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 Ive 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/
Thekaspervote
(32,794 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)from now on.
sandensea
(21,666 posts)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)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.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Has gone over to POP. Many of them agree with her. We are talking young people here.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)"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 didnt believe what she wrote. I dont want to accuse her of this, but I dont think shes 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 doesnt 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.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)gay texan
(2,472 posts)"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"
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)and came up with the protest story as a cover.
lark
(23,156 posts)Generally, their spelling and vocabulary is rudimentary at best and often non-existent excluding 4 letter words.
murielm99
(30,764 posts)Taylor ought to scorch his ears for that.
gay texan
(2,472 posts)hibbing
(10,109 posts)I always love when they use that phrase instead of Nazis or racists.
Peace
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Racerdog1
(808 posts)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)Anyone who wants to "protect and fight for the human rights [...] we all deserve in this country" has to vote Democratic.
PaddyIrishman
(110 posts)Shes 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 shed come back from that as hate filled and fearful as they are?
Volaris
(10,274 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,594 posts)Aren't Republicans White Nationalists in suits?
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)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.
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)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)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.
KPN
(15,650 posts)Marcuse
(7,507 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Croney
(4,670 posts)Oh, wait... 🤣
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,201 posts)Why it's right wing heads popping.