I didn't know a single word Bad Bunny said in Spanish and I still absolutely loved the show. He killed it -- and pissing off maga is a lovely added bonus.
For anyone that hasn't spent time in Puerto Rico or doesn't speak Spanish I figured I would explain some of what he portrayed during that performance and why it was so important for Latino/Latina community.
He opened with sugarcane imagery—referencing Puerto Rico’s colonial exploitation after the U.S. invasion in 1898, when land and labor were redirected toward sugar production, driving the poverty that still shapes the island’s economy.
“Titi Me Preguntó” explored emotional avoidance behind relationships, while the staged engagement highlighted choosing authentic commitment. Street stands (food, nails, coconut vendors) reflected the everyday hustle common across Latin America—small businesses built for survival. Boxing imagery echoed a familiar path out of poverty and also touched on machismo culture—the pressure on men to prove strength and provide. The couple he gave the ring to is the same couple that later get married (for real!) during the performance.
“Yo Perreo Sola,” is a rejection of gender violence and toxic masculinity reinforcing autonomy and respect for women.
“Monaco” is a reinforcing hope a message of upward mobility through perseverance.
The celebration scenes—salsa music and dancing, family gatherings, children asleep at parties—reflects the Latin culture and community.
Later segments referenced gentrification and displacement (“Lo Que Pasó en Hawaii”), which was comparing Puerto Rico’s pressures to Hawaii’s—the rising costs, land acquisition/colonization, and the overall cultural dilution.
“El Apagón” was addressing cultural appropriation and the power line poles were Puerto Rico’s energy crisis.
The whole performance was a narrative about colonial legacy, identity, pride, struggle, and resilience across Puerto Rico and Latin America.
Wow. Thank you for this lesson. I was wishing the whole time that I had specifics. I figured out some of it, but I appreciate the clarity you bring. 👍🏻👏🏻
I did wonder about the sugar cane—which I initially mistook for a cornfield (it's what I know, sorry).
We spent half a month in Puerto Rico a few years ago and loved it. Well worth a visit, no harder to get into than Florida with much better food and far more interesting people.
Visit, spend lots of money, then GO HOME—DON'T settle down and add to the housing problems! (I admit to being tempted tho.)
Thanks so much. This is helpful. As someone who dated a Boricua for 5 years, and had to learn to speak Spanish, I captured some of what was portrayed, while also missing the finer details. Lately, I have been listening to La Brega. If you haven't heard of it, or heard of it but not listened, I highly recommend. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/974836637/la-brega
I wouldn't watch the Superbowl if you paid me but serious question: was there some reason they didn't offer sub-titles so that EVERYONE could follow along?
I'm not complaining that he sang in Spanish, but why not go for the inclusion that was supposedly his theme?
Was there? Doesn't seem to be mentioned in ANY of the news accounts. There was a screen with the message of love being stronger than hate. That and the message on the football was the only English reported.
I missed it at first as well. The reason most didn’t take notice is because the cameras were too busy following Bad Bunny’s movements around the field, so it was easy to miss. I only caught it once or twice. I suspect most missed it, until the end of the show. Oh well…
Exactly! I listen to music in Spanish, Korean, French, German...if it's got a good beat, a good sound, etc, I don't really care if I don't know the words.
Of course, Chuck Jones and his animation team made this relatable in the Bugs Bunny shorts "What's Opera, Doc?" and "Rabbit of Seville" ... I still find them hilarious.
The problem with MAGA is the people are stupid…stupid is as stupid does…they also have never been to an opera or know how to speak multiple languages. They are the UGLIEST AMERICANS.
No, little Marco is full-on MAGA. He lied about his family immigrating to America and he lied in his absolute agreement to bomb Venezuela. Magas are liars!
Well, according to MAGA standards for Harris, he's Cuban. His parents immigrated from Cuba, he was born in the US, *but his parents weren't American citizens when he was born.*
Most pop music listeners in the world in 1964 did not speak English and yet embraced the Beatles . The French , Germans , Dutch , et al -- loved every song . Also , check out interviews on Paul McCartney's 2003 DVD " Live in Red Square" where Russian adults speak of their over the top attraction to the Beatles in the 60's .
French Germans and especially Dutch mostly understand and speak English (virtually all Dutch speak English better than Melania). Unlike Americans, they don'r consider speaking multiple languages some sort of disloyalty.I also found when I was in Russia in 1985 that the Beatles fans there navigated in English fairly well, although that may have just been the ones that came to meet our group because they wanted to practice their English.
Fun fact: a place in the world where the countriest of Country Music is insanely popular... in English... is *Russia*. The plaintive sound and the sentiments of 'Yer Cheatin' Heart Dun Me Wrong!' just tugs at those dour Russkie heart strings.
Makes perfect sense . I got that same sense when I was in Russia in 1989 , six months before the Berlin Wall came down . I brought several music cassettes with me as gifts . The folks I met were looking for Peter Gabriel music but I had none . I did gift them some rockabilly . A group of musicians playing outdoors in the Arbat were doing their best at Jazz; 'A' for effort but they did have a long way to go . I actually have that on video somewhere .
