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Wonder what's going to happen with all the celebrities that endorsed Harris. Basically everyone of note in the music and film industry endorsed her lol, usually with the most hypocritical and Eurocentric logic around the issues of womens rights, LGBT rights, and the rights of racial minorities in the USA. Will their stans have anything to say about this blatant nonsense and disregard for the lives of those who are not American? Somehow Chappell Roan, who seems to have negative PR skills, came out looking the best on this.
All in all I think all the celebrity endorsements had a net negative effect on the Harris campaign, it gave the impression that she was being endorsed by the "liberal elites". That's possibly the last label you'd want for yourself when running against Trump.
I don’t think celebrities get any blowback over their shit, iraq war supporters didn’t. Vietnam as well
On the other hand, we got Jane Fonda, and at least some Punk musicians hated Bush. Can't even get that this time round.
Think merica got lots of singers hating trump, they just don’t have it like that. Their hatred is impure
Aside from fucking macklemore and lowkey, and probably lots of smaller ones
Even then, Macklemore is the cheesiest rapper in existence. Aside from him, you're right, people's hatred is impure.
Although yemen did make a banger boat song, so we should just abolish American celebrities tbh
Cheesy rapper, but good dude. Has done a lot to give support to Palestine and Yemen as far as I know. And not in the lib "support" sense, but in the "money and aid" sense
literally like 8 hours ago I was looking at the recaps of all the celebrities endorsing Harris and what went down at the DNC and so on, and I was thinking "if Harris loses, this is going to be so fucking embarrassing for everybody involved." like, Lil Jon showing up to do a
version of Turn Down For What at the democrat convention was only ever going to be looked upon in retrospect as a) an inspiring and fun way to get the message out to vote for Harris, or b) unbelieveably cringe and will always be associated with the Democrats' failure at least a little, in a Fight Song-esque way
personally I'd just not take the risk of having it all blow up in my face and keep celebrities generally out of the picture but maybe I'm just a boring politics guy
The hundreds of celeb endorsements just gives the impression that Harris is the candidate of the liberal elite class, the last thing you want when running against Trump.
The celeb stuff was deeply embarrassing and unserious, by far the worst was all the celebs pretending that Harris was some great egalitarian securing people's rights across the globe. For example, one celeb (think it was Billie Eilish) said that "Harris makes me feel safer as a woman". I'm sure all the women in Palestine and Sudan appreciated that... Talk about Eurocentrism being alive in the 21st century.
The fact that Chappell Roan, a celeb who had such a bad PR team (now fired I think) which led to her cancelling concerts last minute to perform at award shows, managed to come up with a better take on the presidential election than 99% of celebs by not endorsing Harris, should be embarrassing for all the PR people out there v
(my reputation) Burned Down For What
Hey now, Comrade Roan is based. She seems to hate being a celebrity and protect her boundaries which makes her very based
And I love her for that