If Republicans Said the Quiet Parts Loud About Taylor Swift

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#taylorswift #politicalcomedy #skit #sketchcomedy #superbowl

[@PanzerHyena]

Over the last eight years I have come to the conclusion that the GOP could just talk to their base exactly like this and it wouldn't change anything.

[@michaelallen1432]

Sometimes they come pretty close.

[@MichaelRainey]

"I like them because they tell it like it is. They're not afraid to speak the truth. Freedom of speech!'

[@ThisBlackFreeSpeeDeemedHarmful]

It would not. They are their for the 50score mandated Christianity, white primacy, manosphere, straight dominion Mad Men-style shariamerican nightmare revolution agenda. Not to be spoken to like intelligent adults.

[@joanfregapane8683]

Donnie insults them but they tune it out and grovel.

[@yuvalne]

I mean this literally happened recently with Trump. he said something about taxes and got a mediocre reaction, then said something about trans people and got everyone excited. he then followed to scold everyone for being so predictable and shallow and said he's tired of this facade. they still love him.

[@modelermark172]

You left out the one, big "quiet part out loud" reason that the MAGA movement REALLY hates Taylor Swift: It isn't that she might officially endorse President Biden in particular or Democrats in general. Nor is it that Taylor Swift might take a public stand on any particular issue, much less eventually decide to run for office, herself. The real reason I think they fear her is that she's encouraging her fans (as well as anyone who will listen) to register to vote, and actually show up and participate on election day. Republican strategists have always been worried about massive voter turnouts as these tend to favor the Democrats. This is why voter suppression was a big part of the GOP's "Southern Strategy" devised by Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Lee Atwater. Simply by encouraging participation in the electoral process, Taylor Swift could be a real game-changer . . . . 400th like.

[@cozmothemagician7243]

I was going to make the exact same point. Swift did not show up on the reiechwing radar until she got a bunch of people to all register in one day. THIS BLEW THEIR HEADS OFF. Can't be having any of THAT commie voter registration stuff, and over the INTERNET even!

[@gabrielmaroto18]

I think that’s one of the main reasons we don’t have weekend or electronic voting when the masses show up conservative lose big business lose that’s why they pour so much money into distractions wedge issue

[@fultrovus]

tRump literally said the only way Republicans could lose is if everyone got out and voted. The loudest idiot has said the quiet part out loud.

[@danielwilliams8346]

Ironic. They want to "teach our children to love 🇺🇸," but do not want to limit participation in the democratic process.

[@dreamervanroom]

And she is nice. And positive. Unlike the Goppers.

[@darthmeticulous6901]

You left out this… those same conservative men who are getting mad about women watching “their” sports also tend to complain about those same women “getting mad at men for watching the sports and not paying attention to them.” It’s so pathetic.

[@rishabhanand4973]

yeah, they also complain about women being gold diggers while also complaining about women not wanting to be housewives and a ton of other incoherent stuff

[@Susweca5569]

"Sports widows"

[@erikrungemadsen2081]

And the GOP would still have shat themself with joy, if Taylor Swift had endorsed them.

[@guaposneeze]

And also when a girl who looks "too masculine" plays sports at school or whatever. They treat watching sports like a ritual where Outsiders must be kept at bay. They want all of the vibes of cult membership, while also literally sitting on their duffs watching somebody else do all of the work.

[@clarissanavarro2762]

Such fragile egos. Here I thought "Men" were the "stronger" sex. Strong where? If you sneeze at them funny they fall apart. What can you say about a group that unless a girl smiles at them,.... they are crushed. I'm Bisexual,...but... these sorry morons have me pretty much swearing off men. lol....

[@bloodink9508]

We're men, strong men, manly men, We're men in tights, TIGHT tights.

[@DawnDavidson]

*schwinnnggg!* 😂

[@ahouyearno]

My thoughts exactly Great movie btw

[@mangu768]

We roam around the forest looking for fights.

[@ginajones2328]

​@@mangu768 yess love that movie

[@jmondine1]

"The parts of speech are coming to get you!" OMG, they'll cut off my dangling participles!

[@IAmTheAce5]

This needs more likes 😆

[@tamaramartin4015]

You win the morning 😂

[@margaretwordnerd5210]

I just fell in love with your sense of humor. 😁✌🖖

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

Seriously though their amorphous fear of "pronouns" is hilarious, especially since they have no idea what a pronoun actually is!

[@midkiddle]

@@IAmTheAce5 I shared it to fascistbook. Might bet more views. I can hope anyway.

[@podemosurss8316]

As a Spanish, I find the whole "issue" about Taylor Swift extremely crazy. What do American conservatives smoke or drink or inhale to be so nuts?

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

Everything. I'm pretty sure that they're secretly doing ALL the drugs.

[@graydanerasmussen4071]

A cocktail of patriotism, American Exceptionalism and expertly Mythified American history, liberally cut with fear, I think.

[@ahouyearno]

The worst drug of them all: alcohol If they smoked a blunt every so often they’d be a lot more chill

[@celestialstar6450]

Lead. Lots of lead.

[@podemosurss8316]

@@ahouyearno Nah, Spanish conservatives also drink a lot of alcohol and are slightly less crazy.

