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.
My twenty three year old grandson sent me a video from X of Prince’s 2007 Super Bowl show. It was basically just Prince, his guitar and ability to entertain with some great pyrotechnics etc. No need for people shrubs with Prince. Most of the comments on X were critical of the PUERTO RICAN rabbit.
We watched the TPUSA show. Not bad for something they strung together quickly.
I think team trump will be running the 2028 olympics.
NOT J ZEE
I had the TPUSA show on after I changed the Superbowl channel. I was watching a Youtube video from someone in Virginia ranting about the legislation for the AR15 ban and the ban on magazines over 10 round capacity so I was not really paying close attention to the TPUSA show. TPUSA had no one I follow, but they did a nice job. I expect that they did it in advance and had editing time so it came off without a hitch.
Or Horrid Hare, as I call him.
The lyrics
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I watched the Turning Point Halftime Show whilst reclining in my home on stolen land!
Two guys don't boof each other in the back of a pickup truck in the Super Bowl halftime show, at least in our (normals') world.
Look on the Gateway Pundit site for a video of it.
But nice try normalizing their (your) Communist filth.
Maybe next time.
I don’t know about global ratings, but for US ratings yesterday’s show set a record. Which, of course, is all that advertisers care about.
Turning Point did well for a brand-new start-up whose roster was finalized only days before the game.
Notwithstanding, President Trump watched.
Ha ha..didn’t watch a second of it!
People wanted to see if he’d really wear a dress. I knew he wouldn’t.
That's his problem. I don't worship at the Altar of Trump.
Sometimes the only person humiliated is the performer.
“I think people should see this,” becomes “why dafuq did I do that?”
Just sit there and watch, you faggots!
I was going to say that, too, but I didn’t want to go on for too long.
Like everyone else born without a dick, I know how to get out of sight upon identifying signs of Losing.
LOL
I wasn’t forced to sit through this. I had a foregone conclusion,right or wrong, that it would would be a waste of time & I had other channels, so I watched part of the Puppy Superbowl. It was at least slightly interesting.
” but for some reason we never let Puerto Rico go its own way, unlike the others.”
I think maybe because the Roosevelt Roads base covered the approaches to the Panama Canal. Should have kept it as an enclave like Gitmo.
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