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LetMyPeopleVote

(174,480 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 05:11 PM Yesterday

Who will be willing to preform at this venue after the Kennedy Center name change?

Here may be the upcoming list of performers

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Who will be willing to preform at this venue after the Kennedy Center name change? (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday OP
Ketchup flinging contest with slob as predetermined winner? SheltieLover Yesterday #1
I hope they don't sue the group that canceled their performance right beforehand because of name change Deuxcents 23 hrs ago #2
I will!! When the real name change is complete! usonian 23 hrs ago #3
Betty Bowers- it is amusing that Donald is too stupid to know what memorial means. If only .... LetMyPeopleVote 23 hrs ago #5
Ahead of his time! usonian 23 hrs ago #6
Frankly, I suspect some might be surprised B.See 23 hrs ago #4
you know those groups you used to... ret5hd 21 hrs ago #7

Deuxcents

(25,386 posts)
2. I hope they don't sue the group that canceled their performance right beforehand because of name change
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 06:43 PM
23 hrs ago

usonian

(23,358 posts)
3. I will!! When the real name change is complete!
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 06:48 PM
23 hrs ago


Ode to Joy.

Nods to first violinist and chorus ...

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,480 posts)
5. Betty Bowers- it is amusing that Donald is too stupid to know what memorial means. If only ....
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 06:57 PM
23 hrs ago

Yes, it's obscene and will be removed. But it is amusing that Donald is too stupid to know what memorial means. If only . . .

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-12-19T18:08:45.932Z

B.See

(7,657 posts)
4. Frankly, I suspect some might be surprised
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 06:52 PM
23 hrs ago

by who just might.

I wrote awhile back about the general reluctance of many performers to get politically involved,

while (on the other hand) a 'select' few SEEMINGLY unlikely artists saw a Trump endorsement as some kind of cash cow,

in spite of the general outrage of their traditional fanbase. And that's still occurring.

But for those who THOUGHT to play it safe, Trump has made that difficult if not impossible, by politicizing entertainment itself.

By putting his malevolent thumb upon everything from movie production, programming, newscasts, late nite talk shows, performing arts, corporate buyouts, etc. - to national and international sporting organizations and major events.

Like the malignant cancer he is.

So now it's gotten so that who performs, where one performs, and for whom, amounts to an endorsement or ideological statement.

Imo, the price paid for timidity, indifference, and silence in the face of fascism.

ret5hd

(22,145 posts)
7. you know those groups you used to...
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:50 PM
21 hrs ago

kinda know way back in the day…maybe they had one or two good songs but that was it…and now you see them on a billboard, playing at some Indian casino that’s 3 miles off the main highway?

them. that’s all the t-jfk will draw till the “t” is gone.

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