I've really been enjoying watching the Kamala Harris campaign try to win over male voters. They sent out Tim Walz as a symbol of "healthy masculinity" and had him play Madden with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitch. He went pheasant hunting and fumbled with his shotgun.
I wrote earlier on an ad sending a young black man earning six figures into a room full of young black women holding red balloons for some reason … he sounded like a catch, but when he admitted he didn't plan on voting, they all popped their balloons, which must be some subliminal message that he won't be having sex with any of them.
I wrote a VIP post on a very long post by White Dudes for Harris organizer Mike Nellis about how to make inroads with white dudes. "We can’t keep acting like white men don’t have real issues," he wrote.
The Harris campaign dragged out Michelle Obama to try to appeal to young men — her argument is that abortion rights affect them too. "They too will have their dreams of going to college, their entire futures totally upended" — the devastating consequences of their girlfriend not having a Planned Parenthood clinic within a shot drive will affect them too. Obama bro Jon Favreau called it "the most powerful message to young men in the entire campaign." Abortion, on demand, up until delivery.
Batya Ungar-Sargon took a look at Obama's speech from the perspective of a young man, and what she came up with was pretty enlightening.
Michelle Obama perfectly delivers the Democrats' pitch to the working-class men of all races they sold out, who are now struggling economically, psychologically, and spiritually: "Your only job is to celebrate your own demise, to submit to and elevate the interests of women." https://t.co/WwG7ERJ1DV
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) October 27, 2024
It's amazing that this clip is being shared as evidence of good politicking. You couldn't ask for a better clip to explain why Trump is dominating with men: Men are being told to subordinate their pressing concerns with made up ones that help rich women LARP as "the oppressed"
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) October 27, 2024
"Maybe men don't like us because we shipped their jobs overseas, defunded vocational training, imported a slave caste to work construction, and created an economy that's an upward funnel of wealth to people who love obeying authority figures and sitting quietly for long hours..."…
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) October 27, 2024
"Nah, let's go with calling them toxic sexist racists."
The class divide mapped onto the gender divide: The last 40 years of Dem economic policy was an upward transfer of wealth from the working class to college grads. Democrats expect their men to vote against their own economic interests to support a "Future Is Female" culture war. pic.twitter.com/fRw7NKhBXF
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) October 27, 2024
Here's my take on why the Harris campaign is failing with men: Her campaign isn't for them. It's for women—and the men willing to submit to them. Very helpful to have former First Lady Michelle Obama make this case so clearly in her speech tonight :)https://t.co/dZGvw4E6Pd
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) October 27, 2024
This election is pitting the real, urgent problems of struggling, downwardly mobile working-class men against a fake problem—without late term abortions, millions of women will die—because the fake problem allows rich women to pretend they are oppressed.https://t.co/2x7NWLjoQC
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) October 27, 2024
Women won't get treatment for cervical cancer if Trump is elected and enacts his nationwide abortion ban.
Men have been told this the last 15 years consistently.
— Scott Feinberg's Awards Column COVID Advice (@RabbleRouserPod) October 27, 2024
Female chauvinism
— CanLen 🕙 (@CandiceLen) October 27, 2024
I mean their cultural Marxism strategy has worked right up until now. When the rubber meets the road, strong men will vote for a strong leader. Not a woman larping as competent
— Maus Incognito (@MausIncognito) October 28, 2024
Here's Walz, avatar of healthy masculinity, delivering a message just to all the men out there … it's time to tear down the glass ceiling and have a women president. Sure, just not this woman.
🚨Oof. Tim Walz is the worst surrogate to win over male voters:
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) October 24, 2024
“Let me just for a minute talk to all the men that are here.. It is damn past time we just quit talking about the cracks in the glass ceiling and tear the damn thing down and have Madame President. Tear it down.” pic.twitter.com/9O1Ab1xMxo
Alternately, we could elect a woman president when a qualified one comes up for the job.
— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) October 26, 2024
This person does not inspire and persuade any man I know.
— nonaligned actor (@nonalignedactor) October 25, 2024
Total cuck.
— BCV Boutique (@bcvboutique) October 25, 2024
The Democrats have nothing to offer young men, except codifying Roe v. Wade so their girlfriends can get abortions without having to cross state lines. They don't understand men at all or why they don't want to vote for the people who've demonized them for the past several years.
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