Yes, Mad Magazine is still out of business and no, you did not click on The Onion by mistake. You are right where you should be. The headlines these days are straight out of Bizarro World comics and that’s because life nowadays generates those very headlines. Unless you have been living in a cave the past few years, you know that the politization of Taylor Swift has gotten a lot of right-wingnuttia all in a tizzy.
Frankly, I think what they’re doing is analogous to the Streisand Effect. If you recall, that’s a phrase coined to describe a situation where trying to deflect attention to a certain topic actually focuses attention to that topic, whereas you’d be better off if you just left it all alone to begin with. Barbara Streisand had a palatial pad in Malibu and she didn’t want it photographed — with the consequence that it got nothing but photographed, whereas if she just didn’t say anything, it might have slipped under a lot of peoples’ radars. Bearing all that in mind, let us move onto the latest in culture war mania.
I'm a proud Swiftie… pic.twitter.com/Rz6mFQQ2xT
— Just Joe (@Just__Joe_) February 3, 2024
I’m telling you, it’s the Streisand effect. They’d be better off leaving well enough alone. A cat whose “brand” is worth $97,000,000? Wow. Wait until Trumpty Dumpty hears that, he’ll go completely ballistics.
Call me crazy, but personally I would have reservations about poking a 6’5 250 pound wide open all pro NFL Tight End and his very attentive 6’3, 295 pound all pro NFL Center, and equally crazy brother in the eye, considering they are both about to have a lot of free time on their hands in a couple of weeks……they could suddenly start inviting themselves to dinners and other events to discuss these allegations.
…..but that is just me…..rite.
*smirk*
This signals the level of desperation at Fox these days that they have to hype “OMFG!!! Taylor Swift’s CAT!!!! OMFG!!!” Remember back in 2008 when Fox was freaking about Obama having become the presumptive nominee? The “terrorist” fist jab? I tried to find a clip of the original freak out between a couple of Fox hosts and the gal (don’t remember who) started babbling out this OMFG. What’s this? Bumping fists? It must mean something. A TERRORIST thing – a terrorist fist bump!
Well, being an old fart I recall how horrified my parent’s generation was when sometimes instead of a congratulatory handshake athletes would “high five” or do a fist slap. And so would everyone else. By the mid to late 1990s that had morphed into what we call the fist bump. When I saw those gals on Fox showing that clip of the Obama’s doing that fist bump at a huge campaign event and trying to turn it into a “See? SEE? These are bad people. Not American. TERRORISTS and they let it slip by doing a terrorist gesture!”
Of course the reaction was swift and mocking of Fox. Every sane person and even most Fox viewers had seen and more often than not used a fist bump by then. Had for years. So Fox had to try and do some backing and filling. But it showed how desperate they were over the prospect of Republican’s losing the WH and not having a direct pipeline into the place.
This smacks of the same stuff. Looking for something, ANYTHING to get people to freak out over. And they look really stupid. I’m a lifelong dog lover. I don’t hate cats, but vastly love dogs more. BFD. And you know what? I don’t freak out that CAT videos have long been one of the most popular things that fly around the internet. People love them. Even if like me you can’t sing a single line of one of Taylor Swift’s songs (and I honestly can’t – I’m familiar with the lyric “shake it off” but not the music that it goes to, much less anything else in that song or any other by her) the fact Taylor Swift has a CAT and shows pics of it sometimes isn’t newsworthy. And for damned sure like this bullshit.
Yeah, I think the folks at Fox are in panic mode these days. If this is something they are trying to hype they feel like Trump and the GOP (because of him) is fucked. Which means they are too. I couldn’t find that original clip of the “terrorist fist bump” to show but here’s a few minutes of discussion about it and a sports dude doing a segment that, once it gets to him talking just shreds Fox/conservatives over that dumbass bit of Fox commentary:
“Brain dead, low information voters” are the Swiftiy voters? These are most likely young women who, if voting are out of H.S. That right there makes them higher information voters than magats f.f.s. Low bar true but adding the fact that many of her fans are starting or in college would be rubbing salt in the magat wounds.
