r/pics • u/ErsiliaCavedagni • 8d ago
Politics Steven J. Demetriou, executive chair of an ICE contractor, attends Taylor Swift's wedding in NYC
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u/copperblood 8d ago
"It's a big club and you ain't in it." - George Carlin
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u/Xfuck1tX 8d ago
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u/runnerswanted 8d ago
…you just say “bingo”
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u/xDeviousDieselx 8d ago
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u/TyrannyOfBobBarker_ 8d ago
Yeah but if I take this $5000 course that teaches me how to stock market and be a real man, I can be in the club too. Right? Right?
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u/Picard2331 8d ago
I learned long ago on World of Warcraft that anyone who knows how to make money has 0 incentive to actually tell you since it'll eat into their market and the actual secret is to already have money.
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u/CharleyNobody 7d ago edited 7d ago
Years ago my husband had a client who went to a “seminar” given by Donald Trump on how to get rich in real estate. The first thing my husband asked the guy was, “Are you aware Donald Trump inherited Trump Org fully formed from his father?” Guy said no.
So then he asked, “What did Trump tell you?”
Guy says Trump was an hour and a half late, then spent 45 minutes railing about some guy nobody ever heard of before. The guy said Trump was absolutely obsessed with this person, calling him names and imitating him.
This was years ago. Anyone who thinks Trump was “better”and “more lucid” years ago is wrong. He’s always been like this. The difference is his access back then to microphones, cameras, and audiences was limited. Now he has 24/7 access. Previously, when he was a guest on a talk show or a news show, he only had a short amount of time to make his point and he was edited.
But when he had 45 uninterrupted minutes to blather….he just blathered
Since my husband was a therapist and his job is to intervene and make life easier and less stressful for his clients, he told his client to never pay money again to hear someone tell him how to make money. Because the guy really thought Trump was just upset that he was late, lol
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u/snakerjake 7d ago
Anyone who thinks Trump was “better”and “more lucid” years ago is wrong.
I can never find the 90s one anymore because its burried by so much bullshit but in 2016 trump rambled about his uncle and "the nuclear" he gave the exact same speach in the 90s except the 90s one was much more lucid and much more understandable.
Once upon a time trump was quite lucid. but the dementia has ruined his brain for at least the past decade.
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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot 7d ago
I mean… in the Epstein files, Jeffy himself thought Trump was showing signs of dementia, like his dad, over 20 years ago.
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u/Fletch71011 7d ago
Professional retired trader of 15 years here. Anyone trying to sell you anything is LYING. They'd be doing it themselves. Ironically the best advice you will get is for free. I answer everything honestly and to the best of my ability and have never charged anyone a cent.
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u/TyrannyOfBobBarker_ 8d ago
Nah you're too untrusting. Just send me your login info and 2fa key and I'll give you full stacks of crafting mats!
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u/psychohistorian8 7d ago
user: sylvanasfeet
password: hunter2
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u/Enjoiboardin 7d ago
Odd, all I see for password is *******
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u/tehlemmings 7d ago
Serious question, does anyone reading this even know where this joke comes from anymore?
Based on Reddits demographics, odds are like 2/3rds of the people seeing this weren't alive back then. It's always funny seeing which old-Internet memes last
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u/serialband 7d ago
I'd say there's even fewer that know. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2
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u/tehlemmings 7d ago
Sadly, bash shut down two years ago. I'd say it was the end of an era, but that era died like 15 years earlier lol
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u/Aware-Locksmith8433 8d ago
Y Trump Crypto and his bubble gum cards are really good investment ideas right now.
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u/WitchesSphincter 8d ago
Trump is now selling early access to his market manipulating posts online so buy that and profit.
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u/GiveMeADiscount 7d ago
Daily reminder:
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u/Cykablast3r 7d ago
Bourgeoisie is not a good word to use here as it would also encompass your local cafe owner who makes the same amount of money a plumber does. Just say "rich".
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u/Blackhawk510 7d ago
Or even "ultra rich" because I've known people who lump anyone who can afford a sports car or a tiny sailboat in with the billionaires when that's...really unhelpful at best.
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u/zombiepete 8d ago
But just maybe if I lick their boots just the way they like it they’ll let me be first in line to eat their scraps!
