Turning Point USA Is Hosting Its Own Halftime Show Because the Super Bowl Is Too Gay
https://www.them.us/story/turning-points-usa-halftime-show-counteprogramming-bad-bunny
https://www.them.us/story/turning-points-usa-halftime-show-counteprogramming-bad-bunny
149 Comments
limelight79@lemmy.world · 151 pts · 206d
Do they know that football involves a bunch of men grabbing each other?
Stern@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 206d
If I told someone I had a video of muscular dudes in spandex pants wrestling around with each other in the mud, they'd think I never miss pride events, but tell them its the most recent superbowl and suddenly...
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 206d
Hey, you leave the Turkish national sport outta this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_wrestling
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 206d
Football can be described in so many fun ways.
Years ago when my rep was cosponsoring some bill about how video games were killing children my buddy sent him a letter. I don't remember the exact contents but it pointed out the rich history in Texas of folks wearing different colors violently defending their turf from rivals. Schools are training high schoolers to how to be in a gang as a sponsored activity every Friday evening.
toeknee@piefed.social · 6 pts · 206d
the Super Bowl is just a bunch of burly guys pressing tightly against another group of burly guys trying to prove who is best at handling balls all to win jewelry and a purse.
kboos1@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 206d
Listen to sports commentators out of context. Sounds pretty gay to me
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 206d
If you put black censor bars over MMA fighter shorts, it looks REALLY GAY.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 206d
In Canada it's the gay sport.
Liuone@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 206d
In Europe it's not even a sport, just how americans maintain their brain damage.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 206d
Rough....but fair!
kieron115@startrek.website · 3 pts · 206d
Doesnt each play start with a traditional sniffing of someones balls before the football is thrown back
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 106 pts · 206d
I would say the superbowl isn't gay enough. The half-time show should be all 24 players having an orgy on the field. That'd certainly get me to watch the dumb foosball game.
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 31 pts · 206d
Hand-egg more than football.
bisby@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 206d
Sports are called "foot" ball because they involve running and aren't played on horses. And "ball" doesn't mean "sphere"
I don't watch association, Australian, rugby or American football, but you've bothered the etymologist in me with your nonsense suggestion.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 206d
You are correct but do you watch Gaelic?
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 206d
I think he must be a CFL fan.
Windex007@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d
Does this imply chess is intended to be played on horseback?
bisby@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d
Lol.
"Foot means played on foot" is not the same as "every other sport must be played on horse". Football naming etymology has no impact on the naming of other sports. Chess is often played in a chair, not on foot, so it already is a non foot game. The lack of distinguishing may be to allow some chess players to optionally stand, or play from horseback if desired.
It DOES mean though that you are not allowed to play American football on horseback.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 206d
This makes me miss the XFL
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
technically you need a dirigible
bufalo1973@piefed.social · -2 pts · 206d
You know it was a joke, right?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 206d
usually happens in the lockeroom.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 1 pts · 206d
they call it football but there's never any of the guys' feet touching any of the other guys' balls
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 206d
It happens occasionally.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 1 pts · 206d
bare feet on bare balls??
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 77 pts · 206d
Every time I read TPUSA. I think Toilet Paper USA. Not complaining, because that's what it is basically
Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 206d
I want to defend the toilet paper for keeping shit off your hands while TPUSA is the literal shit
assa123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
before and after
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 206d
Pretty sure that was a subreddit name.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 206d
TP made out of poison ivy.
brianary@lemmy.zip · 49 pts · 206d
Conservatives don't assimilate into American society.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 206d
They're whole ethos is antisocial. They are obstinent toddlers who stomp their feet and fold their arms and think it's funny to make other people mad.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 206d
really have to stop calling them conservatives, they're regressives clearly
coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d
Remember that old fad of theirs were they called us the "regressive left".
These people are so fucking disingenuous.
hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 206d
I prefer degeneratives.
underisk@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 206d
I learned pretty recently that “degenerate” has roots in eugenics so I try to avoid that one.
hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 206d
Edward Gibbons used it quite a bit in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which was written sometime around 1750-ish, before the american revolution, the founding fathers all read it.
Soleos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
The USA is not a monolith. The lines and features have probably shifted, but the idea of Colin Woodward's "American Nations" rings quite true today.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 206d
You're missing the joke. One of the chief conservative complaints about immigrants is that "they don't assimilate into american society".
