'What’s happening is not organic': Why the right thinks Taylor Swift is a government PsyOp designed to swing the 2024 election
'What’s happening is not organic': Why the right thinks Taylor Swift is a government PsyOp designed to swing the 2024 election
Supporters of Donald Trump are convinced that the Democratic Party is using Taylor Swift as a PsyOp to 'interfere' in the 2024 election.
Jordan Sather, a prominent promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, suggested that Swift’s life had been orchestrated as part of a sinister plot to encourage her fans to vote.
There a few other people quoted in there but it's all the same sinister plan they are proposing: The psyop is encouraging people to vote.
Republicans see large voter turnout as a bad thing because they are less popular than they want you to think they are. This is not new, it's just a new target.
Swift’s life had been orchestrated as part of a sinister plot to encourage her fans to vote.
Reminds me of the time Republicans in some local election had sent out a mailer smearing the Dem candidate. There was a big box on one part of the card, in a large font against a dark background proclaiming that the Dem candidate wanted to "Educate and Transform you!"
Well, I thought, do your donors know you are campaigning for the Democrat?
Better headline:
The Right will believe literally anything except reality because they don't want to accept they're unpopular.
Reminds me of the time GOP Senator Mark-Wayne Mullin shouted "I don't want reality!" In a senate hearing
Haha haha my god that's a horrible thing for a senator to say.
To be fair tho, I don't want reality either.
Republicans don't understand Republicanism.
The right is free to have kid Rock or whatever loser they have on their side, do the same things Taylor is doing, if they're so concerned. Except all she's doing is encouraging people to vote, which as we all know is bad for Republicans
You're forgetting that if a woman does it its a psyop
More specifically if a woman they don't like does it. They like her in theory because she's white and attractive and straight and Christian and got her start as a country singer, but then she had to go and have opinions about things, so now she's a commie who's destroying America, or something.
I didn't know he was still active.
Qanon? Not a psyop. Fake electors? Not a psyop. Fake evidence of election fraud? Not a psyop. Inciting insurrection at the capital? Not a psyop.
Popular woman wants right to healthcare? PSYOP!!!!
Makes sense to me! I'm convinced
Lazy projection. The Trump campaign was already literally part of Russian PsyOps a decade ago.
The whole article could have just been this:
it remains unclear how encouraging people to vote can be construed as election interference.
But one of the weirdest things is how conservatives are totally obsessed with how many people she's dated. One of the tweets in the article says she "runs through men like water." Ok? Even if it were somehow unacceptable to date multiple people throughout the whole of your twenties, god forbid, exactly what in the fuck does it have to do with "election interference."
I love how every male conservative leader can be married 5 times while paying for abortions for their girlfriends, but regular dating is where they draw the line.
Right wingers are deranged. We need to get them out of government with a bit more fucking urgency americans.
Young empathetic voters ruin their chances.
But unlike the previous administration they are leaving that unsaid
It's because the GOP knows that more voters means they lose. Centrists don't exist. There's no middle ground between Ds and Rs anymore.
No one is 50/50 on Trump.
VOTE
There are tons of people who don't know anything about political ideology that are 50/50 on Trump.
Prove it. The numbers from the 2016 and 2020 election say entirely different.
Centrists do exist and will always exist. Regardless how bad or good things are.
The problems is both sides have at least 1 great and 1 terrible policy or stance.
We need more sizeable parties options, or at least vote for them.
That way people can vote for parties that best fits them.
Note: voting for the lesser of two evils, won't solve the problem. Just make things worse overall. We can all see that
The problems is both sides have at least 1 great and 1 terrible policy or stance.
Well, first off there's 3 "sides.
- Conservatives (almost all Republicans)
- Moderates (mostly Dems)
- Progressive (all dem, but not all Dems)
I'd love to hear what you think is great about 1 or terrible from 3.
Those moderates tho...
Their entire deal is just staying the same distance from 1 and 3, regardless of how illogical that is.
Name one great Republican policy.
As long as the US continues to use first past the post for voting on these things, voting for the lesser of two evils is the only actual option we have. Voting independent in these races is effectively throwing your vote away at best.
Weren't right wing men weirdly obsessed with Taylor Swift a while ago? Specifically in a creepy misogynistic "it's a shame she's not having kids, what a wasted opportunity" kinda way? I remember reading about that somewhere.
