Alabama Barker is the daughter of Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler. She’s 18 years old, 19 in December. I remember when Shanna got pregnant with Alabama and it was a big surprise to her. Yes, I watched Meet the Barkers, that’s when I became a fan of Travis. He surprised me by being very family-oriented, even back then when he was in his 20s. He was the one getting up with Landon and Atiana (his stepdaughter) and fixing them breakfast and being a hands-on father. Anyway, Alabama unfortunately got her mother’s “deep as a puddle” gene, because Alabama decided to make a social media video about how she’s not voting and she “genuinely” doesn’t care about politics.
Alabama Barker is now old enough to vote, but she “genuinely” doesn’t “care” about the upcoming presidential election. The 18-year-old daughter of Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and former beauty pageant queen Shanna Moakler recently went live on Instagram to let her followers know she would not be casting a ballot next month for anyone, including Republican candidate Donald Trump or Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
“It’s kinda immature if I talk about it and I’m not fully educated, but I do have an opinion, and I’ll keep it to myself,” Alabama explained in the selfie-style video. “Not voting isn’t crazy, in my opinion, at all because if I don’t feel like I have the exact education for what I’m voting for, how is it right for me to vote for something I’m not completely educated on?”
Though Barker “could educate” herself on the candidates, platforms and issues, she feels it would be pointless.
“Why am I doing that if I genuinely really don’t care? I’m just honest. I don’t care to vote if I don’t know exactly what’s going on. I don’t think that’s wrong. And I completely stand on that, and I stand by it,” she said. Alabama went on to remind fans that she “just turned 18” and “never voted before.”
“We all know this. You can’t vote until you’re 18. I’ve never voted. If I don’t want to vote, I don’t have to vote. And if I don’t want to be in politics, I don’t have to be in politics,” she argued, reiterating that she doesn’t want to do her “research” or “educate” herself on something that doesn’t interest her.
“I do have an opinion,” she again noted. “I have an opinion on what I feel is right because of what I’ve been seeing. And just, like, I feel like one of the voters is just a mess. I mean, one of the — sorry — one of the people, the runners, [the] candidates. See? I’m telling you, I’m not educated. I’m a little bit stupid.”
Someone watching the livestream commented in real time that the teen’s “privilege is showing,” to which she replied, “Like, what? Because I don’t want to vote? I’m not educated on it. Maybe next year I’ll vote.”
I could have voted in a presidential election when I was 18 years old too, but I didn’t, because I was a self-absorbed college freshman and I was too dumb to register to vote at my campus address. That being said, I didn’t make a dumb video to brag about how I refuse to educate myself on the issues and I wasn’t feeling a voting vibe. Like…I absolutely think Alabama sounds like a self-absorbed, privileged idiot and she should not have any kind of platform. But I don’t think this is completely hopeless. She’s 18 – she’ll learn soon enough that her political nihilism is boring and tedious.
“Why would I educate myself about voting when I really don’t care what’s going on…” 🥴 pic.twitter.com/Wjy2vTr8Zh
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Honestly, I’m fine with people this dumb and shallow not voting. Just don’t post a TikTok about it because I don’t care about how much you don’t care.
I wondered if she’s doing this because she knew it would get her attention.
100%
Probably. Social media has given us exquisite insight into why democracies fail. Unless you forcibly keep the population highly educated, many are simply not that discerning or intellectually curious enough on their own to support it properly.
@Veronica S., I couldn’t agree more.
Every great civilization has eventually failed, social media is giving us a front row seat as to one of the major reasons why.
The epitome of indulgent ignorance of the idle rich
Haha was just going to say clearly she’s never had a job/paid taxes. Clearly.
Yes, but she may need an abortion some day… may want to vote to protect that right.
