ROOKE: Taylor Swift Just Embraced The Right’s Most Important Topic
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By now, you might have seen the viral video of Taylor Swift celebrating Travis Kelce’s 13-yard touchdown catch from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. It was Travis’s first touchdown this season and the first since the two got married in July.
Ever since they started dating, NFL broadcasters have made a point of covering her reaction to almost every play. Sunday was no different. Cameras cut to Taylor in the suite right after Travis scored. She jumped up, pointed at her wedding ring, and yelled: “That’s my husband!” Then the internet went absolutely crazy.
Someone who ironically goes by Shiny Happy Person (@HRH_SHP) on X took issue with Taylor’s reaction.
“She’s a middle-aged woman acting like a child. Everything about her screams high school, and this isn’t the only example. It’s like she got stuck there, in the bleachers, yelling ‘that’s my man’ while everyone around her cringes,” she wrote.
When I clicked into SHP’s profile, I expected her to be some raging leftist feminist who was single with no kids. But according to her bio, not only is she a self-professed “MAGA Republican,” but she is also a married mother. How could someone with a seemingly traditional view on........
