I do not watch the Super Bowl because I don’t care for it. I also never watch the half-time shows either during or after. But since the MAGA world seemed to have lost their collective minds over this year’s half-time show by Bad Bunny, I felt I must watch it and did.
Here’s the full show.
So why the freakout? Because almost the entire show was in Spanish, except for a brief song by Lady Gaga. The MAGA world was deeply offended by the absence of English, seeing that as a deliberate insult aimed at the ‘true Americans’ who are of course white, English-speaking, and Christian, and even seemed to think that Puerto Ricans like Bad Bunny were not Americans. They may have been temporarily mollified by him ending by saying ‘God Bless America’ only to be immediately rocked back on their heels by him then listing the names of all the countries in the Americas. How dare those people of inferior nations think of themselves as Americans!
Jon Stewart had a ton of fun with the freakout and the alternative MAGA show featuring a bunch of nobodies but ends with a strong point, that these people, for all their tough talk and sneering at liberals who talk of safe safe spaces and the need respect the sensibilities of others, are hyper-sensitive weenies who get offended by even the slightest things.
Locally (SW Michigan) at least, it isn’t just that it was in Spanish. There has been a very good disinformation campaign painting him as essentially a criminal and danger to children. This is a rather conservative part of MI and so it doesn’t take much of that crap to get the racist ball rolling. It’s hard, if not impossible, to convince people that the stories they’ve heard about him aren’t true.
The ignorance and racism here is spreading: we adopted our sons 30 and 33 years ago, from South Korea. They both work and have girlfriends (somebody give me better terms than “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” to apply to adults in their early 30s, please), and they’ve both been getting “Where are you from?” and “How long have you been here?” questions from strangers on the street and in restaurants. They’ve both put their passports and other paperwork in their digital wallets on their phones in the hope that that might help If they’re stopped. It’s very offing scary.
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Considering that more than 2000 US citizens have been detained for shorter or longer periods and that court orders for release now get ignored with apparent impunity, yes, it is Very Effing Scary.
Jimmy Kimmel:
‘Trump’s Name in Epstein Files “More Than ONE MILLION” Times & MAGA Explodes With Rage Over Bad Bunny’
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=shzx9MPdV44
remember how maga was convinced that there was a child sex ring run by democrats in the basement of a pizza place?
once again the “every accusation is a confession” trope referring to the right appears to be true.
@dean #1:
Partner
And if partner sounds too business-like to you, go with romantic partner.
#3
Gas-hole of the year
Jimmy Kimmel:
Trump’s Desperate to Destroy the Planet, Pam Bondi’s Epstein Karen-Thon & Dems Want ICE Reform
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.https://youtube.com/watch?v=QJaNQvCjHEo
Gee, it’s almost like someone’s figured out that generating outrage is an effective marketing strategy…
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Yes I’m sure Mano will now be a big fan of Bad Bunny and be buying all the merch. X-D
For those locked out of the first video by geolocation, I was able to watch it here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G6FuWd4wNd8
The listing of South and Central American nations after “God bless America” was delicious. X-D
The alternative MAGA show was a MAGA safe space.
anat @ # 6: … if partner sounds too business-like to you, go with romantic partner.
In one of his short shotries, sff author Paul Di Filippo proposed the term “erotofiscal partner”, which may be TMI for dean56 but captures many relationships quite succinctly.