Right-wing conspiracy theorists are claiming the NFL Super Bowl has been rigged to facilitate a Taylor Swift endorsement of Joe Biden.

Taylor Swift has shattered virtually every major record in the music industry, and as she lives her best life supporting her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, she’s also breaking the brains of right-wingers.

For months now, the digital fever swamps have been fuming over everything and anything Swift-related. Her popularity, the success of the Eras Tour, her relationship, her appearances at NFL games, and especially her politics. The Chiefs won the AFC championship on Sunday, punching the team’s (and potentially Swift’s) ticket to the Super Bowl in February. In response, long-standing conspiracy theories around the NFL’s “scriptwriting” for football seasons clashed with right-wing conspiracy theorists claiming Swift’s involvement with Kelce is part of a deep state plot to gin up support for President Joe Biden in the 2024 election. The result is as ugly as it is stupid.

Former presidential candidate and MAGA blowhard Vivek Ramaswamy tweeted on Monday that he wondered “who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month,” adding, “I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months.”

  • Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
    63·
    9 months ago

    I wonder how conspiracy theorists rationalize their belief that the elections are rigged with their belief that the opposition needs to artificially drum up support in order to win elections.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      44·
      9 months ago

      They don’t. They don’t even bother to rationalize. When forced to think about the bullshit they spew they just claim they haven’t finished researching it and then repeat themselves despite admitting they know nothing and have no response to any evidence.

      • toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl
        26·
        9 months ago

        Ah, the age-old quote:

        Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

        ― Jean-Paul Sartre

      • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        I mean, there are some opposing philosophical beliefs that can hold true at the same time. For example, we are all different and we are all the same can work. However, these people are holding objective opposing beliefs as true at the same time. Something is up with their ability to differentiate between concrete and abstract concepts.

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
      171·
      9 months ago

      Trying to defeat these people with arguments is futile. They have checked out from reality long ago.