Soleos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
Yes, I got the joke. And I was suggesting that Americans have always been on about other Americans not assimilating into their American culture. I also just find jokes about fascists being hypocritical or contradictory are no longer funny when the assumption that it's an indication of foolish lack of self-awareness no longer holds because double-think is the active goal.
brianary@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 206d
I guess I'd say that the joke is for us and not them, but I'd also argue that they genuinely don't assimilate, probably to a much greater degree than any other demographic.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 206d
Fair enough, I suppose
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 206d
How gay is that?! They need to have their own party, because they aren't welcome at the regular one. Such cry babies with their safe spaces and delicate feelings.
CXORA@aussie.zone · -5 pts · 206d
Are you seriously using gay as in insult in response tl this story?
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 206d
I took it as sarcasm.
DrMorose@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 206d
What not gay enough? We can turn it up to 11 if you need more?
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 206d
Maybe we just don't use the word gay as any sort of pejorative.
mika_mika@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 206d
Mega gay
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 206d
yeah, i am pretty fuckin gay for my girlfriend
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 206d
I guess they found some common ground.
CXORA@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 206d
I don't like when people use gay as an insult... that's all.
dvoraqs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
I think many people today make an exception if gay is used to insult anti-gay people
CXORA@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 194d
Well they shouldn't. It validates and perpetuates homophobia.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 45 pts · 206d
Nice work fun police, who ya gonna get? The old fart with the America song?
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 46 pts · 206d
It's gonna be the Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan "it's not gay because we said 'no homo' circle jerk spectacular" featuring George Santos.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 24 pts · 206d
Didn't hulk hogan die?
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 206d
And you think magats are smart enough to remember that? They'll get a guy barely ressembling hogan and call it a day
Susaga@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 206d
Look, all they want is a muscular man with facial hair in shorts telling them how he's going to dominate them, pin them to the floor and just start pounding them. Otherwise, it's too gay.
Dultas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d
You forgot ripping his shirt off.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 206d
a guy that looks like a hot dog, with hair like a doll.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 206d
that would be kid rock or ted nugent. or they get triple H to dress up like hogan. remember the mcmahons are TRUMP financiers.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 206d
hot dogs have preservatives.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 206d
Kid Rock and Ted Nugent would be my guess. But I mean, you could swing a dead cat and hit like six or seven country/western singers who hate dark-skinned and/or LGBTQ+ Americans in a given honky-tonk, so they'll have no shortage of talent. And, make no mistake, some of these people are talented... but if they just use that talent to try to further divide the poor people for the benefit of the wealthy, I don't think they are worthy of my attention.
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev · 4 pts · 206d
Kid Rock and a ninja turtle
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d
He'll only come if the Ninja Turtle is underage.
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 206d
It’s in the name… they’re all teenagers.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d
No, I have a conflicting schedule. I'm gonna be too busy not being there.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
Have him sing the Canada version
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 206d
When a bunch of conservatives get together, they crash grindr, so... Yeah.
hector@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 206d
Every accusation of theirs is a confession. Every single one. No exceptions.
coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d
If it's true that's funny. Do you have a source?
olympicyes@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 206d
https://www.newsweek.com/grindr-app-crashes-milwaukee-rnc-1927750
ETA: Charlie Kirk memorial too.
https://www.queerty.com/youll-never-guess-what-charlie-kirks-memorial-service-reportedly-did-to-grindrs-server-20250922/
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 206d
I can wait to find out what loser right wing celebs they haul out to combat the wokeness. 😂
CatZoomies@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 206d
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 206d
I assume it would something akin to this,
https://youtu.be/moEH8P-Z4D8
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 206d
I really don't care for people dunking on Guy Fieri. He's a genuinely good guy and putting him in the same context as Kid Rock is a little disgusting.
wesdym@mastodon.social · 3 pts · 206d
@MunkyNutts Guy would never associate himself with anything like that. He's much better than that.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 206d
What a bunch of thin-skinned losers
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 206d
*light-skinned losers
HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 206d
*skin headed
Reygle@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 206d
Nazis sure are some fragile people.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d
Usually if a group of people spend several years calling everything a snowflake... Yeah it do be like that
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 206d
There's a very high probability that TP's half time show is going to be way gayer than the real one, just unintentionally.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 205d
They'll do that just by bringing on kid rock
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 206d
It's not gay, it's brown. Or is Bad Bunny also gay? I have no idea, and I don't care who he loves. I'm tuning in for the music and the dancing. I'm not a fan, but I'm sure it'll be a good show.
homes@piefed.world · 33 pts · 206d
Although the jury is still out as to whether Bad Bunny is gay or not, he has announced that he is going to perform the halftime show wearing a dress, in solidarity with Puerto Rico‘s rich history of drag queens.
