When Halftime Feels More Like Little Time Left

The just completed Super Bowl featured a contest between two very different opponents vying to become the latest NFL Champion.  However, the game’s halftime show was anything but a fair contest between two distinct sides.

Past halftime shows have been controversial, but the Super Bowl LX show exclusively featured the distortion, hypocrisy, and moral blur that increasingly dominates our social and moral landscape.

The Political, Social, and Moral Landscape

Anyone who is awake (as opposed to ‘woke’) is aware that this country is presently embroiled in a political, social, and moral civil war. On one side, the Left side, we have those who blur the lines of decency and morality.  They also blur the social order, family values, freedom, personal responsibility, unity, and even love.  On the other side, the Right, we have those who want to make those lines clear, distinct, and precise.

Immigration was the not so hidden theme of the halftime show.  And the Left is trying very hard to lump illegal immigration together with legal immigration. They pretend that efforts to curb and control illegal immigration are attacks on all immigrants. And the Left has allowed the rampant, unfettered invasion of this country by illegal immigrants with no regard for national sovereignty and social order.

The Left has depicted national efforts to enforce and curb illegal immigration as tyranny. It pretends that the agents and officers tasked with enforcing and protecting that sovereignty are nothing less than gestapo-like.  They are violators of human rights, dignity, and freedom.

There is a massive shifting and blurring of the core issues and what is at stake in this conflict.  And the Left wants to blur these issues as much as possible.

Legal Immigration is Not The Same Thing as Illegal Immigration

Immigration has been a beautiful tapestry and mosaic in this country’s history. The United States has been, and continues to be the greatest embracer of immigration that the world has ever seen.  No other nation has been as compassionate, charitable, embracing, and generous to immigrants as this country has been.

Of course, no nation has a perfectly pure and innocent history. And the United States of America has had its fair share of moral, social, and historical slips and abuses as well.  However, there are those who would push the narrative to an extreme.

According to many on the Left this nation has been evil, unjust, immoral, and guilty of scores of atrocities. But such negative claims against this country are despicable and irresponsible. While this country has had its fair share of terrible actions, I will stack its balance of terrible vs. noble contributions to the world against any other nation that has ever existed.

By definition, illegal immigration disrespects the very nation it invades. It is based on selfishness, arrogance, hypocrisy, and defiance.  It can only be pathetically founded on a lame argument that human rights and need transcend and overturn any notion of national sovereignty and social welfare.  But because “I need” or “I desire” a better life, that desire or need does not give me the right to trample someone else’s rights.

A Country of Immigrants

The wonderful immigration to this country in most of its previous history was not without abuse, injustice, and challenges.  However, it was basically a case study in a win/win situation.  Humble, hard-working immigrants entered this nation seeking to offer their contributions and efforts in return for the American dream of prosperity and freedom to create a better life.

A good portion of illegal immigration today, however, is characterized by a parasitic, selfish, insolent, and defiant desire to take without giving.  The earlier immigrants’ desire to contribute has largely been replaced with illegal immigration’s parasitic, entitled insolence.  Many if not most illegal immigrants seem to care little for the nation they are invading.

Given this clear distinction, the insistent lumping of legal with illegal immigration is mind boggling and senseless. Why would conscientious, law abiding people want to be lumped together with those committing fraud or other criminal acts? Lumping legal and illegal immigration together only serves to perpetuate and deepen the stereotypes against immigrants by blurring the distinction between the two.

The lame and pathetic argument that efforts to curb and regulate illegal immigration is an attack on all immigrants is insulting to any sane, rational, thinking person. Despite this, we daily see scores of mindless legal immigrant celebrities (along with many others) protesting and resisting government efforts to control illegal immigration.

Principalities, Powers, Elites, Fawning Fools

St. Paul warns us (Ephesians 6:12) that our struggle is not against mere flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, and rulers of darkness. The ruler of darkness is good at sowing seeds of division and confusion. He accomplishes this by employing intellectual, social, and economic elites who manufacture and manipulate the division described. His goal is the destruction of this society’s Judeo-Christian foundations.

Empty-headed entertainers and celebrities like Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, and Sarah Carpenter are the devil’s pawns.  These famous people live extravagant lives in gated mansions and promote immorality. They hypocritically virtue signal how good and socially conscious they are while promoting immorality through their songs and performances.  In truth, they are nothing more than useful tools of the ruler of darkness.

Recall the public display at the Grammys, where Eilish’s statement, “no one is illegal on stolen land” perfectly displayed the Left’s hypocrisy and contradiction.  If we define stolen land as land taken from someone, then most of the land on this planet is stolen and should be returned to its original inhabitants. And if “no one is illegal on stolen land” then anyone with any motive or intent, moral or not, criminal or not, should be allowed to come and go as they please.  Such removal of any moral ground for immigration laws would result in the collapse of society as we know it.

