Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory Is Embraced by Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, Poll Finds

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Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory Is Embraced by Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, Poll Finds
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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?