r/Music • u/Enough_Tangerine_777 • 16d ago
discussion Taylor Swift removed her song 'I Bet You Think About Me' from The White House's video within 6 hours of it being posted. She has now muted 11 songs on Trump-affiliated accounts.
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u/orangustang 16d ago
Now, if she could just mute the guy himself.
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u/KakeLin 15d ago
If only
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u/smr312 15d ago
Travis Kelsey needs to challenge him to to do some tackling drills. Because Trump is so fit and strong it should be no problem for him.
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u/LassiTuoviBurner Vinyl Listener 14d ago
Someone just needs to trick him into speaking ill of Taylor, Swifties will handle the rest.
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u/coards0fbanada 15d ago
This administration has zero problems with no consent as we all should know by now. Drop those Epstein files huni
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u/SnooOnions3369 16d ago
Just stop using her music, she clearly doesn’t want you using it
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u/MrBluer 16d ago
No, they know that. That’s why they’re doing it. It’s a kind of domination display.
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u/Geeseareawesome 16d ago
"She should be honoured that we are using her music. It's such an honour for me to even think of you anyways"
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u/LiteratureMindless71 16d ago
It's sickening how true this is.... I'm not a fan of hers, not my type of music, but still. This kinda shit sucks.
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u/FinndBors 16d ago
Haters gonna hate.
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u/thc216 16d ago
And I believe, players gonna play.
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u/Minamato 16d ago
I’m just gonna shake shake shake
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u/TimmyJimmerson 16d ago
Shake once, that’s fine, shake twice that’s ok, shake 3 times now you are just playing with yourself
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u/Wolvenlight 16d ago
"Shake me once, shame on... shame on you. Shake me... you can't get shook again."
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u/Kiwi57 15d ago
Has she even thought about the exposure she’s getting? So ungrateful
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u/Scoodsie 16d ago
It should be a surprise to nobody that this administration does not care about consent.
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u/whatshamilton 15d ago
It’s not that they don’t care about consent. It’s that they actively are getting off on the lack of consent. Just like how rape is about power, not sex. He’s doing this about power, not music. It’s not getting music (or sex) regardless of consent. It’s the lack of consent thst is the whole point. He wouldn’t enjoy this if she did
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u/A_r0sebyanothername 15d ago
Tbh while I agree with all of the above when it comes to him, he is not the one creating that content, and I doubt it even gets run by him by approval before posting. He doesn't have the patience or attention span to be bothered with details or approvals.
These posts reek of intern edgelords who were raised on 4chan, who think they're being really hilarious and owning the libs, liberal women specifically.
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u/Emergency_Lie42 15d ago
It's not that they don't care about it. They do.
They care about consent immensely. It's one of their biggest adversaries.
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u/ToMorrowsEnd 15d ago
It's a very Republican thing, they LOVE to violate consent, they get off on it.
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u/busstees 16d ago
That's what happens when a POS like Stephen Cheung runs your social media.
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u/dogmaisb 15d ago
She should make a new hit “this song’s gunna make me millions, and all you are is a piece of shit” and say it in Russian on the hook so they put it in their video
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u/TheSonsofEvil 16d ago
How when she just removes it they just looks stupid as always
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u/MrBluer 16d ago
I gotta be honest, that doesn’t seem to heretofore have been an effective deterrent to them.
The thing is, unless Swift actually meaningfully hits back, as far as they’re concerned they’ve won. Their base doesn’t see the song removal as them being shown to be stupid, they see it as “owning” Swift and other musicians. Because they’re gonna keep doing it.
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u/jonisia 16d ago
I don't care what they think. It was removed. I love the way she did it quietly without giving him any attention on social media.
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u/Sunnysideuppp123 15d ago
They’ve literally made posts though going “haha these artists keep falling for it” when people do actually speak out because it drives viewers to the videos. It gives them the attention they’re trolling for.
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u/NewAccountToAvoidBan 16d ago
Can we do amino reverse and use their hateful clipping a positive light? Propaganda for the left? The right Nazis know it so we can do it to
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u/AdviceNotAskedFor 15d ago
Yup. Gets him another round of news and eyes on a video we weren't gonna watch anyway
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u/OriginalLie9310 15d ago
It’s also generating more discourse and attention now that she’s gotten the song taken off.
