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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Justin Mohn: US man 'beheaded father' using machete in gruesome details of murder scene
[GEO.TV] Justin Mohn beheaded his father Mike using a machete as per new details revealed in the case, before he showed off the decapitated head on YouTube.

The gruesome scene of the murder has been revealed as follows:

The bathroom downstairs held a bloody corpse. There was no head on the man. In the bathtub close were a big knife and a machete. Soon after, Michael Mohn's decapitated head was discovered by police in a bedroom adjacent to the bathroom, wrapped in a plastic bag and placed in a boiling pot.

Authorities at the time were unaware of a video that the man's son had uploaded to YouTube featuring the victim's head and words expressing anti-government sentiments and calls for public executions, even as the horrific and startling scene of the crime revealed clues, according to Phillyburbs.

Mohn, who shared a house on Upper Orchard Drive with his parents, was discovered armed on a military post and was apprehended by police two hours later in Lebanon County after they pinged his mobile.

Denice Mohn, Michael's wife and Justin's mother, leaves for work around 2:00pm. Upon her return, she discovers her son gone, the door unlocked, and her husband's severed head.
Bet THAT was exciting traumatic
When Justin Mohn posts his gory video on YouTube and holds up his father's severed head, calling him a "traitor" after identifying him as a more than 20-year public worker, police estimate that the murder occurred between 2 and 5:30pm. The entire film is made up of right-wing tirades directed at the federal government and other left-wing organizations.
Courtesy of Beavis, Yahoo lays out the gentleman’s background:
Law enforcement officials Tuesday night released little information about Mohn, only identifying him as the victim's youngest son, but his online footprint offered a vastly different portrait than his YouTube video. It also provided context for his disdain for the federal government.

On his Facebook page, “Justin Mohn -Music” which had 71 followers Tuesday, he promoted two of his albums, “The Story of Humanity” and “Colorfunkinrado,” which he said were released in 2017 and 2018.

He described his music style as a blend of “rock, funk, and hip-hop using piano and organ as primary instruments. Along with explicit lyrics,drums, synthesized bass and other synthesized instruments.”

On his Amazon page, Mohn, a 2010 graduate of Neshaminy High School, described himself as the author of seven books and musician who has released three albums and one single. At Neshaminy, he was voted class clown runner up and played soccer, according to the yearbook.

“His life story is unbelievable and there may not be enough words to describe him, but one may begin to understand his complexity and experiences through his art. He only wishes to bring positive change to the world,” his Amazon profile said.

LEVITTOWN BEHEADING SUSPECT JUSTIN MOHN HAD SUED GOVERNMENT OVER STUDENT LOANS
In legal filings in the U.S. Eastern District Court in Philadelphia, though, Mohn displayed his deep dissatisfaction with the federal government, specifically the U.S. Department of Education.

Since 2022, Mohn has sued the U.S. Department of Education secretary Miguel Cordona and the U.S. Department of Education twice and last year the U.S. Attorney’s Office and The Attorney General of the United States. The court dismissed all the suits, which Mohn filed pro-se meaning he represented himself.

In the most recent court opinion in December, U.S. Judge Mark Kearney wrote Mohn’s arguments in his latest suit, which sought $10 million, were similar to ones the court previously dismissed.

“He essentially claims the United States lent him money which he needed to repay under a student loan contract beginning in late 2014 but this loan allowed him to get a college education and he cannot find a satisfactory job as an overeducated white man to repay the loan,” Kearney wrote.

In his opinion, Kearney wrote that Mohn graduated from Penn State University in May 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness management.

Kearney — who Mohn threatened by name in the YouTube video — wrote that Mohn started repaying his student loans six months after he graduated, but he could not find full time work.

He moved to Colorado to take a full-time job at a credit union, according to the opinion. He later took a full-time job with an insurance company for a higher hourly wage, though the opinion didn’t specify what it was..

“He views his work postgraduate years as ‘malemployment.’” Kearney wrote.


