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[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥Marco Rubio *HEAPS PRAISE* on RFK Jr.👏

"I'm a BIG Bobby Kennedy fan. I think he's one of the BEST people I've EVER met. The guy truly is pure of heart."

"Every now and then I'll tell Bobby, 'Bobby, before I met you, I thought you were CRAZY — ‘cause that's what people would say about you.' I said, 'Now I believe half your stuff!'"

"He thinks that's really funny."

"And I think Bobby's one of the most FANTASTIC people I've ever met. Just such a good, good guy, who really is well-intentioned in EVERYTHING he does — and REALLY smart!"

It's not just Rubio — a lot of people love RFK Jr. He could be a major asset for Republicans in the midterms.

[KidRock @KidRock]

I don’t care enough to answer every hater.

If I stopped to respond to every miserable blogger, failed cultural referee and bargain-bin music critic who used my name for clicks, I’d never have time to make music—or fulfill my duties as “The Mayor of Awesomeville.” 🕺

Most of it is background noise.

But every once in a while, it’s fun to pick one, drag the reporting into the daylight and watch the narrative fall apart under the weight of the facts it left out.

Today’s example: writer Alyssa Fields.

Her page:

https://t.co/IcXQLr8dmu

Let’s begin with Alyssa’s August 14 article, “The 10 biggest douchebags in country music”:

https://t.co/CcwDUjrWpG

Honestly? I think the list itself is funny.

I like just about every artist on it—a lot. Zach Bryan is the exception; he actually seems pretty douchey to me. But then again, I don’t know him.

It’s an opinion piece written to piss people off and generate clicks.

Mission accomplished.

No problem. All’s fair in love, war and cheap listicles.

But there’s an extra joke hiding inside this one: Alyssa’s supposedly fresh article looks an awful lot like a Phoenix New Times article published 12 years earlier—with the exact same title.

Here’s Mike Seely and Phoenix New Times Staff’s June 26, 2014 article, “The 10 Biggest Douchebags in Country Music”:

https://t.co/LzSx6l2Pkm

Same title? Maybe that’s just laziness.

But then compare the introductions.

The 2014 article describes country music using this sequence:

“Booze, chicks, jacked-up pickups, extreme redneck sports, spring break.”

Alyssa’s 2026 version describes it this way:

“Booze, women, jacked-up pickups, extreme redneck sports and spring break.”

She apparently changed “chicks” to “women,” added an “and” and called it a day.

Then there’s the closing joke.

The 2014 article says Keith Urban was “spared the guillotine” because he can “really shred on guitar.”

Alyssa’s 2026 article ends by saying Keith Urban was “spared the guillotine” because he can “really shred on a guitar.”

Same title.

Same highly specific string of examples.

Same “spared the guillotine” closing joke about the same artist for the same reason.

A fresh idea? Nope.

An original setup? Not exactly.

An original punchline? Apparently not.

Call it recycling. Call it imitation. I call it a rip-off with updated names. (FYI, All Summer Long is a masterpiece and not even close to this, but go ahead and show your ignorance in the comments haters)

Whatever label you prefer, it’s a long damn way from creative.

If you’re going to call ten people douchebags, the least you can do is come up with your own title, introduction and closing joke. (Or original production, lyrics and melody)

But seriously -  Alyssa’s article about the DOJ’s fight against Live Nation and Ticketmaster is where the problem goes beyond unoriginal writing:

https://t.co/UNLvXnzvEF

The headline promises readers “what to know” about one of the most important legal battles in the live-music industry.

Apparently, readers needed to know about Taylor Swift, Pearl Jam, corporate press releases and personnel drama inside the DOJ—but not that I had testified before the United States Senate just five weeks earlier about this exact issue.

I didn’t show up to Congress merely to bitch and moan. I came prepared with specific solutions:

Artists should control who sells their tickets and how they are sold.

Resale markups should be capped.

Existing laws against bots, crooked brokers and speculative ticketing should be aggressively enforced.

You can read my actual Senate testimony here:

https://t.co/2Qe8ZuJux7

So why didn’t Alyssa Fields mention it?

