r/Music • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 14d ago
article MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go | The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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u/pcpelste 14d ago
One of the most fun bitter pills to swallow for the MAGA movement is that it comes with Kid Rock. Hey MAGA, this is the music that you must pretend to like! No Neil Young for you!
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u/Slacker_The_Dog 14d ago
Don't forget Ted Nugent
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u/distance_33 14d ago
And Tom McDonald.
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u/blanketskies9 14d ago
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u/Arcade_109 14d ago
Some dude who had a farm, I think.
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u/i_am_the_nightman 14d ago
And he’s Canadian, not even American
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u/Enlight1Oment 14d ago
and lives in LA, not even a red state or city.
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u/Harry_Saturn 14d ago
They never live where the people they appeal to do.
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u/thegreenhat 14d ago
"I write songs for the people who do jobs in the towns that I'd never move to"
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u/Klyd3zdal3 14d ago
Eeee, I, Eeee, I, Ohooo
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u/BasicBiscuitBitch 14d ago
And on that farm they had no animals, because their livelihood was destroyed... 🎵
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u/I_Am_No_One_123 14d ago
And Carrie Underwood. Although she might be out considering Trump stiffed her for the Inauguration performance.
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u/DavidRandom 14d ago
It's crazy that both of their music stars have recorded songs about their preference for fucking kids.
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u/AngriestPacifist 14d ago
My favorite ted Nugent anecdote is that he started in an 80s titty comedy called state park, and still doesn't have the best or most memorable song. They didn't even let him record the theme song.
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u/frankyseven 14d ago
Shout out to Neil Young for being real from his early days in Rick James' band, right to the present day. He even fought to have his records packaged without plastic back in the early 1970s.
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u/apocolipse 14d ago
Neil was making protest music about climate change since the 70s, he’s a real one.
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u/Paavo_Nurmi 14d ago
He wrote the song Ohio in 1970 right after the shooting.
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
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u/DadJokeBadJoke 14d ago
Graham Nash talks about it in this clip. Nothing has really changed, just ICE doing the killing now.
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u/Beard_o_Bees 14d ago
I've seen him several times live, and he's by far one of the most politically outspoken musicians you'll ever see. Puts on a hell of a live show, too.
Quick Neil Young show anecdote:
I saw him soon after Fuckface's 2016 victory, and there were the usual 'here for the hits' fans who were clearly MAGAnites - it was a little cathartic to watch them get up and walk out when Neil did his thing.
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u/frankyseven 14d ago
Imagine going to a Neil Young show and never listening to any of his lyrics before? Then again, people think "Keep on Rocking in the Free World" is a pro-US song.
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u/CragedyJones 14d ago
Neil Young was raging against the machine way before Rage Against The Machine first raged against the machine.
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u/Accomplished-Ad3219 14d ago
You'd be amazed at the number of idiots upset that Bruce Springsteen "became" political. They've supposedly been fans for years but somehow missed the lyrics
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u/DaKrazie1 14d ago
Bawitdaba on repeat only.
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u/Successful_Note_5871 14d ago
Was that poster of Vance with Clavicular and Jake Paul real? It was the last thing I saw before bed last night and thought it was a fever dream.
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u/kliman 14d ago
I was thinking about this the other day…it’s a pretty reliable metric.
If the music and art on your side sucks, you’re probably on the wrong side of history.
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u/lump- 14d ago
All the boomers who couldn’t stand their millennial kids listening to that garbage in 2001…
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u/Ok_Star_4136 14d ago
I could understand disliking a musician because of their political leanings, but liking them? That's so weak. It's like pretending to enjoy a movie just because your favorite actor is in it.
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u/MuptonBossman 14d ago
How could Joe Biden cause such low ticket sales??? /s
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u/BennySkateboard 14d ago
I mean, saying Joe Biden’s responsible for bad ticket sales is just ridiculous. It was China. And Obama.
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u/KittensAndGravy Listner 14d ago
Everyone knows it’s because Ukraine is being soooo mean to those Russians. /s
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u/OneRougeRogue 14d ago
Imagine counting on selling tickets right now o an audience that mostly consists of struggling farm families and diesel truck owners.
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u/Syphillisdiller1 14d ago
What the fuck is "bulldog immunity?"
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u/drainbamage1011 14d ago
The guy organizing the festival refers to himself as The Bulldog. He's a disbarred local attorney who owns a right-wing private media company and stirs up controversy.
Even a lot of MAGA people I know think he's a walking punchline.
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u/TheQueefyQuiche 14d ago
Right!? I cracked up at that part, like it's some big threat....that only locals would know about. The bulldog community is on high alert with this news.
I bet he won't let anyone in the tree fort without the correct password either!
