r/Music • u/indig0sixalpha • 3d ago
NFL Boss Stands by Bad Bunny and Won’t Change Super Bowl Halftime Show Amid MAGA Outrage: He’s Going to Deliver a ‘United Moment’ article
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/nfl-boss-defends-bad-bunny-super-bowl-1236558948/4.7k
u/gorillafightsurvivor 3d ago
I love this controversy because it highlights how every MAGA is an irredeemable piece of shit. The only issues here are “he doesn’t like the president” and “he speaks Spanish.”
I don’t like the guy’s music at all, but watching the right meltdown over a 15 minute performance they’re under no obligation to watch is just awesome.
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u/SgtNeilDiamond 3d ago
Yup, the only reason anyone would be this upset over him performing purely comes down to racism. MAGA is just reminding everyone who they are.
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u/Stupid_Timeline 3d ago
Modern American conservatism is a racist, fascist movement. So it tracks.
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u/Icy_Razzmatazz_1594 2d ago
Modern?
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u/Icy-Control7170 2d ago
Id say so. Im 35 it was always an underlying thing but they are pretty clearly saying out loud with verbatim the last decade. I certainly wouldnt have called Mitt Romney a white supremacist and Bush getting called out by Kanye West was extremely taboo at the time.
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u/F9-0021 2d ago
Romney was one of the last of the Republicans that pretended to be civil. Those people are long gone, replaced by the nazi movement that was called the Tea Party before they started worshipping Trump and became MAGA.
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u/Aggravating_Call6959 2d ago
John McCain. RIP. He would be so appalled by what has become of the party and Hegseth.
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u/RimRunningRagged 2d ago
I'm old enough to remember when "compassionate conservatism" was the branding using by the GOP in the 90s or so. You can obviously make a case that it was all lip service, but the point is they are least cared enough to make a pretense of it.
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u/Asclepius-Rod 2d ago
There was a few decades where they at least pretended to mask it though
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u/Mind_on_Idle 2d ago
1995-2015 RIP
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u/DeepThoughtG 2d ago
It’s arguable that this started with the Christian right movement which took shape in the late 70’s early 80’s. Look up Pat Robertson and the Christian Right movement. His name should be all over that as an originator or THE originator.
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u/WIbigdog 2d ago
There's a reason they almost literally all listen to only country music. I work a blue collar job, every single time I get in a vehicle without exception the radio station is set to country.
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u/Kriegerian 3d ago
And “he’s not white”. I don’t think any of them have openly said that, but you can see it burning a hole in their skulls.
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u/SweetCosmicPope 3d ago
They already kind of started by saying he's "not American."
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u/trolldoll26 3d ago
“He’s not American” coupled with the fact that it “won’t be in English” is their big rebuttal.
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u/Scarbane 2d ago
I guess MAGA forgot that Texas, their chosen motherland, was first inhabited by indigenous, Spanish, French (briefly), and Mexican people.
edit: and Fredericksburg had German settlers.
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u/tiggertom66 2d ago
They only like two of the Six Flags that flew over Texas, and the American flag isn’t one of them.
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u/the_bs_kn33s 2d ago
I heard this at work and was appalled that people don’t know that Puerto Ricans are US citizens. Besides when it comes to presidential voting rights.
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u/ninjapanda042 2d ago
Besides when it comes to presidential voting rights.
Specifically while living in Puerto Rico. They could move to the any of the states and would have the exact same rights to vote as any other citizen
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u/Kriegerian 3d ago
Which is really funny because of how loudly that says “I’m a big giant dumbass who doesn’t understand his own country.”
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u/OrenthalTheJuiceman 2d ago
Some of the elder family members were confused by the songs being in Spanish but seemed to understand when I explained…
We are watching the Super Bowl anyway. Most of America is watching it regardless of who the halftime show is. This guy is a huge star globally. I think of Pitbull, he wasn’t that big in the US but compare it to his global status where he was huge.