[@EternalDensity]

"When you are angry and afraid, who are you gonna vote for?" Ghostbusters!

[@Burbun]

If there's something weird, and it don't look good... Who you gonna call?

[@mjc0961]

No, I don't think Republicans are going to vote for Ghostbusters, they're still probably upset about the Lady Ghostbusters movie

[@DavidRichardson153]

​@@mjc0961 You can count on them voting for Vigo.

[@Pretender6]

He is a Lord, you know @@DavidRichardson153

[@normanlennox4949]

@@DavidRichardson153 Vigo will build the wall.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

The scarry part is that most real life Republicans are even more cartoony evil than the one you played - great video.

[@SuperMrHiggins]

Did you catch that video of MTG running away from her supporters? That's some cartooney evil shit. "I love my constituents so much, that I have to literally run in heels to get away from them."

[@LegoDork]

I also was scarred by how little of this presentation, seemed unrealistic. Satire is getting pretty dark.

[@naterod]

I love these skits. The sad part is, it’s not even satire it’s just the truth

[@priscillamoore5736]

​@@SuperMrHiggins- Wait, wait, wait, *what* ? Seriously? (SMH) I'll have to Google that.

[@zaddy49]

Wait. I thought these right wingers swore to boycott the NFL because of Colin Kaepernick having the audacity to exercise his 1st amendment rights.

[@HRHDMKYT]

Yeah. Except I think 80% of them don’t know what ‘boycott’ means, so it was pretty short-lived. They don’t strike me as the kind of people willing to make personal sacrifices. Their whole thing is that too many “other” people are taking away their right to feel superior, to have the best jobs without merit, to get all the goodies while everyone *else* toils away for peanuts, waiting on them hand and foot.

[@tgodshall2]

Lol Let's just say their hatred bounces around and they have a hard time staying focused on anything

[@alanbear6505]

My favorite was the claim that she’s only dating him to get his $70k bonus for herself.

[@rishabhanand4973]

yeah, cuz they have no idea just how big she is. tbf i didn't either. i remember hearing a few songs by her when i was in elementary in middle school. And then fast forward to a few years back and i find out she's _the_ biggest artist, i was completely shocked. like when did that happen? but yeah, she probably wouldn't bend over to pick up 70k

[@michaelallen1432]

Dang. 70,000 dollars. That's more zeros than I can count! 😆

[@michaelallen1432]

​@@rishabhanand4973yea, she has people that do that! 🤣 Wouldn't want her to trip over it.

[@coffeebux]

It is entirely possible that whoever made that post doesn't know math. Republicans have with alarming regularity demonstrated they don't know which number is bigger

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Lol

[@TrentDonelson]

Missed the part where they all liked her back when they thought she was the epitome of arian perfection, and because she kept quiet about her politics, it meant she was secretly one of them. When she finally went public about her political beliefs, they all felt betrayed, which is when all of the conspiracy theories started, because they couldn't handle the idea that their perfect woman wasn't on their team.

[@dominicfucinari1942]

They're probably too unknowledgeable in history to recognize that the meaning of "Aryan" had more to do with somewhere between Afghanistan and India than anything Germanic.

[@zenmastermtl]

"'Can't we have anything to ourselves?' You ask in the petulant tone of a child discovering they have the same birthday as another kid in their kindergarten class."

[@erikrungemadsen2081]

I was worried when i found out my German Godfather shared a birthday with me. In Denmark parents claim bad weather on your birthday means you were naughty through out the year. my dad then explained to me that my behavior did not effect the weather in Germany and his behaviour did nothing for the weather in Denmark. I later realised 4 year old kids know nothing about weather forecasting.

[@dominicfucinari1942]

@@erikrungemadsen2081 If someone wanted to change the weather at will, they'd have better chances trying to cast spells like Thundaga, Blizzaga, and Aeroga.

[@joebove4]

Conservatives have a long and storied history of manipulating resentment of popular youth culture, specifically musicians the kids like, to get the old farts who are angry that music isn’t like it was in their day to vote for them. It’s why they panicked about Elvis’s hips, why they freaked out when John Lennon correctly pointed out that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, it’s why they raged against rap music for decades. And it’s why they’re attacking Taylor Swift now. Banking on elder resentment towards stuff the kids like.

[@literaterose6731]

As a lefty elder, I’ve counted on my kids (and now grandkids!) to introduce me to music I might otherwise miss… one of my favorite things was when my son burned me a cd years ago (yeah, we’re both old now!) of Flogging Molly which he titled “4 out of 5 bar fights recommend this album” 😎 Never understood the grumbling over the “kids’ music.” The kids are alright!

[@marcilynn2943]

@@literaterose6731As a far lefty Gen Xer, I’m with you. 💙🇺🇸💙

[@yensid4294]

Yeah, I think people with kids have an advantage when it comes to being aware of pop culture. I started losing track of pop music in the late 90s/early oughts. FM radio changed, MTV changed & everything went digital download. We don't have kids & I'm not big into social media (no IG or Tiktok) so don't know thru personal experience what/who is popular at all times with young kids, tweens & teens. (TBH, even when I was a teen/twenty something, I was kind of into what I was into & not very conscious of what other people liked) I don't get mad about pop culture or what's trending, I'm just blissfully unaware 😊 & prefer to focus on my niche interests.

