Blinken ROCKS OUT In Kyiv Bar As Ukraine Hangs On By A Thread

Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Antony Blinken's impromptu guitar performance at a club in Kyiv, Ukraine. #Ukraine #Antony Blinken
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[@jonathanleblanc2140]

Did he not recognize how that looks? A nightclub in Kiev? His generic boomer guitar b.s.?

[@fluteloop6737]

He doesn't care. The administration doesn't care. It's an embarrassment and a joke

[@EzraTeter]

He also sucks.

[@thinkingimpaired5663]

Money going for the bar and retirement but nothing for the stop able war.

[@johndquigley9237]

Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned.

[@2real4tvv]

what everyone supposed to be sad and crying u weirdos so soft enjoy life no matter what ypu going through

[@michelleburkholder2547]

He should have chose Sympathy for the Devil.

[@SetnaktSpears]

No, War Pigs!

[@markcortez5685]

Exactly!!

[@PoeTerps1]

Hows this even real bro

[@craftpaint1644]

The Ukrainian officials had a nice guitar waiting for him. Nothing spontaneous about it, totally scripted. Blinken is incapable of emotional connections or originality in the whole political affair.

[@simplyfilipino6408]

@@craftpaint1644who cares, lighten up. You guys are all hateful.

[@lampshadecollector8]

Honk honk

[@boo2457]

The bar was full of geriatrics and tweens because all the men between 16-50 have been "peacefully but forcibly" sent to the front and the women have fled to Europe.

[@timothydoyle6859]

You would think that was the case, but just to prove how much of a clown show this war is, Ukraine just lowered its draft age . . . from 27 to 25. Yup, friends, for years now they've been kidnapping 40 and 50 year olds to fight on the front lines while keeping the draft age at 27. Want to know what I was doing at 27? Getting out of the military.

[@bernadettesullivan6036]

How bizarre is this ? Genocide being committed in Gaza and he is playing guitar in Ukraine.

[@maryschindewolf3239]

​@bernadettesullivan6036 get it right genocide in Isreal not Gaza

[@jaysauce13]

​@maryschindewolf3239 no its Gaza alright, Israel just always wants to play victim and justify a genocide with the Hamas attack ( which also was wrong)

[@NewsforThought-English]

are you ok? A flat earther?@@maryschindewolf3239

[@bobsontheepic42]

They don't care, they are making loads of money.

[@rocker1jul2010]

Ukrainians put up this cat strangling nonsense of a music show only because Blinken came bearing billions of dollars

[@jimmysexton4201]

Americans billions of tax dollars hard at work!! Incompetent administration!! Blinken was really there to get that bag!!! Bring back the administration's cut!!

[@Lordsuchinson]

Completely accurate..

[@larryjolley5229]

That’s actually the guy running the show trying to be like Clinton. This country is seriously in trouble with this leadership

[@Hollymountainhwy16]

Sometimes, you have to release the stress, and we all do

[@simplyfilipino6408]

Trump can’t do anything legal. His mind is prone to evil and crime.

[@johncoleman4084]

As a person lays in hunger, homeless, and war and death all around. This is embarrassing to even take time to do anything but rush to save lives. People are killing one another over things like politics and religions. This shows how much most folks really care about those families and mine and yours. Time to stop these folks from their clown show and help everyone.

[@TrashcanTroubadour]

That’s kind of what this song itself is about actually, pain and misery in the so-called free world

[@dansemacabre6515]

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. But Blinken guitared

[@brandonburns5365]

I came to say something similar 😅

[@montesquieu5180]

Yep, that pretty sums it up!

[@AFSOC2]

Blinken playing on the deck of the Titanic

[@lampshadecollector8]

He also converted to judaism so they have something in common.

[@johns9969]

This is straight out of the Hunger Games. Men sent to their deaths and a elites play music. Nero vibes...

[@larynOneka8080]

War criminal.

[@Chulitatr]

all politicians are. lords of war.

[@TrashcanTroubadour]

Anybody ever hear all the lyrics to that song? It’s like when politicians wanted to use Pink Houses or Born in the USA and somebody had to tell them those songs don’t mean exactly what they think

[@Iknowaboutroaches3350]

After the last 4 years nothing shocks me anymore. 😮‍💨

[@peterzak765]

So you've noticed these past four years were very bumpy? We are in circus, all of us clowns, performing our best 😂

[@c3920]

Do politicians ever read the lyrics of songs they like to play? What's next, "Born in the USA?"

[@TrashcanTroubadour]

Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking. Balls to the Wall would’ve been a better choice. That’s a fight song.

[@timothydoyle6859]

Failing to appreciate the irony of singing about America's "kinder, gentler machine gun hand."

[@timothydoyle6859]

Or the irony of lyrics about having money for wars, but not for the homeless in our country.

