The top image is unsurprising -- Fox News taught right-wingers to hate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but straight right-wing guys find her desirable, and for them, "desirable" means both pornified and Trumpified. But it's the second image (which has been kicking around since last fall) that's truly creepy. This is pregnancy as conquest, ideologically and racially. If it makes you think of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, or Strom Thurmond and Carrie Butler, congratulations, you've solved the puzzle. Ick.
I'm trying to figure out whether there's a connection between the mindset that produced these images and this:
In one of his most bizarre interviews in recent memory, Donald Trump insisted abortion is “not that big of an issue” [and] claimed Republicans are the “party of fertilization”...On IVF, Trump said:
During an interview last week with a local Michigan TV station FOX-2 Detroit, Trump ... called the GOP the “party of fertilization,” apparently trying to make the case that Republicans have fought to ensure women’s access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF. But not only is that false, he lost that point completely in an indecipherable word salad.
We're, like, the party of fertilization, because we are for the women. We want to help the women. Because they were going to end fertilization, which is where, what, the IVF, where women go to the clinics and they get help in having a baby, and that’s a good thing, not a bad thing. And we’re for it 100%. They tried to say that -- they weren’t for it. They actually weren’t for it and aren’t for it as much as us, but women see that,” he said.
Trump says this as part of his usual talking point on abortion -- namely that it's now being decided by the states, and that's wonderful and democratic and everybody should be happy (and, by implication, nobody who's pro-choice and happens to live in a state where abortion is banned should blame him). If I understand his monologue, Trump is describing the restoration of legalized IVF in Alabama as proof that the Republican Party is totally on board with IVF (even though just about every opponent of IVF is a Republican), and additionally saying that because Democrats overwhelmingly support abortion rights, they're less in favor of fertilization than Republicans -- because you can't support the right to an abortion for someone who doesn't want a child and also support the right to IVF for someone who does, right?
I think Trump is dumb enough to have put this together all by himself. But I wonder if his use of the word "fertility" was in any way influenced by sperm- and pregnancy-obsessed aides, especially younger male aides who might have chuckled over those AOC images.
A related story I read yesterday was this one:
The Daily Wire announced the launch of a new “men’s lifestyle” company named Responsible Man on May 1, promoting its only current product — a men’s dietary supplement that it says is “designed to help … sharpen brain cognition” and that it suggests will help address what the outlet calls the “increasing health risk” of declining “sperm concentration.”The Daily Wire's announcement is a trip:
Just like the constant consumption of MSNBC and CNN lacks the truth and reality your mind requires, your modern diet is often deficient in key vitamins and minerals, leaving you weakened and diminished — unable to reach your full potential. Sadly, in recent years, men have faced an increasing health risk as studies have shown that among men worldwide, sperm concentration has fallen drastically over the past 50 years, and the drop is accelerating....Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk is still arguing that "more young women need to get married at a younger age and start having kids," because they become "depressed, suicidal, anxious, [and] lonely" if they remain single and childless after thirty, after which "they're not going to be able to have kids and that they're not as desirable in the dating market."
Wokeness is a devastating disease that can affect both the mind and the body. And the woke Left loves to celebrate when it sees men fail. With so much wokeness causing chaos and uncertainty, it’s crucial that you take charge of your mind and body.
And you can start with the Emerson Multivitamin from Responsible Man.
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I suppose we should be grateful that Republican propagandists aren't advocating harems of babymamas for white men, like Andrew Tate, who says whitre guys should adopt this approach if they're worried about the so-called Great Replacement:
I sometimes think about trying to write a dystopian near-future novel in which the president of the United States is an Andrew Tate figure -- a charismatic misogynist psychopath whose politics are today's Republicanism, but with even more upfront toxic masculinity. I don't think that could really happen -- you'll say we're already there with Donald Trump, but he pretends to be a happily married man. In any case, a diluted form of Tateism is showing up in GOP messaging. And I expect more in the years to come.
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