Taylor Swift vs Kanye West 2028?

[Bootes Void]

How would it go?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

no

[DINGO Joe]

Ladies and gentlemen, President Vermin Supreme

[Ferguson97]

Swift in a landslide

[Stuart98]

Swift in a landslide

[rhg2052]

The 2009 VMAs become one of the most consequential events in American political history.

[Crumpets]

"I Taylor Alison Swift do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of..."

"Yo Taylor, Imma let you finish, but Donald Trump had one of the best inaugurations of all time. All time!"

[LtNOWIS]

Why wait until 2028? Swift is eligible in 2024. She turns 35 on December 13, 2024. That's after election day, but before inauguration day, so she's eligible to take the oath in January 2025.

Anyways, Swift is clearly a more disciplined and on-message communicator, and in line with the Democratic zeitgeist of 2018. She's the prototypical suburban white woman who was always a Democrat, but realized after Trump was elected that this stuff is serious, and that we need to fight back by posting #Resistance stuff on social media and campaigning for downballot Dems. "Woke" on social issues but not receptive to the socialist leanings of modern young Democrats. So while I don't see her ever running for anything, there's a lane for her in the Democratic party.

Kanye has shown himself to be incapable of running a credible campaign this cycle, so it's much less likely that he ever gets anywhere.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Taylor Swift/Ro Khanna 400 EV
Kanye West/Joel Osteen 138 EV

Kanye West’s second presidential run, while more successful than his 2020 run, was certainly no less bizarre. West demanded that he be stricken from the ballot in a number of reliably Republican states, in many cases leaving Governor Swift and Representative Khanna as the only ticket on the ballot. West also dumped money into several states that were previously seen as reliably Democratic. Journalists at the Ye for President headquarters in Cody, Wyoming reported that West was ecstatic when Oregon was narrowly called for the West/Osteen ticket.

I got the joke map out of the way for you guys.

Anyways, having her run in 2024 would be fine. I’m actually rather doubtful that she would have the time to run for governor before a 2024 run though. Not that she’d be successful in Tennessee either.

I’d imagine she’d probably get about 350 EVs and win by 7% though.

[Samof94]

Kayne’s biggest critics are fans of his old music who now hate him as a person.  Attack ads would constantly bring up Kardashians.

[支持核绿派 (Greens4Nuclear)]

1992-level third party vote.

[Agonized-Statism]

Singer-Songwriter Taylor Swift (D-TN) / UN Ambassador Pete Buttigieg (D-IN) ✓
Rapper Kanye West (R-WY) / Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

Take away the ridiculousness and you have a more inclusive, Kim Klaick-style Christian Democrat populist versus a neoliberal, which is interesting. But with the candidates' personalities considered, West is way too eccentric.

[Alben Barkley]

Singer-Songwriter Taylor Swift (D-TN) / UN Ambassador Pete Buttigieg (D-IN) ✓
Rapper Kanye West (R-WY) / Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

Take away the ridiculousness and you have a more inclusive, Kim Klaick-style Christian Democrat populist versus a neoliberal, which is interesting. But with the candidates' personalities considered, West is way too eccentric.

"Eccentric" doesn't begin to cover it. Kanye is literally mentally ill, diagnosed with and has been hospitalized for bipolar disorder. He genuinely makes Trump look "very stable" in comparison.

Also, how do you know Swift is a "neoliberal?" Aside from endorsing Phil Bredesen and now Biden, I don't know anything about her personal politics. And just because she endorsed them over Republicans, that doesn't necessarily mean she wouldn't have ideally preferred more left-wing candidates. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if she's more moderate/center-left, but I don't know for sure.

[Agonized-Statism]

Singer-Songwriter Taylor Swift (D-TN) / UN Ambassador Pete Buttigieg (D-IN) ✓
Rapper Kanye West (R-WY) / Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

Take away the ridiculousness and you have a more inclusive, Kim Klaick-style Christian Democrat populist versus a neoliberal, which is interesting. But with the candidates' personalities considered, West is way too eccentric.

