
Meditations On Bono Receiving The Presidential Medal Of Freedom From Joe Biden
(Caitlin Johnstone)
January 8, 2025
"Hague fugitive Joe Biden has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to U2 singer Bono, because that’s the sort of thing that happens in a society where everything is fake and we are led by the least among us. Other recipients of the medal this year include Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Soros.
At the ceremony, Bono was introduced with the words, 'The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to Bono. As the lead singer of U2, one of the most successful rock bands in history, Bono changes the world through his art and activism. In an Irish tradition of poetry and protest, rebellion and rejoicing, he has composed anthems to peace and civil rights. As a humanitarian, he lifts up causes from ending poverty and disease, to calling for debt relief for developing nations. The common beat of his life’s work is the power of freedom, a tie that also binds Ireland and America as beloved friends.'
Which is absolutely hilarious."
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Here's a Bono Bonus Clipping
The Frontman of Empire: How Bono’s “Activism” Serves the Powerful
(Alan Macleod at Mint Press News.com)
June 6, 2022
"DUBLIN – Bono is again in the news for his political activism. At the behest of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Irish rockstar and frontman of U2 traveled to Kiev, where he performed a few songs with Ukrainian soldiers inside the Khreshchatyk metro station to a crowd of around 100 people – most of whom were journalists. After the concert was over, Bono addressed the Ukrainian people through the media, stating, 'Your president leads the world in the cause of freedom right now; …the people of Ukraine are not just fighting for your own freedom, you’re fighting for all of us who love freedom,' while also calling for regime change in Russia.
Earlier, Bono sent U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the following poem, in which he anointed Zelensky a living saint. Pelosi read it out at an event celebrating St. Patrick’s Day:
Oh, St Patrick he drove out the snakes
With his prayers but that’s not all it takes
For the snake symbolizes
An evil that rises
And hides in your heart, as it breaks
And the evil has risen my friends
From the darkness that lives in some men
But in sorrow and fear
That’s when saints can appear
To drive out those old snakes once again
And they struggle for us to be free
From the psycho in this human family
Ireland’s sorrow and pain
Is now the Ukraine
And St Patrick’s name now Zelensky
His work was not well received, being described as 'unhinged,' 'a particular kind of awful,' and 'literally the worst poem ever written,' in the media. His recent activism has also failed to impress Dr. Harry Browne of Technological University Dublin and author of the book 'The Frontman: Bono (In the Name of Power).'"
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I couldn't resist throwing in a Latin pun via Shakespeare's "Et tu, Brute?"
So glad I never liked U2.
Splitters.
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