My apologies if this is in another thread.
Fake Woke
- Thread starter Lunar
- Start date
My apologies if this is in another thread.
He is white. Racist.
Buying song ....now!!!!
Buying song ....now!!!!
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2014
- Messages
- 20,533
- Reaction score
- 22,341
- Points
- 113
2 thumbs up,but man dude what the **** did you do to your face...
- Joined
- May 2, 2015
- Messages
- 769
- Reaction score
- 988
- Points
- 93
Never heard of him but thanks for posting.
Has some awesome stuff!
Now I am listening to him talk about releasing Fake Woke.
Likable fella.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_sqS2JWQ4s
Has some awesome stuff!
Now I am listening to him talk about releasing Fake Woke.
Likable fella.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_sqS2JWQ4s
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2014
- Messages
- 10,510
- Reaction score
- 8,707
- Points
- 113
cuck
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2014
- Messages
- 20,533
- Reaction score
- 22,341
- Points
- 113
I suppose this is a great way to get the attention of the younger generation and deliver the message.
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2014
- Messages
- 18,589
- Reaction score
- 29,950
- Points
- 113
- Location
- The nearest Steelers bar.
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2014
- Messages
- 8,105
- Reaction score
- 7,804
- Points
- 113
Thought this fit in well with the "fake woke" title, this former champion of the working man lecturing us on unity from his 300 acre mansion while millions of people just want to be able to open their restaurant or send their kids to school
https://www.inforum.com/opinion/687...uce-Springsteens-phony-baloney-call-for-unity
The most jarring thing about Bruce Springsteen's cloyingly earnest call for national unity (brought to you by Jeep!) was the images of him driving around a frozen midwestern landscape in a wide-open jeep.
No self-respecting midwesterner exposes themselves to winter elements like that.
It was a stark reminder, along with a Jersey boy like Springsteen playing the part of a plains cowboy, that tone-deaf liberals still don't get it.
Our liberal friends only seem to want unity after their side wins. The Democrats, thanks to the Republican Party's very stupid decision to make an embarrassing, self-dealing huckster like Donald Trump the face of their party, now control Congress and the White House.
They're in the mood to make nice, or at least paying the notion lip service, but can you imagine Jeep and Springsteen making this sort of ad had Trump somehow managed to win a second term in office?
Springsteen himself was vowing to leave the country if Trump was re-elected in 2020.
In October Springsteen wasn't interested in unity. He compared the national election to an "exorcism" and Republicans to a bevy of evil supernatural entities.
“Welcome ghouls and fools, witches, vampires, bloodsucking politicians, zombie denizens of Washington, D.C., it is time for an exorcism in our nation’s capital,” Springsteen said. “In just a few days we’ll be throwing the bums out. I thought it was a … nightmare but it was so true.”
The rocker is also among the many, many performing artists who object to Republicans using their music at campaign rallies.
Mr. Unity only makes music for progressives, I guess.
Springsteen is a liberal, and he has every right to subscribe to that school of thought, but how can someone who sees the political opposition as "ghouls" call for unity?
There are ghoulish people in politics, sure, from the morons who attacked the Capitol building last month to members of Congress who accuse the opposition of attempted murder, but how can we unite when so many, including Springsteen, insist on hating the opposition?
Taken in a vacuum, I agree with every word of the Springsteen/Jeep ad. We're never going to agree on everything, but we could at least agree that most of us are trying, in our ideologically disparate ways, to make our country better.
But I'll believe that the masters of our most influential institutions — academia and the news media and, yes, the entertainment industry — want unity when they start calling for it after their preferred political figures lose an election.
Otherwise calls like Springsteen's sound less like a plea for unity than a demand that the peasants conform.
https://www.inforum.com/opinion/687...uce-Springsteens-phony-baloney-call-for-unity
The most jarring thing about Bruce Springsteen's cloyingly earnest call for national unity (brought to you by Jeep!) was the images of him driving around a frozen midwestern landscape in a wide-open jeep.
No self-respecting midwesterner exposes themselves to winter elements like that.
It was a stark reminder, along with a Jersey boy like Springsteen playing the part of a plains cowboy, that tone-deaf liberals still don't get it.
Our liberal friends only seem to want unity after their side wins. The Democrats, thanks to the Republican Party's very stupid decision to make an embarrassing, self-dealing huckster like Donald Trump the face of their party, now control Congress and the White House.