Politics? Laziness? Bias?

I can’t read her mind—but I can read her article. The result is incomplete journalism that conveniently serves a very familiar narrative.

Taylor Swift says the ticketing system hurts fans? Important.

Pearl Jam said it 30 years ago? Historic.

Kid Rock sits before Congress, identifies the problems and proposes actual reforms? Suddenly the newsroom runs out of ink.

That isn’t “what to know.”

That’s what survived the writer’s political and cultural filter.

And this isn’t only about one writer. It’s part of a larger media pattern: They’ll cover an issue all day long when the people speaking fit their preferred narrative. The moment somebody outside their political tribe supports the same cause, relevant facts mysteriously disappear.

You don’t have to like me.

You don’t have to share my politics.

You don’t even have to admit you secretly know every damn word to “Bawitdaba.”

But journalism is supposed to function even when the subject doesn’t belong to your political tribe.

What makes my position especially inconvenient is that I’ve made millions of dollars working with Live Nation. Going after this system isn’t fashionable, easy or personally convenient.

It means biting a hand that has paid me because that hand was caught reaching into my fans’ pockets.

And I’m not only coming after Ticketmaster. I’m coming after every ticketing outfit that treats artists like inventory and fans like human ATMs.

Ticketmaster is simply the biggest hog at the trough.

Then the Live Nation trial pulled back the curtain.

Unsealed messages showed Live Nation ticketing employees mocking customers while discussing outrageous add-ons—including VIP parking priced as high as $250 in connection with Kid Rock shows:

https://t.co/EgzrhTP973

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino later called the language “disgusting” and said it wasn’t how the company operated:

https://t.co/Mi04ThOl0B

A jury ultimately found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster violated federal and state antitrust laws by eliminating competition and driving up costs for fans, artists and venues:

https://t.co/Dya2i1kmvI

Those aren’t Kid Rock talking points.

Those are internal messages, evidence presented in court and findings returned by a jury.

And to all the low-rent fortune-tellers who spent months claiming I couldn’t sell tickets and that the Freedom 250 Tour would play to empty seats: How did that prediction age?

The tour happened. The crowds came. We had sold-out and packed amphitheaters night after night.

Then something miraculous occurred: The same writers who couldn’t stop talking suddenly discovered silent mode.

No follow-ups. No corrections. No “maybe we got this wrong.”

Their keyboards must have suffered a mysterious mechanical failure when the turnstiles started clicking.

Funny how that works.

Hot takes don’t scan at the gate.

Tickets do.

So, Alyssa, disagree with me all you like. I’m from the school of sticks and stones. But your reporting still has to survive the facts.

If you promise readers “what to know,” have the guts to tell them what actually matters—even when the facts make somebody you dislike look informed, prepared and correct.

You don’t have to like Kid Rock.

But you do have to deal with the record.

And let’s face one more fact: Hack journalism doesn’t publish itself.

The writer owns the words.

The editor owns the decision to run them.

The outlet owns the standard—or lack of one—that lets the work through.

When sloppy, one-sided reporting keeps making it into print, the failure isn’t only personal.

It’s institutional.

Suck on that, haters.

Kid Rock wins again. 🎤 ⬇️

And before you comment, “Don’t waste your time on these haters,” understand this: I didn’t.

I had AI help me check the facts, create the links, check the grammar and handle the other tedious shit. As a songwriter, putting a few words together to rip someone—or the media—a new asshole is easy as pie for me!

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

NEW: Elon Musk will make all government censorship requests, publicly available for all to see.

Guess who won’t be happy about this.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Government mandating that 1 and 2 bedroom apartments become free to live in is a great way to create a massive shortage of units.

These socialists are always talking about how to get something free or who we should take from to make things free.

They are always about taking. Never about making.

[Pino Americano @PinoAmericano]

Thomas Massie just proved that TDS is a degenerative disease that gets worse over time.

