August 19, 2025 • 33 mins
After a podcast interview went viral, mega star Taylor Swift is now facing brutal, politically motivated backlash on TikTok. Why are people so mad—and do any of their critiques of Taylor Swift even make sense? I break it down in this episode of the Brad vs Everyone podcast. Plus, a Democratic TikTok star mocks Melania Trump in an arguably racist way, and Fox News still doesn't get what Gavin Newsom's new rhetorical shtick is all about.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Taylor Swift is, and we'll always be a white woman
with white woman privileges.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Taylor Swift is a coward.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Another day, another unhinged backlash on TikTok, this time against
Taylor Swift. We're gonna break down the latest bizarre and
just unhinged discourse on the Internet. This time again, people
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are coming after Taylor Swift and there's no real reasoning
behind it, but that's pretty typical for TikTok. This and
so much more is coming up on today's episode of
The Barad Versus Everyone podcast, my daily show where we
take on the craziest ideas from across the Internet, or
politics and our media, all from an independent perspective. Up first, guys,
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like I mentioned, we're going to talk about Taylor Swift,
who is in the news and in the more importantly
so social media and Internet political discourse at the moment
because she just did a podcast interview featuring her boyfriend,
who is Travis Kelcey something football. I'm gonna sound really
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gay here. I don't know much about him, but I
know their relationship is like a thing people are really
interested in. I just could care less about any of it.
But regardless, Taylor is lover or hater. She is a phenomenon.
So this podcast interview has almost twenty million views in
five days on YouTube, which is astronomically a huge number.
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And it's interesting because, like the actual content itself is
just relatively unobjectionable. I haven't listened to all of it
because it's just not really my thing. But the kinds
of thing she says just seem like pretty banal and
not that controversial. This interview has sparked a wave of
absolutely unhinged discourse about Taylor. We're gonna get into that.
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The first example of which a little diddy that has
nearly a million views on TikTok a song about why
Taylor is bad actually because she is successful. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I'm Taylor Swift. I'm an actually little billion there. Just
announce my twelve album this year.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
And even though I.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Have favorite, well gonna make four versions of the vinyl
because I want your money on this door head. I
don't give a shit about this long longdor my PJ
my fully friend's podcast because I'm a member of the
point zero zero zero one percent elite wealthy class. He
is a rich and passa Taylor Swift. He's a ridge
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of plastic tailor Swift and a bridge of plata Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
If she's a billionaire with.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
A beak, she's a billionaire, she doesn't take all that money.
She can give a lot of it away and solve
a lot of problems, but she won't if she wants
to a billionaires.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
That started out okay then very quickly went off the rails.
I mean, the talent here is not amazing, and some
of the resentment there might explain a lot about the
perspective in this video. I mean, Taylor Swift has given
tens and tens of millions publicly to charities and nonprofits
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and to help the poor in America and elsewhere in
victims of natural disasters, and I'm sure she's given a
heck of a lot more in non public donations. She
has done more to help these people than TikTokers yapping
and complaining ever will all millions of them combine. So
it's got to be really frustrating to hear people talk
about you like this, if she even pays attention to it,
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which hopefully she doesn't, when they do literally absolutely nothing
to help anyone, most of them, and you have done
more than most people will in a lifetime, times a million.
It's just shocking stuff. And then Taylor Swift, you know,
her own work has tremendously benefited the global poor. You
have no idea what you're talking about, these TikTok economists.
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I mean, you can look at some of the numbers
from Taylor Swift's tours are just astronomical. The amount of
economic value she interjected into local communities across the globe,
the amount of benefit she brought to local businesses and entrepreneurs,
the amount of jobs she created. Yet, yes, she's evil
because she's successful for what exactly, making music that millions
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upon millions upon millions of people enjoy and profiting off
of it. Can you show me the victim is the
victim in the room with us of her evil mission
to make millions of people happy and give away her
music primarily for free. I mean, if you want to
purchase a physical vinyl album, you have to pay for it.
If you want to go see a concert, you have
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to pay for it. But literally anyone can listen to
it on Spotify for free. Anyone can listen to it
on YouTube for free. Yes, but tell me these people
just hate wealth and they hate success, and they have
hearts full of resentment and it shows. But guys, that
song was actually the least unhinged of the very popular
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TikTok videos going viral right now, All right, let's take
a look at another wild video, actually unhinged of some
non binary looking communists explaining why Taylor is bad because
successful and wealthy. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Everyone's like, eat the rich, until Taylor Swift serves up
a new album and suddenly everyone's like, actually, Taylor, I
saved you a seat at the table. I feel like
we have a culture in the world that is very
quick to critique and judge billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg
or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, these in celly men
that are easy to make fun of honestly, and who
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have genuine and public bad intentions for what they want
to do with their wealth and influence. But then there's
Taylor Swift, and I feel like people want to be like, oh,
but Taylor Swift's one of the good billionaires. But I
would argue the only way that you could be a
good billionaire is by never allowing yourself to get to
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the point where you are a billionaire because you are
constantly trying to redistribute that wealth.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
These people just don't understand basic economics, and it shows
you are not bad or evil for providing a service
that tons of people want and enjoy and enriching yourself
off of it. This is a win win, like Taylor
Swift is actually probably the best example of truly a
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benevolent billionaire right because there's no exploitation, there's no dubious
labor conditions. There is her producing products people love, making
millions of people happy, creating massive economic wealth for communities
and businesses, and thousands upon thousands of jobs, and at
the end of the also making herself a lot of
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money for it. It is a win win win, and
the only people who lose are whiny people on TikTok. Seriously,
your life is in no way made worse because Taylor
Swift has been successful. And what's so funny about this
is that they just don't understand how economics works, because
they seem to think that Taylor Swift her money is
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just like all hoarded in a bank vault somewhere. To
the extent that Taylor spends her money, it goes into
local businesses and creates jobs. And to the extent that
she keeps her money in different investments, it's being invested
in the economy. She's paying tons of tax revenue that's
going to local services and federal services and programs for
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other people. And she's of course donating tens upon tens
upon tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of
millions of dollars at this point, to charities. So like
this idea that she is evil because she's not giving
away her money, she actually kind of is. She's not
giving it away, but that wealth is not hoarded. That's
not a thing. That's not how economics works. And some
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of these people are just so out of touch with reality.
