My new @townhall VIP column rocks!
The Decline of Rock Parallels the Decline of America
"Last week, the noxious Barack Obama wheeled out crusty rocker Bruce Springsteen to help celebrate the opening of his library, an appropriately awful building that looks like a concrete fungus or a brutalist tribute to Peyronie’s disease. The Boss has been at it for nearly a half century and looks it, with that kind of elderly facial tightness you get from a dowager on her seventh facelift. He reminds one of those human-skin warning signs staked out to scare mute humans away from the forbidden zone in the original Planet of the Apes. Appropriately, you probably don’t like Bruce Springsteen unless you were around to watch Charlton Heston on the big screen."
Here's the crow-eating edition of "How I Got the 2026 Completely Wrong." And the lessons learned. https://kellyjohnston.substack.com/p/lessons-from-the-blue-tsunami
My new @townhallcom column channels Chumbawamba - you get knocked down, you get up again…
“Well, that sucked — nay, it super sucked. It sucked like the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy. There’s no silver lining to this cloud; the best you’re going to get is some aluminum. But we’ve been here before. Not to this extent for a long time, but we have been here before. We’ve had bad nights. And Tuesday was a very, very bad night.
OK, so we’re going to sit and cry about it? Are we going to give up? Not unless we want to give up our country. And I don’t want to give up our country.”
Yeah, It Blows… So What? Life Is Hard. Toughen Up. https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/11/05/yeah-it-blows-so-what-life-is-hard-toughen-up-n2685949
