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Springsteen’s guitarist Van Zandt calls to ‘exterminate’ Republican ‘cockroaches once and for all’ on Easter

April 11, 2023 | | Print Article

Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street band guitarist Steven Van Zandt called for the genocide of conservative Americans on Easter Sunday, inciting his followers on social media to “exterminate these cockroaches once and for all” and then deleted the tweet.

Van Zandt, 72, is a notorious leftist just like Bruce Springsteen is. They are long-time friends and share similar political viewpoints. Since he didn’t seem inclined to debate issues, he called for violence instead against Republicans.

The guitarist is incensed that Republican lawmakers in Tennessee called out Democrats for making a scene on the state House floor, protesting for gun control. Two of them were booted for it.

Social media immediately thrashed Van Zandt for being a coward… calling for mass murder and then turning tail, deleting it, and slinking off to his safe space.

“Republican White Supremicist (sic) scumbag cowards and pu**ies that need guns to feel like real men,” he tweeted before deleting it.

Little Steven Van Zandt claimed that he deleted the original tweet “to avoid spending half my day deleting Foxsucking scumbag Russian bots and MAGOTT cockroaches like you! Go take away some women’s rights, keep some Black people from voting, go harass a Trans event, go shoot some kids, do what Republicans do best and get the f**k outta my feed!”

He evidently deleted that tweet as well. The hate-filled tweets were made a few hours before taking the stage with Springsteen at the UBS Arena in Belmont Park in Long Island, New York as part of a two-night performance there during the band’s International Tour.

This is nothing new for Van Zandt. In 2016, the guitarist also declared the best way to punish states passing “really vile and evil” religious freedom legislation is to “hurt them economically.”

That followed Springsteen announcing he had abruptly canceled a show in Greensboro to protest North Carolina’s LGBT “bathroom law.” Van Zandt candidly spoke to reporters about the band’s decision to pull the plug on its fans.

“It’s unfortunately the only way people understand. You have to hurt them economically in order to have them do the right thing morally, unfortunately,” Van Zandt blathered to Rolling Stone backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York.

“This really vile and evil discrimination is starting to spread state to state and we thought, ‘We better take a stand right now and catch it early,’” he asserted.

Van Zandt likes to pal around with Democrats, of course. During a DC stop on Springsteen’s tour, he hung out with Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD). Van Zandt, who covers his head to hide scars from a car crash in the 1970s, shared bandana tips with the recently cancer-stricken Raskin who has lost his hair.

The E-Street guitarist was thumped on social media:

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