This is one of the weirdest developments in the 2024 Presidential race: MAGA is frightened by Taylor Swift! She has repeatedly been denounced on FOX News.
The New York Times published a story yesterday by Jonathan Weisman about rightwing Swiftie rage. MAGA is having a meltdown!
The right has been fuming about Ms. Swift since September, when she urged her fans on Instagram to register to vote, and the online outfit Vote.org reported a surge of 35,000 registrations in response. Ms. Swift had embarked on a world tour that helped make her a billionaire. Gavin Newsom, the California governor, praised her as “profoundly powerful.” And then Time magazine made her Person of the Year in December, kicking off another round of MAGA indignation.
Conspiracy theories abound because Taylor endorsed Democratic candidates in Tennessee in 2018 (both lost) and endorsed Biden in 2020. The outrage grew louder when her buddy Travis Kelce endorsed the Pfizer vaccine and Bud Light, which MAGGIES were boycotting because Budweiser had hired a trans influencer to appear in their ads.
When she made her endorsements in Tennessee, she explained why:
“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country,” she wrote on social media. “I believe in the fight for L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG.”
She added, “I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.”
Entertainers live in a world where they constantly interact with people of different races and LGBT people. If you see any Broadway show these days, you will see a palette of all kinds of people. (I saw “Spamalot” last Saturday; King Arthur and Lancelot are played by talented Black men; other leads are flamboyantly gay.)
MAGA world is fearful Taylor Swift might endorse Biden again. And the rumor is that she will do it at halftime at the Superbowl! Is nothing sacred?!!?
Swift-bashing reached Fox News in mid-January. The host Jesse Watters suggested the superstar was a Defense Department asset engaging in psychological warfare. He tied Ms. Swift’s political voice with her boyfriend’s Pfizer endorsement to the remarkable success of her Eras tour, which bolstered local economies and landed her on the cover of Time.
“Have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this?” Mr. Watters wondered on air. “Well, around four years ago, the Pentagon psychological operations unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting.”
Andrea Hailey, the chief executive of Vote.org, made the most of the Fox News criticism, saying the organization’s partnership with Ms. Swift “is helping all Americans make their voices heard at the ballot box,” adding that the star is “not a psy-op or a Pentagon asset.”
But her appearance on the field with Mr. Kelce in Baltimore after the Chiefs beat the Ravens on Sunday, complete with a kiss and a hug, appears to have sent conservatives into a fit of apoplexy that may only grow in the run-up to Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas Feb. 11.
The feelings are so strong that Fox News ran a segment on Sunday lamenting that Ms. Swift’s private “jet belches tons of CO2 emissions,” showing a sudden awareness of the leading cause of global warming.
I opened Twitter last night and saw this brief tweet by Liz Cheney: “Taylor Swift is a national treasure.” That statement provoked outpourings of hate and venom from angry MAGATTS.
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Quick, let’s drop the voting age to 16 …the Swifties will elect the next president …
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Go Peter. Great suggestion. Couple it with the idea that 16-year olds should be allowed to have assault rifles and Congress will unanimously support it.
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Go Liz Cheney!
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The Trumpettes don’t like anyone getting more attention than Trump!
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MAGA is so steeped in lies, cheating, and hate, that they can’t stand anoyone who is honest. Taylor is guilty of having an opinion and being honest.
Still, Taylor’s form of public honesty isn’t what MAGA wants since they want everyone to fall into line and do what Traitor Trump expects them to do.
MAGA even came up with their own term for lies so they didn’t sound like lies.
ALTERNATIVE FACTS
Since Taylor is already a super mega star, she’s used to having security around protecting her from lunatics, so having MAGA hate her probably won’t disrupt her life that much.
Maybe her security team will have to add more troops.
I don’t think MAGA is going to intimidate Taylor. I remember when that TV interviewer (or radio) guy grabbed her butt, how she reacted. The guy got fired, I recall. She may have dragged him into court, too, to teach him a lesson. I think she was mad at her bodyguard too for not noticing.
Even Traitor Trump may know not to push her when all he said was he liked her about 25% less than before — unless I missed something more toxic he spewed about Taylor.
