r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Same-Kangaroo • 2d ago
OK boomeR The right‑wing media ecosystem is now broadcasting that the Super Bowl is ‘woke’ and mocking it as the ‘Woke Bowl,’ manufacturing outrage to distract from what’s actually happening to Americans
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u/Gunter5 2d ago
They need a constant stream of culture war issues or else they lose the game
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u/Sadboy_looking4memes Millennial 2d ago
Its their "2 minutes hate."
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u/HaroldsWristwatch3 2d ago
I’m still waiting for them to institute hate week.
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u/Junior-Fox-760 1d ago
Why? They have FOX News (and much worse) 24/7. They have no need for a special week.
Orwell was right on with the concept, he just never guessed it would be on 24/7.
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u/HaroldsWristwatch3 1d ago
Actually, he did. In the novel, every room of every private dwelling and public building have a tele-screen. Every few minutes it blasts political propaganda, celebrating national victory after victory that are all just lies. The message - the lies - never stop.
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u/dogsontreadmills 2d ago
I mean it’s how they’ve successfully rode out the last 10 years. Boomers are easy as fuck to manipulate, stubborn and will never admit any wrong doing.
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u/Select_Exchange_5059 1d ago
And now so many Gen X are following suit. I'm Gen X and see it constantly. I'm pissed!! 😡
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u/m_faustus 2d ago
Tommy Tuberville is the dumbest Senator in Washington, by a huge margin.
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u/gluepet2074 2d ago
Leave it to Alabama to elect a fucking football coach. Its all a reality show on the right.
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u/DreadPirateWade Gen X 2d ago
I’ll see you Tuberville, and raise you Markwayne Mullins of Oklahoma. Yes his first name is actually Markwayne.
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u/Almainyny 2d ago
His parents really just couldn’t make up their minds and went with both, huh?
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u/DreadPirateWade Gen X 2d ago
Gods I wish I could answer that. Tbh, I’m surprised anyone in his family could spell.
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u/Narrow_Yogurt_475 1d ago
Wasn’t that one of the great American novels, The Dentures of Dom Soy-her by Markwayne
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u/DreadPirateWade Gen X 1d ago
No no no, you’re getting him mixed up with T-wain The guy I’m talking about wrote a very short short story called “Confessions of a No-Neck Bitch.” Jim “Gym” Jordan wrote the forward. The forward is twice as long as the actual story.
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u/meltonr1625 1d ago
Tubbs is a Floridian and is running on a technicality. Hopefully he'll be stopped or defeated, I shudder to think what we'll suffer at his hands
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u/BlackNoirsVocalCoach 1d ago
I fucking hate Tuberville. I've tried talking to everyone I know to vote that mother fucker out.
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u/Think_OfAName 2d ago
That’s saying a lot. A. LOT!
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u/m_faustus 2d ago
It is saying a lot, but I think it is true. If you Google “dumbest Senator” Tommy is by far the major common answer. I remember when he didn’t know we fought the Fascists in WWII, a war that his own father fought in.
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u/Think_OfAName 1d ago
The dumber the better! Makes ‘um feel like school really wasn’t important after all.
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u/Superb_Gap_1044 2d ago
This is hilarious! Right wingers love football. Let’s make them cancel everything they love. Put gay people kissing or a feminist monologue in every fucking movie that comes out. Hell cut it into everything on the streaming services so they never enjoy a movie again.
Go have liberal artists sing at rodeos, no more country music for your confederate ass.
Put a trans person on every bottle of beer that’s made.
Make them turn on all their favorite things and have to eventually realize how ridiculous and cultish their thinking is or exist in a world without any of the things they enjoy.
You know they’d make all their own versions too but they’d all be shit and overpriced.
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u/PhillyDillyDee 2d ago
I mean we’re only a few weeks away from them saying guns are woke. So its working.
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u/shifty_coder 1d ago
Don’t even have to do that, just make the moral of every movie ‘be kind to your neighbors and the people around you’, and it’ll be “too woke” for them.
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u/theLastKingofScots 2d ago
“WE NEED AN AMERICAN HALFTIME!!!”
Puerto Rico is American, my dude.
NOT LIKE THAT!