If so, good for Taylor for now becoming an enemy to the creeps as opposed to an object of desire.
Years back before she had made any definitive statements about politics I think a lot of Republicans just assumed that as a rich, white, country-ish musician she was a right winger who could one day be their ideal Aryan Christofascist princess.
I don't know if it was that group in general, but Stefan Molyneux in particular certainly was.
For the longest time they kept saying she was a 4chan user because at one point someone posted pictures of a skinny blond and said it was a selfie. Which quickly lead to users saying it was obviously Taylor.
So that lead to them insisting Taylor is a far righter, super racist, and a trump supporter. But all in secret so she could grift liberals or something.
Shit was super weird
4chan named her cat
I distinctly remember Taydolf Swiftler being a thing in some circles
I'm not sure what Molymeme is, but he's not typical of the right in a lot of ways, unless his dive to insanity included finding God.
There was also another batshit crazy conspiracy that Taylor Swift is trans.
Yeah, but the group saying that says everyone but them is trans.
The only Swift conspiracy I believe is that she and the NFL fabricated her relationship with Travis Kelce to cross-pollinate the fan bases.
The NFL fabricating stories for views / clicks / likes?!?!
Never!!!
Cuts to Taylor at a football game
Cuts to demar Hamlin - tho he did die
Cuts to Josh Dobbs and his degree
Cuts to Jackson mahomes
Etc.
I firmly believe that the NFL absolutely drives a narrative, creates drama, has the referees keep games close for views and latches on to anything that makes news and drives viewers.
The games exist to only serve us ads... :/
Ohhhh that's why football got huge, like, turned into a full on human meat grinder industry huge. Because advertisers wanted more eyeballs, so they started pumping money in.
Wild how capitalism effects everything like that x.x
Not sure I would have ever put that together without your "the game exists to only serve us ads" quip. Like, there's naturally big, but when advertising gets involved, it becomes gigantic, whatever it is.
I can't remberbif it was NFL or NBA, but one of them are fully allowed to influence games by refs or something.
Like, straight up went the WWE "we're an entertainment industry" route. And I don't mean people just think it's possible, but I'm pretty sure whichever one it was has it explicitly stated in their own regulations that if it ever came out that they told refs who should win, and stopped hiring refs who don't listen...
That it would be both super cool and super legal.
The NFL fabricated her relationship with Travis Kelce to cross-pollinate the fan bases.
I totally believe this too. I bet this was supposed to culminate in a Superbowl halftime show. She declined to headline it tho so maybe not. Maybe she'll be a surprise appearance if the chiefs or eagles are there.
But no matter the plan the relationship smells super fake.
Edit: yo, downvoters, but seriously, why? I keep rereading what i wrote and i don't get what's angering peeps?
This the only political statement I needed to support Swift
Make Japan Edo Again!
I want to see the video for the song about breaking up with the tentacle lover beast.
Swift is a force of good, as much as any insanely rich person can be. She alone may end up responsible for tens of thousands of young women registering to vote between now and election day. One of her Instagram posts drove 35,000 voter registrations. Republicans have every reason to fear the Swiftie factor.
Yeah. She's measured with it too. One of the reasons her sway is so strong imo, is she just saved it up for a long time. So when she finally asks a fan "hey could you do this one little thing for me?" it almost feels like "uh, yeah, I've known you my whole life Taylor, of course."
Which the fan doesn't "know her" per se, but between a musician and a huge fan, it definitely feels like you do. It's a personal relationship, a little different from most other fandoms. Music is just odd that way.
Sorry not a swift person but isnt she just saying to her fans, you should register to vote and vote because its importent? Wish psyops was that simple.
Also they're speaking as if their celebrities don't tell people to go out and vote republican.
Also what happened to the "free speech" crowd lol
It's only freedom of speech when you're saying super heinous shit! All other speech isn't really free because that means you're not speaking your mind since, you know, everybody thinks these super heinous things deep down and not just racist, misogynistic, violent psychopaths that are really the minority of people. They're just the truly free people because they speak their mind truthfully!!
(really hope I don't need this but /s)
Are they upset how so many people could yield so much influence to one person ?
And they want a dictator.
I'm so sick of Absolutists. They create monarchies, wealth gaps, and Spanish Inquisitions.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Yeah it kinda snuck up in that sentence as well.
