ICE Barbie Kristi Noem says that the NFL will not be able to sleep at night over it’s decision to pick Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny for the 2026 halftime performance.
“Well, they suck, and we’ll win, and God will bless us, and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day, and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe, and they’re so weak, we’ll fix it,” Noem told conservative podcaster “Bad” Benny Johnson on Friday.
ICE Barbie buddy Corey Lewandowski also told Bad Benny that anyone in the country illegally attending the Super Bowl would be deported.
In September, the Puerto Rican/AMERICAN star said he would not be performing concerts in the U.S. mainland due to concerns that ICE would target the venues.
Meanwhile, the MAGAsphere has lost their minds over a (presumably) non-English speaking performance coming in February.
In an opinion article in the New York Times (gift link below), Molly Jong-Fast suggests that woke is good for business, and that Democratic leadership should take a lesson from Bad Bunny.
The NFL, she says, is dominated largely by owners who donate to Republicans — $23 million to Republicans in the 2024 election, versus $2.5 million to Democrats — and unabashedly benched Colin Kaepernick for being woke.
Yet the NFL picked Bad Bunny, for the same reason that Jimmy Kimmel’s first show after his suspension had huge viewership, and that “South Park” is having its best ratings in years, Jong-Fast says.
Jong-Fast opines that Democrats Schumer and Jeffries could learn from Bad Bunny’s defiance of MAGA instead of sitting glumly on the sidelines, writing letters and claiming the sensible centrist lane.
The Democrats need to empower messengers that the establishment is scared of, people who don’t delight megadonors. Democrats need to stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow. They need to stop being lawyerly and timid.
Democrats could take cues from the MAGA freakout over Bad Bunny — “who hates America, hates President Trump, hates ICE, hates the English language! He’s just a terrible person,” according to Newsmax.
After all, it was Kendrick Lamar’s performance last year, laced with defiant, woke political symbolism, that became the nation’s most watched performance in history, period, breaking Michael Jackson’s 1993 halftime record.