865
Far-right hosts are blaming the GOP's big election losses on Taylor Swift
(www.businessinsider.com)
Haters are gonna hate hate hate hate hate.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
865 points (96.7% liked)
Not The Onion
16329 readers
1943 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Oh this is precious. She just told her fans/followers to vote. Not even endorsed anyone.
With this and not going into business with FTX, she seems to be a smart cookie.
Smart cookie undersells it dramatically. Taylor Swift is a marketing and possibly a financial genius who has locked herself into the collective consciousness of the country. I used to try to not listen to her music at all, but my daughter and wife absolutely love her, so it's all I get to listen to around them. She's had virtually 0 truly bad press surrounding her. You don't have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.
If nothing else, she is an incredible business woman.
She is also an extremely talented musician and entertainer. I am not even a fan, just acknowledging that she has put out solidly constructed music and tours for well over a decade and is clearly far more than just a fad.
load more comments
(1 replies)
You don't have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.
Actually this is a point of conflict for some of her fans. Some of my friends are swifties and they hate consumerism and high concert prices and collectibles and marketing that incentivize FOMO to spend more money. They jokingly call her their capitalist queen.
At least they're self-aware about it.
load more comments
(2 replies)
I completely agree except for one small thing:
She's had virtually 0 truly bad press surrounding her.
I'd say her dating a scumbag (the singer from The 1975) generated a fair bit of bad press. But it was usually fans yelling "DUMP THAT SHITHEAD"
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(7 replies)
They are aware that the more people that vote the less likely they are to get elected.
load more comments
(2 replies)
By all means GOP, please pick a fight with Taylor Swift. 🍿🍿
As someone else has said before, Taylor Swift could tweet "Bring me the head of Ron Desantis" and he would be dead in a week.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
He fumed in another all-caps post that "THE CHILDLESS, UNMARRIED ABORTION ARMY MOBILIZED BY BARBIE, TAYLOR SWIFT, AND TIKTOK" was "CRUSHING REPUBLICANS AT THE BALLOT BOX."
You are goddamn right it is.
I am inevitable.
Fascists create enemies out of everyone who isn't a fascist, then complain how they're surrounded by enemies.
load more comments
(2 replies)
conservatives once again upset that more people are voting.. because reality has a liberal bias.
Yep, if "more people voting" makes you furious then you just might be reaching the level of mustache-twirling cartoon villainy.
Don't want to keep losing elections, conservatives? Adopt better policies. Nominate qualified candidates. And for fuck sake kick out the god damn nazis.
I would be interested to hear that they officially adopted any policies at all, it seems to be, "elect more of us so there are more of us so we can continue to try to elect more of us" the last person from the right wing I heard try to push a policy while running for office died 5 years ago
load more comments
(1 replies)
Not to mention they and their policies are trash.
GOP for the last 40 years: destroys the climate, job market, economy, education, and healthcare
“Did Taylor Swift do this?”
Did I have bad policies?
No. It is the Swifties who are wrong!
load more comments
(2 replies)
Being upset that people were encouraged vote is admitting your ideas rely on suppression.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Kirk continued: "All the Swifties want is swift abortion. That's what they want. It's 100%."
i’m fucking crying how do you say this shit and look yourself in the mirror after
If by that he means 'swiftly abort the GOP', I'm on board.
load more comments
(4 replies)
Well, after all it couldn't POSSIBLY their horrific policies, or their proud racism, or thier proud nationalism, or their hate for the LGBTQIA+, or their stance of abortion, or birth control, or wanting to outlaw divorce, or them wanting to leave people starving in the streets.
No, it must be some other thing causing their losses.
load more comments
(23 replies)
"Taylor Swift is going to come out in the presidential election and she is going to mobilize her fans," Kirk warned his viewers on Wednesday, adding, "And we're going to be like, 'Oh wow, where did all these young, female voters come from?' We better have a plan for that."
Kirk acknowledging a) the party does not attempt to represent young women and b) the current plan is that they hopefully just don't vote.
No, the current plan is not that "they hopefully just don't vote." The plan is to actively prevent them from voting through various forms of suppression. They're not just sit around waiting to see what happens.
