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    Maybe I missed something along the way but what in the ever loving fuck is up with this obsession over Lee Greenwood from the right? He is not a generational talent and has absolutely 0 appeal to a majority of people.

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      what in the ever loving fuck is up with this obsession over Lee Greenwood from the right?

      They have almost nobody else to choose from. The vast majority of artists lean left (or at minimum lean away from the rightwingnuts).

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    House Speaker Mike Johnson said booking Bad Bunny was “a terrible decision,” suggesting that Lee Greenwood would attract a “broader audience,” despite the 1980s country icon boasting fewer than 500,000 Spotify listeners compared with Bad Bunny’s 80 million.

    I kinda wish this would happen. It’d go down as the most disappointing Superb Owl half time show in history.

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      Lol I am a Raiders season ticket holder, and since they moved to Vegas, the halftime shows have been superb. I’ve seen Lil Jon twice, Sublime with Rome, Ice Cube, and I feel like I’m missing a couple, but they have been for the most part, great. Lee Greenwood did one once, and first of all, I had to Google just to see who tf he was, then he was God awful. Out of pitch and just sounded like he was too old to still be performing. He played the proud to be uh 'murican song and finally fucked off. I hope Chudpoint USA hires this moron for their unwoke halftime show. It’ll be a disaster.

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        He sang the “Proud to be an American” song, which is played at pretty much every 4th of July or other vaguely patriotic event in the south at least. But I can’t name one other song he sang, and I don’t see any reason at all to be proud of the USA right now.

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          Didn’t he re-write the lyrics for a bunch of different countries?

          [edit] - maybe it was just Canada.

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    Why do they have a foreigner performing at the Superbowl halftime show? Why not get a real American artist like Immortal Technique?

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    He’s an American citizen. Like … There’s not even a way to plausibly deny that this is solely because he is brownish and speaks Spanish.

    Laugh in the face of anyone who praises it

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        I find it’s helpful to point out their supporting structures. They always go on about shadowy leftist groups like “antifa” that don’t even have a freaking website, never mind any founders, any funding, any meetings, anyone in the group with any kind of platform or power or organization, etc…meanwhile, these assholes have things like Project 2025, ALEC, and the Seven Mountains Mandate stuff…

         Michele Bachmann, 2012 Republican presidential primary candidate and U.S. representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 2007 until 2015.[17]
        Lauren Boebert, Republican U.S. representative for Colorado's 3rd congressional district[18]
        Rafael Cruz, pastor and father of Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas[3]
        Mike Johnson, Republican U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district & Speaker of the House[19]
        Charlie Kirk, political activist and commentator[20]
        Tom Parker, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court[19][21]
        Paula White, spiritual advisor to Donald Trump[4]
        Andrew Wommack, evangelical leader[22][23]
        
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        Why did Idaho matter here? Not from America so I can’t understand why that particular state matters?

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        I looked it up and it seems like Qatar might be able to help Idaho with it’s issues with medical care for women. Apparently even with the absurd discrimination they suffer, health wise they appear to be better off than women in Idaho.