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"Taylor Swift is a “Pentagon asset”, an “election interference psyop” who, with
unnamed left-leaning forces, has conspired to “rig” the Super Bowl and then
endorse Joe Biden in the presidential election.
That’s according to a raft of influential rightwing figures, who have begun to
spread a conspiracy theory that Swift, a pop star, is part of a nefarious plot
ahead of November’s presidential election.
Swift has found herself at the center of the rightwing commentariat’s attention
in recent weeks after intense media focus on her relationship with Travis
Kelce, a star tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs football team.
She has been in the crowd as the Chiefs have progressed through the NFL
playoffs: on Sunday, the team won the AFC Championship game, and will play in
the Super Bowl on 11 February. The attention their romance has received has led
to a number conspiracy theories.
“I think – and I’ve said this, I’ve taken a lot of crap for this online – I
think they’re using Taylor Swift right now,” Jack Posobiec, an influential
rightwing conspiracy theorist, said in a video posted on Truth Social on
Monday.
“They’re gearing up for an operation to use Taylor Swift in the election
against everything: against Trump, for Biden, they’re gonna get her and all you
know they call them the Swifties they’re going to turn those into voters, you
watch.”
Posobiec did not elaborate on who “they” are, but Roseanne Barr, the rightwing
former actor who, for unexplained reasons, was also in the video, agreed.
“I think that’s what they’re doing too, she’s definitely somebody who’s
consented to speak the way the establishment wants to be spoken of,” Barr
said."
See also:
Garbage Day: Taylor Swift vs. the manosphere
https://www.garbageday.email/p/taylor-swift-vs-manosphere
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
