American Politics Thread

[cheaptrailertrashglm 3,611]

5 hours ago, Barry said:

That guy Luigi had a good idea

i hate to say it but.....it's true

[DeadSeaOfMercury 23,799]

The news anchors keep referring to the limo as The Beast, But I feel that nameplate should belong to Obama’s

Because as far as I’m aware, This was the first to be called that for its extensive modifications to its appearance?

EDIT:

All I can say is if 

The American People call upon me one day to be their Fearless Leader,

I would Definitely have a hand in the design of my limousine…

[Embach 47,664]

Watching this from CNN and while all the guests were arriving, somehow my only thought all the time was: how many skeletons are in their closets? 

[dexter 2,445]

@POTUS Twitter account has been archived and is now @POTUS46Archive 😞

Oh God they’ve already created @POTUS

[The Missing Shade of Blue 2,736]

Jesus christ what a fucking shit show

[JDaniel 1,362]

https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/actu-people/pourquoi-les-pro-trump-aiment-ils-tant-lana-del-rey-20250116

Why do Trump supporters love Lana Del Rey so much?

 

Spoiler

 

By Augustin Bougro

Published January 16 at 7:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

With her retro style, her lyrics steeped in nostalgia and her recent marriage to Jeremy Dufrene, Lana Del Rey is increasingly seducing conservative men. To the great disenchantment of her community of fans, who are mostly Democrats.

 

When she appeared at the Variety Hitmakers 2024 ceremony on December 7 in Los Angeles,  Lana Del Rey  once again gave the unsettling impression of emerging from another era. Physically, in a crowd of women in minidresses, exposed lingerie and vertiginous heels, the 39-year-old American singer stood out with a revisited vintage look: an old money crew neck sweater à la Jackie Kennedy, a pouty pout à la Marilyn Monroe and an impeccable blow-dry inspired by Rita Hayworth, an icon of  Old Hollywood . Then came that famous moment when she went on stage, took the microphone and said: "It's so scary to have to cling to an innocent perception of how things could happen, when you're in an industry where your values and morals may not quite match the spirit of the times." Before publicly thanking her “incredible husband,”  Jeremy Dufrene, an alligator handler  and “known Donald Trump supporter,” according to  multiple sources .

To discover

•  

 

 

Lana Del Rey at the Variety Hitmakers 2024 ceremony. (Los Angeles, December 7, 2024.) AMY SUSSMAN / Getty Images via AFP

That's all it takes to set the web ablaze. Following these remarks, tweets claim that Lana Del Rey is officially a pro-Trump conservative. On one side, her Democratic fans defend the idea that she has never been on Donald Trump's side, she who orchestrated  a mass occult ritual  against the politician in 2017. On the other, her Republican fans are ecstatic. "Oh Lana, we know your secret and we are with you," @2dwade said on X, for example. And he continued in another post: "She's not a Democrat. Just stop it. She's happily married to her Republican husband."

Democrat...old school?

Whatever one thinks of it, this is far from the first time that Lana Del Rey has melted the hearts of Republicans. In 2023, the release of her album Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd did not go unnoticed by the most conservative among them. In particular the title Judah Smith Interlude , an almost five-minute recording of a sermon by Judah Smith, the star pastor from California. In this successful album, thanks to which she was nominated five times for the  Grammy Awards , Lana Del Rey bares all. She talks as much about her love for God as about unbridled sexuality in her very successful A&W . Dares to confide her fear of being forgotten by this industry which always tends to label her as the girl next door . Pays tribute to the disappeared icons of Old Hollywood in Candy Necklace ...

Also read:  Did Lana Del Rey predict the Los Angeles fires in this song released in 2019?

These artistic choices, often illustrated with the American flag as a backdrop, appeal to Republicans. Like Spencer A. Klavan, editor at American Mind , a publication of the American conservative think tank Claremont Institute. “It’s time again for me to ask conservative straight men to explain Lana Del Rey to me,” he tweeted.

In the process, the writer opens a discussion in which several conservative men agree on the same thought. For Ben Domenech, writer for the conservative newspaper The Spectator , "she is everything that heterosexual men idolize in the sensual tradition of the American Pacific sex queen, a sweet, sad Californian lover gilded by the sun, wrapped in an American flag that tastes of cigarettes and broken dreams." "She intuitively understands the very real power she wields 'as a woman' and translates this appeal and mystery into her music," analyzes another.

