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.
It’s a form of social control akin to bread and circuses.
I had no idea who she was until this. I’ll probably forget about her next week.
Man, no matter where you stand politically, if your birthday party is themed after a politician, you’re probably very dumb or just a cunt or both. And i don’t even care about birthdays.
I am shocked that someone would be a Republican voter when there are literally millions of Americans that voted for Trump… shocked I say…
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. 😭
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.
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.
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
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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
this actually work and now people are not talking about Epstein and Maxwell prison transfer as much, fascinating !
Regardless of what we think about the ad, why is the scrutiny on the model and not the brand or the marketing company?
Oh my God who cares
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.
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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.
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.
I agree with the feelings here concerning Republican votes, but I make my personal judgments based on knowing more about the person. It’s a red flag at this point, but there’s more to know before writing a person off. As others pointed out, Buckley was as bad as any modern Maga.
Good people do live in Florida, you know.
They definitely knew what they were doing.
American Eagle? Like, c’mon.
At the very least, the resulting controversy is an intentional marketing campaign, since that’s the phase of capitalism we’re in now. At the most? This is one of the infortunately soon to be many American businesses seeking to benefit from the growing population of literal fascists in our country.
So a company that’s been around for at least 30 years that has “America” or “Eagle” in it’s name is proof they support Facism? Bank of America needs to change their name ASAP. I shopped there in my twenties’ and there wasn’t a whiff of neonazism in anything about them.
They might have done that on purpose, but until there is evidence of that, it is anything but definite. Right now, it’s pure feelings judging that. I’m on board with calling them out for being so clueless about the optics, but it will take a bit more for me to conclude they are collaborating in an effort to make fascism normal.
They’re clearly not clueless, else the whole joke doesn’t make any sense.
Calling anybody racist is a serious allegation, so it should not be done lightly. I think some information came out that might be evidence it is true, but I personally haven’t read details yet.
It is! And if anyone deserves the beneift of the doubt, I’ll give it to them. A company run by professionals does not deserve that benefit of the doubt, since all corporations consistently exploit such a thing.
Can someone explain this to me as a non-American: why do people register to vote as a particular party? I thought you’d just register to vote, then vote for a particular party at the election (and that ballot is secret, so nobody can say for sure who you voted for)?
Many states have closed primary elections prior to the general election. So three or four candidates from the same party are campaigning against each other for the right to be the candidate in the general election, and the only people that can vote in this preliminary election are registered party members.
Ah I see, so “registered Republican” is similar to “Conservative party member” here. Thanks, that always confused me.
Oh, she’s MAGA? Good thing I don’t watch anything she is in. Regardless of the size of her assets.
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.
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.
