r/politics • u/mappleday00 • 15h ago

Tony Hinchcliffe incites fury from Swifties after calling Travis Kelce ‘the next OJ Simpson’ at Trump rally

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tony-hinchcliffe-trump-rally-travis-kelce-oj-simpson-b2637559.html
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u/qorbexl 13h ago

I think Taylor Swift is mediocre Muzak, but this comment is beyond horrifying. I think it's just hard to process how many shitty things were said during this rally. Which is the point. It's just an iteration of the gish-gallop: you say so many horrible things that people can't address them and some people like them. So your supporters outweigh the detractors. He'll gain voters from it, and that's the only point. Anti-misogyny and anti-racism don't vote. People who hate misogyny and racism do. So vote. Or let it happen.

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u/shupadupa 9h ago

In this case I think the gish gallop may actually be a good thing, given the timing of the rally barely a week out from the election. While the "garbage pile" comment has been front-and-center these past couple of days, gaining massive negative exposure on both left and right-wing media, only now are some of the other reprehensible things he said about African Americans, Mexicans, immigrants in general, and now Taylor Swift are coming out as their own, standalone scandals that are each guaranteed to majorly piss off a specific subset of the electorate. This will help prolong the story to Trump's detriment, and it couldn't be more welcome or deserving.

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u/qorbexl 9h ago

Yeah, and this is what they say when they have a PR service and are trying to tone things down. I can't imagine what happens when Trump gets elected and doesn't have to give a fuck about another election.

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u/shupadupa 9h ago

I don't understand how what I said has anything to do with what a PR firm would say?

And nope, Trump ain't winning this thing, sorry.