Megyn Kelly on TPusa’s flop-a-reeno that NOBODY watched: “stunning performance” ??? You must have been on some stunningly good meds when (or if) you watched it. Ol’ Spanky and Alfalfa coulda put on a better show.
Probably on a brainworm diet suggested by RFK Jr. A stew made with some of bear cub, whale heads, all of cooked in toxic water from a dump site where rich people dump their barrels if toxic waste because it cost too much to due it the right way, and top off with heaping pile of heroin, enough to bring down that bear cub.
They say music is the universal language. Love is the universal connection. Bad Bunny's halftime performance was stunning. And greatly needed for this time.
Yeah, that is the thing. That's exactly the thing. I love Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's 'Despacito' in the original Puerto Rican Spanish, and I can understand almost none of it. It prompted me to look up translated lyrics, so now I understand a teeny bit more of another language than I did before. That's certainly subversive and is luring me away from the One True White Path, to my eternal shame.
Orange Shitler thought the dancing at the halftime show was “disgusting”… Yet it’s not at all disgusting whenever he stands there with music playing as he pretends to jerk off two dicks because he can no longer find his own
Disgusting is Epstein, his island and his buddies.
I’m a bit surprised that, as I understand, there was no homage paid to Epstein, his island and his buddies on the TPUSA. Only Kid Rickety rocking chair and his fantasies about underage girls.
Bob Ritchie is one of the sleaziest of "never-was" musical celebrities I've ever had the misfortune to know anything about.
As for Lindsey Graham...it does seem like whenever there's a party at Mar-A-Lardo, Lindsey the Not-Very-Closeted party animal is there too. He sticks to Trump like glue and tbh, I'm a little surprised. I think I've read that Trump is notoriously intolerant of drunks and drunken behaviour (undoubtedly, old issues from his nasty father's inhuman treatment of his older brother)...Trump must enjoy Graham's toadying ways, plus there is always, for Donny, the sadistic pleasure of holding something over Lindsey.
Someone on my friend's Facebook page this morning was whining about Bad Bunny's "crotch grabbing." I'll bet he wasn't complaining in 2006 when 62-year-old Mick Jagger, the king of crotch gabbing, appeared on the Super Bowl — and isn't even a U.S. citizen! This guy is probably the same type of person who whines each year when they announce the Rock Hall inductees that any group that isn't four or five white guys playing guitars "isn't rock & roll."
Bad Bunny produced a one-act, hit, Broadway Musical, including sets, costumes, dancing, singing, and with a brilliant story line. I loved it. And I’m an ancient white woman who doesn’t understand spoken Spanish. But I understood this story. Give that guy a Tony award to go with the Grammy.
And, the owner of the Patriots, R Kraft, is in the Epstein files! Of course he gave money to MAGA; he is one and is trying to protect his money and his person.
A defensive performance all the way around. A bunch of us were predicting the Seahawks because their defense is so off the charts. I didnt have any emotional leanings either way. But Drake Maye is only 23…he has a stellar future! If only he could have connected a few.
Seahawks fan here! We had season tickets for about a decade but spend most of the winter in Mexico now so we don't go to games any more. Except my husband and a friend were going to drive down to Baja Sur anyway so they stopped and went to the game. My sister texted me and said she felt sorry for Drake and I said when he gets to high school next year he will be super popular! Then later I said he needed a juice box and a nap and he would feel better. I was just really saying, that guy has a LOT of years for more Super Bowls and will obviously do well. Seahawks were a better team. But even I will admit until the 4th quarter it was not very exciting.
Thats fantastic…I’ll look this up. I havent missed a day in 81 days on Duolingo-it helped me a lot when I was in Spain. The native speakers go SO fast…but I’m determined to get it! THANK YOU!
So true, Steven, so true. In Spain, it’s “los servicios” that you ask for. In airports, etc., the signs say S.S., for sanitary services. I learned this from travel, not high school Spanish. I think as a euphemism, it’s more descriptive than “rest room,” which my British mother-in-law assumed was a lounging area with comfy chairs.
There is a divide between Continental and New World Spanish. Same with Portuguese. I can’t possibly be a real American, because I know enough of 4 languages besides English to travel easily. I even learned a little travelers’ Malay when I went to Malaysia and Indonesia.
I practiced Portuguese using Duolingo before we went to Lisbon. It was Brazilian Portuguese. Oh, well, it was fun anyway. I admire your ability to learn Malay.
Spanish speakers tend to talk fast! I have a friend who is Mexican and speaks unaccented English (she came to this country the same year as Melania — hmmmm) but you can guess her first language is Spanish by the speed at which she talks.
ditto south indians tho they can code-switch - once heard about an anglo working in lab with a couple of indians and he thot thy were speaking their own language to each other...until after a period of acclimatization he suddenly realize they were speaking english, but at their native speed to each other and slooowwww to him
My Mexican teacher said they stand closer when talking with someone than English speakers do. Why? English has some consonant sounds which may come with an escape of saliva. Spanish consonants don’t produce as much spit.
