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Trump risks backlash as MAGA world zeroes in on Taylor Swift
The Hill ^ | 02/02/24 5:30 AM ET | BY JULIA MUELLER

Posted on 02/03/2024 2:53:32 AM PST by RandFan

Former President Trump’s supporters are going after Taylor Swift amid chatter about whether the superstar could wade into the 2024 election with a coveted endorsement for President Biden.

Conservatives in both traditional media and social media have been launching conspiracy theories against the pop superstar, something that ramped up after The New York Times reported that the Biden campaign was actively hoping for her endorsement.

Trump, who is usually not shy about speaking his opinion, so far has stayed out of the fray, though Rolling Stone reported this week that the former president’s allies are pledging a “holy war” against Swift, especially if she sides with Democrats in November.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate who has thrown his support behind Trump, is perhaps the most high-profile Republican to go after the singer so far, stoking theories that the NFL is rigging football games for Swift’s Kansas City beau as Democrats look for her endorsement.

“I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month,” Ramaswamy wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall.”

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To: RandFan

“Every single major news outlet has some form of a Republicans ‘pounce’ on Taylor Swift” story on their front page today.

If the media is trying to prove that Swift is not some CIA pysop created to affect the election this fall, they are going about it the wrong way.


81 posted on 02/03/2024 7:37:21 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: Guenevere

The same break-up song, in the same key and same chords, with almost the same lyrics...

821 different times. So what.


82 posted on 02/03/2024 7:40:06 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: Mogger

He really needs to ignore her. If I could, I would beg him to ignore her. She’s an obvious idiot for supporting Biden, so who cares. The young girls will go against Trump in droves if he triggers them by going after Taylor, because they are too ignorant to understand the issues.


83 posted on 02/03/2024 7:52:42 AM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: CFW

How The Biden Regime Is Using The Taylor Swift Op To Foment A Cultural Color Revolution To Undermine The 2024 Election

By Paul Ingrassia | Feb. 3, 2024 8:00 am

While it may seem outlandish at first blush, the Biden regime appears to be actively plotting yet another psyop – this time, by conscripting Taylor Swift and her legions of superfans to endorse Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race, much as she did in 2020.

The hope is that in the event of another close election, Swift’s influence as a pop culture icon will be enough to tilt the scales in Biden’s favor should the race be another nail-biter.

The Democrats have long used celebrity endorsements and their vast Hollywood connections to give them a leg up over their Republican counterparts in political races for seemingly time immemorial.

But two major factors are in play that make the Taylor Swift psyop stand out: first, their opponent this year, Donald Trump, is an A-list celebrity in his own right, having first become a household name in the world of media and entertainment before entering the world of politics.

Thus, the need to counteract the inherent star power Donald Trump brings to the table as a presidential candidate is heightened by not just the 45th President’s own celebrity, but also Biden’s serious deficiencies in charisma or even seemingly being able to demonstrate a pulse half the time he is in public.

The second factor that makes the need for a Taylor Swift psyop all the more urgent is the regime’s failure to otherwise quell President Trump’s momentum through non-political measures, such as by defeating him in the courts through the weaponized justice system.

In addition, recent polls indicate that Trump’s lead is widening over Biden in the general election, and thus the regime will be expected to pull out all the stops between now and election day to prevent that prospect from happening.

In short, it is far too great a risk to allow the democratic process to play out organically because the odds of Biden winning a legitimate presidential election are looking more dire by the day.

Of course, the Left is not exactly known for playing by the rules – instead they make up rules on the fly, and change them when politically convenient to do so, in order to game the system to their advantage.

Short of overt cheating, the regime is also known to employ soft techniques to manipulate the electorate – one way they do this, as well-known in conservative circles with the Hunter Biden laptop story scandal in the leadup to the 2020 race, is by outright censoring stories and platforms, either directly or indirectly, by labeling as “disinformation” any source they consider not credible — which is almost always happens to be the source telling the truth.

Another form of manipulation the regime and its propaganda agents in the mainstream media likes to regularly employ may be classified as a type of psychological warfare – which is readily on display with the Taylor Swift psyop.

Swift has been systematically targeted for the size of her fanbase, much as Beyonce was under Barack Obama.  Swift boasts 95 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, alone, and hundreds of millions across all her social media platforms.

Thus, the reasoning goes, even just a fraction of that following would be enough to potentially swing tens of thousands of votes in Biden’s favor.  Remember, 2020 was “won” by Biden with just 50,000 or so votes across 3 or 4 key battleground states.

Of just Swift’s X following, 50,000 represents a measly .05% of her total number of followers.  It is therefore perfectly reasonable that an endorsement from someone with Swift’s influence can, for better or worse, determine the outcome of a close presidential race.

