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Democrats are rightfully panicked that even with the millions of illegals they are registering to vote, they won’t be able to cheat their way to victory in November. Most concerning of all to them is (Vice?) President Kamala Harris’ inability to draw male voters, so her campaign has desperately begun trying to win over a voting bloc the Left neither respects nor understands. This has resulted in cringe-inducing levels of pandering, including a new pro-Kamala political ad targeting men that is being widely acknowledged as “the cringiest political ad ever.”
Democrats adamantly insist that men are reluctant to vote for Kamala because they are locked into a longstanding, patriarchal, sexist mindset. This is the same excuse Hillary Clinton fell back on in her 2016 loss to Trump. “Yes, I do think [misogyny] played a role,” she told reporters after the election, adding that it is “very much a part of the landscape politically, socially and economically.”
[Fact check: false. Misogyny is not “very much a part of the landscape politically, socially and economically.” Hillary couldn’t become President not because she’s a woman but because she’s an unlikeable, power-mad radical and kleptocrat who reeks of contempt for America and its citizens.]
So ever since the Democrat national convention back in August, the Left has been making a coordinated push to sell Doug “Second Gentleman” Emhoff and Harris’ running mate Tim Walz as models of a more evolved, “21st century masculinity” (as viewed through a feminist lens). What characterizes this new-and-improved manliness is a deferential willingness to step aside and let a woman take the reins of power. That’s it – that’s the only use the feminized Left has for men: to get out of the way because hey, “The Future is Female.”
This hyping of a new masculinity is, needless to say, insulting and condescending to men. Actress Jennifer Garner, for example, recently gushed unconvincingly to supporters at a Harris/Walz rally, “God, is there anything sexier than a man who is like, men for Kamala? Woohoo!” Recognizing that Democrats are hemorrhaging black men who are defecting to the Donald Trump camp, (former?) President Barack Obama even shamed fellow “brothers” in Pittsburgh on Thursday with an avuncular lecture that real men vote for a woman.
But no Democrat male outreach has been quite so pathetic a failure as a new political ad that is stunning in its awkwardness and cluelessness about its intended audience.
The 90-second video — from a progressive activist organization called Vote Save America and directed by Jimmy Kimmel Live! alumnus Jacob Reed — features a handful of men in various “manly” settings like a home gym, a ranch, and the back of a pickup truck. All of it feels stiffly staged by an ad film crew that wouldn’t know manly if it spanked their chapped behinds during a Pride Parade.
“I’m a man,” each of the men asserts directly to the camera.
“Man enough to cook my steak rare,” declares a man who clearly has never sat on a pickup truck tailgate before.
“Man enough to deadlift 500 and braid the shit out of my daughter’s hair,” says another man sitting on a workout bench.
“You think I’m afraid to rebuild a carburetor? I eat carburetors for breakfast,” a man in a cowboy hat blusters oddly. Maybe that’s what accounts for his obesity.
“I’ll tell you another thing I’m sure as shit not afraid of: women,” says a skinny guy whose cursing and unbuttoned plaid shirt are intended to signify manliness. The other men echo this brave sentiment.
“They want to control their bodies? I say, go for it,” says a bearded old geezer standing next to a motorcycle.
“They want to use IVF to start a family? I’m not afraid of families,” says Unbuttoned Plaid Shirt Man, which is odd because the Democrat Party has intentionally wreaked catastrophic damage to the nuclear family.
“Woman wants to be president?” he says as awkwardly posed Tailgate Guy adds with a lisp, “Well, I hope she has the guts to look me right in the eye and accept my full-throated endorsement.”
They then all declare that they are man enough to support women, just as they are man enough to “be emotional” and cry at movies such as Love, Actually and Good Will Hunting.
Unbuttoned Plaid Shirt Man complains that he is “sick of so-called men domineering, belittling and controlling women, just so they can feel more powerful.”
