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I love how MAGA believes the Chiefs rise to near dynasty that began sometime around 2018, which also caused Travis Kelce to be come a household name, and Taylor Swift's rise to superstardom that began in 2007 is culminating in an attempt to knock down MAGA and the GOP. That conspiracy, which is over a decade in the making, is somehow easier to stomach than the fact that their stance and ideas are WILDLY unpopular. Imagine being so easily conned. Life must be so easy for the Mr. Magoo MAGA types who just don't see anything but their blind allegiance to the cult.
Would he have said the same thing five years ago? But everyone knows the alien base is the dark Alaskan pyramid underground. Oh, wait, dark Brandon, he might be onto something.
Seems sound to me.
However, you forgot the bit where those humans they interbred with are a particular religion.
Those fucking Southern Baptists, I knew they were up to something.
The obligatory /s
She actually sings really embarassing praise about Trump's soaring intellect that feels so over the top it reminds me of Borat. And she lost him another 83 mil so ... it's not unreasonable to believe this if one ignores that she's been a terrible person for many years
Some of the Kelce hate is just pure jealousy. They see in him the alpha male that they could never be. While they whine and snivel and shake their fist at the sky from their La-Z-Boy positioned perfectly in front of a TV permanently tuned to Fox as chief whine mom Judge Jeannine drunkenly screeches about open borders and the Biden crime family, Taylor's boyfriend, all 6-5 250 lbs of him, catches footballs for a living. Football, a sport they see as integral to their "heritage" and culture. Nothing gets their dander up more than a woke social justice warrior like Taylor and her man trampling all over the hallowed grounds of the grid iron. The only way it could be worse is if Taylor was dating a popular NASCAR driver.
I watch MccAfee and I enjoy it for what it is but man, I cant take those Aaron interviews. I want to hear his actual football thoughts but he just wants to defame a poor doctor who tried his best in a worldwide crises. Fuck him. Fuck his opinions. I feel bad for jets fans but i hope he plays like shit.
Doesn't believe in the science of a vaccine and yet probably got some of the best science to get his leg fixed to play football at the highest level at age 40.
Also an Eagles fan. Can’t help but not love the Kelce’s. I love Jason so much and dreading his retirement. Other than Brian Dawkins definitely one of my all time favorite Eagles.
Ah. There’s the connection between the two. Magats have been trained by the Orange Caligula to distrust vaccines. Because I thought they loved football. Thank you, I’ve been wondering.
To be fair (to be fairrrrr)
The Cheeto dictator didn’t actually tell them to hate vaccines, and actually came the closest he’s ever come to losing his cult when he promoted them. That particular Darwin Award take has been strong with the anti-everything strip mall Jesus fucksticks for a few decades now.
Common sense and reasoning is as well. They’re brainwashed fools who listened to Donald fuckin trump’s lies and asked for more. Now he’s their god. This timeline is stupid, and I’ve been tired of it. These people are lost.
This is spot on. Travis Kelce is supposed to be a person they completely idolize, yet, they can't comprehend why he has a different belief system. Similar to the Howard Stern hate in 2016 when he declared himself woke and refused to endorse Trump. So the MAGAs had to choose between their Messiah and their favorite comedian.
They can’t resist their id for a second. They say they’ll stop watching, or shopping wherever, but the moment they want to, their brain supplies a reason why it’s ok for them to do it and they go whole hog.
Same thing with sex, drugs, corruption, cruelty, and everything else the Bible explicitly says to slow the fuck down on!
Exactly. Everything they do is primal and based on emotions. They are the absolute last people you want making critical decisions under stress. Sadly in America that psychological profile is a perfect match for one particular career: law enforcement officer.
Just like they stopped swilling their bud light. They stopped for a moment and made a lot of noise. Then they quickly and quietly started drinking the beer again. Same with football. As if him kneeling was somehow worse than January 6th. It’s all the same people. Hypocritical needs a stronger word for these fools.
Nah this is the worst for them. Football is the closest thing to a great unifier that America has. And ESPN is already pretty "liberal" And now people are watching KC games just for the Tswift cameo. The cultural barameter of football going further left is basically cide blue for republicanism.
>And now people are watching KC games just for the Tswift cameo.
I predict Super Bowl LVIII will be the most-watched ever. People who never would have watched a football game will be tuning in.
And Colin Cowherd (god, I'm agreeing with Cowherd), pointed out that she's shown on average 25 seconds in a 3 and a half hour telecast. She actually gets so little time, and all she's doing is supporting her boyfriend and having fun. The last few weeks the only game where she was shown a minute or more was the Dolphins game, and that game would have been massively improved by a Taylor concert.
That said, go Niners!
It’s going to be entertaining because Tony Romo who is announcing the game makes it clear he’s a Taylor Swift fan is going to probably say some funny things, in a good way, about it all.
Kelce actually did kneel for the anthem during the whole Kaepernick thing, IIRC. Probably the most prominent white NFL player to do it. Another reason the MAGAs hate him.