[@bernadettesullivan6036]

They are just that comfortable with unaliving people.

[@petermickelson7412]

shoulda played Warpigs

[@theashpilez]

Or the dogs of war.

[@two4u443]

OF COURSE!! LIVING IT UP IN OVER THERE.. THIS IS WHERE ALL THE LAUNDERED $$$ IS...WHY NOT PARTY. SICKENING!!😡

[@EJZJII]

Every empire falls

[@johnstewart3244]

Didn't Nero do something similar?

[@SenatorBluto]

EMBARRASSING

[@sardis6619]

Disgusting.

[@charmc4152]

The whole administration is an embarrassment. You've got stumbling, bumbling, mumbling Joe, who is frequently lost, in every sense of the word, cackling, f-bomb-dropping Kamala. The whole administration is a circus freak show. These three are just the ones in the spotlight at the moment.

[@James-oj8kq]

Oh god isn’t he terrible

[@AFSOC2]

Playing on the deck of the Titanic

[@MrMolnarlaszlo]

Disgusting

[@67y3j3fv2wg]

Absolutely disgusting

[@JohnCastleman-mz3gl]

They had to let him play we gave them 66 billion?$

[@johndquigley9237]

History truly repeats itself. Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned...

[@KC-cy3th]

“Rome is burning while Nero fiddles”

[@CameraMystique]

Next up "You can't always get what you want"

[@hasdrubalsosamarquez5430]

This is where our millions went

[@user-tf4ho2uo1e]

I don't think Blinken knows anything about what that song really means

[@ghironsingh]

Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned. I guess history might not always repeat. But it certainly rhymes.

[@jshricks]

Well, I'd imagine laundering that much money is cause for a party.

[@vandenriesen1294]

Russia is winning? That's not what we heard all this time from BBC, CNN, SUN, Telegraph, Kanal12, Daily Mail, ..., "Ukraine was winning". 😆😅😂

[@JoeBeThere]

Ya got played

[@georgekoedel247]

I was waiting for Slick Willie on the sax, dressed in black, to come out of the fog wearing dark shades blowing some kind of dirge.

[@40MileDesertRat]

During a war, some bureaucrats visit the troops in the field. Not Blinken. He strums in a bar with the draft dodgers.

[@bobwhite2]

Beyond belief!

[@Titoscudd]

Zelenskyy's term ended today, and he unilaterally decided to cancel presidential elections. Constitutionally, his authority as President of Ukraine has ended.

[@TheBrainFox-News]

It's unlikely that Secretary of State Antony Blinken would be "rocking out" in a Kyiv bar while Ukraine faces significant challenges. It's essential to verify the accuracy of such claims before accepting them as true. Diplomatic visits, especially during times of crisis, typically involve official meetings and engagements rather than socializing in bars.

[@RC-jp6vd]

Oh yeah Joe, you and your friend can go and clock out

[@tonirodriguez6649]

No SHAME!!

[@naas699]

the new "Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns?"

[@ab8588]

Bunker Bar in Kiev

[@susanhudson4190]

Wow!!💫

[@jackiefrKL]

What makes The Hill channel interesting? Two young sharp minds, beautiful Brianna and handsome Robbie, slugging different viewpoints, but yet in a respectable way. .. and the free-flowing gentle smiles .. I LOVE THIS CHANNEL 💗💗💗

[@bluecoffee8414]

Fun fact: Blinken was previously the spokesman for Bob Menendez - the politician facing the most serious bribery charges in US history.

[@darlayjones669]

In other words, the grizzly bear is at the gate with its shovel, NATO is bringing its own coffin, and Blinblin is singing for the deads

[@delzoid]

CRINGGGGGGGGE

[@sherrijackson1419]

Yeah because lord knows thats what we need is our top politicians playing music for people stealing our money.

[@youthimmortalus]

It's like something out of Idiocracy...

[@osvaldoedgarcanhangacanhanga]

For the love of God, don't play like this, with the lives of the Ukrainian people, the people don't want to hear music, they want to hear a peace agreement, the suffering of the Ukrainian people is terrible.

[@melm295]

Same with Palestinians They should give up some more territory and stop the endless slaughter.

[@Bond.JamesBond00]

"This one's called eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die." -Blinken probably

[@Mm-oo1rf]

Peak liberalism

[@100domathon]

War is nothing but entertainment to the elites

[@mikaelmachado4344]

What a dork!

[@anthonyjames7532]

Ah, the perversity of it all.

[@The145Club]

I wonder how well he sleeps at night…

[@EliteF22]

In his million dollar mansion and thousand dollar bed sheets.

[@The145Club]

@@EliteF22 😏🥴

[@lampshadecollector8]

Most of them are sociopaths.

[@object85]

I think he should run for president man blinken for president.

