Republicans haven’t misread American society this badly since Terri Schaivo https://t.co/sfBsq3q6wg
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 30, 2024
The word has gone out, and every good little Trump-humper hastens to obey. Per Rolling Stone, “Trump Allies Pledge ‘Holy War’ Against Taylor Swift”:
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift hasn’t even endorsed President Joe Biden for reelection yet. That hasn’t stopped members of MAGAland’s upper crust from plotting to declare — as one source close to Donald Trump calls it — a “holy war” on the pop mega-star, especially if she ends up publicly backing the Democrats in the 2024 election.
According to three people familiar with the matter, Trump loyalists working on or close to the former president’s campaign, longtime Trump allies in right-wing media, and an array of outside advisers to the ex-president have long taken it as a given that Swift will eventually endorse Biden (as she did in 2020). Indeed, several of these Republicans and conservative media figures have discussed the matter with Trump over the past few months, the sources say…
Last month, the source close to Trump adds, the ex-president commented to some confidants that it “obviously” made no sense that he was not named Time magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year — an honor that went to none other than Swift in December…
Meanwhile, as Trump has been having a popularity contest with Swift in his own head, others close to him —including GOP operatives, some of his 2024 staff, and Trumpy media figures — have been brainstorming different ways to go after Swift. Since late last year, these Trump allies have repeatedly discussed how to turn the culture-warrior dial up to 11, if she re-endorses Biden this year, the sources recount.
“It would be more fuel thrown on to the culture-war fires,” says an official working on the Trump reelection efforts. “Another left-wing celebrity who is part of the Democrat elite telling you what to think.”
Publicly, members of Trump’s inner sanctum and social circle are already signaling Swift’s prominent position atop their enemies list — a situation that has reached fever pitch now that Swift’s boyfriend will once again be playing in the Super Bowl.
On Monday, Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba shared a post on social media that includes the caption: “Who thinks this country needs a lot more women like Alina Habba, and a lot less like Taylor Swift?” (Habba has represented Trump in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case, where he was ordered to pay $83 million.) …
You might not like it, but this is the coalition that will elect Biden in November. pic.twitter.com/InGyIvLR18
— James (@GravitysRa1nbow) January 23, 2024
Knowingly or not, since gam3rgat3 the GOP allows the incel-adjacent to frame every pop culture moment. They just latch on later to feel cool among shitposters.
And in that context yes of course they hate the super popular football couple and love it when Kanye praises Hitler. https://t.co/acG7KJ16oU
— zeddy (@Zeddary) January 29, 2024
If voting didn't matter, Republicans wouldn't mind if Swifties did it. https://t.co/brISVPF7sZ
— L O L G O P (@LOLGOP) January 10, 2024
Telling someone from 2000 that the national divorce will include the liberals getting sports, beer, the suburbs, Virginia and Georgia https://t.co/kdnnl7TlW7
— Nikolaj?????? (@nikicaga) January 23, 2024
Republicans are fine with this picture but lose their minds seeing Taylor Swift cheering for Kansas City. Go figure. pic.twitter.com/P7cH3ATgov
— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) January 29, 2024
Baud
They’re so weird.
Elizabelle
That Sgt Joker tweet is chilling.
Team Taylor, all the way. Smiling at thinking of all the 17 year olds registering to vote this year. (If you will be 18 on election day, you can vote in your state primaries.)
gratuitous
It’s gotta drive Needy Amin crazy seeing Time’s person of the year (an accolade he desperately wants for himself) dunking on him.
moonbat
Keep it up, rightwing nutjobs. Pretty soon the GOP operatives and the incels tweeting from their parents’ basements will be indistinguishable to the vast majority of the American people and it will be time for a newer, saner party.
Soprano2
Man, TFG is crazy to want to run into that buzz saw. He is definitely not more popular than Taylor. 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
TBone
My favorite Taylor song. Karma, bitches!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XzOvgu3GPwY
With Ice Spice flavor
TS
@Baud:
Above all they hate successful women, shows them up for who they are and what they are not.
geg6
This is so idiotic. But hilarious. The tweet about telling some time traveler from 2000 that the liberals now own sports, beer, etc. perfectly highlights the absurdity of it all. That said, I’m cheering for KC and certainly hope Taylor decides to give that endorsement at halftime just to fuck with them.
David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch
I was driving Sunday nite and I had on sports talk radio and the clown was bitching and moaning over Taylor saying its so hard for men because women get special treatment. The example he kept repeating was Eminem was only shown once during the Detroit game, while Taylor was repeatedly on camera during the Kansas City game.
Incels are such losers.
The obvious difference is Taylor is dating one of the game’s Hall of Fame players who was having a monster performance. If Eminem was dating one of sports’ biggest stars (Serena Williams, Alex Morgan, Caitlin Clark) he would be getting beaucoup airtime.
Jackie
Have MSNBC on as background, and boy oh boy the top news on the RWNJ networks is Taylor, Taylor, Taylor and Travis. It’s green M&Ms, Potato Heads, and gas stoves on steroids! The MSNBC programs are having as much fun laughing at Faux, Newsmax, et al as we are!😁
West of the Rockies
What petulant, pissy, pasty faces in that last pic (Jarhead and Elmo).
Elizabelle
And now, we are told, Swifties are watching football with their dads.
The horror.
PS: Taylor looks fab in those sparkly boots. They are custom made
LaboutinsChristian Louboutins; she’s got a few pairs. Thinking they must be engineered well for her to be able to be dancing in them.geg6
@David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch:
They’re so pissed that their fantasy Aryan goddess turns out to be woke. What do you want to bet that they’d turn on Eminem if he ever gave a hint of having any liberal political proclivities. My own guess is he is not a MAGA ninny based on his background.
Van Buren
Another day, another RW grievance.
What a way to live.
Baud
It’d be cool if Taylor and Eminem performed a duet at Biden’s inauguration.