So, Russian interference was a "hoax" (according to most of the radicalized right wing, the Enlightened Centrists and of course, a lot of the unhelpful left who seem to enjoy being useful idiots), but Taylor Swift is part of the Deep State or something?
XD XD
taylor swift controlled the russians, of course
Lmao, even if it's true the actual complaint here is they're mad the Democrats did it too, only conservatives are allowed to run info ops during elections!
Why the right thinks Taylor Swift is a government PsyOp designed to swing the 2024 election
Because they're stupid, conspiracy-theory believing fucks.
The article cites two people. So far as I can tell there’s one tweet on this topic. One.
Either we're reading different articles, or you're really bad at counting. The article the OP linked contains tweets and idiotic drivel from Jordan Sather, Laura Loomer, Jack Posobiec, Stephen Miller, and Tim Pool. So that's five people, and five tweets. Five.
Counting mishaps aside, right-wingers are stupid, conspiracy-theory believing fucks, regardless of what this article says.
Republicans brains go burrrrrrr
Do they though?
Just when I think conservatives can't get any dumber they always find a way. It's remarkable, really.
It's because a lot of people want a confident leader.
They don't care if the confidence is because they know what they're doing. They just want the confidence.
So Republican politicians never admit they're wrong and make up ridiculous things because any answer works as long as their confident.
President ChatGPT, here we come!
A couple months ago, my conservative neighbor mentioned he thought Taylor Swift was dating Travis Kelce as some plot to force people to get vaccinated. At the time, I thought this was just a dumb ass theory that he came up with himself after seeing Travis Kelce on a COVID vaccine commercial, so I just laughed it off. Now I see this is an actual message being pushed by the right wing. Jesus these people are fucking nut jobs.
TIL opinions+ talent + marketing = psyop.
Is every political campaign a psyop too?
Wait till these guys hear about advertising
When it's detrimental to the republican party, yes.
Finally, my tax dollars are doing something useful.
The Democrat party can't even advertise when Biden does a good thing properly. You think they're smart and organised enough to run a sophisticated psyop like that?
The enemy is both strong and weak.
Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer even claimed that Swift’s entire Eras Tour was nothing more than “a Democrat Party Voter Registration drive
Yes, because the voter registration drive would only 100% register democrats or people who they know will vote democratic. No republicans/GOP voters could possibly get registered.
Well now it’s obvious - the only option is for the GOP to buy all of the tickets to Taylor Swift concerts, thus preventing democrats from being able to register to vote.
Republicans know that the more people who vote then the less chance a Republican has of winning. The Democrats have won the popular vote every single time for the last 20 years. Since 1988 they won 7 in 8 times. That is 2 entire generations of votes.
Oh trust me - I live in Texas. I know this fact all too well, sadly.
2016:
Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook
Texas treats voter registration like a criminal offense and makes it as difficult as possible to do.
Before he could register anyone, however, Tunde had to navigate Texas’s draconian voter-registration laws, beginning with this course. The state has no online registration, and anyone who registers voters must be deputized by the county at a training session that typically occurs once a month, sometimes less. The volunteer deputy registrars (VDRs), as they’re known, must be deputized on a county-by-county basis, which makes statewide drives practically impossible in a massive state like Texas, with its 254 counties.
This theory implies that Taylor Swift's entire fan base is Democrats. She's about to get "canceled" by the right. Which... that shit worked with the Dixie Chicks, but I'm not sure it will work as well with TS because she isn't predominantly a country singer any more. They'll wind up politicizing her and creating the left-wing superstar they fear.
Remember when the Dixie Chicks got cancelled for being against...George W. Bush? The right hates the Dixie Chicks for criticizing George W. Bush, and now the right hates George W. Bush because of all the catastrophic wars he started and other unpopular stuff he did that the Dixie Chicks criticized him for. Somewhere in there, through the transitive property, the right just hates itself
Even if we pretend her entire voting base were Democrats, and even if we pretend she's going to have a 100% success rate convincing unregistered voters to register, and even if we pretend 100% of all her fans then vote Democrat, she's a private citizen playing the same legal game as every other private citizen is entitled to play. She's not breaking any laws and she's not breaking any rules.
Republicans are entitled to do everything she's doing.
