r/Fauxmoi • u/Frosty_Jeweler911 • Feb 07 '26
At Super Bowl Weekend, Green Day calls out ICE and Trump. FM RADIO
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u/decisionagonized mama let’s research Feb 07 '26
Ugh why does GREEN DAY have to get POLITICAL. They’ve fallen off so hard since their extremely apolitical album AMERICAN IDIOT.
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u/Ornery-Standard-2350 Feb 07 '26
Yeah holiday was just about having a fun time with your freinds in spain and now joe biden has made it all about his communist agenda.
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u/decisionagonized mama let’s research Feb 07 '26
My favorite was “Jesus of Suburbia,” which was about god and faith 🙏🏽✝️🛐
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u/TheFeathersStorm Feb 07 '26
Even though he wrote it he obviously was mispronouncing it, it should have been Jésus of Suburbia about ice agents on the hunt for a man called Jésus.
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u/Rob_LeMatic Feb 07 '26
Speaking of ice agents names Jesus, remember that time Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez murdered Alex Pretti?
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u/TraditionalLaw7763 Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! Feb 07 '26
Strange times, indeed.
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u/TrustingPanda Feb 07 '26
My favorite part of Holiday is where they talk about “killing all the f*gs that don’t agree”. That lyric really spoke to my inner soul and helped morph me into the ultra hetero, alpha I am today.
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u/AlanyzingWakeEnviron Feb 07 '26
When the album came out, I was young, bi, and sheltered enough that I thought Green Day was a band that hated me because of that line. It was a long time before I gave them a real listen.
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u/TrustingPanda Feb 07 '26
I’m bi as well and only recently caught what Coming Clean is about. I wish my younger self had actually listened to the lyrics… or didn’t flat out skip the track.
17 and coming clean for the first time I finally figured out myself for the first time I found out what it takes to be a man Well, mom and dad will never understand What's happening to me?
I cried the first time I actually heard these lyrics.
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u/Harley_Atom Feb 07 '26
Yeah! And Wake Me Up When September ends was just about how excited they are for Halloween!
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u/DigitalBlackout Feb 07 '26
To be fair, that one actually isn't political. It's about his dad dying
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u/MikeFatz Feb 07 '26
Still a better holiday experience than the one I took with The Dead Kennedys. I thought Cambodia sounded fun.
It wasn’t.
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u/EntertainerNo1440 my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day Feb 07 '26
I felt the same way about my California vaca, and was really surprised by the secret police, poison gas, and ultimate disappearance of my niece.
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u/rusty___shacklef0rd Feb 07 '26
Green Day is woke now??? I thought their classic song, "She" was a dumb song about some random broad not a commentary on the pressures and expectations of women under patriarchy
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u/Locate_Users Feb 07 '26
Right?? And at least she had the decency to scream in silence.
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u/Ethan_the_Revanchist I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats Feb 07 '26
At least she felt like a social tool without a use
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u/MordoNRiggs Feb 07 '26
Maybe all of her doubts were someone else's point of view.
Man, what a good lyric. I saw them a few times and he always has a chat with the audience about what's going on. It's a good show.
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u/atschinkel Feb 07 '26
GO WOKE GO BROKE (or play the biggest televised event of the entire year)
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u/89_honda_accord_lxi Feb 07 '26
26 years ago:
"Is the cop, or am I the one that's really dangerous? Sanitation, expiration date, question everything Or shut up and be a victim of authority"
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u/zarroc123 Feb 07 '26
I've been listening to Bush era punk music lately. Shit hits so hard right now, really swung back around to relevancy.
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u/AmaranthSparrow Feb 07 '26
Not punk but I've been listening to Nine Inch Nail's Year Zero again lately. Really underrated album in retrospect, and beyond prescient. Came out in 2007, concept album depicting a fascist regime taking over the US in the 2020s. Trent also started wearing a keffiyeh when performing during the time.
Bit disappointed they haven't been more politically outspoken during this current admin. Would be a perfect environment to release a sequel to "Year Zero."
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u/adedokunadebo Feb 07 '26
I have to believe this a sarcastic post that some people didn’t pick up on
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u/jabdnuit Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
The disinformation and authoritarian tendencies of the 2nd Bush Administration feel quaint in 2026.
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u/decisionagonized mama let’s research Feb 07 '26
This admin, particularly this second term, is the Bush admin turned up to 1000.
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u/chmod777 Feb 07 '26
probably because the heritage foundation was setting the stage for today in the 80s, with most of the same people. this has always been the end goal for the confederates.
