Republicans are fine with this picture but lose their minds seeing Taylor Swift cheering for Kansas City. Go figure.

[kpete]

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FIFA World Cup finals, 2022, Qatar.

Link to tweet

https://vickyward.substack.com/p/all-roads-lead-to-jared-kushner

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. MAGA-losing-their-shit-over-Swift is like having ice cream for dinner!

And it’s only going to get better over the next two weeks!

[PortTack]

17. Ding ding ding!

[BeyondGeography]

2. Now they have to choose between rooting for Taylor's team and Gavin Newsom's

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. My two favorite teams also!

A RED Super Bowl for sure.

Red Lipstick will be popular too.

[Volaris]

11. Well that juat sucks...lol i turned it off at the half thinking the lions had that game won.

[dchill]

18. Rookie mistake!

[Solomon]

44. Which is what happened to the Lions. No playoff experience is what felled them.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Or could it be that Taylor Swift is getting even MORE women to watch Football?

I have been a Pro Football fan since 1966 and the NFL season is my favorite time of the year.

Taylor Swift dating and happy for Travis Kelce makes even the most manly of MAGA men tremble is poetry in motion. She is sticking it to the men in subtle ways that threaten their fragile truck loving, beer guzzling egos.

Good on ya Taylor.

[DemocratInPa]

5. Sorry I like Swift, but can't root for a team..

That is a slap to Natives..

[BannonsLiver]

7. +1000

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Also it’s probably the most right wing conservative fan base in pro sports as well. MAGAT central.

[tazkcmo]

12. Kansas City is Blue.

Through and through.

[BannonsLiver]

16. Obviously. No one said it wasn't.,

A couple of things:

- KC is not all of Missouri and Kansas. I can assure you there are vast swaths of both states that are not “blue through and through”.

- Their war chant is racist AF and would be considered racist AF by most people here in any other context.

[GusBob]

30. Again

may I ask you: Upon this NDN reservation upon which I have lived and worked for 6 years, I know many native KC football fans, and we are very far from that Mo. Why or how do you supposes that is?

One thing I can tell you: they have far more serious problems than team names or chants, trust me on that. They enjoy many forms of entertainment same as anybody else.

The other thing: they are more than capable of preserving defending their heritage. They live it everyday.

They absolutely hate it when non-natives speak for them. They actually consider that a form of cultural appropriation

[BannonsLiver]

36. Lol

“Some of my best friends are native.”

I know a few as well. It’s kind of unavoidable when you grow up and live in a state with the country’s largest native population. I have heard a vast array of opinions on this issue.

Anyway, worry about the Packers rather than defending racism. You are way out of your depth here. Thanks.

[orangecrush]

38. Bravo

[GusBob]

46. Friends yes

Colleagues, coworkers, neighbors, teachers, cops, lawyers, firefighters, clerks, employees bosses, students business owners, wildlife officers etc

Oh and patients, 2,000 encounters or more per year, 8 years with the IHS now

I reckon I know a few Natives, more than a few thousands

Out of my depths huh? As a health care specialist I know for a fact: there are very few people on the face of this Earth that can do what I do for so long. It is extremely challenging. I get recruited every week from Alaska to Michigan and points everywhere for my position. The positions have been open for years too. The IHS struggles with recruiting and retention, it takes dedicated providers who are not interested in getting wealthy.

You are welcome to give it a try if you are so deep.

But like I said the challenges are greater than football names and chants,fair warning

[tazkcmo]

33. I live there, I know.

I was responding to your claim that the Chiefs fan base us the most RW fan base in all pro sports. Utter BS and you should wash your hands after pulling that out of your ass.

[leftyladyfrommo]

43. Yes, we are. And we are also one of the

best places in the country for the LBGT COMMUNITY to live.

[SoFlaBro]

8. They don't slap natives.

[Traildogbob]

19. Get ready for

The tomahawk chanting. I hate that.
But the players are not responsible. Tons of talent, not a fan but not a hater. Respect the skills of those athletes.
Just wanna see more Taylor pissing off MAGA’s.
I hope Travis lets her walk out as a honorary captain with him for the coin flip. Then they have to see a Black man halftime show.
Let the games begin.

[lastlib]

20. Actually the Chiefs were named for a WHITE man. True Facts.

When Lamar Hunt was looking to move the team out of Dallas, he was persuaded by the great mayor of Kansas City, H. Roe Bartle, to bring them to KC. Bartle, who was a Boy Scout executive before becoming mayor, had been given the nickname "Chief" during his Scouting days. Hunt was so impressed with Bartle that he named the team "Chiefs" in Bartle's honor. The name "Chief" is no more pejorative to native Americans than the title "police chief" or "fire chief" or "chief executive." The Scouting program that Bartle founded was rooted in the customs and traditions of the Arapahoe tribe, and to this day, has the full approval and blessing of the Arapahoe tribal leadership. The program honors the ways of the native Americans in ways that are HIGHLY respectful of them, and its relationship with the Arapahoe tribe is strong and cordial and mutually respectful. I won't bother you with the details, but as a 50-year member of that program, I can attest that the program Bartle founded goes to very great lengths to maintain that mutually respectful relationship. I can also tell you that the team leadership from Clark Hunt on down is going to great lengths to discourage all the crap that fans have brought on relative to Native Americans.
So, no, the team name is NOT a slap at our native brothers. Please stop spreading that crap.

