“Bad Bunny. He’s one of the biggest stars in the music industry! And he is wildly successful because people freely choose to spend their money streaming his music and going to his shows.
It makes as much sense to criticize Bad Bunny for being unsuccessful as it does to attack him for being un-American. Both are factually untrue and transparently ridiculous.
That doesn’t mean you have to like Bad Bunny’s music. I can barely name three of his songs. (Approaching 40 is rough.) You don’t have to applaud his halftime performance—although, c’mon, it was pretty cool and quite impressive on a production and technical level, and it told a story that a non-Spanish speaker could follow.
And you don’t have to like that he sings in Spanish, which seems to be the real root of most of the complaints about him headlining the Super Bowl. That’s a matter of personal taste.
But the right-wing outrage machine takes gripes based on personal taste and extrapolates them into questions of merit. And some, like Loomer, then try to add a racial element.
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A political movement that is determined to create unnecessary grievances targeting America’s most successful homegrown artists is not upholding meritocracy or other American values. It is demanding conformity and its own version of political correctness. Most of us have had enough of that, and we don’t much care whether it is coming from the right or the left.”
https://reason.com/2026/02/09/claiming-bad-bunny-isnt-successful-is-as-foolish-as-claiming-he-isnt-american/
“Many factors outside the control of any given president affect crime rates, and the recent drop continues a trend that began before Trump took office.
Another historical point further undermines Trump’s credibility on this subject. During the 2024 presidential race, he was keen to deny the numbers he is now citing with pride.”
https://reason.com/2026/02/10/in-2024-trump-rejected-numbers-showing-a-homicide-drop-as-a-lie-now-he-is-bragging-about-them/
“A British graduate who was passionately anti-guns was shot dead by her alcoholic father at his Texas home just hours after they had an argument about Donald Trump, an inquest was told today.”
If the father had not owned a gun, Lucy Harrison would likely be alive today.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/british-graduate-23-was-shot-dead-by-her-father-in-his-texas-home-after-trump-row-inquest-hears/ar-AA1W3gbb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=698b92b697b4460bb096264bfa928330&ei=14
ICE has been capturing people here legally and detaining them far away from where they were picked up. When courts find out about this and order ICE to release individuals, ICE sometimes doesn’t follow the orders. ICE Lawyers have been overwhelmed defending ICE’s lawlessness. One of ICE’s own lawyers admitted that when she tells them they have to release people held illegally, they don’t follow through because they don’t respect the courts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6o-_2thaI8
Pakistan is struggling with multiple insurgencies that it has been unable to defeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHA93RKtFfk
Ben Shapiro says that Trump is obviously corrupt, but supports him anyways. He admits that Conservatives are willfully blind and hypocritical on the issue because if Biden did this they would be screaming bloody murder. He defends Trump by stating false things about what Trump has done and by stating false things about the Democrats. Shapiro has been critical of Trump compared to other Trump voters, but he’s still amazingly blind about the truth of what Trump has done and what Democrats have done.
Shapiro acknowledges that Trump was immoral and undemocratic in claiming Biden stole the election and for Trump’s role in the Capitol riot, but because the guard rails held, he’s willing to give Trump another chance. Jessiah makes the analogy that if Shapiro’s kids were in a car with a drunk driver, and that driver crashed but no one was hurt because guard rails stopped the car from going over the side, Shapiro would give the keys of a new car to that driver and allow his kids to ride with him. Of course, Shapiro wouldn’t do that, but he’s willing to do it with US democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAEnSGrUh4
Even the National Review admits that Trump’s family is getting rich from foreign countries in exchange for presidential actions that benefit those countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXm6xOwLAw
The Epstein files Trump released are way over-redacted. Some Congressmen had temporary and limited access to less redacted versions, and they claim they saw an international sex trafficking ring with names of men who appear to have committed crimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgHXF0_HOm4
“In every form, the SAVE Act would require American citizens to show documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Our research shows that more than 21 million Americans lack ready access to those documents. Roughly half of Americans don’t even have a passport. Millions lack access to a paper copy of their birth certificate. The SAVE Act would disenfranchise Americans of all ages and races, but younger voters and voters of color would suffer disproportionately. Likewise, millions of women whose married names aren’t on their birth certificates or passports would face extra steps just to make their voices heard.
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The SAVE Act solves nothing. All available evidence, including from the Trump administration itself, indicates that only American citizens vote and the exceptions are vanishingly rare. States that have combed through their voter rolls looking for illegally cast votes — like Louisiana and Utah did recently — have repeatedly confirmed that fact.”
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-save-act-bills-would-still-block-millions-americans-voting
Trump Defends Racist Obama Meme & MAGA Rages Over Bad Bunny’s Spanish Halftime Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpQbv7CmeE