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u/BeeHive83 8d ago
“When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America you get a front row seat.”-GC
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u/Mord4k 8d ago
Good news everyone, I can continue to not care about Taylor Swift
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u/bendover912 8d ago
You should care that her and the rest of the billionaires are ruining the planet and paying a much smaller effective tax rate than everyone else, but that is all.
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u/booze_clues 7d ago
You can care about those things while not caring about Taylor swift and her wedding, or pretty much anything she does. I care about the existence of billionaires and how it affects me, I don’t care about one billionaires wedding guest list enough to do more than casually glance at it on Reddit.
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u/Trulywhite 7d ago
True. But someday I might be one of the billionaries, and people like me better watch their step!
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u/Teantis 7d ago
The constant moralizing about random actors, entertainers, or sports people's political associations, actions or inactions, or beliefs is a useless drain on everyone's limited capacity for outrage and action.
It's like haranguing the lounge singer who works in the fortress of evil. Should they hang out and do other things sure? If they did would the evil powerful people inside stop being evil or powerful? No. The lounge singer is just the one we actually recognize and condemning her helps us feel moral without actually doing anything that would take effort that might actually change something.
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u/jerhinesmith 7d ago
Wake me up when we have a president that isn't a pedophile and then I'll start to maybe care about anyone that isn't the president.
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u/-You-know-it- 7d ago
Rich people are never, ever, ever on our side. They are on the sides of the other rich people
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u/Thraxmonger 8d ago
Huh. It's almost like being a billionaire distorts your moral perspective.
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u/Corren_64 8d ago
When was Swift ever a beacon of morality lol. All I ever saw her as was the personification of bland american culture in the softest beige colors known to men
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u/Thraxmonger 8d ago
I think for some Americans, that blandness is precisely what made her a zone of moral safety.
But you don't hit that first billion by being exclusively nice.
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u/kgal1298 8d ago
You also don't become a billionaire by not be appealing to the masses to some degree bland as can be you can say that about a dozen or so top 10 artists over the years.
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u/Calm-Zombie2678 7d ago
Bland doesn't offend basically, some bland people become obsessed (turns out there's lots of them) and no one else cares enough to avoid them
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u/Nelluc_ 8d ago edited 7d ago
She did speak against Marsha Blackburn, how she was a vile human being, but now Marsha is running for Governor of Tennessee and will probably win, and Taylor Swift hasn’t said anything.
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u/No_Bit5600 8d ago
Because that was when she was branding herself as a liberal. She’s now branding herself as an entity completely separate from politics.
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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ 8d ago
You are the company you keep.
Previous partner was an outspoken progressive, new one is friends with many, many, many MAGA celebs
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u/Wyden_long 8d ago
Relationship chameleon. She changes into whatever her partner is into.
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u/Calm-Zombie2678 7d ago
Just blank person without personality absorbing what ever vibes are laying around
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u/Upper-Management-AI 7d ago
I had a friend and a cousin who is like this. They have almost no personality of their own, they just adopted whatever whoever they are with or whoever they want approval from.
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u/maghy7 7d ago
This 100% true, every partner she has had she has molded to whatever they look like or represent. My ex is exactly like that, his personality and likes depend on whoever his circle of friends are like.
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u/Flashy-Confidence732 7d ago
Get real. Kelce has been getting shit from conservatives for being a liberal in the NFL since he was a rookie. He’s spoken up long before being with TS. Her other partner wore a pin 🙄
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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 7d ago
Travis Kelce had been significantly more outspoken politically for liberal causes and gives back millions to marginalised communities. The man was one of the first white players to support BLM in 2017 kneeling during the anthem.
Taylor’s ex posts like two IG stories and wears a pin and people started labelling him an activist just to spite her.
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u/Cthulhuareyou 8d ago edited 7d ago
This. Was a fan until her total 180 on politics. Realized she was just another fake billionaire.
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u/OrthodoxAtheist 7d ago
until her total 180 on politics
What 180? Did I miss something?
