Bette Midler latest to assault people’s ears with terrible protest song
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I guess we can start calling 2026 the year of the protest song because yet another washed-up famous man is back to battle it out.
First, we had Bruce Springsteen regaling us with some of the worst slapstick lyricism this side of slam poetry with his ICE diss song “Streets of Minneapolis.”
Now, According to Rolling StoneNone other than Bette Midler joined the fray with a rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “classic” protest song (and I use that term VERY loosely) called “Hey You Fascists.”
The song was written in 1940 and addressed topics like the poll tax, Jim Crow, and race hatred in the United States, but Midler turned it into a modern tune to fight back against that evil, oppressive Orange Man in the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump’s White House criticized Bruce Springsteen’s song opposing ICE policies. (Getty Images)
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Hooray, another song that slams Trump! I’m sure you all haven’t had enough of these yet.
“I was talking to Jane Fonda the other day and she said, ‘We need an anthem,'” Midler told Rolling Stone. “Then I looked back [some] catalogs and an old Woody Guthrie song stuck in my head.”
I can’t think of anything we need less than an anthem courtesy of Jane Fonda and Bette Midler, but go for it.
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“The madness that took place, the unprecedented destruction of all normal behavior, hit me hard.”
I’m sure it is, Bette.
Bette Midler attended the WSJ Mag 2019 Innovator Awards held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on November 6, 2019. (Mark Sagliocco/WireImage)
Let’s take a look at some of these lyrics, shall we?
“We’ll fight together against ICE/Till they cut and run/Just like in Minneapolis/And when the midterms come,” Midler sings, “You’re bound to lose/You fascists, you’re bound to lose.” It continues: “You’re trying to distract us from the Epstein files/You’re gassing and killing us by protecting pedophiles/Let’s turn the screws/You perverts are doomed to lose.”
I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
I like how he thinks they “fought” ICE until they “cut and ran” out of Minneapolis.
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If this were the real fascism we experienced, the end in the Twin Cities would have been much worse, and ICE would probably still be rounding up citizens and immigrants in Minnesota today.
Iowa City residents gathered at Pentacrest on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, to protest the killing of a Minnesota woman by an ICE agent and call for accountability. (Jessica Rish/Press-Citizen/USA TODAY NETWORK)
Oh that evil Donald Trump, he’s so fascist checks the notes He spoke on the phone with Minnesota’s governor and promised to scale back ICE operations.
The stupidity of these people knows no bounds.
Are you also “gas and beat”? In which world?
Are we talking about tear gas or gas chambers here? You might want to be a little more specific because that’s what real fascists use, and it’s much worse.
I also don’t think anyone is trying to distract from the Epstein files, given the release of millions of pages of documents containing unfounded cannibalism allegations, many of which come from (at best) unreliable sources.
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But other than that, great job! Woody Guthrie would be proud.
This got me thinking: Were protest songs always this bad? And I think the answer is “yes”.
Protest songs are so bland and embarrassing in nature.
For example, I was at a restaurant the other day and heard Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s song “Ohio,” about their shooting at Kent State, playing over the speakers, and I realized I hadn’t been paying any attention to the lyrics.
So I looked them up, and yes, they’re just as embarrassing as Midler’s odes to Woody Guthrie, albeit a little more poetic.
“Tin soldiers and Nixon are coming/Finally we’re on our own/I hear the drum roll this summer/Four dead in Ohio/I gotta keep going/The soldiers are shooting us/It should have ended a long time ago/What if you recognized him and/You found him dead on the ground?/How can you run when you know that?”
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Go away!
No wonder Lynyrd Skynyrd hates these assholes so much.
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From this point on, I protest protest songs.
I need to draw a line somewhere and I encourage you to do the same.
