AG Bondi thinks that it is illegal for Bruce Springstein to refer to himself as "The Boss" (satire)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Last edited Tue May 20, 2025, 03:17 PM - Edit history (1)

This appears to be satire

[yardwork]

1. They're just playing to the rubes.

[Attilatheblond]

21. She's playing to ONE rube, the one in the White House who thinks he's king mob boss

His ego is getting more and more fragile as he fails more and more at 'deals'. He can't stand that others are more popular, have cool nick names. Actually, he hates everyone who gets any attention at all. And he thinks he has the power to make everyone else agree with him.

There is nothing, NOTHING that will make him STFU because he is the most insecure person in the world. He knows he's a LOSER and nothing he can order will make him feel better about himself.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Freedom of Speech

Tell your 'boss' he's not the Boss. Stephen Miller and Elon Musk are his boss.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Also

This is a distraction. We aren't getting out of this politically.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Aw, Pammy Jo Bimbo is jealous. . .

. . .what bullshit

[DENVERPOPS]

61. Bimbo Bondi is

probably gonna go after ME for calling her a "TWAT"..........

Same with Bang-Bang Boebert.......

To me.......the only difference between the ladies working the street on E. Colfax in Denver, and these Republican Women Appointees and Politicians, is that there are things that the ladies on E. Colfax......WILL NOT DO, for ANY amount of money......

[Ocelot II]

5. So no corporate CEO or 7-11 manager can call him/herself "the boss"?

Only Dear Leader gets to use that title?

WTAF? This is some weapons-grade stupid.

[Rebl2]

60. I guess not 🫤🙄

[chowmama]

6. Umm...Whut?

nt

[Biophilic]

8. She really is embarrassing.

That’s our Attorney General? How did we sink so low so quickly?

[ZZenith]

25. Multi-decade slide.

Just recently reached terminal velocity.

[Safe as Milk]

9. Bondi's a flake.

Hah! She's a Flake on the Take! She loves that dirty money. It drips off her like streams of honey.

[Vinca]

10. And this ISN'T the "Onion?" Amazing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. It is really hard to do satire in today's world

[tblue37]

34. Poe's law.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. It is, as it says, "JamboSchlarmbo" -"Dope Dad. Comedian. Satirist. Amateur Professional."

https://www.instagram.com/jamboschlarmbo/?hl=en

But I fear most of the replies here are taking it as reality, not a joke.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

24. The sad thing is this is what we expect from these idiots that Been A Dick Donald picked for his dept. heads.

It's very easy to believe this actually happened given the track record of his appointments.

[DENVERPOPS]

63. It's as if......

He made a list of top people all the way down to bottom people, and then chose the bottom person on the list.......

I have noticed that in the Corporate World.......an executive will hire the distinctly poorer qualified people, so that he/she is not threatened, and candidates that are totally YES people.....

[tblue37]

35. Poe's Law.

[Brenda]

37. Yep, it's fake shit. She did not say that.

Yet these kinds of posts rarely get corrected by the OP.

[Hekate]

45. TY for this. Our DUer friends have GOT to start putting "satire" in the title.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

51. Yep, because with this administration,

this isn't beyond the realm of possibility given how unqualified Been A Dick Donald's nominees are.

[Linda ladeewolf]

62. That's because it's so close to the reality of this administration that we don't see the funny anymore.

I admit to losing my sense of humor part of the time. When the reality looks like it was written for comedy, but it’s for real, it’s hard to laugh.

[Lars39]

12. The expression on that other woman's face lol

[malaise]

13. Bwaaaaaah

😂😂😂

[Happy Hoosier]

14. Wait.... NOT the onion? C'mon...... that's gotta be satire! NT

[bdamomma]

15. She's such

a loyalist the Boss refers to the one and only Convicted felon. She's kissing the ring, just sickening.


Hey wait, I thought we were his Boss, doesn't he work for us??????

[Mossfern]

17. Can she cite

the law that this breaks?
Just curious.

[Tommy Carcetti]

18. Looks like satire.

Font doesn't seem to follow Fox's usual for its captions.

[Aristus]

22. My nickname is "Manhattan".

You guys are going to have to start calling the cocktail something else, or I will sue you.

[DBoon]

50. Godzilla wants a word with you...

?w=450

[Aristus]

53. ...

[Wiz Imp]

23. This has got to be fake, doesn't it?

Please let this be fake. Otherwise, Bondi has cemented herself as maybe the stupidest and most dishonest person on earth (next to Trump). The fact that she is Attorney General of the US is beyond comprehension. We are truly living in the twilight zone.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

46. It is fake.

But she's still stupid and dishonest.

[Wiz Imp]

67. I figured it probably was

But it shows how sad a situation we are in now that it is easy to picture the Attorney General of the US making such an idiotic statement.

[MerrilyMerrily]

49. I think it is fake

Bondi's head is blocking part of "Department of Justice" but there is no way that can make it read "Injustice" on one side of her head. There can't be an "N" right before the "J".