[Wiki Leaks 1.0 @WikiLeaksQ]

🚨 AMERICA, WAKE THE HELL UP. 🚨
The United States Senate just looked every single one of you dead in the eye… and spat in your face.
We had ONE shot.
ONE golden, once-in-a-lifetime chance to start reconciliation, supercharge our military, and FORCE the SAVE America Act through so the left can NEVER steal another election.
And what did the Senate do?
They FOLDED.
They QUIT.
They threw it all away like America meant NOTHING.
While our enemies circle like vultures and our troops are left begging for strength… these cowards decided their little summer recess was more important than the survival of this country.
This isn’t politics.
This is SURRENDER.
This is betrayal.
This is the sound of the Republic being sold out in broad daylight.
History is watching.
It will remember the ones who stood up…
and the ones who RAN.
The American people are DONE with this gutless theater.
We deserve warriors, not vacationers.
RT if you’re sick of watching Republicans snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Comment “FIRE THEM” if you’re ready to make them pay in November.
This is the moment.
Don’t look away.

[US Army @UsArmyspoof_]

Breaking 🚨;

This is Massive from Tech News ⚡️🔥

Elon Musk is becoming the BIGGEST HEADACHE for Brussels bureaucrats 🔥

🇪🇺 EU Official at 2:00 PM: “Musk is ignoring our platform compliance rules. We backed his ventures for years. When European regulations demanded compliance, he walked away. Unacceptable.”

🚀 Elon Musk at 8:00 PM: “The EU does not dictate the future of global innovation or free expression.

Our platforms will not bend to overreaching bureaucratic censorship.

We build for humanity, not for political oversight in Brussels.” 🔥🔥

Spine is so strong that it refuses to bow down 💪🔥. Massive Respect 👌

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, & Bob Bonta are the main obstacles to the Palisades recovery. They are dodging their responsibility for their agencies' negligence & wasting your tax dollars stalling and drowning us in court. They need to settle with the Palisades Fire victims NOW!

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Brother you have got to learn to pick your battles

@nickshirleyy is doing great work, it’s not his job to also attack your enemies for you

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

The logical conclusion of this thought process would quite literally destabilize civilized society.

Nothing about what Mangione did was okay.

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

By classifying the White House project under military jurisdiction, Trump did not merely bypass the activist judiciary; he reminded them of their own constitutional irrelevance.

In the real world of statecraft, statutory mechanics belong to those who have the intellect and the will to wield them. Article II authority over national defense and military infrastructure is broad, direct, and historically insulated from the procedural games of local judges. When you reframe a project through the lens of defense and federal sovereignty, the entire apparatus of judicial lawfare collapses into dust. The activists can file all the emergency motions they want; they are screaming into a void they no longer control.

The left is hysterical right now because their primary weapon, bureaucratic delay, was neutralized in a single stroke of the pen. They are realizing that when a leader understands the raw architecture of the law rather than its sentimental rhetoric, the game fundamentally changes.

Never interrupt your opponent while they are crying about the rules you just outmaneuvered them on.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

I support any GOP Senator that calls for John Thune’s removal.

John Thune is the Senate GOP’s problem and the real ones know it.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Trump-endorsed Michigan Governor candidate John James just EXPOSED his opponent Jocelyn Benson for allowing hundreds of illegal aliens into jury duty, letting them VOTE, and overseeing her OWN ELECTION as Sec. of State

"What was HER role on the SPLC Board when they gave MONEY to the KKK?" 🤯

"This is the exact same woman who's presiding over her own election for governor. The same woman who's lost 5 lawsuits due to her malfeasance in elections, not the least of which was putting her thumb on the scale in 2020 in the state of Michigan."

"She is actually not coordinating with feds and not coordinating with local county officials, but the fact they let hundreds of illegals honor jury duty rolls, and there are over a dozen that we found who voted in our elections!"

"She is the least transparent, least cooperative, and least qualified human being to possibly be governor of the state of Michigan, which is why I'm excited to bring my experience as a combat veteran fighting after 9-11 in Iraq, a business leader who's created jobs in Detroit, and someone who's in Congress working with the president to actually bring resources back to the state of Michigan to make Michigan great again."

