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House Republicans call to investigate Bad Bunny Super Bowl show over 'widespread twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusts'
MAGA lawmaker jeered as he flips out over 'unspeakable depravities' of Super Bowl show
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(56,155 posts)Hugin
(37,797 posts)Now were coasting in the afterglow.
Bettie
(19,591 posts)that really drives you insane.... (sorry, couldn't resist, but it does show us that the oh-so-moral types have been at this for decades!)
Volaris
(11,648 posts)Yeah, MAGA is just that asshole, times 20 million.
Whyisthisstillclose
(633 posts)total loss of a connection to reality. The hypocrisy is astounding to anyone not in the cult
LetMyPeopleVote
(178,684 posts)I was not aware that twerking was illegal
Ray Bruns
(6,249 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,718 posts)Moostache
(11,137 posts)state of stupid
(145 posts)BattleRow
(2,291 posts)Doubtful they can be found in the miasma of hurled ketchup.
NoMoreRepugs
(11,988 posts)divert attention from the Epstein files?
MerryBlooms
(12,235 posts)leftstreet
(40,200 posts)check their web browsers
evolves
(5,821 posts)I email him daily (using a form on his website that interestingly requires FIVE PAGES of steps to complete) asking him why he supports the rape of children.
Because he gives unyielding allegiance to and cover for an adjudicated rapist and pedophile, he must support and condone the rape of children. I ask him daily to explain why to his constituents.
To date, I have had no response, though I ask for one.
In short, he is loathsome.
Cant wait to vote against him. Again.
CrispyQ
(40,896 posts)I make calls & one of my senators has a really looong message, & then it repeats in Spanish. They never give you a number to press, to skip the message in the future, like polite phone systems do. Another interesting thing is who records their own message & who has staff do it. My two senators have staff do it; my rep records his own, & Senator Schumer records his own, too.
malaise
(295,309 posts)Rec
MiHale
(12,920 posts)Same thing but no investigation of corporate America.
Just Jerome
(485 posts)I missed a significant portion of the halftime show. Too bad. What I saw was righteous!
flvegan
(66,178 posts)I guess madness, takes its toll.
usedtobedemgurl
(2,010 posts)You would think Elvis Pressley was still alive.
Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)FadedMullet
(859 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(812 posts)American Evangelical Christians are digging themselves deeper and deeper into the hypocrite pit to stay in lockstep with Trump, the most amoral person ever to walk the earth.
Conjuay
(3,046 posts)Elvis the pelvis -
Who says the GOP doesn't believe in recycling?
Initech
(108,506 posts)He's the president, chairman and CEO. He's committed some massively horrific, unspeakable crimes. And yet the stark raving lunatics in the Fox News MAGA GOP are outraged over a fucking Super Bowl halftime show.
orangecrush
(29,962 posts)And amazingly got a real person.
A very nice young woman.
I was very polite, and told her that respectfully, when I heard this, I hoped it was the Onion.
She actually stifled a chuckle
I repeated what I read in the news, and her voice changed to a weariness and sadness that surprised me.
She said she would relay my comment, and did not dispute the information.
Purely subjective, but she actually sounded embarrassed by her boss.
Just my take.
I concluded by saying that after the midterms, Bad Bunny will not be the priority of congressional investigations.
I thanked her and said goodbye.
hibbing
(10,578 posts)eShirl
(20,210 posts)GopherGal
(2,880 posts)the "Alternating Double Handy" dance?
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slightlv
(7,729 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(178,876 posts)at Mar a Turdo? Sunday School?
DBoon
(24,913 posts)soldierant
(9,316 posts)I remember they called him "Elvis the pelvis." And thought they were so clever and cute.
peacebuzzard
(5,858 posts)there is an art to everything.
Twerking is an art; a homegrown, another great art style dance.
IMO.
I can't do it myself; haven't really tried but I do like to dance and probably look weird when I do......
efhmc
(16,523 posts)twerking back in the day?
Dr. T
(609 posts)and twitching their buttocks as if they were caught in a compromising position during an earthquake.
MerryBlooms
(12,235 posts)Won't someone protect the children from all this entertainment!?!
But ya'll shush about actually the horrific crimes committed by my boss and his buddies! 😤
Ol Janx Spirit
(990 posts)...of a halftime show?
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-andy-ogles-latest-false-claims-add-troubles-rcna153723
On second thought: that's pretty much on-brand for these fake "Chirstian" fascist bootlickers....
kimbutgar
(27,171 posts)Attilatheblond
(8,710 posts)A) Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) is REALLY afraid he will lose in Nov. and is desperate to look like a fierce defender of white patriarchal morality while ignoring you-know-what.
B) GOP more concerned about impact of happy US citizens on an island dancing and enjoying life than Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction on young children and dirty older white guys than they are about you-know-what.
