The Super Bowl is tomorrow, meaning that a regular assortment of high-profile pre-game parties have been taking place in the Bay Area this weekend, as various brands and bands take advantage of the confluence of many of the country’s biggest football fans in a single place. And while the Big Game itself has—after becoming the focus, last year, of the roving eye of our present political hellworld, thanks to the Trump administration getting in a snit over the idea that Bad Bunny might, heaven forfend, sing in Spanish for part of the game’s halftime show—tried to keep things from getting too real-world dire since, some smidge of reality can’t help but slip through the cracks. Like, say, Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for Green Day (which is playing the game’s opening ceremony this year) offering some career advice to any Immigrations And Customs Enforcement agents that might have been in the audience at Spotify and FanDuel’s party in San Francisco on Friday night: “Quit your shitty ass job.”
Per Deadline, Armstrong actually struck a relatively conciliatory tone with any ICE agents that enjoy rocking out with music streaming and online gambling execs, noting that whatever crap-flavored gravy train they may be on at the moment has a short shelf life. “Quit that shitty job you have, because when this is over—and it will be over at some point in time—Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump, they’re going to drop you like. a bad fucking habit. Come on this side of the line.”
The aforementioned Noem helped kick off the furor around the Super Bowl last year, when she responded to news that Bad Bunny had been tapped for the gig by saying that ICE would “be all over that place.” On Wednesday, the NFL’s own chief security officer, Cathy L. Lanier, stated pretty definitively that “There are no planned ICE or immigration enforcement operations that are scheduled around the Super Bowl or any of the Super Bowl–related events… We are confident of that.”
