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.
Huh… So that’s what Bansky looks like.
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.
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 fucking weirdo for smashing a guitar with a hammer
I thought Republicans had angry down. This guy can’t even do angry right.
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!"
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.
A smaller hammer
Knife and fork
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.
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?
Spork
Depends. Do they eat it?
True.
Jeff Jarret is somewhere shaking his head
I had to look this thing up, but it’s pretty much exactly what I expected
This almost feels like satire good lord
See this looks pretty alright to me. The company might not always be the best but you get to try different wild game. The cooking photo is just them taking a silly photo. And you know why I really want to go: Talking to a crowd of people if “stick a pig” is the funniest thing ever or 100% serious.
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.
I maintain that calling them Redcaps, basically an especially spiteful and nasty kind of goblin, is the most fitting way to label them
I’d be willing to bet he owns many things but has a very deep debt.
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.
There’s also the “If you’re gonna smash a guitar, go Townsend on it, don’t use a hammer” angle.
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.
It’s the Side A to the Side B of the same old record.
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.
Well he convinced me!
I not going to vote for Taylor Swift for President.
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!
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.
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.
I wonder if it was really Taylor Swifts guitar, or if this was all just political theater.
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
It was a cheap guitar he bought, signed and pocketed $4k.
What was the charity?
High school seniors looking for scholarships into Agricultural programs
I mean, it’s both funny and very benign, no complaints from me and apparently Taylor swift.
I mean, he paid for it and its his to what he wants with it.
If you think it was worth more than that, should have brought it yourself
He’s welcome to smash almost anything I own for $500 apiece.
Id smash…
Good job with the messaging there, Banksy.
