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Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris

www.nbcnews.com Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris

The musician's endorsement, which had been eagerly anticipated, was signed "Childless Cat Lady."

News @lemmy.world

www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris-rcna170547

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Swift, 34, signed her post "Childless Cat Lady"
Well played, Tay Tay, well played.
- Caption: Taylor Swift, wearing a black turtleneck, holding her dinner.
  
  The cat is like "What is going on? Put me on my bed, I have to sleep".
  
  That cat is drop-dead gorgeous.
- Context
  
  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.
- 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
  
  I cannot imagine being this mad about a win over Trump.

Wow, Trump is having a really bad day.
It’s delightful.
- They own a skyscraper in new york and have enough wealth to afford all sort of commodities. The average person is going to have a much worst day and it's not delightful.
  
  I dunno if Trump can enjoy his skyscraper from prison. With a windowed cell, maybe.
  
  They "own" a skyscraper in new york and have enough ~~wealth~~ debt to ~~afford~~ have someone else pay for all sort of commodities
  You made a few factual errors there, I took the liberty of fixing it
  
  Could you be more triggered?
  
  And he had all that before he got all this bad news about his only chance to avoid accountability.

And its Joever.
Was honestly never any doubt Taylor would support Kamala. She is pretty publicly Liberal with a capital L and tends to care about things like autonomy for women and all those crazy things. She probably would have stayed quiet for ticket sales but then the trump campaign deep faked her and...
Said it before and I'll say it again. If you have to fuck with a frothing at the mouth fandom? Go after k-pop before you go after T-swizzle.
- And in case anyone isn't aware and is taking advice from this post, don't fuck with K-pop. They'll fuck you up.
  
  Oh. K-pop stans will fuck your shit up and destroy any online infrastructure you have.
  Swifties will fuck your shit up, burn down your home with you inside it, and piss on the ashes. All while their parents (and randos who got Swifty pilled by stuff like The Fall Guy) are grooving in the street and waving off hte cops.
- She probably would have stayed quiet for ticket sales but then the trump campaign deep faked her and…
  She might have done something more subtle like she did with Joe Biden cookies 4 years ago. I agree, in this case she had no choice but to share her opinion loud and clear.
- Shit I wouldn’t go after K pop or the Beehive either.
  
  8 believe they call themselves the "Beyhive"
- Idk, the recent pic of her chummy day/night out with Brittany Mahomes planted quite a bit of doubt for me. There was a lot of speculation after those pictures released that she'd come out for Kamala, to get ahead of any backlash.
  
  Just being nice to the wife of her boyfriend's buddy, not asking him to turn away from his friends, even if they're fools. As my daughter said, those football guys get hit in the head a lot...
- They waited for the contract
  
  She wouldn't bother with the pennies they could afford to pay her.
  
  She's a billionaire you dolt.

Couldn't give two shits about all these Pop Star positions. I do delight in this specific one because Trump's campaign fucked with her, and drew a line in the sand with regard to Generative AI bullshit in a campaign.
They deserve all the negative press that comes from this, and much more. I don't care for Taylor Swift, but I like this move.
- It's the Hive Mind Stans phenomenon that fascinates me, meme-activated collective action that is a very modern social body.
  Some of the stuff BTS ARMY got up to was fantastic and a bit scary. Also large numbers. Very large.
  So the Swifties haven't been weaponized yet. But they could be, soon. Having deepfake A.I. impersonation of fans made by fascist followers of a reality TV star be the thing that raises their state of collective power to Ready is just... well, I am living in a Gibson novel.