Still trying to envision the imagination, attention to detail, and rehearsals (!) that must have gone into such a complex and fantastic production. Damn....
Jeff Tiedrich continues his relentless daily evisceration of Trump's corruption, incompetence, and fascist aspirations. Every. Single. Day. While mainstream media both-sides authoritarianism and treats each new atrocity as "normal political discourse," Tiedrich calls it what it is—with receipts, with fury, with the kind of consistency that reminds us we're not crazy for being angry. In an era of memory-holing and manufactured amnesia, his work serves as documentation and rallying cry.
I didn't realize until I read about the halftime show this morning how much of the symbolism and how many of the cameos I missed. I really need to watch it again. That said, I really enjoyed it. (And I do speak Spanish, by the way.)
Also, one of the streaming services that carried the TPUSA dreck reported a total of 14,000 views. I think the 5 million number was supplied by noted statistician Professor Otto Yerass.
Professor Otto Yerass? Dear Lord, please help me remember this one. I will definitely need it in the coming days. I better write it down. Multiple times. Like, “I will not talk in school.”
One of my favorite parts: "God bless America..." and then he proceeds to mention all of the countries in South and North America. The reich-wing must have messed their pants on that one. You can't go around blessing other countries, too.
This weekend Sen. Adam Schiff was a guest on "Have I Got News For You." He quipped that whenever he's asked if Trump wears diapers he replies, "Depends."
"Mr. Bunny,"great. It's like when the NY Times referred to Meat Loaf as "Mr. Loaf." Meanwhile, I'm starting to think Phatso may have been right about Megan Kelly. Remember when she (and Maria Bartiromo) were actually respected journalists?
HAHA! I had to look up where the name came from. Evidently he had to wear a grumpy bunny costume when he was in an Easter play in school as a child. The photo of him scowling inspired "Bad Bunny". And the rest is history.
The Bad Bunny performance was so amazing it brought tears to my eyes. 135.5 million people watched it. There was SO much symbolism and many Easter eggs. The inclusivity of it, the REAL wedding that occurred, the cameos of Gaga, Ricky Martin and many others... Even Donnie couldn't watch Kid Rock lip sync horribly and kept the actual Half time show on at his crappy golf course club.
You didn't need to speak Spanish to enjoy it. Only an old dodder out of touch with reality and culture would not like it. Meanwhile TPUSA got 4M views mostly from bots and MAGA cult watching on multiple devices. The live event had NO ONE and NO activity in its Youtube chat and that tells you everything.
Brown-skinned people having a blast, old and young, great music, incredible energy, amazing sets and production, stunning camera work, such planning and intelligence, and a message of love and inclusion. All of that was triggering. Fin du siècle indeed. And I want to live to see it. I might be losing sleep these days, but I want to hang around long enough to be part of that worldwide celebration.
Trollish unhappy losers on the right are fighting tooth and nail to not only forestall but to vanquish love, equality, tolerance, and inclusion. Imagine what they lack in their own lives and character to be so against kindness and acceptance.
Oh, man! It's going to be a five-day party. I am old but I am determined to live to join that street party. I've enjoyed Latino family events. Everyone, young or old, dances. It's wonderful, joyful.
You nailed it they are so close to one another always reminds me of human decency, I mean it half of my friends are now Latino and best friends in the last 20 years are whole families. I moved to Costa Rica back then and it hits you right away grandma is never alone when going anywhere, lovely.
I think we might have an idea who "Bubba" is now. In the email, it was written with scare quotes, so.......It would explain a whole lotta lots about Miz Lindsay's unwavering loyalty to evil.
Damn Jeff I love you. "Go ahead, make fun of Brainworms’ speech habits all you want — but yogurt is, in fact, an important part of Bobby’s five food groups: ferments, whale head, dead bear cub, raw sewage, and heroin." I wish that fit on a hat.
These deplorable assholes are always in a race to the bottom. Who lies the most? Who is the dumbest? And most importantly, who is causing the most damage to the American people? We have Noem and Miller shooting people in the street like dogs in a gravel pit, we have Drunkle Pete sending carrier groups all over while he bombs god-knows-who in "drug boats," we have Vance tanking the chances of the Olympian skaters by driving his Team America World Police motorcade through the Old Country, and of course the Diaper King spewing literal shit from every single hole in his body 24/7. It defies belief.
The first commandment of MAGA, as coined by Steve Bannon: FLOOD THE ZONE WITH SHIT. And a shit-flooded zone is smelly, ugly, and hazardous for your health. We brought back measles! Next stop, cholera with a special guest appearance by polio!
Bad Bunny, as part of an ethnic and racial minority in the USA, doesn't have the presumption of belonging. That's what all this is about. These people want voices such as his silenced so they don't have to think about him (or any other Spanish-speaker) as an American. And it's the same playbook in essence by which they demonized innocent Haitian-Americans to win Ohio.
These people are the white people - who annihilated & subdued the Indigenous people in the 19th century & betrayed them. Who enslaved hundreds of thousands of Africans so that they could harvest their cotton and sell it to the Europeans, who colonized dozens of foreign nations to rape & plunder their natural resources.