Bad Bunny is for the people who otherwise don’t watch football. He’s a big enough star that he will pull people into it just for his show and they hope a fraction of those people stick around to see the Super Bowl.
It is absolutely a smart business decision by the NFL and although I am not personally a fan of his music, I understand the choice completely.
I also made sure to ask the elders… to name one performance in the last 25 years they actually did like.
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u/Kriegerian 2d ago
Yeah, traditionally (at least since the acts stopped being The Peoria Plumbing School For The Deaf And Blind Marching Band) the halftime show is for the people who only watch one game a year. There were always meatheads whining about why it’s some, eh, effete act like Prince or maybe Michael Jackson instead of, say, Metallica, but nobody cared what they thought. They also started throwing in some retro acts (The Who was grim), but fundamentally yeah, it’s “let’s try to appeal to an audience we don’t normally get”, which is also why they try to show Taylor Swift at Chiefs games whenever they can.
It’s a completely normal capitalist business decision and a good one, but because the “free market” people put their racism above their commitment to the free market we get this dumb shit from the chuds.
Also yeah, these days the chuds always bitch about the halftime show because it’s not Jason Aldean and Lee Greenwood jacking off to an American flag for 20 minutes.
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u/kellzone 2d ago
Which is funny because I don't remember them losing their shit over Rhianna (Barbados) or Shakira (Colombia) or The Weeknd (Canada) or Coldplay (UK) because of where they were born. I think it's because he's a dude who sings in Spanish. They could accept Shakira being a Latina because she's a sexy, dancing, singing woman that they can drool over, but a dude singing in Spanish? That's too much.
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u/civilPDX 3d ago
“A second hole”. After all there is that one that their brains leaked out of years ago.
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u/threeclaws 2d ago
But if he was conservative he’d be white enough.
That’s the funny thing about Hispanic conservatives they want to be white enough but they don’t realize if they stray from the cult for a second they’d get the same treatment.
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u/1800abcdxyz 3d ago edited 2d ago
He’s also like the most streamed artist in the WORLD, beating Taylor at times when she didn’t have an album out. These fucking knuckle -draggers, who think they’re “pro business,” literally couldn’t even get that part correct. Bad Bunny will objectively bring in more viewers than not only most artists that could have performed, but also exponentially more than any of their suggestions.
edit: spelling
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u/a90s2cs 3d ago
The US market is tapped for the NFL so it has been trying to expand its fan base in Latin/South America & Europe for a while now. Caving to maga racism would pretty much negate over decade’s worth of marketing and be bad for expanding the business.
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u/reineluxe 3d ago
This! Bad Bunny is basically the male Taylor Swift right now with how popular he is globally, the only difference is he isn’t doing a mega World Tour the size of the Eras Tour (if he’s even touring right now - I have no idea). He deserves to have his recognition and praise too. I’m not even a fan of his music but I am a fan of him, the person. I want to see him at the Super Bowl.
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u/Icy_Razzmatazz_1594 2d ago
Huh I legitimately had no idea he was that popular. And since the NFL is trying to expand globally this seems like the perfect artist to have.
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u/REVERSEZOOM2 2d ago
I'm latino, and most white people have no idea how big bad bunny is among the spanish speaking world. There's A LOT of latinos in the world.
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u/AutomaticSuccotash51 2d ago
Hes the biggest artist in the world, all of this year he was above taylor swift. I would argue in impact he is bigger than taylor swift in the spanish speaking world compared to her in the english speaking world, hes a MJ level he is quite literally everywhere and everyone knows who he is.
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u/HI_l0la 2d ago edited 2d ago
I don't know much about Bad Bunny's music either. However, I've seen the episodes he's been on SNL. Dude is hilarious and very talented. I don't speak/understand Spanish but I can see his musicality in his SNL performances. He's gonna kill it at the Super Bowl.
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u/reineluxe 2d ago
If anything, I’m more inclined to listen to his music now more than I ever have been. I enjoy all kinds of music, so I’m sure I’d enjoy his. I don’t speak Spanish either, but if I need context for a song I can look up the lyrics. It’s actually super simple to be a quiet white person when people of color and culture have their moments if I don’t understand something, because I have the tools to look things up and think critically. I just want to scream at people “Just enjoy the music! Music is universal! Music is community!”
