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Jordan Sather, a prominent promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, suggested that Swift’s life had been orchestrated as part of a sinister plot to encourage her fans to vote.

There a few other people quoted in there but it’s all the same sinister plan they are proposing: The psyop is encouraging people to vote.

Republicans see large voter turnout as a bad thing because they are less popular than they want you to think they are. This is not new, it’s just a new target.

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Swift’s life had been orchestrated as part of a sinister plot to encourage her fans to vote.

Reminds me of the time Republicans in some local election had sent out a mailer smearing the Dem candidate. There was a big box on one part of the card, in a large font against a dark background proclaiming that the Dem candidate wanted to “Educate and Transform you!”

Well, I thought, do your donors know you are campaigning for the Democrat?

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I think that’s deliberate language designed to get voters to distrust truth and facts.

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Oh for sure. Vilifying education as indoctrination is core to their platform.

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181 points

Better headline:

The Right will believe literally anything except reality because they don’t want to accept they’re unpopular.

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Reminds me of the time GOP Senator Mark-Wayne Mullin shouted “I don’t want reality!” In a senate hearing

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Haha haha my god that’s a horrible thing for a senator to say.

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To be fair tho, I don’t want reality either.

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16 points

Republicans don’t understand Republicanism.

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The right is free to have kid Rock or whatever loser they have on their side, do the same things Taylor is doing, if they’re so concerned. Except all she’s doing is encouraging people to vote, which as we all know is bad for Republicans

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You’re forgetting that if a woman does it its a psyop

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More specifically if a woman they don’t like does it. They like her in theory because she’s white and attractive and straight and Christian and got her start as a country singer, but then she had to go and have opinions about things, so now she’s a commie who’s destroying America, or something.

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I didn’t know he was still active.

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Qanon? Not a psyop. Fake electors? Not a psyop. Fake evidence of election fraud? Not a psyop. Inciting insurrection at the capital? Not a psyop.

Popular woman wants right to healthcare? PSYOP!!!

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12 points

Makes sense to me! I’m convinced

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Oh thank god. Republicans are gonna piss off the Swifties.

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48 points

this may be the thing that topples the gop

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I really dislike all the attention Taylor Swift gets, but if this is what does it I will become a lifelong Swiftie.

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I just don’t get it. I must be missing something really important about what makes her stand out as different from any other guitar-playing radio pop woman singer-songwriter since the early 2000’s. Why didn’t Michelle Branch get as popular? I don’t dislike her, just not my taste I guess.

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I heard she was carrying Tupac’s love child.

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