(02-09-2026 03:05 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 03:04 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 02:52 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 10:18 AM)CLTPirate Wrote:  I’m a Marxist antifa libtard here, but can someone explain why you guys care so much about this?

Also I see many conservatives calling him a fake American, do you guys want the US to get rid of Puerto Rico or something? What’s up with that?

Getting rid of Puerto Rico would be a great idea on its face. They produce nothing. Puerto Rico is operated at a loss as far as the US is concerned. A welfare state of people who don’t pay taxes.

That’s the definition of an island of takers.

The reality is strategically we can’t allow the UK, Canada, China, Russia or one of our other “allies” or “enemies” to control an island so close to the US coast. We can’t afford to let PR to become a launch platform to attack the US.

Actually, Bad Bunny supports the side of PR becoming an independent country. So, he is the one that wants the US to "get rid of Puerto Rico".

Oblige him

Good. Enter into a security agreement and let them become their own country. Send the PRs back.

https://x.com/Shawn_Farash/status/2020579944167006617

(02-09-2026 02:25 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Next year, let's have a Retro Halftime Act.

I was fortunate enough to attend SuperBowl XXXIII in Miami in 1999. Falcons vs. Broncos. Elway's last game.

Music was fantastic. Let's bring it back. Most of them are still alive, lol.

Pregame Performance: Kiss.
National Anthem: Cher.
Halftime Show: Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

KISS opened Super Bowl XXXIII with a bombastic version of "Rock And Roll All Nite!"

The halftime show was titled "A Celebration of Soul, Salsa and Swing" and featured Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Stevie Wonder, and Gloria Estefan.

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Here's the problem.. Jay-Z is still the NFL 's halftime producer. Do you realize how many non-hiphops have led the half time show since 2020?

ZERO. (the last was was Maroon 5 in 2019)

How many do you think are going to get a chance to play in his "sandbox" as the lead performer?
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Basically we're asking someone who's out of touch with America to be the 'Music voice of America'?

My other problem with your idea, TripleA. the big names I'd love to hear again are no longer with us.


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Of couse, I asked a ton of people on social media, so we can just play American music for all the World Cup games and entertainment, right?

That went over as expected, like a lead balloon.

Now they know how many people felt about Bunny's songs and performance.

Other than one token white liberal kook in Lady Gaga, how many white performers were in the background staff of that production?

White? Need not apply.

What is happening is the NFL realizes they have their "base" of fans that will watch no matter what. They have basically said to that "base" is "F You, we've got you". Now we are catering to those that DON'T watch the NFL. But what the NFL doesn't realize is those people will NOT watch the NFL on Sundays and some of the folks they THINK they have will leave. I stopped watching the NFL about 5 years ago or so. Got tired of the "messages" in the end zones etc. That game last night was one of the worst games played this year. Watched the first half and my suspicion was correct. New England had no hope, they backed into the game due to Bo Nix getting hurt. Made my $100 bet about a week and a half ago laying the 4.5.

(02-09-2026 01:05 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 12:54 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 12:40 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 12:27 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 11:24 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  Bill, according to the actually numbers if a black man is shot outside doing anything, there is virtually a 96% chance he is shot by another black man. Not a white man or a cop. In fact the FBI stats show a cop is far more likely to shoot a white man when they actually have an encounter than a black man.

Again, that is a perfect example of how the dishonest gaslighting media narratives have so warped perceptions that they are 180 degrees opposite of actually reality.

Those dishonest narratives are so effective I have seen countless vids of random people (both black and white) being asked and saying "thousands" of unarmed black men are shot by cops every year. The factual reality is in a nation of over 350 million people there are about 6-8 such incidents a year nationwide. And more than half of those have specific circumstance that led the cop to believe the unarmed man was armed and highly dangerous.

I think its pretty clear the media's BS gaslighting narratives are incredibly effective. Even you have half bought into them

I agree with all this, Eric. I'm as fed up with left-leaning media as you are. Maybe I have been unclear. I don't trust any media (left or right) that reports with an agenda.

Your statistics seem accurate.