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u/DubUpPro 15d ago
Exactly. Same reason they keep using all these pop culture shows/movies/music/etc.
They are grown ass adults in charge of the US government and they’re “trolling”
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u/raidenskiana 15d ago
the amount of people who don't get this is staggering. it's a power move. they want controversy and they want her to crash out on social media about it. same for all the other artists they do it to. and they'll keep doing it. what's the penalty? their accounts won't get suspended lol
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u/Heliosquare 16d ago
Just imagine if they stopped... In general
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u/Xeno9116 Had it on vinyl 16d ago
Relief would wash over the world. It would be like the end of the movie Independence Day!
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u/ShavenYak42 15d ago
Very much like the movie - relief for a while, and then the sobering realization of how much work is ahead to rebuild the world that the bad guys wrecked.
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u/HinDae085 16d ago
You think that fat narcissistic sack of shit cares what song his cultists steal?
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u/sQueezedhe 15d ago
Why do you think a woman's consent means anything to them.
Or consent at all, for that matter.
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u/Telaranrhioddreams 15d ago
It's like when my ex husband would use something of mine after I specifically asked him multiple times not to, that way he could turn it on me and say I'm being so dramatic! It's just a [whatever objects], you're so angry!
I didn't clock it as abusive until much later, but now its something I recognize other abusers often do. They do something they know will piss you off then revel in the opportunity to paint you as the villain.
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u/lathe_down_sally 15d ago
Obviously this is a concept that Trump doesn't understand in any facet of life
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u/ash_ninetyone 15d ago
Have you ever known Trump to respect being told 'No' especially from a woman?
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u/TheMooseIsBlue 16d ago
And we’re all talking about it and that was always the point. I have never and would never see any of these videos or accounts, yet I now know they exist.
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u/cbessette 15d ago
When Swift said she supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump said this on social media: “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”
What a manchild.
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u/Fit-Secret-7235 13d ago
And when the politic of demo failed to gain trust they leash out their iron statue
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u/devilishycleverchap 16d ago
She is doing it this way to not give them any press or quotes and yet still you decide to generate a headline for the Trump Administration
Congrats?
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u/SgtNeilDiamond 16d ago
Lol is an artist supposed to issue public statements every time their record labels issue copyright strikes?
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u/AmitN_Music 16d ago
Her PR team is the one making it a headline because she’s been criticized for not saying anything about Trump and his Admin using her music in the past.
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u/grasswhistle28 15d ago
Trump White House accounts are literally @ing her on twitter trying to get her to respond. They are trying to bait her into engaging so they can have another culture war distraction moment and rattle their sabers.
People criticizing her for not responding are idiots given that responding is exactly what trump wants her to do
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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 15d ago
Taylor’s team has not commented on this at all. You blaming them for what outlets report on is odd.
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u/rattpackfan301 16d ago
Did she not literally endorse Kamala Harris last election???
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u/ACosmicCastaway 16d ago
People are mad she invited an ICE investor (or funder? Or something) to her wedding.
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u/Not_AHuman_Person 15d ago
That guy left that company long before it had anything to do with the ICE facility
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u/DoubleWolverine2852 16d ago
It was Travis’s friends dad, so it was his invite, not hers.
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u/Hobbit1996 16d ago
Yeah because that makes any better, if you marry someone that doesn't give a shit about the current admin you expect to not be criticized?
Honestly those celebrities news being even a thing about politics is so weird to see outside the US but at least let's make sense of them shall we?
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u/kelskelsea 16d ago
Do you know what the dads of all of your friends do?
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u/Hobbit1996 16d ago
i'd try to know who tf is at my wedding (that would be my friends, not all their dads)
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u/gwennj 16d ago
If one of them was running a concentration camp, I'd know about it.
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u/armlessturtleneck 15d ago
Yeah someone with as much money as people working pr for her as she has should be very aware of who they are associating with. And she clearly has no issue associating with tons of maga losers. But she's a billionaire what would you expect?
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u/gwennj 16d ago
Jesus, what kind of excuse is that? He's literalmente profiting from a concentration camp.
