TDS Time Machine | Taylor Swift

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Speaker 7 The midterm elections are in full swing.

Speaker 9 Today was the last day to register in many states, but don't worry, if you haven't registered yet, you can still vote illegally.

Speaker 10 Now, one thing we've come to to expect around elections is celebrities getting involved.

Speaker 9 And these days, a celebrity voicing their political opinion is like climate change. It's happening every day and most people ignore it.

Speaker 14 But there are still some celebrities who simply cannot be ignored.

Speaker 15 Kanye West added again, sparking controversy on Twitter. The pro-Trump rapper posted a photo of him wearing a red Make America Great Again hat.

Speaker 16 He's the brave one going out into liberal la-la land and getting booed because he likes Trump.

Speaker 17 What I love about Kanye West is he has been blazing this trail saying it's okay to think freely. Thank you, Kanye West, for standing up for what is right.

Speaker 18 Yes, the right has a new favorite rapper.

Speaker 9 So step aside, nobody.

Speaker 20 Yeah,

Speaker 20 that's a slot that's never been filled before.

Speaker 9 So Republicans have been celebrating the second coming of Jesus as one of their own.

Speaker 9 But yesterday, Democrats said, hey, Republicans, I'm going to let you finish, but we just got one of the best endorsements of all time.

Speaker 17 Taylor Swift got a huge huge response after announcing yesterday she's voting for Democrat Phil Bredeson over Republican Marsha Blackburn in the U.S. Senate race in Tennessee.

Speaker 23 The pop star has always made it a point of keeping silent on politics, but shocked her fans last night.

Speaker 23 Swift wrote, I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 This,

Speaker 11 this is a big deal.

Speaker 9 Because you realize until now, Taylor Swift has stayed as far away from politics as she does from rhythm.

Speaker 24 Right?

Speaker 10 And no, like, don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 20 I love, I love Taytay's music. But let's be honest, have you seen her dancing?

Speaker 25 Like, Taylor Swift! Taylor Swift!

Speaker 6 Here's the thing.

Speaker 9 Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift dances like she's making fun of how white people dance.

Speaker 12 That's how she dances.

Speaker 9 And just like Kanye fired up Republicans, Taylor also seems to be having an impact.

Speaker 10 Her post apparently caused a huge surge in voter registration. So you can't deny that she has influence with voters.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 6 You just can't.

Speaker 13 You can't deny that Taylor Swift has that influence.

Speaker 10 The same way you can't deny that while reputation might have lacked the momentum and sales records of 1989, it's still an impressive brooding departure portraying Taylor as a woman coming into her own and solidifying her power and range as an artist.

Speaker 12 Or so I've been told. I mean, so I've been told.
And I get it. I get it.

Speaker 9 If anyone can convince young people to vote, it's the woman who somehow got young people to buy physical CDs because she wasn't on Spotify.

Speaker 12 I mean, like, who even owns a CD player? Like, people are probably popping the diss into the toaster trying to play them. There's like.

Speaker 10 And since Taylor has been so quiet about politics, there was actually a theory in the alt-right community that was that maybe she was secretly a pro-Trump conservative, right?

Speaker 11 But now by endorsing a Democrat, she blew that theory up, which which is news that the president took surprisingly well

Speaker 27 okay

Speaker 11 that's that's a weird way to express displeasure

Speaker 10 he likes her music 25 percent less

Speaker 12 Like, what does that even mean?

Speaker 12 Is he now just going to cut off 25% of his Taylor merchandise?

Speaker 22 Is that what he's going to do?

Speaker 22 Oh, and by the way,

Speaker 10 I love how Trump turned back when he heard Taylor Swift.

Speaker 11 You see that?

Speaker 22 Like, because he was leaving. He was leaving, right? And then you heard Taylor Swift and he's like, what?

Speaker 14 Yeah, because normally reporters shout questions.

Speaker 10 He just keeps going.

Speaker 14 They're like, Mr. President, the United Nations global warming.
Mr. President, your policy on Hezbollah, Mr.

Speaker 28 President, what do you think about Taylor Swift?

Speaker 2 He's like, what's that?

Speaker 10 What's that?

Speaker 28 Taylor Swift.

Speaker 28 Let me tell you something.

Speaker 14 I know all about this issue from my briefings that I read in United States Weekly.

