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.
If Puerto Rico wants to join the US, just make it the sixth borough of NYC.
Hands down winner right there.
It was just a football game.
I have not watched the National Felons League for a long time and their halftime shows have been horrible for a long time.
I remember watching halftime shows, oscars, emmy’s, late night TV,and the like when they were actually entertaining.
34 years of Super Bowl halftimes as a reaction to an adult comedy sketch show taking viewers away from the game has resulted in this.
There is a consequence to bad decisions years ago. This is it.
If it was pre-1992, we would have had a Semiquincentennial themed Halftime Show with troops, American legends, and a celebration of the 250 years, wars, and military might. But after a winter carnival theme was destroyed by adult comedy shows . . .
Since Khomeini may be out of a job soon, why not book him for next year’s anti-American halftime show. He could open by singing the Iranian anthem, right after the black one, Asian one, Hispanic one, Croatian one, Turk one...
Just on Youtube there were 6+ million “connections” at the same time at the peak. Many are expected to be from Superbowl parties where there were many viewers from a single connection. I have heard estimates that there could have been 40 million viewers across all of the platforms that carried the TPUSA event. That means potentially 40 million not watching the NFL halftime (and the commercials).
But if the world is America , why America? I heard its a fascist, racist, capitalist shithole…. Doesnt sound like a place these folks would want to be.
I heard its a fascist, racist, capitalist shithole
They think it’s only a temporary condition, that goes away when us old farts die off.
I watched the Turning Point halftime show! Problem solved!!
Doesnt sound like a place these folks would want to be.
Remember the answer to the question, “Why do you rob banks?”
Same answer.
Hold it right there.
Only in the dreams of corrupt NFL corporate hype.
A "tradition" we'd be better without.
The NFL was a form of corruption from day one.
The only reason it is profitable is gambling, even if they don't directly get gambling revenue.
We'd all be better off if more people stopped caring about it.
Last lines of America from West Side Story.
B: I think I go back to San Juan
G: I know a boat you can get on
B: Everyone there will give big cheer
G: Everyone there will have moved here
Shocked!
Would have bet the ranch his Twitter handle would have been @sonofamailman.
I see that post and my thought is, “That guy didn’t watch it.”
Like, for example, referring to a dude with his dick cut off as "she" ... or pretending that two perverted wymyn who went through some weird ceremony are "married" ... or "thinking" that a 110lb girl can easily defeat several large combat-trained men in unarmed fighting.
Exactly
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