Chappell Roan Clarifies Her Stance on the 2024 Election

[swissbeauty23]

Chappell Roan clarifies her stance on the 2024 Presidential Election in new video.
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- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 25, 2024

This comes after the singer recently received lots of backlash for saying "there’s problems on both sides" and "“I have so many issues with our government in every way. There are so many things

Comments

[imnotasquirrel]

lmfao oh boy let's see how this post goes

istg i'm not even a chappell stan - her "i don't care about the fame~" shtick always made me roll my eyes even before the VMAs snafu - but all the ppl attacking her in bad faith have me in the trenches lol. i saw ppl on twitter (a lot of swifties tbqh!) accusing her of being a centrist or even being closet maga. lmfao.

way too many people also seem to equate endorsement with voting, which might be a failure of our educational system, idk. insert that pancakes vs waffles meme here. someone said in the other post that she already said she was voting for kamala, so clearly she thinks that one side is demonstrably worse, although ia she could have been more articulate with her "both sides" comment. not that i disagree that both sides ARE bad, but at this point it has become a centrist dogwhistle so better to just stay away from that phrasing altogether. (still dumb as fuck to accuse her of being centrist though.)

[mammary_glands]

last post let me know ontd is truly filled with some of the dumbest bitches on earth

[imnotasquirrel]

It's (not really) funny, but I'll see people on reddit, ontd, etc. "concede" that Kamala "isn't perfect," which is such a crazy understatement it's offensive. Talk about mealy mouthed milquetoast equivocating bullshit. And then they'll excoriate Chappell for...being inarticulate with how she says things. I guess enabling genocide warrants tepid/gentle criticism more than (inarticulately) criticizing genocide enablers does lol.

And just as another disclaimer bc the last post taught me that ONTD is incapable of discernment, I am going to vote for Kamala. I live in a fucking swing state, you don't have to tell me that Trump is worse. But I'm not going to begrudge someone from California if they feel differently (as long as they don't vote for Jill Stein lmfao).

(chappell, girl, get yourself a PR agent though, stat.)

[mammary_glands]

you don't have to reflexively defend yourself, dork. this just gave me the ick so bad omg...

[v_is_for_violet]

No offense but there’s nothing I’ve seen from her that would make me think she would have insightful or interesting things to say about political issues. Just enjoy the fun bops and focus on the local elections in your state instead. This week on my day off I’m going to educate myself about the judges up for re-election in my state. Something I’ve never taken the time to do before! Just trying to be a more informed voter this go around

[fauxkaren]

Idk when mail in ballots are getting sent out in my state but I know we have some propositions on the ballot (lmao because we're already getting so many ads on TV for them) and will probably have judges too? idk. It takes time to do the research but it does make me feel more confident in my vote.

[itscaelsday]

Girl just be honest and say you want everyone's money instead of being shunned by one side.

Or you know just tell people to do their own research on both candidates from reputable sources and vote based on that. Common sense that there's a bad side to both parties. I hate how it's used to be so apathetic for something so important and affects everyone.

[bellwetherr]

this is a lesbian who dresses in drag and has drag queens perform at her shows and you think she wants "everybody's money" come the fuck on

[kjesta]

and is selling merch in support of palestinian relief funds.

say what you want about her, and there's many things to say, but that's a braindead take. she's been v clear on her stances.

[goldenhera]

People are really doing entirely too much about Chappell. It's insane.

[helloitsmeabby]

I’m pretty sure that most people who use critical thinking skills would know that voting/endorsing a small third party will do absolutely nothing but give Trump a bigger shot of winning.

[katheli]

you'd think so but no
one of my most progressive friends, who teaches at a university, is posting non-stop about how awful the Democrats are in FB. Never even mentions the Republicans, it's like they don't exist in her world. And if they didn't exist, I'd have no issue with denouncing the Dems for not being what she, a leftist, can vote for...

...but they DO exist and they ARE the alternative.

The US has a two party system. Voting third party won't do shit unless it's got statewide major support. Vote for the lesser of two evils and try to push that party left. What's letting the fascist right-wingers win gonna do for you other than give you something new to be outraged about for the next four years?

[delfintaka]

You are saying voting/endorsing like it's the same thing. It's not, based on everything CR is saying she is voting for Harris. She just does not want to endorse her. There is nothing wrong with that!

[helloitsmeabby]

Sorry that’s not how I meant it. They’re not the same thing.

But her publicly saying she does not endorse Harris will just give Repubs/MAGAs ammo. I don’t think Chappell deserves the backlash she’s getting but voters are impressionable and many will take her stance to mean Trump is the better option, even if that’s not how she intended it (and I know that’s not what she’s saying either).

I have a bigger issues with the some of the comments in this post. Criticizing Chappell does not in any way mean that someone is pro-genocide. If members are going to be this hostile in political posts, imo it’s better that these posts be banned. I don’t need strangers on the internet making judgements on my character or my intellect or my knowledge about politics because I made one comment about some singer.

This last bit isn’t directed at you but it’s just disappointing to see such divisiveness on here.

[slaughtermatic]

sis just say fuck trump

[slaughtermatic]

like at this point were done your lil lowfi bop was never thas strong. hot to gtfo.

[theleveebroke]

she did say in the video "no, I'm not voting for Trump"

[slaughtermatic]

after six hours of clarifying the quote everyone already read and doubling down on "both sides". its that personality type I cant stand. shell be fine without me lmao.