Taylor isn’t a woman someone like Trump and other powerful rapists and misogynists males can molest and threaten or bribe to keep quiet.
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Taylor Swift seems like a nice person, and her music isn’t offensive. But she is just another frivolous celebrity reciting all the woke dogmas about LGBTQLMNOPXYZ and racial issues. You can safely bet your life that her knowledge of serious issues is surface deep. She will only influence young airhead women who would vote Democratic anyway. This “controversy” is just media hype.
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Well, I hope she convinces MILLIONS of “airhead young women” to go to the polls and vote against the guy who took away their reproductive rights.
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Betsy,
Instead, can I bet my life that your understanding of racial discrimination is superficial?
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One conspiracy theory I heard is that all of Kansas City’s playoff team opponents took a dive so that Taylor and the Chiefs could go to the Superbowl and thus promote the frightening radical Marxist agenda that Taylor is known for.
This Superbowl is making the Trumpies’ heads explode because they have to root for the radical San Francisco team! San Francisco, bastion of left wing Communism and a supposed 99% crime rate, is now the favorite of the Trumpies.
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The ever nuttie NYCPSP makes light of the serious problems in San Francisco.
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Are you rooting for San Francisco or Kansas City? If your head exploded, I don’t expect an answer.
“The data, reviewed by Fox News Digital, does show San Francisco coming in at a lower homicide rate than other major cities, with its murder rate checking in below St. Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Chicago, Oakland, Minneapolis, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, Austin and Washington, D.C.”
Do you also root against crime ridden Texas?
Most of us care about MURDER the most, although pro-Trump Republicans seem unconcerned when children are gunned down by Republican gun-nuts and simply say that the high murder rate of children gunned down in schools by gun-loving Republicans is a small price to pay for the freedom for everyone to own assault weapons that can gun down lots of children quickly.
You are a sick puppy, MAGA-loving Wendy.
I will take San Francisco over having children gunned down in their schools. Republicans don’t care about children gunned down in schools, but property crime in San Francisco seems to bother them a lot.
“In total, San Francisco’s crime rate in 2023 was lower than any period in the last ten years, except for 2020 when the pandemic caused a Citywide shutdown:
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You have a bad habit of ascribing false beliefs to people whom you don’t even know. You make negative things up about them and then conduct a debate with a strawman, which you have done again today. A few months ago another commenter named Bob called you out on that habit and you flew into a rage at him. You don’t have to suffer that way; your doctor can prescribe sedatives to calm you down.
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It seems you have a detractor who refuses to accept your statistics regarding crime rates.
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Don Corley needs to turn off MSNBC and make the effort to be well-informed. People and businesses are moving out of San Francisco in droves because of the crime rate and the disgusting acts committed in public.
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It’s a mixed bag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_San_Francisco
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From a Bing search:
Many businesses have moved out of San Francisco in recent years, but not entirely for the reasons you give. According to a report by Buildremote, 53 headquarters have left San Francisco since 2020. The report also states that 35% of San Francisco’s workforce works primarily from home, which is the highest among all US cities where data was collected. The exodus of businesses from San Francisco has been attributed to a variety of factors, including high costs of living, high taxes, and a lack of affordable housing. The trend has also been spurred by a diminished sense of safety among some shoppers, sluggish sales at some stores due in part to a longstanding shift away from brick-and-mortar retail that went into overdrive during the pandemic, and the rise of remote work.
Why is the cost of living so high in San Francisco, and why is housing so expensive and hard to find? Because people want to live there.
The perception of diminished safety is greater than the actuality, evidently, given the actual violent crime stats, which are moderate. Other large cities have worse problems, but San Franscisco gets singled out by Reich-wingers because it is a liberal Democratic bastion.
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So, I’m wondering, Ms. Waite. What is your suggestion to cities like San Francisco for dealing with their homeless problem?
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Wendy,
What “false beliefs” did I accuse you of having? I absolutely acknowledge that I responded to your attempt to change the subject to gratuitously attacking (and lying) about San Francisco by accusing you of being anti-Taylor Swift and a MAGA fan. I stand by that. You haven’t denied it.
