Posted on 02/09/2026 7:42:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
Americans were forced to sit through one of their biggest cultural events of the year in a language that is not theirs, surrounded by symbols of other, foreign places.
The Super Bowl is supposed to be one of the cultural cornerstones in American life that still belongs to Americans. There are only a handful of days each year when most of the country pauses and gathers around the same screen to participate in something recognizably ours. It’s a shared experience — rooted in common language and culture and tradition. Which is why the Super Bowl half time show this year was a clear display of pure contempt for America.
Football is not a global sport that just ended up in the United States. It was created right here at home in the 1880s by Walter Camp. It was a sport created by Americans, for Americans. The NFL remains overwhelmingly domestic both in its players and its fanbase. In other words, football isn’t some international pastime. It’s one of the last mass cultural institutions that is distinctly American.
Yet, this year’s halftime performance by Puerto Rican singer “Bad Bunny” was conducted almost entirely in Spanish. His songs celebrated Puerto Rican — not American — culture. At the end of his performance, he exited the stage followed by one American flag and several foreign flags, holding a football that read “We are all America” while a giant screen read “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” And, given his recent “F[---] ICE” comments at the Grammys, it’s clear the message of his performance was that defense of sovereignty and national culture and rejection of its replacement would be framed as hatred.
Americans were forced to sit through one of their biggest cultural events of the year in a language that is not theirs, surrounded by symbols of other, foreign places. The audience was not invited into a shared civic experience. Instead, they were required to bear witness to the replacement of their own culture.
This wasn’t accidental, either. While speaking in October, Bad Bunny, who has only Spanish-language songs, addressed Americans directly: “If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.” The burden wasn’t on the performer to meet or assimilate to the audience, but rather on the audience — Americans — to adapt to a foreign language or be left behind during their own cultural event.
That same message was delivered on the stage on Sunday.
And this isn’t merely my own interpretation of the event. The Miami Herald’s Amanda Rose praised the show for transforming the field into a “Puerto Rican sugarcane field where aspects of Puerto Rican life were around every corner” and concluding that “the halftime show was a sweeping celebration of Puerto Rican culture.” That description matters because it confirms that the intent of the performance was to replace a uniquely American culture with a foreign one.
And that’s where the humiliation comes in.
Across the country, Americans are being guilted out of their God-given right to sovereignty. They’re told by activists, celebrities, athletes, Democrats, and the propaganda press that borders are illegitimate. That the enforcement of longstanding, duly enacted federal immigration law is racist and xenophobic and anti-American. Foreigners wave the flags of countries they refuse to return to in our streets while demanding the right to stay. Activist judges block deportations and openly undermine federal authority on behalf of illegal aliens.
And all of this was legitimized on the stage on Sunday.
A foreign language replaced our national language, English. Foreign flags overshadowed the American one. Foreign culture was elevated during a traditional American experience. At the same time Americans are being told they have no right to enforce their own laws and to defend their sovereignty, they were forced to sit and watch the symbolic replacement of their country and culture.
And that’s humiliating.
John Kasich is just another worthless RINO clown.
Correct.
Don’t you love how he used a baseball analogy at The Super Bowl.
The only ones who actually attend a football game are there to stare at fit butts. That is the attraction of the types who pony up for season tickets.
Why, then, would you expect the game or the halftime show to be anything other than pervies on parade? It is like going to a drag show to see if you can spot a little kid amenable to ..... “persuasion”.
It’s new for the Super Bowl...
Were the two guys humping in the pickup truck “fun” too?
“ VERY WORST THING about the Stupid Bowl is that it’s the International Holiday for Human Traffickers”
Silliness… everyone knows that’s the biggest wife beating day of the year. And professional whores servicing the superbowl crowd isn’t human trafficking. They are there in their own to make money. Even then it’s a distant second to the WEF meeting or any given Wednesday in DC.
I am waiting for the bogus TV ratings, both for the game and for the commercials.
If most people actually knew the BB “ song” lyrics the NFL advertisers were selling to their kids
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Forced? Didn’t see any of it. But I hear the TPUSA thing had 5+ million viewers(?).
My favorite Carlin story was about how all the Irish boys would seek out “Father Rivera” to do their confessions, because “he really didn’t seem to understand the sins”.
In and out, three “Hail, Mary’s”, you’re back on the street with Father Rivera, man. You could see the line move; that’s how fast he was working.
But wait…. He chanted “We are all America”
Except there is no America without borders and citizens.
He chanted “We are all America”
He means the entire world is America and everybody should be allowed to come here.
He means the entire world is America and everybody should be allowed to come here.
I should add one exception, “everybody, except white South Africans, unless they are liberal actresses.”
No, nobody was forced. I didn’t watch one minute of it. I think the point is why do Americans have to leave or not watch the event in order to not be insulted? An event that is uniquely American. NFL just hates the USA. They hate what we stand for. Behind their virtue signaling is avarice and hatred. They want to take everything away from us, even football. Do they even play American football in PR? I thought it was soccer.
It’s not really a boycott for me. Spectator sports mostly on tv have lost me completely. Nothing the NFL or the other sports can do can make me return to watching their fare. If the SB was a completely right wing celebration I still wouldn’t be watching. I miss none of it.
Puerto Rico isn’t foreign it’s an American territory. An American territory that’s very very Spanish. Like New Mexico.
Do they even play American football in PR? I thought it was soccer.
Baseball and basketball. They don’t play soccer.
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