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AOC Points Out 1 Major Flaw In GOP Outrage Over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) ridiculed Republicans having a fit over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance this past weekend while strolling through the halls of Congress on Tuesday night.

Asked about President Donald Trump’s complaint “nobody” could understand the Puerto Rican superstar’s Spanish-language set, she told journalist Nicholas A. Ballasy, “I barely know what Trump’s saying half the time, so I feel him.”

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Ocasio-Cortez continued to rib the right when asked about Arizona Rep. Randy Fine’s plans to ask the Federal Communications Commission to look into supposedly “pornographic filth” which was part of the performance, as he announced in a Monday X post.

“I thought they didn’t understand what he was saying!” she quipped.

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A bulk of the GOP outrage over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance seems to be centered on sexually explicit lyrics in the song “Safarea,” a Puerto Rican expression for debauchery.

But the X-rated verse at the center of their criticism was not included in Sunday’s medley of songs, nor are the most lurid lyrics even performed by Bad Bunny on the recorded version of the track, according to translation on Genius.com.

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In addition, less raunchy but still sexually suggestive lines delivered by Bad Bunny during his performance were bleeped during the Super Bowl broadcast, as Axios reported on Tuesday.

During Ocasio-Cortez’s catch-up with Ballasy, she also talked about what the Super Bowl set personally meant to her as a Puerto Rican American.

“It just gives me so much pride to see what he did on the national stage,” she said. “Not only that, but really telling the story of America and all the Americas.”

The progressive went on, “I think it was incredibly inspiring and fun and joyful in a time that people find very challenging.”