The Mirror's Christopher Bucktin comments on the unhinged Malignant Fascist's tantrum over the historic and joyful performance of six-time Grammy winner Bad Bunny at yesterday's Super Bowl, and the lame alternative presented by the far-right scammers at Turning Point USA. An excerpt, but the entire article is well worth a read:
"It was less cultural critique than an unhinged ageing uncle shouting at the television - except the television was winning. What made the outburst even more revealing was Trump’s apparent failure to grasp a basic fact: Bad Bunny is from Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is American. Its people are American citizens. The president of the United States attacking an American artist as foreign is not irony; it is Trumpism in its purest form. If it doesn’t look or sound like his America, it doesn’t count.
MAGA’s solution, as ever, was to retreat into a parallel reality. Rather than engage with the halftime show the rest of the world was watching, Trump-aligned groups promoted an 'alternative' performance headlined by Kid Rock - marketed as a wholesome, values-driven counterweight to the NFL’s spectacle.
The guy couldn’t even lip sync to his own song. The audience numbers told their own story. The show drew a fraction of the viewers who tune in to the Puppy Bowl. Not the Super Bowl - the Puppy Bowl, where dogs run around." (our emphasis)
Bucktin point out that the MF's angry critique of the halftime show meant he didn't bother to watch his MAGAt pal Kid Rock, a.k.a. Robert Ritchie, a has-been performer who's never won a Grammy and who was raised in wealthy circumstances in a Detroit suburb, but has manufactured a fake country / bluesy persona.
In watching Bad Bunny's show instead, the MF made a rare right choice along with an estimated 135 million others.
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