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Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.
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superchuck500
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This is such a good take:
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Thought I was the only one...
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Can Republicans alienate the younger female generation any further? Their goal must be to end women's suffrage.
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No matter what it is that any of us think "I'm the only one," we're never the only one and we're never alone in the thing we think we are.
I've got a lot of privacy features on my computer, that's why I can't see the content of twitter links unless I click on them.
Well. Yes, actually, the most far right Christian nationalists would eliminate women’s right to vote. They already exert control over their wives’ votes. I’ve seen these discussions on line. I’ve seen their adherents advocating for that.
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and 100% of MAGAs believe this.. 100%
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Kind of incredible all of this internalized hate towards Taylor Swift when all she's done is literally go to a few football games, kiss her man on the field and make a joke about of a few Dad's, Brad's and Chad's in response to a question.
The right wing (both the men and woman) must really feel emasculated by any mention of her.
Um, to answer the question…not me.
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Never heard of the product before or the right's love of nicotine
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After Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a federal probe into "Zyn" nicotine pouches last week, the GOP backlash was swift. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a "Zynsurrection." Other GOP lawmakers, outing themselves as Zyn users, urged Schumer to "come and take it." Among them was Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who told Business Insider that he took up the product "four or five years ago" as a safer alternative to the cancer-causing spitless tobacco he once used.
A talking point quickly materialized. "Unfortunately Chuck Schumer is more focused on Zyn Pouches than he is about Fentanyl pouring over our border," wrote Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee.
But beneath the standard partisan messaging, or earnest harm-reduction advocacy of former tobacco users, is something decidedly less mainstream: a subculture on the right that doesn't just tolerate nicotine use, but venerates it.
"It's been a massive life-enhancer," former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said of nicotine on an episode of the "Full Send" podcast last year. "It increases mental acuity, raises your testosterone level, it may be a prophylactic against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's."
Peter Thiel, the right-wing tech billionaire who wields an outsize financial influence on the emerging "New Right," told The Atlantic last year that he was considering getting into nicotine patches, a therapy typically used to ween people off of smoking, because the drug may be a "really good nootropic drug that raises your IQ 10 points."
That's not to say the outrage is all coming from this particular subset, especially when it comes to members of Congress. Burchett, for example, told BI he "had to Google it to find out what it is." Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the youngest GOP member of the chamber and one who acknowledges being "plugged into a lot of weird right-wing subcultures," also indicated little knowledge of the right-wing hankering for nicotine.
"My Senate office probably has the highest ratio of smokers of anybody in the US Senate," Vance offered. "So there's probably something to be said there."
Rather, the Zyn craze is most visible among younger, more online, and predominantly male conservatives, including those who staff GOP congressional offices and campaigns.
A variety of factors drive the proliferation of nicotine among the younger right-wing crowd. Demographically speaking, many young professional Republicans come from fraternity houses, sports teams, or other contexts where nicotine use is common. It's also the case that Capitol Hill and campaigns tend to be high-pressure environments where consumption of caffeine and alcohol is known to be rampant...............
A darker layer in all of this is a Carlson-inspired critique of the left's approach to drug regulation writ large, including the fentanyl crisis in the US and the ongoing push to legalize marijuana.
"They hate nicotine. They love THC," Carlson said in a now-infamous monologue on his Fox News show last year, referring to the main psychoactive component in marijuana. "They are promoting weed to your children but they're not letting you use tobacco or even non-tobacco nicotine delivery devices which don't cause cancer. Why do they hate nicotine? Because nicotine frees your mind, and THC makes you compliant and passive. That's why."
Others take a similar, though less conspiratorial approach to the matter.
"Nicotine, when disaggregated from cigarettes, is a pro-society drug," said Enjeti. "There's currently a major institutional-left push to legalize drugs I would call anti-society."
Enjeti also made something of a traditionalist argument, noting that high nicotine use correlated with a time that many consider to be a golden age in American innovation and growth.