JPL
gotta say that David Letterman said it best
just shut up grammar or who ever
Dave is #teamtaylor | Instagram
Jackie
The RW can’t even bitch about the correct Kelse brother! The shirtless dude in the photo up top is Jason – NOT Travis. Travis is wearing a Chiefs uni playing the game his brother and girlfriend are cheering on! 🤦🏼♀️
JPL
@Baud: and I wanted the Chiefs to win the
Super Bowl and invite Taylor to go with them to the White House., but you have to top that.
Anoniminous
Dads wear pink when they went to see Barbie with their daughters.
Now Taylor Swift has a Hall of Fame tight end.
AMERICA IS DOOOOOOOMMMMMEEEDDD!!!!
MattF
Well, Taylor is popular with vagina-havers, and the haters are ignorant about that type. And also there’s a whole set of mysteries about ‘feelings’.
Old School
Why are “nuts” labeled in the cartoon?
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@geg6:
Eminem recorded a TFG diss track in 2017. Maybe they forgot.
Spanky
@Anoniminous:
Phrasing!
Old School
Deleted. Phone fail.
Tony Jay
That last picture is everything that pleases me.
Lords of Al’Saud – “No one make eye contact with the increasingly elderly T-shirt goblin or the metrosexual prostitute. If you have your phone pretend to live-stream this half-time performance of their national anthem by a woman in oversized leisure wear, if not just gaze with fake interest at video montages of violent sports injuries of the season. Except for you, Hassan, you are designated ‘funny drunk’ this evening.”
Jared – “Allah, I pray thee, make me a friend to those guys’ billions.”
Musk – “If Uber send another fucking Tesla to pick me up I swear I will lose my shit.”
Just happy, happy people.
Chetan Murthy
@Old School: Our MAGAt is sitting at a bar, eating a slice of pizza (behind head, along with rat), noshing on nuts, and drinking a Coors.
Steeplejack
@Spanky: 😹
scav
A benevolent scriptwriter (one with memory) might even be so OTT as to give us a Swifty-The Chicks anthem. . .
kindness
Oddly the rightwingers who now can’t bare to support Missouri’s Kansas City Chiefs are going to be cheering the San Francisco 49ers? Do I have that right or do they really want both teams to lose? I’m confused.
Except for Go Niners!!!
Jay
@Chetan Murthy:
Only moron’s eat nuts in a bar.
zhena gogolia
@Chetan Murthy: But still, why are the nuts labeled?
Scout211
I think the cartoonist needed us to be clear that they were nuts and not little brown blobs of . . .other things.
Chief Oshkosh
That Alina Habba quote is just the chef’s kiss.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
It’s pretty funny that so many wingers are like… whatabout [random music performer]?
They don’t get it. Taylor Swift is one of the biggest music industry phenoms of all time. More akin to The Beatles or Michael Jackson than to anyone currently performing.
Not anywhere in the same league as [random musician].
Also, this football boyfriend of hers? He’s also not in the same league as Taylor.
She’s at the pinnacle of professional musical achievement. No one else compares.
Old School
@Chetan Murthy: Well, I know that. I wasn’t sure why the nuts needed to be labeled.
Jay
@zhena gogolia:
to let you know they may contain 99% male urine.
JoyceH
@geg6: In that list of all the Americana the right ceded to the left, how did they forget Mickey Mouse?
Chief Oshkosh
@Scout211: I think it’s a commentary on how nuts the MAGAts have gotten.
PST
Some guy named Matt Glassman tweeted a comment that sums the situation up for me:
That isn’t just about Taylor Swift, and Glassman has more to say on the general subject. The underlying problem for our enemies is that the objectives of the right-wing media, its safe office holders, and its hope for actual control of the federal government are not in alignment. That’s a big reason we will win.
Dan B
A 20 year old White Lives Matter from Ohio was sentenced to eighttn years in Federal prison for attempting to burn down a small church that was hosting two drag shows. There’s no parole in Federal prison until 85% of the sentence has been served.
japa21
@Chief Oshkosh: Possibly, also some bars do have bowls labeled as nuts, popcorn or whatever else they may serve.
dmsilev
Please proceed, wingnuts.
Daoud bin Daoud
“Jihad against Tay-Tay” may not be the winning slogan Republicans think it is.
David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch
Why wouldn’t I like it. I come from a blue collar family and my SO watches Sportscenter more than I do.
Chetan Murthy
@Dan B: My first instantaneous reaction is “85% of 18yr at age 20? Whoa, rough.” But then I think for a few secs about “tried to burn down churches hosting drag shows” and I think: “Good. More of this, please.”
Geminid
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: Beyoncé may be in the same top-artist league as Swift. Beyoncé’s live perrformances are ssid to be very impressive, her albums too.
But I don’t listen to either of these woman’s music, and comparisons tend to be invidious anyway.
Elizabelle
Good point also, in the Dana Houle Terry Schiavo reference.
The Supreme Court caught the car, with the Dobbs decision, which has been seismic (and not in the way that the wretched Samuel Alito thought it would play out).
Anoniminous
@Spanky:
I’m sure I have no idea what you are talking about
Scout211
@kindness:
Oh no, they will still cheer for the Chiefs because they deserve to be Chiefs fans and deserve to root for their team, as opposed to Taylor Swift, who does not. They aren’t dissing Travis Kelce, they are just trying to delegitimize Taylor Swift because she doesn’t deserve all the attention at the NFL games, for reasons.
Seconded!
Dorothy A. Winsor
These Swift haters make me tired. As my unsympathetic mother used to say, that should be the worst thing that ever happens to you. Grow up.
Harrison Wesley
TFG is undone that Taylor Swift took Person of the Year? Somehow I have a hard time envisioning him rocking one of her on-stage outfits. Now, Sassy-Boots DeSantis, on the other hand……..