Speaker 9 And look, I know right now there are conservatives out there who are pro-Taylor Swift and are feeling conflicted at this moment because she has endorsed the Democrats.

Speaker 9 And to them I say, if you're a real Taylor Swift fan, you know what you gotta do.

Speaker 18 Shake it off.

Speaker 24 Gana por la mañana con el extra value meal, sausage, mc, muffin with egg, hash browns, and a cafe.

Speaker 24 Poros seizolares. Bara, baba, baba, baba.
Preces y participación pueden varía.

Speaker 30 Covering the news is exhilarating. You travel the country, meet interesting people, and find real stories.
But then one day you realize it's a fucking Tuesday in November again.

Speaker 30 Well, it's Election Day again.

Speaker 30 Got it? It's Election Day again.

Speaker 30 Because it's. Sorry, I can't.
It's Election Day again.

Speaker 2 F ⁇ is Virginia!

Speaker 30 As a journalist, I'm honored to be covering this sacred process.

Speaker 30 Again, I feel super chill about it.

Speaker 31 I'm good.

Speaker 30 It's Election Day again, and we've got another close race on our hands. So you better start clenching those butt cheeks.

Speaker 32 Early voting is already underway in the Virginia gubernatorial race with the latest polling showing Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe effectively in a dead heat.

Speaker 33 Political writing, if Terry McAuliffe doesn't pull out a win, Democrats are privately predicting a collapse on Capitol Hill.

Speaker 30 Wait, Virginia could go red? For a state that went blue by 450,000 votes in the last election, this was a story worth keeping down the vomit.

Speaker 30 I sat down with Jeffrey Skelly from 538 to help me make sense of this. Sorry about the mess.
Elections, am I right? Why is this race in particular so close? Isn't Virginia blue?

Speaker 34 Yeah, so Virginia has been Democratic-leaning over the last few years, but President Biden is now somewhat unpopular.

Speaker 34 And I think voters are responding to that, and so the electoral environment is better for Republicans. So we've got a close race in Virginia.

Speaker 30 Who do you think will actually decide this race?

Speaker 34 Young voters are really important because they are basically the most Democratic-leaning group.

Speaker 34 Well, one little interesting thing that McCall has done is run campaign ads attacking Glenn Youngkin because he was CEO of the Carlisle Group, which was involved in the purchase of Taylor Swift's Master Recordings.

Speaker 34 And so they've been using this to try to get young people to pay attention to the race because there are a lot of young people out there, you know, 18 to 34 year olds, who really like Taylor Swift.

Speaker 36 Virginia Democrat candidate for governor Terry McCullough recruiting Taylor Swift fans.

Speaker 36 McCullough reportedly linking his opponent to music executive Scooter Braun, who infamously bought Swift's Master Recordings back in 2019.

Speaker 37 After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I'm told was funded by the Carlisle Group.

Speaker 27 One of the targeted ads reading, did you know that Republican candidate for governor Glenn Youngkin helped buy Taylor Swift's masters out from under her?

Speaker 30 You're gonna be shitting me. Taylor Swift fans vote?

Speaker 34 I think that's what the McAuliffe campaign is hoping.

Speaker 30 If the Swifties are backing McAuliffe, what group of fans are backing Youngkin? Chet Hanks fans? Chetheads?

Speaker 34 Well, we don't have any polling on different

Speaker 34 fan groups of musical artists. Over 538.

Speaker 34 Yeah,

Speaker 34 it's a real niche.

Speaker 30 Could we be underestimating the Swifties?

Speaker 34 I think I'd be careful about giving them too much weight, but there are a lot of young people who like Taylor Swift.

Speaker 34 We know that's true.

Speaker 30 Could Taylor Swift fans be the key to the Virginia race? To find out, I had to dive deep into their fandom, no matter how many of her albums I had to buy on the show's credit card.

Speaker 2 Oh, sorry.

Speaker 37 This just happened to me without my approval or consent.

Speaker 30 Shame on him. Woo!

Speaker 30 Woo!

Speaker 30 Finally, after becoming fluent in all things Taylor, I gathered a group of her fans of Virginia to see how angry they were with candidate Yunkin. Are you all true fans? Are you true Swifties?

Speaker 30 Did you buy signed Fearless albums, Taylor version?

Speaker 39 I actually do have it, and I can...

Speaker 40 pull it up. I also have every single Taylor record on vinyl right next to me if we want to go that far.

