Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory Is Embraced by Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, Poll Finds
Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory Is Embraced by Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, Poll Finds
Eighteen percent believe there is “a covert government effort” for the pop icon to help President Biden win re-election, according to a Monmouth University survey.
And these are the same people who are questioning Biden's faculties?
Biden's faculties are questionable. Trump's are, as well. I worry that Biden will not be up to the task, but I also think he's our best chance of beating Trump.
We need to beat Trump not because he is forgetful or senile, but because he is a treasonous bigot who would (for the second time) seize as much power and money for himself as he possibly can while selling state secrets to foreign intelligence agencies. He's also a rapist, a liar, a thief, a charletain, a narcissist, and a petulant, violent piece of shit. He cannot be President again. He must go to prison.
i've seen on evidence of biden having questionable faculties. has he tripped? yeah. have you ever done that? yeah. he also has a life long speech impediment. that has zip to do with how sharp his mind is. i go by actions and he's gotten more done for more people than possibly any president in my lifetime. he responds to current events quickly and on point (tho i don't agree with him on everything, but so what?) alll ive heard to support otherwise is just that, people saying it. and i first saw it in right wing propaganda.
It's much worse than that. Trump can't be president again because he will quite possibly be the last president thr US will ever have, at least until he dies of cheeseburger overdose.
Exact same people who stormed the Capitol
if you watch at video, a lady who went to prison for that is the only one he interviewed who woke up to how dumb it was.
You know it’s the same fucktards.
yes. because that's part of the same propaganda. in for a penny, in for a pound.
So is the conspiracy that she's being coerced? Because she's a billionaire in the land of legal political bribery, so she has the means to tell our politicians what to do far more than the other way around. She's allowed to have and to express a political opinion, just like any other random person.
You ever notice everything and everyone Republicans don't like is a conspiracy against them?
"OW! Stubbed my toe! God damned wall corner is a leftist plot to injure me so I can't vote for the fuhrer!"
Sorry, the soft serve machine is being cleaned right now.
"Did Brandon get to you?! Who sent you to deprive me of soft serve?! Fucking Pelosi?!"
Because she's a billionaire in the land of legal political bribery, so she has the means to tell our politicians what to do far more than the other way around.
Yes, but don't you see? She's a woman, and therefore needs to be told what to do and think by the super smart and totally handsome male politicians. /s
The funniest bit about this Taylor Swift thing if you think about it is that Modern Republicans love the negative attention they get for all of their hateful causes, they literally try to make people outside their in-group hate them for their own amusement. They welcome the rest of America's disgust of them as a badge of honor. It's in their rhetoric, threatening "Give me an excuse to shoot somebody" door signs, and "fuck your feelings" bumper stickers.
They're blowing a microchip over Taylor because hatred is their brand, positive popularity is something they've always shunned and devalued, and now their ENEMIES have most of the popular figures they drove away, leaving them with... well... kid rock.
They want to be hated, and they want to win, at the same time. So it's literally offensive and not fair to them, and anything not fair to them is a "conspiracy," that social popularity is relevant in an election. 😂
Devil's avocado here, but it must be nice to go through life with nothing ever being your own fault. There's always a convenient plot against you, and you'd be a billionaire running a casino on the moon if it weren't for {insert scapegoat here}.
Of course it's Pelosi, she can't let anyone else get their grubby paws on her precious ice cream! /s
If there is a conspiracy happening to stop these idiots from further footgunning the country, where do I sign up? Are there tryouts?
Eighteen percent believe there is “a covert government effort” for the pop icon to help President Biden win re-election, according to a Monmouth University survey.
Why would they need a covert operation? It's already well known she's favors the Democrats and hates Trump. Why the need for a conspiracy layer to it? I'm sure the Biden team would be thrilled if she endorsed him, but that's not "a covert government effort". It's so stupid.
Anything to make it sound nefarious, because to Republican voters, everyone is as dishonest, tribal, and ammoral as they are.
This is all Fox "News" and other conservative outlets do all day every day, take the news and add sinister innuendo to it. If Biden were doing a state visit to the UK, Fox would almost certainly say "Biden flees overseas to avoid American's scrutiny of his administration's failures" or the like. If he had that state visit planned but canceled it due to some urgent matter, the headline would be "Biden cancels state visit. Health concerns? What's he hiding?"
Republicans basically spin any positive or neutral information about their many enemies, everyone outside their in-group, as an attack on them. Republicans have no empathy, so of course the sun moon and stars all revolve around them in their view.
They think they are the real ones and that any opposition is hate. Rather than, ya know, feeling sorry for them.
Yeah but the needed to covertly rig football games to make Taylor Swift popular. Because nobody heard of Taylor Swift before a few months ago, right?
This just in: one in five americans are stupid.
We all lived through COVID, so we should already know this.
lived
COVID is only past-tense if it's killed you, like the 1-2000 Americans killed by COVID weekly.
20% is definitely a lowball estimate.
I usually hear "30% of americans will believe anything" so the quality of the conspiracy must be quite low
It’s much higher than that. This is the side effect of giving idiots access to social media as a platform to spread their stupidity.
case in point...numbers: they can be hard
If you think about it, 50% of people are dumber than average
That's a sizable under-count.
Written another way: "At least 1 in 5 Americans are exposed to unreasonable amounts of dangerous and persuasive propaganda."
I prefer:
“At least 1 in 5 Americans have a critical thinking deficiency.”
What part of any of these conspiracies are persuasive?
the part that makes you feel like a crusader and an insider.
