Elon Musk Threatens to Impregnate Taylor Swift

...and other incredibly bad reactions to Kamala Harris trouncing Donald Trump in the debate and finally winning the endorsement of the world's most famous "childless cat lady."

Well, Taylor Swift’s got one hell of a publicist in Tree Paine, assuming it was the latter woman who masterminded the timing and substance of that Kamala Harris endorsement on Instagram that broke the internet. Swift and her team managed to piggyback on an incredible debate victory—California Gov. Gavin Newsom accurately described it as a “masterclass,” while MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell called it the best televised debate performance of all time—thereby ensuring her own inclusion in every single bit of post-debate press coverage. (Yes, I included Swift’s endorsement in my own column for The Cut on Harris trouncing Trump, as well.)

Plus, in posting a gorgeous photo of herself with her pet cat and signing the caption, “Childless Cat Lady,” Swift landed a double-pronged dig at Republicans: both the obvious reference to J.D. Vance’s weird “childless cat lady” obsession, which has been one of the Trump/Vance campaign’s biggest weaknesses with women voters, and also a nod to the false white supremacist “rumor” about Haitian immigrants eating people’s cats, which Republicans have been desperately spreading for the past week (and which Donald Trump actually repeated on the debate stage).

Naturally, Swift’s endorsement of Harris was such a perfectly-timed shot in the arm for the Harris campaign that it bruised Trump’s ego pretty badly and got under the skin of some of his more prominent and self-described “alpha male” supporters. The former president, himself, reacted to Swift picking sides by threatening that the pop star would “pay a price” for alienating his supporters, which we can assume he means literally. Vance, without a hint of irony or self-awareness, said on Fox News that he doesn’t “think most Americans are gonna be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.” (Has he…met his running mate?) “Libertarian” political commentator Dave Rubin threatened Swift with rape by a Venezuelan gang, which is a very normal and not at all disturbing thing to say when a famous young woman dares to have a voice in politics. And Elon Musk, of course, offered to impregnate her.

This comment is very on brand for our fragile billionaire edgelord who’s fathered at least 12 children with three different women (though his brilliant and funny trans daughter has since disowned him and dropped his last name). He’s obsessed with the plummeting “birth rate”—read, the white birth rate—in a pretty far-right racist kind of way. He’s openly endorsed Trump, despite once claiming to be “independent” and beyond left and right and simply pro-speech. And he’s also just a sexist creep who boosts straight-up Nazi posts like this about how society should be run entirely by “high status males”:

Taylor Swift being a child-free, unmarried 34-year-old billionaire with literal pet cats and a massively influential platform is, frankly, a worst-case scenario for men like Trump, Vance, and Musk who would prefer women to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. She may not be the greatest feminist of our time, but it’s also not easy for a country-adjacent pop star to be overtly political—see the fate of the Chicks after they spoke out against George W. Bush. The fact that Swift is drawing literal rape threats from some of the world’s most powerful men right now means she must be doing something right—and for having that kind of courage, I tip my hat to her.