Instead of saying this is from the “You can’t make this up” category I think we need a new category: One called “You wish this wasn’t true”, or perhaps “I wish no one had come up with this.” (Feel free to create your own version on the theme) Alas, this isn’t something from The Onion. Lara Trump really has suggested she be part of the Super Bowl halftime show.
What the hell, I figured I’d try to start your day off with something ridiculously funny. Of course if you’ve subjected yourself to even thirty seconds of Lara Trump “singing” you might have a different reaction. Instead of laughing you might want to puke. Or get online for the best noise cancelling headphones money can buy. But like I said this is no joke – Lara has offered to ‘entertain’ us during the Super Bowl halftime show as this article from The Daily Beast tells us.
With so much actual serious stuff going on this seems silly to talk about. However conservatives have gone batsh*t insane over Bad Bunny being tapped by the NFL to do the halftime show. I’ve never been a fan or rap, or hip hop or whatever genre along such lines so I’d never heard of the guy until the NFL’s announcement. Really. Apparently he’s a huge star and not just in the U.S. Whatever. I’m a grouchy old fart who refuses on principal to watch ANY Super Bowl Halftime show. It’s the freaking championship game, and dropping a half-hour plus music show into what’s normally a fifteen minute halftime ruins the game. Not to mention it’s dangerous to the players.
Still, like the commercials the halftime show has turned into an extravaganza for musicians. It’s a ‘screw the players’ mentality that instead of performing a few songs on simple set they try to turn the broadcast being all about THEM instead of a literal championship game. WHO will be the featured performer is each year a topic of much speculation. It’s always a huge artist with an international following. Apparently Bad Bunny is one of the biggest acts these days so he was picked. Conservatives in their increasing embrace of WHITE ‘real American’ beliefs don’t count people from Puerto Rico as the American Citizens they happen to be.
So offended are conservatives by Bad Bunny they are furiously working to create counter-programming. An “American’ halftime show with ‘real American’ entertainment. Turning Point USA, yes, the late Charlie Kirk’s group is heading up the effort. As with Bad Bunny I’ve not heard of a couple of the names being touted but Lara Trump seems to be and she’s all for TPUSA’s show. So much so, that being an ‘entertainer’ herself she’s oh so graciously offered to lend her ‘talent’ to the goal of getting people to switch over from the NFL broadcast and Bad Bunny to ‘wholesome, patriotic’ musicians. Like her:
Lara took questions during her show yesterday, one of which was about the NFL picking Bad Bunny for this year’s show and I guess TPUSA’s counter programming being billed as “The All-American Halftime Show.” (Note: for the record I again note Bad Bunny is from Puerto Rico and therefore an American citizen!) So Lara started riffing on who should be part of the alternative facts halftime show:
“I know a lot of owners of NFL teams, a lot of people are upset about that,” Trump claimed. “I don’t know what the heck the NFL was thinking… We don’t need the NFL, we don’t need any of these woke losers to perform, we can have our own performance.”
Trump, who is married to the president’s son Eric, listed off a string of musicians, including country star Chris Stapleton and Canadian MAGA rapper Tom MacDonald.
She then said, “You know what? You can throw Lara Trump in there. Yeah! That’s right,” before laughing maniacally and throwing her head back.
“Imagine how upset people on the left would be if something like that happened. It sorta makes me wanna offer myself up. I have not been asked, but I’m gonna offer it right now!”
If I was locked in a room with the TV blaring Lara performing I’d be doing something maniacally but not laughing. More like trying to stop the copious amounts of blood pouring out of my ears! Well, as I said it’s all moot for me. No offense to Bad Bunny but I won’t be watching him either, just like for over a couple of decades I haven’t watched anyone else perform during halftime of the Super Bowl.
I can do better things with that half hour, like pull up a rerun of SouthPark. Anyway this is one of those silly assed culture war things that shouldn’t be a thing at all. Still, you should know about it because it gives you a sense of how far round the bend conservatives have gone on this culture war they insist on creating and fighting.
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yes!! do it NFL!! oh that would be super, get it super? 😆
All of this reported upset by the NFL owners about “woke” performers, I would be interested in the ratio of white NFL players to non-white. I know all the owners are white. Apparently their interests/preferences outweigh the players or the fans.
“All of this reported upset by the NFL owners about “woke” performers” has to be made up nonsense by Lara.
Why?
Because bad Bunny has been APPROVED and announced as THE halftime show.
Approved by? Guess who? The NFL which consists entirely of the OWNERS.
The only upset is the entirely made up BS from Lara Trump, the twit.
The ONLY color those owners care about when it comes to their product is GREEN. It’s all about the Benjamins and so they cram too many insanely priced commercials into the games. The commercials themselves became a “thing” decades ago and it’s startling how many people tune in just to see the freaking commercials! Mainstream news always talks about the commercials in the days following the Super Bowl – which ones were memorable and why whether it was because they were good or they flopped.
It’s the same when it comes to the halftime show. It’s about pulling in casual viewers who wouldn’t ordinarily watch a football game. The pick someone with wide appeal and since the game is broadcast around the world they want someone who is “hot” and will attract eyeballs both at home and abroad. The reasoning goes that even if casual or non football fans only turn in for the halftime show they will still see a batch of those commercials advertisers pay so much to produce and have aired!
So, like I said it’s got nothing to do with the color of the players/coaches or for that matter the fans. It’s about the MONEY/GREEN the owners can milk out of the game. Kid Rock, Lee Greenwood, some American country star (especially one who’s openly pro-Trump who isn’t at all liked in the rest of the world any more than he is by over half of THIS country) simply won’t do. They want, demand even a bona fide star who’s got lots of popularity both at home and abroad.
As I said I’m not a fan of certain genres of music. I’m mostly a classical and classic rock guy. I couldn’t sing you a single line of one of Taylor Swift’s songs. Or Beyonce. Or Justin Timberlake or Janet Jackson (remember the “wardrobe malfunction” with the exposed for a second titty incident?), or Katy Perry with the exception of the repeated use of the word Firework in a song of the same name or ‘I kissed a girl” but I don’t know the music/tune, and no, Bad Bunny either. Like I said I’d hever heard of him until this. However I’ll guarantee you the owners looked long and hard at the short-list of the most popular entertainers and his name was on it.
NFL owners want to expand to other countries and Canada already has a league they like. Canadian football is a little different but they like it up there. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are the only places with large enough populations/markets to consider and I gather there haven’t been ownership groups banging on the NFL’s door asking for a franchise. The owners would LOVE to expand into Europe and could except they’d face severe opposition from the player’s union. It’s not just the flight time but the changes in time zone. Three hours is a strain and four or five hours of time difference would cause a rise in injuries. Latin America would also require long flights BUT (I don’t want to get bogged down in human circadian rythm but it matters a great deal) shifting too many time zones wouldn’t be much of an issue.
I suspect that when the short list of most popular entertainers was looked at that’s why Bad Bunny’s name jumped out at them.
I’d rather hear Rosanne sing the national anthem.
Luckily, I have never been a fan of sports and have never watched a Super Bowl game in my life. I wonder if the network will put her on just to please the turd-god emperor?
I vote we stand her up at the gates of Hell as she requested.
Isn’t cruel and unnecessary punishment against the constitution?