Jay
@Chetan Murthy:
We have a epidemic of Church Burnings here.
It’s not about Drag Shows here, it’s Residential Schools.
dmsilev
I should be used to it by now, but I continue to be absolutely amazed at how mind-blowingly insecure Donald Trump is. He was, God help us all, President of the United States. He, may God help us all, be so again. Even if he’s eyeballs deep in debt, he at least presents to the world as a billionaire. He’s got this huge cult following that attend his rallies like some Lovecraftian version of the Grateful Dead. And yet, he can’t stand it when someone, anyone, else gets attention.
TBone
@JPL: I love Letterman in Dad mode 😂
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Geminid: I’ve listened to more Bey than Tay.
But I’m talking about her massive professional success, not her music.
Chris Johnson
@geg6: Um.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LunHybOKIjU
Eminem has been about this far >< from literally tearing Trump’s throat out with his teeth. Like it or not, Eminem’s political and he’s very very VERY very not on Trump’s side. This is one battle rapper you don’t want to be enemies with…
Dan B
@Chetan Murthy: It was 18 years for pleading guilty. But he also declared he had no remorse as he was doing God’s work and he wished the church had burned to the ground. He’s a skinny little guy so might have a rough time in prison.
Ksmiami
@Baud: exactly.
Annie
Trump thinking he’s more popular than Taylor Swift is impressive evidence that he’s totally nuts.
Geminid
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I think those people are running scared. Maybe they should be. To the extent there is a culture war, they’re being routed.
laura
“Who thinks this country needs a lot more women like Alina Habba, and a lot less like Taylor Swift?”
Man, I’m an old gal, so think I can say with a modicum of confidence that the war over the high school girl’s bathroom is unlikely to be won by the gal at the back of the line of those willing to juggle the sad sagging ball sack for time on the shows. Just my uninformed opinion.
Harrison Wesley
I think I’ve watched about 15 minutes of any kind of sports since I move to Florida. I’m definitely watching the Super Bowl, even if I have to fall off the wagon and catch it in a bar.
Chetan Murthy
@TBone: “God bless Taylor Swift and Kelsey Grammar” He’s such a good-natured grandpa!
Raoul Paste
@JPL: I laughed out loud at that Letterman bit
scav
@kindness: Actually, blessings be upon whatever is preventing rightwingers from “bare”ing to support Missouri’s Kansas City Chiefs. Or, any team actually. They’re not sending their finest (or worse, they are).
Mike in NC
Ron DeSaster would look pretty good in those pink boots.
Frank Wilhoit
@PST:
It is also a big reason why they will increase their margins in the rural areas.
Jay
@Dan B:
He’s in Ohio, and a member of two White Supremacy Gangs, so, if he keeps his nose clean, stays away from “crimeing in prison”, he should do sort of okay, physical health wise.
David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch
@geg6:
Eminem is hard core anti-GOP. They don’t know cuz it’s “not their music”
Hardest hitting ad against Dubya was from EMINEM (video)
Eminem is no fan of Donald Trump, and he let everyone know about it with a dynamite rap cypher that went out during Tuesday night’s BET Hip-Hop Awards. (link)
TBone
@Tony Jay: 😆
Eric S.
Looks like I’m do to play another hour of TS on Spotify.
TBone
@Dan B: noice
David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch
@Spanky: She’s more of a Hall of Fame kicker (photo)
Chetan Murthy
@David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch: Lordy, he’s angry isn’t he ? I mean, it’s good, he could be my Anger Translator!
TBone
@Chris Johnson: so perfect that it’s in a parking garage (habbit reference).
WaterGirl
@Chetan Murthy: Was the Kelsey Grammar thing a joke, or is Letterman confused? Surely the former?
WaterGirl
@Frank Wilhoit: Who is they?
TBone
@Geminid: well they never fail to choose the losing side with their infinite wisdom. Sad. 🤭
TBone
@laura: ha ha ha ha ha I’m ded!
TBone
@Chetan Murthy: Amen brotha!
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@WaterGirl: From the original quote:
”They” are the bad guys.
Personally, I’m not sure if explicitly associating a very popular pop star (even in rural areas, I imagine) with Biden and the Democrats is the smart move they think it is…
WaterGirl
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: So at #67, he is suggesting that this ridiculous anti-Taylor stuff is actually going to work and increase R margins in the rural areas? That makes no sense to me
edit:
Even in your comment, it’s not clear who they is referring to. Because it sounds to me like you’re suggesting that it might actually help the Dems?
TBone
Karma
You’re talking shit for the hell of it
Addicted to betrayal, but you’re relevant
You’re terrified to look down
‘Cause if you dare, you’ll see the glare
Of everyone you burned just to get there
It’s coming back around
And I keep my side of the street clean
You wouldn’t know what I mean
‘Cause karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend
Karma’s a relaxing thought
Aren’t you envious that for you it’s not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap ’cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that
Ask me what I learned from all those years
Ask me what I earned from all those tears
Ask me why so many fade, but I’m still here
(I’m still, I’m still here)
‘Cause karma is the thunder
Rattling your ground
Karma’s on your scent like a bounty hunter
Karma’s gonna track you down
Step by step from town to town
Sweet like justice, karma is a queen
Karma takes all my friends to the summit
Karma is the guy on the screen
Coming straight home to me
‘Cause karma is my boyfriend (karma is my boyfriend)
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend (weekend)
Karma’s a relaxing thought
Aren’t you envious that for you it’s not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap ’cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that
Karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god
Karma’s a relaxing thought
WaterGirl
@TBone: Who is the other woman in the Karma video with Taylor Swift?
Geminid
@Frank Wilhoit: I wonder if the rural Republican vote has maxed out. I guess we’ll see in November.
Ken
@Annie: Impressive how much of the GQP has been destroyed or diverted by one case of untreated mental illness, isn’t it?
