Super Bowl LV Pt.2.

A Direct Continuation of Part 1; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2021/02/super-bowl-lv-pt1.html

The Star-Spangled Banner: This year the national anthem was performed as a duet. Between R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan and Country singer Eric Church.

This referenced a way in which American society has self-segregated along racial lines.

It's the longstanding convention that only White people like Eric Church can sing and listen to Country music. While only Black people like Jazmine Sullivan can sing and listen to R&B/Rap music.

As rapper Lil' Nas X suggested. Through his duet with Country star Billy Ray Cyrus; "Old Town Road." This supposedly massive racial split might not be such an unbridgeable chasm after all.

Obviously people are doing innovative things in both genres. However at their core both Country and Rap seem to be very similar. Someone telling a lyrical story over a rhythmic baseline.

Immediately after H.E.R's performance the example I'd think of is; "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way." By Waylon Jennings. 

Even if that's really a song about Jennings and his band of musical outlaws breaking the conventions of Country music. As laid down by Hank Williams.

While trolling the Country music establishment about its opposition to the drugs. Along with the homophobia that was endemic in all sections of American society at the time.

One of the first recognised Rap songs is; "Apache" by The Sugarhill Gang.

The baseline that uses is from the 1960 song of the same name. 

Which was first recorded by Bert Weedon, no relation to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Joss Whedon. Before being made famous by British band The Shadows.

In the dark days of lockdown I found myself listening to a lot, really too much, Lonnie Donegan. Who plays an infuriatingly catchy genre of music called; "Skiffle."

Lonnie Donegan was really Britain's first recording artist. 

I hesitate to describe him as a Popstar. This was really before Pop music came into being. Teenagers were only really invented in about 1950.

Through Lonnie Donegan's work you can hear a lot of the influences of what music was like before it was recorded. So if you wanted to hear music you either had to play it yourself or go to see it performed live.

At this time so-called music halls were very popular. This was a theatre where you would go to see music and comedy performed live in a variety show.

It's was a very different experience to going to the theatre now. Where you're expected to wear white tie, sit in silence and applaud quietly, only at the end.

Music hall really encouraged extremely coarse comedy and audience participation. Its heckling tradition continues in Pantomime and stand-up comedy.

One of Lonnie Donegan's most famous songs is; "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight."

Which seems less about chewing gum. More about a generation of soldiers returning from the First World War. With new found experience of French brothels.

Alongside that you've got a lot of traditional folk songs.

What friends and families used to sing together. Back when Spotify or watching TV weren't options. 

Lonnie Donegan sings many slightly worse versions of Woody Guthrie songs. Who was really America's first recording artist.

Primarily amongst people of Irish heritage this is known as the; "Rambling House" tradition. 

Where people would sit, sing and play music together. Really being encouraged to add to and adapt the few songs known as; "Folk standards."

One good example is; "Worried Man Blues." Which both Lonnie Donegan and Woody Guthrie recorded. 

However this is no official version of the song. With each singer adding verses of their own.

One key verse is about being asked; "Who wrote this song?" To which you can make up all sorts of different answers.

Then there's the other big place people would come together to sing. Church. 

So Lonnie Donegan did a lot of covers of Gospel hymns and what are termed; "Negro Spirituals." Such as; "Michael Row The Boat Ashore."

In much of the World many of these places where people come together to sing have been closed due to the pandemic. 

This section of the Super Bowl allows the entertainment community to highlight how much it has been hurt by these closures. Very few working musicians are millionaires.

It must be said though. Lonnie Donegan's, as a White man, versions of Negro Spirituals now seem astonishingly racially insensitive. The musical equivalent of blackface.

However, to me at least, that seems to be naive rather than malicious. Lonnie Donegan's work dates back to the 1940's and 1950's. When the World was a much less well connected place.

People in Britain would get rare records imported from America. With absolutely no information about them. Other then the title and artist's name on the label.

They would by then learn to play their instruments by listening to and trying to exactly copy the songs. 

Without any way of knowing that Michael Row The Boat Ashore is a slave song. Or that a certain singer was putting a racist spin on a folk standard.

It's from copying these records that Rock and Pop music was born. 

In the 1970's and 1980's post-Punk/New Wave bands like Spandau Ballet added elements of Disco. Creating Electronic music.

The Half-Time Show was performed by The Weeknd. Looking at some of his more recent work he might not mind a return to this more innocent time.

