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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.
Nobody was forced to watch the game or the halftime show. The halftime shows are never worth watching anyway. (Whether the game was this year is questionable...no touchdowns until the fourth quarter and the Patriots almost managed to become the first team ever not to score any points in a Super Bowl game). I turned to the alternative halftime show on OAN but didn’t find it very interesting either....singers I never listen to.
Futbol soccer.....very few exciting moments....I look at each “play” as a metaphor for pregnancy or courtship...starts out promising, obstacles along the way, not sure if it will be successful, must persevere, even suffer, but continue, as it gets closer to the goal, then, frenetic activity around the goal, then the blossoming relationship, or delivery(goal!)....then all the screaming, congrats, and cheers...goooooooooaaasassllllllll!
Each successful “play” takes about 9 months it seems like.
IMHO
This controversy does make me wonder what the LA Olympic ceremonies will be like — red, white, and blue or multicultural “gorgeous mosaic” — but I probably won’t watch those either.
I called them the steatopygia dancers. Those fat women were unreal
At least the Puppy Bowl leads to the contestants being adopted as pets.
An add for Rico Statehood. 2 more Demcrat Senators and 1 more house Rep for the Demrats. And massive more welfare for the Ricon baby makers.
In a sane venue, it would have been a celebration of the 250th anniversary of this country.
Why did we not let Puerto Rico gain independence, as we did for Cuba and the Philippines? We acquired these territories after we defeated the Spaniards in 1898, but for some reason we never let Puerto Rico go its own way, unlike the others.
I watched some of it on YouTube. This Bunny person chanted, didn’t sing and he is not “hot.” How could the audience even see the performance with all that grass in the way? Talented? Really?
He kept grabbing his crotch. Gross. Hey Bunny, there are medications for that.
They'll keep going down this road as long as people watch it. It's not about the football game. It's not even about the faggotized half-time show. It's about people watching commercials.
The primary purpose of television is to sell soap, feminine hygiene products, and beer. The secondary purpose is to indoctrinate the mind-numbed viewers with leftist propaganda. Anything else is a distant third. There's nothing new about this, either. Both Gene Roddenberry and David Gerrold wrote about this in the 1970s. (Trekkies will recognize both of those names.)
They’ll keep going down this road as long as people watch it. It’s not about the football game. It’s not even about the faggotized half-time show. It’s about people watching commercials.
Even worse was Green Day’s hate America opening performance
The best defense against this is to tune them out, turn them off and get a life outside of the sports world. They are forcing this crap down our throats and most people are letting it happen.
FTA: 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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Nobody was “forced.” If people had started boycotting the NFL when all of this garbage first began, there would have been changes made.
Bugs Bunny told the crowd to be proud of the third world crapholes below the Rio Grande that they crawled out of. WHY?!!! What have those countries ever done to all of the illegal aliens who claimed that the cartels and governments of those countries are trying to kill them so they were required to go to the land of the gringos to keep from being murdered by their “neighbors” at their homes below the border.
I suppose Gaga - definitely not a Lady — is great if one likes to celebrate filth and degeneracy.
Exactly.
And the game sucked....Sea 5 field goals? ...... total 15 punts ? If ya like defense ..... this was your game.
WOW! You were a victim of some serious misfortunes! But you handled it well.
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