[@nondescriptcat5620]

@@literaterose6731 if you like Flogging Molly check out Gogol Bordello, they're friends.

[@TJRex01]

…..dude I think a significant number of Taylor’s fans aren’t kids anymore

[@ReadABookAndLearn]

Imagine being constantly angry and afraid of things that aren’t even real, just made up for the explicit purpose of making you angry and afraid. It’s like watching a zombie movie and then living the rest of your life as if zombie hordes are just around the corner. Meanwhile, you live in the most privileged time and place in history, surrounded by things that provide for your needs and desires, and can’t enjoy a damn thing.

[@jimballard1186]

I remember the zombie movie craze of twenty years ago, and all the very sad little boys who openly dreamed of a zombie apocalypse because then they'd get to prove THEY'D be survivors.

[@xelasomar4614]

Fear is the greatest motivator. It shuts down logical reasoning. You just react or nod along. There's a reason why religions create things like hell, hades, demons, etc. It's also why that is basically most if not all that right wing media sells you.

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

@@jimballard1186 My buddies and I loved getting stoned and making plans for surviving a zombie apocalypse back then... but we were 20-something dudes getting stoned and talking out our asses, and we knew it. We'd get honest for a second and acknowledge that the only one of us who had a chance was the Indigenous guy whose family has a large tribal compound in Northern Ontario, where they're actually equipped to live without contact with the rest of "civilization" for long periods of time, mostly because they're in such isolated territory that travel in and out becomes impossible in winter. And that was only if he managed to make it out of the city alive.

[@BrianSweeney1985]

Reminds me of an older couple that I recently met on a ski lift in Colorado. They were very friendly. We were talking about where we all had come from - they were from a Portland, OR suburb. They earnestly admonished us not to go to Portland - that we would be knifed on the bus or short on the subway. They very literally advised us that our very lives would be imperiled should we visit that place. I guess their impression of the place had fallen considerably during all of the unrest. Meanwhile my sister lives in Portland. I remember asking her how bad things were during all police brutality riots. She said that with the exception of like two city blocks which you easily avoid, it was a literally business as usual. She's a single young woman, ostensibly the sort of person who would be most vulnerable to actual threats to life and limb, and she was totally unphased.

[@brenatevi]

The jokes on them. They are the zombies, infected by Fox News and Republican politicians, unthinkingly afraid of everything.

[@MalzraAirwynn]

The other day I had to listen to someone rant about this at work. How he thinks they're rigging it to get the Chiefs to the Super Bowl. Low key suggesting the 'great replacement theory' may not be a conspiracy theory afterall and that they're doing that to football to bring in new fans to replace a shrinking nfl fanbase. That Taylor Swift has no talent and that 'unlike the Beatles, nobody will know who she is in 200 years.' All because...what, 20 seconds or so of her being on screen during an hours long football game? Because she's trying to get people to vote? Because she might endorse the candidate they don't like?

[@melt4769]

Not to mention the fact that the Chiefs won the Super Bowl last year (2023) and in 2020 - and played in the Super Bowl in 2021 - with many of the same players, most notably the quarterback. The MAGAts have the memory span of hamsters - less than three seconds.

[@mpemberton7760]

@@melt4769 No one who believes the games are rigged has ever provided any evidence of it, or explained how the rigging is pulled off. Football is a game in which a thousand spontaneous actions and reactions occur. Officials sometimes make bad calls that can affect outcomes, but that's not evidence of game-rigging. And if someone is convinced the games are rigged, why the hell even bother watching?

[@Ryuujinv01]

@@mpemberton7760 One of my local radio stations in a red area has these people that constantly go off on deep state level tangents, they had a salient thought the morning that left me shook, he acknowledged that there's so many people involved 'somebody' would have leaked it by now. Maybe one day the neurons will connect that revelation with their ludicrous government conspiracies.

[@rittherugger160]

I'm an old Boomer. As far as I know I have never heard any of her music and I doubt I could pick her out in a crowded room. There is one thing I do know. All my life what conservative's picture in their minds when thinking about "true love and romance" is the football player and the cheerleader. Now, because some guy facing a lot of legal issues tells them that it's not a good thing, they're against 'the Football player and the Cheerleader'? This sounds just like the border. It's the "#1 threat to our national security" and things need to be done about it TODAY or our nation will fail but, it's better for HIM if we don't do anything about it.

[@cosmicspaceorange7600]

"I am the shadow you have cast upon yourselves" is the most metal thing you've ever said in one of these

[@cthulhucollector]

Do they even try and have a quiet part? Seems like you can't shut them up.

[@katiehettinger7857]

So true. Since Trump proved they can say the quite part out loud without consequences, all the fascists are doing it. 😕💙🇺🇸🕊

[@justinaclayburn2248]

We live in the weirdest timeline 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@cjc363636]

Like the whole country is "Biff World" from Back to the Future 2. I want out of this version of the 21st century!!

[@cozmothemagician7243]

@@cjc363636 No hovercars though ): If someone DID invent it, Trump would either claim he made it happen and/or rant how terrible they are.

[@edwardzignot2681]

If it were just weird, I'd be totally down. Unfortunately it's also the stupidest timeline.

