You know you’re getting desperate when your presidential campaign trots out plus-sized music personality Lizzo to try to persuade people to vote for you. What she knows about politics is unclear, but we do know that the Detroit-born singer, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, was accused by three of her former dancers in 2023 of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. Some of the allegations are pretty nasty, shall we say.
Taking the stage at a Kamala Harris rally at Western International High School in Detroit Saturday, Lizzo told America the truth about what would happen in a Harris-Walz administration:
I’m so proud to be from this city, you know they say if Kamala wins then the whole country will be like Detroit.
Proud like Detroit, resilient like Detroit. The same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry. Put some respect on Detroit’s name.
Oops. Not sure the Kamala HQ wanted to hear that.
Watch:
Wow! Lizzo just said “If Kamala wins the entire country will be like Detroit.”pic.twitter.com/USeAJ5DnEA
— aka (@akafacehots) October 19, 2024
Naturally, the singer was ratioed into next week because, you see, there’s just one little problem with wanting to make the rest of America just like Detroit: the Motor City is pretty much the poster child of urban decay, crime, and decline in the United States. The once proud metropolis now features rows of empty houses and a dystopian downtown.
Users were quick to thank Lizzo for what appeared to many to be an endorsement of GOP nominee Donald Trump. Here’s a sample:
Best endorsement of Trump possible. #Trump2024
Biggest Trump endorsement I’ve ever seen in my life, shocked they didn’t cut her mic
All this video needs is a statement at the end that says. “I’m Donald Trump and I approved this message”
Here’s the classy singer arriving at the event (warning: graphic language).
Lizzo shows off her private jet as she heads to Detroit to campaign for Kamala Harris.
“This is how a bad b*tch saves democracy. You ho’s couldn’t even spell democracy.” pic.twitter.com/tji0O0KXLc
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 19, 2024
This is what Kamala Harris would bring to the rest of the nation:
Detroit had boasted around 1.8 million residents in the 1950s, but numbers shrunk as tens of thousands of white residents fled to the suburbs, followed years later by the Black middle class.
These hardships spilled over into the 21st century as the auto industry shrunk and jobs dried up.
Just over a decade ago, the city filed for federal bankruptcy protection after a years-long financial crisis.
With debts topping $18 billion, the city could no longer pay its bills and was unable to provide basic services to its residents.
This sent thousands flocking elsewhere, and the city suffered an unprecedented population decline. Numbers fell to roughly 685,000 by the end of 2012.
Now you may live in Detroit, and you may love it, and if so, I mean no respect for you, and some are saying that the city is on the rise of late. That being said, what happened there is not something that we want to see as the model for the nation.
Detroit has suffered economically worse than any other of the major American cities and its rampant urban decay is now glaringly apparent. Documented disintegration, showcasing structures formerly a source of civic pride now stand as monuments to the city’s fall from grace. pic.twitter.com/Tk1WPkOf7W
— Melissa (@mjk60631) October 19, 2024
Naturally, Team Trump wasn’t impressed with the Lizzo appearance and blasted the Harris folks in a campaign email:
Kamala Harris needs Lizzo on the campaign trail to hide the fact that Michiganders were feeling good under President Trump – real wages were higher, prices were lower, and everyone was better off. Kamala Harris has wrecked Michigan’s economy with runaway spending and job-killing EV mandates, and her proposed tax hikes would cost the average family over $2,000. Harris can deploy multimillionaire celebrities to try to save her flailing campaign, but everyday Michiganders support President Trump because it is time to retire Harris’ weak, failed, and dangerously liberal agenda once and for all
The fact that Harris is relying on the endorsement of someone like Lizzo, who has a history of posting provocative hyper-sexualized images to social media, shows how desperate they’ve become.
Vote. Let’s not turn America into Detroit. And pro tip: if you’re getting your political advice from Lizzo, you need to rethink your life’s choices.
