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Guardian: The tight end the right turned against: why Travis Kelce is the man for Taylor Swift
The Guardian ^ | Feb 12 | Ramon Antonio Vargas

Posted on 02/11/2024 11:04:56 PM PST by RandFan

Like the singer, the Chiefs football player is at the top of his field, while his support of BLM and vaccines align with her progressive politics

... Kelce has used a handful of occasions since then to show his willingness to take stands, even if it means placing himself in the crosshairs of the US’s political right. Just weeks after American conservatives mounted a boycott against Bud Light because it published an advertisement featuring transgender social media influencer, Dylan Mulvaney, Kelce agreed to appear in a commercial for the beer maker.

Meanwhile, the Cleveland, Ohio, native has also advocated for Americans to be vaccinated against the flu and Covid-19 viruses, including in a commercial campaign for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer that began around the same time as his relationship with Swift.

Kelce’s Bud Light spot stopped well short of expressing support for Mulvaney and seemed more geared toward winning the beer maker back some of the sales that it had lost amid the transphobic boycott. And Kelce’s work for Pfizer reportedly netted him about $20m, a figure most would probably accept in exchange for incensing vaccine skeptics.

Yet it’s clear those decisions left the US right wing feeling called out by him. In December, the Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight contender Colby Covington – an unabashed Trump supporter – publicly called Kelce “one of the biggest pieces of sh*t of all time”.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


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Got nothing against Taylor Swift but this guy? Jeez.
1 posted on 02/11/2024 11:04:56 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

He can have her. I certainly don’t want her. She’s damaged goods: a typical modern American female with an attitude problem. Odds are they don’t last long.


2 posted on 02/11/2024 11:08:50 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: RandFan

please stop posting swift articles on free republic


3 posted on 02/11/2024 11:11:15 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: RandFan

Can’t stand her or her music . Don’t care about him at all.


4 posted on 02/11/2024 11:14:13 PM PST by spincaster
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To: Mount Athos

“ please stop posting swift articles on free republic”

Yes.


5 posted on 02/11/2024 11:15:28 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RandFan

Mr. Pfizer and Miss I-Can’t-Sing are a perfect match.


6 posted on 02/11/2024 11:16:46 PM PST by twister881
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To: RandFan
I'd happily take $20 Million to be studiously ignored concerning the message I'm selling.

No significant number of people are getting vaxed due to his endorsement. As far as I know, “the right” could care less about anyone's recommending people get vaxed.

The media is desperately attempting to firmly plant Swift in the left's camp in order to get her to come out and command her followers to vote for Biden. That was also the impetus behind the lame ass Dark Biden tweet tonight. The left seems to believe her endorsement would seal their victory.

7 posted on 02/11/2024 11:18:24 PM PST by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: RandFan
sick-businessman-throwing-up-in-the-office-picture-id924793850-k-6-m-924793850-s-612x612-w-0-h-33-Zh
8 posted on 02/11/2024 11:19:13 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: RandFan

How long before the Big Breakup? Soon, I hope.


9 posted on 02/12/2024 12:48:42 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "democracy" like trying to throw your opponent in jail.)
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To: RandFan

Dude is P whipped.

Whatta tool..

OTOH, Taylor is a billionaire.


10 posted on 02/12/2024 12:57:19 AM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: twister881

“Mr. Pfizer and Miss I-Can’t-Sing are a perfect match.”

Either way his heart will be broken.


11 posted on 02/12/2024 12:58:57 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: RandFan

As long as crap like her lifestyle is on every news or blog, Biden’s idiocy and dishonesty won’t br. In the short or long run, she means nothing. He, unfortunatley does.

wy69


12 posted on 02/12/2024 1:14:24 AM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: RandFan

As long as crap like her lifestyle is on every news or blog, Biden’s idiocy and dishonesty won’t br. In the short or long run, she means nothing. He, unfortunatley does.

wy69


13 posted on 02/12/2024 1:14:24 AM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: RandFan
Will the league fine Kelce for roughing the coach? Or a late hit? Offsides unabated hit to the coach? Taunting? Unsportsman like conduct?

That was a hugely bad optic. Will Jake from State Farm throw the flag and ban Kelce from the commercials now?

14 posted on 02/12/2024 1:22:56 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: 21twelve

Clever!!!!!!


15 posted on 02/12/2024 1:24:09 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: Pox

I am willing to take the gamble here and encourage Swift to very publicly endorse Biden all the way to election day. The chances are that he will be replaced or not get the nomination. So you go gurl! Go ahead and endorse the senile old coot.


16 posted on 02/12/2024 1:26:12 AM PST by Enterprise
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I’m shocked that anyone gives a crap about either one of them.

Shows the vapidity of our entire society.

Bread and circuses, except without much bread for the peasants.


17 posted on 02/12/2024 1:55:35 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: RandFan

The older sister complaint department AKA Taylor Swift is welcome to the pale bumping version of Latrell Sprewell.


18 posted on 02/12/2024 2:16:37 AM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: RandFan
Kelce and his brother have an entertaining podcast. As far as NFL tight ends go, George Kittle is better - far better run blocker and nearly as good a receiver. Other than that, who cares what this guy thinks about anything.

Taylor Swift? I don't know any of her music, and that's fine - she's not making music for middle-aged men. She is wildly popular and influential with younger women - it'd probably be a good idea not to pick a fight with her, as Trump seems to want to do.
19 posted on 02/12/2024 2:31:16 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: LegendHasIt
Shows the vapidity of our entire society.

H. L. Mencken had it pegged. Universal suffrage was a big mistake.

20 posted on 02/12/2024 2:34:58 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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