohn didn’t announce the album until Wednesday when he released his latest single “When You Say You Love Me.” One of the first originals he got comfortable playing live, sneaking into his sets between covers, “When You Say You Love Me” is a well-written track about a tumultuous relationship, and as is the case with the majority of Kohn’s growing catalog, it’ll leave you wondering how in the world a teenager wrote it. Check the new single out here: Checkout the full tracklist for Where Do We Go From Here? below, including the previously released singles that comprise Kohn’s catalog thus far. In addition to 3 brand new originals that will likely hit streaming platforms upon the album’s release, it appears that Kohn is also including an awesome cover on the project with Alice in Chains’ heartbreaking classic “Nutshell.” Where Do We Go From Here? Tracklist: “Hard As Stone” “When You Say You Love Me” “Frostbite” “Dreams” “The Last One” “Fraterville, TN” “Where Do We Go From Here?” “Lorraine” “Nutshell” “Vicksburg” “Before I Do” ft. Wyatt Flores The rest of the album will be here in just under a month, but with the majority of it already at our disposal, it’s safe to say Where Do We Go From Here? is going to be a special debut album from one of country music’s most promising young acts. Once this record is out in its entirety, though, and Kohn sets out on a career as a full time musician, the sky is truly the limit. So get out there and see Jake live before his music really blows up! Jake Kohn Tour Dates 5/30 – The Golden Pony – Harrisonburg, VA! 5/31 – Tooneys – McCaysville, GA 6/1 – Gulf Coast Jam – Panama City Beach, FL 6/13 – Upper Merion Township Building Park – King of Prussia, PA^ 6/14 – Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center – Great Barrington, MA^ 8/22 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA+ 8/23 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR+ 8/24 – Domino Room – Bend, OR+ 8/27 – Big Room at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company – Chico, CA+ 8/28 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA+ 8/29 – The Venice West – Los Angeles, CA+ 8/30 – The Wayfarer – Costa Mesa, CA+ *festival date !w/ Jacob Paul Allen & Julia Catherine ^supporting Steve Earle +supporting Jesse DanielThe post Teenage Phenom Jake Kohn Announces Debut Album, Releases Latest Single “When You Say You Love Me” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.
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Trump will try to get peace deal, but will pressure Putin: Ed Henry | Newsline
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Trump will try to get peace deal, but will pressure Putin: Ed Henry | Newsline

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Answers are coming: Kash Patel
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‘Just Broke The Internet’: 25 Funniest Memes Of French President Macron ‘B*tch Slapped’ By Wife
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‘Just Broke The Internet’: 25 Funniest Memes Of French President Macron ‘B*tch Slapped’ By Wife

The following article, ‘Just Broke The Internet’: 25 Funniest Memes Of French President Macron ‘B*tch Slapped’ By Wife, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. Click on this X post to see all 25 memes: French President Emmanuel Macron slap memes just broke the internet? A combined collection of the 25 funniest memes in one thread ? Enjoy and share Max ? pic.twitter.com/B9iII1RhO8 — Saffron Sniper (@Saffron_Sniper1) May 28, 2025 * * * Content created by the WND News Center … Continue reading ‘Just Broke The Internet’: 25 Funniest Memes Of French President Macron ‘B*tch Slapped’ By Wife ...
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????? They are going to schools in NSW to vaccinate CHILDREN???!!
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????? They are going to schools in NSW to vaccinate CHILDREN???!!

?????????‍♂️ This video is circulating online of paid idiots going to schools in NSW to vaccinate children. UTL COMMENT:- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THIS EVER BE ALLOWED!!!! EVER!! Parents what are you doing!!!!!!???????!!
