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There are many fine establishments that allow you to bet on the outcome of NFL games.

So all those conservatives are placing bets now, right?

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So…talk to me like I’m a MAGA moron with less brain cells than teeth and a family tree that doesn’t always fork in all the right places.

What’s the problem here? Seriously. Even if Taylor Swift were personally touring the country, knocking on every single door, and telling people to vote for Biden. So? Isn’t that what their staffers should also be doing so they can get re-elected? So what if she stands on the podium if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl and says that everybody in the stadium and watching at home should vote for Biden?

Like at what point does it cross from the political activism that thousands of people across the country engage in all the time to some kind of “psyop” (side note: This is the stupidest term I have ever heard, by the way), “election interference”, or whatever other term they can come up with to imply what she’s doing is illegal?

Are they scared that Taylor Swift commands a bigger audience than Trump? Are they worried about millions of Swifties marching in lockstep to the ballot box to vote for Biden? Are they really all that concerned because a celebrity who has so far shown absolutely no desire even dip a toe into that political shitstorm might say something that might cause people to vote for Biden?

Are these people seriously getting all worked up over a celebrity who has shown no desire to give political commentary at all simply because she might endorse Biden? Or is this another situation where they’re pre-emptively setting Taylor Swift of all people up as the person to blame if Trump loses? Last time he did this, he said that everything is rigged and that’s the only way he could lose. Is the party really setting up for a round 2 where they blame Taylor fucking Swift?

Because that’s not going to work out for them. Taylor Swift is probably one of the biggest celebrities in the country right now, maybe only rivalled by people like the Rock. And that’s a hell of a maybe. Do they think pissing off a shit-ton of Swifties in red states is going to work? Fucking LOL. Try that and they’ll be lucky if all that happens is a few purple states go blue. Swifties are not going to be abandoning Taylor Swift on the word of Donald fucking Trump.

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We should consider it a faux pas for a news organization to report on the punditry of other news org that is “two steps below it”.

If nbcnews wants to cover something “conservatives” are saying, they shouldn’t reach deep. They should consider the twitter account End Wokeness to be so far beneath it that reporting on it directly should feel dirty.

Now if fox news or even newsmax picks it up, then maybe start attacking this nonsense. Right now it seems to the crazies that we are taking them seriously. Why else would NBC News cover it?

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i’m seeing this more often recently and i appreciate people who identify it and call it out

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It would be like CNN reporting on our Lemmy posts. It doesn’t make sense to treat Twitter as if it’s the news. It’s how Trump had a stranglehold on the news cycle from a White House toilet. The news couldn’t stop reporting on his tweets.

If I wanted to get my news from Twitter I would go to Twitter. I go to news organizations to hear real news, not stream of consciousness thoughts from public figures. I’m concerned how much actual news we’ve missed because news pundits are too busy checking social media to actually report on the news.

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could be part of an orchestrated plot to drum up hype for the Democratic Party.

What if it was? Then what? Isn’t that just marketing? Commercialization? I mean… what? Why even care?

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I wasn’t aware it worked like that, that because a certain team won, everyone has to do what Swift wnats…

In fact I’m sure it doesn’t…

I know Conservative arguments don’t often make sense, and by design are meant to be catchy slogans more than accurate precise arguments, but… shit sometimes they make it too obvious.

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