They literally just want her to work and give everything
away from free for free. I'm not joking. Here's another video.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Maybe you're right and I'm wrong. Maybe she really is
a good person. So you guys are her fans. I'm
hoping you guys will all tag her in my comments
of this video, but I challenge her to this. She's
releasing this new album during number one and extremely hard
time in our country and number two an extremely hard
time in the world, and she is a billionaire. She
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has at least a billion dollars, so she doesn't need
the money from this new album at all. So I
challenge Taylor Swift, who is this great person who doesn't
need a dime. We can all see she doesn't need
a dime to either, say, I want to release this
new album completely for free to the world because we
all could use a pick me up and this album
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can you serve as this amazing using pick me up
and just music that we can all feel together. And
I'm not going to charge a dime for it because
I want everyone to have access to it.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
What's so wild to me about this take is she
kind of already does Like seriously, every time Taylor releases
new music, it is available on all these different music
streaming platforms on YouTube for anyone who wants to listen
to it at no cost. The only thing she sells
that I know of, are like vinyl albums, so like
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the actual record player if you want a record if
you want or you can still buy the full album
on iTunes or Apple Music or whatever, but you don't
have to to listen to it. So she basically already
gives it away for free and just because she requires
people to pay if they want to attend a concert
or if they want a physical album. I mean, those
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are not necessities. What are you talking about. Are we
supposed to believe she is oppressing people by requiring them?
Anyone could listen to her music for free at any
time on demand on the internet, but if you want
a physical album, you do have to pay for that.
That's her oppressing people, that's her being evil. Y'all have
actually lost the plot. I'm stunned by this level of
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socio political analysis from TikTok and how widespread it is
and how people just eat it up. Because I don't
know why. A lack of education, a lack of understanding
of basic economics. I don't know. Maybe we have to
go back to the root, like people need to be
learning in schools how economics works, because if you do,
then none of this makes sense. Now there's a couple
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other reasons for all this Taylor Swift hate, Like apparently
people are upset with her because she doesn't speak on
global news and wars like the Israel Palestine conflict and
everything horrible going down in Gaza. Yeah, because I personally
look to Taylor Swift for all my geopolitical analysis like
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this is so ridiculous, But take a listen to this.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Taylor Swift is a coward. I want all the smoke
from Swifties because you're not scary. You're about as intimidating
as Disney adults, same energy. Taylor Swift's silence on the
set in Gaza is extremely telling of who she is
and always has been as a person. Unfortunately, Taylor Swift
is unironically an incredibly powerful person because of how influential
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and rich she is. I'm not joking when I say
that she could actually make a huge difference for the
people in Gaza if she spoke up about it and
rallied her fans to do the same. Instead, she remained silent.
She a coward or a Zionist. I wonder probably both.
It's one thing for people who don't have any power
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or influence to stay silent about a genocide. It's another
thing altogether when it's somebody who has this incredible power
and actually could make a gigantic difference. There's nothing quite
so dystopian as scrolling and seeing a video of starving
children in Gaza, and then scrolling and seeing a video
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about Taylor Swift's new album Dropping. We can enjoy things,
but the silence is deafening here.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It's really not for normal people. It is not deafening
that your favorite pop star has not opined on wars
happening overseas and just tragedies and atrocities happening overseas like those.
That's the thing. I understand that what's happening in Gaza
is horrific, humanitarian catastrophe. I want to get into the
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politics of it all, but the idea that you can't
it is somehow dystopian to be scrolling and seeing a
musician releasing a new album and then you scroll and
something bad is happening in the world. That's always the
case like that has there have always been terrible things
happening on the other side of the globe, and in fact,
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that should make us more grateful for what a free
and prosperous, relatively at least life we live in America.
But that's literally If it's just that's the status quo
of human existence, how can it also be dystopian like what?
And also how the whole premise here is absurd. The
idea that Taylor Swift, speaking out on this would somehow
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affect the course of what net and Yahoo and what
he decides to do about Gaza is going to be
shaped by a Taylor Swift Instagram post. Are you un
ironically suggesting that now? For all you know by the way,
she's donated millions of dollars to relief in Gaza, you
have no idea most of her charitable contributions are not public.
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So I really find this absurd. I actually think it's
good and normal and should be encouraged that celebrities do
not opine on everything in the world, especially when it's
something as complex and divisive as the Israel Palestine conflict,
which goes back literally millennia. Taylor Swift is a singer songwriter.
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She doesn't know shit about any of that, and I
actually think it's something she should be applauded for, not
just speaking about everything that she doesn't know anything about.
That's actually good. We shouldn't be mad at celebrities for
doing that. We should be happy when they do that.
But that's just me now. Taylor's other crime in some
of these TikTok people's imagination is being a white woman
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and being friends with people who are maga or mag
gets as they call them. Wow horrible, but yeah, I'm
not really making that up. Take a listen to these videos.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
So Taylor has been hanging out with some of the magas, the.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Magoos, the mag ads.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
I don't think that we are living and existing in
a time where there's any room for ambiguity, where there's
room to be kicking it and kicking and him hung
with people who support Donald Trump. I just don't think
there's room for that. I think normalizing that, enabling that
is going to bring the downfall of our democracy even quicker,
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right like we're already is. We're here, it's happening, but
is going to accelerate it if we don't have enough
people making them feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Taylor Swift is and will always be a white woman
with white woman privileges. She surrounds herself day in and
day out with people who openly openly support Trump and
still calls them friends.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I just find this really hateful and nasty and absurd.
First of all, like they literally they make it sound
like she's just a bad by default because she is
a white woman and exists. Seriously, how is that not
like insanely racist and sexist and if your worldview actually
condemns people irreparably because of their immutable demographic traits, it's
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your worldview that's the problem. My dude like that is
unhinged and evil. Actually, And this idea that she bad
because she is friends with people who support Trump. Newsflash,
that is roughly half of America. And at some point,
if you're an adult, you've got to be able to
build a bridge and get over it. Taylor has made
her own views very clear. She did not support Trump.
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She's been very outspoken about the fact that she is
a liberal Democrat, and that is fine. She is entitled
to her opinion and her vote as an American. But
she is just a normal person because she can still
be friends with people who disagree. That doesn't make her evil.
And if you want her to boycott interaction with half
the country, because oh, that would make such a difference,
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we have to make people uncomfortable. This is the absolute
ass backwards approach. In fact, the intense judgment and scolding
and toxicity from the left is part of what pushed
people towards Trump in the first place. But please double
down on this approach. It's worked out amazing for y'all. Ugh,
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I find this all so obnoxious and so unhinged, but
sadly that kind of makes it just a day that
ends in why for political discourse on TikTok, which again, guys,
is the number one news source for young people and
the second biggest search engine in the world. This is fine.
