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Why MAGA fears Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl
The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce conspiracy illustrates how the MAGA cult controls its followers
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Why MAGA fears Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl
The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce conspiracy illustrates how the MAGA cult controls its followers
Well, that spiraled rapidly.On Sunday night, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens, in a win that cinched a Super Bowl spot for the Chiefs. Much of the post-game celebration focused on the presence of pop star Taylor Swift, who smooched her boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and smiled winningly at the cameras. To normal people, this was a sweet moment and a chance for fans of both Swift's music and the NFL to coo over young (ish) love. To right-wing media and MAGA influencers, however, it was swiftly cemented as proof that white conservatives are under threat of annihilation from a deep state "woke" conspiracy to force a socialist revolution led by, uh, President Joe Biden.
The hysterics kicked off shortly after the Chiefs victory, when failed presidential candidate and professional right-wing troll Vivek Ramaswamy tweeted, "I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month. 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.”
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In case you're struggling to follow what he's saying, it's this: The Super Bowl is rigged in favor of a Chiefs win in February so that a "fake" celebrity couple gets even more attention, which they will then use to propel Biden to a win in November. Honestly, it makes Trump's conspiracy theories about a national cabal of election rigging sound lightweight. But the silliness of it did not stop the conspiracy from spreading rapidly through the right-wing media ecosystem. Nikki McCann Ramirez at the Rolling Stone documented how MAGA influencers kept claiming the Super Bowl is "the Democrats’ Taylor Swift election interference psyop" and the Super Bowl is "totally scripted" to "elect Joe Biden WW3 will likely follow in a 2nd Biden term and millions will die."
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