So funny. Wapo weighs in. (you lib "FACT CHECKERS" take note)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/02/04/taylor-swift-joe-biden-2024-endorsement-question/
Thursday, in a not-quite dive bar on the east side of Capitol Hill, five Democratic staffers crammed into a leather booth with beers and white wines to discuss [Taylor]...
After nearly 90 minutes, one dared to wonder aloud if Taylorâs relationship with her football-playing boyfriend, Travis Kelce, was, in fact, a publicity stunt. The others screamed...
The women belong to the Hill Swifties, a group chat of congressional worker bees who...sneak[] Swift references into their bossesâ press releases...
...itâs easy to appropriate Swiftisms poorly in Washington. The State Departmentâs âEras Tourâ-themed checklist for international travel? That was good. The FBIâs tip line tweet cloaked in the aesthetics of Swiftâs album âSpeak Now?" Not so good.
âThank goodness we have Taylor Swift,â one Hill Swiftie joked about her obsession with the pop star, âotherwise I wonder if Iâd be into QAnon.â
Joke is on her. She just outed herself, correctly, as groupie nutjob desperate for something to worship.
Itâs an especially heady time for Swifties in Washington. Her latest appearance at one of Kelceâs games â a playoff win that sent his team to the Super Bowl â coincided with murmurs that President Bidenâs campaign may be courting her ...
On the left: open thirsting for Swift...
& On Right: they have a campaign of ridicule now to say Taylor should be made Snow Queen of White History Month.
Righties praise her music as "whitest ever", say all Whites must now Center their Whiteness on Taylor Swift, etc.
All meant as sarcasm. Wapo ignores it. Because it's hilarious ie. too effective
On a day that music manager Scooter Braun visited the White House, former Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield found herself inadvertently briefing the president about Swiftâs bad blood with Braun...
An unequivocal endorsement for Bidenâs reelection from Swift could matter, says Bedingfield...
Bidenworld has been inundated with suggestions for how to try to make a Swift endorsement happen...
Marquee names mattered a lot to Biden in 2020, a year when nearly all of the campaigning had been done virtually.
FACT CHECK: THREE PINOCCHIOS.
Biden was shitty candidate. He couldn't draw a crowd of 20. So he had to "campaign virtually" - but Trump did rally after rally after rally of 30,000+ people.
Anyway...
The 2024 campaign will have a different feel, and particular types of celebrities will be called upon for every reason, every season. The campaign surrogate operation, for instance, is keeping tabs on hip-hop artists in Atlanta, and lists of bands that are influential in Wisconsin...Big names like Swift will be called upon, the campaign hopes...
As for the coveted Swift endorsement, some Democratic Swifties are nervous about all the members of their party who are talking explicitly about wanting the pop star to boost Biden â and whether if itâs cool that theyâve said all that.
Hey libs: Indeed your thirst is cringe.
âI donât want us to overdo it,â says Annie Wu Henry, who, as a social media producer for Democrat John Fettermanâs 2022 campaign for Senate in Pennsylvania, leaned on Swift references...
Too late Annie!
Remember libs: This all in Wapo. You MUST believe Wapo. Programmer commands you.