Society is doing amazing. We're totally, definitely not cooked whatsoever.
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And now we're going to discuss a incredibly cringe worthy
development in the world of democratic influencers, which I really
wish I didn't have to pay attention to, but I
do to bring you this podcast, so I suffer for y'all.
So the least you can do is support me and
support my content because a democratic TikTok star is going
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viral right now for a mockery of Milania Trump that
I just find like remarkably unfunny and deeply hypocritical. But
other than that, it's really spot on an amazing So
our main character here is somebody named Jack Schlossberg, who
is apparently JFK's grandson, so he is a Kennedy and
he's kind of part of the democratic establishment. As a result,
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he has some connections and he's built up quite the
TikTok following of eight hundred and thirty two thousand followers.
He is kind of just an extremely weird dude, and
not even necessarily in a bad way, but just just
an odd ball. Like here's a video kind of summing
him up.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
For some reason, JFK's grandson has become a weird internet celebrity.
You've probably seen him on TikTok where he seems to
always be shirtless. His name is Jack Slosberg, but he's
giving major Kendall Roy vibes or even Dennis Reynolds energy.
He's like a certified beach bum and just maybe the
face of white Boy Summer. He really looks like he
grew up on an all sheet metal diet, which has
fueled his obsession with paddleboarding. If he and Hunter Biden
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met up, they could start a podcast that had changed
the world.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
Schlosberg.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Schlosberg.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And he has this strange as effect and type of
content that he does on TikTok where he like makes
these videos almost pining to JD Vance in second person.
It's kind of weird, Like here's an example of that.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
Hey, JD, I don't know if you can read that
sign buddy, but it says pump out station free of charge.
I'm here at the pump out station where we're gonna
pump you out because you're so full of it, JD.
You need to get cleaned out, buddy, Love you by Dad.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Anyway, though, Jack here is going viral right now for
a video he just put out mocking Milania Trump, the
first Lady of the United States, for the letter that
she wrote to Vladimir Putin imploring him to stop his
invasion of Ukraine and think of the children that are
being displaced and killed in this horrible conflict. Here is
that video where he reads the letter while in like
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Milania drag I guess and imitates her accent. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
It is simply a profound concept, mister Putin, as I
am sure you agree, is that each generation descendant begin life,
begin their life with a purity, an innocence which stands
above geography, government and ideology. Yet in today's world, some
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children are forced to carry a quiet laughter, untouched by
darkness around them, a silent defiance against forces that can
potentially claim their future. Mister Putin, you can sendigal handedly
restore their melodic laughter. In protecting the innocence of these children,
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you will do more than serve Russia alone, You serve
humanity itself. Such a bold idea, transcend a human division.
And mister put and you, mister Putin, are fit to
implement this vision with a stroke of a pen today
it is time. What am I saying? This makes no sense?
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Please be more specific, miss Milannia Trump?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
So is it just me? Or did y'all also miss
the funny part? Like he's just reading Milania's letter to Putin,
which I actually read, and he's doing it in broken English,
but of course it's not written like that. I thought
it was nice, and obviously you know Putin is not
going to be swayed by a letter from the first Lady.
But it's a nice gesture and she's definitely calling for
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something good. So really not sure, like why that's something
you would mock of all the things to go after
the Trump administration on the first Lady wanting to save
Ukrainian children doesn't seem like the best or most fertile
territory for criticism, But that's just me, I guess. And
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then like she is not even blonde, so why does
he have a blonde wig on And am I crazy?
Or would Democrats call this deeply racist and sexist if
some mega influencer did this about Michelle Obama, like imitated
her and mocked her like this. Now, I personally am
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not that upset by it because I just am not sensitive.
I'm not going to get triggered. But I do think
the hypocrisy and double standard is fair to point out.
And then also again, like mackery is fair game. But like,
can you can you not make it funny at all?
Can you not do a joke? Can you not? Like
comedy is funny when it hits political comedy, when it
hits on a truth that people are kind of afraid
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to say out loud. This doesn't really do that. This
just feels like you're just like mocking her in a
way that raises no substante point, isn't even very accurate,
and it's just like weird. I don't know, this did
not hit for me, But this dude, this temu TikTok
JFK is like something of a Democratic star and celebrity
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in their circles. It's very strange. So so the Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer recently appointed him to a commission
on America's twenty fiftieth, two hundred and fiftieth birthday to
resist Trump or something. So this is a guy very
much in the good graces of the Democratic elite. Take
a listen to this video from Chuck Schumer announcing TIMU
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JFK's participation.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
I'm so proud to be here with the great Jack Schlasburg,
and we couldn't think of a better place than the
Brooklyn Heights Promenade, the beautiful Promenade with the Statue of Liberty,
the New York Skyline, the amazing Brooklyn Bridge to announce
that I am so proud to appoint Jack to the
America two fifty Commission, which will be in charge of
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how we celebrate our great two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Why am I putting Jack there? We know that Donald
Trump will try to aggrandize the whole thing and make
it part of him and his ego. There's no better
person to push back on that than you, Jack, and
I know you will be there and make sure that
when we celebrate our two hundred and fiftieth birthday, we
remember that America is a nation of justice, equal justice,
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of unity, eploribus un of treating everybody with dignity, which,
of course Trump will want to take that two hundred
and fifty cake and just stuff it in his face,
in the face of his billionaire friends. You'll be there
to stop.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
Thank you for this honor, Thank you Senator for this honor,
for your leadership, for the honor of this appointment.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Really, Chuck, this is the best y'all got. This is
who you're tapping to resist Trump is this guy I'll
hold my Trump A Trump and JD. Vans must just
be shaking in their boots there at night. They're having
little nightmares and they're rolling over and they just see
this guy in a blonde wig coming and they're like,
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oh no, this is bleak. This is really bleak. This
is what the Democratic Party is up to to hashtag
resist and then this funny thing like remind Trump that
we all have dignity and respect blah blah blah blah.
Just apparently not the first lady. If she's an immigrant,
then it's fine to mock her. I don't know, man.
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They are not coping well, they're not doing well. And
the more they turn to these kinds of terrible influencers
who are just fundamentally very bad at this, the more
I think the Democratic Party signs its own death warrant.
But you know what, what you guys have been doing
is working amazing for your party. So don't listen to me,
keep listening to timu JFK. What do you guys think
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about this guy? Have you seen his content before? Are
you surprised to see him imitating Milania Trump like this?
