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WATCH: Blinken Plays ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ in Kyiv Bar
Breitbart ^ | 05/14/2024 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 05/14/2024 5:56:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performed Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” on the electric guitar on Tuesday night in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of a solidarity visit to boost morale in the embattled former Soviet republic.

Blinken played rhythm guitar with The 1999 band at the Barman Dictat, a nightspot in the Ukrainian capital.

“I know this is a really, really difficult time,” Blinken said. “You need to know the United States is with you.”

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KEYWORDS: bar; blinken; kviv; plays
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This idiot goes all the way to a war zone to play a guitar in a bar...🙄🙄🙄
1 posted on 05/14/2024 5:56:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not clicking. Will not watch my instrument be mishandle by a servant of satan.


2 posted on 05/14/2024 5:57:40 PM PDT by xoxox
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To be fair, his guitar playing is ok.

His backing vocals, however, are TERRIBLE. I mean, like Linda McCartney isolated vox.


3 posted on 05/14/2024 6:08:24 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ll pass on this.

Am I the only one who hates to see a fellow old timer straining to try to act young and making a total fool of himself?

I’ll also skip Whoopi and Barbra Streisand dancing wildly at a club in SoHo. In sequins and platform shoes.


4 posted on 05/14/2024 6:08:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Neil “the nasal whiner” Young tune.
And, Canoogian.
Makes sense for a lefty.


5 posted on 05/14/2024 6:11:14 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: DoodleBob
To be fair, his guitar playing is ok

That makes it all the more despicable.

6 posted on 05/14/2024 6:11:48 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pick up a rifle instead of a guitar pick you dumbass leftist prick.


7 posted on 05/14/2024 6:11:56 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I guess James Taylor couldn’t make it ...


8 posted on 05/14/2024 6:14:01 PM PDT by x
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The Free World”? Where they don’t hold elections, where press gangs work the streets and catch men walking down the sidewalk, where a nazi movement rules the country, where SBU murders people, where journalists and priests get arrested.

Yeah...sure.


9 posted on 05/14/2024 6:15:13 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

War Pigs would be more appropriate


10 posted on 05/14/2024 6:22:07 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And the world laughs at America once again.


11 posted on 05/14/2024 6:23:39 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

‘Rockin’ in the Free World’. What a tool. Everything for the optics. Why doesn’t he stay there for the optics and be cannon fodder like his employees who are stuck at that Embassy waiting for the missile with their names on it?


12 posted on 05/14/2024 6:25:39 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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“ Why doesn’t he stay there for the optics and be cannon fodder like his employees who are stuck at that Embassy waiting for the missile with their names on it?”

‘ Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah’

War Pigs


13 posted on 05/14/2024 6:28:28 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What an incompetent narcissist!


14 posted on 05/14/2024 6:32:40 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: NWFree

And we look down on muslims for having human shields.


15 posted on 05/14/2024 6:32:48 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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It would be perfect-a favorite of mine, too-but it might offend the Ukraine #1 grifter...

Generals gather in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death’s construction..


16 posted on 05/14/2024 6:32:50 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Meanwhile, U.S. hostages remain in the hands of Hamas. Has he mentioned them anywhere lately?


17 posted on 05/14/2024 6:34:14 PM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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(U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performed Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” on the electric guitar on Tuesday night in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of a solidarity visit to boost morale in the embattled former Soviet republic.)

Facepalm 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦


18 posted on 05/14/2024 6:34:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: xoxox

It takes anyone about 20 hours of practice to go from beginner to OK rhythm guitarist. Any loser can do that.

It’s that next step, beyond OK, where dedication and skill come in. He’s nowhere near that.


19 posted on 05/14/2024 6:42:24 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is nothing patriotic about this 1989 protest song
sung by a Canadian-American ...
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
There’s colors on the street
Red, white, and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
There’s a warning sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can

[Chorus]
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
There’s an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she put the kid away and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid that’ll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

[Chorus]

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
We’ve got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive


20 posted on 05/14/2024 6:51:09 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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