"Some of the people that we respect most, including great thinkers, builders, and others who advanced society and really made us a great country, were all prolific nicotine users," said Enjeti. "And then we all decided to shut that off."...............
www.businessinsider.com
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After Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a federal probe into "Zyn" nicotine pouches last week, the GOP backlash was swift. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a "Zynsurrection." Other GOP lawmakers, outing themselves as Zyn users, urged Schumer to "come and take it." Among them was Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who told Business Insider that he took up the product "four or five years ago" as a safer alternative to the cancer-causing spitless tobacco he once used.
A talking point quickly materialized. "Unfortunately Chuck Schumer is more focused on Zyn Pouches than he is about Fentanyl pouring over our border," wrote Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee.
But beneath the standard partisan messaging, or earnest harm-reduction advocacy of former tobacco users, is something decidedly less mainstream: a subculture on the right that doesn't just tolerate nicotine use, but venerates it.
"It's been a massive life-enhancer," former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said of nicotine on an episode of the "Full Send" podcast last year. "It increases mental acuity, raises your testosterone level, it may be a prophylactic against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's."
Peter Thiel, the right-wing tech billionaire who wields an outsize financial influence on the emerging "New Right," told The Atlantic last year that he was considering getting into nicotine patches, a therapy typically used to ween people off of smoking, because the drug may be a "really good nootropic drug that raises your IQ 10 points."
That's not to say the outrage is all coming from this particular subset, especially when it comes to members of Congress. Burchett, for example, told BI he "had to Google it to find out what it is." Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the youngest GOP member of the chamber and one who acknowledges being "plugged into a lot of weird right-wing subcultures," also indicated little knowledge of the right-wing hankering for nicotine.
"My Senate office probably has the highest ratio of smokers of anybody in the US Senate," Vance offered. "So there's probably something to be said there."
Rather, the Zyn craze is most visible among younger, more online, and predominantly male conservatives, including those who staff GOP congressional offices and campaigns.
A variety of factors drive the proliferation of nicotine among the younger right-wing crowd. Demographically speaking, many young professional Republicans come from fraternity houses, sports teams, or other contexts where nicotine use is common. It's also the case that Capitol Hill and campaigns tend to be high-pressure environments where consumption of caffeine and alcohol is known to be rampant...............
A darker layer in all of this is a Carlson-inspired critique of the left's approach to drug regulation writ large, including the fentanyl crisis in the US and the ongoing push to legalize marijuana.
"They hate nicotine. They love THC," Carlson said in a now-infamous monologue on his Fox News show last year, referring to the main psychoactive component in marijuana. "They are promoting weed to your children but they're not letting you use tobacco or even non-tobacco nicotine delivery devices which don't cause cancer. Why do they hate nicotine? Because nicotine frees your mind, and THC makes you compliant and passive. That's why."
Others take a similar, though less conspiratorial approach to the matter.
"Nicotine, when disaggregated from cigarettes, is a pro-society drug," said Enjeti. "There's currently a major institutional-left push to legalize drugs I would call anti-society."
Enjeti also made something of a traditionalist argument, noting that high nicotine use correlated with a time that many consider to be a golden age in American innovation and growth.
"Some of the people that we respect most, including great thinkers, builders, and others who advanced society and really made us a great country, were all prolific nicotine users," said Enjeti. "And then we all decided to shut that off."...............
Inside the weird, nicotine-obsessed subculture that's lurking within the Republican party
Beneath the GOP outrage over a potential Zyn crackdown lies an online subculture that doesn't just tolerate, but venerates nicotine use.
www.businessinsider.com
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I don’t think Taylor Swift is exactly progressive either. She may be left leaning in social issues, but I don’t sense anything out of the mainstream in her. They don’t know how to pick their battles.
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The woman who said on national tv that looks were more important than intelligence and who demonstrated complete incompetence in her work? And who is pretty clearly actively chasing a married man?
Oh yeah, great role model.
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thats hilariuos...lol. We teach our kids ENGLISH NUMBERS!!!!!
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Every time I write about pop culture, I get emails from my fellow conservatives with comments like, “I don’t go to movies,” or “I don’t have cable or watch TV.”
That’s all well and good, if incredibly boring. But a lack of interest in or even a strong dislike of pop culture doesn’t eliminate its impact on your life. All it means is that you aren’t aware of it and are blindsided every time it comes around.
