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MAGA America, deeply upset that more people are not white, fought back Monday by storming social media platforms to express outrage over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show.
“The whole darn thing was in some other language, so I didn’t know what in the hell was happening, and it scared me,” said Barbara “Babbs” Kankles, a self-described MAGA from Jerome, Idaho.
Kankles said the Spanish language frightens her because it “sounds foreign,” but what disturbed her most was the Grammy Award winner’s message of unity and love.
“His snowflake crap about ‘love and togetherness’ was basically a threat,” she said. “Anyone who supports that is a terrorist and a stuppid (sic) libtard.”
In addition to racism and xenophobia, the posts and comments featured what observers described as a remarkable level of ignorance and outright stupidity.
“You got this foriner (sic) up they’re (sic) from Mezco (sic) dancing round (sic) speeking (sic) in Mezcan (sic) and I don’t speek (sic) Mezcan, I speek (sic) Merican,” wrote one commenter, Cody Wyoming, a MAGA super-influencer.
Another commenter quickly pointed out Wyoming’s inaccuracies.
“First of all, Mensa, Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican, which is a U.S. territory,” wrote a user identified as “Fmaga.” “Second, ‘Merican’ is neither a word nor a language. And what exactly is ‘Mezcan?’”
The correction enraged Wyoming, who responded by calling the poster a libtard before launching into an incoherent rant. When Fmaga referred to the tirade as a “mantrum,” Wyoming reportedly became so confused and angry that he spontaneously combusted.
“He was essentially reduced to pink mist,” said Dan Sniper, a social media expert who specializes in teaching people how to humiliate Trump supporters online.
“The important thing to remember is that you’re not dealing with a full deck,” Sniper said. “Put another way, these people are a few sandwiches short of a picnic basket.”
Sniper advised against engaging MAGA supporters in serious debate.
“Never argue seriously with idiots — and MAGAs are true idiots,” he said. “An idiot will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience every time.”
Instead, Sniper recommended confusion as a strategy.
“Sarcasm, combined with references to anything other than NASCAR, Christian nationalism, guns, the KKK or having sex with your cousin, works extremely well,” he said. “They’re either going to freeze like a deer in headlights or post another wildly racist rant that will live online forever.
“Either way, it’s a win-win.”
Meanwhile, children and grandchildren of MAGA supporters said they are struggling to explain the permanence of social media posts.
“They don’t understand that everything they post is public record, forever,” said Abby Reyburn, 17, of Hailey, Idaho, whose grandparents are MAGA supporters. “I asked them to please stop posting about Bad Bunny because it’s racist, embarrassing and shameful.
“They just called me a ‘snowflake libtard’ and said they wished they’d raised me tougher.”
Reyburn said her grandparents’ posts were riddled with typos, misspellings and historical inaccuracies.
“I’m thinking about changing my last name when I turn 18 so I’m no longer associated with these people,” she said. “We’ve been studying World War II in school, and I know exactly what happened to Nazis and Nazi sympathizers after the war.
“I’m afraid the same thing is going to happen to Nana and Papa.”
Meanwhile, the 142 viewers who tuned in to Turning Point USA’s All-American Halftime Show were entertained by Kidd Rock’s songs about statutory rape.
Following the wholesome, family-friendly event the attendees were herded together by Australian shepherds and transported to a sheep ranch in Peru, where they will be reunited with their own.