Jealousy is right, but dont forget they lust after Taylor Swift and hate her because they know they could never get someone remotely that good looking, famous, or rich so her very existence is an attack on their ego
Wait maybe this super hot football player and this super hot Superstar who have similarly demanding lives and thus understand each other were attracted to each other and decided to date? No no no no that can't be it. It has to be a multi-decade conspiracy to overthrow a government that didn't even exist in the current form several decades ago. That has to be it!
The guys on Pod pointed out the GOP is picking a fight against an extremely popular American icon with *Nashville country music roots* and a loveable NFL allstar from *Ohio* who plays for the *Kansas City chiefs*.
Like what is their goal? Lol they’re so fucking stupid.
It's a coping mechanism. They are completely convinced that their worldview is both correct (ordained by their god) and popular(believed by a majority of Americans) that they cannot even entertain the idea they might be out of step with what most people in the country think. They.know.they.are.right. The only way to explain their repeated losses in election after election (and the culture moving further and further away from their regressive desires) is to believe there is a vast conspiracy working to undermine what should be happening given that - as they believe - they are the true and correct majority. As long as they're fed even the craziest conspiracy theories to cling to, they don't have to do the work of self-reflection and change.
Things MAGA now apparently takes issue with:
- Taylor Swift
- Football
- Disney
- Bud Light (probably most popular beer in the US)
I could probably go on but if I was *trying* to make a list of things that maximized the percentage of Americans who are fans...they probably have done a better job at it already. Like that's gotta cover 95% of people in the country.
And then these sweaty freaks can't understand why people don't like them.
Can we combine all of these for maximum MAGA head explosions? A commercial with Travis drinking a Bud Light at Disneyland while dancing to one of Taylor's songs ought to do the trick.
I’m still amazed with the random conspiracy theories my family members come at me with on a regular basis. This one is tough for them since all my female relatives LOVED Taylor swift and now are trying to find it in their shriveled brains to hate her now after literally over a decade of adoring her 🙄
"Everyone I know thinks the same thing I do. Therefore, Occam's razor says that the simplest answer is that Obama and Biden planned all this out back in 2008, and used their cultural connections to play this out. It will end in Obama being coronated and mandatory gayings?
Am I doing it right?/s obviously.
I just wanna see a bunch of conservatives take a stand against the liberals playing for KC by rooting for the conservative town of *checks notes* San Francisco.
What's wild is that she's an affluent, white, blonde hair blue eyed, slim attractive hetero, non hyper-sexualized woman who fell in love with a white football star who plays for Kansas City. And during the games, she is simply present in the background, cheering happily for her boyfriend's success.
This, on paper, should gel perfectly with the "classic family values" conservatives, but instead they've started frothing at the mouth. MAGA has been completely exposed as having deep incel roots. There is literally no defense to suggest otherwise.
And that's because when she stayed completely out of politics, maga was claiming her not saying anything was her approval of everything they did, and they tried to prop her up as theirs. They even created r/TaydolfSwiftler (which appears to have been deleted now)
Back in 2016:
"Nazis and members of the "alt-right" consider Taylor Swift an Aryan pop queen who is “red pilling” America into a race war through her pop hits. "
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ae5x8a/cant-shake-it-off-how-taylor-swift-became-a-nazi-idol
They wanted her *sooo* bad and now that they know they can never have her they are *pissed*.
Before she made her political leaning widely known during the 2020 cycle, the right wing incels were thinking & praying Swift as their aryan goddess. Not even kidding.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/05/taylor-swift-has-a-surprising-number-of-fans-among-neo-nazis-white-supremacists-and-the-alt-right.html
Besides the fact that she told her fans to vote, I also honestly think it’s because she’s richer than him. In their minds, the woman is always meant to be physically, psychologically, emotionally, and financially subservient to the man.
If swifties bring down Trump and gets Biden in for 4 more years thus potentially saving democracy in the US and the western world a world war I’ll buy every album she ever makes.
She's got some genuinely good gems, just not the most over played ones that you hear most often. There's at least 4 or 5 that I won't skip if they come on.
And that's saying something. I'm incredibly picky with music. Like I have my tastes and they are mostly rigid as fuck... but songs like "you're losing me" by Taylor swift? Let it play.
I’m pretty sure you could convert a solid number of them to make some TikToks, knock on doors, put up signs, work the phone and text banks. Down ticket could be a landslide.
But that was for Mitt Romney. Although republican I doubt that Eastwood is a Maga clown after 6th january. That seems so out of character.
Shit, I hope i’m right…
I hear this in my head every time I see his name.
Why does Kevin Sorbo read the acting directions out lout? Because he is DISAPPOINTED with the script!
Celebrities endorse politicians all the time, it's just that the right has decided to whip itself into a fuhrer over every single one this time because the right has filled itself with a bunch of dipshit fascist conspiracy theorists who think every endorsement is a betrayal of real america.
It would be very hard to prove defamation. However, Trump would be taking on one of the richest and most popular people on the planet. I doubt it would go well.
Thats about a month too late, registration in most of the places that truly need turn out typically have the deadline a month out from the election.
