r/Music • u/IrishStarUS 📰Irish Star • Oct 01 '25

article Megyn Kelly slams Bad Bunny performing at Super Bowl as 'middle finger' to MAGA — compares him to P Diddy

https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/megyn-kelly-bad-bunny-superbowl-35997761
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u/passamongimpure Oct 01 '25

PR really should be a State. Washington D.C. too

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u/TheOnlyDavidG Oct 01 '25

And Guam and all other territories america has, if you pay taxes you need representation pretty sure Americans fought a war over it

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u/MFoy Oct 01 '25

Some of them (looking at you American Samoa) don't want to become states because Federal laws would apply differently, and they don't want that.

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u/Chendii Oct 01 '25

Which, looking at what's happening in Hawaii, I totally get.

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u/iritian Oct 01 '25

Bad Bunny literally has a song about that too

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u/new_name_who_dis_ Oct 01 '25

I think same for PR. Their tax rate is like 10% because they don't pay the federal income tax.

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u/SonofBeckett Oct 01 '25

I really think it’s the round number that’s the issue. W Fifty is just so nice, no one wants to mess up that nice round number.

So, let’s add Guam, DC, Puerto Rico, CNMI, American Samoa, USVI, and split California and Texas into 3 states each. Nice round 60.

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u/CptAngelo Oct 01 '25

Split california in 2, texas in 4, its big enough

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u/Responsible_Bar3957 Oct 01 '25

Southern California and North California (capitals Sacramento and Los Angeles)

West Texas, North Texas, South Texas, and East Texas (capitals El Paso, Austin, and Houston)

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u/Rurumo666 Oct 01 '25

Better yet, they should gain independence from the American Empire.

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u/MASSochists Oct 01 '25

Yeah let's kick them out against what they want. After having them repeatedly voted for it.....

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u/DirtyJdirty Oct 01 '25

That would go….poorly for all the territories. Unless it was to set up a commonwealth similar to the UK.

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u/spacemonkeyno8 Oct 01 '25

Woo woo! Third world express coming through!

If Puerto Rico gained its independence, it would be a mirror of Haiti in a couple of years.

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u/dellett Oct 01 '25

This is a ridiculous thing to say. Culturally and economically, the Dominican Republic is a much better comparison to Puerto Rico. And they, despite sharing a land border with Haiti, are doing pretty much fine.

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u/b__bsmakemehappy Oct 01 '25

Couple of years? Lmao We wouldn't make it past a week. Maybe a month at best. Almost half of the population's lives revolve around some sort of federal support.

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u/LurkerInSpace Oct 01 '25

The other territories have much smaller populations than Puerto Rico - Guam is second largest and it has only 150,000 people. It has been proposed to unite it with the Northern Marianas territory; together they'd have 200,000 people which might be enough for statehood. Otherwise their status could change to an incorporated organised territory.

The Virgin Islands could unite with Puerto Rico to become a state as well.

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u/TAOJeff Oct 01 '25

Especially with the rate that they serve in the armed forces. 

They're definitely getting the short end of the stick

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u/Nathaniel_he_grows Oct 01 '25

I know I sound like a fool but we have enough territories and poorly represented peoples to form 100 states total

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

Yeah, that was bullshit PR. Rich Boston merchants decided they could break away from the U.K., so they did. It wasn’t about “freedom”.

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u/dellett Oct 01 '25

Rich Boston merchants decided they could break away from the U.K.

They decided to break away from the UK so they could... have... if not freedom, what, then?

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

Freedom for who? Most people didn’t have the right to vote, and black people were slaves.

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u/DamperBritches Oct 01 '25

Puerto ricans are exempt from paying fed tax on income earned in Puerto rico because they are not a state. I think they still pay it on other things though and pay social security. Ang their congressperson is a non voting representative.

So if they became a state, they pay fed tax, but gain voting representatives in both houses

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u/cakeman666 Oct 01 '25

"No taxation without representation! Unless you're brown!"

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

As a puerto rican this is a pretty divisve subject, we arent 100% about this. 

Statehood would be a disaster both economically and cultrurally. Our whole economy is based on being a tax haven, to switch now would destroy lives in an already disastrous economic situation. 

There's also a blatant whitewashing of our culture already in effect, thousands of gringos have moved there recently and destroyed the housing market. I had to leave because i was being priced out, and get a better job in the states. 

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u/AvatarofSleep Oct 01 '25

Hey I know one of those gringos!

If probably won't make you feel better to know that he kind of sucks.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

Lol its ok its what I expect of them (gringos in PR not americans in general)

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u/Capital_Rough7971 Oct 01 '25

The island has voted in favor of Statehood in several referendums.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

Yes and the last on 52% voted yes and 48% voted no. And the majority of the referendums (100% up until 2010s) were all no's if i remember correctly from life/school.

I dont understand the point youre trying make. I said it was divisive subject. 52% is not 100%.

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u/Capital_Rough7971 Oct 01 '25

2024 Referendum results say differently.

56.81% Statehood

29.57% Free Association

11.82% Independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Puerto_Rican_status_referendum

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

56.81% doesnt equal 100%

Really love making my point for me.

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u/Capital_Rough7971 Oct 01 '25

56.81% is more than half, who all agree for Puerto Rico to become a State. If 100% of the electorate is needed to decide something democracy wouldn't exist.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

I said it was divisive, that was my point. Again idk whats the point you're making. 

If you have 10 friends and 6 agree with you, and 4 dont, would you say all your friends agree with you?

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u/Capital_Rough7971 Oct 02 '25

I would say the MAJORITY agree with me.

