Bad Bunny vs Bad President

I'd rather have a Bad Bunny than a bad president

Bad Bunny is such a huge star, even this old white guy (me) knows who he is.

Bad Bunny will be the performer for this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, and MAGAts are losing their minds? Why?

Isn’t there always a controversy with the selection for the halftime show? There’s always going to be someone unhappy with it. Even when Paul McCartney was the choice, you know somewhere out there was some asshole saying, “The real Paul is dead!” I’m sure some rednecks were howling about the first Super Bowl halftime show, because the marching band was from a historically black university (Grambling). I bet nobody’s boob popped out that day.

The first pop star to be featured in the SB halftime show was Gloria Estefan in 1992 (the second of the Bills’ four straight Super Bowl losses), and she was featured with Dorothy Hamill and Brian Boitano. I bet nobody from that Bill’s team ever wants to hear that congo song ever again, and neither do I (not because of the Bills’ loss but just because I hate it). The next year’s (Cowboys/Bills) performer was Michael Jackson, and never could the NFL go back to marching bands for the halftime show. Things calmed down the next year (Cowboys) as the NFL went with Clint Black, Travis Tritt, Tanya Tucker, and The Judds.

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is huge. He’s almost on a Taylor Swift level, and he beat her out as the most-streamed artist globally on Spotify in 2022. I’m told that’s a big deal. Of course, nobody’s tours are as big as the future Mrs. Kelce’s, but Mr. Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, gave up millions this year by refusing to tour in the USA to promote his latest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos. And why didn’t Bad Bunny tour the country? Is it because he hates America? No. This is where he’s a role model.

Bad Bunny refused to tour the States because he didn’t want ICE to use his shows to nab undocumented immigrants. This is just one of the reasons MAGA doesn’t like Bad Bunny.

Bad Bunny endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. He has appeared in at least one video in a dress, and we know how MAGAts feel about drag. He sings in Spanish, which infuriates the types who demand that Taco Bell menus be in English. Remember, Trump has made English the nation’s “official” language, which dismisses every culture in the US that’s non-white.

And then there’s the whole thing about Bad Bunny being from Puerto Rico. You recall Trump’s experience with Puerto Rico. After Hurricane Maria hit the island, which taught Trump that Puerto Rico is an island, Trump delayed aid for the US territory. He tried to withhold aid from the island. He lied about the number of deaths caused by Hurricane Maria while delivering uninterrupted aid to Texas, which was also hit by a hurricane. Trump feuded with the governor of Puerto Rico and the female mayor of San Juan, the capital, and worried more about receiving thank-yous than about the people of the island. All Trump did for Puerto Rico was stage a photo-op of him tossing out paper towels.

Trump is probably upset the NFL didn’t pick Lee Greenwood to sing God Bless the USA, which is now a staple of MAGA rallies and the name of the “official” Trump Bible. Others are upset too.

Robbie Starbuck of the Heritage Foundation said, “Is it that hard to pick a unifying music act that doesn’t want to peddle woke propaganda? Does this guy really scream American football to anyone? Be for real with me. No one thinks he does. This isn’t about music, it’s about putting a guy on stage who hates Trump and MAGA.” Did Gloria Estefan, Michael Jackson, Prince, or the Black Eyed Peas “scream” American football to anyone?

These people are always victimized and butt-hurt, as though conservative White guys are the most victimized segment in world history. They’re always being violated, whether it’s a changing of the Cracker Barrel logo, Sexy M&M being less sexy, or a Super Bowl halftime performer not being White enough. Boo-fucking-hoo.

Bad Bunny wasn’t picked because he’s anti-MAGA. He was picked because he’s a huge superstar and this will bring in viewers. You have to step out of reality to actually believe the NFL, where Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick never got another job after kneeling during the national anthem, wants to make a political statement. This is the same league that removed “end racism” from the end zones during the last Super Bowl, so it wouldn’t upset just one attendee, Donald Trump. Hmm. I wonder if he’ll show up for the next game.

One MAGAt tweeted a photo of Bad Bunny in drag, and wrote, “Apparently this is ‘Bad Bunny’. The NFL has selected him to be the Super Bowl halftime performer. I’d rather have a colonoscopy without anesthesia than watch that crap.” Don’t use Bad Bunny as an excuse for your kinks.

Don’t worry, MAGAts, despite Bad Bunny playing the halftime show, we’re still a sexist and racist backward country. Janet Jackson was never invited back to the Super Bowl after nipplegate. The guy who exposed the nipple, Justin Timberlake, has been.

After being selected, the NFL released a statement from Bad Bunny saying, “What I’m feeling goes beyond myself. This is for my people, my culture, and our history.”

MAGA needs to realize that this nation’s history isn’t just White history, even though they’re constantly trying to rewrite it. Puerto Rico is America, and it’s part of our history and culture, and so is everything Bad Bunny represents.

I dedicate this cartoon to my friend Olivia, who introduced me to Bad Bunny. To say she’s a fangirl of Bad Bunny would be an understatement. Olivia is also Puerto Rican, and she’ll probably never see this blog.

And even though I couldn’t recognize one Bad Bunny song, I’m now a fan of the man (he was great in both Bullet Train and Happy Gilmore 2).

Kevin’s roughs: I know some of you Peezeheads dig my roughs, so maybe you’ll like my colleague Kevin Necessary’s roughs too.

Creative note: Lalo Alcaraz spell-checked mi Español. I wrote this idea yesterday, and it went through several rewrites. There are a couple of roughs for them you will see soon. I put this one off for a day so I could do Hegseth’s Quantico speech first. Now this cartoon is delaying a cartoon on the government shutdown. It never ends.

I drew the cartoon at home and colored it at the Starbucks in my neighborhood, which the corporation better not close.

Music note: I continued listening to Bush’s Sixteen Stone.

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