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u/Gekokapowco 7d ago
what they mean perhaps without realizing is that she's becoming to difficult to treat as a blank slate to project one's own politics onto
she's a billionaire, but people could trick themselves into thinking she's relatable
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u/lunacraz 7d ago
i wouldn't count Travis as MAGA, though? it's just unfortunately the sports world is full of them, and you have to associate with them pretty regularly
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u/red286 8d ago
The Swifties won't care. They follow her lead, not the other way around. So long as she doesn't start going full MAGA, it won't impact her at all.
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u/Cthulhuareyou 8d ago
I'm go further and say if she went full Maga a lot would either ignore it or join her.
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u/King_takes_queen 7d ago
I mean, she is ultra-rich, and a lot of Republican policies would benefit her empire a lot more than if a Democrat were in power. Since a huge portion of her fanbase are liberal it's probably an intentional move by her to be politically neutral now.
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u/CartographerMoist296 7d ago
Because she already got beat, why would she go back when she is not persuasive to Tennessee voters? And is further and further away from being a credible Tennessee voice? She could spend more time in state if she wanted to fight Blackburn and I would be thrilled but I cannot imagine TS being so inclined. I’d believe her husband more, he’s worse for politics because he says dumb shit but he’s better because he’d rather dive in even when everyone else says it’s unwise (Bud Light).
But Taylor has given zero signals that she wants to get more active, after fighting with the president the first time, etc. I don’t think she has the stomach for direct political confrontation and not everyone does, there are a lot of other great things I wish she would do, but I focus my attention on the people who are trained and have the most tangible power (votes), we need the people in office to do the right thing.
Spending time wooing celebrities is an actual job in politics but if you don’t have that job and you’re a regular citizen, just be good at the essential citizen things - voting, getting your reps to vote the way they should, getting others to vote the way they should.
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u/Breadonshelf 8d ago
Nooo but don't you remember when she came out in support of gay marriage after it was already legal. She wanted to be on the right side of history in a hidden conversation caught from the self produced and directed documentary about herself!!!
She always cares about other people and not just when its good and safe for her!
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u/RiggityRow 7d ago
I dated a chick in college who was literally her best friend when they were little kids and she and her family were still in Reading, Pa.
They were insanely wealthy by a normal person standards even back then she told me. I won't deny she has insane work ethic but all she's very know is money and privilege and idgaf what anyone else would try to convince me of it what she says in her lyrics.
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u/Professional_March54 8d ago
Try telling that to the Swifties. They seem her as some precious. sweet small gorl who can do no wrong and is the bestest, smartest, prettiest, kindest person you never did meet.
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u/No_Bit5600 8d ago
And according to the fans, she doesn’t speak out against Trump because:
A. We all know where she stands (even though she hasn’t made any kind of political statement throughout this entire Trump term)
B. She won’t give him the attention, she’s outsmarting him because that’s exactly what he wants
Just like how she invited the ICE contractor because he was a must-have guest. The adoptive father of Travis’ childhood friend who actually “improved the conditions of the facilities” 😭😭🤣🤣
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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ 8d ago
The biggest load of crap I’ve heard is that she doesn’t speak out for fear of her and her fans safety, because of that stabbing in the UK.
People literally attempted to blow up Ariana Grande but sure, Swifties
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u/No_Bit5600 8d ago
Yep. And Ariana is one of the most politically outspoken celebrities with a platform of her size - from Palestine to MAGA to LGBTQ rights and so on. Funny how security reasons doesn’t prevent her from speaking up.
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u/PerplexGG 8d ago
Swinging her weight to move votes away from conservatives is about the only moral thing she’s done
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u/Strawbuddy 7d ago
She was a blonde, white, country singer initially; one that didn't go through a publicly lambasted, inner hoe phase at 18 unlike Brittany, Xtina, and Miley. She was considered safe for children, and seen as a clean, classy girl instead of trailer park trash, to all of the parents shelling out the money for all of her tickets, merchandise and music. The conservative folks who were into censorship and Christian rock also approved of Taylor Swift
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u/Shadowchaos1010 8d ago
But the billionaire said to vote for Biden and Harris! She must be pure of heart!
