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4. More. Years.Getting fed up with all this Trump this and Trump that. OMG if he wins it just won't stop!
4. More. Years.Getting fed up with all this Trump this and Trump that. OMG if he wins it just won't stop!
The short is the main gist of Carlson’s bit. It’s disturbingly fetishist in nature. Not kink shaming, but grandstanding the “you’re a naughty girl and you’re gonna get spanked” as a way to aggrandise Trump is just all kinds of wrong.
'Get to your room right now and think about what you did!' And when Dad gets home, you know what he says? “You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now. And no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. No, it’s not. I’m not going to lie. This is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl.'
Well, I think the fucker will be replaced asap by Shady, ready to implement Project 2025 fully, otherwise known as fascism 101, so not 4 more years for him, but an eternity for the fascist GQP.4. More. Years.
Well yes. To be complete and accurate I would have added in some comments about that too.
But tbh the violent misogyny is blatant and brazen and pretty much baked in nailed down predictable.
The kink part being centre stage was a bit of a surprise to me.
That he personally is likely getting a sick kick out of the visual of Harris getting a humiliating and painful spanking, no doubt. But that he felt it would resonate with the audience - which it did - takes it into the seriously disturbing and hateful territory that abuse of and violence against women and children is ok if 'Daddy' (aka white American males like him) decides so.
Who are "the Chinese"?Looks like trump has had his phones hacked by the Chinese
I can't and won't try to add to that. All I would say is it's also an attempt at removing her candidate status. From people who don't think women should be in race for public office, particularly women of colour, it's a kind of declassification. It puts back in place all the barriers women had to overcome to get on the ballot paper. And I say that without having anything invested in Harris.Agreed.
But if you’re surprised by this you’re not paying attention. Or you’re not making the connections.
This is the same constituency that believes that a convicted rapist saying “Grab em by the pussy, if you’re a star you can do anything you want” is just harmless locker room talk. Their daddy and their brother talk like that. They’ve heard it all their lives. Hell, their husband talks like that, but only in the locker room. If anything, it’s funny that anyone would find it problematic. It proves that he’s a real man.
Think about it: how little respect do fathers and brothers have for their sisters if they use locker room talk in front of them, but wouldn’t in front of anyone they want to date or marry. And then they build a “not my little girl” boundary around their daughters (those stupid T.shirts about killing the boyfriend when the daughter starts dating) and pretend those children have not been exposed to explicit language, and certainly aren’t permitted to use such language themselves. The double standards and weird backflips they adopt and operate are absolutely reflexive and unconscious. On all sides, men and women. Women in that crowd were also cheering very loudly. And I’m sure you’ve seen the strange Trump groupies.
My surprise is not that Carlson is saying it’s laudable to beat someone who transgresses the house rules (the implication is that “this house” is America); after all, it follows the “enemy within” stuff Trump was saying a week ago. Not surprised that he’s focusing on the idea of girls and women being naughty/ bad (and the implied connection there to sexual freedom, abortion rights, contraception).
My surprise is that he’s sticking the elbow into the rib of the red blooded alpha males and bringing them in with the “eh? eh? Know what I mean? eh?” stuff. Openly publicly appealing to the mythic sexuality of the mythic alpha male and identifying Trump as the Big Daddy of them all.
You don’t have to go far to find actual tutorials online about how to pull a woman’s hair correctly during sex, how to slap her so it sounds good but doesn’t leave a mark etc. And these ones are also finance bros.
Pulling the threads together and making a braid. Identifying the different groups that support Trump and making them into one. Finding common ground and identifying it for them.
Now I’m writing this, my surprise is lessening. It’s actually a short step from “you can do anything when you’re a star” to “Daddy Trump”.
Remember Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
It’s all all all in there, like a word through a stick of rock.
I can't and won't try to add to that. All I would say is it's also an attempt at removing her candidate status. From people who don't think women should be in race for public office, particularly women of colour, it's a kind of declassification. It puts back in place all the barriers women had to overcome to get on the ballot paper. And I say that without having anything invested in Harris.
I can't and won't try to add to that. All I would say is it's also an attempt at removing her candidate status. From people who don't think women should be in race for public office, particularly women of colour, it's a kind of declassification. It puts back in place all the barriers women had to overcome to get on the ballot paper. And I say that without having anything invested in Harris.
Yeah, the routes back to 'politics as normal' are not obvious in all of this. Not that the previous status quo was anything good, to state the obvious, but this is potentially something without guard rails.I honestly think (and fear) that this election is no longer about politics. I mean obviously it is, because it’s an election, and because the personal is political; but it feels like something existential is being played out here.