C) El Guapo de los Pedófilas* is giving donuts for the most novel distractions from you-know-what
*I apologize for probably getting that wrong, but my Spanish is very limited & some words didn't get taught in high school.
Anyhoo, today's chant is:
"EPESTEIN FILES EPESTEIN FILES
Fire Bondi and get some indictments of abusers in the EPESTEIN FILES!"
durablend
(9,193 posts)Attilatheblond
(8,710 posts)maxsolomon
(38,548 posts)Keeps their voters perpetually agitated and voting Repuke. Why would they stop?
underpants
(196,096 posts)A couple days ago everyone in RW media was talking about his lyrics. I knew they couldnt be the songs he sang AT the Super Bowl.
Kid Berwyn
(24,101 posts)Truer words were never spoken.
durablend
(9,193 posts)SouthBayDem
(33,246 posts)I was in seventh grade at the time and didnt watch the SB that year (after the very disappointing showing by my Oakland Raiders the year before, I had obvious reasons to stay away from anything Patriot related). Only by reading the newspaper at the school library the next day did I learn what happened.
Also lets remember Andy Ogles flat out lied on his resume. Can we really take him at his word on anything?
(Ogles has an open federal criminal investigation on him too.)
Multichromatic
(125 posts)During one GOP debate, candidate Ogles prefaced one answer "as a former member of law enforcement, I worked in international sex crimes, specifically child trafficking...."
This guy sounds like George Santos. A complete lying phoney.
Gum Logger
(389 posts)Kabuki
Rabrrrrrr
(58,374 posts)Fucking hypocrites.
Ilsa
(64,255 posts)But I couldn't help but burst out laughing when I saw the line, "I'm glad somebody is thinking of the children." Sure, it's been used before, but it is so funny (bad funny) in this context.
Zorro
(18,577 posts)when Elvis hit the TV airwaves.
Maj. Dude
(46 posts)And that is certainly why this country is in this situation.
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3825-87867
(1,910 posts)weren't and aren't the ones who caused the problems and thought Elvis was obscene.
The one who caused the problems were our parents generation so unless you know someone born before 1936, I'd suggest you may be simply regurgitating BS talking points from those today who think they are so pious.
Talitha
(7,910 posts)I bet Dump felt a little twinge while watching at Maga-Lardo, too.
Maj. Dude
(46 posts)younger twerkers.
GiqueCee
(3,936 posts)*Sincere apologies to all Physarum polycephalum for the insulting comparison.
CaptainTruth
(8,167 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(1,404 posts)Can one "twerk" in Florida? Asking for a friend.
MerryBlooms
(12,235 posts)Cha
(318,549 posts)The Epstein Class to Frantically cover Up Evidence of being a Part in the Epstein, Maxwell's "Procuring Underage Girls for their sexual gratification, through a network of sex traffickers".
But, Bad Bunny! That a whole different level of "sexual suggestive conduct" .
Give me a Freaking Break! Excellent way to Point out the Scum Hypocrisy and Failed Distraction from Epstein.
Figarosmom
(11,456 posts)Saying they got excited watching people dance. Says more about them.
Evolve Dammit
(21,735 posts)IMHO it is another form of erotic dancing that should be restricted to its own channel. The most vulnerable will pay the price because it can be a way to lure in the naive. "i thought we were just dancing..."
However, the bloviating politicians are jealous they can't do it which is grosser.
GOP=GuardiansOfPedophiles
JohnnyRingo
(20,801 posts)I'd end up in the hospital but I think it's ridiculous anyway.
Now I may not care for it...but a congressional inquiry into it?! C'mon.
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(1,910 posts)EndlessMaze
(82 posts)But the disgusting "Tight Ends" commercial gets a pass.
milestogo
(22,974 posts)Because that is the maturity level of the creatives who came up with it.
peacebuzzard
(5,858 posts)I guess they just go to the bars with enormous screens for their sports and belly up to bars and tables with their ballcap buddies and partake in he-man talk. Gross and depressing isn't it. (My apologies to the sportsteams, ballcaps and bar workers.)
Oh yeah, and they probably couldn't dance at all even if they tried; they would look like that stupid Trump Dump Dance.
mdbl
(8,564 posts)These people are dumber than stumps.
This is just one more example of the right wing's inability to leave their echo chamber bubble that continues to promote unhealthy attitudes and stereotypes about human sexuality, different cultures, genders, relationships - attitudes that all center on control and hierarchy. To them sexual expression that is free and joyous is perverse and that the opposite (hidden, shameful, and something to fear, etc.) is holy. This is a continuation of rejection of peoples from cultures different from theirs. They reject all new evidence that contradicts their fixed mindset of a romanticized world from their childhood that never existed.
Clouds Passing
(7,850 posts)Norrrm
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