[@mpemberton7760]

@@edwardzignot2681 The '60s and '70s were a weird timeline, but it wasn't so stupid and insane......well, ok, disco was stupid.

[@Travesty-qy4hv]

It's actually an apocalyptic timeline, unfortunately. Guess who's the BigBad? 'bing bong bing bing bong'

[@ShinGallon]

It always cracks me up when the same people who love American football claim with a straight face that soccer is boring, as if American football isn't 5 seconds of something happening bookended by 10 minutes of them doing fuck-all, for 3 hours.

[@literaterose6731]

Nicely put! Though my favorite description of (American) football will always be what my youngest said when she was 3 or 4 when I asked her how she liked watching the game with her dad: she shrugged and said “They run around and then they fall down.” Nuff said!

[@doomedwit1010]

And yet one is fun for me to watch and the other I find incredibly boring. I'll leave soccer to the Nascar fans.

[@DavidRichardson153]

I got asked why Americans care for American football while calling soccer boring, and the answer I came up with was optics. I said that with American football, you get the spectacle of large men in "protective" gear slamming into each other the entire time, while with soccer, you seem them sneaking up behind the target, tripping them, stealing the ball, and with lots - and I mean *_LOTS_* - of faking bad attacks on them in order to get the referee to penalize the opposing team and grant themselves a free kick or two. In other words, it looks like sh^t-tons of blatant cheating in soccer, and Americans see enough of that in our politics. And now you also have a better understanding about Tom Brady and Deflate-gate - the perception was that there was not supposed to be such blatant cheating at the game.

[@TheMadmage]

I'm a Canadian hockey fan so I can fall back on loving faster sports as an excuse. But I also like the CFL which isn't quite as slow than the NFL.

[@TheRockinDonkey]

@@DavidRichardson153if we can not pretend that a game as violent as American “football” is somehow dignified, that would be great.

[@HaroldElbowmanIV]

Steve, not for nothing but your guy would definitely know that a fair number of those schools aren't "institutes of higher learning" so much as professional athletic departments with notable academic hobbies.

[@finnmcool2]

I'm 100% certain that this exact speech would win you the Republican nomination in any district in the country. Sad, but certain.

[@sortasurvival5482]

This theory needs to be tested.

[@katiehettinger7857]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@priscillamoore5736]

@finnmcool2 - I totally agree with you. You are absolutely right.

[@RebeccaDaly-kp6qp]

This could easily be actually what they say at the rallys and conservative voters would still be like 'I'm going to vote for him because he just says it like it is'

[@lorianngrilley-jamroz7631]

"..or what else should we run on...OUR RECORD??! HAAAHAAHAAA..."

[@mpemberton7760]

@lorianngrilley-jamroz7631 That's the line that made me spit my coffee out!

[@alphabravo8703]

yup

[@Jinto021]

It is such a weird thing for people to get mad over. I think a lot of guys still have resentment towards the popular jock gets the pretty girl trope, which is so odd. High school is over boys move on!

[@EclecticFruit]

not odd, just incel culture seeping through

[@donhoverson6348]

Oh no. High school is like the Hotel California. You can graduate but you never leave. Just observe the behavior of the people around you.

[@lorianngrilley-jamroz7631]

​@@donhoverson6348good one 😅

[@naterod]

It’s wild that she used to be their aryan princess idol online on sites like 4chan and shit back in the day. Maybe they are still offended that she made sure to shut that shit down.

[@zachmiller4107]

I remember seeing Taylor on SNL in 2009. I think you would have to be living under a rock on the moon to somehow believe she just got big recently.

[@jordansean18]

Her Twilight parody sketch is burned into my memory 😅

[@marieroberts5664]

It's not just that... I think most older people (not just Republicans or conservatives, everyone) get stuck in time bubbles, where it was 'just last year' that the kids were in high school, or liked Reptar (from the Nickelodeon cartoon "Rugrats"), or couldn't stand broccoli... Time stands still regarding your kids and pop culture, because you either stop paying attention to it once the kids are grown and you are no longer bombarded with the latest craze (it's axolotls, amphibians also called mudpuppies, native to swamps that can live in water or wetlands, a native NJ creature that is now endangered because the swamps are endangered)... So the last time you might have heard of or about Taylor Swift was when Kanye West (or is he still calling himself Ye? Seriously, I might not respect anything about the man anymore, but he has a right to call himself whatever he wants and we as normal humans should respect his choice... I truly, in my own mommy bubble, have no idea, so apologies to all if I got it wrong) grabbed the mic from her hands on the Grammys broadcast and went on a screed of why Beyonce was better...the girl was a teen, receiving a very major award, and this bozo has to come on stage and try to upstage her, because the voters had made a different choice? Sound familiar? Anyways, to many of us, she will always be that lovely teen, and that little girl is already 30-something. She grew up...how dare she! It was just last year she was big! Our little girl, dating this big brute of a man, from the wrong team??? Or this little hussy, going to wreck and ruin our guy before the big game??? Or, these Hollywood types should just sing and shut up, and not give opinions and tell us what to think! That's what it comes down to... Time has marched on, and we fooled ourselves into thinking it stood still, like we did... THAT'S what this is about! It was only last year that she was a big deal!

