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.
Who was forced to watch?
I like the game of football ... the only way I can watch football and not be bombarded with feminized, faggotized, racialized garbage is to go watch one of the local High School teams ... HS football is still fun. I have absolutely no personal connection to any of the teams, which doesn't matter: the nice girls at the ticket booth (students at the home school, I presume) are happy to take my greenbacks in exchange for a ticket.
Da Wabbit spoke to his Spanish-speaking peeps. Well done.
If the lyrics are translated and understood, its doubtful that even ardent Puerto Rican nationalists would celebrate his depiction of Puerto Rican rural life as decadent. The rural core of any country is usually celebrated as the core of its culture and essence. One can only conclude that Bad Bunny is very self loathing.
I hope every ticket holder saw in person how their money was being used to smack them in the face. No I did not watch the game, but watched a couple minutes of the halftime show on a youtube video this morning. Pretty meaningless, and I would guess demeaning to any self-respecting Puerto Rican as well as a sneer at America.
didn’t watch any of it, ever since the blm crap, nfl has been dead to me
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.
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Forced? What a joke. I watched NONE of this anti-American political propaganda disguised as sports.
How much further will the NFL go down this particular road? Rap is still around and will provide many people with an opportunity to complain, but music (and chatter) that isn’t even in English? Will they be doing that next year? The league has to balance what they want to force on people against what people will accept and actually want. So I think it will be more of a blip than a trend. Also, I wish writers would come clean about whether they really are heart-sick fans of the game or just writing outrage in order to win clicks.
We watched the Turning Point halftime show instead.
Exclusively brown people acting like stereotypes.
But they weren’t forced to sit, except for those who bought tickets, and they knew what they were buying.
The rest of us could stop watching the show altogether, or switch to the TPUSA show. We have to be like the woman in the 1984 Apple ad, and figuratively throw the hammer at the woke screen.
When they announced BB, I thought, if they really wanted to go international, they should have done a halftime show with the people from K-Pop Demon Hunters. All the kids would have watched. The NFL really blew it there, IMHO.
Missed the whole thing. The grandkids were here from Florida.
I HAVE 2 CHANNELS OF OLD WESTERN MOVIES
DID NOT WATCH THIS SUPER BOWL HALFTIME.
FOUND THE BUDWEISER COMMERCIAL ON INTERNET THIS AM.ONLY AD EVER WORTH A DAMN.
An event for sheep.
ALL of Tee-Tvee off here for the brainwashed. Zero Tee-Tvee ⚰️
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I was with 2 native speakers (from Mexico and Argentina) - they said they understood about 10%-20%. Some of it was just him "rapping" badly on live TV, the rest, I was told, it was simply all PR slang and references relevant in Puerto Rico only.
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