I agree with you that large structural elements are being pushed and shoved around. When these earthworks are done the landscape it’s going to look different. Not just the political landscape but the social landscape too.
And, ironically, a significant number of those same voters will have a heritage or influences in their life that are far from 'all American'. That thing the right do when they cast their big tent, this week you are in, next week you are the enemy within.I know for a stone cold fact that a great many good kind considered middle class voters will hear this stuff and feel and believe Harris to be genuinely dangerous, threatening, and completely at odds with the America they feel is under attack. Their America, the nation they love with a root deep sense of home and homestead.
The enemy within narrative is terrifyingly clever, though. The atmosphere in the US is a paranoid tinderbox, as it is. Just keep tossing those kind of matches and sooner or later..!And, ironically, a significant number of those same voters will have a heritage or influences in their life that are far from 'all American'. That thing the right do when they cast their big tent, this week you are in, next week you are the enemy within.
I thought it was narratively average for TOS but had epic ShatnerismsThe enemy within narrative is terrifyingly clever, though.
MAGA fans streamed out of Donald Trump's rally after in Michigan after (sic) the candidate was hours later after cutting cut (sic, what fucking prick was in charge of editing this shit?) a three-hour podcast interview with Joe Rogan in Texas.
That may have been a smart way for Trump to reach millions of listeners to Rogan's popular podcast, but it left a few thousand fans watching videos in a chilly open air hangar as organizers stalled for time.
Poor buggers I dread to think what they find.Looks like trump has had his phones hacked by the Chinese
Trump going on the Joe Rogan podcast. a meeting of minds. but unfortunately probably a good move.
US election 2024 live: Trump to record Joe Rogan podcast as Beyoncé tipped to appear at Harris rally
Trump will record an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast, as Harris prepares to appear at an event with Beyoncé.www.bbc.co.uk
British Labour Party members have always volunteered in elections for other parties in their elections, I had a Corbyn Labour type stay in my spare room during our (New Zealand) election last time and my ex was off to campaign for Obama in 08 before I convinced to come to South America with me instead. US Democrats do the same (NZ and Aus have been awash with them in recent elections) and so do rightwing parties for that matter. It's one of the reasons why the CDI and SI exist for instance.Although my initial reaction to the Trump campaign's legal action against Labour was mirth at the sheer hypocrisy from Trump, and the naive arrogance from Labour, I now have my head in my hands. The truth of it never matters in stories like this, so it doesn't matter if it was simple cackhandedness this side of the pond that falls far short of illegality - it's how it can be spun by Trump's campaign: Look! The Brits are interfering in our election! Trump's supporters are never going to look beyond that headline.
Of course they do. Same as other parties do - and look at Farage and Truss. But facts don't matter with Trump's base. Just the repeated slogan.British Labour Party members have always volunteered in elections for other parties in their elections, I had a Corbyn Labour type stay in my spare room during our (New Zealand) election last time and my ex was off to campaign for Obama in 08 before I convinced to come to South America with me instead. US Democrats do the same (NZ and Aus have been awash with them in recent elections) and so do rightwing parties for that matter. It's one of the reasons why the CDI and SI exist for instance.
Of course I'm more replying to people here who are surprised, of course people will use it to their own ends and the Labour person who posted it on LinkedIn is a fuckwit. Still it's not actually counter productive necessarily in my experience people love foreigners talking about politics at election time.Of course they do. Same as other parties do - and look at Farage and Truss. But facts don't matter with Trump's base. Just the repeated slogan.
Agreed.
But if you’re surprised by this you’re not paying attention. Or you’re not making the connections.
I honestly think (and fear) that this election is no longer about politics. I mean obviously it is, because it’s an election, and because the personal is political; but it feels like something existential is being played out here.
I agree with you that large structural elements are being pushed and shoved around. When these earthworks are done the landscape it’s going to look different. Not just the political landscape but the social landscape too.
Can the President amend the Constitution?This is the culture war for all the marbles. Whoever wins this will control the culture for the next few years. If it's the rightwing, it's going to mean some pretty awful things for LGBTQ folks, non-religious minorities, and black and brown peoples. I'd like to say they want to take things back to an imaginary 1950s, but they really want to take it back to pre-14th and 19th Amendment days.
Certainly the 1930's, at least....This is the culture war for all the marbles. Whoever wins this will control the culture for the next few years. If it's the rightwing, it's going to mean some pretty awful things for LGBTQ folks, non-religious minorities, and black and brown peoples. I'd like to say they want to take things back to an imaginary 1950s, but they really want to take it back to pre-14th and 19th Amendment days.