Republicans are about to be blindsided by a pop culture tsunami called Taylor Swift. They are in no way ready for it.
Republicans have always been terrible at reaching younger voters, mostly because they don’t really try. When they put the Republican National Committee chairwoman on the Sunday morning shows, the only twenty-somethings that reaches are the ones who fell asleep with the TV on, and are now too hung over to crawl to the coffee table and grab the remote.
Democrats, on the other hand, have all the avenues of pop culture under their control. They police them, shunning and canceling anything not in keeping with progressive orthodoxy, so as to stifle dissent through the threat of lost work.
There has never been much of an effort to counter this from the right, because whom can conservatives count on? Country music, the last outpost in pop culture with some conservatives, is also succumbing to cancelation. An artist is more likely to be attacked than to receive praise within the industry for a song like “Try That in a Small Town.”
And no, I’m not talking about sales. There is certainly an appetite among consumers for pro-American, pro-tradition music. But that’s coming from the audience, not the industry.
In any case, no other artist today compares to Taylor Swift. For example, the mere fact that she is dating Kansas City Chiefs’ player Travis Kelce caused his jersey sales to increase by 400 percent, and that was just at the start of their relationship. With the Super Bowl looming, the sky is the limit.
If Swift can make her audience take a sudden interest in football, to the point of buying the uniform of a player they’d probably never heard of before this season, just imagine what she could do if she actively tried to stir up support for something.
That thought has occurred to Democrats, too.
In 2018, Swift endorsed Democratic former Gov. Phil Bredesen’s (D) unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate in Tennessee. In 2020, she endorsed President Joe Biden. In neither case did she really put much of her star power behind it. She also wasn’t as big of a star in those years. Today, however, she is the star, in the top five in terms of social media footprint and by far the most important American on social media.............
That’s all well and good, if incredibly boring. But a lack of interest in or even a strong dislike of pop culture doesn’t eliminate its impact on your life. All it means is that you aren’t aware of it and are blindsided every time it comes around.
Republicans are about to be blindsided by a pop culture tsunami called Taylor Swift. They are in no way ready for it.
Republicans have always been terrible at reaching younger voters, mostly because they don’t really try. When they put the Republican National Committee chairwoman on the Sunday morning shows, the only twenty-somethings that reaches are the ones who fell asleep with the TV on, and are now too hung over to crawl to the coffee table and grab the remote.
Democrats, on the other hand, have all the avenues of pop culture under their control. They police them, shunning and canceling anything not in keeping with progressive orthodoxy, so as to stifle dissent through the threat of lost work.
There has never been much of an effort to counter this from the right, because whom can conservatives count on? Country music, the last outpost in pop culture with some conservatives, is also succumbing to cancelation. An artist is more likely to be attacked than to receive praise within the industry for a song like “Try That in a Small Town.”
And no, I’m not talking about sales. There is certainly an appetite among consumers for pro-American, pro-tradition music. But that’s coming from the audience, not the industry.
In any case, no other artist today compares to Taylor Swift. For example, the mere fact that she is dating Kansas City Chiefs’ player Travis Kelce caused his jersey sales to increase by 400 percent, and that was just at the start of their relationship. With the Super Bowl looming, the sky is the limit.
If Swift can make her audience take a sudden interest in football, to the point of buying the uniform of a player they’d probably never heard of before this season, just imagine what she could do if she actively tried to stir up support for something.
That thought has occurred to Democrats, too.
In 2018, Swift endorsed Democratic former Gov. Phil Bredesen’s (D) unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate in Tennessee. In 2020, she endorsed President Joe Biden. In neither case did she really put much of her star power behind it. She also wasn’t as big of a star in those years. Today, however, she is the star, in the top five in terms of social media footprint and by far the most important American on social media.............
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from 4th of July
Do Democratic politicians do this in their holiday messages?
"Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, and you should be most thankful that we can vote to keep out racist, sexists fascists who are hellbent on destroying America!"
Do Democratic politicians do this in their holiday messages?
"Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, and you should be most thankful that we can vote to keep out racist, sexists fascists who are hellbent on destroying America!"
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