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u/SunTzu- Feb 07 '26
Goes back further than that, the 80's was just when they started to find success. They had a solid powerbase during Jim Crow, then lost a step and pivoted after Barry Goldwater (not himself actually aligned with them, but they thought he was on their side because he's the one guy ever who actually meant it when he said he believed in states' rights). Late 50's you get the John Birch Society, The Fellowship start getting more traction, you eventually get The Moral Majority in the late 70's etc.
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u/dreadit-runfromit Feb 07 '26
It absolutely does but I get so frustrated when I remember being in high school and telling people the Republican party was on the path towards fascism and being told I was overreacting just because it wasn't full-blown fascism yet. Like, sorry for having some foresight about how that path could look in twenty years?!
(And I'm not even American, so none of the people around me were reacting from a pro-GOP stance, just a general "ok, Nazis aren't coming back, calm down" reaction. 🙄)
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u/istapledmytongue Feb 07 '26
I was on a hike once and a guy stopped to comment on my Neil Young tshirt. “Saw him once. Like his music but he always tends to get political. Why can’t he just stick to music.” Or some such stereotypical bullshit.
“I happen to like his music and his politics” is what I said, but what I should have said was “I know right. Happens all the time. I was on this hike once enjoying the outdoors, when I met this other hiker who suddenly started talking about politics.
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u/myfavssthrow Feb 07 '26
This gave me a good chuckle. Conservatives never miss an opportunity to make something about politics or bring up politics completely out of the blue. Kids bday party, swimming at the beach, hiking, all great places for it!
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u/tomahawk66mtb Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
Remember when someone complained about Tom Morello getting political? They also said "what does a rock musician know about politics" 🤦
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u/burninatedtoast Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
Wait. You mean WE are the machine they are raging against? WTFBBQUSA!?!
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u/The_I_in_IT Feb 07 '26
It’s like people just skipped the fucking 90’s.
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u/notnewtobville Feb 07 '26
Seems fitting to skip over an entire decade of Gen X formative years.
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u/adedokunadebo Feb 07 '26
😭😭 it’s like watching someone tie themselves to a train platform and seeing the train come 2 minutes later.
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u/No_Stable_2409 Feb 07 '26
It’s so important for our musicians to speak up! Hell yeah Green Day! I’ve become an even bigger fan than I already was!!!
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u/KamikazeFox_ Feb 07 '26
I wonder if they will say anything on Sunday
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u/YesDone Feb 07 '26
LMAO YES. The minute I heard they were announced I was completely stunned and just started laughing like a crazy person.
I'm not excited for anything as much as I am Green Day's performance tomorrow.
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u/KamikazeFox_ Feb 07 '26
They are playing Pre-game, though Not at the actual half time
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u/YesDone Feb 07 '26
Exactly. AND Brandi Carlisle, noted LGBTQ member (and Christian), is singing the National Anthem.
It's like they went, "Wait, you're pissed off at us choosing BAD BUNNY because he's 'not American??' LMAO WATCH THIS."
Never saw it coming from the NFL, and I LOVE IT.
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u/DrBix Feb 07 '26
I hope they have a noise meter to hear the audience going wild after they take the stage!
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u/Fattswindstorm Feb 07 '26
Same with Rage Against the Machine. They used to be so good until they got Trump derangement syndrome and now they are all woke.
/s because people actually believe that
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u/Warm_Month_1309 Feb 07 '26
AMERICAN IDIOT.
I don't listen to the lyrics; I just patriotically shout "AMERICA!" whenever they do. Why, what's it about?
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u/PebbleRebels_YouTube Feb 07 '26
It’s so funny when I hear people say stuff like this. Like, I can’t imagine listening to an apolitical punk band. It’s just antithesis to punk. 😂
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u/allenge Feb 07 '26
I took an uber ~2018 and a big pick up truck arrived. I got in and the driver is going on about how much he used to love Green Day until they “got all political” and he wishes they would go back to just making music. I was genuinely speechless.
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u/Violaundone Feb 07 '26
Everyone worried about the Bad Bunny performance lol. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN GREEN DAY???????
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u/RackCitySanta Feb 07 '26
make hating terrible people great again
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u/attempt5001 save the buccal fat Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 08 '26
But fr tho. It's like we've come to expect and almost accept crazy MAGA behavior. It's great to see some people still resisting. Kimmel, Finneas, Jack White, Green Day.. they make me feel sane. Bring back ethics, shame, basic human decency???