Points of view that, when you think about it, make sense. Because with Lana Del Rey, everything is always a bit blurry. One day, we see her arm in arm with Taylor Swift, a democratic figure in the pop music industry. Later in the year, she is filmed by a stranger dressed as a waitress in a Waffle House, an American restaurant chain, in the depths of Alabama, and sings Amazing Grace with a regular. Or shows up unannounced in cowboy boots and beer in hand at a football game between the teams of Texas and Oklahoma.

Free spirit

Lana Del Rey is the woman who opposes the carrying of weapons in her song Looking For America (I'm still looking for my own version of America / One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly). But also the one who is criticized for not speaking out on various subjects that divide the world, at a time when Taylor Swift expresses in black and white  her desire to vote for Kamala Harris  in the last American presidential elections.

 

 

 

She prefers to share her convictions bit by bit in videos on camera posted on Instagram, before deleting them a few hours later. She also says she defends them through her art and her songs. Those that often paint the portrait of a woman who sees no problem in glamorizing  toxic relationships with men , nostalgic for a fading American dream, fascinated by the imagery of women from the 1950s/1960s. These same women in pastel dresses and sauerkraut buns that we find in the portraits of Norman Rockwell - an artist who, by the way, lent his name to Lana Del Rey's seventh studio album, released in 2019.

For many, "she's not a doctrinaire modern liberal, but rather an old-school liberal," Rich Cromwell writes in an article for The Spectator . In fact, she's an eternally good American girl who allows herself the freedom to ride a Harley Davidson down Route 66 with complete strangers in her video Ride , or to put up a single billboard to promote her latest album in her ex-boyfriend's town. And it's precisely this spirit of independence and resilience, which she's cultivated for more than a decade now, that makes her a political icon. Often in spite of herself.

 

 

[SinclairKills23 206]

Legit the first thing he says when he’s sworn in is already threatening LGBT people with the whole “there’s only 2 genders” bs, we are so screwed…

[laurita 4,106]

I can't wait for tomorrow when this banana will end the war in Ukraine

[Candy Necklace 8,635]

Well we officially have president Trump once again

 

I’m not ready for the next 4 years

[bluechemtrails 27,823]

38 minutes ago, JDaniel said:

https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/actu-people/pourquoi-les-pro-trump-aiment-ils-tant-lana-del-rey-20250116

Why do Trump supporters love Lana Del Rey so much?

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

By Augustin Bougro

Published January 16 at 7:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

With her retro style, her lyrics steeped in nostalgia and her recent marriage to Jeremy Dufrene, Lana Del Rey is increasingly seducing conservative men. To the great disenchantment of her community of fans, who are mostly Democrats.

 

When she appeared at the Variety Hitmakers 2024 ceremony on December 7 in Los Angeles,  Lana Del Rey  once again gave the unsettling impression of emerging from another era. Physically, in a crowd of women in minidresses, exposed lingerie and vertiginous heels, the 39-year-old American singer stood out with a revisited vintage look: an old money crew neck sweater à la Jackie Kennedy, a pouty pout à la Marilyn Monroe and an impeccable blow-dry inspired by Rita Hayworth, an icon of  Old Hollywood . Then came that famous moment when she went on stage, took the microphone and said: "It's so scary to have to cling to an innocent perception of how things could happen, when you're in an industry where your values and morals may not quite match the spirit of the times." Before publicly thanking her “incredible husband,”  Jeremy Dufrene, an alligator handler  and “known Donald Trump supporter,” according to  multiple sources .

To discover

•  

 

 

Lana Del Rey at the Variety Hitmakers 2024 ceremony. (Los Angeles, December 7, 2024.) AMY SUSSMAN / Getty Images via AFP

That's all it takes to set the web ablaze. Following these remarks, tweets claim that Lana Del Rey is officially a pro-Trump conservative. On one side, her Democratic fans defend the idea that she has never been on Donald Trump's side, she who orchestrated  a mass occult ritual  against the politician in 2017. On the other, her Republican fans are ecstatic. "Oh Lana, we know your secret and we are with you," @2dwade said on X, for example. And he continued in another post: "She's not a Democrat. Just stop it. She's happily married to her Republican husband."

Democrat...old school?

Whatever one thinks of it, this is far from the first time that Lana Del Rey has melted the hearts of Republicans. In 2023, the release of her album Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd did not go unnoticed by the most conservative among them. In particular the title Judah Smith Interlude , an almost five-minute recording of a sermon by Judah Smith, the star pastor from California. In this successful album, thanks to which she was nominated five times for the  Grammy Awards , Lana Del Rey bares all. She talks as much about her love for God as about unbridled sexuality in her very successful A&W . Dares to confide her fear of being forgotten by this industry which always tends to label her as the girl next door . Pays tribute to the disappeared icons of Old Hollywood in Candy Necklace ...

