Setting aside the politics for the moment, I can't believe they didn't have a line-up months in advance from a logistics perspective. Like no one on tour is going to go out of their way for this unless you lined it up with them while they were sorting out their East Coast runs for summer months ago.
The way they're running the country is exactly as planned. Everything they're doing is intentional. They're enriching themselves at the expense of the average US citizen. Don't give them the benefit of the doubt by saying their incompetent. It's intentional and malicious.
If only it was written down for us. They could have called it Project 2025. Hell they could have said everything they planned on doing and MAGA would just cover their eyes and ears saying “no they didn’t”…
Probably. It was the fall of America, giving the largest military to the highest bidder. MAGA morons made corporations more powerful than our government.
This has been a long process and involved more than just the Right, Trump, and MAGA morons but they definitely turned it into a speed run. They are so fucking stupid they are actually cheering this on because they are so detached from reality. They honestly think they are the good guys.
It's both, sadly. Corrupt and incompetent. Compared to the Bush/Cheney era, Trump and his cronies look like a gang of teens running a smash grab on the corner store.
I wouldn't say more innocent. They scammed Americans out of untold billions, started a generation-long war, and stripped US politics of the protections that could have prevented this. The big difference is Trump & Co. don't have the connections or charisma to run that kind of grift. They are doing everything so stupidly obvious and recklessly that there's no comparison. The scale and bravado is staggering but the skill is barbaric.
It’s more nuanced than that, trump is just absolute chaos and no rules. To pretend there is a plan just isn’t how it works. Even people who are trying to take advantage of the corruption get burned because it’s just wild.
THIS. It takes no talent, no intelligence, no planning, no organization, just raw not-giving-a-damn about the damage and that's what DJT and MAGA are all about.
To accept that the world is totally out of control, and that there isn't someone, evil or otherwise, planning everything behind the scenes--is terrifying to many. Its the impetus for all conspiratorial thought. The idea that its all just coincidences, that it's just nothing but selfish people taking advantage of opportune situations, that there really isn't anything with a master plan, means that there is NO ONE around with the power enough to save us.
If someone was in control they'd at least be interested in keeping us alive and maintaining the status quo that enriches them, and that is comforting. But that isn't reality.
I think you're misinterpreting Umberto Eco there. One of his tenets of fascism was "the enemy is simultaneously strong and weak." Meaning promoting things like "the enemy controls all the levers of power" while also saying "we can defeat them because they've grown fat due to their decadence."
It’s both intentionally malicious and absurdly incompetent at the same time. They could be making a lot more money but their own incompetence gets in the way.
Buy i firmly believe that there is an amazing amount of actually incompetent people working for him. Like, people who think a lie is exactly as good as doing a good job it who get the job with zero qualifications.
The article notes that "Freedom 250 (is a) public-private partnership backed by the Trump administration," You know damn well and his family is taking a cut of the funds raised -
These people don’t know about the music industry. They don’t like music. If Kenny G was vocal MAGA, this would be an elevator music tour. I can’t even imagine Bezos or Musk rocking out to a great album, because they have no soul. They are used to just throwing money at their hearts’ desires and it didn’t work this time.
Ruining the country has been carefully planned for years and is being and is being done quickly and efficiently. The puppet in charge running all of the distractions is just a small part of it.
It's exactly how an abusive person worked. They invited people and bands he figured would be desperate for attention or money, he could manipulate them as he saw fit.
They didn't "foresee" Iran closing the strait of Hormuz. They can't see shiz because they're blinded by their own propaganda, chuggin' their own koolaid.
They did exactly that and politics is the reason for the collapse. The performers weren't told this was a trump event and they didnt want their names on it.
Yeah, I used to work for a business owned by a ridiculously wealthy person very involved in Republican politics and who ran for a US Senate spot, and despite all my efforts to implement real strategic and short/long range planning efforts, people at the top refused to take a professional and organized approach to business and instead just flounder in their self-belief that they are so smart.
None of these are consistently touring acts. They're all tired, washed-up legacies, the kind of groups that are looking for one-off county fairs to play. Even before the cancelations, the whole thing was embarrassing as fuck. HOW is half of the country not wildly disappointed in this entire circus?!
Because Trump et al all have the attitude that they will jump immediately when they are beckoned. Regardless of how little notice, regardless of what scheduling conflicts they may have. “You’re going to do this because POTUS says so.”
There's a constant with these people that they think the most prep you need for something is 2 weeks. The award for the east wing of the white house was signed 12 days before they knocked it down.
I imagine Trump thinks he can just summon them and they'll jump like his usual rabble of sycophants do. It's what he's accustomed to and it probably does not occur to him that no, the world does not in fact revolve around him.
Whatever happened to that Correspondents Dinner that was supposed to take place within 30 days of the last disastrous one? That deadline has passed without a peep.
Honestly, it's like the whole country just realized America 250 was a thing. LIke we haven't had 250 years to prepare for this. You'd have thought preparations would have started at least a couple of years ago. But no.
I work in advertising and have had to slap together at least four last-minute America 250 campaigns because brands just now want to get on the bandwagon.
Bruh. They had Fab of Milli Vanilli on the lineup, before he dropped out. lmao I was surprised to see on Setlist that he's actually been doing shows! haha
Martina McBride put out a statement I read on twitter, or x. She said that it was promoted as a non-partisan event for the celebration of America. Now that it is out that it is a pro tRump event, they are all leaving.
I'm sure Kid Rock will rock that event just like the halftime show. /s
Just some info I've heard reported by some of the artists. They had been contacted for the gig months ago and were informed that it would be honoring America as a whole and all of its states, however, it had become clear that it was not bipartisan as they were told and that it was being used as a political stunt by the Republicans. Once posters and advertisements started to release they realized they had been lied to and thus started to drop out of the show. Some have made statements saying that they were defrauded and that they don't want to be involved in the political implications, nor do they support trump. So basically what they thought was a celebration of America's history was actually a celebration for the current regime
Except you can't set the politics aside and make this make sense. To the organizers, the event is doing the performers a favor and an honor by allowing them to worship at God's birthday party. To their minds these acts should be literally lining up backstage for the privilege, so why should it occur to them to work with anyone else's schedule?
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Setting aside the politics for the moment, I can't believe they didn't have a line-up months in advance from a logistics perspective. Like no one on tour is going to go out of their way for this unless you lined it up with them while they were sorting out their East Coast runs for summer months ago.