But that was not my point. I simply posted this:

Some on the left want to make the right feel guilty, calling conservatives racist for the slighting things. It's pathetic. In contrast, some on the right get more upset about a black athlete taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem than they do an innocent black man going for a jog and being shot to death just because he's black.

I would hope you agree with the bolded.

That guy got shot because he grabbed for the guy's gun instead of waiting for the police to defuse the situation. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. And he probably was going through that vacant house looking for things to steal.

And the guys with the guns also played stupid games and won the prize of years in jail. They were playing cop.

I don't have much sympathy for someone who trespassed and then grabbed for a gun.

So no, that doesn't bother me. Stupid people met and bad things happened, just like with Obama's "son" and the Hispanic wannabe cop.

I have no idea what you're referencing, bullet.

I was alluding to Ahmaud Arbery.

I have lots of MAGA friends who live in the same condo building I live in and we meet for coffee every Saturday. When Arbery was shot just for jogging, they kind of shrugged and said, "That's unfortunate." But when pro athletes take a knee during the anthem, my same MAGA friends go ballistic. Seems odd to me.

That is exactly what I was referring to. Its sad. You don't have anything but the MSM talking points instead of whole story.

There were a lot of break-ins in their neighborhood so 3 guys decided to play cop. Arbery stopped on his jog and starts going through this vacant house/construction site. They assumed he was robbing the place so they cornered him and held him at gunpoint while they called the police. He tried to get the gun from one of the guys and got shot.

He got shot for trying to take a gun away from someone, not for jogging while Black.

That's what's wrong with America. Three second talking points.

I have seen various accounts of what happened so I don't know what to believe. But a jury ruled in favor of the prosecution and against the three white men. Maybe you should blame it on the jury and the defendants lawyers. And not the media.

I'm willing to readily acknowledge (if the full truth ever is revealed) that Arbury was fully at fault. He had a record. Maybe he "asked for it." The defendants claim he tried to take the gun. Maybe he did. Do we have proof of that? Again, I'm willing to have my mind changed.

That still does not negate my general argument: There are white people who get more upset when a black pro athlete takes a knee during the national anthem than they get when an innocent black person is wrongly murdered (whether Arbury or not). I've seen this (in my building, no less) first hand.

And by the way: 1. I always stand at attention when the anthem is played. My father served. I'm pro police and pro military. Blacks can be racists. The black man on the subway who murdered the European girl ... I won't lose sleep if he gets the death penalty. There are elements of the left that disgust me. Biden sniffed women's hair. Pathetic. I could go on.

You may not know any white people who get more upset when a black pro athlete takes a knee during the national anthem than they do when an innocent and decent black person is wrongly murdered, bullet.

But I do. And I pity them.

As the resident Puerto Rican on the board (who still has family that live on the island), there are three camps:

A) Puerto Ricans who want independence
B) Puerto Ricans who want statehood
C) Puerto Ricans who want to keep things like it is

There have been numerous polls on this and B and C are by far the most popular options. The folks who want independence are sven seen as crazy by the left leaning people in PR, who understand they could not survive on their own.

(02-09-2026 03:20 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  As the resident Puerto Rican on the board (who still has family that live on the island), there are three camps:

A) Puerto Ricans who want independence
B) Puerto Ricans who want statehood
C) Puerto Ricans who want to keep things like it is

There have been numerous polls on this and B and C are by far the most popular options. The folks who want independence are sven seen as crazy by the left leaning people in PR, who understand they could not survive on their own.

The Communists want it to be an independent country. The Cuba/Venezuela supporters. That is the side Bad Bunny is on. Of course, he is rich and can move to any of his other homes NOT in Puerto Rico.

Quote:New video of Bad Bunny looking visibly SHOOK as he’s trying to leave the Super Bowl

Pausing to look back several times with visible concern in his eyes. You’ d swear he saw The Devil himself and was terrified

Afterwards he also abruptly deleted his entire Instagram account, with 51 million followers ??

Well, the first points scored in the game were a 33-yard field goal…so there’s that ?

