I Did Not See The Superbowl Show But I am Still Shooting Off My Mouth

 I have the halftime show on my Watch Later list on YouTube. What I have encountered, so far of the reaction appalls me. But should we expect anything less than inane blather from our President?

Reacting to the President:

"The only thing more powerful than hate is love" (Steven Schmidt)

I know that Donald Trump is depraved and venomous, irredeemably evil and disgustingly cruel. He is unworthy of his office, and a blight on decency, but I worry that millions of our children are being marinated in his sins.

It is grotesque and shameful.

Yet, even the racism was outbid by the sick reality that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s close friend, who is mentioned more than 38,000 times in the child rape files dared to suggest that children were endangered by a musical performance in Spanish.

Think about that.

Good Bunny. Bad Super Bowl. Defund ICE. (The Bulwark)

 Anyway, last weekend’s sports may not have been super thrilling, but the culture war aspects were entertaining. Bad Bunny’s Spanish-language halftime show led Donald Trump to denounce him. And when some of the American Olympians said a few words distinguishing their love of their country from support for the Trump administration, MAGA-types attacked them (more on this below). Samuel Johnson, call your office: Patriotism has become the first refuge of scoundrels.

 Bad Trump, Good Bunny (Zeteo)

The president of the United States is That Guy – except instead of getting beaten up by a bunch of small kids who he tried to fight, Donald Trump is getting his ass handed to him by the very culture wars he so confidently started. And last night’s big game underscored precisely why.

Trump didn’t show up at Super Bowl LX in California, in part because his White House had determined that if he did, he would get booed so very lustily on live TV, in front of tens of millions of viewers. But his flailing, increasingly unpopular presidency still managed to loom large over Sunday’s events. The two main musical acts – Bad Bunny and Green Day – are both avowedly against Trump and his ethnic-cleansing campaigns. Green Day performed “American Idiot,” which they routinely play to protest Trump’s “MAGA agenda.” Puerto Rican megastar Bad Bunny’s halftime show was a cinematic, Spanish-language celebration of ethnic and cultural diversity in America. During the show, he prominently displayed the message, “The only thing more powerful than hate is love,” which is almost verbatim what he said at his recent Grammys “ICE out” speech.

If anyone wants to argue Bad Bunny avoided partisan politics during the Super Bowl, he sort of did – on paper, with the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability. His message couldn’t have been clearer, and it joyfully spat in the face of what Donald Trump, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the gang running the federal government stand for. But if the NFL wants to pretend its halftime show didn’t have an inherently anti-Trump message to it, the Trump administration is already showing it’s not willing to give them a pass.

 The first I read was MAGA preferring a lip-syncing Kid Rock to Bad Bunny is what white supremacy looks like!(Dean's Report), which I sent onto some of my friends. Of which, only KH has replied so far. He wrote this:

The only thing Kid Rock ever did was steal samples of Sweet Home Alabama and Werewolves of London and throw some lyrics on top. I saw the video, he’s not even trying to hide the lip sync. 

Bad Bunny is arguably the biggest pop star in the world right now. His music didn’t bother me- then again I’ve been immersed in Portuguese and Latino culture for three decades now.

Also, portrays his stage character as gender fluid, and they really hate that. Of course, most magats don’t get that Puerto Ricans are American citizens. 

BTW- a number of country artists backed out of that debacle. 

And this was my reply:

Gender fluidity? Haven't we lived through that?

 

 

 

So what if you don't know the words - can you dance to it?

 

For Donald J. Trump, and the rest of MAGA, a concise explanation of American music:

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