Taylor Swift – Page 2 – Deep Left Field

On Wednesday, Time Magazine announced its 2023 Person of the Year: Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who is arguably one of the biggest stars in the world at the moment.

In an essay that accompanied the announcement, Time reporter Sam Lansky writes:

Swift’s accomplishments as an artist—culturally, critically, and commercially—are so legion that to recount them seems almost beside the point. As a pop star, she sits in rarefied company, alongside Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Madonna; as a songwriter, she has been compared to Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Joni Mitchell. As a businesswoman, she has built an empire worth, by some estimates, over $1 billion. And as a celebrity—who by dint of being a woman is scrutinized for everything from whom she dates to what she wears—she has long commanded constant attention and knows how to use it. (“I don’t give Taylor advice about being famous,” Stevie Nicks tells me. “She doesn’t need it.”) But this year, something shifted. To discuss her movements felt like discussing politics or the weather—a language spoken so widely it needed no context. She became the main character of the world.

Swift, it should be noted, is also politically involved, and that doesn’t exactly sit well with many on the political right, mainly because she’s a strong, successful woman who just so happens to believe that more freedom for everyone is a good thing.

So perhaps it should come as no surprise that the Time Person of the Year honor rubbed so many Trump supporters the wrong way

According to online comments made by several Trump acolytes, Swift represents everything that’s wrong with the United States.

Here’s a sampling of those right-wing attacks:

“From her hand-selected vaccine shill boyfriend to her DINK lifestyle to her upcoming 2024 voter operation for Democrats on abortion rights It’s all coming.” Right-wing gadfly and failed podcaster Jack Posobiec

“This is what happens when we cede culture to the Left. Brainless youth raising themselves on Taylor Swift’s saccharine bland music and that washing over into the serious world of politics. If we reach the point where Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Taylor Swift run for office together we will have truly reached full-on Idiocracy where Mike Judge imagined “President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.” Former Trump Justice Department Official and current criminal defendant Jeffrey Clark

“What’s happening with Taylor Swift is not organic.” Former Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller

Wow! A bunch of repressed white guys are afraid of a strong woman. Imagine that!

The only people on the planet who are as thin-skinned and insecure as failed one-term former president Donald Trump are his fans, who are sometimes referred to as the “MAGA faithful,” though it would probably be more accurate to label them members of a cult.

The latest person triggering Trump supporters is none other than recording superstar Taylor Swift, who has been urging her fans to register and vote in the 2024 election (she did the same thing in 2020, and young people showed up at the polls in record numbers) and is also (gasp!) getting cozy with Travis Kelce, who plays tight end for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs.

Could Swift make a difference in 2024, especially since it appears the general public isn’t very excited about a Biden-Trump rematch?

Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer thinks so, writing:

On Tuesday — National Voter Registration Day — the now-Nashville-based singer posted a plea to her 272 million Instagram followers to sign up for the ballot, triggering a sizable response. “I’ve been so lucky to see so many of you guys at my U.S. shows recently. I’ve heard you raise your voices, and I know how powerful they are,” Swift wrote. “Make sure you’re ready to use them in our elections this year!” The group Vote.org posted its biggest day since the heated 2020 election, with many of the 35,000 new voters coming not long after the singer hit the “send” button.

But Swift’s willingness to get involved in the political scene — especially since she carries so much weight with young voters, a key and growing demographic — has Trump acolytes enraged and lashing out online, suggesting that the singer-songwriter is ugly, talentless, and needs to stay in her lane.

Sean Davis of the Federalist hatefully declared, “Taylor Swift is dumb and her music sucks.”

That’s a hell of a lot of projection, Sean.

Then there’s Roger Kimball, a columnist for the Trump-backing American Greatness, who suggested, “Also, she is homely.”

Be sure and check out Kimball’s Twitter photo if you want a really good laugh. He looks like a pile of feces that has been sculpted to resemble a human being.

Trump worshiper Clay Travis attacked both Swift and Kelce.

“Travis Kelce is doing Bud Light and covid shot commercials. He needs to fire all his marketing agents. Or he needs to just go ahead and cut his d–k off, become a chick, and endorse Joe Biden.”

Considering that Kelce is listed as 6-5 and 250 lbs., Clay might want to steer clear of any venue where the Chiefs are playing or end up having his pointy head spiked in the end zone by Kelce just for laughs.

It’s so much fun watching the Trump humpers lose their undeveloped minds over the most trivial shit, isn’t it?