Day without stupid: redux

[lpetrich]

Could be but I would think it is more of a Siren Song sort of Fox News tactic. Pretty girl makes some brains dumber than others.

Like Fox News having lots of blonde women on it and lots of women on it wearing short skirts and dresses. Seems like that network is desperate to attract heterosexual male viewers.

TPUSA's "cuteservatives roundtable" exposes the insidious impact of right-wing propaganda on young women | Media Matters for America

Turning Point USA prioritizes outreach to young women, and the message couldn’t be clearer: Give up your dreams and career pursuits in favor of becoming a wife and mother. That message was impressed on the crowd at YWLS in particular, even when a participant clearly indicated that she had no interest in pursuing a domestic path. Clark’s recent roundtable lends further insight into just how the message is landing.

Later, Clark asked the girls: “Do you think we control a lot more than we think with our ability to give or withhold sex as women?”

If they think that sex is so horrible, why don't they reproduce by artificial insemination? That would spare them the trauma of sex for reproduction.

The right-wing war on public education, whether conducted through radical groups like Moms for Liberty, attacks on LGBTQ+ teachers and children, or racist censorship in schools, is disturbing enough on its own. Turning Point USA’s unique message to girls in high school and college — that their education is a waste of time, that above all else they should be wives and mothers and should suppress their own sexualities to manipulate others — targets not only ideology, but the personal identities of young women, infiltrating their lives in disturbingly intimate ways.

 

[lpetrich]

Career women in right-wing media tell young girls to give up their dreams at Young Women's Leadership Summit | Media Matters for America

ABC's show "The Bachelorette":

The woman crowned as the bachelorette each season represents a certain type of conformity. She is feminine, unattainable, a prize to be won, flirty, and non-threatening to masculinity -- the ideal future wife. At the same time, her role is highly subversive to traditional norms of courtship -- she’s “dating” 25 men at once.

then

Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit, which targets college and high-school age girls, grapples with these same contradictions in a much darker and more prescriptive way. Speaker after speaker emphasized to the audience that they should become wives, mothers, and accessories to the astroturfed conservative movement rather than pursuing a demanding career.

Just like last year: Turning Point USA conference for young women leaders suggests their role is to get married and have babies | Media Matters for America

Yet this conference exists because of the labor of women on the right who clearly value their careers. Speakers like TPUSA influencer Alex Clark, Fox host Laura Ingraham, and The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens both covertly and overtly discouraged the audience of young women from pursuing high-powered careers — but it takes a lot of work to build an audience as a woman in right-wing media. Behind the scenes, Turning Point USA’s events and marketing leadership are also populated by women. Chief Marketing Officer Marina Minas’ biography says nothing of her achievements in the domestic realm. The same goes for the vice president of events, Lauren Toncich.

Forgoing a career in pursuit of marriage and motherhood is not something the women delivering this message can speak about from personal experience.

 

[lpetrich]

This is one of the fundamental contradictions of the Young Women’s Leadership Summit and Turning Point USA’s recruitment of young women overall. If the main message for this audience — many of whom identified themselves as leaders of campus TPUSA chapters — is that they should leave politics to men, seek fulfillment exclusively in the domestic sphere, and focus on indoctrinating a litter of children into an ideology of hate and victimhood, then most of the organization’s activity is irrelevant to its female members.

The sort of contradiction that female anti-feminist activists have long had.

Right-wing antifeminist influencers are starting to get a little uncomfortable with all the woman hating | Media Matters for America - "Exactly how misogynistic should conservatives be?"

Influencers tied to institutional right-wing media have are clashing with “tradwife” influencers in a battle for clicks over extreme misogyny and regressive gender politics.

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They have claimed that creators in the so-called tradwife and manosphere communities are “narcissists,” grifters, and perhaps worst of all, “not Christian."

Tradwives? Traditional wives, of course.

On social media tradwife influencers create content that embraces the vintage aesthetics of stay-at-home wives and mothers and glorify submissiveness and domesticity. They support ideas that are similar to those promoted by Clark, Stuckey, and others: espousing an antifeminist, often Christian, conservatism that rejects divorce, reproductive freedoms, and LGBTQ rights.

