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I don't know why anyone thinks this guy is weird.

Also, is pissing off the Swifties the best of plans, Donnie?

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Holy fuck. He's about unleash the full unbound force of the Swifties apon his old, weird, decrepit ass.

Get your popcorn ready. The backlash will be glorious.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I legitimately would love to hear the planning process for their whole AI idea. It's absolutely astounding. Like he's just giving up and now going for "most sued ex-president of all time" to add to his other list of shitty firsts.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The planning process was Elon released an unfiltered image generator that will reproduce real people and Donald has no impulse control.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

And meanwhile, here's Dall-E not honoring a basic request of mine...

I mean I think that's something we all deserve to see...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I mean, there is a certain freedom in being completely screwed….

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Does Donald Trump, the convicted felon rapist racist, really want Taylor Swift to publicize again to him about how much she champions for human rights, advocates for the LGTBQ+ community, adovcates for abortion rights, and hates the corrupt fascism and conservatism poisoning the U.S.?

Right before an election, too! Sure, Diaper Don, let's get the Swifties angry again and let's have them vote Democratic in droves. That's a community you should really piss off!

Desperate Diaper Don, beloved friend of Jeffrey Epstein, is desperate once again.

Everything Taylor Swift Has Said About Donald Trump: https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swift-donald-trump-kamala-harris-joe-biden-2024-election-1938982

EDIT:

Remember to vote. Do not get complacent. Make sure you vote, and tell your friends and family to vote. Say NO to Fascism.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yes, but now he thinks she loves him.

Remember, he picked a running mate who called him America's Hitler before he started brown nosing. I can absolutely see this moron thinking that Swift suddenly went MAGA.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Actually, that was meant as a compliment.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Trump lives in his own reality, where he is a billionaire genius, and Taylor Swift and her fanbase loves him.

In our reality, he's a traitor insurrectionist, rapist, racist, liar, fraud, corrupt, sexist, convicted felon, asshole, degenerate, Fascist, and heavily-indebted moron. And Taylor Swift hates him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

He's even stated as much, just not recently. It was about his tax cuts for the rich, and how she would have to love him for all the money he sent her way.

It makes sense, given that he's never known a love that he hasn't had to pay for.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ah so it was projection when he said Harris used ai.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago

Always is. Accuse your enemies of that which you are guilty of.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I knew he had small hands, but I thought he at least had the right number of fingers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

All they had to do was crop the fingers off and it was a pretty good image. I wonder if the kid whose dad asked him to make it kept them in the frame 😅

[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that who you really want to fuck with?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Let me get this straight, you think that Taylor Swift, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in the world, with legions of loyal fans, is not going to retaliate against your public lies?

Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Taylor pays her lawyers.

[–] Michal 11 points 3 months ago

Doesn't matter if it's AI generated, what matters is who published it, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ironically this may be the thing that makes Taylor Swift endorse Harris - earlier than she had intended

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The Democratic national convention this week would be an opportune time

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow - that was quite possibly the dumbest thing he's done yet.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Piss off a billionaire singer with an army full of drones?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And a billionaire singer who's already such a common target for AI deepfakes that she's quite likely the one person on the planet most ready, willing and able to sue someone's ass off over them.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’d be shocked if the headline read ‘trump says a truth’

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but there are lies and then there are lies.

Trump normally just lies. Today, he lied about Taylor Swift. That is a lie lie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you might be round-about almost quoting Mark Twain?

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MagicShel 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

loving all these unforced errors

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Totally normal and definetely not weird.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No way is he going to trick the Swifties.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

There’s something really unsettling about his weird smirk in that thumbnail.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I can hear Swifts jet engines spooling up now.

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