Trump Supporters Have a Meltdown After Green Day Slam 'MAGA Agenda' During New Year's Show

American Idiot is the millennials' Fortunate Son

Gosh, when did American Idiot become about politics? /S
- The proposition made by the song is proven true by the necessity of the "/s." I hate this fucking clown world.
- What's next? rage against the machine going woke?
Or Born In The USA.

...when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance. The original line is, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.”

So you were all okay with "redneck"? Are the rednecks offended by being associated with MAGA? What would be the reaction if some country singer sang "I'm not part of the woke agenda"?

Ugh. Ya know... the reality is that news outlets, Rolling Stone in this case, need to generate attention just as much as the outraged Trump supporters. I have to wonder if us normies are suckers. Why do we fall prey to the need to comment on something so irrelevant?

Edit: So, I just listened to and read the lyrics for American Idiot (it’s been a while and I wasn’t ever all that into Green Day). I hadn’t realized how on-point my comment was. It’s literally about the media manipulating us. Man, what a great song and meta article.

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well, maybe I'm the removed, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

Why do we fall prey to the need to comment on something so irrelevant?
We lack political agency that has any ability to impact the economic arrangements we find ourselves in, instead we react to politics happening, from opposing ends of this economic consensus that alienates us, by engaging in the hyper-real spectacle of politics. This is what the Trump era represents, decaying neoliberal consensus, increasing internalized anxieties, and alienation from political institutions.
Hey, I'm a redneck. I'm probably the most gun shootin'ist, truck ownin'ist, motorcycle ridin'ist poster on here and I sure as fuck don't want to be associated with Trump and his MAGA morons.
- Remember the (apocryphal) origin of the term "redneck" is potentially the red bandanas striking mine workers wore, both to show solidarity and to act as battlefield identification (because those people got into gun battles with police and mercenaries a LOT).
Yeah I think a few salty tweets are hardly representative of the image conjured by the headline, but in reality that's all it is.
- a few salty tweets are hardly representative of the image conjured by the headline
  This could be said about the vast majority of headlines these days. It's exhausting.
This entire discussion is horseshit. Only a frittata or a person who's never heard of Green Day would be dismayed by their political ideology. Just wait until that mouth-breather finds out who started punk in the first place.
Yeah, I've found that the language is the same on both sides. It's stupid to have sides.
- Unfortunately, most people have to pick a side to survive. Gay people, trans people, ethnic minorities, poor people, etc. Must all fight against fascism just to protect their very existence.

It's not the right time to be sober

Now, the idiots have taken over

Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership conceding

Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding?

Watson, it's really elementary

Industrial revolution

Has flipped the bitch on evolution

The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized What a bummer

The world keeps getting dumber

Insensitivity is standard

And faith is being fancied over reason

Darwin's rolling over in his coffin

The fittest are surviving much less often

Now, everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening

(guitar riff)

Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool

Now, angry mob mentality is no longer the exception, it's the rule

And I'm startin' to feel a lot like

Charlton Heston

Stranded on a primate planet

Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground

With generals and the armies that obeyed them

Followers following fables

Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred

Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions

Sometimes, the smallest softest voice carries the grand

BIGGEST SOLUTIONS

What are we left with?

A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists

Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland

Pass on traditions

How to get ahead religions

And prosperity via simpleton culture (ah-)

The idiots are taking over

Fat Mike

Thanks homie, you tha MVP
- Nah, that's Michael Burkett.
oh fun, a bunch of anti-democracy and pro-eugenics sentiments. cool.
- "Pro-eugenics?"
  saying modern life is so comfortable that intelligence is no longer an evolutionary advantage isn't pro-eugenics, it's the fucking truth. As far as anti-democracy, I am actually an Arkansas inbred, and my vote against magatardism goes straight in the trash thanks to the electoral college.
- I legitimately want to hear your reasoning for that statement.
- One of many things that the right, left, and center can all agree on is (pro) eugenics.
  Idiocracy, and this song, are so explicitly eugenicist and yet people who consider themselves "enlightened liberals", or even "leftists", choose not to see them as such.
  They choose not to because to accept that obvious truth would mean that they have some things they need to work out too. That it's not just MAGA supporters that are upholding white supremacy and ableism.
  In the past 5 years I've come to terms with a lot of abhorrent things I used to believe, and a lot of harm that I've unknowingly caused in the past.
  Learn better; Do better.
  If you haven't done hard introspection that has made you uncomfortable, especially if you're an abled white person, then you're probably not as enlightened of a person as you see yourself being.
- Thanks!

Oh, no!

Did their feelings get hurt?

That's just a shame, if it keeps going like this anyone that acts like an antisocial asshole could be criticized for it, too.

It's a slippery slope, y'all /s

Republicans are the antithesis of punk rock.

Republicans are the reason for punk rock. Were they not around to fuck everything up, the punks wouldn't have as much to sing about.

oH My GoD ThEy sHoUlDnT Be PolitIcaL like ThaT!

