MAGAs seething "this would be better if it was all white men".

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They are trying to get us ready for the N word to become acceptable.

The only thing that will be acceptable at that point will be their faces to a fist.

Yep.

Yes it did.

To them, the existence of black people at all is DEI

The words they want to use is UPPITY N. WORDs

They likely turned this off and didn't bother watching it.

That's not entirely true. Some of them saw the Masonic Holy Order of Surrender and several references to the Illuminati. 🤣

i knew they were going to freak out

Drump didn't seem pleased... Good.

Given the fact that he left the arena after halftime, I'd say you're right.

Absolutely! I didn't watch, but now I wish I did... MAGA, this was not for you!

Why would anyone expect uneducated people who are proud of being uneducated to enjoy a piece art that requires you to think and not be told?

This performance will be analysed for months to come.

They don't want to see or acknowledge anything else.

"Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all of that heavenly glory" - Bruce Lee youtu.be/lM4n1Jntqw0?...

Those sly smiles was because he knew what he was doing and he knew it would take America time to catch up, if they ever did. I even had to watch it over again, consider his audience, and his intentions. Kendrick is a BRILLIANT rapper. He hid messages in plain site.

There were so many level to it, especially when you consider the Super Bowl halftime act doesn't get paid to do it (that's why a number of acts turn it down) - they get a huge budget to put it on, but that's it so Kendrick gave us performance art in many mediums - layers upon layers of symbolism.

Kendrick knew his audience. Brilliant rappers drop lines so ahead of their time, it takes a while to catch up. A Minor wasn’t just for Drake—it fit some 1 else in that room too. Add that to Sam Jackson’s "That’s what America wants, nice and calm"—that line wasn’t for Drake. He went over their heads!

More than that. #KendrickLamar's lyric,"Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A Minor," plays on dual meanings. "A Minor" refers to the melancholic chord but also sounds like "a minor," alluding to accusations of interest in underage kids—parallels could be drawn to Trump & his ties to Epstein

I feel like im missing all sorts of context about this. I didnt watch the super bowl cause i dont like sports. Can someone explain? I tried looking it up on youtube but i can barely make out what he is saying.

Read the article posted above: “Kendrick Lamar Rewrote the Rules…”

Ok while that was an interesting read i still feel a bit lost. But i guess its a gotta be a fan to get it thing or something. I just like hearing that maga is pissed but idk anything about kendrick or his music.

👍 The ones who needed to get it, got it. The ones who needed to get pissed off, ARE. So win-win here 😁😁😁

How will they ever get DEI out of the NFL.

The ½ time show flushed out some more racists.

“Woke” seems to have been replaced in their simple minds with “DEI” for now

If they don’t get this. Then we need more secret messaging going on.😊

It always does!!! You can spell this shit out for them and they are still confounded asf. Well the base is at least. The architects of the maga chaos sit back and laugh.

Thank you #KendrickLamar for that #halftimeshow We needed it. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YUTRWy/

Anything more intellectual than Kid Rock is a proper challenge for MAGA folks

it was brilliant

The party of ‘fuck your feelings’ sure does want us to care about their feelings.

I didn't watch the Super Bowl. Where can I find a link to watch half-timw show?

I watched it on YouTube.

It doesn’t take much to go over their single digit IQ heads…

There’s no point doing a thought provoking work of art to prompt a thought from brain dead MAGA sheep.

Vox populi, vox DEI.

Kendrick Lamar is brilliant! And all those that were a part of putting it together and in it! Love Sza, Serena and the dancers and Sam Jackson! Brilliant!

DEI frightens them.

Kendrick knew the assignment.

For black people the flag of the United States of America is disconnected. It sure as hell doesn't mean equality.

My children both in mid-late 30’s watched it and understood all the underlying meanings. They were texting with friends and cousins all night comparing notes. While I had to use closed caption to understand the words(as most raps are way too fast for my ears) I, too, understood. Tale as old as time

The Tangerine Tariffeer and his sideshow of travelling freaks and University of life dropouts may have the wit to fool those who need a champion, but they couldn't point out wonderful art in the Louvre.

