Beto O’Rourke is causing quite the stir in the Texas senate race — so much so, he’s now got Travis Scott, LeBron James and other stars firmly in his corner. La Flame was out Sunday at an event for Beto at the Bayland Community Center in…
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Monday, October 29, 2018
Monday, October 8, 2018
Taylor Swift Stuns the World, Endorses Two Democrats in Tennessee
She’s sorry, but the old Taylor Swift can’t come to the phone right now.
Why?
Because she’s busy knocking on doors and canvassing neighborhoods in Tennessee to make sure everyone is informed and registered to vote in the 2018 midterm elections.
Indeed, the singer has broken from an often-criticized tradition and done more than merely dip a toe in political waters.
She’s gone right ahead and jumped in with two feet.
On Sunday evening, the beloved solo artist shared the photo above, along with a lengthy Instagram message that endorsed a pair of candidates in the November 6 election for various important offices.
“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift said to open her statement.
She continued:
“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country.
“I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG.
“I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.”
In the eyes of many critics, Swift had come under fire many times in the past for never using her famous platform for the greatest good.
While fellow superstars such as Beyonce had not only backed certain candidates, but given speeches and performances on their behalf, Swift had remained out of the political arena entirely.
Some were especially appalled by this decision in 2016 when there was such a clear choice between a candidate who supported women’s rights (Hillary Clinton) and, well… Donald Trump.
“I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent,” Taylor added in this new message.
“I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love.”
Why is Swift speaking out now?
Likely because Republican senators just confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court — despite one notable accusation of sexual assault against him, along with pretty clear temperment concerns.
Perhaps with this in mind, Swift went on to specifically throw her support behind two candidates from her home state.
“Running for Senate in the state of Tennessee is a woman named Marsha Blackburn. As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn.
“Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me.
“She voted against equal pay for women. She voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape. She believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples. She also believes they should not have the right to marry.
“These are not MY Tennessee values.”
In races that appear rather close and which could legitimately impact the country, Swift therefore announced the candidates who have her backing:
“I will be voting for Phil Bredesen for Senate and Jim Cooper for House of Representatives.
“Please, please educate yourself on the candidates running in your state and vote based on who most closely represents your values. For a lot of us, we may never find a candidate or party with whom we agree 100% on every issue, but we have to vote anyway.”
As you might expect, taking a partisan side has elicited mixed reactions on Twitter.
A handful of users are for the move:
Others have scoffed at the move:
(Editor’s Note: Since Kanye supposedly “ended” Swift by interrupting her speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the two highest-grossing tours in the world belong to… Taylor Swift.)
This, of course, is the danger of getting involved in politics: you may engender some serious opposition.
But Swift must think it is worth the fight and the criticism in order to speak her mind and espouse her values.
This is how Swift concluded her unexpected post:
So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 18 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count. But first you need to register, which is quick and easy to do.
October 9th is the LAST DAY to register to vote in the state of TN. Go to vote.org and you can find all the info. Happy Voting!
We wish the very same to you, Taylor.
Monday, August 27, 2018
Viola Davis Endorses NY Congressional Candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Viola Davis has one person in mind when it comes to improving race relations in the country — and she’s a new, young face in politics who could soon be in congress. We got the ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ star Sunday at LAX and asked who…
Monday, October 16, 2017
Daymond John Endorses "Shark Tank" Pal Mark Cuban for President!!!
Mark Cuban just got a ringing endorsement for President from old pal Daymond John … who couldn’t stop singing the guy praises. We got Daymond outside Craig’s Sunday night where the baller “Shark Tank” star ran down a list of…
Friday, July 28, 2017
Linkin Park Endorses Fans" Worldwide Tribute to Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington will be celebrated far and wide by Linkin Park fans who want to pay their final respects … and the band’s completely on board. Linkin Park’s Mike Sinoda tweeted a link telling fans about a monumental effort to pay…
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Ric Flair Endorses Kane for Mayor with Epic Video
WWE legend Kane has some serious political firepower in his corner — THE NATURE BOY!!! Ric Flair just cut a WWE-style promotional video to support his friend Glenn Jacobs — who’s running for mayor of Knoxville County, Tennessee. Naitch even…
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Drake Endorses Chance the Rapper for Mayor! (VIDEO)
Drake is backing Chance the Rapper all the way for a huge political office … now Chance just has to decide to run. Drake was mobbed Tuesday night by fans and paps shouting all kinds of questions outside Tao in L.A. — he didn’t…
Monday, January 30, 2017
John McCain Endorses Peyton Manning"s Political Career ... "American Hero" (VIDEO)
Seems Peyton Manning is already getting some pretty strong support for a possible political career … with Sen. John McCain praising the QB as a real life “American hero.” With rumors swirling that Manning could run for senator in Tennessee in…
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Farrah Abraham Endorses Donald Trump: Grab Life By the P--sy, B-tches!