Before Music TV and certainly the Internet. When all you would know about a singer is what they chose to include on the inlays to the record or CD you'd brought.

You could almost say that it was a time. When singers were judged on their soul, or the content of their character. Rather than how much skin they were prepared to show, the texture and colour of that skin.

For me this bygone age was really highlighted by the death of Country singer Charely Pride in December 2020.

I've got a couple of his songs in my collection. Notably; "Chrystal Chandeliers" and "Me & Bobby McGee." 

I particularly like listening to Chrystal Chandeliers while waiting for the last bit of battery on my Bluetooth headphones to run down.

Despite that. Until reading about his death on the Internet it never even occurred to me that Charely Pride was Black. 

Due to the longstanding convention that only White people can sing and listen to Country music. 

It was also the first I heard of him touring Northern Ireland. During the height of; "The Troubles" civil war in the 1970's.

In which context Chrystal Chandeliers seems like a warning. To the newly formed Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). Part of the Soviet Arc of Resistance alongside Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party (BPP).

With the threat of a No Deal Brexit looming. Charely Pride's death and his version of; "Me & Bobby McGee" seemed particularly timely.

Allied with the Liberal faction of the Democrat Party. The BPP and their progeny, Black Lives Matter (BLM), have engaged in mass revision of this musical history.

Claiming that all music is based on slave songs, brought over from Africa. White people being influenced by it constitutes the thought crime of; "Cultural Appropriation."

As with other aspects of the Liberals historical revision this doesn't hold up.

Slave songs are examples of work songs. A tradition which pre-dates America, let alone slavery in America. 

The current Sea Shanty craze goes back thousands of years. Certainly to the time of Ancient Greece and Rome. Really the first people to record things on wax plates.

America's Liberals and BLM were particularly roasted for this Cultural Appropriation claim in the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics. In PyeongChang, South Korea.

The event where the World rounded on America for its false claims of Russian Interference in the 2016 Election.

Where the consensus was those false claims were an attempt by the Democrats at rigging the 2016 Election. Following the almost exact same tactics used in the rigging of the 2012 South Korean election.

The event that many Americans may have missed. Having been conveniently distracted by the High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.

In one sequence traditional South Korean drummers were used. To reference the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and the thousands year long history between the Korean Peninsula and China.

It also served to remind the Cultural Appropriation crew. Black Americans certainly can't claim to have invented rhythm and drumming.

I would go even further than that.

Periodically Fox cubs appear and grow up in my garden.

One year this thin plank of wood was resting on, essentially, a brick. Rather like a Seesaw. One of the Fox cubs discovered that if he pushed down on this plank of wood it would snap back. Making an interesting noise.

So he sat there repetitively pushing this bit of wood, impressed by the sound. Which didn't get at all annoying.

Meaning that not only don't I think any one race of humans can claim a monopoly on rhythm and drumming. I don't think the human race can claim a monopoly on rhythm and drumming.

Comparing the Waylon Jennings Country song; "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way." With the Sugar Hill Gang Rap song; "Apache." 

Also allows you to educate the elites about those 46 anonymous, fly-over States somewhere in the middle.

At the time of the US Civil War, 1861-1863 America was only about one third of its current size. 

What's considered; "The South" really stopped at the Louisiana/Texas border. It is only after the Civil War that America spread out to the west.

It is perhaps ironic that California, Washington and Oregon States have become bastions of Liberalism. Huge supporters of BLM. 

They only exist due to their ancestors running as far as they possibly could from the newly freed Black slaves.

It was that great; "White Flight" that saw them slaughter the Native American population. Including the Apache Tribe.

Waylon Jennings is from the State of Texas. While the home of Country music is considered to be in Nashville, Tennessee. Which is one of the Southern States.

A lot of Waylon Jennings' work seems to be influenced by the offence Texans feel at being mistaken for a Southern State. Particularly the song; "Bob Wills Is Still The King."

Texas and Texans have a long and proud history for fiercesome independence and rebellion. You could almost say Texas really doesn't play well with others.

Initially Texas was part of the Spanish colony "New Spain. It then rebelled against the Colonialists become part of Mexico. The Mexican War of Independence, 1808-1821.

Texas then rebelled against Mexico. Becoming an independent nation following the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836

Texas then joined the United States in 1845. Before rebelling during the Civil War. More as an effort to become an independent nation again. Rather than to join the Confederacy.