Let me know in the comments. Hit that like button
and make sure subscribed while you are at it. Okay, guys,
up next, we're going to talk about some more of
Fox News versus Gavin Newsom controversy, just like we talked
about on the show yesterday. Actually, but Gavin Newsome, the
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governor of California and likely, I would say, Democratic twenty
twenty eight presidential candidate, is basically copying Trump's style. He
is trolling people on Twitter. He is putting out these
all caps long posts that look like something Trump would pull,
post on truth, social and sound almost though not quite
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as unhinged as Trump's posts sometimes do. And people on
the right are not happy about it. They are criticizing
him over it, including for example, Fox News is Dana Perino.
Take a listen to her critique of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
The thing is or at the debate. The other thing
for me is that for the last week, Gavin Newsom
and why am I giving him advice? You had to
stop it with the Twitter thing. I don't know where
his wife is. If I want his wife, I would say,
what you are making a fool of yourself, stop it,
Do not let your staff tweet. And if you're doing
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it yourself, put the phone away and start over. And
if you want. He's got a big job as governor
of California, but if he wants an even bigger job,
he has to be a little bit more serious.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So I've been on air with Dana before and I
like her a lot. I generally respect her, but I
don't actually agree with this analysis or this take. And
I think the point of Newsom's bit here may have
gone over her head a little bit because he's trying
to get y'all to say this because he is imitating Trump,
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so that when you guys say, this is so unhinged,
this is so crazy, This is so undignified about Gavin Newsom.
But kind of all rally around Trump, people see the
dissonance between those two things. That's the point of the bit.
And as for the final part of her comments, like
if he wants to be president, he's got to be
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more serious than this. I wish that were true, but
it isn't. I mean, Trump is like this on steroids,
so you don't have to be and he's been massively
politically successful, so that is just like not true. You
can be a troll, you can be unhinged, and you
can be elected president. In fact, it seems to be
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a helpful out attribute in modern Polays. And now I
don't know if this will work for Gavin Newsom because
Trump does seem to be special somewhat, and that other
people who have tried to imitate him to a lesser extent,
nobody's really committed to the bit this much. It hasn't
seemed to work. But it's just like, actually not true
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to say that you have to be super serious and
you can't be a social media troll if you want
to be president, Like clearly that's not the case. And
the Republicans and Conservatives clutching their pearls over some of
the you know, more unhinged or embarrassing ways that Gavin
Newsom is behaving right now. All of those apply to Trump.
That is the point of this bit, and I don't
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know if it will be politically successful, but it's at
least been rhetorically successful in revealing this double standard among
some people. I mean Gavin newsom Press office. The Twitter
account where Gavin Newsom is posting all these unhinged all
caps tweets, shared this clip of Parino and said almost
to weekend and they still don't get it, which is
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again hinting at my point that they are trying to
act like Trump to make Republicans see how crazy it
is and then hopefully point out the dissonance there. It's
clearly kind of working, but some people aren't quite getting it.
Just on that front, we have to talk about one
funny exchange between Gavin Newsom or his team, really it's
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his team and Tommy Lauren, the longtime conservative and Republican
commentator and influencer who is now a Fox News contributor
and a big MAGA supporter. I have nothing against Tommy.
I've been on her show, but sometimes I do roll
my eyes at her takes and disagree with them, and
sometimes she can be a tad hypocritical, just this much.
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And I think that's what we are seeing in an
exchange that she's having with Gavin Newsom right now. Though
it all started with this guy. His name is the
Persistence on X, but he's actually named Scott Presler, and
he is a gay conservative, a big Trump's who has
done a lot of work registering voters.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
He shared a tweet where he wrote, Republicans are fifty
two thousand active voters away from flipping Pennsylvania blue to red.
There are one point one million no party affiliated voters
in Pennsylvania. Nothing would anger Governor Shapiro more than the
Commonwealth to turn red. Register as a Republican today. And
then there's a video of him and he has this
very long hair and this interesting look to him, which
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is what it is, right And Gavin Newsom replied, thank
you Nancy Mays, referring to the Republican congresswoman. And I
chuckle because there's not no resemblance. Like there's a little
bit of resemblance there.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I thought Scott handled this well, he replied and said,
thank you so much for helping make this video go viral. Pennsylvania,
you can register to vote online or change your party
affiliation to Republican here with a link to change your registration,
and he said, also, it's Kaitlin Collins. Are Kaitlin Clark
to you? Referencing other people who he has been memed
as looking like, because he kind of actually looks a
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lot like Caitlin Collins, the CNN anchor. So he took
this on the chin. He actually capitalized off of it,
and he did not play the victim or clutch his pearls.
So like, hats off to Scott. I certainly don't agree
with you on everything, but you handle this one like
a champ. And frankly, Gavin Usom kind of did you
a favor by drawing additional attention to your work. But
then Tommy Lauren came in and decided to, I don't know,
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like clutch her pearls over this. She wrote, you're kidding
me right, Your state and your bullshit governor rant and
rave on a daily basis about protecting gay people, and
you're really going to use your official press account to
troll a gay conservative and call him a woman? Oh no,
how offensive? Like come on, Tommy, you have spent years
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making fun of liberal snowflakes and now here you are
saying that, like, I think it's stupid. There's no reason
for Gavinusom to even be commenting on this in the
first place. But it is not some homophobic hate crime.
Okay to say that a dude who kind of looks
like this particular woman to make a joke about it. Whatever,
It's not that deep, it's not profound, it's not a
hate crime. And you, of all people, right, I mean,
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let me read you another Tommy Lawn tweet where all
she wrote was stay triggered libs. Like for you to
get triggered and to invoke identity and some form of
like discrimination and bigotry is just hypocritical beyond belief. Sure
you could say that like Gavin Newsom used to be
super woke or whatever, but clearly the point is that
he's trying to rebrand. Is no longer that now? Is
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that really sincere? I kind of doubt it, But it
also he is trying to get you guys, to make
yourself look like triggered hypocrites, and it is working. I mean,
Gavin Newsom just replied to Tommy and her complaining about
this and crying homophobia and just said you sound woke
and I mean he kind of ate. Like listen, I
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don't support gavenuwsome. I don't think he was a good governor.
I think he has this decade plus long history of
attaching himself to all this woke insanity. But like, he's
not wrong. She does sound triggered, she does sound woke,
and his bit that he's doing again. I have no
idea if it will really be politically successful, but it
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is entertaining at least, and it is causing a significant
number of Republicans and Conservatives to twist themselves into pretzels
and reveal their own incredible hypocrisy at least. That's my
take on it all. But you guys will have to
let me know what you think in the comments below.