[@jipillow1]

I need republicans to stop making me like taylor swift

[@SuperMrHiggins]

Right? I went from having no idea who she was beyond "some entertainer" whose music I thought was shit to now I love her, she's gotten thousands upon thousands of people to register for the right to vote - she kicks ass.

[@SuperMrHiggins]

I still don't like her music but who gives af? The person herself kicks so much ass.

[@Anonyomus_commenter]

@@SuperMrHigginsThat said she has carbon emissions thousands of times higher than most people- and that’s just her flying

[@mhg424]

...Swifts music. None of us actually know the woman. However, I hear more of her music than music I choose to. 😊

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

I used to watch a KZbin channel that made fun of both Taylor Swift and Kanye West. That was over a decade ago. Crazy how much things have changed since then. lol Now Swift is a warrior for justice and Kanye is a Nazi. WTF happened? lol

[@nielsjensen4185]

The scariest thing is how entropy will affect this. The people who are grifting now know that they're doing a grift, and when they entropy out then their replacements will be True Believers who have no idea that this is supposed to be a grift.

[@db5823]

Will? It already has. Look at the Qanon politicians that were elected to the GOP. 25 years of FOX, and Republican gaslighting and fear-mongering and more open and pervasive lying, has primed demographics of generations to be easily disinformed and more entrenched in their nonsense ideology ... and they've now gotten themselves elected (through the hateful piss and vinegar they've been ginned up on) into the GOP. Just look at Gropert, she learned to lie so quickly, only it's still at a high school drop-out level. Or MTG, who has learned to live the lie and lie to live, and walk that fine line between being a faithful Qanon believer and publicly denouncing Qanon when cornered.

[@melt4769]

Bingo

[@lorenrenee1]

There is no reason to think any of them are true believers people who are drawn to them do seem to be having more grifting convictions than others.

[@tamironhill3324]

That has already been the case for decades, now we just have those fools in Congress. What’s going on now is that the rubes (a small faction) are actually realizing it’s bullshit. Namely this new convoy that went down to the border and not only realized shit wasn’t dire but that many of the anti-immigration assholes are grifters

[@pdcdesign9632]

You don't know how to use the word ENTROPY 😮

[@ToledoNative]

My favorite social media post I saw was 'Kelce's bonus for playing in the SB is 78k and now Taylor Swift's interest in him suddenly becomes clearer' and I'm thinking 'does this assh*le not know she's a BILLIONAIRE? 78K is pocket change for her!

[@Pthommie]

Shives is continuing along the lines of the late, great George Carlin. He really nails this by going for the jugular.

[@debbiebannister32]

Thank you for portraying what a Republican is actually saying to their base, you are a genius

[@LindaB651]

"Back to r/conservative for you...." LOL Honestly Steve, you deserve more subscribers!

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

...or Jews. Yeah, that's in there somewhere.

[@euansmith3699]

That little aside really landed; yow!

[@Anonyomus_commenter]

They like Jews right now don’t they- bcas they call everyone who doesn’t support Isreal and antisemite. The far right movement has shifted from hating Jews to hating Muslims.

[@goodpeople25]

​@@Anonyomus_commenter​There's no shift, they still hate both while supporting the Jews who are "over there". (plus they solidify "western" presence in the region and for the evangelicals it brings the world closer to the apocalypse) Remember that they love the idea of enthnostates.

[@GSBarlev]

I read a great article about the Marilyn Monroe / Joe DiMaggio "marriage of the century," which honestly just made me appreciate the march of progress-not only is there no squicky age gap between Swift and Kelce, but _I can't even imagine_ their relationship falling apart if Swift didn't want to give up her career and become a housewife. I'd be hard pressed to care less about the love life of these two celebrities who work in genres in which I have minimal investment, but I'm glad to see these two model a healthier dynamic than our parents or grandparents had in the '50s.

[@AnEnemySpy456]

I couldn't tell you the name of more than like three of Taylor Swift's songs and I never thought about her at all before this NFL season but simply the fact that Republicans hate her so much makes me like her.

[@alphabravo8703]

yup

[@Lowe505]

Steve this is your calling dude

[@shnickityshnoo3574]

"Fox News, or Newsmax, or The Daily Wire, or Infowars - am I repeating myself?" Perfect.

[@lorianngrilley-jamroz7631]

"such a vapid cult of personality surrounding Taylor Swift, thank God we Republicans would never be susceptible to that sort of thing! WINK!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@alphabravo8703]

yup

[@BrianSweeney1985]

Came for the Trek, stayed for the politics.

[@jbillma]

"...or in that Facebook group you joined back in 2008 when Ron Paul ran for president -- you know, the group that went from libertarian to full on neo-nazi so gradually you didn't even notice..." Ooof. I feel this one. Fortunately for me, I did notice... and even tried to fight against it, although it took me about 9 years (Charlottesville) to realize it was a lost cause, pun most certainly intended.

[@jameshagan2832]

You got out. That's all that matters

[@Travesty-qy4hv]

Thanks! You've got that punny spirit!! 😅🤣🤣😂🤣

[@itsOasus]

I knew that you were trouble when you walked in... Oh no I'm not talking about you those are just Taylor Swift song lyrics.

[@spikeoramathon]

Wasn't it Hitler who said a group needs a hated enemy to pull themselves together?

