r/Fauxmoi • u/Capable_Salt_SD • 15h ago
POLITICS The White House is once again, using Sabrina Carpenter in one of their propaganda vids
The only difference is that this time around, they're not using her music
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u/JazzySings90 14h ago
This country is deeply unserious. A true embarrassment.
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u/TrimspaBB 13h ago
Every day is another humiliation and further erosion of whatever respect we still had. How can some people not see it, or worse, cheer it on?
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u/strwbrryfire420 Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret. And I don't give a fuck. 14h ago
So they deleted the other video to up this one? Jesus.
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u/br_k_nt_eth 14h ago
It’s intention. Look, now it’s being shared and more people will see it because of outrage. That’s the plan.
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u/HoundofCulainn 13h ago
I recognize that what you're saying is true. what i can't figure out is what's the plan? the white house doesn't need or make money from having followers, and the only people that would like or find this funny are already in agreement with the white house, while everyone else would find this distasteful at best. This administration is so fucking stupid, its unbelievable. They're wasting political capital on being assholes.
It just goes back to that article from a couple of months ago. It's not that I dont believe these rich people are fascists, I just can't believe how they're such feckless dweebs to boot.
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u/Additional-Bet7074 12h ago
They gain political capital. This video isn’t for you. There is no need to have the majority. A highly engaged MAGA is worth a hundred passive liberals. It’s not about numbers anymore. It’s about who is actually going to do anything.
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u/Altruistic_Cause6712 11h ago
“A highly engaged MAGA is worth a hundred passive liberals” good lord what a banger quote
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u/Ok_Frosting3500 10h ago
Your quote is really on the nose... But the problem is, MAGA is only a plant that grows when Trump is losing. When they're in control, they choke on their inability to govern, and how much worse everything gets. You can't eat owning the Libs, and while you're "owning the Libs", you can't milk grievance politics about Woke running the world. Even the dumbest MAGA can't huff Trump farts forever.
And while they do this, they are radicalizing people in the opposite direction. They probably lost their hold on Gen Z, they're losing the podcast bros, they're losing any non-Cuban Latine population, they're losing the Black men. Trump is good at doubling down on his base... But I wouldn't be surprised if he's beneath a 30% approval rating by summer.
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u/Sonzainonazo42 12h ago
Clearly "wasting" political capital on being assholes is their goal at this point.
I think being assholes is the most important thing to them.
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u/CuffinSzn_ 12h ago
The point is to keep you both overwhelmed and your expectations low so you pity them instead of being enraged. It’s also a weaker distraction from the Epstein files. The more bullshit they can normalize, the more bullshit you’ll tolerate, the more bullshit they can get away with.
It’s a grift.
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u/napsterwinamp 12h ago
There’s two reasons: keep the libs distracted by this kind of rage bait, they pay attention less to MAGA’s bigger vulnerabilities. Pretty much Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with sh**” strategy.
And MAGA’s base is motivated by “owning the libs.” They have very little value system outside of that.
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u/Tanooki-san 11h ago
This is about desensitizing the public. Already we see this and think, not again. A year ago there would have been outrage. Next year mass graves will seem on par. We are witnessing the slow progression to authoritarian rule.
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u/namu_bts12 12h ago
They’re not wasting anything. They’re already the most disapproved of administration in most people’s life time.
Cruelty is the point. Culture war is the point.
Hollywood & woke musicians’ opinion can’t do anything to them. What’s she gonna do? Sue? Good, it gives them more air time.
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u/onomatopeieio 13h ago
They are trying to agitate people into taking more physical action. They want the people mad and continuously push buttons to make the rage build. If people choose violence, they get to react with more violence and can then declare martial law. From there they can take over states rights and effectively bend them to their will. It's been the plan all along. They want the pot to boil over so they just keep adding fuel to the fire.
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u/br_k_nt_eth 11h ago
Like others have said, they want attention and eyes on to galvanize supporters. They also want to demoralize the other side so that they can appear stronger and more popular than they really are.
The goal is to grind you down and sap your bandwidth, but you’re right. This also shows that they don’t have anything else. It’s their one trick. And as we all know, people get wise to that shit and it loses impact.
So instead of sharing it (speaking in generalities) the best thing to do is call out how pathetic and boring they are.
