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as a british person with no idea who most of these people are (love ts tho), my final standing is that americans are mad 💀
fixitfelix wrote: "as a british person with no idea who most of these people are (love ts tho), my final standing is that americans are mad 💀"Americans are always mad (i am Americans)
The sadness of Americans is that there is NO truth anymore, only propaganda. Let TS live her life, let football players get immunizations if they so desire, and screw politics!
from someone who grew up with conservative parents...can confirm that the conspiracies over TS have been flying. Each one more ridiculous than the last. Which only made me telling them that I would be traveling to Dublin specifically to see her that much funnier 😂
(Frankly, I don't think she's going to be as vocal about any world news because that could potentially be a major safety risk for not only herself and everyone working on her tour, but also the fans attending.)
luna ♡ wrote: "fixitfelix wrote: "as a british person with no idea who most of these people are (love ts tho), my final standing is that americans are mad 💀"Americans are always mad (i am Americans)"
I find Americans pretty mad too
fr, i don’t understand anything about their politics (other than what happens in Hamilton lol) or unnecessary controversies. in comparison, britain/England is pretty chill 💀
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Right-wing media is burning red at Taylor Swift.
With the Kansas City Chiefs headed to Super Bowl LVIII, influential MAGA Media personalities have started circulating conspiracy theories about the pop superstar, promoting the deranged notion that she is part of a sprawling psychological operations plot staged by the NFL and Democratic Party to deliver the 2024 presidential election to President Joe Biden.
The attacks on Swift have been steadily building for weeks (see Fox News host Jesse Watters asking on his prime time program earlier this month if Swift is a “Pentagon asset,” for example), but it reached a fever pitch on Monday. The bad blood is related to Swift’s 2020 endorsement of President Joe Biden and the fact that Travis Kelce, the Chiefs tight end whom she is dating, participated in an advertising campaign for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. A Monday story published by The New York Times, which noted Biden would like Swift’s endorsement again this year, added fuel to the fire.
“I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month,” Vivek Ramaswamy, the unsuccessful 2024 presidential candidate who has spread conspiracy theories about the January 6 insurrection and the legitimacy of the 2020 election, posted Monday on X. “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.”
Ramaswamy was responding to a post from Jack Posobiec, the far-right conspiracy theorist, who shared a version of the theory during an interview with Roseanne Barr, the famous actress who in recent years has descended into the far-right online fever swamp. Posobiec said he believes the Democratic Party and other powers are “gearing up for an operation to use Taylor Swift in the election against” Donald Trump. Barr agreed, saying that Swift is “definitely somebody who has consented to speak the way the establishment wants to be spoken of” and that using her influence will be how they “try to get on top of the next election.”