Look, I am not a billionaire loving guy anymore than some of you are.
But has anyone here considered that Musk has made an impact on the views of young white men (whom also happen to be Republican and Conservative or Proud Boys?
Does it bother us that these men follow a billionaire who doesn't give two shits about them? Yes.
Do I care that Taylor Swift is the opposite of that and encourages young women and men, be it black, gay, trans, etc to be opposite end of that spectrum. Fuck yes, we shouldn't base our views off the rich but has it ever occurred to anyone here that it is using those billionairs to represent and have them be vocal with the power they hold with our views instead?
I will absolutely take Taylor Swift speaking up and saying what she believes in and her giving that voice to 100000+ people whose only voice is heard in a vote if her speaking up also encourages people to say fuck Trump and and Musk and every fucking dumb ass on this post that thinks Taylor speaking out is a bad thing by comparison to it somehow being worse then what they already do with Musk.
Fuckem, fuck billionaires, but God damn keep fucking roasting them TSwiftie.
- If I had a platform that millions of people listened to (which I don't), and strongly held beliefs about how the country could be made better for everyone (which I do), why wouldn't I use my platform to share those beliefs? How could I not?
  No one MUST obey what either of them says, just like no one would be compelled to obey me in my hypothetical. But I don't really have a problem with any person using whatever platform they've found themselves with to express their own beliefs and desires. I don't think people lose the right to free expression just because they are rich and/or famous and/or powerful.
  Edit: And if you piss a lot of people off and lose all your advertisers because your opinions are repugnant and awful - well hey, that's the choice you made.
  
  Ironically, Taylor Swift was, up to this point, trying very hard NOT to use her platform. Just read her post. She's BEGGING the reader not to blindly follow her in voting, and do their own research and make their own choice. She'd said she'd wait until after her tour to endorse a candidate (which would have been after the election 🤣 ), but she says in her post that the AI DeepFake Endorsement she 'made' of Trump compelled her to give up her secret ballot and outright state she's voting for Harris.
  
  why wouldn't I use my platform to share those beliefs?
  I think it's perfectly valid to say "the system that gave me this platform is unfair and I shouldn't have benefited from it to the degree that I have, but I have the platform now so I'm going to use it for good."
- I'm not down with billionaires either, but at least she's using her fame and money towards some good things.
  
  It's one of the very few ethical ways to become a billionaire I think. If you sell an album or book for $10, and you're a global sensation, it's reasonable you'll get 100 million people buying it. It just falls on you then to use that money for his good reasons and adequately compensate people who support you. And Swift has generally been really good about that.
- It's almost like people have attributes other than their net worth.
- every fucking dumb ass on this post that thinks Taylor speaking out is a bad thing by comparison to it somehow being worse then what they already do with Musk.
  If your political opinion is swayed by either a pop star or a billionaire, you're kinda a dumb ass. Full stop.
  
  Good thing dumbasses can't vote...
  
  That's just how people work. Belief is social. We all value input from people we see as members of our in-group more than outsiders.
  
  If only people were more logical and calm, like men! /s
  Your political movement is impotent if it can't seduce. Here's an underrated short tube essay on the political power of bimbos: https://youtu.be/FeRIE6JDhCQ

So of course Musk immediately threatens to “give her a child”. Like a normal not weird person.

Her statement was impeccable. She mentioned the AI generated fake image which appeared three weeks ago. This is the response that had to be made by her. She signed it Childless Cat Lady. Perfect.
- Instead of letting Trump pick the time, she picked the time that hurt him the most.
- I'd bet my left testicle all these millionaire and billionaire celebrities are actually voting Republican.. they're just too afraid of the backlash to admit it... lol.

Now the Biden administration needs to follow through and declare election day a federal holiday.
- Isn’t that power assigned to Congress?
  
  Average Americans and thinking the President is all-powerful, name a more iconic duo.

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.
  
  Fun fact: Swift's first album is old enough to vote.
  
  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.
  
  Taylor is 34 and has been popular for over a decade. There are young fans, but she has millions of fans of voting age
  
  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.

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.
- Puttin your money where your Kamouth is

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!

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.
- 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.
- 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.

Can't wait for Trump's reaction. I guess the pictures of support for him were fake, huh?
- No shit.
- As fake as his blonde spray over his 78 year old gray hair
  
  Very doubtful that that's even his real hair at this point.

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.

Dear Trump
We, are never ever ever, getting back together.
Sincerely, The White House

Why on earth would he poke that bear?
Taylor Swift absolutely can drive voter registrations at levels that would easily supersede the 10-20k that swing states will be decided by, just based on her word. And her fanbase spreads across multiple demographics.
I'd be shocked if her announcement alone doesn't drive 100k registrations nationwide in the next 48 hours.

Let flip some red states swifties

It’s gonna be brutal when she’s one-upped by er … Kid Rock.
No! Wait, Ted Nugent.
Yeah, suck it Swifters.

Instead of posting a screenshot and a link, they posted a broken Instagram embed instead. Come on.
- Hey it's a small indie publication cut them some slack.