Having not watched it…going to have to go in for the replay…

I’m not sure anointing a petty egomaniac as a hero in a fight against a petty egomaniac is going to be super effective. The problem isn’t that the show didn’t reach maga. Of course it didn’t. What would? It’s that it’s not much of a rally cry for the good 50% of the country. More identity siloing.

I have to admit that I had trouble hearing anything he was saying to where I just went and did other things. I'm betting it was amazing... but it's not for me. :/

It was brilliant!!

So well done!

Oh no!!! Black people!!!!

Yeah, I'm not a fan of rap at all - but I watched the whole of that performance and thought it was bordering on genius. Really clever stuff well executed.

That’s why subliminal messages are useless these days. Half of America are too damn stupid to understand a single word.

Can't fix stupid. Stupid doesn't respond to logic.

I understand the motivation behind the performance. It's timely and significant. However, I really don't enjoy rap music. Is that still allowed?

Definitely!

Or even better...

They don’t have a clue🤦🏽‍♀️

This is my take, in graph form:

I applaud the underlying message, seriously - it's just a shame you have to be utterly explicit with right-wingers or they'll misread everything. These are the people who think "born in the USA" is about patriotic jingoism.

Must say it went over my head too and I am receptive to the message. I had to study today to find out what I was missing in the message.

But that's good that you educated yourself!

That was my first thought. It was a perfect message ♥

I loved it. Those who found fault totally missed the message in my opinion because of their particular privilege. Very telling of the division in America.

Most white folks watching #SuperBowlHalftimeShow lol

DEI is just the affirmative action bs they've been hocking for years. It's just rebranding. And we all know that the affirmative action bs was just racism held over from the dixiecrats

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Thats Bad Ass Motherfucker. Of Mr. Badass Motherfucker if he doesn't like you. 😁😆

And now he'll have to walk the earth like Caine. . .

I’m no maga but that show sucked

My MAGA father was so bored with the halftime show that he fell asleep. He asked me “what was all that about” and I just said “I don’t know, Dad, it’s not my aesthetic so I don’t get it…” 🤣🤣🤣

Time to do some mansplaining to the MAGA crowd.

I thought that was Apollo Creed.

Lamar is a poet

Buy NOTHING except from local small businesses, NO social media (scrolling generates revenue), TVs OFF all day.

I'm trying to tell people to start growing some damn vegetables and I'm not even joking! I don't even want to hear any shit about apartments and what not, there are so many ways nowadays. I'm for this 100%. besides, better quality better prices from local! 🤘🤘🤘 #RESIST #Trumpistyranny

Lots of folks in California are converting their yards and shared green space into gardens. Our backyard is small but we have fruit trees and container vegetables and herbs and share with our neighbors - kind of a green version of a little library.

I agree. I already started.

I can almost guarantee I'll be vegetable gardening that day. I do some almost every day that isn't rainy.

Started buying seeds today, but definitely need more

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Only hate filled mush in maga heads.

The people that need ti get it won't

Krazy Konservative Kult

Everything's going over their heads, but then, they tend to not look in the right direction because the finger of distraction is where it's at for them...

I loved this halftime performance!!!

All I can say to people like him are "Too bad."

Well, to be honest, it would be difficult to see DEI since Lamar's ensemble lacked racial and ethnic diversity.

MAGAts are too willfully ignorant, hateful and or stupid to comprehend Kendrick’s performance

Too racist. All they saw was the color they hate. And they’re not progressive enough to understand what they saw.

Exactly. They literally fired people based of the color of their skin/gender without even checking credentials. Racist scum.

On the very minor upside, a lot of them will have outed themselves as such to their friends who may have been giving them the benefit of a doubt.

Especially if they go on to explain that kid rock wore an American flag like a poncho in a “tasteful” way.

Of all the timelines to exist, we get to live in the same one as the dude that said this 😭 Damn it Using ‘tasteful’ to describe anything MAGA does… the irony 😭

It was intended to be ironic.. The point being that the right will jump on Kendrick over the flag but give kid rock a pass

It’s been a long three weeks and my brain may be mush at this point. Plus I think this is something my MAGAt neighbor would legitimately say 😂

You’re good! It feeling too real is both a compliment and a symptom of our shared stress.

