Nothing less manly than endlessly worrying over what is manly and what isn't, in my opinion.
Manly men are just manly, and that encompasses an extremely wide spectrum of appearance and behavior.
Idea: Hawley's mistake is an insistence that "manly" and "womanly" are opposites.
They aren't. A man isn't less manly for having qualities considered "feminine."
What if being unmanly just means being insecure about maleness? What if the idea of "real men" is an unmanly idea?
You can look and act just like Josh Hawley and be perfectly manly, save for his insecure proscribing of maleness into narrower and narrower categories of behavior, categories which he himself seems unable to adequately perform.
That unnecessary shit isn't manly, Josh.
Trans men, for example, are so manly they're willing to fight an entire hostile society just to announce their maleness, for their whole lives if necessary. Some pretty manly shit if you ask me. Impressive level of confidence in maleness.
Josh Hawley wishes he was that manly.
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The downtown hospital in my MI city is getting National Guard medical to help deal with a massive surge of ~95% unvaxxed Covid patients—and all I can think is next time we have a Republican governor that won't happen b/c fighting deadly diseases is a partisan issue now.
The great idea of the Republican Party is that government is always bad, and therefore government will always fail ... which led them to strategically try to make government always fail ... which led, eventually, inevitably, to this.
It's a civic murder/suicide pact.
The idea of government preventing a million deaths is, apparently, a more terrible outcome to conservative politicians and the majority of their voters than is a million preventable deaths.
You know, reading back through this, it almost seems like some people are willing to spend more money to have a class of unhoused people than it would cost to simply house everyone, specifically to have a pretext for opposing public works projects that would benefit all, weird.
Whenever I write something that critiques systemic injustice, people who defend systemic injustice appear to rebut me ... by making the exact points I made.
But there's never been anything I've written that has demonstrated this effect as much as this.
But by beating Republicans in elections don’t Democrats risk losing the very centrist swing voters whose support they’ll need to win the next elections?
This is why I, a senior Republican election strategist providing Democrats with election strategy in the paper of record, strongly recommend that Democrats lose all their elections; if they insist on winning some elections, they’ll surely pay for it the next election cycle.
By losing all their elections, Democrats will send a clear signal that they are willing to compromise on the issues centrist voters value, such as whether or not Democrats should be allowed to win elections. Complete surrender is the only path that can carry Democrats to victory.
Earlier this year conservatives were fighting the Seuss estate for updating their racial awareness from 1950 and now they’re fighting Sesame Street over basic public health.
Like what even the fuck is wrong with them? Never mind the shitty policy. It’s so embarrassing.
The big tent party of small limited government going to war with Dora the Explorer because of her “woke” scolding of swipes, and burning their cardigan sweaters because Mr. Rogers asked us to be kind.