Posted on 07/09/2021 9:20:04 PM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said during an interview published this week that Taylor Swift, who came out against her ahead of the 2018 midterms, and other performers would be “the first victim” of a socialist or Marxist government.
“When I’m talking to my friends who are musicians and entertainers, I say, ‘If — if we have a socialistic government, if we have Marxism, you are going to be the first ones who will be caught off because the state would have to approve your music,’ ” Blackburn told Breitbart News.
“And, you know, Taylor Swift, came after me and my 2018 campaign, but Taylor Swift would be the first victim of that because when you look at Marxist, socialist societies, they do not allow women to dress, or sing, or be on stage, or to entertain,” she continued, adding that such governments “don't allow protection of private intellectual property rights.”
It was unclear to which societies the Tennessee Republican was referring.
“I know the left is all out now and trying to change country music and make it woke,” she added.
In 2018, Swift, a Tennessee native who noted at the time that she had "been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions," came out against Blackburn and other Republicans ahead of that year's elections.
“As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn. Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me,” Swift wrote on Instagram.
In her "Miss Americana" Netflix documentary in 2020, Swift was again critical of the senator's policies, calling her "Trump in a wig."
The Hill has reached out to Universal Music Group, which owns the record label Swift is currently signed with, Republic Records, for comment.
Taylor Swift is so yesterday.
Just ask Jack Ma.
Except for those at the very top, EVERYONE would be a victim of socialism. Because some committee - not you - would get to decide what you do, and how you are paid.
And even those at the very top are sometimes victims too.You can ask the victims of Stalin’s show trials about that. Oh, wait. You can’t ask them. Stalin had them all shot.
I'm pretty sure Swift was born in Pennsylvania, where she was raised in gentry-class affluence, educated at elite Montessori schools, and if she hadn't been a singer, she would've been a member of an top-tier Ivy-league sorority and married a Wall Street banker in the type of wedding the gets mentioned in the newspapers.
“ Swift was again critical of the senator’s policies, calling her “Trump in a wig.”
Gee, she says that as if it’s a BAD thing.
I guess haters gonna hate hate hate.
The Prophet thought that music led people astray.
He had a very dim view of music. His followers, over one billion plus, hold an equally dim view of music.
Taylor who??
Taylor’s clothing can be on the skimpy side.
Afghan women’s clothing never goes out of style.
I can’t say I’ve heard her sing.
I can say I don’t care to.
From Classic FM:
One evening in 1944, Stalin was listening to the radio when he heard [Maria] Yudina playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23. The leader liked it so much that he immediately demanded a copy of the performance.
Unfortunately for the radio station, it had been a live broadcast and there was no recording. But no one dared tell that to Joseph Stalin.
In the middle of the night, Yudina was woken up and quickly driven to a studio where a conductor and a small orchestra had hastily been gathered to record the requested concerto....
Soon afterwards, Yudina was surprised to receive a letter containing 20,000 rubles, sent at the order of Stalin.
The fearless pianist later acknowledged the gift by letter. “I thank you for your aid,” she wrote. “I will pray for you day and night and ask the Lord to forgive your great sins before the people and the country. The Lord is merciful and He’ll forgive you. I gave the money to the church that I attend.”
Stalin reportedly read the letter as his inner circle – who had already prepared her arrest warrant – awaited the give-away twitch of the eyebrow which could mean only one thing. But remarkably Stalin put the letter aside and said nothing.
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/maria-yudina-stalin/
go woke -> go broke
That event was featured in “The Death Of Stalin” although they had shifted the timeline a bit.
Swift was born in West Reading in 1989. She went to Wyndcroft School in Pottstown PA after Montessori. She took singing and acting lessons in NYC.
She moved to Nashville at age 14 after her father got a transfer to the Merrill Lynch office there, but that doesn’t qualify her as “native” by far. Definitely no rags-to-riches tale.
They would, in short order, institute a “wealth tax,” and after that, Taylor would be working for scale, doing approved songs to entertain the Proles.
As an aside, she’s done a few songs that I do think are okay. And she’s kinda cute for a skinny blonde.
What does it mean, to be "caught off?" Is this a Britishism?
Regards,
Taylor Swift sure gained a lot of weight from the hips down. Plus she is over 30 and cannot sing. Made a lot of money dancing around and lip syncing but she will be passed over for someone younger and better looking.
I don’t know, but it sounds to me like a Southernism.
I love Marsha Blackburn.
As though Yuri Bezmenov NEVER existed!
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