Wendy, you have your chance now to prove I have “false beliefs” by confirming for the record that you are a Taylor Swift fan who strongly supports that Taylor stood up for integrity and truth when she didn’t support Trump. You can prove I have “false beliefs” by simply stating for the record that you believe Trump being re-elected would be a disaster for our country.
I doubt very much that I am arguing with a “straw man” and you are anti-Trump and pro-Taylor Swift. But your reluctance to do anything but hurl insults speaks volumes.
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Bob,
You linked to a wikipedia article that cited the fact that In Shohei Ohtani’s people supposedly cited San Francisco’s high crime rate for turning them down. Which would have been believable had Ohtani not chosen even higher crime Los Angeles, instead! Now that’s the kind of evidence your admirer “Wendy Waite” can get behind!
Bob, I have no idea why you sometimes feel so compelled to make unnecessary personal attacks when we disagree – even going so far as to gratuitously comment in a thread just to make a snarky and insulting remark because you wanted to support one of your special friends. But isn’t is nice how much the MAGA folks like it.
I notice you replied to “Wendy” with far more courtesy than you often do to me. Interesting that you had no problem with the tone of her comments. Or perhaps the enemy of your enemy is your friend.
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“Wendy Waite
February 1, 2024 at 12:32 pm
The ever nuttie NYCPSP makes light of the serious problems in San Francisco.”
Interesting what kinds of comments get courteous replies.
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So, I posted two links that suggested that Ms. Waite was wrong. I don’t think that particularly courteous (or uncourteous). But you and Linda just carry on with your Middle School comments. Aie yie yie. These speak for themselves. They are self-parodying.
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NYC-
I take what you write seriously. What you write merits reading. Commenters like Wendy who open with, “ever nuttie,” or Bob and his running ridicule, can be easily dismissed.
When Bob was called out about his incivility, he invoked Diane’s relationship as his friend. It might have given me pause but, I’ve been on the receiving end of Bob’s personal attacks and demands for the construct of a lie about personal trauma at the hands of religionists, so often that its like water on a duck’s back.
I wrote the preceding so that you appreciate people show you who they are and your opinions should be unaffected by boors (something you likely already knew).
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This isn’t freaking Middle School, Linda.
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Thank you, Linda. I do recall that discussion you had with Bob’s long response to you citing Catholic religious dogma or practices seemed irrelevant to the points you had raising for many years about the political issues.
Bob, Linda already knows “This isn’t freaking Middle School”. She’s just wondering why you sometimes respond as if it was.
The response to a call for civility is making a snarky remark about running to the principal? This isn’t freaking Middle School.
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blah blah blah blah blah . . . . [pages and pages of nonsense later] blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
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Bob says “I posted two links [to the person who called you “ever nuttie”] that suggested that Ms. Waite was wrong. I don’t think that particularly courteous (or uncourteous).”
Linda and I just ask for the same “courteous (or uncourteous)” treatment you gave the person who started her reply by hurling a childish insult like “ever nuttie”.
And you continue with middle school level discourse with “blah blah blah”.
Why do you make perfectly appropriate responses to a person who uses phrases like “ever nuttie”, and you can’t extend that courtesy to us?
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blah some more
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Bob,
Why do you make perfectly appropriate responses to a person who uses phrases like “ever nuttie”, and you can’t extend that courtesy to us?
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I responded to Wendy with links showing that she was WRONG about San Francisco. Wrong.
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NYC
I prefer no replies from Bob.
Yours, I find intelligent and I gain insight from them.
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Some of these MAGAs must be lonely, bitter people to spend so much energy hating on Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce. Who doesn’t love a sweet romance between 2 talented & famous people?
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MAGA maniacs cannot stand an intelligent, independent young woman that has an opinion. Taylor Swift never got the extremist memo stating that women should be seen, groped and exploited, but not heard. Pathetic extremists cannot tolerate an accomplished woman that represents kindness, tolerance and generosity so they try to spread misinformation about her to try to counter her influence. She is a cultural phenomenon that brought Spotify to its knees. My money is on Taylor Swift.
