Part of the New Year's Eve tradition is for networks to collect a bunch of artists who aren't quite in their prime anymore to perform until the ball drops at midnight. We were watching what's left of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Some of you caught Green Day reliving 2004, only with MAGA as their new boogieman. It was the latter one that Elon Musk had bars for on X-Twitter.

Green Day performed "American Idiot." The original lyrics are "Well, maybe I'm the f*ggot, America, I'm not a part of a redneck agenda." Rednecks were who the Left blamed for not getting their way. Now instead of blaming half the states, they blame half the American people.

Some of you youngbloods may not believe this, but Green Day used to be cool. Like, camping out and lighting bonfires outside of Tower Records waiting for tickets to go on sale, only for the show to sell out after the first two people in line got tickets, cool. Yes, oldheads had to leave the house to buy concert tickets. It was a weird time.

And American Idiot as a concept album was a brilliant commentary on the times and a preview of our current culture wars. Every other protest song from that era sucked. It was a lazy chorus, verse, and "no blood for oil" rushed out of the studio and uploaded on MySpace. It was the Bush-era version of Disney putting a chick in it and making it gay and lame. Anti-Bush songs were woke before the Right culturally appropriated the word from the Left.

The years since then haven't been kind to Billie Joe Armstrong. Last we heard, he renounced his American citizenship after the Roe v Wade ruling and threatened to leave America. Even though in his home state of California they will continue allowing birthing people and menstruators to abort their child up to just before the baby comes out. For now. Give California Democrats a year or two, and they'll have abortion legal up until the seventh trimester.

Green Day has become exactly what Elon Musk says they became. "Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it."

I doubt any of the members of Green Day saw Elon's burn, though. Not unlike all the liberal celebrities who pledged to leave America if George Bush got elected, and then leave America again if Donald Trump got elected, they probably all deleted their X-Twitter accounts. Maybe someone will share Musk's post on Threads and they can see it there.

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