Taylor Swift is a "Pentagon asset"

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harryjsisson
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"Yes. This is a real screenshot from Fox News tonight. They are seriously trying to claim that Taylor Swift is a “Pentagon asset” because she got people registered to vote. What the hell is wrong with these lunatics? Everything is a conspiracy to them. They truly hate democracy."

For those who can't get to the Treads link

Here is the Daily Beast's take:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jesse-watters-airs-truly-bonkers-taylor-swift-conspiracy-theory?ref=home

[MontanaMama]

1. Taylor Swift has to travel with wound dressing because

these lunatics have been following for years. I saw her talk about it on CBS this morning.

[applegrove]

3. Distressing to hear.

[SarahD]

2. Taylor way out of bounds

A pop star with a social conscience? The nerve! The gall!

[spooky3]

4. What happened to the GOP that loved the military? Nt

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Their JesusGawd sees the military as suckers and so they do, too.

That's the way cults roll.

[spooky3]

15. The GI (Graven Image) disrespects GIs. Nt

[eShirl]

31. military wouldn't roll over for Orange Jesus

[Carlitos Brigante]

5. Is this their "low rent Tucker Carlson? Who himself was a "low rent Bill O'Reilly". Who himself was a "low rent....". nt

[Dave Bowman]

7. ... "Bill O'Reilly". Who himself was a "low rent..."

Harvey Weinstein?

[Warpy]

8. I can't imagine anyone doing anything but laugh at that

unless they're defining "Pentagon asset" as a performer who's done USO shows.

Nope, not that.

Ah, found it! Thank you, MediaIte, it was a fake story from Jesse Watters: https://www.mediaite.com/news/jesse-watters-runs-fake-story-about-the-pentagon-wanting-to-turn-taylor-swift-into-a-psyop-thats-real/

And the far right wonders why we think they're so stupid.

[applegrove]

10. Thanks. I later found a Daily Beast Story too:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jesse-watters-airs-truly-bonkers-taylor-swift-conspiracy-theory?ref=home

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. Thanks for that - so it turns out it was a Trump DoD official who made it up, and co-indictee Jeffery Clark spread it

and then Watters picked it up. It's not just the idiots who run a "news" channel doing this, it's also the idiots who would be let back into government if Trump gets re-elected.

[Permanut]

9. Boy, they sure focus on the critical issues..

I tuned in to Laura Ingraham for about ten seconds earlier today (my limit), and she was ranting about candles and VP Kamala Harris.

[applegrove]

11. Well they had to drop something "big" to counter the Trump

Bedlam threat otherwise the independents would get scared off.

[calimary]

14. That smell of desperation wafts through those Pox Noise airwaves...

They'll try anything at this point.

[spooky3]

16. Have they begun paying the judgment to Dominion yet? Seems

That should be their focus.

[calimary]

17. I don't know. Maybe they'll have to boost their ad rates

and maybe even furlough some expensive talent.

That'd be nice!

[DemocraticPatriot]

12. So now they oppose the Pentagon ???

That is the only way to interpret that....


Perhaps they should all move to Charleston South Carolina,
and prepare to fire upon Fort Sumpter again....

(I presume that is now a tourist attraction only---
but that is what they said about the Capitol after J.6)


((with apologies to all you Charleston Democrats...)

[Skittles]

13. exactly my thought too

they're against.....the PENTAGON

[area51]

35. And if they're against the pentagon,

does that mean they'd be in favor of their budget being cut?

[Mister Ed]

18. Their hero Trump is a genuine Kremlin asset. n/t

[dchill]

20. Ah, yes. Hence the dichotomy!

[AZLD4Candidate]

19. Jesse Watters is both Peter Principle and Dunning-Kruger with a mix of stone age stupid and Baghdad Bob.

[dchill]

21. He's also Portnoy's Complaint.

[AZLD4Candidate]

22. Never read it. Please elaborate for the ignorant of this topic please. I'd like to agree if I understood or knew

the meaning or context.

[dchill]

23. Google says:

Portnoy's Complaint is a 1969 American novel by Philip Roth.[2] Its success turned Roth into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit and candid treatment of sexuality, including detailed depictions of masturbation using various props including a piece of liver.[3] The novel tells the humorous monologue of "a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor," who confesses to his psychoanalyst in "intimate, shameful detail, and coarse, abusive language."[4][5]

I found it seedy and coarse - like Watters. But, of course, in 1969, it was HUGE.

[Celerity]

24. The Multiplying 'Philip Roths'

Has the celebrated author become better known for his persona than for what he wrote?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-multiplying-philip-roths/ar-AA1mtcAk



In “Borges and I,” a classic page-long story by Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine writer presents the reader with a conundrum: How are we to distinguish between Borges, the living, breathing human being, and the affected and somewhat dandyish persona his writings have helped create? Although the two do share certain tastes and characteristics, it’s “the other one” who has a “perverse custom of falsifying and magnifying things,” Borges writes.

Ultimately, the author concludes that, though he is mortal, this writerly projection of himself is the one that will endure.“I do not know,” the essay concludes, “which of us has written this page.”