But the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce psyop goes deeper than mere social media reach.  And this is readily apparent based on the regime’s full-throated meltdown after a handful of MAGA-aligned influencers, such as conservative talk show host, Mike Crispi, Trump advocate, Laura Loomer, and former presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, among others, raised the possibility that Swift may be actively weaponized as part of the Biden regime’s arsenal to help bring down Donald Trump.

The Left’s response to this mere suggestion says everything: if the Taylor Swift psyop was just another absurd “conspiracy theory” peddled by a handful of “Far-Right” cranks, as every mainstream outlet – from MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to the New York Times – would have you believe, then what, pray tell, explains the scale of the retaliation by every single powerful mainstream outlet in America, whose rush to “debunk” the theory was noteworthy for how seemingly coordinated it was.  If there was absolutely no credence to the allegation, mainstream media would not waste any time or energy “discrediting” the theory – or risk giving platforms to dissident voices whose opinions they deem anathema in the first place.

It is striking that Taylor Swift, who has been in the public eye for decades, only just this year took an interest in professional sports, the same year a consequential presidential election also happens to be taking place.

It is also noteworthy that she took an interest in the sports league that remains the most popular among Americans overall – the NFL, which still gathers tens of millions of eyeballs from both sides of the aisle.

Despite going woke in recent years, particularly in the aftermath of the BLM riots, the Super Bowl remains, by far, the most watched sporting event in the country – regularly amassing 100 million viewers, or about one third of America’s 330 million population, every single year.

It is further striking that Swift decided to start dating Travis Kelce, the star tight end of the Kansas City Chiefs – whose team defied expectations by defeating the favored Baltimore Ravens to land themselves back in the Super Bowl.

It is one thing to suggest that the upset victory over the Ravens was the result of conspiracy; however, the fact that Taylor Swift became not just an annoying cheerleader for the NFL all throughout the season, but happened to zero in on a star player from a team now competing in the Super Bowl seems too much of a coincidence to be chalked up to chance.

Of course, all this may be explained by a deliberate and concerted effort to elevate Taylor Swift’s star power on the part of the mainstream media.  This doubtlessly has to do with Swift’s support for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in a pivotal election year.

If, for example, she had been pictured wearing a MAGA hat in the stands, not only would she have not landed whatever endorsement deal she is getting with the NFL, for starters, but she would have also been quickly demonized and made into a social pariah by the mainstream media for choosing the “wrong” candidate.

For evidence of the latter: look no further than the attention the rapper Snoop Dogg received this past week by mainstream outlets when he came out in support of President Trump, who, despite being a celebrity artist whose talent is at least comparable, if not superior, to that of Ms. Swift’s as a musical artist, was barely a blip on the legacy media’s radar.

Snoop Dogg also did not enter into a relationship with someone who became the poster boy for the Pfizer vaccine, after reportedly being paid off tens of millions of dollars to tout the controversial injection, at the height of the pandemic.

By sharp contrast, Taylor Swift, the devoted Biden supporter, and Travis Kelce, the Pfizer spokesman, is a match made in heaven for the deep state – something that, if it were not happening in real time, appears too good to be true, almost like a manufactured relationship tailor made for a manufactured regime.

Luckily, we can breathe a sigh of relieve knowing that most Americans are far too clever to live in conspiracy land; they live in the real world: a world where Joe Biden is popular; a world that, owing to his popularity, he won more votes than any other president in history; a world where the vaccines worked to stop covid and America is the safest and freest it has ever been.

A world where Taylor Swift’s endorsement matters, and that all well-adjusted Americans will obey her demands without question, for the edicts she proclaims from her chair as Empress of our popular culture are infallible – and should we disobey, we shall be met, justifiably, with the collective fury of Lawrence O’Donnell, Jimmy Kimmel, and the NY Times Editorial Page. That punishment is only fair to those who blaspheme the regime and its chosen saints.

This is the world of Democracy and Truth and Freedom, and thank God we have Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce leading the way.


85 posted on 02/03/2024 8:00:54 AM PST by Bratch
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To: BobL
Their entire battle plan, (devoid of actual plans that would uplift the country and be good for it, and no body would support if they knew what the real plans for the country were/are) is to create wedge issues that they can then line up on one side of, and portray the other side as evil, to be shunned, and definitely voted against, for the team.

Ms Swift will be used as a foil to create hatred for additional division.

86 posted on 02/03/2024 8:13:21 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Iron Munro

LOL These gotta be posted on her Twitter account, drive her minions insane.


87 posted on 02/03/2024 8:16:38 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Single women love Taylor Swift.