Speaker 39 Yeah, the two most important dates in November is November 2nd, which is Election Day, and November 12th, which is Red.

Speaker 39 Yeah, I'm taking off work for Election Day just in case the lines are too long.

Speaker 30 Are you also taking off work for Taylor's release of Red?

Speaker 41 Oh, 100%.

Speaker 40 I need to get through all the emotions of all the songs on that album.

Speaker 41 I'm taking off work and my therapist is not getting the day off.

Speaker 30 While I respect this generation's clear dedication to mental health, could this new base of voters actually tip the scales in Virginia?

Speaker 39 I'm originally from Texas and the last three years in college I voted in Texas but I just knew that I couldn't just sit by and watch as Young took Virginia and so that's when I decided to change my voter registration.

Speaker 30 Wow. Okay so you just changed your registration.
This is dedication. I was in the weird college era as well where I was kind of voting in my home state

Speaker 30 but now I am voting Virginia because of this issue. I couldn't help but pity these young girls.
There are so many important issues, but all they care about is Taylor Swift's Swift's master recordings.

Speaker 41 It's not really about the masters, but I mean, just a couple of days ago, Yunkin came out and said, you know, he loves everyone. And when asked if that includes

Speaker 40 LGBTQ people, he said no.

Speaker 30 Are there other issues that you care about?

Speaker 41 Women's right to choose. I'm very passionate about gun violence prevention.

Speaker 42 Climate change is going to be the biggest issue of our time, so those policies are super important. I'm an environmental engineer, so this is life-changing.

Speaker 30 What would you say to boomers like my aunt Sheila who say 14-year-old girls should stay out of politics and stop stealing my sleeping pills, Desi?

Speaker 30 I think that's such a weird stereotype of Taylor Swift fans because we're not 14 anymore. We are adults.

Speaker 39 We pay taxes and we vote. Yeah, do you want to see my thesis paper about congressional legislation? Because I can show you that.
Don't underestimate Swifties.

Speaker 42 All right.

Speaker 30 Take it easy, Molly. Geez.
I don't want any snake comments on my Insta.

Speaker 30 Yes, they are fans of Taylor Swift. and yes, they are in their 20s.
Maybe they can make a difference in this upcoming election.

Speaker 30 No matter what happens, at least now I'll have some great music to cry to, just in time for next Election Tuesday.

Speaker 2 All right, let's move on to a more important election. Every year, Time Magazine announces the person of the year.

Speaker 2 So that people remember what Time Magazine is.

Speaker 27 And this morning we found out who won 2023.

Speaker 43 Sam Jacobs is Times Editor-in-Chief. Sam, good morning.
Welcome to today. You can reveal right now who it is.

Speaker 2 Are you ready for it? We're ready for it.

Speaker 35 The 2023 Time person of the year is Taylor Swift.

Speaker 43 Okay, let me just, let's just get this out of the way, Sam, because the world is on fire right now.

Speaker 43 And, you know, this is person of the year and it purports to say this is the most influential person or group of persons in the world this year. You picked Taylor.
We know about her influence.

Speaker 43 How did you justify this decision?

Speaker 35 There are a number of different choices that could have represented 2023. And I don't think there's anyone who's moved so many people so well as Taylor Swift did in 2023.

Speaker 2 Yeah, also my teenage daughter doesn't speak to me and I thought this would help.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But yes, Taylor Swift is Times Person of the Year, which is terrible news for Taylor Swift. Have you seen how the past few winners of this are doing? Last year, Zelensky won.
How's Ukraine doing now?

Speaker 2 Year before that, Elon Musk got the cover.

Speaker 2 How's Twitter doing now?

Speaker 2 Year before that, Biden and Kamala got the cover.

Speaker 2 Enough said.

Speaker 2 Forget Travis Kelsey. If this pattern keeps up, next year Taylor Swift is going to be dating the punter for the New York Jets.

Speaker 2 But the question is, does Taylor Swift deserve to be person of the year? To discuss, we turn to Ronnie Chang and Michael Costa.

Speaker 2 Let's start with you, Ronnie. Why did Taylor deserve this cover? Well,

Speaker 27 as a Swifty, I can say, isn't it obvious? A massive tour that generated like $5 billion from the U.S.

Speaker 27 economy, a movie about that tour that saved movie theaters, and she made football even more popular. Not to mention all the breakups she got me through.