It is absurd that anyone, especially someone living in a gated mansion, should say such empty and illogical hypocrisy. It is just as pathetic that Carpenter nodded wide eyed in mindless agreement to Eilish’s drivel.

At the bottom of this tragic Leftist sandwich are the radicalized protestors in Left-controlled sanctuary cities trying to prevent ICE agents and officers from removing illegal immigrants and dangerous criminals. These foolish people cry tyranny while preventing the government from protecting innocent residents and citizens.

The Left pretends to be about protecting victims.  However, they do not care about protecting anyone who does not agree with their agenda. We see no demonstrations protesting the deaths of innocent victims of illegal criminals.  We also saw no demonstrations protesting the 56 deaths under ICE custody between 2010 and 2012 when Obama was president.  Even the deaths and violence resulting from the protestors own actions attacking ICE are collateral damage to their darker, bigger agenda of creating division.

Human life and national security are inconvenient, collateral damage to these people. Even as they pretend to care or preach about love, respect, and unity, they demonstrate exactly the opposite concern when convenient.

The most tragic part of this equation is its effect on half of the general population. These leftist sympathizers are so full of hate, bias, and warped logic that they do not realize they are being used as disposable props for a bigger, more sinister, purpose.

Deflection and Distortion

The mainstream media fans the flames of this divisive narrative. For example, they report the separation of a father and son when, in reality, the father had abandoned the son.  It likewise stokes the fires of anger and outrage by wailing endlessly about radicalized protestors in deadly confrontations with officers.

This selective outrage highlighting the deaths of radicalized protestors is unpardonable.  The protestors are even depicted as saintly figures. Yet the media ignores the scores of innocent residents murdered by illegal immigrant criminals.  This is both despicable and hypocritical.  And it is into this social and moral powder keg that we introduce the halftime show of controversial performer Bad Bunny during the most watched sporting event of the year.

Bad Bunny as a Moral and Social Flashpoint and Measure of Decadence 

Bad Bunny is a popular rapper and performer who is notorious for vulgar, suggestive lyrics and sexually explicit actions on stage.  He is the antithesis of Judeo-Christian beliefs and values in every way.  The fact that he is so popular and successful, and has won many awards, tells you more about the social and moral decadence of this society than his talent.

The fact that so many celebrities, performers, and musicians admire and applaud this man is also depressing.  It reveals just how far we have fallen.  Already many in the media and entertainment world are depicting his half time show as the greatest thing since sliced bread.

However, there is widespread online evidence of the satanic influences in Bad Bunny’s concerts. And he was warned to “tone down” his act for this Super Bowl.  But the fact that a performer of his vulgarity, and disrespect for this country, would be selected tells you all you need to know about the prevailing winds of our social and entertainment world.

The Insidious and Ironic Hypocrisy of Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show

Scores of people are fawning in admiration over Bad Bunny’s halftime show.  They are saying it was a creative and inspiring kiss to his native Puerto Rico, Latin culture, diversity, respect, love, and unity.  However, precisely the opposite is true.

Bad Bunny’s show stereotyped Latin culture as characterized by gyrating women down on all fours allowing for disrespect by men.  It also portrayed migrants as field hands.  It was a pervasive defiance directed toward the very nation that has welcomed them.

The notion that simply rattling off a list of names of Latin nations in this hemisphere is proof of inclusion, is a perverse, warped message that is insulting.  Where is the recognition of hard working Latino family values and contributions to the United States?  Why were many thoughtful Latinos offended by the caricatures and depictions of what being Latino is all about?  And why are so many Latinos, myself included, resentful of this man’s pretense to represent us in any way?

The ultimate hypocrisy of this halftime charade is that it pretends to uplift and honor Latino culture and values.  However it presented a mocking, degrading, and debased stereotype of them.

The show pretended to be about love, diversity, and unity.  But it was selling lust and a biased caricature of all Latinos conveniently packaged in a taco shell.  Imagine a black entertainer serving up all the stereotypes of the black culture to pounding music.  This was Bad Bunny’s degrading Latino half time show. Yet it is being celebrated as a masterpiece while promoting exactly the opposite of its vulgar depravity and insulting caricature.

Conclusion

The Super bowl halftime show is supposed to be entertaining.  Tragically, in the case of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, the entertainment was missing.  Instead of entertaining it delivered a sad message – society’s values, morals, and social fabric has collapsed.  And society has mindlessly and cluelessly embraced the fall.

Society has strayed far off the path of morals and ethics and onto a path toward perdition.  When it comes to this show, Bad Bunny has truly pulled a revealing rabbit out of a hat.