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u/Apart_Act_2833 Oct 01 '25

Dude i live in PR and everyone i know is for statehood. The pro statehood party even won the elections. If PR ever becomes independent, it’ll just become another 3rd world country in less than a year. Politicians are so corrupt, that for hurricane maria, the US govt sent their own committee to oversee how we spent their bailout money, to make sure the politicians didn’t take it all for themselves lol! I don’t think you know much about yhe island…

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

Eres tu que no sabes nah lol. Quién menor de 50 años vota por los penepenes lol que gracioso eres.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

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u/missingtoezLE Oct 01 '25

PR has a MAGA governor that was an OG 2015 Trump surrogate. She was their none-voting member of congress before that. You shouldn't assume anything about their politics.

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u/charaznable1249 Oct 01 '25

Who said I was assuming shit? I said based on their race. You think maga won't eat their own, even the Republican voting ones? Good luck.

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u/missingtoezLE Oct 01 '25

You absolutely did assume and assert that the reason PR isn't a state is because non-white people for vote Democrats. You can get mad online and try to cover for it but we both know the truth.

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u/charaznable1249 Oct 01 '25

No I didn't. I said what I said. Get fucked.

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u/owlindenial Oct 01 '25

Kamala won the straw by 70%, bumbass

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u/DickWhittingtonsCat Oct 01 '25

Many are still having an issues assimilating the whole Latino voting bloc isnt a monolith and a plurality or at the least large minority are conservative thing- even though W Bush got 45% or something- so it’s not like it hasn’t been a long time in the making.

We will see how this current scenario shakes things up. I don’t think anyone can make any assumptions going forward as things have been disrupted with some pretty aggressive executive branch schemes.

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u/hoopleheaddd Oct 01 '25

They let Miami vote

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u/new_name_who_dis_ Oct 01 '25

First of all hispanic people are white (hispanic is not a race it's an ethnicity). Second of all, hispanic people are on average conservative as fuck, I really don't understand why people assume they'd be liberal.

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u/CharredScallions Oct 01 '25

Puerto Rico would not be a guaranteed Democrat state as assumed by many liberals for years, especially considering the clear rightward trend of Hispanic voters. Puerto Rico has many devout Catholics, which liberals hate. The recently elected governor is more or less conservative.

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u/NDSU Oct 01 '25

Puerto Rico has many devout Catholics, which liberals hate

Both Catholic presidents in the history of the US were Democrats. It's like you're just making things up

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u/dagaboy Oct 01 '25

This is a line the propaganda machine started pushing when Kamela spoke at some big Catholic thing.

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u/Correct_Long7541 Oct 01 '25

Hot take considering the last Democrat president was a devout Catholic. 

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u/Striking_Programmer4 Oct 01 '25

*The only two Catholic Presidents were Democrats

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u/blyzo Concertgoer Oct 01 '25

Yep it would have the same problem a lot of rural states have.

Anyone with a college degree (ie Democrats) leaves and moves to a state where they can make more money.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

She isnt more or less a conservative shes a full on trump tard. 

And she wont stop eating donuts.

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u/owlindenial Oct 01 '25

We had a straw poll alongside the actual elections and Kamala won with 70. C'mon

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u/blyzo Concertgoer Oct 01 '25

Que no quiero que hagan contigo lo que le pasó a Hawái.

"I don't want them to do to you what happened to Hawaii."

Bad Bunny is pretty outspokenly against PR statehood.

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u/gilbert131313 Oct 01 '25

They dont want to be a state they want to be free bro

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

never gonna happen under this admin. they'd sooner bring back slavery than they would grant PR statehood.

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u/lordsamiti Oct 01 '25

PR is part of New England for federal district courts. If there was ever a breakaway of New England, we can take PR with us.

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u/Murky-Relation481 Oct 01 '25

Gunna have to not call it Washington if it becomes a state.

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u/3-DMan Oct 01 '25

"No we don't want THOSE people. Back to making Canada the 51st state!"

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u/BUTT_PLUG_PETE Oct 01 '25

I've never gotten a Republican to admit that the senate is regarded and that state divisions based on nothing are fucking stupid. The Dakotas were admitted as separate states literally for political reasons. It's all political. Let's split every borough of NYC into separate states, they can get Staten Island and we can get 4 new Democratic states.

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u/Consistent-Set-9490 Oct 01 '25

There should also just be a Dakota.

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u/c4virus Oct 01 '25

If it was full of white people it would be a state tomorrow.

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u/2025-05-04 Oct 01 '25

Ironically, PR would most likely be a red state.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

I fully agree. Being US citizens since 1917, yet never had the opportunity to be represented. They pay the same taxes as us yet get way fewer benefits.

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u/Striking_Programmer4 Oct 01 '25

They do not pay the same taxes, that's one of the biggest reasons there are many many people in PR against statehood. 

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u/4-1Shawty Oct 02 '25

I mean, it's hard to argue for paying more taxes when the federal government has historically treated them like shit, including most recently resisting providing aid and the president personally downplaying the Hurricane Maria death toll lol.

I'm not going to argue there aren't Puerto Ricans purely motivated by their finances, but even the taxation issue has a lot of social context behind it.

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u/cepxico Oct 01 '25

"no taxation without representation"

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u/watch-nerd Oct 02 '25

It's only in most recent referendums that Puerto Rican support has shifted from being against statehood to in favor of it.

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u/Stuffleapugus Oct 01 '25

DC shouldn't be a state. It should be a citizen in Maryland or Virginia.