But it's okay for a pillow salesman to be involved in politics?
What about kid rock? If you can call him a musician....
What about a reality TV celebrity like, oh I don't know, Donald Trump?
A movie star, like Raygun?
A bodybuilder, like Arnold?
Tbf the Governator was actually half decent.
Oooh... they SCARED!
And to this day she has yet to say anything pro democrat or pro-republican. That's the funniest part.
Also, the Chiefs are partly owned and ran by a guy that has made several donations to the Republican party. Not a lot of money over all, but consistently Republican.
I wish the Democratic party was as competent as these nutjobs think they are. I imagine the country would be in a much better place.
I believe the Chiefs are owned by one of the oldest families in football (Hunts). They were well-regarded generally (as good for football), but I would imagine the generational owners lean to the right as they are protecting family fortunes from the rabble.
What's funny is that she hasn't endorsed anyone. But they keep raising such a stink on the mere thought that she might endorse Biden and have demanded that she doesn't voice her Biden endorsement far and wide to the point, now, it has become assumed by most that she does endorse him. If anyone does, in fact, give a damn about her endorsement, the wackos yelling on the right have made her de facto position a pro-Biden position. Exactly what they're complaining about. Now she doesn't even need to endorse him in order to basically endorse him. Dolts.
She’s been speaking out against the Supreme Court killing Roe, and she’s shown that she can drive registration with young woman. And young women are swing left of center.
She doesn’t have to endorse anyone to terrify the right.
Your ideology is total shit when the mere suggestion that citizens should vote as they please is a threat to your existence. The GOP's days are numbered.
Unless they get away with suppressing the vote. Which they’ve been very successful at.
she hasn't endorsed anyone.
Well, she did endorse Biden in 2020. Don't see why she would have changed her mind one bit in 2024.>
Wait until the swifties think she is in danger.
Let's be real, with as bat shit crazy as these cultists are, she probably is.
MAGAts vs. Swifties 2024, I'd pay to watch that.
Start making the popcorn because it seems to me like that's where this is heading.
Something something Streisand effect?
Why? Just because Fox News doesn’t broadcast anything vaguely affiliated with real world politics doesn’t mean others can’t talk about it.
Conservatives say they think musicians should stay out of politics. The same conservatives celebrate Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Trace Adkins and any other piece of shit who loudly encourages their audience to vote for a seditious rapist.
It's almost like conservatives are just liars who are fully incapable of honesty on any topic.
That's rich coming from the network that's been fellating a reality tv star 24/7 for 8 years.
I'm not entirely sure I understand the republican strategy around Taylor Swift.
Like, doesn't harassing her for basically no reason only increase the likelihood that she does get involved in political battles, not reduce?
This just seems like another hair-brained, half thought through plan.
Nobody ever accused Republicans of being smart
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Leave...Taylor...ALONE! :p
Taylor Swift is grabbing conservatives by their collective pussies and they don’t like it.
Yeah. Look what it did to Fox News. Turned them from a sack of shit to a treasonous sack of shit.
Fox claims they themselves are just an entertainment network, not news. Shouldn't they stay out of politics just like they want her to?
This article discusses reactions from some Fox News commentators to the possibility of Taylor Swift endorsing President Biden in the 2024 election. Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, and others on Fox News urged Swift not to get involved in politics. Some speculated that Swift's relationship with Travis Kelce was engineered by Democrats. Hannity drew a connection between Swift and George Soros, noting Soros' son helped fund the sale of Swift's song catalog. However, not all at Fox News were negative - sports analyst Jay Glazer praised Swift as a "genius" and saw nothing problematic about her or the NFL. In summary, several Fox News personalities strongly discouraged Swift from supporting Biden, while at least one commentator admired her musical talents.
They're all entertainers. I don't see the difference except Taylor Swift has a day job.
Taylor Swift will be 35 years old before the inauguration. There is still time to sub her in as vice president.
But hey, let’s ask Kid Rock what he thinks about national debt
Fuck republicunts
Says the channel that is the de facto D-List celebrity to deranged right wing pundit pipeline
I don't know which is worse - Fox telling an artist to not be political or the NYT reporting that Fox is telling an artist not to be political.
I'm very, very tired of the news being the news. It's no longer about reporting events and ideas but generating content and ad revenue. We've been the frog in the pot for a while now. How much worse is it going to get?
I want to hear the arguments between swifty kids, and their shitty fox news parents.
In fact, we should just get rid of news outlets (Fox, NBC) entirely and only allow news agencies (AP News, Reuters) to report on news and politics.
Has she said or done anything? Or are they just afraid she might?
She baked a blue cookie one time or some shit.
Generally, she just encourages her fans to vote, and Republicans know young women don't want anything to with them. They really just want to make it so uncomfortable for Swift to say anything, so they're bringing a preemptive firestorm and hoping she keeps her head down this election season.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Right-wing activists have indulged in baseless speculation that Ms. Swift’s romance with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — a kind of ur-American couple of football star and wholesome pop icon — is a contrivance engineered by Democrats, or perhaps the National Football League, to trick unsuspecting Americans into boosting Super Bowl ratings or voting for Mr. Biden in November.
Swift flies on a private plane, “yet she constantly talks about climate change.” It was the sort of eco-scolding that rarely turns up on a cable network whose guests often voice skepticism about global warming.
Swift said that Mr. Soros’s son, Alex, helped fund the sale of her song catalog to the producer Scooter Braun.
Another “Hannity” guest, the Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt, told viewers not to dismiss the bizarre conspiracies about Ms.
“Republicans haven’t won the Popular Vote in 20 years so now we’re trying the novel strategy of attacking one of the most beloved pop stars on the planet & … the NFL,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration official and a co-host of “The View,” wrote on X.
On Brian Kilmeade’s Saturday show, he asked the Fox Sports analyst Jay Glazer about the Swift phenomenon.
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