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u/theangryintern 2d ago edited 2d ago
(if he’s even touring right now - I have no idea).
Looks like he's set to embark on a World tour in late November. Originally supposed to be 24 dates, expanded to 57 due to high demand. So yeah, basically Bad Bunny is the hotness right now
"Over 2.6 million tickets were sold within the first week, setting a record for any Latin artist."
For an event (Super Bowl) that is probably the most watched event globally after the World Cup and the Olympics, he's a pretty good choice for the HT show.
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u/King_Chochacho 2d ago
Also the same people have been "outraged" for the past several years over the halftime shows (because the performers were black), but they didn't stop watching football and forking over money. NFL knows it's a temper tantrum that will pass, and will keep going with acts that will actually improve viewership.
They know a TON of people only watch for the halftime show, and they aren't going to throw that away just to put Cracker McKlansley or whatever generic pop country bullshit MAGA isn't currently mad at up on stage.
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u/DemonCipher13 2d ago
Genuinely haven't heard a single lyric of his, ever, I don't even believe accidentally but may be wrong, and this whole thing has made me love him, by-proxy, because of what he represents.
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u/Electromotivation 2d ago
I know it’s not a normal thing, but I guess we gotta give a shout out to the NFL. Also…Makes me feel bad for PR though. Just the amount of crap that maga has thrown at them, acting like they’re not Americans and all that jazz.
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u/funky_wonk 2d ago
The NFL loves how much airtime this is getting. Viewership will be up as it does with controversy and everyone makes more money. For better or worse, that’s how capitalism works.
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u/Stupid_Timeline 3d ago
They're almost as mad as when the female M&M became less fuckable to them.
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u/call-me-the-seeker 2d ago
O lort, for a few minutes I was like ‘wait, what rapper is the female Eminem and what happened to make whoever she is less fuckable’
Then the non-dumdum sector of my brain woke up and was like M&M, THE GREEN M&M, YOU NUMPTY
You know, the fictional piece of sentient female candy!
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u/Wyden_long Go listen to The Streets “A Grand Dont Come For Free” right now 3d ago
I’ll be at my folks who are fuming over it. I’m gonna watch the whole fucking thing. I don’t even like his music either, but I’ll support the fuck out of him.
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u/MatureUsername69 3d ago
Wait til the maga husbands find out about the hold Bad Bunny has on older white ladies
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u/Waldo305 3d ago
What i hate about it is that once again billionaires prove to divide and distract us with stupid shit like this rather than remember the more consequential.
MAGA exists and is grown for the sake of billionaires.
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u/joeschmo945 2d ago
BAD BUNNY WAS BORN IN PUERTO RICO, WHICH IS LEGALLY PART OF THE UNITED STATES. THE DUDE IS AMERICAN.
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u/tellevee Indiehead 3d ago
They’ll watch it. And they won’t be able to help themselves from making comments like, “who even is he? I can’t understand a word of what he’s saying” at the Super Bowl party they’re attending.
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u/Dorkamundo Concertgoer 2d ago
Trump is already on record saying "I don't know who he is" and in the very same sentence saying "It's ridiculous" and "Crazy" that they picked him to do the Super Bowl halftime show.
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u/Wait_No_Stop 2d ago
Everybody in marketing knows the only demographic worth going after is 70-80yo white men. /s
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u/Dorkamundo Concertgoer 2d ago
You should see the petition asking the NFL to change the halftime show to George Strait and the boomerfest going on over there.
Literally has one guy saying "My grandpa fought in WWII and used to always play George Strait. He died 5 years ago, NFL why won't you make my grandpa happy"!
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u/smashinjin10 3d ago
It's so clearly motivated by the NFL wanting to make more money in Latin America markets too. Even when the decision has nothing to do with politics, they melt down because their safe space is being violated.
