Hat tip Freddie Prinze
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.
I did not know that ... that's weird. With all the commercials, though, YouTube seems to exist primarily to sell soap, feminine hygiene products, and beer ... or whatever the targeted ad algorithm "thinks" you should see. Because you're the product, and YouTube is selling you to the advertisers. At least the content is created by real people, and the propagandistic nonsense can be avoided. Some of it, anyway. AI slop is hard to avoid.
Hat tip Freddie Prinze
I watched it. It was a Latino commercial of no significance to American culture. Meh.
I stopped watching about 30 seconds in.
Both English and Spanish are foreign languages.
Algonquin, on the other hand, is one of many native language types.
Spanish predates English West of the Mississippi and in Florida.
Puerto Rico is also not a foreign country, it is an American territory.
That said, the show sucked.
1776 to 2026
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250 yrs of American Dreams!
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Algonquin, on the other hand, is one of many native language types.
Where did the Algonquin come from?
It was an attempt to depict the conquering of this country by foreign invaders.
Trying to get more Spanish speaking people to watch. Forced English speaking people to turn it off.
The only halftime shows i ever watched had John Facenda narrating the NFL highlights.
And music by Sam Spence.
I believe that you have nailed the primary underlying issue.
The NFL and many other historically American sports leagues are no long interested in us, as in USA.
The want a vast international market. And they are obviously shifting focus towards that goal.
No they weren't. I didn't watch it.
I haven’t watched any NFL this century. I don’t miss it.
It’s the same with soccer in Europe.
Go to a Barcelona FC home game. Odds are half of the fans there are tourists, who can shelve out a couple hundred bucks for the ticket, meanwhile pricing out the locals. They care more about growing the global brand, than they do about the local fans.
It’s the same with Real Madrid, Madrileños now refer to them as the ‘tourist club’, and root for Atletico Madrid instead, even though they are starting to go down the same path.
Given that, if this trend continues, we'll never see an honest USA type patriotic half time show ever during the SB.
Given that, I hope that more organizations do as TPUSA did and have their own "half time" shows during the same timeframe the NFL's show takes place. Sure, the NFL will get their 300M worldwide viewers, but folks like us, the 60M+ who want to see what we used to get back in the day, will get the traditional shows that we deserve to see.
Same for me.
Neither did I.
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