Redshift
Habba once again proves that no, she cannot fake being smart.
Splitting Image
@JoyceH:
Well, Mickey is black, so I suppose the MAGAts were always a little suspicious of him.
Woke Donald Duck will remove whatever hold on sanity their obsession with Taylor Swift has been leaving them.
cain
@David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch:
The GOP anti-woman stance will be seen as a direct attack on his daughter. He might look like a GOP white trash rap artist – but he’s definitely not.
TBone
@WaterGirl: Ice Spice
WaterGirl
@TBone: Never heard of her. (obviously)
Soprano2
An hour later I’m still laughing at the idea of TFG “going to war” with Taylor Swift. So they understand how ludicrous they sound?
TBone
@WaterGirl: she was new to me too. I don’t know much of Taylor’s music yet, but when I heard that song and saw the video, I fell in love.
WaterGirl
@Soprano2: Apparently the Rs have never heard the old adage “if you come at the queen, you best not miss” .
They are ridiculous. They are clueless. They are idiots.
Democracy may be saved, in spite of their evil intentions, in part because they are clueless idiots.
Quinerly
Joy Reid’s entire show appears to be about Taylor Swift.
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: In a good way or a bad way?
TBone
If every eligible Swiftie votes, this thing’s a lock.
Quinerly
@Soprano2: these are the people who went to war with a beer can.
And a rainbow.
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: LOL.
Quinerly
@WaterGirl: good, of course. It’s MSNBC.
Another Scott
@dmsilev:
I’m not so sure about that. He’s never been as popular as he wants everyone to believe (remember all the white plastic on the Mall at his 2017 inauguration). He has trouble selling out arenas, and there have been lots and lots of stories about people being excited before he starts speaking, then getting bored and wanting to leave after hearing him drone on a while.
GoErie.com (from August 3):
Erie, PA has a population of 94,000 and is roughly equidistant from Cleveland/Akron, Buffalo, and Pittsburg (maybe a 90 minute drive to any one of them).
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Chetan Murthy
@Another Scott: heh, remember that stadium in Tulsa, where all the upper bleachers were empty except for just a few lonely soles.
TBone
@Chetan Murthy: the Tik Tok army bought out all the seats! 🤣 And left them empty.
Quinerly
@Chetan Murthy:
I think that was the rally during Covid Times where the Godfather Pizza guy caught Covid and died. The people who were actually there were all piled on top of one another, yet there was space to spread out
Edited to add: “In her 2023 book, Cassidy Hutchinson noted that, upon hearing of Cain’s passing, Mark Meadows remarked that “we killed Herman Cain” in reference to the 2020 Tulsa rally.”
Anoniminous
Business Insider take: Donald Trump will not win a war against the Swifties
TBone
@Quinerly:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/tiktok-trump-tulsa-rally/index.html
Chetan Murthy
@Quinerly: a-yup. I remember reading that TFG’s handlers do that on purpose: to give the impression to viewers that the things are more crowded than they really are. Same reason why he started booking smaller arenas: so that they’d appear fuller.
WaterGirl
Colin tells Taylor Swift haters to shake it off in support of her NFL presence | The Herd
hahahahaha
lowtechcyclist
@Chief Oshkosh:
Indeed! Took me a minute or two to stop laughing when I read it.
cain
@Anoniminous:
Picking a fight with Taylor Swift has got to be one of the stupidest things.
Imagine all these churches attacking her or other stupid things. They’d probably destroy kids going to church.
cain
@WaterGirl:
Biden should use a taylor swift song as part of his election campaign. The howling coming from the GOP would be awesome.
Sister Golden Bear
Hellsite link because Twitter broke Nitter again:
WaterGirl
@cain: That would be awesome.
smith
@Quinerly: And Barbie. I guess Taylor Swift can be considered the embodiment of what Barbie supposedly promised little girls they could be?
Quinerly
@TBone:
And to think, I had totally forgotten about Brad Parscale.
Chetan Murthy
Weak.
Quinerly
@smith: I’m so old I remember when Rush Limbaugh, Jerry Falwell, and Pat Buchanan were losing their shit over Telletubbies.
Sister Golden Bear
There are certain fanbases, Herr Drumpf, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to antagonize.
TBone
@Quinerly: who?
Elizabelle
This is interesting, because remember when Joni Ernst, several electoral cycles ago, suggested her opponents “shake it off?” (Ernst had a teenaged daughter at the time. I remember it because I was kind of irritated she was co-opting Taylor Swift.)
Anyway: in 2024: Dissing Taylor Swift? Not a good look, or a good strategy.
And: red voters may have Swifties in the family, whom they love. Plus, think how Kansas and Wisconsin have turned out for abortion rights, and for defeating the right’s hold on Wisconsin’s supreme court, respectively.
I am not gonna be quaking in my boots. (Sparkly Louboutins, if I had them.)
Quinerly
@Sister Golden Bear:
I just saw this about 30 mins ago and I am still lmao. They are truly obsessed with her.
M31
talking about Eminem’s diss track about Trump reminded of something really funny I saw on Shitter, the original has been deleted but after Kanye said “I will never make a diss record” a woman named “allegedlymiri” responded “I didn’t know Kanye was Italian”
hahahahaha
also, fuck Trump, what a loser, and his MAGA incel douchebag followers, they’re like loser squared, losers following a loser
Quinerly
@TBone:
Ha ha!
TBone
@Quinerly: isn’t that the guy arrested in his driveway for beating his wife and threatening her with a gun? 😉
smith
@Chetan Murthy: I am guessing neither Judge Kaplan nor Robbie Kaplan is going to consider it resolved. From what I’m seeing lawyers saying, that original letter was a HUGE breach of legal ethics.
Habba had already skated to the brink of getting jailed for contempt during the trial. This followup likely will do nothing to cool the Judge down.
