Leave it to Fox News to throw out a conspiracy, on live air, that is so beyond belief that it makes you question how someone could say it out loud without bursting into laughter. In a set of segments on Fox News, the network has begun to pose the question: is Taylor Swift a secret Pentagon asset. This is not a joke. Is. Taylor Swift. A secret Pentagon asset?
So, before you go any further I want to repeat this one more time because it is so illogical that the fact actual hours were spent debating this defies my own ability to think. Is Taylor Swift a Pentagon asset. This seems like the plot of a comedy movie about retired spies or Netflix/AppleTV/Amazon movie about some former secret agent who has to reveal to their family that before they were handling diaper duty they were a hitman. For Fox News, though, Taylor Swift as a secret agent of the Pentagon makes sense. In order for it to make sense, you’d have to assume the Pentagon is overwhelmingly progressive Democratic and they have plans to manipulate elections through a very successful pop star they recruited somewhere along the line.
A psyop. Taylor Swift is a psyop, posed by the Pentagon. The proof? Well, it’s because she is registering people to vote in an upcoming election. Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought registering people to vote was the right thing to do.
Jesse Watters provided this incredible level of reasoning for his analysis: “When she posted the link to Vote.org, hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans all of the sudden registered to vote.”
Wow! If that isn’t proof she’s a psyop, I don’t know what is in this modern world! She’s doing exactly what hundreds of thousands of people do every election cycle in trying to run voter drives, using her own power. Someone alert the League of Women Voters and so many others urging voter registration.
Watters continued laughing along the way: “I wonder who got to her, from the White House or from whatever?”
Oh yes, the White House “got to her”. What does that even mean in this plot that Fox News is concocting? That there is some ill plan afoot where Taylor Swift is secretly pro-woman, pro-human rights and pro-environment and equal pay, things she’s advocated in interviews going back more than a decade? Is this how the White House “got to her?”
Fox News is not news. Not even in the slightest. This election is going to be far more difficult than many want you to believe. I firmly believe Trump will be the Republican nominee. While Democratic faithful want to tell you Trump is so damaged he will be trounced in the general, as long as you have puppet advocates on the air 24-7 in the pocket of a party, putting out complete nonsense masquerading as news, they will influence and confuse, bring home and turn out voters who will be set on voting against President Biden. For people who think this election will not be hard fought: you’re wrong. If you think we can miss this election, you’re wrong. Hand Trump another few judges, let retiring conservative judges be replaced by more conservatives, and for lifetimes our country will change for the worse. We are in a period where every election is the most important because the differences between the parties are the most stark they have ever been. With Fox News looking to demean, attack, degrade, and promote conspiracies about fellow citizens we have a broadcast network engaging in a modern form of McCarthyism, where those who oppose them are instantly evil and must be part of a plot.
Taylor Swift isn’t part of a plot or a psyop. She’s just a celebrity and a voter who wants her country to continue to strive for a more perfect future. For that grave sin, for Fox News, she’s instantly part of their enemies list and a psyop.
Thank you to the Daily Kos community. Over the years your help has been incredible. Last year, after losing a home, we finally finished rebuilding by the end of October but took a direct loss of over 25,000 more than what insurance would pay. Your help made a significant difference in our lives. Thank you. If you like what I write, please consider contributing a short bit for a bit! Thank you!