Taylor Swift's red herring

What seemed like a coordinated attack by a handful of misogynistic activists against person of the year, Taylor Swift, has turned out to be a coordinated attack by the campaign of Republican candidate Donald Trump.

After flooding the American singer's network with non-consensual synthetic pornography, they have proceeded to cover it with a series of bizarre conspiracy theories.

According to the latest revelations from the Trumposphere, Taylor Swift is a pawn of the Pentagon, a psychological election interference operation designed to manipulate voters.

Even worse.

She is accused of cheating to get Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs to the Super Bowl.

In addition to being her boyfriend, Kelce has promoted the Pfizer vaccine for covid and flu (as the ad itself says, two things at once!).

Sabrina Singh, Pentagon press officer, has openly stated: “Taylor Swift is not part of a Department of Defense psychological operation, period.”

The times of ignoring the baroque conspiracies of far-right networks ended on January 6, 2021. Even QAnon began with a humble Pizzagate.

Swift hasn't yet announced who she's supporting in this election, but it's easy to guess.

In 2018, she supported the Democrats at home (Tennessee) and in 2020, Joe Biden, also telling Donald Trump on Twitter that they were going to throw him out of the White House (“we will vote you out”).

Taylor has 95 million followers on Twitter;

Trump, 87.4 million.

Last September, the singer encouraged her fans on her Instagram to celebrate National Voting Day by registering on Vote.org.

The organization received more than 35,252 new registrations in a single day, 23% more than the previous year.

(Taylor has 279 million followers on Instagram; Donald Trump, 23.7 million).

Non-consensual synthetic pornography is already a common tool to intimidate women who testify in cases of sexual assault and harassment, and to degrade women who aspire to political office.

And yet, it seems extraordinary that Trump attacks the woman who has the new voters of America in her small fist, a mass phenomenon that dwarfs the Beatles, Michael Jackson and Beyoncé herself.

On her latest tour alone, The Eras Tour, Swift has sold out the 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium eight times in a row.

Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, where the Super Bowl will be played, has 72,000 seats.

With Trump facing 91 felony charges, including election interference, fraud, paying hush money to Stormy Daniels, hijacking classified documents, and defamation, the attack on Taylor is starting to look like a denial-of-service attack on the media, according to the doctrine that his chief strategist explained to Michael Lewis in a Bloomberg article published in 2018.

“Democrats don't care,” Steve Bannon explained.

“The real opposition is the media.

The way to manage it is to flood the area with garbage.”

The strategy, taken directly from the

Goebbels manual

and updated by all authoritarian populists, from Duterte to Bolsonaro, is not to lie, but to disorient and suffocate.

The media's main job this year will not be to verify everything the machine produces, but to decide again what news is really news and dodge everything else.

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