RaflW
@Chetan Murthy: Ahh, yes, Tulsa.
Daily Mail headline: ‘We killed Herman Cain’: Trump staffers blamed themselves for COVID death of ally, 74, at disastrous Tulsa rally where eight aides tested positive after partying maskless
Good times.
I don’t really mean to dance on that man’s grave. It’s actually tragic that Covid killed him and a metric f’ton of other people. But we shouldn’t memory hole it, either.
geg6
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
I must have missed that one. LOL! I knew my instincts about him were right.
Quinerly
@cain:
That’s a great idea….1992/Clinton….Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.”
So why not a Taylor song in 2024?
geg6
@Chetan Murthy:
She might be the worst lawyer in history. I mean, just galacticaly stupid.
TBone
@smith: possible libel suit coming like a jail on wheels?
Quinerly
@RaflW:
Wiki just told me this “In her 2023 book, Cassidy Hutchinson noted that, upon hearing of Cain’s passing, Mark Meadows remarked that “we killed Herman Cain” in reference to the 2020 Tulsa rally.”
I really don’t care. Do you?😎
TBone
@RaflW: I used to read this site to make myself feel better.
https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
Chetan Murthy
@RaflW:
For two years, I lived in fear that I might kill my mother, or my relatives, or die myself, for having breathed in a gulp of air in the wrong place. I took extreme precautions (not hugging my mother for 1.5yr even though she was literally a couple of miles away, standing literally 6ft away regularly and not hugging her) to save lives: ours and others’. Seeing assholes like Cain and all the MAGAts spreading the KKKristian Flu like it was nuthin’ really burned me up, and I’m not sorry to say I did (metaphorically) dance on his grave. Reading the Herman Cain Awards reddit was one of the few sources of levity during those long months.
I’m glad those times are past, though the mask is not, and I continue to wear it daily in public transit and at the gym.
Betty Cracker
Cope, crybabies:
Delk
@Dan B: WTF The Cuff and The Eagle?
Quinerly
@geg6:
I’m waiting for someone to tell Trump that he has a malpractice case against her and her firm.
TBone
@Chetan Murthy:
https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
TBone
@Betty Cracker: I texted that to my brother after the Chiefs win 😻
Scout211
Taylor Swift is a money machine for the NFL and the sports networks. They will not be dissing TSwift
The right wingers and the right wing media are way out of step here. But what else is new.
NotMax
@Quinerly
Goes back at least as far as Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent (1954).
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
One of my favorite photos of her. Love how she just looks like a regular person, baking cookies. Except the little smile that says a lot. Regular people generally cannot communicate that well with just a look, no matter how down home they look.
different-church-lady
That would be absolutely no one, Alina.
TBone
@M31: *chef’s kiss
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Scout211: it’s the free market 😁
UncleEbeneezer
@geg6: Eminem did a whole “Fuck Trump” rant on SNL a couple years ago.
TBone
@NotMax: 👍😂
different-church-lady
@Anoniminous:
Yeah, and she’s dating a football player too.
smith
@TBone: From what I’ve heard the likely consequence will be a referral to the bar for possible discipline and perhaps disbarment.
Quinerly
@Scout211:
CNN is telling me that she has a concert in Tokyo the day before the Super Bowl. There’s a guy working the math re flight times, time zones and that it will be hard but she can make it to Vegas in time.
I’m getting a kick out of all this attention she is getting.
Barbara
It just makes me depressed to realize how many men really hate women. Nothing else explains how so many people could lose their shit because a pop star is dating a football player.
smith
Biden just took in $6.2 million at one fundraiser in Miami. Such a shame no one likes him.
Quinerly
@smith: oh, I definitely think there will be a Bar referral for her behavior in court and towards the judge. The judge can actually make it.
As for her incompetence re the rules of evidence, civil procedure, and failure to preserve issues for appeal….Trump has a malpractice claim. Rooting for injuries.
Ironcity
@Elizabelle: OOOH! Sparkly Boots! Much better than the white gogo boots Rhonda wore.
Quinerly
@Barbara: the crazy thing about this…and I just tuned in on this today….the new conspiracy theory is they aren’t really dating. It’s some sort of psyops thing or a publicity stunt. Supposedly they really don’t even know each other.
RaflW
@Scout211: Fox News primetime averages 1.7M viewers. It’s kind of delicious to think that the whole GOP ecosystem seems to be digging in to diss a woman (and her BF) who manage to pull an extra 10M sets of eyeballs to a game, while Fox crows about their peak viewership being one half of 1% of Americans. Hah!
They are so totally out of sync with ordinary people. I am very hopeful it bites them in the ass very very biggly this November.
cckids
@TS:
What makes them insane about Ms. Swift is that she’s their ideal-white, pretty, blonde, “country”; from Tennessee, very sweet demeanor. They all just assumed she was team R all the way.
And she’s not. They HATE being so wrong.
Salty Sam .
OK, that made me lol…
raven
Stunning only equalled by BJ suddenly becoming a football blog again.
Sister Golden Bear
@Quinerly: She could afford to get the Concorde out of mothballs.
Or maybe rent the Blackbird from the USAF.
Jackie
@Quinerly: I switched over to CNN and Erick Erickson was on – as a confessed Swifty dad who has taken his daughter to four Taylor concerts and one Beyoncé concert. He was shaking his head over the over the top vitriol hate for MAGA hatred of Taylor Swift and by extension Travis Kelse. He said it was QAnon Pizza Gate worthy and basically said they were nuts.
If I hadn’t seen it myself, I would never believe Erickson was a Swifty by default! 😳
karen marie
@JPL: That was great. Thank you!
WaterGirl
@raven: You’re not complaining, are you? :-)
Ken
@RaflW: You have me thinking that next time Fox has a special one-on-one interview with Trump, Taylor Swift should book an interview on CNN — or anywhere, really. I bet she’d get ten times the viewers.
p.a.
