Newsflash: The majority of citizens don't go along with this.
Posted on 01/23/2024 9:39:32 AM PST by devane617
A few weeks ago, the US political right went crazy over a pin-up calendar.
Towards the end of last year, the conservative start-up Ultra Right Beer released the Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America 2024 Calendar. It featured PG-rated bikini and short-skirt pics of right-leaning personalities, such as ‘the Redheaded Libertarian’, Josie Glabach, and Riley Gaines, the American swimmer who once lost out to swimsuited man Lia Thomas. Major conservative influencers reacted with complete and unexpected hysteria. Former Donald Trump consigliere Jenna Ellis referred to the calendar as pornography. Rapper Bryson Gray, founder of the ‘MAGA Music’ genre of rap, publicly called the calendar ‘demonic’.
The whole silly situation spread far beyond right-wing social-media influencers. It attracted the attention of literally tens of millions of people. Popular website Know Your Meme now has a full page for what it calls ‘Calendargate’. By the time the ‘scandal’ had run its course, completely random outlets such as the US Midwest’s McHenry County political blog – which ran a cartoon depicting one of the women on the calendar being forced into an Islamic burka – had covered it. Understandably, the conclusion reached by most observers seemed to be that the right had gone completely mad.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiked-online.com ...
Where’s the pics? I want to see for myself lol
Another day ... another phony controversy ...
LOL!
The modern-day Puritans are clearly progressive Leftists who decry fat-shaming, sexist, misogynist, racist men for ogling pretty women and try to cancel anyone who tells a joke at their expense.
Freedom of speech is forbidden when it comes to their pronouns or gender or anything about them they don’t like you saying.
Nice try, Spiked, but no deal. We all know who the humorless pearl clutchers are, and it’s not the Right.
Newsflash: The majority of citizens don't go along with this.
Who was the judge who said, ‘I know it when I see it’ ?
I don’t see it...
LOL. The most distinguishing feature of liberals is that they cannot be happy unless everybody else is thoroughly miserable.
When I light up a cigar it is leftist Karens that show what it was like to live in a Puritan colony.
Lol.
There was a point to be made about fathers having such a calendar, how does that honor their wife?
But it was quite overblown, personally I think it was inappropriate for a married man but not so much for a single guy. The marketing of it was more off-putting imho.
Keep it to single girls on the calendar and a calendar for single men
Whatever is “The joyless puritanism of the New Right”, it will never match the utterly joyless tyranny of the Old Left.
This article is written by Wilfred Reilly who writes for the National Review.
Looks like NR is in the tank for Nikki Haley, to me.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024-election/
Manufactured nonsense!
I am 60, and I can tell you that the people I have come across in life who have been the most depressed, the most entitled, the biggest hypocrites, and the most indoctrinated are leftists.
Whoever wrote this has some very waded panties
I’ll 2nd that !
Exactly.
Once again, it’s the leftists who are projecting their own evil onto their opponents.
So how did we completely miss this scandal that “literally tens of millions” of other people didn’t?
Did Divine die of prostrate cancer? I didn’t remember that.
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