“The absurdity of it all boggles the mind,” said one senior administration official.

National security officials are used to shaking off absurd conspiracy theories, but the latest rumor that’s gripped MAGA world just hits different.

The claims by Fox News and far-right influencers that pop star Taylor Swift is part of a Pentagon “psychological operation” to get President Joe Biden reelected, and somehow rig the Super Bowl to benefit Kansas City Chiefs tight end (and Swift’s boyfriend) Travis Kelce, has been met with forehead slaps in the national security world.

“The absurdity of it all boggles the mind,” said one senior administration official, granted anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter. “It feels like one of those ‘tell me you are a MAGA conspiracy theorist, without telling me you are a MAGA conspiracy theorist’ memes.”

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      221·
      10 months ago

      I mean, bro, we had fucking witch trials.

      Witch trials.

      We actually believed in witches and we burned people at the stake.

      This is not the most lunacy humanity has ever seen. Not by a long shot. It’s just the most lunacy that we’ve seen with modern tools to help suss that lunacy out.

      There is certainly an explanation for what’s going on. We just haven’t identified it.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        92·
        10 months ago

        We actually believed in witches and we burned people at the stake.

        Only a matter of time before the cult starts talking about publicly executing LGBTQ+ people and women who have had abortions or miscarriages. Possibly by burning them at the stake.

        • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          Or federal employees…they’re also called the deep state.

          Where’d I hear that in the news recently?

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            142·
            10 months ago

            A deranged MAGA cultist recently CUT OFF HIS DAD’S HEAD and posted about it online because of the dad apparently being a federal employee 😬

            I’d find you a link to an article about it but frankly I dread what other search results I’d get for THOSE keywords!

        • foggy@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          I do not disagree. But we are not there yet, it has been crazier before. It does appear that we are on track, that’s why I’m so concerned and curious as to what the fuck is causing this shit, but we’re not there yet. Probably because of those modern tools that we have, I feel like if whatever is going on right now is going on in the 1700s we would be done for.

    • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      10 months ago

      They joined the war on disease on the side of the disease. There’s nothing else to say, at that point. They are bereft of joy, logic, life, survival instinct, humanity, anything good you name it.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        5·
        10 months ago

        "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. "

        Basically : tread carefully on your crusade lest you become the thing you hate