They're in the mood to make nice, or at least paying the notion lip service, but can you imagine Jeep and Springsteen making this sort of ad had Trump somehow managed to win a second term in office?
Springsteen himself was vowing to leave the country if Trump was re-elected in 2020.
In October Springsteen wasn't interested in unity. He compared the national election to an "exorcism" and Republicans to a bevy of evil supernatural entities.
“Welcome ghouls and fools, witches, vampires, bloodsucking politicians, zombie denizens of Washington, D.C., it is time for an exorcism in our nation’s capital,” Springsteen said. “In just a few days we’ll be throwing the bums out. I thought it was a … nightmare but it was so true.”
The rocker is also among the many, many performing artists who object to Republicans using their music at campaign rallies.
Mr. Unity only makes music for progressives, I guess.
Springsteen is a liberal, and he has every right to subscribe to that school of thought, but how can someone who sees the political opposition as "ghouls" call for unity?
There are ghoulish people in politics, sure, from the morons who attacked the Capitol building last month to members of Congress who accuse the opposition of attempted murder, but how can we unite when so many, including Springsteen, insist on hating the opposition?
Taken in a vacuum, I agree with every word of the Springsteen/Jeep ad. We're never going to agree on everything, but we could at least agree that most of us are trying, in our ideologically disparate ways, to make our country better.
But I'll believe that the masters of our most influential institutions — academia and the news media and, yes, the entertainment industry — want unity when they start calling for it after their preferred political figures lose an election.
Otherwise calls like Springsteen's sound less like a plea for unity than a demand that the peasants conform.
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2014
- Messages
- 18,589
- Reaction score
- 29,950
- Points
- 113
- Location
- The nearest Steelers bar.
OFTB, my reply to your comments:
**** Springsteen.
**** Springsteen.
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2014
- Messages
- 8,105
- Reaction score
- 7,804
- Points
- 113
I used to be a fan. He's just another limousine liberal now. And his music has sucked worse with every passing year.
One look at the news and it is clear that the left is feeling kinda pumped and dominant right now.
Lord help us...people are having fun.....yikes
Go ahead, somebody say "injin"...I double dog dare ya
Must be hell to have to check under your bed for monsters every night
My Mama used to call it a "BOO BOO FACE", now it's a legit offense.
Oh no....you can't quit...I fired you.
At least we have a couple hours off to enjoy some football....or not.
U.S.—All around the country, conservatives have invited friends and family over to enjoy food, funny commercials, football, and being insulted by every major corporation in America.
"I love football," said local Christian conservative Brad Longaberger, "but I also love the humbling experience of sitting through hours of sermons from powerful corporations reminding me how rotten and terrible I am for not supporting progressive causes!"
According to sources, millions of Americans are looking forward to taking a much-needed break from scolding about masks, social justice, immigration, and toxic masculinity to be scolded about all of those things while watching a really fun football game.
"It's a great tradition in our family," said Longaberger. "Now who is playing again?"
Lord help us...people are having fun.....yikes
Go ahead, somebody say "injin"...I double dog dare ya
Must be hell to have to check under your bed for monsters every night
My Mama used to call it a "BOO BOO FACE", now it's a legit offense.
Oh no....you can't quit...I fired you.
At least we have a couple hours off to enjoy some football....or not.
U.S.—All around the country, conservatives have invited friends and family over to enjoy food, funny commercials, football, and being insulted by every major corporation in America.
"I love football," said local Christian conservative Brad Longaberger, "but I also love the humbling experience of sitting through hours of sermons from powerful corporations reminding me how rotten and terrible I am for not supporting progressive causes!"
According to sources, millions of Americans are looking forward to taking a much-needed break from scolding about masks, social justice, immigration, and toxic masculinity to be scolded about all of those things while watching a really fun football game.
"It's a great tradition in our family," said Longaberger. "Now who is playing again?"
Never understood why some think he's so great, I didn't like him even before I knew his politics.
He does however surround himself with talented musicians, perhaps that's the reason.
He's very vanilla. Actually, Bon Jovi has become that, too. Must be a New Jersey thing. All hype, no substance.
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2014
- Messages
- 8,105
- Reaction score
- 7,804
- Points
- 113
This one cracked me up today. Even cardboard people are not allowed to be together.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/08/super-bowl-stadium-packed-fans-cutouts/
Opinion by
Michele L. Norris
Columnist
Feb. 8, 2021 at 3:47 p.m. EST
We all know by now that Tom Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl win this weekend, but I hope we also understand that all of America suffered an unnecessary loss. It was foolish to project the image of a fan-packed stadium in the middle of the worst public health crisis in a century.