Make sure subscribe, hit that like button while you're at it. YadA,
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yadda yah, And that'll be it for today's episode of
The Bad Versus Everyone Podcast. We'll talk again real
Taylor Swift is, and we'll always be a white woman
with white woman privileges.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Taylor Swift is a coward.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Another day, another unhinged backlash on TikTok, this time against
Taylor Swift. We're gonna break down the latest bizarre and
just unhinged discourse on the Internet. This time again, people
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are coming after Taylor Swift and there's no real reasoning
behind it, but that's pretty typical for TikTok. This and
so much more is coming up on today's episode of
The Barad Versus Everyone podcast, my daily show where we
take on the craziest ideas from across the Internet, or
politics and our media, all from an independent perspective. Up first, guys,
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like I mentioned, we're going to talk about Taylor Swift,
who is in the news and in the more importantly
so social media and Internet political discourse at the moment
because she just did a podcast interview featuring her boyfriend,
who is Travis Kelcey something football. I'm gonna sound really
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gay here. I don't know much about him, but I
know their relationship is like a thing people are really
interested in. I just could care less about any of it.
But regardless, Taylor is lover or hater. She is a phenomenon.
So this podcast interview has almost twenty million views in
five days on YouTube, which is astronomically a huge number.
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And it's interesting because, like the actual content itself is
just relatively unobjectionable. I haven't listened to all of it
because it's just not really my thing. But the kinds
of thing she says just seem like pretty banal and
not that controversial. This interview has sparked a wave of
absolutely unhinged discourse about Taylor. We're gonna get into that.
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The first example of which a little diddy that has
nearly a million views on TikTok a song about why
Taylor is bad actually because she is successful. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I'm Taylor Swift. I'm an actually little billion there. Just
announce my twelve album this year.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
And even though I.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Have favorite, well gonna make four versions of the vinyl
because I want your money on this door head. I
don't give a shit about this long longdor my PJ
my fully friend's podcast because I'm a member of the
point zero zero zero one percent elite wealthy class. He
is a rich and passa Taylor Swift. He's a ridge
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of plastic tailor Swift and a bridge of plata Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
If she's a billionaire with.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
A beak, she's a billionaire, she doesn't take all that money.
She can give a lot of it away and solve
a lot of problems, but she won't if she wants
to a billionaires.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
That started out okay then very quickly went off the rails.
I mean, the talent here is not amazing, and some
of the resentment there might explain a lot about the
perspective in this video. I mean, Taylor Swift has given
tens and tens of millions publicly to charities and nonprofits
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and to help the poor in America and elsewhere in
victims of natural disasters, and I'm sure she's given a
heck of a lot more in non public donations. She
has done more to help these people than TikTokers yapping
and complaining ever will all millions of them combine. So
it's got to be really frustrating to hear people talk
about you like this, if she even pays attention to it,
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which hopefully she doesn't, when they do literally absolutely nothing
to help anyone, most of them, and you have done
more than most people will in a lifetime, times a million.
It's just shocking stuff. And then Taylor Swift, you know,
her own work has tremendously benefited the global poor. You
have no idea what you're talking about, these TikTok economists.
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I mean, you can look at some of the numbers
from Taylor Swift's tours are just astronomical. The amount of
economic value she interjected into local communities across the globe,
the amount of benefit she brought to local businesses and entrepreneurs,
the amount of jobs she created. Yet, yes, she's evil
because she's successful for what exactly, making music that millions
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upon millions upon millions of people enjoy and profiting off
of it. Can you show me the victim is the
victim in the room with us of her evil mission
to make millions of people happy and give away her
music primarily for free. I mean, if you want to
purchase a physical vinyl album, you have to pay for it.
If you want to go see a concert, you have
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to pay for it. But literally anyone can listen to
it on Spotify for free. Anyone can listen to it
on YouTube for free. Yes, but tell me these people
just hate wealth and they hate success, and they have
hearts full of resentment and it shows. But guys, that
song was actually the least unhinged of the very popular
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TikTok videos going viral right now, All right, let's take
a look at another wild video, actually unhinged of some
non binary looking communists explaining why Taylor is bad because
successful and wealthy. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Everyone's like, eat the rich, until Taylor Swift serves up
a new album and suddenly everyone's like, actually, Taylor, I
saved you a seat at the table. I feel like
we have a culture in the world that is very
quick to critique and judge billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg
or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, these in celly men
that are easy to make fun of honestly, and who
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have genuine and public bad intentions for what they want
to do with their wealth and influence. But then there's
Taylor Swift, and I feel like people want to be like, oh,
but Taylor Swift's one of the good billionaires. But I
would argue the only way that you could be a
good billionaire is by never allowing yourself to get to
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the point where you are a billionaire because you are
constantly trying to redistribute that wealth.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
These people just don't understand basic economics, and it shows
you are not bad or evil for providing a service
that tons of people want and enjoy and enriching yourself
off of it. This is a win win, like Taylor
Swift is actually probably the best example of truly a
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benevolent billionaire right because there's no exploitation, there's no dubious
labor conditions. There is her producing products people love, making
millions of people happy, creating massive economic wealth for communities
and businesses, and thousands upon thousands of jobs, and at
the end of the also making herself a lot of
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money for it. It is a win win win, and
the only people who lose are whiny people on TikTok. Seriously,
your life is in no way made worse because Taylor
Swift has been successful. And what's so funny about this
is that they just don't understand how economics works, because
they seem to think that Taylor Swift her money is
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just like all hoarded in a bank vault somewhere. To
the extent that Taylor spends her money, it goes into
local businesses and creates jobs. And to the extent that
she keeps her money in different investments, it's being invested
in the economy. She's paying tons of tax revenue that's
going to local services and federal services and programs for
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other people. And she's of course donating tens upon tens
upon tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of
millions of dollars at this point, to charities. So like
this idea that she is evil because she's not giving
away her money, she actually kind of is. She's not
giving it away, but that wealth is not hoarded. That's
not a thing. That's not how economics works. And some
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of these people are just so out of touch with reality.
