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speaking of the Olympics...if Canadians booing our anthem is any indication, it might be an unusually hostile experience for US athletes next year. i know the Olympics are supposed to be apolitical, but we are literally in unchartered territory. i could see the purposely cultivated and provoked animosity between us and all of our allies bleeding into fans reactions and reception to Team USA. 

ETA depending on what has transpired by 2028, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that some nations might actually boycott LA.

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Just now, Red Five said:

I guess impeachment isn't really a thing anymore. Proceedings should have already begun just for the pardoning of all the people who tried to overthrow our government and beat up a bunch of cops for three hours. Not to mention giving an insane billionaire free reign to destroy our country the best ways he sees fit. 

Rein, but your point stands.

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11 minutes ago, wood said:

How the “Subversive Genius” of Kendrick Lamar Sent Trump Home a Loser
The Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar’s collective of geniuses made this the Super Bowl we needed.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/super-bowl-kendrick-lamar-halftime-eagles-trump/

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This year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans could have been a fascist Mardi Gras. Over a week ago, state police forced more than 100 unhoused people, under threat of arrest, into a freezing warehouse from which they barred the press. State agencies destroyed homeless encampments, and the operation cost taxpayers $17.5 million. Then this last week, police, Secret Service members, and the Department of Homeland Security smothered the Superdome and the city. And, of course, Donald Trump would be at the game, the first sitting president—as we’ve been told ad nauseam all week—to go to the biggest spectacle in the country. The scene was set beforehand when Trump got a cozy Fox News interview where, making his frowny face, he again signaled that a judge’s ruling to stop Elon Musk from controlling our financial records, doesn’t mean anything to him. He also picked the Kansas City Chiefs to win, citing his affection for Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’s MAGA wife, Brittany. He also said he was attending the game for the “good for the country.” As if not obvious at this point, crypto-coin Trump does nothing for the good of the country. He was there to bask like Caesar in a display of authoritarian power. Trump’s message was that resistance was futile.

Then the unexpected: In the first half, the Philadelphia Eagles knocked the snot out of Mahomes and the Chiefs. The two-time defending champions looked overmatched—like bullies who withered after being punched in the mouth. But even that trouncing was a pillow fight compared to the halftime show, where hip-hop maestro Kendrick Lamar took center stage. Lamar unleashed an artistic inferno rooted in Black culture, Black poetry, and Black resistance. Trump’s most prominent racist online trolls—I don’t want to link and give them the attention they crave—were already spitting that it was a “DEI halftime show,” which was more pathetic than upsetting. They are pieces of soggy Wonder bread, reduced to attacking brilliance because it exposes their mediocrity. It’s just stupid to think some addled 78-year-old misogynist caked in orange is the peak of masculinity.

But many of the people watching Lamar were those who have been deeply shaken by the constant, unaccountable cruelty pummelling us every day. Innumerable people—I’ve been hearing from them all week—were praying that Lamar would say something about Trump or Musk to the tens of millions of viewers. They wanted him to take on all the weight of this moment. It’s an understandable desire, but it’s also unfair: a “save us” burden that always disproportionately falls on the shoulders of Black artists. A popular slogan now is “No one will save us but us.” This plea was more “Save us, Kendrick.” But Lamar, who is more an abstract master of symbology than political rabble-rouser, performed something right in Trump’s face that I think people will be decoding for years. It was a textured, deeply layered, colossal middle finger at the worst of US history, Trump, and anyone who would try to obliterate Black culture in this country.


Playing off Samuel L. Jackson dressed as Uncle Sam and representing—at least to me—the false promise of assimilation through erasure, Lamar started in a crouching pose. It wasn’t a knee, as in Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police violence, but for someone who is incredibly self-aware of his every physical and verbal metaphor, starting in that posture on a football field was not happenstance. So many people would have cheered a knee—understandably!—but that would have been way too obvious for this man. Then, he started by performing just one bar of a lyric that does not exist in his catalog. He said, “The revolution is about to be televised. You picked the right time, but the wrong guy.”

To me, these 16 words are not a puzzle but a work of art. It’s not literal. It’s something you hear, something you feel, and something you interpret. Like a moving sculpture or tapestry, you need to account for the intentions of the artist but also how those intentions interact with your own perspective and gut emotional response. I take it as him saying—again in Trump’s face—that our mindset needs to be aimed toward revolution but do not look to him to carry the weight. It’s the “right time,” but I am the “wrong guy,” if that’s your intent. No more martyrs. This is an “all of us” project.

