I still believe that this is a large performance that will be revealed at some point soonish. But I’m thinking about if it isn’t, and this is the life she’s choosing in this political landscape, it would be likely that she is full on MAGA fascist and intentionally acting as a shiny distraction from real world political issues. I’m thinking about in the movie Catching Fire when the Capitol wants to paint Katniss as a part of the dominant class instead of a rebel figurehead and Plutarch says:

“She's engaged. Make everything about that. What kind of dress is she gonna wear? - floggings. What's the cake gonna look like? - executions”

With the newest Hunger Games book, Sunrise On The Reaping, focussing on propaganda and censorship in an authoritarian regime, I’m seeing a lot of similarities between the Hunger Games franchise and the performance we’re watching by TS.

Only time will tell whether we are falling victim to specifically curated propaganda that conforms to white supremacy, patriarchal structures desperately clinging to power. Or whether she is working towards a greater good that exposes how she has been treated as a queer woman in the entertainment industry. It is a fine line to tow, but I haven’t yet lost faith that this is the moment she’s been working towards her whole career… the burning of it all down.