Can someone add context to this last post immediately above where Bad Bunny is "afraid" and deleted his social media? It's very easy to take stuff out of context so if anyone can give more info that would be great.

(02-09-2026 12:19 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(02-08-2026 11:03 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  Watched some of both the Bad Bunny and TPUSA shows and found both to be unappealing. Of course, I'm 63 and eccentric — and, as such, I'm not the target audience for such "artists" and "music."

okay, let me start at the beginning... (uhoh long post forthcoming?)

1) I will say that Bad Bunny sounded HORRIBLE on the microphone during the show, I think there's just something about that stadium that RUINS any outdoor performances. Gaga didn't sound great either, Ricky Martin.. sorta did.

2) I will say that other than trying to note all the American countries (North/South America) BB really didn't get political, IMO.

But that's not my problem:

3) THAT WAS NOT A FAMILY SHOW...

I'm not going to rewrite the lyrics to the song in question. If you want them, feel free to look them up yourself. (although I think he changed SOME of the lyrics.. not all of them)

But just because they flow in Spanish does not mean they should be OVER THE AIRWAVES... Even the Hip-Hop show tribute to the 90s toned down their songs, BB got way with more, because he knew people wouldn't understand the Spanish language.

Timberlake and Jackson appear to be facing worse repercussions than bad Bunny is, and I think that's a mistake.

As for the TP_USA show:

Brilliant story told, as you get Kid Rock showing us his past (yes, even though there was lip-sync to it.. i think the same thing happened at the RNC he performed at?). doesn't hide the explicit lyrics of what he _was_, but absolutely nowhere as HORRIFIC as BB's.
Christianity comes into his life...
And then out comes the new Robert Ritchie with a new outlook on life thanks to it.

I was disappointed that, as noted, it was an all-caucasian cast (it was one of those things I was hoping they'd avoid allowin anyone to make an issue of (which I did see on "X" some)
I didn't pay attention to the full list of names.. but I thought Darius Rucker was supposed to be there.. maybe i misread the list?)

But overall TP_USA show was a -Better- show and story, and BB's was well... TOO sexually explicit for a FAMILY gathering. (again, even though most people wont notice due to the language difference).

FWIW - The TP show was pre-recorded in front of a hired audience according to the reports I saw today. So that makes the lip synch issue look even worse. But of course, pre-recording a show on a soundstage should always lead to a better sounding result.

(02-09-2026 03:19 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 01:05 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 12:54 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 12:40 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 12:27 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  I agree with all this, Eric. I'm as fed up with left-leaning media as you are. Maybe I have been unclear. I don't trust any media (left or right) that reports with an agenda.

Your statistics seem accurate.

But that was not my point. I simply posted this:

Some on the left want to make the right feel guilty, calling conservatives racist for the slighting things. It's pathetic. In contrast, some on the right get more upset about a black athlete taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem than they do an innocent black man going for a jog and being shot to death just because he's black.

I would hope you agree with the bolded.

That guy got shot because he grabbed for the guy's gun instead of waiting for the police to defuse the situation. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. And he probably was going through that vacant house looking for things to steal.

And the guys with the guns also played stupid games and won the prize of years in jail. They were playing cop.

I don't have much sympathy for someone who trespassed and then grabbed for a gun.

So no, that doesn't bother me. Stupid people met and bad things happened, just like with Obama's "son" and the Hispanic wannabe cop.

I have no idea what you're referencing, bullet.

I was alluding to Ahmaud Arbery.

I have lots of MAGA friends who live in the same condo building I live in and we meet for coffee every Saturday. When Arbery was shot just for jogging, they kind of shrugged and said, "That's unfortunate." But when pro athletes take a knee during the anthem, my same MAGA friends go ballistic. Seems odd to me.

That is exactly what I was referring to. Its sad. You don't have anything but the MSM talking points instead of whole story.

There were a lot of break-ins in their neighborhood so 3 guys decided to play cop. Arbery stopped on his jog and starts going through this vacant house/construction site. They assumed he was robbing the place so they cornered him and held him at gunpoint while they called the police. He tried to get the gun from one of the guys and got shot.