So, yeah. That.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 16 pts · 206d
Drag used to be a lot more common in the US.
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 206d
Cue vt of Trump and Giuliani dressed as women.
incompetent@programming.dev · 2 pts · 206d
In case you haven't seen it...
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 206d
White Christmas, released in 1954, for example.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 205d
Huh. I had no idea. Bet he kills it.
Nothing gay about wearing a dress. My brother wore a dress once. (Our sister dared him.) It's just a garment. If you're Scottish, you might wear a kilt, as a male, in 2026, and that's functionally the same kind of thing. And honestly the dress/skirt (or kilt) style garment makes more sense for a guy. Pants make more sense for a gal. But fashion is weird.
Not trying to disagree or anything, just... eh, I'm gonna enjoy it regardless.
klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol · 4 pts · 206d
Isn't noted band with an openly bisexual lead singer Green Day performing as the opening act?
Actually a few of the acts are openly queer, or explicitly queer-friendly? Or, like Bad Bunny, planning to perform in a dress to pay homage to drag. So yeah, it's pretty gay (affectionate)
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 205d
Never heard about Green Day performing at the Super Bowl. That's kinda wild.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 206d
So what's it going to be? Kid Rock singing about how Trump is God's chosen president while a group of "liberals" (ie: non conservatives) they captured off the streets get forced to pray to Jesus in the direction of Mar-a-Lago?
These fuckers remind me of the type of people who only let their kids watch "Christian" television.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 206d
I’ll make my own halftime show, with pedos, and mar-a-Lago face!
Inucune@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 206d
So wait, you're going to try and run a second concert in competition with the super bowl halftime show, and still associate it with the super bowl/NFL?
The lawyers are going to eat them alive for the fees.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 206d
Well, this shows once again that the right-wing extremists need their own artificially staged reality in order to somehow justify all the outrageous lies of the MAGA leadership: they simply cannot allow people to peacefully celebrate sporting events.
It's really absurd how blind these idiots are. They just can't see that the imaginary enemy images that are being mindlessly propagated here simply serve to distract from how thoroughly degenerate the leaders of this "movement" are, from the fact that they are actually the enemies of all halfway decent people.
The stupidity is really only surpassed by the ruthlessness of the criminals responsible for this moronic deception.
lobut@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 206d
They're doing the "brainwashing" they accuse others of. Benny Shap's network makes right-wing movies for crying out loud.
They defend this by saying that hollywood is "left" wing ... so they must "counteract" and "balance" things.
I'm reminded of the Chris Wallace and Jon Stewart interview: https://youtu.be/UYbtUztVctI?t=417
Jon Stewart:
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 206d
Ben shaps is originally a failed writer who sucked too hard to get hired in Hollywood, so now he writes the dumbest shit to try to show what a smart boy he is. He only sounds smart to dummies, his clevererest argument technique is the gish gallop, and that old short meme video response to him which references aqua man sums up his entire career and intellectual capability.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
Of course they do, this is their mindless tactic and it's obvious to everyone with half a brain because it's so mindless (it used to be much more skillful).
This can only work because there's so much money behind it. Otherwise, it would never be possible to maintain such obvious bullshit. It can only work because there are billionaires and because these billionaires are all inhumane monsters - psychopaths by definition. It is the logical consequence of unbridled capitalism, which, contrary to all the narratives that people like Milton Friedman have made famous, is not a free market, but always produces the monopolies we see today.
The civilizational regression we are experiencing today is the direct result of this: of too much money in too few horribly unscrupulous hands.
In itself, it's simple, but billionaires are doing everything they can to prevent people from realizing that - as in this case: hey, let's just have our own fascist Super Bowl show. It's just sooo fucking stupid, but so are people.
I guess this is how it is: Despite its blatant absurdity, all of this is only possible because people allow it - that is just a fact. With all that monstrous shit going on in the word besides better judgement I find it increasingly difficult to attribute this to any other reason than that there is a significant proportion of people who are incorrigible, arrogant and ignorant beyond saving - and then some who are just plain evil. Perhaps that is human nature, which Kant and all other Enlightenment thinkers always denied because they wanted people to believe in the good of the people so they can do good instead of evil.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 206d
Why don't they just play their own Superbowl too?