Well, it’s over.
After 18 months of non-stop barnstorming, mud-slinging and p-ssy-grabbing, the 2016 presidential campaign can finally pack it in and leave the rest of us to start the healing process.
Sure, Election Day is nearly a month away, but any pundit worth his salt will tell you it’s all over now that Farrah Abraham has announced her endorsement.
Yes, in news that’s sure to shock absolutely no one who’s acquainted with Farrah and her IQ, Ms. Abraham believes the human throbbing forehead vein himself, Donald Trump (aka Donnie Vadge Grabber), should be the next President of the United States.
Farrah made her announcement last night via every freakin’ social media platform, because apparently she shares her candidate’s fondness for late-night posts, and she’s under the mistaken impression that the world was desperately awaiting her political insights.
Interestingly, the footage of Trump boasting about acts of sexual assault that’s alienated so many others seems to have cemented the Teen Mom star’s position.
We don’t understand why, but in fairness, we’re guessing Farrah doesn’t either.
Perhaps it’s because, like Farrah, Trump is obsessed with sex tapes.
Or maybe she likes the idea of a fellow dumbass going from reality star to leader of the free world.
Whatever the case, Farrah took to Snapchat last night to announce her endorsement of Trump.
She then took to Twitter and Instagram to say the same damn thing, because she really believes her followers give a sh-t who she’s voting for.
Naturally, Farrah backed her position with a thorough outline of the ways in which she believes Trump’s tax plan and hard-line stances on immigration and trade partnerships will affect the US economy.
Just kidding, she encouraged her followers to “Grab life by the p–sy, b-tches!” and called the Clinton family rapists.
Yes, the entire Clinton family:
“STFU about Trump and see the rapist Clinton family,” Farrah captioned her snap.
We’d love to know what Farrah means when she tells us to “see” the Clinton family, but our Farrah-to-English interpreter is currently being talked off the ledge of a tall building.
On Twitter, Farrah wrote:
“After watching the #debate it’s clear @realDonaldTrump is going to be the best option @HillaryClinton I approve this message & tweet @3am”
Sounds like someone watched Bill Maher this weekend and said, “I can do the political funny!”
We like to imagine that when Farrah tweets that little Microsoft Word paper clip pops up and says, “Looks like you’re trying to … actually, I have no idea what in the actual f–k you’re trying to do.”
It seems that Farrah is breaking with her mom and on-again, off-again boyfriend Simon Saran in endorsing Trump.
Debra has been an outspoken critic of Trump’s, while Saran seems to be of the mind that both candidates are wrong for America.
When Teen Mom producer Morgan J. Freeman recently joked that he’d like Edward Snowden to steal the long-rumored Trump “n-word” tapes and expose them to the world, Saran bit the hand that feeds him, tweeting:
“That’s illegal! Kind of like the drugs the teen mom cast do on the show!”
Some high and mighty talk coming from a guy who dates Farrah freakin’ Abraham.
Before today, at least we could say, “Hey, it’s not like she supports Trump, or anything!”
Monday, June 27, 2016
Duggar Family Endorses Frozen Yogurt Shop, Gets SLAMMED on Social Media
How hated is the Duggar family these days?
So hated that they can’t even get ice cream without becoming the subjects of unwanted attention on social media.
Okay, so it’s actually frozen yogurt that lured the Jim Bob, Michelle and Jinger out of the Duggar compound over the weekend, but the reaction to the above photo was still downright frigid.
As you can see, the Duggars were joined by Jinger’s new boyfriend, Jeremy Vuolo, when they stopped by Sweet Loring Frozen Yogurt in Laredo, Texas.
No word on what brought the Dugz to the streets of Laredo, but they seem to be more or less constantly on tour these days.
