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.
And that’s how Obama planned it.
“Americans were forced...”??
Only if you’re a slave to your addiction and lack even a tiny bit of will power.
What a moron!
If we didn’t have endless humiliation rituals the Democratic Party would cease to exist
Good “conservatives”...! You boycott Budweiser, Target stores, Cracker Barrel, Disney, etc etc etc. People lose their jobs and local economies are severely affected, but it’s for the greater good! (Note: I do not have a problem with boycotts, but I never get to participate in one because it’s always something I figured I should avoid a long time ago - like Budweiser beer. IT’S AWFUL. Disney. OMG THEY’VE RUINED MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD DREAMS AND FANTASIES. And so on.)
The Stupid Bowl has everything going against it, and this over decades. The game is always rigged and everybody knows it. It’s almost always the worst game of the year. The halftime show is SUPPOSED TO BE HUMILIATING and it always is (FOR DECADES NOW) and then people b1tch about it for the next couple of months.
But the VERY WORST THING about the Stupid Bowl is that it’s the International Holiday for Human Traffickers. I’m not going to post statistics, this has also been a thing FOR DECADES. Just like all the other stuff: It’s been a great big slap in the face for conservatives and the religious FOR DECADES AND NOBODY TALKS ABOUT BOYCOTTING IT.
I like football, but the Stupid Bowl sucks. AND it’s a day when children and vulnerable adults are sold and bartered right in everybody’s face and NOBODY TALKS ABOUT BOYCOTTING IT.
Fortunately no one strapped me in front of the TV and forced me to watch any of it..
We watched Kid Rock show on Right Side! Loved it! Then, well into 3rd quarter watched 10 minutes of Pats getting their butts kicked.
In my case, I couldn’t change the channel because I couldn’t find the remote, and the Alexa feature my AVR is supposed to have didn’t work, so I couldn’t even mute it. All I could do was sit there while it happened to me.
I didn’t bother to watch any part of the game or its half-time spectacle.
I stand corrected because THIS proud American boycotts the Stupid Bowl! Good for you, cgbg!
Why I left the room.
Ditto to that.
She’s a man, baby. Mr Gaga is a man.
Meanwhile down the road in multicultural San Jose at San Pedro Square in front La Victoria Taqueria five people were shot
https://www.ktvu.com/news/5-shot-san-jose-hours-after-super-bowl-watch-party-ends
I wasn’t forced to watch sh!t. I won’t watch the NFL ever again.
Along with our so called Olympic Team. The F$#king liberal woke bastards ruin everything they touch. Rush was right again.
PR dialect Spanish? Is that why people who speak Spanish couldn’t understand Bad &Rotten Bunny?
Spent yesterday reading. I don’t watch sports events ever.
“Americans were forced to sit through one of their biggest cultural events of the year”
I wasn’t forced to sit through this “cultural event” as I don’t give two sh’ts about the super bowel or the NFL.
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