Re: conservatives: they forget that if you want to be in a bubble you still need a source of fresh air. Oxygen deprivation as a political strategerity is not optimal.
Jackie
@TBone:
@Chetan Murthy:
The Covid event that killed Herman Cain.
RaflW
@Jackie: Erick is still a rank piece of rotting GOP flotsam. It’s fine that he’s a Swiftie, but his views on nearly everything else are atrocious.
Jackie
@raven: 😂🏈♥️
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Jackie: lest we forget
Herman Cain’s Twitter account, still active after his death, deletes post questioning COVID-19 mortality rate
Jeffro
I have been dipping in and out of news all day (gotta do some work, some time!) and…I can’t believe this is a real thing.
I cannot imagine being crazy, paranoid, or Republican enough to get wound up about a pop star’s relationship with a football player, much less thinking it was some sort of a plot to take down my orange idol.
But whatever. Let their insanity about this be on full display for the next 9 months. Nothing else seems to register with the public at large about their choices in November, so if it has to be the Swifties vs the tinfoil hat crowd, BRING IT!
Jackie
@RaflW: Oh, I agree. I was just flummoxed to see him mocking his own Party regarding Swift! of all things!
ETA: Can you imagine the GQP/MAGA cult being ripped in half because of Taylor Swift!?😂
geg6
@cckids:
Actually, she’s from PA and, sometimes, lives in TN, which is her current main residence for voting, etc. she still spends time in PA and has residences in several other cities. She spends a LOT of time in NYC. My niece, at 22, is the world’s biggest Swiftie and has been since she was just 9. She’s seen her four times through various Eras and knows these things. She’s who got me into her music, especially her most recent works.
Jeffro
@WaterGirl: ol’ Colin really twisted the knife on the losers and haters…
…GOOD
Brachiator
Trump is going to go after the women and young girls who like Taylor Swift? This will not end well for Trump.
ETA. I imagine that some Trump supporters like Swift. Trump and the haters are just being incredibly foolish.
waspuppet
A holy war against an unmarried woman who makes her own money (lots of it) and goes around in public with a guy she’s not married or related to.
Remember how mad everyone got when Markos Moulitsas wrote American Taliban?
Scout211
This is cool. Link
Again, Taylor Swift is a money making machine and spreading the wealth.
Geminid
@Quinerly: That Tokyo concert should be spectacular. It will be like the overture to an epic journey.
If some screenwriter pitched this script to a Hollywood studio, they would reject it as being too good to be true. But it’s happening in real life, and we’re all watching.
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: He really did. I also loved the “shake it off” in the title of the article.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven:
Taylor Swift can perform miracles!!!
TBone
@smith: I wonder if Robbie Kaplan will let it go at that. If I were her, and some skank like Habbit wrote to the judge with baseless innuendo in the New York Post of all places, claiming it was evidence, I’d sue her right out of her tacky little mind.
Brachiator
@RaflW:
This reminds me. When I was a kid, we lived in a neighborhood with a cemetery across the street. Some of the area had woods and fun areas where you could run around and play. The official childhood rule was that you could play anywhere, but never step on a grave, or else a ghost might come and get you at night.
Also, you could not play in the cemetery after dark. Or if there was a funeral taking place.
geg6
Heh. These are the guys who want to take on TayTay.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/30/2220448/–God-s-army-promised-to-bring-700-000-trucks-to-the-border-They-re-699-950-short?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_recent_news&pm_medium=web
Jackie
This sadly, is not surprising:
If you click on the link, take a moment to check the trending topics at the top of the article. I laughed!*
*NOT to take away from the seriousness of the article, itself.
japa21
@Quinerly: I see it now. Ten minutes before kick-off. No Swift in sight. Reports her plane is just now getting close to Las Vegas. Then everybody looks up and sees her parachuting into the stadium with a Biden-Harris banner.
ETA I know its an enclosed stadium, but Swift is a miracle worker.
TBone
@waspuppet: she has been accused of witchcraft. SMDH. These stupid, old fucks just can’t get enough Puritan bloodlust pumped into their veins.
Jeffro
@Scout211: it’s VERY cool! Kristin J’s husband, Kyle, has been extremely (and publicly) supportive of her success.
Great couples lift each other up. OR…they’re a “psyop”(!)
TBone
@japa21: and heads exploding all over magat land 😆
Jeffro
This is just about literally what the MAGA nuts think is going to happen.
Which is funny, b/c the reality of it is so much more mundane and probably even more lethal to their cause: she’s. going. to. ask. her. fans. to register. to vote. And then…they’ll vote.
TBone
@Jackie: I read that it’s a huge problem in places like The Villages in Fla. and in nursing homes.
Jackie
@Scout211: Sent this to my Swiftie/NFL lovin’ daughter. She and I still won’t root for the much hated Niners lol
catclub
@Spanky: all that dancing tones the right places.
Sister Golden Bear
@Scout211:
Swift is the rare example of trickle down economics actually working — albeit much of it is through her personal generosity, such as the hefty bonuses she paid to her tour crew.
Sister Golden Bear
@japa21: Plus, during the pre-game show, the announcers keep cutting to the NOARD Swift flight tracker for updates.
Barbara
@Quinerly: Well, Taylor has had a lot of BFs. The joke is that she needs a good break up to write another song cycle. I think she’s moved beyond that but I really don’t think too deeply about it. It’s their life not mine!
David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch
@smith: Maybe they thought Taylor Swift was there
matt
So Trump’s declared some sort of Porky Jihad against Taylor Swift?
Sister Golden Bear
@TBone: It is. The Olds figure there’s no risky pregnancy, so why not bareback.