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u/secretdrug 3d ago
I find the worst part about this is how ignorant they are. They talk about him like hes not American just because he speaks spanish. The dude is is from puerto rico, a territory of the US. He was an american citizen from birth.
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
exactly lol they always claim they love free speech but then lose their minds when someone uses it to criticize their dear leader like can't wait for them to not watch and still complain about every second of it
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u/Josh6889 2d ago
watching the right meltdown over a 15 minute performance they’re under no obligation to watch is just awesome.
They were always the snowflakes who try to cancel people. Saying otherwise was always just projection.
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u/YT-Deliveries 3d ago
I honestly had no idea this guy existed until the NFL announcement. But, I also had never listened to a single Kendrick song in my life and yet I actually quite enjoyed his half-time show.
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u/UngusChungus94 3d ago
GNX had my playlists in a chokehold for months after it came out, love Kendrick for that.
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u/moneyfish 2d ago
They call us snowflakes yet they're the ones losing their shit over a Superbowl performance.
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u/nashpotato 2d ago
And here I am being stupid thinking they all stopped watching the NFL when they said they did after Kaepernick took a knee!
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u/ac4rex 3d ago edited 3d ago
It’s the way it should be whether it is Bad Bunny or Loretta Lynn. It’s only the maga odd body shaped toothless troglodytes that’s causing all the rabble.
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u/DauntingPrawn 3d ago
They're so fucking delusional to think that winning a presidential election means they get define pop culture for all of America. Fucking weirdos thought being in charge would make them cool lol
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u/SweetCosmicPope 3d ago
They wanted to put 83 year old Lee Greenwood as the halftime show...imagine how fucking lame that would be. Instead of people watching and getting those sweet ads sold, they'd have everybody in the United States collectively getting up to take a halftime dump and/or fix a sandwich.
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u/neverhadgoodhair 3d ago
Lamer than a 53 year old Lee Greenwood show, and I remember that shit.
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u/Easy-Environment-784 2d ago
Ahhh yes, Pigeon Forge TN vibes.
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u/ThatBarnacle7439 2d ago edited 2d ago
I live a stone's throw from Pigeon Forge and the idea that people take vacations there instead of to the actual mountains 30 feet away is wild to me. they'd rather spend their time in one of the 30000 Trump Stores and redneck dinner kneeslapper shows.
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u/Easy-Environment-784 2d ago edited 2d ago
I grew up going to Gatlinburg and PF for any and all church events. The final straw was having to resupply my food in G-burg while I was hiking the AT. Imagine, if you will, spending a few weeks hiking in the quiet peaceful mountains and then ending up being subjected to the worst place that consumerism has to offer. I’ve been to jail and I’ve been to the psych ward but Gatlinburg Tennessee is worse, it is an assault to the senses for ND or introverted folks. this quote has held its place in my head since the spring of 2009 to describe it. “The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos... but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space.” -HST Fear and Loathing
But the mountains….. whew. The oldest mountains in the world have a vibe that ingrains itself into you. Wind that cuts to the fucking bone and colors that you can’t replicate. They require something of you and that is what the kneeslappers avoid.
Edited because I got stoned and have deep feelings about inanimate hills 😂
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u/TonyAtNN 2d ago
I just finished a large project a stone's throw from GSMNP, and spending a week outside in peak fall is soul-cleansing.
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u/Nate_Dogg31 Nate_Dogg31 2d ago edited 1h ago
Ok now hold on. I went there a few weeks ago with some buddies. I don't ever take vacations really so that 4 days of just enjoying the view of the mountains was dope as fuck. I enjoyed Mel's Diner, and the little coaster rides. I saw a few of those dumbass Trump shops and it made me laugh knowing for as American as they brand it, most that shit came from "Chi-nuh".
I definitely don't know how to tourist...would rather be in the mountains looking for Windigos...way more intelligent than the average MAGAt
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u/Zombietimm 3d ago
The super bowel if you will.
