The only thing more powerful than hate is love. That was the message sent out by Bad Bunny during the Superbowl halftime show, compared to the All-American Charlie Kirk tribute show. The US is a dystopian reality, mirroring the likes of The Hunger Games. Innocent people are ripped from their families and identities. Despite six deaths in ICE custody and two people fatally shot in 2026, the halftime show being sung in Spanish was a more pressing issue for Republicans.
The most streamed artist on Spotify in 2025, Bad Bunny, has altered history. His messages project family, love, fun, and inclusion. If anyone seems to find a problem with the sentence ‘the only thing more powerful than hate is love’, MAGA is calling to recruit you to ICE. The message is not inherently political. The message is human decency and unity. According to right-wing American journalist Megyn Kelly, for Bad Bunny to sing in Spanish, “is a middle finger to the rest of America.” By the way, Bad Bunny is from Puerto Rica, a self-governing territory of the USA.
Dspite a legal mandate in place for the full disclosure of the Epstein files, withholding them is giving middle finger up to all the victims of sexual assault. Releasing untrained immigration enforcers and allowing them to shoot innocent civilians dead is a middle finger to human rights. Renee Good, shot and killed by ICE. Alex Pretti, shot, and killed by ICE.
Who is being held responsible? Ask the criminally convicted President of the United States of America, whose name appears in the Epstein files more than Harry Potter’s does in all of the Harry Potter books combined.
Donald Trump’s reaction to Bad Bunny’s performance was that it was a “slap in the face” to the country, and “absolutely terrible” performance. In fact, according to Mr Trump, it was an “affront to the Greatness of America.” ‘Together we are America’, printed on the side of an American football. That’s pretty easy to understand for all of us English speaking folks. So, what’s wrong with that? Never fear, Kid Rock has better, English, lyrics which you could have enjoyed at the All-American halftime show. They go, “young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage, see / some say that’s statutory / but I say it’s mandatory.” A real lyrical genius.
Not to point out the obvious question, where is this greatness the right are convinced is embedded into America? ICE raids houses, rips a baby away from their mother whilst she breastfeeds, children are wearing bullet proof vests to school, a place where women’s reproductive rights are determined by men, where transgender rights are disappearing. Greatness? Greatness is when a 1950 ideology is preached, and praised? Idon’t understand this definition of greatness.
Bad Bunny, Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, and his performance included a couple getting married, a couple getting engaged, people of all backgrounds dancing and celebrating life, diversity, inclusion, and America. The point of the alternative halftime show was to be political. To reenforce a ‘them versus us narrative’, to draw a clear line between particular morals and ethics. Households were divided as TikTok’s circulated showing half a family watching Bad Bunny, and the other half watching Kid Rock brag about paedophilia. Where’s the greatness in that?