UPDATE: Apparently the guitar was not signed (or certified) by Taylor Swift afterall. 🤣
What a fucking weirdo for smashing a guitar with a hammer
Without a doubt the dorkiest way to smash a guitar.
I can’t think of a less rock and roll way to destroy a guitar.
Knife and fork
Okay, you have a point, but still… if you’re going to smash a guitar and you don’t go all The Who on it, what’s even the point?
Boomerang was just shut down this week. RIP
That only works with acoustics. Electrics don’t go KABONG!
See at first I was with you but then again these things work in cycles. I think by the time you get to knife and fork it turns into art again.
Yeah, if you just smash it, it’s about the smashing, when you use a tool, the focus shifts to the tool, and a regular shop hammer is just… bland in a way a knife and fork aren’t.
Spork
Depends. Do they eat it?
A smaller hammer
True.
He looks old enough to remember them bands from the 60s and 70s, now THEY knew how to smash a guitar (it has been too long and I am not looking up which band(s) did it hehe)
The Who
THANK YOU!
Yes, who was the band?
No, I don’t think The Band was ever known for smashing instruments.
Yes, who was the band known for smashing instruments?
I don’t think Yes was either…
Ahh, how shall I do it? Oh, I know!
I’ll have Taylor Swift sign a guitar, a harmless little guitar! And then, I’ll put that guitar in a box, and then I’ll put that box inside of another box, then I’ll auction that box to myself and when I win it…
AHAHA! I’LL SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!
It’s brilliant brilliant brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say!
Or, to save on postage, I could poison myself WITH THIS!"
I thought Republicans had angry down. This guy can’t even do angry right.
Jeff Jarret is somewhere shaking his head
I just saw Jeff Jarret fail to his knees in a piggly wiggly
I know Weirdo is the current kinda forced (IMO) word we’re hurling at the magas these days, but that kind of behavior is legit weird. Like really weird.
There’s obviously the “some people have more money than brains” angle of dropping 4K on something so you can destroy it.
Then there’s the “I’m a grown-ass man, and I’m so insecure about a female celebrity endorsing a politician I disagree with that I’m going to drop 4K so that I can publicly and in front of cameras showcase that insecurity for the entire world to see, while gloating and being proud of it” angle. (Which by the way, smoothbrain magas, serves to amplify her endorsement, not diminish it.)
I can’t promise I’m not going to drive around with “Fuck Donald Trump” blaring and my windows down all during election day and the day after (regardless of outcome), but I’m not going to spend $4k for the privilege, and I’m sure as hell not going to do it for an assembled audience.
It’s not really forced imo. Waltz called them weird conversationally and it just kinda stuck. Likely because it fits so well.
I agree that it’s fitting and the word should have been applied to them sooner. However, I definitely think some folks and journalists go out of their way to use the word. I’m not even saying there is anything wrong with that, just acknowledging that sometimes it feels a little forced.
Congratulations, you’ve noticed the cracks in the simulation.
It sounds forced because it is forced as a completely transparent DNC strategy play.
Except they stole that from the left, too. Mainstream leftists have been calling liberals and right wingers weird for literal years before Walz even entered the national conversation. Libs have just turned around and projected it onto CHUDs.
Weird how I just can’t stop finding parallels between libs and MAGA.
You’re not half as smart as you fancy yourself to be.
Yeah, things that are different often have similarities. The logical fallacy comes in extrapolating those similarities into incorrect conclusions
The ocean and the sky are both blue, so sky must also be liquid.
It stuck because of how they reacted to it. If they had reacted the same they’ve done by being called fascists, racists, nazis, misogynists, paedophiles etc. it wouldn’t have become a thing. But the one thing they can’t handle being called is “weird”, which is in itself extremely weird. I’m all for absolutely overusing this and finding other words they can’t handle, it’s hilarious to see them so clearly show that they’re just mentally 3-year-olds having angry outbursts.
I maintain that calling them Redcaps, basically an especially spiteful and nasty kind of goblin, is the most fitting way to label them
Oho good one! I never made that connection until now 👏
Ferengi. They embody the ferengi from star Trek to me. Regardless, neither of ours works because they are nerdy references a good deal of them don’t understand. They understand being called weird though, and it gets under their skin. That’s the important bit. I wouldn’t care if someone called me that, but it damn sure bothers them, so that’s what they’re called even though other words fit better, like rape apologists.
Quark could actually grow and learn though, these people seem incapable of that. It’s unfair to Ferengi to compare them.
that kind of behavior is legit weird
This kind of “buy things to destroy them so other people can’t have it” protests from the petite bourgeois are nothing new, though.
They’re just expressions of rage by people with more money than empathy.
I’d be willing to bet he owns many things but has a very deep debt.
The sign in the background says “wildgame dinner”.
I’m guessing this is some redneck hunters group that either auctioned that off to be destroyed on stage, or he bought it in his own time for this act.
These kind of people live to hate libs. It’s one of their favorite passtimes.
In that context, this seems totally normal.
There’s also the “If you’re gonna smash a guitar, go Townsend on it, don’t use a hammer” angle.
It’s the Side A to the Side B of the same old record.
I’m pretty sure - wait, hear me out - that Taylor Swift is still able to sign her name, and that - you won’t believe this - other guitars exist.
Big if true. Do you have any sources?