Also,

The reaction comes largely in response to a third online movement has come to be associated with the tradwife community: the viciously misogynistic manosphere movement, which is often linked to alleged human trafficker Andrew Tate. Creators in the manosphere (or “red pill”) community, specifically the anti-woman crusader H. Pearl Davis, tell their audiences that women should submit to men, that they should lose the right to vote, and that rape victims “bear some responsibility” for their attacks.

 

[lpetrich]

The RNC’s first primary debate livestreamed exclusively on Rumble, a platform overrun with QAnon content, violent threats, and bigotry | Media Matters for America

Rumble has profited from content that pushes Holocaust denial and claims the LGBTQ movement wants to “sterilize humanity”

• Rumble is an extreme right-wing video-sharing platform, but misleadingly presents itself as an “unshackled” alternative to mainstream social media that values “free speech”
• Content promoting the dangerous QAnon conspiracy theory dominates the platform
• Rumble is overrun with extreme racist and antisemitic content
• Anti-LGBTQ content that spreads false and harmful rhetoric has proliferated across the platform

Charlie Kirk attacks Young America's Foundation for climate change debate question, "That's the best that they have to offer?" | Media Matters for America

Kirk: “You know what I would say? I'd tell him to go make your bed, stop doing weed, and actually reconnect with reality.”

Charlie Kirk blames Maui wildfires on "pagan Hawaiian culture" | Media Matters for America

Kirk: “This is left-wing ideologues that allowed the island to burn. That there is blood on the hands of the water worshippers. ... Could it be that Maui did not have to burn if they did not believe such wacky, goofy, pagan stuff?”

 

[bilby]

If they think that sex is so horrible, why don't they reproduce by artificial insemination? That would spare them the trauma of sex for reproduction.

Are you kidding? A central tenet of their faith is the reproduction should be hugely traumatic for women, because that's their vicarious punishment for sharing a gender with the person who believed the truthful talking snake, in defiance of the lying God.

If God has ordained that childbirth should be dangerous and painful for women, then why shouldn't conception also be dangerous and painful?

Women (like black people, homosexuals, foreigners, unbelievers, heretics, and everyone else who isn't a white conservative christian man of the correct and approved sect) are not supposed to enjoy anything. At best, they're permitted a brief sense of satisfaction at having pleased their husband.

Enduring trauma is a necessary part of ensuring that they don't make God mad and force Him to hit them again.

 

[ZiprHead]

Imagine that, it's actually Republicans trying to limit your beer choices.

The latest faux outrage on the right is that Biden wants to take away our beer. Here’s the Fox News headline: Biden alcohol czar says US may follow Canada, limit beers to two a week: 'what a joke' The rare Fox News consumer that actually reads more...

www.dailykos.com

So a scientific body will review some health guidelines in a couple of years, hardly breaking news. And certainly no one in the Biden administration is using government power to limit your choices around beer consumption.

In Wisconsin however, Republicans are doing exactly that. Minocqua Brewing Company in the great northwoods of Wisconsin ran a successful brew pub. In 2020, the owner placed a large Biden Harris banner on the building. The area is a pretty red part of the state and it was great to see. A nice break from the huge bizarre Trump banners flying in other places nearby.

But the local government, dominated by MAGA types, couldn’t tolerate a successful business run by vocal supporters of Biden/Harris. They worked furiously to obstruct and undermine the business. The owner of Minocqua Brewing meanwhile started a PAC targeting Wisconsin Republicans, and it became quite successful. From Minocqua Brewing:

 

[marc]

You could also look up laws concerning alcohol in Utah. The Mormons, which lean heavily conservative, put a lot of restrictions that bars have to contend with.

 

[ZiprHead]

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/california-republican-scott-baugh-wokism-120006077.html

Scott Baugh is hoping to flip a Democratic-held House seat in Southern California. Rep. Katie Porter (D), who defeated Baugh in November, is running for the U.S. Senate, creating an open seat.
Scott Baugh, a Republican attorney hoping to flip a Democratic-held U.S. House seat in Orange County, California, said that “wokism” is more threatening to the country than the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, both world wars and the Civil War.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Combined or just individually?

 

[Shadowy Man]

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/california-republican-scott-baugh-wokism-120006077.html

Scott Baugh is hoping to flip a Democratic-held House seat in Southern California. Rep. Katie Porter (D), who defeated Baugh in November, is running for the U.S. Senate, creating an open seat.
Scott Baugh, a Republican attorney hoping to flip a Democratic-held U.S. House seat in Orange County, California, said that “wokism” is more threatening to the country than the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, both world wars and the Civil War.

