Turning Point USA Is Hosting Its Own Halftime Show Because the Super Bowl Is Too Gay
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Do they know that football involves a bunch of men grabbing each other?
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...
Hey, you leave the Turkish national sport outta this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_wrestling
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.
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.
Listen to sports commentators out of context. Sounds pretty gay to me
If you put black censor bars over MMA fighter shorts, it looks REALLY GAY.
In Canada it's the gay sport.
In Europe it's not even a sport, just how americans maintain their brain damage.
Rough....but fair!
Doesnt each play start with a traditional sniffing of someones balls before the football is thrown back
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.
Hand-egg more than football.
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.
You are correct but do you watch Gaelic?
I think he must be a CFL fan.
Does this imply chess is intended to be played on horseback?
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.
This makes me miss the XFL
technically you need a dirigible
You know it was a joke, right?
usually happens in the lockeroom.
they call it football but there's never any of the guys' feet touching any of the other guys' balls
It happens occasionally.
bare feet on bare balls??
Every time I read TPUSA. I think Toilet Paper USA. Not complaining, because that's what it is basically
I want to defend the toilet paper for keeping shit off your hands while TPUSA is the literal shit
before and after
Pretty sure that was a subreddit name.
TP made out of poison ivy.
Conservatives don't assimilate into American society.
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.
really have to stop calling them conservatives, they're regressives clearly
Remember that old fad of theirs were they called us the "regressive left".
These people are so fucking disingenuous.
I prefer degeneratives.
I learned pretty recently that “degenerate” has roots in eugenics so I try to avoid that one.
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.
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.
You're missing the joke. One of the chief conservative complaints about immigrants is that "they don't assimilate into american society".
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.
Fair enough, I suppose
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.
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.
Are you seriously using gay as in insult in response tl this story?
I took it as sarcasm.
What not gay enough? We can turn it up to 11 if you need more?
I don't like when people use gay as an insult... that's all.
Maybe we just don't use the word gay as any sort of pejorative.
Mega gay
yeah, i am pretty fuckin gay for my girlfriend
I guess they found some common ground.
I think many people today make an exception if gay is used to insult anti-gay people
Well they shouldn't. It validates and perpetuates homophobia.
Nice work fun police, who ya gonna get? The old fart with the America song?
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.
Didn't hulk hogan die?
And you think magats are smart enough to remember that? They'll get a guy barely ressembling hogan and call it a day
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.
You forgot ripping his shirt off.
a guy that looks like a hot dog, with hair like a doll.
that would be kid rock or ted nugent. or they get triple H to dress up like hogan. remember the mcmahons are TRUMP financiers.
hot dogs have preservatives.
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.
Kid Rock and a ninja turtle
He'll only come if the Ninja Turtle is underage.
It’s in the name… they’re all teenagers.
No, I have a conflicting schedule. I'm gonna be too busy not being there.
Have him sing the Canada version
When a bunch of conservatives get together, they crash grindr, so... Yeah.
Every accusation of theirs is a confession. Every single one. No exceptions.
If it's true that's funny. Do you have a source?
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/
I can wait to find out what loser right wing celebs they haul out to combat the wokeness. 😂
I assume it would something akin to this,
https://youtu.be/moEH8P-Z4D8
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.
@MunkyNutts Guy would never associate himself with anything like that. He's much better than that.
What a bunch of thin-skinned losers
*light-skinned losers
*skin headed
Nazis sure are some fragile people.
Usually if a group of people spend several years calling everything a snowflake... Yeah it do be like that
There's a very high probability that TP's half time show is going to be way gayer than the real one, just unintentionally.
They'll do that just by bringing on kid rock
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.
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.
Drag used to be a lot more common in the US.
Cue vt of Trump and Giuliani dressed as women.
In case you haven't seen it...
White Christmas, released in 1954, for example.
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.
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)
Never heard about Green Day performing at the Super Bowl. That's kinda wild.
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.
I’ll make my own halftime show, with pedos, and mar-a-Lago face!
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Why don't they just play their own Superbowl too?
It's a bunch of grabass with couches and the lights off
Watching 300 lb men huddle in spandex for 4 hours not gay, but 2 halftime music acts are way too far beyond the rainbow...
They even touch each other on the butts...
Lee Greenwood's body is ready.
Toilet Paper USA
Big week for the left they've claimed both gun rights and football all in one week.
Nope, blackjack and little kiddies. Got to keep them interested somehow...
Conservative Fragility
They'll be exchanging Nazi salutes while reading the bible. Fuck them.
They would know all about what gay is I guess.
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.
Sponsored by Grindr!
With blackjack, and hookers. Ah forget the whole thing!
With pedos and auto tuned Laura Trump singing.
Grinder will be crashing.
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.
FYI the Superbowl is a great time to go to the grocery store. I mark it on my calendar so I don't forget
That is such a good idea
Genius....Maybe i hit up home depot while im out. Ty btsax!
Snowflakes
What an ironically queen move. Big groan and ick.
Is Bad Bunny gay?
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
Ok that is an extremely fucking based way for a cishet guy to describe himself.
Is it just a big long pro Israel infomercial?
Cannot wait for the viewing results they will obviously lie about.
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It would be a shame if someone were able to hack their feed and make it even more gay...
Not surprising for the people who are obsessed with men handling balls while they shoot to score.
The halftime show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTh9qiXEy4Q
that's the gayest thing i've ever heard
I thought they don't like politics in football. If they don't like it, then leave.
funny they're just going to show the cpac footage and generate AI hosts to talk about how bad the democrats are.
Snowflakes
Fucking dickheads still trying hard.
Presumably the players will all be wearing cargo shorts and new balances
Just turn off the broadcast when halftime. Turn off the entire game if you're not interested in football also.
Long as they don't preempt the real show, let them have their little pity party
That would be the best solution and we could watch their reality go to hell in real time.
Some Rocky Horror shadowcast group is hosting their own Halftime Show because Turning Point USA's own halftime show is too heterosexual
The Superbowl Is Gay
Masterpiece!
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.
Oh nevermind it's vaporware.
Okay but which event is going to overload Grindr?
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.
Oh they can call it a sausage party, nothing less gay then sweaty, steaming, sausages.
Or lemons.
Oh they should really have a lemon party, and make sure to tell everyone about it.
Featuring the return of R Kelly, performing his hit "Trapped in the Closet"