Oppression on the poll field: “What does it say about gender relations on this nation that so many leaders are telling girls to not worry retribution from their husbands as a result of their ballots can stay secret” asks Washington Put up journalist Catherine Rampell, referring to the wave of advertisements (watch here and here) that declare Donald Trump voters are being in some way bullying or pressuring their wives and pals to solid a vote for the person.
The reply to Rampell’s query is that Democratic strategists appear to suppose that is how normies’ marriages work, or that this ginned-up oppression will enchantment to fence-sitters. It is the road Democrats seem like taking within the lead-up to the election, however it strikes me as manufactured at finest, insulting at worst.
“I definitely have many Republicans who will say to me, I can not be public. They do fear about a complete vary of issues together with violence, however they’re going to do the proper factor,” said former Rep. Liz Cheney (R–Wyo.) lately.
“You’re a lady who lives in a family of males who do not hearken to you or worth your opinion. Simply keep in mind: Your vote is a non-public matter. Whatever the political opinions of your associate, you get to decide on!” said Michelle Obama final week.
After all, some folks, like Fox Information’ Jesse Waters, likened his spouse voting for Harris to her having an affair, seemingly as a joke, however emphasised that it will be the duplicitousness—claiming to be a Trump supporter whereas secretly being a Harris fan—that will hassle him.
It is a reflection of the truth that 1-in-3 Democratic voters is an single girls, and Democrats consider that this story can encourage them to vote.
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) October 31, 2024
Somebody’s not telling the reality: Official White Home stenographers and the White Home press staff are sparring over whether or not President Joe Biden referred to as Trump supporters “rubbish.”
Over the weekend, throughout a Trump rally at Madison Sq. Backyard, the insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referred to as Puerto Rico a “floating island of rubbish.” Biden responded on a Tuesday night time name with Latino activist teams: “The one rubbish I see floating out there may be his supporters…his…his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it is un-American.”
The White Home press workplace’s transcript rendered the quote with an apostrophe: “supporter’s” fairly than “supporters,” making it appear like Biden was merely criticizing Hinchcliffe, not the entire half of the nation that is supporting Trump.
Hilariously, “the president’s remarks clashed with Vice President Kamala Harris’ near-simultaneous speech outside the White House during which she referred to as for treating Individuals of differing ideologies with respect,” reports the Related Press.
It is all just a little insane that Biden needs to be seen as some morally first rate chief when his presidency has been punctuated by scandals, and when he needed to be compelled off the marketing campaign path after hordes of loyal lackeys (together with present nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris) repeatedly lied about his psychological competence. This certain appears to be like like his “deplorables” second, however the type of superb factor in regards to the Trump period is that not one of the insults actually matter—issues acquired acrimonious so way back that nothing imply holds any shock worth anymore. The true drawback is the diploma to which White Home officers are prepared to corruptly cowl for his or her man.
Trump x RFK Jr.: If he wins, Donald Trump apparently plans to nominate bear-hunter/falconry king/vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be in control of the Division of Well being and Human Providers, together with the Division of Agriculture and the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA), in addition to the Nationwide Institutes of Well being.
“I will let him go wild on well being,” Trump said at Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday. “I will let him go wild on the meals. I will let him go wild on the medicines.”
RFK Jr. seems pretty jazzed, saying: “FDA’s conflict on public well being is about to finish. This contains its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, uncooked milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, nutritional vitamins, clear meals, sunshine, train, nutraceuticals and anything that advances human well being and cannot be patented by Pharma. For those who work for the FDA and are a part of this corrupt system, I’ve two messages for you: 1. Protect your data, and a couple of. Pack your baggage.”
Look, I hate the FDA as a lot as the subsequent gal, however I don’t suppose they’re aggressively suppressing sunshine or train. Taking RFK Jr. critically, although, I do surprise what precisely he would do (Trump favors right-to-try laws, for instance, however Kennedy would ostensibly oppose it), aside from the admittedly constructive acts of getting the federal government out of the way in which of letting folks eat shrooms and uncooked milk to their hearts’ content material.
Scenes from New York: Took the kiddos (my son and his BFF) trick-or-treating final night time and…properly, there is a cause I do not reside in Brooklyn anymore.
Brooklynites, by no means ones to relax about politics, added VOTE OR DIE to the neighborhood Halloween decor (ft. @rSanti97). I suppose I will be dropping useless! pic.twitter.com/qCrDL6HFdH
— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) November 1, 2024
Additionally, I assume the Diddy reference is merely a coincidence (although he is a Brooklynite now).
QUICK HITS
- New Simply Asking Questions simply dropped, with parts of it filmed from Miami, the place Zach Weissmueller and I simply spent every week carousing with Thielworld of us:
- Talking of Miami, I spoke on two panels—about tradwives and about spanking (corporal punishment and parenting tradition extra broadly)—and have not even been canceled for it (but). Due to the nice folks at Founders Fund for internet hosting! More pics here.
The rumors are true, I went to #Hereticon in lovely Miami Seashore. I took half in two occasions; this is a fast recap of the primary. Due to @micsolana for a very fabulous, fascinating occasion! pic.twitter.com/R6y4OGswgV
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) November 1, 2024
- There is a new documentary out about Martha Stewart’s life, and she or he’s a hater. “The trial and the precise incarceration was lower than two years out of an 83-year life,” she told The New York Occasions, referring to her 2004 fraud conviction in an insider buying and selling case. (Classic Purpose cowl story here.) “I thought of it a trip, to let you know the reality. The trial itself was extraordinarily boring. Even the choose fell asleep.”
- “Have you ever seen all these research that principally join testosterone ranges in younger males with conservative politics?” Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) asked Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Expertise. “Perhaps that is why the Democrats need us all to be, you already know, poor well being and obese is as a result of it means we will be extra liberal, proper? For those who make folks much less wholesome, they apparently turn out to be extra politically liberal.”
- Inside the problems with processing migrants’ asylum claims, courtesy of Bloomberg.