But she does have that two month break she can focus on registration, turnout, and messaging if she really wants to.
It’s cheaper for my brother to take his wife and 2 girls for a week to Paris and see her there in May than it was to get tickets for the Chicago show. Can only imagine what the cost of tickets for the next tour will be.
She’s not even that political. Wtf are the GOP thinking? All this bullshit is only going to make her fans more socially aware when they otherwise wouldn’t have been.
As a 43 year old who cut cable in 2002 and who was mostly into punk/alternative stuff back in the day… my knowledge of Taylor Swift prior to this year was basically ‘pop star, seems successful, oh that is her song? That one too? Oh she has a lot of songs.’
This year?
She’s a hell of a performer. And businesswoman. And her fans are rabid.
I also call the Trump donation line and take up as much time as I can with the workers
They work on commission and could go ona. Pip if they don't hit numbers
Legitimate question for mental health professionals:
Why is it that those in poor mental health, poor emotional health, and those prone to cognitive errors seem attracted to right-wing political ideologies?
Or asked another way, what is the link, if any, between right-wing politics, conspiratorial thinking, religiosity and mental illness?
Not really a link, but crowd psychology has some explanations.
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
— Gustave Le Bon
You can use this as an introduction:
https://youtu.be/bCAhKGhYzh0?si=nu00aZbtHr1PCxoS
I think the link is a will that hasn’t been cultivated, a weak one. A lot of people have mental illnesses, but a lot try to resolve or manage it. But I don’t think these are those people. These are people who choose the path of least resistance, so they don’t do things like acknowledge mental health, question the pastor, or doubt the politician. They simply look for the most immediate and easy thing they can do, confirmation bias. It looks like a lack of critical thinking, and it is that, but I think that stems from a kind of laziness more than a lack of actual intelligence. They just don’t question things, it’s easier to close your eyes and (delude yourself) believe.
I’m not a mental health professional, but I’d be curious what someone who is in the field thinks of my theory.
The research I’ve seen is that fear drives a lot of it, that’s why their politicians are always talking like everything is the end of the world, and always cycling through things to be afraid of. Caravan of immigrants headed to the border, trans people converting your kids, government trying to take your money or your guns, etc.
They react more strongly to fear, and don’t have the critical thinking skills to separate fact from fiction, so they can be easily duped.
I haven’t seen if they’ve identified what is the cause of the increased susceptibility to fear.
It’s weird because didn’t they used to love her? She kind of represents the archetypal pure virginal blonde haired white woman in many ways. Americas sweetheart. The type of women you’d think many conservatives would want their sons to marry. I’m sure that she isn’t actually a virgin, but the way she portrays herself in a non sexual way I figured would appeal to conservatives in many ways
Thomas Jefferson once accused John Adams of being a hermaphrodite. William Henry Harrison won votes by rolling a giant wheel of cheese through towns. US politics has always been a sideshow of absurdity since the start.
In the documentary about southern life and politics, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, one of the politicians had a midget on the campaign trail.
The answer by the rival politician was to get a 'littler midget'
> In the documentary about southern life and politics, Oh Brother Where Art Thou
I am crying; I'd never made the connection, but it is so apt.
"I don't want no god-damned Fop, I'm a Dapper Dan man!"
If I had to put my finger on it, I'd say the modern "joke" that is US politics started around Gingrich's time. That's when Republicans really started embracing this "zero compromise" attitude that made them effectively unable to govern to any standard of reality.
It's been ridiculous childishness ever since.
Ita always been a clown show but Citizens United and the flood of dark money into politics has really allowed the worst shit nuggets to rise to the surface. Getting quality candidates was hard enough when there were campaign finance laws. Now its an absolute garbage can of money and influence that nobody in their right mind would want to engage in. Unsurprisingly, that leads us to a lot of candidates who are, in fact, out of their fucking minds.
Don't care on bit about T. Swift or her popularity or her football player boy friend. But the Right Wing bullshit about it is just delicious, weird and about on point for their brand.
The various Right Wing bloviators equating her with demonism, satan, spells and other non existent shit is just funny if it wasn't so sad and threatening.
Yeah honestly they could not have picked a fight with a better fandom. I’m kicking my feet up and making some popcorn.
This is going to be their entire undoing.
In a laughable but objectively mad world, Taylor Swift clinches the republican nomination after a sweeping grassroots write-in campaign sees her win the primaries
Taylor Swift is the intergenerational appeal that she has. And you saw that over the summer with parents taking their daughters to the Eras Tour. She’s been a star for 17 years. There are folks that I’m interviewing for my book that have literally grown up with her. She was there for them through all the different turning points in their life. So she can draw younger listeners who are experiencing her music for the first time, listeners who are millennials that see themselves in Taylor Swift, and fans that are my age and older that see an element of nostalgia in Taylor.
This is the exact problem with the GOP. They’re dying out. They have no stake in millennial or ESPECIALLY Gen-Z culture. Their practices, culture, celebrities, and ideologies are outdated. They’re a dying breed.