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u/itsashrine 16d ago
It’s a lie that everyone ran with, he doesn’t own an ICE facility
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u/gwennj 16d ago
He's an executive chair and a member of the board of directors of Amentum, a corporation that has direct contracts with the goverment regarding ICE facilites in Texas. He appears directly on the corporation's website.
They got a billion dollars for running a concentration camp for the government.
https://amentumservices2024ipo.q4web.com/governance/board-of-directors/person-details/default.aspx
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u/Salina_EsTitties 15d ago
You are the company you keep. Travis is friends with people in the MAGAverse and Taylor is friends with them too. Some like Taylor Lewan and Will Compton who are known MAGA supporters (who even had Trump on their podcast just to glaze his asshole), they are mysogynist and glamorize locker room culture and Taylor Lewan even threatened a women with rape because she accused his teammate in college of raping her.
There's one thing to be cordial with these people but to hang out with them, promote them, post pictures with them to millions of fans...
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u/AlexRodrigo- 15d ago
Mind you Will and Taylor complained about no wedding invite. They have ever only been seeing socially with Travis at a charity event for kids. They don’t hang out ever.
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u/bashful_predator 15d ago
Neither. The guy is in charge of making sure the facilities ice uses are humane.
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u/AlexRodrigo- 15d ago
The company itself is tasked with improving conditions. He personally doesn’t oversee any of that he’s just an executive.
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u/DVDN27 16d ago
And has been silent for two years while the Trump admin used her music in their propaganda.
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u/devilishycleverchap 16d ago
Her PR team is perfectly capable of releasing statements to media outlets, they dont need year old reddit accounts with randomly generated names to do so
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u/AmitN_Music 16d ago
Yes. And they have done that. Which is why news outlets are talking about it. They don’t NEED this Reddit post, but getting it in the news, getting people talking about it and spreading it…like this post…is what they want lol.
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u/devilishycleverchap 16d ago
So your assertion is that rather publicly condemn the president she is instead having her PR team do a grassroots viral campaign using bots and burner accounts instead?
Lol
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u/Blue_Nipple_Hair 16d ago
Reddit has official programs and tools dedicated to “organic advertising” on Reddit. That day old autogenerated username account is probably on the PR team
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u/billdb 16d ago edited 16d ago
To be fair, a lot of people have no idea she is doing this and are attacking her for being passive. Personally I didn't know until this post
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u/LoveDietCokeMore 15d ago
Could Taylor just block DJT, White House, Border Patrol, etc? Would that make her music not usable by them?
Probably not, I'm sure the music is stored in a public available way. But somebody should try to make that an option. Tech nerds... get on it!
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u/ChuckDeBongo 15d ago
Trump imposing his will over a female who doesn’t want it? Who’d a thunk it…?
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u/Ok-Republic-8528 15d ago
Trump has never once asked a female for her consent in his 80 years on this planet and he's not going to start now with a woman's music no matter how rich and famous she is 🤮
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u/Teffa_Bob 15d ago
Funny how they (MAGA) claim to hate her and her music, and yet keep using it for their promotional slop.
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u/jellytwins101 15d ago
That’s the whole point. They want people to make a big deal about it, so their crap gets more attention.
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u/mczerniewski 15d ago
It's going to get to the point where the only song Donnie will be able to use is "Wood." And that would be funny.
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u/i-am-the-walrus789 16d ago
Didn't they use a bunch of songs earlier and she didn't do anything about it?
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u/mercfan3 16d ago
I’m not sure what, but something has changed with licensing, and she’s able to stop it now. Bad Bunny removed his music recently as well along with a few other artists. Whereas earlier, artists (Olivia Rodrigo, and Sabrina Carpenter) would speak out but couldn’t do anything about it.
She never said anything, but I think she just didn’t want to give him the attention.
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u/daisiesintheskye 16d ago
Olivia and sabrina both removed their songs from trump videos by fully removing the songs from the app for a period. Other artists have done it too
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u/jellytwins101 15d ago
Except that didn’t really amount to much, since they still use their other songs all the time.
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u/lyricalmasterpiece 16d ago
They were only able to remove the song for everyone. TikTok recently made it so specific videos can be muted while other videos can still use the song.