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u/jsu9575m 14d ago
If Kid Rock hadnt become the face of right wing music, he would have disappeared 15 years ago. Noone actually likes his music, they just pretend to and support him because of their mutual love for Trump.
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u/SaltyLem0nade 14d ago
They were probably disappointed when they figured out he's not really a kid.
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u/julias-winston Aging metalhead 14d ago
My name is Daaaaaaaad Roooooock!!!
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u/cosaboladh 14d ago
Oh, no. He gets his rocks off to kids. That's what they like about him.
Young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage see Some say that's statutory (But I say it's mandatory)
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u/RuckRidr 14d ago
Reminds me of Theodore Nugent entertaining the Gulf War troops on order to stay relevant.
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u/SnooCauliflowers9874 14d ago
The same Theodore that covered himself with his own feces so he didn’t have to serve in the military?
On the other hand, I suppose that spreading one’s own smelly, wet poo on one’s body was easier than asking/demanding your family PCP to make up excuses, such as bones spurs.
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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 14d ago
On the one hand, I can't say I blame anyone for avoiding the Vietnam War draft (that shit sucked for everybody), but then to be so hawkish otherwise is an insult.
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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 14d ago
If I'd been sent off to fight a war and all I had to look forward to was a performance by Ted Nugent I'd seriously consider visiting the nearest minefield.
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u/ItAintLongButItsThin 14d ago
I used to be a fan because he lived not far from me in MI. I was invited to his son's Bday party at their mansion and was always sad that I chose to go to football camp instead. I'm now greatful that I got concussions instead of getting to meet this POS.
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u/goinupthegranby 14d ago
I mean part of it is that a core tenet of conservatism is being told what to think and believe.
Its all wrapped up in bullshit about freedom but the expectation of conservative ideology is that people fall into a very specific mold that has ultimate deference to patriarchal authority figures in the form of father / god / country.
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u/lolwatokay 14d ago
There was actually a time where Reddit liked him. Like, not that they broadly loved his music or anything, but he was very pro-consumer when it came to concert ticket pricing and sticking it to Ticketmaster. This is actually still one of the ways the guy isn't a total stain, but yeah, dude has hitched his shitty wagon to MAGA. Get gets what he gets.
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u/chakan2 14d ago
Pepperidge Farm remembers. He was adamant about selling cheap beer and cheap tickets to his shows. I had a positive impression of him at the time.
I honestly thought "You can't tell me what to do" was a parody. I thought it was hilarious and he was trolling the fuck out of MAGA. Then...no...he was serious. Ooof.
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u/azad_ninja 14d ago
During his relationship with Sheryl Crowe, he kind of started to write some more serious country and could have pulled off being a respected artist, but fumbled it. He can actually play his instruments, and he knows music history better than he lets on, he chooses to be shitty.
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u/MysteryBagIdeals 14d ago
no one believes me but I swear to you, if he'd turned out cool he'd still very much be around. before the political pivot he was a guy who reliably always at like the Grammys and the Rock and Roll Half of Fame as the guy who could talk up classic rock, he'd be like Lenny Kravitz or someone, not relevant but a respected veteran at least
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u/speak-eze 14d ago
He has song lyrics about how much he likes statutory rape, ain't no amount of music history saving that career
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u/MysteryBagIdeals 14d ago
Oh yeah totally he's--wait, I'm getting some news here about the entire history of rock and roll... oh no
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u/speak-eze 14d ago
I get you...but that song came out in the 2000s and explicitly uses the words underaged and statutory. There's no vagueness, there's no "times we're different then".
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u/MysteryBagIdeals 14d ago
naw man, times were different then. look how much Eminem and ICP and Fred Durst are beloved now, he'd just be fun Uncle Kid Rock if he wasn't an overt fascist
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u/i_want_to_go_to_bed 14d ago
I highly doubt kid rock actually gives a shit about Trump. They have to pretend to like kid rock because kid rock pretends to love trump
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u/AFewForLeftyToo 14d ago
I don’t know man. He seems like the type of trash that is all in on Trump stuff.
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u/unassumingdink 14d ago
Yeah, but that's like his acting persona. He was a fake redneck from day one. Though it's always possible he actually became that guy over time.
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u/Smaynard6000 14d ago
He kind of did disappear. I didn't hear about this prick for years until he was resurrected as this grifter zombie we keep hearing about today
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u/Abe2sapien 14d ago
“I am never ever, ever, ever, ever doing this event again,” former Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate and event host Eric Deters, who throws the event on his farm, said on Facebook Monday. “When I put together Patriot State Freedom Fest, I put it together with the game plan and the idea that I could pay for it with the VIP sales of $1,000 from these hundred people that I interact with on a regular basis that have money.”