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

I cannot emphasize this strongly enough — The Powers That Be do not need a lab leak anymore. They have direct access to the societal virome through mRNA flu shots & can dial up or down the rates of disease in the population at will. This is beyond Brave New World. Happening now.

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

You shut your dump hole.
We asked,begged,met & yelled for 3 years.
You’ve done nothing.
Resign or Shut that dump hole

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Masoumeh Ebtekar - also known as "Screaming Mary" - was the spokeswoman for the Islamic terrorists who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days - subjecting them to beatings, starvation, and mock executions.

In 2014, the Obama Administration granted visas to her son and his family to enter the United States. In June 2016, the Obama Administration gave them lawful permanent resident status via the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.

This week, I terminated their lawful permanent resident status and today, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending their removal from our country.

Her family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country.

America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families - and under the Trump Administration, it never will.

[OutspokenSamantha @Outspoken_Sam]

Did Thomas Massie really imply that the reason fraud isn't being addressed, is because Nick Shirley isn't calling out the members of Congress that Massie doesn't like???

DUDE!! YOU are in Congress!! It's YOUR job to do something about the spending problems and the fraud!

WHAT??

[Lion Leonidas @LionLeonidas3]

„Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation“ gibt nun auf ihrer Website an:

„Die Impfung gegen COVID-19 kann die Multiple Sklerose durch querreagierende CD4+-T-Zellen auslösen, die das Spike-Protein von SARS-CoV-2 und Myelin-Peptide erkennen.“

Mit anderen Worten: Ihr eigenes Immunsystem zerstört die Nervenbahnen und greift dann Ihr Gehirn und Rückenmark an.

Diese Daten standen während der Lockdowns zur Verfügung, wurden aber als „Verschwörungstheorie“ bezeichnet und von den sozialen Medien zensiert.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Oh man… not sure how to write this.

Here it goes.

January of last year, I did something I hadn’t done… ever.

I gave Trump credit for doing something good.

I gave him credit for keeping his promises to us in Western North Carolina.

I could never have imagined the volume of hate and anger I received from doing something that was so obviously the right thing to do.

Just giving credit where credit was due.

Saying thank you.

Since that moment, I’ve learned a lot.

I’ve learned that some of my liberal friends were never friends.

They torched our friendship almost immediately… just for thanking Trump.

I learned that many liberals seem to preach tolerance, but aren’t tolerant of conservative ideas AT ALL, it’s just an act to pretend to be moral.

I learned that the greatest organizations in the world are churches… something that was genuinely UNTHINKABLE even 2 years ago.

I learned that the media just… lies.

They lie constantly and without fear of ever being caught.

I learned this lying comes from a bizarre sense of righteous morality that the lie, in the end, will achieve some good.

I learned they cannot be trusted.

I learned that I offloaded my own critical thinking to these organizations, and that many of the news “stories” I believed were true… never were.

I learned what it means to be swatted.

I learned what it’s like to have some crazed leftists send armed police to my home, with my kids in their beds, at 2AM claiming I had been sh0t and to break down the door.

I learned that the only thing in the world that can change a persons mind is kindness is action… because that’s what changed mine.

I learned that kindness is telling the truth, not lying to protect someone’s feelings.

I learned that telling the truth is the most dangerous thing you can do, and that’s why free speech matters so much.

I learned that free speech is never truly free… they will come after your entire life and try to destroy everything in it.

…but it’s worth it

It’s all been worth it.

[Jacktron @jacktronprime]

I think people, outside of his little circle of libertarian worshippers, are finally starting to see what a fraud Thomas Massie is.

He isn’t a serious person. Nor is he relevant anymore.

Everything he says is just to be an angry little man who is furious that he lost his seat because he was more worried about ratioing people on 𝕏 than actually trying to do his job.

The fact that he’s going after Nick Shirley who’s uncovered billions in fraud and ended Tim Walz’s political career says a lot.

If it were up to me he’d fly off into the sunset so we never have to hear about him or his “pinecone” again.