Worse than a Satanist — Taylor Swift now serves George Soros!

Actually no, but Swift becoming Time‘s Person of the Year for 2023 has pushed even more people into freaking out than when they denounced her as an agent of Satan. Stephen Miller, Laura Loomer and other right-wing hacks are muttering darkly about linking Swift to George Soros — a nice easy way to get some clicks and maybe some donations by battening onto the celebrity of the moment. Similarly a left-wing twit has blamed Swift for not stopping the Gaza conflict — one Instagram post and she could bring about peace! After all, Barbie’s rock band created 24 hours of world peace in Barbie and the Rockers … wait, that was just a cartoon, wasn’t it?

Now let’s look at other bad ideas. For example, believing anything Alex Jones says.

Trump, the same sniveling cry-baby who whines about how law enforcement persecutes him, declaring that in his planned second term he’ll protect police from police-brutality lawsuits. It does fit his love affair with bullies. And wouldn’t that be good news for cops like this. Or these. And as long as the cops kiss his ass, I’m sure Trump will happily shield them from cases like these.

Speaking of cops civil forfeiture is a horrible idea. But they get away with it. And with blowing up people’s house.

Beating a man into a coma, then prosecuting him, then reprosecuting him is a horrible idea too.

Here’s a bad one: passing a “parents rights” bill that prevents teaching children about abuse. Or deciding parental rights don’t count when you want to push Christianity on their kids. Or that the rights of homeschooling parents include abusing children — which is what I hear when homeschooling advocates bristle over any sort of stronger requirements (it’s true most homeschooling parents are not abusive, but this reminds me a little of some conservatives support for spousal abuse).

JD Vance wants the government to investigate a columnist predicting a Trump dictatorship. How dare anyone think free speech includes the right to criticize the Republican God King!

Companies that contract with government to destroy guns frequently don’t: they can legally resell the parts which lets buyers create ghost guns.

A woman in Texas couldn’t get a doctor to abort a life-threatening nonviable pregnancy so she went to court and won. AG Ken Paxton’s response is that he can still arrest the doctors if they go ahead. It’s almost like the “medically necessary” exemption is just a fig leaf for misogynist shits. I particularly like his declaration that the judge doesn’t have the medical knowledge to make the call — in contrast to Paxton (as Alexandra Petri points out in her sarcastic takedown).

Ron DeSantis doesn’t think this sort of thing should bother us — we shouldn’t be pained by actions we’re not responsible for.

Some car makers want to dispense with AM radio. Ted Cruz wants a government mandate that AM radio stays.

Taking the vote away from under-25s. Of course if they’re not smart enough to vote, they’re not smart enough to sign up for the military but I’m sure Matt Walsh won’t bring that up.

Mitt Romney saying we shouldn’t worry about Trump’s talk of dictatorship. Steve Bannon definitely anticipates dictatorship.

The state of Florida suing over FSU football.

Destroying a little free library because it has pro-gay books.

Speaker Mike Johnson admitting he’s hiding the identities of J6 rioters so they can’t be prosecuted.

Florida’s government arguing that banning books in school libraries is the state exercising free speech.

Getting rid of not only the ACA but Medicaid and Medicare. The Montana politician at the link also thinks having health insurance is a bad idea — why not just do good comparison shopping and save money for emergencies?