Donald Trump continues to melt down over Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris.
  • draneceusrex@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I still think it’s funny that this is being treated as a full-blown endorsement. She said she is voting for Harris, then encouraged people to be politically informed and to vote…

    Oh…maybe Republicans don’t want people to be politically informed or to vote…

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      How is it not a full blown endorsement? She has publicly stated that she is voting for her, and gave a host of reasons why. Quite literally and explicitly an endorsement. What more needs to be done for it to be a full endorsement? Does she need to say “don’t think and vote like I say”? Because that’s what it sounds like you are saying that by telling people to get informed, that makes this less of an endorsement.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Anyone who makes Americans actually think about the elections and the choices they have and who makes them vote is basically putting out an endorsement for Harris.

  • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    bruh, do you want to get a song written about you? Because this is how you get a song written about you. The song will go on looooong after you’re dead. tread lightly.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      My lady sent me a message about it, he apparently tweeted it at 7am. So she sent me her lyrics: "

      You are somebody that I don’t know

      But you’re taking shots at me like it’s Patrón

      And I’m just like, "Damn!

      It’s 7 AM"

      Say it in the street, that’s a knock-out

      But you say it in a tweet, that’s a cop-out

      And I’m just like, "Hey!

      Are you OK?"

      "

  • bluewing@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    While I tend to think Taylor Swift could best serve the world by simply sticking to flying her private jet down to the local 7-11 to get a carton of milk and a pint of ice cream while keeping her mouth shut, she has the right to say she will vote for Harris. And I fully support her right to make that choice and statement.

    But I also firmly believe that celebrities should not use their notoriety or fame to push agendas. There are far too many easily swayed people out there who will follow the lead of famous people who espouse an idea that is dumber than cow shit simply because hey are famous - See Andrew Tate or a number of disgraced BBC reporters.

    • seejur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I agree 100% in most cases, but in THIS particular case it’s Trump that started it by sharing the AI post of Swift endorsing him.

      So she definitely has the right to correct misconceptions about her public statements

    • ...m...@ttrpg.network
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      9 months ago

      …taylor swift’s public statement was a well-considered cogent refutation of false endorsements posted by the trump campaign, one which pointedly resonates your position and likely merits substantially more respect that you realise…

    • person420@lemmynsfw.com
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      9 months ago

      Wouldn’t reverse deportation be sending American citizens to a different country? TBH, there’s definitely cases I would at least entertain that argument.

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        What do you disagree with specifically? It only affects people with over $100M in wealth.

        Do you think the tax goes too far, and if so, why are you protecting the wealth of the 1%?

        Or do you think the tax doesn’t go far enough, and if so, wouldn’t opposition it just mean not passing a tax at all, which would be worse?

        Or do you know nothing about her proposal and thought it was going to affect your paltry investment income?

        • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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          9 months ago

          Just from my small brain viewpoint, the owner hasn’t sold the house or anything, so they shouldn’t be taxed, and rent income is already taxed, so if they’re using it to rent, this might trickle down to increase rent costs. Although, on the other hand. This only affects the ultra rich, so maybe they have it coming to them.

          • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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            9 months ago

            This only affects the ultra rich, so maybe they have it coming to them.

            Don’t be reductive. Anyone who owns $100M worth of investments, be they stocks, bonds, or real estate holdings, needs to pay more in taxes.

            This is targeting 1%ers hoarding capital, not your rental properties. We’ll come after landlords’ underserved income later as we further tackle the housing affordability crisis.

          • flying_gel@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            To expand your analogy to the house on how the rich used their unrealised gains.

            You buy a house and it appreciates in value. You bowwow money against the capital gains and use that to live on. Your house price goes up further, generating more capital gains that you can now bowwow against to pay back your previous loan.

            edit: also since you’re so filthy rich the banks give you really low interest rates, way less than tax would have been.

    • FunkyElectro@pawb.social
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      9 months ago

      He’s telling the rich to fear another great depression as if the rich didn’t make fucking bank during the actual great depression.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If Trump wants to find out if Swift can rhyme “orange” then he should absolutely keep attacking her. I’m pretty sure there’s gotta be like three people in the world you could figure it out legitimately, and she could be one of them. Or she could afford to hire someone who could.

    • flicker@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I just realized that there was a Phantom Space Man. It was Red Death!

      He just didn’t stay on the space station…

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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    9 months ago

    he tweets it, others reblog it. are you seeing how this works for him, yet? won’t matter. the dopamine hit in getting upvotes for the monster who throws the dead cat on the table outweigh any logical argument on how mockery is precisely what trump and vance want, it takes energy, energy which would otherwise go to praising harris and waltz. he knows he can push them below the fold at any point, including coming off a decisive loss during the debate, and swifts endorsement, all anyone’s talked about for 4 days are hatiians in springfield ohio, and that is how internet mockery helps him. this is not new news. yet people can’t stop. and trump depends on that. it’s all he has.

    he posts hateful incendiary fabricated bullshit, and all the ants dance, holding him above the fold, the first story on the nightly news

    • Hylactor@sopuli.xyz
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      9 months ago

      Anybody holding foldable media is already a lost cause. We need 20 somethings to vote like their Zyns depend on it. If this is what political engagement looks like in 2024, then so be it.

      • localme@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Fyi - “Below the fold” is a phrase borrowed from print media, which for digital content simply means anything below the current screen viewport that requires scrolling to access.

        • person420@lemmynsfw.com
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          9 months ago

          It’s also a boomerish thing to say in general. I’m sitting here holding “foldable media”, my folding phone.

    • bacon_saber@fedia.io
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, seems like too few words for an actual rant. Smoke bomb to distract from his ridiculous debate and to get that out of the news cycle