Amazing wholesome halftime show vs. Epstein files

Amazing wholesome halftime show vs. Epstein files

Sure, let's investigate a televised performance. Meanwhile, his party is going to keep sticking its fingers in its ears and yelling, nah nah nah nah nah regarding the Epstein files.
They'll protect sexually explicit content if it involves children. GOP => Guardians of Pedophiles
women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air”
Oh no! Did Bad Bunny steal one of Michael Jackson's signature moves? Did his dancers dance like Shakira or Jennifer Lopez? Has this guy ever seen a Superbowl halftime show?
It doesn't matter. This is all just vice signaling. They just need to tell their base how much of a racist asshole they are. What actually happened, what they said, and what effect their actions could achieve aren't the point.
This sounds like the same moral panic that made the rounds in the 1950s/60s over rock and roll. Or, more recently, the way the right was just queening out over Timberlake/Janet Jackson, lol.
Meanwhile, the de facto leader of their party is credibly accused of rape and having ties to a pedophile. Maybe they want to look at that instead of just reiterating moral panics of the past.
Meanwhile, there was a Levis ad that was exclusively super close ups of butts and no one bats an eye.
I love all the people scrambling to come up with some reason other than racism that the halftime show was bad because literally everything else they're criticizing also applies to every ither halftime show in the past 30 years
Investigate what?
Was there a bunny?
And if so, was it naughty?
He was waving the pro-independence Puerto Rican flag (light blue) and Ricky Martin was singing a song about the shit that happened in Hawaii after they got statehood...... Is that naughty? Mm I liked it.
(There was also a lot of twerking, but somehow I don't think that's the actual source of the complaints.)
Here let me help you out.
Yes, I've concluded the investigation.
It was indeed a halftime show. Thank you for your time. Use this information as you will.
A little dancing is bad, but raping children is totally fine? Fuck I hate these people.
How lucky we are to have these paragons of virtue in the GOP to guide us from our wicked ways.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R, Tenn.) posted on X on Monday evening a letter addressed to the House Energy and Commerce Committee in which he called for an immediate inquiry into the National Football League and broadcaster NBCUniversal over their “prior knowledge, review, and approval” of what he alleged to be “a performance dominated by sexually explicit lyrical themes and suggestive choreography.”
Oh yeah. Based on the phrasing... This is projection.
Check this guy's laptop.
Wasn't this on the tame side, as far as halftime shows go?
Bad Bunny: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love" Republicana: "INVESTIGATE THIS DEGENERATE"
..???? 🤦♀️
Look, obviously Ricky Martin made you suddenly horny and you did not know why. He did that to everyone, sir. But it was not technically pornography, it was just the immense sexual magnetism of an unleashed man.
Republicans are seriously good for nothing except gallows humor.
"Nobody gives me a woody and gets away with it!"
Dude's name is Ogles. How is this not The Onion?
For you MAGAs playing at home, let's check the scoreboard:
America First, no more foreign entanglements: That's a No.
Epstein Files: Still waiting for the good stuff.
Lower prices on Day 1: It's past Day 365, and prices are still rising, but it's a Democrat Hoax.
Deport Criminals: Includes children, veterans, innocent people, and even citizens.
Make America Safer: Death Squads patrolling the streets and breaking out into spontaneous firing squads against innocent citizens.
So why are you still in? Is it the mind-boggling corruption? The Treason? The casual racism? The virtuosic incompetence? The manic middle of the night tweetstorms? The pants-shitting press conferences?
I'll bet it's the Pedophilia. The one thing MAGA can be counted on is to cover the crimes of pedophiles.
That's why ALL MAGAs are Pedophiles.
This is who you voted for, assholes of Tennessee. A performer who did a performance consistent with what they've always done, and this dude is willing to weaponize the United States government to go after this fucking entertainer because they don't like their content! You may not admit it, but that's not okay, and it's not "small government"...
How many babies do you think he's eaten on Epstein's island?
I can only assume he cares about a singer/dancer to distract from the baby eating billionaires scandal.
Republicans are just fucking stupid.
Bad Bunny lives rent free in Republicans heads. I really don't get it, them making a big deal out of it is only making them look stupider tbqh. And they don't need that, they're already stupid enough. They might jump the stupid shark at this rate.
It's not as dumb as it sounds. They make a celebrity who said a few anti colonial lines their enemy to get you riled up so you can forget the Democrats on the other half of the ruling class is fully supportive of and enthusiastic about genocidal colonialism.
They get their side excited, and pacify you from seeing the real enemy (the capitalist ruling class) by pretending to be the only villains.
Don't take the bait, they win. Democrats don't support a free Puerto Rico either, they support colonizing it and privatizing all its resources, they just don't say it loud and proud.
The Dems voted for statehood a long time ago. The Dems got issues, but supporting Puerto Rico isn't one of them.
I don't think people realize just how racist our country has been towards Puerto Rico. The only reason they aren't a state is purely conservative racism. They were fucking sterilizing their women up until the 70's for Christ's sake.
Trying to blame their problems on the Democratic Party in the face of dehumanizing Republican racism has got to be one of the most tone deaf two-faced garbage takes I have ever seen.
I think you missed the point of that part of the performance. Bb was not waving the flag for statehood, he was waving the light blue flag for an independent Puerto Rico..... Just after Ricky Martin sang a song about how Hawaii got screwed by statehood and they don't want that to happen in Puerto Rico (from DTmF).
It's not about statehood. It's about separating from the United States. Totally anti-colonial with all that sugar cane, too.
If some wealthy people want to push for independence more power to them. Honestly, they should be separated and independent from the US after a payment of a couple of trillion dollars of reparations, of course.
I would like to point out that unless they plan on creating a new form of government they will just fall neatly into the fascist trap the rest of the world has fallen in. I don't think wealthy pop icons are going to slit their own throats.
So it really isn't about anti-colonial at this point as it is about anti-corporations. We need to move our mindset beyond the 20th century if we ever expect to break free as a people.
Just responding to the last part: I'd say anti-colonial basically is anti-corporate. Look at the Dutch East India Company.
Fair enough. I just think it is important to point out we are transitioning into a post-nation world ran by a corporatocracy which is the evolution of the fascist corporatism.
I am fond of saying no nation on this planet deserves the human race. Perhaps one will be someday.
The thing I agree with is that the ruling party is really the billionaires.
One might have notice that Apple's half time show? Apple, Microsoft, Google, open AI, Tweeter, Facebook, TicToc. All these companies are run by evil pigs that need to be jailed for one reason or another. The most important reason being...how do you get paid a billion while others barely are able to afford food, shelter and clothes?
How bout we investigate the Mossad run child killing pedofile cabal instead idiot?
claimed that it featured “explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air” and that the singer’s mostly Spanish-language lyrics “openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.”
Stop it !!!! ... I already bought my ticket ok ??! it just so happens that I'm super into women gyrating provocatively 😂 lord ...give me the strength to open a strip bar and advertise it as such "HERE : WOMEN GYRATING PROVOCATIVELY"
(emphasis mine 😂)
Didn't Elvis do all that too? What year is it?!
What year is this?
Investigate what? Why it was cool?
This is just your typical Republican made up bullshit to make their base think something bad happened.
Nothing bad happened
Good question, I may have to “investigate” too. I missed it live but maybe I’ll track down some videos
I am an old fuddy duddy, and was completely unfamiliar with him, but I thought his music and performance were kickass. Fuck Republicans.
Investigate what? Why it was better than Kid Rock's shitty show? The answer is very simple: Bad Bunny isn't Kid Rock.
Wow they really love wasting time and money don’t they. Someone should look in to all this waste.
Quick. What can we do to look like we are doing something but hear me out.. that something is nothing.
Yeah, he was the guy who kept singing about how he likes 'em underage, right?
.... Wait, no? That was the other guy? Why isn't Andy Ogles looking into that, instead?
(We all know why. Not only were those female dancers hot, they looked like they were having a great time, and Republicans can't have that....)
It's a good thing the Republicans aren't actually trying to govern. They would never have time for this kind of ridiculous ideological theater if they had jobs.
If you had told the Continental Congress that their successors would eventually be investigating half-time shows they would have surrendered to King George.
I have investigated and I have concluded that Bad Bunny did indeed give a performance at the Superbowl!
Is this guy blind!?
He’s going to be so mad when he hears about the indecency in the Epstein Files!
As well as:

republicans be like puerto rico contributes nothing but we won't grant them statehood so they can and we won't let them get independence so they can leave.
Just one of Trump's little sycophantic favorites trying to curry favor. This is just more attempts at distraction from the Epstein fiasco Trump is in.
sexually suggestive lyrics. puritan ethics for the masses. bangin children for the elite.
I'm pretty sure early Elvis was more sexually explicit than that show.
The halftime show artist is never my cup of tea and I'll probably never listen to Bad Bunny again but I thought it was a great show. Lots of variation in the songs which were all quite fun, and he and Gaga had great chemistry.
This US is just a bunch of different ethnic groups competing for ownership and control of the country's cultural and political assets.
The US is a manufactured culture war distracting people from what should be a class war.
The thing is, most people don't form identity around shared class interests. That's what the Marxists realized in the 20th century when the international, proletarian revolution never fully materialized. Most people from identity around shared culture, shared language, shared traditions, beliefs, history, etc. It's not that class antagonism doesn't exist or doesn't matter - it does - but it matters within a cultural/national context, and it's only within that cultural/national context that class conflicts can be resolved.
Edit: I want to clarify what I mean when I say that "most people don't form identity around shared class interests." I mean class interests in the Marxian sense, ie, ownership of the means of production. In Marxian theory, a person is a member of the capitalist class if they own the means of production, and they are working class if they do not own the means of production. Most people do not form a class identity around ownership or non-ownership of the means of production, but that doesn't mean that people don't form a class identity. They do. But, that identity is formed around cultural markers that define their class, within their broader, national/ethnic culture. For instance, an ethnically White person in the US might identify as working or upper class based on their job, the neighborhood they live in, the car they drive, the clothes they wear, the schools they attended, etc. So, nations/ethnicities are defined by shared culture, language, history, beliefs, etc, but within that that there are also class distinctions, but they are also cultural.
It is here that people in the upper classes can use this to their advantage, by trying to stoke conflict between nations/ethnic groups, in an effort to deflect away from class conflicts. That is true, but that doesn't mean that different nations of people aren't actually distinct from one another, in the ways that I've already outlined (culture, language, traditions, etc).
This reality is especially confusing in the US, because the US is an empire masquerading as a nation. But empires are not nations. The US had been able to maintain the appearance of a nation for sometime through establishment of a violent, White hegemony. The national identity of the US was maintained through violent repression of all non-White ethnic groups. That White hegemony has been getting consistently weaker, however, since about the mid part of the 20th century, and with it the idea of a single, US national identity. And that is where we are today.
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