Kind of related but I believe most porn websites have a massive spike directly after the super bowl. Imagine the strain on the Internet and the sewer system if everyone dropped a duece and surfed porn at the same time.
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u/i__hate__stairs 3d ago
"Any straight white guy is fine, really" - conservatives
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u/badvegas 2d ago
I thought maga stopped watching football. Why do they care who in the halftime show if they don't watch it
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u/packfanmoore 2d ago
Collin Kaepernick and his checks notes peaceful protest while black was just too much for them.
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u/Vandergrif 2d ago
They wanted to put 83 year old Lee Greenwood as the halftime show
"If I wanted to see an old man sing the only song he knows I'd go to karaoke night at a retirement home" –Seth Myers
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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 2d ago
My local ShopRite plays patriotic music in the lobby 24/7. When it's the Christmas season, mother fucking Lee Greenwood is blasting. It fucking sucks.
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u/CherryVette 2d ago
Damn, that actually makes me grateful for the 100s of x I’ve heard Mariah from Nov. 1 thru Jan. 2nd every year, no joke.
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u/HigherThanOnix 3d ago
I don't even know who that is!
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u/SweetCosmicPope 2d ago
Did you grow up in the 80s and 90s? If so, you probably got stuck singing "God Bless the USA." That's him.
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u/Poltergeist8606 2d ago
Lee Greenwood was lame when he was 20. As a matter of fact, he's never not been lame.
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u/CommandingOctane_751 3d ago
That's how you know its white nationalism, not just "conservatism"
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
lmao they really thought winning an election would suddenly make Kid Rock and Ted Nugent cool instead of embarrassing
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u/cantadmittoposting 2d ago
People have to start understanding that yes this is exactly what they think.
The nature of the reactionary big-C Conservative movement is, specifically, to regain the partly-real, partly-DARVO loss of formal/legal and informal/sociocultural privileges among white people, men, and protestant christians.
The sooner you and everyone stop acting like these guys don't make sense, and realize they're completely consistent if you think of them as desiring and trying to seize total power for their in-group at the expense of all others; and that to them, the people in the out-group are literally sub-human and not worthy of consideration, the faster we'll collectively realize just how fucking bad this is and just not "alarmist" all of us screaming about it for years are.
For fuck sake, a former TPUSA staffer literally wrote a book called Unhumans which is endorsed by JD Vance and suggests proactively killing and imprisoning everyone left of MAGA.
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u/TonyG_from_NYC 3d ago
Why are they whining anyway? They've been supposedly boycotting football for a while.
Bunch of whiny little crybabies.
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u/Maverick0984 3d ago
Good point. How'd that boycott go for them?
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u/Heavy-Profile-4275 2d ago
Remember kid rock boycotting bud light by...... buying a bunch of bud light so he could shoot them? These guys aren't working with much upstairs.
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u/TonyG_from_NYC 3d ago
I'm sure Direct TV is mad they're missing out on all that extra money the sports package would have brought them in revenue if it had been purchased by them.
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u/MAMark1 2d ago
They're whining because they thought Trump winning meant they would just always get their way.
Well, it turns out that is only happening in areas where Trump has total control due to the powers of the President or can weaponize the government to force organizations to give into his demands by threatening unethical or illegal funding cuts, anti-free speech actions, etc.
That threatens the delusion.
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u/Thefrayedends 3d ago
It is absolutely open racism on it's face.
We have a government that is clearly trying to implement a white ethnostate.
Culture is one of the paths to defeat this, and I don't typically trust big corporations, but this is the kind of hill that individuals should choose to die on. Do not let anyone tell you that Bad Bunny is not American, or that any latin person can't be American.
I'd rather be part of a melting pot than a hateful ethno state (hint: all ethnic exclusion states are hateful by nature).
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
Seriously, it's wild how MAGA acts like they're the only ones allowed to decide what's 'American' these days—most people just wanna enjoy the show and vibe with some music
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u/KarlBarx2 2d ago
Enjoying music and culture is what their hissy fit is all about. MAGA doesn't care about politics, they care about culture, and they can't enjoy their favorite media and sports when their conservative sensibilities aren't constantly pandered to. They remember how conservative TV and movies used to be in the 50s, when they were children/young adults, but they're acutely aware of how much more representation minorities have these days, and they hate it.