Posted by: Fred || 02/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [43 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Angelina@superchef Jan 13
"When my sister and I were younger and washing dishes we got into an argument about how hot the rinse water should be. It ended with me chasing her around the house with a broom and shutting the door on her boobs."
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677 || 02/01/2024 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Dad "You'll never get ahead in life"
Son "Hold my beer"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/01/2024 17:42 Comments || Top||


Naked customer allegedly threatens convenience store staff with veggie peeler, masturbates in front of cops
[NYPOST] A naked Florida woman with a long rap sheet allegedly threatened to kill convenience store workers with a vegetable peeler — then drunkenly masturbated in front of responding deputies.
She sounds like a fun date.
Self-motivated is a good thing
Celia Barrett, 35, went to the RaceTrac at 2551 54th Ave. in St Petersburg on Sunday evening after downing about six shots of liquor and waved a "sharp-edged peeler-corer," Fox 35 Orlando reported, citing an affidavit.
... and then, when I brought her home to meet Mom...
She complained about having been previously trespassed from the gas station and began to bang the veggie tool on the counter as she hurled obscenities at the cashier, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
I hate it when women do that. My mother never banged a veggie tool in her life!
Barrett also threatened the general manager with the peeler-corer, which she waved in a threatening manner as if she was going to stab him, according to the affidavit.
"I'm gonna peel and core you!"
"Spare me!"

She yelled that she was "going to kill him" before putting the weapon down and walking away.
"I'll murderlize youse, general!"
The unhinged woman then allegedly took out her frustrations on a display of about 50 Red Bull drinks, which she toppled, and tore open a carton of cigarettes in her fit of fury.
"Outta my way, Red Bullz!"
When police arrived, she was still out of control and allegedly gave them an X-rated show.
"Hey! You can't do that!"
"I'm doing it! Watch me!"
"I am!"

“​Prior to being taken into custody [Barrett] began masturbating in front of deputies,” a deputy reported, according to The Smoking Gun, which cited the affidavit.
"Cheeze! Lookit the size of that thing!"
"Those are some major callouses!"
"Stop it! You're scaring the K9!"
"It's okay, Otto! You can come out from under there now! Here boy!... Now look what you've done! Poor Otto!"

Her lengthy rap sheet includes convictions for battery, prostitution, criminal mischief and narcotics possession, according to the outlet.
Wotta surprise.
Posted by: Fred || 02/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

In the New Normal Generation, her Social Media, Tinder and dating app are likely getting a lot of pings from Vegans 🫣

Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/01/2024 5:49 Comments || Top||


#3  She seems nice
Posted by: Frank G || 02/01/2024 7:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Weird. I know a Celia Barrett but this ain't her.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/01/2024 10:45 Comments || Top||

#5  our next president!
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 02/01/2024 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  That perp image triggered the adage - "rode hard and put up wet"!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/01/2024 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7  You go design an overpass crosswalk, and nobody calls you Celia the Bridge Maker.

You go wrestle an alligators at a golf course, and nobody calls you Celia the Pest Remover.

But you go masturbate drunken with a veggie peeler at a quick shop one time....
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2024 15:58 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ It just isn't right !
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2024 18:04 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Dem-led Portland declares state of emergency over fentanyl crisis: Oregon Governor wades into turmoil three years after woke city decriminalized drugs that has caused 'economic and reputational harm'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Governor Tina Kotek, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson have come together to declare a state of emergency in Portland over the city's fentanyl crisis

  • Addicts who interact with first responders over the next 90 days will be connected to resources including drug treatment program

  • Since decriminalizing possession of all drugs, people are demanding leaders fight open-air drug markets that surfaced and fueled a homelessness crisis
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2024 06:14 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/01/2024 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2 
Either the LSD's, Oregon Governor, and Portland leaders are the dumbest collection of people that did not see this coming, or they knew and planned to used it for agenda needs. OR BOTH.

Remember they were voted in... so what does that say about LSD Oregon /Portland voters?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/01/2024 9:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Why do you think they call it dope?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/01/2024 9:31 Comments || Top||


Not Just Claudine Gay. Harvard's Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized and Claimed Credit for Husband's Work, Complaint Alleges
[FreeBeacon] The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston's thin publication record. In her 2009 dissertation, submitted to the University of Michigan, Charleston quotes or paraphrases nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution, the complaint alleges. And in her sole peer-reviewed journal article—coauthored with her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2014—the couple recycle much of a 2012 study published by LaVar Charleston, the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, framing the old material as new research.
Now do "Big Mike"

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple." Cut and paste." (Well, actually ("Take it and copy it") (Angealing B. Hayes4677, well actually "Anatole France").
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677 || 02/01/2024 1:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Now you’re just being silly! :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/01/2024 1:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Now do "Big Mike"

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2024 5:05 Comments || Top||


#5  How would you like to be the minion that has to shave her back every day?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/01/2024 7:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Appalling. But this is what happens when you let politics triumph over competence. People who are promoted on political rather than compentence grounds are, well, incompetent.