The only thing they can possibly complain about is that the best thing they can come up with to compete is Kid Rock. sadtrombone.jpg
I’m not even a Taylor Swift “fan” - I don’t have any opinion of her music whatsoever. I will date myself and admit that I just don’t really seek out new music anymore…that being said, I am 100% on board with this plan, lol
Fucking with Swifties is touching the 3rd rail, politically speaking.
The answer is simple, because reality and the truth almost never align with the goals of the right. So they invent these fantastical conspiracies to explain why the world is the way it is.
While I don't listen to her stuff intentionally, I do enjoy her tunes for the most part that I've heard. I also recognize her talent and influence.
I think it's really wonderful for her to encourage her fans to register to vote...
The more people who vote the harder it is to maintain minority rule.
Anything that hinders the GOP is a government PsyOp. Anything that helps the GOP is God's will.
Delusional fuckers.
Republicans are attacking Swift/Swifties? I need to buy more popcorn!
Republicans are attacking Swift/Swifties? I need to buy more popcorn!
A woman, who has only been able to vote for about a century, actively encouraging others to vote??! Blasphemy!
I wonder if they'll burn as many of the expensive NFL jerseys they paid for as they did when a black man had the gall to send a silent message about police brutality and inequality.
It's like they're swift-boating her.
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[1][2][3][4][5] against 2004 U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry.[6][1][7][8] Since the 2004 election, the term has come to commonly refer to a political attack that is dishonest, personal, and unfair.[9][10]
Brilliant
I didn't see that one coming. Applause
Fools! How can they not see that Taylor Swift's tour is a secret op to install 5G towers all over the world that will make our penises fall off? Wake up, sheeple!
And give us Covid!!!!!
Because they're running a PsyOp designed to swing the 2024 election to a victory for their dictator?
"Hey! No running psyops while we're running a psyop! No fair!"
The right thinks what?
"I'm not gonna write you a love song eh? Clearly an attack on the nuclear family."
Incorrect. The right does not "think." There was no thought or any brain activity from the right involved here.
So, the same people who religiously listen to Ted Nugent are amazed that a different singer could influence people?
This. I ask people to vote all the time because is very important in shaping our democracy. And I am sure singers and artist are actual people who may think the way I do about voting.
The only people inside or outside the government who don't want people to vote is Republicans. That is because Republicans rely on young people's "laziness" and apathetic attitude on voting to win elections. They don't want the masses educated and voting because what the Republicans legislate into law doesn't help average people. It helps the rich.
I mean most of these huge pop artists are pure astroterf from the record labels. But what does this have to do with Trump?
I agree. I also think successful products are a conspiracy that companies engage in to make money. Later on I am going to engage in a conspiracy to drink beer.
When you're stupid everything is confusing and anything can be a conspiracy.
They believe it’s a PsyOp because it’s what they would do if they could. It’s all projection.
Idk it seems pretty reliant on carbon chemistry. There’s people involved and everything.
Makes me love her even more
I've said for years she was designed in a lab and programmed for public consumption.
I'm gonna be proven right y'know. Just waiting for Trav to get back to me and confirm.
ask him if she can complete a captcha
Laura loomer, more like Laura groomer
You know, even the most batfuck stupid conspiracy theories usually have at least some grain of truth to them, even in a "six degrees of separation" kind of way. At least you could trace the line of thinking back to its roots. But this?
This barely even qualifies as a conspiracy. This is what a Walmart version of ChatGPT would come up with if you told it to come up with a conspiracy theory based on a random word salad that just happens to contain both the words "swift" and "trump". There is no logic here. It doesn't even make sense. It's like trying to treat "Person woman man camera TV" as if it were a real sentence with meaning. It's like saying "Penguins paint rocks because giraffes see in purple." It's a stream of consciousness from someone who hasn't taken his meds today.
This is just Trump and his team's usual tactic of distorting the meaning of words in order to lessen their impact when they're used against him. Ever notice how everything is an insurrection now? Everything is election interference. Every President gets impeached. That way, when those words are used to describe him, at least a percentage of people won't look at it a major scandal surrounding a man engaged in criminal activity. They'll look at it as just another wild conspiracy theory, just like all the others, and to be mentally dismissed just as quickly. And that's the whole point. In his mind, his behavior doesn't look so bad if "everyone is doing it."
Maybe this is the best simulation/timeline. Idk anymore.