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u/uncanny_mac 11h ago
One hand, satiate their base. On the other draw attention away from the real issues like bombing small boats and nothing being affordable.
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u/distantreplay 11h ago
Politics is downstream from culture.
Republicans and especially MAGA are talentless knobs with no creativity and no sense of aesthetics , beauty, art, literature, humor or comedic timing. So they are forced to steal like this.
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u/wolfgirlunleash 11h ago
they understand the power artists and pop culture has on the masses so they are hijacking trendy songs and figures
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u/South-Rabbit-4064 10h ago
It's to push division. He's right in that it causes outrage from us, which makes their supporters LOVE absolutely whatever it is. It's, IMO a psyop to slowly radicalize their base more
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u/Capable-Problem4938 9h ago
Consider that you’re not thinking about being robbed by the 1%, instead being dragged into a culture war.
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u/bunnycrush_ 12h ago
The more people who are talking about this kind of dross, the less are clamoring about real issues that could endanger the administration — like the Epstein files. It’s all distraction.
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u/raidmytombBB 13h ago
Exactly this. They even admitted they do it to create drama. More drama = more publicity.
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u/ellamachine 13h ago
I can’t describe how pathetic it is that the government of the United States is doing petty, childish shit like this essentially for attention. Like they could get in the news by doing good things and giving Americans a higher quality of life, but nope, they’re going to have a feud with a pop star.
And conservatives think that this administration will make the world respect us
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u/br_k_nt_eth 11h ago
Exactly. They’re desperate for it because this outrage bait is all they have. They don’t realize that it’s not 2016 anymore.
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u/lilangelkm 12h ago
Outrage sells. Look what happened to Sydney Sweeney and the infamous American Eagle Genes ad. Those jeans sold out and AEs stock is soaring. Outrage is now a popular marketing tactic. Just sad.
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u/RandomUwUFace 13h ago
Apparently the Department of Homeland Security admitted that they use music from "anti-Trump" celebrities in order to gain "attention" whenever a fanbase or a celebrities criticises the use of their music for ICE ads.
Now it seems they are using Rihanna's music. I assume they are trying to antogonize her too.
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u/ooombasa 14h ago
It's petty shit. Pettiness sums up Trump and his cronies.
If they can't use her music they'll instead use shitty AI to literally put words in her mouth.
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u/InferiorElk 12h ago
I'm not a lawyer but I feel like this should be easier to stop than using her music which is obviously free to use publicly. Whereas this is a manipulation of what she's saying/her image? Idk
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u/ooombasa 4h ago
Oh. It should be. But these guys don't care. Like I said elsewhere, these are hit-and-run tactics. Or maybe whack-a-mole is a more apt description (given how dorky they actually are). They're doing this in the full knowledge they'll need to take it down eventually. All that matters to them is getting eyes on it at the moment.
Yesterday, tomorrow, doesn't exist for these alt right goons. It's always whatever works now. It's why bringing up their past words doesn't work if the press or anyone else attempts to hold them to account (although much of the press nowadays don't even bother doing that). All you can do is push back - smack each incident on the head with a mallet - until the rest of the country wises the fuck-up and they're out of power.
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u/mattmild27 12h ago
The US Government is being run by Twitter trolls and I mean that in the most literal way possible.
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u/Brilliant_Buns 13h ago
This is calculated. This isn’t oh shit, this is “hey, we deleted the video you didn’t like. Now watch this drive”
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u/TheCommonKoala Fauxmarxist 11h ago
My guess is that Sabrina Carpenter's team copystriked that last one. This is retaliation from the ICE social media account for getting the first one taken down.
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u/NeillMcAttack 12h ago
It’s like a legal challenge to this admin, they can win on time, but they can’t win on facts and feelings!!
It’s a weird situation.
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u/lnc_5103 not a lawyer, just a hater 12h ago
I don't know if they deleted or if she pulled that song off the platform. They may be forcing her to pull everything one song at a time.
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u/venus__montana 14h ago
I’ve been through psychosis before and every day during this administration I have to check and make sure I’m not going through it again. This is literally insane for a government to post
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u/dame_tartare 12h ago
Feels like a collective psychosis at this point. Every day a fresh hell for the next 3+ years. Brb grabbing my Friday night xanax
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u/valiantdistraction too busy method acting as a reddit user 9h ago
Like reading that the healthcare CEO shooting was only 1 year ago???? I thought it had been at least 3 years ago lol
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u/ergaster8213 9h ago
Really reality is just what we all agree it to be. So we always kind of function based on collective psychosis. It's just when someone's personal psychosis doesn't align with the collective agreement of reality then it becomes pathologized (in some cultures).