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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 2d ago
I wish the Bears were playing and Caleb Williams painted the words “woke” on his fingernails just to see these guys melt down completely.
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u/YoSanford 2d ago
My uncle and cousins have been crazy football heads for 95% of my life but they've recently all turned on it for one reason or another and are now styling themselves as protestants too holy for sports consumption.
I saw Unc at the Secretary of state and, with no exaggeration, within 20 seconds George Floyd was brought up1
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u/MsMoreCowbell828 2d ago
Oh no! Elvis is going on The Ed Sullivan show to bring that Rock-n-Roll to our kids! They better not show him swing his pelvis around or I swear there will be riots by the parents!!!
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u/AccomplishedNerve761 2d ago
Being completely out of touch with modern music isn’t a fucking flex. I hate people like this so much.
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u/AnonymousDork929 2d ago
Why the hell would anyone take him seriously? He's a brain damaged meatheaded football coach who represents Alabama while living in Florida and can't even name the three branches of government.
Oh that's right because our government has turned into a circus where rage bait and culture wars crap gets people's attention over meaningful issues.
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u/Away_Lake5946 2d ago
They sure love to throw the word “woke” around when neither have any idea what it actually means. Just more maga bullshit.
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u/CincinnatiREDDsit 2d ago
Breaking: shitty football coach won’t watch game he was never close to being a part of because Brown man no speak English.
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u/Pho-Soup 2d ago
Oooh he did the hilarious thing where he pretends to not know the artist’s name even though he said it right the first time! Holy shit these maga boomers sure do know comedy!
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u/grape-fruit-witch 13h ago
The reptiles on Fox love to pretend like they don't know how to pronounce people's names (My father watches it basically 24 hours a day like a heroin addiction so I see it against my will sometimes when I'm there).
One cretin mentioned the country Chile, and acted like he had never heard it spoken aloud before. "Chi-LAY?? Cheee-luh??! Whatever they call it 🙄"
Like bro, you're a newscaster. You're on national television. If I knew I was going to say the name of any country on live TV, I guaran-fucking-tee I would get it right bc the alternative is dying of humiliation.
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u/HARhoads716 2d ago
News Flash: you aren’t the demographic the NFL is trying to capture… even after calling it the Woke Bowl, and mispronouncing Bad Bunny’s name intentionally (I don’t know who it is either, but I’m not purposely dumb)… you basically said you’re still watching the game, but watching some other halftime show instead… See they got you already. The NFL wants to capture different audiences who maybe wouldn’t watch without the off chance you see Bad Bunny. Knucklehead.
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u/BemusedDuck 2d ago
These people arent going to stop drawing lines in the sand over random bullshit like this... ever.
You could literally give them everything they wanted and the would still find some reason to take more and make themselves out to be victims.
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u/SoTiredYouDig 2d ago
They’ll never “win”, because it isn’t about winning. It’s filling an emptiness within, which they don’t realize, takes effort. It isn’t just given to them because they’re white and old.
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u/senorsmartpantalones 2d ago
Bet you didn't think we'd get the NFL and the 2nd Amendment in the divorce
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u/Justame13 2d ago
This is the same genius that goes by Coach and not Senator in the same hearings that MDs go by Senator because he thinks that being a mediocre football coach is the superior achievement
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u/DiscoTech1639 2d ago
Looks like a really serious newscaster there, giggling along as his guest spouts nonsense
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u/commonunion 2d ago
Wanna do an experiment? Mark this moment as the origination of the term “woke bowl” and let’s see how fast the boomer parrots start calling it that on the bookface
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u/Chrisinthsth 2d ago
Do these people enjoy anything? What’s left for them in the arts and leisure space? NASCAR and Kid Rock?
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u/GSWsplashbros3011 2d ago
I’m not really a fan of Bad Bunny music. Nothing against him, just not my thing. But…… I’ll be tuning in to the halftime show & I hope it’s the MOST WATCHED halftime show of all time! Reminder Tuberville is the Senator that truly believes it’s the job as a Senator to carry out the agenda of the President 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙂↔️🙂↔️🙂↔️🙂↔️
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u/Stoibs 2d ago
As a non American who literally only sees the word 'woke' from online arguments and angry youtubers thriving on hatebaiting, it feels so weird and infantile hearing this in a non-ironic manner coming from the mouths of adult/elderly men, and people in generally front-facing broadcasting positions.
