Amazing wholesome halftime show vs. Epstein files
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women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air”
Oh no! Did Bad Bunny steal one of Michael Jackson's signature moves? Did his dancers dance like Shakira or Jennifer Lopez? Has this guy ever seen a Superbowl halftime show?
It doesn't matter. This is all just vice signaling. They just need to tell their base how much of a racist asshole they are. What actually happened, what they said, and what effect their actions could achieve aren't the point.
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Sure, let's investigate a televised performance. Meanwhile, his party is going to keep sticking its fingers in its ears and yelling, nah nah nah nah nah regarding the Epstein files.
They'll protect sexually explicit content if it involves children. GOP => Guardians of Pedophiles
"Nobody gives me a woody and gets away with it!"
Dude's name is Ogles. How is this not The Onion?
For you MAGAs playing at home, let's check the scoreboard:
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America First, no more foreign entanglements: That's a No.
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Epstein Files: Still waiting for the good stuff.
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Lower prices on Day 1: It's past Day 365, and prices are still rising, but it's a Democrat Hoax.
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Deport Criminals: Includes children, veterans, innocent people, and even citizens.
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Make America Safer: Death Squads patrolling the streets and breaking out into spontaneous firing squads against innocent citizens.
So why are you still in? Is it the mind-boggling corruption? The Treason? The casual racism? The virtuosic incompetence? The manic middle of the night tweetstorms? The pants-shitting press conferences?
I'll bet it's the Pedophilia. The one thing MAGA can be counted on is to cover the crimes of pedophiles.
That's why ALL MAGAs are Pedophiles.
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A little dancing is bad, but raping children is totally fine? Fuck I hate these people.
Here let me help you out.
Yes, I've concluded the investigation.
It was indeed a halftime show. Thank you for your time. Use this information as you will.
I love all the people scrambling to come up with some reason other than racism that the halftime show was bad because literally everything else they're criticizing also applies to every ither halftime show in the past 30 years
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Look, obviously Ricky Martin made you suddenly horny and you did not know why. He did that to everyone, sir. But it was not technically pornography, it was just the immense sexual magnetism of an unleashed man.
Republicans are seriously good for nothing except gallows humor.
I think you meant to say "except for the gallows."
Works both ways:
Republican => gallows => me: lots of laughs
Investigate what?
Was there a bunny?
And if so, was it naughty?
He was waving the pro-independence Puerto Rican flag (light blue) and Ricky Martin was singing a song about the shit that happened in Hawaii after they got statehood...... Is that naughty? Mm I liked it.
(There was also a lot of twerking, but somehow I don't think that's the actual source of the complaints.)
Spanish. They purposely have a different word for everything.
How lucky we are to have these paragons of virtue in the GOP to guide us from our wicked ways.
Our wicked ways of: not fucking kids.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R, Tenn.) posted on X on Monday evening a letter addressed to the House Energy and Commerce Committee in which he called for an immediate inquiry into the National Football League and broadcaster NBCUniversal over their “prior knowledge, review, and approval” of what he alleged to be “a performance dominated by sexually explicit lyrical themes and suggestive choreography.”
Oh yeah. Based on the phrasing... This is projection.
Check this guy's laptop.
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Bad Bunny: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love" Republicana: "INVESTIGATE THIS DEGENERATE"
..???? 🤦♀️
The party of child rape doesn't like bad bunny...
This is who you voted for, assholes of Tennessee. A performer who did a performance consistent with what they've always done, and this dude is willing to weaponize the United States government to go after this fucking entertainer because they don't like their content! You may not admit it, but that's not okay, and it's not "small government"...
How many babies do you think he's eaten on Epstein's island?
I can only assume he cares about a singer/dancer to distract from the baby eating billionaires scandal.
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How bout we investigate the Mossad run child killing pedofile cabal instead idiot
Bad Bunny lives rent free in Republicans heads. I really don't get it, them making a big deal out of it is only making them look stupider tbqh. And they don't need that, they're already stupid enough. They might jump the stupid shark at this rate.
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Investigate what? Why it was cool?
This is just your typical Republican made up bullshit to make their base think something bad happened.
Nothing bad happened
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claimed that it featured “explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air” and that the singer’s mostly Spanish-language lyrics “openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.”
Stop it !!!! ... I already bought my ticket ok ??! it just so happens that I'm super into women gyrating provocatively 😂 lord ...give me the strength to open a strip bar and advertise it as such "HERE : WOMEN GYRATING PROVOCATIVELY"
(emphasis mine 😂)
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I have investigated and I have concluded that Bad Bunny did indeed give a performance at the Superbowl!
Is this guy blind!?
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What year is this?
Investigate what? Why it was better than Kid Rock's shitty show? The answer is very simple: Bad Bunny isn't Kid Rock.
Yeah, he was the guy who kept singing about how he likes 'em underage, right?
.... Wait, no? That was the other guy? Why isn't Andy Ogles looking into that, instead?
(We all know why. Not only were those female dancers hot, they looked like they were having a great time, and Republicans can't have that....)
Wow they really love wasting time and money don’t they. Someone should look in to all this waste.
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Quick. What can we do to look like we are doing something but hear me out.. that something is nothing.
It's a good thing the Republicans aren't actually trying to govern. They would never have time for this kind of ridiculous ideological theater if they had jobs.
If you had told the Continental Congress that their successors would eventually be investigating half-time shows they would have surrendered to King George.
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