The ad wraps up with the paid actors declaring that they love women who support their families and take charge. Tailgate Guy proclaims, “I’m man enough to help them win.”
The ad justifiably drew almost universal mockery on social media, and yet director Reed believes it will resonate with male voters. Even his defense of the ad was cringeworthy; he wrote on his Substack:
With the rise of role models like Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff on the national stage, I think the left is finally finding its footing on how to talk about masculinity — I think we’re overdue for a redefinition of what it means to be a man in America and I hope this campaign can start to shape that conversation. Because even though it’s more sketch comedy than political ad, what these men are saying is true — except being afraid of bears. A bear will straight-up kill you.
Sexism is not the reason Kamala can’t attract male voters. Even Republican men, whom the Left sneer at as misogynist troglodytes, would have no problem voting for the right woman for POTUS, but men won’t vote for Kamala quite simply because she is epically incompetent and unpresidential, among other weaknesses. Politics aside, she is just not a leader.
The Left has spent half a century or more emasculating Western civilization because traditional masculinity is the first and last line of defense against a totalitarian state. They have demonized manhood as “toxic” and raged that we are to blame for a “rape culture.” They have actively infiltrated and dismantled boys’ and men’s organizations like the Boys Scouts of America in order to eradicate male spaces. And now they unilaterally declare they have invented a new, more progressive masculinity as embodied by beta males like Emhoff and Walz and Tailgate Guy, and they expect us to vote them into permanent, one-party power with the lightweight diversity hire Kamala Harris at the helm.
This may be a winning strategy for pampered Hollywood wusses like Mark Ruffalo or John Legend, but for the vast majority of independent-minded, hard-working, “gender-normative” fathers and husbands across America who embody an unforced true masculinity, it’s a non-starter.
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“….rebuild a carburetor”? Carburetors went out in the nineties. Talk about out of touch, this bird isn’t in the current century.
Fair point
But my truth is I drive a car from the 90s. I hate the new frankenstinian car/computers which come with systems for which you need to pay extra to have an expert disable.
I haven’t caused a wreck since I was a brand new driver – almost 50 years ago. I haven’t been in a wreck not my fault in almost 45 years because I drive defensively.
I was rear ended at low speed 15 years ago while stopped at a red light; it was unavoidable; the yuppie who did it was in her early 30s and had a cell phone sticking out from under her seat, where she had tried to quickly stash it… another example of people growing dumber as technology advances.
The Demo-Craps only want those who abide by the demands of the UN/CFR/WEF/DNC/Globalists
The spouses of these dumbbitches display their masculinity by abandoning their guard units, hitting ex-girlfriends, preying on nannies, and in Bill’s case, taking 28 trips to Orgy Island with DNC mega-donor Jeff Epstein.
Another DNC mega-donor, Weinstein, showed his masculinity by chronically preying on women . . . with full knowledge of all the liberals in his orbit. (As long as he wrote six figure checks to the DNC, they didn’t care – they just told jokes about it.)
Also; what idiot thinks a lisping punk vowing to give his “full-throated support” won’t garner anything other than hilarity & amused disdain?
Turns out a lot of these guys are gay actors working in Hollywood….per Gateway Pundit.
Thanks Kammy. You couldn’t find masculinity with two hands and a flashlight.
I may not have a patriarchal, misogynistic mindset, and most men, probably the vast majority of men, may not have that mindset—but Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, and Khameini and his gang of ayatollahs do.
They rightly perceive Harris (and Biden and Walz) as weak. Weakness is provocative for the power-hungry leaders of aggressive countries and terror organizations.
We’ve been there with Jimmy Carter and now Joe Biden. We’re not about the third time being the charm.
Deeming someone to be weak or not is the bailiwick of a alpha male (aka, a manly man.) Beta males have no say in the matter.