[@Seal0626]

Paraphrased in _Wicked_ - "Elphaba, where I come from, everybody knows that the best way to bring folks together is to give them a really good enemy."

[@user-es8qx6jf4b]

Diaper Donny uses the same Hitler playbook.

[@Iquey]

Like a cat with a laser pointer. Reminds me of katniss in hunger games playing with the cat and the flashlight, realizing President Snow is dangling brainwashed peeta in front of her during Mockingjay. But conservatives don't realize they are the cat.

[@clausbohm9807]

@@user-es8qx6jf4b I said that to a british guy while staying in Thailand ("Trump is using Hitler's playbook"), the guy got up and walked away leaving his wife alone at the table ... that is how triggered Trump even makes none americans ... amazing!

[@noadlor]

@@user-es8qx6jf4b True. And he did it again recently when he called the left "vermin". Very Hitleresk.

[@Ms.AislingsASMR]

My friend- you are going to get a lot of use with this set up over the next 9 months or so. 😂😂😂 Keep it up.

[@austinluther5825]

As a trans person, can confirm that the parts of speech army is mobilized and ready to go.

[@euansmith3699]

"Target locked! Deploying Pronouns!"

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

As a nonbinary trans person, my unit in the parts of speech army is locked and loaded. We have *ALL* the scariest pronouns, and we know how to use them!

[@zellfaze]

LLLLLLLEEEEETTTTTSSSSS GGGGGGOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

[@TheFuriousScribbles]

Can we play Mad Libs?

[@stevengarman4848]

As a Queer who served in the U.S. Military during "don't ask, don't tell" ; I just can't wait to the new generations make Straight White people the new minority.

[@seraphonica]

I think my favorite part of this is its origin - Aaron Rodgers getting injured week 1 and having incorrect anti-vax beliefs take over his life instead of... y'know, rehab? He sure is speedrunning the Brett Favre Packer qb to conservative grifter pipeline.

[@gaiagreen2690]

Good afternoon. I am a woman. Am I allowed to speak again? Thank you. Judging by their facial expressions, I think that many of our christian conservative men would actually like to "date" Taylor Swift and "show her what a real man is." But since I am a woman and we are told that Jesus doesn't want us to think, I am very probably wrong. (Even though I know that I am not.) I'll just keep pretending that I haven't seen their faces when they see Tay Tay on tv, ok?

[@donhoverson6348]

I think the wanting, but having no chance of getting resentment might play a significant part in the anger.

[@jeffk1482]

@@donhoverson6348✅

[@ScientificallyStupid]

I'm pretty sure they find the part where she doesn't need a man VERY intimidating.

[@thisisit333]

#Project2025 and maga gop fascists have every intention of killing Amendments 19 & 26…no more women or 18-20 year olds voting. This election is an existential threat to a free United States. If maga gop gets a majority in congress/senate and/or a gop potus The USA is done. Welcome to AmeriKKKa, an authoritarian fascist dystopia.

[@glennhecker4422]

Jesus DOES want us to think. However, today's Retrumplican leadership DOESN'T. BIG difference between the two. Matter of fact: if Jesus showed up on Earth today, the Retrumplican/Rethuglican Party would call him a hippie, a Communist, and (gasp!) a... a... a "SOCIALIST!" They'd probably also want to hang or crucify him (again).

[@euansmith3699]

I'm glad that Steve has stayed on the light side; he's far too good at this evil crap and could do real damage f he did it for real. 😍👍 "... that's okay, some of these are just for me." 😄😄😄😄 It is weird to image Steve delivering his kick-ass performance to an empty room. He get's so much energy in to it.

[@timcirulis5273]

Four more fears! Four more fears! Four more fears!

[@elim_inator]

To me, a European who is only marginally interested in American politics because it's always so over-the-top, annoying, and loud, "I am the shadow you have cast upon yourselves and to my darkness there shall be no end" sounds like the most reasonable thing I have ever heard a Republican (or parody thereof) say. Though the sentence also uses an unconventional and thus somewhat more difficult to understand structure, so a Republican would probably not say it because his voters would probably not understand it.

[@intercat4907]

Alas, no MAGAt voter will ever watch this video nor hear the line. And sorry about the noise; we’re trying to turn down the volume, but we’re having to send a spy into Mordor to see if the remote is behind the couch in the Dark Tower.

[@NateFord]

“I am the shadow cast upon yourself and to the darkness there will be no end” Dang dude.

[@ginajones2328]

👍 agree

[@danielwilliams8346]

Reminds me of 1 reason I quit being a “conservative Christian.” I was just so tired of being convinced the devil was behind EVERYTHING & feeling angry due to a sense of constant fear. 😢

[@Trippy_Space_Bunny]

Wish my parents would come to that conclusion.

[@pdcdesign9632]

Religious conservatives are SCARY BUNCH 😮

[@RevvyTone]

Nailed it once again. Please do "If Republicans Said the Quiet Parts Loud about the 'border crises'" next.

[@user-tp7gy4dj4l]

It'll be something like "how dare you solve a problem that we run on?"

[@Iquey]

"You like football, you hate women!"😂 The creepy Charlie Kirk wig is on point

[@princeoftonga]

Before I even clicked I knew this was going to be good!

