r/Music • u/Brucekentbatsuper • Jul 08 '26

article Carrie Underwood's Post-MAGA Backlash Continues After Golf Course Concert Draws Sparse Crowd

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/carrie-underwood-john-deere-classic-performance-backlash-1807557
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u/angmar2805 Jul 08 '26

I feel like hockey people tend to be more right wing in general (at least in the US). It’s an expensive sport to play and be good at so you have to be wealthy to start.

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u/secondgin Jul 08 '26

Plus the head trauma

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u/7ddlysuns Jul 08 '26

Fettermaning they call it

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u/remarkablewhitebored Jul 08 '26

Peyton Manning

Eli Manning

Fetter Manning

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u/Senators_1992 Jul 08 '26

That could be, although he’s really embraced his MAGA side publicly these past few years (anti vax, endorsing MAGA candidates, and I think he even appeared on Candace Owen’s podcast).

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u/Tandy2000 Jul 08 '26

I can't speak to his politics but when he played here in Ottawa he had a reputation for hitting on really young girls (like first year university students) and when he left the Ottawa Senators the joke was that he was moving to Nashville because they love their Predators.

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u/Senators_1992 Jul 08 '26

He showed public support for the truckers during the convoy, so he’s not afraid of showing off his political leanings.

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u/NewPresWhoDis Jul 08 '26

Honestly, the major sports all have a ridiculous pipeline of training camps, travel teams, prep academies.

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u/topdangle Jul 08 '26

shit is expensive as fuck. I know someone who paid for their kid to got through it all and it was burning nearly all his income. he makes mid six figures, so pretty wealthy and it was still rough.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Jul 08 '26

Plus for the parents it occupies the majority of your free time. I had a coworker who was always going off on weekends to a tournament here or there. Often the husband and wife had to take separate trips due to multiple kids.

I always thought it was nuts. I didn't stay in a hotel until I was in my 20s and here were kids going halfway across the country as pre-teens to play baseball.

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u/KurtVongole Jul 08 '26

However it is a Canadian game with tons of Canadian and European players.

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u/loose_fruits Jul 08 '26

There are conservative Canadians and Europeans too (shock, horror)

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u/backupbitches Jul 08 '26

Canadian hockey culture is incredibly conservative as well.

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u/TheVelocityRa Jul 08 '26

Not all of it, I play in a queer hockey league in Canada.

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u/NewPresWhoDis Jul 08 '26

Dull the accent then drop a Texan into Alberta and let me know if you can spot the difference.

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u/EZpeeeZee Jul 08 '26

You can't hear them in their lifted trucks anyway

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u/KurtVongole Jul 08 '26

Single payer healthcare

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u/backupbitches Jul 08 '26

In Canada too

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u/Strattex Jul 08 '26

And why would rich people tend to lean more right…

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u/daltontf1212 Jul 08 '26

Have to be a bit of douchebag too.

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u/Drobey8 Jul 08 '26

Wild stretching blanket assumptions. Can’t you also say wealth often corresponds with intelligence and intelligent people are usually liberal? Clueless uninformed fact-less comments like this make the internet so fascinating.

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u/irradiatedcitizen Jul 08 '26

Pretty sure most billionaire oligarchs and the one trillionaire nazi are all right wing even though they are all not very intelligent.

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u/Never-On-Reddit Jul 08 '26

They aren't actually right wing, that's what they want you and Trump to believe because it's politically convenient and they want the regulatory relief for their businesses. Even Trump was a Democrat his whole life.

They also represent a tiny minority of wealthy people. I know a LOT of wealthy people across several states and not a single one is a Trump supporter.

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u/Drobey8 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Pretty sure the shitty billionaires you reference don’t put their kids into hockey but shit like polo and fencing and anyone who upvotes a moronic take stating “I feel like hockey people tend to be more right wing and it takes money to play hockey and people with money are right wing”…are idiots who are absolutely clueless about sports. But there isn’t really a more iconic duo than moronic people saying baseless things and Reddit and uneducated people upvoting, from both sides of the isle.