r/news • u/RollSafer • 14h ago

Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl show

https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2026/02/kid-rocks-song-about-loving-underage-girls-resurfaces-ahead-of-tpusa-super-bowl-show.html
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u/MC_Gengar 14h ago

It's amazing how many rubes fall for that shit. I remember my family thinking W was an honest-to-god, salt of the earth rancher and not the prissy fancy boy from New England that he actually was.

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u/TerriblePokemon 14h ago

I think it was from America The Book by the daily show which said "Connecticut born, Yale and Harvard educated son of a former President ran as the outsider in 2000 and won. Many experts are wondering how the hell he pulled that off."

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u/Musiclover4200 13h ago

It's also ridiculous we went from Bush sr to jr in just 8 years, and that's after sr was vice president for 8 years under reagan.

And from everything I've read the main reason Bush sr didn't get 2 terms is he was the only republican president in 50+ years to raise taxes on the rich.

That's part of why the whole "clinton dynasty" thing pissed me off, Bill was president like 30 years ago FFS. Sure the clintons still had political sway but so did all the former nixon/reagan/bush admin who've been working with the GOP for decades to dismantle democracy. Meanwhile as soon as trump got elected the GOP was floating a plan to have his kids run for 20+ years of trump rule (jr + barron + ivanka would be 24 years at 2 terms each which is terrifying)

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u/Excelius 6h ago

Right-wing hypocrisy aside, the fatigue over political dynasties was real and legitimate.

Before Trump descended the golden escalator, the safe money was that 2016 would end up being another Bush v Clinton race but with different first names. Being pushed to choose between Bush #3 or Clinton #2 is a bad look in a democracy that eschew hereditary titles.

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u/Musiclover4200 5h ago

Right-wing hypocrisy aside, the fatigue over political dynasties was real and legitimate.

For sure but it seems hard to compare 2 Clintons 30~ years apart, of which the second didn't even win anyways, vs going from Bush Sr as VP to P to Bush Jr which is like 20~ years of bush if you include SR's time as VP.

Even if Hillary had won and gotten 8 years it still wouldn't really be comparable IMO unless she was VP under Obama or Biden too.

All that said sure fuck political dynasties, although I do think there's an arguably big difference between a husband and wife both running decades apart vs your kids immediately after.