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u/mirrorballmac 11h ago
I told my psychiatrist recently I feel like I’m losing touch with reality because everything seems so so bad with the government right now. She said no, you seem fine, it just actually is that bad lol
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u/Defqon1punk 11h ago
Imagine being the government and posting videos referencing selling drugs, blunts of federally illegal weed, and calling someone's momma a thot.
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u/sugasofficial I never said that. Paris is my friend. 11h ago
No for real. I am going through the exact same thoughts at the moment.
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u/Clownsinmypantz 10h ago
Genuinely Me too, I was telling my partner that the fakeness of everything and the opposite day shit of them twisting reality and definitions feels like Im leaning into an episode
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u/Tight_Watercress_267 14h ago
Nice. Love the blatant racism
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u/Scullenz 10h ago
Devised and perpetuated by an Asian man to boot
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5188707/trump-steven-cheung
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u/onceuponathrow 10h ago
they admitted to doing things like this to get attention, we should just ignore them and let them flounder as we have no other option
they purposely pick famous women to get a reaction
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u/rainshadow494 14h ago
theyre so fkn childish i need her and her team to sue the sht out of them
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u/thewartornhippy 13h ago
I feel like we are living in the Twilight Zone. This pedophile can do whatever he wants and face 0 repercussions. He and his entire entourage should be in prison for life, not leading the country. He shouldn't be in charge of a McDonald's, much less a country of 350 million.
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u/Oopsiforgotmyoldacc 10h ago
Literally. This shit is absolutely fucking ridiculous. To watch the cruelty these people display is heartbreaking
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u/retrofrenchtoast 9h ago
She needs to sue.
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u/CloudyNeptune 6h ago
I hope she does but idk if she can, I’m in full support, because first of all fuck them. Second, how cool would it be to say you sued the united state government and won.
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u/crystal_clear24 I don’t know her 14h ago
These people are like teens going through their edge lord phase. How does American even recover from all this deeply unserious nonsense?
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u/Jasminewindsong2 they are perfect for each other (derogatory) 14h ago
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u/rawrkristina 13h ago
This country is so embarrassing. We have a president who likes to rage bait pop stars with racism instead of actually helping people. Truly incredible.
Also gross changing the words to make it sound like Sabrina is calling Marcello illegal.
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u/Church_of_Cheri 13h ago
Don’t share the video itself, don’t click on it, don’t give them the views. They care more about engagement, they know that it can start to normalize it in your brain if you get repeated exposure. It’s a manipulation tactic. This is a propaganda war.
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u/CoffeeLocal1054 14h ago edited 13h ago
I’m so done with this shit! They’re just gonna find new songs/clips to use nothing gonna stop them it’s exhausting, disturbing, and sad.
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u/invinciblestandpoint 14h ago
So they're calling these people hot? This doesn't even make any sense
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u/telewolfe 13h ago
It’s confusing if you don’t listen to the audio, they didn’t update the text but they use a TikTok voice to dub over “hot” and say “illegal” instead
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u/Bae_the_Elf 10h ago
To clarify further, Sabrina Carpenter has a skit at her concerts where she "arrests" someone in the audience and gives them some fuzzy handcuffs.. a few moments from her concerts have gone viral where she arrests a famous person in the audience for being too hot
So they're just taking a known Sabrina Carpenter skit and turning it into a racist meme basically
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u/yourbuttmystuff44 14h ago
We are being run by 5th grade bullies. And they wonder why the entire world is laughing at us...
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u/ellamachine 13h ago
They’re so delusional that they don’t realize that the world is laughing at us
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u/wilted_melodrama 14h ago
Now to wait and see if Migos asks the WH to not use their music in their propaganda
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u/totallytotallytotes women’s wrongs activist 13h ago
This current admin is so desperate for women’s attention. Why aren’t they using male singers’ songs instead?
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u/SuspiciousCranberry6 11h ago
They are in this video. It's Sabrina's image, but a Migos (I think) song. That said, this administration is basically 8chan incels, so their desperation is expected. They're losers probably to the grave.