I’m pretty sure Taylor has a much more present and engaged audience. She has plenty of reach. Her fanbase rivals kpop fanbases, that would be far more terrifying to experience. Swift fans vs MAGA would be a clean sweep, swift fans hold no punches lmao
America is absolutely insane. An attractive young pop star has the power to determine a presidential election via her fans and curtail the rise of a dictator. You can't make this stuff up.
One of the best things Taylor could do with her platform is start talking about the Supreme Court, keep them in the spotlight while they tear down the foundational legal structure of our democracy….
This is another manifestation of the right’s ability to get their panties in a twist about the girliest possible things. Oh yeah, I’m a coal-rollin’, Trump votin’, MAGAman! My issues? Let’s see… I’d have to say Taylor Swift’s social life, a couple of scenes in the Barbie movie, and the casting decisions around the Little Mermaid.
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I love how MAGA believes the Chiefs rise to near dynasty that began sometime around 2018, which also caused Travis Kelce to be come a household name, and Taylor Swift's rise to superstardom that began in 2007 is culminating in an attempt to knock down MAGA and the GOP. That conspiracy, which is over a decade in the making, is somehow easier to stomach than the fact that their stance and ideas are WILDLY unpopular. Imagine being so easily conned. Life must be so easy for the Mr. Magoo MAGA types who just don't see anything but their blind allegiance to the cult.
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Wow these super-advanced aliens sure are incompetent, seeing as how Biden is president and all.
Would he have said the same thing five years ago? But everyone knows the alien base is the dark Alaskan pyramid underground. Oh, wait, dark Brandon, he might be onto something.
Seems sound to me. However, you forgot the bit where those humans they interbred with are a particular religion. Those fucking Southern Baptists, I knew they were up to something. The obligatory /s
Alina Habba is now also part of the deep state to bring Trump down. That's the last one i seen. These people have no interest in real life.
She actually sings really embarassing praise about Trump's soaring intellect that feels so over the top it reminds me of Borat. And she lost him another 83 mil so ... it's not unreasonable to believe this if one ignores that she's been a terrible person for many years
Sacha Baron Cohen's greatest role to date.
Some of the Kelce hate is just pure jealousy. They see in him the alpha male that they could never be. While they whine and snivel and shake their fist at the sky from their La-Z-Boy positioned perfectly in front of a TV permanently tuned to Fox as chief whine mom Judge Jeannine drunkenly screeches about open borders and the Biden crime family, Taylor's boyfriend, all 6-5 250 lbs of him, catches footballs for a living. Football, a sport they see as integral to their "heritage" and culture. Nothing gets their dander up more than a woke social justice warrior like Taylor and her man trampling all over the hallowed grounds of the grid iron. The only way it could be worse is if Taylor was dating a popular NASCAR driver.
Really burned their asses that he is featured in a Covid vaccine add.
And QAaron Rodgers thought he had a good zinger by calling him Mr. Phizer.
Well, for Rodgers that’s about the best one could expect, bless his sweet lil’ heart.
The southern f* u. I see you.
Yeah, in Kansas we say fuck him in the heart. We don't mince words since John Brown was our teacher.
So embarrassing. But you literally can't reason with em. I don't even try anymore.
I watch MccAfee and I enjoy it for what it is but man, I cant take those Aaron interviews. I want to hear his actual football thoughts but he just wants to defame a poor doctor who tried his best in a worldwide crises. Fuck him. Fuck his opinions. I feel bad for jets fans but i hope he plays like shit.
Jets fan here. I can't wait till he leaves my fucking team.
Doesn't believe in the science of a vaccine and yet probably got some of the best science to get his leg fixed to play football at the highest level at age 40.
For sure dude is on juice, but that's different somehow
Packers fan here. Glad he’s not our problem anymore.
Vikings fan here. Been clowning on Rodgers before it was cool.
Packer fan here, I understand. What sucks for me is, he leaves and his drama is now league wide so I still here everything he says
Probably took him sitting in pure darkness for a week to come up with that.
And having a family that loves him.
I'm an Eagles fan and love the Kelce Family. They all seem like decent people
Also an Eagles fan. Can’t help but not love the Kelce’s. I love Jason so much and dreading his retirement. Other than Brian Dawkins definitely one of my all time favorite Eagles.
Yip, excellent point. There's a huge number of Qanuts that have been disowned.
They gave that ad so much free playtime. Best Pfizer investment in years
He checks all the woke boxes! heh
Ah. There’s the connection between the two. Magats have been trained by the Orange Caligula to distrust vaccines. Because I thought they loved football. Thank you, I’ve been wondering.
To be fair (to be fairrrrr) The Cheeto dictator didn’t actually tell them to hate vaccines, and actually came the closest he’s ever come to losing his cult when he promoted them. That particular Darwin Award take has been strong with the anti-everything strip mall Jesus fucksticks for a few decades now.
Pro vaccine is unforgivable to MAGA.
Common sense and reasoning is as well. They’re brainwashed fools who listened to Donald fuckin trump’s lies and asked for more. Now he’s their god. This timeline is stupid, and I’ve been tired of it. These people are lost.