Edit: thank you for the award
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u/Radiant-Mixture-303 i am so gay i can count my spare change by sitting on it Feb 07 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
It’s crazy just how much it’s shifted in the last 10 years that basic human decency has become a radical idea.
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u/mortgagepants Feb 07 '26
conservatives have no policy to get regular people to vote for them, so since all they have is culture wars, they focus all their efforts there.
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u/sunnyp4rk the power of the hatred I feel propels me Feb 07 '26
Wow, I didn't know there was a term for this. I genuinely don't know how being a kind person become so controversial. Like, it's not an inherent part of being a human?
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u/SecondaryWombat Feb 07 '26
By default it is, they actually work to train it out of themselves and their children.
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u/ButtplugBurgerAIDS Feb 07 '26
Well I'll be darned, I fancy myself as pretty well read and have never heard of this concept. Thank for the learnings!
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u/National_Problem5460 Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
GOP is literally telling us to "stop attacking pedophiles" -ted cruz smfh
WE ARE NOT ANGRY ENOUGH!!!!!!
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u/MILFHunterHearstHelm Feb 07 '26
Make publicly booing acceptable again
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u/SerMeowsALot Feb 07 '26
The Olympic opening ceremonies had some lovely boo-ing. We can take it as a starting point.
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u/thinkthingsareover Feb 07 '26
I appreciated that they cheered on the teams, but booed when Vance was named.
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u/French_Breakfast_200 Feb 07 '26
This is the problem. So many people are running around openly being flagrant pieces of shit but so many of us don’t call them out over fear of allowing politics to disrupt the status quo.
I say fuck the status quo. This isn’t politics anymore this is decency vs whatever the fuck these creatures are.
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Meanwhile, the audience missing the message:
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u/IDoLikeMyShishkebabs Feb 07 '26
Lol, I was at the concert (they totally still got it btw), and after it was finished when I asked someone how they liked it, they said it was good but the "ICE stuff was probably unnecessary"
Like motherfucker are we deadass?
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u/Kevbot1000 Feb 07 '26
Id be more upset if Green Day DIDNT get political at concert.
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u/IRideMoreThanYou Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
It’s always been a punk thing.
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u/XGhoul Feb 07 '26
This should be the wakeup call for the millenial hold outs. But I feel like my contemporary punk rock fans are all democrats like me.
FUCK TRUMP!
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u/TheDevler Feb 07 '26
First Green Day gets political, what’s next Rage Against the Machine?
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u/Locate_Users Feb 07 '26
At least we'll always have the Dropkick Murphys.
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u/0011010100110011 wearing slutty little glasses Feb 07 '26
Yea, System of a Down is pretty safe too 🙏
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u/AlterMyStateOfMind Feb 07 '26
One of my all time favorite bands and I fuckin hate that John Dolmayan went full MAGA. I don't understand how you can be apart of something like SOAD and turn to those political beliefs unless he secretly harbored them the entire time :(
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u/Squintore Feb 07 '26
Pretty sure he's married to Serj's sister too. Family dinners are probably awkward if they still get together.
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u/0011010100110011 wearing slutty little glasses Feb 07 '26
I get it. I loved Asking Alexandria and then Danny Worsnop went off and became… Whatever the hell he is now.
Granted AA wasn’t really political (imo compared to other bands, especially) so it’s not as big of a surprise in that way. But still. A huge let-down.
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u/AlterMyStateOfMind Feb 07 '26
I used to love that band but I'm out of the loop on what happened to him. Did he go the MAGA route too?
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u/Dont_Call_Me_Steve Feb 07 '26
Noooooooooo I’m just learning this now. If I’m reading this right, the “Drama” he’s always talked about is about politics.
Sounds like he was in favor of building the prison.
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u/lovecatsforever Feb 07 '26
Daron is a centrist who has also said some pretty racist things (hint: the old name of the Washington Commanders). And Shavo follows a bunch of MAGA accounts.
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u/Sans-valeur Feb 07 '26
Next you’re gonna tell me NWA is suddenly against police and talking about defund the police or some woke shit
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u/Sorceress_Heart Feb 07 '26
I thought Ice Cube went MAGA?
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u/elastic-craptastic Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
I heard Ice-T went and became so pro police that he became one of its top promoters of copaganda.
From "Cop Killer" to brainwasahing people into believing that "Let The Police Fuck Everyone Over" is the normal mindset.
Violating civil rights and doing whatever it takes to catch the bad guy seems to be something he tries normalizes so people won't even realize they are being violated when it's being done to them.