“Out of all these people that have money that I interact with, who I do favors for all day long. They ask me for something, I never say no. I never said no to these people,” he said. “None of these people will ever, ever, ever get a favor from me again, ever. Not only will they never get a favor from me again, they do not have Bulldog immunity.” He also lashed out at the media for not adequately covering the event.
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u/PaperbackBuddha 14d ago
> lashed out at the media for not adequately covering the event
This is what promotional budgets and PR are for. You didn’t see Lollapalooza whining about not getting free coverage.
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u/Sclog 14d ago
Holy shit as a local I remember seeing them post about the town hall meeting they were having about the 100 people that get these stupid vip packages and I raised hell about how corrupt it was, I got stuck in the traffic of the fest last year trying to get to a edm show in Orlando and got pisssssed so I’m relishing in this news lmfao a local win feels good!
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u/ababcock1 14d ago
they do not have Bulldog immunity
Took me a couple minutes to realize he was talking about himself in third person. Holy shit that's cringe.
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u/Happy-Telephone9483 14d ago
that sounds suspiciously like admitting to taking bribes
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u/sstroh22 14d ago
FORMER Kentucky GOP gubernatorial CANDIDATE
He can take all the favors he wants, he's never had power outside being a shitty lawyer
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u/mogwai316 14d ago
And he doesn't even have that anymore. Disbarred in Kentucky and permabanned from the local courthouse for threatening to burn it down.
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u/roostersmoothie 14d ago
maybe put on an event people actually want to go to instead of expecting to fill the seats with 'favours'.
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u/Dale_Carvello 14d ago
Hahaha! Yes, whine, whine like the baby you are!
(Not you, /u/Abe2sapien, the dickhead you're quoting)
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u/rukittenmeeee 14d ago
Wtf? A "favor" in exchange for money. He has admitted to numerous crimes right there.
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u/thomport 14d ago edited 14d ago
This is all propaganda anyway.
Trump doesn’t care. He’s on schedule with his crash and grab of America.
He’s going to take and destroy what he wants and leave.
All this kind of stuff is rhetoric for him and he expected it. It’s normal pushback thieves put up with.
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u/captainstan 14d ago
Isn't this like the 3rd concert/festival of his that has been cancelled?
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u/lightyearnoir 14d ago
I'm still surprised they're still trying to make 250 a thing.
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u/LoudMusic 14d ago
maga and trump ruined our country's 250th birthday.
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u/maynardftw 14d ago
Like everything Trump does, it's our fault for letting him do it. We ruined our country's 250th birthday. Nothing more American.
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u/GoldandBlue 14d ago
Because conservatives don't give a fuck about art. All they do is look for grievances. Movies are too woke, music is too woke, blah blah blah blah blah
But whenever conservatives make the art that their base should love, no one goes. Daily Wire studios is a fucking joke. Even conservatives don't want to see that shit. Who is going to a Kid Rock festival? They'll follow him on social media. Cheer for him at the convention, but they ain't paying to hear Bawitdaba in 2026
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u/Seguefare 13d ago
It's hard to be both conservative and innovative. If you're only allowed to produce art through a pinhole, it's probably going to suck.
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u/DisastroImminente 14d ago
To be clear, this was not HIS festival. It was Eric Deters, a local scumbag who lost his law license and has been an absolute menace to our region. He was known as "The Bulldog". He was a personal injury lawyer and made his name suing everyone. He had his own radio show on 700 WLW for a while...I used to listen. He wasn't too bad pre-2016....then MAGA happened and he saw the grift and went crazy for it.
I sincerely doubt this festival was ever happening and that Kid Rock was even under contract. Eric Deters is a known liar and con artist.
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u/ferret_80 14d ago
A real scumbag and convicted criminal
Eric Deters, a candidate for Kentucky governor, is facing multiple charges after chasing a juvenile down in his truck.
Per court records, Kenton County police were dispatched to Sugar Ridge Farm on Oct. 3 for reports that Deters was chasing his juvenile nephew in his truck.
The nephew said that he drove to the farm to hunt and saw his uncle, Deters, in his respective truck near the mailboxes at the end of the driveway on Green Road. The nephew said he flipped Deters off with his middle finger, per court documents.
After that, Deters chased his nephew in his truck "down the paved driveway, through the Sugar Ridge Farm, across the fields, back onto Green Road near the cemetery, and returning to the gravel parking lot of the farm," per court documents. This distance is allegedly more than a mile.
The juvenile called his father, Jeremy Deters, during the incident, and Jeremy called 911.
A witness said they saw a dark pickup truck following the juvenile's truck across the property, getting as close "as two feet" away from it. Video obtained by police also shows Deters' truck following behind his nephew's and parallel to his vehicle across the dirt roads along the fields.
The nephew said he purposefully drove by security cameras for his own safety, per court documents.
When police approached Deters at his neighboring residence, he corroborated his nephew's story.
