The Conservative Toby Keith

i really want to stream this saudi arabia show tbh

In the new song, he sounds like a beaten man. The idea of loss is the dominant narrative. The cities are burning, the flag is getting burned. He brags about WWI, WWII, liberating France. Those days are gone, no mention of the terrorists he was so excited about 20 years ago.

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) July 5, 2021

actually, start here

There's a new Toby Keith song, Happy Birthday America, and I'm surprised how bitter and angry it is. For the 4th of July, it's worth showing how Toby Keith's trajectory traces the development of popular conservatism over the last 20 years. https://t.co/9wdyJAXOiO

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) July 5, 2021

how you like'em now?!

2002: The Angry American
2021: The Sad American

Poor baby.

red solo man

I thought only liberals were sad?!?

That song suuuuuucks so fucking bad, and I actually have a soft spot for "Real 'Murica" country songs

Totally uninteresting twitter thread too fwiw, "Hey I just showed up at country music and I am going to give you a reading of exactly what a song I heard is obviously about and then extrapolate that to everything."

yeah some bizarre stuff in that thread

i haven't listened to this or other recent examples but there seems to be a pretty dramatic proliferation of this stuff lately (tom macdonald, the aaron lewis song that just came out, etc.). i guess demand is strong for 'centrist' but implicitly fascist-aligned whines these days

It does feel like there’s something in the air. A lady in our neighborhood Facebook just posted that she was “outraged” that there weren’t more flags flying.

lame song. even by fascist standards

how do you like him now?

too late

lol goddammit Soto

totally missed that upthread :)

jfc what a big dumb baby

hey man, I'm sure Neanderthal feels bad enough about missing out on that joke, ease up.

loool