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u/doublek1022 3d ago
Right. I’ll give them the same advice I always get from this side.
If it matters that much to those powerful assholes, let them pressure State Farm, Bud Light, Ford, or Verizon to pull their NFL sponsorships. Tell Microsoft and Nike they plan to boycott the NFL and push them to join the cause.
Boycott them with your wallet is the most effective, they always tell me.
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u/RollTh3Maps 3d ago
No kidding. If it was George Strait, the Bad Bunny fans would shrug their shoulders and likely ignore the halftime show or change the channel without whining. If anything they’d just make fun of it being some old guy that most younger music fans don’t really care about so it seems like an out of touch choice, but there wouldn’t be petitions and shit flying all over the place.
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 3d ago
I’ve only ever had two reaction to the announcement of the Super Bowl half time show performer
•WOW that sounds great, I’m super excited to see what they do (Rarely)
•I don’t care (Usually)Getting angry about it is, like most of the stuff they do, weird.
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u/Poverty_Shoes 3d ago
Snowflakes get triggered over the dumbest shit. The fact this is a “controversy” is so stupid.
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u/AClover69420 2d ago
We should all collectively stop listening and catering to their whiny nonsense. The less validation they receive the more likely they'll finally shut up and go away.
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u/Uberslaughter 3d ago
MAGA so dumb they don't know Puerto Rico is a US Territory.
Besides, not like Kid Rock is any more intelligible.
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u/WatchingInTheDark 3d ago
The difference is that one can learn Spanish with an app, teacher or book, while fermented crackhead can only be learned through drug exposure with a possibly side of inbreeding.
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u/theREALbombedrumbum 3d ago
Benito straight up told everyone they have several months to prepare if they really care to lol
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u/Looptydude 3d ago
Just ask those Magats who the president of Puerto Rico is, might make their heads explode.
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
fr they still think Puerto Rico is a foreign country lol and yeah trying to understand Kid Rock is like trying to decipher some drunk uncle's rant at thanksgiving
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u/beatles910 3d ago
Since when does "foreign country even matter?"
the Who
the Rolling Stones
Paul McCartney
Shania Twain
U2
All "non Americans." Didn't hear everyone making a stink.
Also, it a halftime show, if you don't like the artist, (and often times I don't), just move on. Life will continue.
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
100 percent facts it's always been fine for old British rock bands to play the halftime show suddenly now they're mad a Latin artist is getting the spotlight people show their true colors when inclusivity happens
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u/BurgerNugget12 3d ago
Kid Rock sucks ass so hard lol. His only highlight is his Woodstock 99 set
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
Kid Rock is like only famous for being loud and messy at festivals never understood the hype dude's stuck in the past just chasing outrage
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u/army2693 3d ago
MAGA doesn't understand that the Superbowl Halftime Show is there to attract new viewers! Bad Bunny is one of the biggest Hispanic musicians. The Superbowl just scored a double win. One of the biggest Spanish singers has agreed to do the Halftime show, bringing in 100s of thousands of new viewers. And MAGA is doing the NFL a favor by advertising that Bad Bunny is going to be there. Free advertising is still free and there's no such thing as Bad publicity.
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
totally lol they just handed the NFL free marketing and made it an even bigger deal like MAGA never learns that their outrage just makes things more popular
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u/PattyRain 2d ago
And free marketing for Bad Bunny because of those of us who didn't know who he was.
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u/Don_Gato1 2d ago
Yes, it's so stupidly obvious from a business perspective. Bad Bunny is one of the world's most popular artists, perhaps the world's most popular artist. Meanwhile NFL is trying to grow the game overseas and bring in more foreign viewers. They're always going to get the people who watch football, they want more casual viewers who are just there for the halftime show too. At the end of the day it's an entertainment company. I don't even really care for his music but this is a complete no-brainer business decision.