He got shot for trying to take a gun away from someone, not for jogging while Black.

That's what's wrong with America. Three second talking points.

I have seen various accounts of what happened so I don't know what to believe. But a jury ruled in favor of the prosecution and against the three white men. Maybe you should blame it on the jury and the defendants lawyers. And not the media.

I'm willing to readily acknowledge (if the full truth ever is revealed) that Arbury was fully at fault. He had a record. Maybe he "asked for it." The defendants claim he tried to take the gun. Maybe he did. Do we have proof of that? Again, I'm willing to have my mind changed.

That still does not negate my general argument: There are white people who get more upset when a black pro athlete takes a knee during the national anthem than they get when an innocent black person is wrongly murdered (whether Arbury or not). I've seen this (in my building, no less) first hand.

And by the way: 1. I always stand at attention when the anthem is played. My father served. I'm pro police and pro military. Blacks can be racists. The black man on the subway who murdered the European girl ... I won't lose sleep if he gets the death penalty. There are elements of the left that disgust me. Biden sniffed women's hair. Pathetic. I could go on.

You may not know any white people who get more upset when a black pro athlete takes a knee during the national anthem than they do when an innocent and decent black person is wrongly murdered, bullet.

But I do. And I pity them.

You know bad people. Who doesnt.

So what.

You miss the point as usual.

Congrats on feeling enlightened an superior over the lowest common denominator. I guess thats somthing.

(02-09-2026 03:20 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  As the resident Puerto Rican on the board (who still has family that live on the island), there are three camps:

A) Puerto Ricans who want independence
B) Puerto Ricans who want statehood
C) Puerto Ricans who want to keep things like it is

There have been numerous polls on this and B and C are by far the most popular options. The folks who want independence are sven seen as crazy by the left leaning people in PR, who understand they could not survive on their own.

Well you are closest to it. In all seriousness how does it get fixed. Throwing money at PR has not made it a better place.

Our country is bleeding to death.

(02-09-2026 12:27 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 11:24 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 11:06 AM)bill dazzle Wrote:  Some on the left want to make the right feel guilty, calling conservatives racist for the slighting things. It's pathetic. I agree with you. In contrast, some on the right get more upset about a black athlete taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem than they do a black man going for a jog and being shot to death just because he's black.

Bill, according to the actually numbers if a black man is shot outside doing anything, there is virtually a 96% chance he is shot by another black man. Not a white man or a cop. In fact the FBI stats show a cop is far more likely to shoot a white man when they actually have an encounter than a black man.

Again, that is a perfect example of how the dishonest gaslighting media narratives have so warped perceptions that they are 180 degrees opposite of actually reality.

Those dishonest narratives are so effective I have seen countless vids of random people (both black and white) being asked and saying "thousands" of unarmed black men are shot by cops every year. The factual reality is in a nation of over 350 million people there are about 6-8 such incidents a year nationwide. And more than half of those have specific circumstance that led the cop to believe the unarmed man was armed and highly dangerous.

I think its pretty clear the media's BS gaslighting narratives are incredibly effective. Even you have half bought into them

I agree with all this, Eric. I'm as fed up with left-leaning media as you are. Maybe I have been unclear. I don't trust any media (left or right) that reports with an agenda.

Your statistics seem accurate.

But that was not my point. I simply posted this:

Some on the left want to make the right feel guilty, calling conservatives racist for the slighting things. It's pathetic. In contrast, some on the right get more upset about a black athlete taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem than they do an innocent black man going for a jog and being shot to death just because he's black.

I would hope you agree with the bolded.

They're not. The source I found put the number under 90%.

(02-09-2026 12:41 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 12:27 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  I agree with all this, Eric. I'm as fed up with left-leaning media as you are. Maybe I have been unclear. I don't trust any media (left or right) that reports with an agenda.

Your statistics seem accurate.

But that was not my point. I simply posted this:

Some on the left want to make the right feel guilty, calling conservatives racist for the slighting things. It's pathetic. In contrast, some on the right get more upset about a black athlete taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem than they do an innocent black man going for a jog and being shot to death just because he's black.