They literally just want her to work and give everything
away from free for free. I'm not joking. Here's another video.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Maybe you're right and I'm wrong. Maybe she really is
a good person. So you guys are her fans. I'm
hoping you guys will all tag her in my comments
of this video, but I challenge her to this. She's
releasing this new album during number one and extremely hard
time in our country and number two an extremely hard
time in the world, and she is a billionaire. She
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has at least a billion dollars, so she doesn't need
the money from this new album at all. So I
challenge Taylor Swift, who is this great person who doesn't
need a dime. We can all see she doesn't need
a dime to either, say, I want to release this
new album completely for free to the world because we
all could use a pick me up and this album
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can you serve as this amazing using pick me up
and just music that we can all feel together. And
I'm not going to charge a dime for it because
I want everyone to have access to it.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
What's so wild to me about this take is she
kind of already does Like seriously, every time Taylor releases
new music, it is available on all these different music
streaming platforms on YouTube for anyone who wants to listen
to it at no cost. The only thing she sells
that I know of, are like vinyl albums, so like
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the actual record player if you want a record if
you want or you can still buy the full album
on iTunes or Apple Music or whatever, but you don't
have to to listen to it. So she basically already
gives it away for free and just because she requires
people to pay if they want to attend a concert
or if they want a physical album. I mean, those
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are not necessities. What are you talking about. Are we
supposed to believe she is oppressing people by requiring them?
Anyone could listen to her music for free at any
time on demand on the internet, but if you want
a physical album, you do have to pay for that.
That's her oppressing people, that's her being evil. Y'all have
actually lost the plot. I'm stunned by this level of
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socio political analysis from TikTok and how widespread it is
and how people just eat it up. Because I don't
know why. A lack of education, a lack of understanding
of basic economics. I don't know. Maybe we have to
go back to the root, like people need to be
learning in schools how economics works, because if you do,
then none of this makes sense. Now there's a couple
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other reasons for all this Taylor Swift hate, Like apparently
people are upset with her because she doesn't speak on
global news and wars like the Israel Palestine conflict and
everything horrible going down in Gaza. Yeah, because I personally
look to Taylor Swift for all my geopolitical analysis like
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this is so ridiculous, But take a listen to this.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Taylor Swift is a coward. I want all the smoke
from Swifties because you're not scary. You're about as intimidating
as Disney adults, same energy. Taylor Swift's silence on the
set in Gaza is extremely telling of who she is
and always has been as a person. Unfortunately, Taylor Swift
is unironically an incredibly powerful person because of how influential
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and rich she is. I'm not joking when I say
that she could actually make a huge difference for the
people in Gaza if she spoke up about it and
rallied her fans to do the same. Instead, she remained silent.
She a coward or a Zionist. I wonder probably both.
It's one thing for people who don't have any power
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or influence to stay silent about a genocide. It's another
thing altogether when it's somebody who has this incredible power
and actually could make a gigantic difference. There's nothing quite
so dystopian as scrolling and seeing a video of starving
children in Gaza, and then scrolling and seeing a video
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about Taylor Swift's new album Dropping. We can enjoy things,
but the silence is deafening here.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It's really not for normal people. It is not deafening
that your favorite pop star has not opined on wars
happening overseas and just tragedies and atrocities happening overseas like those.
That's the thing. I understand that what's happening in Gaza
is horrific, humanitarian catastrophe. I want to get into the
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politics of it all, but the idea that you can't
it is somehow dystopian to be scrolling and seeing a
musician releasing a new album and then you scroll and
something bad is happening in the world. That's always the
case like that has there have always been terrible things
happening on the other side of the globe, and in fact,
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that should make us more grateful for what a free
and prosperous, relatively at least life we live in America.
But that's literally If it's just that's the status quo
of human existence, how can it also be dystopian like what?
And also how the whole premise here is absurd. The
idea that Taylor Swift, speaking out on this would somehow
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affect the course of what net and Yahoo and what
he decides to do about Gaza is going to be
shaped by a Taylor Swift Instagram post. Are you un
ironically suggesting that now? For all you know by the way,
she's donated millions of dollars to relief in Gaza, you
have no idea most of her charitable contributions are not public.
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So I really find this absurd. I actually think it's
good and normal and should be encouraged that celebrities do
not opine on everything in the world, especially when it's
something as complex and divisive as the Israel Palestine conflict,
which goes back literally millennia. Taylor Swift is a singer songwriter.
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She doesn't know shit about any of that, and I
actually think it's something she should be applauded for, not
just speaking about everything that she doesn't know anything about.
That's actually good. We shouldn't be mad at celebrities for
doing that. We should be happy when they do that.
But that's just me now. Taylor's other crime in some
of these TikTok people's imagination is being a white woman
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and being friends with people who are maga or mag
gets as they call them. Wow horrible, but yeah, I'm
not really making that up. Take a listen to these videos.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
So Taylor has been hanging out with some of the magas, the.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Magoos, the mag ads.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
I don't think that we are living and existing in
a time where there's any room for ambiguity, where there's
room to be kicking it and kicking and him hung
with people who support Donald Trump. I just don't think
there's room for that. I think normalizing that, enabling that
is going to bring the downfall of our democracy even quicker,
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right like we're already is. We're here, it's happening, but
is going to accelerate it if we don't have enough
people making them feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Taylor Swift is and will always be a white woman
with white woman privileges. She surrounds herself day in and
day out with people who openly openly support Trump and
still calls them friends.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I just find this really hateful and nasty and absurd.
First of all, like they literally they make it sound
like she's just a bad by default because she is
a white woman and exists. Seriously, how is that not
like insanely racist and sexist and if your worldview actually
condemns people irreparably because of their immutable demographic traits, it's
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your worldview that's the problem. My dude like that is
unhinged and evil. Actually, And this idea that she bad
because she is friends with people who support Trump. Newsflash,
that is roughly half of America. And at some point,
if you're an adult, you've got to be able to
build a bridge and get over it. Taylor has made
her own views very clear. She did not support Trump.
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She's been very outspoken about the fact that she is
a liberal Democrat, and that is fine. She is entitled
to her opinion and her vote as an American. But
she is just a normal person because she can still
be friends with people who disagree. That doesn't make her evil.
And if you want her to boycott interaction with half
the country, because oh, that would make such a difference,
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we have to make people uncomfortable. This is the absolute
ass backwards approach. In fact, the intense judgment and scolding
and toxicity from the left is part of what pushed
people towards Trump in the first place. But please double
down on this approach. It's worked out amazing for y'all. Ugh,
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I find this all so obnoxious and so unhinged, but
sadly that kind of makes it just a day that
ends in why for political discourse on TikTok, which again, guys,
is the number one news source for young people and
the second biggest search engine in the world. This is fine.
Society is doing amazing. We're totally, definitely not cooked whatsoever.
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And now we're going to discuss a incredibly cringe worthy
development in the world of democratic influencers, which I really
wish I didn't have to pay attention to, but I
do to bring you this podcast, so I suffer for y'all.
