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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

But also

You know this list is long.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

How bout we investigate the Mossad run child killing pedofile cabal instead idiot?

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Just one of Trump's little sycophantic favorites trying to curry favor. This is just more attempts at distraction from the Epstein fiasco Trump is in.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago

A little dancing is bad, but raping children is totally fine? Fuck I hate these people.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 22 points 19 hours ago

The party of child rape doesn't like bad bunny...

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 33 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago

I mean it was a bangin halftime show. Wouldn’t you want to get paid to watch it 100 times?

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Was there a bunny?

And if so, was it naughty?

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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.)

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 16 hours ago

republicans be like puerto rico contributes nothing but we won't grant them statehood so they can and we won't let them get independence so they can leave.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For you MAGAs playing at home, let's check the scoreboard:

  • America First, no more foreign entanglements: That's a No.

  • Epstein Files: Still waiting for the good stuff.

  • Lower prices on Day 1: It's past Day 365, and prices are still rising, but it's a Democrat Hoax.

  • Deport Criminals: Includes children, veterans, innocent people, and even citizens.

  • 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.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

MAGA are kid lovers until proven otherwise

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[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 25 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

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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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 18 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

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 😂)

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Meanwhile the MAGAts listen to songs about sex with children

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't Elvis do all that too? What year is it?!

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently it's moral panic o' clock

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 109 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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?

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Meanwhile, there was a Levis ad that was exclusively super close ups of butts and no one bats an eye.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

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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[–] Xella@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Bad Bunny: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love" Republicana: "INVESTIGATE THIS DEGENERATE"

..???? 🤦‍♀️

[–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] CoryCoolguy@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 18 hours ago

Before I even clicked I knew it had to be Ogles.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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"...

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Republicans are just fucking stupid.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago

That's a feature not a bug

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 136 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Amazing wholesome halftime show vs. Epstein files

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Wow they really love wasting time and money don’t they. Someone should look in to all this waste.

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 32 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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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[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

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....)

[–] muxika@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago

"Nobody gives me a woody and gets away with it!"

Dude's name is Ogles. How is this not The Onion?

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