[@au3014]

Forget about the war

[@lisa-ul4vi]

Your tag line Hill should have been Blinken embarrasses self in Kiev. Wonder if he knows what the song really implies.

[@eckwai]

Swan song of Ukraine

[@justmenb3379]

The haters are out and about.This is called diplomacy folks. I never saw any Trump staff try to sooth the mood of the country like Blinking just did.

[@bmacattack615]

Most expensive cover charge ever.

[@alileevil]

America urges Ukraine to go to war when a ceasefire deal was on the table. Now Blinken plays guitar in Kiev as young men are dying in a war that will never end without some sort of compromise. This must be the American way of freedom and democracy I keep hearing about.

[@RareSense]

The hypocrisy of the USA, seriously Blinken should have stayed as a guitarist in a band, the world would be a safer place today!

[@user-io1wy3bf9e]

They can draft us life sucks anyway

[@wm6848]

Long winded response there bri,you lost robbi

[@anuragsinha2013]

He should make this his full time job, he's not good at his day job.

[@myvu9918]

FJB AND DEM.CRATS. LET'S VOTE FOR THE BEST PRESIDENT 2024, HE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREATE AGAIN, SAFE AGAIN, 🇺🇸

[@945hilo]

So I guess he went there just to play

[@konaken1035]

"Rocks Out"... with Obamas band, the Krack Chef Paddle Boarders.

[@truthstarved]

When politicians and their appointees feel that it is necessary to employ the services of an aging rock band to popularize an endless waste of money on foreign proxy wars, the game is over. Cut military spending and use the money to keep the Social Security fund solvent.

[@eonwe1977]

Statists only care about images and slogans

[@et2709]

Clawn blinsky

[@Starvin_Marvin138]

This enrire war is nothing but a play

[@Rbprofile]

Does anyone else find this weird?

[@MONG...]

Our tax dollars waisted by who? Drms of coarse!

[@petertheboomscott2104]

Zalenski has postponed his shopping trip to europe. Bet there werent many men in the audience, as they will be on front line. How about try for peace talks rather than sing about freedom. Ukraine have lowered the draft age as they are running out of soldiers. Men of draft age are also escaping to poland,rumania,etc.Not to fight in the war

[@darrellwertz6380]

Ha... he's left handed. what a surprise.

[@TheRavensOmen]

He's also red handed

[@robinhammoudeh9136]

Hes thr only one on the planet that gives our money so he can play a gig...61 billion tpm for 1 gig in kyiv...

[@virtualistrust2335]

Don't blame me. I voted Trump

[@gove4103]

Shameful. This warmonger plays in a band while entire generations Ukrainian men die in trenches for nothing.

[@moondawwg]

More like 'Keep on cringing in the free world'

[@long-jeep]

_keep on cringing in the free world_ 🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@robinhammoudeh9136]

There not playing in rubble under the bodies of children are they?

[@prostytroll]

"Ukrainian" president : 🎵send me more money!🎶

[@sallyreynoso6850]

New level of cringe unblocked, and bad really bad... Isn't a good Sec. Of State, worst at singing and playing the guitar

[@Jeffrie_Baer]

West needs to back off. 🙏

[@jackmaher4466]

Cringe.

[@alicemueller5836]

They are losing, and they will keep losing.

[@user-my2yb3yj7w]

Party time

[@mjrumi749]

Feast in time of plague. Shame!

[@charmc4152]

Americans are tired of footing the bill for a lost war, lost money, lost weapons, and the massive tax increases that will be imposed on American taxpayers to pay for all of this "aid." Frankly, having your Secretary of State "rocking out" while in the capacity of conducting official business and showing the world how "cool" he thinks he is seems a little out of place and doesn't exactly instill confidence that he has his priorities straight.

[@matiasd.c9949]

blinklown

[@lisalise1622]

$$$$$$ FOR NOTHING!!!!

[@dynjarren7523]

Ukraine is fighting to win a War against Russia and he’s playing guitar 🎸? Reminds me of Nero playing Violin 🎻 while Rome burned. Ridiculous behavior!

[@malikamasimova7631]

Men 18-60 are locked in Ukraine and cannot go out. This is the biggest concentration camp in the world… and Blinken supports this

[@user-re3nl6oy9r]

🤡 🎸

[@johnconover52]

Blinken is a disgrace. Grow up dude.

[@saviorvx1883]

he's only human , im glad he can find a moment to let loose after all he's been thru, tryna fix two-face joe problems

[@tomtom-iu4zs]

He's Joe's partner in all this. He's been pushing the war in Ukraine since 2014, and one of the reasons Ukraine was blocked from the terrorist list.

[@aprilgise3415]

Omg. Not a good look Blinken😮.

[@richardiven2000]

I bet he believes what he is saying. He is very willing to sacrifice you for his "Free World".

[@Hmoney0]

Peak liberal