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Taylot Swift is just another celebrity airhead with no knowledge of serious issues. Her only influence is with young women who are equally uninformed and who will vote Democratic anyway. Fun Fact: her father supports Trump.
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Swift’s father worked on Wall St. so any support he has for the guy that supercharged the stock market with wasteful tax cuts for the ultra-wealth is unsurprising.
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Well, she is far swifter than the very brightest of the Trumpanzees.
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Retired Teacher is very uninformed about Wall Street. A large majority of their employees vote Democratic and the vast majority of their campaign donations go to Democratic candidates. These facts have been reported many times, including in liberal news outlets.
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Terry Smith,
I have not seen data about Wall Street being Democratic. Could you share sources?
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If Wall Street is Democratic—which I didn’t know—maybe it is because it’s because the stock market is breaking records.
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Wall Street execs donated SLIGHTLY MORE to Biden than to Trump in 2020. That might be where he is getting that idea. That anyone donated anyone to the Orange Idiot, that utter madman and criminal and traitor, is breathtaking to me. That almost half of Wall Street money went to Trump after all the idiocy and ugliness of his maladministration says something, and it’s not good.
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Terry: Celebs exist on all sides. Sonny Bono, Clint Eastwood, Tom Sellick, Tommy Turberville (celeb before senate). Celeb Al Franken got speared for much less than Trump boasted. Look at what the celeb says and evaluate it. Are you in favor of women being the object of harassment? As I explain below, that is what attracts my daughter to her, the refusal to bow to the tradition of exploitation. My daughter has a right to a voice just like you.
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Director of Private Equity of the Wall Street Division of AIPAC- that’s the title
of an employee at AIPAC who raises money from Wall Street moguls for candidates.
AIPAC is similar to other organizations that manipulate to get what they want from both parties. Jamaal Bowman, a progressive Democrat who supports public schools will face a primary opponent, George Latimer, funded by AIPAC (largest donor by far). Fundraisers for Latimer have been held in the wealthy homes of Republicans. The Teach Action Fund whose goal as I understand it is to get money for Jewish schools through the political process (sounds like the Catholic Conferences’ goal for their sect) reportedly, plans to spend $1.6 on Latimer’s campaign. It will be interesting to learn if Latimer, a Catholic who attends church, has found common ground with Jeff Yass, the Edelman sons and/or Steven Loeb, for school privatization.
Terry,
The difference between the GOP and the Democratic Party is that Dems have a President and some members of Congress (not Sen. Manchin and Sinema) who try to rein in the power of the richest 0.1.%. Finding a Republican who votes for the common guy on those issues is like finding a needle in a haystack.
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Second usage of the “airhead” smear in this thread. Hmm this airhead is also a billionaire. What’s in your wallet Terry?
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Taylor Swift = TS = Tough Shit Maga
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There is nothing, literally nothing, so idiotic that MAGATS won’t believe it.
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And in other news, a high-school kid killed another high-school kid in an argument over a packet of sweet and sour sauce.
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It seems significant that Peyton Manning is also endorsing Bud Light, as he is a conservative Republican (based on my reading). Chinks appearing in the MAGA chain? (I’m not implying that Mr. Manning is a part of MAGA) Is this perhaps an confirmation that there are Republicans who will not support Trump and his supporters?
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When all this erupted recently, I realized that I was not aware of having ever heard a single Taylor Swift song. LOL. That’s how up on pop culture I am. So, I went and listened to a few. Not my thing. But more power to her (and less to the MAGATS).
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I did the same, Bob, listened to Taylor songs. They were ok, but I don’t understand the fervor.
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You are better than I am. I just listen to the exegesis in which my daughter engages. Still haven’t read all of Ewin A. Robinson. God bless you please Mr. Robinson.
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Edward of course
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Edwin Arlington Robinso
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So, my daughter just posted a bunch of pics and video of my granddaughters at an outdoor Taylor Swift fest! ROFL!!!!! They have the bug too now. Good thing I started to catch up!!!
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Bob:
the daughter says: the lyrics Taylor Swift writes are universal.