She should sign hammers
This is just sad. He could have given it to a kid on a cancer ward who loves Taylor Swift. He probably has grandkids who love her music, they could have had it. He surely has kids in his neighbourhood who love her music, could have donated it to a youth music group or something. But this is what he chooses to do with it. To impress a man who still doesn’t know how to apply foundation after 50+ years of using it, apparently just rolling his face across a tableful of it each morning like he’s fingerprinting his head.
If Trump doesn’t even so much as ‘truth’ about this, I think this silly fuck is gonna feel genuine grief. He’s probably expecting a phone call, or even a meeting & photo op next time Trump’s in town. “I spent 4 grand to do this, surely he’ll notice me!”
Sad, sad, sad.
It’s virtue signaling but don’t tell them that or they’ll lose their minds.
If he has kids or grandkids, chances are they already hate him.
Ok, we’re going to grandpa’s. Leave your tablets & phones in the car. Don’t talk about music, church, politics, school, rainbows, libraries, pronouns, anyone gay or trans, tv shows, or really anything. See if Grandma can turn on an old Disney movie, any that came out before you were born, and we’ll leave right after lunch.
If I throw my money away to simp on a e-girl I’ll see some boob. Donny wouldn’t even give dumdum over there the time of day.
Shame about the guitar, but on the bright side: This seems like a good way to trick conservatives into donating to charities.
- celebrity angers conservatives by being normal
- celebrity donates merch to charity
- charity starts an auction for merch
- conservatives buy it
Not only that, they increase demand for the product, driving up the price
This is just like the chicken-hawk conservative dipshits buying expensive French wine just so they could publicly pour it down a storm drain in front of reporters. And all because France didn’t agree with the invasion of Iraq (which we now know was founded on lies).
Time truly is a closed loop.
They did it with beer as well, when the beer company didn’t express enough hatred of LGBTQ+ people. Bought lots of their beer to teach them a lesson by not drinking it. And I seem to remember them doing it with shoes at one point.
Although at least this time they can’t seem to be able to shake the ‘weird’ label. This won’t help.
It’s like the emperor’s new clothes. They can’t shake the label because they are just genuinely weird fuckers.
One less signed guitar, makes the others more valuable right? 🤔🤣
Like that movie with Jet Li!
The One! Best nü metal infused sci-fi martial arts flick ever made. Remember when he picked up a police motorcycle in each hand and used them as clubs? That was pretty sweet.
That movie was the first time I heard Disturbed’s Let the Bodies Hit the Floor. I think it stuck in my head because The One scratched the same action scene itch that the Matrix did.
Was it Disturbed? I really thought that was Drowning Pool
You’re probably right
It was going to drive me nuts so I looked it up lol. Disturbed was on the soundtrack with “Down With the Sickness”. And “Bodies” by Drowning Pool was on there too
Drowning Pool, not Disturbed
Maybe this guy is like the Taylor Swift guitar Highlander. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE TAYLOR SWIFT GUITAR!
That is a really good point haha.
I’d do this to a conservative celebrity, but for $4000 I could buy Kevin Sorbo’s whole sad fucking life.
You know the difference between Kevin Sorbo and a fishing lure?
A fishing lure gets cast.
I just hope both Taylor Swift and whoever got that $4000 learned a valuable lesson in all of this.
The $4,000 was towards a charity. “The proceeds for the dinner went to the Future Farmers of America”, to teach kids about agriculture and keep us fed in the future.
Well I sure hope those kids learned their lesson. To the tune of a $4000 donation.
The money never made it to her, he spent the $4,000 on a charity dinner. The proceeds for the dinner went to the Future Farmers of America, to teach kids about agriculture and keep us fed in the future.
In my opinion he can be as weird as he wants with the guitar, he dropped big money on a good cause. He has money to give, and he gave it.
With the fuckery that goes on with charities, I have serious doubts that that money is going towards any kind of good cause.
“100% of the money raised goes directly to local youth and agricultural education programs.”
Farming in small areas like this is a big, and SUPER underfunded industry that is the backbone of a country as big as America. It keeps food costs low, and is a fundamental basis of the economy that gets overlooked.
These are local farmers in rural Texas acting like farmer hicks. Not slimeball business people scamming money from the poor in the name of mega charities like Autism Speaks, or the National Breast Cancer foundation.
A million reasons to be upset with conservatives, this is not one of them. Touch grass.
It reminds me of the weirdoes buying wine to splill it down the drain when France had the audacity of telling the truth in the un during the whole Irak mess. Of course the wine makers and sellers were fine with that.
Or all the
homophobestransphobesweirdos who bought a bunch of bud light only to shoot it afterfox news told them to be absolutely outraged over a limited edition 6 pack in canada that they never would have heard about otherwiseweirdos who bought a bunch of bud light only to shoot it after
In fairness, a bud light can being ripped apart by a .22 hollow point is a pretty awesome sight. And what else is canned horse piss good for?
at least go Boston tea party and steal it
I wonder if it was really Taylor Swifts guitar, or if this was all just political theater.
It was a cheap guitar he bought, signed and pocketed $4k.
It was a guitar she signed, but never played or used, and it was “certified”.
It was also apparently signed, donated, and put up for charity before her political endorsement, I can’t imagine this was “planned” as a political play
Imagine this 65 year old man, sitting at home listing to All Too Well, because he could really relate to dating a Jake Gyllenhaal type, then Taylor tweets that she’s all in for Harris, and his world comes crashing down.
What a great way to motivate Swifties into voting.
Well he convinced me!
I not going to vote for Taylor Swift for President.
What a waste, children in Africa could have eaten that guitar.
Probably the second reason he destroyed it.
The hammer is still fine