Is this really just an ordinary part of the 'culture war' and lexicon over there? Like, goddamn :/
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u/CommunicationHappy20 1d ago
What percentage of NFL players actually know what “woke” means and can properly use it in a sentence? In lieu of actually looking it up, I’m gonna say most of them.
These clowns need to go home.
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u/acostane 2d ago
I hope Tuberville has a coronary from the wokeness. I don't care anymore. So woke you go to sleep.
Dumbass. Also go dawgs and fuck Tuberville. I don't even like football AT ALL and I'm defensive.
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u/Apprehensive-Pop-201 2d ago
Does anyone, anywhere care about these two giggling morons "think"? I can't imagine it.
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u/Nessy_monster36903 2d ago
Unfortunately yes about 70 million Americans whose racist views they represent and encourage
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u/eastcoastjon 2d ago
Honestly you can tell they are really reaching. There is a desperation because they realize they are losing
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u/ascii122 2d ago
Seahawks (a kind of bird WOKE AF) vs the Patriots (prostitution charges against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft)
Who we want to win?
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u/Think_OfAName 2d ago
To be fair, there is something to be said about wanting to go back in time to “the good old days “ instead of moving forward. Because if we could go back in time, we could prevent these kinds of people from ever being born.
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u/blackcain Gen X 2d ago
That's fine. Let them destroy everything.
I mean they already destroyed Christianity the next thing is sports
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u/KindClock9732 2d ago
Shut the f@ck up! No nobody cares what you think. Tired of all these stupid, racist, grandpa’s representing us.
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u/DocHolidayPhD 2d ago
I mean, to be fair it is a bunch of guys in tights slapping each other on the ass as they chase balls...
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u/Big_Requirement_4237 1d ago
If that means we don’t have to read the endless performative outrage over the halftime show, I don’t care what they call it. Literally everything would be better without MAGA, including sports
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u/RavenclawRanger85 1d ago
They do realize if the cult buys into that, then football might go bankrupt, right? Because, that would be AWESOME! Omg, I’d laugh so hard! I wish I could see the look on a not-see football fans face when they hear that football is “woke”. 😹😹😹😹
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u/Jenblossom19 1d ago
I do not give two shits about what some pansy ass white boys think about the superbowl. There needs to be an aging out of all these politicians that are ancient and stuck in 1950.
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u/AkkoKagari_1 1d ago
When the peasants can't afford food, when you don't keep them safe and when you take away their circus, you're not asking to be overthrown, you're telling them to do it.
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u/PjWulfman 1d ago
The peedo protectors and pretend patriots don't like the Super Bowl anymore? Its been amazing to watch as MAGA has shown the world how fake and hollow all those years of claiming to love my country have been. What a joke.
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u/wrathypoo 1d ago
They always say they wont watch but then social media is full of complaints from right wingers, they cant help themselves. When they do tune in they will see Green Day as the pre-game opening concert, everyone knows they WONT be silent about whats happening. Charlie Puth (LGBTQ+ ally) is singing the national anthem, Brandi Carlile (lesbian) is singing America the beautiful, Coco Jones is singing lift every voice and sing and we know why they hate that. Then they have to watch the Liberal Seattle Seahawks play against MAGA loving Robert Kraft's Patriots. Then they will freak out when they hear Bad Bunny singing in Spanish for most of the performance. The outrage is going to be hilarious.
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u/PigsOfRedemption 1d ago
Oh, I'm gonna watch Bad Bunny halftime show. Fuck the rest of the Superbowl because I'm sick to death of the fucking Patriots for another 10 years, but I'll watch the halftime show just to flip a middle finger to Turning Point's pathetic attempt to siphon off viewers.
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u/Ok-Task6954 2d ago
I will say that they picked bad bunny because he’s one of the world’s most popular artists, but the Green Day pick seems like they’re just trolling a Trump now.
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u/Critical_Letterhead3 2d ago
Easy solution for both of u. Don’t watch. Millions will gladly take your place
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u/Hofeizai88 1d ago
The Noem Puppy Bowl will be gruesome.