[@EmperorOfMan]

I hated her for the completely legitimate and sane reason of betraying her Eagles fandom. Now these conservatives have ruined that for me. I will never forgive them.

[@stevengarman4848]

So are you one of the few people who remember that Taylor Swift was born in Pennsylvania ?

[@trainsurgeon]

Your understanding of the TRUE Republican leadership mindset takes on an almost tangible quality! Thanks for the morning chuckles!

[@JMS-2111]

I hope no republican officials saw this. They'd probably plagiarise it and get the exact same results of a standing ovation at their next rally.

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

This character collab with Betty Bowers, when?

[@pureflix8086]

Oh my god YES!

[@SeamusCameron]

Every time domestic politics gets goofy, I dive further into geopolitics to escape the madness. Almost a decade long unbroken streak at this point. "Taylor Swift is a psyop" was especially goofy even by current standards.

[@donhoverson6348]

I dunno. We live in an age where an all too large group of people espouse the belief that the Earth is flat. Dumb ideas have a lot of company.

[@user-tp7gy4dj4l]

@@donhoverson6348 It's corruption, both mental and moral. Stupid on purpose is a sin.

[@MarijnvdSterre]

I'm not an American, so I could easily be wrong. But do you really think most of them haven't heard her songs? If you ask me, a lot of this obsession is fueled by jealousy. Her success, influence and the fact that she isn't dating them!

[@christophergreen6595]

Especially the last part.

[@randomoldlady_]

Damn Brilliant!!! You are sooooo amazing! Just missed you focusing more on the incel concept of hatred of women period - not just the ones who watch football

[@bloodink9508]

I'm just waiting for conservatives to start demanding a trigger warning on football games that Taylor Swift attends.

[@mauricioquintero2420]

Conservative and lunatic have become synonyms

[@leoh2502]

Wait... This isn't a real Republican speech?

[@pdxcorgidad]

I'm convinced "conservatives" (their word, not mine) manufactured this Taylor Swift nonsense in order to distract people from their failure to convince the public they were doing something to positively address what they really enjoy calling the "open borders," made even more hilarious because, ya know, there's one border. Manufactured. Hilarious as they manufactured this...whatever it is.

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

Have they forgotten the Canadian border? As a Canadian, I really hope so.

[@bryandaves1005]

@@thing_under_the_stairs😂

[@christophergreen6595]

Oh yeah. Partially, its JUST about dominating the conversation... doesn't even matter if it's about something stupid, you just MAKE SURE you're the one pulling the train and making all the noise.

[@christophergreen6595]

This is straight out of 'manufacturing consent', absolutely.

[@DraknusX]

"Because you're men. Big men. Strong men. Tears streaming down your faces as you call Donald Trump 'sir' for some reason and thank him for doing something he definitely didn't do to help you, if he did it at all."

[@Xiaolaoshu621]

I don't like Taylor's music but I love her message.

[@mr.dirtydan3338]

I don't even dislike her music, but I don't really care about it. But you can bet your ass the next time someone asks me if I am a Taylor Swift fan, I am saying yes.

[@lilys7431]

Ever since I was a kid hiding a radio under my pillow at bedtime I have loved pop music. Even now many years later still my genre of preference she does have a super human ability to write music. Happen to absolutely agree with her message as well. VOTE AND BRING A FRIEND!

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

Same. I can't stand pop music, but I love what she's saying to the girls out there. I wish my nieces were into her, instead on the hyper-misogynist rap crap they love right now.

[@bryandaves1005]

@@thing_under_the_stairs If you’re so inclined to give her music a try, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. I’m a 48 year old man who hated pop music and wrote T Swift off as a vapid pop star up until 2020. Her album “Folklore” and it’s sister album “Evermore” are folk/singer songwriter in their style. Those albums were my introduction to her, and they blew me away. I then went down the T Swift rabbit hole and discovered that I actually like pop music….. at least when Swift is performing it. I highly recommend giving Folklore and Evermore a spin when you have some time to kill. They’ll surprise you. If you don’t enjoy them after giving them an open minded listen, then no harm, no foul. At least you respect her for being a good human and role model. That’s what’s most important.

[@JWMCMLXXX]

Taylor Swift reached 100% saturation like 5 years ago, but still somehow manages to get more famous every year. Society is weird.

[@user-es8qx6jf4b]

Kid Rock and Ted Nugget can almost fill a high school gym.

[@queenannsrevenge100]

You might actually have Republicans to thank for that. If people whom you can’t stand, hate someone else, it makes you go, “hm, maybe I should take a closer look.”

[@markwilliams2620]

​@@user-es8qx6jf4b With drugged up underage girls and cases of Bud Light.

[@bsqwahlE]

Excellent observation 🎉

[@bryandaves1005]

It’s because she is a prolific artist whose art is extremely varied and consistently improving. Being emotionally vulnerable in her music and being and empath allows her to connect with people on a molecular level. That level of connection to one’s fans will never be fleeting. So long as she continues to release quality music, she’ll remain relevant. She’s not a vapid pop star. She’s a generational lyricist and performer. She’s built different. She’s built to endure

[@brettshaff8772]

"Little packets of Fear and Outrage, sold like crack from your computer and TV." - My 30+ year old description of right wing media. Still as true as ever.

