Please point to where Taylor and Travis hurt you.

I have been seeing posts for "normal" people complaining about all the attention Taylor Swift and Kelce have been getting in the press. "We just want football!" they say. 

I'm calling bullshit on that. 15-yard penalty and loss of down.

There are three major sources of news on Taylor right now.

1. Swifties who are overjoyed that their idol seems to have found happiness. But that's fan magazine crap. You're not seeing that.

2. MAGA politicians and news sources with their breathless conspiracy theories.

3. Blowback from more liberal sources ridiculing the idiotic conspiracy theories and overall meanness of 2.

I am pretty certain that the complainers are overwhelmingly fans of source 2. They are unlikely to pay any attention to source 3 at all. On the Chiefs football broadcasts, they spend an average of 25 seconds or so of camera time on Taylor, so that seems unlikely to be an ACTUAL issue.

The other issue, of course, is that the fans of source 2 overwhelmingly oppose the political stances of Taylor (pro-democracy) and Travis (pro-vax). Sorry, but just like Donald, Chachi, and Ted Nugent, they have First Amendment rights like all of us. 

So if your issue is really with excessive coverage, just tune out number 2 whenever you see her face. If your issue is that you don't like their views, well, sorry. This is America. She has a right to express her views, even if those views encourage more Americans to go out and vote for positions you don't favor. Someone suggested that Lauren Boebert is the Republican equivalent. Maybe she can mobilize eligible voters that align with your views.

In any case, I hope you are adult enough to at least grudgingly acknowledge the courage it takes to throw away approximately 1/3 of your potential income by voicing popular political viewpoints.


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