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“Such a genius”: Why Dave Grohl called Norah Jones the nicest woman in rock
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“Such a genius”: Why Dave Grohl called Norah Jones the nicest woman in rock

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Joe Biden, Jake Tapper, and the Lampshading of America
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Joe Biden, Jake Tapper, and the Lampshading of America

Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again By Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson Penguin Press | 332 pages | $32 Former President Joe Biden is old. Have you heard the news? It’s all the rave in the media today. That can largely be attributed to a new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, by Jake Tapper, former cartoonist for The American Spectator (also known by some as a CNN host), and Alex Thompson, a political reporter for Axios. Given all the buzz around the book, I was interested in hearing more from the authors. It was just my luck, then, that the two of them were holding a talk in downtown D.C. about it, a short metro ride from me. Notwithstanding the unnerving “free Palestine” protesters outside that could be heard throughout the talk (just one day prior in D.C., a man chanting just those slogans allegedly murdered two Israeli embassy staffers), I learned something important not from the authors, but from the man sitting next to me. He was on the older side, perhaps in his mid-sixties, and was there with his wife. I was bored in the lead-up to the event, so I introduced myself and naturally we began discussing the book. He’s a regular at these book talks, he said. We agreed how foolish it was for Biden to run again, and the man volunteered that he thought that Biden and the people around him were aware of his recent cancer diagnosis while he was in office, and that they therefore must have covered it up. It was that statement that led me to believe that I could be honest about where I worked. “Your magazine supports Trump?” he asked incredulously. I told him that we don’t have an editorial position, but most of our writers do like the president, which earned me a multi-minute tirade about Trump’s new jet, cryptocurrencies, and all sorts of other things. Eventually, the man’s wife put a calming hand on his leg, and he decided to ignore me for the rest of the talk. Tough crowd. My takeaway from that exchange was that Biden has so ruined his legacy that your average liberal reflexively distrusts Biden and views his attempt at reelection as ego-driven and ill-conceived. Having the fundamental premise of your presidency so thoroughly undermined will do that, I suppose. Biden ran in 2020 on a slogan that he was leading a battle “for the soul of America” against Donald Trump. He promised, implicitly at least, that he would be a bridge to the future. With his presidency in hindsight, we can conclusively say that Biden’s war for America’s soul was a decisive defeat. He served as a bridge only between two Trump terms.  Criticisms of Biden, out of office and brought low, have now been de-ideologized. On his own terms, Biden’s chief political goal was to “save” the country from MAGA, and his chief political accomplishment was evicting Trump from the oval office. Both of those have now slipped through his fingers, leaving what can only be described as a failed presidency. Many who had previously supported and defended Biden are not blind to those self-evident failings and are asking themselves, “How has this come to pass?” Original Sin tries to answer that question. The book is equal parts gratifying and enraging, gripping and eye rolling, timely and too little, too late. It recounts in gripping, painful detail Biden’s mental deterioration that began as early as 2015 in the aftermath of his son Beau’s death … and it recounts it now, in 2025, after Biden and his party were politically defenestrated over the frenetic objections of the mainstream media. I need not bore readers of The American Spectator with how the media writ large covered Biden’s decline prior to Trump’s victory. Cheap fakes, misinformation, out-of-context videos, it’s just a stutter, the list of excuses goes on. The term “gaslighting” has been thrown around a great deal in reaction to the media’s convenient evolution. But there is a better term to describe it: lampshading. In story writing, lampshading refers to having a character in the story acknowledge an irrational or unbelievable action by another character as such in the hopes of explaining it. For example, if a notably cowardly character inexplicably becomes brave in a certain situation, another character might remark how odd that was. It draws attention to the unusual event and tells the reader that the characters in the story see it the same way you do. The issue is that lampshading acknowledges absurdity, but it doesn’t explain it. That is what Original Sin does. It explains the how of the coverage of Biden’s decline, that being that those closest to him were lying to others and to themselves about his faculties. It does not explain the why: why so many of our elites, our supposed truth seekers who go forth without fear or favor, so credulously swallowed nonsense so obvious for so long. While Thompson specifically deserves credit for skeptically covering Biden’s health when it mattered, the media’s coverage of Biden’s decline overall, and Tapper’s specifically, was indefensible. As Tapper said to Laura Trump in an interview shortly before the 2020 election: Ok… it’s so amazing to me – a ‘cognitive decline.’ I think you were mocking his stutter. Yeah. I think you were mocking his stutter and I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline. I would think somebody in the Trump family would be more sensitive to people who do not have medical licenses diagnosing politicians from afar. I suppose that, in isolation, it’s a good thing that Tapper said that he regrets the way he handled that interview. But it is insufficient to say that the mainstream media got the story wrong, though it did. It is insufficient to say that the Biden administration lied, though it did. It must also be said that Republicans and conservative media got the story right. And that wasn’t by happenstance, a lucky coincidence of reflexive criticism. They simply observed reality as it was plain to everyday Americans. If you had read me specifically, you would have known well over a year ago that Tapper’s “it’s just a stutter” absurdity was just that. (READ MORE FROM 2020: Tracking Biden’s Mental Decline) In seeking to revive the credibility of the press by acknowledging Biden’s infirmity, they are demolishing it. Tapper and Thompson mentioned in their talk that all but one interview for their book took place after the election, when Democrats became willing to discuss Biden’s situation frankly. That is, at best, a partial explanation for why reporting of this depth and clarity wasn’t done during Biden’s presidency or during his 2020 campaign. That Democratic officials, having spiraled into hysteria at the notion of a second Trump term, did all they could to avoid damaging Biden’s electoral prospects is understandable. But one struggles to think of a reason why the supposed free and fair press would have taken such people at their word… aside from the obvious one. Original Sin writes that the Biden presidency was a Greek tragedy, in that in seeking to avoid Trump’s reelection, it ensured it. The same observation could be made of the book. In seeking to revive the credibility of the press by acknowledging Biden’s infirmity, they are demolishing it. Why is the media reckoning so seriously with Biden’s decline now? Perhaps they are chastened by their electoral repudiation, and are humbly rededicating themselves the impartial pursuit of the truth. Perhaps money will start growing on trees and important GOP politicians really are trying to reach you via those annoying texts. More pessimistic but more probable is that the press wants to rebuild its credibility so that its future pro-Democratic pronouncements are more widely believed. Biden is a spent force now, his technical eligibility to seek the presidency again in 2028 notwithstanding. He is a safe scapegoat that can be used to make the media seem more fair. And who’s to say Biden doesn’t deserve it — after all, his presidency caused Trump’s reelection. That, more than anything else in the eyes of the media, is Biden’s real original sin. READ MORE from Stephan Kapustka: Revenge of the Sith Puts Disney Star Wars to Shame A Minecraft Movie Is Bad Inside the Method to Elon Musk’s Madness The post Joe Biden, Jake Tapper, and the Lampshading of America appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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The Agony Of 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley
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The Agony Of 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley

Over the weekend, a friend of mine whom I haven’t seen in a while but who’s aware of what I do, and happens to be an alumnus of Wake Forest University, sent me a message: “Scott Pelley (60 mins clown) gave the commencement speech at WF. Have you seen this d’bag?” With the link… If you can’t listen to it, here’s a transcript of the relevant part… “This morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack, universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack, and insidious fear is reaching throughout schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts.” “The fear to speak in America. If our government is, in Lincoln’s phrase, ‘of the people, by the people, for the people,’ then why are we afraid to speak? Ignorance works for power. Power can change the definition of the words we use to describe reality. This is an old playbook, my friends. There is nothing new in this.” Pelley’s speech drew sporadic — at best — applause. Wake Forest is not exactly the kind of campus where fiery, pompous leftist ramblings like those delivered by Pelley will whip up much positive sentiment — especially when parents forking over 69 grand a year for the past four or five years make up half the crowd. And while the Democrats’ partisan core fell all over themselves with praise for Pelley’s “speaking truth to power,” it doesn’t seem like this was the moment he was going for. Megyn Kelly was having none of it, for example… Breitbart’s John Nolte laid into Pelley with special relish… This is a big part of why the Democrat Party is losing young people. Young people are genetically skeptical of authority, and here comes a humorless and smug Scott Pelley, all puffed up with himself, lying to them about how America is entering its darkest days under President Trump. Contrast that with Trump himself, who at least has a sense of humor, a sense of playfulness, optimism, and belief in the future. Think of Caddyshack. The Pelley v. Trump contest for the hearts and minds of the young is Judge Elihu Smails (Ted Knight) v. Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield). That’s no contest. So I’m not accused of being partisan, there’s a reason why former president Bill Clinton prevailed over his Republican political enemies, men who might have been morally right but came off as prudes and hypocrites. Plus, young people can feel how manipulative Pelley is. They instinctively understand that he is 1) fabricating a dark world so 2) people join his cult, his side of the political aisle. Also, don’t forget that these are people in their early 20s who suffered through the unnecessary and fascist COVID shutdowns and school closings, who had their proms, graduations, and homecomings canceled. They know who the villains are — and that’s authority that accuses you of being evil and racist if you question them. Pelley went at them in the exact wrong way. A sense of humor, some self-deprecation, and a little faith in the future go a long way with young people. Young people can smell a phony a mile away, and Scott Pelley is not only insufferable, he’s one of the phoniest. The Judge Smails reference is absolutely platinum. It’s a perfect description of Pelley, who affects a patrician elite air despite an exceptionally ordinary background (he’s from Lubbock, Texas and stayed home for college, graduating from Texas Tech and working his way up from the local paper to CBS News). There is nothing special about Scott Pelley. He looks like somebody who belongs on TV. That’s about it. He wrote an exceptionally boring, self-important book about journalism six years ago that almost nobody remembers, and he spent six years in the anchor’s chair at CBS Evening News, rebuilding some of the audience that his predecessor Katie Couric had chased away before watching the ratings begin to decline once again and then getting demoted back to 60 Minutes (Pelley’s successor, in case you don’t remember, was someone named Anthony Mason, and then CBS Evening News had rotating anchors until settling on the disastrous Norah O’Donnell, who was recently packed off to the glue factory). And as Nolte reminded us, Pelley has the nerve to gripe that “journalism is under attack” on behalf of 60 Minutes, at a time when the atrocious fraudulent journalism of that show has put the entire operation of CBS News at risk of extinction. Why? Because of a Soviet propaganda edit of a catastrophic Kamala Harris interview last year which was so naked in its boosterism for her doomed campaign that President Trump is suing CBS and Paramount, its parent company, for $20 billion. The word is that Trump has signaled he’d take $100 million. He settled a suit with ABC News, whose Sunday morning host George Stephanopoulos made one comment falsely accusing Trump of being a rapist, for a reported $20 million. Given that 60 Minutes put an entire segment on the air editing Harris’ interview almost into fan fiction territory, $100 million seems pretty reasonable. And yet Paramount doesn’t appear to have the money. Exactly who is attacking “journalism,” Mr. Pelley? If there’s a villain here, it might well be your team at CBS News, and the “attack” begins to look like mere retribution, if not justice. Given CBS News’ ratings, the real attackers of “journalism” appear to be the American people. Or maybe they’re the suits at Paramount, who are desperately trying to close the sale on a merger with Skydance and therefore stop the hemorrhage of cash at their woebegotten company. Per Nolte… Then there’s the reported $500 million Paramount is looking to cut “in preparation for the lucrative merger with Skydance Media against the backdrop of a ratings freefall” and the ongoing, high-level personnel shake ups. Fallout from the merger and the Trump suit has already hit hard. No less than Wendy McMahon, the president of CBS News, and Bill Owens, the executive editor of the disgraced 60 Minutes, have already resigned. So… Where to cut? Where to cut? Well, according to the report, Gayle King has become $10 million in damaged goods. Not only is she hosting the forever-in-last-place CBS Mornings, her grotesquely elitist Space Origin flight, combined with her claims that those few minutes in space mean she’s now an astronaut, have scalded her reputation. “People don’t want to say it out loud in the office but the entire space debacle really hurt us,” one 60 Minutes staffer told the Daily Mail. “Gayle being part of that is not a good look for our brand. I think a lot of people resent Gayle for that. I know I do.” King’s $10 million per-year contract is up in September. “Multiple sources told the Daily Mail that 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley could also be on the way out.” Pelley, of course, is infamous for his self-regard, unbridled bias, and dishonesty. “We’re in the middle of a bloodbath,” a 60 Minutes staffer told the Daily Mail. “The axe is falling, people are leaving, no one knows what to do next. We’re all updating our resumes because it really feels like this is a sinking ship.” Some call it a long overdue reckoning for a corrupt regime media that, at long last, has lost its influence over public opinion. I’ve said that the Skydance-Paramount merger is just about the most entertaining story in American business, and I stand by it. The Scott Pelleys of the world have destroyed what used to be a profitable TV network and are now a drag on the ability of the parent company of that network to sell out and save itself from oblivion. In any business but media, Pelley would have already been dumped out to the unemployment line and made radioactive for high-level employment. But in media, he remains “respected,” so much so that he’s invited to give a self-important and ridiculously pompous rant of a commencement speech, making outrageous claims as though literal Nazis roam the land dragging dissident off to gulags (one might argue he’s about four years too late in those ramblings), at one of our nation’s more prestigious universities. Whichever member of the Wake Forest faculty responsible for the “Hey, let’s get Scott Pelley!” idea probably has a very interesting e-mail inbox over the past week. Far more interesting than Scott Pelley, who should go back to Lubbock and lecture the locals about the pestilence settling upon the land. But the guess is the applause would be even more scattered and sporadic back home than it was in Winston-Salem. The post The Agony Of 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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The Band That Hates America Would Be Nothing Without America