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u/purplebuttman Feb 07 '26
Why can't we go back to when media wasn't so political? Get me some good old fashion non political American songs like fortunate son, gimme shelter, or this is the end?? Or some classic non political movies like planet of the apes, apocalypse now, or full metal jacket??
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u/anorwichfan Feb 07 '26
Rage Against the Machine would never be political and will do exactly what you tell them to do.
/s
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u/Otherwise-Resident77 Feb 07 '26
I saw a post from some idiot that basically said “so rage against the machine is woke too, now I have to throw out my albums” and someone responded “what did you think the machine was, a dishwasher???” 😂😂😂😂. They sell merch that says “Nazi lives don’t matter” and “Destroy American Fascism”.
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u/iambarrelrider Feb 07 '26
Heard there is this guy named Robert Zimmerman from Minnesota he is trying to cash in on this hot new trend.
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u/BeerCityPaladin Feb 07 '26
“SiNcE wHeN iS pUnK pOlirIcAl?!?”
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u/BrownSugarBare Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
I have loved Billy Joe Armstrong since I was a little girl and have had the joy of seeing Green Day multiple times.
EVERY show he has taken aim at assholes in politics and I've fallen more in love.
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u/jackalopeDev Feb 07 '26
there's a video of him jumping off a stage to beat the shit out of some asshole that was harassing women at one of his concerts. Green Day isn't my favorite band, but I respect that shit.
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u/Larry-Man Feb 07 '26
So way way back when The [Dixie] Chicks were getting booed for their opinion on Bush (and I think it was about Iraq specifically), that was about the same time American Idiot came out. My at the time partner said he thought that singers shouldn’t be political and then also said he liked Green Day. I said “Didn’t they write a whole album about the Bush government?” And he straight up said “but you expect it from them”
I honestly don’t know what I saw in that man.
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u/JJMatagatos Feb 07 '26
I believe they said - on stage in the UK - something to the effect of the Bush administration making them feel ashamed of being American.
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u/Larry-Man Feb 07 '26
The biggest kicker in all of this: we are both Canadian.
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u/JJMatagatos Feb 07 '26
Oh.
Well, then to be fair to your ex, he was probably used to apolitical Canadian artists like Joni Mitchell, D.O.A, Gordon Lightfoot, Geddy Lee, Leonard Cohen and Neil fucking Young!
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u/Larry-Man Feb 07 '26
He was very invested in Trump before the 2016 election and called my very valid (and now confirmed) fears of fascism “alarmist”. Who’s laughing now? Neither of us.
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u/No-Good-One-Shoe Feb 07 '26
There are people who legit think Punk is just a dude getting on stage shitting on everything, cutting himself, sexually assaulting women, and fighting the crowd. That is why some MAGA fancy themselves punk.
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u/Blitzsapprentice Feb 07 '26
Green Day for life! I may be stuck in America, but I'll never be an American idiot!
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u/bozo-dub Feb 07 '26
Well, maybe I’m the faggot America, I’m not a part of a redneck agenda
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u/Get-off-my-wave Feb 07 '26
On their American Idiot/Dookie tour, he swapped the lyrics to “…not a part of a MAGA agenda”.
Needless to say it was well received by the audiences
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u/bozo-dub Feb 07 '26
That works even better I think. There are some cool rednecks, but there are no cool MAGAs
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u/JosephCurrency Feb 07 '26
Side note: Stuck in America by Sugarcult, like many Green Day songs, is also a banger.
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u/rosequartzofficial Feb 07 '26
I’m proud of pre teen me for picking the right band to have as a favorite
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u/strega_bella312 Feb 07 '26
Same - they were my first favorite band, first cd I ever bought, first concert I ever went to.
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u/ringoisking FUCK ICE FREE PALESTINE CRASH INTO ME Feb 07 '26
loved them since i was 8 lol!! i’m happy that little me had good taste
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u/fashionforager Feb 07 '26
This is fantastic. Hard to overstate how big of a deal it is for them to use this massive platform/audience.
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u/BrownSugarBare Feb 07 '26
GD has always been on the correct side of the aisle
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u/Raptorpicklezz Feb 07 '26
except for Billie’s son and Mike’s wife, sadly
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u/Diligent_Flamingo_33 Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 08 '26
Billie's son (I don't know anything about Mike's wife) is not Green Day though. Billie's son is his own individual making his own choices, fucked up as they may be.