Obviously, I've heard of Bad Bunny. Maybe heard one or two of his songs. So, I made sure I watched the halftime show. It was fantastic. Unless you weren't paying attention, it was
well-known that the entire show would be in Spanish. So what? It was fantastic.
I didn't know a single word Bad Bunny said in Spanish and I still absolutely loved the show. He killed it -- and pissing off maga is a lovely added bonus.
that's the thing: good art — and good entertainment — transcends language
Absolutey Jeff!
For anyone that hasn't spent time in Puerto Rico or doesn't speak Spanish I figured I would explain some of what he portrayed during that performance and why it was so important for Latino/Latina community.
He opened with sugarcane imagery—referencing Puerto Rico’s colonial exploitation after the U.S. invasion in 1898, when land and labor were redirected toward sugar production, driving the poverty that still shapes the island’s economy.
“Titi Me Preguntó” explored emotional avoidance behind relationships, while the staged engagement highlighted choosing authentic commitment. Street stands (food, nails, coconut vendors) reflected the everyday hustle common across Latin America—small businesses built for survival. Boxing imagery echoed a familiar path out of poverty and also touched on machismo culture—the pressure on men to prove strength and provide. The couple he gave the ring to is the same couple that later get married (for real!) during the performance.
“Yo Perreo Sola,” is a rejection of gender violence and toxic masculinity reinforcing autonomy and respect for women.
“Monaco” is a reinforcing hope a message of upward mobility through perseverance.
The celebration scenes—salsa music and dancing, family gatherings, children asleep at parties—reflects the Latin culture and community.
Later segments referenced gentrification and displacement (“Lo Que Pasó en Hawaii”), which was comparing Puerto Rico’s pressures to Hawaii’s—the rising costs, land acquisition/colonization, and the overall cultural dilution.
“El Apagón” was addressing cultural appropriation and the power line poles were Puerto Rico’s energy crisis.
The whole performance was a narrative about colonial legacy, identity, pride, struggle, and resilience across Puerto Rico and Latin America.
Thank you for this,... I understood a word or two, but this really helps understand the meaning. The entire production was stellar.
Wow. Thank you for this lesson. I was wishing the whole time that I had specifics. I figured out some of it, but I appreciate the clarity you bring. 👍🏻👏🏻
I did wonder about the sugar cane—which I initially mistook for a cornfield (it's what I know, sorry).
We spent half a month in Puerto Rico a few years ago and loved it. Well worth a visit, no harder to get into than Florida with much better food and far more interesting people.
Visit, spend lots of money, then GO HOME—DON'T settle down and add to the housing problems! (I admit to being tempted tho.)
Unity in Defiance - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE EXPLAINER!!
Of course!! I LOVE Puerto Rico! I spent a deployment there, and it occupies a big place in my heart.
I rewatched the performance at least 5 times since it aired live and I was just blown away by all the symbolism and Easter eggs that I had to share!
I didn’t think it could top Kendrick Lamar last year but it absolutely did—but not in a way that overshadowed Kendrick’s performance.
👍🏼👏🏼
Thank you for this explanation. I love Bad Bunny and his message. Even though I do not speak Spanish, the VIBE is one of love and joy.
Thanks so much. This is helpful. As someone who dated a Boricua for 5 years, and had to learn to speak Spanish, I captured some of what was portrayed, while also missing the finer details. Lately, I have been listening to La Brega. If you haven't heard of it, or heard of it but not listened, I highly recommend. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/974836637/la-brega
Nice! Thank you!
What Susan Niemann said! I speak some Spanish, but Puerto Rican Spanish is too fast for my feeble old brain to process.
Thank you! How brilliantly done!
Thank you for that thoughtful analysis. I caught part of it, but you filled in a lot of blanks for me. I loved it!!!
I wouldn't watch the Superbowl if you paid me but serious question: was there some reason they didn't offer sub-titles so that EVERYONE could follow along?
I'm not complaining that he sang in Spanish, but why not go for the inclusion that was supposedly his theme?
There was a screen behind him with the translation in English.
Was there? Doesn't seem to be mentioned in ANY of the news accounts. There was a screen with the message of love being stronger than hate. That and the message on the football was the only English reported.
I missed it at first as well. The reason most didn’t take notice is because the cameras were too busy following Bad Bunny’s movements around the field, so it was easy to miss. I only caught it once or twice. I suspect most missed it, until the end of the show. Oh well…
It comes with a Caribbean dialect, may be difficult for translation?
Yes, that would be legit if it was realtime captioning, since this was a performance it all could have been done in advance.
Exactly! I listen to music in Spanish, Korean, French, German...if it's got a good beat, a good sound, etc, I don't really care if I don't know the words.
One British Lord said “I don’t care which language an opera is sung in so long as it is one I don’t understand.”
I've attended performances of English-language operas and it always seemed wrong to be able to understand what was being sung
The libretto script part of every opera is generally excruciating.
