Read: Donald Trump Reportedly Tells People Close To Him That He’s Bigger Than Taylor Swift

Click above for article in The Guardian.

Also: Revealed: GOP insider exposes motives of MAGA ‘nihilists’ spreading Taylor Swift lies.

Click above and scroll down to watch segment of ABC’s The View where former White House aide and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin knocked conservatives who are up in arms about Taylor Swift.

Why Trumpers are losing it over Taylor Swift

Swift goes to football games to support her boyfriend, shattering MAGA brains.

When Navy combat veteran John Kerry ran for president he tried to use his combat service in Vietnam as a Swiftboat commander where he came under enemy fire as a campaign tool. In many ways this backfired and was used against him hence the term Swiftboating made the politcal lexicon (see Wikipedia).

The term swiftboating (also swift-boating or swift boating) is a pejorative American neologism used to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is derived from the name of the organization “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” (SBVT, later the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth) because of their widely publicized—and later discredited—political smear campaign against 2004 U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry. Since the 2004 election, the term has come to commonly refer to a political attack that is dishonest, personal, and unfair.

Kerry and his crew ventured into enemy territory where they often engaged in firefights.

The closest Cadet Bone Spurs has come to being in combat is a poltical debate or, more perilously, dealing directly with Nancy Pelosi. Here’s an article about the photo (top below) that made the news.

As I write this the Taylor Swift MAGA meltdown is being discussed on Morning Joe:

I am doing my little bit on X to make (link here) a snarky contribution.

John Kerry received several combat medals during this tour, including the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. His boat was ambushed. He was shot at and he shot back. (Read about his military career here.)

Donald Trump, who now says he is more popular than Taylor Swift, might as well be saying he is braver than John Kerry.

Unfortunately, John Kerry lost the 2004 presidential election to George W. Bush who, while he flew as a member of the Texas Air National Guard, never went overseas or engaged in combat. “Critics, including former DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, have alleged that Bush was favorably treated due to his father’s political standing as a member of the House, citing his selection as a pilot despite his low pilot aptitude test scores and his irregular attendance.” (Reference)

John Kerry was successfully Swiftboated by Republicans and lost a presidential election. Donald Trump may not be so lucky as his manical minions try to demonize the pop phenomenon that is Taylor Swift and Kelce Travis, also known as “Swelce” (article).

Swiftboats like the one John Kerry commanded had deadly twin 50-cal. machine guns facing forward and a 81mm naval mortar with a .50-caliber Browning machine gun fixed atop it facing aft. Taylor and Kelce are not armed with actual weapons, unless you count being a great performer, singer, and song writer, and being a tight end with hands that can deftly grab a football out of thin air, but they are quite cabable of helping to sink Donald Trump and Trumpism.

UPDATE:

EXCERPT:

In case you’re struggling to follow what he’s ( Vivek Ramaswamy) 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.”

SALON

Below is from The New York Times:

EXCERPT:

Trump himself is a great abnormalizer. But so are the various fixations and follies that take shape in his wake — like the very-online right’s bizarre reaction to the romance between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, a love story that’s united the two remaining pillars of our common culture: the National Football League and, well, Swift herself.

Conservative hostility to Swift has been simmering ever since she dipped into partisan politics in 2018 and 2020, though it should be stressed that this antipathy is hardly universal: An Echelon Insights poll from last summer found that what it called “Trump-first Republicans” were more likely to be hostile to Swift, whereas more “party-first Republicans” gave her the same broadly favorable ratings as the country as a whole.

But within that hostile faction, her relationship with Kelce has transformed a merely unfavorable impression into outright paranoia, with various online influencers portraying the romance as some kind of carefully crafted political propaganda, whose true purpose is to make a Swift or Swift-Kelce endorsement of Biden’s re-election bid as meaningful as possible to Swifties and football fans alike.

I can’t keep up with the artilces on a Google News search for Trump Taylor Swift.

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