So, the same people who religiously listen to Ted Nugent are amazed that a different singer could influence people?
This. I ask people to vote all the time because is very important in shaping our democracy. And I am sure singers and artist are actual people who may think the way I do about voting.
The only people inside or outside the government who don’t want people to vote is Republicans. That is because Republicans rely on young people’s “laziness” and apathetic attitude on voting to win elections. They don’t want the masses educated and voting because what the Republicans legislate into law doesn’t help average people. It helps the rich.
They’re mad because Swift has amazing reach with young people and can actually single handedly make a difference, while Nugent is a has been who only a small subset of Boomers even care about. It’s just not fair!
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It’s like these idiots are in Salem in the 1690s.
If your political party can be easily brought down by a pop singer, your political party’s problem isn’t pop singers.
Just when I think conservatives can’t get and dumber they always find a way. It’s remarkable, really.
Republicans are attacking Swift/Swifties? I need to buy more popcorn!
Republicans are attacking Swift/Swifties? I need to buy more popcorn!
A woman, who has only been able to vote for about a century, actively encouraging others to vote??! Blasphemy!
I wonder if they’ll burn as many of the expensive NFL jerseys they paid for as they did when a black man had the gall to send a silent message about police brutality and inequality.
It’s like they’re swift-boating her.
The term swiftboating (also swift-boating or swift boating) is a pejorative American neologism used to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is derived from the name of the organization “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” (SBVT, later the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth) because of their widely publicized—and later discredited—political smear campaign[1][2][3][4][5] against 2004 U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry.[6][1][7][8] Since the 2004 election, the term has come to commonly refer to a political attack that is dishonest, personal, and unfair.[9][10]
Brilliant
Swift is a force of good, as much as any insanely rich person can be. She alone may end up responsible for tens of thousands of young women registering to vote between now and election day. One of her Instagram posts drove 35,000 voter registrations. Republicans have every reason to fear the Swiftie factor.
Yes, by all means #GOP, please pick a fight with the most popular & well-liked billionaire on the planet.
Are they upset how so many people could yield so much influence to one person ?
And they want a dictator.
I’m so fucking sick of Absolutists. They create monarchies, wealth gaps, and Spanish Inquisitions.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
they blame everything they cannot understand on a conspiracy, because they are cowards
Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer even claimed that Swift’s entire Eras Tour was nothing more than “a Democrat Party Voter Registration drive
Yes, because the voter registration drive would only 100% register democrats or people who they know will vote democratic. No republicans/GOP voters could possibly get registered.
Well now it’s obvious - the only option is for the GOP to buy all of the tickets to Taylor Swift concerts, thus preventing democrats from being able to register to vote.
Republicans know that the more people who vote then the less chance a Republican has of winning. It’s simple facts Michael.
Oh trust me - I live in Texas. I know this fact all too well, sadly.
2016:
Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook
Texas treats voter registration like a criminal offense and makes it as difficult as possible to do.
Before he could register anyone, however, Tunde had to navigate Texas’s draconian voter-registration laws, beginning with this course. The state has no online registration, and anyone who registers voters must be deputized by the county at a training session that typically occurs once a month, sometimes less. The volunteer deputy registrars (VDRs), as they’re known, must be deputized on a county-by-county basis, which makes statewide drives practically impossible in a massive state like Texas, with its 254 counties.
We should’ve let Texas stay Seceded…
I go back and forth on that one. On one hand, it would be nice to be rid of them and their fuckery as a state.
On the other hand, were they free to become their own country, I fear what additional fuckery they would cause just to torment the US and enable other bad actors by giving them easier access to the US given the proximity of Texas.
I don’t know what would be worse, tbh.
We should have kept Texas under military occupation till more Confederate sympathizers were stomped down, and then we should have redrawn the borders of every Southern state and renamed them.
This theory implies that Taylor Swift’s entire fan base is Democrats. She’s about to get “canceled” by the right. Which… that shit worked with the Dixie Chicks, but I’m not sure it will work as well with TS because she isn’t predominantly a country singer any more. They’ll wind up politicizing her and creating the left-wing superstar they fear.
I’m not even a Taylor Swift “fan” - I don’t have any opinion of her music whatsoever. I will date myself and admit that I just don’t really seek out new music anymore…that being said, I am 100% on board with this plan, lol
Even if we pretend her entire voting base were Democrats, and even if we pretend she’s going to have a 100% success rate convincing unregistered voters to register, and even if we pretend 100% of all her fans then vote Democrat, she’s a private citizen playing the same legal game as every other private citizen is entitled to play. She’s not breaking any laws and she’s not breaking any rules.
Republicans are entitled to do everything she’s doing.
The only thing they can possibly complain about is that the best thing they can come up with to compete is Kid Rock. sadtrombone.jpg
Remember when the Dixie Chicks got cancelled for being against…George W. Bush? The right hates the Dixie Chicks for criticizing George W. Bush, and now the right hates George W. Bush because of all the catastrophic wars he started and other unpopular stuff he did that the Dixie Chicks criticized him for. Somewhere in there, through the transitive property, the right just hates itself
I’ve said for years she was designed in a lab and programmed for public consumption.
I’m gonna be proven right y’know. Just waiting for Trav to get back to me and confirm.
ask him if she can complete a captcha
Finally, my tax dollars are doing something useful.
Republicans brains go burrrrrrr
Makes me love her even more