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d
It's a bunch of grabass with couches and the lights off
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 206d
Watching 300 lb men huddle in spandex for 4 hours not gay, but 2 halftime music acts are way too far beyond the rainbow...
Joeffect@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
They even touch each other on the butts...
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 206d
Lee Greenwood's body is ready.
jacktherippah@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 206d
Toilet Paper USA
tonytins@pawb.social · 9 pts · 206d
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 206d
Nope, blackjack and little kiddies. Got to keep them interested somehow...
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 206d
Big week for the left they've claimed both gun rights and football all in one week.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 206d
Conservative Fragility
AccoSpoot@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 206d
With blackjack, and hookers. Ah forget the whole thing!
daannii@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d
With pedos and auto tuned Laura Trump singing.
Grinder will be crashing.
ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 206d
Sponsored by Grindr!
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d
They'll be exchanging Nazi salutes while reading the bible. Fuck them.
theblurstoftimes@leminal.space · 7 pts · 206d
They would know all about what gay is I guess.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d
It must be so sad to belong to the drab old culture MAGA idolizes, and watch the entire world just move the fuck on constantly, not giving a single shit, when you think that football-and-Jesus culture is some kind of temple eternal.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 206d
I mean superbowl has sucked (to me) forever, so imm skip the game, the halftime show and the alternate halftime show.
While im dissenting, I also think every publicly financed football stadium should share 5% of profits with its host city. And some of that should be set aside to bulldoze the stadium when it reaches its end of life.
btsax@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 206d
FYI the Superbowl is a great time to go to the grocery store. I mark it on my calendar so I don't forget
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d
That is such a good idea
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 206d
Genius....Maybe i hit up home depot while im out. Ty btsax!
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 206d
What an ironically queen move. Big groan and ick.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 206d
Snowflakes
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d
Is it just a big long pro Israel infomercial?
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 206d
Is Bad Bunny gay?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 206d
Not yet.
From his wiki page. It does sound like he's very supportive of LGBT people and their struggles though.
Don't know much of him beyond what's on his Wikipedia page, only heard like 2 or 3 songs, but overall he seems like a very decent dude and conservatives can't handle that lol
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 206d
Ok that is an extremely fucking based way for a cishet guy to describe himself.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 206d
The halftime show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTh9qiXEy4Q
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d
funny they're just going to show the cpac footage and generate AI hosts to talk about how bad the democrats are.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d
coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
Not surprising for the people who are obsessed with men handling balls while they shoot to score.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 206d
I thought they don't like politics in football. If they don't like it, then leave.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 206d
Cannot wait for the viewing results they will obviously lie about.
tWo PeOplE wAtChEd tHe aCKsHuaL sHoW!!¡!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d
that's the gayest thing i've ever heard
escapeVelocity@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 206d
Snowflakes
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d
It would be a shame if someone were able to hack their feed and make it even more gay...
RevolverSly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
Just turn off the broadcast when halftime. Turn off the entire game if you're not interested in football also.
Geobloke@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 206d
Presumably the players will all be wearing cargo shorts and new balances
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
Long as they don't preempt the real show, let them have their little pity party
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
Fucking dickheads still trying hard.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 206d
Okay but which event is going to overload Grindr?
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
I'm pretty sure ICE is mostly pedophiles at this point. If Epstein was alive they would have hired him to run their (I wish the next part was a joke) for profit child prisons.
SanicHegehog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
The Superbowl Is Gay
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
Masterpiece!
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 206d
Some Rocky Horror shadowcast group is hosting their own Halftime Show because Turning Point USA's own halftime show is too heterosexual
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 206d
Oh they can call it a sausage party, nothing less gay then sweaty, steaming, sausages.
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
Or lemons.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 206d
Oh they should really have a lemon party, and make sure to tell everyone about it.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
And there's probably jewry all throughout the show because hollywood and media and all. Sigh. They've really done a good job of mainstreaming this shit.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
Oh nevermind it's vaporware.
whitecollarcry@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
That would be the best solution and we could watch their reality go to hell in real time.
clav64@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
Featuring the return of R Kelly, performing his hit "Trapped in the Closet"