Quinerly
@japa21: 💙
SpaceUnit
What do you call a circle jerk that’s just a bunch of incels holding their limp pee-pees and crying?
hueyplong
@SpaceUnit: A Trump rally.
rekoob
A tip of the tam o’shanter to Suzanne, who, among others, suggested viewing the 2020 Netflix documentary about Taylor Swift, Miss Americana. There was a section in it about the 2018 Tennessee Senate race, in which Swift presses strongly for supporting Bredesen, the Democrat, and her parents expressing some concern about alienating some of her fans. She did it anyway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Americana#Politics
She made her song “Only the Young” available to the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign free-of-cost.
Leto
Don’t know if this was mentioned today: SCOTUS to Hear Anti-Abortion Case Brought by Right-Wing Legal Movement in March
Just one more thing that we can/should campaign on.
HumboldtBlue
Sean Hannity neatly sums up TayTay and the right wing.
SpaceUnit
@hueyplong:
Yup. And I’m beginning to smell their fear.
hueyplong
@SpaceUnit: Me too. It’s a joy.
Odie Hugh Manatee
So these leaders of the Charlatan Christian faith are declaring a jihad on Taytay? Really?! A bunch of male religious charlatans are declaring war on one woman in support of a serial liar who has cheated on his wives, lied about his income, raped and slandered a woman and… fuck, waaaayyyyy too many crimes, slanders, slurs and any other evil, selfish things to list. Really.
My neighbor agreed with my description of the average Sunday Christian hate rally as the minister performing for the crowd and then passing the plate around to see how well he performed that day. My neighbor told me of a church he went to as a kid where the plate would be passed around a second time if the performance didn’t generate enough $$$. Like Republican politicians saying more outrageous things to rev up the basest of their base for votes and $$$ at election time, too many preachers have turned their pulpit into an outrage generator for the extra cash from outraged rubes in their midst.
As usual, it’s all about the Benjamins and not really having to work for a living but rather to sponge off the stupidity of others.
Suzanne
As I noted in a previous thread…. Republican tears are the breeze in my hair on the weekend.
Jackie
@HumboldtBlue: Did he forget who his audience is? They were all nodding in agreement until Hannity said it was all a lie. In unison, they all said Huh??? in bewilderment.
jonas
Hey, MAGAt’s — Swift is low-hanging fruit. What you *really* want to do is take down K-Pop! Really! Fuck BTS! That will pwn the libs!
#pleasenotthebriarpatch
Gretchen
@geg6: Eminem did an ad for Biden in 2020.
RaflW
@Jackie: Hill: “GOP moderates send warning shot to Johnson over tax deal”
Ohhh. So that’s like 5 Republicans? I don’t think Mike can hear their little cork popgun
eta: It’s actually four Republicans. Oh, ouch!! (Then again, Johnson has a majority size that only Nancy Smash could whip. Mikey? Pffft.)
catclub
CNN headline:
So I figure he is an alum and would know.
jonas
@Leto: This will be an interesting case. On one hand, it could end all medical abortions, which the 6-3 majority would fucking *love*. On the other hand, the implications are that approval of virtually all pharmaceuticals gets taken away from the FDA and tossed into the courts. Scientology, for example, could sue to ban all SSRI drugs because it violates their deeply-held religious principles or whatever. That would make the drug regulation system in the US, well, completely insane and impossible to regulate and Big Pharma has, well, “influence” as we say. Are Thomas’s luxury vacations at stake? Perhaps!
Suzanne
Side note: had something really scary happen today. I went running at lunchtime with the puppy. Mr. Suzanne had bought this new leash on Amazon that supposedly doesn’t get tangled or twisted. It’s like a thick rope. Anyway, I was running alongside one of the main roads in our neighborhood, and the metal clasp part of the leash broke. Pupper suddenly realized she could run faster, and she turned and ran across the street. Fortunately, the driver of the oncoming car saw her and was able to stop. I was seeing the whole thing happen and just screaming at the top of my lungs. I caught her on the other side of the street and had to, like, loop the busted leash through her harness all strangely and take her straight back home.
That POS is getting returned. A leash clasp is not complicated technology!
RaflW
@catclub: Imagine what $500M would do for HBCUs. Not that very many people with the means to give that much even know what an HBCU is, but I just get infuriated at how the money (usually) just keeps rolling up hill.
We need at least a 50% tax bracket. And all these people need to be in it, and have their skeevy deductions audited to hell and back.
jonas
@geg6: Eminem is definitely *not* MAGA. Even back in the 00’s, he put out a pretty brutal video (“Mosh”) blasting W and the Iraq War. I don’t know if he’s openly endorsing Biden these days, but he’s no Kid Rock, for sure.
Jackie
@Suzanne: Oh, Suzanne! I’m so happy pup and YOU are both safe!
Did hubby read the reviews before ordering? I assume you’ll post your opinion/review!
jonas
I believe Mackenzie Scott (Bezos’s ex-wife) has given around $400 million to HBCUs to date.
RaflW
@jonas: My wild guess, a 5-4 decision if they ban it. Roberts I suspect knows that women and their allies will burn the GOP to the ground (and maybe SCOTUS, too) if they go that far.
Having him play ‘moderate’ won’t save the right from the blowback, but it’ll be his wan little attempt to try to keep some legitimacy (cough cough) for his precious Court.
Lyrebird
@jonas: Mosh was excellent. First Eminem piece I liked, and I was so glad he made it. Bummed we lost anyhow, but thanks for getting the history set out here.
TBone
@Suzanne: ISWYTD
Glad puppy is ok!
Suzanne
@Jackie: He did! It had five stars! But it’s absolute trash!
Another Scott
@Suzanne: I had something similar happen with our Ellie with an old leash. We were walking through the neighborhood after sunset, and she saw 3 deer in a yard up ahead and lunged forward. The leash went slack, and she ran off after them. Fortunately, she stopped when I called her, and I was able to get the other end of the leash tied to her collar.
In our case, the pot-metal where the clasp attached to the leash broke.
