{"id":12857,"date":"2019-03-11T09:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T14:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=12857"},"modified":"2019-03-15T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:27:37","slug":"mark-pocan-nickelback-debate-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/mark-pocan-nickelback-debate-house-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Mark Pocan takes a stand against… Nickelback?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if our current political climate couldn\u2019t get any weirder, Nickelback has now reached the hallowed halls of Congress.<\/p>\n

Last Thursday, the universally-maligned Canadian butt rockers were brought up<\/a> as part of a jibe by our <\/em>representative, Mark Pocan. Referring to the unpopularity of a voting rights provision (only four out of 77,000 asked favored it), Pocan quipped that it\u2019s \u201cprobably about the percent of people who think Nickelback is their favorite band in this country \u2014 it\u2019s pretty low.\u201d<\/p>\n

Personally, I love how Pocan says people \u201cthink\u201d Nickelback is their favorite band, which to me implies the inherent wrongness of Nickelback actually being anyone\u2019s favorite band. They\u2019re like flop sweat set to music. I spent all of middle school listening almost exclusively to terrible third-wave ska bands, and even I <\/em>think they suck.<\/span>\n