Senator Marsha Blackburn is currently the #1 laughingstock on Twitter after she rehashed old beef with Taylor Swift while talking about the dangers of authoritarianism and how Marxists are going to make it so singers can no longer sing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Just in case you need a recap, Swift, who is originally from Tennessee, famously spoke out against Blackburn when she was running for Senate in 2018.
“I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love,” the singer said in a statement. “I cannot support Marsha Blackburn. Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me.”
She also talked about Blackburn in her 2020 Netflix documentary Miss Americana.
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“She votes against fair pay for women. She votes against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which is just basically protecting us from domestic abuse and stalking,” she said. “She thinks that if you’re a gay couple, of even if you look like a gay couple, you should be allowed to be kicked out of a restaurant. It’s really basic human rights.”
Both Swift’s remarks and the documentary were made in 2018 and 2019. The film was released in January 2020. Now, it’s July 2021 and Marsha Blackburn is still bitter about the whole thing.
The antigay Republican sat down with Breitbart (ugh) this week to talk about how Marxism is taking over America and how Taylor Swift will be the “first victim” of the new authoritarian government.
“You know, Taylor Swift came after me in my 2018 campaign, but Taylor Swift would be the first victim of that,” Blackburn said. “Because when you look at Marxist socialist societies, they do not allow women to dress or sing or be on stage or to entertain or the type of music that she would have. They don’t allow protection of private intellectual property.”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn continues her running feud with Taylor Swift, warning her that if we have a “socialistic govt,” the state would have to “approve her music,” and won’t “allow women to dress, or sing, to be on stage, or entertain.” pic.twitter.com/HGXziiai8K
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 8, 2021
Just for the record, none of what Blackburn said there is actually true.
Now, here’s what folx on Twitter are saying about it…
Taylor Swift fighting Marsha Blackburn should be known as Swift vs Not So Swift.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) July 9, 2021
Can someone inform Marsha Blackburn that even communist China has singers. pic.twitter.com/PqnLa3LlXo
— SAM6 (@travelong6) July 9, 2021
I along with most Americans would much prefer to have @taylorswift13 as a United States senator than @MarshaBlackburn What about you?
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) July 9, 2021
Marsha Blackburn discusses if we lived in a socialist government Taylor Swift wouldn’t be allowed to make music or perform.
Me: where are you going with this??? pic.twitter.com/r5EuBVqK3B
— teatime75 (@teatime75) July 9, 2021
I wish Dolly Parton represented Tennessee rather than Marsha Blackburn.
— Abby (@kbhomesleak) July 8, 2021
Marsha Blackburn:
Socialism means artists can't express themselves!Eurovision: pic.twitter.com/lyUtS7doQM
— fundamental flaw? (@funflaw) July 9, 2021
Imagine being a woman and voting against the Violence Against Women Act.
Now, Imagine being a woman and voting against the Paycheck Fairness Act, literally saying "Women don't want equal pay to men."
This is a day in the life of Marsha Blackburn, an embarrassment to women.
— Kyla In The Burgh ???????? (@KylaInTheBurgh) July 9, 2021
Necessary to remind everyone that
Marsha Blackburn's father Hilman Wedgeworth was a "volunteer sheriff" in Mississippi during Jim Crow. pic.twitter.com/ZZX5f2rV6q— Ryan Santana (@ryan_san94) July 9, 2021
Marsha Blackburn's "feud" with Taylor Swift is one thing I never expected to care about. But it's the definitely the thing making me laugh the hardest tonight.
— ????Carly D. Mayer???? (@CarlyDMayer) July 9, 2021
It really doesn’t get less self-aware than Conservative Christian Marsha Blackburn claiming that a "socialist government" would disapprove of risqué songs and clothing—because it’s Conservative Christians who are most likely to disapprove and try to ban such things in America. https://t.co/4pZsCehnec
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 9, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
MissTerri
Quality Journalism! Truly Pulitzer Material!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cam
It’s adorable that the right wing troll thinks if it comes in and whines about any article about Republicans that the site will stop writing them.
Oh and precious, every time you click on one of these articles you register another page view so they can charge more for ads. So your comment actually helps. LOL
Sad little troll.
Heywood Jablowme
Oh look, Cam is talking to himself again.
