Bad Bunny is America

I just checked, and the Great Ape-gate hoax has fallen out of Google’s news aggregator. The only value progressives might extract from the video Trump did not share on TruthSocial at this point is to drop it and let people believe the initial big lie. Theyhave to do this, really. Had progressives continued to push the hoax, they would have drawn ever more attention to the fact that it was a hoax—and that they knew it was a hoax. It’s not as if they would ever be honest enough to admit it was.

I wonder what the next moral panic will be? Since progressives are completely making up shit these days, the possibilities are really endless. Turning Point’s alternative Halftime programming may have legs, especially as data showing how successful it keeps pouring in (I am confident advertisers are taking note). Progressives already framed the Turning Point event as an expression of backwardness and bigotry.

That’s the trick: make the response to cultural warfare the culture war itself. Open the border and flood the country with foreign culture-bearers, and then accuse those whose culture is being disordered of making it about culture.

Did you see the things going on during Bad Bunny’s performance? A man humping a woman in the back of a truck? A man humping a man in the cab? A video of Trump dancing at a party is evidence of a child predator ring, but dancers humping each other at Halftime is an all-American message of unity. If you disagree with that, you’re a racist.

Here’s how zombie-like progressive politics is: We’re supposed to believe that millions of Americans who don’t know a lick of Spanish or who have ever only passively listened to trap en español as background music while eating tacos and drinking margaritas at a Mexican restaurant were Bad Bunny fans. The performance is being touted as the best since Kendrick Lamar, right up there with Prince’s Super Bowl XLI halftime show and Michael Jackson’s Super Bowl XXVII halftime show, which turned Halftime into a high-profile event.

Social media users incorrectly identified a child actor in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime as Liam Cornejo Ramos, the five-year-old boy recently detained by ICE (after being abandoned by his father). The child was actually actor Lincoln Fox, who represented a younger version of the artist, not the detained child. Progressives say this confusion reflects racism on the right. It’s not supposed to be obvious that the point of having a child receive Bunny’s Grammy was to remind the audience about the alleged terrible injustice done to Ramos, as well as Bad Bunny’s Grammy speech in which he condemned ICE.

Progressives are conditioned to be ready for the next episode of mass programming. One day it’s “No Kings!” The next one is “ICE Out!” Then “Obamas are apes!” After that, Bad Bunny. (I am sure I am leaving out in-betweens.) They don’t have to know why they’re doing the thing. The switch is flipped, and they’re doing the thing. All they knew about Bad Bunny—if they knew anything at all—was that the man would be singing in Spanish and that he might wear a dress—and that this would piss off the MAGAts, which feels so good in Pretend Land.

I watched some of the Bad Bunny clips while reading the over-the-top coverage of the event. Did readers notice that he played to the camera and not to the crowd? Apart from a few here and there, the crowd wasn’t into it. They were forced to watch propaganda being produced. Bad Bunny was for the sheep at home. From his vantage point, it appears that Commissioner Roger Goodell realized he screwed up. The stream looked flashy. Inside Levi’s Stadium? No energy. A woman on video exclaimed, “No one is dancing. Not one person. Send help!”

Here’s how the trick works: The abolitionist Republicans were the ones who were political because they were trying to destroy a way of life—the slavocracy that underpinned the Southern aristocracy, which Democrats defended. Those who oppose compulsory preferred pronouns are the political ones. They’re the authoritarians, not those who force others to lie about gender. Those who object to a Super Bowl Halftime performance because it sucked, was in a language most Americans don’t speak, and was obvious progressive propaganda pushing multiculturalism and open borders—they’re the political ones.

It’s the MAGA neanderthals who are on the outside looking in. They want the culture war. They aren’t America. Bad Bunny is America.

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In terms of mass social psychological dynamics, a humiliation ritual describes situations where groups humiliate individuals or other groups to enforce conformity or hierarchy. Is that not what the NFL’s Halftime show was? To humiliate Americans who voted for Trump and who want to keep their country, to compel them to accept multiculturalism and the demographic transformation of their nation?

Patriotic Americans are being told to learn Spanish because soon English speakers will be the minority. If one says, “Not if I can help it,” he can expect to be smeared as a nativist, racist, and xenophobe.

This is happening all over the West. Native populations are being replaced with alien culture-bearers and then humiliated when they rise to defend their culture and their people. The population targeted for replacement and humiliation? Native whites. Imagine this project working in any other part of the world and being portrayed as a progressive endeavor?

I forget who said this, but I remember somebody celebrating Bad Bunny on social media the morning after saying this was a “teachable moment.” Indeed, it is.