At work a lot if people aren’t voting and just don’t care. None of them are rich. I think some people just don’t care since their lives stay the same regardless who wins
They *think* their lives don’t change because they don’t realize how much progress wasn’t gained because of lack of participation. If Democrats had shown up in 2000, we wouldn’t have Bush/Cheney and the oil wars. We would have had a president pushing for climate change. If they had shown up in 2008 across the board, Obama might have had a true Democratic majority instead of relying on independent Lieberman, who refused to support universal healthcare and that’s how we wound up with the hybrid system. If they had shown up in 2012, Senate Republicans wouldn’t have been able to steal a judicial seat. If we had shown up in 2016, Trump would never have happened and Roe would still be intact.
This is not to say Democrats don’t have their fair share of corporatists among their ranks nor do I think the two party system is helping anyone, but there’s been a lot of misses on bare minimum growth hinging on us literally not having 1-2 Congressional votes in the last twenty years. People just think otherwise because they’re not engaged.
Sure, she’s 18. But her family is wealthy and she isn’t stupid because of lack of opportunities, she’s stupid because she’s chosen to be. Shameful
exactly, all I hear is “I’m rich and from a famous family so I’m safe and I don’t care about anyone else”
*this, 100%*
Her privilege is showing
Living under the horror of Ronald Reagan in the 80s…I could not WAIT TO VOTE THE MINUTE I TURNED 18! I am not surprised by ANYTHING that young lady said based on her support system 🤬
I feel you, I was born a few months before the Tories got into power in 1979 and I was SO excited to be a part of voting them out in 1997 when I had turned 18. I’ve always viewed voting as a privilege not a right and I will never not appreciate it.
Same here! Was so excited, I turned 18 exactly 1 week before the presidential election in ’84. I went by myself to the polls, registered that day and voted! (WI still has same day voting). These last few elections I have been such a nervous wreck I simply cannot sit still – so again this year I’m gonna be a poll watcher/helper. Our youngest just turned 18 – and she registered without our prompting!
I turned 18 three weeks after the 1980 election. I was devastated (as teenagers will be) at the outcome. My friends and I were certain we, forget the country or the world, wouldn’t outlive a Reagan presidency. Considering what that regime kicked off on the right, we weren’t 100% wrong.
Very prescient for teenagers because yeah, his presidency was the beginning of the end in a lot of ways.
💯 my first election was a vote against George HW Bush – unfortunately, he won anyway. But I was so glad to have had the opportunity to make my voice heard.
My first vote was against GWB (I think his second term).
I attended a rally for Bush Sr to protest, when he ran against Reagan. He was dumb enough to have a rally across the street from my liberal college in an airplane hangar so we went en masse to protest TF out of it. Dudes from the sciences brought a giant mock bomb and kept trying to get it right next to him for photos. Bush Sr always was a hawk.
I also was so excited to vote, remember going into the voting booth with my mom when I was very young and being fascinated. But my main reason came from both my parents fleeing Europe during WWII. My dad’s family kept a tiny American flag from a candy box as a talisman as they literally walked across the entire continent of Europe, lived in a German refugee camp for three years (my dad and his brother had to wear Hitler youth uniforms to school) and eventually made their way to the US. My mom’s experience was very different but no less harrowing and they instilled in us very early that voting was a precious privilege, not to be dismissed like this airhead is doing. I think I instilled the same in my kids, who are just a bit older than her, but also their teachers did and they clearly don’t live in such a bubble and know how critical voting is because it does in fact affect them. Sigh.
I just hope she does not have real followers.
Just like @ LALA11_7 said, living under Regan, I could not wait to turn 18 so that I could vote! Her ignorance astounding! I guess women’s reproductive rights being taken away is not enough for her, or the threat of Living under an authoritarian doesn’t either!
Ugh, 18yos.
Can we please not give people like this anymore attention?
Absolutely (and I realize I am contributing by commenting on the post). I’d say a good percentage of this is her knowing it would get her attention.
Lol, living in a college town I overhear talk like this on the subways from the new students who have just discovered that god is dog backwards. Plus, there’s so much innundating all of us, especially young people who have to contend with finding identity and their place in the world.
My 20yr in college, him and his friends are not excited about voting. He not sure he will. I was so excited and proud to vote on campus when I was 18. I asked if he changed his mind since Kamala came, he said a little but not much. Sad.
OK, no.