Speaker 27 I mean, I was getting dumped on purpose just to enjoy those songs more.

Speaker 2 Good point, Ronnie. Okay, that's the pro-Taylor side.
Now let's go to Michael Costa. Michael, give us the anti-taylor side.

Speaker 32 What?

Speaker 32 No.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 26 No, no, no, no, no. I'm not doing the anti-Taylor side.
When did this happen?

Speaker 26 I'm not going to criticize Taylor Swift on television. She deserves all her success.
Her music is great. She was terrific in that Cats movie.

Speaker 26 I wish nothing but the best for her and her army of incredibly passionate and defensive fans.

Speaker 2 Michael,

Speaker 2 I'm very confused. You were telling me earlier today how stupid you thought it was to give her a person of the year.

Speaker 26 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Charlotte Maine, Charlotte Maine, Charlotte,

Speaker 26 this is not what I said.

Speaker 26 I wasn't talking about Taylor Swift, and you weren't even talking to me. I've never even said words until now.
How am I doing? Listen, listen, can't we just talk about something less controversial?

Speaker 26 Okay, I've got some strong opinions about Palestine.

Speaker 2 Don't be afraid, Costa. Remember earlier you said you couldn't believe with everything going on in the world, they'd give Person of the Year to some overrated singer-songwriter.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you said that, who dances like Phoebe from friends is being like cuted.

Speaker 2 Yes, that was you. You said, and I quote, I wish Kanye would interrupt her more.
You said that. Charlemagne? You said that.
Charlemagne, I have a family, please, okay?

Speaker 22 I didn't say anything like that about Taylor.

Speaker 26 That wasn't even me.

Speaker 26 I think you're confused with Ronnie. That sounds something like Ronnie would say.
Don't you know him? He's always like,

Speaker 2 I hate everything,

Speaker 2 including Taylor Swift and babies and puppies, oh, f these bloggers.

Speaker 27 Charlemagne, these Taylor Swift haters, like at Michael Costa on Instagram and

Speaker 27 at Michael Costa underscore on TikTok, they disgust me, okay?

Speaker 27 First, despite what Michael says, the way Taylor Swift dances makes her relatable, all right?

Speaker 27 And two, she can easily fulfill all the responsibilities of Times Person of the Year, okay? She can pose for the cover, she can hang on the wall, and then and that and that's it.

Speaker 27 Those are the responsibilities.

Speaker 2 Michael, he's got you there.

Speaker 2 Are you at the airport?

Speaker 2 What are you doing?

Speaker 26 What does it look like I'm doing you loose-lipped snitch bitches, okay?

Speaker 26 Yeah,

Speaker 2 I'm fleeing the country.

Speaker 22 I need somewhere to hide out, somewhere safe.

Speaker 26 One ticket to North Korea, please?

Speaker 26 They don't have any internet there, right?

Speaker 2 Come on, Costa. You really think the Swifties aren't going to find you?

Speaker 26 That's why I'm changing my name to something generic, like John

Speaker 35 Mayer.

Speaker 2 All right, good luck with that, my brother.

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Speaker 49 Taylor Swift, pop star, songwriter, and inventor of the color red.

Speaker 49 Personally, I love Taylor Swift.

Speaker 50 Huge fan.

Speaker 7 Really, nothing bad to say about her. But even if I had something bad to say about her, I wouldn't.

Speaker 49 I wouldn't say it.

Speaker 7 Because Taylor Swift's fans are super protective of her. Like, they're like one of those old-fashioned dads with a shotgun who doesn't want you to marry his daughter because he wants to marry her.

Speaker 29 You see, Taylor Swift has been re-recording all of her old albums, which means people are re-listening to all of her old songs about her famous exes and then getting mad at those exes all over again on her behalf.

Speaker 7 And while Taylor may be content to address her old boyfriends with heartfelt lyrics and songs that are, again, I want to stress this, perfect in every way.

Speaker 29 Some of her fans are a lot less subtle.

Speaker 51 This is going a little too far. While Jake Joe and Hall is taking incoming fire from the Swifties, another one of Taylor's exes is being bombarded with messages now.

Speaker 18 A user on Instagram sent John Mayer a direct message, telling him, f yourself, you ugly bitch. I hope you choke on something.

