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Key Points:

  • A Republican congressman is requesting a formal investigation into Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show.
  • Rep. Andy Ogles described the performance as "pure smut" and claimed it featured illegal content for public airways.
  • The performance was one of the most-watched halftime show in history and was performed almost entirely in Spanish.
  • Other Republican politicians, including former President Donald Trump, also criticized the show as inappropriate.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 171 points 1 week ago

Ogles, who is apparently the living embodiment of Smithers when he’s cornered by strippers

That's proper journalism.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 143 points 1 week ago

They will investigate anything but the Epstein files.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 111 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Other Republican politicians, including former President Donald Trump, also criticized the show as inappropriate.

  1. If only
  2. USA Today needs to either use a better model or just get rid of the AI-generated key point summary.
[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not technically wrong though. He is a former president, as well as the current one. And I'm betting that referring to him as "former president" would get under his skin, so I'm all for it.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Former president and failed 2020 electorial candidate Donald Trump.

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[–] spacebread98@lemmy.zip 88 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder how much money this investigation will cost me as a US taxpayer

[–] heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf 34 points 1 week ago

Not as much as the new ballroom or the triumphal arch, I guess.

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago (9 children)
[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Not being an old white racist, to be more specific.

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are going to pull the "protecting children" line to enforce censorship.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Ah, the ol' "I don't know what he was saying, but I know it was bad"

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago

That's what the investigation is to determine, of course.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

So the Fox News talking heads have something to screech about

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect,”.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Haven't you heard? It's illegal to be not-white in America now.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Not enough twerking toddlers too many twerking adults

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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

You liberal snowflakes... So easily triggered.

Oh no a brown man is singing, begin a criminal investigation 😭

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Investigate pedophiles in pedo island 🚫

Investigate dance moves broadcasted on TV ✅

Nice job, Republicunts

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

They want to investigate the halftime show?

Uh, I think it's on YouTube, they can probably watch it there...

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

So all you have to do to upset conservatives is speak spanish in front of them. Hey is there an easy way to learn conversational spanish?

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kid Rock (whose song “Cool, Daddy Cool” features the lyrics “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage / See, some say that’s statutory / But I say it’s mandatory”)

So Kid Rock regularly fucks little children. I expect his arrest any second, now.

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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I cannot stress how much these people should be made incompatible with leadership.

A criminal investigation in a thing that was plainly televised?? At fucking worst, you check existing laws about obscenity. What is there to investigate?

An unconscionable, baldfaced waste of time and resources for personal grievance.

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As a German, the first thing that came to my mind when reading this, was the term "Entartete Kunst".

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The party of “small Government”

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago

The US is not a serious country.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're low-key making him more famous. I don't like Bad Bunny's music but now I like him for pissing off Trump. I might revisit his songs tbh.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

I'd literally never heard of him before the super bowl halftime/tpusa snowflake safe space alternative half time show. But guess who is listening now?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Oh, now they're going to watch it.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago

Andy Ogles sounds like the name a really lazy author gives to a sex pest in their self published novel...

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The investigative committee: “Guten tag.”

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

“American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence,” Ogles said.

Fuck all the way off you fucking illiterate dipshit. The best parts of "American culture" are and always have been mocking evil puritanical shitheads like you who really just hate art in general and people you don't own.

[–] yoyoyopo5@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Investigate the Epstein files.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

GOP: So....govern today?

Also GOP: Nah. Too hard.

GOP: Open baseless investigation to make the stupids think we're doing something of value?

Also GOP: Bingo!!!

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They should investigate how Kid Rock managed to fuck up his lipsync so bad and how nobody thought it'd be good to do another take since that whole bullshit was pre-recorded anyway

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[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 19 points 1 week ago

All these conservative snowflakes are going to start an avalanche

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are all republicans just genuinely dumb as a fucking brick?

Maybe the central theme of a functional democracy should be education, because it seems to destroy conservative agendas (because the conservative agenda is based on idiocy, hate, and racism)

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[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Andy Ogles: This halftime show is making my crotch tingle!! It's smut!!!

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Mean ol Bad Bunny's show gave him a boner and reminded him of what he isn't getting at home. Better investigate so he can watch the show over and over again to be sure.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh noes! Somebody danced provocatively on TV!

Anyway... who are the men that were redacted out of the released Epstein files?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Apparently bringing corpses from the 90s back who got famous singing about fucking children is ok, but some people with brown skin dancing provacatively is a bridge too far.

Conservative logic.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These are the people that went crazy for Hawk Tuah girl so they can shutteth the fucketh up. They're not on any high horse, they're fisting the horse.

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[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Rep. Andy Ogles thinks that anyone with brown skin is inappropriate for broadcast television.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago

A new distraction from the Epstein Files, stealing Venezuelan oil, clearing Gaza to build the Trump Gaza Dubai, Paramilitary Death Squads roaming the streets and breaking out into spontaneous firing squads against innocent citizens, accepting bribes from Arab businessmen, building concentration camps around the country, stealing elections, losing EVERY court case, PEDOPHILES, etc.

But by all means, let's get to the bottom of this Bad Bunny scandal.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

They're so fucking jealous they can't stand it lol

And how bout the ones freakin out about two men dancing real close to each other? Yeah all that sexy Latina cake and you noticed the men? Maaaan, the Cons barely fit in the closet with all those skeletons...

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

The snowflake party.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As if trying to leave Puerto Rico to fend for itself after a hurricane disaster wasn't enough.

Fucking assholes every fucking day, doing nothing but to serve Kluxers.

[–] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Irrelevant losers.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Former President Donald Trump? Oh AI, do better.

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