I get that. I do. And back in the day, single men like me loved Eddie Van Halen. If Eddie let himself get wrapped up in politics back in 1984 and all of the band members of Van Halen agreed to let joe biden sniff their hair (esp David Lee Roth) for a political stunt that hoped to lure votes, would it encourage me to vote for FJB? Nah. I'd be depressed.
88 posted on 02/03/2024 9:09:29 AM PST by know.your.why (<>)
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To: know.your.why

Can someone please post a Photoshopped image of FJB sniffing Taylor Swifts hair? Thank you.


89 posted on 02/03/2024 9:12:51 AM PST by know.your.why (<>)
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To: BobL

The media are talking about Swift because they are lazy and would just prefer to jabber on with their opinions, rather than present substantial news. Taylor talk is simply a time filler for the “news” streams.


90 posted on 02/03/2024 9:30:46 AM PST by Savage Rider
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To: RandFan

Talk about feeding the 24/7 MSM beast...


91 posted on 02/03/2024 9:56:44 AM PST by simpson96
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To: RandFan
The only way Taylor Swift is politically relevant is if Trump and his supporters make her that way, by responding to any news with her name in it.

If they go radio silent then the demon rats will quickly move on to another tactic and it becomes a non issue.

92 posted on 02/03/2024 10:01:52 AM PST by politicket
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To: mewzilla
She’s swanning around with Mr. Pfizer.

Pretty sure she's not hanging out with Trump.


93 posted on 02/03/2024 10:10:01 AM PST by Drew68 (Never forget that every person responsible for the nation's COVID policies totally got away with it.)
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To: RandFan

I don’t think any MAGA Trump supporters give any thought to Taylor Swift. This is all generated by the fake news. It’s simply an attempt to turn voting moms off of Trump.
Wouldn’t you know that they’d use a girl who looks 13 years old to try and save the pedophile in chief.


94 posted on 02/03/2024 10:14:01 AM PST by cquiggy
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To: All

livemint.com

Swift for Biden? There have been speculations that Taylor Swift might endorse President Joe Biden. However, she is yet to issue an endorsement of any candidate. The New York Times (NYT) had reported that aides to the president are hoping to sign her on as a campaign surrogate, owing to ability to “move millions of supporters with an Instagram post or a mid-concert aside”.

Taylor Swift endorsed Biden in 2020. According to the NYT, a single Instagram post by Taylor “led to 35,000 new voter registrations” last year.

But can Swift sway voters? Her popularity among youngsters in America is another aspect being factored in in the run-up to the presidential elections. Newsweek’s poll results published on January 28 revealed that an endorsement from Swift would have the greatest impact on younger voters.

The “exclusive polling” found that 18 percent of voters say they’re “more likely” or “significantly more likely” to vote for a candidate endorsed by Swift.

“Roughly 3 in 10 Americans under 35 said they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate backed by Swift. Only 4 percent of Americans 65 and older said they’d be swayed by a Swift endorsement,” the Newsweek report added.


95 posted on 02/03/2024 11:02:45 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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To: cquiggy
I don’t think any MAGA Trump supporters give any thought to Taylor Swift. This is all generated by the fake news.

You are 100% correct!

I would wager that the great majority of MAGA people have never intentionally listened to a Taylor Swift song.

Although it is likely that some may have unintentionally heard her warbling and screeching while surfing the net or accidentally overhearing her on an alphabet fake news channel.

But everyone is not that unfortunate.


96 posted on 02/03/2024 11:31:26 AM PST by Iron Munro (AMERICA - LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT !!!)
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To: RandFan

O yes… ya know. Taylor swift could convince me to vote for the lockdowner in chief who signed blank checks to big pharma and big gov med.
I enjoyed arrows in grocery stores and masking.
He is still talking about the billions he saved worldwide with operation warp speed.


97 posted on 02/03/2024 11:47:47 AM PST by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: Iron Munro


98 posted on 02/03/2024 2:23:21 PM PST by Iron Munro (AMERICA - LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT !!!)
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To: HamiltonJay

Tucker, Watters, and Posobeic aren’t idiots, they are just showing how manipulative they can be. It’s time for the right to wake up to the reality our own media stars aren’t much more trustworthy than the MSM ones anymore. The mask started coming off with Hannity, so just see his face whenever you see most all the others claiming to represent the right anymore.


99 posted on 02/03/2024 3:43:04 PM PST by Golden Eagle (It is far easier to fool someone, than to convince them that they've been fooled.)
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To: RandFan
most of her fans are teens girls and not old enough to vote yet. and frankly this is much ado about nothing..
100 posted on 02/03/2024 3:56:00 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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