Also read:  Did Lana Del Rey predict the Los Angeles fires in this song released in 2019?

These artistic choices, often illustrated with the American flag as a backdrop, appeal to Republicans. Like Spencer A. Klavan, editor at American Mind , a publication of the American conservative think tank Claremont Institute. “It’s time again for me to ask conservative straight men to explain Lana Del Rey to me,” he tweeted.

In the process, the writer opens a discussion in which several conservative men agree on the same thought. For Ben Domenech, writer for the conservative newspaper The Spectator , "she is everything that heterosexual men idolize in the sensual tradition of the American Pacific sex queen, a sweet, sad Californian lover gilded by the sun, wrapped in an American flag that tastes of cigarettes and broken dreams." "She intuitively understands the very real power she wields 'as a woman' and translates this appeal and mystery into her music," analyzes another.

Points of view that, when you think about it, make sense. Because with Lana Del Rey, everything is always a bit blurry. One day, we see her arm in arm with Taylor Swift, a democratic figure in the pop music industry. Later in the year, she is filmed by a stranger dressed as a waitress in a Waffle House, an American restaurant chain, in the depths of Alabama, and sings Amazing Grace with a regular. Or shows up unannounced in cowboy boots and beer in hand at a football game between the teams of Texas and Oklahoma.

Free spirit

Lana Del Rey is the woman who opposes the carrying of weapons in her song Looking For America (I'm still looking for my own version of America / One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly). But also the one who is criticized for not speaking out on various subjects that divide the world, at a time when Taylor Swift expresses in black and white  her desire to vote for Kamala Harris  in the last American presidential elections.

 

 

 

She prefers to share her convictions bit by bit in videos on camera posted on Instagram, before deleting them a few hours later. She also says she defends them through her art and her songs. Those that often paint the portrait of a woman who sees no problem in glamorizing  toxic relationships with men , nostalgic for a fading American dream, fascinated by the imagery of women from the 1950s/1960s. These same women in pastel dresses and sauerkraut buns that we find in the portraits of Norman Rockwell - an artist who, by the way, lent his name to Lana Del Rey's seventh studio album, released in 2019.

For many, "she's not a doctrinaire modern liberal, but rather an old-school liberal," Rich Cromwell writes in an article for The Spectator . In fact, she's an eternally good American girl who allows herself the freedom to ride a Harley Davidson down Route 66 with complete strangers in her video Ride , or to put up a single billboard to promote her latest album in her ex-boyfriend's town. And it's precisely this spirit of independence and resilience, which she's cultivated for more than a decade now, that makes her a political icon. Often in spite of herself.

 

 

there's an interesting linked Newsweek article from December 2024

What Lana Del Rey Has Said About Donald Trump

and there's an interesting statement I'm really not more of a liberal than I am a Republican—I'm in the middle

But after reading the whole article, I don't think she voted for Trump 2024 either.

[Embach 47,664]

38 minutes ago, laurita said:

I can't wait for tomorrow when this banana will end the war in Ukraine

Wanted to say the same as well, I'm actually interested if he's able to fulfill his promise to end a three year agonizing war in Ukraine in 24 hours 

[DeadSeaOfMercury 23,799]

That marker sounds like it would hurt your ears using it

[bluechemtrails 27,823]

The best part of the inauguration was Melanie's “try to kiss me, but you won't succeed” hat.

Spoiler

 

[jaesana 4,033]

still waiting on this declaration of national emergency he said he was going to “deliver on day one” 

[shadesofblue 18,333]

trump obsessed with a song about gay culture involving cruising and hooking up by a band of gay men but also hates LGBTQ+ people. 

[jaesana 4,033]

Okay so Elon just did the N*zi salute. Chat we are cooked 

[DeadSeaOfMercury 23,799]

Apparently something was signed so in the future if the Flag is at half mast for any reason - If it’s an Election Day it’ll be raised.

This whole thing over it being half mast because of Carter & Trump upset over it is just pathetic.

[Embach 47,664]

The inauguration was boring and half-baked (like rushed), also awkward as hell. Carrie Underwood doing acapella because the music turned off and the camera showed awkward close-ups  and that speech...yeah let's not talk about that.