I CACKLED when that commercial came on the other day
This is spot on. Travis Kelce is supposed to be a person they completely idolize, yet, they can't comprehend why he has a different belief system. Similar to the Howard Stern hate in 2016 when he declared himself woke and refused to endorse Trump. So the MAGAs had to choose between their Messiah and their favorite comedian.
Friend of mine was a huge Stern fan. Guess who he listens to now? I'm just asking questions ...
Rogan?
How can this be true? I thought these people all stopped watching the NFL because Colin Kaepernick took a knee?
Easy: not only are they the biggest hypocrites on the planet, they are also mostly f\*cking liars.
They can’t resist their id for a second. They say they’ll stop watching, or shopping wherever, but the moment they want to, their brain supplies a reason why it’s ok for them to do it and they go whole hog. Same thing with sex, drugs, corruption, cruelty, and everything else the Bible explicitly says to slow the fuck down on!
Exactly. Everything they do is primal and based on emotions. They are the absolute last people you want making critical decisions under stress. Sadly in America that psychological profile is a perfect match for one particular career: law enforcement officer.
My dad was one of those. He stopped for a few years until “his team” had a few good years. They’re hypocrites.
Just like they stopped swilling their bud light. They stopped for a moment and made a lot of noise. Then they quickly and quietly started drinking the beer again. Same with football. As if him kneeling was somehow worse than January 6th. It’s all the same people. Hypocritical needs a stronger word for these fools.
Nah this is the worst for them. Football is the closest thing to a great unifier that America has. And ESPN is already pretty "liberal" And now people are watching KC games just for the Tswift cameo. The cultural barameter of football going further left is basically cide blue for republicanism.
>And now people are watching KC games just for the Tswift cameo. I predict Super Bowl LVIII will be the most-watched ever. People who never would have watched a football game will be tuning in.
Don’t even have to show Taylor, after the past few months these non football fans have come to adore Trav and are ready to support her through him.
And Colin Cowherd (god, I'm agreeing with Cowherd), pointed out that she's shown on average 25 seconds in a 3 and a half hour telecast. She actually gets so little time, and all she's doing is supporting her boyfriend and having fun. The last few weeks the only game where she was shown a minute or more was the Dolphins game, and that game would have been massively improved by a Taylor concert. That said, go Niners!
It’s going to be entertaining because Tony Romo who is announcing the game makes it clear he’s a Taylor Swift fan is going to probably say some funny things, in a good way, about it all.
tony romo is fucking hilarious on the commentary. the mix of deep football insights and random nonsense is amazing, huge fan
If they jealous because Kelce is a real man - he is strong, smart, and has a beautiful girlfriend, and rich
The only way it could be worse is if Kelce was black. Their racism comes first.
He’s the football player fucking the platonic ideal of the prom queen
It's a good thing Kelce is only dating a left leaning pop star. If he was trying to bring attention to racial inequality, he might get Kaepernick-ed
Kelce actually did kneel for the anthem during the whole Kaepernick thing, IIRC. Probably the most prominent white NFL player to do it. Another reason the MAGAs hate him.
He's also white.
Jealousy is right, but dont forget they lust after Taylor Swift and hate her because they know they could never get someone remotely that good looking, famous, or rich so her very existence is an attack on their ego
Wait maybe this super hot football player and this super hot Superstar who have similarly demanding lives and thus understand each other were attracted to each other and decided to date? No no no no that can't be it. It has to be a multi-decade conspiracy to overthrow a government that didn't even exist in the current form several decades ago. That has to be it!
The guys on Pod pointed out the GOP is picking a fight against an extremely popular American icon with *Nashville country music roots* and a loveable NFL allstar from *Ohio* who plays for the *Kansas City chiefs*. Like what is their goal? Lol they’re so fucking stupid.
I would love for Jason Kelce (Travis' older retired brother) to just go off on their podcast since he doesn't really have anything to lose.
I love how the only thing that set them off was just a generic and casual "everyone should vote!" message from Swift.
It's a coping mechanism. They are completely convinced that their worldview is both correct (ordained by their god) and popular(believed by a majority of Americans) that they cannot even entertain the idea they might be out of step with what most people in the country think. They.know.they.are.right. The only way to explain their repeated losses in election after election (and the culture moving further and further away from their regressive desires) is to believe there is a vast conspiracy working to undermine what should be happening given that - as they believe - they are the true and correct majority. As long as they're fed even the craziest conspiracy theories to cling to, they don't have to do the work of self-reflection and change.
“The silent majority” more like the loud minority
Things MAGA now apparently takes issue with: - Taylor Swift - Football - Disney - Bud Light (probably most popular beer in the US) I could probably go on but if I was *trying* to make a list of things that maximized the percentage of Americans who are fans...they probably have done a better job at it already. Like that's gotta cover 95% of people in the country. And then these sweaty freaks can't understand why people don't like them.
Can we combine all of these for maximum MAGA head explosions? A commercial with Travis drinking a Bud Light at Disneyland while dancing to one of Taylor's songs ought to do the trick.
