Welcome to the Era of Tin Foil Hats.
On Sunday, the Chiefs and 49ers clinched their Super Bowl berths — and the champagne spray in the locker room almost ran dry before some on the right started floating a crackpot conspiracy theory online linking Taylor Swift to Joe Biden via a pigskin bonanza.
Catch this if you can: The NFL rigged this Super Bowl matchup and rigged the Super Bowl itself so that Swift, involved in a fake relationship with the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce would be at the height of her power to support Joe Biden. for re-election. This is all CIA psyop.
Never mind that, without Travis Kelce or the National Football League, he publicly threw his support behind Biden in 2020.
Remember when the right wanted to keep politics out of sports?
This conspiracy contest was ignited by the alt rightie and pizzagate promoter (yes, it’s another conspiracy theory), Jack Posobiec, who wrote on X, “Thinking of when Taylor Swift called out the Soros family in 2019 for buying her music rights and then how she became a very liberal in 2020.”
Are Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce planning something? Vivek Ramaswamy seems to think so. Getty Images Vivek Ramaswamy tweeted a conspiracy theory that the NFL rigged the Super Bowl so Taylor Swift could endorse Joe Biden. Getty Images
Then former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy poured on the momentum by responding with this reality thought bomb.
“I wonder who will win the Super Bowl next month,” he wrote on X. “And I wonder if there will be a major presidential endorsement coming from a culturally endorsed couple this fall. Just some wild speculation here , let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months.”
Inevitably, the online conversation devolved into a mass of silliness, cheering on this unholy imaginary trinity of Swift, the NFL and the DNC.
An exchange at X, where Jack Posobiec and Vivek Ramaswamy exchange strange conspiracies linking Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl with Joe Biden’s endorsement. Vivek Ramaswamy / X
It’s a manifestation of Charlie Day’s famous meme from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
Sure, we all have that one friend who sits on the couch spewing so many tricks, until the battery dies.
In your living room, it’s funny or annoying. But taking advantage of the online – where many of these witches have a large following – crazy people fly like a flock of birds of prey.
Rashida Tlaib does all the truth 9/11 style, not denying claims Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza. Getty Images
It goes far, fast… and leaves poop everywhere.
Provocateurs are peacocking online on both (far) sides. Sitting 9/11-style truth-teller Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib did not deny claims that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza.
In 2019, John Cusack issued a tweet promoting an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
And of course Kanye’s various anti-Jewish ramblings hang in the antisemitism hall of fame. The story of the Chabad tunnel gave birth to a variety of strange ideas.
Unlike most conspiratorial ideas, which require an esoteric study of an obscure CIA agent or frequent trance-inducing trips to some dark corner of the web to begin to understand, this Super Bowl great can be fully absorbed, with minimal effort.
The world’s biggest pop star, football’s most famous tight end, the entire NFL and the president, are already huge cultural figures. It’s a pop conspiracy and you don’t need to do your own research.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs getting a Super Bowl bid. Getty Images
It is also the height of stupidity. What will the 49ers, the Ravens, the Lions and every other NFL team get as a consolation prize for allowing themselves to be sacrificed on the altar of Joe Biden’s presidency?
That theory is not only absurd, it doesn’t seem like a winning strategy for the right to make America’s sweetheart a political litmus test.
But Ramaswamy isn’t really about the party he’s leading: he’s an attention seeker who sees me — and who better to use than Taylor Swift, who now completely dominates the culture?
I understand both the appeal of it and why televised rookie-fancy-box seasons annoy many die-hard fans.
In 2019, actor John Cusack issued a tweet supporting an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Getty Images
But my neutrality towards Tay Tay is diminishing.
For the first time, I’m excited to put football season in the past — so we don’t have to keep seeing every aspect of our world through the prism of Taylor Swift, including turning reality into a WWE-style scenario.
And I’m just spitballing here, but the idea: let’s make great sense again.
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