It will be very interesting to see what happens to Harvard's application pool and endowment performance later this year.
Posted by: Tom || 02/01/2024 14:04 Comments || Top||


FAA created ‘secret code words’ for blacks so they could one-up whites and Asians
[RevolverNews] Sure, it’s a huge problem that our government is full of these clueless hires. But the real worry starts when they end up in industries that touch our lives every day. Take the airline industry, for instance. There’s this shocking new report about the FAA. Apparently, they’ve got this "secret word code" for black aviation students’ resumes. The goal is to push these resumes to the front, possibly skipping over other folks who might actually be far more qualified. But they don’t stop there; they’ve got even more racist tricks up their sleeves.
Surprised, in honor of our current Secretary of Transportation, it wasn't "Bearhugs".



Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2024 5:08 Comments || Top||


#3  ^ To be fair, how many non-whites hit Newsome's contribution threshold to obtain an appointment?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/01/2024 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  The only place DEI is forbidden? Airline cockpits.
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677 || 02/01/2024 9:02 Comments || Top||

#5  ...you sure?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/01/2024 12:03 Comments || Top||

#6  May want to talk to the CEO of United about that one. He was absolutely gay for some only half of new pilots to be White Men.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2024 13:25 Comments || Top||

#7  "Airlines Offering $100 Upgrade Where You're Guaranteed An Old Male Pilot Named Steve"


https://babylonbee.com/news/airlines-offering-100-upgrade-where-youre-guaranteed-an-old-male-pilot-named-steve
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/01/2024 13:25 Comments || Top||

#8  *in DIE, Whites also means Asians.

The one about, "Passengers panic after all female crew says 'everything is fine'."

Keep in mind the discussion, the trial balloon, about reducing the cabin crew to one pilot. I'm sure the insurance and lawyers are gaming each of those reductions in capability.

"Anyone can become a qualified pilot, but a qualified pilot can't be just anyone."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2024 13:57 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Cruiser captain bullied and struck sailors before being relieved, Navy investigation finds
[Stars & Stripes] A Navy captain relieved of command of a San Diego-based cruiser last year battered and bullied sailors while creating a culture of fear through temper tantrums and public humiliation, according to a service investigation.

Capt. Danielle DeFant’s toxic leadership aboard USS Lake Erie put the ship’s crew at higher risk of an accident, investigators concluded in an Oct. 2, 2023, command report.

A copy of the report was first obtained and posted online by San Diego’s KPBS through a Freedom of Information Act request.

DeFant made some sailors feel as if they were "walking on eggshells" and caused many of the nearly 50 officers assigned to the ship’s wardroom to fear giving her bad news, according to the report.

"There is clear evidence that Captain DeFant’s recurrent, counterproductive behaviors have had adverse effects on subordinates and the command, and have had destructive effects on her crew," the report stated.

DeFant, whose Navy career spans more than 30 years, was fired Oct. 12. She subsequently was transferred to commander, Naval Surface Force, Pacific Fleet.

Such headquarters reassignments are common while the Navy determines whether an officer relieved of duty for loss of confidence in their ability to command will remain in the service.

DeFant was fired 10 days after the 25-page investigation report was sent to Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, commander of Carrier Strike Group 9.

The report, which examines DeFant’s leadership after taking command of Lake Erie in July 2022, investigated complaints of toxic command culture and sexual discrimination. It included summaries of interviews with DeFant and at least 45 officers and other sailors.

The report did not find evidence to substantiate the allegation of sexual discrimination.

However, investigators concluded that DeFant’s repeated targeting of two officers on Lake Erie violated the service’s rules on bullying, the report states.

DeFant also likely violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice when she grabbed a bridge officer by the collar and admonished him for speaking out of turn, investigators found.

The names of the witnesses and other crew members were redacted in the report.

Other sailors reported being hit, roughly pushed or nudged by DeFant. The captain characterized some of those encounters as an effort to get a sailor’s attention or correct them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2024 5:12 Comments || Top||


#3  She's a schnauzer.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 02/01/2024 7:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Shades of 'Horrible Holly', or perhaps another in a self inflicted trend. Watching trusted and in many cases beloved institutions wallow in the raw sewage of the diversity gutter is hard for a lot of us.

