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Honestly, horrifying. She is a celebrity. She should have no sway on politics. It isn't her field. I'm sure, right now, there is someone reading this and thinking, "This person should shut the fuck up," but think about all of that power. Now, imagine if that power weren't aimed against the GOP, but working for them. Do you want a pop star deciding an election on a whim? That's basically how we got Trump in the first place. This shit really has to stop. I've heard a lot of people saying things like, "At least she is doing something good with her popularity," but is she? Is this good? Or is it just beneficial to us? Ice cream is good. It isn't good for us.
Edit: lol, found the Swifties, I guess. To clarify a bit, I'm not saying that she did a bad thing by getting people to register to vote. That's a good thing. I'm saying it's bad that her endorsement of Harris is what did it. If she had endorsed Trump and the same thing happened there would be rioting in the fucking streets. Every liberal would be taking the next week off of work to go block traffic in protest. But no, continue on with your lives because the system is working in your favor this time. I'm sure that this won't come back to bite us all in the ass, again.
I was with you until "isn't her field", frankly it's everyone's field. She is a singer, but she is also a voter.
I'm tired of this argument. GQP was also telling Kaepernick that it wasn't his field.
"Only the experts governments should have the opinions!" sounds like a typical thing to say by every right-wing asshole when it doesn't go their way, even as they cheer other imbeciles like Curt Schilling, Scott Baio, Ted Nugent, James Woods, Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson, etc, whenever they spout any batshit, willfully ignorant opinion that just happens to be exactly want the red meat crowd wants to hear.
Which is ironic because when the “government experts” said the impact of Covid was real and you should wear a mask, they didn’t believe them.
Don't even bother pointing it out to them, it's a trap, a useless expenditure of energy wherever reality is elastic to the point of nonsensical, futile like shoveling water in a lake to make a hole and a mound.
You could present a thousand "gotcha!" moments and not a single one would make any difference.