Would it be too much to expect all of America’s talented performers to unite in patriotic passion and non-partisan good will to help the nation celebrate its 250th anniversary?
Apparently, yes! As John Lennon would have said if he were possessed by “Bob” from “Twin Peaks”: “All you need is HATE! Bwahahahahahahaha!” Well, hate and stupidity.
Would it be too much to expect that those in charge of organizing such an event to be willing and able to enlist performing artists who are in their primes, widely popular, and invited on the basis of their achievements and skills rather than their political endorsements?
Also, tragically, yes. What drooling yahoos selected that bunch of has-beens, geezers and B acts to headline “The Great American State Fair”? And Milli Vanilli? Is that a joke? Please let it be a joke! Milli Vanilli is to singing groups as Joe Biden was to the Presidency. It was a fake group. It was caught lip-synching on live TV! Quite appropriately, many conservative, Republican and MAGA supporters are disheartened by these bottom-of-the-barrel scrapings, as this selection of tweets highlighted by “Not the Bee” demonstrates:
From the other end, the Left is seeking an encore of their anti-American tantrum in 2017, when any half-decent performer who wasn’t already an outspoken MAGA captive was threatened with shunning by all the Woke and Wonderful if they performed at any of Trump’s inauguration festivities, leaving the President with community theater stars and marginal performers who would only appear at the Grammys if they bought tickets to the balcony. Last week fading country star Martina McBride joined the list of performers backing out of the upcoming “Freedom 250” concerts. Morris Day, Young MC, and the Commodores, also announced they were dumping the gig. The series is being produced by an organization founded by Donald Trump, see, so that means that the concerts are…
Ethics Alarms 
Another humdinger!
One could argue that they are doing us a favor by not performing anymore. I have only heard of a few of them anyway. In the future, who would risk booking any of them as talent now that they demonstrated that they will not honor their obligations if they get a bug up their butt.
As for those who would come to see them, they can sit around on those hot / humid summer days in DC and complain there is nothing to do.
My question is why do we need constant entertainment to celebrate this event. Why not open the mall up to any type of value creator and showcase the talent average Americans have. It would be a far more interactive experience.
Just hire a DJ and let the crowd do the singing. Don’t need to pay taxpayer money to has beens, never weres, and greedy bastards.
All they really needed to do is have Vanilla Ice, Dolly Parton, Snoop Dog and Bad Bunny performing as a quartet.
All they really needed to do is have Vanilla Ice, Dolly Parton, Snoop Dog and Bad Bunny performing as a quartet.
But that is what The New America in fact demands. It is inevitable.
Vanilla Ice is an example of the sold-out White. The “wigger”.
Dolly Parton, born in Tennessee, represents the most conventional notion of America and most of “fly-over country” would relate to or identify with her.
Snoop Dog represents the empowered underclass (formerly of a servant-class) that by way of American inevitability must be seen on the same plane as anyone else — why not put him on the dollar bill? Or dedicate a stadium to him?
And Bad Bunny represents an outlying colony that, within the logic of New Americanism, has as much right as a president or the garbage man to be seen and recognized within business-run America.
They all are on the same plane and, naturally, they must all blend together eventually.
(Sorry but I am in a rather cynical cycle of thing these days.)
Besides the weird choices, Bret Michaels also claimed his staff and family received death threats. Part of these pull outs has to be because of that.
The right does need to do a better job at getting better entertainers. Kid Rock can’t be all there is…
Have the Marine Corps Band play John Philip Sousa marches.
As long as Trump is in power, we can’t have nice things.
The larger issue is that in the America of today patriotism has lost its genuine meaning. I sense it still has a shadow of its former meaning, but that is very different from having a genuine meaning — something deeply felt and really believed in. Consider for example the imperative of the value of “dying for one’s country” and then meditate on every recent war that America has engaged in. These are not wars with any moral reason. They are more like business wars (and not forgetting “wars conducted for a foreign nation”)(that I’ll politely not name).
Long ago, the country IN FACT sold itself out. So, in this context, define for me the correct “patriotic attitude” that one should have.
Bad Bunny is a symbol of your future.