Their misandry is so palpable that they can’t even stay on message long enough to run their cringe-worthy ads with dudes in pick up trucks with beer guts without The New York Times attacking the notion of any form of masculinity being benign (the same paper that responded to Harvey Weinstein with a hate piece entitled “The Unexamined Brutality of Male Libido”) and the estrogen saturated Barack Hussein Obama (who has openly stated a belief in female supremacy) hectoring black men at barbershops for even considering sitting the election out or NOT voting for Kamala Harris. Next thing you know they’ll haul at Alan Alda, Mochael Kimmel and Jazz Jennings to appeal to male voters.
If Harris was even 50% like what Margaret Thatcher was, she’d win hands down. Harris doesn’t even know who Margaret Thatcher was.
Feminists never celebrate female leaders like Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir or Georgina Meloni because for one reason or another they don’t fit the woke narrative. Thatcher was an Atlanticist who strongly backed an alliance with the United States in the Cold War, and who privatized nationalized industries and took on trade unions (things conventional wisdom said could never happen). Meir (the first woman to become a national leader without succeeding her husband or father) was leader of Israel and a Zionist and thus anathema to feminists (just as they’re silent as a tomb about the women raped on October 7th). Meloni has violated political correctness by saying a castrated and mutilated male (or one who merely puts on make up and a dress) is not female
https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-campaign-forced-to-hire-gay-actors-for-ad-after-being-unable-to-find-any-straight-male-kamala-supporters
“I’m man enough to have bottom surgery!” Cough.
haha oh shit… and good luck with that surgically mangled frankengyna!
I think Timmy Tampon already has.
Dems don’t hate “men” per se, what they hate (and fear) is masculinity and alpha males. In my experience, most, democrat males (they’re not fit to be called men) are weak, effeminate and quite often, irrational.. If you were in a foxhole on a battlefield, the last person you’d want in the foxhole with you is a democrat male. You’d have to do all the fighting & shooting while the democrat punk lay there balled up into a fetal position sobbing and asking for their mommy (or Hillary Clinton to hide behind her ample derriere and tree stump thighs!)
No, the author is correct that the Democrats hate men. In the early 1990s, feminist con artists in the Congressional Women’s Caucus claimed that “only” 15% of the NIH budget was spent of female-specific health. They left out that that 15% was already twice the amount spent on male-specific health. So they created the Office of Women’s Health, but ignored men’s health.
Then Biden introduced the Violence Against Women Act. Men’s groups testified that domestic violence was equal between the sexes, and that men were violent crime victims two times more often than women, but the men were told to shut up. So another law that violated the Equal Protection Clause was passed.
These people (Socialists/Democrats) are about 40 years behind the times. Talk about being out of touch. Hiring a bunch of gay guys to portray supposedly “real man” is truly worthy of Kamala Harris and her people.
These guys look like the cast of “A Tribute to the Village People!”
“You think I’m afraid to rebuild a carburetor? I eat carburetors for breakfast,”
WTF??? I’ve been working on cars since I was fourteen, and have never heard anyone say something that lame. No one talks like that, but the Hollywood sissies that made that ad
have no clue. The democrats are wasting their money with idiotic ads like that. I’m still laughing.
Can anyone even imagine Kamala, going to a “Summit’ convention and have her pull her index finger out to admonish either Putin or XI on an international hot topic?
They could and most likely would die laughing!
American’s would be totally embarrassed.
He’d probably prefer to be eating a dick for breakfast but, you know, out of work actors…
It appears this line is there to echo Kammie’s “I eat (whatever it was) for breakfast”. Now if they had said “I eat shit for every meal” I would tend to believe them.
The author is right, that Democrats hate men. Democrats are the party of feminists, and feminists view men in the same light that the Nazis view Jews. In the 1990s, the Democrats passed two laws, the Violence Against Women Act and the Women’s Health Act, both of which violate the rights of men under the Equal Protection Clause. Back in February, the Bidens gave $100,000,000 of taxpayer funds to a White House program for women’s health research, and zero dollars for men’s health research.