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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 03:51 PM Oct 2018

Republicans, White Nationalists Fume Over Taylor Swift's Senate Endorsement



The once-apolitical pop star threw her weight behind Tennessee Democrats Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper
By Tessa Stuart
Tessa Stuart

Taylor Swift — who started her career in country music three years after the Dixie Chicks were driven off airwaves for taking a stand against the Iraq invasion — has always been careful not to talk politics. Until now, that is. In an Instagram post on Sunday, Swift disclosed that she would be voting in Tennessee in November for two Democrats: former governor-turned-Senate hopeful Phil Bredesen and Rep. Jim Cooper, whose district includes Nashville.

“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift wrote. “I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country. I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taylor-swift-endorsement-733776/
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Republicans, White Nationalists Fume Over Taylor Swift's Senate Endorsement (Original Post) BeckyDem Oct 2018 OP
Go Taylor!! Thekaspervote Oct 2018 #1
Well, guess they'll be playing lots of Ted Nugent and Kid Rock Downtown Hound Oct 2018 #2
I saw a 1982 Ted Nugent LP at the thrift store the other day. sandensea Oct 2018 #11
This one is going to break a lot of RW hearts NewJeffCT Oct 2018 #3
Taylor True Blue American Oct 2018 #20
Also, couldn't help but notice this little gem: Downtown Hound Oct 2018 #4
So true. lol BeckyDem Oct 2018 #6
You said... gay texan Oct 2018 #7
WTF? llmart Oct 2018 #8
I think it's more likely that he got caught in a "private moment" Downtown Hound Oct 2018 #22
They don't speak good sentences, that's for sure. lark Oct 2018 #19
How condescending. murielm99 Oct 2018 #28
Bless their darkened little hearts n/t gay texan Oct 2018 #5
"White Nationalists" hibbing Oct 2018 #9
RepubliCONs: Masters of Projection rickyhall Oct 2018 #10
Look at the morons on the right Racerdog1 Oct 2018 #12
only 1 party fights for all people Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2018 #13
What did they think? PaddyIrishman Oct 2018 #14
Lol yes. Volaris Oct 2018 #16
Isn't the headline redundant? LastLiberal in PalmSprings Oct 2018 #15
"The republican party used to be a conservative party with a white nationalist fringe YessirAtsaFact Oct 2018 #18
Certainly the comma seems superfluous. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 2018 #30
Taylor Swift has been progressively inclusive for awhile RhodeIslandOne Oct 2018 #17
Taylor Swift also sued a man for groping her, and won. Downtown Hound Oct 2018 #23
Let 'em fume and GFT. KPN Oct 2018 #21
Nt Marcuse Oct 2018 #24
I assume this Presidential Name Calling Record has since been broken Marcuse Oct 2018 #25
All I have to say to the white supremacists is...... muntrv Oct 2018 #26
Taylor Swift a liberal? Say it ain't so! Who's next, Willie Nelson? Croney Oct 2018 #27
What's that sound I hear? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2018 #29

sandensea

(21,666 posts)
11. I saw a 1982 Ted Nugent LP at the thrift store the other day.
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 05:39 PM
Oct 2018

The smelly bastard looked like another person altogether.

I should've gotten it, just to provoke a bidding war for it among the Trumpkins.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
3. This one is going to break a lot of RW hearts
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 05:02 PM
Oct 2018

a lot of them assumed that she was afraid to speak out about politics because she was really a closeted conservative afraid of the (mythical) liberal media.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
4. Also, couldn't help but notice this little gem:
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 05:09 PM
Oct 2018

"Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative group best known for wearing adult diapers to protest liberal policies on college campuses, suggested on Fox News Monday morning that Swift didn’t believe what she wrote. “I don’t want to accuse her of this, but I don’t think she’s the only one who wrote that post on Instagram,” Kirk said. “She probably got some very bad information.

On the website 4chan, where a community of White nationalists have embraced Swift as an “Aryan queen” whose political silence was a tacit admission of racist sympathies, several users floated similar theories. “That looks so ghost written. Ever notice how every celebrity seems to be reciting the same exact script and even use the same wording,” one user wrote. Another added: “All PR nonsense, she just doesn’t want to be labeled a white nationalist. Probably got paid to say all this.”


Yes, I'm sure that Taylor Swift is so hard up for money that she only said this for cash.

I seriously just can't understand how people can be as dumb as this and yet still be able to walk and speak sentences.

gay texan

(2,472 posts)
7. You said...
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 05:17 PM
Oct 2018

"I seriously just can't understand how people can be as dumb as this and yet still be able to walk and speak sentences. "

We simply refer to that phenomenon as "east Texas"

llmart

(15,552 posts)
8. WTF?
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 05:17 PM
Oct 2018

He wears adult diapers to protest liberal policies on college campuses????

I can't even begin to understand what point he's trying to make nor do I want to know. Maybe it's the only way he'll ever find himself on a college campus.

What lunatics the right wingers are.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
22. I think it's more likely that he got caught in a "private moment"
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 06:42 PM
Oct 2018

and came up with the protest story as a cover.

lark

(23,156 posts)
19. They don't speak good sentences, that's for sure.
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 06:14 PM
Oct 2018

Generally, their spelling and vocabulary is rudimentary at best and often non-existent excluding 4 letter words.

 

Racerdog1

(808 posts)
12. Look at the morons on the right
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 05:44 PM
Oct 2018

Honestly, assholes like the orange ass kisser Blackbum should stay out of the light like the cockroaches they are.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,424 posts)
13. only 1 party fights for all people
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 05:49 PM
Oct 2018

Anyone who wants to "protect and fight for the human rights [...] we all deserve in this country" has to vote Democratic.

PaddyIrishman

(110 posts)
14. What did they think?
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 05:49 PM
Oct 2018

She’s travelled the world for the last few years in the company of singers, musicians and dancers meeting people from everywhere of all races, creeds and sexualities. I saw her in Dublin with my daughter.

Did they really think she’d come back from that as hate filled and fearful as they are?

YessirAtsaFact

(2,064 posts)
18. "The republican party used to be a conservative party with a white nationalist fringe
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 06:12 PM
Oct 2018

Now it's a white nationalist party with a conservative fringe."

Max Boot - one of the Never Trumpers who left the party after Trump was elected and congress did nothing to stand up to him.

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
17. Taylor Swift has been progressively inclusive for awhile
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 06:06 PM
Oct 2018

I seem to recall she came out in support of gay marriage and definitely hinted she voted for Hillary when she showed up to her polling place in 2016.

I guess these people only listen to Alex Jones and Newsmax.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
23. Taylor Swift also sued a man for groping her, and won.
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 06:50 PM
Oct 2018

The thing is, she only asked for 1$ in damages, and said that the real reason she sued was to convince other victims to come forward. Yet these idiots somehow still believed that she was a closeted Trump supporter.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so damn sad. Ah, who am I kidding? It IS hilarious, and sad at the same time.

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