What is it about successful women that send magats around the bend? lmao. The magats have issues with Taylor. They have really BIG issues with Vice President Harris. Show me a woman who is making it better than the magat talking heads (another low bar) and we have bits of brain all over the place because their heads explode f.f.s. Of course one cannot miss the fact they had absolutely nothing to say about morons like nugent supporting their mango messiah although how many votes that idiot would bring in, being a has-been who has been so since…what…the 80’s?
Want to not only keep dems in office but increase their numbers? Cause the magats to have their little melt-downs by enlisting every successful, progressive woman in the country to make public their views on the party that wants to allow rapists to rape without consequences, misogyny to go on without comment, and bodily autonomy to go bye-bye. Get those ladies out there telling the magats where they can stick it and we’ll be picking up bits of grey matter from every magat media outlet in the nation. lol Democrats are not using every weapon in their arsenal if they are not using this strategy.
“…Get those ladies out there telling the magats where they can stick it …”
Careful there, they might learn something and start recreating (meaning re-creating). The very last thing we need is more of ’em. Right now they’re so brain dead they don’t know where to stick it (see..incel).
We know why orangebob shitpants doesn’t like Taylor…oh sure, she’s a young blonde hottie…but if he goes to grab that pussy…it will be his last act on earth! It won’t even require the help of his brother…I think her bf can handle that tub of goo!!!
The Maga crowd talking about her fan base and THEIR intelligence? Lololol…
So clueless and out of touch they’re self-parodying.
Everyone but them knows what ‘They’ve got Taylor Swift, we’ve got Kid Rock and Ted Nugent’ really means.
Oh, yeah, I knew Jack Schitt, too. We went to differrent schools together.
😏😂🤪🤣😏😅😄
At least the cat is smart enough to belong to Taylor Swift! I wonder if the cat will get the beach house?
Does,anyone other than brain dead Trump trash even listen to Ted Nugent or Kid Rock?
I doubt Swifties would even if they weren’t Swifties? I am in my 70s and I hate them.both.
And for some reason, Trumpies hate single women over the age of 22 who own cats. How about we start a run or that single men over the age of 25 who own large dogs are impotent or virgins ( it both)? Makes about as much sense.
Oh, yeah, “We have Kid Rock, and Ted Nugent…and Influencers”.
I’m old enough to remember EARLY rock’n’roll – The Drifters, The Coasters, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley and The Comets, Fats Domino – and still listen to FM radio – Bruno Mars, Maroon 5, Rihanna, and Taylor. I don’t recall a Ted Nugent song having topped the hit record charts, and as for “Machine Gun” Kid Rock, his only number that I remember getting heavy air play was based on a guitar riff lifted from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” – call it derivative, or plagiarism, your choice.
Both Nugent and Kid Rock were “one hit wonders” and neither of their “hits” made it to the top of the charts! I’ve never been into rap/hip-hop but unless I’m mistaken Vanilla Ice isn’t exactly a top name in that particular genre. Pretty lame performers on the GOP side if you ask me. If they are “influencers” then why doesn’t Trump, or other GOP candidates for that matter use THEIR music for walk on time? No, they use people who are actually popular and talented. And while some just groan, every election SOME of them don’t just quietly object but go public with having had their lawyers send cease and desist letters.
I couldn’t name a Kid Rock song if my life depended on it. Ted Nuegent though was a little more than a one hit wonder. He had a particular style that he was very good at. He did great for a few years. Then he got involved in hunting and got bent on that. He hooked up with Fred Bear who was a great bow hunter. Sweaty Teddy thought he could jump over into country and there came his one hit wonder and out the door. He got the mistaken impression that he could roll with all music. His Fred Bear song was good but it wasn’t a classic. That sort of warped his brain. For years Ted didn’t do drugs or drink in an industry built on it. I don’t know but i often wonder if when he was out hunting with old Fred Bear if he didn’t introduce him to the old timers solution to staying warm in the timber. Ye olde flask of hard likker. Soon after that Teddy came out hardcore conservative. It just never suited him though. As for Kid Rock, it got me kicked off twitter because I called him a fake redneck which he is. I know real rednecks and old Kid couldn’t carry their water. Doesn’t surprise me in the least to see him suck up to old Orange Donnie. They belong together.
kid rock never got over pamela going back to tommy lee. lol