[@tvil8]

It was sooo gangster in miss americana when her publicist was like " well if you do this the president could come after you." And with ZERO hesitation girl says "yeah fuk that i dont care"😂

[@herstoryswitness]

Are you recording them? How are you always so accurate?😂😂

[@OpinionsNoOneCaresAbout]

Imagine how this would be if Steve wasn't holding back so much.

[@MarceldeJong]

To quote Philosophy Tube's traveling fuel sales person: Anyone got a match?

[@orange_is_the_worst_color]

"What else would we run on? Our record???" 😆👍

[@katiekat9149]

I feel like George Carlin was an influence on your style. Highly approve!

[@hellogoditsmesara3569]

Statistically yes everyone has heard at least one Taylor Swift song If you managed to escape Shake It Off you should be granted like an award or something

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

After my eldest niece's Taylor Swift period when she was about 6, I *wish* I could escape my flashbacks of Shake It Off!

[@nondescriptcat5620]

which is unfortunate, because Shake It Off is probably the worst thing she's ever done.

[@enammemberseptember7366]

Before reading this comment, I thought I'd never heard a Taylor Swift song. I didn't know Shake It Off was a Taylor song. I like the song, I guess I'm a Swifty too, now.

[@lorensims4846]

Nice hair! It was my first wife who first got me interested in football and took me to all the home Ohio State games (and a couple of away ones). She also softened my resistance to country rock. I can almost even listen to country now. But she left me in 1985. Shake it off!

[@pdxcorgidad]

Freaking Eddie George. That was Tommie Frazier's Heisman.😅

[@KellyNaylor]

I'm going to think about this every time I listen to one of those scared men going on about the things their followers should be afraid of. Good gods, it's got to be exhausting being that angry and afraid. Poor dears.

[@foenail]

straight up bangers, Steve! 🖖

[@gothatfunk]

"I'll promise you something nonsensical, that comforts your base, lizard brain anxieties" Sadly, this is the state of play. Very funny line too, though.

[@JosephDuVall]

Love the quote at the end about "The shadow you cast upon yourselves." Is it from something?

[@gothatfunk]

Your Quiet Parts Out Loud series is so brilliant, I wished I had thought of it first. Very well done mate.

[@joebridges1878]

I only hope people can understand just how spot on and good this little skit really is! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 🌸 🌺🌸👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@nickrioz]

Conservatives hate anything not marketed to them. Seriously dramatic about their entertainment.

[@MrSeananim]

Corporations are people my friend except they have to be punished for being woke. Celebrities aren't supposed to be politically involved unless they are Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono or Donald Trump. If these people could think at all the Republican party would be out of business.

[@quinngreen]

Have been watching you for years, this one was one of your most on the nose hits sir, well founded and presented! Thank you for continuing to take such a consistent and reasoned stand.

[@matthewgelfer4955]

I think I'm starting to enjoy these "Republicans Say The Quiet Part Out Loud" vids as much as your Star Trek ones 🤣

[@enigmaforlorn]

"I don't care for rap music..... or jews." Wow, just perfect comedic timing.

[@PhineasPhule]

Steve, many thanks for another masterclass in sarcasm. BRAVISSIMO! *applauds*

[@seannyhan2254]

These "quiet part out loud" are so on point, I'm not sure it qualifies as satire. But I love them.

[@edwardoscissormanos469]

some of those jokes are just for me

[@mst3kharris]

There’s a cross stitch pattern on Etsy that has the NFL logo, only instead of saying NFL, it says Taylor’s Version. So I bought it.

[@randolphstokes6642]

"I am the shadow you cast upon yourselves and to my darkness there will be no end." God damn, that was dark.

[@mvcatdaddy]

I love when you do these. Brilliant, as usual. 👍🏻

[@firefly4f4]

I can't believe that you didn't mention the biggest entertainer who supports the republicans and Trump in particular: Robert Matthew Van Winkle! Don't know who that is? Then you've got a problem and he'll solve it check out his beat while the dj revolves it. I honestly didn't find out about this until earlier this year. I'll never be able to hear ninja rap the same way again.

[@PinkSakuraBunnie]

Yeah I just found out about "Vanilla Ice" too (though I did not know his real name and wouldn't have if you hadn't dropped that line from Ice Ice Baby or mentioned Ninja Rap, so nice work lol). Damn shame.

[@pureflix8086]

It would seem suge knight was on to him way back then. Suge was almost a hero. _if only hed let go!_ 😔

[@steveng.clinard1766]

Yo, ditch the Zero and get with the Hero.

[@paulgibbon5991]

As Doug Walker put it: "It's hard to overstate just how much Vanilla Ice ruined being white."

[@pamr.429]

"Stultifying credulity " -- "I love the uneducated"

[@j72ashley]

You just keep getting better and better at this.

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

10:40 *_Stultifying..._* I'm thinking you bought the matching thesaurus when you bought that dictionary. Money well spent. 🤓

[@TypeOneg]

Literally these rubes sit there and listen to the cadence of his voice and are soothed like a babe. They don't care much what he's saying, it's almost like an ASMR to them.

[@goodpeople25]

That's unfair. Babies are known to appreciate (classical) music in addition to voice cadence, can't say the same for that audience.