That “all of us” was on stage. Yes, it was Lamar in the spotlight delivering the most 100 percent pure hip-hop show ever shown to so vast an audience. But it was more than the power of one. He had brilliant Black dancers dressed in red, white, and blue, looking like an American flag, and he marched right through them, timing it to the lyric, “40 acres and a mule, this is bigger than the music / They tried to rig the game, but you can’t fake influence.” To my eyes, he was tearing apart the flag with history and truth—saying you can try to shackle Black people, but Black culture is an ineradicable part of this country. It was especially powerful that he did this in New Orleans, a place that has been left for dead time and again but is the cradle of the Black music that is at the heart of this country’s culture. Saying this in the face of the man canceling Black History Month also mattered.

At this point, the dancers were all Black men. For a later song, he was framed exclusively by Black women in nearly identical clothing as the men, moving with both power and grace. Then they all came together. In the middle of it all, a male dancer, on his own it is believed, unfurled a Palestinian flag attached to a Sudanese flag. His protest was surrounded by dancers dressed in all black, faces covered, raising their fists. He held the flags high before being tackled by security and detained. Whether planned or not, it connected with the broader themes of resistance, which felt electric, improvisational, and, to those who want to kill hope, dangerous. There is so much more to discuss—the lyrics chosen, SZA’s genius, a very pointed Serena Williams cameo!—but much was also beyond me. I need to read others—like Lamar codebreaker David Dennis Jr. (journalist and son of civil rights legend Dave Dennis), who called Lamar’s performance “subversive genius” and maybe “the biggest rap performance ever.”


As for Trump, according to reports, he stood next to his date, Ivanka, during the halftime show and then immediately left. He is our fragile orange flower and couldn’t bear seeing his dream of Black erasure rebuked. He couldn’t bear seeing art that he was unable to appreciate or understand. He couldn’t bear looking like a loser for picking the Chiefs because he likes the quarterback’s wife. So he hightailed it home before the cameras could catch him. After leaving, to make himself feel better, he banned the penny.

As for the game, the Eagles wrecked the Chiefs, before a couple of late garbage Kansas City touchdowns made it a final score of 40-22. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, who was clearly the most salty about Trump’s presence in the lead-up to the game—when other players were walking on eggshells—was the official MVP. Now, we’ll see if the Eagles, a team that after winning in 2018 boycotted going to the White House, will even get an invite from the King of Petty. Since he couldn’t stay to congratulate them, I can’t imagine why, if an invitation is offered, they would accept. (If the Chiefs had won, Trump would have preened on the field and chased cameras like a Hollywood ingénue.)

But as great as Hurts was, the real MVPs were the dancers, the choreographers, the costume designers, SZA, and Lamar. They created something collective, and we should understand it as cooperative political art, instead of decrying it because Lamar didn’t stand there reading a lefty pamphlet. The Eagles won, and the Chiefs lost. But I’ll remember this as the night when Kendrick Lamar sent Donald Trump home.


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"After leaving, to make himself feel better, he banned the penny."

hahaha awesome line 🤣

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It won’t make the news but today he killed the New Markets Tax Credit program. It has been congressional approved for many years and the money allocated bjt today they canceled nearly all contracts - including the one that governs who reviews applications. 

Thus, too, is illegal and outside the executive scope. Shocking, I know.

Fuck Donald Trump. 

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1 hour ago, mchookem said:

speaking of the Olympics...if Canadians booing our anthem is any indication, it might be an unusually hostile experience for US athletes next year. i know the Olympics are supposed to be apolitical, but we are literally in unchartered territory. i could see the purposely cultivated and provoked animosity between us and all of our allies bleeding into fans reactions and reception to the USA. 

ETA depending on what has transpired by 2028, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that some nations might actually boycott LA.

I hope they fucking do.  And I hope they lay all that at Donald Trumps feet.  Fuck him.

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9 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I hope they fucking do.  And I hope they lay all that at Donald Trumps feet.  Fuck him.

 

I fully expect Trump to ban the US from sending a team to the woke 2026 Olympics.   2028 would be hard to manage, considering it's here....but an effort will be made, legislation passed, something.

 

 

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2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

hahahaha, holy shit this is gonna get fun.

FCP is a major rule to follow and DOJ has people all over the place watching it closely.

 

The in your face corruption of this administration is astounding. They are dropping charges against Eric Adams lol. 
 

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Washington — The Department of Justice told federal prosecutors in New York to drop their corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, citing his "restricted" ability to help the Trump administration enforce its immigration policies.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo instructing prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to abandon the charges.

"You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges," Bove wrote in a memo Monday, adding that the department "reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based," and "in no way calls into question the integrity and efforts" of the prosecutors who brought the case.