TBH, actively trying to suppress voters isn't even the worst of it. The next step is making sure that it doesn't even matter if they do.
You know, like they already do. Source: Am in Ohio. There are already public statements from officials that they are trying to dilute/overrule/ignore the results of our vote to legalize abortion and weed. And that's even outside things like gerrymandering.
load more comments
(6 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
"Am I so out of touch?
No, its the women who are wrong."
"If all these damn people would stop VOTING we might be able to get some of our 'highly popular' policy through"
Whats your highly popular policy?
"Well you see, it's based on this simple philosophy, fuck the poor."
load more comments
(2 replies)
This quote from Posobiec is amazing:
"Republicans still haven't internalized that the Left promotes abortion as a pro-feminism issue. They aren't voting to kill babies, they're voting bc of feminist movies like Barbie and pop stars like Taylor Swift influencing an army of voters," Posobiec wrote.
If they are surprised about the connection between the abortion issue and women's rights... wow. Are they really racking their brains to figure out why "killing babies" is a popular position? How stupid are these people?
Silly women wanting rights over their own bodies! Who do they think they are?? Men???
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
It couldn't possibly be because of a heinously corrupt and out of touch platform that promises to hurt some people and help nobody, could it?
No. It's the Swifties who are to blame. Encouraging people to vote is liberal bias!
load more comments
(3 replies)
Or, now hear me out here, maybe it's just the fact that people have noticed that they overtly hate women and are nuttier than squirrel shit.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Don't they know you don't piss off Taylor Swift fans?
Let's let them find out for themselves. I don't have much of an opinion in regard to Taylor, but this is fun news
Her music is mid but if she manages to shift the electorate left even a few degrees I’ll be the biggest Swiftie ever. As a 45 year old divorced guy I realize this will be incredibly creepy but it’s worth it.
Oh she's absolutely shifted it. Telling people to register to vote, to go vote. She's had an impact.
It's really interesting too. If I remember right, she said in a pandemic era interview that she was told to not go political in country music. She came to realize though she needed to say something -- she was rather disturbed by the far right claiming her as an Aryan goddess or something. A gay friend of hers also encouraged her to use her platform to promote gay rights.
Long story short though, she's realized the importance of speaking out, and her newer songs talk about gender norms and how she's expected to be a wife and all that. She's a really interesting person!
And I'm a 29 year old dude, just accept the Swiftness into your soul
As a 45 year old divorced guy I realize this will be incredibly creepy but it’s worth it.
It wouldn't really be that weird if you became a Swiftie lol. I think a lot of people who aren't already fans of Taylor Swift may be forgetting she's been famous for almost twenty years... Most (but not all) people attending the Eras tour and going to see the concert movie are millennial women in their 30s.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Must be hard losing to a millennial woman, i mean no alpha points there.
Taylor Swift shit in my pants, drank all of my wife's skim milk, and told my boss to fuck off after forgetting I had a presentation on Monday. How or why she keeps doing these things to me, I'll never ~~no~~ know.
Ffs, she's even putting typos in my Lemmy posts!
load more comments
(1 replies)
She's here in Argentina on a triple full stadium event, she endorsed not to vote for the libertarian world bank puppet with neonazi rhetoric, in the elections to her millions of fans, now swiftties and kpop fan joined forces against the new fascist movement
load more comments
(2 replies)
Go against the most popular pop star witha huge and very active fanbase, I'm sure that'll be a winning strategy.
load more comments
(1 replies)
pretty sure there's more taylor swift fans than republicans at this point.
It's appropriate that the GOP and their ilk were quite happy to harm the careers of the Dixie Chicks for speaking out against them and that they should then allegedly suffer negative consequences at the hands of another singer.
Whining about being beat up by a woman sounds like a low-T problem to me.
I'm no Swifty, but I'll take what I can get.
"THE CHILDLESS, UNMARRIED ABORTION ARMY MOBILIZED BY BARBIE, TAYLOR SWIFT, AND TIKTOK" was "CRUSHING REPUBLICANS AT THE BALLOT BOX."
Oooorrrr this is the first election since the "just balls and strikes, totally not bribed" supreme court dismantled basic privacy protections for half the population of our country.
view more: next ›