“I provides you with a baby”
Elon Musk has responded to Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris within the US presidential election in a put up on X.
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Entrepreneur Musk, who owns X and renamed the platform from Twitter final 12 months, has endorsed Harris’ rival within the election race, Donald Trump, and lately has more and more voiced help for right-wing politicians.
After Swift introduced on Instagram yesterday (September 10) that she might be voting for Harris and her operating mate Tim Walz within the upcoming election, Musk replied on X, “Tremendous Taylor … you win … I provides you with a baby and guard your cats with my life.”
The reference to Swift’s cats is in response to the singer’s put up, through which she included a photograph of herself holding Benjamin Button, considered one of her three cats. She signed off her message as “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Girl” too, clearly poking enjoyable at current feedback made by Trump’s operating mate JD Vance, through which he described outstanding Democrat politicians as “childless cat women”.
Tremendous Taylor … you win … I provides you with a baby and guard your cats with my life
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 11, 2024
Musk has since doubled down on his feedback, posting one other message on X right this moment through which he wrote, “Toxoplasma gondii is a hazard to our democracy.” The parasite sexually reproduces solely in cats, and research previously have linked it to situations together with obsessive-compulsive dysfunction (OCD) and schizophrenia – because of this, some information retailers have known as the findings “loopy cat-lady syndrome”.
Toxoplasma gondii is a hazard to our democracy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 11, 2024
When Vance first made his “childless cat woman” feedback, they had been met with an outpouring of criticism, most notably from girls with out youngsters – Jennifer Aniston amongst them. The actor, who has spoken brazenly about her struggles with fertility, wrote on Instagram, “I actually can not consider that is coming from a possible VP. All I can say is … Mr Vance, I pray that your daughter is lucky sufficient to bear youngsters of her personal at some point.”
It seems as if cats have gotten a recurring theme all through this election marketing campaign, with Trump final evening repeating baseless claims about unlawful immigrants from Haiti consuming home cats and canines in an Ohio metropolis on the first presidential debate between himself and Harris – one thing he has been roundly mocked for.
And Trump has had issues to say about Swift’s endorsement of his rival, too. He known as into Fox & Mates this morning (per Variety) to say, “I used to be not a Taylor Swift fan. It was only a query of time. She couldn’t probably endorse [current president Joe] Biden… However she’s a really liberal particular person. She appears to at all times endorse a Democrat, and she or he’ll in all probability pay a worth for it within the market.”
Swift endorsed Biden within the 2020 election, when he ran towards Trump, and has criticised Trump previously too. In June, Trump described her as “unusually stunning”, and in August shared AI-generated photos falsely suggesting he had help from the singer and her followers.
She addressed these in her Instagram put up, too, writing, “Lately I used to be made conscious that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his website. It actually conjured up my fears round AI, and the risks of spreading misinformation. It introduced me to the conclusion that I have to be very clear about my precise plans for this election as a voter. The only option to fight misinformation is with the reality.”