In my family, every time we vote, we sit around with the practice ballot and google every single person and amendment on the ballot. Husband, kid and I have done this for every single election, together.
So when my kid turned 18, she sat down with us and we went to Ballotpedia together — and she took an active role in educating herself for her very first election.
There is _no call_ to be uninformed. There’s only laziness, and that’s the fault of this privileged little child right here — she has google at her fingertips and can easily educate herself, like my own 18 year old who voted for the first time.
Exactly. When they make a joke or nonchalantly brush it all away, you get in their face and calmly say, “No! And this is why…..” Three boys here, it was never a joke.
Yep. You make it a family culture of being educated about the issues, and also teach critical thinking so they don’t think hurricanes are caused by democrats or whatever weirdness
What a wonderful thing to do together as a family.
I do this as well, even for judges. And if I can’t find party affiliations, I look to see what groups endorse the candidate. You can garner a lot of info by that as well!
You’d think people would finally realize how a couple of votes, one way or another, can sway an election!!!
#VOTE
I totally agree — sometimes judges out themselves as terrible humans if you look at some of their rulings, especially where i live (DeSantis appointees).
I research everything too, right down to local school board candidates. If your slogan even so much as hints to anything being “great again” I am going to comb through your social media. I will not vote for anyone maga.
Acha, that’s great, and that sort of thinking and research and decision making will serve your kid well.
Barker’s parents have a failure on their hands with this one and her lack of caring, laziness, and gleeful ignorance.
I do exactly the same, @lucy2! The merest hint of an R or a “great again”, and they get the quick piss off look from me! No way…no how!!!! Not today Satan!
She’s 18nand has a wealthy family, of course she doesn’t need to care or want to care. Give her a few years… time, experiences, &/or circumstances can change a person’s perspective.
When I was her age I knew girls my age already needing abortions.
Not because of “oops, condom broke” or “forgot to take the pill” — but because of rape, either at home, or date rape.
Must be nice to be so isolated in this day and age, aided and abetted by dad’s money, to be able not to care about society in general, minorities, and inconsequential things like the environment or education.
When I was on Twitter, I saw a tweet from a Gen Zer who was shocked that women were only legally allowed to get their own credit cards in 1974. These kids don’t know what it was like to have to fight for every single bit of freedoms we have.
As a Gen Xer, I don’t know what to say anymore to be honest. I. Am. Tired.
And bank account, and testify in a courtroom. Heck, there are still many, many hospitals that will not allow a woman to get her tubes tied without her husband’s PERMISSION. Sometimes the issue has to go before a board of doctors, most of whom are men. There are tons of rights that were denied to women just because they were women, and republicants would love to put us back there and use the vote or non-votes of women themselves to get us there.
I mean, they enjoyed Roe for most of their lives so if they don’t understand the importance of basic human rights in a post-Dobbs America, then they’re living under a f*cking rock.
Obviously, I think voting is super important, and I’ve been voting since I turned 18, so I disagree with Alabama’s stance. She’s a rich kid living in California, which shields her from many issues that affect most Americans. I wish someone would have taken the time to explain why her not voting hurts a group as opposed to how she feels as an individual.
Next, instead of blathering about not being educated (!), take an hour of your time and read the platforms of your candidates. It’s not that difficult. If interested or necessary, invest more time.
Lastly, given how she’s responding and what she publicly said, I don’t think her choice of candidate would support immunizations or Roe v Wade. Please send in your ballot/ vote early!
People need to vote. And people need to demand electoral reform as a condition of winning their vote.
Electoral reform has to come from Congress so we have to vote in the majorities that will do it. And that includes defeating the filibuster in the Senate.
Mitch M and the Republicans are holding onto the filibuster with every fiber of their being.
My American government teacher had a county person come to the class and register the 17/18 year olds to vote in all 6 of his classes one day in the spring of senior year.
He drilled voting into us. I cast my first presidential ballot 2 years later- absentee from college. (for Bill Clinton)
The irony, he cast his first vote for Nixon, then never voted again.
Paul Levy was a really good teacher.
