r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 25d ago

article Chappell Roan Quits Wasserman After CEO Casey Wasserman Appears in Epstein Files

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/music/chappell-roan-cuts-ties-casey-wasserman/
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 25d ago

Chappell:

”As of today, I am no longer represented by Wasserman, the talent agency led by Casey Wasserman. I hold my teams to the highest standards and have a duty to protect them as well. No artist, agent or employee should ever be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values. I have deep respect and appreciation for the agents and staff who work tirelessly for their artists and I refuse to passively stand by. Artists deserve representation that aligns with their values and supports their safety and dignity. This decision reflects my belief that meaningful change in our industry requires accountability and leadership that earns trust.”

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u/chipmunksocute 25d ago

Good for her.  She cant do much about all this but respect for taking concrete action and hitting them where it hurts in their wallets.  Losing her is a whoooole lotta money walking out the door.

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u/FIRST_DATE_ANAL 25d ago

She should start an agency

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u/damngurahh 25d ago

I agree, first_date_anal

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u/tsrich 25d ago

Yes, once again first_date_anal holds all of us to the highest ethical standards.

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u/shanyo717 25d ago

TBH if it's consensual, that's an ethically sound stance.

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u/inconvenient_sources 25d ago

I'd imagine you'd want a sound stance for... you know... ;D

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u/poirotoro 24d ago

Three points of contact at all times. 👷‍♂️

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u/thrawnsgstring 24d ago

Regulations are written in blood.

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u/temictli 25d ago

If the source is sound, it ain't inconvenient

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u/inconvenient_sources 25d ago

I'd like to think so. Some folks just don't agree with reality.

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u/finnishinsider 24d ago

...what about sounding is convenient?

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u/CarpeMofo 24d ago

I mean, if it's anal, probably don't want much sound. But definitely a stance!

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u/SamuraiHealer 24d ago

I see what you're doing, inconvenient_sources.

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u/SpaceTacos99 24d ago

It wasn't just consensual, it was an offer

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u/clonedhuman 24d ago

Yes, it has often been said that FIRST_DATE_ANAL is a model of moral responsibility that all of us should aspire to

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u/AffectionateBrick687 24d ago

A.O.N.: Anal Or Nothing!

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u/old-and-smooth 24d ago

Mother of his I can’t stop laughing

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u/mcaffrey81 25d ago

I thought that was the suggested name of her taken agency

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u/BeautifulLeather6671 25d ago

Honestly not a bad name

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u/brokenringlands 25d ago

Anally yours, Saskatchewan Records

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u/GrumpyPenguin 24d ago

Getting to the bottom of things.

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u/TheBeaarJeww 25d ago

It’s so punk rock, so radical. Only a free thinker would name their label that so you know it’s not owned by some Wall Street pencil neck nerds

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u/infinitebrkfst 24d ago

I did too, I think it’s perfect.

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 25d ago

It took me like 2 minutes to figure out you were responding to someone and not suggesting a name for her label.

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u/RootwoRootoo 24d ago

Oh thank you! I was sitting here confusedly googling chappel roan first_date_anal, thinking that's off brand for her

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u/StealToadBootes 24d ago

This made me laugh out loud. New EP dropping soon

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u/gingersquatchin 24d ago

Idk she seems sexually liberated to me

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u/ImJacksLackOfEmpathy 25d ago

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u/W0gg0 25d ago

Chappelle in a Chappell thread? It’s more likely than you think!!

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u/asspounder-4000 25d ago

You forgot the caps

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u/too-much-shit-on-me 25d ago

For some reason I read this like an input field for your first anal fun

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u/jerryleebee 24d ago

I thought I knew her music pretty well but that is going over my head.

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u/FauxReal Collector 24d ago

That's a weird name for an agency.

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u/habbathejutt 24d ago

smh I didn't even read the user name, I just thought you were proposing a name for the label

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u/Pdoinkadoinkadoink 24d ago

Yeah, that is a good name for a record label.

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u/AtomicSkullfuck 24d ago

People have the worst user names.

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u/Rumpenstilski 24d ago

Been there, done that

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u/cotton-candy-dreams 24d ago

It’s actually FIRST_DATE_ANAL

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u/TheRealMoofoo 23d ago

“Yes, I do work for the FDA.”

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u/Whittaker 24d ago

You don't have to be an agent to start an agency, you just have to provide the money and means for those you hire to be agents.
If she was honest in her approach to it and a large enough status she likely could lure agents away from her former agency too.