This was the Real Hero 100% 🎯

What if Black players boycott sports until Trump leaves office and turns over GOV to Hakeem Jeffries?.......lol

Maga too dim to grasp the message. I heard it. I saw it. It was magnificent! Well done. Resist.

While I will be the first to admit that I didn't care for the show (I'm just not that into rap), the symbolism was fantastic! It's no surprise that it went over some people's heads.

The folks who get it, got it. But I highly doubt the ones who it was meant for did. It’s tough to sell the blind a picture book, no matter how big and bold the pictures are.

They chose the most popular artist of the most popular genre to sing to the his most popular songs. I’m a Boomer and the genre is not my thing, but I appreciate the fact that it’s the most popular genre regardless.

We’re going on 9+ years of clueless MAGAs, George, no surprise here.

Yes, yes it did

What can you expect of fascist MAGA Nazi Republican "Christians" of ANY color and/or sexual preference. Remember, all of those racists, bigots and self-hating white supremacists believe in a wildly fictitious blonde, blue-eyed hateful and hate-filled white Jesus.

Lol DEI went over there heads😂😂😂they think it doesn’t include white women or white men they never understand sometimes the immigrant has two parents w three jobs each and they themselves work while putting themselves through college and get good grades and they are better qualified

Yup!

I feel like they understood what it was saying and it upset them bigly

They just saw Black Americans. They view them as lesser than.

I'm not MAGA and it went over my head. If you're going to call out "the man" then do it! Don't come with subtleties. The only part I sort of got but in a cringy way was Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam. I guess art like is supposed to make you uncomfortable so success? Most of the rest was a bore.

This might answer some of your questions: thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

I read all of the explanations on it. I shouldn't have to read explanations on something like this. He had billions of eyeballs for an audience - beat them over the head with it. Not a time for subtlety. IMHO

Oh, if that's the case I'm sorry I bothered you with further explanations. You understand, then, why he did it the way he did.

My perspective seems to stray from the norm in that I have boycotted the half time show for over 2 decades now. I was there for the game, not some show. I am no longer a fan now and don't care either way. I still hope to move out of KCMO as soon as possible. #RainbowWarriors #BlueCrew #Chimpanion

It angered all the people it was intended to anger and they don't even understand why they're angry 😂

FB#1: If you didn't get the message, it wasn't for you. FB#2: Why would the NFL send a message that wasn't for the majority of their viewers? Darlin', do you know how many POC watched SB? Last year, 75% of Black and 70% of Hispanics said they were Somewhat or Very likely to watch. Only 65% whites.

The NFL knows their audience. They are reaching out to them, not the owners' demographics.

Almost all of those MAGAs are too uneducated & too indoctrinated to have any sort of independent thought in their head. I might not be a rap fan in general, but I saw the performance for the important message it was trying to send. :3

MAGA don’t realize they are DEI too! The whole lot of them.

Well diversity doesn't exclude anyone unless they are a clone.

I just watched and am cackling. My god, that was BRILLIANT.

They didn't like the message. 🤣🤣🤣✊🏾💚❤️

Of course it did because the creation Kendrick presented was brilliant, truthful, simple and a clear message directed at the small minded ones who only see this type of thing from a place of fear.

It was genius performance.

It went over my head to. I need to rewatch it. Thank you for enlightening me, sadly I did not see it the first time.

Of course it went over their heads. Their heads are up where the sun don't shine.

You can't forget that 30% of young black men voted for Trump. So, let's not lump all white people together. We are not all MAGA. So, not sure what part of America Kendrick was preaching to.

Isn’t it interesting “DEI” performance and Eagles won? Don’t let up on the resistance folks. Karma sending signs to us. FYI NFL booked the show. And booked Beyoncé in December. It couldn’t be that $$$ made from ads and sponsors have any impact on performers chosen? Irony and hypocrisy

On FB they railed about it. Yep, DEI. But, they are not bigots nor racists. Nope.

Just smooth brained useful idiots sitting in a row...

Wait till the Magas find out that Joe Biden would kneel to hear Agnus DEI every Sunday.

I remember the meltdown with Shakira and Jlo. MAGA are soulless, boring, joyless stick up their butt assholes. Imagine actually living your life as one of them.