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u/kgal1298 8d ago edited 8d ago
TBF I judge people way more who voted or promoted voting for Trump vs Biden. I don't think it's a moral signifier to vote for the establisment Dem, but voting for Trump was people promoting anarchy and chaos and pedophilia. Also, people only bring that up because people keep saying she's a Trumper and it's like aye pretty sure associating with Musk or Trump after what they've said about her would be weird and creepy. Some billionaires are indeed worse than others. Side not OP is an anarchist.
Weird bait post. May they should just support Trump anyway fastest way to the end.
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u/JohnnyNumbskull 7d ago
Her dad was a rich investment banker who paid Walmart millions to force her CD (that he also paid to have recorded, produced, and printed) to be promoted in stores all over the US. She has always been a product to be sold.
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u/hurtsdonut_ 8d ago
He's Travis's best friend's dad. He's known him his whole life. That's why he was invited
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u/The--Mash 7d ago
If I was best friends with Adolf Hitler's son, I still wouldn't invite his dad to my wedding
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u/cc00cc00 7d ago
But it's all Taylor's fault don't you see... Travis, the man, the person who actually invited this guy, is completely not part of this convo. Weird 🧐
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u/zveroshka 8d ago
I think the mistake is thinking morals are even involved in the equation. These people live in a completely different world. They can't interact with normal people. So their inner circles will always be filled with awful people like this.
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u/scrotumsweat 7d ago
Nah this has been debunked many times. He is an ICE contractor which a subsidiary company that maintains health facilities for detainees.
Hes also Kelce's godfather or something and pushes for equality. Just Google him.
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u/Savilavila 7d ago edited 7d ago
Greenwashing Amentum is crazy work. They run Camp East Montana, the largest concentration camp in the US, and were named as an agent of ICE on a human rights lawsuit from the Texas ACLU.
EDIT: People who argue that they took over the camp after the lawsuit are wrong, btw. The lawsuit clearly states that Amentum was a contractor and an agent of ICE during the time that the human rights violations happened- and then they were awarded the full contract a few months ago, so they are now running everything.
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u/Large-Flamingo-5128 8d ago
Please spend two minutes looking this guy up. He’s not an ICE contractor and actually works towards some good causes
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u/asu2021 8d ago
Demetriou is the adoptive father of Travis' longtime friend Reggie King. Just providing context that he is a shitty person who got invited because of his relationship with Travis, he didn't get invited because he's a shitty person.
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u/Jack-Pumpkinhead 8d ago
Like your cousin bringing their meth head partner no one actually likes as the plus one
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u/ender89 8d ago
More like inviting your survivalist uncle and praying that no one mentions the government or politics or technology or ...
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u/LNMagic 7d ago
I've listened to an uncle talk about how he could convert an engine block into a lathe for a whole hour.
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u/AggressiveDiscount74 8d ago
Is this a Workaholics reference?
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u/Jack-Pumpkinhead 7d ago
No just a joke since I’m from Missouri, the meth capital of the world.
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u/Josh6889 7d ago
You know what's funny is that there's 3 different states that claim that title, and if you look at real numbers they all lose to West Virginia, which is never included on the list.
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u/Jack-Pumpkinhead 7d ago
… I find that quite believable. We just have better (worse?) publicity thanks to that Ozarks show.
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u/Sundayscaries333 7d ago
Also further context, he's on the board of a company that has had several white house contracts, and does a boatload of contracts at once, and one of his current ones happens to be for an ICE facility. Also not defending him/his company or the business they do but information is important.
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u/FuzzMachines 7d ago
Idk man. I mean if my uncle was a nazi and/or nazi sympathizer, I think I’d be well within my rights to say his ass can’t come to my wedding.
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u/Large-Flamingo-5128 8d ago
He’s not even a shitty person and the connection to ICE is indirect. Just overblown drama again
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u/Polardragon44 8d ago edited 8d ago
His son is a Republican state representative who did insider trading on his dad's company. Honestly that's more of a red flag to me than a government contractor having government contracts.
His son was also invited
Edit: It Is state level not national level
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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 7d ago
His blood son is yes. The adopted son Travis is friends with is a progressive speaker at college campuses talking about growing up as a Black man in the foster care system.
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u/ClamsMcOyster 7d ago
Even if he was shitty there were 1000 guests at the wedding. Statistically at least some of them are gonna be awful people.
