What's one private jet when you can fly two? Taylor Swift ramps up the old carbon footprint to new levels

American Thinker ^ | 11 Feb, 2024 | Monica Showalter

[MtnClimber]

Next time pop star Taylor Swift starts waxing all pious about saving the planet, maybe someone can ask her about those two private jets she traipses around on a plume of carbon compounds to get around the planet.

According to Gizmodo:

Flying from Tokyo, Japan back to the U.S. to get to the Super Bowl and watch her boyfriend Travis Kelce play was very important to pop superstar Taylor Swift—so important that she apparently had a second private jet on standby.

The existence of a second private jet for Swift, who was in Tokyo giving a series of concerts, was reported on Saturday by FlightRadar24, a global flight tracking service, and aptly named “Backup Quarterback” on its website. Jason Rabinowitz, co-host of FlightRadar24’s AvTalk podcast, added that private jet operator VistaJet had mechanics on standby at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport in case something went wrong.

So that second jet she had flying there wasn't to haul heavy music equipment or anything, it was just flying empty as a spare, in case something went wrong with the first jet.

The Independent notes that Business Insider reported that she got rid of the second one, but that seems to be contradicted by this report above.

Yet whether it was two or one, and the latest report says 'two,' it contrasts rather sharply with this kind of talk, such as she gave in 2020, described by a University of Pennsylvania website:

Taylor cares about climate disruption and the environment. In a 2020 interview, she said climate change was one of the “horrific situations that we find ourselves facing right now,” especially young people.

Horrific, she said.

[twister881]

Two private jets? You mean like two Air Force Ones that fly together, one hauling Sock Puppet’s carcass around, and the other to bring a supply of Depend disposable u-trou for him?

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

So if something goes wrong with the first jet where the hell does she land over the damn ocean???

[Robert357]

I had a coworker whose brother played in a Super Bowl. His description of his brother after the game was shocking. They won, but his brother was in no mood to celebrate. He was beyond exhaustion. What you don't understand is that these are professional athletes who have learned how to focus, endure pain, and exhaustion all their life to get to where they are. His brother just wanted to clean up and sleep.

I am sure that Taylor Swift wanted to share the magic of being there for her boyfriend. However, I am also sure he had little left to share with her after the game ended and his adrenaline fueled body collapsed.

Yes, she had two jets. Yes she is a carbon-footprint Eco-warrior, who doesn't walk the talk. But there are so very many others as well. Look at John Kerry, look at the private jets at Dravos.

[HIDEK6]

In the 70s, when the fear was we were using so much oil that the earth was going to run out, carter came up with the bright idea to conserve the meager supply by driving 55.

Wags in Texas implored us to, “Drive 90, freeze a yankee!” (You see, yankees used oil to heat their houses.)

[linMcHlp]

55 MPH - President Nixon, Nov. 26, 1973

[TangoLimaSierra]

She’s just another flaming Harveywood hypocrite.

Yep, but what difference does it make how many jets she owns?

She only flies in one at a time.

[hal ogen]

Typical uber-rich hypocrite.

[ro_dreaming]

She only flies in one at a time.

But both flew from the US to Japan in case one of them had a problem on the return flight.

So, yes, while SHE is in only one of the jets at a time, BOTH fly in her entourage.

[TangoLimaSierra]

But both flew from the US to Japan in case one of them had a problem on the return flight.

OK, thanks. I missed that.