Taylor Swift should write a country song that has subtle attacks against Trump that many of his followers will love and slowly understand the underlying message.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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Bold of you to think these people ever listen to the lyrics, or pay attention to the message if they do.
I'm old enough to remember Ronald Reagan using Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. as a Republican anthem when the song is about a disaffected Vietnam vet being treated like shit.
And it was about a real guy, Ron Kovic. He wrote the book Born of the Fourth of July, which was turned into the movie of the same name. He was paralyzed in Vietnam and has been a left-wing peace activist the rest of his life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kovic#Post-Vietnam_activism
And really, all you have to do is listen to the lyrics. Or even just read them:
A lawsuit will not affect him. If he wins, he becomes a dictator. If he loses, he remains Teflon Don until he's forced to flee to Russia.
If Taylor Swift wants justice, she needs to mobilize the Swifties.
New Trump Strategy:
Appear a victim of an "uppity woman" (that translates to a woman that has power & money on her own means) and then transfer that victimization to being from Harris.
Trump's team has gone into syndication.
Totally normal and definetely not weird.
Lies like he breathes.
Here's a thought; I don't see why libel and slander suits cannot be applied to AI generated content.
Sue his pants the rest of the way off.
Doesn't matter if it's AI generated, what matters is who published it, I believe.
Came here for this. This has got to result in a law suit. And I can’t wait to see Taylor clean the floor with him. And Kamala, for that matter.
Taylor pays her lawyers.
There’s something really unsettling about his weird smirk in that thumbnail.
I can hear Swifts jet engines spooling up now.
This goes back to his comment on how he could shoot someone and not lose any votes. He can do absolutely anything to trick normal folks to vote for him because it will not change one single vote from his base and he can count on them to argue that what he does is fine or whatever.
His base is shrinking by the day. He's not winning over any new fans with his tired bullshit, and he's alienating thousands more
No way is he going to trick the Swifties.
non of his stuff will work on the group at large but he just needs to pull any at all. send me your ignorant, your incompetent, you just plain stupid who yearns for something but does not get what the results of their actions will be.
The problem for Trump is there is a third shadow candidate in the race called "did not vote" so it doesn't really matter than his main base would vote for him regardless.
If he fakes Swift's endorsement and she comes out and roasts him and fires up her base to vote, the amount of votes he gains by trickery will be really small while the amount of people Swift converts from not voting to voting against Trump will be larger.
And there's actually some data to suggest Trump is losing part of his always-red base and the rats are abandoning a sinking ship at the moment as well.
Dementia DonOLD the weird racist rapist with 34 felonies that can't complete a coherent sentence is too far gone to realize this is fake. It's sad and embarrassing at this point. He should drop out and seek treatment for the dementia.
This is strategically dumbest move he can make. Taylor Swift has been relatively quite for a while now regarding politics and now either she or her publicist is basically forced to respond to this. My best guess is Trump is trying to stir the pot to get any kind of attention but this isn't it.
Republicans have already blamed (credited?) Taylor Swift for election losses, simply because she told people to vote. Not for telling people vote for/against any particular issue, candidate, or office. Just to go vote.
She has immense power, but that power may not be easy to control.
He's trying to retake the news cycle, like a week too early. The democratic convention will bury this story, and will potentially cause Taylor to back Kamala this week and I think Trump will be permanently out of the news.
The only way this actually works is if Swift backs Trump. Which I doubt, I hope.
This would be the perfect impetus for Kamala's team to reach out to Taylor and offer her a platform at the convention to denounce this action by Trump. If I was in her team that's what I'd be doing.
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