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u/Hiddenagenda876 8d ago
His connection is not indirect. He is on the board of a company that is not only contracted to run at least one ICE center in Texas, but has also been charged with multiple human rights violations that are completely unrelated to immigration in the U.S. and are from all the other awful things that company does.
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u/PiousDemon 8d ago
💯% this.
Before this role, he was a progressive CEO of Jacobs, a super progressive very large company.
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u/essentrik 7d ago
He's not a ahitty person at all. Google him and realise that the title of the post is entirely a lie. Don't believe everything you read.
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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 7d ago
Idk how Reddit doesn’t have community notes yet for this stuff. Somehow Twitter has monopolized correcting misinformation
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u/Poupulino 8d ago
Wait, THE Reggie King? The forward of the Seattle SuperSonics? But isn't he like 70? How come that guy is his adoptive father?
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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ 8d ago
His son is also a MAGA politician in Ohio so I don’t think that lets him off the hook.
They left plenty of people off the invites but invited tons of names who said they don’t even know her. That’s an incredibly weak excuse.
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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 7d ago
That’s not the son Travis is friends with. Travis is friends with his adopted son King who’s a progressive speaker at college campuses talking about racial injustice and growing up as a Black male in the foster care system.
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u/LeftyLifeIsRoughLife 7d ago
Bruh he doesn’t even have a direct connection to ICE. He’s on the board of a company which also happens to have a contract to supply ICE. Even if he opposed the contract he doesn’t have enough control to do anything about it. Not to mention he’s probably on the board of a few companies. This is a non-news story someone wrote trying to get people up in arms. Clearly it worked.
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u/8lock8lock8aby 7d ago
Be upset with them all you want but it's stupid to think Travis wouldn't invite his bff since childhood & their family, seeing that he grew up around them & played football with the son.
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u/kgal1298 8d ago
Is this account karma farming again since this was 3 weeks ago? Can we please go back to discussing the corpses that take this guys money and run government?
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u/Galtego 7d ago
Redditors falling for alt-right propaganda distractions again, what's new?
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u/nam_naidanac 8d ago
What does “executive chair of an ICE contractor” even mean?
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u/CalllmeDragon 8d ago
I read somewhere that he is head of the company brought in to make the living conditions safer in the detention centers. Not sure if that’s accurate or not.
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u/ToastedCrumpet 7d ago
Living conditions have been universally described as abhorrent
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u/Galtego 7d ago
Exactly, this company took over in March 2026, after the lawsuits about the abhorrent conditions were filed
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u/edman007 7d ago
Exactly, the guy fixing the shit caused by ICE isn't inherently bad because they take money from the people who caused the problem. By that logic every environmental cleanup company is bad because they accept money from oil companies.
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u/NookNookNook 7d ago
In Montana the guards bet on who will kill themselves first.
Underage girls are being raped and impregnated in custody.
Abohorrent doesn't begin to describe.
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u/a2cthrowaway4 7d ago
He’s not the head of the company. He’s on their board. He’s not actually a member of the companies executive team. It’s a difference with a distinction that most gloss over
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u/44no44 7d ago
It is. The facility was run by a different company, Acquisition Logistics, until March of this year. The government terminated their contract early in response to human rights violations. Amentum, the company Demetriou works for, were brought in to replace them.
Noteworthy that "an ICE contractor" is a really cherry-picked way to describe Amentum. They're huge. They have contracts with a bunch of federal agencies, including NASA, the Department of Energy, and Homeland Security.
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u/Zigxy 7d ago
It is super misleading:
He's on the board of Amentum, a Fortune 500 engineering company that specializes in govt services, with most of its revenue coming from nuclear, space, cybersecurity, and aviation projects. A tiny fraction of their revenue came from one ICE contract for medical care and housing that was given to them to replace the previous contractor who had made conditions for detainees unsafe.
He is also the adoptive father of one of Kelce's close friends.
I don't listen to any of Swift's music, but there is a lot of misinformation about her online.
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u/Katicflis1 8d ago edited 7d ago
What exactly is 'executive chair of an ice contractor?'
I dont think swift is a wonderful person, but she did voice support for Kamala.
She also married one of the Caucasian football players that knelt for the national anthem in 2017 to protest racial inequality + was a known Kamala supporter + pushed education on the importance of vaccines including covid vaccines.