I mean this as hyperbole- but i kind of want to smack this kid.
Someone give her the broad stokes:
Do you believe in ending democracy, in white supremacy, in the rich starving the poor to death, and internment camps for gay people, trans people, and journalists who report the truth??
Yes- vote trump
No- vote Harris
It is not rocket science.
My government teacher would have a voter registration card on our desks on our 18 bday. We’d fill it out and she’d mail it in. Sadly I think that would be illegal in Texas today.
Exactly. It’s not rocket science. You don’t have to be educated on every issue. You literally need a pulse and the ability to decide if you’re racist, classist, sexist, anti-gay, or not… or any or all of those things. Like, one candidate is Donald Trump. The other is not. Where is the mystery?
I’m going with young and dumb. I don’t think the dumb part will change with age but we’ll see.
To any eligible voter thinking of sitting this election out (for whatever reason), I urge you to vote. You have the opportunity to help make history electing the first female president after 248 years. 248 years! This is a significant turning point to make the impossible POSSIBLE.
I was too lazy to register to vote (in my new county after moving) for Obama’s first presidential run and I still regret it. Even though it wouldn’t have made an iota of difference in my deep red state (Utah), I regret I wasn’t part of the collective that moved the needle to get our first black president in office.
Also, if you’re thinking of “writing in” your choice, please know that your write in vote won’t even get counted in most states. It’s a throw away vote since there’s no feasible way for election counters to register those with the high volume of ballots.
Honestly, her response is way better than I was expecting. Does she have the means and time to be able to be more informed? Absolutely. Should she? 100%.
However, there are plenty of full grown adults who can’t admit that they don’t know something or are not informed enough to have an opinion/make a decision. So the fact that she will admit to a big audience that she’s not informed enough yet is actually great. More people need to learn to say, “I don’t know.”
I agree with this completely. I think it’s better for her to admit that she is choosing not to be an uninformed voter, at least for now. I spend a lot of time ranting about voters who seem to be voting against their own self interest, or in ways that put Party over Country, or to comply with social pressure. While I would prefer that all voters be informed and educated as they cast their votes, I’d rather have a young uninformed voter decide to sit this one out— instead of casting their vote capriciously, with little sense of the seriousness that their action can have for other people (particularly other people with far fewer resources and safety nets than this particular voter has access to). In an odd way, recognizing that she’s uninformed is probably taking the importance of voting much more seriously than many voters influenced by Tik Tok will do.
There’s still time for her to educate herself and to become an informed voter between now and Election Day — should she choose to do so. It’s a waste, but even that is preferable to some of the alternatives.
Bless her heart and that horrible lip liner.
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Not voting is a vote for Trump/Vance.
Poor Alabama. Once the “dummy” label gets applied to you, it can be hard to get rid of. Ask Prince Harry about that. Anyway, there are lots of other young people who do genuinely care and are involved, thank goodness.
Congratulations to Bill Whitaker of CBS for trying to pin down Kamala Harris on “60 Minutes” Monday on how she would pay for her many political promises. He couldn’t get a straight answer, but that was still revealing. Meanwhile, the Vice President raised the ante by pitching a new entitlement for home healthcare.
The Veep on Tuesday used a friendly interview on “The View” to lay out her plan to require Medicare to cover long-term home care for all seniors who can’t live independently. She said the new benefit would help the “sandwich generation” of Americans who take care of children and aging parents. She put no cost estimate on this new taxpayer obligation, but home care on average costs $288,000 a year, so you get the idea.
Ms. Harris suggested that the entitlement could be financed with government drug price controls. “We are going to save Medicare the money, because we’re not going to be paying these high prices,” she said. Does she plan to reduce Medicare spending by reducing the incentive for drug makers to develop new treatments so seniors don’t live as long?
Mr. Whitaker tried to pin her down about how she planned to pay for her $25,000 in down-payment assistance, $3,600 child tax credit, $6,000 baby bonus, universal pre-K, paid family leave and more. She at first dodged the question by saying “other economists that have reviewed my plan versus my opponent and determined that my economic plan would strengthen America’s economy. His would weaken it.”
