Caitlin Clark Leads Celebs Backing Taylor Swift Endorsement
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A cavalcade of music, sports and acting icons, including Jennifer Aniston, Lady Gaga, and Michelle Pfeiffer, have lent their support to Swift’s late-night Harris-Walz endorsement.

Basketball star Caitlin Clark was one of the first celebs out of the gate to like Taylor Swift’s long-awaited endorsement of Kamala Harris on Tuesday night

The WNBA rookie was the toast of the right-wing media earlier this year after an on-court showdown with her old NCAA nemesis Angel Reese. Clark came out to denounce the likes of Fox News and Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy for using her as a pawn in the culture wars, saying it was “unacceptable,” but she has always kept quiet about her political affiliations until now.

The former Iowa Hawkeyes star is likely to have disappointed a legion of fans in deep red Indiana, where she plays for the Fever.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      Lol.

      I know. I literally look like the poster for the Aryan Brotherhood, including the big red beard common in Appalachia. Not really shit I can do about it, but when a white supremacist thinks of the ideal “us” I’m what they picture in their head.

      They tend to shut up now pretty easily, but I got in my fair share of scraps when I was younger over it.

      Cold cock a couple Nazis at local punk shows tho and pretty soon Nazis stop showing up to local punk shows.

    • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
      181·
      2 months ago

      My favorite comeback is, “my husband would be furious you said that!”

      Oh, that looks on their faces…

      I don’t have a husband, but it’s worth every eye popping gasp they utter

        • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          They most often don’t, which is the point ;)

          I live in Florida and work at an orange-themed home improvement store. The store, itself, is surprisingly LGBTQ-friendly, but, every once-in-a-while I’ll hear something not-so-friendly from a customer. As I work in both sales and customer service, the point is to shut them the fuck up while also being terribly polite. And I certainly don’t want to continue the conversation with them or get into an argument.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        That reminds me of how Stephen Fry would stop homophobes from beating him up in school:

        He’d use their homophobia to his advantage by loudly saying “stop! Stop! I’m getting an erection!”

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I tried that once. Yeah it was real fucking bad. Thankfully they mostly stopped talking to me since I quit the whole beard and male things.