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Been waiting for this since Trump decided to attack her and her fanbase, and misuse her image without her permission.
Go on, you MAGA idiots, start shouting at Taylor Swift. I dare you.
It’s gonna be brutal when she’s one-upped by er … Kid Rock.
No! Wait, Ted Nugent.
Yeah, suck it Swifters.
This is not “breaking news” under any circumstances.
Glad she’s supporting kamala and using her influence, but that being said the celebrity worship nonsense is silly. Not breaking news.
Yeah, the fact that I keep seeing this as breaking, or important, news makes me want to break into a broadcast center and pull a “The Network”.
I mean she is probably the most popular pop star in the world, so I think it is breaking news if it helps the disenfranchised youth vote for Kamala over Trump.
Well, we are talking about a pop star with absolutely staggering amount of influence and reach, specifically with a young demographic. If she were able to motivate her fan-base to vote, that would be a huge deal.
Unfortunately celebrity worship is influence, and influence is the key in elections. No influence, no vote. It is power. And the amount of influential power Taylor swift has is absolutely staggering. I wouldn’t be surprised if her endorsing kamala brings in tens if not hundreds of thousands of voters to register.
I’m skeptical that the kinds of people that would be swayed to vote for Kamala solely due to Taylor Swifts endorsement, are the kinds of people who see breaking news on NBC.
It’s not breaking news, which was my OP LOL. She could probably have the intended effect on tik tok and Twitter.
But still, I don’t really care, if it gets more votes against trump I’m all for it.
It ain’t breaking news though LOL. Putin launching a nuke is breaking news.
my queen
Perfect. Now she’ll do a voter registration drive.
Also if you’ve been sitting on a donation for Harris between now and the next 24 hours will give Harris another big news cycle bump.
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I’m not sure an insult from a 20 minute old account is going to sting very much. Nice try, tho. I’d give your trolling attempt a solid 4/10.
Puttin your money where your Kamouth is
Cult of personality vs cult of personality.
Yep that’s how humans work
Praise Tay
Screw the debate. The real news!
/s
Some folks here really seem to think that her fans don’t have any political opinions without her. This is actually as much about her politically engaged fan base wanting her to use her platform for good, than it is about swaying people who might be very young or unsure about voting.
Lots of swifties are millenials who lean left and liberal and some have criticized her in the past for not speaking up or for leaving her views ambiguous in a way that left room for the right to coopt her image. This is not about silly pop fans needing to be told what to think. People aren’t ignorant. It’s exactly because she’s powerful and very wealthy, that it’s important for her to use her power to be very clear about where she stands. Especially in light of the ai thing and the Brittany Mahomes weirdness.
and some have criticized her in the past for not speaking up or for leaving her views ambiguous in a way that left room for the right to coopt her image.
This seems important to her, especially considering her timing – she mentioned that the right has been circulating deep fakes of her falsely claiming she endorsed trump.
obviously a lot of them are engaged, but the US is famously bad at actually voting, so this might make a significant difference in who votes.
I really hope that it does.
ideally it should, we saw something similar after kamala harris took over biden.
Good news!
https://x.com/ElenaMMoore/status/1833936170301960507
NEW: A General Services Administration spox tells NPR that as of 11 a.m. ET today there have been 306,422 visitors to http://vote.gov referred from Taylor Swifts’s URL she shared on Instagram last night
Heck yeahh
damn holy shit, big if true.
She did it in 2023 and I’m not one for bets. :) https://www.npr.org/2023/09/22/1201183160/taylor-swift-instagram-voter-registration
“Breaking News” 🤦♂️ Ugggghhhh.
It actually is though. When they use the same header two days from now…
I’ll take it!!!
There’s always something to complain about
I mean… one of the most influential people on the planet just endorsed a candidate for President. That is pretty breaking news.
while I personally don’t like when people use clout for things like this, some people don’t realize how big politically she can be. She outright had governments fighting for show exclusivity just so she would choose their country for people to travel to. Her influences has whole damn governments fighting each other.
More importantly, she was waiting for the best time to do it. I would hate to be the guy who has to tell Trump.
Trump’s left brain cell: “Woman no agree with me so she ugly!”
Trump’s right brain cell: “But woman blonde like Ivanka! I want to sex her!”
bzzrtPOP
[system malfunction]
(Second brain cell added for artistic license)
He’s currently standing awkwardly in the spin room hoping that people will talk to him.
Who would want to talk to a felon and adjudicated rapist? Gross!
I’m sure some reporters talked to him. There are some pretty amusing clips of him just sorta standing around awkwardly.
