Weirdo gives $4000 to charity so he can smash cheap guitar signed by Taylor Swift
UPDATE: Apparently the guitar was not signed (or certified) by Taylor Swift afterall. 🤣
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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!
Spork
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.
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.
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.
Not only that, they increase demand for the product, driving up the price
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.
You're probably right
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.
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.
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.
And she laughed at him all the way to the bank.
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.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/north-texas-man-smashes-signed-taylor-swift-guitar-after-buying-it/287-a1e538f9-fb00-4689-9a98-6a807bf69b45
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.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/north-texas-man-smashes-signed-taylor-swift-guitar-after-buying-it/287-a1e538f9-fb00-4689-9a98-6a807bf69b45
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 otherwiseIn 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.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/north-texas-man-smashes-signed-taylor-swift-guitar-after-buying-it/287-a1e538f9-fb00-4689-9a98-6a807bf69b45
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.
$4000 dollars to hate, $0 for love.
What a waste, children in Africa could have eaten that guitar.
Probably the second reason he destroyed it.
The hammer is still fine
She endorsed a lady for prez, so we should performatively destroy things linked with her. It totally makes sense. /s
Sigh…
It's hardly even linked to her. Like she has no connection to the guitar, it means nothing. I always wonder what's in these people's heads. It's easy to say nothing, but he had this idea, he thought it's a good idea, he maybe even told someone about that idea, he had time to think about his idea, and still thought it's a good idea?
That $4,000 could have bought him a damn nice vacation in the Caribbean.
The caribbean? You mean around those ... looks around
blackpeople???/s if it's really needed.
The West Indies? The home of Kamala Harris's Dad? How can she be black if both parents are Indian? /s
Stupidity is a hell of a drug.
Weirdos...
So I watched the video and watched as the guy was handed the hammer with the guitar. Was the auction a chance to destroy the guitar or just the guitar? Cause it looks like the former and the media is just reporting what will piss people off.
I tried to "fix" the misleading headlines with my title as most sites make it sound like it was Taylor Swift's own guitar that she signed. Sensational and highly inaccurate is what 99% of current media does now. Gotta get those clicks.
True. I saw this story twice this morning before seeing your post, and both claimed he bought Swift’s guitar.
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.
You do know that the whole 'hunting wild game' thing they're talking about is hunting captive animals in what is essentially a wild animal farm, right? They're not all taking trips to the Serengetti. They're shooting those animals right there in Texas. It's disgusting.
Yeah! Why can't they make their chili out of factory farmed animals like civilized people dammit!
See my response, re: hunting more ethically and keeping populations in check that would otherwise cause far more deaths.
Or not. Your choice.
Hard pass.
Yeah, why read anyone's clarification when you can just say something unnecessarily combative? You're right. But I'm not going to continue this.
👍
What's the difference if the animals were going to be slaughtered anyway?
I wish I was brave enough to be vegetarian but I'm not.
I would say that ethically, hunting an animal that has lived a normal, free life is very different from hunting an animal that's been a captive all its life. Especially if the former is done for reasons other than sport. Deer hunting is necessary in a lot of places because the elimination of their natural predators requires it. Otherwise the population would explode and there would be mass starvation.
Sometimes hunting actually reduces suffering for the species as a whole. On top of that, deer hunters usually eat at least part of their kill even if they keep some of it as a trophy.
Fair enough. I live in West Virginia in a neighborhood where deer walk around sometimes 14 deep. They aren't scared of people or cars. I have a deep understanding of how deer hunting prevents a far worse situation. And deer meat is good.
As to your point, it's a good one. I'm just saying these animals were going to live a shitty life and be slaughtered anyway so why would the method of execution matter as long as it is painless as possible.
Lots of money to make one look silly.
should require a license to handle your own money. minimum intelligence measurement at least
Oh not at all... he still gave his money to the same charity as someone who would have loved and cherished the guitar, all he's accomplished is making himself $4000 poorer and being publicly known as a weirdo.
Huh... So that's what Bansky looks like.
In a way it is performance art and it's beautiful
"Look what I did for you my Cheeto Jesus! 🙋♂️"
I'm waiting for the auction for the giant faucet.
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....
What was the charity?
High school seniors looking for scholarships into Agricultural programs
https://files.catbox.moe/whdqra.pdf
Good job with the messaging there, Banksy.
How can he smash?
Metal as fuck
That makes no sense. It's sexist too. Look at it from this angle... If we didn't know anything about who Taylor Swift was and how she behaved herself, and we only knew she signs on a see thru bikini, then things would be different. Ohhh these are her $4000 panties! Save them for prosperity. But instead we have an instrument she uses to transform her intellectual prominence into music and now it's gotta trash that shit. It's evil. If she was a Republican racist piece of shit they would be taking that guitar to some altar somewhere. Ultimately it's a sexist action where they don't value her political views.
I don't think it's sexist, it's just rude and disgusting to behave like this. I don't care for death metal music, but it's be cool to see their instruments in person, not destroy them.
that's fair
I think their actions can be rooted in misogyny but saying it has nothing to do her political views is... Wrong and contradicted by your own comment