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Edwin, of course. Never type on a phone in a hurry
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Let me report how this is playing with her fans. I have a daughter who was introduced to Swift by a middle school counselor who was a big fan. She though Swift lyrics were appropriate for young girls who needed a boost to their self-confidence. My daughter was non-plussed for many years. Then she started listening to video essays about Swift lyrics and read Pride and Prejudice. Trust me, she sees a connection.
When Taylor Swift reported the DJ who grabbed her butt during a photo OPP, when he sued her after this got him fired, and when she finally counter-sued him, asking for a symbolic $1, Swift won a chunk of fandom who now sees her as a champion for women who do not want to be sexually assaulted. Some will probably want to say that grabbing a girl’s butt is just expected male adolescent behavior. My daughter is not in that group. If you or anyone else were to suggest such a thing, she would tell you that touching people without their consent is sexual assault. At least some of her assertiveness comes from Swift standing up for her juvenile self, an inspiring example for a generation that seems to see girls standing up for themselves.
I do not know what to think of Swift Poetry. I have not sufficiently perused Jonathan, let alone Taylor, but I have had several academic lectures on Taylor’s linguistic prowess that remind me of my own generation as we lectured our incredulous parents about Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell.
Which brings me to the Maga meltdown. If Taylor is too much for them, they best not try to get back at her by grabbing her by the P____ like their leader bragged. Just locker room talk, he said. Sorry, my daughter’s generation is not buying that. I read the other day that her generation is not engaging in as much sex as previous generations did at that age. If that is true, it might be that it is because girls are asserting their independence. Sounds good to me. My grandmother would not have approved of sexually forward behavior with a stranger, my mother would not have approved, why should my daughter approve of people violating their person?
MAGA: Make America Grab Again
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Grab the grabbers by the wallet.
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And your daughter sounds like an awesome young person!!!!! Good parenting there, Roy!
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I did nothing. She is of the elect
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Sounds like it! Jane Austen at, what, 14, 15? Pretty impressive.
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Regarding Taylor Swift,
For those who aren’t that familiar with her, Taylor doesn’t just write catchy songs whose lyrics evoke some of the issues that young women are confronted with when they are 15 or 20 or 25 or 30…. She stands up for herself.
When she lost control of the albums she had made over many decades, she didn’t just get mad. She has been re-recording “Taylor’s Version” of her old albums, which was a brilliant response. (I read an article that she may have gotten that idea from Talk Show Host/Singer Kelly Clarkson). Those albums have done quite well and kudos to Swift for not being afraid to call out those with a lot of power. And her business acumen.
Plus, she gives her fans a very long and entertaining live show.
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^^^correction: “When she lost control of her earliest 6 albums…” (she’s not old enough to have made albums over “many” decades, although she has been around a long time for a 34 year old)
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Sometimes, entertainment becomes quite entertaining, but it’s only entertainment.
I’m going to guess that most, if not all of the readers and contributors to this academic and intellectual blog about saving public education from predatory capitalism do not share with me an affinity with American football. I play and watch sports. It’s been annoying to turn on football games and be distracted from the game on the field by the who’s going out with whom drama. And now there are conspiracy theories.
It’s perfectly reasonable to assume there are sports related conspiracies. The White Sox, the Astros, the Patriots… An announcer of a NFL football game a couple weeks ago said, “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.” With the recent rise of gambling (noted in Congress), it’s entirely reasonable to assume that the Chiefs are getting advantages because it boosts NFL and affiliate network ratings and revenue to have Taylor Swift on screen regularly. I saw the game, didn’t see any evidence of cheating, but who knows? And who cares? It’s only entertainment!
What irks me is the extension of reasonable cheating scandal conspiracy theories into politics. It’s ridiculous. The NFL is a generally conservative sport, like NASCAR. NFL owners and executives tend to be Republicans. If they were going to engage in any conspiratorial cheating, it would be to support the presidential candidate most likely to give them a tax break, Donald F J Trump.
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Some guys are into tight ends and wide receivers. Some aren’t.
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It’s only entertainment.
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IK. Sorry, just a bad joke.