Kangol2
Marsha Blackburn’s level of idiocy would be laughable except that she’s a sitting US Senator, meaning she has real power to do real damage to real people. And as she, Don the Con and numerous goons demonstrated yet again over the past four years and especially in 2020, they really know how to leave a trail of destruction in their wake (a shattered US economy, 22 million jobs lost, 605,000 Americans dead for Covid-19 alone, and counting).
The US is nowhere near “Socialism” as it has been and is being practiced in various places around the globe, nor are we anywhere near “Communism” either. Even the “cultural Marxism” label is nonsensical, since so much of what right-wingers scream about as “cultural Marxism” is garden variety social liberalism and progressivism, which a majority of Americans regularly express support for. The GOP and right-wing do seem enamored of fascism, though, and know that fascist policies, along with racism, homophobia, misogyny, etc. are increasingly out of step with the kind of society most Americans want to live in, so they create these smoke screens, fanned by lies and hysteria, so that they can continue to cater to their true constituency, the top 1%, megacorporations, and White supremacists and nationalists.
That’s why the GOP has lost the popular vote in 7 of last 8 presidential elections, and why Biden got the most votes ever in US history. Don the Con was the perfect emblem of Republican and right-wing failure. His presidency began with Russia’s intervention, was an utter disaster domestically and internationally, and ended in an attempted coup, which says everything. If the GOP’s nutty beliefs and policies, now infected with this Q insanity, were popular, they would not have to lie to each other and the American people, pass laws to suppress votes, etc.
Michael M
BRAVO Kangol2!!!
Heywood Jablowme
Great comment. The “Marxism” stuff seems like a dead-end political argument. It won’t resonate with anyone younger than 35 or so, and as we see here, older GQP voters have very fuzzy memories of what Soviet bloc communism was actually like.
Stephen Colbert once joked that conservatives all have a special dictionary where “socialism” and “fascism” have the exact same definition.
EddieB
Throw the “communist, socialist” bomb and see what happens. What the good Senator should realize is that it is the theocratic, hyper-religious societies (like the one she apparently craves) that repress women, music and just about anything else creative or fun.
Mister P
They are winning elections by scaring the voters with the bogey man also known as Marxist Socialism.
dougie
Does the GQP party require all their candidates for public office to pass a stupid test? What’s even scarier is that the electorate vote them into office so that they can exercise their stupidity. I still regret not leaving the U.S. when Bush 2 got re-elected.
Kevan1
I am from Nashville. Nashvile, Davidson county is a blue city. The rest of the state is red. Blackburn is a piece of garbage. She is a Trump W_ore.
BoomerMyles
This is the woman who said at her rally she wanted a front row seat to a lynching.
Jack
I seriously consider leaving Tennessee every time I see this this worthless, incompetent moron that my state elected. The bish has a degree in home economics!!!. Only Tennessee would elect this undereducated, lazy, incompetent glory wh*re. Thank God I’m a Nashvillian. It will take years but Nashville and Memphis will eat Tennessee just like Atlanta ate Georgia.
bsg1967
Never been a fan of miss swift especially her music but she now has my respect, still don’t like her music though ?
jockjack5
Marsha Blackburn is a dried-up and decrepit old hag who thinks that her frequent back-and-forth exchanges with Taylor Swift will somehow miraculously inject into her public persona the magical “youth” that she lost long ago.
Cam
I don’t really need to say anything, I’m sure Taylor Swift’s fans have got this covered.
jcool
with the amount of songs taylor swift has written about ex-boyfriends, messing with them without using their names, imagine what she could unload on this broad. maybe title it marsha, marsha, marsha
Openminded
Politicians crack me up when they make these stupid statements. Does anyone, no matter their party affiliation, really believe our government will or can take away women’s rights on “dressing & getting on stage”. Stupid remarks only serve to expose just how stupid the person is.
Sadly, for having only a Home Ec degree, she has amassed huge sums of wealth and quite a bit of power.
Lancealot
Blackburn thinks Taylor Swift should be happy that she lives in a country where she has the freedom to sing. Don’t forget that here in America, it’s people like Marsha Blackburn who tells people like Taylor Swift (and the Dixie Chicks) to “shut up and sing” when they voice their opinion on politics.