Finally Texas rejoined the US in 1870.

As a result Texas has probably the closest links with Mexico of any US State. 

In June 2019 former(ish) President Trump compared the Texas/Mexico border to the Northern Ireland border. He was roundly mocked for this.

That's despite it being an entirely valid comparison. One that many people made prior to President Trump.

Take for example the song; "Fernando."  By essentially Eurovision royalty ABBA. Fernando was released in 1975 at the height of The Troubles. Around the time Charley Pride was touring Northern Ireland.

ABBA's Fernando seems loosely inspired by the Texas Revolution. 

However musically it is similar to a song about the 1916 Irish Easter Rising "Meet Me At The Pillar." The Dublin City Ramblers version being the one with which I'm most familiar. 

Following the August 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. You could almost hear the Democrat conspiracy theories writing themselves;

The vain President Trump ordering his fellow White Supremacists. To launch the attack and highlight Mexico/Texas cross-border trade. In order to prove his detractors wrong!

A conspiracy theory which may well have been the real motivation between the El Paso shooting.

Discussion of America's western expansion also seems to reference Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Specifically The Thanksgiving Episode - Season 4, Episode 9; "Pangs."

There's something of a tradition in US TV Shows that they do special episodes for the big winter holidays. Such as Thanksgiving and Christmas.

It was in Season 4 that Buffy the Vampire Slayer finally bowed to this pressure. However it decided to do a very different type of Thanksgiving episode.

It begins with the unearthing of a Christian Mission for Native Americans. This releases the spirits of the Native Americans who were horribly mistreated by the Missionaries.

Those spirits then take revenge. Killing people in the way they were mistreated. 

The Xander character is smited with all the diseases White Colonialists brought with them. Such as Smallpox and Syphilis. Particularly Syphilis.

The Native American tribe featured is the Chumash. A real Native American tribe. 

Over its course the episode looks at the real history of the tribe. Along with the way they were really mistreated by Missionaries and others.

Of course nowadays discussion of this real history of Thanksgiving is common place in America. 

With "Woke" mobs demanding the whole holiday be cancelled. Along with Columbus Day and any other example of; "White Supremacy."

However I think that back in 1999 this episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was rather revolutionary. Forcing that then rarely mentioned, real history of Thanksgiving onto network TV.

Not only that it also looks at the best way to discuss that troubling history. Bringing it to view from beneath all the whitewashing.

The Willow character's mother is some sort of liberal college professor. Who is notable only by her absence. 

Very much part of the Woke mob there are jokes about her ranting about Critical Race and Gender theories in response to kid's TV shows. Like Charlie Brown.

As soon as the mission is unearthed the Willow character launches into one of those Woke rants about Thanksgiving. As the other characters just stare at her she apologises for channelling her mother.

The episode then goes on to make many of those exact same points. But in a much more fun, accessible and engaging way.

The episode also muses on how to deal with the crimes of the past. 

After the Willow character discovers how the Chumashwere treated she argues that they're entitled to their revenge. While the Syphilis ridden Xander is much less keen on the idea. After all he didn't actually mistreat the Chumash.

The episode also looks at the "Western" genre of movies. Often centred around heroic Cowboys defeating evil Indians this isn't a genre that is particularly well loved by the Native American population.

The Pre-Game Show and Half-Time Show portions of the Super Bowl lasted for about 40 minutes in total. 

This Thanksgiving episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer also lasted for about 40 minutes. So dissecting it is really a separate task of its own.

However the references to Western movies were made in this context of bringing this troubling history to light. So I think the intent was to take a critical look at Western movies rather than to simply celebrate them.

In the spirit of being fun and accessible. At one point one of the characters says something along the lines of;

"This isn't a Western. This isn't the Alamo. The cavalry aren't suddenly going to ride to the rescue."

Then some of the characters leave. Only to rush back to the apartment as it comes under attack. Riding to the rescue. On bicycles rather than horses.

This episode also seems to be where the idea for; "Firefly" was born. Joss Wheedon's next project. Which was spread out over fourteen 40 minutes episodes and a two hour movie.

Firefly is probably unique in the genre of; "Space Western." It does seem to be Wheedon's further exploration of the genre.

I can't say that I'm any sort of fan of Westerns. I think the only one I've seen is; "Carry On Cowboy." Which probably doesn't count.

However they seem to have a recurring theme of teaching boys to become men.

So they have a clear moral code. 

