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When a large chorus of boos greeted Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl, her response summed up what many leftists are likely thinking after Donald Trump has come into the Oval Office like a whirlwind and started systematically dismantling the corrupt machine they have been using for decades to exercise hegemony over the political and cultural spheres.
Taylor gets booed at the Bowl.
Maybe someone should tell her that being a virtue-signalling, woke celeb is not a popular thing among the common folk. 😂pic.twitter.com/w1wl464USO
— 🅾️ Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) February 10, 2025
A year ago, the much-heralded young chanteuse wielded so much influence (or was assumed to wield so much influence) that according to a Monmouth poll, nearly one in five Americans actually believed that she was part of a deep state effort to help Old Joe Biden win reelection. When Swift eventually endorsed Kamala Harris, the New York Times hailed her as “one of America’s most celebrated pop-culture icons” and noted that she had “an enormous following across the world.” Swift’s endorsement, the Times said, “offers Ms. Harris an unrivaled celebrity backer and a tremendous shot of adrenaline to her campaign, especially with the younger voters she has been trying to attract.”
As it turned out, the shot of adrenaline turned out to be a fizzle, and by Super Bowl Sunday, Swift didn’t seem to be much of a celebrated pop-culture icon at all. The New York Post reported Monday that “after being caught off guard by the harsh reception to her presence, the singer turned to her pal and rapper Ice Spice in the VIP box. ‘What’s going on?’ the ‘Fortnight’ singer, who was at the game to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce, was seen saying on the scoreboard in response to the boos.”
“What’s going on?” Indeed. In three words, Taylor Swift could have written the epitaph of the left’s cultural hegemony. Leftists over the last three weeks have been bewildered by how quickly their fortunes have taken a downturn. As Rich Lowry noted, “A blitz of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump have taken dead aim at left-wing cultural priorities and pillars of the left’s cultural influence. Fashionable progressive ideas that have long been ascendant, including DEI and gender ideology, have received hammer blows since Trump’s inauguration, and there’s more to come.” Much, much more to come, we hope.
And it has all happened in the blink of an eye. Trump’s extraordinarily active first three weeks have left more than just Taylor Swift blinking their eyes in disbelief and muttering, “What’s going on?” Not too very long ago, the left’s lunatic ideas, including the insistence that some makeup, a wig, and some hormone shots could transform a man into a woman, were ruthlessly enforced. The social media giants relentless and unapologetically deplatformed and silenced dissidents from the left’s agenda, including Donald Trump himself.
Many people who knew better played along with a sense of quiet resignation, duly referring to Rachel Levine as a woman and Elliot Page as a man, and pretending that the rogue’s gallery of freaks and psychopaths that the Biden regime brought in to staff the White House were competent professionals. Two plus two was five, and if it meant total ostracism to say otherwise, then two plus two was five indeed, and patriots glumly searched out small corners of the Internet where they could affirm the truth, while trying to find ways that they could still have a voice in the larger culture while attempting to appease the left’s unappeasable gods.
But the left’s cultural hegemony has crested now and begun to recede. It started even before Trump’s second administration began, but has picked up significant speed since then. Even Taylor Swift herself could have asked her plaintive question long before the boos came cascading in at the Super Bowl. Back in Sept. 2024, NBC News reported that “about 47% of Republicans say they view Swift negatively in a poll conducted days after her presidential endorsement, a sharp uptick from the 26% who reported viewing her negatively in NBC’s Nov. 2023 poll, the last time she was included in the survey. Just 12% of Republicans report positive attitudes toward the singer, down from 28% last year.”
They were just Republicans, which probably meant that they mattered little to Swift, but even that increase in negative views of the singer wasn’t supposed to happen. Back in Oct. 2020, NBC News said that “Swift has previously stayed out of politics, in fear of isolating her audience.” Yet given the left’s cultural ascendancy, endorsing Biden in 2020 was the safest thing she could have done. Patriotic Swifties were used to that sort of thing and would have borne it patiently, and so she wouldn’t have lost any of her audience at all.
By 2024, however, her endorsement of Harris had little impact, and then there she was on Sunday, getting booed at the Super Bowl. “What’s going on?” The left is losing its edge, that’s what’s going on. And it’s a glorious thing to see.
EAGLES 40 CHIEFS 22 now Go Home Ms. Swift and tell it to your Snowflake Doll since your Teddy Bear Ran Away
For every patriot at the Superbowl booing this vapid chanteuse, there were 10000 in the TV audience booing her from afar. Let me add my voice here:
BOOOOOOOOOOO!
I laughed my ass off when I heard about that on Real America’s Voice and Newsmax on TV. I have nothing personal against the dumb lefty but anybody who supports Alzheimer Joe and Heels Up Harris deserves to be booed.
