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It’s election time, when celebrities and popular culture figures present up prefer it’s a combo of the Oscars and Grammys to throw their assist for Democrat candidates. This time, they’re pushing their followers to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. However a few of them have been doing it so lengthy that the Harris campaign might compete with “The Quick and the Livid” franchise for variety of sequels.
And it seems nobody cares however their brokers and journalists. (Ahem.) Possibly that’s as a result of it’s such a drained rewrite, identical to most of what Hollywood sells the general public of their day jobs. Each single one of many prime 10 movies of 2024 is a sequel. Precisely just like the celeb assist for the left.
That’s why most of the big-name Harris backers are election veterans. A few of them, like singers Bruce Springsteen, Linda Ronstadt and Barbra Streisand, have been dependable voices for the left since Harris was a teen. At 75, Springsteen is the youngest of that trio.
Millionaire Springsteen (He solely has $750 million, please shed a tear) has been selling leftist causes because the Nineteen Seventies when he was a part of the line-up of the ill-conceived “No Nukes” concert events. The concept of The Boss backing Democrats is as dependable as him cashing checks. CelebrityNetWorth estimates the working-class hero’s annual earnings at $80 million or roughly 1,894 occasions what a typical working-class American earns in a 12 months.
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Ronstadt was a star within the Nineteen Seventies when she was concerned with lefty causes and Democratic star/California Gov. Jerry Brown. The pair shared a Newsweek cowl in April 1979, headlined, “The Pop Politics Of Jerry Brown.” Brown ran for president in each 1976 and 1980 and has been an influence in leftist politics ever since. And Ronstadt has, too, performing for the Clintons on the White Home and combating for Biden in 2020.
And Streisand is to this point to the left that she was singing for presidential candidate George McGovern again in 1972. She carried out with James Taylor, Quincy Jones and Carole King to advertise the anti-war nominee who was destroyed within the basic election by President Richard Nixon. Harris was simply 7 at that time.
The media hype about celebrities giving their opinion is as previous as a few of these doing it. But from immediately until the election, leisure information can be stuffed with courageous stars displaying their assist for Democrats. Identical to they did for President Biden early this 12 months, when a lot of the world knew he was a husk of his former self. Or for failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Or President Barack Obama, or Sen. John Kerry, or Mr. Local weather, Sen. Al Gore, or President Bill Clinton…
You get the image.
Heck, it’s even a sequel for his or her anti-Trump marketing campaign. We’re already on Hollywood vs. Trump Half III. Celebrities had been mightily mocked once they tried this script the primary time Trump ran, in what looks like many years in the past in 2016.
It was just a bit over eight years in the past when director Joss Whedon pulled collectively “a s— ton of well-known folks” to create an anti-Trump video. That group featured leftist stalwarts like Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson and Don Cheadle, all from the “Avengers,” and TV’s lefty “West Wing” President Martin Sheen.
Whedon and his gang of “Save the Day” entertainers produced a ton of propaganda movies with the aim, in his phrases, of serving to “get out the vote and cease[ping] orange Muppet Hitler.” It didn’t end up fairly how they deliberate.
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Now, due to social media, each presidential race is a must-be-seen occasion for Hollywood celebs. They’re joined by youthful stars this 12 months, as effectively. Actress Jennifer Lawrence, singers Billie Eilish and “Femininomenon” performer Chappell Roan headline a few of Harris’ youthful assist.
Roan caught flack as a result of she initially launched a video opposing Trump that additionally criticized “issues on either side.” She’s an excessive anti-Israel activist, so a super Democrat backer, however annoyed that her social gathering hasn’t lower all ties with our ally. In the future later, she adopted up by saying, “Yeah, I’m voting for f—ing Kamala,” as a result of she received a lot unfavorable suggestions for daring to criticize Democrats, too.
Harris, whose public appearances are the embodiment of the present “Veep,” even pulled in an endorsement from Taylor Swift, just about the one remaining A-list identify in Hollywood.
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That was hardly a shock. Swift is singing for Harris identical to she sang for Biden in 2020. The Queen of Unhealthy Selections is making an attempt to inform Individuals that she’s made the proper selection… this time. When she endorsed Biden, she delivered a mind-numbing assortment of leftist gibberish.
“The change we want most is to elect a president who acknowledges that folks of coloration should really feel secure and represented, that girls deserve the precise to decide on what occurs to their our bodies, and that the LGBTQIA+ group deserves to be acknowledged and included,” she stated.
Campaigning for Democrats and looney leftist insurance policies solely reinforces the disconnect of celebs from their viewers, nevertheless it’s little threat for a star of Swiftian stature. And for has-beens or never-was performers, it will get their names in press releases and information articles with prime expertise, reminding everybody they exist. (I’m you, Fran Drescher.)
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It doesn’t hurt their careers. It boosts them. Help some Marxist candidate or outlandish trigger and Hollywood producers will fortunately overlook all the pieces else you do. Simply ask Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski about that one.
So, consider the subsequent 4 weeks as a advantage of types. It would appear to be the stars are out to benefit Harris, however many are simply out to promote their favourite product – themselves.