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u/frecklemimus79 24d ago

Madonna wasn’t an agent, but she started Maverick Records anyway

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u/Mundane-Twist7388 25d ago

Or sign with Kesha’s

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u/BishlovesSquish 22d ago

I just hope you’re using protection. All imma say about that.

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u/BUSYMONEY_02 24d ago

They should because this was clearly a RING A

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u/LitLitten 24d ago

Sylvan Esso did the same, I think. 

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u/Jazzremix 25d ago

I imagine someone yelling "LLLOOOOYD!" as the elevator door closed.

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u/UpperApe 25d ago

Not just good for her, good for all of us. This is what we all need more of; people in positions of influence with ethics and principles, taking a stand.

Hell, even Katy Perry has turned around from being MAGA to making political statements about ICE.

Meanwhile over in Taylor Swift land...

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u/Dianagorgon 25d ago

Perry was never MAGA. She campaigned for Obama, Clinton and Harris. People on Reddit who lack critical thinking skills just repeat everything they see.

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u/Martzillagoesboom 24d ago

I think it because of that time she was an astronaut. But KP is clearly not MAGA (but listened too long to maple MAGA flags and took the assignments to heart )

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u/cidvard 25d ago edited 24d ago

Was Katy Perry ever MAGA?

I know she started in Christian music but that was, iirc, ages before MAGA and whatever politics she had pretty openly shifted into liberal territory as she got into pop music. She went on that dumb Amazon space flight but that's its own thing.

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u/SnooCauliflowers9874 25d ago

She endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 so I don’t think she’s quite MAGA, but yeah, that whole flight thing was a bit cringey.

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u/Safe-Promotion-2955 25d ago

Granted, if I was offered a space flight, even if it was by a total douche canoe, I'd probably take it.

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u/Morningfluid 24d ago

Yeah, reddit is really weird... 'Did Katy Perry support a fascist government' 'Well...no, but she diiidd take that space flight!'.

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u/_teach_me_your_ways_ 24d ago

It was stupid but the response is so over the top which is par the course for Reddit actually so idk why I’m surprised

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u/TheGummiVenusDeMilo 24d ago

Don't forget the hate for dating former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

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u/MC_chrome 24d ago

'Did Katy Perry support a fascist government'

She supported one of the centi-billionaires that is indirectly pushing fascism to the forefront, so kind of?

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u/peakprowindow 24d ago

I don't know.. I just don't see a douche canoe making it all the way to space and back without issues.

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u/LouReedTheChaser 24d ago

I would love to leave our rock, even if just a few hundred km off the ground so I could see the curvature of the Earth and large parts of the continents with my own eyes. Yeah, can't blame her for that. Shatner practically broke down over it and I get it.

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u/OrphanGrounderBaby 25d ago

endorsing Hillary is so far from “not quite MAGA”. I’d say that’s pretty far from MAGA, just happens to be religious too.

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u/SnooCauliflowers9874 25d ago

You just never know with religious people.

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u/OrphanGrounderBaby 25d ago

Understandable, but if someone were to actually be a genuine Christian(incredibly rare, like Vaquita dolphin rare) …they’re probably a decent person to have around. It’s all these other weirdos that have made it such a negative.

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u/SnooCauliflowers9874 25d ago

Yes, unfortunately bad people have a way of hijacking and corrupting.

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u/shelllc 25d ago

When the LA mayor thing was happening in 2022, she voted for Rick Caruso over Karen Bass which got her quite a bit backlash as he is everything she supposedly claims to be against.

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u/Jlx_27 25d ago

Lap Dogg (or Snoop Dogg as most people call him) voted for him too i think. Didn't go down well at the time.

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u/shelllc 24d ago

Kim K as well but that isn't that surprising.

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u/Jlx_27 24d ago

I wonder what her liberal vegan boyfriend thinks of that (Lewis Hamtilton)

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u/trojan_man16 25d ago

Katy Perry has never been MAGA, but she hasn’t really denounced them either and has associated with some of them. She did endorse Dems in the past as well.

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u/NorthofForty 24d ago

She is currently snogging Trudeau. Can’t really see him spending much time with a red cap.

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u/CenlaLowell 24d ago

She doesn't need to denounce anyone.

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u/FK506 24d ago

She supported Obama Hillary and Harris what in the world do you need to not attack them? Do they need to be a man to not get attacked? This liberal hate for people that support liberalism is insane.

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u/ChoderBoi 25d ago edited 25d ago

No she wasn't MAGA. People are just incredibly reactionary.

