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Brittany Mahomes is 'deeply bothered' by Donald Trump's very public attack on her close friend Taylor Swift, according to sources who claim the Kansas City Chiefs WAG is questioning her support for the former president.
Weeks later, Taylor, 34, publicly endorsed Kamala Harris' bid for president - an action that drove a reported 338,000 visits to the federal voter registration website after she shared a link on Instagram.
Zambero
(9,720 posts)Now, Ms. Mahomes, take the next step, denounce the S.O.B. as the evil sicko that he is, and affirm that he is unfit for any office, let alone POTUS.
johnp3907
(3,863 posts)WarGamer
(15,200 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,936 posts)Not going to link that shitty rag here...
GoCubsGo
(32,936 posts)Or, throwing those kids in cages? Or, massively botching a pandemic, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of people? Or, fomenting anti-vaccination stupidity? Or, being adjudicated a rapist? Or, instigating an attempted coup? Or, his judicial appointments that lead to the overturn of Roe vs. Wade? Good Gawd.
IcyPeas
(22,557 posts)My guess is she is what is politely known as a "low information voter" (if she even votes) ... all she knows is the name Trump and that he's a celebrity.
Who knows... maybe she'll do some research now. I just looked at her Twitter and she appears to follow a lot of sports related accounts. No news.
Cha
(304,875 posts)Sympthsical
(10,031 posts)So I don't care.
This gossip weirdness around Swift is cute in my niece, but really really weird with grown adults.
When people older than me (40s) are that invested in a celebrity's life, I tilt my head a little bit.
She endorsed Harris - which is awesome.
But good lord. Everyone log off instagram already. It's unseemly. (And a lot cringe the older one is)
Attilatheblond
(4,232 posts)Swift, herself, is closer to 40 than she is to teens or twenty-somethings. Her songs and her messages resonate with many people older than you, like me for instance, at 71.
It's not really so much about her life as her messages about life in general.
Sympthsical
(10,031 posts)It isn't about whether or not one likes her music. I listen to her music. Music can be accessible to any age.
But the gross obsession over her personal life, to the point of scrutinizing friends of a friend of a boyfriend whose dog knows this girl who likes this tree, and so on. Mix in that this sort of thing now lands in the ostensibly serious media regularly (but not really, because most media - particularly online - are themselves living a prolonged adolescence. Particularly given how their socialization, behaviors, and subject matter would frequently not be out of place in any high school cafeteria).
Enjoying an artist and being extremely invested in an artist and their private lives on a personal level are not the same things. One is perfectly fine. The other is weird in adults - particularly older adults.
But what makes this more worthy of opprobrium is that this behavior is now apparently a part of our politics.
In an election that involves, you know, running an entire country of 340 million people, the idea that any topic surrounding her no matter how tangential gets as much attention it does is baffling. Well, not baffling - this is, after all, an America born of its own education system. Maybe dismaying is closer to the word.
It is . . . extremely cringe.
JI7
(90,337 posts)appmanga
(907 posts)...is Susan Collins level of concern. That'll show 'em.
PittBlue
(4,376 posts)I could not care less what this rich trump supporter has to say.
arlyellowdog
(1,429 posts)Brittany Mahones wants to make money. Shes a model and would like some advertising money. Taylor Swift is the rising tide that raises all the ships. Look at what the Kelces are getting. Im sure shes pissed as hell that Trump devalued her (and I mean monetarily devalued her).
Bev54
(11,910 posts)potato when Taylor started seeing Travis.
Skittles
(158,410 posts)Bev54
(11,910 posts)a bombshell it is. My guess is she would rather keep Taylor as a friend rather than Trump. I still wonder why she supported Trump, isn't her husband black?