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When idiots realize America Idiot is actually about them.
Haha yup. Punk, that famously neutral musical genre.
Gotta live how green day produced an album in 2004 about how destructive Bush was as a president, yet idiots think they are apolitocal somehow.
How dare Green Day do the exact thing you would expect Green Day to do if you knew the first thing about Green Day!
Billie Joe never holds back.
"Get up here numbnuts, I'll fight you right now"
dropkicks the pervert for molesting a fan
Holy shit
It's like when Paul Ryan said his favorite band was Rage and Tom Morello wrote an oped about it
It's so fucking stupid. I'm not a big fan of either Green Day or RATM's music (nothing wrong with it, it's just not my thing), but I don't live under a rock. I've actually heard of the existence of American Idiot because I've been a warm body in America since 1977.
When someone like me who would rather listen to 1930s and 40s music knows enough about Green Day to not even bat an eye hearing this, these people are just drooling imbeciles. But then everyone here already knew that.
Aww, did the “fuck your feelings” crowd get their little feelings hurt? Who are the snowflakes again?
There is no "me" in "your feelings". So they will never get it.
From the people that brought you, "I liked RATM before they got all political"
oH My GoD ThEy sHoUlDnT Be PolitIcaL like ThaT!
Hey maga people, remember when you were really concerned about free speech and people being canceled for “just voicing their opinion”?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
It's never about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of their speech and only theirs.
It's about freedom of their speech and their freedom to control yours.
Same as it ever was. “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.”
What "Machine" did you think he was raging against? The dishwasher?
SELL THE HOUSES TO WHO, BEN? AQUAMAN?
Okay how about we stop calling it a meltdown and start calling it a temper tantrum just like the ones toddlers throw. The solution for both is the same, putting them in a corner and ignoring them until they act like reasonable people while the adults keep things running
Isn't meltdown just the modern term for a temper tantrum?
lol, fucking snowflakes getting upset over the tiniest of things.
Did they expect Green Day to be pro-fascism?
Don't wanna be an American idiot
That's okay. They can still sing "Born in the USA" because that song is super-patriotic and not critical of America at all.
Oh, wait....
He's the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun But he don't know what it means
At this point it is remarkably refreshing to see a childhood hero still be based. Feels like a breath of reality in a stuffy box of hypocrisy and pretension.
What's next are they going to complain a second time about rage against the machine?
*Green Day does Green Day thing*
White Supremacist MAGAts:
Why insult Conan like this? ;)
Who gives a shit, they are professional victims.
Snowflakes melt, so it makes sense.
Green Day is anti-MAGA?!?
I’m shocked, just terribly shocked… /s
Politics? In my political rock opera?
Not a single ounce of self awareness in that group.... Won't be long till these Maga Snowflakes are screaming for safe spaces away from the liberal agender.
Facts don't care about your feelings snowflake! Here you can have the participation trophies you give us when we were young, I think you need them more.
...when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance. The original line is, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.”
So you were all okay with "redneck"? Are the rednecks offended by being associated with MAGA? What would be the reaction if some country singer sang "I'm not part of the woke agenda"?
Ugh. Ya know... the reality is that news outlets, Rolling Stone in this case, need to generate attention just as much as the outraged Trump supporters. I have to wonder if us normies are suckers. Why do we fall prey to the need to comment on something so irrelevant?
Edit: So, I just listened to and read the lyrics for American Idiot (it’s been a while and I wasn’t ever all that into Green Day). I hadn’t realized how on-point my comment was. It’s literally about the media manipulating us. Man, what a great song and meta article.
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Well, maybe I'm the removed, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Why do we fall prey to the need to comment on something so irrelevant?
We lack political agency that has any ability to impact the economic arrangements we find ourselves in, instead we react to politics happening, from opposing ends of this economic consensus that alienates us, by engaging in the hyper-real spectacle of politics. This is what the Trump era represents, decaying neoliberal consensus, increasing internalized anxieties, and alienation from political institutions.
I think for the Trump supporter delusion to work, it generally has to include the assumption that they're in the majority. "The Silent Majority(tm)" and all that. Which is probably part of why they get so butthurt when a public figure tells them to go fuck themselves.
It's not the right time to be sober
Now, the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
Mensa membership conceding
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding?
Watson, it's really elementary
Industrial revolution
Has flipped the bitch on evolution
The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized What a bummer
The world keeps getting dumber
Insensitivity is standard
And faith is being fancied over reason
Darwin's rolling over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now, everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
(guitar riff)
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now, angry mob mentality is no longer the exception, it's the rule
And I'm startin' to feel a lot like
Charlton Heston
Stranded on a primate planet
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
Followers following fables
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard
There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
Sometimes, the smallest softest voice carries the grand
BIGGEST SOLUTIONS
What are we left with?
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions
How to get ahead religions
And prosperity via simpleton culture (ah-)
The idiots are taking over
The idiots are taking over
Oh, no!
Did their feelings get hurt?
That's just a shame, if it keeps going like this anyone that acts like an antisocial asshole could be criticized for it, too.
It's a slippery slope, y'all /s
Cult of covfefe gets triggered? I'm all for it.
Republicans are the antithesis of punk rock.
Republicans are the reason for punk rock. Were they not around to fuck everything up, the punks wouldn't have as much to sing about.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Green Day took the stage during ABC’s broadcast of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest and used the opportunity to call out Trump supporters by changing the lyrics to their 2004 hit “American Idiot.”
Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong drew cheers from the live audience when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance.
Many of them took to Twitter to bash the band and accuse them of being part of the “propaganda machine.” “Sad, they are irrelevant and get a chance to play and use it poorly.
During the band’s tour back in 2017, Armstrong would shout “Fuck you, Trump!” before launching into “American Idiot.”
“There are a lot of people in the quote, unquote red states that get a big sense of relief when I say something like ‘Fuck you, Trump.’ That’s because they’re in the minority where they live and at our shows they get this sort of release,” he continued.
Dick Clark Productions, which produces New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between PMC and Eldrige.
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When don't they have a meltdown?
Tangential point but I do wonder how much of an effect Taylor Swift will have on voter turnout this year.
MAGA already tried to cancel her and failed when she encouraged people to vote. Imagine if she actually endorsed a candidate.