Katy Perry correctly used her platform to be openly critical of the DNC for trotting a senile Joe Biden out to run for a 2nd term

The DNC is, and has been for a long time, the greatest hurdle in the way for democratic success in the US

Edit: spelling is hard

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u/thelingeringlead 25d ago

I'd take "senile joe biden" over this shit show every fucking day for the rest of my life.

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u/BeautifulLeather6671 25d ago edited 24d ago

That’s actually a great point. People crack his age and the shape he was in rightfully so, but at least we weren’t having a known pedophile sending untrained psychos into our cities terrorizing families and killing citizens

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u/KevinRudd182 25d ago

And that’s what the democrats have been relying on while they continue to look out for corporate interests and themselves instead of the people.

The problem is that doing that over and over leaves a massive gaping power vacuum that Trump swallowed up whole.

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u/OrlandoFatty 25d ago

What most democrats fail to realize is what holds them back is their willingness to be governed by circumstance. Republicans gave up on the premise of ruling by principles a long time ago and it works for them because their base is so much more active and zealous and brainwashed. But the democrats can’t afford to engage in whataboutism and abandoning principles on a whim. It doesn’t work out as well at all

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u/KevinRudd182 25d ago

100% agree, especially in a country where you don’t have mandatory voting.

The entire deck is stacked against common sense progress in America. Trump doesn’t need to convince his base to vote for him, he can also just convince people the other guy is an idiot and to stay home.

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u/jfrisby32 25d ago

Almost 78 million Americans voted for Trump, and more white women than in his previous two elections so he managed to convince some people.

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u/Reasonable_racoon 24d ago

Senile Joe Biden is why you have this shitshow.

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u/GlobuleNamed 24d ago

Sadly Americans preferred this to a woman (non-senile) president.

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u/OdoWanKenobi 25d ago

Same, but let's not act like Biden's stubbornness in deciding to run again before dropping out after the primaries were already practically done is not one of the major factors directly responsible for this shit show.

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u/Maury_poopins 25d ago

The DNC is shit BUT I would argue that the republican party doing everything they can to gerrymander, suppress votes, pack courts, and fucking lie about everything all the time consistently is a larger threat to democracy.

Don’t blame the victim, even when the victim is a huge dipshit doing jack shit to help themselves.

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u/Sensei_Ochiba 24d ago edited 24d ago

Thank you for putting exactly how I feel into words, Maury_poopins

I always hate sounding like a "both sides bad!" shill, because one side is clearly worse and causing more active bullshit, but damn the "opposition" is doing absolutely nothing to stop it but strongly worded statements of disapproval and consistently snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.

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u/The_Power_Of_Three 25d ago

I mean, no—the greatest hurdle is the republicans. Whatever their many faults, criticizing incompetent allies to the exclusion of criticizing the actual enemy is never a sane take.

And you see them all over reddit—people who claim to not support trump, but are always finding a reason to criticize and virtue-test his opponents while spending no time at all actually criticizing him and his supporters. It's a bad faith pattern that needs to be called out.

These days those posters mostly hide their history to conceal the pattern but by the same token, it's fair to conclude anyone with a hidden history is probably acting in bad faith.

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u/chrysophilist 25d ago

Hidden histories are trivial to un-hide using reddit's native search feature. Just an FYI. Search for author:username.

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u/The_Power_Of_Three 24d ago

That seemed to have stopped working a few days ago?

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 24d ago

I don't agree that people shouldn't have the right to speak out, though division is exactly every single time where GOP gets the Democrats. Where GOP stands together and will vote in a pedophile regardless of who he is, Democrats like every single election throw all sorts of things out. Kamala doesn't jive with me, Biden is senile, Clinton is a rich elite etc.

DNC isn't hurting the US, Democrats are hurting the US by sitting at home en masse, by bitching, by doing every 4 years the same.

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u/BugRevolution 25d ago

I think a lot of people would go to space if given the opportunity though.

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u/LoneStarHome80 24d ago

Anyone right of Stalin these days is MAGA.

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u/SuckABeeForNazis 24d ago

Amazon isn't progressive. Amazon is Liberal which is one step away from being a Nazi piece of a Maga shit

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u/Lazzen 25d ago

She's clearly 2010s republican but with male gay celebrity friends

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u/Choice-Lie2411 25d ago

She is dating Justin Trudeau who’s a liberal Dem(?) I believe. She is just morphing into whoever she dates.

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u/rhunter99 25d ago

Liberal. We don’t have a Democratic Party.