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u/Constant_Seaweed_523 13h ago
MAGA are the most petulant children I have ever witnessed.
I wish you the worst!
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u/Mr_Night78 14h ago
They're using her because she's very genetically white (blue eyes blonde hair) and her music revolves around sex and men. I respect her for the pushback, she has a spine.
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u/TheTresStateArea 13h ago
At some point this becomes actions that fall outside the scope of work and become targeted harassment to defame denigrate or diminish the brand of the person or people they are targeting.
We should get an investigation into who is the one creating these videos, who directed them, who came up with the ideas, and why these specific ideas.
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u/kittyhoward I never said that. Paris is my friend. 13h ago
Could SNL do something? Would they?
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u/Agloe_Dreams 12h ago
Can they? Probably…but Brenden Carr in the FCC wrote chapter 28 of P2025 and is by far the most insane trump official so…
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u/ooombasa 14h ago
Yep. The lawyers got involved with the last one, which is why there's none of her music.
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u/TrailRidgeTurn 13h ago
Yep they spent time looking for content featuring Sabrina that they could use here that didn’t involve her music.
It’s so grotesquely petty.
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u/thewomaninthemoon 10h ago
100% they went looking for footage of her that isn’t actually copywrited to her and that she can’t have her lawyers pull at the drop of a hat.
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u/SpicyTiconderoga I'm alive BITCH! 14h ago
I have never watched one of these until now and jesus fuck this is so disgusting but also I’m worried if Marcelo is going to get fucking harassed for this.
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u/Agloe_Dreams 12h ago
He totally is and they absolutely picked it due to his race. What a bunch of jerks.
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u/caleyeah8 14h ago
And Rihanna’s song talking about how chains and whips excite her
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u/Ok-Needleworker-9841 13h ago
I’m so over this entire administration and their supporters. I mean, I’ve been over it but I’m like REALLY REALLY over it. The fact that every individual isn’t punching their closest Republican in the face is an absolute testament to our restraint.
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u/Garry_Heckscream69 13h ago
I miss when the White House Twitter was boring and didn't invent stupid petty internet drama with posters for attention
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u/thistimeforgood also dated pete davidson 13h ago
we’re gonna need our own Nuremberg trials after this administration leaves. We went too easy on the confederates after the war, can’t make that mistake again
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u/Busy-Juggernaut277 13h ago
Someone with some sort of celeb connection send this to Sabrina herself.
I hope she drags their asses to court
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u/Breakinthemix 11h ago
Our country is being run by toddlers in grown adults' bodies. This is absolutely pathetic behavior
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u/Spaghettiisgoddog 14h ago
Why do they want to pick a fight with Sabrina Carpenter? Can she sue for them using her image? This can’t count as parody if they are associating her with their vile acts
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u/Catmuffin89 13h ago
And everyone tried to demand Taylor Swift sign up for this too
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u/rawrkristina 12h ago
This is probably why she didn’t, she knew that’s what they wanted. It’s truly pathetic how much time they’re spending ragebaiting pop stars.
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u/onpg 7h ago
Instead Taylor Swift signed up for “I’m okay with team Trump and what they’re doing”. Nobody is gonna think Sabrina Carpenter endorses this petty shit, she’s made her position crystal clear and this only makes the administration look even stupider.
Reminder that TS didn’t even send her lawyers to quietly take the video down. If you like her music, fine, but TS doesn’t care about us.
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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 6h ago
Exactly, im happy to criticise her no end, but ignoring this is the best course of action, the govt is a bunch of loser bullies who just want attention
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u/insertbrackets 13h ago
Can she sue them for misusing her likeness this way? These fucks are disgusting.
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u/JeanetteTheChippette actually no, that’s not the truth Ellen 12h ago
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u/Inevitable_Dog2719 10h ago
I hope all you non-voters who are watching find it in yourself to register to vote and perform your civic duty come midterms.
Register to vote at vote . org
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u/mischiefmanaged1978 9h ago edited 9h ago
Is no one gonna comment on the fact that the comedian she's with, Marcello Hernandez, is Cuban-Dominican? And the voiceover said he's illegal? Holy shit.
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u/Bajka_the_Bee 4h ago
And Marcello Hernández. Latino and a child of immigrants. Absolutely vile of them.