I would hope you agree with the bolded.

I've never in my life heard of a actual case with a black man being shot while jogging just for being black. That is without leaving out 99% of the details and the entire context of the incident.

If something like that actually happened, yeah I would not like it. But I've never actually heard of such a thing in my entire life and even if we could find that hypothetical needle in a haystack one single case in the whole wide world I don't see that is remotely relevant to anything in this entire thread.

Now you have....

Quote:A federal judge in the Southern District of Georgia today sentenced Travis McMichael, 36, to life plus 10 years in prison; and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, to life plus seven years in prison; and William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, to 35 years in prison, for committing federal hate crimes and other offenses in connection with the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, who was jogging on the public streets of a Brunswick neighborhood when he was chased down and shot to death in February 2020.

All three defendants were convicted at trial in February 2022 on multiple counts, including one count of using violence to intimidate and interfere with Arbery because of his race and because he was using a public street. All three defendants were also found guilty of attempting to kidnap Arbery by chasing after him in their trucks in an attempt to capture and confine him. Finally, Travis McMichael was found guilty of using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a Remington shotgun in the course of the hate crime, which added 10 years to his life sentence; and Gregory McMichael was found guilty of using, carrying and brandishing a .357 Magnum revolver, which added seven years to his life sentence.

Federal Judge Sentences Three Men Convicted of Racially Motivated Hate Crimes in Connection with the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia

(02-09-2026 04:11 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 12:41 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(02-09-2026 12:27 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  I agree with all this, Eric. I'm as fed up with left-leaning media as you are. Maybe I have been unclear. I don't trust any media (left or right) that reports with an agenda.

Your statistics seem accurate.

But that was not my point. I simply posted this:

Some on the left want to make the right feel guilty, calling conservatives racist for the slighting things. It's pathetic. In contrast, some on the right get more upset about a black athlete taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem than they do an innocent black man going for a jog and being shot to death just because he's black.

I would hope you agree with the bolded.

I've never in my life heard of a actual case with a black man being shot while jogging just for being black. That is without leaving out 99% of the details and the entire context of the incident.

If something like that actually happened, yeah I would not like it. But I've never actually heard of such a thing in my entire life and even if we could find that hypothetical needle in a haystack one single case in the whole wide world I don't see that is remotely relevant to anything in this entire thread.

Now you have....

Quote:A federal judge in the Southern District of Georgia today sentenced Travis McMichael, 36, to life plus 10 years in prison; and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, to life plus seven years in prison; and William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, to 35 years in prison, for committing federal hate crimes and other offenses in connection with the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, who was jogging on the public streets of a Brunswick neighborhood when he was chased down and shot to death in February 2020.

All three defendants were convicted at trial in February 2022 on multiple counts, including one count of using violence to intimidate and interfere with Arbery because of his race and because he was using a public street. All three defendants were also found guilty of attempting to kidnap Arbery by chasing after him in their trucks in an attempt to capture and confine him. Finally, Travis McMichael was found guilty of using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a Remington shotgun in the course of the hate crime, which added 10 years to his life sentence; and Gregory McMichael was found guilty of using, carrying and brandishing a .357 Magnum revolver, which added seven years to his life sentence.

Federal Judge Sentences Three Men Convicted of Racially Motivated Hate Crimes in Connection with the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia

And idiots in the NFL showed disrepect to the flag of the country that jailed them.

Prog filth never get the point

(02-09-2026 10:18 AM)CLTPirate Wrote:  I’m a Marxist antifa libtard here, but can someone explain why you guys care so much about this?

Give you props for admitting that.. But I gotta wonder, why the hell would you admit that

I don't actually care at all about this.

(02-09-2026 04:21 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  I don't actually care at all about this.

Well thats no fun. This is better than the monkey thread

PR tidbits

We got PR when we kicked Spain's arse. Maybe they want it back.

PR marxist nationalists attacked congress and that idiot Carter commuted their sentence

https://history.house.gov/Oral-History/E...-Shooting/

All the PR love is absurd.

Cut em off.