• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    With the Kansas City Chiefs headed to Super Bowl LVIII, influential MAGA Media personalities have started circulating conspiracy theories about the pop superstar, promoting the deranged notion that she is part of a sprawling psychological operations plot staged by the NFL and Democratic Party to deliver the 2024 presidential election to President Joe Biden.

    Mr. Kelce’s advertisements promoting Pfizer’s Covid vaccine and Bud Light

    speculation that Ms. Swift is after Mr. Kelce for his money.

    Some say he’s gay https://twitter.com/OwenBenjamin/status/1752422032187470011

    I think you are caught up

    Edit: Neat the Pentagon had to say it’s stupid

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/02/pentagon-to-maga-world-you-need-to-calm-down-over-taylor-swift-00139292

    My favourite quote mentioned in that article courtesy of Fox News

    “It’s real. The Pentagon psy-op unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset for combating misinformation online,” Watters said.

    Because apparently we want misinformation?

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      9 months ago

      Wow.

      That’s the level their own psyops operate at these days? It’s impressive in its stupidity and terrifying in its efficacy.