Of course, Chuck Jones and his animation team made this relatable in the Bugs Bunny shorts "What's Opera, Doc?" and "Rabbit of Seville" ... I still find them hilarious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Opera,_Doc%3F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZTE9MDoaLs&t=32s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Seville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIePr1GW9wI
🤷
Kill the Wabbit!
I love these cartoons!!
😂
Dave Barry once helpfully pointed out that in spite of the art form's highbrow PR, most opera lyrics are ridiculously lame:
"Che sembianze! Che vestiti! Che figure! Che mustacchi!"
"What appearances! What clothes! What figures! What moustaches!"
but to english ears the lyrics are themselves musical...wonder if it sounds mundane to italians
The problem with MAGA is the people are stupid…stupid is as stupid does…they also have never been to an opera or know how to speak multiple languages. They are the UGLIEST AMERICANS.
Little Marco speaks Spanish, but then he is really just a pretend MAGA.
No, little Marco is full-on MAGA. He lied about his family immigrating to America and he lied in his absolute agreement to bomb Venezuela. Magas are liars!
I think he's a pretend Cubano.
Well, according to MAGA standards for Harris, he's Cuban. His parents immigrated from Cuba, he was born in the US, *but his parents weren't American citizens when he was born.*
There's also some chain migration in there.
I agree, Sharon.
Portuguese is definitely a favorite of mine Alison, music is food for the soul, Trumps a soulless connard!
You made me look it up. Now on my short-list of insults. Thank you for your service.
I can't understand the english in current music ( came of age during a time of enunciation, like Sinatra)
Most pop music listeners in the world in 1964 did not speak English and yet embraced the Beatles . The French , Germans , Dutch , et al -- loved every song . Also , check out interviews on Paul McCartney's 2003 DVD " Live in Red Square" where Russian adults speak of their over the top attraction to the Beatles in the 60's .
French Germans and especially Dutch mostly understand and speak English (virtually all Dutch speak English better than Melania). Unlike Americans, they don'r consider speaking multiple languages some sort of disloyalty.I also found when I was in Russia in 1985 that the Beatles fans there navigated in English fairly well, although that may have just been the ones that came to meet our group because they wanted to practice their English.
All the Nordic countries speak English very well.
as a dumb tourist, I found that almost everywhere more people speak english than we speak anything else
Fun fact: a place in the world where the countriest of Country Music is insanely popular... in English... is *Russia*. The plaintive sound and the sentiments of 'Yer Cheatin' Heart Dun Me Wrong!' just tugs at those dour Russkie heart strings.
Makes perfect sense . I got that same sense when I was in Russia in 1989 , six months before the Berlin Wall came down . I brought several music cassettes with me as gifts . The folks I met were looking for Peter Gabriel music but I had none . I did gift them some rockabilly . A group of musicians playing outdoors in the Arbat were doing their best at Jazz; 'A' for effort but they did have a long way to go . I actually have that on video somewhere .
Megyn Kelly on TPusa’s flop-a-reeno that NOBODY watched: “stunning performance” ??? You must have been on some stunningly good meds when (or if) you watched it. Ol’ Spanky and Alfalfa coulda put on a better show.
Probably on a brainworm diet suggested by RFK Jr. A stew made with some of bear cub, whale heads, all of cooked in toxic water from a dump site where rich people dump their barrels if toxic waste because it cost too much to due it the right way, and top off with heaping pile of heroin, enough to bring down that bear cub.
They say music is the universal language. Love is the universal connection. Bad Bunny's halftime performance was stunning. And greatly needed for this time.
Yeah, that is the thing. That's exactly the thing. I love Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's 'Despacito' in the original Puerto Rican Spanish, and I can understand almost none of it. It prompted me to look up translated lyrics, so now I understand a teeny bit more of another language than I did before. That's certainly subversive and is luring me away from the One True White Path, to my eternal shame.
Rhythm is a universal language.
Jeff, i sure hope you didn’t miss the opportunity to actually post “shut the fuck up, Piggy,” on his post. or have you been blocked? 😉
Orange Shitler thought the dancing at the halftime show was “disgusting”… Yet it’s not at all disgusting whenever he stands there with music playing as he pretends to jerk off two dicks because he can no longer find his own
Having that rotten abusing pedo call anything disgusting is just peak audacity.
Disgusting is Epstein, his island and his buddies.
I’m a bit surprised that, as I understand, there was no homage paid to Epstein, his island and his buddies on the TPUSA. Only Kid Rickety rocking chair and his fantasies about underage girls.
Bob Ritchie is one of the sleaziest of "never-was" musical celebrities I've ever had the misfortune to know anything about.
As for Lindsey Graham...it does seem like whenever there's a party at Mar-A-Lardo, Lindsey the Not-Very-Closeted party animal is there too. He sticks to Trump like glue and tbh, I'm a little surprised. I think I've read that Trump is notoriously intolerant of drunks and drunken behaviour (undoubtedly, old issues from his nasty father's inhuman treatment of his older brother)...Trump must enjoy Graham's toadying ways, plus there is always, for Donny, the sadistic pleasure of holding something over Lindsey.
