I vaguely remember about a year or two ago she posted a selfie from a family reunion in which many of her family members sported MAGA hats, which got a bunch of attention from the media. I guess this shouldn’t be unexpected.
No surprise; white women vote Republican nearly as much as white men.
“Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-trump-harris-women-voters
this actually work and now people are not talking about Epstein and Maxwell prison transfer as much, fascinating !
Cancel culture ahhh…good cancel culture. We need to cancel racism.
I still don’t know who she is and happily keeping this way.
She is as far as I can tell a actor who doesn’t mind being naked.
She’s from Spokane, grew up in Idaho, lives in Florida, and set up a MAGA-themed birthday party for her mom. It’s not like the signs weren’t there.
Don’t worship celebrities… Especially ones whose main selling point is their beauty not their skill.
Just leave it at “don’t worship celebrities”. Skill is no indication that they aren’t a complete shithead either.
Yeah … We have plenty of evidence of great skilled actors being pieces of shit. People need to end this parasocial relationship with celebrities. They are just people we pay to entertain us.
Also, we should keep in mind that their profession - acting like someone other than their actual selves - is damn handy for masking all sorts of awful behavior.
I had no idea who she was until this. I’ll probably forget about her next week.
Gross.
Well that’s it I’m no longer taking political advice from Sydney Sweeney.
I’ll still look at her boobs and butt though, as MAGA God intended.
I am shocked that someone would be a Republican voter when there are literally millions of Americans that voted for Trump… shocked I say…
I don’t know why everyone always assumes women are progressive.
If the value of a woman is solely determined by the “rank” of men that want them, a lot of beautiful young women go for that system.
It’s easy and they’d be at the current “top” and get what they want.
Amongst white women, MAGA.support is a majority
https://truthout.org/articles/yes-55-percent-of-white-women-voted-for-trump-no-im-not-surprised/
Authoritarians are so misogynistic that it only seems natural that someone who is paying attention would recognize the danger. One could say women are given the benefit of the doubt that they are smart and capable until a specific individual proves otherwise.
Biggest misogynist I’ve ever met in my life was a woman actually.
No one disparages a woman like other women
until a specific individual proves otherwise.
You mean like supporting trump for a fucking decade?
What more signal is needed?
Yeah. That would do it. But that’s not something we knew until now, at least for Sydney. As with all people, this applies case by case.
Why is it that 9 times out of 10 when people on the left blow up about something, it’s actually much worse than previously thought.
Goddammit. Or rather, nice. That kind of takes the unobtainable crush edge off, a little bit. She is no longer that hot to me.
Them biddies didn’t vote though. 😭
bonk
Okay
Creepy
What’s creepy about it? I’m just relieved. 🤷♂️
I think it was when you said “them biddies”
😆 I guess so. It was a joke though.
Just say it’s a klan ad and move on like it isn’t a big thing. Because at this point, unfortunately, it really isn’t.
She actually weird looking, like she has down syndrome.
It’s an unpopular opinion, for sure, but I’m with you on this one. Never got the appeal of her droopy eyes and dumb smile. To each their own tho.
Yeah it took me a while to notice her droopy eyes
I’m with Steven Colbert on this one. However, it was a very poor choice of wordplay.
I didn’t read the article, so I’ll just point out that just because the conservatives do do well with chsracter assassination and guilt by assumption due to party affiliation, that does not mean we progressives should follow suit.
Destroy the cruelty, don’t join it.
It’s character assassination to point out her legally documented voter registration?
guilt by assumption due to party affiliation
Maybe the real issues is that voting Republican anytime after 2016 shows a lack of any character at all?
Like, genuinely, we’re not living in the era of William F. Buckley Jr. The vast majority of these people literally stand for nothing except winning, power, and control and they’re happy to admit it. Further, it’s not like she lives in some blue state with a handful of reasonable Republicans, she lives in Florida where among the most corrupt and worst of the worst representations of that god-awful party exist.
Nobody is assassinating these voter’s character, they’ve just shown they have none.
Not saying this applies to Sydney Sweeney, but:
In some places, you really can’t assume that registered republican means votes republican. What I mean by that is there are deep red counties in Florida and other red states where most local offices run unopposed, and the only way to have any say in who holds those offices is to vote in the closed republican primary. The only way to do that is register as republican.
Some people do that to mitigate damage, and then vote straight ticket against the republicans in the general election. This can be a useful tactic even in places where the democratic party is active enough to field candidates, but not enough to have two running in a primary.
In this case there are other signs and I don’t think we’re dealing with tactical registration, but it’s good to be aware of when judging people by their voter registration without knowing a lot about the local politics.
William F Buckley was a huge racist. He gets trotted out by many as an example of a good conservative, but he was terrible POS who is responsible for the form of conservatism we have today. He was an articulate liar.
The New Yorker reviewed a recent biography of Buckley:
His older siblings burned a cross in front of a Jewish house. Buckley was upset he wasn’t there because seemed like “a lark”. This was in 1937.
And yet, somehow, he was more reasonable than what we’re dealing with today.
To be clear, I don’t have any dispute with anything you’re saying (and I gave you an upvote because you’re correct), but we’re not in an era of “articulate liars.” We’re in an era of vranyo, where they know that we know that they’re lying and they simply don’t even care to try to make a good lie. These are bumbling, inarticulate liars.
I don’t think we are on different pages, but I think it’s important to show how Buckley helped create the space for MTG to emerge.
Buckley was a master of hiding his real beliefs in liberal language. By doing so, he was able to slip fascist beliefs into the public discourse. There were some who knew they were lying and called him a crypto fascist. But many did not and his arguments penetrated deeply into the populous. Do much so, that you see Democrats sincerely taking up his talking points during the decline of the great society Democrats and the ascendancy of the neo liberal Democrat.
When these policies failed to deliver to the Democratic base, the base left. Buchanan, Gingrich, and others were lingering in the shadows for years, but lack the emotional skill to vibe with them. But Trump was able to feel their hopelessness and channel it into rage. He was speaking a truth the neo liberals never were able to voice and channel.
They lifted him to the presidency and stuck with him removing any elected official who challenged him. He found the power hungry politicians and they fell into line saying anything they needed to maintain power which means saying anything that made Trump look good.
The articulate liars created the sincere rube. The sincere rube created the hopeless masses. The hopeless masses platformed the charismatic carpet bagger. The charismatic carpet bagger attracted the sycophants.
Hitler is worse than Hindenburg, but fuck Hindenburg.
If somebody comes out and says “I fucked up” then we can work on forgiveness.
If they hide it or are proud of it, fuck em.
At any moment they can stop supporting trump for any number of reasons but they constantly keep choosing too.
I’d say it’s even worse to continue to support him quietly at this point, because it shows the person knows it’s wrong.
I’m just responding to disagree with your last point. It doesn’t necessarily show that the person knows it’s wrong in their eyes. I think it’s more likely that they know they have an unpopular opinion and aren’t readily sharing that.
Ok 88