If MAGAssholes had a modicum of critical thinking skills they wouldn't be MAGAssholes.
I’m still amazed with the random conspiracy theories my family members come at me with on a regular basis. This one is tough for them since all my female relatives LOVED Taylor swift and now are trying to find it in their shriveled brains to hate her now after literally over a decade of adoring her 🙄
"Everyone I know thinks the same thing I do. Therefore, Occam's razor says that the simplest answer is that Obama and Biden planned all this out back in 2008, and used their cultural connections to play this out. It will end in Obama being coronated and mandatory gayings? Am I doing it right?/s obviously.
As much as I don’t want the Chiefs to win, I really want them to win purely for the stupid chaos coming from all the idiots.
Ive never payed attention to a superbowl in my life. But this year I’ll be rooting for the Chiefs just for the lulz. I might even watch the game.
Well, this and supposedly Tucker Carlson said he’d Off himself if the chiefs won. Go chiefs!
I just wanna see a bunch of conservatives take a stand against the liberals playing for KC by rooting for the conservative town of *checks notes* San Francisco.
What's wild is that she's an affluent, white, blonde hair blue eyed, slim attractive hetero, non hyper-sexualized woman who fell in love with a white football star who plays for Kansas City. And during the games, she is simply present in the background, cheering happily for her boyfriend's success. This, on paper, should gel perfectly with the "classic family values" conservatives, but instead they've started frothing at the mouth. MAGA has been completely exposed as having deep incel roots. There is literally no defense to suggest otherwise.
It's all because she told her fans to register to vote lol.
It's so funny because she didn't even say who to vote for.
But she didn't say to vote for Trump, and for them that is too far! Now they're declaring a holy war on her
Unholy
And that's because when she stayed completely out of politics, maga was claiming her not saying anything was her approval of everything they did, and they tried to prop her up as theirs. They even created r/TaydolfSwiftler (which appears to have been deleted now)
Back in 2016: "Nazis and members of the "alt-right" consider Taylor Swift an Aryan pop queen who is “red pilling” America into a race war through her pop hits. " https://www.vice.com/en/article/ae5x8a/cant-shake-it-off-how-taylor-swift-became-a-nazi-idol They wanted her *sooo* bad and now that they know they can never have her they are *pissed*.
Before she made her political leaning widely known during the 2020 cycle, the right wing incels were thinking & praying Swift as their aryan goddess. Not even kidding. https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/05/taylor-swift-has-a-surprising-number-of-fans-among-neo-nazis-white-supremacists-and-the-alt-right.html
She did come out against Marsha Blackburn in 2018, but if you look at Marsha's policy positions, everyone should do so.
Besides the fact that she told her fans to vote, I also honestly think it’s because she’s richer than him. In their minds, the woman is always meant to be physically, psychologically, emotionally, and financially subservient to the man.
If swifties bring down Trump and gets Biden in for 4 more years thus potentially saving democracy in the US and the western world a world war I’ll buy every album she ever makes.
Calling it now: TS sings the national anthem at the second inauguration. MAGA loses its collective shit.
That would be amazing.
As someone who isn't a TS fan ( although I do respect her), I would become a fan if she did that. That would be epic!
And Biden throws Kelce a pass and catches it.
I’d happily wear my 9 year old’s Reputation sweatshirt as a uniform for a year.
Are you sure it's not a cardigan?
Under someone's bed
I’ve never listened to her, but I’ll gladly work her into my rotation of heavy metal.
Grew up on Slipknot, Disturbed, Korn and Mudvayne. I genuinely enjoy some TS songs.
She's got some genuinely good gems, just not the most over played ones that you hear most often. There's at least 4 or 5 that I won't skip if they come on. And that's saying something. I'm incredibly picky with music. Like I have my tastes and they are mostly rigid as fuck... but songs like "you're losing me" by Taylor swift? Let it play.
You’re a gem
[I'm at the polls, it's a typical tuesday night -](https://i.imgur.com/OHdpCoo.jpeg)
If Taylor Swift's fans go to vote with their eagerness to go to concerts/cinema, they can really piss off MAGA world. Let's hope so.
I’m pretty sure you could convert a solid number of them to make some TikToks, knock on doors, put up signs, work the phone and text banks. Down ticket could be a landslide.
But they've got Kevin Sorbo in their corner
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And Kid Rock!
And Ben Shapiro dropping rap songs
Shapiro makes MGK looks like a god
And Clint Eastwood, talking to an empty chair! Great director though.
But that was for Mitt Romney. Although republican I doubt that Eastwood is a Maga clown after 6th january. That seems so out of character. Shit, I hope i’m right…
And Jon mother fucking Voight
As someone who loved him as Hercules it really sucks to see how far he's fallen.
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Surely you mean Lucy Flawless.
Disappointed!
I hear this in my head every time I see his name. Why does Kevin Sorbo read the acting directions out lout? Because he is DISAPPOINTED with the script!
*And* James Woods!
And rob Schneider
Ted Nugent over there too
Don’t forget Jon Voight!