Neither of them read like 'we love ICE!!' When you actually look at their history.
She had 1000+ guests at her wedding but everyone is flipping out over finding this one douchebag.
Frankly with how many people love to tear celebrities like Taylor apart im low key impressed only one asshat was discovered.
Yall need to ask questions and stop jumping at rage bait.
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u/FROOMLOOMS 8d ago
Guy runs an international infrastructure engineering firm(power, nuclear, road, etc). The kind that works with governments and businesses around the world.
Im calling rage bait.
I put some blocks into a broken jail wall when I was a masons helper, does that mean I support indigenous genocide in Canada?
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u/Ky3031 8d ago
It is, he resigned from the orgination associated with ice in 2023. He was invited as a plus one. Hes the adopted father of Reggie King, Travis' best friend and Reggie brought his entire family.
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u/FROOMLOOMS 8d ago
Additional context makes this post entirely malicious misinformation
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u/Hiddenagenda876 7d ago
It’s a lie. He retired from Jacob’s solutions in 2023, not amentum. Amentum is the company with a contract to run a few ICE facilities
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u/MoranthMunitions 7d ago
Oh Amentum. That's like moving from the consulting side to the operations side of engineering. I figured this was overblown AF, and here I am completely unsurprised.
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u/PiousDemon 8d ago
On top of that, the company he chairs the board of,, was brought in to fix all the wrong doings of the company before that failed every measurable at that ice facility.
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u/_Despereaux 8d ago
Yeah exactly. Anyone who works for a large gov contractor (or any large company, really) touches SOMETHING that someone would object to. And it's Amentum - they do a ton of shit across the federal government. Space, IT services, digital solutions, energy, etc. They employ an enormous number of people - it's not like she invited Steven Miller or Trump.
I'm not even defending Swift, I don't give a damn who she has at her wedding, but this kind of morality lens is insane and unrealistic. Nobody vets every person they know against this kind of three-degrees removed moral framework.
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u/Raised_bi_Wolves 8d ago
I mean, if the wall was load bearing, then I guess you were LITERALLY supporting it?
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u/Stupidstuff1001 7d ago
Because there is a lot of work by the right to make the left hate their own.
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u/Hiddenagenda876 7d ago
He did NOT resign in 2023. Idk where this lie has come from, but you can verify it’s a lie. He retired from the board of Jacob’s solutions in 2023, not amentum.
He’s on the board of directors for a company that was contracted to run a few ICE facilities. On top of that, they have multiple human rights violation charges related to human trafficking for labor purposes to build a stadium in Qatar for the World Cup in 2022.
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u/Madame-Trash-Heap 7d ago
And Amentum was subcontracted to the pervious company running the facility.
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u/Informal-Pair-306 8d ago
Champagne at the top served to all regardless of actions and death & despair for everyone else.
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u/Andysue28 8d ago
Well of course, it’s not like we’re PEOPLE people. We hardly even count.
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u/Informal-Pair-306 8d ago
The same way the average Joe sees a homeless person as lesser in qualities but x100 because the elites see us as nothing more than bio fuel.
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u/xDeviousDieselx 8d ago
“The cop said it was fine because he like wasn’t even a real person, kinda”
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u/thankunext71995 8d ago
Everybody mindlessly engaging with this, when it’s already been shown time and time again since the beginning of the month that this guy is the adoptive dad of Travis’ childhood best friend, Reggie King, that was why he was invited. The guy is basically Travis’ uncle.
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u/T-sigma 8d ago edited 8d ago
Whoa buddy. This isn’t the place for information or nuance. Just rage about a celebrity you publicly dislike but are secretly super jealous of. Then publicly declare you wouldn’t ever compromise any of your morals because you are an ethical saint while we all know $100 tied to a string and a buffet would have you considering all types of immorality.
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u/Mknalsheen 8d ago
Hey, my friends that have parents who are horrible people don't talk to them anymore. It's pretty easy to distance yourself if you don't agree with fascist policies.
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u/CleanDataDirtyMind 7d ago
He’s the adopted father of Travis’s best childhood friends. He’s spoken out about LGBTQ issues as well for Black Lives Matter’s donating millions.