There is a non-zero chance that some reporter told him about the Taylor Swift endorsement. I truly hope he responded with the grace and elegance he had on display all night 😂
Swift, 34, signed her post “Childless Cat Lady”
Well played, Tay Tay, well played.
Caption: Taylor Swift, wearing a black turtleneck, holding her dinner.
Many people say she was born in Haiti. Why won’t she show her birth certificate?
Haiti’s gonna hate hate hate
I’ll show her mine if she shows me hers first.
sir, close your trenchcoat, we’re talking about documents here
Oh certificate, I thought you meant mark.
Yes citizen, roll up your sleeve and show me your trump nft tattoo
Pretty solid response, all things considered. I hope it resonates with new voters to register and be engaged since the older folks are far too entrenched to move the needle.
That cat is drop-dead gorgeous.
It’s a Ragdoll!
The cat is like “What is going on? Put me on my bed, I have to sleep”.
that cat looks actually really unbothered by what’s happening
Yeah well played, they got a bunch of millions for promoting politics and they are going to chill in their private jet and buy groceries with it. Have fun today working to death to afford rent and cheap food.
Cool whataboutism
That’s the reality
I cannot imagine being this mad about a win over Trump.
A post on the frontpage of lemmy with so many upvotes about a scummy pop celebrity endorsing the red and blue party is a lose for humanity and a win for any billionare or politician.
Yet it’s a loss for the billionaire-politician Trump… which is all that matters.
Not sure I’ve heard Swift described as “scummy” before.
And if you’re so against billionaires and politicians, why are you for the billionaire politician from the party who wants to cut taxes for billionaires, and not the candidate from a working class background who wants to increase taxes for billionaires?
They’ll say they aren’t for him, of course. But consequentially, they are.
If you vote and support people with blood on their hands you are directly evil. If you push a two side narrative when it clearly not you are misleading people
Not sure I’ve heard Swift described as “scummy” before.
Scummy is a kind word for someone who fly his private jet to buy groceries. We are talking about one of the biggest polluting individual on the planet.
And if you’re so against billionaires and politicians, why are you for the billionaire politician from the party who wants to cut taxes for billionaires, and not the candidate from a working class background who wants to increase taxes for billionaires?
I’m neither for a billionare or for a genocide supporter. If you believe calling these out is showing them support you are probably a victim of their propaganda.
I don’t believe Swift buys her own groceries, or that anyone on her staff takes a jet to the grocery store. That’s just dumb.
I think it’s ridiculous that we have a system where someone can make billions singing songs while people providing essential functions have troubles making ends meet, but I haven’t heard any credible evidence that Swift exploits her staff.
a system where someone can make billions singing songs while people providing essential functions have troubles making ends meet
You just described how the exploitation works these days. By definition no billionare is kind: if you and me or the average person would turn into a billionare we would give so much money away that we wouldn’t be billionare anymore. A billion is more than 999 millions, imagine wanting more than that. Don’t expect anyone who seek that much wealth to be kind to others, their charity is the equivalent of the average person tipping 10 cents, probably less if you do the math.
Plane flights are tracked and public even for private jets, you can search for her rides. A quick search show they once did a minute flight to avoid a traffic jam…
Ah, yes. “It was sarcasm.” Trump pulled that last night too.
If you didn’t like it then I meant something different and you just didn’t get it. Women love that response.
But I saw PICTURES that she SUPPORTED Trump! Her LITERALLY SAYING SHE ENDORSES KAMALA is Fake News! Trump would NEVER lie to me!
-Republicans who do their Own Research!
If Taylor Swift spearheads voter registration drives in swing states and Pennsylvania specifically, the race could be over.
I don’t imagine most of her fans are of voting age, but the exposure certainly can’t hurt.
I mean…Trump has a 60-something year old retired wrestler, and a 50-something trashrock star for his celebrity endorsements.
One seems more significant than the other, especially for women.
Taylor is 34 and has been popular for over a decade. There are young fans, but she has millions of fans of voting age
I’m the same age as Taylor and I see at least one of my peers attending her concerts every week on social media. Her reach right now is insane.
Sure, I get that. I’d just like the obvious sane choice to be made more than a celebrity endorsement. Feels pretty shitty that we’re at this point.
Our last president was a celebrity, and that’s the second actor we’ve had as president alone. What point are you referring to?
Fun fact: Swift’s first album is old enough to vote.
Why would you make me face my mortality in this way
All of my coworkers are Swifties who attend her concerts and constantly play her music. Most of them are in their 30s and 40s. Her audience isn’t as young as you’d think, she’s been making music for decades now.
So I’m going to go out on a limb and say this debate went better for Dems. Bold, I know.
Seriously, though. Wow. At least I’ll be able to sleep tonight.