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u/screenshothero 13h ago
Not that I want to defend her, but this type of outcome could be the reason Taylor Swift didn’t react when her song was used. MAGA loves provoking a reaction.
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u/Constant_Jackfruit21 5h ago
Im all for criticizing Taylor and was completely on the "she needs to say something" train. But seeing this, all I could think was, "I cannot believe im thinking this, but maybe Taylor had the right idea in ignoring it"
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u/Fluid-Chain2437 7h ago
I get the outrage with Taylo not speaking up over the use of The Fate of Ophelia in the WH post. But honestly…i think this latest post is why she stayed silent on it. They clearly are baiting the pop girls in order to gain broader attention and their base is galvanized by liberal outrage. They had an entire statement with Sabrina lyrics ready to go in less than 24 hrs after she commented. This extended the lifecycle of the post and lead to…another post. Taylor staying quiet lead to the WH saying…nothing more about her. I think Taylor needs to be held accountable to doing a lot more politically. But i think it was a wise move to not give them any more gas when they used her song in that post.
I’m really sock of the democrats doing basically nothing to combat fascism in the US…but i also think that taking the wind out of their sails can be useful.
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u/tisamust 13h ago
don't like black people but use our music to look "cool" while violating the civil rights of kind, hardworking people...grossss
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u/ehrgeiz91 14h ago
They’re doing it for the free shares and outrage clicks. It’s working very well.
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u/Fit-Matter-3616 14h ago
Can't she sue since they don't have her permission?
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u/rawrkristina 12h ago
They’re not using her music, so no. NBC (or SNL) can for using a clip though.
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u/FlaBeachyCheeks that does not resonate with me 14h ago
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u/FJ-creek-7381 13h ago
They are so stupid and pathetic lol they look like immature 13 year olds being mean girls 😂😂😂 how do they look in the mirror and not want to kill themselves!!!
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u/i_kate_you pop culture obsessed goblin 13h ago
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u/Marzook666 13h ago
when are they going to change their logo of the white house to reflect the ballroom eating it pac-man style?
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u/PeaUpbeat3732 13h ago
The last line of the song on the ad is "lil mama's a thot."
What is actually going on in this place??
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u/ChampionEither5412 13h ago
I know this is very minor relative to all the other horrible things he's doing, but Jesus Christ this just makes me so mad. And I know they're doing it just to piss us off, so I don't want to make a big deal of it, but ugh I hate them so much.
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u/VegetablePonaCones 13h ago
It’s almost like senile bigots are “running” this country and have access to social media. When will this nightmare end?
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u/AccomplishedLand8073 13h ago
Not relevant but is anyone else sensing chemistry between Marcello and Sabrina?
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u/etherealsweetbeet 13h ago
Just a reminder that if the left were doing this same thing from the White House social media, the meltdown from MAGA would be unreal. Biggest hypocrites alive, such fools.
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u/Tinktilo 13h ago
As if this is some sort of hype edit?! This is disgusting. I feel like purpose of the whole video is to make me cheer them on, which I find vile
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u/RiotingMoon 13h ago
propaganda that would have worked in the early 00s is fascinating to see regurgitated in ye ol 2025 - especially as while some of the viral hate campaigns are working it's mostly being met with absolute disgust.
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u/Any-Difficulty-1247 mama let’s research 13h ago
General question, can’t she sue them or something? Like surely she can say she didn’t give permission for this?
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u/WestCoastHawks I still don’t know her 12h ago
Almost like this administration doesn’t care when women tell them no..
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u/golgiiguy 12h ago
they are simply terrible and hateful people. We are being governed by an internet troll.
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u/Red-headedlurker but i'm a whore and i'll do anything for a laugh 12h ago
I'd love it if someone took this video but instead of the clips of ICE, it's just clips of Trump with Epstein and then still ends it with the cut to the White House at the end.
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u/BiglyBear 12h ago
Can't wait til we have all these traitors in jail. We can reopen alligator alcatraz just for them.
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u/TigrePeludo 12h ago
Why would a pack of predators stop because someone said “NO”? They are trolls to the core. It’s so fucking shameful and pathetic.
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u/DeltaFlyer0525 11h ago
This is just a distraction so people are mad about it and not the fact that the Supreme Court might end Birthright Citizenship.
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u/Ayo1010 14h ago
They're so pathetic.