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The Band That Hates America Would Be Nothing Without America

In the late ’80s, Green Day exploded out of the Bay Area — three boisterous brats with distorted guitars, bold lyrics, and just enough eyeliner to make middle America squirm. This was more than a band — it was a brand. A sound. A movement. Songs like Basket Case, When I Come Around, and Wake Me Up When September Ends were certainly catchy. They were also cultural timestamps. Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Frank Edwin Wright, better known by his stage name Tré Cool, created anthems for the restless, the misfits, the bored kids gazing out of classroom windows, wondering what life had in store. Green Day didn’t cater to the mainstream; they shouted over it. For a time, it felt as though they were on our side. But somewhere along the way, the wheels came off. Armstrong, the band’s frontman and resident prophet of adolescent rage, crossed over from punk rebel to predictable sermonizer. Today, he’s not flipping off the system. He’s flipping off the country that made him rich. At Coachella this April, Armstrong used the stage to take a swipe at the president — not a policy, not a war, just the president. Because why not? It’s what the cool kids do now. And just days ago in San Francisco, he did it again — like clockwork, another gig, another cheap shot at the nation that bought every album, every ticket, and every overpriced T-shirt. It’s become a ritual for celebrities like Armstrong: Rage against America, denounce the culture, mock the voters, and then cash the checks. Lather, rinse, repeat. What is more fashionable today than trashing the very system that lets you live like royalty? Let’s me be very clear here: Billie Joe Armstrong would be nothing without America. There is no Dookie without MTV. No American Idiot without the Bush-era angst he feasted on. No stadium tours without the American kids who screamed those lyrics into the summer sky, believing — foolishly — that he was one of them. And speaking of American Idiot, it was arguably Green Day’s most iconic song — a snarling, catchy middle finger to the country that made them stars. It targeted mass media, war, and Bush-era conservatism, all under the guise of punk rebellion. But two decades later, the question practically asks itself: Who are the real idiots? Is it the multi-millionaire rockstars sneering down from the stage, pretending they’re still outsiders? I think so. Green Day made a fortune selling rebellion to teenagers desperate to feel seen. And now, with nothing left to rebel against, they perform outrage like it’s a greatest hit. The same recycled fury. The same tired digs. But the only thing dangerous about Billie Joe Armstrong in 2025 is how safe he’s become. This is a man who treats patriotism as a punchline and middle America as a punching bag, who doesn’t miss a beat when condemning the country, but never once considers stepping away from its stage. It’s easy to scream “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!” when you’re wrapped in the comforts of American excess — security guards at the gate, tax accountants on speed dial, and seven-figure royalty checks direct-deposited like clockwork. It’s easy to blast the country when your daily reality is a tour bus stocked with craft services and hotel suites with blackout curtains — not food stamps, fentanyl, and a crumbling hometown gutted by globalization and left for dead. This is a man who treats patriotism as a punchline and middle America as a punching bag.. Armstrong’s version of punk today is brand-safe rebellion masquerading as actual rebellion, performative outrage dressed up in ripped jeans and ridiculous amounts of hair dye. A man screaming about capitalism while wringing every last dollar from it. The irony is suffocating. He rails against America while feeding off the beast — hooked into the bloodstream of U.S. consumerism. He trashes the government, but wouldn’t last a day without its protections, its roads, its institutions, or its audiences. He ridicules the culture, yet clings to its attention like a lifeline — because without America’s short memory and deep wallets, there is no stage. Just an aging frontman shouting into a void he helped create. Billie Joe Armstrong is not radical. He’s not even interesting. He’s just pathetic.  And that’s the tragedy. What started as raw, anarchic energy has calcified into elitist routine. Punk used to mean flipping off power. Now it means parroting it. And somewhere between American Idiot and selling out stadiums to crowds who already agree with him, Armstrong stopped singing to the outcasts and started performing for the establishment. He’ll never leave, of course. None of them do. Not because they love the country, but because they know where their bread is buttered. You can’t tour stadiums in Havana. You can’t sell lousy merch in Tehran. And no one in Beijing wants to hear Holiday screamed over state-approved speakers. So instead, they stay. They snipe. And they call it brave. Sure, they tour the globe — Tokyo, Berlin, Sydney — but they always come back home. Back to the country they publicly loathe but privately rely on. The same airports, highways, and system they mock from the stage feeds them, shields them, and makes them rich. Because for all the talk of fascism and decay, they know damn well there’s no safer place on Earth to cash in your outrage than the United States. Green Day was built by America. Billie Joe Armstrong was made by the very people he now holds in contempt. And the tragedy isn’t that he forgot where he came from. It’s that he remembers — and spits on it anyway. READ MORE from John Mac Ghlionn: Never Forget What Jon Stewart Did To America The New York Times Goes After the Police — Again What the Hell Happened to Country Music? 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