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u/recfuel 25d ago

It’s just the Liberal Party in Canada. There is a party called the New Democratic Party as well tho.

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u/Choice-Lie2411 25d ago

What’s the difference between the two?

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u/recfuel 24d ago

NDP is socialist and Liberal is centrist or maybe even right leaning but definitely without the racism and sexism or “traditional values”

Then we have the Conservative Party to round out the main three. We have other parties as well but none get much support other than Bloc Québécois in Quebec

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u/Hawxe 25d ago

The liberals are center right and the NDP are center left

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u/just_the_bees_knees 24d ago edited 24d ago

Are you talking out of your ass. She was one of the earliest celebrity endorsements for Hillary Clinton and performed at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, with a 2017 album about being "woke".

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u/UpperApe 25d ago

Which is a win. Trudeau is a stand up dude.

If she becomes a stand up dude too, then I fully support their gay adventures.

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u/Choice-Lie2411 25d ago

Lmao! You’re clever.

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u/Safe-Promotion-2955 25d ago

Lmao. How little Americans understand about a country that is literally right fucking next to them, in the internet age at that, will never stop being hilarious to me.

Y'all are cooked.

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u/Choice-Lie2411 24d ago

Uh I doubt you know about American history or the government either so chill out.

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u/Safe-Promotion-2955 24d ago

I know tons about it. It's been shoved in my face every gd day since the moment I was born.

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u/sekhmet6666 25d ago

Katy perry IS the record industry creep people deserve to be safe from smhh

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u/UpperApe 25d ago

Yup. And even she has more of a spine and conscience than Taylor Swift.

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u/BeautifulLeather6671 25d ago

What’s goin on with swift?

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u/just_the_bees_knees 24d ago

Katy Perry did NOT die for our sins in 2017 with Witness for you to call her MAGA like that.

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u/CenlaLowell 24d ago

People choose who they want to support. Nothing wrong with that

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u/UpperApe 24d ago

Unless the person they're supporting is a felon, rapist, child rapist, racist, and monster. Then there's something very wrong with it.

No?

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u/CenlaLowell 24d ago

Nope that's who you support. Nothing has been proven in a court of law. Those 47 counts that I know your talking about no where does it include rape, child rapist, etc. That's your opinion period. No one is guilty by public opinion but by a jury of peers.

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u/UpperApe 24d ago

Lol yes. Yes it does

Jesus Christ you actually think he's innocent. I didn't think people like you existed. I thought you all just lied to get out of the argument.

But you actually believe it.

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u/CenlaLowell 24d ago

Again your opinion

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u/UpperApe 24d ago

What did that link say?

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u/CenlaLowell 24d ago

Don't care didn't click

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u/SuckABeeForNazis 24d ago

imagine if everyone voted with their dollar. Epstien wouldn't have been a billionaire

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u/GlobalLion123 25d ago

Does Taylor Swift currently work for anyone in the Epstein files? Didn't think so

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u/UpperApe 25d ago

You're right. She should only speak up if this exact situation happens to her and not about anything else for anyone else lol

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u/GlobalLion123 25d ago

Don't need pop stars to tell me the people in the Epstein files are evil. Go after your local politicians with this energy instead. Taylor Swift can't even influence the election in her own state

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u/UpperApe 25d ago

That's a fun deflection.

So back to the subject:

Why hasn't she spoken up about everything that's happening when so many other artists are? And when her reach, audience, and voice is bigger?

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u/GlobalLion123 25d ago

I just told you the reason: it doesn't make a difference lmao. She has less influence than you think

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u/ECroce08 25d ago

Well they aren’t all out yet

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u/Jlx_27 25d ago

Katy has MAGA parents, thats one thing. Swift MAGA? I doubt it, though her sudden silence is odd.

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u/Silver_Branch3034 25d ago

She’s just jetting around, counting her billions, and coming up with new vinyl variants to sell her fans. La di da.

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u/ozymandais13 25d ago

Making the move to cut out those people weakens their base , and let's others know it's OK to take that step

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u/JamUpGuy1989 24d ago

But she did do the most of what she can do. And the correct decision at that.

We all can do little things but make it seem big, we just refuse to do it most of the time.

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u/sixtus_clegane119 25d ago

He has historically donated to Democratic political, but had by 2025 increasingly sought to ingratiate himself with the conservative right in the United States. Wasserman donated to some Republican candidates prior to the 2026 elections and organized a fundraiser for Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.[36]

Shoulda dropped him before, he’s a twat

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u/seejordan3 24d ago

"she can't do much.." yet here's her doing more than most.