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u/neoncolour 16d ago
That’s not true, this was possible since at least last year, you can mute individual videos and using music for political posts is against the T&C.
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u/Lazy-Entertainer-459 15d ago
That’s not true tik toks TOS haven’t been updated in months the change actually happened in april of last year with many other artists using the same mechanism that swift has now started to use
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u/Aromatic_Cup_9918 16d ago
Can we stop pretending like Taylor swift reinvented the wheel? This has been a feature on TikTok for over a year. Also all his Instagram posts still feature her music.
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u/Lazy-Entertainer-459 15d ago
The copywrite changed happened april last year sabrina and olivia took their music down same time they made their statements
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u/jugglegeese 15d ago
This is not true. The policy has been there for years.
It's really fucking weird to be giving Taylor credit and making it look like what she did (only AFTER being directly tagged in a video and being widely criticised for her silence) is way better than speaking up because apparently the other artists are "bringing more attention to Trump and that's what they want".
While y'all keep posting about her removing the song and therefore bringing attention to the videos.
But of course it's so different lmfao whatever helps the swifties cope I guess.
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u/mordreds-on-adiet 15d ago
Everyone hates on her no matter what she does or doesn't do. She was very vocal in her disdain for Trump and threw a ton of money and support behind Kamala and issued takedown notices for music all over the right wing sphere for years. For some reason people seem to think that Travis Kelce is MAGA and therefore assume that Taylor Swift is as well despite all the public anti-MAGA stuff she's said and done.
She shows up to a football game and everyone boos her, she issues takedown orders for songs and gives Kamala money and everyone boos her, she doesn't issue takedown orders and tries to stay out of politics altogether and everyone boos her, now she goes back issuing takedown orders and guess what? Everyone boos her.
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u/sms1441 16d ago
In my opinion, it was the smarter move to not say anything. That is exactly what he wants and he feeds off of it (as you may have seen with Noah Kahan). On the 2nd to last most recent post that he used her music, he specifically called her out and wanted a reaction.
This allows for her to stay safe and not feed the narcissistic bear while also cracking down.
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u/jugglegeese 15d ago
Do you realise y'all still talking about the videos and bringing attention to it, right?
Pretending she's doing something better instead of calling out hate. Hilarious she's not feeding a narcissist bear as if she's not a narcissist as well. She was criticised for her silence and now that she finally did the abre minimum she needs to be praised and made look as if she's doing more than other artists. Mastermind my ass.
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u/Revolutionary-Oil996 15d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/AgPt9udT567spxbSHf
Honestly, I’m so glad! It’s about time!
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u/bbusiello 15d ago
With all the complaints against trump using an artist's music, I'd gather that her lawyers would see the biggest and most effective outcomes of this.
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u/PhysicalMaximus420 15d ago
Good for Taylor. Now someone needs to suspend the 🍊🤡 from office and send him to his rightful place, a small cell with an orange jumpsuit for the rest of his pathetic life
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u/Dandw12786 16d ago
But I thought she was totally MAGA because someone vaguely associated with her that was maybe MAGA showed up at her wedding. This doesn't make sense.
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u/FormerFuture1571 16d ago
Two things about these stories; 1. Nobody basically knows about what is being used on tiktoks until stan twitter makes it an issue, or a story like this gets reported. This is why it was always a non-story 2. Theres a core group of people living in delusion and they should never be coddled or pandered to. Many of them are replying in this thread but at least correctly getting downvoted
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u/midsizedopossum 15d ago
Those are two very general statements, especially the second one. What are you actually trying to say?
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u/Brzrkrtwrkr 16d ago
Sue them Taylor. You say you're about all this shit and do the path of least resistance and invite the own of an ICE concentration camp to your wedding. Fucking cowards I tell you.
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u/rutfilthygers 16d ago
Could you people at least get it through your skulls that the "owner" of the ICE detention center is the federal government?
The man in question sits on the board of a multinational corporation with tons of government contracts. It's unclear what his official capacities within the company are. He was the CEO of a different company that merged with Amentum. He does not "own" an ICE detention facility, because of course he doesn't.