It would make a nice SNL skit, though. Throw in Kristi Noem trying to claim habeas corpus means "the Boss" CAN detain people without a reason and SNL can have Bruce Springsteen grabbing up all the people HE doesn't like, and torturing them with piped-in music -the Barney song, Mr. Roger's "Won't you be my Neighbor?", for instance. If they nod off, Roseanne's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner cranked to 11...

[SWBTATTReg]

26. Stupid is as Stupid does...one of Forest Gump's sayings (or his Mom)...pertinent I think. Perhaps there's a reward for

the stupidest idiots in tRUMP's administration (and more than just one 'Stupid' award, make five of them, and tRUMP's already included).

[leftyladyfrommo]

27. Next it will be illegal for Democrats to breathe. nt

[Sogo]

33. Yes, because they'll be using up some of the last remaining air that the Rs haven't yet polluted....

nt.

[Walleye]

28. Everybody calls him the boss and they have for a long time

Man, if they’re gonna make nicknames illegal, I know where to start. Poor Trumpy, he thinks he’s the boss of everything. In fact, we the people are the boss in this country. I guess she doesn’t know that.

[CrispyQ]

29. I thought his fans were the ones that referred to him as The Boss.

???

[tanyev]

39. Exactly. He does not call himself The Boss.

And even if he did, it’s not illegal.

[Amaryllis]

59. They are.

[Wiz Imp]

66. Here's where the nickname came from:

Springsteen, 75, then offered some background on the moniker, saying it came about simply because he paid his band and crew.

“‘Hey, boss.’ You know? ‘Are we getting paid this week?’ ‘Sure,’” he recalled. “And then some DJ heard it and started using it on the radio and it, you know, went viral, as they say. And so there it is.”.

He never liked it as a nickname, but eventually accepted people were going to call him that whether he liked it or not.

Bruce Springsteen may be known as “The Boss,” but he’d rather not be.

The beloved rocker opened up about his apparent disdain for his longstanding nickname on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast on Thursday, May 1. “‘The Boss,’ which dogged me my whole life, still does,” he said. “I’ve gotten used to it. I’ve given up and gotten used to it, I suppose.”

https://people.com/bruce-springsteen-given-up-gotten-used-to-boss-nickame-11726809#:~:text=The%20origin%20story%20was%20previously,the%20nickname%20became%20public%20knowledge.

[CrispyQ]

69. Thank you for that!

[Wiz Imp]

70. No problem. I never actually knew the full background story myself (despite being a huge fan)

I only knew that Bruce didn't start it himself and he actually never really liked that people called him that but eventually gave up trying to get people to stop using it.

[Mr.WeRP]

30. We are living in a reality that was written by writers of The Onion

[Sogo]

31. Talk about grasping at straws....

Pam Bondi, AG Barbie.

[Brenda]

32. Why post something not true and pretend it is?

Clearly a poor photo shop with creator's name right there in pink.

[Torchlight]

36. Next week, she's expected to propose legislation

declaring karaoke a felony offense against national morale.




(Yes, Statler & Waldorf, we know press secretaries can't propose legislation, thank you for your education).

[woodsprite]

38. She spelled it wrong. It's SSOB

Stupid Son of a Brothel-keeper

(technically it's "grandson of a brothel-keeper", but you really can't pronounce SGSOB)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

40. "but it COULD be true" is okay for satire and terrible for information systems. tighten up, y'all

[sinkingfeeling]

41. Was it legal for Elvis to be the 'King of Rock and Roll"? Or Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop"? How about Prince?

[NEOH]

42. Kook. nt

[MarineCombatEngineer]

43. Yeah, you really need to delete this thread or label it as satire.

There's enough fake news around without bringing it to DU.
TIA.

[sakabatou]

44. How dare someone give themselves *checks notes* a nickname!

[orangecrush]

47. We are so fucked

[GusBob]

48. I'm just watching all the rubes fall for this fake thing

And well, kinda embarrassed

[MarineCombatEngineer]

52. I did at first being that this isn't too far from the truth with these MAGAt idiots. nt

[StarryNite]

54. Dumb as a box of rocks.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

55. She is that, but this is fake news,

although, with this Admin., you just never know.

[ancianita]

56. She's as shitkicker stupid as her WH boss. Springsteen's national audience gave him that title, not he himself.

[Hekate]

57. ❤️Thank you for adding (satire) to the title. I needed that.

[Amaryllis]

58. REMember in the olden days when you could tell if it was satire without looking to see if it was Borowitz or the Onion?

[AllaN01Bear]

64. snork

[calimary]

65. Blow it out yer ass, Bondi.

Springsteen was happening when you could barely stand up by yourself.

And he’ll still be at it LONG after you’re forgotten.

His name, his music, his conscience, and his leadership will keep inspiring WAY LONGER than ANYBODY will remember anything about you.

[Picaro]

68. Is she really that stupid?

I guess there’s some segment of the population that thinks this makes sense?

Sad days in the former land of the free and home of the brave.