Who is Taylor Swift and why is there so much ado about her?
The 33-year old damsel is the reputed “girl friend” of Jason Kelce, the tight end of the Kansas City Chiefs football team who will play against the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl this Sunday, February 11, 2023 in Las Vegas. “Maybe Taylor Swift and Jason Kelce will be the good luck charm for the Chiefs,” said an AP sportswriter, referring to the Chiefs who made a comeback against the favored Baltimore Ravens (my second favorite team) for the AFC championship on January 28, 2024.
I am going to watch the Super Bowl for two reasons. I want to see the 49ers (my favorite team since I lived in San Francisco during their heyday with Joe Montana) beat the Chiefs. I am also eager to see Taylor Swift plant another wet kiss on the lips of Kelce as she did on the field after the Chiefs defeated the Ravens – in case the Chiefs win. How do I know that it was a wet kiss? I saw her moist lips. I have a picture of it. A wet kiss is a better expression of love than having sexual relations. A call girl does not give you a wet kiss – because she does not love you.
PERSON OF THE YEAR
Taylor Swift was Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2023. Adolf Hitler was Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1938. I do not believe Time magazine’s choices are always rational, that is why I cut off my subscription.
Time apologists say that Time’s criteria for the selection of “Person of the Year” is “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill.” Or “the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse.”
Time selected Hitler because he affected the news and our lives for ill or for worse. Time selected Taylor Swift because she affected the news and our lives for good – for her success in the arts, in a year when we were reawakened to questions about who makes and who owns our cultural expressions.
TAYLOR SWIFT’S STORY
The Time cover story about Taylor Swift is a “35 minute read” says the article at the beginning. It could have been written for half that time. The article does not follow our prescription for good writing that I developed when I was a legal editor at Lawyer’s Co-operative Publishing Co. in Rochester, New York. I called it the 4 C’s of legal writing: CLEAR, CONCISE, COMPLETE, AND CORRECT.
Swift is attractive. But she does not have the seductive beauty of an Elizabeth Taylor nor the elegant beauty of a Grace Kelly. Swift actually looks cold. She is not the kind that a man wants to grab and jump into bed with instantaneously.
Seventeen years have elapsed since Swift’s initial performance as a pop singer, defined as a “person who sings pop songs.” Collins Dictionary. Pop is said to be a vocal style that ranges from “quiet, breathy singing to full belting within the same song.” Among the pop signers, according to Google are Elvis Presley, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, and Bruno Mars. Millions have seen her perform. Stadiums and concert halls have been filled with her fans dying to see and hear her. Country leaders have lured her to perform in their respective domains.
Swift is also a song writer. Swift has reportedly amassed a fortune of over $1 billion. No pop singer and/or writer has done that.
They have a course at the University of the Philippines about Taylor Swift. Streets have been renamed Taylor Swift.
If the Filipino pro charter change leaders could invite Taylor Swift to perform at the Iglesia Ni Cristo arena with a capacity of more than 55,000 people, they could change the constitution while the people are distracted.
REPUBLICANS READY FOR HER IF SHE ENDORSES DEMOCRATS
The liberal and pro Democrat newspaper USA Today headlined in its February 24, 2024 issue “Some Republicans fear the force of Taylor Swift”. There is significant concern that she will be campaigning for Democrats and Joe Biden and that she will even come out and endorse Biden during the Super Bowl half time.
If Swift does that, she will be booed off the stage. And her nude pictures will be circulating all over the world.
ABOUT THE NUDE PICTURES
That’s why you are reading this column, eh? You want to see the nude pictures. According to a story in the Honolulu Star Bulletin issue of January 30, 2024, the pictures were circulated in the media platform X (formerly Twitter). However, X subsequently “blocked some searches for Taylor Swift as pornographic deep fake images of the singer (that) have circulated online.”
The report said: “Sexually explicit and abusive fake images of Swift began circulating widely last week on X, making her the most famous victim of a scourge that tech platforms and anti-abuse groups have struggled to fix.”
“Unlike more conventional doctored images that have troubled celebrities in the past, the Swift images appear to have been created using an artificial intelligence image generator that can instantly create new images from a written prompt.”
I have seen how an image is created by AI (artificial intelligence). An acquaintance showed it on his computer. He had an image of Trump in a shirtless underwear buying ice cream from a vendor in Divisoria, Manila. He obviously does not like Trump. I like Trump. I have a selfie with him. So I protested and asked him to show me a Demoncrat. He created an image of Barack Obama buying ice cream from the same vendor. This AI is very, very dangerous. Legislation must be enacted to regulate it, if not totally prohibit it. I could be portrayed in the nude. Susmariosep.
Before AI, nude pictures of famous people were circulated. Remember the nude pictures of Mrs. Imelda Romualdez Marcos? They were “conventional doctored images that have troubled celebrities in the past.”
Doctored images have been used for immigration purposes. There was a case where consular authorities expressed doubt whether an immigration petitioner was still alive. So the beneficiary submitted a doctored image where the petitioner’s face was superimposed on a man holding a newspaper in front of a U.S. Post Office Building. The consul immediately detected the fake image – the man’s face was old and wrinkled, but the person’s hands that held the newspaper were obviously that of a young person. The visa was denied. But I knew of an immigration relief that was available.
Atty. Emmanuel Samonte Tipon was a Fulbright and Smith-Mundt scholar to Yale Law School where he obtained a Master of Laws degree specializing in Constitutional Law. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines. He placed third in the 1955 bar examinations. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, New York, and the Philippines. He practices federal law, with emphasis on immigration law and appellate federal criminal defense. He was the Dean and a Professor of Law of the College of Law, Northwestern University, Philippines. He has written law books and legal articles for the world’s most prestigious legal publisher and writes columns for newspapers. He wrote the case notes and annotations for the entire Immigration and Nationality Act published by The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co. and Bancroft-Whitney Co. (now Thomson Reuters). He wrote the best-seller "Winning by Knowing Your Election Laws.” Listen to The Tipon Report which he co-hosts with his son Attorney Emmanuel “Noel” Tipon. They talk about immigration law, criminal law, court-martial defense, and current events. It is considered the most witty, interesting, and useful radio show in Hawaii. KNDI 1270 AM band every Thursday at 8:00 a.m. Atty. Tipon was born in Laoag City, Philippines. Cell Phone (808) 225-2645. E-Mail: attorneytipon@gmail.com filamlaw@yahoo.com. Website: https://www.tiponimmigrationguide.com
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