Friday, February 9, 2024

Fear & loathing in Las Vegas

As some of you may be aware, there’s a sporting event taking place on Sunday. It’s driving MAGAts crazy because they consider that American football, in which teams of large male millionaires padded to the max crash into one another and millions of people bet their beer money on which one will leave the field with higher numbers on the scoreboard—“that’s mah game, man!”

But this year they’re conflicted, because of Traylor.

That’s to say, in case you’ve been in an ashram for the past year—Travis Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs (I don’t know what a tight end does, and I’m not sure why they don’t also have loose ends) is dating Taylor Swift.

If I have to explain to you who Taylor Swift is, we have no reason to be here. But she is everything MAGAts fear and loathe: smart, talented, powerful, successful, happy and richer than any hundred of them will be in their entire collective lives. And female.

They've also managed to cobble together conspiracy theories about how the Traylor thing is either a Pentagon psyop, an NFL hoax or a Biden manipulation. I am not making those up.

Well, not that any of them will be reading this, but today’s earworm is Swift’s “Shake It Off”.

Volume up.

 

 

 

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