The NFL blew a rare high-profile opportunity at Super Bowl LV to highlight the importance of safety, sacrifice and social distancing.
The overhead shots, the sweeping camerawork through the stands and the enhanced roar of the crowd made it appear that a stadium that seats 65,000 people was chock full of fans: It was a trick play, a deception to create the optics of excitement, as if the most-hyped sporting event on the planet needed more of that.
There were actually only 25,000 fans in the stadium — about 7,500 of whom were vaccinated health care workers who attended the game as heroes and front-line warriors. The stadium appeared to be full because of 30,000 cardboard cutouts. The league charged fans $100 each to have a virtual, cardboard presence in the stadium and gave each lucky person who paid that fee a link to find themselves on a stadium “fan cam” so they could share their image on social media and enter a contest to win tickets to next year’s Super Bowl. That marketing device had a twofold objective: The cardboard fans dispersed throughout the seats enforced social distancing, and the resulting sea of faces created an image in keeping with what we usually see when we tune in on Super Bowl Sunday.
But this is a year where nothing is normal. We long ago became used to watching sporting events with little or no attendance. No one was going to cry foul if the stands were mostly empty or if the sounds of Super Bowl LV were somewhat subdued. Both moves would have sent a smarter message — stay home for now and stay safe until we can get to the other side of this storm.
That message was even more important because the Super Bowl was in Florida — where the response to the virus has been so disjointed and cavalier that the state motto might as well be “Covid-schmovid.” Huge crowds of mostly maskless fans gathered outside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa in the days leading up to the game despite the city’s mayor asking everyone to mask up at all Super Bowl parties. And just as we’ve seen in college towns after bowl games, throngs of residents flooded the streets on Sunday night to celebrate their hometown team’s win.
I wonder what the health-care workers who were fortunate enough to take a break from their front-line duties to attend the Super Bowl must have thought when they left the stadium Sunday night and saw the sea of revelers on the streets. Covid-schmovid.
The decision to project the image of a full stadium seems even odder given the NFL’s efforts to limit the virus in other ways. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the sequestered league-wide universe — a unique cohort — of NFL teams to better understand how the virus spreads. Among the findings: Closing the dining rooms, using face masks, and eliminating in-person, indoor meetings were essential to stopping the virus’s spread even with frequent testing and contact tracing through wearable devices.
Seems like those findings all apply to the spectacle we saw on Sunday night. The health-care workers were vaccinated, but the other 17,500 were not required to be tested or vaccinated before they arrived. And while the NFL did take important safety measures — cashless concessions and gift bags with N95 masks — it is hard to imagine that thousands of people could be fully safe in an environment with a lot of screaming and people doffing their masks to eat and drink.
The NFL has long struggled with mixed messaging. The league that has vowed to spend $250 million to fight systemic racism, and ran a beautiful, moving commercial pledging to fight for social justice, is the same collection of owners that continues to punish Colin Kaepernick for taking a knee to call attention to those very problems. A good player banished because of bad optics.
So much of the Super Bowl is about monetizing optics: the commercials, the over-the-top halftime shows, the supposedly spontaneous decision by the MVP to announce his trip to Disney World while confetti rains down from the sky. But this year there was an opportunity to use the optics in the public interest, for the common good.
So again: Why was it necessary to project an image of a packed stadium in the middle of a pandemic that has claimed more than 460,000 lives? The simple answer is — it wasn’t.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/08/super-bowl-stadium-packed-fans-cutouts/
Opinion by
Michele L. Norris
Columnist
Feb. 8, 2021 at 3:47 p.m. EST
We all know by now that Tom Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl win this weekend, but I hope we also understand that all of America suffered an unnecessary loss. It was foolish to project the image of a fan-packed stadium in the middle of the worst public health crisis in a century.
The NFL blew a rare high-profile opportunity at Super Bowl LV to highlight the importance of safety, sacrifice and social distancing.
The overhead shots, the sweeping camerawork through the stands and the enhanced roar of the crowd made it appear that a stadium that seats 65,000 people was chock full of fans: It was a trick play, a deception to create the optics of excitement, as if the most-hyped sporting event on the planet needed more of that.