The old joke being that in Westerns the bad guy is the cowboy in the black hat. While the good guy is the cowboy in the white hate.

This has long being used in computer programming. Particularly cybersecurity. 

Where "Black Hat" hackers are malicious. While "White Hat" hackers test systems to keep the bad guys out. Malicious code gets added to a; "Black List" which is blocked.

Amid the madness of 2020 Tech companies found themselves engulfed in this argument. Over whether they should retire such terms.

In case any non-White employees find it too traumatic to cope with. 

As if the Pacific North-West's long history of White Flight and Ethnic Cleansing would actually allow any non-White people in to begin with.

This being the Super Bowl. With its links to Tom Brady and the New Patriots. It's not a huge leap from there to the March 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing. Which I certainly remember from Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour.

That saw police search for two suspects. One in a white hat. The other in a black hat.

I've yet to recover the emotional energy to watch the movie; "Patriots Day." The livestream was exhausting enough.

I think one of the actors most synonymous with the Western genre is Clint Eastwood. 

He really examined the genre's theme of teaching boys to become men in the 2008 movie; "Grand Torino." While certainly addressing the issue of racism.

Firefly seems very focused on teaching the youngsters to become adults in the digital age.

It really throws at the viewer every psychological trick and manipulation that filmmakers can legally use on TV. 

There are plenty you can't even legally use in movies. As the people at Guantanamo Bay will tell you.

However it does it such a way as to reveal the trick. Sort of like an older sibling would do after they've played a prank on you.

The central premise is this Firefly class ship named; "Serenity." It's Captain and First Officer now run smuggling operations having fought alongside each other in a secessionist, almost civil war.

The secessionist side are known as the; "Brown Coats." Alongside the general Western theme this could be interpreted as a racist celebration of the Confederacy. It is certainly not a show that is afraid of playing tricks on your mind.

However the First Officer is played by Gina Torres. One of the few Black actresses who, in 2001, was secure enough in her career not to have to put up with this crap.

It is also very clearly not about the US Civil War. It is set in the future and in outer space for starters.

The Federation the Brown Coats rebelled against was a planet Earth. In which the US and China had united as a single, global nation. Which then went out to colonise other planets.

An evil Empire that grooms children from birth. To become telepathic weapons of mass destruction. Regardless of the psychological damage they might inflict.

It is a metaphor for the recurring theme within economic Globalisation. Between Libertarian Capitalism, the Brown Coats and Totalitarian Capitalism, the Federation.

Sadly this fiction seems to be coming truer every day. Particularly with the US Democrat & Republicans seeming to unite as a single party. Against Trump and his band of rebels.

Needless to say the corporate networks shut Firefly down almost immediately. Long before I think anyone figured out the "Reavers/Uighurs" reference.

If briefly explaining Firefly is a challenge. 

Then is will probably be near impossible. Trying to educate the elites about the hostility between the Western State of Texas and the Southern States.

Given as how they've already dismissed those anonymous 46 in the middle as the Fly-Over States. Just as they've dismissed their citizens as gun-toting, Bible-bashing, Homophobic, Illiterate. White Supremacists.

If they were ever to travel to somewhere like Texas they'd probably be very surprised. To discover that many of its citizens are. I want to use the term; "liberal." However that has been hijacked by; "The Liberals." So shall we go with; "Sensible."

A point well illustrated by the 2020 US TV Show; "9-1-1 Lone Star." A spin-off from the Los Angeles set; "9-1-1."

Lone Star begins with a company of Texas firefighters being all but wiped out. In an explosion at an Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer plant. 

Which may as well have just been a named reference to the 2013 West Fertilizer plant explosion. That I remember well from Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour.

Obviously there was no Shakira this year. However it's not a huge leap from there to the August 2020 Ammonium Nitrate explosion at the Beirut Port in Lebanon.

At the time Britain was trying to weasel out of its Brexit commitment. To establish a customs border between Northern Ireland and the UK mainland. Using the threat of the violence of The Troubles.

Ammonium Nitrate, Fuel Oil (ANFO) explosives being one of the signature weapons of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Often with a trigger of Semtex provided from Tripoli. The one in Libya, not the one in Lebanon.

So it seemed mighty convenient then. That one of the largest ANFO explosions there has ever been would wipe out a customs post at Beirut Port. Along with most of the port and large section of Beirut itself. Killing at least 204 people in the process.

