The show, put on by the conservative organization to compete with Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance, will feature performances by Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert and Lee Brice. Gabby Barrett, 2021 winner of new female artist of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, will also perform.

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    Do even Republicans like kid rock? I watched a video of his a couple years ago and it was the most hilariously cringy shit I’ve ever seen.

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    Of course kid rock is going to headline.

    Can I just ask a question though, have you noticed that turning point and the daily wire and such seem to be building a media landscape akin to evangelical Christians? Like they’re trying to build an alternative media landscape separate from the mainstream media landscape that reinforces their views much in the same way that evangelical Christians do.

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      That’s what they have been doing since at least the Ronnie Raygun era unleashed this.

      They started all of the hate radio networks and poured money into, started Faux “News” and poured money into that (didn’t make money for 5 years and even then it probably only works because of the lack of ala carte programming on cable).

      If you are starting a cult, and that’s what the Republican Party/conservative movement is, you don’t want anyone countering your propaganda. That’s why cults encourage their members cut off family contact and so on.

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      That’s part of the “culture war” repugs have been harping on about forever. Alternative art, alternative schools, alternative software… Always needing to create parallel spaces as they are ostracized out of the mainstream.

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      I accidentally went to a private Lee Brice concert once well over a decade ago.

      I had no idea who he was, but it was at one of those Coyote Ugly type bars a friend served/danced at so it was free and I knew going in I was literally the only guy there.

      Brice was wasted, didn’t use a mic and just sat at a table so all the women had to crowd around him to hear anything.

      It legitimately felt like a college party where some douche pulled out a guitar, but everyone was actually into it. Literally the worst “concert” I’ve ever been too, but still, the audience was me and like 50 very attractive women. So a pretty fun night at the bar except when he was trying to sing. Which he barely did.

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    They still want to keep going with this racist bullshit? Are they still exclaiming Bad Bunny isn’t a US citizen as well? Talk about the biggest collective tantrum from a bunch of racist cunts. Get over yourselves, you’re making yourselves appear worse than you seem to think the people you hate are, talk about irony.

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    For anyone who leans left or center and wants to see this…

    1. Don’t watch it live
    2. Watch it later, preferably on a repost on YouTube or on a grey-market site so no money goes to these racist fucks.

    Maybe some progressive YouTube channel will repost it and donate the ad revenue to progressive causes.

    I don’t care about any of these artists, but I imagine there are some decent people who say “I would like to see this person play but I don’t want to support racism/fascism, how can I do that, watch this ethically.” The easy answer is, you simply shouldn’t. The best answer is, torrent it later.

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        Yeah, I dunno. I guess I meant hypothetically?

        I liked his first album when it was new. If he was a shithead then, I didn’t know about it. Bawitdaba was cool AF back in the day. And Picture with Sheryl Crow is still a great song. Too bad the guy who sings it is a fascist. Just like how Rooftops by Lostprophets was always a banger, despite the singer doing what he did.

        If you can separate the art from the shithead… I dunno. I just don’t want to hear Kid Rock anymore. I think the last interesting thing he did was mash up Sweet Home Alabama with Werewolves of London and somehow made both worse, but it was interesting.

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          Boycotting this performance is the ethical thing to do. There are some artists that I don’t listen to anymore, because of their political actions in the last few years. When someone famous I like throws their name, image, and platform behind fascism, I write them off.

          Quick clarification edit: Boycotting by never watching, repost or otherwise*