I can only surmise that like watching an alcoholic on that last, 'Lost Weekend' bender, we can only wait until the whole thing hits bottom.
Posted by: Cesare || 02/01/2024 8:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Some of the meanest concentration camp guards sin Nazi Germany were women, just saying.
Posted by: Chris || 02/01/2024 9:59 Comments || Top||

#6  A lucrative gov't contract job aka bridge to GG-15 gov't hire surely awaits her.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2024 10:36 Comments || Top||

#7  -Reads before clicking-

Gonna be a female.

when she grabbed a bridge officer by the collar and admonished him for speaking out of turn, investigators found.

'But thats what they do in the movies?!'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2024 13:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Thought women were supposed to be kinder, more gentle, more nurturing...or were we all sold a huge bill of goods?
Posted by: Tom || 02/01/2024 14:05 Comments || Top||

#9  A whiff of the Corps amidst the wreckage of her command style?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/01/2024 14:52 Comments || Top||


Economy
Fed Reserve: No change in rates now, probably won't change them in March
[Barrons] The Federal Reserve kicked off the year in neutral, opting to keep interest rates unchanged at a meeting of its policy-setting committee on Wednesday.

The call, which was widely expected and unanimous, keeps the target range for the federal-funds rate at 5.25%-5.50%...

Despite markets anxiously awaiting rate cuts, the Federal Reserve is unlikely to start easing monetary policy at the next meeting of its policy-setting committee, in March.

"I will tell you that I don't think it's likely that the committee will reach a level of confidence by the time of the March meeting to identify March is the time to do [rate cuts]," Powell said Wednesday. He added that a March cut is "not the most likely" or "base case" scenario.

..................
so a rate cut maybe in May; maybe (the market is pretty sure of this, I'm not)
Posted by: lord garth || 02/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Why do I see a Election Year planned decline in Fed Rates.

I still remember Whip Inflation Now (WIN) from the 70's under Carter and the impact it had on my Ga. State salary.

The Dem's tried to hide it, by trying to move the US moving to the European Metric System. Which confused the hell out voters on the real prices.

Droves of us dumped the Gov. Employment and went Private sector due the massive pay gap between public and private sector pay for the same jobs and duties.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/01/2024 6:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Artificial progress to end in early Nov.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2024 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Gaslighting by the Biden tools and MSM: "The rate of inflation is down"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/01/2024 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Washingtonese - a decrease in the rate of increase is a "cut."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/01/2024 9:32 Comments || Top||


Europe
French tractor blockade chaos could hit UK's food supplies, British trade body warns as farmers move in on world's biggest market in Paris and head for Belgian ports in growing protests across EU
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Farmers are blocking major motorways in a standoff with the French government

  • Workers in Belgium, Italy, Germany and other EU states are joining the protests
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2024 06:25 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/01/2024 12:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Twitter link to empty supermarket shelves in Paris as a result of the blockade by French farmers.

https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1752926097564471601
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/01/2024 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Point of order:
Farmers wouldn't be out there doing this if they hadn't been fucked with.

So who is causing the chaos?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2024 15:52 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Conservative Canadian leader infuriates Trudeau officials by BANNING sex change procedures for children, trans women from female sports and teachers from hiding pronoun changes in Alberta province
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, announced the plan on Wednesday, and immediately angered Justin Trudeau's youth minister

  • New rules will be enforced on gender reassignment surgery and puberty blockers, plus the use of pronouns and chosen names in classrooms

  • Trans girls will not be allowed to compete in girls' sport: instead, co-ed and gender neutral leagues will be formed
    That’s the right answer to all sorts of questions.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2024 05:59 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can't wait to see that smug asshole Trucastro gone.
Posted by: Chris || 02/01/2024 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  ^They have another smug asshole wainting in the wings.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/01/2024 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Welcome, Florida, to not being able to change the gender on State ID's after 'surgery'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2024 13:11 Comments || Top||

#4  She angered Justin Trudeau? Did he stamp his feet and hold his breath until he turned blue, or what?
Posted by: Tom || 02/01/2024 14:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Just one more step on the way to separation.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 02/01/2024 19:13 Comments || Top||


Canada U-turns on euthanizing the mentally ill: Country halts plans to broaden assisted dying to people with depression 'because there aren't enough doctors to assess them'
That's proof they're crazy.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Canada has delayed a plan to offer assisted suicide to people suffering solely from mental illness, health officials announced.