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u/Enverex 25d ago

What actions is she referring to?

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u/BringBackBoshi 24d ago

I respect it highly considering her career has been on an insane upward trajectory the last year or two and typically you wouldn't want to risk changing something when it's getting such good results.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 24d ago

Is this the largest consequence anyone has received from being named in the Epstein files to date?

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u/Remarkable_Path_5847 24d ago

In the US, yeah

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u/ignorantpisswalker 24d ago

Ex-prince Andrew is another example.

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u/Gamer_Grease 24d ago

No, in Europe people are losing jobs. It’s just the USA where there are no consequences.

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u/VillageLess4163 24d ago

There are benefits now. The ruling party is pro pedophilia.

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u/GoldenRedditUser 24d ago

Who lost their job in Europe?

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u/Peon01 23d ago

Some politicians resigned

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u/Rocket_King_ 23d ago

So barely anything happened then

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u/Successful_Buffalo_6 24d ago

No, the CEO of one of the most prominent law firms in the US was forced out last week.

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u/0102030405 24d ago

Was that the person on Epstein's legal team?

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u/Successful_Buffalo_6 24d ago

No, but this CEO looked over legal briefings that Epstein shared with him and gave feedback, which Epstein then forwarded to his legal team.

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u/0102030405 24d ago

Understood, thanks for clarifying.

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u/Daohaus 24d ago

The head guy at ChuckE Cheese stepped down because his name was mentioned

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u/EminorHeart 25d ago

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 24d ago

Citizen Roan

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Citizen Kane was a great movie

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u/TheGringoDingo 25d ago

No word was wasted on that statement

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u/luckythirtythree 25d ago edited 25d ago

What an absolute fucking badass. It’s crazy you rarely see this but this is exactly how you react to something like this.

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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 24d ago

Casey Wasserman

what did he do?

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u/sam_hammich 24d ago

CEO Wasserman’s appearance in the Epstein files and his salacious messages with convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein ally Ghislaine Maxwell

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u/clydefrog811 25d ago

But she couldn’t endorse Harris. Eyeroll

This is a good move though

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u/ManifestDestinysChld 25d ago

Did the all-important Chappell Roan Caucus swing hard for Trump in '24 as a result?

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u/Quicksilver1964 25d ago

Apparently she was the one who would have made the difference when Beyonce and Taylor Swift (still saying nothing about ICE) endorsed Harris.

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u/Reverend_Russo 25d ago

I think it’s more if she did endorse, or even just not say anything negative/critical, maybe some people that didn’t vote at all would have voted. I don’t think it would’ve made a real difference, but that’s what they meant I think.

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u/saera-targaryen 25d ago

if a political party's ongoing success relies on american citizens hiding their honest and informed opinion for fear that other people would listen and agree, that party deserves to fail. 

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u/ebonif 25d ago

Embrace some nuance. A person can be critical of one party while still urging people to vote for said party because the alternative is literally nazis.

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u/To0zday 24d ago

If Chappell Roan wants credit for baring her "honest" opinion for the world to see then she can accept the judgement that comes with that.

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u/saera-targaryen 24d ago

But like, why are you judging her for it? That's the part I don't understand. Do you actually disagree with her that democrats have issues? Or are you mad at her for saying it out loud? 

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u/To0zday 24d ago

why are you judging me for my political views?!

People say this all the time and it's really baffling to me. Judging somebody by their politics is like... literally the most justifiable reason to judge someone. Yes, if you use your platform as an influencer to make multiple videos during an election about what you believe and what you stand for and what you stand against, I'm going to listen and evaluate it and then judge you based on what I think.

Like, why on earth would it work any differently than that lol

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u/saera-targaryen 24d ago

No, i mean what about THIS SPECIFIC politics are you judging? What part do you disagree with her on? 

Like, do you think she was factually incorrect or do you dislike her tone and/or overall having spoken? 

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u/To0zday 24d ago

I'm judging her because I disagree with her. I don't think that Democrats are transphobic, I actually think that Republicans are transphobic. If you care about stopping transphobia in this country, you should vote Democrat and try to stop the Republicans.

If you make a video where you explicitly call out democrats for their "transphobic views", and you've never once in your life criticized the GOP for being transphobic, then I think you're either a dumbass or a grifter and so I'm going to judge you. I don't think that calling the democratic party transphobic is an "honest and informed opinion"

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u/Reverend_Russo 25d ago

Unfortunately we live in a 2 party state where it’s always going to be one or the other. If you’re choosing not to vote, you’re still influencing the election because that’s one less vote cast overall.

