re: 349 million Americans - about 40 million can speak Spanish

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The things that you people get worked up about…

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Its actually a very good thing. The vast majority of the people put out by it will be in a nursing home with advanced dementia or in their grave in another 10 years so they are more or less harmless. The fact that in their dotage the worse thing that could happen is the halftime show during a football game gets their ire up speaks volumes about how good life is in the United States. It gives them something to bitch about on facebook and keeps them from doing any active societal damage until the reach room temperature....

I keep seeing his quote from when he was asked about performing the show in Spanish, paraphrasing: English wasn't his first language but it wasn't America's either.

By what metric would English not be America's first language ? It was such an odd quote.

Did bad bunny really burn the American flag while wearing a dress?

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and 10M are here legally

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patently false, but go off.

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The NFL usually picks an artist that football fans don’t like. They are trying to get more eyeballs from those who don’t care about the game and wouldn’t watch otherwise. That said, it was terrible.

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This is more with their recent choices. When they decided to make it an event to stop losing audiences (due blowouts happening early and often) they started out with Michael Jackson and have had Prince, Janet Jackson & her tit with Timberlake, ZZ Top, U2 with a moving & patriotic 9/11 tribute, Bruno Mars (who might be 2nd best performance behind Prince), Lady Gaga on her own, and many others who would have been pretty mainstream English speaking and Top 40. Usually had surprise guests appear who were similarly mainstream. The biggest fail was the Blackeyed Peas who had peaked years earlier and also were just horrible that day.

This was the first true event type of halftime performance to keep audiences.

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It even had a racial message - Doesn’t matter if you’re black or white including a black and white hand shaking on clothes pulled across the people in the field. More unity focused and less victim blacks by those bad whites.

Here is a link to the U2 halftime performance where even Bono flashed our flag.
https://x.com/historyrock_/status/1888973612402475056?s=20

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So they should continue to alienate their base?

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How are they alienating their base? Did a football game not get played last night?

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By what metric would English not be America's first language ? It was such an odd quote.

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By America he means América or basically Latin America as shown in his halftime performance.

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Bad Bunny was criticized for refusing to stand for the song “God Bless America” during a Yankees game in October.

During the Super Bowl halftime show today, he said “God Bless America,” but don’t be fooled into thinking this was some kind of conciliatory gesture.

He proceeded to list names of countries in what Spanish speakers consider a single continent called “América,” making it clear that he intended to shift the meaning of the phrase from an expression of patriotism for the United States to praise for mostly Latin American countries.

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The vast majority of the people put out by it will be in a nursing home with advanced dementia or in their grave in another 10 years so they are more or less harmless.

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This is awesome. When the virtue signal doesn't donit for you, take to dreaming of millions of Americans getting a horrible disease and dying in the next decade, all because they don't care for Spanish autotune rap.

You people are off your fricking rockers.

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By America he means América or basically Latin America as shown in his halftime performance.

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The context around the question was in reference to performing in the USA at the super bowl and doing it all in Spanish, prior to the super bowl, so I'd say this reasoning is a stretch, context would point to him saying English isn't the first language of USA, either.

However, if we want to take this interpretation, it is still a silly quote because then Spanish wouldn't be "America's" first language either. It is just a beyond silly quote.