I like to think my retaliation was not covering it. As you perhaps would expect me to do.

I also like to think there were plenty of people queuing up behind the prospect of a No Deal Brexit. To make their retaliation.

Following its ANFO explosion Lone Star then calls on Captain Strand to travel to Texas to rebuild the lost company. 

Building on his experience helping to rebuild a company of New York City firefighters lost on September 11th 2001 (11/9/01).

Captain Strand is very liberal and metrosexual. His obsessional hair and skincare regimes are a recurring joke. 

Initially hesitant to go and work with the Rednecks he finally agrees. Only if he can be as provocative as possible.

So he brings with him his gay firefighter son. Immediately recruiting devout Muslim female firefighter, Marjan and Black Trans-male firefighter Strickland. On arrival he hires Hispanic DREAMER firefighter Mateo.

Captain Strand is somewhat crestfallen then.

When the sole surviving Redneck fighter Judd introduces him to his wife. Grace, a Black woman. Almost immediately before his son starts dating the openly gay Hispanic local police officer Reyes.

The Hijab wearing Marjan does experience some hostility and intolerance though. From the Muslims at the much more conservative local Mosque.

It's appropriate that a TV Show is referenced to highlight the sensible reality of America's Southern and Western States.

By offering tax breaks for the entertainment and tech industries States such as Texas and Georgia have managed to attract many newcomers. For the Liberal paradise of California.

As the newcomers often bring their slavish desire to vote Democrat with them. This is having a noticeable impact on the electoral demographics of those states.

Although I suspect Texas in particular will be able to knock some sense into them. Sooner rather than later.

For the performance Jazmine Sullivan was wearing a dress in the white of women's suffrage.

The movement which forced the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. Which, despite the current allegation, most certainly still stands.

As with Amanda Gorman's and H.E.R's outfits. Jazmine Sullivan’s dress was embossed with rhinestones.

Eric Church was wearing a Purple denim jacket. An interesting spin on what is really the uniform of Country music.

Within the Abrahamic religions; Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Purple has been used to signal anointment by God. Since the early Jewish Messiahs or Kings would wear it. 

This association with wealth and power given by the gods was adopted by the Roman's and continues to this day.

Purple or lavender is also an important colour with the gay community. I'm particularly familiar with its role within the Anarchist gay-rights movement.

Anarchists have long used the Black Flag as their main emblem. Like the pirate Black Flag flown by Buccaneers this has its origins in military and particularly naval military signals.

I think we're all familiar with the White Flag. Used to signal surrender.

Traditionally this wasn't a message to your enemy but a message from commanders to their troops. Instructing them to lay down their arms and peaceably allow themselves to be taken prisoners.

The Black Flag means the precise and exact opposite. Give no quarter, take no prisoners. Do not stop until you are dead or you have won.

Recently a black flag has become associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). It really shouldn't be.

What ISIL have stolen as their battle flag is the Shadda. The Muslim proclamation of faith. It's normally written in white on a black background. On in black on a white background. So you can see it.

Particularly in dusty, desert countries the black background is more popular. As it's easier to keep clean.

On behalf of the Muslim world I have to say. The US media really need to stop referring to the Shadda as; "The ISIS Flag." It's massively offensive to Muslims and only serves to help ISIL.

Anarchists use the Black Flag in the way it is used in military signals. Don't quit until the battle's won or you are dead. 

It is often accompanied by another colour, signifying the cause that tactic is being employed in service of.

So red for workers rights. Green for environmental action. Or purple for gay-rights.

If you look closely at the more widely known Rainbow Flag of Gay Pride. You'll notice the purple stripe is on the bottom.

I like to think that is an intentional reference to who will be first to raise the flag. Along with what will still be there once the rest has been torn to hell by the raining fire. 

Rather like that US flag which was famously raised on Iwo Jima.

Obviously there seems little point in asking the current, Pacific Northwest strain of ANTIFA about that piece of Anarchist history. It's unlikely they've ever even heard of it.

Whereas as my leftwing bone fides. They're pretty well established. The British police and security services certainly seem to think so.

That combination of purple & black was used extensively in the TV Show; "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Alongside the Rainbow of Gay Pride.

As a signal of the battle with the network to introduce "Willow Rosenberg" as a major gay character on US network TV. When Christian Evangelicals were already up in arms about the references to magic.

Possibly as part of the discussions about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Israeli archaeologists suddenly, recently discovered fragments of purple fabric dating back to Biblical times.