Prodded to answer, she said “my plan is about saying that when you invest in small businesses, you invest in the middle class, and you strengthen America’s economy. Small businesses are part of the backbone of America’s economy.” After Mr. Whitaker tried again, she fell back on the Democratic Party patent medicine of making the “richest” “pay their fair share.”
She ought to know there aren’t enough “rich” to pay for all of her free lunches. The “sandwich” Americans who are likely to pay more are those between the rich and the poor.
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@blueberry… you took the words right out of my mouth.
RealDeal, Please check out how much the wealth the richest 10% of the US population: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wealth-distribution-in-america/#:~:text=Income%20growth%20across%20this%20bracket,with%20%2495%20trillion%20in%20wealth.&text=How%20Do%20Democrats%20and%20Republicans%20Feel%20About%20Certain%20U.S.%20Industries%3F
Considering that the richest 10% are richer than the remaining 90%, the richest aren’t paying their fair share. And personally, many people I know who watched 60 Minutes found Bill Whitaker to be condescending towards Kamala Harris. 60 Minutes mentioned that Trump chickened out. Unfortunately, they didn’t include his obtuse word salads as contrast—It came across as unbalanced.
The top 1% have 30% of the money. There’s plenty of wealth to tax.
Also, every candidate makes big promises like this, and then if we’re lucky they’re able to implement a fraction of it, especially if the opposing party controls Congress. At least with the plans she’s proposed, there is an effort to raise the money through changing tax plans.
The last tax change that got implemented around 2017 benefitted the wealthy, added trillions to the debt with no way to pay for it.
Yeah politicians never talk about who pays for the tax cuts for the wealthy do they.
@MsIam Wrong. Bill Clinton made it clear he was going to tax corporations/the wealthy AND promised that they will make far more money from stocks and investments from an economy that wasn’t burdened by the deficit and poor stockmarket.
It was recessionary then and corporations/wealthy accepted the raise in taxes without protest and they reaped FAR MORE than they were ever taxed. Feel free to look up the events of 1991-1993 and the budget surplus left in 2000. Liberal programs from a liberal politicians paid in full with money left over.
Tim Walz repeated this exact tactic in MN, a lot by corporate taxation. He fought back on the few who whined. Yeah those free lunches for all kids was paid for in full.
Ivan, you’re on an American celebrity gossip site. Go back to astroturfing on Twitter or Reddit while you lick Putin’s boots for your paycheck.
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Yeah she should have just said “we’re gonna tax the ever-loving f*ck out of the rich” because that’s how we’re gonna pay for all the so-called “entitlements”. BTW, hope you’re not on social security or Medicare because those “entitlements” will be gone if Trump wins another term.
And if you think that taxing $5.2 TRILLION isn’t going to be enough to pay for school lunches, universal healthcare, subsidized college tuition and every other damn thing that could greatly improve Americans’ lives then you really aren’t paying attention.
Oh, lawwwd, Mah TAXES!! 😩
Actually, there are enough “rich” even if you just look at the top 1%. Throw in taxing corporations and our top 10% and our economy can certainly support the types of social services and supports
that citizens in other “first world” economies have had for generations.
@realdeal, please put some sort of actual data supporting your assertion that “home care on average costs $288,000 a year”. If you didn’t just make that number up, you should be able to support it. It’s wildly inflated, but I’m interested in what you’re basing it on if only for the sake of comparisons.
Actually, most home care for seniors relies on quite a lot of UNPAID services provided by family members. So perhaps that’s somehow included in your wildly inflated “average” number?
There’s nothing “real” about your “deal” — but I’m open to being surprised and corrected.
To add, if we REALLY want to look at financing our priorities, any realistic plan would have to involve looking at our Defense budget as well as the tax breaks that corporations and the wealthy get as things stand currently.
