Van Morrison Is Whining About Free Speech Because No One Likes His Anti-Lockdown Songs

"There are many of us who support Van and his endeavours to save live music; he is an inspiration," Clapton said in a statement. "We must stand up and be counted because we need to find a way out of this mess. The alternative is not worth thinking about. Live music might never recover."

Maybe Clapton should have rephrased that with "in my lifetime", because that would have been more accurate for that geezer.

 

What are we, judging presidents by George Costanza standards now?

 

Trump clearly had significant shrinkage.

 

He also managed to hijack one major political party to serve his own ends, and then beat the best candidate the other party could throw out.

Now yes, that doesn't so much illustrate Mr. Trump's skills as it does just how utterly broken both our major parties are... but it was still quite an accomplishment.

 

I guess it shows even the terrible team can win the Super Bowl if the other team makes more big mistakes.

 

We've known that for years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_V

 

Getting back to Van the Man, the scurrilous, but very funny email bulletin Popbitch reports
“According to locals who have spotted him driving around recently, Van Morrison has taken to wearing a leather cap and goggles like Biggles.”

Someone on Northern Ireland twitter reckons he now drives a red Volvo “the size of a shed.” I also saw a thread on NI twitter asking followers to name the rudest celebrity they’d ever met “but Van Morrison is excluded, or this thread will just be full of people saying ‘Van Morrison.’l

 

Obviously, a successful media and campaign strategy doesn't translate to successful governing.

 

What is ironic about this is that I fully believe that a Democratic cabinet would not hesitate to invoke the 25th Amendment if they thought it was warranted. That would be the most patriotic thing they could do, collectivly. However, we have seen a Republican cabinet refuse to do their duty despite an overwhelmingly clear need.

Um, I think under the circumstances and in hindsight, this says much more about the “hijackees” than the hijacker.

I’m sorry guys, but this song is F’n beautiful. Boomers gonna boomer.

 

You're right. And about the people who couldn't beat the hijacker.

Consider what we had vying for the White House on November 9, 2020. A loudmouthed former game show host whose idea of campaigning was to call his opponents names like an obstreperous third-grader... and a guy who looked like your bedridden grandfather and might have 75% of his gray matter left. THIS was the best our two parties could come up with!

 

Joe Biden is an old man with a stutter and a remarkably progressive track record given his reputation. I'll take him any day over Trump or anyone else in his inner circle.

If this is an equivalency argument that's just patented B.S. and anyone who says both sides are equally negligent can't be taken seriously. At all.

 

Oh, I definitely dislike Trump more than I dislike Biden. But I dislike the Democratic agenda more than the Republican agenda. Both the 2016 and 2020 elections were no-win situations for me.

 

Just...wow.

 

Yeah really.

Given that Van Morrison is presumably a musical performer, the lockdown took away his livelihood, so it's only to be expected that he would oppose it. Because it essentially destroyed nearly every aspect of my life that mattered and left me depressed, isolated, and borderline suicidal, I can't say I was overjoyed about it either. And I know, you're going to call me an evil prick for hating something that almost killed me, just like you're making fun of this Van Morrison guy. Well, deal with it. It's a free country. I'm not required to care what you think, and neither is he.

 

No one said the lockdown wasn't tough on people. But, sometimes, you have to absorb the bad for the greater good.

I'm sure you would have been a hoot in World War II London. "No! I won't turn off my lights at night so the Germans can't easily bomb my city!!! Won't someone please think of the damage it is doing to the performers who work at night!!! FREEDUMB!!!"

 

Ditto. If you're looking for sympathy, you're in the wrong place.

 

Van Morrison was inconvenienced. So were millions upon millions of others and you don't see us making gargantuan asses of ourselves in the international media.

He's alive. He's a music legend. He'll survive. It's hard to feel sorry for a rich celebrity who bitches about the wrong things.

 

My point. Because I dared to hate the lockdown, and believe that many elements of it were unnecessary, you've declared me to be selfish and hateful. A lot of people got thrown under the bus by your precious quarantine. Old people who died alone in their homes, or in hospitals surrounded by strangers. Women and kids, locked up with angry and frustrated domestic partners who turned abusive. Homeless people who couldn't get food or shelter. People who became homeless because their jobs are gone. Kids who wound up in the foster care meat grinder because of homelessness or abuse. And of course, the people who put guns to their heads and DID squeeze the trigger. But hey, it was for the Greater Good, so we clearly shouldn't give a rat's hind end about any of them.

Except I do. Deal with it.

 

Gee, I feel almost as bad for you as I do the hundreds of thousands in the US alone who lost parents, grandparents, children, uncles, aunts, friends. Oh, actually, I don’t. Unless you suffered losses like the aforementioned, you should be thankful, and happy to be alive.

Along with the heroes we discovered during the pandemic, we also uncovered a seedy underbelly of people who, just like Van Morrison, don’t care one whit about anyone but themselves.