So Eric Church seemed to be sending a little signal of his own. Encouraging Country music's Christian fans. To be more like the Jewish attitude towards homosexuality.

Which sees God as the Universe and the Universe as God. Meaning everything in the Universe, even the gays, are also God.

Not that he would wish to abridge anyone's freedom of religion. Despite the current allegation the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution most certainly still stands.

Then there is the famous 1982 book and 1985 movie; "The Color Purple." This tells the story a Black girl growing into a Black woman in the Southern State of North Carolina in the 20th Century.

Obviously she has to deal with the racism and poverty inflicted by White people. Yet she also has to deal with the domestic violence, incest and paedophile inflicted on her by members of the Black community.

It is, of course, the 14th and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution. Which prevent any US State amending their laws to stop Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan making sweet music together.

Despite the current allegation both the 14th and 15th Amendments most certainly still stand.

Military Fly-Past: These pre-game rituals are unapologetically militarised in nature.

They were introduced in 1918. As a way to show the nation's support for its troops fighting and dying in the First World War.

So there is a possibility that Colin Kaepernick and his cronies don't understand how offensive they are being. When they choose to kneel during them.

Although they were clearly informed at the 2018 Super Bowl. So you'll have to draw your own conclusions about their decision to continue.

As military aviation grew in importance fly-pasts were added to the pageantry. Normally in the form of a display team such as the Blue Angels. Who fly F/A-18, multi-role fast jets.

This year was different though. The fly-past was made up a B1 Lancer, a B2 Spirit (flown by a woman) and B 52 Stratofortress. 

These are all three types of America's strategic nuclear bombers. They are designed specifically to drop nuclear bombs on people's heads. Or failing that massive amounts of conventional bombs.

I got to see the B1 Lancer in action during the Battle of Kobane. 

I was thousands of miles away and it was on my side. Neither of which stopped me being slightly terrified.

One thing that particularly worried me was the way the B1 Lancer was being used.

To the west of Kobane there is a hill. Before ISIL arrived this was just a hill. I don't think anyone had even bothered to name it.

However this hill quickly became the strategic key to the battle. 

If ISIL could set up their artillery cannons on the top of the hill. Then they could rain shells down on Kobane. Essentially game over for the battle.

So ISIL tried with all their might to force the, then, People's Protection Units (YPG) off this hill. Every time ISIL would reach the top the B1 Lancer would appear and literally blow them back to the bottom again.

Unfortunately the B1 would then have to take a 4-6 hour break. To fly back to the US, refuel and rearm before returning to the battle. By which time ISIL would be back to the top of the hill again.

What was needed was tactical bombers, such as the F/A-18 used by the Blue Angels. Who could fly quick reaction missions to stop ISIL before they even got close to the base of the hill.

Now I think there were quite a few people in the US Navy and Air Force who were able to point this out to then President Obama. Which made it hard to explain why he kept insisting on using the B1.

It made, me at least, think that Obama was trying to help ISIL defeat the YPG. 

But trying to hide it by putting on a big display of using one of America's biggest weapons. Hoping no-one would notice that weapon was being used in completely the wrong way.

For the fly-past the three aircraft took off from three different points dotted across the continental US.

So if you've ever experienced a delayed flight or missed a connection. You would know what a challenge it was to get them in formation in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

So this was a massive display of American military power and prowess.

Given the current allegation you've got to wonder who it was aimed at. With Kansas' reputation the Buccaneers Maral Javadifar must have been particular nervous.

Since then it's been announced that B1 Lancers are to be stationed in Norway. Meaning the current allegation is back to ranting about Russia.

Speaking of massive displays of power and prowess. This does seem to have included rather a lot of references to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Possibly a way of reminding Britain; This plan it's fighting to cling on to isn't a plan at all. It's a prank the bigger boys played on you.

Meanwhile I seem to have been shown the names of the teams involved in the game. Along with a partial list of the performers. No other information.

Then delivered a pinpoint perfect performance. Whilst blindfolded by the BBC.

Something that's considered quite the party trick. Within the intelligence community. 

My ego is tempered only slightly. By the fact a lot of this seemed to be my recent work simply being read back to me.

Almost as if it had been specifically designed just to make me look good.

So rather like COVID-19 then. 

 

Continued in Part 3; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2021/02/super-bowl-lv-pt3_26.html

20:06 on 26/2/21 (UK date).