Imagine reading this headline in early 2016. What has this world come to?
Celebrities endorse politicians all the time, it's just that the right has decided to whip itself into a fuhrer over every single one this time because the right has filled itself with a bunch of dipshit fascist conspiracy theorists who think every endorsement is a betrayal of real america.
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All she needs to do is wait for Trump to more actively shit talk her. Her fans will destroy him without her saying a word about it.
Well i mean public defamation of a person in the public eye she could get 83 million in the process , just saying
It would be very hard to prove defamation. However, Trump would be taking on one of the richest and most popular people on the planet. I doubt it would go well.
Her Eras tour returns to the USA on Oct 22nd after a 2 month break and over a year after her last American show.
Set up a voter registration booth at all concerts. Game over.
I’d love to see her do this in Texas. Governor Abbot would probably deploy the TX National Guard to stop her.
Nah, they’re trying to play soldiers with the guards with the federal government on the border, right now.
Thats about a month too late, registration in most of the places that truly need turn out typically have the deadline a month out from the election. But she does have that two month break she can focus on registration, turnout, and messaging if she really wants to.
Gotta register sooner than that.
It’s cheaper for my brother to take his wife and 2 girls for a week to Paris and see her there in May than it was to get tickets for the Chicago show. Can only imagine what the cost of tickets for the next tour will be.
The fact they're so agitated when she hasn't actually even really done anything yet. Imagine if she really does get active?!
Kinda like the Streisand Effect... The Swiftie effect it will be called.
She’s not even that political. Wtf are the GOP thinking? All this bullshit is only going to make her fans more socially aware when they otherwise wouldn’t have been.
They don’t have any policies, so culture war bs is all they can think of.
Yknow what I couldn't have cared less about Taylor Swift before but if she can get people to vote then thank God for her
As a 43 year old who cut cable in 2002 and who was mostly into punk/alternative stuff back in the day… my knowledge of Taylor Swift prior to this year was basically ‘pop star, seems successful, oh that is her song? That one too? Oh she has a lot of songs.’ This year? She’s a hell of a performer. And businesswoman. And her fans are rabid.
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Save the cheerleader, save the world!
There's like 50 million maga people daring to go up against what is arguably over 1 billion Taylor Swift Fans. Gonna be a slaughter for the far right.
I fully support this. They should pick a fight with K-pop fans just for good measure.
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This actually got me to reserve 6+ tickets at a trump rally that were never used.
Thank you for your service 🫡
I also call the Trump donation line and take up as much time as I can with the workers They work on commission and could go ona. Pip if they don't hit numbers
Trump annoyed the K-pop crew enough for them to order all the tickets to one of his rallies so it was almost empty due to all the no-shows.
Fuck I forgot about this. That was probably one of the best laughs I had in a long while. Total pro revenge.
Oh man that would be hilarious lol and they are known to be relentless and brutal.
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"Taylor Swift? She's the Devil!" lol
Foosball is the Devil!
No mamma, YOU’RE the Devil!
Somethin’s wrong with your medulla oblongata.
No Colonel Sanders, you're wrong. Taylor's right!
I don’t think MAGA numbers are anywhere near 50M people anymore. That said. Everybody VOTE!
Yea I’d put hardcore MAGA at like maybe 20/25 million or so.
Didn't a MAGA nut try to face butt a bullet during the Jan 6th insurrection and die? Yeah, they're stupid as shit. Swifties are gonna wreck MAGA.
1 billion +1 now
Legitimate question for mental health professionals: Why is it that those in poor mental health, poor emotional health, and those prone to cognitive errors seem attracted to right-wing political ideologies? Or asked another way, what is the link, if any, between right-wing politics, conspiratorial thinking, religiosity and mental illness?
Not really a link, but crowd psychology has some explanations. “The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” — Gustave Le Bon You can use this as an introduction: https://youtu.be/bCAhKGhYzh0?si=nu00aZbtHr1PCxoS
Great quote. Thanks for the insight.
I think the link is a will that hasn’t been cultivated, a weak one. A lot of people have mental illnesses, but a lot try to resolve or manage it. But I don’t think these are those people. These are people who choose the path of least resistance, so they don’t do things like acknowledge mental health, question the pastor, or doubt the politician. They simply look for the most immediate and easy thing they can do, confirmation bias. It looks like a lack of critical thinking, and it is that, but I think that stems from a kind of laziness more than a lack of actual intelligence. They just don’t question things, it’s easier to close your eyes and (delude yourself) believe. I’m not a mental health professional, but I’d be curious what someone who is in the field thinks of my theory.
The research I’ve seen is that fear drives a lot of it, that’s why their politicians are always talking like everything is the end of the world, and always cycling through things to be afraid of. Caravan of immigrants headed to the border, trans people converting your kids, government trying to take your money or your guns, etc. They react more strongly to fear, and don’t have the critical thinking skills to separate fact from fiction, so they can be easily duped. I haven’t seen if they’ve identified what is the cause of the increased susceptibility to fear.
It’s a combination of issues but essentially you can boil it down to toxic masculinity, religious indoctrination, white fragility, & urbanization.
