Who Lost the 2024 Election? Celebrities

Kamala’s defeat proved celebrity endorsements are worthless. Americans don’t vote the way celebrities tell them to, but they just might vote against them.

The media spent months pre-hyping Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. In its aftermath, stories claimed that the lip-synching sensation’s Instagram post drove half a million fans to not only buy overpriced merchandise, but to register to vote in the 2024 election.

The Kamala campaign embraced ‘Brat’ branding based on an album from a British pop star few Americans ever heard of. It brought out Beyonce to campaign (crucially not to sing) for Kamala who had tried to model her fanbase, the KHive, on Beyonce’s rabid Beyhive fans.

Kamala brought Oprah and Lady Gaga to Philly and Katy Perry to Pittsburgh. Julia Roberts cut an ad telling women to hide their votes from their husbands. In Michigan, white wife-killing enthusiast rapper Eminem headlined a Kamala rally while Obama rapped the opening of his ‘Lose Yourself’.

Bruce Springsteen shuffled out to perform at an Obama event for Kamala in Philly. The Kamala campaign brought Megan Thee Stallion to rap in Atlanta, dragged out what was left of the (Dixie) Chicks to the DNC and Lizzo to Detroit. Even the most faded has-beens like Lance Bass of NSYNC and Jennifer Aniston of Friends were tagged to shill for Kamala. Any celeb with even the slightest name recognition, past, present or future, was tasked with getting out the vote.

And the American people responded with a massive landslide which won not only the election, but the popular vote, for the man that all the celebrities had warned them not to vote for.

“This was really an historic, flawlessly run campaign,” Joy Reid raved on MSNBC. “Queen Latifah never endorses anyone. She had every prominent celebrity voice, she had Taylor Swift, the Swifties, she had Beyonce, the Beyhive, you could not have run a better campaign.”

Reid’s answer was that America was racist. But maybe Americans just hate celebrities?

If celebrity endorsements drove elections, America would have been run by Democrats since the Kennedy administration. Apart from some immature teenagers and mentally ill people who not only pay $500 a pop to listen to a pop star lip sync music written by AI but actually build their identities around being their fans, most people view celebrities as entertainers not as moral authorities or thought leaders.

Kamala could never convince anyone that she was a celebrity. Her charisma level would about suffice for a publicist or a receptionist, and yet she very badly wanted to be the biggest star. Surrounded by celebrities, Kamala just looked like the dictator of a former Soviet republic who could pay $10 million to get Beyonce to perform at her birthday party.

The public likes celebrities to be entertaining. Kamala summoning Beyonce, Springsteen or Lizzo to lecture on abortion, sexism, democracy and racism was about as much fun as falling asleep to NPR.

Celebrities can’t make a bad product good, but they can make everyone hate it. And by the time they were done, most of the country had decided that they were not voting for Kamala.

When times are hard, all the public wants of celebrities is to shut up and sing. And they couldn’t even do that.

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