MAGA lacks the basic empathy to understand how anyone's life is different than theirs.

Over everyone’s head!

I loved it. I could tell there were layers of symbolism going down and I only caught the most obvious ones.

And yet somehow @joncaramanica.bsky.social and @nytimes.com couldn’t see anything but a diss track and some dancing. Such cultural depth of field at the “paper of record”, which keeps its comments section likewise sparkling clean… ❄️❄️❄️

Can’t wait to see what the 4th of July is going to be like.

George these MAGA people are not really clever, insightful or intelligent to begin with. They think they’re also smarter than anyone black when in reality they’re the dumbest people I’ve had to displeasure to experience on this planet thus far.

There are groups of people in the states right now. People who enjoyed and recognized the symbolism in his performative art And The people that his message, music and art went over their heads or refused to see. I truly believe art is what builds a persons intelligence and emotions.

It was fabulous!

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This was the only time I paid attention to a super bowl and it was GLORIOUS

MAGA just say it already, we know you want to, JUST, let your heart go out to the world.

Definitely.

Most things go over their heads sadly.

That's what trump and the broligarchs have been training them to do for many years!

It was BRILLIANT!

Really wanna piss of Magats? Inform them how African Americans had a hand shaping what the world now knows as country music. The staple of country music, the banjo, was derived from an African instrument. time.com/5673476/ken-...

Too subtle for me.

I needed to see Sam.

I can't imagine America Culture without the massive contribution of the Black community clearly in the Music and entertainment industry AND of course on the football field! Yet Republicans/Trump continue to attack the Black Community with vile hatred with their war on woke---a war on the truth!

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A need a list of all the things or nuances that Lamar did during the performance. It can get hard for foreigners to fully grasp Lamar’s everything

Read the article posted above: “Kendrick Lamar Breaks the Rules…”

Well you could never accuse them of being deep thinkers

It really doesn't take much to go over MAGA heads unless you mention Biden and suddenly they are all subject matter experts.

Or infectious diseases, or firefighting, or structural engineering, or .... These are people too stupid to comprehend how much they don't know about almost everything. Who think their 10 hours per week of Facebook "research" > 10 years of full-time medical training.

Don't forget all those folks in sunglasses in their cars talking to their iPhones. Can't ignore them.

Or "the jab" .... Because they're all scientists 🙄

Even Scientologists aren't that out of whack and they believe some weird stuff

I think more of them “got it” than they want to admit. It made them uncomfortable. They had to look at the truth. Good! Let’s continue to make them uncomfortable!

I know you know this, Mr. Takei, but Casey McGaw isn't one of those who failed to get it. The critique of MAGATs not getting the message next to a screen cap of her post initially made me think you were talking about her, but her comments made it clear that she got it. She's one of the good ones.

Not sure many even saw it. My MAGA neighbor went for a walk during the half time show.

Not just MAGA...Bari Weiss heard they not like us and thought he was talking about CANADA. LOL.

Bari is maga

Just cause she's an idiot edgelord doesn't make her MAGA.

Oh snap...my info is out of date. Apparently she just converted LOL. www.foxnews.com/video/636859...

No, she just disguises her arguments through twisted “left-like” framing. She is shoveling dirt for the right but framing it like a concern troll.

"the lugenpress is the real fascists!" jesus christ how the hell does she do this with a straight face

She... Actually said that? Jesus Motherfucking Christ, indeed. The ones trying to undermine the credibility of the free press & elections while supporting the ruling party are forever & always, 100% the fascist motherfuckers who will be trying to shove you in an oven a few years down the road .

Never have I seen so many white folks angry that there were black people at a NFL event.

As much as I don’t care for his music, I absolutely loved the imagery and message of the show. Beautiful.

Squid game the American edition.

Poetry in vision and sound💚

This.

Let's follow with calling them out and changing the narrative.

White Christian Nationalist Republicans don’t understand anything that isn’t explicitly about them.

Waaaaaa.

Well, when you have a smooth brain, everything just goes of it

The MAGA folks were looking for a HeeHaw military flag mix-up. With some preteen tap dancers.

Yes. This.

It was such a wonderful FU to Trump, and brilliantly performed.