In my previous Monday VIP, I wrote about how the Super Bowl halftime show was entirely political despite the fact that it was made to look like a unity message.
As Bad Bunny mumble rapped his way through a set made to look like a Puerto Rican slice-of-life moment, obviously meant to humanize the "dehumanized," hovering above the proceedings on the big screen was a bumper sticker message that read "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE."
Read: The Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Political and Don't Let the Virtue Signaling Convince You Otherwise
The word "love" is thrown around a lot by the Left.
"Love is all you need."
"Love is love."
"Love Wins"
"Choose Love"
"Love Trumps Hate"
Love is one of, if not the most, abused words by the Left because it's so easy to manipulate people with. The moment you establish you're on the side of "love," any resistance can be framed as people who are in league with "hate," another loaded term that I may address in a later article.
The Left loves to wheel the word out constantly to frame its "position" on the cultural chessboard, but while it loves to proclaim its on the side of "love," its actions consistently show that they're truly and unreservedly hateful. You can probably name a handful of instances off the top of your head, and it's likely there are so many examples that you've forgotten more instances than you can remember.
But I want to show you one that was happening on the Left, even while Bad Bunny was wowing three people in the stadium during his Super Bowl performance.
To do that, let's depart the realm of the mainstream and hit up a rarely talked about place in conservative circles, the streaming community. Here I want to introduce you to a girl who goes by Emiru. She's a charming, pretty, and fun personality that many people watch to escape from life for a little while. I'm sure more than a few are there to develop a parasocial relationship with a cute half-Asian woman, but that's not the point of this article.
Emiru was mid-stream when one of her mods asked her about her opinions on ICE, to which she responded with what effectively amounts to "I'm a streamer, you don't need to hear my political opinion."
Emiru is asked her thoughts on ICE
— throwaway233 (@throwaway274555) February 6, 2026
“If you need a streamer who doesn’t even know anything about politics to tell you about politics you probably just need to like get off the Internet” pic.twitter.com/JbcorDo9AQ
Now, understand that Emiru is very popular in the streaming space, with thousands of people watching her when she's live. In the mind of the Left, her fame means she has a responsibility to be informed about politics and speak out about it. However, not only does Emiru need to speak out about it, she needs to speak out about it in such a way that leftists hear their opinion come out of her mouth.
In other words, she needs to be a puppet with their hand moving her mouth.
The threat of "or else" isn't spoken aloud, but the threat is 100 percent there, and they made it very clear by punishing Emiru through intimidation, dogpiling, and, I'm sure, a few threats from no-names here and there.
The dogpile was led by leftist political streamers, including a streamer named Denims, who is infamous for being antisemitic and a part of Hasan Piker's orbit. You'll know him as the guy who said America deserved 9/11. You don't need to keep track of this, but just know these people are the worst of the worst, and they sent their dogs after Emiru for daring not to have an opinion.
Denims doubles down on calling Emiru a racist chud for not speaking out against ICE.. 😳👀
— bloom 𖧧 (@bloomjpg) February 7, 2026
"You don't have to be qualified to talk about politics to say f*ck ICE.. If you're over above the age of 18 you should care about politics in your country" pic.twitter.com/vTvZWmqfMn
Sadly, the pressure that befell Emiru caused her to bend the knee, but surprisingly, many people weren't angry with her for doing that. In fact, many people felt sympathy for her because they knew this was all being done with a proverbial gun to her head, and she didn't understand the rule of never kneeling to the mob. I think this was crystallized well by YouTuber June Lapine, better known as "ShoeOnHead," who said:
honestly people dont how realize how insane it can get. they get in your head, isolate you from “bad” friends, make you feel like a terrible person for having milquetoast normal people opinions or in this case- NO PUBLIC OPINION. i immediately regretted every single time i “bent the knee” to escape harassment. i dont blame emiru, they are demonic freaks.
honestly people dont how realize how insane it can get. they get in your head, isolate you from “bad” friends, make you feel like a terrible person for having milquetoast normal people opinions or in this case- NO PUBLIC OPINION. i immediately regretted every single time i “bent…
— shoe (@shoe0nhead) February 9, 2026
I, too, feel sorry for Emiru. I've been where she is, but I had the benefit of already having had experience in the political realm and knowing what was happening to me. Moreover, I'm a man, and threats against me are honestly funny at times. Emiru is a young woman who was recently sexually assaulted while people were standing around her who were supposed to protect her. Her fear is legitimate. Her bending the knee was a panic response with bones in it.
So with that story told, where is this "love" the Left loves to say it represents? It certainly wasn't being given to Emiru. In fact, she was so dogpiled with hate for simply not having an opinion that she cowered in the face of it.
So you'll pardon me if I'm not remotely moved by the Super Bowl performance, which was more of a performance of virtue signals than anything involving talent. These people are spiteful, hateful, and tragically useful, and all their talk of positive feelings is just stories they tell to make them seem less like demons.