So the least you can do is support me and
support my content because a democratic TikTok star is going
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viral right now for a mockery of Milania Trump that
I just find like remarkably unfunny and deeply hypocritical. But
other than that, it's really spot on an amazing So
our main character here is somebody named Jack Schlossberg, who
is apparently JFK's grandson, so he is a Kennedy and
he's kind of part of the democratic establishment. As a result,
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he has some connections and he's built up quite the
TikTok following of eight hundred and thirty two thousand followers.
He is kind of just an extremely weird dude, and
not even necessarily in a bad way, but just just
an odd ball. Like here's a video kind of summing
him up.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
For some reason, JFK's grandson has become a weird internet celebrity.
You've probably seen him on TikTok where he seems to
always be shirtless. His name is Jack Slosberg, but he's
giving major Kendall Roy vibes or even Dennis Reynolds energy.
He's like a certified beach bum and just maybe the
face of white Boy Summer. He really looks like he
grew up on an all sheet metal diet, which has
fueled his obsession with paddleboarding. If he and Hunter Biden
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met up, they could start a podcast that had changed
the world.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
Schlosberg.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Schlosberg.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And he has this strange as effect and type of
content that he does on TikTok where he like makes
these videos almost pining to JD Vance in second person.
It's kind of weird, Like here's an example of that.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
Hey, JD, I don't know if you can read that
sign buddy, but it says pump out station free of charge.
I'm here at the pump out station where we're gonna
pump you out because you're so full of it, JD.
You need to get cleaned out, buddy, Love you by Dad.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Anyway, though, Jack here is going viral right now for
a video he just put out mocking Milania Trump, the
first Lady of the United States, for the letter that
she wrote to Vladimir Putin imploring him to stop his
invasion of Ukraine and think of the children that are
being displaced and killed in this horrible conflict. Here is
that video where he reads the letter while in like
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Milania drag I guess and imitates her accent. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
It is simply a profound concept, mister Putin, as I
am sure you agree, is that each generation descendant begin life,
begin their life with a purity, an innocence which stands
above geography, government and ideology. Yet in today's world, some
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children are forced to carry a quiet laughter, untouched by
darkness around them, a silent defiance against forces that can
potentially claim their future. Mister Putin, you can sendigal handedly
restore their melodic laughter. In protecting the innocence of these children,
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you will do more than serve Russia alone, You serve
humanity itself. Such a bold idea, transcend a human division.
And mister put and you, mister Putin, are fit to
implement this vision with a stroke of a pen today
it is time. What am I saying? This makes no sense?
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Please be more specific, miss Milannia Trump?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
So is it just me? Or did y'all also miss
the funny part? Like he's just reading Milania's letter to Putin,
which I actually read, and he's doing it in broken English,
but of course it's not written like that. I thought
it was nice, and obviously you know Putin is not
going to be swayed by a letter from the first Lady.
But it's a nice gesture and she's definitely calling for
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something good. So really not sure, like why that's something
you would mock of all the things to go after
the Trump administration on the first Lady wanting to save
Ukrainian children doesn't seem like the best or most fertile
territory for criticism, But that's just me, I guess. And
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then like she is not even blonde, so why does
he have a blonde wig on And am I crazy?
Or would Democrats call this deeply racist and sexist if
some mega influencer did this about Michelle Obama, like imitated
her and mocked her like this. Now, I personally am
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not that upset by it because I just am not sensitive.
I'm not going to get triggered. But I do think
the hypocrisy and double standard is fair to point out.
And then also again, like mackery is fair game. But like,
can you can you not make it funny at all?
Can you not do a joke? Can you not? Like
comedy is funny when it hits political comedy, when it
hits on a truth that people are kind of afraid
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to say out loud. This doesn't really do that. This
just feels like you're just like mocking her in a
way that raises no substante point, isn't even very accurate,
and it's just like weird. I don't know, this did
not hit for me, But this dude, this temu TikTok
JFK is like something of a Democratic star and celebrity
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in their circles. It's very strange. So so the Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer recently appointed him to a commission
on America's twenty fiftieth, two hundred and fiftieth birthday to
resist Trump or something. So this is a guy very
much in the good graces of the Democratic elite. Take
a listen to this video from Chuck Schumer announcing TIMU
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JFK's participation.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
I'm so proud to be here with the great Jack Schlasburg,
and we couldn't think of a better place than the
Brooklyn Heights Promenade, the beautiful Promenade with the Statue of Liberty,
the New York Skyline, the amazing Brooklyn Bridge to announce
that I am so proud to appoint Jack to the
America two fifty Commission, which will be in charge of
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how we celebrate our great two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Why am I putting Jack there? We know that Donald
Trump will try to aggrandize the whole thing and make
it part of him and his ego. There's no better
person to push back on that than you, Jack, and
I know you will be there and make sure that
when we celebrate our two hundred and fiftieth birthday, we
remember that America is a nation of justice, equal justice,
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of unity, eploribus un of treating everybody with dignity, which,
of course Trump will want to take that two hundred
and fifty cake and just stuff it in his face,
in the face of his billionaire friends. You'll be there
to stop.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
Thank you for this honor, Thank you Senator for this honor,
for your leadership, for the honor of this appointment.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Really, Chuck, this is the best y'all got. This is
who you're tapping to resist Trump is this guy I'll
hold my Trump A Trump and JD. Vans must just
be shaking in their boots there at night. They're having
little nightmares and they're rolling over and they just see
this guy in a blonde wig coming and they're like,
(24:41):
oh no, this is bleak. This is really bleak. This
is what the Democratic Party is up to to hashtag
resist and then this funny thing like remind Trump that
we all have dignity and respect blah blah blah blah.
Just apparently not the first lady. If she's an immigrant,
then it's fine to mock her. I don't know, man.
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They are not coping well, they're not doing well. And
the more they turn to these kinds of terrible influencers
who are just fundamentally very bad at this, the more
I think the Democratic Party signs its own death warrant.
But you know what, what you guys have been doing
is working amazing for your party. So don't listen to me,
keep listening to timu JFK. What do you guys think
(25:26):
about this guy? Have you seen his content before? Are
you surprised to see him imitating Milania Trump like this?
Let me know in the comments. Hit that like button
and make sure subscribed while you are at it. Okay, guys,
up next, we're going to talk about some more of
Fox News versus Gavin Newsom controversy, just like we talked
about on the show yesterday. Actually, but Gavin Newsome, the
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governor of California and likely, I would say, Democratic twenty
twenty eight presidential candidate, is basically copying Trump's style. He
is trolling people on Twitter. He is putting out these
all caps long posts that look like something Trump would pull,
post on truth, social and sound almost though not quite
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as unhinged as Trump's posts sometimes do. And people on
the right are not happy about it. They are criticizing
him over it, including for example, Fox News is Dana Perino.