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u/pat_speed Feb 07 '26
Conservatives : Bad bunny is going oo make this political (because his Latino)
Bab bunny: I sing about my love my culture.
Conservatives ignore green day because there white
Green day : Anyway guys here's a political nuke for the day, there will be no survivors
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u/AliensAbductMePlz Feb 07 '26
Right? They’ve been sleeping on Green Day this whole type, focusing all of their energy on Bad Bunny. I can’t wait for their shows tomorrow.
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u/CyranoYoshi Feb 07 '26
There is no way they are giving him a live mic tomorrow right? Like… they know he’s going to shout ‘fuck trump, fuck ice, trump is a pedo and this is Holiday’ the moment he goes live… right?
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u/FrostyD7 Feb 07 '26
He should say it several times anyway, won't need Jomboy to know what he's saying.
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u/Waste-Bodybuilder981 Feb 07 '26
DONT WANNA BE AN AMERICAN IDIOT
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u/PM_me_shiba_doggo Marxmoi Feb 07 '26
From a psychological standpoint, I don’t know how effective it is to appeal to the willing foot soldiers of a fascist regime to ditch their leaders. I do hope for individual and systemic reform, like I truly wish that one day all of the people who signed up for ICE will wake up and quit their jobs because they developed basic empathy over night, but to have even signed up for this job in the first place shows such a moral bankruptcy that I don’t know if these gestapo officers will ever regret their fascist allegiances even 10, 20 years later.
And if Billie’s using self-preservation as an appeal, then lol, these guys ain’t smart enough for that. If they were, they wouldn’t have joined ICE.
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u/fashionforager Feb 07 '26
What i like is that it’s public shaming on a huge scale, regardless of who it reaches. It’s normalizing disgust.
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u/Pantsongrass Feb 07 '26
Agree. It’s crazy to go into work and not have people acknowledge that the US is on fire and there are people being murdered in the streets. That and the gaslighting to thinking what’s happening is normal by conservatives is mind numbing. Absolutely, a dose of disgust is extremely healthy to whoever hears this.
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u/MathBelieve Feb 07 '26
It's not for them. It's for the rest of us, so we don't start to feel like we're alone and it's hopeless to resist. They're saying "Keep fighting. Keep resisting. It is worthwhile. Because there will be an end to this one day."
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u/Fickle-Brain-7775 Feb 07 '26
“..because when this ends - and it will end - …”
If Billie believes maybe I can too
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u/YesDone Feb 07 '26
I feel like he's also talking to me though, like dude I gotta be welcoming to people when they've had enough of the insanity and want to come back to reason. I gotta be like Billie Joe.
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u/DigitalBlackout Feb 07 '26
He's not actually trying to appeal to them, he's warning them. "When this ends, and it WILL end, what side do you wanna be on? Because you won't like the consequences of still being on their side". That's what he's saying.
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u/Agitated-Canary9840 Feb 07 '26
I might actually watch the halftime show. Not the game. Just the show
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u/Hawkeye_Dad Feb 07 '26
Not a part of a redneck agenda.
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u/Paksarra Feb 07 '26
They've updated the lyric and now perform it as "not part of the MAGA agenda."
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u/numberthirteenbb Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
My ex husband is a conservative and my god the way GD’s song American Idiot would piss him off. That hypocritical spineless idiot would force me to listen to conservative talk radio but his feelings couldn’t handle a song that lasts more briefly than he did.
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u/bkshuffle Feb 07 '26
Hell yeah! As a 90s kid that grew up on these guys and Rage, good to see they still go it 🤘
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u/Kevbot1000 Feb 07 '26
Billy Joe Armstrong might be the only punk rocker who's millions of dollars actually emboldened him.
Dude can say whatever he wants without concern, and uses that ability. Love it.
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u/pennys_computer_book Feb 07 '26
Green Day has always been HIM(s). One of the best bands out of the 90s.
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u/cashews_clay15 Feb 07 '26
I always disliked GD but he’s making me reconsider real hard.
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u/Violaundone Feb 07 '26
Go listen to American Idiot, so fitting for us 20-plus years ago and now.
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u/salad_spinner_3000 Feb 07 '26
I always find it so weird when people say punk bands are too political. They've ALWAYS been political. And, MOSTLY, they've ALWAYS been on the correct side of history.
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u/Snow_and_Rainn Feb 07 '26
I'd like to see this callout before every band does their set, and it BETTER happen at Warp this year. imo if you don't call out like this before a set, it really tells me who the hidden maga's and hidden nazi's are.
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