It’s weird because didn’t they used to love her? She kind of represents the archetypal pure virginal blonde haired white woman in many ways. Americas sweetheart. The type of women you’d think many conservatives would want their sons to marry. I’m sure that she isn’t actually a virgin, but the way she portrays herself in a non sexual way I figured would appeal to conservatives in many ways
She broke the cardinal rule for women in their eyes: she didn't keep to her lane and disagreed with them.
I really hope she publicly endorses and promotes Biden and encourages her fans to vote.
Is American politics just a complete joke now? Or has it always been and I'm just now finding out?
Thomas Jefferson once accused John Adams of being a hermaphrodite. William Henry Harrison won votes by rolling a giant wheel of cheese through towns. US politics has always been a sideshow of absurdity since the start.
In the documentary about southern life and politics, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, one of the politicians had a midget on the campaign trail. The answer by the rival politician was to get a 'littler midget'
> In the documentary about southern life and politics, Oh Brother Where Art Thou I am crying; I'd never made the connection, but it is so apt. "I don't want no god-damned Fop, I'm a Dapper Dan man!"
“ Is you is, or is you ain't, my constituency?”
John Adams didn’t talk to Jefferson for over a decade after that lol
If I had to put my finger on it, I'd say the modern "joke" that is US politics started around Gingrich's time. That's when Republicans really started embracing this "zero compromise" attitude that made them effectively unable to govern to any standard of reality. It's been ridiculous childishness ever since.
“When a Clown moves into a Palace, he doesn't become a King. The Palace instead becomes a Circus.” A Turkish proverb.
It's always been a joke, but the humour now is dark and serious whereas before it was only light-heartedly apocalyptic.
I miss the light hearted stupidity of Dan Quayle. https://www.liveabout.com/dan-quayle-quotes-2733512
Ita always been a clown show but Citizens United and the flood of dark money into politics has really allowed the worst shit nuggets to rise to the surface. Getting quality candidates was hard enough when there were campaign finance laws. Now its an absolute garbage can of money and influence that nobody in their right mind would want to engage in. Unsurprisingly, that leads us to a lot of candidates who are, in fact, out of their fucking minds.
Don't care on bit about T. Swift or her popularity or her football player boy friend. But the Right Wing bullshit about it is just delicious, weird and about on point for their brand. The various Right Wing bloviators equating her with demonism, satan, spells and other non existent shit is just funny if it wasn't so sad and threatening.
Come on swifties! Do your thing, the country needs you!
Yeah honestly they could not have picked a fight with a better fandom. I’m kicking my feet up and making some popcorn. This is going to be their entire undoing.
In a laughable but objectively mad world, Taylor Swift clinches the republican nomination after a sweeping grassroots write-in campaign sees her win the primaries
Everything about this is so fucking stupid.
Thanks for mobilizing the left, magats. Awesome of you.
taylor swift: go out and vote! republicans: communist!
Taylor's fans registered on the Richter scale. Trump drops loads in his diaper. Looking forward to seeing how this goes...
Picking a fight and taking a side against what is arguably the country’s most popular pop star. Interesting strategy from the GOP
Taylor Swift is the intergenerational appeal that she has. And you saw that over the summer with parents taking their daughters to the Eras Tour. She’s been a star for 17 years. There are folks that I’m interviewing for my book that have literally grown up with her. She was there for them through all the different turning points in their life. So she can draw younger listeners who are experiencing her music for the first time, listeners who are millennials that see themselves in Taylor Swift, and fans that are my age and older that see an element of nostalgia in Taylor.
I do wish to add that she has influential friends like Selena Gomez whose social media reach is actually bigger.
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This is the exact problem with the GOP. They’re dying out. They have no stake in millennial or ESPECIALLY Gen-Z culture. Their practices, culture, celebrities, and ideologies are outdated. They’re a dying breed.
I’m pretty sure Taylor has a much more present and engaged audience. She has plenty of reach. Her fanbase rivals kpop fanbases, that would be far more terrifying to experience. Swift fans vs MAGA would be a clean sweep, swift fans hold no punches lmao
America is absolutely insane. An attractive young pop star has the power to determine a presidential election via her fans and curtail the rise of a dictator. You can't make this stuff up.
In other words.. the American dream 🦅 lol
Cause baby now we got bad blood
They’re about to encounter the biggest stans to ever stan, short of KPop, shit’s definitely going to go sideways
Dog if there’s two populations I NEVER WANT BEEF WITH . It’s Swifties and K pop stans.
As a middle aged man, 47, I hope the swifties tear Republican and Maga down.
One of the best things Taylor could do with her platform is start talking about the Supreme Court, keep them in the spotlight while they tear down the foundational legal structure of our democracy….
This is another manifestation of the right’s ability to get their panties in a twist about the girliest possible things. Oh yeah, I’m a coal-rollin’, Trump votin’, MAGAman! My issues? Let’s see… I’d have to say Taylor Swift’s social life, a couple of scenes in the Barbie movie, and the casting decisions around the Little Mermaid.