The irony of an old rock and roller with a peace sign in his Twitter bio calling for the extermination of half of America is rich, isn’t it? At the age of 72, you would think that someone in the public eye would be able to deliver a message without trying to instigate violence.

Stringsteen’s guitarist Steven Van Zandt took the occasion of Easter Sunday night to call on people to “exterminate these cockroaches once and for all” on social media. He blames Republican lawmakers in Tennessee for exercising their power to hold Democrat lawmakers responsible for their actions on the state House floor. Then, after posting a hissy fit of a tweet, he quickly deleted it rather than tolerate any criticism.

So, why did you delete this @StevieVanZandt?

“Exterminate the (Republican) cockroaches”?? Huh.

Btw, the Internet is forever you hateful bigot. pic.twitter.com/vdRNkzLPWX

— SilverPatriotRedux (@ReduxPatriot) April 9, 2023

Tough guy.

Imagine being so twisted in thinking that you would post an incendiary tweet in response to a mentally ill mass murderer shooting up an elementary school and murdering three nine-year-old children and three adults. The cold-blooded murder of innocent children and adults. But somehow, the people responsible are Republican lawmakers because they did not succumb to mob rule in the Legislature.

He began his rant with “Republican White Supremicist scumbag cowards and pussies that need guns to feel like real men” and it went from there. There is nothing too vile to accuse Republicans of, apparently. All that is because of a difference in political opinion.

He justified deleting the tweet because, well, Republicans.

He said he deleted his original anti-Republican post for a host of reasons, viz;

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 fuck outta my feed!

Republicans are very powerful. Who knew?

He’s not a fan of religious freedom, either. In 2016 he weighed in on legislation states like North Carolina were passing. He called for the economic destruction of those states. You know, to teach them a lesson. Never mind that regular business owners had nothing to do with passing legislation. This kind of unhinged behavior doesn’t make sense. The band canceled a show in Greensboro, North Carolina over a “bathroom bill.”

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 told 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 said.

I guess he’s ok with exposing women to men who pretend to be women to gain access to their restrooms. Maybe he’s someone who insists that never happens.

He’s not clever and original in calling Republicans cockroaches. Remember the toxic speech of Sonny Hostin on The View? She called white Republican suburban women voters cockroaches.

“What’s also surprising to me is the abortion issue. I read a poll just yesterday that white, Republican, suburban women are now going to vote Republican. It’s almost like roaches voting for Raid, right?” Hostin said, to which her fellow panelist and former Donald Trump associate Alyssa Farah Griffin quickly responded: “That’s insulting to the voter!”

While Griffin continued to criticize her stance, Hostin dug in her heels, adding that women supporting anti-choice candidates are “voting against their own self-interest. Do they want to live in Gilead? Do they want to live in The Handmaid’s Tale?” with reference to the Hulu series about women who live in forced sexual servitude among an oppressive, religiously motivated country.

Classy.

As wrong as she was, Hostin defended her indefensible position. Van Zandt just ran away. Who’s the p**sy here, anyway?

Nothing changed in either case. All it did was further divide people.