Taylor Swift Accuses Trump of 'Stoking Fires of Racism,' Vows 'We Will Vote You Out'
Source: Variety
Taylor Swift has taken the gloves off when it comes to President Trump. The pop superstar quoted his risible When the looting starts, the shooting starts tweet, which threatened protesters in Minneapolis with gunfire and received a warning label from Twitter that it promoted violence before making a vow to help turn out the vote against him this fall.
Wrote Swift: After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? When the looting starts the shooting starts??? We will vote you out in November. She tagged Trumps @realdonaldtrump account.
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These are the strongest words yet from Swift about Trump, who previously couched her feelings about his administration in more measured terms, taking issue with the president and his administration primarily on issues involved LGBTQ rights.
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Within an hour and 15 minutes of being posted, Swifts message had already been retweeted more than 100,000 times, gotten 375,000 likes, and received 20,000 replies. Not all of those responses were appreciative, of course.
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Read more: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/taylor-swift-accuses-trump-stoking-racism-vows-we-will-vote-you-out-1234620060/
My OP about her tweet in GD, posted 40 minutes ago:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213501938
Her tweet, which now has 430,000 Likes and over 114,000 retweets:
Link to tweet
gibraltar72
(7,498 posts)masmdu
(2,535 posts)gibraltar72
(7,498 posts)and the one I prefer to be shot.
lark
(23,059 posts)Glad she's speaking up now.
MaryMagdaline
(6,850 posts)I just now listened to one of her songs. Just for solidaritys sake. A great human being
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The deplorables who spent so much $$$$$$$ for their kids on her are fuming right now.
Sgent
(5,857 posts)fumed about the Dixie Chicks....
Its almost like Country women are trying to tell you something.
groundloop
(11,513 posts)Skittles
(153,104 posts)her heart is in the right place
Cha
(296,733 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)Kanye famously crashed Taylor Swift's 2009 first VMA award acceptance to declare Beyonce deserved it more.
At the time, I thought it was rude, but I was still admiring him for having the chutspa to declare "George Bush doesn't care about black people" 4 years earlier at a celebrity fund raiser, based on Dubya's Katrina Hurricane response. Combined with my utter lack of interest in Taylor Swift or her commercial pop music. Especially that she was originally from a country music background, the preferred music for Southern Republicans. And you never heard her give any political opinion
But how the tables have flipped.
Now Taylor is speaking up against the Trumpublicans
And it's Kanye who is embarassing himself in a MAGA cap
Meanwhile Swift has woken up, not afraid of public backlash by speaking out, and I've admired her since her public support for March for Our Lives in support of the Parkland Students killed.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)The real President got it right about Kanye.