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National security officials are used to shaking off absurd conspiracy theories, but the latest rumor that’s gripped MAGA world just hits different.

The claims by Fox News and far-right influencers that pop star Taylor Swift is part of a Pentagon “psychological operation” to get President Joe Biden reelected, and somehow rig the Super Bowl to benefit Kansas City Chiefs tight end (and Swift’s boyfriend) Travis Kelce, has been met with forehead slaps in the national security world.

“The absurdity of it all boggles the mind,” said one senior administration official, granted anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter. “It feels like one of those ‘tell me you are a MAGA conspiracy theorist, without telling me you are a MAGA conspiracy theorist’ memes.”

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Dark Brandon gives their supersolders the hardest battles.

Agencies has so many stories and gossips of coups, secret weapons and psychological experiments like MK-ULTRA, and they used Taylor telling people to vote as their psy-op?

Big scary government that can hear every your word and can even say them for you, can track and kill you at any time - uses a pop-star to make a point?

Who buys that bullshit? Is it, again, the weak but strong enemy? That's a story even Onion wouldn't publish.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait for it. Win or lose, once they realize how embarrassing this episode should be, it'll become something that none of them actually believed and besides, it was all started by some lefty trying to make fun of them. The real conspiracy turns out to be (in hindsight with the benefit of selective memory and heavy retconning) a push to drive up merchandise sales. They'll make a reference to globalists, lizard people and something about "controlling the media" without a specific J-word for plausible deniability.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can't say jewelery without a J-word, don't you? They are stupid rich and are out to get you. Hide your kids, hide your wife, as they'd come to you to take them, and dance Hava Nagila over your cold dead body. Stupid leftists think I'm insane now, but who'd they ask to help, when jewish reptiloids would take their children and farm them for adenochrome? Not me, I'd shoot them on sight as any other trespasser. God bless America.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The tragedy of our age is that this could totally be posted in all seriousness.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

We live in some form of post-reality where whatever our sci-fi visionaries said years ago as a precaution gets picked as an instruction to action. I hate that, and I'm happy someone picked it without a cowardly added s/.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm in my mid-40's and i cannot recall a time when this wouldn't have been the case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

And hide yo husband cuz they rapin' everyone out here

[–] asteriskeverything 12 points 9 months ago

This way they get to hate a beautiful woman who would never fuck them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I mean, if agencies theoretically wanted more dem votes, there are worse ways than getting a mega superstar to ask her fans for them. But if they were in the business of controlling US elections we probably wouldn't have the entirety of the shitshow that is existence right now.