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Miles Archer

(24,632 posts)
Sun May 31, 2026, 09:50 PM 19 hrs ago

Tim Burchett desperately wants musicians to fly in to CircleJerk 250 so Grampy has music for his f*cking moron dance

In a two-minute video posted to social media on Sunday, Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee’s second congressional district, addressed Trump directly as he outlined his plan to rescue the event by flying in MAGA acts.

“What we ought to do is, my suggestion, get your friend and my friend John Rich, great musician, to lead it off,” Burchett began, after denouncing the acts who cancelled as “pathetic.”

“He’s got some great patriotic tunes he’s written and he sings and it’s just awesome, and let him MC the dadgum thing, and have all these folks come in, there’s plenty of acts in Nashville—people that are trying to get on, get on a big stage like this—this is a world stage,” he continued, perhaps not having heard that even before Trump threatened to cancel there were problems selling tickets.

“Let some of those musicians get out and sing a few songs. All we’d have to do is pay for their dadgum airfare...they’d love it,” he said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-rep-publicly-pleads-for-musicians-willing-to-play-trump-concert/

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Tim Burchett desperately wants musicians to fly in to CircleJerk 250 so Grampy has music for his f*cking moron dance (Original Post) Miles Archer 19 hrs ago OP
I'm sure everyone would rush into town JBTaurus83 19 hrs ago #1
Tim Birdshit rustbeltvoice 19 hrs ago #2
Fuck burchett. spanone 19 hrs ago #3
They're resorting to all but ordering military personnel to show up to your dadgum fartfest nt GenThePerservering 19 hrs ago #4
They've already done that Totally Tunsie 17 hrs ago #12
Dadgum, that was good for a laugh. Disaffected 19 hrs ago #5
I know! NJCher 18 hrs ago #10
Growing up in texas, I heard it quite a bit. mwmisses4289 7 hrs ago #20
just create some AI music DBoon 18 hrs ago #6
!These 2 are booked !1! dweller 18 hrs ago #7
THe actual singers for Milli Vanilli were booked. Not the Lip Syncers. Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #11
Did they book C + C Music Factory with Zelma Davis or Martha Wash? ToxMarz 7 hrs ago #18
Freedom Williams (an original member who sang/rapped on all their hits) has the rights to the name. Wiz Imp 6 hrs ago #21
Yeah, was more wondering if they were using the lip syncer or the actual singer ToxMarz 5 hrs ago #24
Dadgum. Aristus 18 hrs ago #8
I thought they has whatshisname Gill, and Tritt and Cyrus and some other country stars. I doubt Dolly or Miley would. Srkdqltr 18 hrs ago #9
There a plenty of NAshville based artists who would love to tear Trump a new one... Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #13
This could be a bigger flop than Trump's parade. oasis 17 hrs ago #14
Great idea. SamuelAdams 7 hrs ago #15
Why not invite random sightseers to do karaoke? TurboDem 7 hrs ago #16
Dadgummit, Timmy... GiqueCee 7 hrs ago #17
Where's Lee Greenwood? durablend 7 hrs ago #19
I thought Ka$h Patel had a girlfriend who's a performer so great she deserves FBI protective services. Drum 6 hrs ago #22
Good question lame54 2 hrs ago #28
Surely they've got some Mariachi bands locked up in ICE detention facilities 70sEraVet 6 hrs ago #23
Welcome to Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour! BidenRocks 4 hrs ago #25
;-{) LEADER OF THE BAND Goonch 4 hrs ago #26
Maybe they can get Lauren Boebert.... SergeStorms 2 hrs ago #27
Scott Baio put out 2 albums, he could do it. Not sure Luz 2 hrs ago #29
"Yee haw! Let's bring the dadgum thing back to life." The wise words of Birdshit. Vinca 1 hr ago #30
Hegseth and Patel could have a public drinking contest DBoon 58 min ago #31
Watch your step, Burchett nuxvomica 31 min ago #32