Anyway, the owner of the shop posted the pic on Facebook and Twitter, along with a “huge shoutout” to the Duggar clan.
That’s when all hell broke loose.
Jeremy got his first taste of life as a member of the Duggar clan when social media commenters asked for extra nuts on their two scoops of Duggar hate.
Some choice comments:
“@SweetLoring because everyone is proud to have bigoted cult members who enabled their son to molest 4 of their daughters for 2 years there.”
“@SweetLoring not sure I would brag about this family visiting you. They are not a family to admire.”
“@SweetLoring Obviously your business is anti gay, woman and transgender. No thank you.”
“@SweetLoring Having TLC’s Duggar family promote your place is not a good thing. Over 1,000 advertisers have dropped this family.”
Yes, these days the Duggars can’t step out for slightly healthier ice cream without getting raked over the coals.
And considering a damaged reputation is their only punishment for helping their teenage son molest five young girls, we’re gonna go ahead and say it’s a good thing that the public won’t let them forget about it.
Keep up the good work, Internet.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Aaron Carter Endorses Donald Trump, Goes on Insane Rant
Aaron Carter just pulled a Kanye West.
Only instead of telling white critics to stop listening to his music, the singer went on a bizarre Twitter rant that highlighted his support for Donald Trump.
“Does America want to have a president who FOLLOWS or someone who leads?” Carter asked on social media. “I vote For@realdonaldtrump.”
Okay, fair enough we guess.
Based on various polls and primary results, Carter is not the only person who feels this way.
But after followers voiced their displeasure with his view, Carter proceeded to really jump off the deep end.
“People look for anything and any chance they can to hate me for something it’s always SOMETHING I fight back and for myself not changing,” he wrote, later adding:
“Just looking at these comment from trolls in my mentions just PROVES how immature our country has become. GROW UP in more ways than 1 thx.”
We’ll refrain from pointing out the irony in saying the country is immature… while simultaneously saying you support a name-caller such as Donald Trump for President.
Carter did say that he doesn’t agree with Trump’s stances on gay marriage or immigration, but “70%” of him is on Trump’s side, so this is the message he has for haters:
“F-CK OFF.”
When things finally escalated beyond a point where Twitter was suffient, Carter went on Periscope to speak his mind in an expletive-laden video.
“People want to call me this and that, and this and that,” he ranted.
“And they want to hate and do this and that, but guess what, bam, bam, bam!” said Carter, punching towards the camera. “I’m gonna fucking fight back, motherf-cker.”
Concluded the artist:
“Bam, bam, bam! One, two, three. The third one’s gonna knock you out. Don’t f-ck with me.”
We’re just gonna back away slowly now and say that Carter definitely sounds like the the type of person who would vote for Donald Trump.
Friday, February 12, 2016
Emily Ratajkowski Flashes Boobs, Endorses Bernie Sanders
Even amongst his most ardent supporters, “sexy” is not a word that comes to mind when the name Bernie Sanders is mentioned.
That may be have just changed, however, as Emily Ratajkowski has executed a Jedi mind trick that’ll force your brain to forever associate democratic socialism with ginormous breasts:
Yes, Emily Ratajkowksi’s boobs are officially feeling the Bern, and we’re pretty sure that means the election is over. All hail President Sanders.
If it’s not already in the Constitution that all elections are to be decided by Emily Ratajkowski’s boobs, then we need an amendment ASAP.
Here is where you would normally find a joke about how the real boobs are the ones running for office, but we have a hard time putting any effort into this when we know 90% of you just here for the promise of topless Ratajkowski.
We assume the other 10% are just cats walking across a keyboard or something.
Anyway, now we we know where EmRat stands in terms of presidential politics.
We doubt her endorsement will do much to shake up the election, but you know Bill Clinton is seriously considering switching sides right now.
Sure, it’ll land him in the doghouse, but it’s not like he hasn’t been there before!
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Tom Brady -- Endorses Donald Trump ... I Hope He"s Our President
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breaking news
Tom Brady has made his fantasy pick … Donald Trump.
Brady has endorsed his longtime good friend for President of the United States.
Brady and Trump have been friends since 2002 — frequently golfing together. Brady even has Trump’s campaign hat in his locker.
It’s unclear if Brady backs his policies … or the renovation he might make to the White House.
Check out the clip.
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