Donald Trump loves “Mrs. Mahomes,” Brittany Mahomes, the wife of Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs QB, teammate of Travis Kelce, who is the boyfriend of Taylor Swift – yes, that Taylor Swift, the pop superstar who just endorsed Kamala Harris for president.
Brittany Mahomes is a Trump “favorite” because she revealed her political leanings with a like on an Instagram post outlining Trump’s 2024 platform last month, which, good for her.
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Swift, Brittany’s one-time bestie, is not only not a Trump favorite, he lobbed a not-veiled threat at her for the endorsement of Harris – “she’ll pay a price for it at the, in the marketplace,” Trump told Fox News – and his MAGA sycophants have, predictably, upped the ante, hinting at repercussions including her being raped, or worse, impregnated by Elon “Leon” Musk.
Another Trumper suggested that we should repeal the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote in response.
That’s what MAGA chuds do.
Wonder where Patrick Mahomes, husband, father of two, including a little girl, stands on all of this?
“I don’t want my place and my platform to be used to endorse a candidate or do whatever, either way,” Mahomes told reporters on Wednesday. “I think my place is to inform people to get registered to vote. It’s to inform people to do their own research and then make the best decision for them and their family.”
Ah, the “do your own research” line.
Sounds an awful lot like everybody’s favorite QBAnon, Aaron Rodgers, when you talk about “research.”
WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark is toeing a similar line, though, to be fair to Clark, she’s doing so after it was noticed that she’d liked Swift’s Instagram post announcing the pop singer’s endorsement of Harris.
“I think for myself, I have this amazing platform, so I think the biggest thing would be just to encourage people to register to vote,” Clark told reporters on Wednesday, avoiding making her thinking on who to vote for in the election known directly.
“I think for myself, this is the second time that I’ll be able to vote in an election. Age 22, I could vote at 18. So, I think, do that, that’s the biggest thing I can do with the platform that I have,” Clark said.
“That’s the same thing that Taylor did. I think, continue to educate yourself with the candidates that we have, the policies that they’re supporting, that’s the biggest thing we can do, and that’s what I would recommend to every single person that has that opportunity in our country.”
There’s a hint of “do your own research” there, but it’s against a backdrop of, hey, you know, I did actually like Taylor Swift’s endorsement post, if you see what I did there, and why we’re talking about this.
Clark, predictably, is getting heat from the culture warriors on the far right who had been using her status as a white player in the predominantly black WNBA to advance their dumb racism.
I’ve seen one chief complaint from Clark’s now-former MAGA “fans” on social media – that she didn’t learn the lesson from Michael Jordan’s infamous “Republicans buy sneakers, too” line from back when he didn’t endorse Harvey Gantt in his challenge to the blithering racist Jesse Helms in a Senate race in North Carolina in the 1980s.
The lesson here would seem to actually be for the likes of Jordan and Patrick Mahomes.
I’ll be honest here, I don’t care which way you stand, just take a stand, one way or the other.
If you want a MAGA world, tell us; if you support Kamala Harris, but you’re afraid to say so, because you’re afraid people won’t buy your shoes anymore, look over there at what Steph Curry did to put that “Republicans buy sneakers, too” nonsense to rest.
It’s not like your sneakers are any better than anybody else’s, anyway.
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