After that, I got a few stainless gizmos like these and these to serve as extra attachments in case something breaks.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
Jackie
@Suzanne: Take photos, if you can, of the broken clasp and post with your review. You may save pet owners from potential heartbreak.
TBone
I really think Robbie Kaplan shouldn’t let this go. It’s just my opinion, man! But Habbit was dumb enough to put it IN WRITING in a document sent to JUDGE Kaplan. If I were Robbie Kaplan, I’d be filing libel suit tomorrow.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/alina-habba-faking-smart-again
RaflW
@jonas: She’s a very unusual rich person. And that’s great. We need a few dozen more MacKenzies. At least.
And even she could afford a higher tax bracket anyway.
Dan B
@Delk: Yep. The Seattle Police Guild has been run by Neo Nazi’s for years and the mayor is a former officer. Dan Savage and Terry are going to raise hell. Why, when there is an officer shortage, are they wasting time on one visible nipple (on a male bartender) and a couple jock straps? In addition the police had to cough up ten million dollars to pay to demonstrators who were brutalized. Bad timing or revenge?
Ksmiami
@RaflW: I’m happy to provide the matches. This Court is a fucking farce.
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@dmsilev:
He’s got this huge cult following that attend his rallies like some Lovecraftian version of the Grateful Dead. And yet, he can’t stand it when someone, anyone, else gets attention.
Too long for a rotating, tag but DAMN you hit it.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So, in other words Trump propositioned Swift and she said no. This is Donny Dumbass who thinks with his dick after all.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@jonas: yes, but remember we live in the era of Death of the Artist. In MAGA head-cannon Eminem is MAGA.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Back in the day Landover Baptist would go on about Doris Day as the thespian harbinger of the pink sweater Slut-apocalypse out to corrupt our nation’s daughters. This Taylor Swift nonsense is just that done straight.
wjca
Holy war??? Holy war?!?!?
How lost to reality are these people? (Never mind. We all know.)
Anotherlurker
@Suzanne: I am so glad that everything worked out and your pup is safe. There is nothing worse than feeling totally out of control when your fur baby’s is in danger.
Definitely let the seller and manufacturer know that their product nearly cost your fur baby’s life.
Sister Golden Bear
@RaflW:
Or about the same number of trans/non-binary Americans. Although when you factor in, trans kids under 18, there’s actually more Americans who are trans/non-binary.
Sister Golden Bear
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
I’m told that in a number of Evangelical churches the preacher’s pay (in full) is paid by a percentage of the collection plate. So yeah, there’s incentives to rile up the
cash machinecongregations.Sister Golden Bear
@Suzanne: Tiny Republican tears of impotent rage make for the best cocktails with mixed with the booze of your choice.
Jackie
@Sister Golden Bear: “Way back when,” when I used to attend church – Lutheran in the ‘70s – if the collection plate came around a second time, we just passed it on by without a second thought lol
Jackie
Has Alina Habba been fired?
mrmoshpotato
What a sad, sad, orange fascist horse’s ass.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
FYI.
Newsmax’s Greg Kelly Slams Taylor Swift ‘Idolatry’ Because ‘If You Look It Up in the Bible, It’s a Sin!’
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Greg Kelly should look at who he’s been worshiping for years.
RaflW
@Jackie: Trump’s multiple slush funds, er I mean PACs, spent $50,000,000 on legal fees in just one year. Nearly a million dollars a week.
Just a bonkers amount of money going to all these scheisters. Maybe not Alina any more, but someone gonna get paid. For no good effect on that appeal, I hope.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Can chants of “Lock her up” be far behind?
NotMax
@RaflW
On the other hand, that’s money not going to campaign functions.
Odie Hugh Manatee
A post is up over at the Great Orange Satan about a Justin Mohn beheading his father, a federal worker, and calling on all patriots to kill all federal workers. Oh, and he’s in control of the military and police now. Hates LGTBQ+ and sounds like his MAGA went supernova.
Stochastic terrorism. The Republican party is a terrorist organization.
sab
10 + years ago I listened to Taylor Swift and thought she had a true little voice and a good sense of rhythym. Not much but good for dancing.
Many years later I think she is same but much better. Her voice has matured. So have her lyrics. The voice is more important. She now has a good rich singing voice, not the thin little true voice she had at age twenty. She will never be an opera star, but neither she nor opera even want that
ETA But her lyrics are special. And she wrote them.
Quinerly
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
I don’t even know how to begin to summarize this. I’m sure we will get more info today.
https://levittownnow.com/2024/01/31/beheading-suspect-justin-mohn-called-for-attacks-had-past-police-interactions-sang-that-dad-was-jealous-of-him/
TBone
@Quinerly: JFC these fucking monsters. My morning check in brought me here to this thread and now I’m sick to my stomach 🤮🤢 for my Commonwealth
Paul in KY
Please proceed, choads…
Paul in KY
@David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch: The Slim Shady is probably Dem too. He’s just quieter and also who the fuck would rather look at him, vice her!
Paul in KY
@JoyceH: Someone should do a cartoon of Mickey with his sleeves rolled up as he pummels DeSatanis. On his arm is a tattoo of Dark Brandon!
Paul in KY
@UncleEbeneezer: I saw a set by GEazy back in 2019 (New Orleans Voodoofest) where he had a giant video display behind him with ‘FUCK TRUMP’ in 20 foot tall letters. Have a soft spot for him…
Paul in KY
@SpaceUnit: GOP precinct meeting?
leeleeFL
@geg6: He did that during the Bush 2 admin! Don’t remember the song, but the wingers went nuts?
Paul in KY
@Quinerly: Very sorry for his parents. So sad when your kid turns out to be a murdering incel weido.
Splitting Image
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I miss the days when Landover Baptist seemed like over the top parody. The site helped launch Betty Bowers’ career.
yellowdog
@SpaceUnit: The RNC.