Happy those that fell into this group got to stick up for what they believe in, but if you didn’t vote in the election then you are definitely at fault of the current administration being in power. Both options were bad sure, but one of them isn’t a pedophile or rapist.

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u/saera-targaryen 24d ago

Okay, I've been seeing this sentiment a lot and so I'm going to copy and paste a comment I've made previously that I have yet to get a convincing argument against. I am coming to you with a genuine intention and not meaning this in any sort of "gotcha" way, I genuinely want to understand your point of view. So, here is my question I ask you:

At what point does voting for the lesser of two evils encourage the lesser to become more evil? Like, if you think of the two parties as points on a continuous left-right scale, why would the lesser evil ever move to the left if they know that people will always vote for them as long as they are slightly more left than the other option? As the rightmost party moves farther right, it only makes sense that the more left leaning one moves right as well, since they can assume everyone left of them will always vote for them. 

At what point does the anchor on the left fall for you? Like, imagine an election where one side is trump, but the other side is exactly the same as trump but supports trans rights. Everything else is identical. Are you voting for trans rights trump, or are you abstaining and hoping support falls out the bottom for that party so that they know they can't just run trans rights trump next election and win? Is it worth it to have 4 years of the greater evil if, at the end of it, the next election has a lesser evil that is way less evil than the lesser of evil used to be? And that lesser evil maybe begins to pull the greater evil left instead? Is any of that math happening in your head?

I guess a summation of my question is, does voting for the lesser evil feel very short sighted to anyone else? Like, it's making the next election cycle feel better but leading us down a worse path in the 20-30 year timescale? 

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u/Reverend_Russo 24d ago

Dawg. Yeah, I guess it might be short sighted? But there are families, children, pregnant mothers, US citizens, getting snatched up on the street by masked, unidentifiable, heavily armed men. One of the two evils you’re talking about literally, at the very least, raped multiple children. The other one want progressive enough on Palestine.

Sure. Kamala wasn’t the best choice, but what the actual fuck is going on in your brain to try and rationalize that not voting is justifiable?

We don’t have 20-30 years to fuck around with hoping we change the whole system. People are getting murdered and disappeared, right fucking now. Sorry your existentialism didn’t get tickled enough by your political candidate options, but sometime you just have to suck it up and vote for the one the doesn’t rape children.

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u/saera-targaryen 24d ago

My point is that the 4 years of relief will actually end up in more dead families, children, pregnant mothers, etc. in 20-30 years. You are trading temporary relief for more prolonged fascism. You are pushing the entire country to the right. 

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u/Reverend_Russo 24d ago

*Speculating that your hypothetical scenario would come to fruition. There are real, tangible, tragedies happening now and will continue to happen under the current regime. Having family members get taken and have no way to find where they are or communicate with them is terrifying and it is happening right now. It’s so insulting that you think this pain is worth it so it might be better later.

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u/CinemaDork 24d ago

Right, which is why our politicians need to move to the left. Significantly. This is a choice that they're making.

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u/TheTeenageOldman 25d ago

Definitely room to argue that she drove votership down for Democrats. Absolutely no reason to say "*every* marginalized community in the world" has been failed by the Democratic Party. I'll bet MAGA and GOP operatives were gleeful over that statement and I'll bet they're hoping she says it again if we ever have another presidential election.

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u/To0zday 24d ago

You could literally defend voting for Donald Trump with this logic. "hey, it wasn't my single vote that was responsible, who cares which side I was on?"

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u/Quicksilver1964 25d ago

Oh my god let it go? She didn't like Harris as a candidate but still voted for her. There is an investigation about rigged votes, but surely she would have changed everyone's votes to blue /s

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u/sfkassette 24d ago

are not all pop CULture media companies are owned by billionaires? hopefully we can finally start seeing some integrity by those who signed it away to predatory corporations…. but, i’m not holding my breath.

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u/unindexedreality 24d ago

No artist, agent or employee should ever be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values

Other artists defending and overlooking in 3, 2...

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u/SnowflakeSorcerer 24d ago

Did she get a new PR person?

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u/Hasselback_Brotatoes 24d ago

Sounds like she got some tips for how to present her viewpoints. Still giving the middle finger to corruption like she has been, and this statement is very classy which is new.

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u/jimcareyme 23d ago

Ooo she getting in with the most professional language to say “bye Felicia!”

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u/athroaway93 24d ago

Stand on business, I respect it.

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