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Jilly_in_VA

(10,020 posts)
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 02:26 PM Jan 2024

Far-Right Snowflakes Are Terrified of the Super Bowl and Taylor Swift

Matt Lewis

The paranoid style of the “red-pilled” right was on full display after the Kansas City Chiefs upset the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship game Sunday night—and the alpha male “fuck your feelings” crowd began to collectively imagine a Deep State bogeyman everywhere, even among the most macho and violent of team sports (not to mention their own 13-year-old daughter’s Spotify).

In case you missed it, not only is Taylor Swift an FBI and Pentagon psyop, the Deep State is also rigging the NFL to make one of the world’s most famous entertainers and her already Hall of Fame-bound boyfriend, Travis Kelce, “artificially” famous.

Think I’m making this up—or just “nut picking” the rantings of a few obscure randos in the fever swamps of the right? This crazy conspiracy is quickly gaining steam. Take Vivek Ramaswamy, for example. In response to Pizzagate pusher Jack Posobiec, the failed presidential candidate tweeted, “I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month. And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall…”

He may be “just asking questions,” but Ramaswamy’s unhinged insinuation was generally greeted with applause on Twitter. One response came from a verified account with 55,000 followers, who added: “Nothing feels organic about Taylor’s rise—or this whole ‘relationship’—or now this whole Superbowl thing.” (Note: This sentiment is widespread, with some version of the phrase “not organic” being constantly invoked to describe the Chiefs’ playoff win—and the Swift-Kelce romance.)

But did the Deep State build Swift in a laboratory last year? Swift’s first hit, “Tim McGraw,” came out when George W. Bush was president. Her smash hit pop album, 1989, came out almost a decade ago. So yeah, this was all a long con.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-snowflakes-are-terrified-of-the-super-bowl-and-taylor-swift

These people find conspiracies behind every doorway and under every leaf. Must be tiresome being one of them....
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underpants

(182,961 posts)
2. Yep all over X yesterday and today
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 02:34 PM
Jan 2024

Anti-Swift stuff and posts related to this were all over Twitter yesterday

One dumb ass said she was a gold digger because he got $70K …K…for winning the game on Sunday

Diamond_Dog

(32,124 posts)
6. Because
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 03:07 PM
Jan 2024

there’s no way some “girl singer” could be making money bigger than that all by her little self!!!

These rwnj’s are unbelievable.

underpants

(182,961 posts)
8. They thought she was their girl
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 04:12 PM
Jan 2024

FalloutShelter
Facts are not their strong suit.

Tay does not need Super Bowl chicken feed.
Also… she has a concert in Japan the night before the Super Bowl. Will she fly back on the red eye? Who knows, but they are just butt hurt.

When Taylor first burst on the scene the white right thought she would be their nazi answer to Beyoncé and now all of the incels feel they were dumped.
Yet another beautiful woman has betrayed them.
Pathetic.

As posted here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18638464

tanyev

(42,642 posts)
3. Taylor's been working her butt off for nearly 20 years now,
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 02:43 PM
Jan 2024

so they can STFU about an inorganic rise. The relationship with Kelce might seem fast to an outsider, but they’re both adults and it’s nobody’s business but theirs.

If the Deep State is messing with NFL games, the betting market is going to be really ticked off.

dutch777

(3,050 posts)
4. Please Taylor, wear a red white and blue football jersey with number 46 and "Biden" on the back to the Super Bowl!
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 02:49 PM
Jan 2024

I'll start buying your music, I promise!

sop

(10,274 posts)
5. "Nothing feels organic about Taylor's rise"...Sure, it's all just a conspiracy.
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 02:55 PM
Jan 2024

"Organic" in this context refers to "a natural exchange of information between participants on social media platforms." Taylor Swift's latest Eras Tour is officially the highest-grossing music tour ever, becoming the first to surpass $1 billion dollars in revenue. Most would agree that sold-out stadium concerts in cities throughout the globe prove Swift's popularity is pretty "organic."


GopherGal

(2,010 posts)
15. Would it be "organic" if a man had as much success?
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 08:22 PM
Jan 2024

Let's see what Taylor had to say:

I'm so sick of running as fast as I can
Wondering if I'd get there quicker
If I was a man
And I'm so sick of them coming at me again
'Cause if I was a man
Then I'd be the man
I'd be the man
I'd be the man
They'd say I hustled
Put in the work
They wouldn't shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve
What I was wearing
If I was rude
Could all be separated from my good ideas and power moves?

FakeNoose

(32,833 posts)
7. Taylor Swift will put on a great show, and there will be nothing about politics
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 04:05 PM
Jan 2024

She might be making political comments such as "Be sure to register and vote" on her website and interviews. But she knows better than to say anything political during her Super Bowl show. This just shows how crazy the RWNJs are.

robbob

(3,539 posts)
13. I like it better that way!
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 05:22 PM
Jan 2024

The RWNJ’s are losing their shit over Taylor’s encouraging young people to register and vote, even though she’s not even telling them HOW to vote! It’s hysterical; voting is supposed to the great driver of a healthy democracy, a civic duty, if you will, and rethugs get all butt-hurt when people they don’t like exercise that right, be it women, minorities, young people, college students or people in larger urban centers. They know the only way they win is by cheating and suppressing voter turnout. Pathetic.

robbob

(3,539 posts)
14. Oh, btw, Taylor Swift isn't performing at half time...
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 05:26 PM
Jan 2024

RWNJ types are just afraid she has magical powers with that dazzling smile to get people to vote for Biden, or some stupid shit like that…

Jerry2144

(2,124 posts)
9. Most violent of team sports?
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 05:01 PM
Jan 2024

Correction. Box Lacrosse is more violent. All that hitting of football, slams and checks like hockey, plus the players have sticks and are allowed to beat on each other.

rurallib

(62,469 posts)
10. Suggestion to Rammi-Swammi if the game is rigged bet all your bucks
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 05:17 PM
Jan 2024

on the Chiefs. Put your money where your mouth is.

canuckledragger

(1,670 posts)
11. It must be tiresome to be afraid of absolutely everything...
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 05:17 PM
Jan 2024

...and make up insane paranoid conspiracy theories instead of acknowledging that baseless fear.

Jilly_in_VA

(10,020 posts)
12. Ramalamadingdong
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 05:21 PM
Jan 2024

is attempting to stay visible. He's doing it the wrong way.

I couldn't name 5 Taylor Swift songs, although I would probably recognize them if I heard them, but I am definitely a Swiftie!

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