Bulwark Takes - MAGA’s Sad Attempt to Weaponize Sidney Sweeney

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

Megyn Kelly attacks Beyoncé over a Levi's jeans ad, echoing the right-wing manufactured outrage that pits women like Sydney Sweeney, Beyoncé, and Taylor Swift against each other for political clout. Tim Miller rips apart the racist dog whistles, the MAGA obsession with culture war clickbait, and why Democrats shouldn't take the bait.

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as much as she liked the white-as-beautiful jeans ad. It's frustrating enough to do this. because we have these fake controversies swirling and, you know, there is a line of thinking that's like, oh, you should ignore this and focus on the Medicaid cuts. But here's the thing. This stuff breaks through to the types of people Trump has done well with. And the Republican ecosystem uses this to their advantage and it must be rebutted. And they've tried to create this fake world where Democrats hate Sidney-Sweeney and

Republicans like blonde girls with big boobs and that Democrats, think that blonde girls with big boobs are Nazis. And if you like blonde girls with big boobs, then you should be a Republican. And it's fucking stupid. It's stupid. It's based on nothing. And when the reality is that it's the Republicans that are the actual Republican politicians,

including up to and including the president of the United States, that are trying to divide the country by insulting people who are really, really popular. The Republicans, you know, Donald Trump and his Sydney-Sweeney statement went after Taylor Swift said she's not popular anymore. It's woke now. Megan Kelly is about to read you, goes after Beyonce. And they're imagining that there are Democrats going after Sydney-Sweeney, though there aren't. They're just like random stupid people writing op-ed columns in various newspapers and also Kamkowski who are going after Sydney-Sweeney. And it's like, no actual Democrats are going after Sydney-Sweeney. Here's the thing. Everybody likes Sydney-Sweeney. Everybody likes

likes Taylor Swift, asterisk. You know, we live in a big country. And so there'd be haters that hate people all the time. I got into a discourse on social media over the weekend about people who didn't like the Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zero song, Home, beautiful song.

I thought everybody liked home. You know, haters can create nonsense over nothing. The reality is Megan Kelly, who's making racist attacks and Beyonce, that is Donald Trump, the president of the United States, that is attacking Taylor Swift. And so, uh, the only. political party and political movement that is going after extremely popular women that everybody love is maga here's the Megan Kelly shit let's see if you can catch the racist dog

whistles here she shows this picture of Beyonce and the new ad campaign for Levi's Beyonce's appearing with blonde curly hair and Megan Kelly writes this is the opposite of the Sydney Sweeney ad quite clearly there is nothing natural about Beyonce Everything from her image to her fame, to her success, to her look below is bought and paid for. No black person can ever achieve any success on their own. It had to happen with the help of white people. She screams artificial, fake, enhanced, and trying too hard. I have some thoughts on this.

Megan Kelly's face, definitely not authentic. I would call it fake and enhanced and trying too hard. I would also notice that if we're going to look to someone for fashion advice, for feed feedback on sartorial content. I don't think we should turn to Megan Kelly's opinion of how people look and how people choose to dress. Here's Megan Kelly dressed as a garbage bag. Maybe her most accurate rendition of herself.

Maybe this is probably Megan Kelly has her authentic self, honestly. Megan Kelly in a garbage bag and a maga hat. But you know, you compare that to the Beyonce image here. Let's take a look at both of them together. I know which one is more appealing to me. Gay man, no. So, you know, I don't know. Your mileage may vary.

Again, we're like trying to create fake controversy over nothing here by being kind of racist and like weirdly mean and cruel and nasty for like no reason. Like Beyonce has done a million different images. Beyonce is just off a Cowboy Carter tour where she is expressing her full Southern country music loving black woman's self and God love her. Before that, she did the Renaissance record, which was celebrating disco culture and LGBT culture, the Balls and New York. and, you know, kind of the dance music party side of herself. Obviously, she's had just an amazing pop career. Beyonce contains multitudes, unlike Megan Kelly, who has one note. And so she reflects her multitudes and her various public appearances.

And the only person that seems to bother is Megan Kelly. So, you know, I mean, this is nasty work. We know exactly what she's doing. And I just think that instead of like ignoring this and saying that, oh, this is this is a distraction or whatever. I think that Libs should take the broad middle here. If I was a Democratic politician, I'd be like, you know who I like? Sidney Sweeney, I think she looks great. Don't know about her voter registration. Don't care. I think she's a great actress, loved her in Euphoria, loved her in the White Lotus. You know who else I love, Beyonce? Texas Holden was a great

song. I play it in my car. You know who else I love? Taylor Swift has a lot of good albums. People like her. That's where I am in the culture. I want to support America. American women who are doing amazing things, who are influencing the world, who are, you know, being role models for young girls. That's what I want to do. These guys over here want to, like, make this into a fight where you've got to pick Sidney's Sweeney's boobs over Beyonce. I don't want to choose a side of that. I actually am not an identitarian that makes my decisions on what celebrities I like based purely on racial identity and, you know, perceived political positioning. I choose the actresses and actors and musicians that I like based on whether they are inspiring performers. That's just me. That's what I would do if I was a Democratic politician. I think that's what people out here talking about this stuff should do. Don't let them do this.

Don't let them create this fucking fake fight. There's no fight. The only people's fighting is them. Maga wants to make this about Sidney-Sweeney versus Beyonce and wants to do dog whistles against Beyonce and wants to like, you know, pretend like Sydney Sweeney is one of theirs. It's not, that's not, politics doesn't have to be like this. We don't have to, not everything has to be Fox versus MS, Megan Kelly, white versus black, authentic versus inauthentic.

I am Megan Kelly, one of the most inauthentic people in all of the news. And I'm going to judge someone for their level of, you don't have to do this. You just don't. I choose not to. I choose to make fun of them. I choose to point and laugh at the MAGA world that is so obsessed with this that they can't just enjoy the pleasures of get me bodied or lemonade without feeling like they need to pick aside. I feel bad for them. Actually, it's kind of sad.

I feel bad for Megan Kelly. She's pretty sad. And I feel bad for the country that people feel like they need to get drug down into this. So I think the right thing to do is, is position oneself on the side of the vast, vast middle of this country, the vast majority of this country who loves and respects and honors the really talented women of every race and creed that this wonderful country produces. And let, let Maga be on the tiny sliver of people that want to create a race war between Beyonce and Sydney, Sweeney.

Let them have that. and fight it out amongst themselves that said hope you guys enjoyed that i felt like that was it you know i do have a daily podcast we talk about some of this and i did have the chance you even listen to it to ask chuck tot if he's thought about sidney swenny's rack at the very end of the show we were running out of time and i didn't get to get all my thoughts off my chest and i didn't get a chance to bring up megan kelly in the trash bag and anytime i have a chance to do that i like to so subscribe to the feed and also i also spared you there's video of donald trump talking about Sidney Sweeney, and it's too stupid to play. Okay, it's too stupid and pathetic to play.

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