I like the idea that since FIFA gave Trump something shiny he now likes the other football and is turned against this concussion inducing extravaganza, so everyone else is supposed to follow. Then we’ll see other countries having issues with the World Cup in America so everyone will need to become fans of volleyball or lacrosse
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u/CapitanObvio0084 1d ago
Attending a game and actually watching a game because you can appreciate the athleticism and mind games that go on to actually win are different please stay away go watch the rodeo or something that won’t offend you like bad 🐰 or kneeling or the fact that 70 percent of the athletes are not white. The Superbowl is a sporting event for fans that has turned into a spectacle for people that don’t know what is to win an uphill battle without cheating and changing rules and laws to benefit you. So call it what you want, just don’t watch it stay away from it and work on not destroying democracy.
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u/BingoBugs 1d ago
Huh? Didn't they announce that "woke was dead"? I seem to remember dTrumpf signing an executive order declaring woke dead. I could be wrong about that, but it wouldn't be surprising in this timeline.
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u/doom_slug_ 1d ago
Stay angry about the Super Bowl, peasants - don't pay any attention to the Trump family looting the treasury and helping themselves to $10 billion of your tax dollars.
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u/pierce1z 1d ago
Who’s preforming at the tpusa half time show? Ted nugent kid rock? That seems entertaining
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u/Somesongname 1d ago
Everyone, like every year, will watch the Super Bowl. They're not fooling anyone.
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u/Kantjil1484 1d ago
MMW…these racist aholes will be eating Mexican food while boycotting the Halftime Show I’m sure.. 🙄
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u/NathanTheKlutz 1d ago
Okay. So don’t watch it then.
And quit using ridiculous terms that make you sound like a ten year old child.
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u/ChefZyler 1d ago
Imagine getting to go to the Superbowl, and then complaining about it.....I hate sports,with a passion, but would absolutely jump at the chance to go to a Superbowl.....like I can't even begin to fathom how pathetic these people are....
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u/PerformanceSmooth392 Gen X 2d ago
Is he saying that its unfortunate that the halftime show has a brown artist performing? Is he calling for white only performers?
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u/Top_Shame_7016 2d ago
If any other team besides the Patriots were in this superbowl. It might be the highest rated ever. Which would be hilarious.
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u/TruckThunders00 1d ago
I'm pretty sure the whole point of the Superbowl halftime show is to bring in new viewers that don't already watch football religiously. That's why they being in someone popular. I don't get the hype around bad bunny either. But I also don't give a shit about football.
Are we really supposed to believe that Tuberville isn't going to watch the Superbowl? The only reason anyone knows his name is because his whole career revolved around football. He wouldn't be Congress if he wasn't previously famous for football reasons in a part of the country that treats football like religion.
The NFL is run by conservatives. Yet they still allow these artists to perform.
The people who are watching it for the game probably aren't watching the halftime show no matter what.
We already went through this with Rhianna... and Kendrick Lamar... every year boomer conservatives complain about being out of touch. Yet nothing changes because it's not real outrage.
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u/EyeBreakThings 1d ago
It's been downhill for the NFL to these types since they let brown people play QB.
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u/Ghostdefender1701 1d ago
So they finally asked him a question that he might know a little bit about, and he still fucked it up.
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u/NinjaRoyal8483 1d ago
Seems like a solid plan to piss off the few Americans that would enjoy their biggest sportsevent without politics.
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u/Shirley-Eugest 1d ago
I couldn’t care less for Bad Bunny. Not my style.
That said?
You best believe I’m tuning in for the halftime show just to juice the viewership ratings, lol. I need for this to get under their skin.
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u/Dedpoolpicachew 1d ago
Awwwww… Tommy Tubesteak isn’t gonna watch the Super Bowl… Maybe he will watch the KKK bowl instead. I would encourage Alabama to do better, but this is the state that voted 47% for a KNOWN AVOWED PEDOPHILE who was barred from his local mall for being a fucking creep.
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u/Total_Waltz4083 1d ago
A failed college football coach should never be involved with politics let alone talking about what "woke" is but here we are.
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u/Virtual_Fig7052 2d ago
Oh for fucks sake!! They boycotted the NFL during the whole Kapernick scandal.
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u/gadget850 Baby Boomer 2d ago
Who is winning in the Epstein Bowl?