To be fair, I am not threatened by those events. I am extremely unlikely to be harmed by them.

 

[bilby]

To be fair, I am not threatened by those events. I am extremely unlikely to be harmed by them.

...a Confederate soldier bursts through the door and disembowells Shadowy Man with a bayonet

 

[TomC]

To be fair, I am not threatened by those events. I am extremely unlikely to be harmed by them.

...a Confederate soldier bursts through the door and disembowells Shadowy Man with a bayonet

How...

Aussie.

Tom

 

[ZiprHead]

MAGA mayoral candidate gets busted inventing a group of friends

NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, Tennessee, has a great little scoop about a MAGA Republican mayoral candidate in Franklin who appears to be George Santosing her way through her race. It seems we've already got a contender for the most hilarious political...

www.dailykos.com

NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, Tennessee, has a great little scoop about a MAGA Republican mayoral candidate in Franklin who appears to be George Santosing her way through her race. It seems we've already got a contender for the most hilarious political face-plant of the 2024 season.

The short version is that Franklin alderman and MAGA Republican Gabrielle Hanson, who appears to have all of the problematic beliefs you would expect of that "MAGA" designation, has been inventing an apparently fictional friend group of people who supposedly support her candidacy. A picture Hanson posted of a supposed "Executive Women's Club" that supports her turns out to be a 2016 image of a Chicago, Illinois, brunch for a group of women chosen for a clothing ad campaign.

 

[blastula]

 

[Shadowy Man]

Does anyone have the link or citation to the declaration of these 1600 scientists (including 2 Nobel laureates)? I'd be curious to read that.

 

[scombrid]

Remember Project Steve? Same thing.

 

[ZiprHead]

Does anyone have the link or citation to the declaration of these 1600 scientists (including 2 Nobel laureates)? I'd be curious to read that.

Nobel Winner Joins 1,600 Scientists Disputing Climate 'Emergency'

More than 1,600 scientists have signed a declaration calling the climate 'emergency' a myth.

thefederalist.com

World Climate Declaration There is no climate emergency

World Climate Declaration There is no climate emergency A global network of over 1400 scientists professionals prepared this urgent message.

clintel.org

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Jimmy Higgins said:

Could be but I would think it is more of a Siren Song sort of Fox News tactic. Pretty girl makes some brains dumber than others.

Like Fox News having lots of blonde women on it and lots of women on it wearing short skirts and dresses. Seems like that network is desperate to attract heterosexual male viewers.
....

Seems like a few years ago, there was some Russian media outfit with nude female news readers.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Does anyone have the link or citation to the declaration of these 1600 scientists (including 2 Nobel laureates)? I'd be curious to read that.

Nobel Winner Joins 1,600 Scientists Disputing Climate 'Emergency'

More than 1,600 scientists have signed a declaration calling the climate 'emergency' a myth.

thefederalist.com

World Climate Declaration There is no climate emergency

World Climate Declaration There is no climate emergency A global network of over 1400 scientists professionals prepared this urgent message.

clintel.org

Interesting to note a few things:

It just says “scientists” not “climate scientists” so it is quite possible and in this case likely that many of the earth scientists do not have expertise in climate science

The signed document claiming there is no climate emergency has no scientific results in it nor any citations to scientific results.

Therefore, it can simply be considered an uneducated opinion of non-experts.

I’m not saying they are necessarily wrong, but they’ve given no reason other than a flawed argument from authority for being right.

Also, saying that CO2 is not a pollutant because it is “plant food” is exceedingly sophomoric and essentially destroys any credibility that these so-called “scientists” could have with this field.

 

[crazyfingers]

Does anyone have the link or citation to the declaration of these 1600 scientists (including 2 Nobel laureates)? I'd be curious to read that.

Nobel Winner Joins 1,600 Scientists Disputing Climate 'Emergency'

More than 1,600 scientists have signed a declaration calling the climate 'emergency' a myth.

thefederalist.com

World Climate Declaration There is no climate emergency

World Climate Declaration There is no climate emergency A global network of over 1400 scientists professionals prepared this urgent message.

clintel.org

Isn't that the report where something like 99% of those who signed were in fields unrelated to climate science? I think that I recall that most of them were MDs