Take a listen to her critique of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
The thing is or at the debate. The other thing
for me is that for the last week, Gavin Newsom
and why am I giving him advice? You had to
stop it with the Twitter thing. I don't know where
his wife is. If I want his wife, I would say,
what you are making a fool of yourself, stop it,
Do not let your staff tweet. And if you're doing
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it yourself, put the phone away and start over. And
if you want. He's got a big job as governor
of California, but if he wants an even bigger job,
he has to be a little bit more serious.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So I've been on air with Dana before and I
like her a lot. I generally respect her, but I
don't actually agree with this analysis or this take. And
I think the point of Newsom's bit here may have
gone over her head a little bit because he's trying
to get y'all to say this because he is imitating Trump,
(27:16):
so that when you guys say, this is so unhinged,
this is so crazy, This is so undignified about Gavin Newsom.
But kind of all rally around Trump, people see the
dissonance between those two things. That's the point of the bit.
And as for the final part of her comments, like
if he wants to be president, he's got to be
(27:36):
more serious than this. I wish that were true, but
it isn't. I mean, Trump is like this on steroids,
so you don't have to be and he's been massively
politically successful, so that is just like not true. You
can be a troll, you can be unhinged, and you
can be elected president. In fact, it seems to be
(27:57):
a helpful out attribute in modern Polays. And now I
don't know if this will work for Gavin Newsom because
Trump does seem to be special somewhat, and that other
people who have tried to imitate him to a lesser extent,
nobody's really committed to the bit this much. It hasn't
seemed to work. But it's just like, actually not true
(28:18):
to say that you have to be super serious and
you can't be a social media troll if you want
to be president, Like clearly that's not the case. And
the Republicans and Conservatives clutching their pearls over some of
the you know, more unhinged or embarrassing ways that Gavin
Newsom is behaving right now. All of those apply to Trump.
That is the point of this bit, and I don't
(28:41):
know if it will be politically successful, but it's at
least been rhetorically successful in revealing this double standard among
some people. I mean Gavin newsom Press office. The Twitter
account where Gavin Newsom is posting all these unhinged all
caps tweets, shared this clip of Parino and said almost
to weekend and they still don't get it, which is
(29:03):
again hinting at my point that they are trying to
act like Trump to make Republicans see how crazy it
is and then hopefully point out the dissonance there. It's
clearly kind of working, but some people aren't quite getting it.
Just on that front, we have to talk about one
funny exchange between Gavin Newsom or his team, really it's
(29:25):
his team and Tommy Lauren, the longtime conservative and Republican
commentator and influencer who is now a Fox News contributor
and a big MAGA supporter. I have nothing against Tommy.
I've been on her show, but sometimes I do roll
my eyes at her takes and disagree with them, and
sometimes she can be a tad hypocritical, just this much.
(29:46):
And I think that's what we are seeing in an
exchange that she's having with Gavin Newsom right now. Though
it all started with this guy. His name is the
Persistence on X, but he's actually named Scott Presler, and
he is a gay conservative, a big Trump's who has
done a lot of work registering voters.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
He shared a tweet where he wrote, Republicans are fifty
two thousand active voters away from flipping Pennsylvania blue to red.
There are one point one million no party affiliated voters
in Pennsylvania. Nothing would anger Governor Shapiro more than the
Commonwealth to turn red. Register as a Republican today. And
then there's a video of him and he has this
very long hair and this interesting look to him, which
(30:25):
is what it is, right And Gavin Newsom replied, thank
you Nancy Mays, referring to the Republican congresswoman. And I
chuckle because there's not no resemblance. Like there's a little
bit of resemblance there.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I thought Scott handled this well, he replied and said,
thank you so much for helping make this video go viral. Pennsylvania,
you can register to vote online or change your party
affiliation to Republican here with a link to change your registration,
and he said, also, it's Kaitlin Collins. Are Kaitlin Clark
to you? Referencing other people who he has been memed
as looking like, because he kind of actually looks a
(31:03):
lot like Caitlin Collins, the CNN anchor. So he took
this on the chin. He actually capitalized off of it,
and he did not play the victim or clutch his pearls.
So like, hats off to Scott. I certainly don't agree
with you on everything, but you handle this one like
a champ. And frankly, Gavin Usom kind of did you
a favor by drawing additional attention to your work. But
then Tommy Lauren came in and decided to, I don't know,
(31:28):
like clutch her pearls over this. She wrote, you're kidding
me right, Your state and your bullshit governor rant and
rave on a daily basis about protecting gay people, and
you're really going to use your official press account to
troll a gay conservative and call him a woman? Oh no,
how offensive? Like come on, Tommy, you have spent years
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making fun of liberal snowflakes and now here you are
saying that, like, I think it's stupid. There's no reason
for Gavinusom to even be commenting on this in the
first place. But it is not some homophobic hate crime.
Okay to say that a dude who kind of looks
like this particular woman to make a joke about it. Whatever,
It's not that deep, it's not profound, it's not a
hate crime. And you, of all people, right, I mean,
(32:12):
let me read you another Tommy Lawn tweet where all
she wrote was stay triggered libs. Like for you to
get triggered and to invoke identity and some form of
like discrimination and bigotry is just hypocritical beyond belief. Sure
you could say that like Gavin Newsom used to be
super woke or whatever, but clearly the point is that
he's trying to rebrand. Is no longer that now? Is
(32:32):
that really sincere? I kind of doubt it, But it
also he is trying to get you guys, to make
yourself look like triggered hypocrites, and it is working. I mean,
Gavin Newsom just replied to Tommy and her complaining about
this and crying homophobia and just said you sound woke
and I mean he kind of ate. Like listen, I
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don't support gavenuwsome. I don't think he was a good governor.
I think he has this decade plus long history of
attaching himself to all this woke insanity. But like, he's
not wrong. She does sound triggered, she does sound woke,
and his bit that he's doing again. I have no
idea if it will really be politically successful, but it
(33:13):
is entertaining at least, and it is causing a significant
number of Republicans and Conservatives to twist themselves into pretzels
and reveal their own incredible hypocrisy at least. That's my
take on it all. But you guys will have to
let me know what you think in the comments below.
Make sure subscribe, hit that like button while you're at it. YadA,
(33:33):
yadda yah, And that'll be it for today's episode of
The Bad Versus Everyone Podcast. We'll talk again real
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