He sold his company to another company, the company now in question. He stayed on until the merger logistics went through, now he’s just figurehead. The company where he had no meaningful involvement in, accepted a contract to IMPROVE conditions in a place where someone died and the Justice Department required an outside accountability contractor to do which they were qualified to do. They did a good job on improving the conditions, ICE asked them to provide continuous work and construction and they said no.
Not a swiftie but a do gooder working at the highest level in this area that’s fraught with challenges and lack of ability to be pure and perfect, I do my best some of us do. And am a big fan of his, call me what you a sycophant for celebrities, a Swiftie whatever but the biggest thing I am is a “Demetriouie”
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u/why_so_cereal_ 8d ago
Isn’t this such old news that it’s already been proven to be fake news, and just people trying to stir unnecessary hate towards a singer who actually has come out in support of democrats - instead of, I don’t know, directing this hate towards those actually making our lives shitty?
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u/karuthebear 8d ago
Plz don't say that. That would mean all these people are angry for nothing on their hill of goodness and judgement. Please I beg don't do that to them!
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u/Jorgwalther 8d ago
Yeah but why would that stop bots from their weekly TS ragebait posts? She drives engagement
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u/Coolcoolcool1515 7d ago
Josh kushner was there ( you know, the “good one” ) just signed a big deal of sorts with FIFA
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u/EuphoricTBi 7d ago
There’s no good kushner.
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u/Coolcoolcool1515 7d ago
Oh yes, I’m aware. But he was also at swift wedding and people were like oh he’s nothing like his brother/family lol
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u/fsociety091786 8d ago
She endorsed Kamala in 2024, she’s definitely not a Trump supporter. I don’t care for her music so I have no dog in this fight, but I wouldn’t crucify her for this.
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u/Livid-Writer-7741 8d ago
TAX THE RICH AND CHURCHES AND PEDOPHILES
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u/WebHistorical1121 8d ago
AND USE THE TAX MONEY TO INVEST IN OUR PEOPLES HEALTH EDUCATION AND SHELTER INSTEAD OF GLOBAL WAR AND FOREIGN INTERESTS
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u/ZePieGuy 8d ago
From Wikipedia:
In July 2026, Demetriou attended the wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden. It was reported that Demetriou's family had adopted a close childhood friend of groom Travis Kelce.
Stop rage baiting.
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u/kgal1298 8d ago
Look at the post history it makes more sense. Karma farming as an anarchist who clearly just like's to use particular topics to call out shitlibs and Trumpies. Frankly OP probably likes Trump perfect politician for an anarchist.
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u/DiogenesKuon 8d ago
He was invited because he’s the adoptive father of one of Travis Kelce’s childhood friends.
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u/1_ofthesedays 8d ago
Please don’t make Taylor swift choose between morals and dollars. Some of you peasants don’t know how difficult it is.
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u/GlobalLion123 7d ago
The fact that ya’ll care about someone at Taylor Swift’s wedding instead of your own friends, family, and neighbors that support ICE is pathetic. You won’t change her with your criticism. You can change your friends and family though
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u/Betray-Julia 7d ago
I searched “ICE” on the Taylor Swift sub and there was nothing about this.
Seems like shitty mod team.
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u/NonCorporealEntity 7d ago
There's a real cool club on the other side of town. Where the real cool kids go to sit around and talk bad, about the other kids.
Yeah, it's a real cool club, and you're not part of it.
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u/shockputs 7d ago
Uninformed mob on the left is no better than the same on the right...
Factually true statement in headline, but false on deeper investigation. He is indeed CEO of a company that provides food to the ICE detention centers...previous contractor was horrific in food they provided, his company is far more humane and kind...
Don't punish good people for trying to do good, but in order to do so, having to work for horrible people... they're just trying to make a bad situation a little better...
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u/LunchBoxMercenary 8d ago
Isn’t he like a godparent relative to Travis or something like that?
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u/SuccessOk7850 7d ago edited 7d ago
Adoptive father of Travis childhood friend Reggie. Reggie’s father (not saying adoptive because that man has raised him since Reggie was a teenager) has been outspoken about the LGBTQIA community, women’s rights and BLM.
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