Something of this strange dilemma—untangling who an artist actually is from the inflated version of himself he creates on the page—comes to mind while reading Julius Taranto’s How I Won a Nobel Prize. His novel is a gleefully irreverent satire of so-called cancel culture, virtue signaling, and early-21st-century hypocrisy set largely on the campus of the Rubin Institute, a fictional center of higher learning staffed by an intellectually gifted but morally bereft faculty that has been shunned by former employers and at Rubin can pursue both research and perversions with impunity.

Here, Helen, a brilliant young physicist, arrives with her skeptical and performatively “woke” husband, Hew, to work on a superconductor project alongside her graduate adviser, Perry Smoot, who was exiled from Cornell after violating the university’s code of conduct, i.e. sleeping with a student. Though indisputably a genius, Smoot, Taranto writes, “was as dumb as anyone, apparently, when it came to sex.” For her part, Helen is guilty only of the crime of remaining in the academy, doomed to follow her adviser to the one suspect institution still willing to employ him.

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[dchill]

26. "I do not know," the essay concludes...

..."which of us has written this page.” This writer, has fallen for his own projection.

Philip Roth, as far as I can perceive, was, at the time, an inventive, fairly eloquent masturbator.

[AZLD4Candidate]

25. Well, he is a seedy and coarse jerkoff. So, you're right on all accounts, including the masturbation, being he is a

complete jerkoff.

[Dorian Gray]

27. Poor Taylor

is a victim of conspiracy theories from all sorts of quarters. The fringe right wing think she's a pentagon asset. A certain segment of twitter think she's a closeted gay. Nazis used to think she was an Aryan princess.

Being that famous isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[applegrove]

29. I concur.

[maxrandb]

28. If her next album isn't titled "Girlboss Psyops"

I will be disappointed.

[Celerity]

33. The term 'girlboss' is so untrendy, out of date. Swift would never use it now. I would call it cheugy, but cheugy itself

is now dated.

Here is an article from 3 and a half years ago:

The fall of the girlboss is actually a good thing

Jul 26, 2020, 3:17 PM CEST

https://www.businessinsider.com/rise-and-fall-girl-boss-analysis-2020-7

June 2020 was the month the girlboss facade collapsed. It began as a slow crumbling. In December, Steph Korey stepped down as CEO of cult-favorite luggage brand Away (she would go on to step back in a month later and resign a second time in July). In February, Tyler Hanley resigned as CEO from the millennial activewear company she founded, Outdoor Voices.



Come June, girlbosses began to fall like dominoes amid allegations of toxic work cultures that perpetuated racism:

June 8: Refinery 29 editor-in-chief and co-founder Christine Barberich resigns
June 10: Man Repeller founder Leandra Medine steps back to an intern role
June 10: Ban.Do Chief Creative Officer and cofounder Jen Gotch resigns after leave of absence
June 11: The Wing CEO and co-founder Audrey Gelman resigns
June 12: Reformation CEO and founder Yael Aflalo steps down

In the midst of it all, Sophia Amoruso — the pioneer of the term girlboss — resigned on June 22 from the #GirlBoss media platform she had created years earlier. But while the girlboss has met a swift and public downfall, that's actually a good thing — and it's not the end of the female leader. Instead, it's the beginning of a new space for more inclusive leaders to shine without being defined by gender. So, what exactly happened to the girlboss? To fully understand her rise and fall, you have to go back to 2014.

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[Emile]

30. Dixie Chicks are proud of her!

https://junkee.com/chicks-taylor-swift-politics/263176

[lostnfound]

32. Our Pentagon assets are hotter and smarter than your Pentagon assets

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While considering this smartass answer I looked for Reagan Pentagon assets which led me to a Wikipedia page that needs attention and rewrite. This is the lame description of the Iran-Contra fiasco on the ‘Reagan Doctrine’ Wikipedia page:

Iran–Contra affair
U.S. funding for the Contras, who opposed the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, was obtained from covert sources. The U.S. Congress did not authorize sufficient funds for the Contras' efforts, and the Boland Amendment barred further funding. In 1986, in an episode that became known as The Iran–Contra affair, the Reagan administration illegally facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo, in the hope that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine

This paragraph is phrased to minimize something that was a massive scandal at the time. “Obtained from covert sources”? Reagan was illegally arming both sides of a war to create a slush fund for the purpose of supporting Nicaraguan rebels in the hopes of overthrowing yet another democratically elected left-wing government.

M comments:
Iran–Contra affair
U.S. funding for (really, “Reagan’s funding of” since Congress had already passed a law against it) for the Contras, who opposed the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, was obtained (passive) from covert sources. The U.S. Congress did not authorize sufficient funds (oh, bad Congress for not giving “sufficient” funds…as judged by the plotters in Reagan’s circle?) for the Contras' efforts, and the Boland Amendment barred further funding. In 1986, in an episode (Reagan just had an ‘episode’ while Bill’s affair rises to the level of a ‘scandal’) that became known as The Iran–Contra affair, the Reagan administration illegally facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo, in the hope that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages was that really their main purpose or hope? An amnesiac public will carelessly link this to the Iranian hostages that ‘Reagan brought home’) and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.

Somebody ought to rewrite this.