NJCher

(43,632 posts)
10. I know!
Sun May 31, 2026, 10:50 PM
18 hrs ago

I thought that word was only used in the funny papers 50 years ago. Dick Tracy, I think.

mwmisses4289

(4,845 posts)
20. Growing up in texas, I heard it quite a bit.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:12 AM
7 hrs ago

Usually came after male started to cuss, and a female relative would say something like "Jim Bob, your manners" or " Jim Bob, the children"

Wiz Imp

(10,550 posts)
11. THe actual singers for Milli Vanilli were booked. Not the Lip Syncers.
Sun May 31, 2026, 11:20 PM
17 hrs ago

Last edited Mon Jun 1, 2026, 12:45 PM - Edit history (2)

Brad Howell, John Davis, and Charles Shaw, with Jodie Rocco and Linda Rocco were the real Milli Vanilli singers and they were who was supposed to perform. Also, Rob Pilatus, one of the two lip syncers died in 1998.

Wiz Imp

(10,550 posts)
21. Freedom Williams (an original member who sang/rapped on all their hits) has the rights to the name.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:18 AM
6 hrs ago

I have no idea who else is currently part of the touring group, but I assume it doesn't include any other original members.

Aristus

(72,630 posts)
8. Dadgum.
Sun May 31, 2026, 10:41 PM
18 hrs ago

The hillbillies hate it when we mock their brain-dead, backwoods douchebaggery.

But when they lean so hard into the stereotype…

Srkdqltr

(10,008 posts)
9. I thought they has whatshisname Gill, and Tritt and Cyrus and some other country stars. I doubt Dolly or Miley would.
Sun May 31, 2026, 10:44 PM
18 hrs ago

What a mess. The 250 celebration should be a huge deal and he junked it all.

Wiz Imp

(10,550 posts)
13. There a plenty of NAshville based artists who would love to tear Trump a new one...
Sun May 31, 2026, 11:27 PM
17 hrs ago

Steve Earle, Maren Morris, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Margo Price, Bryan Andrews and many others

SamuelAdams

(227 posts)
15. Great idea.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:18 AM
7 hrs ago

Let "musicians" who are so unknown and untalented they don't get paid to perform. Why not invite random sightseers to do karaoke?

GiqueCee

(4,873 posts)
17. Dadgummit, Timmy...
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:59 AM
7 hrs ago

... read the room!
Even if a performer is stupid enough to support the Orange Shitgibbon, he or she is probably not so stupid that they'd willingly flush their career down a gold-painted toilet for appearing onstage just to stroke his infantile ego.

Drum

(10,786 posts)
22. I thought Ka$h Patel had a girlfriend who's a performer so great she deserves FBI protective services.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 11:03 AM
6 hrs ago

Why not her?

70sEraVet

(5,667 posts)
23. Surely they've got some Mariachi bands locked up in ICE detention facilities
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 11:05 AM
6 hrs ago

There's your free entertainment.
Didn't Nazis do something similar with musicians at THEIR 'detention facilities'?

(I apologize for the stereotype -- no doubt there are very talented musicians of ALL musical genres locked up)

SergeStorms

(20,897 posts)
27. Maybe they can get Lauren Boebert....
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 02:17 PM
2 hrs ago

to "lend a hand" entertaining the mostly male audience? She gets rave reviews from the Denver theater crowd, at least from her male "friends."

She apparently has what it takes to "entertain."

Luz

(931 posts)
29. Scott Baio put out 2 albums, he could do it. Not sure
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 02:55 PM
2 hrs ago

if Kevin Sorbo can sing, but he could ask. Perhaps James Woods could do a dramatic reading of....something, and Roseann Barr is always avaliable for the national anthem.

Anyway, those people think to small

DBoon

(25,184 posts)
31. Hegseth and Patel could have a public drinking contest
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:13 PM
58 min ago

They are both very talented in this

nuxvomica

(14,271 posts)
32. Watch your step, Burchett
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:40 PM
31 min ago

Now that Trump has already floated the idea of headlining himself it's a bit risky to suggest someone else.

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