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October 02, 2024 03:39 PM UTC
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It doesn't appear to me that intellect got this woman where she is today.
The same is true of Boebert's Flat Earth friend.
The other day I stumbled into some right wing weirdo hole. It was all about flat earth and faked moon landings.
Wow. Whodathunk that crap was still alive and well?!
The only thing more horrifying than right wing politicians who pretend to believe that junk is the ones who seem to actually believe it.
There’s an aspect of Trumpism that doesn’t get a lot of attention, which is the rise of trailer trash hotties to prominence and leadership.
Republican women are not just on the sidelines any more, but are out front and every bit as deranged and ranting as the men. And they are tatted up and not hiding behind frumpy skirts anymore.
This is not the Bush family’s GOP.
Not sure how to plug that into sociological models or how it helps understand their alliance with traditional marriage tradwife evangelicals.
And I’m having trouble putting this in words, except that I have a suspicion that all the moral panics and projection about perverts, coming from a bunch of over-sexed teens with a jug of Thunder and pocket full of blow might not end well.
Wealthy women fall under his influence and become literal groupies, too. I ran into this today from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/trump-women-church-north-carolina.html?searchResultPosition=1
It's exactly the Boebert model, but she didn't create it: It's been a staple of Fox News for years (almost exclusively in the blonde version), further exemplified by Kristi Noem, Anna Paulina Luna, Elise Stefanik (to a lesser extent), and more bimbos in the pipeline. They're here, they're dumb and angry, and their skirts are intentionally short.
I think Sarah Palin was/is the blueprint for them.
Dressing in a revealing or sexy way, or living in a trailer as the only affordable housing, does not make a woman into "trash". Just saying.
There are many reasons to despise Lauren Boebert and the other Trumpistas in the pic. Their style of clothing isn't one of them.
agree
I get what you're saying. I think the "trash" tag is more to do with their general vibe than how they live or dress. Being angry and shitty individuals and/or aligning with shitty individuals.
Bingo. Trailer trash isn't an article of clothing or a place you live, it's a state of mind.
Exactly. Most people understand that it refers to a pattern of behavior and not a mailing address.
No, the way they dress makes them "common". The way they behave makes them "trashy".
Well that’s why I almost didn’t post, someone was guaranteed to get offended.
Feel free to offer an alternative descriptive term to the commonly understood trailer trash (and no, living in a trailer or being attractive does not automatically make you one), but don’t fool yourself into pretending that overt manipulative sex appeal is not a leading part of the marketing strategy on the right, or that there’s not a profoundly odd strange-bedfellow thing going on with clearly hyper-sexualized MAGAts and the regressive religious fundies.
Overt manipulative sex appeal is a marketing strategy, period. Not just on the right. See: Megan Thee Stallion and every other female rap artist, most female pop artists ( with the exception of Billie Eilish, who intentionally rejects that paradigm), many of whom have leftist politics and / or have endorsed Kamala Harris for President. Sex sells. Duh.
Leftist men intentionally use sex for clickbait, too…ie. , the Scaredketchup videos.
Trae Crowder turned around the insulting "trailer trash" appellation, and proudly proclaimed himself a "trash monster".
You want a way to say "women who dress sexy or revealing in order to get attention and pretend that they live in trailers while being part of the economic elite" in only two words? Use a thesaurus.
I agree with you that the hyper-sexualized persona of Fox personalities and the Christian Dominionists does make for weird bedfellows. They embrace it all, though…just as TFG's history of aggressive sexuality and infidelity doesn't turn evangelicals off to him. Sex sells for them, as well….they just won't admit it.
I already used the commonly-accepted term for that.
Yes, the idea that sex sells is ancient. However the rise to prominence of that strategy being used by a large number of nationally-elected “conservatives” and conservative thought leaders is new. And I believe it is strategically, demographically and sociologically interesting.
Not least in terms of their weird coalition, which while they are quite adept at ignoring inconvenient contradictions, are going to have to work harder and harder to pretend that they are rhetorically compatible. Already I am starting to see trial balloon coverage of the idea that some evangelicals are starting to push back at aligning themselves with such blatant unapologetic libertines.
Speaking of brainless twits (not gender-specific) —
So, presented with a statement of fact:-