The controversial policy, which critics feared would lead to people killing themselves out of desperation, currently allows anyone in Canada with an incurable medical condition to apply to die, even if the disease is not terminal.

The country's law around medically assisted dying is one of the most liberal in the world. In 2022 alone, about 13,000 Canadians were euthanized as part of the program.

However, health officials said Monday that there are not enough doctors, especially psychiatrists, in the country to evaluate mentally ill people who wish to die.

The officials did not offer any timeline for the latest extension. Prior to this delay, the expansion was scheduled to come into effect on March 17.

Dying with Dignity Canada, a group that advocates for the right of medically assisted death, said that it was 'disheartened' by the postponement.

Medically assisted dying (MAiD) was first introduced in 2015 after Canada's Supreme Court ruled that requiring people to cope with intolerable suffering violated their rights to liberty and security.

Passed in June 2016, only people with terminal illnesses whose natural death was reasonably foreseeable — known as Track One patients — were eligible to apply for MAiD.

But in March 2021 the legislation was updated to create Track Two patients. These are defined as people who suffer 'intolerable' and 'irreversible' disease or disability who may not be near natural death.

In 2022, data showed 13,241 people chose MAiD to die, a 31 percent increase from 2021. This accounted for one in 20 total Canadian deaths.

The controversial policy, which some worry will see people kill themselves out of desperation, was further updated in December 2022 so people looking to MAiD to end their lives solely due to mental illness would, before the delay, be eligible in March 2024.

As of now, to qualify for MAiD, people must meet all criteria: be eligible for health services funded by the government; be at least 18 years old and deemed mentally competent; have an irremediable medical condition — one that is irreversible, in advanced stages and causes unbearable physical or mental suffering — make a voluntary request to die; and give informed consent to receive medical assistance to end your life.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [37 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Too late.
The Toe is in the door.
The Idea has been planted and will slowly be taught, included in Media, Movies and TV dramas until more socially accepted.

Then Gov Elite will take charge to "PROPERLY" of pick who WILL BE culled.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/01/2024 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Could be cheaper to provide tickets to Portland?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/01/2024 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Welcome to the Monkey House.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2024 13:49 Comments || Top||

#4  “These unfortunate people all vote for us”
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 02/01/2024 16:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Blonde for grandpa. Taylor Swift forced to work for Biden
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Malek Dudakov

[REGNUM] Pop star Taylor Swift suddenly finds herself at the center of political battles. The latest world concert tour of the 34-year-old singer, who has long captured the hearts of Americans, even influenced the growth of the US economy. And now Joe Biden intends to take advantage of her popularity, hoping to be re-elected for a second term thanks to such support.

A native of Tennessee, a Republican outback in the American South, Taylor Swift began her pop career back in 2006. Three years later, rapper Kanye West added to her fame during a sensational episode at the MTV Music Awards. He refused to award Swift and wanted to give the award to his wife Kim Kardashian.

From that moment on, the two stars began to feud. And now mutual hostility is moving to the political plane, because West supported Donald Trump.

Swift released several very successful albums and by the mid-2010s she became perhaps the most recognizable American singer. If not the most popular. At the same time, she tried in every possible way to disguise her political views. Only at the very beginning of her career did Taylor Swift hint about supporting George W. Bush and the Republicans. It was due to the fact that she was raised in a conservative southern state.

But a long career in American show business began to bear fruit.

Therefore, although Swift did not declare her views, she began to actively promote the agenda of feminism and LGBT (a movement banned in the Russian Federation) in her songs. Moreover, supporters of both parties - Republicans and Democrats - tried to find some secret meanings in musical compositions.

Even Trump fans were sure for a couple of years that Swift was actually on their side, but was simply afraid to talk about it openly.

Online trolls have also become more active, especially on the far right. They created a whole cult of Taylor Swift, with endless memes where her image was equipped with Nazi symbols. The blue-eyed blonde Swift was quite suitable for such posters.

The singer tried to ignore it for a long time. But the consequence was that among the liberal public the singer was increasingly called a “secret Trumpist” and the personification of “white privilege.”

At one point, Taylor Swift found herself under real partisan pressure from the progressive public: she was furiously demanded to openly support the Democrats. The pressure campaign had an effect, and in 2018, Swift accused Trump of authoritarianism and called for voting for Democrats in the congressional elections, which they eventually won.

