Episode 296: Phonies

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Bruce Springsteen: Born to Pose Why are advertising execs dumber than worms? ■ Why celebrity endorsements always suck ■ Springsteen’s sequel to Born To Run – revealed! ■ WTF is a “sustainable mobility solution?” Jeep’s parent company a European clown show, has the answer ■ If you’re fed up with phony people, companies and causes, THIS is your episode!

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A TALE OF TWO PHONIES

The Jeep commercial that ran in Superbowl 2021, may be the most moronic, deceitful 2 minutes of piffle ever recorded. It’s in-your-face bullshit and hypocrisy. To craft hypocrisy, you need a hypocrite.

Bruuuuuuce!

Brett Michaels wants his faux cowboy hat back.

Rock stars need 2 things to succeed. 1) Talent, and 2) luck.

The smart ones – the ones who are truly self aware, NEVER lose sight of #2.

I’ve seen unknown axe – men in dive bars who could play Clapton off the stage. Heard vocalists that could fill in for… you name them – Freddy Mercury, Steve Perry, Sammy Hagar – and no one would know the difference.

Springsteen has a good rock rasp.

So do a million other guys.

He’s a decent guitarist, but he ain’t great. And that’s okay – he’s a front man – that’s why he hires great guitarists.

He has written many fantastic songs. Irrefutable.

When some people remain successful decade after decade, they forget the luck element. They take themselves verrry seriously. They think they crap Bon-Bons. They confuse popularity with importance.

Rock Stars are not important. Ever. Nobody needs them. Nice to have around, but utterly unnecessary.

Here’s Bruce, in his worst performance ever.

Jeep’s shitty commercial, starring Cowboy Jesus Springsteen

He’s terrible because he’s so fucking far out of his own wheelhouse. It would be as silly as if he walked into an operating room, grabbed the scalpel out of the surgeon’s hand and said “I’ll take it from here, Doc.”

After that crap ran on the Superbowl and racked up 40 million YouTube views, it came out that Bruce was pinched by NJ cops for DWI. Only a two and a half months earlier. It’s not a stretch to speculate that prep and negotiations for his appearance in the Jeep ad were in progress at the time of his arrest.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

A Superbowl commercial with a mega Rock Star doesn’t happen in an hour or a day or even weeks. There were endless agents and managers and FUCKTONS of lawyers involved, and nobody ever thought to ask him if he had any skeletons in his closet? And it never occurred to Springsteen to mention it? He either has brain damage, or his ego is so swollen, he didn’t think it would matter. After all, he’s THE BOSS, right?

It’s all very funny, because everyone involved in the debacle deserved exactly what they got. Beginning with the parent company of Jeep, a PC clown-show Dutch outfit called Stellantis.

Look at their video. It would give an SJW a spontaneous orgasm. It nearly made me puke. Everything about it is deceptive and phony and cowardly. They lack the balls to say they make cars, so they call them “sustainable mobility solutions.” 

Here’s their shitty video.

Stellantis shitty video

Jeep is NOT an American brand.

How dare they position their product as such?

Bruce Springsteen is NOT middle-of-the road, politically. He’s a leftist.

This is driven home by this direct quote from Springsteen. It really shows his leftist, hive mentality.

I realized in the end that individual freedom, when it’s not connected to some sort of community, can be pretty meaningless.

Wrong, Brucie. Freedom is freedom. Being untethered is freedom in it’s purest form.

A phony rock star.

A phony “mobility solutions” company.

Fuck ’em both.

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