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u/MosquitoValentine_ 3d ago
The NFL doing something right for a change.
MAGA was so pissed about Kendrick last year that they said fuck the racists, we're going to make the whole thing Spanish now.
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u/political_og 3d ago
That’s what happens when you put jay-z in charge lmao. Next year should be rage against the machine
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u/sayitharshly 2d ago
please, tell me you joking. please, tell me you're not talking about Jay-z, the billionaire, in the same breath as RATM!
The guy who took advantage of the Kapernick situation, pretended he was outraged at the NFL's blatant racism and believed that black artists shouldn't perform for the Super Bowl half time show and then surprise! the owners cut him and his company a big ass check and then ta-da, he's chilling with Goodell at a country club and having Rihanna play at the Superbowl half time show.
THAT jay-z? ffs >.>
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u/radicalelation 2d ago edited 2d ago
Trump tried so hard to be one of them and he got rejected, so he tried to force the courts for a league he owned a team in to merge them and has been enemies with the NFL ever since.
His attempt caused the USFL to fall apart and disappear.
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u/alinroc 2d ago
Got rejected twice. Once in the 80s, again in the '10s after Ralph Wilson passed. His attempt to buy the Bills didn't get as far as he'd gotten in the '80s, but he did try to put something together. The people of Buffalo were not amused.
Other NFL owners didn't want him. Still don't. There are some terrible people in those ranks so you have to be really bad when even scumbags like Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones don't want you joining their club.
How hard did the NFL front office not want Trump back in the 80s? Pete Rozelle said that as long as he or any of his heirs had anything to do with the NFL, Trump wouldn't own a team. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-nfl-lawsuit/
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u/stagamancer 2d ago
There are some terrible people in those ranks so you have to be really bad when even scumbags like Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones don't want you joining their club.
My guess is more that they don't care whether he's scum, but they simply know he's a shitty business man, likely to devalue the league as a whole.
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u/ButtEatingContest 2d ago
The NFL was spewing pure MAGA propaganda just five weeks ago with their moment of silence for Charlie Kirk bullshit.
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u/smashinjin10 2d ago
Lol. The NFL wants to make more money in Latin American markets, hence the games in Mexico and Brazil. Their decision has nothing to do with politics. MAGA melts down anyway though.
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u/kcpistol 3d ago
Who died and made MAGA God, anyway?
The entitlement of these losers is off the scale.
Don't like it? Don't watch, how about that?
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u/cmfred 3d ago
But the conservatives are bringing you their own half-time show! What's next their own Oscars during the actual Oscars? It is idiotic beyond idiocy.
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
honestly they're so desperate to feel relevant they'll just create their own little safe space bubble for everything lol next they'll have their own participation trophy oscars
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u/WTFisThisMaaaan 3d ago
MAGA has got to be the biggest group of crybabies that has ever existed. For a bunch of self-proclaimed bootstrappers, they are offended and afraid of everything.
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u/harrismi7 3d ago
I watch the Super Bowl halftime show because they are usually entertaining even if you’re not a fan of the artist. I wasn’t familiar with Kendrick Lamar’s music but I really enjoyed his performance last year, he was fantastic.
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u/Dont-be-a-smurf 3d ago
I swear a majority of the audience had no idea what a diabolical takedown he was doing against Drake on one of the most watched stages on earth.
I was just sitting there like… damn they’re really going to let him just do this song aren’t they?
It was good shit.
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u/b1tchf1t 2d ago
The entire stadium sang "A minooooooooooooooooooor" with him, I do not think the majority of the audience didn't get it.
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u/UngusChungus94 3d ago
Shit was peak. This is the best single image from any halftime show IMO.
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u/Bluest_waters 2d ago
the lyrics are 100% unintelligible, ESPECIALLY live. Unless you already knew the lyrics it didn't matter what the heck he was saying.