"Eccentric" doesn't begin to cover it. Kanye is literally mentally ill, diagnosed with and has been hospitalized for bipolar disorder. He genuinely makes Trump look "very stable" in comparison.

Also, how do you know Swift is a "neoliberal?" Aside from endorsing Phil Bredesen and now Biden, I don't know anything about her personal politics. And just because she endorsed them over Republicans, that doesn't necessarily mean she wouldn't have ideally preferred more left-wing candidates. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if she's more moderate/center-left, but I don't know for sure.

Thanks for putting it in quotations. Yes, eccentric is a good descriptor for his personality because I don't feel the need to emote about the extent of that eccentricity, nor do I feel the need to berate him for a specific condition that plenty of people have and function just fine with. By the way, mental illness isn't some insult you can throw at someone who says something you don't like, as you have toward other posters more than a few times in other threads. And for the purposes of this scenario, yes, her endorsement counts as a look into her politics. What evidence do we have that she's a progressive?

Also, while we're here, put me on your ignore list. Please. I'm tired of dealing with your behavior, especially these ableist ad hominems you love doing. "You're mentally ill" or "you're on drugs", rather than engaging someone's ideas, contributes nothing to political discussion.

[Macklin]

How would it go?

 

[ultraviolet]

Singer-Songwriter Taylor Swift (D-TN) / UN Ambassador Pete Buttigieg (D-IN) ✓
Rapper Kanye West (R-WY) / Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

Take away the ridiculousness and you have a more inclusive, Kim Klaick-style Christian Democrat populist versus a neoliberal, which is interesting. But with the candidates' personalities considered, West is way too eccentric.

"Eccentric" doesn't begin to cover it. Kanye is literally mentally ill, diagnosed with and has been hospitalized for bipolar disorder. He genuinely makes Trump look "very stable" in comparison.

Also, how do you know Swift is a "neoliberal?" Aside from endorsing Phil Bredesen and now Biden, I don't know anything about her personal politics. And just because she endorsed them over Republicans, that doesn't necessarily mean she wouldn't have ideally preferred more left-wing candidates. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if she's more moderate/center-left, but I don't know for sure.

Thanks for putting it in quotations. Yes, eccentric is a good descriptor for his personality because I don't feel the need to emote about the extent of that eccentricity, nor do I feel the need to berate him for a specific condition that plenty of people have and function just fine with. By the way, mental illness isn't some insult you can throw at someone who says something you don't like, as you have toward other posters more than a few times in other threads. And for the purposes of this scenario, yes, her endorsement counts as a look into her politics. What evidence do we have that she's a progressive?

Also, while we're here, put me on your ignore list. Please. I'm tired of dealing with your behavior, especially these ableist ad hominems you love doing. "You're mentally ill" or "you're on drugs", rather than engaging someone's ideas, contributes nothing to political discussion.

He is mentally ill, ignoring it and passing it off as eccentricity is not helping. Whatever “ableism” is, that was not it.

[One Term Floridian]

Taylor Swift/Ro Khanna 400 EV
Kanye West/Joel Osteen 138 EV

Kanye West’s second presidential run, while more successful than his 2020 run, was certainly no less bizarre. West demanded that he be stricken from the ballot in a number of reliably Republican states, in many cases leaving Governor Swift and Representative Khanna as the only ticket on the ballot. West also dumped money into several states that were previously seen as reliably Democratic. Journalists at the Ye for President headquarters in Cody, Wyoming reported that West was ecstatic when Oregon was narrowly called for the West/Osteen ticket.

I got the joke map out of the way for you guys.

Anyways, having her run in 2024 would be fine. I’m actually rather doubtful that she would have the time to run for governor before a 2024 run though. Not that she’d be successful in Tennessee either.

I’d imagine she’d probably get about 350 EVs and win by 7% though.

Yep she'd get curbstomped in TN, even by Kanye lol

[Ferguson97]

Jokes aside but if you were asked this scenario in 2014, would any of you have assumed Kanye was the Democrat and Swift was the Republican lol