The derision she received was one of the few things she actually earned (albeit, unintended).
Personally, I don’t have much contempt for Taylor, as her main fault is willful ignorance from the mind of a child.
My unapologetic hatred is for low-life Megan Rapone.
Her seething hatred toward America has earned my contempt, and her latest installment was to endorse trans-trash men in women’s sports (the very thing the colossal hypocrite never had to face herself.)
Ya’ think she learned anything about getting involved in politics? Maybe, when her accountant says she’s now living off the billion she’s made with nothing new coming in. Regardless, I don’t think her and KEL-C will be standing in any bread lines for the rest of their lives no matter who they vote for.
Poor Taylor Swift. It turns out you are just a pop star, an average singer of little pop ditties who’s audience is mainly prepubescent girls, and who is doing the Kelce guy from K.C. Chiefs. Looks his and their star has waned too since Sunday.
What do you want to bet she dumps him now that he is not such a hot catch anymore.
As General George Patton paraphrased at the end of the movie ‘Patton’:
Sic transit gloria mundi is a Latin phrase that means “Thus passes the glory of the world.”
His performance, in the big game, should give her plenty of fodder for an album or two of life’s let downs. Kel-C needs to pay close attention to the lyrics. They’ll be much easier to interpret than whatever that was at halftime.
Taylor who?
This is a perfect example that wealth and fame does not make the man or woman.
Elon Musk has proven his gravitas and focus.
These entertainment celebs are as worthwhile as a pile of dog shit that’s been on the sidewalk in the Arizona summer sun for 3 days – or javelina shit – perhaps coyote shit – Taylor Swift, whatever and whoever you are, you’re as worthwhile as coyote shit.
A long line of demonic progression since Madonna to Taylor Swift.
It’s sad that this is what children listen to.
The Beatles had gravitas, From their early recordings to post 1967 they broke ground that no one has touched since.
Madonna to Taylor swift are manufactured and not original. Sluts on the Stage.
Flush the toilet and they are gone.
A bit harsh for Taylor, but definitely correct about pop stars, and not harsh enough describing that disgusting slut Madonna.
Taylor is a shallow, ignorant child, where as Madonna is a seething cauldron of lascivious garbage that grows more rancid with time.
Add to the list that vacuous fool Selena Gomez. She’ll cry a river for pedophiles, rapists, gang thugs, etc as long as they’re “her people”.
You’re correct about pop-stars. The cosseted bimbo’s only accomplishment is to attract an easily-amused audience.
Temu Kylie Minogue is just a repulsive person, and the booing that greeted her was a wonderful thing to behold.
The poor woman couldn’t just go on with reaping the financial benefits of her ‘lots of fluff of no consequence whatsoever’ performance, she HAD to do politics too and ridicule herself. Serves her right, but who cares anyway?
So does anyone wonder WHY the DEMOcrats have pushed to LOWER the voting age to 16? If anything, maybe it should be RAISED to 28 so that people can experience what the Government CAN do to them before having a say in WHO is in Gov’t! I’d make an exception for those who serve in the Military – NO AGE RESTRICTION !!
Why not 16 years of age? Democrats stop learning beyond that point and focus on contempt of the American Way. DOGE is exposing what they are all about and that’s why they have fired up the lawyers and call for “street fighting” to keep hold of their primary target: the USA.
In my college 20’s in the 1970’s , I & many others had our boyfriends conscripted to fight in the Vietnam War, so the logical thing to do to end the war was if a 18 year old young soldier could fight & die for America shouldn’t he have the right to vote? An astounding yes came across the land loud and clear. We won, it was that important to be able to vote. Of course we were more educated then. Now in our 70’s through 90 years old we’re still learning.
Yes! Dunning-Kruger makes more and more sense to me now.
The Demonrats turned Democracy into Demockery.
Swift: A small leader within the left’s shrinking echo chamber.
“New York Times hailed her as “one of America’s most celebrated pop-culture icons” and noted that she had “an enormous following across the world.” Swift’s endorsement, the Times said, “offers Ms. Harris an unrivaled celebrity backer and a tremendous shot of adrenaline to her campaign, especially with the younger voters she has been trying to attract.””
The Times really can come up with the most preposterous nonsense. That gem of a statement was only meant to give their upper west side readers hope that the most vapid presidential candidate ever had a chance. Never listen to the Times. They are full of it.
Taylor Who?
She has the same relevance as Kammy does.
The marketing gurus who decided sports fan care about celebrities are numb skulls.
She’ll end up a drunken ol’ whore in the trailer park of her dreams if there is any Justice in the world.
Celebrities seem to have an inflated sense of importance. Swift got booed because she fancies herself someone important, but she isn’t.