UPDATE: Apparently the guitar was not signed (or certified) by Taylor Swift afterall. 🤣

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    I know Weirdo is the current kinda forced (IMO) word we’re hurling at the magas these days, but that kind of behavior is legit weird. Like really weird.

    There’s obviously the “some people have more money than brains” angle of dropping 4K on something so you can destroy it.

    Then there’s the “I’m a grown-ass man, and I’m so insecure about a female celebrity endorsing a politician I disagree with that I’m going to drop 4K so that I can publicly and in front of cameras showcase that insecurity for the entire world to see, while gloating and being proud of it” angle. (Which by the way, smoothbrain magas, serves to amplify her endorsement, not diminish it.)

    I can’t promise I’m not going to drive around with “Fuck Donald Trump” blaring and my windows down all during election day and the day after (regardless of outcome), but I’m not going to spend $4k for the privilege, and I’m sure as hell not going to do it for an assembled audience.

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      It’s not really forced imo. Waltz called them weird conversationally and it just kinda stuck. Likely because it fits so well.

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        I agree that it’s fitting and the word should have been applied to them sooner. However, I definitely think some folks and journalists go out of their way to use the word. I’m not even saying there is anything wrong with that, just acknowledging that sometimes it feels a little forced.

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          Congratulations, you’ve noticed the cracks in the simulation.

          It sounds forced because it is forced as a completely transparent DNC strategy play.

          Except they stole that from the left, too. Mainstream leftists have been calling liberals and right wingers weird for literal years before Walz even entered the national conversation. Libs have just turned around and projected it onto CHUDs.

          Weird how I just can’t stop finding parallels between libs and MAGA.

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        It stuck because of how they reacted to it. If they had reacted the same they’ve done by being called fascists, racists, nazis, misogynists, paedophiles etc. it wouldn’t have become a thing. But the one thing they can’t handle being called is “weird”, which is in itself extremely weird. I’m all for absolutely overusing this and finding other words they can’t handle, it’s hilarious to see them so clearly show that they’re just mentally 3-year-olds having angry outbursts.

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      I maintain that calling them Redcaps, basically an especially spiteful and nasty kind of goblin, is the most fitting way to label them

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        Ferengi. They embody the ferengi from star Trek to me. Regardless, neither of ours works because they are nerdy references a good deal of them don’t understand. They understand being called weird though, and it gets under their skin. That’s the important bit. I wouldn’t care if someone called me that, but it damn sure bothers them, so that’s what they’re called even though other words fit better, like rape apologists.

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      that kind of behavior is legit weird

      This kind of “buy things to destroy them so other people can’t have it” protests from the petite bourgeois are nothing new, though.

      They’re just expressions of rage by people with more money than empathy.

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      I’d be willing to bet he owns many things but has a very deep debt.

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      The sign in the background says “wildgame dinner”.

      I’m guessing this is some redneck hunters group that either auctioned that off to be destroyed on stage, or he bought it in his own time for this act.

      These kind of people live to hate libs. It’s one of their favorite passtimes.

      In that context, this seems totally normal.

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      There’s also the “If you’re gonna smash a guitar, go Townsend on it, don’t use a hammer” angle.

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    I’m pretty sure - wait, hear me out - that Taylor Swift is still able to sign her name, and that - you won’t believe this - other guitars exist.

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    This is just sad. He could have given it to a kid on a cancer ward who loves Taylor Swift. He probably has grandkids who love her music, they could have had it. He surely has kids in his neighbourhood who love her music, could have donated it to a youth music group or something. But this is what he chooses to do with it. To impress a man who still doesn’t know how to apply foundation after 50+ years of using it, apparently just rolling his face across a tableful of it each morning like he’s fingerprinting his head.

    If Trump doesn’t even so much as ‘truth’ about this, I think this silly fuck is gonna feel genuine grief. He’s probably expecting a phone call, or even a meeting & photo op next time Trump’s in town. “I spent 4 grand to do this, surely he’ll notice me!”

    Sad, sad, sad.

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        Ok, we’re going to grandpa’s. Leave your tablets & phones in the car. Don’t talk about music, church, politics, school, rainbows, libraries, pronouns, anyone gay or trans, tv shows, or really anything. See if Grandma can turn on an old Disney movie, any that came out before you were born, and we’ll leave right after lunch.

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      If I throw my money away to simp on a e-girl I’ll see some boob. Donny wouldn’t even give dumdum over there the time of day.

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    Shame about the guitar, but on the bright side: This seems like a good way to trick conservatives into donating to charities.

    1. celebrity angers conservatives by being normal
    2. celebrity donates merch to charity
    3. charity starts an auction for merch
    4. conservatives buy it
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    This is just like the chicken-hawk conservative dipshits buying expensive French wine just so they could publicly pour it down a storm drain in front of reporters. And all because France didn’t agree with the invasion of Iraq (which we now know was founded on lies).

    Time truly is a closed loop.

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      They did it with beer as well, when the beer company didn’t express enough hatred of LGBTQ+ people. Bought lots of their beer to teach them a lesson by not drinking it. And I seem to remember them doing it with shoes at one point.

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      Although at least this time they can’t seem to be able to shake the ‘weird’ label. This won’t help.

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    I’d do this to a conservative celebrity, but for $4000 I could buy Kevin Sorbo’s whole sad fucking life.

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    It reminds me of the weirdoes buying wine to splill it down the drain when France had the audacity of telling the truth in the un during the whole Irak mess. Of course the wine makers and sellers were fine with that.

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      Or all the homophobes transphobes weirdos who bought a bunch of bud light only to shoot it after fox news told them to be absolutely outraged over a limited edition 6 pack in canada that they never would have heard about otherwise

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        weirdos who bought a bunch of bud light only to shoot it after

        In fairness, a bud light can being ripped apart by a .22 hollow point is a pretty awesome sight. And what else is canned horse piss good for?

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    Imagine this 65 year old man, sitting at home listing to All Too Well, because he could really relate to dating a Jake Gyllenhaal type, then Taylor tweets that she’s all in for Harris, and his world comes crashing down.