Hey maga people, remember when you were really concerned about free speech and people being canceled for “just voicing their opinion”?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Roseanne Barry just kicked DeNiro off of some show she's doing for being "woke."
Of course, every MAGAt is cheering and not a single one is screaming about how um actually it's illegal to not do business with someone you don't like, like they do to us.
Except they've never hidden the fact that their "free speech" only applies to their opinions and they have never even once endorsed anyone else's right to voice their own opinions. Apparent in the fact that they consider things like LGBTQ+ advocacy, where members of that community express their opinions and exercise that right, to somehow be an active suppression of their free speech because, well because they disagree with the LGBTQ+ community and their messages so they don't think they should have the right to express it.
As with everything else with these types, it's "free speech for me, but not for thee."

“I liked Green Day until they got all political.” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

I remember they were bashing Rage Against the Machine for being political too and someone said "What machine did you think they were raging against? The dishwasher?"

lol, fucking snowflakes getting upset over the tiniest of things.

"but... but guys... we've literally only ever been talking about you"

Green Day does Green Day thing*

White Supremacist MAGAts:

Every day, all day long, with short breaks for masturbation and rubbing shit in their hair.

There are plenty of reasons to hate green day. This is hardly one of them.

What are the other reasons?
- Their fans
  Some "alleged" stolen music
  I don't like most of their music.
  Their fans
- It's not really a Green Day thing, but there were some dodgy allegations regarding sexual assault from the main guy's son, who is a drummer in another band.
- They aren't and never were very creative, also even way way back in like 2000 I felt that there trash the set thing looked like they were bored of the task.
  But hey I still like them.
Are there?

Not a single ounce of self awareness in that group.... Won't be long till these Maga Snowflakes are screaming for safe spaces away from the liberal agender.

Facts don't care about your feelings snowflake! Here you can have the participation trophies you give us when we were young, I think you need them more.

Wow, imagine how upset they'd be if they listened to the rest of the lyrics!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Green Day took the stage during ABC’s broadcast of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest and used the opportunity to call out Trump supporters by changing the lyrics to their 2004 hit “American Idiot.”

Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong drew cheers from the live audience when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance.

Many of them took to Twitter to bash the band and accuse them of being part of the “propaganda machine.” “Sad, they are irrelevant and get a chance to play and use it poorly.

During the band’s tour back in 2017, Armstrong would shout “Fuck you, Trump!” before launching into “American Idiot.”

“There are a lot of people in the quote, unquote red states that get a big sense of relief when I say something like ‘Fuck you, Trump.’ That’s because they’re in the minority where they live and at our shows they get this sort of release,” he continued.

Dick Clark Productions, which produces New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,  is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between PMC and Eldrige.

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The American dream is killing me

“It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it” George Carlin

I hate that I've gotten used to reading "slam" in the titles. It's stupid, but it's new standard.

He's the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun But he don't know what it means

That was Nirvana, you know, the band that Green Day wanted to be at the start.
- You're of the opinion that the Bay-area pop-punk band wanted to be like the PNW grunge band?
  Kerplunk and Bleach sound nothing alike, I think I'm misunderstanding what you meant?

A *meltdown” SLAM?! Such a rare type of slam!

When idiots realize American Idiot is actually about them.

Ya. Its laughable. It reminds me of this Nirvana song: In Bloom.
- Also when the same crowd got super butthurt at Rage Against The Machine because they “got political”. What the fuck sort of machine did those idiots think the band is raging against..?
  Critical thinking definitely isn’t a strong suit of the right wing base voters.

Did they expect Green Day to be pro-fascism?

How dare Green Day do the exact thing you would expect Green Day to do if you knew the first thing about Green Day!

or punk rock
- Wait… even all of those songs about Margaret Thatcher?!

What "Machine" did you think he was raging against? The dishwasher?

Who are you quoting?
- The funniest answer to this idiot:
  https://www.metrotimes.com/music/michigan-man-goes-viral-after-telling-rage-against-the-machines-tom-morello-he-used-to-be-a-fan-until-he-realized-the-band-was-political-24705308

That's okay. They can still sing "Born in the USA" because that song is super-patriotic and not critical of America at all.

Oh, wait....

Man, I liked all these bands before they got all political!
- Rage Against the Washing Machine

Tangential point but I do wonder how much of an effect Taylor Swift will have on voter turnout this year.

MAGA already tried to cancel her and failed when she encouraged people to vote. Imagine if she actually endorsed a candidate.
- Imagine if she was a candidate

IF YOU SUPPORT THE OTHER SIDE YOU ARE WRONG, FILTHY OTHERSIDER

Finally someone criticize fascist Trump. Our government, using it's CIA hand did their part in silencing MAGA stupids on facebook, twitter and reddit. Good that we use artists to send a message too. /s

What are you on about?
- Finally, someome has the balls to criticize Trump and his stupid followers...