Someone on my friend's Facebook page this morning was whining about Bad Bunny's "crotch grabbing." I'll bet he wasn't complaining in 2006 when 62-year-old Mick Jagger, the king of crotch gabbing, appeared on the Super Bowl — and isn't even a U.S. citizen! This guy is probably the same type of person who whines each year when they announce the Rock Hall inductees that any group that isn't four or five white guys playing guitars "isn't rock & roll."
Actually, I do wish that all entertainers would stop grabbing their crotch. Why do they all do that?
Perhaps they need to shower more.
Jimmy Connors grabbed his crotch all the time.
Don't forget Michael Jackson.
Exactly Anastasia!
I was wondering if he’d secretly watch, and voila!
Trump has zero rhythm, he’s never been able to dance Bob, appears he loves jerking off a couple of his comrade’s though.
Has he seen his gal Nicki Minaj preform?
Trump did not write that post. it was literate. and who types "U.S.A.?"
Bad Bunny produced a one-act, hit, Broadway Musical, including sets, costumes, dancing, singing, and with a brilliant story line. I loved it. And I’m an ancient white woman who doesn’t understand spoken Spanish. But I understood this story. Give that guy a Tony award to go with the Grammy.
Agree! Just marvelous. Energizing and uplifting!
And all in 13-minutes of performance! Absolutely stunning!
It makes me want to work harder on my Spanish lessons. But like you said, the music was terrific!
And the game sucked. Unless you’re a Seahawks fan. The FG kicker was the best player. 3 quarters of punts, sacks,& dropped balls!
The owner of the Patriots gave a boatload of money to Republicans, so I am happy that the Seahawks won!!
And, the owner of the Patriots, R Kraft, is in the Epstein files! Of course he gave money to MAGA; he is one and is trying to protect his money and his person.
A defensive performance all the way around. A bunch of us were predicting the Seahawks because their defense is so off the charts. I didnt have any emotional leanings either way. But Drake Maye is only 23…he has a stellar future! If only he could have connected a few.
Is Drake out of puberty? He's such a skinny little kid surrounded by huge guys. Anyway, he'll have a great future as he matures.
Seahawks fan here! We had season tickets for about a decade but spend most of the winter in Mexico now so we don't go to games any more. Except my husband and a friend were going to drive down to Baja Sur anyway so they stopped and went to the game. My sister texted me and said she felt sorry for Drake and I said when he gets to high school next year he will be super popular! Then later I said he needed a juice box and a nap and he would feel better. I was just really saying, that guy has a LOT of years for more Super Bowls and will obviously do well. Seahawks were a better team. But even I will admit until the 4th quarter it was not very exciting.
LOL. He is only 23!!! A babe!
I have a Spanish teacher on Italki I highly recommend if you are looking.
I’ve been using Duolingo and Babel. Would love to know about yours!
I do Duolingo and Italki. On Italki I have had lessons with Carlos “deperu” for 4 years now and have a 7 year streak on Duolingo.
Thats fantastic…I’ll look this up. I havent missed a day in 81 days on Duolingo-it helped me a lot when I was in Spain. The native speakers go SO fast…but I’m determined to get it! THANK YOU!
My friend from Jalisco Roberto is a well educated classical guitarist:composer… he learned to speak English from playing Beatles tunes… sayin Susan!
I’m always 3 sentences behind in Spanish… and I lived in S FL for 40 years.
I had five semesters of Spanish in college and all I can say is....something dirty. Oh, and "hola".
The most important words in Spanish or any other language are ‘donde esta el baño?’
So true, Steven, so true. In Spain, it’s “los servicios” that you ask for. In airports, etc., the signs say S.S., for sanitary services. I learned this from travel, not high school Spanish. I think as a euphemism, it’s more descriptive than “rest room,” which my British mother-in-law assumed was a lounging area with comfy chairs.
There is a divide between Continental and New World Spanish. Same with Portuguese. I can’t possibly be a real American, because I know enough of 4 languages besides English to travel easily. I even learned a little travelers’ Malay when I went to Malaysia and Indonesia.
I practiced Portuguese using Duolingo before we went to Lisbon. It was Brazilian Portuguese. Oh, well, it was fun anyway. I admire your ability to learn Malay.
otherwise one must pantomime, and that's embarrassing
So very true, Gina. Gave me a laughing/coughing fit.
Ha! One of the phrases I learned immediately!
Spanish speakers tend to talk fast! I have a friend who is Mexican and speaks unaccented English (she came to this country the same year as Melania — hmmmm) but you can guess her first language is Spanish by the speed at which she talks.
ditto south indians tho they can code-switch - once heard about an anglo working in lab with a couple of indians and he thot thy were speaking their own language to each other...until after a period of acclimatization he suddenly realize they were speaking english, but at their native speed to each other and slooowwww to him
They do seem to forget the space bar between words!
My Mexican teacher said they stand closer when talking with someone than English speakers do. Why? English has some consonant sounds which may come with an escape of saliva. Spanish consonants don’t produce as much spit.