 

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/trump-eric-adams-new-york-mayor-justice-department/

 

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

I guess impeachment isn't really a thing anymore. Proceedings should have already begun just for the pardoning of all the people who tried to overthrow our government and beat up a bunch of cops for three hours. Not to mention giving an insane billionaire free rein to destroy our country the best ways he sees fit. 

Right to pardon is absolute but there are several strong arguments already for textbook impeachment. No on cares, but hey the SB performance was lit (it was).

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2 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

He just gave Rod Blagojevich a full pardon, because corruptions is good and the GOP is the party of thieves and morally bankrupt scoundrels. 

You mean chicago's version of Mandela?

 

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“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace becomes a circus. “ - LeBron James. 

Appropriate for Dallas Mavs owner and our President.

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1 hour ago, The Ace of Aces said:

He just gave Rod Blagojevich a full pardon, because corruptions is good and the GOP is the party of thieves and morally bankrupt scoundrels. 

Right after he moved to protect Eric Adams.

I guess we can expect a Bob Menendez pardon any day now.

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

I guess impeachment isn't really a thing anymore. Proceedings should have already begun just for the pardoning of all the people who tried to overthrow our government and beat up a bunch of cops for three hours. Not to mention giving an insane billionaire free reign to destroy our country the best ways he sees fit. 

If Mitch had do-overs, he’d vote to impeach Trump’s ass next time….but, there won’t be a next time.   Thanks Mitch….idiot.

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14 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Right after he moved to protect Eric Adams.

I guess we can expect a Bob Menendez pardon any day now.

You’ll notice that everyone Trump is nominating for posts have all lost their past elections or were recently released from prison….all of them….hmmm.  I guess you have to be a convicted felon or a loser to qualify to get into this administration.

 

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Smart criminals should take note of all Trump’s crimes, sync them up with theirs and seek a pardon. If you’re guilty of some horrible thing is also guilty of, there’s a good chance he’ll let you go free. See Eric Adams.

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Eric Adams is a cunt. He won due to the D next to his name, but is much more like a Republican. DeBlasio was a better mayor than Shady Adams, and I hated DeBlasio. FYI, Adams has told NYC officials not to interfere with Trump's immigration enforcement. Adams sold out NYC, which hates Trump, to save his own ass. Adams should drop the fuck out of his reelection bid now 

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3 hours ago, C-Man said:

Rhett Lashlee calls Kendrick Lamar’s SB halftime show the “worst ever.” I bet a bunch of his players felt differently.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/smu-head-coach-rhett-lashlee-chimes-bold-take-super-bowl-halftime-show-kendrick-lamar/6e7b8cd188a178b5428fa2c1

 

lol he followed it up with how he would have rather had Lil Wayne. 

 

Sure, Rhett, sure. Save those croots!

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4 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Americans used to act like American democracy was so strong and resilient, but in the end it was extremely weak and fragile. Only took a demagogue and a corrupt political party to completely demolish it. 

Yep. I've been saying for 35+ years how fragile it all is while watching so many people take it all for granted, acting as if none of the terrible things we see in other countries could ever happen here ... but here we are.

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3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

JFC.

 

LOL. Grown-ass man who probably can't sleep without his blankie and a nightlight. The bigger they are and the tougher they talk, the bigger pussies they usually are.

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Re: Trump boos and Fox sweetening the audio... This guy is a great resource for all things broadcasting. 

 The replies include some video of DOTUS being greeted when he enters the stadium as well. 

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7 hours ago, Red Five said:

I guess impeachment isn't really a thing anymore. Proceedings should have already begun just for the pardoning of all the people who tried to overthrow our government and beat up a bunch of cops for three hours. Not to mention giving an insane billionaire free reign to destroy our country the best ways he sees fit. 

Al Green of Houston has already filed impeachment proceedings for the Gaza plans.  I know it won't come to fruition, but I expect several other filings, and it won't take but a few non MAGA red people to depose him given the right articles of impeachment.

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22 minutes ago, NWBuck said:

Re: Trump boos and Fox sweetening the audio... This guy is a great resource for all things broadcasting. 

 The replies include some video of DOTUS being greeted when he enters the stadium as well. 

Which of those guys are you referring to as a good source?

First response:   https://bsky.app/profile/da-jay-swizzle.bsky.social/post/3lhtqzzs63c2v (Bsky does not allow embedding of it for whatever reason)

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5 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

Al Green of Houston has already filed impeachment proceedings for the Gaza plans.  I know it won't come to fruition, but I expect several other filings, and it won't take but a few non MAGA red people to depose him given the right articles of impeachment.

Impeachment? Lol. 

Al Green just made the forthcoming states enemies list. The better question is whether the folks on that list “mysteriously” fall out of windows in the next few years, or if Trump/Musk secret death squads feel the need to jazz things up a bit. 



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