Speaker 18 Mayer then responded to the user, saying that he'd been getting many messages like that over the past couple of days and asking, do you really hope I die? To which the user responded, OMG, what?

Speaker 18 I don't want you to die. I'm sorry.
The user apologized again and admitted they didn't really think Mayer would see the message.

Speaker 49 You see, people, this is what I hate about social media. It makes people act shittier than they actually are, which then makes us think that people are shittier than they actually are.

Speaker 49 Because social media makes us forget that we're all human beings. You know, we just see that little avatar and then we all talk shit to each other, but we're all human.

Speaker 9 Even celebrities are real people.

Speaker 19 All of them.

Speaker 7 I mean, I know it's obviously except Timothy Shalamay, he's got to be CGI.

Speaker 31 No one can be that good looking.

Speaker 49 I mean, just look at that person. Now I'm craving spice.

Speaker 24 God damn.

Speaker 29 And I know her fans are like, but he hurt her.

Speaker 50 Listen to her song.

Speaker 49 Yes, that's all you're supposed to do.

Speaker 50 Listen to the song. You know, Taylor Swift writes songs to express her emotions in a way that touches other people.

Speaker 7 Not to order a hit on her ex-boyfriends.

Speaker 7 So death threats are not the way to go, especially with someone like John Mayer.

Speaker 29 Don't send him death threats.

Speaker 49 He gets them all the time.

Speaker 7 If you really want to upset him, tell him that Ed Sheeran is a better guitar player. Well, that's going to hit his heart.

Speaker 49 You know, it's weird how people get like, they're so hateful on the internet, Desi.

Speaker 30 Yeah, I know. It's bad.
But if you think John Mayer's DMs are rough, you should see the DMs of any woman on the internet.

Speaker 19 Really? Yeah.

Speaker 30 It's either death threats or requests to see your feet.

Speaker 9 Every time. Like just your feet, feet?

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 30 Just your feet. Or a death death threat.
One of the two. It's either like, why are women in Star Wars? Or send me a picture of your feet.

Speaker 7 That's really intense.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah. I know they're both bad, but which one do you prefer?

Speaker 30 Well, I'm pretty proud of my feet. So I got no problem sending foot pics.

Speaker 31 Again, bad. I just wondered which one.

Speaker 30 Have you ever requested a foot pic?

Speaker 19 No.

Speaker 7 No.

Speaker 7 Wow.

Speaker 30 Look who's a gentleman.

Speaker 50 I think normal is the phrase you're looking for maybe?

Speaker 30 No, okay, it all depends. Yeah.
No, but to be totally fair, it is completely inappropriate for anyone to send a death threat on the internet. Okay.
It's not cool. I agree.

Speaker 30 You got to do it the old school way. You know, you got to like cut out from the magazine.
This is the real way to do it.

Speaker 7 That is better than a DM?

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Still not good.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 30 I always have this with me, just in case. I don't even know who it's for, but it takes so long to do it that I figure by the time I'm done, I'll figure it out.
I'll be pissed at somebody.

Speaker 45 Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world. Starting with Taylor Swift.

Speaker 26 This morning, tickets went on sale for the singer's first tour in four years,

Speaker 45 and so many fans rushed onto the ticket Ticketmaster site that it immediately crashed.

Speaker 8 I mean, no one could get tickets. And yeah, Ticketmaster did tell us who was so wrong, she's already put out three albums about them.

Speaker 8 They're gonna learn their lesson.

Speaker 8 And look,

Speaker 21 I know everyone thinks that getting these tickets is the most important thing in the world, but it's really not.

Speaker 33 All right?

Speaker 8 If you don't get them, just relax, log off, you know, know, just give the site like a chance to cool down and repair itself.

Speaker 2 And then, you know, don't bother.

Speaker 2 You just, you just chill. All right, I got mine.
You can go back on. You can go back on.

Speaker 52 You do whatever you want.

Speaker 53 The biggest crisis the country is facing right now.

Speaker 38 Finally, there's something that Republicans and Democrats seem united on, and it's this, the Taylor Swift ticket fiasco.

Speaker 38 Today on Capitol Hill, senators held a hearing to examine the lack of competition in the ticketing industry.

Speaker 3 The bipartisan hearing comes in the wake of a technology breakdown on the Ticketmaster website during the pre-sale for Taylor Swift's upcoming tour.

Speaker 3 Super fans, known as Swifties, faced hours-long wait times and website crashes.

