{"id":22901,"date":"2026-02-04T08:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=22901"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:36:42","slug":"all-american-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/04\/all-american-halftime-show\/","title":{"rendered":"All-American Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/people.com\/what-is-the-turning-point-usa-half-time-show-11898234<\/p>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;re Americans too. Black, brown, immigrants, foreign-language speaking people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sun Tzu says &#8220;Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Want to make a statement? Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, they should all petition to be on the Turning Point USA halftime show.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, weren&#8217;t all of us supposedly unAmericans not properly righteous, not paying fealty to Charlie Kirk? It&#8217;s time to embrace Turning Point USA, so that it can truly represent all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT?<\/p>\n<p>All that ICE virtue signaling on the Grammys was worthless. I need you to watch Bill Maher&#8217;s New Rules on this:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7_hwk0cF4E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the goal of activism to change people&#8217;s minds?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think anyone did this at the Grammys. It was self-righteous virtual-signaling. Making real change, that requires you to put your reputation on the line, and none of these acts are willing to do this.<\/p>\n<p>And, most of them are empty vessels anyway, they don&#8217;t radiate any intelligence, so their words have no impact. You&#8217;re going to take advice from these nitwits?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect this alternative halftime show to garner many eyeballs, but that&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s about. It&#8217;s a press story. Why can only the right play this game?<\/p>\n<p>Irrelevant of whether any people of color perform at this rinky-dink event, their offer to do so will become big time news. That&#8217;s how you fight fire&#8230;WITH FIRE!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe get all those ICE OUT pin wearing acts at the Grammys to all volunteer to play the show. But certainly we need some names.<\/p>\n<p>The key is to get them on the back foot, responding, why do Democrats always have to play defense?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about shame&#8230; When acts of color offer to do the show and Turning Point USA turns them down, how are they going to deny that they&#8217;re racist, with roots in white nationalism? Real Americans my ass.<\/p>\n<p>This event can be neutered, made a laughingstock of, showing how small-minded these people are. And if they decide to accept the challenge, and acts of color are featured, all the better, it shows that progress has been made.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the major acts who are going to pony up, offer to do this Turning Point show?<\/p>\n<p>None of them.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, they&#8217;re too busy worrying about what to wear than to enter the fray&#8230; They don&#8217;t want to stand out, they want to be protected by the group, they don&#8217;t want to associate with THOSE people.<\/p>\n<p>A winning strategy for moving the ball?<\/p>\n<p>NO!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/people.com\/what-is-the-turning-point-usa-half-time-show-11898234 Well, we&#8217;re Americans too. Black, brown, immigrants, foreign-language speaking people&#8230; Sun Tzu says &#8220;Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.&#8221; Want to make a statement? Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, they should all petition to be on the Turning Point USA halftime show. That&#8217;s right, weren&#8217;t all of us supposedly unAmericans not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-shows","category-politics","category-the-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-5Xn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22904,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901\/revisions\/22904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}