Here’s McBride, saying nothing:
“I would like to talk to you and clear the air,” McBride wrote in her post. “I will not be performing at the Great American State Fair on June 25th. I was presented with an opportunity to perform at a nonpartisan event but that turned out to be misleading. I asked lots of questions and was assured that this was a nonpartisan event that was meant to celebrate ALL 50 states. In my mind I thought this was a great way to celebrate the states and also bring people together in the way that only music can. I saw it as just a bigger version of so many state fairs I have performed at over the years, celebrating community and what makes each state special. Sounds fun, right? Wholesome, even. Yesterday, things started changing and what we were told is, in fact, not what is happening.”
Gee, thanks for “clearing the air,” Martina. What is it you think is “happening?” What’s happening is that lots of Trump Deranged people on social media are threatening to “cancel” singers who celebrate an American milestone when someone is President who wants to enforce laws, doesn’t want open borders, thinks women in amateur sports shouldn’t have to compete against former (or current) men, and that we probably should do something to make sure Iran doesn’t finally nuke Israel and maybe the US as it’s been threatening to do for decades. Martina McBride, like, oh, 95% of performers in my experience, has the political sophistication of a sea sponge and the guts of a filleted fish.
Last year, major comedians like Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Pete Davidson, Andrew Schulz, Jo Koy, Bill Burr, Jessica Kirson, Jimmy Carr and Louis C.K. agreed to perform at a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia, and brushed off criticism by human rights advocates. First, the performers insisted that comedy is comedy, and people are people all over. Second, they were paid a lot of money. Anyway, all Saudi Arabia ever did was sentence citizens, activists and others to decades-long imprisonment or death sentences for pure speech, such as critical social media posts. They still do this, in fact. Women also face systematic discrimination regarding marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance in that country. But President Trump beat Hillary Clinton, writes mean tweets and deports foreign criminals.
Punishing anyone, nor merely performers and artists, for not supporting the progressive line and daring to act like Americans is an ominous trend championed by the Mad Left (or course). Like so many other indefensible tactics we have seen employed by the Trump Hate Mob over the past decade (okay, trying to murder the President is worse), this is metaphorically pulling on the loose threads of the fabric of our society. The way to stop it—and it must stop— is for the targets of such political extortion to show some integrity, courage and fortitude, and to refuse to be manipulated.
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.