Just call it Fox News
I'm Canadian, and every time I hear a stat like this I think of the following quote:
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." -Pierre Trudeau to Richard Nixon
Fun times... Learning 1 in 5 of your fellow citizens has shit for brains.
it was 1 in 3 the last time i looked at a fox news poll
Im reading this as: Nearly 1 in 5 people will reliably vote for Trump
Good: Trump only has 1/5 of people fooled and there is hope
Bad: 1/5 peoples live would be improved by lobotomy
Im reading this as: Nearly 1 in 5 people will reliably vote for Trump
You're discounting the number of RFK Jr voters and Sovereign Citizen "Voting is just a trick to get you to create joinder" folks in this mix. Also, the guaranteed number of chucklefuck respondents who reply "Yes, and that's good actually".
Good: Trump only has 1/5 of people fooled and there is hope
Plenty of Trump support has nothing to do with QAnon-tier witch hunts. I've got Trump neighbors who are entirely in it because they think he'll be good for the Houston O&G economy. Its the "Climate Change is a hoax and only Trump will protect our jobs" folks plus the "Illegal Immigrants are going to rape my daughter and hot box my son with the dankest Chinese fentanyl" folks who are the backbone of the campaign.
The "Taylor Swift is a 12-Dimensional Psychic Parasite Channeling the Spirit Ghost of Joseph Stalin" crowd are merely the most exotic and lurid supporters.
RFK Jr is pulling more Trump voters than Biden voters, since that audience doesn't s generally being targeted by him, but he does have some celebrity pull and Sergey Brin's/Elon Musk's ex-wife/ex-girlfriend.
Also bad you only 1 in 8 to win the presidency
There's some people who are highly suggestible. Like to the point it's arguably a disability.
There was an interview with Trump supporters that captured one that other day that's worth a look to understand what's going on:
https://youtu.be/Ud3btbISggA?t=06m08s
You can watch as the person interviewing him about falling for scams over and over jokingly tells him to walk off in a given direction - and then the dude just starts to, until he realizes his car is in the other direction.
I think that's kind of misleading.
It looks to me more like he is just looking in that direction (even if he does take a step or two). He was more asking/saying, well why should I go that way when my car is this way. Not, oh shit, my car is actually this way.
If you watch the entire interview with him, I don't think it's at all misleading to portray him as highly suggestible.
The dude falls over himself agreeing with whichever way the wind blows in an interview about how he keeps being taken advantage of by scams.
In that broader context, him shuffling off several steps in the direction some guy jokingly told him to head off in really shouldn't be discounted with a parenthetical.
It's time to chlorinate the gene pool.
Trump kinda tried that already… just with bleach and light.
I wish we could find the gene for critical thinking and apply a little gene therapy to every fetus. Imagine Cletus and Sally Bobbi Anne having a toddler who questions bible stories and plays along with the Santa thing because they are so excited when he pretends to buy into their bullshit.
a good education and ripping away church tax breaks would go a long way. and jailing megapreacher con men just like any other con men.
Well, of course it's real. The 49ers are from one of the most liberal areas in the US. So, yeah they were fine with taking a loss if it means Biden's pawn can help his agenda. /s
In 2020 39% of people believed the "deep state" was working against Trump.
So I guess this is good news sort of?
It’s not a conspiracy, she won the super bowl fair and square—we all saw it
What is the conspiracy exactly? The link has a pay wall for me.
Keeping those details vague is intentional. The purveyors of such conspiracy theories know that the worst thing they can ever do is make a clear falsifiable statement.
They thought she was going to endorse Biden at the end of the Super Bowl and that the White House had rigged the game for the Chiefs to win in order to maximize the spectacle and coverage.
Something to do with rigging football games to make Taylor swift popular (because she wasn't popular already, I guess?) so she could endorse Biden so he can get re-elected.
But I'm kinda more interested in the one where she's a vampire.
The flaw in your reasoning is that you're using Google. Stupid people don't research things, so of course you're not going to find anything.
TIL at least 1 in 5 people ate paint chips as a child
Public Policy Polling’s recent poll on conspiracy theories mostly showed up on my Facebook feed as “Four percent of Americans believe lizardmen are running the Earth”.
(of note, an additional 7% of Americans are “not sure” whether lizardmen are running the Earth or not.)
I think the results here can be explained by Lizardman's constant and an additional few respondents who interpreted the question to mean "Do you support Trump?" and then gave the answer that corresponded to supporting Trump.
This fits in with my theory that a minimum of 20% of the population is a waste of space.
20% of the country is deliberately misled and probably suffering from things like lead poisoning.
1% of the country is the reason for that.
My local organic food and supplement store sells Cordycep supplements. Articles like this make me want to start taking fungus supplements in the hopes that I might become patient zero.
So, 20% of this nation is absolute proof that the Republicans’ plan to destroy the public education system is working.
🎯
Even 1/3 of the ususal 30% dumbass population doesn't believe this
1 in 5 people suck
Stop using Theory incorrectly.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Super Bowl may be over, but right-wing conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift and the 2024 presidential election are still raging.
Swift, the global pop icon, to help President Biden win re-election, according to a poll released Wednesday by Monmouth University.
Swift to help Mr. Biden were Republicans, and 83 percent of those who embraced the baseless theory said they were likely to vote for former President Donald J. Trump in November.
There was overlap with 2020 election denial: 73 percent of respondents who subscribed to the Swift conspiracy theory also said they believed the lie, perpetuated by Mr. Trump and others, that the last presidential contest was fraudulent.
Swift and Mr. Biden prompted a wave of anger and wild speculation among online conservatives in the run-up to the Super Bowl on Sunday, which Ms.
Swift attended as a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs, the team that employs her boyfriend, the tight end Travis Kelce.
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If i had been asked, i would also agree it was a conspiracy. I dont believe it, but its a funny thought.
Keep in mind we are talking about the most extreme Americans here.