I have to rely on my pathetic grasp of Burque Spanglish... yet I got the message loud and clear. ☮️❤️😎
¿Cantó la canción YMCA en español?
I wonder if we could find that on You Tube? It would be fun.
The energy was pure exhilaration!
Still trying to envision the imagination, attention to detail, and rehearsals (!) that must have gone into such a complex and fantastic production. Damn....
Exactly this!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I don’t speak Spanish, but I didn’t need to know any foreign language to understand the message Bad Bunny was saying.
The happiness and love and dancing was all I needed to see.
Beat me too it Jeff.
But
Guess what, I got in a line about you.
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aw, now I'm blushing
Ha. Jeff, you will always be a hero of the day, in one form or another to someone. That means you are CERTAINLY worthy of the notification.
Well fucking said, Wendy. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
We try every day. Today I rambled like a bitch, so it hit 3000+ words. I try to keep it at 1800 and under, so Im sorry it went long.
Fifth Estate is where it’s at. Journalism that is. Keep up the great work!
I do it daily, and gladly.
I didn't realize until I read about the halftime show this morning how much of the symbolism and how many of the cameos I missed. I really need to watch it again. That said, I really enjoyed it. (And I do speak Spanish, by the way.)
Also, one of the streaming services that carried the TPUSA dreck reported a total of 14,000 views. I think the 5 million number was supplied by noted statistician Professor Otto Yerass.
Oh, so *that's* where they're getting those great numbers! Hahahahaha!
Otto has been so fucking busy with these dipshits, right?!?!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gosh, we see Mr. Yerass being quoted so often these days. Brilliant.
Is he the cousin of Otto Korrekt?
Yes, he’s getting older now so Otto Pen is performing the new stuff.
Professor Otto Yerass? Dear Lord, please help me remember this one. I will definitely need it in the coming days. I better write it down. Multiple times. Like, “I will not talk in school.”
I do love the name Otto. My cousin’s grandpa name. So they started naming there cats and a dog Otto, it’s fun.
One of my favorite parts: "God bless America..." and then he proceeds to mention all of the countries in South and North America. The reich-wing must have messed their pants on that one. You can't go around blessing other countries, too.
Donnie probably had to go through 5 diaper changes from watching that performance! LMAO
Ah, maybe he used a b**t p**g for the big event so that he didn't have to pause for changes?
Only Lindsey would know Arne.
If he doesn't use them during press conferences in the Offal Orafice, why would he use them at home?
This weekend Sen. Adam Schiff was a guest on "Have I Got News For You." He quipped that whenever he's asked if Trump wears diapers he replies, "Depends."
I luuuuuuuved that part! A little geography lesson. 😜 It was awesome! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Yes!!!👆🏼💯
"Bobby used ‘ferments’ as a noun — as one does when one is a fucking crackpot." 😂😂
"failed fascist pesthole" PERFECT!
Also, when did Megan Kelly start taking her asshole pills?
I'm now a big fan of Mr. Bunny. That was energizing, fun, (the choreography was mind blowing) and we loved every second of it. Benito is THE MAN.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, baybee!!! I absolutely loved watching him!
"Mr. Bunny,"great. It's like when the NY Times referred to Meat Loaf as "Mr. Loaf." Meanwhile, I'm starting to think Phatso may have been right about Megan Kelly. Remember when she (and Maria Bartiromo) were actually respected journalists?
HAHA! I had to look up where the name came from. Evidently he had to wear a grumpy bunny costume when he was in an Easter play in school as a child. The photo of him scowling inspired "Bad Bunny". And the rest is history.
Yeah... Ms. Kelly has trashed herself.
No, I don't.
Always disliked Barteromo. But I haven’t see or heard Senor Mal Conejo. I will watch on YouTube I guess.
1) gotta love the grey lady 2) *Megyn 3) no
Megan K overdosed on those asshole pills a long, long time ago.
Can she just fade away? just go away Kelly, go away- you’re just a bleach blonde bimbo who nobody cares about .
It's been many, many, MANY years since her "Santa Claus is WHITE!" crashout.
Kelly was prolly born that way
M. Kelly started out as an asshole in the womb, and it was downhill from there.
I see what you did there.
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Amazing dance, great production!😃
As Megan ages, she needs “help” keeping up “appearances.”
The Bad Bunny performance was so amazing it brought tears to my eyes. 135.5 million people watched it. There was SO much symbolism and many Easter eggs. The inclusivity of it, the REAL wedding that occurred, the cameos of Gaga, Ricky Martin and many others... Even Donnie couldn't watch Kid Rock lip sync horribly and kept the actual Half time show on at his crappy golf course club.
You didn't need to speak Spanish to enjoy it. Only an old dodder out of touch with reality and culture would not like it. Meanwhile TPUSA got 4M views mostly from bots and MAGA cult watching on multiple devices. The live event had NO ONE and NO activity in its Youtube chat and that tells you everything.
"Only an old dodder out of touch with reality and culture…" Ah, yes, ageism. The universal infestation.