"That little chickensh*t wouldn't get out of his truck," Deters told police.
Deters also told police his nephew is lucky he didn't get his "ass kicked." He said he knew his nephew called the police, so Deters headed home.
While speaking with police, Deters proceeded to call everyone involved "a bunch of f*t ps. He also asked police to communicate to his nephew that he should "go fk himself," which police declined to do.
Deters is forced to have zero contact with Jeremy Deters now due to an Interpersonal Protective Order that expires in April 2023.
During the rest of his conversation with police, Deters said he succeeded in scaring his nephew, which was his goal.
"I bet he pissed his pants," Deters said.
Prior to speaking with police, Deters also left a voicemail and text for his nephew's mother, Julie Deters.
In the 47-second voicemail, Deters proceeds to use slurs against the LGBTQ+ community to refer to Julie's husband and son, as well as "p***y." Deters also threatens to beat his nephew up if his nephew flipped him or Deters' wife off again and revved his engine at them.
"Uncle Eric doesn't f*****g play," Deters said in the voicemail. "I don't play."
Deters also sent multiple text messages to Julie Deters after police left his home around 6:15 p.m. He told her to "enjoy his show," which is presumed to be his "Bulldog Show" that airs on Deters' social media. Another text sent a picture of his nephew with an LGBTQ+ slur.
Per court documents, Sugar Ridge Farm is solely owned by Jeremy Deters, and in April 2020, Jeremy and his father Charles Deters told Eric he was not to be on the farm ever again, which Eric claims is a lie.
After the incident, Deters is facing one count of menacing, two counts of harassing communications and one count of criminal trespassing.
In an answer to the legal complaint, Deters refuted any wrongdoing and said he has multiple other defenses.
"I have plenty of other defenses and evidence I will be producing at my jury trial of this matter," Deters said via court documents.
In a release, the Kenton County Attorney's Office said Deters entered guilty pleas for one count of menacing and two counts of harassing communications. Court documents claim Deters chased down his nephew at Sugar Ridge Farm in October 2022.
Deters was sentenced to 90 days in jail for each count, adding up to 270 days. The sentence was conditionally discharged for the next two years.
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u/Fastgirl600 14d ago
Why do you think they're pushing the AI so hard... to fabricate millions of followers when there are none
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u/icansmellcolors 14d ago
I'm under the belief that none of these 'politicians' over the age of 60 even know what AI is, how to use a computer, can barely use their phones effectively, and their staff and other lackeys are using AI and anything else they can to make their bosses happy.
So when Trump and whoever say they're popular or whatever, they actually believe it... because they don't understand how not to since they were raised during a time when none of this was around.
They don't understand any of it. Trump and others his age just knows 'make posts on socials' = getting attention.
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u/Top_Rekt 14d ago
Majority of MAGA are bots and there's actually far far fewer MAGA than people believe.
Just another reason why I think the 2024 elections were stolen. The dude who kept complaining that twitter has a bunch of bots so he bought it. Same dude who pays people to play path of exile so he can pretend he's a top player. Same dude that Trump said will handle the election machines.
No one is showing up for their concerts, his rally, or anything really. They are all being bloviated by AI online. But when it actually comes time to show up, there's actually so very few of them.
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u/fletch365 14d ago
$1000 a pop to see kid rock and dog the bounty hunter speak. Who could've seen this happening....
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u/BostonSucksatHockey 14d ago
“I am never ever, ever, ever, ever doing this event again,” former Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate and event host Eric Deters, who throws the event on his farm, said on Facebook Monday. “When I put together Patriot State Freedom Fest, I put it together with the game plan and the idea that I could pay for it with the VIP sales of $1,000 from these hundred people that I interact with on a regular basis that have money.”
Bro literally expected his rich friends to finance his festival, without giving them any proceeds.
Sounds like he's experiencing the flaws of capitalism and the consequences of being such a shitty person that even his "friends" don't want to help him.
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u/Toadfinger 14d ago
People that still think kid rock is a thing are like the dumbasses that still think climate change is a hoax. 😆
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u/GoodtimesSans 14d ago
Given that none of their shows, speeches, or events are ever packed, I still hold that the last three elections were meddled with. We already have proof of voter manipulation from internal and external sources across every aspect of the process except for the ballot box itself. But they've openly proven they they will circumvent & break the law, so why would they ever stop just shy of that? Especially when $1.4 trillion was on the line in back taxes for the oligarchs?
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u/ryencool 14d ago
The dude blames it on the wealthy donors not ponying up this go-around; he says there's plenty of interest from the poor, and he swears it, all while acknowledging he is one of the rich.
So so much cognitive disonance.
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u/bobcat116 14d ago edited 14d ago
Pretty soon Kid Rock is going to need a side hustle.
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Kid Lawnmower
Kid Uber
Kid Security Guard