152 points

This feels like a very foolish move. I do not know the relevant law at all, but surely it’s some kind of illegal to falsely use someone’s face to claim their political endorsement? And it’s not like Taylor Swift is somehow lacking in either the financial clout to sue over it or the PR clout to turn it around

If this fucking walloper wants to ruin his own campaign then that’s more than fine by me. I’m just surprised by what seems like such an obviously poor move

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53 points

Honestly, poor political moves seem to be all the man is capable of. And his base (unfortunately) always seems to have just enough cognitive dissonance to eat it up and pivot/shift the goalposts.

More and more, I come to the conclusion that the only way forward is to stop fighting them, and instead focus on strengthening us.

The one thing MAGA republicans have in spades is a sense of unity and community, which is something we on the left need to foster (instead of infighting and segmentation).

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31 points

That’s his superpower. No matter how low your opinion of him gets he can always find a way to surprise you with how shitty he can be.

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3 points

Can he always go lower? Yes. Does it ever surprise me? No.

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From what I understand, Taylor Swift was offered big time FTX money but her parents are competent legal professionals who reviewed the contract, recognized that SBF was selling dangerous unregistered securities, and advised to stay the fuck away from that shit. I think she may have been the only celebrity who avoided that dump truck of money to protect her fans and her brand.

Not someone I’d fuck around with. (also remember when Evermore theme park tried suing lol)

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5 points

All true but there is likely a portion of his base who follows nothing regarding Taylor Swift, only passively knowing who she is.

(That’s me, and I’m not part of his base. I give zero fucks about Taylor Swift. Everything I know about her is through passive acquisition.)

They’re not going to care enough about her to hear the retraction. If anything it’ll be some vague thought that even liberal star elites like their guy with no follow up.

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If I was an attorney for Taylor Swift, I might argue that the campaign needs to have their assets frozen because who knows what other fraudulent or illegal activity the campaign could be engaging in. Guys like trump do this type of thing because their expectation is that they’ll get away with it.

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116 points

The images. Trump is pathetic.

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83 points

And as we all know… Swifties sure love commenting on Truth Social.

🙄

This dude is just so, so desperate. Future historians will have to go through all this garbage.

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Hey, I was in a hipster coffee shop in Brooklyn the other day and everyone was talking about how much the swifties were abandoning TikTok and Instagram for Truth Social in droves

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1 point

debased.

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46 points

This is one of the most pathetic things I have ever seen. I still cannot believe a massive cult of dimwits worships this loser.

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23 points

This is exactly what bullshit like Grok is here for. Stupid easy to make, stupid easy to spread. Why try any harder when your target is stupid people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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2 points

Wtf is Grok?

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4 points

Twitter’s image generator

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13 points

I’m surprised I haven’t seen any “trump for Harris” generated images yet in this thread. Maybe with a news article about Trump finding Trump’s VP pick weird and how he can’t stand Trump rambling about Trump, low energy, something something.

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1 point

It takes a certain type of weird to like AI cringe.

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1 point

I saw a cursed image yesterday. Kamala heavily pregnant, with Don looking down hand on belly, like you do when trying to feel the baby kicking.

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I’m surprised I haven’t seen any “trump for Harris” generated images yet in this thread.

It’d mean having to give money to Musk

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0 points

The uncle Sam image is clearly AI, but the pictures with people in “Swifties for Trump” shirts look real. But there is a “satire” tag on one of them…

Either he believes the images are real, or he knows they are fake and is trying to meme a little. Either way he is a moron. If this forces Taylor’s hand to either disavow Trump or just straight endorse Harris, he’s cooked.

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The blonde girl with a ponytail in the top right and bottom right look like real photos from a rally. The other photos of groups of people with the “Swifties for Trump” shirts all have the plastic sheen and soft background that’s indicative of AI. If you start zooming in there are little oddities here and there that also make them look generated.

So I’ll buy there is one girl out there with her own shirt who got photographed twice at the same event, but I don’t believe any of these other photos for a second.

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80 points

Another lawsuit to take away the last of the money he might have. He’s clearly burning all bridges and preparing to bug off to Russia, NK, or Chyyyyna.

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9 points

Given that the AFU are currently on a bridge detonating campaign, that might strand Trump there. I think when I say this, I speak for many Americans, sounds great!

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4 points

The other week he said he’d naff off to Venezuela.

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2 points

OMG, I would LOVE to see that! He wouldn’t last a whole day

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2 points

My money’s on Saudi Arabia. Prince Bonesaw is a golf buddy of his, and doesn’t he have a Trump Tower in Riyadh?

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1 point

No idea, but good call.

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76 points

Using AI to take away a woman’s agency and force an image of her to do what you want?

Trump feels free to do it and to do it publicly. It’s weird as all hell.

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17 points

When you’re a celebrity, they let you do it.

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70 points

This is hilarious he is going to force a Swift - Harris endorsement where she might have remained silent

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30 points

Exactly this. If Taylor swift gets the swifties to the polls it’s game over.

And he might get sued as well which would be the cherry on top

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22 points

I mean I would be stunned if this doesn’t result in a lawsuit of some form. This is a pretty messed up (and unbelievably dumb) thing to do.

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9 points

I wouldn’t be surprised if this part of their “big plan” to deal with her. The Trump campaign is scared shitless of her, and blame her for motivating young voters as one of the reasons they lost 2020.

Not too smart, but not much they do is.

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