Speaker 2 I just really wish this can't take work.

Speaker 2 I'm not getting tickets.

Speaker 53 Shame on you, Ticketmaster. Look what you did to these emotional young people.
Hey, you know what? It's about time someone held Ticketmaster accountable.

Speaker 53 And the Swifties are the only ones who can get this done. They're the most politically organized group in America.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It goes Swifties,

Speaker 53 the Teamsters, and somewhere way all the way down the list is the Democrats.

Speaker 53 You know, these hearings are are so popular, I bet Ticketmaster screwed up tickets to that too.

Speaker 53 You got kids outside crying,

Speaker 2 I'm the sinner's biggest fuck.

Speaker 2 I just wanted to see Dick Durbin.

Speaker 53 But ultimately, there's only one way to fix this problem.

Speaker 53 Get rid of online ticket sales. Go back to waiting online in person at LePole.

Speaker 2 Make people earn that shit like we used to.

Speaker 53 You're not a real fan unless getting a ticket gave you hypothermia.

Speaker 53 Hey, I almost lost two toes just to see Johnny Gill.

Speaker 53 And I'll do it again, damn it.

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Speaker 30 Let's move on to climate change. If you couldn't tell from all the sweat on your ass cheeks today, the earth is still getting hotter.

Speaker 30 So climate activists have taken their protests to the next obvious place, a pile of rocks.

Speaker 55 A pair of climate protesters have been arrested after spray paying the historic Stonehenge Monument in southern England.

Speaker 55 Video of the incident shows two people running toward the stone circle while spraying orange paint. A third person can be seen trying to stop them, then a fourth.

Speaker 55 The climate activist group Just Stop Oil has taken responsibility for the incident.

Speaker 30 Whoa, guys, I appreciate the cause, but what did Stonehenge ever do?

Speaker 30 I mean, literally, what did Stonehenge do? I get the stone part, but what the f is a henge?

Speaker 30 Regardless, I don't think this helps the cause. All they did was make it look like Stonehenge went to town on some Doritos.

Speaker 30 Guys, these stunts don't work. I promise you, Exxon saw this and thought, that's a good point.
I wonder if there's oil under Stonehenge.

Speaker 27 Yeah, I don't think painting Stonehenge orange is going to do anything, guys.

Speaker 2 Okay, last year, the sky in New York turned orange, and we still didn't care.

Speaker 27 Okay, everybody was like, oh, that's weird. Let's turn up the air conditioning.

Speaker 30 Yeah, I'll tell you who they should be going after. Billionaires and their private jets.

Speaker 56 Two more members of the organization, Just Stop Oil, have been placed under arrest for spray painting private jets.

Speaker 2 And Taylor Swift might have been a target. No! No!

Speaker 2 Not Taylor! She is our queen! Take

Speaker 2 another billionaire!

Speaker 56 Just Stop Oil said that the airfield is where Taylor Swift jet was parked, but Essex police in the United Kingdom said the Pop Stars aircraft was not at the airport.

Speaker 27 Oh, thank God Taylor doesn't have to fly commercial. But guys, spray paint is not going to ground these planes, okay? You got to do something radical, like cut some wires or install some bowling pots.

Speaker 27 The motive of the assassin remains unclear, so we'll have to look at who might have a reason to be angry at Donald Trump.

Speaker 13 On Sunday, three hours before the attempt on his life, Trump flared, I hate Taylor Swift Swift on Truth Social, reacting to her bombshell endorsement of Kamala Harris.

Speaker 27 Oof, Donald tweeting, I hate Taylor Swift. That's dangerous.
I mean, I would rather buy one of those Hezbollah pages than tweet, I hate Taylor Swift.

Speaker 27 I think Trump needs to stick to racism. It's less divisive.
But the assassin this weekend was probably not a Swifty, okay? He doesn't fit the M.O. Swifties are non-violent.

Speaker 27 They prefer to cyberbully you until you kill yourself. So why did this guy come for Trump? I mean according to J.D.

Speaker 27 Vance, Trump's VP and the worst thing to happen to Cat Lady since feline AIDS, Democrats made him do it.

Speaker 46 The left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out.

Speaker 46 We cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist and if he's elected, it is going to be the end of American democracy.

Speaker 27 Yeah, liberals.

Speaker 27 Stop accurately describing Trump, okay?

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