When I turned 18 and was having the family birthday dinner my dad suddenly got very serious and said I had an important responsibility now that I was a legal adult. My initial thought was I was getting kicked out of the house, followed by registering for the draft (until I realized as a woman I didn’t have to). But nope, it was all about voting, making sure I registered and to always exercise my right to cast a ballot. Also how I vote was/is no one’s business. We were all a little taken aback, my mother wasn’t even aware my father was planning to do this. And neither of my parents were particularly political; they voted but it wasn’t dinner table conversation, they didn’t campaign or have signs in the yard, etc. Best guess is both his parents were immigrants, as was my maternal grandfather, and it was ingrained in him when his parents became citizens. Suffice it to say it stuck…30 years later I still remember that conversation and have only missed 2 local elections in that time. I’ve also worked as a poll worker for the last 8 years, and can say, at least in my state, accusations of rampant election fraud are bunk/malarkey/fear mongering/flat out lies.
At least she’s not spreading misinformation. If she has to be dumb and shallow at least she keeps her political opinions to herself.
Travis and Shanna failed their daughter something serious.
Too much money and privilege and too little education and awareness. Shameful.
Willingly uneducated, seems proud to be stupid. Nepo baby says what?
Good thing she comes from $$.
This vapid young woman can’t be bothered to know or care how hard women have had to fight for their rights. Even someone this disinterested has surely has heard a thing or two about the erosion of reproductive rights in too many states, thanks to previously elected officials who need to never be elected again.
Or maybe not? Perhaps she thinks Project 2025 refers to next year’s fashions, if she’s even heard of it. Her parents haven’t done her or the rest of us any favors by raising a child who is so incurious and disengaged from the world outside of her little bubble. I have to give her a little credit, though, for at least not casting a vote for Trump and Vance.
People have died trying to get the right to vote. The least I can do is vote.
Yup. My great grandmother did not put up with so much bullsh*t at the hands of crusty men her whole entire life, only for me to not vote.
So proud that women have come so far only to come across as such idiots for a little fame. (Sarcasm) The dumb blonde schtick has obviously paid off as this is the third time I’ve seen something about a girl I didn’t know existed before yesterday. You’ve NOT come a long way, baby.
As a 62 year old blonde, I was sick and am still sick of the perpetuating dumb (blonde) bimbo stereotype, and to see a young girl deep dive into this is so depressing. Forget male misogyny, who needs it with little girls like this to do it for them.
Her step mom is a kartrashian and her bio mom is a train wreck. 🤷♀️
It is not in the least bit surprising that she is a self-obsessed, vapid AF and narcissistic little sh*t.
Voting or not, there’s something about her that, for me, symbolizes all that is “wrong”” in the US now. Young and dumb, she is, but a whole lot of other things too😳🙄
When will people stop wearing brown liner around their lips? It’s always looked awful and it won’t go away. Kinda like the kardashians which is why I’ve heard of Alabama.
I know, it is kind of hideous, isn’t it?
Black women wear brown lip liner to prevent from looking ashy when they apply lighter lipsticks and glosses. Black women will always wear brown lip liner. I wear brown lip liner almost everyday.
And it looks okay there. On white women? Noooo.
This little girl is not relevant. Who cares if she doesn’t vote? She admitted to being completely ignorant.
Imagine being that stupid and wanting to show the world. Girl, you can have your vote. We insist.
A lot of these spoiled rich kids and their entitled parents don’t grasp how fleeting wealth can be. Many wealthy, insulated people went bust when the stockmarket crashed in 1929. If elected the orange dumpster fire’s economic policies will finish bankrupting the working/middle class and start a cascade of economic disasters that will wipe out the fortunes of a lot of these supposedly wealthy people. The shallow nepo babies may end up learning how the other 99% live.
Spoiled, vapid twit.
Part of the problem is the fact that rich, willfully ignorant kids like this get press coverage and their vapid comments are seen by more than just their circle of friends. A lot more.
And there are millions of kids who want to be just like her (rich, not necessarily willfully ignorant).
Idiots like this are Trump’s voting base. I’m completely fine with her not voting… I voted for Clinton when I turned 18, and I never looked back.
Is anyone really surprised? I’m not. This child gives me the impression that she’s about as smart and aware as a box of hair.