There were actually only 25,000 fans in the stadium — about 7,500 of whom were vaccinated health care workers who attended the game as heroes and front-line warriors. The stadium appeared to be full because of 30,000 cardboard cutouts. The league charged fans $100 each to have a virtual, cardboard presence in the stadium and gave each lucky person who paid that fee a link to find themselves on a stadium “fan cam” so they could share their image on social media and enter a contest to win tickets to next year’s Super Bowl. That marketing device had a twofold objective: The cardboard fans dispersed throughout the seats enforced social distancing, and the resulting sea of faces created an image in keeping with what we usually see when we tune in on Super Bowl Sunday.
But this is a year where nothing is normal. We long ago became used to watching sporting events with little or no attendance. No one was going to cry foul if the stands were mostly empty or if the sounds of Super Bowl LV were somewhat subdued. Both moves would have sent a smarter message — stay home for now and stay safe until we can get to the other side of this storm.
That message was even more important because the Super Bowl was in Florida — where the response to the virus has been so disjointed and cavalier that the state motto might as well be “Covid-schmovid.” Huge crowds of mostly maskless fans gathered outside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa in the days leading up to the game despite the city’s mayor asking everyone to mask up at all Super Bowl parties. And just as we’ve seen in college towns after bowl games, throngs of residents flooded the streets on Sunday night to celebrate their hometown team’s win.
I wonder what the health-care workers who were fortunate enough to take a break from their front-line duties to attend the Super Bowl must have thought when they left the stadium Sunday night and saw the sea of revelers on the streets. Covid-schmovid.
The decision to project the image of a full stadium seems even odder given the NFL’s efforts to limit the virus in other ways. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the sequestered league-wide universe — a unique cohort — of NFL teams to better understand how the virus spreads. Among the findings: Closing the dining rooms, using face masks, and eliminating in-person, indoor meetings were essential to stopping the virus’s spread even with frequent testing and contact tracing through wearable devices.
Seems like those findings all apply to the spectacle we saw on Sunday night. The health-care workers were vaccinated, but the other 17,500 were not required to be tested or vaccinated before they arrived. And while the NFL did take important safety measures — cashless concessions and gift bags with N95 masks — it is hard to imagine that thousands of people could be fully safe in an environment with a lot of screaming and people doffing their masks to eat and drink.
The NFL has long struggled with mixed messaging. The league that has vowed to spend $250 million to fight systemic racism, and ran a beautiful, moving commercial pledging to fight for social justice, is the same collection of owners that continues to punish Colin Kaepernick for taking a knee to call attention to those very problems. A good player banished because of bad optics.
So much of the Super Bowl is about monetizing optics: the commercials, the over-the-top halftime shows, the supposedly spontaneous decision by the MVP to announce his trip to Disney World while confetti rains down from the sky. But this year there was an opportunity to use the optics in the public interest, for the common good.
So again: Why was it necessary to project an image of a packed stadium in the middle of a pandemic that has claimed more than 460,000 lives? The simple answer is — it wasn’t.
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2014
- Messages
- 18,589
- Reaction score
- 29,950
- Points
- 113
- Location
- The nearest Steelers bar.
I went into the Home Depot this past weekend.
Do I qualify as a "hero"? The requirements for that characterization seem to lessen every week. Once reserved for warriors who went into battle with a sword and shield against the Vikings, where "medical care" for an almost-always fatal wound consisted of gutting a chicken, to present, where teachers conducting Zoom classes because of a virus with a 99.7% survival rate, are "heroes."
As much as I can't stand the man's politics (but like you said, he's entitled to his self-righteous, ignorant opinion), I was always partial to "Glory Days", "I'm On Fire" & "My Hometown". Couldn't ever really get into anything past that though.
I approved of the messages from those videos, but just not a Rap/Hip-Hop fan. Nice job, otherwise.
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2014
- Messages
- 11,882
- Reaction score
- 15,642
- Points
- 113
Guy does it again with over 4 million views in just a few days
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2014
- Messages
- 3,734
- Reaction score
- 7,026
- Points
- 113
That is straight up fire right there. NICE!
You paged Dr. Steeltime??
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2014
- Messages
- 18,589
- Reaction score
- 29,950
- Points
- 113
- Location
- The nearest Steelers bar.
Dr. Jimmy is generously controlling his napalm-like retort, a comment so insightful, funny and damaging that you will spend the next 8 hours weeping and searching for a safe space that is not available. You and Annoying Oral Claptrap will suffer together in misery, where in fact abuela's leaky roof would be an upgrade.
I spare you such fate, because Dr. Jimmy is kind.
Similar threads