Nail, here is the coffin.
Friendly reminder - don't stop and go vote.

"Kamala, obviously."

It’s over now right?
- Nope. Go vote.
  
  Agreed! And go register and plan your vote. Make a plan now. Especially in some states where there's different degrees of voter suppression, you need to take extra steps to make sure you get your vote counted. There's an army of MAGAts and right wing lawyers trying to stop certain voters, kick them off the voter rolls, or make up rules to keep you from voting. Don't let them stop you.
  I'm voting BLUE! Won't you?
- You relay on people who listen to popstars to vote instead of just making tiktoks about how they vote?

Screw the debate. The real news!
/s

my queen

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.

Praise Tay

"Billionaire endorses politician" 🙄
- lol
  
  haha

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.
- 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.
  Edit: Holy shit.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".

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Cult of personality vs cult of personality.
- Yep that's how humans work

Well of course she did... it's easy being a Democrat celebrity....
- Have a downvote with that salty wine
- lol you say that as if Trump didn’t get away with everything forever

"Breaking News" 🤦‍♂️ Ugggghhhh.
*I guess nobody else is tired of celebrities holding the US political system hostage.
- I mean.. one of the most influential people on the planet just endorsed a candidate for President. That is pretty breaking news.
  
  More importantly, she was waiting for the best time to do it. I would hate to be the guy who has to tell Trump.
  
  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.
- I’ll take it!!!
  
  There's always something to complain about
- It actually is though. When they use the same header two days from now....

Why do we care what a rich entertainer thinks?
- Maybe we don't, but she's got a huge fanbase and they probably do.
  
  Just let her and ja rule decide who's the next president. Why the extra steps?
  
  Why do they assign weight to her perspective?
  
  I'd rather they not vote at all if they're just basing their choice on what some billionaire entertainer says.
- You don't have to if you don't want.
  But whether you like it or no rich entertainers like Taylor Swift get lots of media and views. Which parleys into influence and bringing attention to a candidate or an idea.
  This is the reason why anyone that wants to grow a brand and/or an idea will try to get a celebrity to endorse it.
  Edit: This doesn't mean they know more than the average joe it's all about marketing
  
  Why do others assign value to her perspective? Is she especially qualified to decide whom others should vote for?
- Why do we care what you think?
  
  Because you subscribed? If you don't care what people think here just unsubscribe and move on.
- She stated in her post a major motivation for her was the fake AI pictures Trump and Co circulated a few weeks ago, so they definitely care. I actually admire that she is simply stating she plans to vote for Harris, rather than outright endorsing her. Swift advises people to be politically informed and to vote. I think that's a pretty good message for anyone to say.
  
  She stated in her post a major motivation for her was the fake AI pictures Trump and Co circulated a few weekss ago
  That's definitely a part she should've left out.
- Because she has a ridiculous number of fans and this may spur some of them to vote that might not have otherwise.
  Hopefully she reiterates it shortly before election day to stir people into action.
  
  Is it wise to want others to choose based on propaganda instead of fact and reason?
- We don't, this is propaganda
  
  Do you even know what propaganda is?
  You know, like Trump basically fabricating Swift's support though bullshit AI and forcing her hand
  
  There's almost 600 upvotes so far. If this is propaganda then that fact speaks for itself.

Yet another reason to note vote for that parrot drone of a politician. Ignorant person endorsing an ignorant person.
And when did it become important who a pop star "endorses"? Should it really help sway opinion?
Gtf outta here.
- What sort of direct action do you endorse?
  
  Probably some delusional fantasy of revolution
  
  Lol... this is the problem though. My "endorsement" doesn't matter much, and it shouldn't matter to you. I'm a random person on the internet, I hope my endorsement wouldn't sway your opinion. (Facts backed by sources and corroboration is what should should sway opinion, not pop stars and billionaires)
- Month old account that has spent its entire time on Lemmy being a contrarian asshole. Nothing of value to read here, folks.
  
  Lol. Oh, I have opposing opinions, so I am a contrarian asshole? So you would like to silence any contrary opinions and just live in a liberal echo chamber?
  I'm not surprised... it's what people do here. Your views are so fragile that you can't handle an opposing view.
  I'm doing yall a favor here, I'm trying to expose yall to the other side of the arguments. I want you to understand the scope of things. Don't hate on me brother.

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