So being named Time's Person of the Year is a PsyOp, just like Trump's in 2016?
No, no, no, See Trump making the 2016 Person of the Year was Trump playing 10d chess because he's a super genius.
So Taylor Swift's entire life has been engineered to deny Trump a second term as President? She was born in the late 80s, back then it would have been preposterous to think Trump would have gone into Politics successfully at all, much less have been elected President once....
Accusations being projections and whatnot...
Just casually glance at literally any conservative media age who funds it.
Let's hope they're right
they blame everything they cannot understand on a conspiracy, because they are cowards
Yes, by all means #GOP, please pick a fight with the most popular & well-liked billionaire on the planet.
Excuse me what the fuck?
Eh, I feel like this is just another meaningless article meant to shift blame away from the electoral college probably.
The electoral college is always my stopping point for any pop culture relevance or "conspiracy."
Sure, can the various stars sway the popular vote? Absolutely.
Hell, my entry into the world of politics as a child was Rage Against the Machine.
However, my vote doesnt count in my state. Between gerrymandering and the state being rabidly red outside of major cities, the few left leaning people just don't add up. Its a sad realization for some.
But what's sad to me is that my vote is ultimately not relevant because the electoral college does what it wants regardless of their constituents, and there doesn't seem to be anything place for violating their constituents desires. This effects everyone able to vote in the US. And every vote I've cast has had no relevance to the political landscape.
If the popular vote actually meant anything, I'd be far more inclined to not only vote, but be active in some capacity politically.
To summarize, fuck the electoral college. Fuck two sided tribalism that's present in US politics. Ranked choice popular vote is my preffered method (that I'm aware of). Also, fuck states "winning." Total popular vote from the entire country.
Would we still have amoral shit bags in office? Yeah, sure, hard to escape those people in politics. However, it would represent a chance for anyone eligible for the office to shake things up if sufficiently popular.
Before you say the future of the country shouldn't be based on a popularity contest, it already is. Its already a dog and pony show every 4 years. Time, energy, money, and more all wasted for the popular vote. Before that its the primaries, a popularity contest in itself. This would just open up the field for people who weren't raised with wealth and political pull.
Fuck it, some only fans chick winds up in the oval office? Cool, maybe we can see some reform based on perspective of someone struggling to make ends meet before turning to sex work to put food on the table. Not denigrating sex work, BTW. If I was an attractive lady I'd already be doing it at this point, lol.
Change is never easy, but often necesarry.
Your vote is irrelevant only if you do not cast it.
It's like these idiots are in Salem in the 1690s.
as if anything that happens on this world at this point is natural. 'side from fuckin, ain't nothin.
Their ringer has spotted our ringer.
There is seriously no end to the insane bullshit people like this think of. I couldn’t have thought of this if I tried spending hours thinking of the most ridiculously dumb theory possible.
While I don’t think it is some sort of stupid political conspiracy, I do think that she is being advertised/shilled a crazy amount.
It feels like it blew up in less than a year. She’s fucking everywhere now.
Edit: to the fans (or Swifties or whatever you want to be called), I’m in no way talking shit about her. I’m simply pointing out that she’s in the news a lot. Stop PM’ing me bullshit. I also don’t care about your downvotes.
She's been a top-selling artist with a huge fan base for years now.
Oh I’m not saying she isn’t. I know she’s been around a while. But you don’t see any other artist with the amount of publicity she’s getting is my point.
She re-did and re-released a couple albums this year, had a massive worldwide tour, which she had filmed. The movie made $100,000,000 on opening weekend and is the highest-grossing concert film ever. She's doing an awful lot of stuff this year, so of course she's getting a lot of coverage.
She also managed to completely sidestep the entire multiple Hollywood strikes issue by the simple expedient of meeting with the unions, asking them what they wanted, and saying, "Okay, you got it."
In particular, her tour was a massive three hour retrospective covering her entire career rather than being focused on one new album. Combine that with a few re-recordings of old albums and her successfully getting a new generation of Gen Z fans and you've got one very popular star.
Thank fuck I’m not in the US. After being outside for so long, I think the advertisement-atmosphere would send me to suicide.
Very easy to ignore all the ads. I tune them out completely.
Yo harddaysknoght, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Taylor Swift has been in the industry a long time..... A long time!
I know that. I’m saying the coverage she’s getting is nowhere near any other artist