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All good. Actually, I worry I’ve misconstrued a comment or two and misspoke myself here the last few days, so please pardon. Good to have jokes. Sometimes they hit, sometimes they don’t. When I was in high school, I was half nerd, half jock. Went to parties and to hangouts. Plenty jokes. Didn’t think nerds or jocks were conspiring with the CIA to overthrow the nerds or jocks with a pop star.
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IKR? There is nothing so stupid that Trumpanzees won’t believe it.
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Diane – I tried to post this on About, in response to your question to Lloyd about Frontline. Whatever I post on that page goes into a black hole, so I’m re-posting on this thread.
A clip from Frontline reminded me of this dissection from Just Security of a two minute movie shown at the Ellipse on January 6, just after Rudy Colludy’s speech.
Published on February 4, 2021, the links to fascism are made clear.
https://www.justsecurity.org/74504/movie-at-the-ellipse-a-study-in-fascist-propaganda/
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Chilling.
“The most influential fascist movement that takes a shadowy Jewish conspiracy as its central target is German fascism, Nazism. Nazism did not start out in genocide. It began with militias and violent troops disrupting democracy. In its early years in power, in the 1930s, it was socialists and communists who were targeted for the Concentration Camps, torture, and murder. But it must never be forgotten where Nazism culminated.”
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10218475593068290&set=a.1200477179262
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From Susan Glasser at the New Yorker:
“Trump’s G.O.P. has been hyperventilating over the nation’s most celebrated pop star, Taylor Swift, promoting elaborate conspiracy theories about the liberal-leaning musician and her Super Bowl-bound boyfriend, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Trump, naturally, relished the fight, reportedly insisting that he is ‘more popular’ and has more committed fans than Swift, who endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and whose prospective support for Biden again seems to have sent the Trumpier corners of the Internet into a frenzy. Even the Wall Street Journal was appalled. Whether it’s “lunacy or it’s theater,” the paper’s conservative editorial board wrote of the ‘Taylor Swift ‘Psyop,’ it reinforced one of the signal problems for the country in 2024: “paranoia on the right” makes the Republican Party and its kooky demagogue ‘seem, frankly, weird.’ “
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-senates-false-hope-of-a-grand-bargain-meets-its-trumpy-demise
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Here more on the Trump-Mike Roman case in Georgia.
Boy, what a “gem” Mike Roman is.
From The Washington Post:
“…Roman was sued several times over small debts, court records show. As the global economy collapsed, Roman and his partner, Adrienne McAllister, fell behind on repaying their mortgage. In July 2009, their lender moved to foreclose on their modest Philadelphia house. Two months later, McAllister filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, which allows a filer to repay debts through monthly installments and can protect against foreclosure. McAllister reported in her bankruptcy filings that she and Roman owed more than $12,400 in overdue mortgage payments and that she owed thousands in other debts. She would file for bankruptcy four more times over the next decade, even as Roman in some years received six-figure incomes….McAllister did not respond to questions.”
“Roman and McAllister have seven children together, according to court records and social media posts. They have long referred to each other online and to some friends as husband and wife. ‘I’m sure they’re married,’ Marks said. ‘No, I did not go to the wedding.’ “
“But across her five bankruptcy petitions, McAllister described Roman as her ‘live-in boyfriend’ or the father of her children, and wrote that he contributed between $2,100 and $5,500 per month to help cover household expenses. Roman would later give his marital status as ‘single’ to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office when he was booked on the charges in Georgia. The Post was unable to find any official record suggesting that they ever wed.”
“If they were married, McAllister would have been required to disclose Roman’s income in her bankruptcy filing and to pay more each month toward her debts, according to bankruptcy attorneys.”
“Around the time of McAllister’s first bankruptcy proceeding, Roman began working for the Public Engagement Group Trust, a little-known firm in Arlington, Va., that said it aimed to raise public awareness of government spending and free markets. Its tax returns show that Roman was paid $180,000 between July 2011 and June 2013 to work as trustee.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/02/mike-roman-trump-georgia-election-case-fani-willis/
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I like Liz Cheney more and more. Go, Taylor Swift, and do your thing. Driving Fox News pundants should be a National Sport. If it was, you would be #1.
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