How crazy do you have to be to believe the Taylor Swift conspiracy theories? MAGA crazy
When you’ve lost Meghan McCain, you’ve gone too far.
But you went too far to begin with.
Suggesting that Taylor Swift’s romance with Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce is part of some kind of government plan to get Joe Biden reelected — a right-wing conspiracy theory that, like most of them, is grounded in fear, ignorance and downright stupidity — is nuts. Pure and simple. That’s it, that’s the story. If you believe this, you will believe anything, which is, of course, a big part of the point.
Oh come on, those of you blissfully unaware of this lunacy say. You can’t be serious.
Au contraire.
MAGA types are losing their mind over Taylor Swift
In short, MAGA types are losing their ever-loving minds over Swift, basically trembling in fear that she will again endorse Biden (according to the New York Times, he’s pretty fond of the idea, too), thus enlisting her army of Swifties to descend upon the ballot box and, horror of horrors, exercise their right to vote.
Now, you might think, who wouldn’t want Swift’s endorsement? She’s by far the biggest cultural figure in the country, a star’s star whose mere presence in the luxury box at Chiefs games drives up TV ratings (and she actually isn’t shown that much). I’d imagine Donald Trump wouldn’t turn down her endorsement. Not that that’s going to be an option.
So Vivek Ramaswamy, who succeeded at running for president the way the Detroit Lions succeeded at going for it on fourth down in the NFC Championship, which is to say miserably, has this idea. He posted it to X, formerly Twitter, because that’s where all the best ideas get hashed out these days. Thanks, Elon!
“I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month,” he posted. “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.”
Yeah, let’s.
This was, by the way, in response to a post from Jack Posobiec, who has promoted, among other absurd conspiracy theories, the debunked Pizzagate, which claimed that high-ranking Democrats were involved in a child sex ring. So you know he's in good company.
This was too much for Meghan McCain, no stranger to saying outrageous things. She, too, posted on X: “Whatever nutjob 'republicans' are floating ugly and insane conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift are total idiots,’” she wrote. “Know that (her husband) Ben and I are pulling for a post-Super Bowl engagement and '100' support her and Travis! Let them live, they're Americas golden couple.”
Good point.
Didn't MAGA boycott football?
The same crowd that swore they’d never watch football again after Colin Kaepernick took a knee, or the NFL started playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” known as the Black national anthem, as well as the traditional one, before games, has been mad all year about the Kelce-Swift romance.
You want really crazy? Try Georgia Republican district chair Kandiss Taylor, who posted on X, “I tried to warn y’all back in October that the influence of @taylorswift13 on our youth with witchcraft was demonic, evil, and Luciferian. Of course, Satan wants to use her now to elect Joe back into the White House to destroy what’s left of America. No surprise here.”
Man, politics in Georgia must be nothing but a good time.
Kelce, for his part, committed sins like making a Bud Light commercial (poison to MAGA after the beer maker’s promotion with Dylan Mulvaney, who is transgender) and making Pfizer commercials, leading NFL quarterback and would-be immunization expert Aaron Rodgers — talk about conspiracy theories — to dub him Mr. Pfizer.
Naturally Fox News has a crackpot Taylor Swift theory
Of course Fox News is part of this. Jesse Watters, one of the network’s prime-time hosts who is the perfect lead-in for Sean Hannity’s show because he manages the impossible — makes Hannity look smart in comparison — wondered earlier in January if Swift was “a Pentagon PsyOp asset?”
He had no evidence, he said. “If we did, we’d share it.”
Maybe wait till you have evidence before bringing it up at all, then?
It’s nuts. Kelce is one of the greatest players at his position in NFL history, and he had a great game in the AFC Championship, helping lead his team to the Super Bowl. Swift, if you haven’t heard, is a billionaire (so no, MAGA, she doesn’t need Kelce’s money) and the most popular artist on the planet.
What this really is, of course, is the latest MAGA attempt to discredit and distract. If you believe these theories have even a shred of legitimacy — they don’t — then the idea of a rigged election may not seem so crazy, after all.
It is. It absolutely is.
McCain is right. Let Swift and Kelce be. Just enjoy the Super Bowl. Or don’t. Or maybe get a life, and then you won’t have to worry about everyone else’s.
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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Taylor Swift conspiracy theories: How nuts are you to fall for them?