Trust me, there are plenty of "out of touch" young ones.
I had the privilege of watching Bad Bunny at my hotel lounge in Puerto Rico and to say it was a party would be an understatement.
Brown-skinned people having a blast, old and young, great music, incredible energy, amazing sets and production, stunning camera work, such planning and intelligence, and a message of love and inclusion. All of that was triggering. Fin du siècle indeed. And I want to live to see it. I might be losing sleep these days, but I want to hang around long enough to be part of that worldwide celebration.
Trollish unhappy losers on the right are fighting tooth and nail to not only forestall but to vanquish love, equality, tolerance, and inclusion. Imagine what they lack in their own lives and character to be so against kindness and acceptance.
They are truly empty vessels
Oh, man! It's going to be a five-day party. I am old but I am determined to live to join that street party. I've enjoyed Latino family events. Everyone, young or old, dances. It's wonderful, joyful.
You nailed it they are so close to one another always reminds me of human decency, I mean it half of my friends are now Latino and best friends in the last 20 years are whole families. I moved to Costa Rica back then and it hits you right away grandma is never alone when going anywhere, lovely.
What party is That, Arne? The aforementioned Fin de Siecle in Neil’s comment?
I’m up for it if I knew when and where to report!
Aren’t the BEST parties and weddings the ones that everyone is up dancing?
It appears that Lindsey Graham and DJT are morphing into one squishy, octogenarian pervert.
We know Putin is holding lots of kompromat on both Donnie and Lindsey. Makes you wonder what it might be, given how much we already know.
Yes. And it’s terrifying. 🤢🤬😡💔🇺🇸
I think we might have an idea who "Bubba" is now. In the email, it was written with scare quotes, so.......It would explain a whole lotta lots about Miz Lindsay's unwavering loyalty to evil.
A la a gross movie called Society
Eeeeww🤢
first time I’ve watched the halftime show in 30 years! it was AWESOME!
He's a whiny old baby with diapers
With the venom of nasty ass vipers
An empty sad coward
Who envies Moe Howard
He's a stooge and a troll and a griper!
Why won't someone say, "You're screwed up!
Did mommy not give you your cup?
With yummy sweet milk
Guess not! So you've bilked
Our country, it makes me throw up."
Imagine being so bothered by Bad Bunny
With his message and energy so sunny
No, those racists and losers
Love crooks and abusers
If that weren't so sad it'd be funny
Wow! Great combination of humor and pathos...
How else to define what the right wing stands for?
They gave him hole milk
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Damn Jeff I love you. "Go ahead, make fun of Brainworms’ speech habits all you want — but yogurt is, in fact, an important part of Bobby’s five food groups: ferments, whale head, dead bear cub, raw sewage, and heroin." I wish that fit on a hat.
These deplorable assholes are always in a race to the bottom. Who lies the most? Who is the dumbest? And most importantly, who is causing the most damage to the American people? We have Noem and Miller shooting people in the street like dogs in a gravel pit, we have Drunkle Pete sending carrier groups all over while he bombs god-knows-who in "drug boats," we have Vance tanking the chances of the Olympian skaters by driving his Team America World Police motorcade through the Old Country, and of course the Diaper King spewing literal shit from every single hole in his body 24/7. It defies belief.
The first commandment of MAGA, as coined by Steve Bannon: FLOOD THE ZONE WITH SHIT. And a shit-flooded zone is smelly, ugly, and hazardous for your health. We brought back measles! Next stop, cholera with a special guest appearance by polio!
All of this. Yes. All. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Bad Bunny, as part of an ethnic and racial minority in the USA, doesn't have the presumption of belonging. That's what all this is about. These people want voices such as his silenced so they don't have to think about him (or any other Spanish-speaker) as an American. And it's the same playbook in essence by which they demonized innocent Haitian-Americans to win Ohio.
These people are the white people - who annihilated & subdued the Indigenous people in the 19th century & betrayed them. Who enslaved hundreds of thousands of Africans so that they could harvest their cotton and sell it to the Europeans, who colonized dozens of foreign nations to rape & plunder their natural resources.
So right, these are the people who should remain in charge…
1. Ferment, which is a verb, also means “to stir up trouble or disorder”. Yep that’s right on the money for this admin.
2. Bad Bunny was great! Kid Schlock, not so much apparently.
Bobby's brain is the ferment
Ferment expelled.
RFK, Jr.'s diet of all-carnivore plus ferments is that of a grave maggot. Perfect.
He’s another fart factory.
Wow, that is an interesting take. It seems to make sense.
I call him "Grandpa Pebble"
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Are you sure the word is “ferment?” I think “foment” is the word that describes causing uprisings or protests…
I thought that too, but one dictionary gave the definition above and here’s another: a state of confusion, change, and lack of order or fighting:
Ferment is what a load in diaper does..😂
Obviously, I've heard of Bad Bunny. Maybe heard one or two of his songs. So, I made sure I watched the halftime show. It was fantastic. Unless you weren't paying attention, it was
well-known that the entire show would be in Spanish. So what? It was fantastic.