Anyone can be the victim of a far-right conspiracy theory in the United States. However, few cases are comparable to the campaign that has emerged against Taylor Swift, converted by the ideologues of Trumpism into a kind of massive government psychological operation to get Americans to vote for Joe Biden next November.
Their songs are not protest songs or express social messages like the songs of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen or Neil Young. His light music is closer to dancing than to thought, it appeals more to the movement of the hips than to the brain. These circumstances do not prevent Trump’s associates from seeing her as a danger and placing her at the center of their holy war, from the height of her popularity and with her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, an American football star.
From Fox and its environment of tweeters (allow me to use this expression), a chorus emerges denouncing that she is part of the state’s sewers. The call to outburst intensified this Monday, after an article in The New York Times in which it is stated that the White House dreams of the singer and songwriter publicly supporting Biden. It’s not that strange either, she already did it in 2020. The difference is that then she was not so famous nor did she enjoy so much influence.
How can you not long to have at your side an artist with 280 million followers on Instagram, a multitudinous army of young people who follow each and every one of her movements. The former president, with a fragile ego, has already given slogans ensuring that he has more fans than her, the woman who with her tour ‘The eras tour’ breaks all records.
Swift has attended almost every game of the Kansas City Chiefs, the team her boyfriend plays for. On Sunday, after the victory and qualification for the Super Bowl, the championship final, the couple kissed on the grass and that was another sign.
The conspirators propagate that Taylor is behind a mission, from the Pentagon?, designed to manipulate the American football league and guarantee that her boyfriend’s team plays in the final and wins it, which would create the opportune conditions for the artist, also used in nasty fakes with artificial intelligence, gave her public vote to Biden.
The Chiefs will play in their fourth Super Bowl in five years. They have already won three and it is a great team. Although in the conference finals last weekend they were not favorites against the Baltimore Ravens, their victory was a rather minor surprise given their quality and track record at this time.
This does not prevent the spread of conspiracies. “I wonder who will win the Super Bowl next month,” wrote Vivkek Ramaswamy, former candidate for the republican nomination, on Monday, a young Trump replicant who he hugged as soon as he retired from the race.
“And he asked me if there will be political support this fall from an artificially propped-up couple. Just some wild speculations here, let’s see how these eight months evolve,” added Ramaswamy on his X account, an expert in launching conspiracies.
Also present was Elon Musk, owner of the social network, who replied to the message with “exactly.” Jack Lombardi, a conservative activist and former congressional hopeful, replied that “I have never been more convinced that the Super Bowl is rigged.”
The ultra influencer, Laura Loomer, spread that it is not a coincidence that Biden administration officials are praising Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. “They are going to use Taylor Swift as a pro-abortion poster to get them to vote.”
In other messages the soccer player is referred to as Mr. Pfizer, because he announced the vaccines for covid. And to top it all off, he also starred in a campaign for Bud Light beer, stigmatized by extremists for its pro-trans campaign. A perfect complement for conspiracy theorists.
One of the main spokespersons is the new Fox star, Jesse Watters, Tucker Carlson’s replacement and who has the merit of being even more Trumpian than the one expelled from the network. For Watters, Swift is “an asset of the Pentagon.” And he’s part of a covert operation.
All this has led to the sporting absurdity that the Trumpists, the supposed people of law and order, wish in the next Super Bowl the defeat of the Chiefs, a team from a city like Kansas City more to their liking and, on the contrary, They are in favor of the San Francisco 49ers, which they describe as the modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
