He “plans to don a dress during his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show to honor Puerto Rican queer icons and generations of drag, resistance and cultural rebellion.”
Good Bunny.
It doesn’t matter if I like Bad Bunny. Simply the idea that anyone of such stature in pop culture today can upset half a nation, doing something so harmless, brings me joy. This is not about you Red Hat Cult idiots.
I hope it’s a skirt, or some form of “technically not a dress” that only computer chair experts woud argue about.
Is this the state of the press now? All this shit going on and people are arguing about a fucking dress again
The dress is resistance. Joy is resistance. Yes all this shit is awful and happening but if we’re not also doing things to support others and bring up people who are being marginalized and scapegoated, then the oppressors are winning.
I agree it’s fucking stupid to fight about it, and yes, it’s a distraction, but that doesn’t take away from the real pain that people are feeling that is caused by these distraction tactics.
Two things can co-exist, and everything is related.
Is this the state of the press now?
No? What gave you that impression? The only semi-serious press I see about this is from the sports column of USA Today. Everything else – what little there is – is tabloid trash like The Daily Beast or the Daily Mail (don’t construe this as me putting those on the same level; a tide pool and an abyssal trench are both in the ocean).
Just because something on Twitter says “BREAKING” doesn’t mean it’s receiving actual coverage. “The press” isn’t a monolith.
distraction keeps us from fighting back.
This is the distraction for the white, christonationalist straight people. Those predisopsitioned to support ICE. The aging boomers who are not distressed by current events. All those barking to comply.
Rage bait for engagement exists at all levels.
I might actually watch the halftime show now just to watch people lose their shit.
this and green day
Just remember that Green day is the Opening ceremony show. Bad bunny is the halftime show. A ton of people are confused about this detail.
Oh! I was too. Thanks for clarifying.
idk who this is, but he actually looks good in it. can we make this fashion normal again?
He was the caddy in Happy Gilmore 2
oh never seen it
Not missing much basically same plot but with more celebrity cameos.
He should dress as an ICU nurse
I might hate his music but I fucking love his style
Queer dude here who wears skirts in the summer time. Fully agree. Not a big fan of his music, not my style. But he can rock a fucking gown my god.
I just am Spanish so I understand the lyrics
To be fair, a lot of his last album is way more interesting than what he’s known for in Spanish speaking countries.
Like Turista or Lo que le pasó a Hawaii are actually pretty good and the lyrics aren’t just horny bait either. The man has grown into a voice for more than just sex, booze and party.
It’s so heartwarming that this show of solidarity and support is boiled down to: “Making
the libsMAGA cry”Oh please let him kick the first ball 🙏
Is that the dress? He serves in it! Slays? Sorry I’m not sure of the right lingo on this one.
So football is woke now? I though it’s just a way for rich people to monetize giving poor people brain injuries while promoting nationalism. Amazing what good PR can do.
I’d say more corporate woke than woke. A man in a dress is a cultural statement, sure, but it won’t cause a rift in the market the way Palestinian activists getting their message through might. I think Bad Bunny is a force for good though, and the more google searches on his name the better off we are. It’d be nice if the Democrats could muster the courage to support marginalized folks, so in their absence it’s at least nice that celebrities mostly do. At least the ones that haven’t failed out of Hollywood and decided they’re going to be grifters now.
The halftime show has always been an opportunity for a major musical act to send whatever message they can fit in to a huge portion of America.
But yes, the game itself is destroying the bodies and minds of players and hopeful players (of whom the most committed tend to be poor and racialized). It’s not nearly enough better than boxing. I don’t really care for any sports, but baseball and basketball seem to be the least horrible (basketball has the ncaa issues though, and really needs a minor league instead). Soccer/football is also good except for heading the ball too much can result in inventing Posadism.
Strong disagree on football (soccer). Because of it’s popularity and influence it gets away with being the most disgustingly corrupt sport there is. FIFA is organizing championships in stadiums build with slave labor. They gave a peace prize to a fascist just to make sure nothing will stop them from gauging ticket prices. Overall: 🤮
Then again, I also don’t really care about sports :) Definitely not professional ones. It all gets ugly once money is involved.
Oh absolutely, but soccer isn’t killing the players is what I meant. Though I also was thinking of MLS not FIFA. Sorry, I can be a bit American sometimes
CTEs have gone woke 🤬
CTE creates Right Wingers.
Fascism: defeated
Who is bad Bunny?
Puerto Rican rapper. Repugs had a collective aneurysm when he was announced for the half time show because oh no a latino
This is fake news though. He doesn’t have plans for a dress apparently.
Does he even have plans to enter the country at any point?
Edit: srry must have the wrong music artist, there was some other latin pop music guy who said he doesn’t want to perform in the US anymore
He is an American. Puerto Rico is an American territory, so when he is there is is in the country.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the clusterfuck of a governmental response, the only thing Trump supporters and I agreed on was that the responsibility fell on the President of Perto Rico, who was an unqualified fuck-up.
I have zero clue who the Puerto Rican president was in 2017. But as an American territory, why wouldn’t America have some responsibility? Even if it’s just sending aid money to hire contracted help.
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Donald Trump was the president of Puerto Rico in 2017, since it is an American territory. Some people in MAGA didn’t realize this. OP was playing on this fact to say that Donald Trump was a fuck up.
For people unaware, the inhabited US territories except for American Samoa are like states, except the federal government has more power to override their decisions and they don’t get a say in the federal government. They still have the same federal government, and I believe they have non voting legislators who are able to speak on their behalf but can’t vote (as does DC)
However their people are full US citizens, just as much as those born in the 50 states. This means that if I, a white English speaker from the contiguous 48, were to move to Puerto Rico I’d be more than permitted, but would lose my say in the federal government until I moved back. The inverse is also true and Puerto Ricans who move to a state get to vote in federal elections.
All that said, Puerto Rico should be given the option for statehood or independence. They’re more populous than several states (the problem with the pacific territories is they’re each tiny and some states we have don’t have the population to justify the same number of senators as California).
I must be thinking of another artist. Sorry, I don’t really follow pop music people.
Does he not live in the US anymore?
The most streamed musical artist in the world in four separate years, who is set to play the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show.
