CIA Director: Okay, so it’s agreed, we force Taylor & Travis to date, fix a series of NFL games, & then have them come out for Biden at the Super Bowl. CIA Agent: If we have this much power, why not just throw Trump in jail? CIA Director: BECAUSE WE LIKE TO HAVE FUN, OK …
Saturday Evening Open Thread: Taylor-ing the ExperiencePost + Comments (103)
Mr. Charles P. Pierce, former sportswriter, at Esquire — “The Wingnuts Have Spoken About Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift”:
… I have to say that watching the MAGA crowd, and especially its He-Man Women Haters auxiliary, lose its shit over the romance of Taylor Swift and Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce has made me into a Chiefs fan, at least for the interminable two-week run-up to the game, which is an annual festival of heavily covered non-news and nonsense. There will be no end of stories about the happy couple which, if we’re all really lucky, will have heads exploding in all corners of the wingnut media universe.
Vivek Ramaswamy, rumored to once be a presidential candidate, was the first one into the pool. He xweeted,
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. Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months.
Then there’s this Scott Greer mook.
To those who might say, “The Right need its own Taylor Swift for young women to look up to!” I answer we already have that. Her name is Lauren Boebert.
Dope on a grope.
And Sunday’s result already has launched another wingnut fever dream—the NFL has rigged the playoff so that the Swift-Kelce Chiefs win it all, which will convince everyone to get vaccinated and vote for Joe Biden. Rolling Stone collected some of the most febrile examples.
Failed GOP candidate Jack Lombardi II wrote on X that he has “never been more convinced that the Super Bowl is rigged. With all the unneeded and unwanted Taylor coverage at the games. KC’s journey to the Superbowl – totally scripted … KC wins. And then later [they announce] their support for Biden. Coincidental? No. Bought and paid for couple. SMH.” “Taylor Swift is nothing more than a controlled influencer who has been put to work by those who seek to destroy America,” Lombardi added in a separate post. “She is a very talented operative working for the same group responsible for the timely and coincidental covid-19.”…
Republican Georgia politician Kandiss Taylor wrote that she “tried to warn yall back in October that the influence of [Taylor Swift] on our youth with witchcraft was demonic, evil, and Luciferian.” “Of course, Satan wants to use her now to elect Joe back into the White House to destroy what’s left of America,” Taylor added…
I am shocked, shocked that a young woman and her friends are not voting Republican after the Roe reversal. The Republicans ASSURED me that it wouldn't affect elections!
(My favorite tweet of The Year Of No Red Wave When There Really, Really Should've Been a Red Wave) pic.twitter.com/ppZt4GNIYY— StubbyLibrarian???????? (@IiStubby) January 30, 2024
honestly I think we have to accept that a huge number of people are just brain-broken in ways that are quite sad https://t.co/p9RdW7MaYD
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) February 5, 2024
I didn't think it was real. pic.twitter.com/Rg3qLnq9z5
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) February 7, 2024