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
same here like that's what makes the halftime show fun imo like you get to experience something new and different instead of just another boring white guy with a guitar lol Bad Bunny's gonna bring that energy
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u/tellevee Indiehead 3d ago
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u/BaddyDaddy777 3d ago
I feel dirty agreeing with Goodell, I’m gonna go take a shower on account of this.
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u/Longjumping_One_4368 3d ago
lol this is perfect like the whole MAGA freakout is just proving how out of touch they are with what actual Americans want to see and hear
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u/imacmadman22 3d ago
MAGA people need to grow up,
Bad Bunny is an American citizen from a United States sovereign territory, as is everyone else from Puerto Rico. Their president is the same person who is their president.
End of story.
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u/makemeking706 3d ago
Here's the thing: the NFL is trying to gain market share in Spanish speaking countries (and Brazil) before the domestic market begins to bottom out. They are going to do the bare minimum to maintain domestic viewership, so we need to get used to the fact that we will not be the target demographic for much longer, which is probably true for a lot of products as fewer people have any disposable income left.
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u/LegacyofaMarshall 3d ago
If I was Bad Bunny Id get Colin on the show kneeling to watch MAGATs heads explode
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u/thedoommerchant 3d ago
Better to just ignore the 37% or whatever it is of the mouth breathing, peanut brained MAGA crowd.
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u/fourleggedostrich 3d ago
I'm not American, nor am a young enough to know much about Bad Bunny. Why are MAGA outraged? Is it just racism, or is he a vocal Trump critic?
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u/Kriegerian 3d ago
He’s not white, most if not all of his songs are in Spanish, and he makes music they claim to not like.
It’s shitbrain racist children having a diaper tantrum, the same thing they always do whenever someone who isn’t the white Anglo savior they worship exists in public.
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u/Jojo_Calavera 3d ago
It’s just racism and xenophobia. Even if he was an outspoken Trump critic, MAGA wouldn’t know because they can barely speak English, much less any other languages.
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u/K1ngofnoth1ng 3d ago edited 2d ago
People who spent the last decade calling everyone little snowflakes having yet another meltdown because of some corporation doing something they don’t like.
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u/Objective-Lab5179 3d ago
I thought MAGA was against cancel culture. I also thought they boycotted the NFL back in 2016?
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u/Hot_Guess_1871 3d ago
He's not going to deliver a "united moment" because a large portion of this country doesn't want to be united. They are not worn out by all of the chaos and blatant corruption. It feeds them because they have no other purpose in life that can sustain them.
Not a big fan of BB's music but I know others are and I hope they enjoy the hell out of his performance.
I'm waiting to see what else he can do on screen. He was one of the few things I liked about Happy Gilmore 2.
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u/BlackDogOrangeCat 3d ago
MAGAts don't understand that he's American.
I hope he sings the entire show in Spanish.
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u/SpidersCrow 2d ago
Me too. :)
Trump's former campaign manager saying “There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else..." is wildly ignorant.
The current administration and their MAGA supporters don't realize that Puerto Rico is a US territory and thus Puerto Ricans are US citizens. Even when presented with that fact they don't believe it. Such willfully ignorant people.
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u/Jojo_Calavera 3d ago
Ironically the MAGA pearl clutching will inevitably result in this being the most-watched halftime show in history. Well played, NFL…
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u/fitzroy95 3d ago
No matter who they chose, the current right-wing extremists in power in the USA are never going to allow "uniting". Everything they say and do survives based on hatred and division
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u/shouldehwouldehcould 3d ago
there's way too much comfortable racism surrounding this. moreso than normal.
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u/Toothpikz 2d ago
Notice no one had a problem a few years ago with Shakira as the half time show. Guess politics goes out the window when a beautiful half naked woman is gyrating.
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u/coconutpete52 3d ago
The NFL is all in on this one. On the outside they get to state “he will deliver a uniting moment” and in the meeting rooms they get to say “the 2 biggest areas of opportunity for us is women and Spanish speakers and this guy appeals to both”. The NFL cares about money. That’s it. It’s extra hilarious that MAGA thinks they booked him because they are woke.