[SidneyR]

26. That's like saying the swastika has innocent origins.

The point is that now, in the present time, the name and the gestures at the games are racist and offensive to native people.

[lastlib]

29. The peole the name came from aren't offended by it.

Those who are offended by it don't know the facts of its origin. I am inclined to agree that the chant is offensive, and the team strongly discourages its use now.

I have a beaded necklace made by my great-great-grandmother, a Cherokee woman, for her wedding in 1862 that has multiple "swastikas" on it. So it does have innocent origins. But I am fully aware that it has more sinister implications to many, so I can't display it unless I can explain that it predates Nazis by more than 60 years.

[GusBob]

28. yep

see post 27

[Permanut]

32. Great information, lastlib..

I've been a Chiefs fan since the 60's and the days of Super Bowl IV and Len Dawson. Didn't know the origin of the name.

[GusBob]

27. Interesting

I live and work on an NDN Rez very far from KC. And believe it or not there are many KC fans here. The security staff was all high fiving each other this am over the win if thats what you mean by slapping

Believe it or not, they have many more serious problems than cultural appropriation.

ETA , kinda ironic in a way: there are many Cowboy fans too

[IronLionZion]

6. The party of corruption

It was fun seeing Trump take credit for this diplomatic crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_diplomatic_crisis

The country with the largest US military base in the middle east has some sketchy relations with terrorist groups.

[democrank]

9. No-security-clearance-Jared

USA! USA! USA!

[Wonder Why]

10. Eloon is pretending he's not there. Jared is worried that he is.

[MontanaMama]

13. MAGAts are the most miserable demographic

on the planet. They won’t rest until everyone is a sad, angry and miserable as they are.

[rubbersole]

14. The fact that incel magats are losing their shit ...

..over Taylor Swift is beyond hilarious. If they put a dollar in a jar every time her name gets mentioned on faux news or other rw sites in the next couple of weeks they might be able to pay off their monster trucks. This incredibly talented, beautiful, enlightened and independent role model is not only living rent free in their pea-sized brains, she has built a garage apartment for voter registration volunteers under their red hats. 🤯

[speak easy]

22. The RW is playing with fire.

Taylor gets mad and even.

The world moves on, another day another drama
But not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma
And then the world moves on, but one thing's for sure
Maybe I got mine, but you'll all get yours

[rubbersole]

23. Ouch.

I mean Ouch, Ma'am.

[AverageOldGuy]

15. The latest rightwing bullshit:

You may not know that Travis Kelci has been a spokesman for Pfizer, urging people to get their COVID vaccine, which as u can imagine is bringing out the rightwing mouthbreathers and knuckle draggers.

My daughter found a loony claim this morning that the KC-Balt game was rigged so Taylor Swift can come infield at Super Bowl half time and campaign for Biden.

[sop]

21. I'm pretty sure that image is from the 2022 FIFA World Cup final in Qatar, not the KC-Baltimore game.

[rubbersole]

24. You are correct.

That's even more disturbing. Qatar wouldn't let women be there.

[KS Toronado]

25. repugs are also fine with this picture

Same people different day.

[hatrack]

45. The Orb reveals all, especially stubby, short fingers!!

[2naSalit]

31. That picture needs to be widespread...

Billboards, handbills, popups on websites relative to their crimes.

[Efilroft Sul]

34. The great thing about this season's Super Bowl is that its match-up is driving the MAGAbillies nuts. Here's why:

The San Francisco 49ers, when it was helmed by QB Colin Kaepernick years ago, was the team that made the NFL supposedly so "unwatchable" for them because of Kap and other players taking a knee for Black Lives Matter. Of course, the MAGAbillies lied about not watching football again because they've constantly complained this season about…

…the Kansas City Chiefs and one of their players dating Taylor Swift, who many on the far right once considered their "Aryan goddess" (their words, not mine). But she "betrayed" them by being a liberal — as if these white supremacists had a chance in hell with her.

Shake it off, haters.

[OverBurn]

35. Still know nothing about her music, but I love Tata. Makes Right Wingers lose their idiot minds.

[ancianita]

39. "GOP dudes are big mad at Taylor Swift for reminding them that the ladies don't like them"

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/02/taylor-swift-maga-men-conservatives-mad/

Link from the Federalist in the above article

"Taylor Swift’s Popularity Is A Sign Of Societal Decline"

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/05/taylor-swifts-popularity-is-a-sign-of-societal-decline/

They're mad because she attacks Trump.

Taylor Swift calls out Trump over late-night Minnesota tweet in 2020:

After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November.

Link to tweet

More from 2018. She's been slamming Trump for years.

Link to tweet

I luv her, and hope she watches her back.

[speak easy]

40. Taylor has Very Good security.

She has had nuts stalking her for years.

[ancianita]

41. I hope so.

I hope not. Some day I hope she writes a book that includes a chapter about that world.

[wolfie001]

42. Well that's 2 flaming POS right there

Never mind all the others present.