Swift took a similar position two years later, during the 2020 presidential campaign. She even posed with gingerbread cookies baked in Democratic colors and campaigned for Biden.

Taylor Swift is indeed very popular among American youth, especially girls. And her calls have led to a surge in voter registrations in several states.

The singer's support could really help Biden in 2020. After all, his lead over Trump in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin was only a matter of tens of thousands of voters. And Swift has a multimillion-dollar army of supporters, many of whom are apolitical and could well follow her call to vote for Democrats.

From that moment on, the singer’s popularity has only grown.

She has more than 300 million subscribers on social networks at the beginning of 2024. Swift has collectively sold more than 120 million of her songs and officially became a dollar billionaire after her international tour. These tours themselves were not only very successful for Swift, but also contributed to the growth of American GDP in the third quarter of 2023.

American states are actively fighting to host her concerts. After all, they bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, attracting tourists and fans. The total effect for the United States from Swift's tour reached $5 billion. Other states are now joining this successful process.

True, against the backdrop of creative success, political scandals once again raged around Swift.

She created a whole saga around her music label, trying to reduce her dependence on producers. One of the owners of Swift's compositions turned out to be the Soros Foundation and its current head and heir to a large empire, Alex Soros. Swift accused him of “shameless greed,” which caused a very positive reaction from the American right, who themselves are at war with the “Soros.”

But then Swift herself received an answer, and from an unexpected direction.

A conspiracy theory has emerged that views Swift's successful career as some kind of psychological operation by the Pentagon and the US "deep state". It’s just that at one of the Pentagon’s online lectures on conducting “psyops” (psychological operations. - Ed.), it was discussed how it would be good to use someone popular like Swift to formulate the necessary public agenda.

The Pentagon itself rushed to refute this, but a residue remained.

And now it has also become known about the White House’s plans to force Taylor Swift to support Biden again. After all, his ratings are now very low - and in the latest polls, the current president is 4-5 points behind Trump. It seems that there are no other ways to somehow save Biden in the elections - all that remains is to introduce a popular singer into circulation.

Social networks are flooded with various conspiracy theories.

There is a version that soon the team for which the singer’s current boyfriend plays will win the final game for the title of American football champion - the Super Bowl. And she will seize the moment to join him and the team of champions in supporting Biden.

This can really give some results.

After all, the Super Bowl is the highest-rated broadcast on American television. In 2023, the American football finals were watched by 115 million television viewers. This is a huge audience, which is ten times larger than those who want to watch television debates or political talk shows. And publicly campaigning for Biden, especially from the winning team and the most popular singer in the United States in front of such an audience, could be a winning story.

It's a way for Biden to restart his campaign, which is clearly in crisis.

Well, Taylor Swift may simply have no choice. If she refuses, streams of compromising material will continue to pour on her, like that story with “connections with the Pentagon.” It could well have been some kind of warning shot. They say that even the most successful singer can be “cancelled” and her reputation destroyed if necessary.

Another thing is that Biden has too many problems - both within the country, with the conflict around Texas, and outside. And the support of Taylor Swift alone is unlikely to ensure his victory. Although she is clearly more popular than anyone else among the Democrats or in the presidential office.

But this situation personifies the cultural crisis of today's America and the strongest division of the country. When even a clearly apolitical singer can no longer help but take a certain position. And she is literally being asked to follow the Democratic Party line in the hope that such a semi-sincere position will somehow change the preferences of Americans.
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#1  A jester who's body of work consists of setting her complaining about past choices in men to music is expected to have, somehow, bettered her selection processes?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/01/2024 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  way over the hill for elites !
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 02/01/2024 11:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Couple Pop Culture Control levers:

Daily Mail, in short:

How it will be possible for Taylor Swift to have her concert in Japan, and make it to Vegas in time for Super Bowl
-Remember this next time they scold you for anything having to do with traveling: carbon, travel jab, DIE employees, etc.

Phizer: Travis Kelce says, "Get the Jab!"
Bayer: Take an aspirin before the game for potential heart attack
-LOL
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#4  How it will be possible for Taylor Swift to have her concert in Japan, and make it to Vegas in time for Super Bowl

You understand that Tokyo is on the other side of the dateline. What we call December 7th happened on December 8th Tokyo time.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/01/2024 15:32 Comments || Top||

#5  DM Article
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