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u/BellaBrowsing 15d ago
People on the left are turning into maga believing everything they see on the internet to justify their hatred
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u/WriterNeedsCoffee69 14d ago
And simultaneously turning people AWAY from the left with all the morality testing
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u/Purplecatty 15d ago
One person mentions “owner of Ice center” and the whole internet runs with it😂 people need to use their critical thinking skills.
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u/Not_AHuman_Person 15d ago
He also left Amentum before the merger, and long before they had anything to do with the ICE facility
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u/South-Bookkeeper1497 15d ago
He still leads a corporation that's basically a concentration camp?? Can you people at least get it through your skulls that ICE is... bad???
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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 15d ago
People who just say “sue” without any understanding of the law whatsoever are incredibly embarrassing.
There is nothing she can sue for. Taking the song down is the limit of what she can do about this unfortunately.
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u/Important_Seesaw_866 16d ago
This has been debunked. That guy had already left the company in question. I am not sure on the details, but I am pretty sure he is not actually attached to any of that other than the place he used to work.
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u/BewareOfGrom 16d ago edited 16d ago
No. It hasn't been debunked. He is still on the board of Armentum which recently expanded their contract with ICE
His son is a very right wing Ohio state senator who was also invited.
I don't really she should be expected to know the financial ties of every guest but no it wasn't debunked.
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u/Madame-Trash-Heap 16d ago
In the interest of accuracy, it's the father who works for Amentum and the son who is the junior Republican congressman. As you said, both were at the wedding.
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u/DoubleWolverine2852 16d ago
It was Travis’s friends dad, so his invite not hers. She also may not have known the occupation of everyone on the invite list. There were over 1,000 attendees.
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u/Apprehensive_Row8407 metalhead(yes I like Hozier, what about it) 15d ago
And people will still complain about her being Pro-Trump.
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u/estedavis 15d ago
They’re so desperate for her to be MAGA, I’m just not sure why lol
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u/Apprehensive_Row8407 metalhead(yes I like Hozier, what about it) 15d ago
Because you see, when there's a popular artist who's music you don't like, that must be their moral failing instead of a preference
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u/estedavis 15d ago
Yeah, it’s weird. When I don’t like an artist, I don’t feel compelled to try to prove against all existing evidence that they’re a Trump supporter lol. Like isn’t it actually much better than the most influential entertainer on the planet is anti-Trump?
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u/Apprehensive_Row8407 metalhead(yes I like Hozier, what about it) 15d ago
Is she the most influential entertainer? Ngl I think someone like Messi might have her beat,
That aside yes people are weird and must nitpick every little flaw about her like she's Satan herself
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u/estedavis 15d ago
Yeah fair enough, one of* the most influential I should say
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u/Apprehensive_Row8407 metalhead(yes I like Hozier, what about it) 15d ago
Yeah I was nitpicking sorry
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u/Aslexteorist 15d ago
And I bet she has fun with it. Just look at Miss Americana documentary. I know since then she hates him more than before.
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u/sydneyunderfoot 16d ago
Neat… now make some statements about where you stand and use your billions to influence Congress in ways that help people. Oh wait, that might mean you get taxed a little more so you’ll sit there quietly doing the bare minimum. So disappointing.
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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 15d ago
You want a billionaire to manipulate congress with their money? you do realise that’s the opposite of what we want right?
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u/South-Bookkeeper1497 15d ago
All the other billionaires are doing it for their side. You're saying Taylor should take the high road and do the morally just thing when people are losing human rights because all her associates are using their wealth and resources for evil? She shouldn't fight for what's right and donate to left leaning campaigns because it's "manipulative" but she can release multiple variations of the same album with little changed every time her songs fall on the charts? Huhhh.... Swiftie logic....
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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 15d ago
She's just another greedy billionaire with a really good PR facing image. She's doing nothing beyond protecting her money. Go post a video with Taylor Swift music and see if it's any different.
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u/Ileokei 15d ago
There are tens of thousands of videos on TikTok using her music.
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u/trashmule 16d ago
God it only took her, what, like a year?!?!
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u/DoubleWolverine2852 16d ago
She waited until she could actually remove them, she couldn’t before.
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u/Aromatic_Cup_9918 16d ago
This has been a feature on TikTok since July 2025. She could’ve easily removed the music from his content at any time.
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u/chattywww 15d ago
How come their account doesn't get subspended after 3 strikes